 660 man, biggest pull up pulled maybe ever conventionally actually I was thinking about it and this might be a PR in itself so we might be a week early energy is getting the building everyone is just getting warmed up drink a little too much caffeine my stomach hurts so we're going to chill out on that rock star and start warming up let's get after it how do you take enough to where I could feel something how many scoops is that two and a half three two and a half three scoops plus a bang you see him on tiktok follow him on tiktok he got the bang he got the pre-workout inside the bang he's shaking the bang it's called the yak shout out Russell digging in the memory banks and a little bit of my videos and yeah for some reason I thought I pulled maybe 665 675 conventional but I think I technically haven't I think I probably only pulled like 650 and in my head I had like the speed for 665 675 I think my biggest pull competing with conventional is 633 in calm so yeah today might be a PR which cool kind of going through the same like emotional stuff of like competing kind of like documenting it for y'all having a coach like taking it serious kind of like reminds me why I don't compete because I got put in all this work I haven't miss reps I haven't miss sets I haven't miss training I haven't missed a 10 p.m. bedtime I haven't missed a meal calories been unlocked and so whatever happens today or next week if we go heavier it's like duh I should hit that and then if I miss it I'm like fuck man I fucked up and so for me I don't like fine fulfillment all that and that's not to knock the sport obviously if you guys have been around or if you're new my name is Mike and I've been part of powerlifting for 12 years I've been coaching it seminars free information repping I've been a judge in the past I've spotted and loaded meats I've monetarily helped the sport so I'm about the sport because of the community and the people in it it's just not for me to step on the platform it's just not my position within the sport so don't let my words you know negate your want motivation or love of the sport that's not what I meant to do all it's meant to do is to share my perspective on it and why I don't compete which is a very common question so I'm getting a little bit of that like baby self-doubt on the lift which is just normal I think when you lift weights you know you're going for something you've never done before and then I talk myself out of that turn my swag back on like soldier boy but that's kind of where the heads at so we're actually feeling good in the warm-ups I'm probably gonna smash stick 60 but it's been a long journey to get here for sure it looks like it's only been six weeks or eight weeks or 12 weeks with you all but it's been since my first conventional deadlift to California family fitness in 2010 I pulled through 15 have a question what is your new year's resolution I don't have any actually if everyone it was one resolution is to move out that's it period I think I'm already on my way to doing that so we'll see but I think money is now somewhat stable or getting to a place where I need it to be so if I can find a roommate make sure you get my ankles right hey I got a question yeah what's the resolution my new year's resolution this year I want to hit some bigger weight I'm trying to break through the 500 on squat and I think I'm trying to hit 600 on deadlifts too and like 365 on bench I got a meat coming up end of February or beginning of February sorry I'm fucking stupid with the game day boys shout out Nico a in the comments answer this question bro what is y'all pastime outside of weightlifting let me know in the comments you're taking to heavy top singles is something that's been gaining traction and popularity and powerlifting the Bulgarians made it popular they'd have you know kind of daily maxes and weightlifting is obviously a different sport but in the clean and jerk even the squat and the snatch they would go heavy every single day and work up to basically a max as heavy as you can go without lifting or missing excuse me and so powerlifting Westside barbells one of the first to take that concept and try to transfer it to powerlifting where they would do that but they would only do it once once a week because obviously the systemic fatigue of a maximal deadlift squad or bench is going to be more than an Olympic lift purely because of the range of motion you're doing the technicality of it and it's the lifts that you can lift the most amount of weight with plus there's an eccentric to most of them obviously deadlifts you know it's like half an eccentric but there's still something versus a clean or snatch that's just concentric a lot of guys shout out Joey flex Johnny Candido there's a lot of Ochi coaches and powerlifting that started to implement that often if not year-round in powerlifting and a lot of people have had success with it but the fucking truth is you don't need it a lot of the work is built from the volume in the drop sets right the three is the fours the fives the doubles there is something to working up to a top set semi regularly that allows you to build the skill which is a portion of how you get stronger so in that instance yes it's the most specific we can do to our sport and powerlifting that to say that they're necessary is a big stretch for me to say that