 What's good you all want to build a big deadlift you're in the right spot at silent mic and I'm gonna tug harder than anyone's ever tugged on this app what you mean by that tug the kids know it they already know it if you know it we tug and show up we tug and show up in the comments talking about we tug and show up we tug and show up they call us we show up it's like a bat signal they call us we show up jokes aside week one deadlift jam and I had my consultation last night with coach Joe Big J he's gonna make me tug he has it seems like have a lot of confidence in me I don't I don't know what this body can handle but he did so programming comes in this week so it's my last week to kind of free-ball it I'm just gonna get some work in I don't want to get too tired although we already talked out the plan and we're gonna go over more we're actually gonna be with coach J at game day in about three four weeks so we'll get his insight and we'll do some interviews and train with him and he'll be able to coach me in person that's all my admin coach in like six years so it'd be really interesting to see kind of feedback on my form and he knows me as a person he knows me as a lifter pretty good but he's gonna rant me into things because our work capacity is kind of low right now but our general strengths decent so today I'm gonna keep up with that I don't want to kill myself because who knows what's gonna happen on Monday Tuesday whatever we got to do but I'm gonna deadlift a little bit today maybe squat we'll see and then just upper body so just so you know coach Joe game day barbell he's gonna be coaching me for a deadlift program we're gonna be pulling a lifetime conventional PR in December don't know what it's gonna be we're gonna see where we're gonna end up and after talking to him he's basically just gonna program all my lower body stuff I'm gonna do everything other body so we're just gonna stay broed up from from the waist up yeah so I'm gonna be doing you know some hammer strength and whatever on my chest back shoulder tries and then he's gonna do all my lower body and considering the dumpy that I have is astronomical and I do no lower volume as sex series and or volume might I might not be able to like sit down I'm gonna be like it's gonna be like that it's just gonna be like it's gonna be like a eight layered fucking wedding cake y'all got some fucking crepes attached to your hips I'm gonna have a eight layered red velvet wedding cake stacked on my hips we're probably gonna get thick I'm eating a little bit more I don't know what I weigh we're just gonna keep the abs there cuz we got a bunch of collabs coming up with jacked people and I don't want to be job of the hut hanging out with them so we're gonna stay medium jacked but I'm not as lean I'm eating more sleeping more let's get after it what do you think I'm pulling today what we do the other day 545 for triple belted so probably just go belt this all week and pull four or five you know just kind of stay in that pocket you know even Joe said a lot of stuff's twos the sevens and you know an RP seven eight as we start to ramp up I don't know what it's gonna look like you know I've worked with a lot of different coaches but again I haven't been coached in a long time five five years probably it's last time like I competed competed so excited should be good yeah I just want to come in trained enough it's kind of like peeking for a meat in my head we want to come in in shape enough but you don't want to be too fatigued I don't always like to throw out me so yeah we're just triples maybe around 500 anything is gonna be the most difficult thing about this man so yeah I don't know it's probably all gonna be hard for me to be honest I jokingly talk to like Kyle and Barton some of the homies about like not having like a competitive spark in me anymore and a lot of is because my whole life I think revolved around competition you know I loved basketball more than anything so I went so fucking hard for so long and now like my competitiveness kind of gets like spread you know like I care about lifting I want to get better I want to look better I want to be stronger but also like really care about like making our designs and our clothing and our apparel game like the best it can in our space I also care about the gym in the community and I care about you know trying to help everyone I it's really like just elevating everything it spreads that competitiveness and so it turns me from like a hot fire red and now I'm like a cool mellow yellow everywhere so like I get a lot done still but it's just like that that fucking wake up adrenaline probe that I used to have in my loins is maybe a little bit colder I don't know you know I think following a program is gonna be hard I think balancing how much I eat is something I'm thinking about a lot because I don't want to get chunky for me you know no fat chain shit I'm just I like where I'm at and so like but I know I get stronger and feel really strong and good when I eat a lot so I'm trying to balance that again we talked about in the last like kind of diet phase like maintaining the hardest thing I've ever done so that's kind of why I wanted to make a new goal and strength is so I can maintain my my physique and my leanness for three months before we go into our next phase of getting diced up so I think that'll be difficult kind of balancing that and then we got