Back, shoulders & masculinity with Mike Israetel.

Touch all the way to the bottom if you can. Round your whole back forward. Shoulders forward. Yes. That last inch is a big deal. Shut the up. That's why I'm coming. Go to answer all of your questions. No, I'm not human. One more. Chris, touch that chest. Go, go, go, go. [Music] What did you do today? What did I do? Uh, started with an adult film. Starring or started started my day with an adult film. Are you starring in it or did you I star in all my adult films. I am the only star. It's a video of me at home masturbating. I continued uh with another adult film. Then I recorded an adult film, edited an adult film, watched another adult film, this one just for pleasure. Yep. and I'm here. What a wonderful day. I get to see me. So, down to the adult film that we're filming today. I'm uh Oh, yes. Yeah, that's true. The guy's really only up to one thing. Anyway, um we should lift things. Are are you open to any kind of workout? Are you okay to jump in with me on my workout? Well, it depends what it is, but yeah. Oh. Um it's a back and shoulders. Super down. Could not be more down. Wow, that's easy. real quick. I don't mean to bother you. I'm like, I love working out, but like motivation's tough to find. Can you tell me something totally off? Like the thing that really gets me going for workouts is if I know a piece of information like through HIPPA that I'm not supposed to know. That [ __ ] gets fired up. Give me crazy this [ __ ] Just anything, please. [ __ ] a client name, their address, and their exact debilitating condition that I can like somehow I don't know like scam them out of money for intro. An intro. Uh, run it back. There is there is there is no intro. We're here. We're going to lift some things. You heard us talking. Mike made a gentleman feel uncomfortable. Tried to contravene Hipper. Now, we're going to do back and shoulders. Back and shoulders. First, we get people's medical records. Flop through them shits. See some [ __ ] like, "Oh, damn." Put it away. [ __ ] gets us fired up. We get our perfect hairline together. Look at that hairline. Mustache baldness. I committed a murder and I'm trying to redo my look so that I can't be You look like a murderer. Oh, god damn it. I went in the wrong direction to be found. Why don't you get the sunglasses and the hat, too, to really complete the look? Yeah. The [ __ ] big rimless [ __ ] Yeah. Okay. Um I'm white enough to be a murderer. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, you ever notice like black serial killers, bro? Preach. And and the Asians will do nothing nothing until they lose it and like in Canada they'll cut some guy's head off on a bus and then that's it and then nothing for 50 years. Whites every day we out here doing that [ __ ] Uh if there's if there is a a a woman with cats that lives all by herself and only calls her mom once a week, that [ __ ] is on a [ __ ] timeline for whites to come get her and murder that [ __ ] She was so sweet. Everyone would say later, she never did anything to hurt anyone. Chris is in there hacking that [ __ ] Not you, Chris. Another murderer. Chris, also white. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. British. Um, back and shoulders. Back and shoulders. Let's go work out. Okay. I always warm up like this. Arm circles. Yeah. It's like a dude. I'm seven again. Yeah. Hell yeah. I'm seven again. Is this Is it What is this? It's a twist. Guess guess where I'm from originally? Russia. Yeah. Russian twist. Ah, it's a Russian Russian twist. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh, and then I just so I just basically I used to not do this like generations ago. I wouldn't warm up my core in the prehistoric times in the Yes. when dinosaurs roamed the earth. And uh I used to get pull like some oblique muscles like doing some [ __ ] and ever since I started kind of warming up the core. It just helps the warm up. It's really some com combination of autism and obsessivempulsive disorder. Mhm. Holding on to some balls. Holding on to balls. Okay. Yeah. [ __ ] all that. Ugly. Ugly. You know what, Chris? Let's just do this guy right here. Yeah. This is grippy. Oh, you're adult adult height. Can you uh I'll trade you here. [Music] 10 to 12. Cool. Good technique. really uh control that last top half and then gently touch at the bottom. This feels nice. Yeah, this does feel good. Feels a little more sensual than any piece of gym equipment should do. It really feels like it's communicating with your body. Like that scene in Ghost where that [ __ ] like grabs the pottery all sex-like. Nice and easy, Chris. So, super just warm up. There you go. Is that a Gym Shark piece of attire that was precut? So, it came like this. Yeah, like a football top, I guess. That's cool. I really like it. I think that the making it wider on the shoulders is kind of It's like I think it's a cool look. It's a cool look. I'm really jealous. It makes you a little It's faking being wider, right? I I really want Do have you ever seen a Jay Cutler wear one of those styles of shirts? Yeah, but