 The world is a vampire. Talk to you soon, but maybe this summer, deadlift competition, follow me, Salamike 2Ks. You can see the nudies every Friday. Flex Friday. Checking in. Showing you the progress. And there may or may not be a fat loss program coming along with it. I don't know. Do you try to get shredded? He shreds life. What's up, guys? Salamike checking in. Another update. Wanted to give you guys kind of just the down low on what my training and nutrition currently look like. Got a lot of questions for my diet, especially I've been obviously consulting and working with my homies, Barquan and Omar Esoff. We have some things in the works, but basically they've been helping with my diet and my macro breakdown. Depending on the day, depending on training, refeed, etc. I'm eating kind of anywhere between 2,000 and 2,500 calories. And I know some of you may say, that's not very much, Mike. But I've been dieting for a while now. I can maintain my body weight on a good amount of calories. But personally, to diet, I need to dig a little bit. So I'm feeling good. Energy is moderate considering the situation. My heaviest weight was 235 pounds. And this morning, live update, live and direct, hit my lowest in probably three years. 204. And overall training is going pretty dang solid considering that fact. Protein trying to hit around 200 grams and then everything else tried to get it in fat. I'm trying to stay under 75 grams and then carbs again. Other ones I manipulate the most, depending on training, refeed, or what heavy days I have coming up. Training, I'm trying to not focus on the poundage as much. I've been doing updates on Instagram. Be sure to follow me. Silent Mike with 2Ks. Silent, M-I-K-K-E. Every Friday on my diet progress. So the goal right now for the last six weeks, and I'll probably do another four to six weeks to finish this cut, is to get below 200 pounds and to mentally just focus on feeling good, feeling healthy, lifting weights, but not worry about my strength. In the past, I've talked about it. The number one mistake I've made over the years in my training and still to this day is I can't choose just one goal. I haven't been able to just just chase down strength or just chase down my cut. I've always kind of tried to balance both and I've done an OK job of it. But I knew I'd be further along in my lifting career, both aesthetically and strength-wise, if I could focus up and blocks. So I have made cuts before. I've gotten down to 190 pounds a couple years ago. And my strength suffered, but I did the cut a little bit slower so my strength would stick around. This time I'm purely focusing on burning that fat. Aesthetic bras shreds life. So I guess what the training looks like. Many of you already know, but Kaizen training is a training website that Omar Barton and I have made. We have a free program, F-R-E-E, and that is kind of the basis program I use for all my training. It is in the description below, always free for anybody to download. If it says a price by it, that's probably one of our other programs. So I know people talk a little bit of mess, but you're just confused. We do have totally free programs. They're on there. And it's the infinite off-season. And that's basically how I rotate all of my training. So deadlifts are very similar to that, except of instead of doing three sets of five, I'm doing five sets of three. And that is because I don't think I can handle the time under tension with my back, considering the tweaks I've had in the past. I'm doing a little bit experimenting on wild dieting on my bench and squat, handling some higher intensity singles. I'm pretty proud of the technique I've made. Again, I'm a semi-advanced lifter. I've been doing power lifting specific for about eight years plus. I've been lifting for over ten years. And so I can maintain my form really well. So I'm trying to see how I can hold on to strength that way while still maintaining some of the volume. Some of the volume's been a little tougher for me just again because it's purely aesthetic-based training. And to get my mind off of my old PRs, I just want to handle, you know, 80-85% semi-regularly to feel good. To feel good, and that's it. Cardio is here nor there. Kind of going by feel, but averaging probably two to three times a week. Sometimes it's a hard cruise. I don't want to call it low intensity because I'm moving pretty good on elliptical or my favorite, the assault bike. And then other times, if I'm feeling real good, especially in the beginning of the diet, I was doing interval. So I was doing 20 to 30 seconds all out and then a minute and minute 30 rest on the assault bike. You know, five to maybe seven rounds again depending on how good I am feeling. So that's a little bit of updates on how the training's going. You know, I've been squatting around 500 lately. The goal after this would probably be to push myself towards some PRs once I do reach my body weight goal. So once I get around 200 pounds, we'll introduce a little bit more calories. See if my back can handle doing a little Carlton there. Oh, a little salsa there. Oh, a little Dougie, a little mix. We'll see if my body can handle it. Don't know what my back can handle still. You know, I took a couple months off squatting and deadlifting in the winter, you know, November, December, January. So we're just rebuilding. I think it's this workout or maybe another one I handled five sets of two on deadlifts at 500 pounds or 4.95 and that felt pretty dang solid. Regular soreness