 Ladies and gentlemen Silent Mike back with another video. How long was our break two months three months? Three months. I missed you. I hopefully you miss me or thought about me one time thought about you guys a lot I miss our community and I don't even know where to start man back at on team strength the glutes of glory himself So we took a little break Mental physical burnout we'll we'll dig into things as we roll Happy New Year. Happy holidays. Hope everyone had a wonderful little vacation or break With family or friends or even relaxing time by yourself. I've been relaxing recouping by myself obviously podcasting a little bit emails and work a little bit, but uh Through the youtube break. I just took the longest break in my lifting training career Probably since eighth grade I began lifting weights in eighth grade to become a better basketball player And pretty much year-round since then I don't think I took a longer break than perhaps a week maybe 10 days off trying to improve my Skill my craft my conditioning or my strength. So maybe that was playing basketball. Maybe that was running sprints Perhaps lifting weights for sure over the last 10 years if you follow me on instagram, so i'll mic 2k's I just posted a squat 455 pound squat from about eight years ago For sure over the last 10 years. I haven't taken longer off the barbell um of some nature for Probably also seven days So it's pretty wild. I had a little bit of itch in the beginning Um again working through some things myself anxiety hit really really hard And so I was just trying to figure out what makes me tick and I just wasn't Getting any fulfillment from the gym. Uh, and that's fine. And I know you guys are gonna be like, well I love the gym all I do is think about the gym and and everyone's a little different I've been doing this a very long time. We have ups and downs lefts and rights and I came to uh enlightenment Uh with myself that it was okay to have a break. It was okay to chill It's okay to be weak again as you guys will see some of this training footage Connor's gonna throw over here. I uh a you know Hitting 20 30 40 percent of what I used to hit in these lifts and that's totally okay It's okay to go up and down and things won't disappear. It was today very difficult Not necessarily but where things very felt very heavy and did I feel weak mentally a little difficult? Yeah But honestly as you'll see here the comeback series new video every monday I think probably in six weeks if not eight weeks My strength level should be you know back to at least medium average mic strength level. So that's the goal Um, I'm going to talk about kind of the nutrition stuff in the next video So uh, be sure to stick around for that. But today I haven't really gotten any programming I've talked about training and how you come back from training whether your break is two or three months Maybe it's a year long break. Maybe it's only even a four or five month break But what we have to look at In our training frequency intensity in our general programming is The biggest determining factor is kind of your rate of progress or how fast you can progress and that will determine Frequency and everything else. So right now because my strength levels are quite low my conditioning my strength my fitness is quite low I'll be able to progress basically like I'm a beginner up to a certain extent Probably even faster than beginner potentially. Um, just because I still have some muscle in me and it's just the Kind of neural adaptations. I'm getting back used to doing the movements themselves. So For a while, I'll be training three to four times a week with the barbell movements Um, I'm going to use the safety squat bar a lot for right now because I just don't want to wedge my shoulders and put too Much on my shoulders to begin with um benching probably straight bar Uh regular grip and maybe a close grip mixed in and then deadlifts will be conventional Some kind of shoulder press some kind of row Uh, maybe a belt squat to get a little bit of extra volume in But I'll be able to add load basically every training session or add reps And that's kind of the goal. So um intensity is going to be moderate You know, I'm going to be hitting rpe sevens and eights Um, I'll be training in the five three and one rep ranges kind of that strength range for the big lifts And then eights and tens basic stuff for my accessories Trying to get a little bit more volume build a little bit of muscles back where I need them to tricep shoulders, etc And it's mostly for me Trying not to stick too much of a strict program So I don't go ahead and burn myself out again. Just enjoy the training We'll make a little bit of progress and having some fun Again, we'll talk nutrition and cardio coming up because the holidays We're good to me. We packed on some pounds got a little heavy But I'm excited to be back. I'm excited to be back. So we started with the safety squat bar I just hit a couple sets of three Not a big deal. I don't know what the bar weighs probably 75 80 pounds Just had two plates on there. So who knows what the heck we're lifting But maybe 275 to 85 to 50. I don't know felt decent knees are obviously A little cold from not squatting for some weeks But overall felt really good hop onto the bench press 