 Ah, YouTube. It's me. I missed you. Do you miss me? Hello from the other side Figure we start every vlog with a sick pop culture snippet And since Adele's a queen you gotta let her in Welcome get the thing a thumbs up man spread the love dude I don't know where all y'all at in your life in your fitness journey Obviously, I've been on and off YouTube for eight years, but I do want to entertain and educate the best I can so If you all hang out I Just did a set. I know it sounds like I'm having a heart attack. I literally just did a set But if you comment below What you want to see training vlogs are staying having a good time reconnecting and a little bit of a challenge re Igniting the channel, but we're there I've been thinking about it and To not go too deep or philosophical But we always have this and I used to be guilty of it talking about progress and like preaching progress and always chasing progress And like the pursuit of happiness the pursuit of success the pursuit of strength the pursuit of fat loss the pursuit of muscle gain I think it's all great, and I think it's important to have goals I think it's important to put one foot in front of the other But what I think can get lost At least for me and maybe some of the other kind of people that are wired like me perfectionist type folks that There's no destination, right? And so in this philosophical realm success happiness We expect to to get there and just like like it's a door you open and you're there But that's just obviously not the case, right? But in terms of fitness, it's more applicable There's so many videos books e-books guilty On fat loss on muscle gain on nutrition for both of those and performance There's not a lot of talking about maintenance When should you have a maintenance phase why how is it important? Same with lifting always about new PR new inch on my biceps So I could get a girlfriend to take me to the movies because my arms are 17s now and not 16s Sorry, that was high school Mikey getting sad But why not just like maintain strength or or have the journey of being healthy and feeling good Do I have to deadlift 800 pounds or could I just deadlift 500 ish reps and slowly get better? If not maintain because I am a human that has other goals or other my attention that's go elsewhere or just feel good What's wrong with just feeling good? And these are all things I struggle with and this is how my brain works and that's why I'm sharing it with y'all But like I have issues Enjoying the process I have issues not looking towards the future. I have issues maintaining anything I always want to grow. I always want to be better and I think that's what drives me to be who I am But it can be a detriment to my mentals And so I think I'd like to be 20 pounds lighter Let's put that out there, but I think generally speaking my training is going well because I'm not putting that pressure on me I'm not putting that pressure on my diet I'm not putting that pressure on my fitness and it's holiday months so I I tend to just try to enjoy that as best as I can but Talking about optimal splits in my training right now. I'm training four days a week. Boom about a sping by the boom I'm not powerlifting. I'm just moving. I'm feeling it. I try to do a deadlift and a pole day on Monday a Bench and a push day on Tuesday a deadlift variation and a pole day on Thursday a push day and variation on Friday Four to five times a week. I want to get my heart rate up and sweat a little bit So during those training days, it's afterwards Wednesday sometimes I'll sneak one in if I'm feeling a little lethargic I'll just get on the elliptical or the bike and move around a little bit and I'm I guess I Don't want to say like I'm maintaining because it has such a negative Or around it, but it's not negative to me maintaining means I'm not going backwards and as long as we're not going backwards I think I'm going forward Look, I know I'm not Tony Robbins and all your favorite motivational guy who's waking up at 4 a.m. telling you to crush the iron paradise, but I'm an average dude that gets after it in many aspects of my life and I am trying to improve who I am I'm in trying to prove my mental I'm trying to prove my business in my community here at 3rd Street. So my lifting is just gonna take back seat for now We're buckling up little Timmy in the back. I'm gonna stay healthy. I'm gonna stay feeling good Today's the variation day. So welcome to the training vlog. I'm gonna go hit some snatch grip deadlifts Dan sent a little longer cardio and then we got back and buys Welcome sit back enjoy buckle in grab your favorite snack. Let's party