 Oh my god Don't mind my pores Please don't talk about My pores This looks good brand new camera Brand new Wednesday Kids Back Comment below scale 1 to 10 how good do I look I'll turn the ACL so you can hear me One to ten how good I look and one to ten out how good I sound Um, I bought a new vlogging camera Sony thanks for not sponsoring me, but thanks for helping me. We're heading to the gym kids Man, I don't even know where to begin haven't put a video out in a little bit Been busy And I haven't been able to like vlog vlog in a bit Been busy. We've done some sit-down like catch-up videos, but I feel the vibe is so different You guys are sitting on my steering wheel right now, you know, it's me and It's you and we put blinders on to the rest of the world And we just get to connect on a deeper Some would say an intimate level Catch you up rewind to fast forward and take one step back to take a leap forward for mankind 2018 I have coffee with Jim McD Jim McDonald one of the pioneers in content creation in the strength and conditioning world One of the first guys to believe in me as a content creator as a coach as a is a voice Jim McD and I have coffee He wants to start a new podcast He needs a place. He wants a place. He wants me. How do we get involved? I need a place to train I live in downtown Sacramento. There's nowhere to train. I need a community. I have no friends. I'm a big loser What are we gonna do? So we're brainstorming brainstorming long story short Fast forward a year and a half later We're beginning an apparel company called good company that's produced by a company called 3rd Street barbell We get the keys to a building That has so much history in powerlifting weightlifting Strength and conditioning not only for a local fitness scene here, but for the internet for everything It's a spot where super training was it's a spot where the power cast and I began my career It's where all my first videos were it's where I grew my Instagram it's where Pete Rubish Chad Wesley Smith George Lehman Brandon Lily Eric's photo Stan Effort and Dan Green There's where some of these guys crushed some of the biggest weights on the planet and Literally revolutionized what powerlifting is in the in the 21st century. We spend the next five months Physical labor no days off renovating this building And that's where I'm going right now. I'm gonna go catch a workout. I Haven't worked out consistently in a year. I went through some personal things I've been pretty open and honest with you guys in my past about some of the anxiety stuff I deal with That I worked through on my own, you know with my mom my loved ones I worked through With therapy since I was a child That can really lock me up so it locked me up pretty good last year As well as some just life stuff going on Then I started to work out last January early 220 and as most of you know and most of you gone through we then had lockdowns I live in California, so our lockdowns were a little bit longer than some I didn't have access to a gym From basically February until last week when I got equipment for my own gym There's Street Barba. So I'm building back up I got real thick and not good way over the winter last year got up to 250 pounds that's like an embarrassing insane number the heaviest I had ever been before that was about 230 but Again life hits chapters closed chapters open life goes on I don't know what other cliche saying I could throw at you, but it didn't feel good. It didn't go well. I Got way overweight. I dieted down to back 220 so I'm about 220 225 and Just trying to get some of the strength back. So this is probably my fourth session back First one here on YouTube can't wait to take you guys with me And I hope you guys like this man. I think it's gonna be a lot of one-on-one times Some lifting some life some business some design I've shared a lot about myself on the internet obviously I went to an art school my whole life I've talked about that played basketball grew up kind of in the hip-hop culture Not in it, but loving it and it's surrounding me in a way And so I'm doing a lot of the brain work the design the creative work on our clothing itself So maybe I'll get you guys behind the scenes and that We built an office here a podcast so I got a podcast at one. It's currently 11. Let's dead leave Back cuz I feel like I didn't finish the story. Well, I'm gonna go dead look But so basically we decided to build a gym build a community build an online community through our apparel Windows little out. I'm sorry kids buckle up back there buckle up. We'll get there when we get there But we spent five five months or so renovating the space. We have we're probably 90% done with the space 70% done with our equipment COVID and life and things have slowed down our shipment. So we're waiting on some barbells. We're waiting on some plates So we're not officially open. We're not officially open But obviously I'll announce that here and my Instagram and stuff as soon as we are open I don't know how many videos I'm gonna put out on this thing Whether it be daily daily vlogs or every other day vlogs, but I think it's time to push it man I basically have taken a year off to build up business and Create a space where I can create better content to connect with you guys To share my story share my experiences. So now we're at that point where it's time to share the experience Sometimes my life's so boring. I'm like well, I can't vlog. I don't do anything and then sometimes my life's so crazy Like I'm too crazy. I can't vlog and so right now. I'm kind of in that middle space where we're busy And I think I take you guys on the journey, but I'm not forgetting to vlog You know, I just had to put all my money and things other areas for a while But now It's here for a new vlog camera brand new me. So Jim's not open But hopefully it'll open trill soon Trill soon As soon as this shipment shows up everything else is prepared so time to rock and roll friends a Beautiful wall. Oh, we don't get DMCA 21 21 I was about to get bright kids. Oh Adjusts camera. Oh shit Right here on the freeway front. They're a