Olympia prep training with Chris Bumstead.

how do you think you're going to come in do you think it's going to be exactly sort of on track is everything moving in the right [Music] direction yep you are aware how much you need to lock in though oh I'm locked in right now though I'm in Florida I recorded with seum yesterday for a couple of hours on the podcast and for some reason today I'm doing a training session with him frankly I'm just a bit nervous like he is way more robust than one session with me could ruin condition he's been working toward for a decade but there is a bit of me that kind of doesn't want to mess up I'm I'm an emotional support animal today how's it going sir how are you what's going on bro uh we've already got an option for the thumbnail uh for tomorrow which is just lock in giving birth just lock in just lock in crying about how painful the child coming out of you is just lock it in got to lock in bro it works I mean she did lock in and you now do have a child cour she posted a bunch of like birth videos too just chop those up and make like motivational edits of locking in of her like on the table like a cpia a sepia tone over the top of them [ __ ] sweet let's get in there we'll get in there and I'll tell you what I think you you get in there me you of the two of us which is the [ __ ] world champion athlete 3 weeks out from doing the thing that's why I need to follow because I have no brain power to do up all right okay you're allowed to do this once now okay do what because the next time that we see each other in 6 months time and you go I'm too tired to walk through the doorway without someone moving the air out of the way first I need to draft behind you so yeah there is a big bit of me that's terrified of getting in the way so I'm just I'm moving pretty slow right now so you're good okay you'll probably recover quicker than I can brilliant in the time that I need to re here between sets will'll be just be your set we'll be good okay cool don't worry about it chest chest and a little shoulders there you some basic they're called shoulder cars you heard that shoulder cars or hip cars it's very like simple stand one arm and like you want to the I so brain dead right now the goal is just to reach like as far as you can spin and you come across your body and you stretch as far as you can this way overhead like you're supposed to really OV exaggerate everything and then up then spin and then and back as far as you can okay yeah yeah that's like my should is cracking [ __ ] when I do that you just do that each arms a couple of times okay okay I'll be sweating by the end of that okay you can do with me all right yeah yeah yeah I'm following you this is cool this is like uh yoga with CR got to get that Mobility you know Y come on you know when you're hitting 30 because you start to have not just a grunt but an entire repertoire of different grunts dependent on what you're doing so there's one for getting into and out of the car there's one for sitting down after a long day there's one for the first working set when you unrack a barbell oh that's rough what's your most dramatic grunt get getting out of a car I've just got one that's like really sort of a low one it's like a two it's a two you have a non-american car now it's a two- yeah I do what is itaro oh it's the American one yeah oh no I don't have a non-american one oh I can't yep who'd you Lear this of hey who'd you learn this off uh this guy's been helping me with my training Justin King you know Charles Paquin you heard of Charles poin yes one of like the greatest strength coaches all he passed away not too long ago right this guy shadowed under him mentored under him when he was like 18 so he's like a legend and he's just like a genius and he just made some like he knows how lazy I am and how efficient I want to be so he just made some like super simple like warm-up things for me to do that I'm actually going to do instead of like hear the 40-minute warm you're never going to do you're going to [ __ ] listen to you turn off the music yeah on killing me so you're not tracking anything other than just in your mind logging stuff in an app right now yeah I was I was supposed to do more but just didn't like having my phone out of reset wrting something down you know or it feels a lot like it turns something that you're supposed to do as an escape into something that feels like more admin like which is precisely what you just left in the car yeah I've always struggled with with some of that stuff I'd actually much rather get off and dump my entire set of let just go back in my memory and be 90% is Right close enough and just write everything into the RP app or whatever all the way down when I'm doing like when I was in very specific parts of my programming when I was like had enough calories for that my strengths was building I was doing it with specific lifts cuz every week it Justin was having me put like an extra 2.55 lbs on you better know so you have to know exactly wrong it mattered you know yeah yeah yeah yeah you very conscious of little things I noticed when you were picking those dumbbells up that you really sort of like set the back safely yeah so especially right now cuz like when when I start to get like lean you feel like like a muscle that's tight will like pop and like crack and like shift and nothing feels like fluid like all the fluid you have in your joints just like pretty much drain that when you get really lean and then your tendons and muscles are just like crispy crispy well done bacon very crispy uh do you want a hand here toward the end or are you just going to go through yourself if I get halfway up then try but I'm not too worried about it all right not trying to do any for reps s big chest come on here here we go fight fight good man good work [ __ ] yeah dude that control at 140 is disgusting that's a difference of when it was just like kind of like janky ones when I was young now those are just locked in absolutely locked in just lock in bro Courtney lock in all right breastfeeding just lock in giving birth to kids just lock in as she's pushing the baby out 9 cm dilated I'm like remember how I hold those 140 dumbells lock it in just like that