[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're headed to elite this is Jordan's first time and Lee so what you thinking man scared scared and excited as I say like the fog just seemed to roll in like the last quarter mile so it's a girl we must be getting close but it like pathetic fallacy yeah any time you're going to leave when you see this fog it means there's trouble like look at this follow me there's we're driving into something really scary really bad I really it's pretty a metaphor but like in an hour I won't be able to see to it just in front of my face yes yeah so we'll see how this goes we're gonna train legs today I've had the most god-awful workouts of my life and early training legs and Dave asked me he said are you guys going to train when you come down I said until we puke here until we pass out one of the other race it so we have been known to pass out on me so we'll see how this goes ma'am so Jordan was trying to talk me into making a comeback this year I never really said I retired but I never really said I didn't retire either so Jordans like teaching me some stuff to get my body physically capable of withstanding an absolutely brutal pre-contest period which is what I am which is what my pre-contest periods was like they were actually brutal I mean one of days we finished every set of squats with a drop set leg presses hack squats pretty much everything was I so hold I mean just whatever we could do to inflict the most pain on each other that we could and uh worked it was actually actually worked really well so question is can I can I go there again a daily basis to try to no no Jordan and I talked about that over breakfast like that mental because some people just train right and you can train forever but when you get into that that place where you're going into no-man's land and you're just pushing like you've never pushed before day after day after day that's another level I don't know I think you could take the dog to the flight we can take the fire from the dog how big you can uh train so it's all the way to find out you know so we'll see how training goes to their drinking this up yeah this is um so for those of you that watch The Incredible Hulk when they're in the factory right and you see the little drop come down and go to you tell you me there's blood in this job there's a little blood in this I'm not gonna lie there is a little blood in this gamma gamma rays so yeah the radiation is actually a good thing hopefully it won't kill you like it did in the movie nice thing caller isn't that what's the sang that doesn't kill you makes you stronger it doesn't kill you my gosh stronger man so we're talking about movies and Jordan has brought up the revenant and I remember when that movie came out I was dieting and I was in a really tough part of my diet and we're gonna go to church first and say a few Francis bit of the sack of it father said Holy Spirit that's right so when the revenant came out we watched it and as he got mauled by the bear he's crawling through the snow I just started thinking I am such a wuss like I'm crying about my lack of carbs how tired I am and here's a dude to just go mauled by a bear does that name one of your programs I want to show no for though that's all set I just want to show - oh that's a good idea that's like contest Bravo obviously that but I just felt like some like dude I'm such a wuss bad so anyways in the revenant maybe that'll be the next training for every suite so here we are rolling up there's Dave gangster truck looks like here's some people here training today all right we're here check it out man you'll eat FTS we're here I feeling scared scared all right well let's get to work man leg day [Music] yeah so the leg curls man I feel like I feel like people don't push the leg curls hard enough I think they take them for granted they just do their 3 sets of 10 and then they leave and then they say well I don't have any hamstrings and then they proceeded to do 3 or 4 quad exercises but I've always liked to really don't that last set man dig down drop sets partials I sold that to me is like when my hamstrings really started getting that nice oh hang I think like four hamstrings it's it's whether you're starting a movement or whether you're starting a workout like if you want to prioritize them start with them you know whether that's like if you're doing a if you're doing a hamstring curl make sure the first thing that moves the Hampshire make sure it's in the calf make sure it's not the glutes the hamstrings start with it you want to prioritize in your workout you train small muscle groups like they're small muscle groups they'll be small muscle group that's Evan Center pony 101 I've ever watched ten years ago yeah it's about training calves yeah starting with to throw them in at the end three by ten yeah start with him so we started warming up before squats on the hamstring curl we finished on on the eccentric like the Nordic yeah those are brutal yeah speaking of Evan I got the black socks on sure you guys got good style [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I did on the squats I think and when I look back when I was making my best size gains I was doing probably what most people would say it's too much on the squat you know we we finished literally every squat workout we did with a brutal drop set and I always tell people like I'm leery of telling people to do that because I'm afraid their forms gonna break down they're gonna hurt themselves and I feel like on compound movements especially a squat you got to be really precise now having said that what I actually did you know training here was we would do sets where we'd be on the verge of passing out you know and that was the first exercise after after leg girl was the first exercise then we had to do leg press acts watts but squats man that's another one where I love to go crazy I'm just always afraid that someone's gonna kind of lose it hurt themselves you know it's kind of walking