 Ladies and gentlemen man, happy holidays. I'm back Give this thing a thumbs up man. Let's get a little groove going. I appreciate all the support all the nice comments Instagram YouTube son of Mike you guys have been really cool lately. So I do appreciate it And I want to talk about you know the truth about getting strong what it really takes to get strong And I've gone over in the past a million variations a million programming tips a million frequency and and and lifting technique tips on ways to dial in your form but the truth is Well one truth that no one wants to know or talk about probably my favorite tweet of all time If I have to to toot my own horn is that the truth is is talent does beat hard work And they may piss some of you guys off and you can go chatter in the comments below if that hurts your little fragile ego That you think you can outwork someone and end up being LeBron James, but that's just not the truth, you know epigenetics Talent itself What our bodies are capable of especially in a sport like powerlifting? Where it's just so dependent on tendons ligaments bones a body structure muscle potential Neuromuscular firing potential all these things play such a role that you can't like outskill it Now if we're talking about golf talking about ping-pong There's a genetic opponent and like a skill component and I'm not saying there's no skill in lifting obviously there is But on the scale of soccer basketball, etc. You know the pure genetics take over But the truth is that doesn't really matter because we don't know our potential until we dive in and the truth about getting strong Is there's one factor one factor alone and that's consistency Someone you know tagged me or reposted me and something saying man I admire Mike because he's he's an average dude, which I took offense to you know, I'm a freak athlete I'm not the freakiest. I'm not LeBron James. I'm a good athlete jokes aside. I'm above average athletes You know, I was grabbing rim hanging on a basketball rim in eighth grade, you know, it's 5-8 Hanging on the rims not normal. That's not average So I'm a pretty good athlete now I would say I'm an average just above average strength athlete, but the truth of lifting in His repost was basically saying like damn Mike's pulled 705 He's just lifted for a very long time and consistently consistency and that's what got him there And he's not wrong. I lifted very stupid for five years still pulled 600 plus I had to dial in my programming and my technique a little bit to get to that 700 But the only thing that's got me there is lifting deadlifting once or twice a week for Going now on I'm 33 Over 14 years 15 years. I've been bench pressing since eighth grade. I'm a squat bench and deadlifting Besides the one year off I took about what we talked about in the last video Since I was 18 19 so I just haven't stopped And do I do everything perfectly? No, do I do programming perfectly sleep perfectly diet? Not even close I'm the furthest thing from perfect I'm not what you should look like or look at if that's what you need for motivation, but I'm pretty realistic yet I'm pretty consistent And that's what it takes on YouTube. I've had recent conversations with people on TikTok twitch streaming Building a business the number one factor is I would rather have Seven out of ten days or even five out of ten days Let me rephrase that I Would rather have a five out of ten workout meaning middle of the road workout or middle of the word Effort middle of the road Day but do it every single day then have a ten out of ten workout on a Monday and not train for three weeks You're gonna be way better off having a decent workout a solid workout Just getting something done and that's the same with work business Effort and consistency will take you a long time and when I say effort I don't mean it's got to be balls to the wall every time because you will burn out physically and mentally That just popped in my head We're doing a Q&A on Instagram a lot of questions around that and in the shout out for my guys So I appreciate you guys truth about strength is genetics are gonna rule all whether you want to admit it or not And we got to get better. We got to get consistent and we got to get we got to get as Disciplined as we can We got to get better. We got to be consistent We got to be dedicated fam. So day after day. Let's get it done. I appreciate you man I'm excited. I got goals. Maybe we'll talk goals in an upcoming podcast a 50% fax new podcast out 3sp.co for your clothing So I'm out