you a flat press on the machines over there stop asking me you're making me every time you ask me something you make me nervous who designed this gy pure muscle and fitness Dorian Hamilton do you have anything to do with the the equipment yeah there were select pieces that I said I wanted but our one partner Matt Jansen and Dorian the other the owner of Pier they did most of it they know what they're doing yeah they do I was more focused on mine cuz a lot of pieces I like are very specific to just me not what a typical gym would like what is what are some are old what are some of the weirdest machines that you have fallen in love with weird machines well you said that you've got unique pieces that presumably are at your home gym what are some of those that went out of your way to find just like older ones they don't make anymore like the the chain driven naus pullover that like Doran Yates had that's the red thing that's your gymy I've seen like the bicycle chain yeah yeah yeah some my old Blue Star Trek ones they like a converging press like stuff they made in the '90s and stuff there's some cyc [ __ ] that's been discontinued to I think that's like a collector's item or whatever now there's a few yeah did you ever see that we trended on a mum's advice Channel Community they talking about the cry it out thing or whatever yeah yeah it's funny cuz people misunderstood what we were saying too so there was like a battle of within it like they were saying this no they were saying this purposefully uh uncommital in the way that you raised your as yet unborn child cause people to get angry or agree come together and push people apart correct yeah yeah Courtney had some of her friends like sent it to her and be like what the [ __ ] some chick some chick came up to me in the gym and said uh my sister has just had a kid with her brand new husband and sent me a video of you and this other guy in the gym talking about cry it out versus attachment style child rearing are they was that actually you that doesn't seem like you yeah it was yeah I don't know that's what we go viral for correct it's not the lifting this [ __ ] stupid physique tell me about whether or not children should cry it out when they're in their car how you raise your unborn child what have you so what's changed before then people can go back and watch 6 months ago there's this perfectly designed plan of the way that we're going to like mind M the child so that it's you know the she's only four months but we've that's still what we do sleep training's worked well we don't we don't really sleep train cheat okay I don't know what sleep training is I just I just want it to sound smart I don't think there's a true definition I think depending who you ask everyone has a different definition fantastic but when she's crying we go get her we don't let her we don't cry it out how about that we we don't do that okay oh it was so great when we were using different weights but now we're on the same machine with a visual representation not even a stack that I can subtly move up this is the same problem every guy has when they have to train with a friend who's infinitely stronger than them yeah that would me my whole life visual representation of how much more of a [ __ ] I am than you just a way to assert my dominance yeah that's true you you use your intelligence y during a podcast I use plates in the gym that's true but you can also use your hairline now your brand new this is true hairline I don't know if I actually like went to the point of diminishing returns though what the [ __ ] I know right that might be I think the like biggest dude I've scene I'm guessing he's competing next weekend well whenever in what class what category open yeah cybg cybg in the gym right yeah this is a it's a baked sandwich double cookie single stuff just [ __ ] yeah it is a [ __ ] sandwich except I'm the [ __ ] in the middle I don't even know if I can pick this up but we can delete the footage what you want what pick what up this yeah okay can you pick my keys up for me I'm tired I'm here to serve all right you came and spoke for two hours yesterday with prep brain I was saying afterwards to Courtney I was like there's a few moments where we were talking and you were saying something and you were talking and I'm like oh [ __ ] I forgot what he was saying I'm like oh [ __ ] I'm I'm thinking rather than listening [ __ ] listen to him and I'm like thinking that I'm listening I'm like what are they going to say and I'm like trying to snap myself back in just St at you and I was like f my brain was just like not even thinking of other things just like off to nothing yeah that's what my M brains like at the moment yeah y I had that to last year come on then yep [ __ ] okay let's take around about 50% of the weight off have you been doing like a sauna detox protocol and all this [ __ ] not a full detox protocol but trying to get sauna in regularly do you take binders and [ __ ] or anything with it or St me did you uh Charco and everything too Karine would be an alternative to Charcoal but I could take charcoal too Karine is just like pharmag grade stronger version the powder yeah yeah so yeah come on keep it moving there you go finish it there's probably a lot of people that ask the question of like why the [ __ ] is that guy who has no expertise in strength or Fitness and isn't strong or fit training with Chris and Mike Isel I'm sure that he's why is he talking so much like I don't know either probably yeah people do get people whenever I train with very specific people people who are like think they're the hardcore body building P will get like triggered by it like even I train like David Lade or like someone why the [ __ ] is you train with someone like that I think I'm in a Sweet Spot David L's in a bad spot cuz he's legitimate enough to be an actual Fitness person but doesn't have a pro card or whatever I don't know what credibility people want him to have whereas anybody that tuned in expecting me to be yeah even remotely useful that's a problem he's also smart he's also strong at it's like under promise overd delivery he knows he knows what an inclined chess press is congratulations to him he's not a complete idiot low