Video summary
The video documents a typical day at Third Street Barbell, a gym in Sacramento founded on the belief that community is its most vital asset. The creator highlights an upcoming collaboration with the Sacramento Run Club for a combined lifting and running event, emphasizing that while he may not be able to run tonight due to fatigue from previous efforts, his focus remains on consistent daily movement rather than perfect execution. He reflects deeply on the nature of powerlifting and business growth as long-term, often painful grinds rather than romanticized sprints, noting that after four years of intense personal development and solitary work, he has learned to appreciate the mundane but essential routine of showing up every day to lift weights and breathe hard.
A significant portion of the vlog addresses common misconceptions about fitness being exclusive to wealthy individuals by breaking down the actual cost of healthy eating in today's economy. The creator argues that while prices have risen since his early days, nutritious meals like a double meat burrito at Chipotle or bulk chicken breast remain affordable enough for families on tight budgets if planned correctly. He demonstrates this by preparing large batches of protein and salad to feed multiple people cheaply, debunking the idea that high-protein diets require expensive supplements or exotic foods, while also humorously admitting his current struggle with maintaining a strict diet due to upcoming events.
Beyond nutrition, the video explores the creator's evolving relationship with physical challenges, particularly running, which he admits is far outside his comfort zone compared to his powerlifting background. He recounts attempting to run nearly two miles alongside Ian from the Run Club at an under-ten-minute pace, a feat that feels impossible given his history of being out of shape during college basketball days. Despite feeling like an impostor in this new athletic endeavor and joking about warriors timing their morning routines around battles, he stresses that surrounding oneself with like-minded people provides the necessary energy to push through limitations. The vlog concludes by celebrating the unique spirit of Sacramento's community, expressing gratitude for his followers who witness these unglamorous but authentic moments of growth, before heading home to rest and prepare for future training sessions.
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I want to say typical day got a couple
events going on those I don all on Third
Street barbell Sacramento California one
thing that made me create the gym to
begin with is the community Factor an
idear popped in my head a couple weeks
ago and we partnered with the Sacramento
run Club we're going to do a liftting
run tonight I probably won't lift I'll
try to go for the run but I'm going to
get my lift in right now we're in a good
flow right now a lot of work a lot of
movement the Gym's growing Community is
growing perils pushing
things are pretty solid man people want
to make it pretty and want to make it
beautiful flying around to the
Lamborghini shirtless oil up but the
beauty of powerlifting the beauty of the
real grind the beauty of business the
beauty of growth is that it's not one
Sprint it's numbingly bored painful
things you do every single damn day
that's why I probably am not so uh
romanticized or inspired to Vlog because
I've been in the deepest of grinds for
four years you know with business with
my personal growth hanging out a lot of
time alone really being alone digging
into my brain digging into my heart
digging into my spirit of what what I'm
doing here why I'm doing it what's
keeping me going what's next I don't LIF
700 lbs no more but every single day I
lift something every single day I get my
heart breathing every single day I get
my lungs pushing quarter
plate uh do quarter basically like three
sets at 12 you said quarter plate [ __ ]
I got 12 yeah I'm going to try to do
225 just head to the NFL me and saquan
oh
yeah I had like a pound of salad
yesterday and I haven't [ __ ] yet I
got literally a pound of lettuce and I
it's still in there somewhere isn't that
supposed to help with that that's what I
thought that's the it's creating the
problem used be a warrior man what
happened to me D I'm such a [ __ ] now
just like my standard of like what's
hard has gone I know so up imagine
Warriors trying to time their morning
poop around their workout and [ __ ] I'm I
know exactly what time I [ __ ] every
morning 10:32 a.m. not when you're in a
not when you're taking over all of
Europe as a Roman you didn't have time
oh dud no I'm [ __ ] on dead bodies if
I'm them yeah yeah yeah I don't think
you [ __ ] you just don't [ __ ] Bro think