225 actually felt the best on the bench Which I was surprised about so hit a couple sets of five And then 315 one of the biggest things I can already tell is just my grip is gone So I did double overhand to what felt comfortable. So we did 315 on the deadlift for a couple sets of three Finished off with some shoulder press. I have an appointment to get to otherwise I would have done some back But I think my next session will be very similar full body movements, but I'll choose a variation So more likely I'll go with some kind of dumbbell press Maybe a maybe another squat. We'll see how my legs feel. If not, it'll be the belt squat And then probably like a stiff leg or something where I handle a little bit less load and target the hammies and glutes a little bit Keeping it real simple trying to have a good time I got lucky I guess because Alan's been training around 10 o'clock and that's when we came in this morning So I'm going to continue to try to meet that just to hang out with him We chat live chat life in between which is always a good time. The boys are here But now I got to go we got to go I know not a lot of information here, but we are back. I'm going to be answering you guys's questions coming up more informative stuff But for now, it's kind of the the transformation coming back to powerlifting I'm going to see what my mind and maybe my body can handle in terms of the big three Those are the focus right now And I'm excited. I'm excited to see what happens So we're twitch streaming Monday through Thursday if you guys want to come hang out Sometimes we're watching tv shows or articles and messing around sometimes we're playing video games But the big goals this year for me are obviously beyond this fitness stuff A lot of it is just to build the community with you guys You know, we have a great little community on twitch that we hang out trying to share that positivity Monday through Thursday podcasts every Wednesday Untamed strength four times a week trying to lift some weights with mr. Untamed himself But I don't even know what to say. I feel like I'm out of practice talking But we're here. We made it Happy new year Smash that thumbs up thing or whatever you do here on youtube. I appreciate you guys for sticking around man all the positive feedback on the last video and uh I gotta go eat some chicken or something Later going up Name this movie 15 15 and a half might be 13 get away. You don't know it. I don't even know it That's he I think it's that team that team and a half Classic someone will get it Not me free free guys end program who gets it first or who gets the first and the most of boats or something Ladies and gentlemen day two selling mic um Matt so things don't go as planned and some people get really frustrated How that goes but I'm not that much of a planner and I do get frustrated but sometimes you got to roll with the punches so Everyone's asking why why I took time off how I gained weight. I was so lean Now I'm not lean. I was kind of strong. You know, I'm not strong um Best answer is life happens. So we hit some family emergency stuff. I've been dealing with I'm anxiety my whole life, but uh the year of 2018 rolling into 19. It's gotten worse. Um dealt with some depression like symptoms my whole life ups and downs we all do But that started to hit really hard late 2018 early 19 Uh rolled over into 19 And in those phases, there's a lot of different things that can happen I started seeing a professional I started to talk and try to figure my things out figure my own thoughts out my own emotions out I am a pretty sensitive human being And to get the energy to do everything that I've built my life up to be started to become very difficult I'm blessed. I'm not here for pity party. You guys have been asking on instagram. So I'm trying to answer it I was ready just to talk x's and o's and lifting of programming, but you guys don't seem to care So we'll talk about that a little bit later, but so I started to um I guess spiral down a little darker and darker Energy for regular tasks started to become more difficult and the gym It's kind of like when you're losing body fat like it loses all the stuff that you need Uh that you don't need first, right? Like hopefully you just lose what you're not using and so You know energy for the gym is like Way peripheral and what my ne- my needs are right. I need to make money I need to take take care of my mom my family my friends. I need to work So I kept podcasting youtubeing and eventually had to phase out of youtubeing I just didn't have energy kept the podcasting kept my email work and even that started to become a little difficult towards the end of the year So I ended up seeing the professional We kind of built a plan to take some time off from the gym to not feel the pressure And this is all just real, you know, all your other youtube fans or the other youtubers your fans of can fake their whole life But everybody deals with emotional things and and there is a pressure to perform. There's a pressure to Put out content There's a pressure to Lift and look a certain way in this industry in this world And I know you guys even feel it even though you may not necessarily be in a public eye or be a fitness professional, but um That's not what got me down, but that is