 Good morning, will you be my neighbor? I have a night guy. You touch the voice? I don't know. Why don't you be my neighbor? I don't even know who that is. Come on Mr. Rogers. Okay. Put a little hipster sweater on? Cardigan? He was the inventor of the cardigan. Inspired. He inspired Connie. I gotta go weigh my fat selfie and come with me. I'm gonna weigh myself in a week. Pause this video. Comment below what you think I weigh. I've had a Chipotle burrito. A red line. And I'm in full clothes. I'll take my sneakers off. Should we close the door? Is that weird? Kind of weird. No, we'll leave it open. Here you go little buddy. If you guys guessed 212.0, you're a winner. Congratulations. You get a free subscription to my YouTube channel. No clothes, no food. Probably 207 in the morning. If I'd guessed. My lowest was around 204. So we're right there. You think you have that much Chipotle? So no clothes. Right now? Probably 210. Okay. Yeah. With how much liquid and food? I'll gain like six pounds in a day. Chatted with you guys before. A couple of times. How's this? This work? Yeah. A couple of times before. I don't really love competing. I posted a quote on Instagram. Salomagw2k is following me. Michael Jordan talking about fear and how his work ethic kind of outdoes his fear. Fear of failure that is. Because he knows that he'll succeed if he's putting a certain amount of work in. And I find that that quote is never more true than powerlifting. Where if you do a certain amount of reps, certain amount of sets, sleep, nutrition, recovery, for a certain amount of time, you'll kind of know about what you can lift and what you can't. So that's kind of for me what powerlifting competitions aren't that exciting for me. They don't really give me any kind of fulfillment. Other sports, you put in preparation, you're getting your jump shots in, you're working on your crossover, you're working on your deepest stance, teams, plays, etc. And you never know who or what you're going to play against. Obviously they're scouting and things, but not beside the fact you don't know who's going to show up when. And you can outplay someone better than you on any given day in team sports. Powerlifting it just doesn't really happen. You can have a good day and go 9 for 9, but you're never going to, you know if you're a 600 pound polar or you hit 85 for a double in training, you're not just going to wake up and deadlift 750 all of a sudden and win the world's competition of powerlifting. It doesn't work that way. But basketball, not that an eighth grader can go and don't call Michael Jordan out of nowhere, but, you know, an eighth ranked team can beat a number one ranked team. Anything can kind of happen, because there's more aspects, there's more mental skill and physical skill in the sport. It's more dynamic, I guess, beyond the actual body movements that the sport itself has more aspects to it. That was a long rant, I know. But I've been talking to Mr. Barkhwan, the homie, shout out to Bart. And I guess it's time to get back on the platform. Last time I competed was the deadlift-only competition. Hopefully you guys have been following me for a while. It was about a year and a half ago. I had some back tweaks along the way. I wanted to compete again, but it wasn't happening. So some weight loss along the way. You guys just saw the way in. But now July 1st, Barbara Brigade, official announcement. It's official. 198 deadlift-only competition. I don't think my back can handle squats and deads at the same training cycle or even at the same week right now. But deadlifting, my back feels pretty good. Today marks the first day of prep. Time to compete. Time to deadlift. Time to put it on the line a little bit. Time to step up the last intramotivation. I don't really need it, but signing up and giving yourself a deadline does help for diet and strength training. So turning things up a bit, building some volume. I got three sets of eight on 405 today. Deadlift is going to deadlift twice a week. See what happens, my friends. Subscribe, turn on notifications if you guys don't want to miss this series. See a little bit of competition prep along with the blogs and informational stuff. Last warm-up. Some guy asks, what do you do when you're hungry? All caps. Eat? When you're dieting, though. So when you're dieting, calories again are going to be kind of top priority. After that, your proteins, and after that, depending on your sport, your performance, and in general, a little bit of the person, a little bit of your appetite, because it's split up the carbs and fat. One thing that helps when you're on lower calories, at least me, has some kind of intermittent fasting may come in. There's no miracle about it, but limiting the amount of hours I can eat, so I wake up, I drink coffee, and I don't eat until about 11 o'clock. Once you do that for a while, it just becomes routine. You're not hungry as soon as you wake up. The other thing is like fruits, veggies, voluminous foods, so certain types of foods. Broccoli is an example. You're going to eat this much broccoli and get 200 calories in, where you can only eat this much ice cream and get 200 calories in. So you start to make better decisions. And then it's just about being consistent. The more consistent you are, your mind and your actual stomach will adjust to the amount of calories and food you're putting in, so then cravings will go down after time. It's just a little bit of willpower, a little bit of consistency over time, and then voluminous foods. Staying hydrated helps. A lot of water. I drink these little LaCrux. Bitches to keep me going. Coffee. LaCrux? LaCrux? I always say when people make fun of me, I don't care, dude. I don't care. LaCrox. What do you say? LaCrox. I think it is LaCrox or something. What is it? I drink the LaCrux. I drink a lot of water. I drink a lot of coffee. I eat a lot of voluminous foods, a lot of veggies at night. I eat a lot of popcorn. I eat popcorn with no butter, because same thing, you can get like this much popcorn. It's 60 carbs, where it's like a cup of rice is 50 carbs. So that helps me. And then staying busy, man. Having goals outside of just focusing on food all day. Kind of lift weights now. I'm always helping these folks. They don't even care about my gains. Can I ask you guys a question? Why don't we put the roll off? That's all she wrote, kids. We're gonna drink caffeine. We're gonna go play Call of Duty. Warming the chops up. When we get to that new house, we'll be Twitch streaming. So follow it in the description below. Appreciate you guys. Power, Leaf, and Deadlift only. Competition it has begun.