expectations people low expectations is the key one of the other things training Vlogs is nothing I've ever done but uh one of the other things we've got to stick for is how much I spend time talking I'm like hey I'm literally here for the Hang I'm not here for the training so uh consider this a podcast with intermissions to lift something a little bit as opposed to a training session but today this is a training session today is a training session Christopher we're locked in I mean speak for yourself I'm I am locked in I had a quick call with Courtney earlier on and I got a few tips on how to lock in for locking in one breath at a time correct one contraction at a Time come on then [Music] was interesting what we were talking about yesterday that uh fear of losing the thing that the world loves you for that sir like you're intelligence for me yeah or your championship for you yeah body y oh my God I'm injured this is the only thing that the world's ever validated me for having literally like oh my god I've got autoimmune or a stomach BG or a torn lat or bad night sleep or what now yep that was really cool and I've like expressed that at times or working through it I can't remember a year or two ago I think I talked about in a video and some like 16-year-old boy wrote me a letter and I was talking about the difference of like the character character of seum versus like Christopher like who I really am thinking the world love seum which is like Mr Olympia the guy you know and then Christopher is just like who I am to my core some 16-year-old kid wrote me a letter he's like to Christopher not seum talking about how if I competed or didn't he would still look up to me and he respects who I am and all this [ __ ] I'm like what the [ __ ] Jesus chist that's an impressive young kid [ __ ] you have a genuine fear that your brain power is not going to come back kind of it's irrational I know but but it's understandable it's just so uh it's such a central part of my daily experience you like my access to my own thoughts yeah my ability to use words and how agile I feel when I'm moving through them and it gives me a pride gives me a sense of accomplishment you know it's something that I love about myself I love the texture of my own mind I love what I built I imagine when you look in the mirror when you're ready to step on stage at the Olympia it's something that gives you Pride yeah that's the equivalent whatever feel inside your mind architecture that I have you the texture of my mind and to have that taken away is scary for sure understandable it's even more scary cuz you feel like or I feel like I've set an expectation now in the same way is if you've never won the Olympia not winning an Olympia doesn't really matter but if you're the five-time champion going for six you lose losing is yeah yeah once you've established the standard nothing less is expected has anyone ever even like if you notice anyone notice that you I can play it off I can dial it off and like have like any of your podcast anyone been like he's not a sharp as it used to be or it just in your mind you just feel it it's definitely there but okay so it would be like somebody looking at you let's say that you won the Olympia but you knew you weren in your best condition and you knew that there was a good amount more that you could have done yeah everybody else would say well dude you're still the best in the world how can you not be appreciative of just how good you are look at all of the accomplishments look at how well this thing's going the grand physique that you've built and you know yeah but I'm here and I can be here and I have have been here previously it's one of the problems of being particularly good at anything if you're better than most people at the thing nobody gives you sympathy for dialing back just a little bit in terms of your performance yeah uh and nobody knows because you're still so much further ahead than you need to be but it's not about it's not some arbitrary line of where do I need to be it's where can I be right it's how good can I be at this thing and I just know yeah the quality of my thoughts from this mold autoimmune stuff is like really really it's it hurts it hurts it's not good yeah it's funny when you're talking about the like the small but like the personal victories that no one else cares about like in 2018 the year I lost and I looked worse than the year before I looked incredible early on in the year and I looked like [ __ ] on stage I found so much pride in just in myself and just knowing what I had gone through and even last year it wasn't my best physique but I tore my lattice like eight weeks out whatever the [ __ ] was the Olympia I thought I was going to drop out so me getting there before I got there that like victory of just knowing I wasn't at my best but I still overcame this obstacle that no one even knew about like you might not be your sharpest but the fact you're being sharp with a setback is like personal private Victory you know boring successes and private victories yeah yeah it's so that was one of my favorite uh lessons that we came up with yesterday it's really really cool how heavy is this is this like really [ __ ] heavy try it once and the heavy will take them off all right you mentioned yesterday that there'd been a few setbacks earlier in this prep was that anything other than baby stuff or is that um kind of personal stuff uhuh stuff that just took me out of having the proper offseason I think every year you're getting wrapped up in more and more stuff outside of bodybuilding like I had this weird real realization the other day I trained with those cyborgs Brett Martin glad that the the name stuck they're super nice dudes came and I train with him and they're just bodybuilders you know and I used to just be a bodybuilder and they were talking about like just bodybuilding and that's her life right now she getting ready for the Olympia sleeping it's massage recovery cardio they go to the gym to pose all these things and I was like was traveling every single weekend coming in the office here going to film stuff trying to help with the baby and then I'd squeezing a workout you know and I was like I wasn't being a bodybuilder I was