not what helped. Uh, it didn't help the situation So I felt all that got a little bit leaner Uh, I was riding my bike a lot trying to listen to audiobooks and meditate and find these things So that helped me get leaner in the middle of the summer Um, but then when that energy kind of went away, um, I just I just tried to chill out I I didn't want to focus on my diet. I didn't want to focus on these things I want to focus on me and me on the inside, you know So I focused on that mental health and that's kind of where we've been and that's still where I'm doing That's still a big priority in what I'm doing But um 2020 we got some big projects that I've been kind of table-topping So it's time to dive into those now into the gym stuff. Maybe the more fun stuff Got day one in like January 1st or 2nd. We hopped in here Got a little full body just to get moving I was still riding out my game plan in terms of my programming But now we figured it out. I'm going to do a deadlift in front squat day Finished up with back and back I'm trying to train every other day and maybe not go by a seven-day schedule The other day is going to be squats bench and push So a little bit of legs every single day Push pull otherwise And then training every other day eventually when I get the energy and time We're going to start to throw in some Variables maybe some strongman maybe some bicycling classes When the weather gets better, I'll probably cycle outside Trying to get a spin mic in my house etc etc I got sick so we got day one in Felt okay everything felt good Felt good to get back in weights obviously weren't anything oppressive I think I deadlifted like 315 etc etc And normally when I get sick I feel it coming early Because I'm highly sensitive and attuned to myself And then I just go straight to bed Chug liquids sleep for two days and I'm better This time it crashed me so I did that Went to bed slept two days still felt messed up Two more days still felt messed up And now I think we're on day five or six and I feel okay It's just my voice and my sinuses are kind of jacked But I was like man I can't sit around no more So I've been working all week we've been streaming all week on twitch Follow me Salomaiq if you're into video games Or we just kind of kick it answer your questions Watch silly youtube videos together So I've been streaming and working and podcasting But I didn't want to push me physically yet but Sometimes time is time so five days into the sickness we're here And today is the first day of the real programming So hit deadlifts first And everything I do with the main list will be a slow kind of just linear progression Adding 20 to maybe even 50 pounds as my body adapts Because I took a three month break from the main movements I'll be able to progress really quickly back to my main strength Most of it will be a kind of neural adaptation Meaning I'll get better at just the movements again I'm just finding the groove again Where my muscles I probably lost some muscle for sure I lost some strength taking that much of a break But it's much more negligible than actually just out of practice So I'll be doing those movements probably threes, five, two Maybe some singles here and there depending on how it feels So last week we did 315 on poles For threes this week we did 365 And it felt the same There's no probably speed difference No form breakdown difference Again 50 pound jump But the neural adaptation will happen quick Especially since I'm doing all these movements twice a week Front squats first time doing that And while front rack really jacked up But it felt fine Worked up just sets of five 135, 185, 225 just getting the legs moving Waking up my knees, waking up my quads A little bit of chin ups, face pulls, biceps, basics, we're done Focusing in more on my nutrition Trying to get, you know, moving a little bit more Just in general my meat Google it And then just focusing on protein So that's it I think I think I just spewed all I got at you guys Leave your questions below You know I'm about as I hate these words man The internet ruins everything Like I'm as transparent as it comes But every idiot on here says they're transparent But I'm just honestly being me And I'll answer whatever you want me to answer I know a lot of you guys probably deal with similar things Whether it be the gym stuff The family stuff The anxiety stuff, the life stuff In any way I can help or answer My personal questions I'm no doctor I'll answer as I can So leave a comment below Be sure to give this thing a like We're dropping for sure one video a week here Kind of the comeback Answering your questions I'm powerlifting again So I'm trying to get as strong as I can In the main lifts And so we're going to show that Answering your questions We're twitching four times a week Monday through Thursday 3pm to 6am this time Link's probably in the bio Or it's just Selling Mike on Twitch Podcast every Wednesday We're dropping a brand new gaming channel soon Just highlights from the Twitch stream A lot of people are enjoying it We're building a really cool community there It's a lot of fun to interact with you guys Hang out, talk shit So join that if you want to come hang out And we'll catch you every Monday for sure Here, I appreciate you guys Selling Mike, we're out