Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 511: How to Sell Out a Powerlfting Meet in One Day!

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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Remember Dave told us that LFTS is technically like 51% owned by his wife or something? right because there was an advantage to being majority well he thought there was and he goes that actually had did nothing at all okay that was his story there probably like i mean no doubt if you're actually a there's certain programs like there's certain conferences and i don't know networking opportunities you would have that you wouldn't as as a man but little evening after hours meet and greets yeah yeah rather be dead than forced to go to one of those uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah That might be extreme, but you get the point. That's a high, is that speaking in hyper. Is that speaking in hyperbole?

Is that speaking in hyperbole? No, that's just straight up true. That's just honest. That's just cutting the bullshit and getting real. That's what that is. We're going to find out. What was always the, what would we talk about where it was going to be like a crew? Oh, the crew house?

Yeah. Like that's actually happened several times. Put 12 lifters in a house. But we've actually, like, that's happening many times now. Yeah. Like, and we did that at Jujimufu's house with us and, uh, yeah. We spent very little time in the actual house part, you know, but. Right.

Right. But also at our get-together's like large groups get Airbnbs like every single time now. So this has been one central location yet where it's just been like actually 20 lifters in a house together. We'll find out. What? Yeah, that's the theme, right? Pretty much. Okay, so speaking of events we have coming up, the 2026 Arnold, it's been announced that there will not, I repeat.

Wait, how do I say that last? Now, how do I say that the first time when we announced it that was really misleading? I can't remember. I just know the whole thing was confusing. Yeah, but there will, there is not going to be a massonomics booth there, but we are going to be there at Saturday of the Arnold. We're going to be at the Arnold Saturday for probably most of the day. And then there is, for any supporting members, there is a crew-specific meetup for a meal and drinks.

You can find that info on the mass-nomics website. And if you are a supporting member and you're planning on coming, please fill out the like two question form to let us know you're coming for that so we can just have our head count and yeah i don't know just so the restaurant can brace for us we can give it to the party planning committee we can give it to the president of the party planning committee which is actually big hogan in this particular case so yeah so that's the arnold sign up get signed up there's already over there's over 30 supporting members that have signed up for told me that today i couldn't believe it because we're several, you know, we're what, two months out still and the fact that

closing it on 40 for this get-together. Keith wants to know if we're just going to stay at that location or do the walk-in-shame and be like, we don't know, Keith, we go where the night takes us, you know? Might be someone that says I have wool in my hair if we walk around. You never know what could happen. That story would never have happened. Yeah, if we just stayed put. One of the most central massonomics themes of 2025, the wool in your hair, would have never happened.

Would that be good? No, that would be terrible. If we didn't have that thing, the wool in your hair. That's what walking around gets you. It gets you wool in your hair is what it gets you. So get signed up if you're planning on coming to the Arnold. The Arnold still is a checkmark on the Massonomics Hall of Fame list

for anyone that's a supporting member. So do get signed up if you're so inclined. We had on here from a couple times agronomy and weather update. Yes. Agronomy slash weather update. I guess they go hand in hand, sort of. You know, depending on the time of year,

more than others. Yeah. Yeah. Weather-wise, it's been really, really nice. We had two days in a row over 50 here in January.

That's crazy. I don't know if that ever happens. I was not wearing, I have not been wearing a coat during the, like I'm wearing a long-sleeved shirt at work. And I'm like, nope, this is good.

Yeah. Me and my kids went for a bike ride without coats on the other day in January. None of those things make any sense ever. that's in January. If you were to pick one month that it wouldn't happen, you would say January. Yeah, that would be the wrong one to pick.

Yeah, the end of February can get nice, you know. January, no way. Yeah, January, what, 14th? I can't pick, picture like what's historically the coldest week of the year in South Dakota? It's got to be in January, doesn't it, if you were to guess? Sure thing. So I know there's an episode, I don't know, probably a few years back where he talked about how it hadn't been above zero

in like 16 straight days, you know? I remember that. That hasn't been the case. Like that sucked so bad. That was a dark time. That was brutal because it was. It was like the first two weeks of January. It was just dark all the time.

The average temperature was somewhere between negative 30 and zero. Yeah. Yeah, that was, those were dark days. That was a dark time. I'm feeling a lot more optimistic right now going through January like this. I mean, we could still have three more months of winter. Oh, we could. But also once you're like kind of past the halfway point of February,

It's sort of done being really cold, you know? Right, right. So like we get four more weeks just with nothing crazy. Yeah, snow can show up, but it goes away. Yeah. Agronomy update, not much to update. You know, it's the middle of winter. We started the season off with quite a bit of moisture in the form of snow.