being all these things and then trying to bodybuild on the side and that training was down I was like I missed the Simplicity of did you consciously change that was that a bit of a wakeup call did you try and dial stuff back that was a wakeup call but that was like four weeks out that was like a week ago fantastic I had been dialing it much better you are aware how much you need to lock in though oh I'm lock locked in right now though yeah I'm more locked in the Courtney 9 cm dilated [ __ ] go 10 cm dilated chick's giving birth man the ultimate lock in the ultimate lock in come on give a nice little squeeze there at the end lock it in what has developed the most from last year to this year from a physique perspective let's say my back is better partially due to the fact that I didn't tear my LP this year that helped but everything's just a little bit more like mature and dense I I think this year is there any truth to that muscle maturity thing oh yeah for sure and how you train and in how long you train I believe it and what's the difference in the luck from you 5 years ago to you now around that like Beyond proportions in terms of muscle density quality what does that visually look like it's hard to explain it's just like a little bit more of like a grainier dense look you know that sometimes there like that young soft fluffy muscle which like looks pretty but then you see them on stage and it's just like a little flat the cuts in the muscle aren't as deep just like little less 3D and then it could be the same size muscle but if the the cut in my quad goes in deeper the leg's going to look bigger even though it's the same size it's just a little bit more like ingrained it's hard to explain in words but when you see them beside each other it makes sense you can like see a younger physique versus an older physique or someone who like trains like really intensely squeezing the piss out of heavy ass weight or someone who just like flops we it around I think you can see it on stage it's wonder if those weird Sports where the longer that you've been doing it the better it it becomes yeah you know you don't you don't see many people going right he's 30 he's really going to get good now as a quarterback or something you know or open bodybuilding it's like Peak at 34 35 it's crazy wild it's like Iron Man good I got you yep one more come on then good control this down good man you don't know one more one more one more three here [Music] what were you telling me about someone trying to get you to do an Iron Man oh the my partners here they're all training for Iron Man and that's they want me to like jump in dude do you know how you know that a business is going well the all of the seite executives start trying to do endurance racing that's a secret that's the rule I swear to God bro like business must be doing well he's training for an ultra Insurance race urance that's it honestly that's a fair point yeah you got to be pretty locked in to do that you do well you just need tons of spare time and three assistants you know yeah that's it it start I'm going to condense my workouts into a 45 minute run in the morning so I have more energy all day correct so I'm actually going to run bike and swim for 7 hours every morning until 1:00 p.m. and then eat all day then be too tired to do anything else correct and and my business is going to keep growing somehow I don't need to see I don't need to see your accounts filing I just need to see the total mileage that your business partners are doing each year work out everything that's happening inside of your business what's your resting heart rate after running a marath that's it that's it don't talk to me about your eida talk to me about your weekly mileage we come on another one come on oh H when I sort of consider the prep that you're going through and my hopes for you everything going well and all the rest of it I just think huh I hope that you're able to do the [ __ ] that you need to do it's a lesson for me continuously of me not feeling like I don't have have to take on the load of everyone around me yeah like I try and manage my family and people's stress a lot so that they don't have to have anymore especially Courtney right now cuz she's like carrying the burden of the child so heavily that I don't want her to have to stress about anything other than that yep so but she's like you don't have to manage me like that I'm fine you know it's like I know but I still want to yeah come on then let's go come on control control good man yo that was last one yeah yeah uh learning to I don't know be less of a people pleaser is proving difficult yeah an interesting balance too when it's like like I get the whole people people Pleasers thing is negative connotation but when it's towards my wife and my daughter can I be too much people please or really you know bro I had a conversation with a friend a few months ago and uh I he heard me starting to chastise myself for being so concerned about whether or not I'd upset him and I was saying oh man you know I was so worried that I'd this thing and and and that I'd brought it up to you and that I maybe i' got you know you thought that was a bad thing and he was like hey hey hey like don't call yourself a people pleaser and make that out to be a bad thing because the reason that you did that and reached out to me and checked in and made sure that I was okay is one of the reasons that I love you as a friend it's literally one of the best things yeah uh so be careful thinking that that's a pathology yeah and making it into a weakness when I see it as and trying not to do it yeah when it's but then I think it's whether or not it's coming from a place of compulsion or a place of choice if you're not choosing to do it it's not really that virtuous the same as a rabbit isn't being good it just doesn't have a choice to be evil like do you feel like you're a woreless piece of [ __ ] and your only benefit comes from people pleasing everyone or do you truly care about the other person and you don't want them to be hurt what's the intention the difficult thing is when you start to ask yourself that question she go okay which one is it like what why is I why is you has to think about it it's