street barbell good company welcome fam man getting back into it feels good My body doesn't ache as bad as I thought my body would ache But the main issues are how heavy things feel And then kind of controlling volume I like to work I never got into lifting weights to power lift I never got into break world records. I like the feeling of work. I like hard sets of ten. I like hard sets of eight But holding back on that throttle a little bit because I know in the long term I Will be better off Handling some singles getting some of my strength back and getting the volume on the back end accessories And saving kind of the hard hard work on the barbell for when I do plateau or when I'm better conditioned You don't want to just hop back in after a year break or whatever break. It's just start banging out Sets of ten on squat. You're one. You're gonna be insanely sore one two When you do plateau, what are you gonna do? You start with three sets of ten three times a week on squat Now you have nowhere to go. You need you need to give yourself a little bit of room If I can make more progress doing less work That's the goal because then I can add more work over time I can add more volume. I can add more weight So handling a heavy single on dead's probably heavy double triple on squats Probably some volume on bench even though I just said I'm not doing that Probably just a good set of five closed script catch a pump podcast. But yeah, most thing is for me is just Going back to how heavy lifting feels four or five felt like hell four fifty five felt like hell but they felt very similar so Rely on your friends rely on your confidence rely on your preparation your past And if you need to videotape it to see how fast it actually looks because I'm staying in in position Everything feels good besides it feeling heavy. I changed. I love Sacramento another pet peeve I've talked about many times people talk Like we're LA anytime. I said like yeah, I live in Sacramento, California like oh my god I wish I lived somewhere where it was warm and not that it's not warm here. We're in a valley. It's very hot all Summer like that. I think we had over 35 days over a hundred this year Which is warm, but that starts in like May the rest of the year. I would say is temperate We don't get a lot of rain. Sometimes we get some fog. It's still very dry, but like it's a little bit late summer this year But right now it's nice. It's about 50s in the morning 60s or 70s all day long December November kind of our holiday season up until April March We'll get the 50s. I like that. It's like hoodie weather. You're comfy and a hoodie in some sweats But basically just we've got a podcast We've still been jamming if you guys don't know 50% facts all audio Spots you want to listen to it? We do live stream it to take your guys to questions But I want to give you a mini tour of the bad cave. What's it called Jim the burnt bat poop Guana This looks like Guano, but it were like a burnt shack, but it's not this is insulation foam We basically built this building. I told you guys we were going nuts for the last Five or six months and this is still a work in progress. We did these floors to match the other floors We're gonna have fulfillment all the all the good company in Third Street Clothing will be shipped out of here Our top secret door you guys don't even know how to get back here. It's it's password locked My computer and then nothing else a little soundboard, but then the whole podcast studios. Oh back here. Oh, I'm tired boys So this is where live streaming and banging out all the podcast content soon Don't know when The my two streams will commence whether they be lifting probably in here Obviously in the gym and then probably gaming. So we'll see if I'm gonna game Here on my desk or still do the rig at home We got fiber down here, which is pretty nice and then there'll be people in and out Which is like good and bad if I'm in the middle of a game. It's bad. So I'm trying to get high kills on warzone So I'm not in the middle game. It's good because then we got some interaction and some life and some content We'll see comment below if you guys watch some twitch. I know it's gotten so popular I've watched that thing for years now the average, you know big boys shimmeries to be 10k and now it's like Dudes are averaging 50 60,000 people that last night. There's some political guy with 200,000 people on there So I know the platform is growing an insane amount in popularity. Obviously Amazon owns it. So that's how it goes I'm not sure what the rest of the day has in store, but here's my mini locker room here. This camera looks pretty good. Oh boys pretty good Auto-focus is solid Zoom in. Okay, go by now is literally my position I'd say if I'm not lifting or doing renovations are still going we have stuff to do but the gym like in the physical space is 95% done. It's functional. It's just waiting on this equipment But this is my position when I'm working at home. It's my position when I'm working my laptop kicking good news Finally, we're talking about not getting dubs out here We're getting a lot of speed bumps in this journey, but I have something wrong with my brain Where I don't fear failure anymore. I think I'm just too old. I just don't give a fuck I heard you're allowed to curse deep into YouTube videos. So we're gonna let loose but Good news has come my friends All our equipment's coming in the next two days everything. I ordered all this stuff months ago We've been waiting and this kind of showed up this kind of showed up that kind of showed up everything's coming So I think if the boss man allows us And if not, we're gonna edit this shit out. I think we're doing an open gym Come hang out sign a waiver lift for free probably the only free day. We're gonna do This Saturday Come hang out sign up check out the gym. I'll give you a tour ask questions Wear your mask clean your hands wipe your butt do your hair Take an Instagram selfie Hopefully we're doing a soft launch people can work out hang out sign up Sunday we're closed and Monday We'll officially be open after two years of work