like old '90s, right? Right. But like same style. Yep. He looked ridiculous. It's a cool look, dude. He's already huge. And then that shirt is like, man, honestly, my wife and I are obsessed with grime. What about drill? How do you feel about drill? Drill. What I think that you're referring to as grime will almost certainly partly be drill. Okay. So, it's generally people standing in what looks like a dilapidated backyard with a car that they think is a nice car, but was a nice car in 19 uh sometimes. And they're wearing like like clothes you would wear if you had worn the same thing for two days and just got back from a soccer match and and but sagged and this is drill. This is drill. Okay. That [ __ ] same [ __ ] Yeah, drill's [ __ ] sectic. It causes a lot of knife crime, but it's really sick. Well, they literally threaten each other with knife crime in the lyrics, correct? So, this is drill. You're listening. It's more of a preparation than a threat. Sick drill as well just replete for good puns. Way more than grind. Oh, nice. Okay. Okay. Drill. It is five or six. Nice little warmup. Heavy load. Nice little And then uh the next set we'll do is probably going to be work set. Smooth pull. Big stretch at the top. That was a 1 minute and 5second set there, sir. Oh, yeah. Anything 45 seconds to a minute 15 generally hits. What's the goal here? Get around 18. Get in that upper teens range. So, I'm going to have to drop this. I'm not going to be able to match you on this. 150 for you. And then close to failure. Okay. Beautiful. Yeah, British rappers are so much cooler than American rappers. So much cooler. They're so much poorer as well. Yes, they were like, I can believe that you're street. Yes, you probably do stab people cuz you can't afford a gun. 100%. That's extra scary. You know the scariest ever thing? Poverty. Yeah, that's what's real [ __ ] scary. Oh god. Big stretch at the top. There you go. Yep. Really lean forward at the top. Good. Couple more. One more. Chris, touch that chest. That's slow. Control. Big stretch. Rack. Now I'm awake. Feels good. I really feel awake. This one's for Kanye. Reps for Kanye. Reps for Kanye. Very good. It's 18 again. Thank you, sir. Uh 15. Okay. I always have huge rep drop offs. Why is that? Do you think Oh, my muscles get tired. Right. I think if typically if you're working closer to failure, you have a higher probability oops rep fall off. Yeah. Unless you're taking really long rest breaks. Yeah. Or unless it's a small relatively weaker muscle. Mhm. Then it can recover quickly. Calms or something. Yeah. There we go. Yep. One more, Chris. Big stretch. Slow. One last one. Slow. I don't think we've even never talked about this. What do you make around the modern men are lost and struggling and don't know what to do or who to be or where to go type thing? Do you ever consider that? Is that any Okay. Absolutely. I guess that a lot of your app will be servicing guys trying to find modern struggling men. Oh, a great adult film series. Modern struggling men. They're struggling because they're tied up, Chris. By other men who are less modern. Um, there's a lot to say. I would say I like to start almost every thought space with claims like these with the same start almost every time which is to say there's a claim of a phenomenon modern men are struggling two things I need to know evidence how does it compare to before so if you tell me modern men are struggling I need two things one Are they struggling? How do you know? There is good evidence to collect that they are. But the vast majority of people that say modern men are struggling are just going off of like their perception of some small corner of the internet where modern men go to struggle. And so if you have a thousand people in the whole world that are struggling, you're going to find them one Reddit sub thread and you're going to be like, "This is a [ __ ] epidemic." And it's not. The other thing is modern men are struggling. So, are we to assume there is good reason to believe that men are struggling more today than they did in generations past? Well, there may be good reasons to believe that, but there are very good reasons to be skeptical. One is like back in the day when you struggled, you shut your [ __ ] mouth about it. So, how the [ __ ] do we know men were struggling back on the internet? No, you you actively avoided broadcasting it. You just lived in shame your whole life or you offed yourself or whatever. It used to be a thing all the [ __ ] time. Mhm. you know, like, damn, we used to be tougher back in the day. Like, no, you bullied everyone into shutting the [ __ ] up. Yeah. So, yeah, it's funny about um the conversation between boomer generation, millennial generation, and sort of Gen Z or Gen A. And it's one generation repressed it, another generation medicated it, and a final generation self harm their way through it. Yeah. You know, each had their different coping mechanism. Yes. Um Yeah. It's but it's by no means clear which one of those generations was more jilted. Usually I assume historically things were worse