 I explained to the world who she is, my close knit weird art world that our friends become family. This is my best friend's little sister for, I don't know, 20 years or something stupid. She lifted some weights with me about eight years ago and then now she's off doing artsy things by herself and it's got a power lift. Yeah, my first meet, November 11th. You're actually almost exactly 11 weeks out. Oh Jesus. So what questions do you have for me? Let's cross in your mind. Okay. If I have already signed up for my weight class, if that changes, what happens? At a normal meet, like a local meet like that, normally they're cool and just you're weighing heavier and they'll mark you down fine and dandy. As you start to go up the ladder and you go to a national meet or a more competitive meet, sometimes they'll won't allow you to compete. But for this one, you should be fine. Most smaller meets and when I say smaller meets, 95% of meets are smaller meets. Powerlifting isn't that legitimate yet. There's only shit in America, maybe I guess really one meet. That's like a real meet, US APL Nationals or invite only meets. And then they'll really want you to hit that class because they'll have often a certain amount of number of people in that class. Right. That makes sense. But for your meet, it's probably just by the amount of people in that day, so you should be fine. So eat your hamburgers and go up a weight class. Well, yeah. I mean, I'm working my way up to 125. Super heavy. All the steroids and hamburgers. That's another question. Should I be taking other supplements other than protein? No. Okay. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Especially just in general, you know, like you could take general health things if you wanted, multivitamin, fish oil, whatever it is that you think helps you. But the only thing that I would say changes in life or training when going towards a meet is now you have a goal. And so you have a certain amount of weeks to work towards that goal. And we already talked off camera, but you have someone helping you with some programming. And that's the only really thing that changes is the type of programming to prepare you for that day. Otherwise, I literally wouldn't change a thing. If you want to get more serious about it, you can start to take away extracurricular activities like hiking or bike riding and stuff. The closer you get to a meet, just so your body can be more prepared and repaired to portray your strength, whatever you're doing right now, do it. And then the other thing kind of in that world is don't try anything weird or new. And that's supplements or stuff. You know, if you are taking a meet seriously, you signed up, you put some money down. You want to do the best you can. So don't all of a sudden start to bike ride 10 miles a week. If you've been doing it, fine. But one, chance of injury goes up because lifting is going to get harder. And then two, you take away the chance of doing your best at the meet. So like squad is out 205 right now. What should I have like a goal in mind? Or like, is it feasible to try and squat twice my body weight 11 weeks out? I think for you, it definitely is. And it'll depend on like training age. And although you've lifted on and off for eight years, it hasn't been consistent eight years. So like your strength still has, you still have a high ceiling. And so for you, I think that's probably a pretty decent goal. And then just know that with the goals of lifting a weight in general. So say you want to squat 240, you squat 205 fairly easy today. With no belt and no knee sleeves and no formal training, 240 and 11 weeks or something, I think is possible. But you have to know that now on meat day, there's different things that happen. There's timing of your warm-ups. Once they call your name, you have two minutes to go on the platform and do your squat. There's commands. So they're going to have to say, okay, you walk the weight back and you have to stand there until they say squat. And then you have to come up and hold it until they say rack. And little things like that don't seem like a lot, but sometimes they can take pounds off of your max. Just because it's a slower process and you're not used to it. Your nerves play a role. And you text me a question. I wish I remember exactly how you phrased it because it was awesome. Something about is if you can evolve into rock, the way Dwayne Johnson, like a Pokemon would evolve on game day. And some people, some people- Like Pikachu, Pikachu, can that happen? You might be able to do that on game day, but I feel like some of that is very, not genetic, but person by person. Where some people do have another gear they can shift into and those nerves will get them stronger. But then some people sadly are the opposite and those nerves really put a break on them. So if you squat a 205 and then you're a nervous person, I call them a gamer. If you're a gamer, you might be able to show up right now and squat 240 because you're so hyped to perform. Where some people shy away from the limelight and maybe you could squat 205 or 240 any day with me and Connor here, but when it's with a judge and a crowd, then you squat 180. Yeah, so I do think there's some evolving. What is it, candy? For a Pokemon? Yeah, there's candy, right? Yeah, I think you get some candy. It was called something candy. Yeah, it'll boost you up a level. These guys are gonna talk so much shit like Mike, you say you're a gamer and you don't even remember the fucking name. Like dude, I played Pokemon literally when it came out in 1995. I played one version since, but not that hardcore. But I think you get some kind of candy and it ups you a level. So some people do have that candy and then some people don't. So I wouldn't rely on it, but I do think for you a 230 or 240 squat game day would be good. And then bench you have to pause and so you bench 125 today, touch and go. So you'll want to practice the pause, obviously, but I think if you bench 125 to 135 with the pause is a good goal. And then I didn't see you deadlift heavy, but with your new form, I think you had a good deadlift. Yeah, the form felt way, way better. I think I'm trying to think what else. You have to get a singlet. What's what? Yeah, you gotta wear a onesie. Oh jeez. Where do I get one of those? So there's a lot of websites. I would do Amazon. Okay. You're never gonna look good in it, so. Okay. I know everyone gets like, I don't want to compete because of the singlet. Like no one fucking looks good in a singlet. I think I'm gonna look great in it. Okay, you'll look great in it. I wouldn't. Some people look good in singlet. I'm gonna look cool in a singlet. You always have to be layer real, that kind of looks good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, if you're the one percent that's built like fucking Superman, you'll look awesome in a singlet for the rest of us. Maybe not. I got the Oakland face in the LA booty. You're prepared? Fully prepared for action? I don't feel like it. I feel like you're complete amateur. You'll never, you know, that's like everything though, right? Like the first art class you went to or the first masters class you went to, you were confused and felt like, how am I ever gonna understand any of this? And then you just do it for two or three more years and then you get a hold of it. Same thing with the new job. You show like fuck, do I have no clue what I'm doing here, then three months into it, you're into it. So it's kind of just like the same with powerlifting. The more meets you go to as a spectator, coach or a lifter, the more you'll get a handle of the flow. The more you start powerlifting, you know, we're talking years, right? Whatever 10,000 hour rule to become an expert. Just time after time, rep after rep. You'll be a pro. You'll be nervous, even. I'm nervous already. That's good. Means you're alive. It means you care. Most of the time is if you show up and can do your best, it'll obviously put you in the best position to do your best, right? Talking golf is Tiger Woods' word about, I mean, Tiger Woods isn't worried about much because it's ding-a-lings on the internet right now, but besides that, they're not showing up really thinking like I gotta beat him. They just gotta think I gotta get my lowest score I can get and then you end up winning, right? So it's kind of the same with powerlifting. If you lift the most amount of weight that you can on that day and kind of stay in your zone, you get the best chance to win. But we can't get your followers right now. The occasional hot dog selfie and- Hot dog selfie, what the hell does that mean? Pervert? I'm like holding a hot dog or there's a hot dog like in my hand. No one's new too, I'm listening to you. You're about to get a million followers right now. Yeah. It's Costco hot dogs, art and selfies. Some dog pics here and there, maybe some food. Ladies and gentlemen, some quick info that runs through the mind of a newbie power lifter. Little bit of training footage, appreciate you guys. We're gonna go eat. Connor may film that, he may not. This may be a video, it may not. Who the fuck knows? If you wanna follow Bianca, my little sister watching you little perverts. We'll see you guys later. Bye.