that fine line you gotta learn how to fail there you go people don't know how to fail in position they try and find a way out of it you find a way I have than you right so I think like learning how to fail on a squat and that's just from doing it ten thousand times right yeah you do it enough times you don't have to think about it you let whatever system is gonna fail fail whether it's lungs whether it's your nervous system whether it's like your metabolic system like you can't turn over any muscle contraction yeah but you're keeping that in the range of the squat second you're trying to find a different path of least resistance yeah that's when you get hurt right takes so much experience to like your body is hardwired to be efficient yeah you're telling it to be inefficient when you're tired it's like this doesn't work anymore that's when it gets dangerous yeah if you can do it and you can hack it yeah well you know the other thing is is when you look at like progressive overload this is where people I think hurt themselves is they want to beat their logbook they want to be one extra rep but to do the one extra rep they had to find that other pathway or the other you know all of a sudden the form turns into something totally different and it hurt themselves I think if you're competitive you got to ask yourself are you trying to beat the book are you trying to beat your competition yeah I think that's where people lose it beating the book doesn't mean you're gonna beat your competition well it's on stage on the platform you gotta beat your competition you gotta have that mindset and that's discipline right yeah no one went to throw in the towel when like you're doing negative work that's a discipline that takes 10,000 reps yeah yeah good point [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on let's go three okay that bottle work out a bomb two three do what you're [Music] good so in the hack squats I am over the years that actually exercise has always been one of my favorites and it's I know a lot of people don't like to hack to what I always say the the variants in machines like I've been on machines I'm sure you have that just did not feel comfortable but when you get a fax what that actually feels good that feels comfortable man I feel like that is just the best exercise for quads there's just such a variance in the design of the hack squats it's like when you find a good one like the one we use today is sick it's phenomenal but man machines are just made so different I think this is not made for like you can use a machine and it feel good but like it's obvious what works for me is not going to work for like a regular person but it's not obvious to people what worked for me might not continue to work for me so when I was 160 pounds on normal hacksaw could've felt great but at 270 pounds now I just don't fit in that machine anymore yeah so it's hard to find equipment that fits you know guys like us yeah what do you find something just hammer nail the boy pure output that's all that was just strip strip strip strip stray and that's you know you talk about failing and you made a good point you learn how to fail this is an exercise too that if you fail you just you get stuck on the bottom period like that's okay sorry life goes on yeah it's not bad so you know you did everything you could do and that safety net allows you just to dig let's put the bucket down on the well and see what you come up with yeah as you know worst case you're in the same position you are right now yeah so you can just open up and really like what to the hammer and just go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's there's nothing like walking out of here knowing that you did that knowing like I did I mean I didn't think I was even capable of doing that I didn't think I could do that many place without many reps dropped away do more for me it was always awesome just to walk out of the gym you know Dave and I would do stuff where I literally walk out and go I'd I don't think I had that in me that's such a good feeling man it's such a good feeling to walk out of gym and say man I did something that I didn't think we could even do ain't good for you for being able to walk out of here I'm hoping I've hope it big man carries me out of here what I'm done but yeah I mean it's mental forty to a certain point that's all your training is then can you sack up and get it done yeah Dave and I used to do sets where we we didn't count reps we would set a timer yeah let's see who can make it let's say you can make it this you know let's see who can do two minutes three minutes four minutes five minutes and that's when you like figure out what your pain threshold is it's you know can I work through that pain threshold can I go somewhere I've never been before and I think that stuff people are so scared of it but again you don't really know what you're capable of until you really push yourself that much and then once you know it's like oh man I got a lot more in me and people are so quick to say oh it's just drugs it's just that well first of all do you even know what your limits are naturally do I do even have an idea of what you can do naturally so that's always good to just to let your body know what you're even capable of thanks to many people like perception is such a it's such a like a fallible stately perception so easily so it's like it you don't know what a ten is until you find eleven right so it's like most people aren't even willing to find ten let alone eleven so it's like anyone's got to calibrate up here yeah it's just you got a sack up and you get there [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right man let's go get something to eat all right all right I hope you guys enjoyed that that's that was kind of a typical leg day elite FTS if we were free contests with probably a little bit of volume but that was very typical of intensity so I hope you enjoyed that that was good fun so thanks so much and we'll we will see you next time