because usually they were. So to say modern men are struggling. This is probably historically men struggled 10 times more than they do today. The problem might be modern men aren't struggling enough. Well I think my my opinion maybe that's the struggle. The struggle against no struggle. My my opinion on this is that they are and they are in a marketly different way to the way that most generations previously have that we've got records of because do this first and then we can do it. Let me do this really quick. Do this. Don't do it quick. Do it [ __ ] well. Yep. Good. I've noticed you have a particular look of disdain in your face when you observe the the handles at the bottom of the wrap. Yeah. It's like a Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just an artifact of being like this trying to not get hit in the face. No extra disdain down there. Um so my reason behind modern men are struggling in a way which is potentially unique is that even though economists can and do regularly say like for like even when you adjust for inflation even when you adjust for house prices it's the wealthiest most prosperous most comfortable best that everything has ever been ever. Yeah. That's not people's experience. People's experience is intergenerational competition theory. It's how am I doing at my stage of life compared to how I think my parents were doing at the same stage of life in their idealized recollection. Well, of course, but you don't have generation on generation, you know, going silent generation to boomers or whatever, you had such an upswing in prosperity that there was no place even for your my parents had it easier bias to fit in. It's like [ __ ] look at the size of the house we're in. Look how many dogs we got. Sure. We they they could barely afford to eat. We got two cars. we go on holidays. Yeah. Um and then that's just flattened out in terms of quality of life, I think, for the way that people feel they should be living. Like what is it that I think that I should have compared with the rest of the world? People who are at the top of the tree that I see on Instagram comparison game. And then also what is the idealized version of where my parents are at? There you go, Chris. Big stretch. Yeah, there you go. Yep. Big stretch. Go, go, go, go, go. Slow. That's it. Okay. So, our men struggling and is it different to previous generations? Evidence and comparison. Yeah. The other thing that's uh going to muddy the water a little bit is um get a huge selection bias, self- selection to complaining, which isn't a bad thing. People should complain when things are bad. But you like take uh men that have exceeded their father's socioeconomic relative status, you're not going to hear him talk about it. It's a weird flex. men that have not exceeded their father's socioeconomic status, they're going to be upset about it. They're going to look for people to blame. When you do well, you typically assign the responsibility of well, either to random luck or to yourself. When you do poorly, if you're the average person, you're looking for someone to blame. It's our It's our It's our system. It's the system. Whatever. or however much you know about systems, probably none. Uh and then our parents, it's some kind of, you know, the parents [ __ ] us a little bit. It's their system. Uh you pick like a middleman minority, uh like the Lebanese in Africa, the uh overseas Chinese and most of Asia, the Jews for everyone. You pick on them, you're like, "These rich [ __ ] are the reason I'm fucked." And and all the way down the line. And so, you know, are men struggling on the whole? Men are in absolutely the best position they've ever been by a long shot. Are there legitimate struggles that men have that are either the same struggles they used to have that could be better attended to or are there struggles are having that are new? Yes. Unequivocally yes. Many men, not all men, not most men, but like if most men aren't struggling and say it's 60% not struggling, 40% of young men struggling is literally like what I don't know hundreds of millions of people or something. Mhm. And so that's a big deal. So what I like to do is try not to go overboard on the mass societal and systemic fingerpointing cuz some of that's just not an evidence or really difficult to disentangle. What I like to do is try to figure out what is the struggle. How can we help in a way that doesn't like disentangle the whole economy because you know a lot of times people be like it's the [ __ ] system man. Tell me about the system. Here's macroeconut the [ __ ] up. You don't know economics. willfully you don't know economics and you're not going to help. Um you know a lot of people are like talking about like the in the UK uh it's more difficult relatively speaking to get housing than it used to be. Why? Purely an artifact of government regulation. Government regulation supported by almost everyone by the way. rent control, environmental controls, uh standards and quality controls, licensing permits, uh what's called uh nimi, not in my backyard regulations. Like I