 What's happening guys silent mic back again Another voiceover a beautiful training session of beautiful days You'll see the light is shining down on me right there right on the platform Just showing you guys a little bit of my activation or prep for squatting Just some simple things I do to warm up one get you know My body warm a little sweat going into to kind of activate my midline and my core as you know or some of you Know I've dealt with some back issues over the years And so a couple things I do to kind of wake up my middle and wake up the connection of my brain How I'm breathing embracing to my middle You know when you're talking about transfer of power. Yes, the squat is a leg movement. Yes, your back is involved But if your midline isn't rigid, you know hips to shoulders basically one Injury can happen in two. We can't transfer that power from our legs regardless of how strong your legs are Into the weight the barbell so I do a lot of side planks of variations Kind of those reach arounds just to wake things up get some spinal rotation especially after sitting at a desk or sleeping if you're training in the morning Sitting at a desk working all day And today work it up to a heavy single. Well, we're gonna talk about breathing embracing in this video But first I just want to touch on the last video I put up my main point was being one me and Alan. We're talking about the one rep max him and I talk about training a Periodizing programming all the time in between sets and while we're hanging out at the gym We agree on nearly everything. We have a very similar outlook on life similar outlook on training all I wanted to bring up is the one instance where I think that heavy singles in training may not work for everyone or may not be Exactly what you need at this time and that's kind of what programming Different modalities different tools different variations of lifting are they're different tools And it's about how to apply them who to apply them to and when to apply them so heavy singles RPE 8 9 whatever it might be Can build bad habits if your form already breaks down and that's all I was saying all I'm saying is 60 to 70 Maybe 80% if you're doing reps, you know five sets of two there six sets of three there You'll get more volume one driving hypertrophy and strength and two you'll get more repetitions more practice To build up that technique at loads that you can handle when you're starting to handle 85 plus percent You can handle a couple cues But otherwise you're just pressing and pushing and hoping you make that lift if you're dealing with 60 70% The loads often are light enough that you can really focus on multiple cues at once and really use Your body moving it through space how you need so I worked with a heavy single layer 500 pounds talking about breathing embracing You guys can see often when I pull or squat heavy I'll almost tap my stomach and many people say yes breathe into your stomach What does that mean basically what we're trying to do is really push our stomach out as we're taking a breath And I like to feel my front of my stomach underneath the belt my sides kind of these sexy love handles and my low back And I like to breathe and brace and push them into the belt This allows one your abs to flex a little bit harder when they have something to push against similar Analogy of maybe throwing a baseball compared to throwing a wiffle ball or a softball you want to really Push as hard as you can into that belt and then to what I want to do is flex my lats your lats are very very big They're obviously inserted near your shoulder and into your hip Which some people may not know so when I'm squeezing my back on the squat or squeezing the barbell into my body on the deadlift The lats themselves Squeezed as tight as I can will allow me to also make my midline a little bit more rigid one again the transfer of power from the ground if you're squatting or deadlifting as well as staying safe over time we're trying to build kind of a barrier a vacuum or a Force to really stabilize your spine Yes, our spine is supposed to be mobile, but it's not supposed to be mobile under load We want that thing to be stiff if you know what I'm saying so in my training I am handling a couple heavy singles on the squat. I'm gonna try to up the frequency and lower the volume I think just for you know my body my schedule how I train right now or what I can handle I can't handle the reps that I want to my body just tightens up and then my back will give out Or it'll be too tight for me to train again So I'm gonna try to up my frequency when train about their squad about three times a week Handling, you know a moderate single and each with some back down doubles or triples Deadlifts as you guys saw a little bit of stiff legs so we did stiff legs on Tuesday and then I'll do back to sumo back to cheating deadlifts With a deadlift bar no straps almost full cheater mode just mini cheater mode on Saturday again, I can just get into a slightly better position when I am handling Deadlifts with the deadlift bar and sumo in the better position that I get into the more Volume when I can handle and I would rather handle more volume and I'd rather train then feel beat up Then you know doing a conventional with the stiff bar or whatever it might be I appreciate all your guys help shout out to everybody out there all the support We reached a hundred and fifty thousand subscribers and I don't take it for granted. I do truly appreciate you guys I'm proud of me. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of all of us shout out to my boy Connor Who's helped me throughout the years editing managing coming up with ideas, you know I've never varied from who I am or what I want to put on this channel And I know 150k in the scheme of YouTube or even fitness YouTube is quite small But I am proud of it because I haven't gone away from who I truly am The content that I want to make my values. I haven't sold done sold out yet one day Maybe we'll sell out but right now we're still here to entertain and we're still here to teach And that is my goal guys to share my experiences teach a little bit along the way Hopefully entertain a little bit along the way Again, just a big. Thank you to everyone out there. Go ahead and smash that thumbs up be sure to subscribe and comment below What type of videos over the last three years have been your guys's favorite type of videos? And I'll be sure to get more of that content on the way up on this channel again guys Thank you releasing videos every Tuesday Thursday Saturday and Sunday Enjoy this little unveil we had a cool little package. It wasn't to me because I don't have a PO box But Alan got a cool little gift. So hopefully you guys enjoy this little sneak peek into untamed strength Alright, we got fan mail. I mean, I didn't get fan mail. I've never had fan mail So I'm gonna just pretend like this my website's on the Or my address is on the website. So people I'm just gonna pretend like this is to me and Alan Just to make me feel good a bunch of quick cuts of me ripping stuff. Yeah, it'd be like Casey Neistat so this is from Sweden Like some CDs, maybe it's music Nice I have these though That's tight. It's Hollis because I put a Star writer one of their songs in my recent video No, no, no, not at all. I'll put it on right now Who is this? Oh, there's a note now through all we notice that you like Hollis We really laughed we saw that saw the part where you was in the star writer video Here you have the record if you want to blast some more Hollis the old school way If you sometime visit Sweden don't hesitate to swing by talk music and teach us how to do those squats and deadlifts Take care Patrick and the sign records. Thanks guys. This should I feel like this should be on my channel, but