very diff clear yeah and then what you have to do is deconstruct doing it so briefly you become a worst friend to then start to do it again consciously but then you ask yourself have I gotten was I doing it consciously to start with have I gotten rid of the thing it's so hard man so tough human mind what you want I'll do just two sets neutral grip dumbbell mhm like nice little stretch nice little squeeze mhm then we'll do some lateral raisins why I love lateral raisin I feel like there's a blessing in the fear of like you you're not losing your intelligence it'll come back but the blessing in that is like well what else do you have to offer that will always be there unless you have like absolute dementia and you're 80 years old you don't know who you are then like then you don't care anyways yes exactly but like regard regardless of your ability to recall words and stuff like I said yesterday like your ability to see people care about your friends and [ __ ] doesn't go away but that's the fear right the fear is there is this one thing I'm I know that the world says that they like me because I'm honest and I'm truthful and I create this content but really it's because of the body it's because of the Olympia championships I'm sure that people say it's good that I'm curious and I care and I do all the rest of the stuff but really it's because of coming up with interesting ideas or writing cool words or whatever and uh it's feir it's feir you know uh I I think it's impossible too like when you get a certain level of Fame and eyes on you and attention be like well I actually like to say I only value like my wife my close relationship my friend the people who really know me I don't even care about all that I could lose all that tomorrow it's like yes you will be fine if you lose it all but you will also feel like you're losing it all in the momenty sad it is something you get used to yeah it'd be pretty sad there's a lot of a positive attention that what wait you want yeah I used to again yep come on oh yeah but yeah learning to uh advocate for your own needs and think that having demands and having needs is something that's even acceptable you know it's kind of the vicious other side of being a self-sufficient person like learning that your needs are not burdens yeah yeah and that that you're allowed to have them that it's okay to have needs as opposed to just going I'll sort myself no one needs to worry I'll get this thing done and they okay I they better be okay I hope that they're okay are you okay and they go yeah are you you don't no no no don't worry about me but but you you please tell me about you this why do you think your like Independence and responsibility for others but not giving them responsibility for yourself Sams from uh I feel like it's a common I never really got used to relying on anybody uh only child solo business [Music] owner myself yeah like I'll just get it done yeah uh it's the double-edged sword of being self-sufficient that it's it means that you don't need anybody to do anything but that you also can't get used to anybody doing anything for you yeah it's really difficult so learning to relan on people like even needing a bottle of water and that time I managed to ask for it but there was this one time on a podcast last year when we were in LA and there was someone there who was only there to help out as kind of a runner and I wanted a sandwich or anything to eat I hadn't eaten i' done like two podcasts I had one more to go I really wanted a sandwich and I sat and thought inside of my head for probably about 7 Minutes about building up the courage to ask somebody to go and get me a sandwich that was their job yeah their job was basically sandwich collector and I was so I just I'll go cuz I didn't want to make a fuss I don't think I want to be seen as I really really really don't want to be seen as a diva like I have a inbuilt cringe of ever being seen as a diva uh and when you get to even any degree where that could be the sort of thing that might happen you're not going to be a diva when you're first starting out cuz who the [ __ ] when you're in the position when it becomes acceptable to become a diva to some people you know they'll let you be a diva that's like you you have to actively try not step in to do it yeah again the am I choosing to be helpful or am I doing it because I'm compelled yeah just there Chris neutral yeah trying to get it deep doesn't have to be perfect keep your head back push through like the palm of your hand a bit more like a dip like this part here yeah like trying to like squeeze through that right like a decline almost yeah I get you Peck Miner yeah it's funny one of the things I've like realized that I love so much about Compu beginning is the permission I give myself to be a bit of a diva for the last 4 weeks like Courtney's like such a caregiver she's always like I'll make this for you I'll do this for you I'm like it's fine I'll cook it myself I'll do I'll do that she does it for me very often I'm in prep I'm like thank you and she's like she appreciates sometimes more me just saying thank you instead of it's okay I can cook myself she's like I like being needed so that's the double-edged sword that if you step in and do everything you don't ever give anybody else the opportunity to serve you yeah it's not them doing it out of guilt or obligation or even necessity it's out of will yeah and it allows somebody else to feel good but doing a thing for you there's this really interesting quirk in human psychology where if you do somebody a favor they end up disliking you more because the implicit deal of you doing someone a favor is in future I'm going to ask you to do me a favor as opposed to people like people who ask for favors more than people who do favors for them at least to begin the relationship because implicit hey man could you I really need an intro to whatever this guy or I need someone to take me to the airport would that be okay because you know down the line for something that there's a reciprocal deal you're starting from the front end yes yes so what you're saying by by setting the price up top and saying this is exactly what I want from you you're opening the door to that's a [ __ ] up way of thinking though I we don't control the subconscious I know I totally get it but like most people don't think like that not consciously not but I think a lot of people I think almost everybody thinks like that subconsciously yeah but I mean in in in the act of doing something for others yes I don't think well then I'm going to be able to ask for something in the future but I understand why the other person would think that were in inversely but it is a like when you were texting me this morning and I I was literally like I'm grateful to have the opportunity to help you and I need nothing back but I felt I felt guilty for you I was like shut up stop sending me stop stop researching if they've got phosphole choline at different locations I just want to like get out of your hair I only had to ask two people yeah well still so that that compulsion that sense that is exactly what I need to get over that don't be a burden don't ask for things don't let people do stuff for you if they do do stuff for you like kill yourself with guilt and shame over someone having done it yeah I'm wouldn't be overly fatigued during this workout and be like Chris had to [ __ ] text that guy honestly that's it my thumbs I failed that rep cuz I feel like I sent three more text than I needed to this morning yep good man come on what part of the limb did that sound emanate from that crack I think it was like I think it was my spine honestly think it a little get some crazy cracks coming right around now yep the universal sign for should we now begin doing lateral R this one eyebrow and a little this one's nice cuz you can use the little grip wow very cool as if you were training to be that chick on the [Laughter] Titanic all right who's this what's your typical day look like at the moment prep day they've been so different I've had people visiting in and out and random [ __ ] sounds but highly uncontrolled it has been quite uncontrolled but what it's optimally going going to become is wake up cardio stretch breakfast what time's wake up 7 7:30 cardio stretch breakfast lie down hopefully nap if I can cardio stretch breakfast back to bed back to bed yeah L today I couldn't keep say keep my eyes open I found the couch was just out eat again double shot of espresso coffee try and wake myself up do some random [ __ ] hang out with the baby be at home eat again train come home eat cardio eat chill eat sleep lot of eating given that you've only got 2,000 calories to play with six meals wow yeah 360 g of protein so like you know meeting 225 g of fish six times a day almost [ __ ] what's the reason behind the fish just more easily digestible leaner the leanest kind of protein you can really get and what type of fish I get uh wild cot Cod good anything I try not to get anything farmed you get fresh atline at COD it's pretty good nice with what dumbbells yeah standing standing for how many reps I don't know thank you Mr olymp thank you for being so precise 8 to 10 five time Mr Olympia Champion do something that hurts 8 to 10 okay you know when you were dealing with your autoimmune yeah did you ever get tenus my ear that your ears tentis yeah ttis tenus I called it tenus you want do you mine's [ __ ] ruthless really yeah like a ringing in your ears yeah I have inner ear problems where like my equilibriums yeah I've had that not that dude it's wild we still got your truck the old one big one the Raptor Raptor yeah you still got that yeah I do still like ow ow I remember I always used to watch those videos of whatever Branch Warren or whoever training and see what they did and always think yeah that's what they say they do what they really do it's like s super Secret Squirrel you thought they weren't really doing that well I just thought that was what was for public consumption to make them look hardcore no just to to keep the super secrets secret and uh trained with you three times now and I've come to realize that it's just the same as what everybody else does yeah just a bit more consistent I wish there were Secrets maybe there are secrets you do not need to see my secrets you do not need to see my secrets yeah you don't need to do that my mold does that for me that's true I just sprinkle some mold in your water and your honestly you remember being that might have been the whole thing the whole thing might have been you infecting me it might have been the first time you came down here with mold exposure so that I don't recall your super Secret Squirrel technique my favorite grunt is uh sitting down on the couch after a pretty long day it's my favorite grunt of them all yeah it's it's deeper than that and it's as you go hands on hips too if you get yourself into like a it's that it sort of builds up it sort of crescendos and then it tails off you know it's like a nice clap of Thunder that's it that's how I think need an audio audio recording of this that's true I might start to build a sort of Library a database a library of my different grunts yeah I'd buy it are we this yeah right what does cardio look like 45 minutes fasted in the morning 25 30 minutes at night except on like that what just walking on a treadmill incline treadmill I knew you doing steps throughout the day two are you tracking those also cuz that would okay but surely there some days where you walk more and some days where you walk less and yeah just bonus if I lose a an extra point 2 pounds or something in a bonus you know what would happen let's say that uh in two weeks time you're looking at the scale and you think uh [ __ ] like I'm a little heavy still I'm not there yeah uh it depends what I've been doing in the period preview part of my program so right now I haven't added much cardio in a while so I'd probably add a little bit more cardio and take away some food okay like I have four meals a day right now with carbs two without I'd probably just go down to three add another 20 minutes of cardio at night two 45 minute sessions but you just pull away how do you think you're going to commit do you think it's going to be exactly sort of on track is everything moving in the right Direction right now it is yeah it was like almost like you know what you're and kind of like you know what you're doing like let's