don't want that building's too tall. You want to you can solve the housing crisis in London in however long it takes to build residential two years. You can solve it entirely. You can one half rent in London by 2028. Easy. You just grant every permit anyone applies for for a safe multi-level housing complex in a residentially zoned area. As long as it's not going to collapse and kill everyone, you just say yes. And then enough of them get built by supply and demand. It's just going to get cut in half. No one's about to approve that. Oh, but it's my London. I lived on the street, bro. I don't want some big [ __ ] building there, man. O. And then all of a sudden, I start Australian for a second. I start I start every Australian impression. boy. Yeah. God, the Australians are so great. Every Australian man I've ever met, hot and most of them look exactly like you, the ironic haircut and everything. And Australian women, don't even [ __ ] get me started, bro. As soon as I hear the first the first that I'm like, ladies, I love you. I'm totally kidding. Jared Feather exists. He's single. You have to be Southeast Asian to apply. them is the rules. Latinos, you could get it to, but there's just not a lot of you in the Australasia region. All right, enough [ __ ] yapping, brothers. It's war time. Come on, Mike. Dig in, Mike. Come on. Assuming that some proportion of men are struggling in some ways that are meaningful and really [ __ ] suck their quality of life. Yeah. How have you come to give me a way in which men are struggling and me you and I can think of some ways that maybe some some solutions can be worked towards? So there's I guess two broad buckets that I can think of. One would be more philosophical. That's life, direction, purpose, belonging, social cohesion, integration, sense of being valued by society, uh role, something to aim for. Uh empathy, uh support. People feel for me and care about me and want people like the people care about me, my group in a way that makes me feel like I belong. Yeah. one side, other side, socioeconomics, like dropping out of university at very very high rates. That's a good thing. The university is insanely overvalued. I say just don't enroll in the first place is probably best advice. Uh-huh. Uh but that's also translating into they're now earning less by a pretty big margin than their female counterparts up to now into early 30s. It was just up until 29 and now it's creeping into the 30s. And it's not an insignificant amount of money, you know, it's like like multi-digit like double digit percent of differences. So that seems like a, you know, the problem with talking about this is that it sounds as soon as you compare men to women, it sounds like what you can do is or the proposal is to bring women back. And you go, no, it's simply just a a marker in the ground of this didn't used to be the way and two things have happened. Women have ascended in a manner that men haven't been able to. Can we not like chew gum and walk at the same time? Can we not raise men up while we raise women up? Uh and also well it just suggests that men maybe are falling behind in a way like it could be that women have taken over and men have stayed still or that women have taken over and men have also dipped back at the same time. But I'll lift a thing. I have lots lots to say. I'll lift a thing first. finish slope big stretch all the way through rack. Um I'm so pissw weak in this position. It's insane. You know what? Just because of how many pull-ups you can do. Yep. You're fundamentally you have the muscle to be strong there. Yep. It's just a neural issue. Okay. So So we're hook and feet under here. Feet under. Make sure they're nice and firmly towed in. Phil's towed. And then the yep, false grip. Straight arms. Reach back behind yourself. Slow. It's going to get harder the lower you go. Cool. And then just try going deeper every single time. And give yourself a second down there. There you go. Good. Do you want to bend your elbows? That helps sometimes. Let me see. That is so [ __ ] hard. Holy [ __ ] you're good for 30 next time. You'll feel much better. It's really good for developing shoulder mobility, right? So, if you struggle with that, um, which I do. Yep. Just kind a little bit deeper every rep and and that's it. Well, on your weight. Imagine this is good for Brazilian jiu-jitsu stuff. Sure. Yeah. There's a snap down. You know, snap down is ghee or no ghee works better than the ghee. Mhm. I come here. Mhm. I push you. You push back. I snap you down. You fall down. I come around. and take your back. Yep. Uh if you're really strong at this heavy snapdown game, real tough real tough to handle. Actually works really well in uh in street fights, too. Have you been in many street fights? Not many. No. And not zero since I started formal training. Wow. Uh which is both ironic and predictable and a shame. Yeah. Is the way you look at someone when you've been training a long time, they're usually like if they're the kind of person that gets in the fights, they feel a vibe a little bit and they're like, Ah, [ __ ] that guy. Also, with me particularly, like, where do I attack? He has a giant callous. And he's just ugly. I mean, I don't want to be I don't want to be seen cuz if a girl sees you beating up a good-looking guy like Chris, she's like, "Oh my god, that's like my new alpha male. He's like my king." But like, if a girl sees you beating my ass, she's like, "Oh my god, he's like fighting a pig. It's disgusting." I don't want to like see this anymore. You touched it. That stretch is insane. Holy [ __ ] Yeah. Wow. Chris. Wow. Me, man. You look [ __ ] ridiculous. Some [ __ ] real [ __ ] You got like You're saying I look [ __ ] sweet. You got these delts in these veins. How much are you tan? Sunny. Texas. Sunny. You like never see sun, eh? Like where you where you live? Michigan tons in the summer. Cold a lot. What's it like in the summer? I've never I've never been to Michigan. 80s, 90s, humid. Okay. We have a real summer. Okay. But you have a [ __ ] real [ __ ] winter, too. The realest. Wow. Michigan people already know. Good technique here, Chris. You can bend those elbows a little bit if it helps. Oh, there we go. Good stuff, man. Good. Deep. Deep. Good. Slow. Controlled. Three. Now rest. Don't go anywhere. Put the bar down on your chest. Breathe. Just breathe. Four more and you're done. Hit it. So, Chris, I uh noticed your arms were pretty hairy. Okay. Is that a It is. It is a thing. But I have to tell you, my friend, that you may be familiar with the fact that there are levels to this hair gang. You're like Wolverine. Indeed. I didn't know that Jews had so much hair. They do? You didn't know that? No. Are they hairy rice? They're hairy above the head. We come in different flavors. I am of the Eastern European, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish Jew variety. Okay. Yeah. And we are [ __ ] animals, Chris. Good. Who's the famous most famous of your ethnic group apart from you? Most famous? Yeah. Sergey Brin. Okay. Yeah, that's pretty [ __ ] famous. I don't call him famous. Infamous. Yeah. Jesus [ __ ] The man that runs kind of the world now. Kind of the world. Heard a really cool podcast with Sam Alman talking about how meditation was kind of the formative thing that just fixed his entire life. Damn. It's a really cool podcast. I'll send it to you. It's a really [ __ ] cool podcast. He's got seems to have his mind together. I'm a huge fan. He worked at it. He didn't. and he trained it, which is really that's even more cool to me because I there's something people that are naturally talented or they've just got I have some friends who just have this regulated poise. Yeah. And they you know they're into the grounding mindful practices and you know they're the rest ethic people. Yeah. But I've never I've talked and I've poked and I prodded and I've never found a bit where they said, "Oh yeah, I had anxiety attacks all the time." Well, also they're not so useful for wisdom for you because they don't know how they got what they got. You're like, "How do I deal with my shit?" They're like, "I don't [ __ ] know. That sucks." You know? Yeah. It's like, "Do you want to learn to bench from the guy that's got short arms?" It's like, "No, the guy that's got [ __ ] real long arms." Long arms and a [ __ ] chest. If he benches more than last year, I don't know what he's doing. Yes. Yes. Don't mind. Uh Sam Alman, he's the founder of OpenAI, the CEO of Open AAI. He was And he's saying, "Uh, I had anxiety attacks all the time. I couldn't make great decisions. My level of anxiety was so all-encompassing and overwhelming that I basically didn't have access to my own mind and it was getting in the way of me doing stuff. Come on, Mike. Dig in now. Here we go. Yep. Yeah. And again. Great rep. Wow. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh yeah, I didn't have access to my full mind and I just committed to doing an hour a day of meditation. I just did an hour a day of meditation until it stopped. An hour. [ __ ] me. Real [ __ ] For my ADD ass. That is tough. I do 10 minutes now. Yep. After every workout pretty much. Daily his daily meditation. Yeah. Yeah. So you won't have done today's yet? Well, so I don't I don't Sometimes I do the daily, sometimes I do a random, sometimes I just do my own. Okay. where I just said Unguided. Yeah. Y which he recommends too. I like Unguided. Like Unguided would be my preference, but if I'm like, [ __ ] like I need some train tracks to keep. One of the problems I have with we're talking about Sam Harris's Wake Up App. I like it. I think it's the best of the bunch. Uh better than Headspace, better than Calm. Although I've done maybe 500 to a,000 sessions on Headspace when I first started. Wow. Um so Andy Pudd Andy lovely. The one thing I wish and it must be strange being a meditation course teacher. What I want is you to shut the [ __ ] up mostly. Well, so that's the thing with guided meditation is they talk and I'm just paying attention to the words. Correct. I'm not doing them [ __ ] what I'm supposed to be. So I'm like I I wish that maybe there are if you go into the advanced ones like what I want is 30% of the speaking. Yeah. I want that would be about money. Say some [ __ ] Let me breathe a little bit. Explain about sitting back in the mind. And you have to understand this about thoughts because you'll see how flimsy my god I'm [ __ ] thinking about you. How can I not? Yeah. You feel the same? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I And some of his insights are [ __ ] money about the mind. But not when I'm trying to meditate. Yeah. 100%. Yes. Yes. You do. You want to spot it just when you go beyond range. Like you want someone That's a really good way to put it. Like a meditation spotter. That's cool. Glower. Hang out there a little more. Two more. One more. Deep. Yes. Rest. Breathe. That's it. Gorgeous. Okay, that was your third set. That was your last. I'm going to do one more and we're all set here. up for that. My favorite new exercise of probably the last 5 years. Lateral raise thing that you guys taught me. Oh, nice. Dude, it [ __ ] rips. We said this last time. People that think they want big arms don't want big arms. They want big shoulders and then like arms that look okay. Sure. And then big arms also. Yes. But you want There's always when you have big shoulders and you feel like a wide king, there's always some [ __ ] with big arms that walks in and your girlfriend's like, "Why don't you like look like that?" You like laughed and you're like, "Oh, you [ __ ] piss." Yeah. Come on. Yep. Miserable. Miserable. Let me put that away, please. Oh, no. I got it, Chris. Are you sure? Thank you so much. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just [ __ ] sit here and look [ __ ] jacked. Yes. To answer all of your questions. First, no, I'm not human. Second, yes, anabolic steroids were involved in the construction of this hair. Third, I am hairier than my father. Fourth, I'm half as hairy as my grandfather, who is immune to mosquitoes because they would get caught in his hair on the way in and never make it. That is not a joke. Lineage, destiny, family, Vin Diesel [ __ ] family, but like with mosquitoes. We could just Why? Why? Oh, no. No. I got it, Chris. I'll play this out for you. Oh my god. Ever since like you lost your [ __ ] weird arm hair and like you have like hair on your head. I just kind of want to like I don't know. [ __ ] you. I need that like a [ __ ] broken leg. [ __ ] out of my face, Nancy. Let's go lift. Do man [ __ ] Okay. Okay. Okay. How many weeks post surgery are we now? 10. Oh, the swelling is like probably about 50% down. So, it's kind of looking like interesting [ __ ] there. I mean, I can even see through this like how much sucked in. Cinched. It is. Uh, he said he said the surgeon said he got it cinched. So, how do you feel? Um, the recovery was rocky at first. I had a hole in my lower back for five weeks. Time flies when you're miserably recovering from surgery. No, that's not the quote. Um, dude, they put me on fentanyl. What was it like? You did fentanyl. Not fun. Oh, I don't know. Why does everyone do it? Uh, they're addicted to drug. No. Um, I think fentanyl is fun when you're not in dire agony. But so it couldn't even the amount of pain you're in, it couldn't be blunted by [ __ ] fentinel. So, here's the thing. Like, right after I got out of surgery, I was still on the after effects of fentanyl. Y and it wasn't so much uh pain. So, first of all, I was laying back like this for the surgery, okay? And my shoulders are really inflexible in my old age. And so I woke up and I was like, like my shoulders hurt more than anything else. My throat hurt like crazy cuz they put the plastic tube down your [ __ ] That was the worst pain postop of the entire situation. Y but um I had this distinct sense if you do like a set of 20 on the hack squat right after you feel um close to death. You feel unwell. You're like get me out of here. That feeling of myself. Get me out of myself. Yes. I felt that for like two days and as soon as I woke up after surgery I was like not having fun. It was awful. Yeah. Let me give this a shot really quick. Give that a shot. It's not a ton of weight. That's a little low. You going to be taller than me sitting down? Stand next to me. Standing. Sitting. I got I got miniature docks and legs. So yeah. How did I never realize? Yeah. [ __ ] That's so weird. That sucks. That's so funny. Huge stretch. Let everything get pulled forward to its limits. Yes. All right. Reps for Jesus. Reps for Jesus. Reps for Kanye. Same person. He also calls himself Yezus. Jesus. Uh, yes, of course. I kind of want to meet Kanye and be like, "Hey, Kanye, uh, your name sucks." Oh, and by the way, I'm Jewish. Oh, and Kanye, if you're listening, feel free to do nothing about it. Mike's on steroids again. Okay, good technique here, Chris. Reps for Kanye. Settle in. Beautiful. Touch all the way to the bottom if you can. Round your whole back forward. shoulders forward. Yes, that last inch is a big deal. Shut the [ __ ] up. The video guy's laughing. You guys damn third grade in here. Chris, you're the [ __ ] man. Push that [ __ ] Big stretch. That's where we grow