afterwards, a little bit stiff afterwards and all that I can handle. It's just when that bad tweak, my back really locks up on me that I'll have to make bigger adjustments. So, so far so good squatting two to three times a week, benching two to three times, deadlifting once with another heavy stiff leg added in. Again, the cardio two to three times and just staying locked in on the nutrition. I've been pretty damn good for the first time in a long, long time. I'm focused. I'm focused, man. So I'm really happy with my own adherence to my own diet. So everything's feeling good. More updates to come again on Instagram. I'll show you guys a little bit of the progress and if you guys comment below, let me know if you're in either a bulk stage or trying to gain some muscle whether you're trying to gain strength or are you want to cut getting ready for summer already because if you guys didn't know, summer is around the corner and if you want to get jacked, if you're trying to get aesthetic, if you're trying to get lean, trying to get sub 12% body fat, we got kind of starting out. So I'm not necessarily entertaining my beach bod, but I am wanting to get to that lower body weight for other goals that we'll talk about in the future. So comment below. Let me know team, what everybody's goals here. Be sure to give this thing a thumbs up. Enjoy the rest of the videos. Appreciate everybody's support. This is maybe near the third year anniversary of my channel. So really cool to keep going. I'm really lucky to be able to call this myself career. Look at that belly popping out. Look at that angle. I'm sorry. But I am. I'm super, super lucky and happy to have you guys support over the years here. Instagram Mama's boys podcast and everything else I've done over the years. So appreciate you guys. Shout out to everybody listening. Enjoy the rest of the video. I don't know if my body just woke up. Five o'clock. Shout out to my guy BJ Goddour for having me on his podcast. Maybe I'll link it. Maybe I'll forget. Who's that? BJ Goddour is a legend. He's been in the fitness industry a long time. He's probably in his mid 30s. But you name it, he's kind of done it. Play college football, etc. So he has that kind of background in pure athletics, trained athletes, trained soccer moms. He was the fitness director for men's health for a very long time and now more recently he's been on his own but he's consulted for numerous like fitness equipment companies and stuff like that. So he's on his own grind now. He's actually moving to California soon. So I'm sure we'll do a video with him eventually. But yeah, just chatted. Talk shit. He's a fun guy. And I got a package in the mail. People said they'd send us stuff on that video because I guess I complained. I didn't mean to complain. I don't really need anything. I'm a blessed, happy guy. They're like, get a P.O. Box and we'll send you shit. I was like, I don't need stuff. I appreciate you guys though. But, oh man, I believe it's from Raymond, the online coach, sent it to me. So let's see what we got. Chop it up. Make it look cool, Casey. Nice, Dad. Bro, what about Drake? I was up till midnight. On Fortnite? Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. He said like four words though. No, he was more talking in the beginning. Oh really? And Juju talked a bunch. Do you know Juju? No. He's a wide receiver for Pittsburgh Steelers. He was in the same game. He's a legitimate. He's doing his own Twitch stream. So he was streaming. He had like 10,000 people in there too. But he's like one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. It was sick. I was so stoked. I was so stoked last night. I was literally like a little kid. I can't remember the last time I felt that way. I talked about it on the podcast today too. I'm like, it's just so sick. It's like so 2018. And you hear the story about how Drake found Ninja? By just watching Fortnite? No, he watched Instagram, like a highlight clip. Oh yeah. And then he looked him up on YouTube. Like just like what we do. Like some dope motherfuckers watch one video of mine. Whether he liked it or not, I don't know. But some dope motherfuckers watched it. You know, we're like 10 years ago that's impossible. But yeah, Drake said he's in the, in his house studio for 15 hours and on his breaks, he's just jamming on some games. 2K or Fortnite. So then he found Fortnite on Instagram. It was Ninja. So then he looked up YouTube and then he found him on Twitch. And then he, I think he literally just slipped in his DM. Said, hey, let's play. I guess fucking sick dude. Shout out to Ninja. I don't even know you bro. But it's fucking dope. Back to me getting the box from online coach. I made me so excited. Ladies and gentlemen, I already know what it is because I talked to Raymond, but shout out to Raymond. So we're going to just ruin the surprise. Just burst the bubble. Raymond has been putting it in work. He's created a sticky pad for your bench necessities. So we got this rubber. Pretty thick, pretty actually sticky. A lot of times rubbers, I've dealt with textiles in my life dealing with some of the companies like Slingshot that I worked with. So rubber can often be a slipper, you know. But this thing, it's sticking to this table and it's sticking to my hand. So laid down on the bench press at a commercial gym that doesn't have grip, like a competition bench and hopefully dig your traps into it. So we'll play with it today. Shout out to Raymond for the care package. And we're going to try it today.