stop it and now it's coming every year is different though you never really know what you're doing get have to trust that you don't know what you're doing but you'll figure it out along the way uhhuh you tell yourself you know what you're doing you're just lying you don't know what the [ __ ] going on but you do know what to do when the opportunity arises if you have experience uhhuh how much do you think you'd be a waste all together let's it like 10 grams at least I'll tell you I'll weigh myself before and after I I want to know how much I want to know the total amount of mass of body hair I don't have much body hair left on me 90% of it right here y well actually think about how much heavy you are because of the the hair yeah this one of the few shoes that don't hurt my toes to wear because of all of your time wearing high heels yeah no it's actually cuz I I'm 60 70 lbs overweight so my Arch just crushed and my foot just got wider I crushed my own foot yeah just got wider I went from like a normal size 11 and 1 12 12 to size 13 and 1 12 absolute elephant foot yeah literally it might mid 20s I grew a full size size and a half well that's one thing that I'm proud of this year that in amongst all the business stuff all the health stuff it's been the most consistent training I've probably had in a decade so I just held on to doing that what do you train now the r hybrid or you like no no I don't like it's nice for the people that want to be Nick bear or whatever but yeah uh but you still I've seen you run you can run bro I did two 5Ks this year that's the extent of my running that's and then last year I did one trail run with Cam haes that's it so the only times that I ever run apparently get captured on the internet which makes it look like I can run that's true but my total mileage all of it has been captured and then placed online Chris runs all the time no he doesn't impressive that you can run it's push but legs push but leg basically with an additional session each week of something and I've started doing a little like one session of V2 Max stuff I had this one conversation with Ronda Patrick and she taught me about this Norwegian 4x4 V2 Max workout that helps with heart health and I just thought oh okay I don't want to die of heart disease I'd better do it so I started doing it and it's it works it seems pretty good I'd like to get into Olympic lifting when I'm older what like power I know what it is why I like explosive [ __ ] right can you show me your overhead position squat down for me might be a little that's not bad at all it's better than mine there might be a little bit of work to be done I think well I don't want to do a uh what is that a snatch snatch I just want to be able to [ __ ] take like 400 lb and be like right yeah the Olympic LIF is out there will have a pro I think that's strongman technically cuz that's the Olympic lifting is the like right yeah I guess like an NFL power clean then it'll be interesting to know what you do training wise when all of this comes in to land it's so funny right the training's been such a huge part of your life for so long and then it's really weird when you think about like being 15-year-old kid going to the gym in the summer thinking of like where it would bring my life now you know everything how I met Courtney the businesses where I live everything for a sense of belonging working out millions of people on the internet best friends everyone I've met everyone in my life right now crazy it's cool I think that's why people like to see it it's one of the things that I'm most regretful of with regards to what we've done I I regret basically nothing but that I didn't track the journey more you didn't track the journey track the journey more I wish that we'd logged and archived it and you know For Better or Worse you guys archived everything absolutely everything there's a lot we didn't too but we have a [ __ ] lot yeah cuz what was it when we did our podcast was that two years ago or well like June of last year so a year and a half a year and a half cuz that was right when you started doing the big Productions correct you were one of the first few yeah so before it like just having like your first few to like the fancier ones so using a real camera to like that production your one is still I think widely regarded as one of the most beautiful that we did in here right here it was right here there in the Middle where those stairs are you want to grab a shake yes would you allow me to pick this up off the ground Fus you got it you sure I oddly enough have the most energy the 20 minutes after I work out okay that's cool [Music] are you looking forward to I guess you haven't had any period of being a dad yet where you haven't had this sort of looming Olympia thing in the background you're looking forward to actually being able to have fully committed and distracted dad mode yeah I I at the beginning I was like that but the first 3 months are just chaos you know trying to to figure out what the [ __ ] going on and she's trying to figure out how to be a human and everything so chaos but I'm happy that while I'm a lazy piece of [ __ ] she can't crawl or move or do anything so you put her down and she's stuck there uh because she's a blob she's just stuck but then when she's able to crawl and run and eat real food and you know all that stuff then I can do that too I'm weirdly excited to like for her to be like I want pancakes and me' be like me too chocolate chips and us just eat children's food together you know like chicken nuggets and sandwiches with no crust like yes that just excites me meanwhile Courtney's forgotten the fact that it was a traumatic experience still can't believe that that's a thing that pretty [ __ ] cool though nature is wild oh that you're given I don't know Amnesia hormones women get amnesia hormones to make the pain of child birth retrospectively seemed like it was less bad wild you're just left with the trauma I can't I kind of have that in the aspect of Olympia preps when they're like a really shitty stressful prep where I'm like overwhelmed and stressed and like feeling like [ __ ] after four or five months I'm like it wasn't that bad I could do that again yeah I enjoyed the