right here. Yeah. Gorgeous. Huge stretch. Oh, good. Go. Yes. It gets easier as you go up. Two more. Good ones, Chris. One. Control it. Last one. Control this whole thing. Two. And then slow control. Big reach. Wait for it. Rack. Good [ __ ] Okay, now we're checking. Uh, we're cooking men. Yeah, we sort of forgot about men. Talking about men. That's [ __ ] I mean, if that's not just a symptom of the modern times. Yes, forgot about men. It is unlikely that the political machine is going to bend over backwards for men. When it does, it typically does like fascist [ __ ] which is bad for everyone. You don't want to see extreme maledominated politics. Extreme female politics is like communism. bad extreme male fascism bad. So I would say males are probably uh probably behooves them to take the uh solutions and into their own hands. This is number one. Number two is these social forces they don't affect anyone at the individual level in a very precise way. And so wherever you are in life, there's not an invisible hand preventing you from accomplishing what you want as a man. It just doesn't exist. And so whatever it is you want out of life, you should be purposeful about pursuing it in a way that doesn't just assume things will happen for you. People get out of high school, they have no plan. No worries. They get out of college, they have no plan. No worries. Age 32, they have no plan. Feel free to start worrying. How old are you? 37. you're good. Um, all jokes aside, I you know, one thing is if you would like to acquire a home, start saving and investing as early as possible. Then make sure that you're trying to acquire a home in an area of the country that makes sense instead of somewhere stupid with ridiculous laws like San Fran or New York or some [ __ ] like that. As far as meaning and purpose, a lot of men derive a lot of purpose out of being strong, stable providers and helpers. That means you can climb the status hierarchy of making money for sure. That'll fill you up with something. It'll make you feel good. But if you can find people in your life that you can care for, be it girlfriends, wives, children, family members, getting involved in the community, mentoring, quote unquote, giving back. Oh, it's [ __ ] stupid. I didn't get anything to begin with. Um, that kind of stuff and a search for trying to connect with a deeper community is a [ __ ] big deal. A lot of people feel isolated because they are. And you are unlikely to find community in comment sections because comment sections are dominated by people who don't get along with people in real life. You don't want to be their friend. Finding real life people, joining a gym, joining a boxing club, joining a jiu-jitsu gym, if you're in the Austin area, a running club so you can have sex all day. Those kinds of real life community involvements are a big deal and they're in a great way absent from today's society. And that's probably not a good thing. Isn't it interesting that kind of the meta meme that is fed to guys is more of the thing that they've got too much of already? More independence more sigma male isolation lone wolf solo DGEN entrepreneur entrepreneur your way through [ __ ] working from home passport bro thing it's like all of that happens on your own. Yeah. All of that happens on your own. Yeah. And the way that you consume that kind of content is you let the Yes. on your own and the algorithm that boosts that content for you is the algorithm that's boosted up by also lonely people. Like, you know, if you look up like success memes or whatever YouTube [ __ ] you'll see a lot of like Andrew Tate [ __ ] on there. You don't want advice from Andrew Tate. Um, and there's a lot of that self-reinforcing, you know, lonewolf culture or whatever cuz it feels cool. Mhm. You will feel cool if you're a baller, lone wolf, cyborg. You will not feel connected to a greater hole. You will feel empty. Well, it's also a protection mechanism, right? The world hurt me. Therefore, if I don't open up to it, it can't hurt me again. Sure. Sure. Come on then. Build yourself up. Come back into the world. Prove yourself. And then get some community going. All right. Let's go, Mike. Yep. Good. Yep. small pet peeve that I have in the gym when you're working in with somebody and they try and put the machine on the settings that you have or move the machine to the weight that you have because inherent in that is you need to do that when you finish like you leave it ready for me. Yeah. At one each person is changing the machine one time. Yeah. It is way easier for you to be the person that changes it for you to your settings and have that check, so you might as well do it. Yes. But also, it's like, hey, don't [ __ ] put it there for me and create this weird like karmic debt where I got to [ __ ] put it there for you. I'm not remembering your [ __ ] You're really [ __ ] in the head, man. Yeah, I feel you a thousand%. Anytime I do that for Jared, I can feel his I never had a daddy disdain. Don't [ __ ] do that for me. Don't [ __ ] care for me, man. Yeah. Yeah, I don't need you. Don't be