they're even the best way is a stretch for me but to say that it is a possible good way or a good tool to build strength and powerlifting I'm a hundred percent on board with maybe now for y'all maybe y'all can relate to me now more than ever where my start to powerlifting I literally was training by myself literally by myself strongest dude in a whatever commercial gym like maybe some of you go to but then my first real introduction to the sport I was lifting everyone in the room squatted over 800 pounds everyone in the room bench 500 everyone in the room dead lifted over 600 pounds and majority of them in the 7 800 pound range so when I joined that gym I squatted a five bench 315 and pulled 540 I don't want to say the joy was stripped for me but like that's too deep but like I just know what's capable and so for y'all I might feel similar where y'all probably follow Russ you'll follow Jamal you see what John Hacks doing at wood all these amazing athletes and you're like damn that's cool I just hit a 500 pound deadlift but oh fuck I hope you don't feel the same as me because I think you'd be a little bit more driven if you don't and it's just kind of how my head works like I want to be good I want to be the best and as an athlete that's not my spot as a lifter basketball is pretty good I was pretty good coach but I was a really good player powerlifting I just find my own route somewhere else so that all being said 660 feels good because not a lot of things feel good as I'm getting older here and it's a joke in the gym here but I've done this for 15 years so me all probably even 15 years old so to get a groove and know that I can still push myself despite having the hardest workload the highest stress the most responsibilities feels pretty good to be a full-time athlete in anything you know you got to lower your responsibilities right like yeah LeBron and all them have kids but they have the money that they just lower stress and responsibilities much they can to focus on their craft I don't have that luxury and now I have many other luxuries I'm blessed in many many ways but I still have to focus on other things first not my lifting talk about another video like visualization so key to success in my opinion to walk through yourself mentally every step that you want to do to succeed so when you come into that in this reality it's already accomplished in your brain and so lifting is the easiest form of that but I have to visualize everything else in my life and so I don't have the mental fortitude capacity or time to do that all that being said pretty good pull I think speed was good my back felt like it gave out I don't know if we got an angle of that not in a bad way just kind of lost some tension in my low back but overall the speed was pretty solid I'd say I got a little fired up just cuz this PR and I talk about that a lot I try to lift pretty zen but you know once a year I might hit some salt so we hit the salts turn all little old Kanye smashed out so we got some down sets we'll see what we're gonna do next week I gotta talk to coach had a question give me a new user's illusion it was to be extremely handsome and confident but been doing that for 29 years the real one is I want to get it to like 245 250 currently sitting like 221 222 225 with shoes on and I don't know I'm just trying to gain gain weight get some size you know I'm a skinny little bitch secret is that like I lack a lot of confidence so I have to say I have a lot of confidence to like you know to just lie to everyone and you know the trust me the conversation between myself and I is happening daily on a second by second basis so yeah I just want to get some weight get some size some good size size that I know is sustainable you gain 30 pounds in like a couple months you're not gonna keep it so over a year it's a little less than a pound a week it's very doable it's less than a pound a week it's very doable very doable I don't know what's next y'all backs feeling pretty good considering that's big pulls one reason I kind of stopped powerlifting is I couldn't pay attention and keep up with the demands of the volume and frequency but shout out to coach Joe for helping me along the way hit this PR and keep me healthy and feeling good so I'm gonna go eat I'm gonna go chill we may hit another PR next week we may call it we may have a couple more weeks before another PR but the cuts are coming so I'm kind of excited for the switch up just mentally it's actually less taxing for me to diet because it's more routine base and it's like less pressure in the gym I just have to work hard I don't have to worry about hitting numbers and all this stuff so in a sense I feel a little bit of relief coming up to a nice cut we're gonna shred out for 30 days if you want to get involved join the discord I think we're gonna run a challenge and we're gonna see who can who can cut the most body fat and stay healthy over 30 days along with me in this YouTube thing and the winner I probably win some gear from good company 3sb.co so join the discord I think the links in the bio if not I'll make sure we'll click it up here and that's it man I appreciate you guys following the journey share this thing out new PRs on the way we're always pushing hopefully more lifetime vlogs for lifestyle vlogs on the way 3sb.co Salam Mike, Dirt Street Barbell I'm out here