an insane amount of travel and and like any other sport you know to be the best to do these things to sleep in new beds to eat foreign foods to eat out to have a good time and be with the folks we got a lot of collabs on the road you know next literally the next month I'm on the road every single week which isn't new to me you know so what I did all through my 20s when I was more of a competitive powerlifter so it's doable but kind of following that and then you know honestly being coachable I don't like to think and maybe this my ego I don't like to think that I'm uncoachable but I do think that I'm so self-critical in the areas that I get coached so like basketball and powerlifting for example there are also areas that I'm an expert in am I the greatest coach all time now I'm a greatest basketball player now but I've spent years dedicated to the craft so to be coached on things becomes more difficult because I've already thought of probably what he's gonna coach me on and luckily for Joe him and I get along really well and even in the call he's like give me a loose philosophy on any coaches he's like yeah man I do waves of three to six I'm doing this broadly obviously but we do waves of three to six weeks on a variation depending on how long you can sputter out or how long you can make progress he's like you probably already know where you sit in that spectrum I was like yeah I already know right because he knows that I have the experience and I've done this which is gonna be able to really good coach athlete relationship I think I don't speak for him but I think Joe respects me as an athlete and a coach so he knows that I got something going on here so when I tell him stuff he's gonna take it serious rather than if you take a newbie not that you don't take their feedback serious but if they're like that was so hard a newbie doesn't know what a hard deadlift is you know what I mean like Joe knows that I know how to get after it and I know the general concept so I think that'll help but it also for me I got to really try to sit back and put my my athlete hat on which I haven't done for a long time normally I'm the coach normally I'm the boss normally I'm the creator normally I'm the director I'm the president and now I got to do some other things so I'm excited for that but it is a little bit different I haven't I haven't had that mentality in a very very long time I'm always learning I'm always growing when it comes to clothes and business trust me I'm picking Bart Kwan's brain I'm picking all these people's brains to learn about business caffeine and Kilo's Dean I'm absorbing because I've done business on my own for six years or so I've been in the entrepreneur world for ten years but there's so much to learn powerlifting basketball two things I know really well so even in my past basketball relationships with my coach they always kind of knew you know I was always like a captain or something I called a lot of the plays because they put the trust in me because I did the work to get there to earn that it'll be it'll be cool it'll be cool to get a new relationship but I don't know what it's gonna be like with Joe obviously we get along really well and I think our philosophies jam and we vibe personality wise so that'll be good but that'll probably be difficult travel athletes mentality versus coaches mentality and if my body can keep up man I don't know I haven't really like I haven't hit the gas on training a lot a long time I told Joe that like hey man my work capacity is low we'll see what happens what inspired you to do this series I think because I I'm like in a good groove with life in one sense where I'm in routine which is all I can ask for right like we joke but the truth is I'm showing up in every aspect of my life and to me that's 80% of the battle then from there you got to optimize and execute and so like I'm showing up in the gym 80% I'm showing up to business and then and then we're optimizing executing best we can I'm showing up and you know my personal life the homies and my mom and I'm optimizing I'm executing and you guys like what does that mean why do you talk about business and like family same but it's like in business that means like literally literally show up right like step one you got to show up that means like open your email that means show up to your meetings I mean show up to work every day that means coming with a positive attitude all these kind of untangibles I literally believe that's 80% of success and then from there it's like self-analysis business and analysis being self-aware seeing like critiquing your own work and things so whether it's personal business content lifting whatever right like if you're just doing sets of three all the time you're not right you're not being self-aware that all I need to get a program or whatever and then and then obviously that's optimizing then executing is following that plan and the personal life that's something like you could just show up to your friend's birthday but like are you present are you being are you connecting with them are you checking on them are you caring about them did you buy them a present did you buy them a card like are you talking to them are you looking at I or did you just show up to the birthday party which is 80% and then you're just sitting on tiktok the whole time right showing up to the gym and just going through it so for me showing up to