 Ladies and gentlemen. Sorry, I'll be covering this whole thing. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, selling Mike back again the first time Connor messed up. The second time, y'all messed up. Your questions were absolutely whack. So we're back again with another Q&A. We got Bonchro, Brochro, Bonnie Schroeder in the house, strong chick, smart chick. We're gonna answer some of your questions from the Grams. Let's dig in, my friends. Some of these questions, guys. Did you make Mike do this? He looks scared. No, he asked to pose like that. Now come on. Yeah, you're like Bonnie, let's take a picture. Look, just because there's a camera on doesn't mean you gotta lie now. What'd you say? I said, Mike, let's take a prom pose. Okay, thank you. And I said? Because we are that adorable. And what'd I say? And you said, yes please. Small spoon. I said small spoon. Yeah, of course. An anonymous person said, I have been told that she's 6'2, 220 plus in person based on attitude. Is this confirmed? If she's 6'2, 220, I'm goddamn seven foot, 3'10, 8% body fat, if that's the case. Yeah, well it's not a lie. It's just like a, it's a pretty hard weight cut for me. So it's not something I would recommend for everyone. How do you get so big? How'd you get so big? The out angle master. What are you guys' questions doing make sense, right, dude? Who? He said I out angled you. Yeah, he said out angle to angled master but like I don't take angles. But I don't take angles. Are you sure? Yeah, we'll go through my pictures. That's like something I, like I just don't care. I don't care how I look like that. Sure. You look like a frumpy mess in this picture. Who has the bigger peach? The bigger peach? Yeah. I got to say Mike wins that one. I think if you're going by overall size clearly, if you're going by like ratio to everything else, it might, it's a tie maybe. That might be close. Yeah. Why is my babe so beautiful? I'll take that as, you know, like, I don't know. You got some fans, Mike. I don't know. I've never been called a babe before or your babe. I don't know who you are, but thank you, you know? Let's get some, let's get some actual. How often, look, I'm trying. I'm trying, all right? How often do you bench in the span of a week and what workouts do you recommend to build your bench? The bonds here, bonds show is going to bench 200 pounds real soon at 120, weigh in 125. So dig in. I bench right now. I bench kind of a lot. Normally I bench three times a week. Right now I'm benching for possibly five times a week. And I like a lot of bench variations. So I'll have one day that's like higher volume. I'll have a higher intensity day, a speed day, and then one day that's like just a bunch of variations. So extra long pauses, maybe board presses. You know, one and a quarter. One and a quarter. One and a quarter. Spotted presses, just I like all sorts of variations. The more I do, the faster I progress, really. And how does that progress through an off-season or a meet? I know it depends on the off-season. I like to do a shit ton of volume. And no one likes to do that or likes to do that, but that's what works. That's just really built it up for me. Yeah, especially ladies can handle a lot of stuff. 10s, 12s, all that. Yeah. Combined total. Oh, god. I don't mind a kilos. I think my best full power is 16.02. My best full power is eight something. Made a math really quick. 15.02 and eight is 24 or something. 24 something. Probably very close to the all-time world record. Yeah, yeah. Together, combined. Probably. Our power is combined. Probably close to it. Yeah, so I would be right at around 8.70. Yeah, you're looking at all-time world records right here. The biggest setback you've had, whether it be injuries, personal, whatever your mental state, and where your motivation just wasn't there. Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. Vegas. Biggest injury for me is I was dealing with a bulging desk a couple of years ago. And I couldn't even squat the bar for a month. And I couldn't deadlift for, well, I started deadlifting too soon, of course. So I couldn't really seriously deadlift for five months. So that was really, really tough. It would probably be even harder for me to handle now with the level that I'm at. Because that was just starting out injury a couple of years ago. But I had a really good coach at the time. And I was surrounded by a really good group of people that kind of made all the difference for me. They kept my head in the game where it needed to be. Without that, it would have been really hard. It's a little bit of a hard lifting game. If you do this long enough and at a competitive level, something's probably going to give out at some point. And then how you kind of deal with that or maybe come back is a whole other thing. I've had multiple desk issues over the years. As you guys know, I'm just chilling now. Physically, that's definitely it. But light stuff gets in the way a lot more for me. That will determine my training. And I wish I had answers for everybody. I don't have answers. Yeah, I just go to the gym. I just go to the gym. And sometimes, even if it's a half an hour workout, that's kind of like in my least motivated state or in the worst mental state I'm in, I still at least get like half an hour in the gym. I always just try to do something. And that's just- I just have to make sure I'm having fun. If I'm not having fun or if I didn't have any fun that workout, there's a problem. When I was training for the Arnold earlier this year, I was just putting so much stress on myself. And I was like, I'm not having fun in these workouts. And then I just made it a goal for myself. Make sure you have fun every fucking day that you're in the gym. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard because like you said, you get into a level. Maybe you fall in love with it early and then maybe you have some setbacks or whatever it might be. Maybe you start to get more competitive either with yourself or the game. But the game is very tedious. It's hard on the body. It's hard on the mind. You're doing three movements over and over for a lot of sets and a lot of rest. Years and years and years. Yeah, so I kind of like, yeah, I kind of like the grind of it, but I agree. And I'm in a phase like that. I'm doing some dumbbell work, whatever it might be. You gotta have some fun. Where do you shop for business casual Oxford shirts for Chesty ladies? But I think that's from, oh, Chesty lads. Chesty lads. I don't know dude. Chesty ladies. I don't know. This is about his business casual. Confused with someone else. But then, yeah, but then it was a guy saying it. That's why I was confused. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it says lads. So where do you, where do you get your shirts made? I don't do that. You're pretty casual. You don't do a lot of business casual. You're like gym casual. Yeah, and even that. This is about as fancy as we get unless it's like a wedding or something. I think it's cool that in what I do and in the world when we can dress kind of how we want. And that's why I chose this path. Yeah, I'm not the guy that can sit at a desk in a suit every day. Like it's just not who I am as a person. So I'll go, you know, big business deals just just like this, not even worry about it. How do you regulate explosive cardio in an athlete strength building program without compromising his or her ability to recover? You want to dive in? Bonchro. You start that one. I can see it. So I think it depends. One, I don't know what you mean by explosive cardio. We need to dive in. If you're talking just like higher intensities where you're putting a little bit more power output. I think next we have to dive in and see what the goal of that athlete is. If your goal is pure powerlifting the sad truth is the overall GPP you need general physical preparedness to be a powerlifter is insanely low. If you compare it to other sports like soccer you didn't obviously track it which is kind of a sport of GPP in its own we'll move away from there but soccer where you're kind of jogging sprinting, cutting things of this nature. You're obviously GPP has to be very high. Your conditioning has to be good and your power. So if you're just powerlifting the truth is if you can get through the volume and your training and you don't explode you'll probably be okay. Yeah, with that question it says without compromising his or her ability to recover I think you really just need to look at your levels of volume and intensity because I mean you can handle it. You can work there if you do it the right way. Yeah, 100%. How did you get into weightlifting or lifting? It's not, look, let's just put this out there. Look, people say like Oli or Olympic or whatever like CrossFit made that a turn. Weightlifting is clean and jerk in the snatch. We powerlift. Do we lift weights? We lift weights. But that's weightlifting. That's a sport. Powerlifting is squad mention dead. So technically we don't weight lift. I tried, I was bad at it. How did you get into powerlifting? From CrossFit actually. So my athletic background I ran track in high school and college. After that I kind of hung out in the bodybuilding world for a little bit. Did you know that? No I didn't. Yeah, I never competed or anything but I was training that way and like those are the type of people I was hanging out with. Then I did CrossFit for like a year maybe two and I was trained with a girl who said she was into powerlifting and I signed up for it just for fun. Won my weight class and everything and I was like, oh, this is good. I'm a lot better at this than I was at anything else. And like with CrossFit like anything that required any like rhythm or gymnastic skills I was very horrible at it. It was competing in powerlifting not training in powerlifting that got you addicted. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I competed once and I was like, fuck yeah, I love this. Let's do that. Cause whenever I was CrossFit I was like, well can't we just like deadlift heavy? And then I always wanted to bench but benching was not a part of it, right? And I was like, oh there's a sport that I can do this, fantastic. Yeah, I give a lot of credit to CrossFit for bringing new people into weightlifting and powerlifting. Yeah, 100%. But powerlifting as a sport never like drove me. Really? No, I just lifted. I just love to compete. Yeah, I feel like. I love the training now of the Grindel of all that but I'm just competitive in nature. Yeah, I'm competitive in nature but I just turn it other ways once I stop playing basketball. Yeah, that's fine. 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