You know, that sense has mostly all melted. I mean, is there snow in Sioux Falls or? No, God, no. We haven't had snow in several weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's really no.

cover around anymore, but like we said, there's plenty of opportunity to continue to get more snow. At this point, I don't know locally if it didn't necessarily be a dry or a wet spring. It could be just about right. So we'll see how the rest of winter plays out. You know, we can get a little snow here and there. There's still plenty of time for some precipitation. Yeah. We really started the year off with a bang, though, in terms of snowfall in western northeast South Dakota.

I was starting to be like, oh, my God, is this going to be the winter from hell? where I have this snow blower out for like every week for five months and since then it's gone away. I'd probably say since I've owned a house I'd never use a snowblower more before January than I did this year. Here's a thing. In the winter, it doesn't apply right now. It's all melted. But say like when we were getting snow and it was really cold for a while, do you guys try to be driveway completely clear of snow family?

We're bad because first of all, Once you drive over it a few times. And we're the worst with that because our problem is I don't have to leave for anything, you know, so whenever it happens, it happens. But then if my wife has to go to work in the morning, you know, she leaves at like 5.30 in the morning. Well, I'm not getting up before that to do it. So then, you know, and if that's the case, that means I'm getting kids ready for school

taking them, which means I'm going to drive. Yeah, it's just a disaster usually for us is typically how it goes. For anyone that doesn't live in a place where it stays cold for a long time and you get decent snowfall. Once you drive over it a few times, it's pretty much impossible to get it off until Mother Nature does. I mean, you can do it. It's just a giant pain in the ass. Yeah. And especially if it warms up a little bit and it kind of melts and freezes and does that whole thing. A lot of my neighbors are absolutely not a speck. Like, we'll get blizzard after blizzard after blizzard after blizzard. And their driveway is completely clean. Like there isn't, there is no snow on it.

It typically goes hand in hand or whatsoever. The people that take a lot of care with their lawn too. It's the same type. Also, it's a lot of retired people. Retired people, people with time on their hands. If people look at for something to do, it kind of all goes, it's kind of all the same. Yes, it's all the same to me.

What are you drinking over there this week? Anything in particular? Got a little polar seltzer. This is an honor of Jose's YouTube videos coming out tomorrow. He had the polar fridge, you know. Was it most? stacked with polar. Yeah, he has, how does Jose have the hookup on unique polars? Because that's the Boston area is where polar's at. Okay. That's why.

He hangs around the polar brewery. The polar express. Polar bottling co. What do you got? Is that the regular? I'm the original sparkling water rambler out of AUTX, limestone mineral blend. Yeah. That's, that's real snappy. It's that limestone flavor. That thing's real snappy. It pops hard. Ooh.

Very bubbly. Very spicy. I only got a little extra spice to it. You wouldn't think on flavored water could be spicy, but who. Actually, I was with a hang out with some buddies this weekend. And we were joking talking about our little kids. And he said the exact same thing. He's like, oh, my kids, they've had a few tastes of pop.

And they go, spicy. It's just that's how kids relate to things that are, I guess, carbonated is spicy. Anything different? Yeah, it is spicy. Yeah, so Jose's is coming out. Jose's gym tour is coming out this week. Last week was Big Waffle Iron Steve's. Epic Gym tour.

Yeah. An epic, my. A lot of good feedback on that one. Yeah, a lot of good feedback on that one. I showed someone in my family, like my wife or my oldest son. just like the beginning of that one because I'm like, oh, you should watch this,

see if you think it's funny. And they got a laugh out of it. But my four-year-old daughter watched it too. And like 20 times since, she's like, show me the gym house video where it's, you know, it's the dodge ball thing at the beginning.

She just, that gets her, though. She loves the dodge ball thing. She's like, it's like when it pans out and they all throw the balls. And she calls it the gym house video, which is kind of funny,

too. She's like, can we watch the gym house? house video. Like, see, dad can be funny every once in a while. I'm actually very funny, just so you know everyone.