opportunity yesterday to uh be a bit more like open and sanguin and self-deprecating about or like just transparent I think uh one of the things that you the times that I've spent with you give me the excuse to do or like the allowance to do is to be more open and vulnerable which I think is a pretty cool thing it's probably one of the reasons that lots of people watch the watch your channel but is it challenging for you being around like like a lot of the stuff you do is like around highly intelligent just like people trying to think of big ideas and to just not have to do that like is it challenging to have to be on that all time such an idiot no is it challenging to have to be on and therefore it's nice to not have to like gu down I know you might feel the same maybe not because you seem to have alchemized a lot of this stuff but there's this sort of sense that you're supposed to be in charge or in control or know what you're doing or have it all together because how are you supposed to lead this thing or build this thing if you don't yeah uh but you know it's strange I started the show cuz I wanted to learn about myself and understand myself better and then over time it becomes this big beast and that's still the core of it and that's still is every conversation is still really about that but then it also kind of takes on a life of its own as well and then there's expectation and there sponsors and there's plays and there's news articles and oh you trended on TW Twitter because of this thing that some guests said and you were attached to it and did you see that like Elon Musk replied and I'm like what I was just trying to work out how come I sometimes got sad a lot you know there's that story of Mark Zuckerberg and it's a photo of him in front of Congress looking really scared and they're sort of shouting at him about the fact that he's suppressed information or whatever and you're just looking at some bloke that 10 years ago wanted to find a way for people to easily date each other on the internet at University and a decade later he stood in front of Congress and they're shouting at him changing the political span of our country there's a little bit of sense of going like what the [ __ ] just happened kind of um and trying to keep in like keep grounded in contact with that I find my time with Max is is really good for that too like I've really enjoyed the time that I spend on the Vlog because it I'm I haven't no preconceptions about how I'm supposed to behave and I guess at least what I see with you and Calvin is something that's not too dissimilar where it seems pretty frictionless transparent you can kind of just say the concept of a podcast is like high stress it's like it is a vlog is meant to be just like oh [ __ ] and but like you listen to a podcast and you want it's like an audio book but live that you don't it's like with no red it's like how difficult people say a standup comedy is but with no practice and no and no shows where you go to a shitty Club where no one knows who you are in practice it's just like record you just go that's one of the funny things I realized is that uh there's very few Pursuits you do where your practice is also your performance yeah uh I mean comedy is one of those things but the practice is done to such a small audience that it kind of doesn't matter but there's no we didn't get to go two days ago me come round to your house and say okay so then we're going to talk about this and when I say that you're going to say that and I don't like the way that you said this all right good locked in let's go ready for tomorrow you're just doing it live owning your in errors and is there anyone you work with where you tell them everything you're going to talk a lot of the stuff you're going to talk about before or do you always just dive in never never it's just me so you find when you're like you started the podcast to learn more about yourself do you think there like a cap where you almost start learning less about yourself because you're searching for it externally that was in like internally it's a good question there's certainly a lot of the big lessons that you need to know you end up picking up at the very start mhm the things that are the best bits of advice are usually the most widely distributed because they're the lowest hanging fruit because they're the most effective yeah and then the longer that you spend doing personal development the more that you think oh it's this new thing it's no one of the biggest face palm moments is realizing that the answer to a problem that you're facing is something that you already learned and maybe made 10 videos about 3 years ago or five years ago yeah you go oh not only do I already have the answer to this but I've already done it and been through it and I just need to stop looking out there and sort of look back so there's at least in personal development I think you go through sort of these Cycles uh like the hero's journey of personal development or whatever but it's the same with you know I said it today about I always assumed that bodybuilders doing training Vlogs they weren't giving away the real secrets you know the some the super Secret Squirrel technique that they've got is actually something that they keep off camera yeah it's just eat protein lift weights just do it every day yeah yeah Yeah man so I I just wanted to say thank you for giving me the opportunity even on my own show in my own house to be able to open up a bit yesterday and I appreciate the text that you sent me as well it's it's nice of course no I I enjoy spending time with you even off camera that's why it's hard some well I struggle sometimes is like when I meet someone who I actually like and I like spending time with and we're friends but we both do this it's like I don't want you to think it's always needs to be on camera transaction CU it's so part part of our life a lot of times we just want to chill without it you know yeah let's uh let's make a pack to not film the next time that we hang at least the majority of the time okay I think I might have to come to Austin in the next six to eight months so so much to do hopefully he'll be there all right well that might be what happens next see you