the gym gym I wasn't I wasn't executing so I did good on my diet that's where we got shredded but I was just lifting going through the motions again business and stuff I'm like perfect no but I'm showing up I'm optimizing best I can I'm executing best I can with me and my team personal same right make time for my mom to show up I try to be present I hang out there we go dinner whatever right but the gym gym I wasn't I was just showing up which is good but it's not enough and so I think to get a coach to kind of lead me into that and bring you guys on along the journey just kind of made sense I don't necessarily have a coach anywhere else you know you don't get a coach in your personal life I mean you can I'm sure there's dating coaches and life coaches that you can learn a lot of cool things from therapy which I have done there are business coaches and stuff which I've never done but maybe we'll do one day so I don't really have that leadership elsewhere again going back to it I'm the coach on everything so to be able to just kind of throw on that athlete hat and really try to execute better with my barbell movements and being more intentional with what we're doing I have pretty good intention and execution everywhere else so might as well kind of get the trifecta and that's kind of the trifecta in my mind like physical and mental health which is the gym and diet and sleep and therapy and all that stuff business what you do for a living do you like it do you love it there you're doing better you have inside gigs you're making money are you growing are you pursuing and then the personal you know friends partners family so those are like literally the three keys third street triangles that I really try to focus on and look like I probably just had a stroke I was trying to week but I don't week that charismatic so yeah I don't disagree we got to show up but then once we do show up you can get a long ways but I'm trying to go to the top so I got to optimize all of them and if I had the cash and the time we'll probably get a business coach probably had the therapy I've been a therapy in a couple months so you know chip by chip but I think Joe's a good guy for that obviously we're clattering on our meet here February 4th and 5th you want to come hang out it's gonna be a party we get along well we're gonna go visit them so just kind of all made sense since Joe's doing all your lower body what do you have planned for your upper body I'm gonna get absolutely fucking yacht we're going IFVB upper Olympic yeah Olympic track start lower that's kind of how I've been training anyways you know if you guys been following along for a while before the series I basically like train my upper body for a lot of hypertrophy a little bit more volume a little bit more variation and exercises working towards failure and then squats in squats and deads I don't do a lot of hypertrophy work after that and I just kind of handle singles doubles triples a little bit more strength and my great my legs grow pretty easy and so like I just don't really want to do like hello lunges and shit plus I don't enjoy him that much even though Joe said a lot of shit's coming I'm like all I don't want to but I'll do whatever you say so yeah I'll probably just am I bench still I'll decide like right now like I've been benched this week I've just been doing this instead I'll do some kind of horizontal press some kind of vertical press we'll see if he has a lot work if he doesn't have a lot work I'll ask him to make sure I'm allowed to do a bunch of that work so still want to have my back going and then arms yeah it's kind of the same split we'll see we'll see what his kind of a weekly split or volume looks like and then I'll sprinkle in my own shit you know like he has me squatting deadlift on the same day then I'll probably do a full upper body day push pull together but if he splits it like one day squad when he's dead and I'll probably have it split up similar to what I have we'll see and I'll probably actually probably have to pull back the intensity a little bit just to make sure like obviously if you're a power lifter you got to push the intensity and all of them right you got to get strong in all three I got the luxury I don't all I care about the deadlift right now so I'll keep the volume to keep my you know muscles kicking a little bit but otherwise yeah I'm gonna try to have fun probably walk a little bit more I've been doing some salt bike sprints and that's why I haven't gone on Instagram or tiktok live as much as I used to it's hard to Q&A when you're sprinting but now I'll probably just walk so because weather's still toasty out here is 80 but it's getting to fall and so I ride my bike less outside I still just want to breathe get my heart going so I'll still probably walk for 20 minutes half an hour multiple times a week follow me on tiktok so I'm like there we'll do Q&A's but yeah otherwise we'll just play by ear not too worried just a bang programming starts next week stay tuned to the series new videos every Monday Thursday so Monday is going to be the deadlift tugging show up theory series so stay tuned for that and every Thursday we're gonna do some gym vlogs some informational stuff maybe some life vlogs we had a full day of eating coming soon appreciate you got so much man solid Mike we over me be a part of something big in this stuff there is be that CEO catch you next one