Yeah. So that was Steve, but then Jose's, the surf shop, Jose's surf and turf home gym, garage gym. I forgot that we did actually go through his surfboards

and talk about those. I mean, if I would have stopped to think about, I would have remembered. But once I started editing the video, I'm like, Yeah, we actually did talk about a surfboards. And he has the little surf trainer and you're trying it out. And that was also really funny.

So I forgot about some of that stuff. Okay, yeah. I'm actually, it has been quite a while since we were, oh, several months. Four months, maybe. Yeah, okay. It has. I'm thinking, how long has it been do you think? Oh, at least a week.

For a while. It's been a while. Yeah, but at least a week, actually, now you say it, it has been a while. Had to knock the dust off of those buttons. I could see that over there. Yeah, so I'd be excited to get feedback. Also, Jose has a very, like, relatable gym set up, too, in the sense that he still parks, can park a car in that one.

It takes up, like, half of a garage stall. Yeah. Kind of the way he situates his gym. So, very, like, manageable or just, like, like where people could watch that video and think, well, I could do that. You know, like that seems like something I could have if I wanted to.

Surfing in Boston in the winter. Yeah. Seems wild. I have that wetsuit. That takes a special breed, Jose. Special breed of statistician. Yeah. Should we talk about a training update in this episode?

Oh, I don't do that pre- or post title topic. I actually couldn't remember. No, we can get to that. I don't remember if we talked about that last week or not. I don't think we really did. Yeah, we didn't put it off. You posted a big squat video today, so it had me thinking about it together.

I'm like, actually, we need to talk about that. Yeah. I hit 440 for a top, so squatting, I squatted today. My top set was 440 solid-ass pounds for a set of five. And I looked, I thought that was my biggest ever. last year was actually about the same week. I did 445, but it was for a set of four. So five less pounds, but one more rep.

And so, I mean, so it still is a PR. Which one's better than to analyze it? Which set is better? 445 for 4 or 440 for 5. I mean, 440 for 5. It is. I mean, we consider the amount of weight actually moved it significantly. Well, by far, but there's still just a, there's a gut feeling that you have to.

Yeah, it's only, something about four reps just seems a lot less than always. For sure. And if you're only, if the difference only five pounds, it's easy to pick the five rep. But what's the difference have to be like if your four rep was 450 or what if your four rep set was 455 and your five rep set was four 40? That gets a little tougher now. What's better? 455 for four or four 40 for five. At that, at 455, I may switch to the set of four. 15 extra pounds really does mean something there. And 455 is just a great.

looking weight too. It's worth figuring too. Actually, that's a really good point. I forget about that. But, I don't have to worry about that yet. You know, probably in a month or two,

I probably will be having to go through that conundrum. But, yeah, that was the biggest squat I've ever had alone in my garage. And man, that's a real gut check when you're squatting alone in the garage. It's just, that's the ultimate one of, who we got to do,

you know, I'm a fast squatter. My squats are always speedy. And the fourth rep, I'm like, this is actually slow. down for once. I started a thing in my head like five,

nope, five just has to happen. It has to happen. And I did it and it moved. I mean, watching back on the video, I moved totally fine. In my head,

it felt really, really slow. But what did you call the RP of the set? I, I said nine and a half because in my head, that did feel like a nine and a half. You know, it's just one of those things

where it probably be a little different if someone was there. Because just squatting, squatting alone, you know, I have the safety set and everything, but squatting alone is just, it's another level.

of like when you're really going for it. With just spotter Jesus is the only one in the room. Because that 445 I had for four was at Massadomics at this time last year. And you spotted me. Oh, okay. Which is, that's a whole different vibe. But did you have Donnie Thompson in your closet for this one? Maybe.

I forgot to look. Yeah. Callback. Forgot to look. Very odd callback. Sound off in the YouTube comments if you know what I mean by that. Yeah. So what do you think you're best, do you think it's your best set of five ever, though?

I think it might be because, well, it's got to be very close if it's not. You know what? I could probably, I'll, do you think you've done $455 for a set of five before? Well, you would have at that point in time, you would have been doing five by five as though, too. Well, yeah, five. Not a top set. Here, what I can tell you. I'm referring to older Masonomics gym days on Jackals program.

Yeah. I can tell you it might, I could actually find the answer to this. It might take me a little bit, but, um, give me, I'll,

I'll, I'll find this out of a minute here, but it'd be a rate in that ballpark. So your squat is going like a 10 out of 10 then basically. Yeah, pretty much. Squat training right now is going really, really well.