about being literally in war with a
sword like your arms always bleeding oh
you're just [ __ ] yourself you mean
like you I don't even know like you have
to be consuming things that not die I
don't know if you're even consuming
though like when do you eat [ __ ] no
when oh oh they have like encampments
and [ __ ] yeah no dude they would go to
war don't quote me they would go to war
and fight like all day they're like all
right you go that way we'll go this way
I think they kind of do that right I
think that was only like 20 years in
America or maybe that's just movies SAR
no in America they line up and say you
ready that's you
ready hold
on they're playing drums they're playing
drums letting you know I'm coming
oh
yeah all right there you go come
on OWI what do we got triceps yeah I
think it's uh the V handle or
whatever like push Downs push down push
down I've been doing them on my knees
pause but like it's been way better I've
been doing them on my knees and it's
actually never felt as comfortable or
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natural yeah
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I think one of the biggest myths I still
see on the internet and after doing
agent stream and watching some of the
streamers and new content creators in
the space kind of join their fitness
journey as they' be calling it is uh
that it's only for rich people 20 years
ago I might be able to get that argument
you know like a bag of chips was 0 you
would grab you know McDonald's Happy
Meal for $4.99 but the fact of the
matter is now Chipotle cost me 20 bucks
a double meat burrito at Chipotle
which is what you would need is
literally like $20 and so there's no way
you can argue and I know all these
people are struggling with habits this
guy this entire bag is like zero Cals I
mean it's not but it's basically zero
Cals cost me like $2.99 maybe three
bucks then because we have that event
tonight I won't be able to cook normally
I cook each meal separate
um but tonight I'm going to prep a
little bit so i' normally cook my first
meal around 1 or two and then I'll come
back and cook my second but I'm going to
cook both which is easy easy here's like
a pound of chicken chicken breast an
entire pound and a half $8 right so that
entire meal even though a pound and a
half of chicken is a lot for most people
I'm a big boy and I'm also trying to
have protein needs um but if you're
trying to feed a family you could
literally go two of those that's $16 two
of these that's 18 bucks and I could
feed four people fairly healthy and very
Sati full salad pack for the volume
pound of chicken and one and a half
servings of
Caesar salad dressing all weight out now
bad probably 100 protein [ __ ] t a fiber
baby carbs and maybe 20 30 G of fat with
the
dressing 1.5 mil 207 lb I guess now is
when I like call out Nick bear and the
rest of these fake hybrids that think
they can keep up with me jokes aside I
probably haven't ran over a half mile
probably since college basketball and I
probably weighed about 180 lbs that was
tough it was tough but again like I
mentioned earlier in the Vlog literally
the reason we open Third Street
literally the reason the clothing's
called good company is like with your
correct environment with the correct
people with the correct energy um you
can kind of do anything you know like my
lungs are okay I've been jumping rope
and I've been walking but definitely not
a runner and uh shout out shout out to
Ian who led the run today he he paced me
the whole time which was cool he does
have a race on Sunday so he was going
slow so he's just messing today but we
were under a 10-minute mile uh for over
like 1.59 miles uh which again is way
more than I've ever pulled so um while
training while in the deficit late night
I'm literally in bed 40 minutes ago
every single night you guys think I'm
capping I'm in bed I'm showering and
getting in bed at 7 at night so out of
my routine again is this a feet a
Superman feet no but the point is it's
way out of my wheelhouse and if you
surround yourself with like-minded
people and the correct people you
probably get it done so Shout Out
Sacramento run Club this won't be the
end of our collaborations um I'm going
to go home catch some C we got a regular
leg day and podcast as usual man
hopefully you guys enjoyed the Vlog
hopefully you enjoyed kind of my boring
days and some of these events we throw
cuz I do think um I think that's where
we do well I think our community and the
community of Sacramento um the magic and
the specialness of the city is in the
people so I like to Showcase that and
appreciate you guys folling along man
Vlogs when they coming don't know when
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