caring. Well, I need I I actually saying all of that, I do need you. God damn it. Thank you. There you go. Yep. Crazy. Excited to see this. Yeah. It's not It's not fully formed yet, but it's something. Well, there it is. two. Mark's still appealing. [ __ ] that's gnarly. Yeah. Future surgeries for Mike. Probably going to get uh skin removal here to get clear shoulder lines. I carry a lot of fat there. Probably this uh situation here. I'm going to reduce uh the skin procedure called body type cuz I hold a lot of uh skin there. And uh very likely this is going to be major major surgery. Chris, you turn around. What I'm going to do is they're going to cut into me and take my abs and then stitch them closer together. Good. Yeah. And they're going to take my obliques and double stitch them closer together and muscle. The whole thing. Yeah. The muscle. And then they are going to put a mesh, a plastic permanent mesh around that whole thing to get the waist to do this. And they're going to sew everything back together. Massive. Massive. Reconstruct your surrogate cuz like Okay, so check this out. This is a fine. So people, this is this might clear up nothing with people I may uh rarely ever get together any idea. So this is me perfectly normally relaxed. This is me at about 12% body. It's just like so veins and my quads all through my calves and [ __ ] detailed. This is just what my [ __ ] this my mom looks like this, my dad looks like this, my sister. We just have pops and it's not fat because I have Nexus scans which of less than a kill half a kilogram of good abdominal fat. I can pull in like this anytime I want. Again, people who have fat in there can't do that. And so I just exist. And when people see me like this and they see me on the internet doing this, but he's just pushing his gut out. I actually have no idea how to push my gut. I don't know what people do to push their stomach out because they're like you breathe in or something. I have no clue. If I completely relax, just look the same thing. So, what I want is my waist when completely relaxed to look like this. Like yours does, his does. Everybody's does. That's normal. That's fun. Want to be sweet. Yeah. It's going to be more how it is with a piece. It's like a torso. Oh, I can't wait. Oh, I can't wait. I want to be the beginning of me having machine parts in me started when I had an umbilical hernia repair. I have a mash here. It's the tiny, but like that's a little preview. I want like the robotic parts. I'm very utilitarian when it comes to the enhancement. Yes, but also it's an artisticness. Let him go. I would want to be part machine. Desperate curse. And so do you. The RP hypertrophy. Shoulders. Uh shoulders. Let's get uh real close to failure here. Okay. Count your reps. Let me know how many reps you get. We're going to do something fun. Control that descent. Control. Yep. Beautiful. How many is that? 10. 10. Okay, remember that number. It's a lot of [ __ ] reps, Mike. It's a lot of [ __ ] 20. That's a lot of range as well. Jesus. Thank you, sir. 10. Even if you have to take a little break. [ __ ] yeah, Chris. Good rack on your thighs. Do what? Put them on your thighs. Rest. Breathe. Four and then you're done. Yep. Take a break. That's it. That's it. That's it. Rack. Good [ __ ] man. Good [ __ ] Oh, I love it. And I hate it and I love it. Yes. Yes, Mike. It's 12. Here we go. I got to get to 20. You got it. Come on. Come on. Yep. Come on. Here we go. Dig in. Yep. Hey. Yep. Good. Up a little higher. Yes. One more. Beautiful. Rack on your uh rest a little bit. Let's get five. someone. Come on. Feeling it. Yeah. [ __ ] yeah. What were you going to ask, Chris? I'm always interested with people who are very driven and work hard and uh have energy to do stuff like that. but are also into try to be into breast ethic, mindfulness. Um, what's your preferred sort of nervous system level of stimulation? Any train with no music or limited music? Uh, yeah, usually no music. Now, recently I've been doing uh ambient music. Yeah. Which gets me really, really pumped. Yep. So figure that one out. Okay. But uh my point being where is you are you a peace guy or a chaos guy? I think for me all of my positive emotions emanate from a baseline of deep peace. If I can get to that baseline first, good things happen. If I can't, sometimes I don't feel so good. Mhm. Mhm. So like gym music to get me motivated can work for like a a rep. Yep. A set, it's not going to work for a workout. That's for goddamn [ __ ] Sustainable. Yep. We doing one more. One more. One more set for you. [ __ ] Okay. One more set. Let's get 20. As soon as you're done here. Mhm. I want you to walk over to the fives. Yep. And do 10 standing laterals with the fives. Sounds horrendous. Good. Come up nice and high. Finish, Chris. Three big ones. One, two. Come on. Let's go. Three. Oh, [ __ ] above parallel each time. Five reps. Good. Good. However many you want. Bonus round. Let's fry it in. One, two, three, four. Let's get some pain. Yep. Come on. Come on. Christ. Good. Good. Uh, and that's it. We'll see you next time. Bye.