But what's actually going better than that is my bench training. Like I, I literally feel like I'm just getting stronger every week benching. Yeah. And I don't know. It was a month. month ago, I think, what I do, I put, you know, all the strength co plates I had three, 12 and a half or whatever on. You know, it's supposed to be for a set of five. And I just smoked it. Like it was so, I'm not going to say it was easy, but yeah, it was pretty easy for a weight that I've never touched for a set of five. And so is that the most you've ever done for a set of five on bench then? For a single set of five. Yeah, I've never done. I've never. I think I've done three 15 for like a triple, I think. But so you're, you could probably do a set of five at three 15 right now then, though.

Oh, God, yeah. Well, I did it a month ago. Oh, you did $3.15. Oh, I did $3.12 and a half for a set of five. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, you could have done $3.15 for a set of five. Oh, yeah. And I have an RPE 10 day tomorrow for bench.

And I would not be surprised if the number, I don't even know what the I didn't look. I didn't look. For a set of five? I think. I didn't look. I'm assuming it's a set of five because that's what I have been on. I would not be surprised if the number it's telling me is 320 or 325 even.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, what did you bench even at the last meet? Wasn't that like, the thing is like my bench was it like that. Like you said your set of five weight could be 320 or 325. What was your second attempt bench at the meet? Well,

my second attempt bench at the meet was like three, four. I had this mental thing where I've just failed everything. I've never benched over 3.30 in a meet or 335. I tried it so many times. So I actually, my final attempt was like 349 or 348, whatever the kilo is.

And I smoked it. Like that looked way too easy. But your set of five now is going to be at like what your second attempt was. bench. Damn near. Yeah. And that's where you started doing the one rep max calculator of like, oh, like 320 for a set of five with some left in the tank.

It's like, oh, it's putting my bench in the high 300s. And I'm like, what? Where are these numbers coming from? It doesn't even add up. But it just feels every week like I just feel like I'm getting stronger on bench every week. Yeah. So I bench on Wednesdays.

Monday is incline bench. And I'll say, I had a thing in Juggernaut where it felt like my incline was just never going up. Or Juggernaut was never telling. it to go up. I was just starting to program it myself. You know, I was following the reps, but the weight was never scaling. And I looked, and it's one of the few lifts where I've ever had this happen where my one rep max was set at like 185 pounds probably many, many years ago. And for some reason, it's never

updated and it's never grown that number. Yeah, it was just anchored there. And I was like, I was doing sets with 185. Right. And so now that I bumped up my 100 max on, you know, on incline, I put it at like 245 pounds, 255 pounds. Well, now this is. sudden like incline is like scaling and getting hard. You know, today I was doing sets of 215 on incline, which I've never touched before. And it's still moving pretty good. And then my other accessory, my other bench accessory is Spoto Press. And I'm like hitting like sets of 250 plus on Spoto Press every week.

And the pause is hard and good. Like I just, I'm smoking them. It feels amazing. So bench is so dialed in. Squats pretty damn good too. And deadlift is just like, no, same old crap as always. Like is it going good though? It's going fine.

It just never feels good. It doesn't feel easy like the other two dudes. No, it never feels fast. You're not like putting on 20 pounds. It's not like you're like, oh, I feel stronger every day. I go in at deadlift. Like I think like, oh, this just feels like even worse and harder than last week is what I think half the time. And then I go back and watch it.

It looks fine. But I just, right. I never. It just doesn't feel like the other two. Yeah. I get days on squat where like, yeah, every lift has like days. It's like, oh, that was kind of harder. but I also on the other two have a lot of days

I'm like oh no things are moving good and I just never ever have that feeling on deadlift for I think things are moving good right now it's just always three making progress is always an absolute win it is like that's not even there's like that it actually barely gets better than that I mean three out of three is better than that but that's so rare well especially at this point of my training and I'm like I'm not gaining weight

I'm staying I've been at the same weight now for hashtag macro factor exactly yes What's your daily calorie on macro factors that stayed about the same? Like has it ever changed? Yeah. It actually, you know, I think the last time when you had when we talked about macro factor in depth, you know, after you started. Yeah.

It was like, you know what? There's probably because my number was at like, 2,400 calories or something or 23. And I'm like, God, I got to be doing something wrong here. And I really, I gave it a really hard audit and I found a few things that I was off on. And since then, you know, so basically I was underreporting some calories. Right. And then once I started putting some more in, you know, it took it a couple of weeks to really adjust.

But now for the most spot, I'm floating around 2,800 calories. Oh, okay. Yeah. So that makes sense. Yeah. And then it's pretty much. And you can use discount code massonomics at macro factor. Not only can you.

You should. Get an extra. Not only should you, you have to or else we will find you. Yes. Discount code massonomics. I mean, I think that's a huge part, though, why my training is going so good is, you know, last year was the first time I had ever had any close attention to. macros while I was training and like things were going good right up until I had a little back

tweak leading into the meat. But now I'm right back on that path. I'm feeling mostly healthy and sleeping mostly pretty good. And my diet is, you know, pretty dialed in. And with all those things combined, just lifting seems to be working right now. Yeah. 440 for a set of five and benching 315 for a set of five is kind of crushing it. You know, like that's, Yeah. I mean, those are, okay, so I just looked here. All right, my squat max, you know, if I put in on Jackals, you know, when we used to run that, if I put in like 550, which is my biggest squat

max, I would have ever had in there on the heaviest squat day for five by five. Week six. Yes. Oh, four 40. So, yeah. Five by five, though, is a different challenge than. I don't know if I ever, well, you were in the ballpark probably. But I don't know if I, because I did 550 in a meat, but then I wouldn't have put

that in is my max. Actually, this is what I can tell you. I can look up what I actually had as my heaviest squat program number ever, 515. Because when I squatted 550 in the meat, I had never been anywhere near that. Yeah, actually the highest I'd ever been was 515 as a program number. And so week six on 515 is five sets of five at 412. Yeah. Yeah. And so that programming was slightly different. but what's better. 4.15 for five sets of five or 440 for one set of five. 4.15 for five sets of five. That's a lot of volume and a lot of weight.

That's a lot. Four plates for four reps, four sets. That's, I'm saying FOR for. FOR for rep, yeah, for reps for sets. A five by five, a heavy five by five squat. Straight sets. is physically a challenge, but also it is mentally,

like when you do like set two, you're like, oh, fuck, that was set two. I'm not even halfway done yet. And set three is kind of like when you get done, you're like, oh, great, you know, thank God. But then you're like, oh, this next one is even the last one. Yeah, I've never got juggernaut to the point where I'm doing sets over, with four plates or more on squat.

I've never got it. Yeah, I've never got there. Like where your straight set days. are like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah,

that's outside of like, where you know, where you're doing like sets of three. Like I've been there. But never like a higher, higher rep thing where I'm doing five or more reps with over four plates on juggernaut. I've never been able to get that to that point yet. Yeah.

You know, okay. One other thing. One other thing. Okay, before I, before I, um, you know what I think is actually also helping my bench quite a bit.

The Daisy chains. Well, sort of. I was going to say, I don't think any of these lifts took off prior to, you having D.A. Well, there is causation and correlation, and that is both of them. But along those lines, though, I'm definitely hitting arm accessories harder than I ever have in my life. Well, that totally makes sense on the bench. It does. And part of it is, you know,

there's this little thing called the squat of the upper body, the old dips. The dip. And what I hadn't, I hadn't done dips for years. And then when I kind of started adding them back in, I was just doing the thing where I was doing like eight to 10 reps. And then not that long ago, but then for the last few months I'd been, I actually had taken... With no weight, you were saying. Yeah, with no weight. Yeah.

And then not that long ago, I had working dips back in. I consistently going to 15 reps. And then I'm like, this still isn't hard enough. And now I consistently am doing, you know, three to four sets of 20 reps on dips.

Yep. And usually getting pretty tired by the end of those because it's the last thing at my workout. And I'm like, I think this is doing something too. You know what we really need? is Chris. Someone forward, clip this and send it to Chris at belt fed. Chris, make a stock belt fed dip belt. Not one that attaches to a lifting belt. We've got that. I want a dedicated dip belt. And I want it to say belt fed on it. And that's it. And I want it to be a stocked item because I think a bunch of people would buy it. And I would be the first customer. And I want it and I want it now. I've also told Chris that. I know. But we need to crowdsource telling Chris.

I mean, I'm damned around the verge of buying a dip belt because I'm like, I can't just. Well, I can't just keep. I could buy one from other companies. Well, no, I know. I know. I don't want to. I've been holding off on this, but he's taken too long. But I've been, I'm like, I got to start scaling these other than just adding more.

Yeah, because that's evolution. You can't just do, you're not going to do sets of 30. Yeah, I'm not going to do another set of 20 or another set. You know, yeah, start doing sets of 30. I just need to start getting some weight on there. And then once I start having weighted dips in my program, look out world, 405 bench. Here we come. I love dips.

There was a period of time where I stopped doing them because they aggravated my shoulder more until I just started. I was like, I think I can, if I do these over exaggerated slow, it doesn't really hurt my shoulder. Like it's like I just have to over exaggerate the speed to a slow tempo. And I'm like, this doesn't hurt my shoulder. So I'm back to them. And then like the more I do that, the more the better they feel generally, I think. Like the more dips I can say, you know, properly do, then it like allows me to do more dips also.

I think people need to figure out what is their, what is their body's preferred method of dips, you know? Can you go fast? Can you go slow? Like it there is also different liens. As I say, the lean is a big one because, you know, you can lean it forward and you feel it way more in your shoulders.

And width of your hand, you know, because most dip attachments are angled and where you go. I think if you can find a way that works for you, though, man, dips are their money. I used to, like back in the wild, IMCA days, I would do really, really heavy weighted dips. Would you know, put like three plates? For how many reps?

Eight to ten. Oh, okay. So you're doing like 10 with three plates on there. I think so. I don't look at videos. I don't think I've ever done a weighted dip in my life. So I just don't even know is adding one plate significantly harder or what I, if I added a plate.

I mean, yeah, I think it's noticeable. Like it's not, you're not going to do 20. You're not going to get buried with a plate. Okay. Okay. I didn't know if adding one plate on all of a sudden, it's just like,

Well, five is impossible. No, no, but I do think you can, it is like, it's probably like, no, let me throw a 10 on. Okay, yeah, that's still pretty easy. Let me put a 25 on. Like, I think a 25 does something, you know, much less than that. I don't know if, I mean, it's just actually, there is a point. It all depends on where people are at and scalable. But if you're doing 20, you'll be able to throw a 25 on, do some reps or even throw

a 45 on. You know, you're going to do less reps, of course. Yeah. But it's not like you're going to do one rep. You know, it's going to be sets and reps still. Someday I'll find out. Okay. What?

I just thought of this one other thing. I would love to hear if anyone else can report any numbers on this or find out if I'm just extremely deficient here. I still, I just have this memory of, you know, we're at Jujis. We're on the gluteator. And the very minimal weight was just rocking me. And you're like, I can't feel this. I don't know if I'm doing the machine wrong. I'm like, I think I'm just that much weaker in my glutes than you.

And so that one's kind of always stuck with me is that at least in some position, the abducting. Is that the opening? Abducting. Is that opening? I've, nobody knows. I think in that position, whatever, you know, on the lateral sides of your glutes, it just lit me up on the gluteator. And I did this the other day. I have just some like cheap ankle cuffs, you know.

Yeah. Yeah. And I went to my cable machine on the low row and I put it so then I just, you know, on the inside of my leg. leg, I put it on there, then just, you know, lift your leg laterally. Like something you would see a girl do that's doing some booty exercises at the Y or something. Yeah. And I had it on 15 pounds and doing 15 reps on 15 pounds. By the 15th one, I can like hardly walk away from the machine because my side of my

is going crazy. And actually, if I flip over to the other one and do it right away and if I do them relatively close, I almost can't like finish the set. I almost have to take a breather between. and I don't know if that's an extreme deficiency or if that movement actually is just kind of hard, but that's been eye-opening to me. I don't know about that one because I haven't done it

so I can't compare it, but I do know when we did the Gluteator and you said this was really hard. And like, you're stuck in that machine. I don't think there was a way that I, because I was like, I don't, am I cheating this or something? Yeah, because I think I had a plate on each side

and I did four or five. I'm like, whoa, I'm getting like a Charlie horse in my glute. And then you had to put two plates on. You're like, I'm kind of feeling it now. Right. I don't even think I could like move it with two plates. I'm wondering if that could really help your deadlift a lot.

Well, it might. It's bringing whatever that's going on there up. If that could be like a secret deadlift. Well, here's another one we've talked about. And I can see how this one's very machine dependent. But, you know, I have my leg curl leg extension machine.

And I, you know, leg extension. And I probably am pretty quad dominant just the way with our squat and everything too. Right. But leg extension, I can do three plates after my squat. day. I can do three plates sets of 15, three sets of 15. And like I'm feeling it,

but it's not like unbearable. But when it comes to leg curl, I'm same thing, sets of 15, two plates. And by the time I'm getting to my last reps on two plates, my posterior chain is screaming. And that's a difference. I mean, that's 30% less than the other one. Right. And I don't know if that's just a machine thing or if that actually does carry over that way. I'm not sure. But I don't know what's, I don't know also what's common. Like I don't know if the if it's typically one to one for people and it's also hard to say because two machines are different. That is the same machine. Yeah.

True. Yeah. Yeah. Like a lot of them, yes, the geometry is different. Right. Like if you compare my two at the gym, are you, is that apples to apples or not? You know, like, I don't know. Maybe it is.

I'm not actually really sure about that. And I just don't know what the, what's common. Like is everyone 30 is, are people commonly 30? 30% weaker on that. Oh, but I could go, you know, three plates on leg extension is still easier than two plates on leg curl for me. Right, right. So it could be 50%. It could be.

And I don't know if that's normal or not or if I'm just really weak in that way. Right, right. Sure. Okay. That's all my training updates, though. So that was a lot there. What do you got, Taney? Any horse stall mat grip records?

Well, just on crew falls, I finally broke 100 from the ground for the first time. So that means something, I guess. I don't know. Is that updated? on the record board then? Well, probably not. Because I never really reported it. Yeah, right.

Okay, where will this move me up? Was it 100 pounds even? Is that what we had? Yeah, we had 100 pounds on there. 100 pounds even. Let's see. Records. Where would that move me?

Okay, where am I at right now? Oh, God. Oh, no. That's single hand. Okay. Single hand, man. I'm like, oh, it takes me off the last place list. I should really do something to get myself off a last place, though.

Wow. I didn't realize it was the last place on the same. Single hand. Yeah, I'm at 49 pounds. That's last place. I should really try that one again someday. Double hand. I got to be down towards the bottom.

I'm third, fourth from the end with 95. 100 pounds will bump me up about four spots to 58-ish. Yeah. So not much progress there. But bump up. A bump up. So bump up. A little bump up.

PR is a PR. Take what you can get. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Yeah, my training is going good. My knee is still not like perfectly recovered. So that's a never ending thing. Yeah, we haven't had a knee have update in a while.

So like that's still is a long time since I had surgery and my knee is not perfect. I've been experimenting with more things. I think I'm making progress. It's still. It's still a battle. What do you mean experimenting here? What are we? Just different exercises and different things that I haven't been able to do yet that I am trying more.

but when it comes to jumping, explosiveness, single leg, single leg strength stuff feels pretty close. Like if I'm doing a Bulgarian split squat, I'm actually just exploring different exercises because when I do a Bulgarian split squat, I don't know if I've just gamed it enough with my hips

or whatever I do that like, I'm like, oh, this feels pretty good. It feels like pretty much like the other side. And this last week, I'm like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm just going to do something different. I'm going to try step up.

ups and see how that. When you do your bulls, like, do you have your one foot behind you? My rear foot elevated. Yeah. Like on a roller or something. Like, yeah, on a roller. Okay.

Yeah. I was just curious how you were doing them. And like my surgery leg forward, I'm like, I don't know. And then I've been doing those, but with an explosive jump. So they're not weighted, but I'm like exploding off the ground is, you know, do you ever, do you pay much attention to when you're doing split squats, the angle of your upper body and how you're sitting back or leaning forward on it? because you can,

yeah, I'm trying to put as much knee as much through my quad as possible when I'm doing those. Yeah, because you can change how that movement feels drastically depending on the angle and the, I try to force as much through my quad and knee. You know, I say quad, but really by that I also mean my knee joint to that too by getting more knee forward.

Yep. Tighter knee angle, I guess. But then I go to step-ups that I did the first time last week and I was like, holy crap. Now this, I'm not. cheating. Oh, really? At least in my first week, I'm like, I have not figured out how to cheat this.

This is exposing where my repaired knee is way worse off than my. Just like a plio box or what do you? Yeah, just to a plio box. And is that leaving your foot on it and just stepping up to? Just leaving my foot on it and bringing my other foot down all the way to the ground. Yeah. Like just trying to heel tap on the ground on my other foot, which on my good leg is easy, I guess at the height I was doing.

I would say easy to do. And my other one, like every rep. was a challenge. See, that's... So I'm going to step-ups there, but what's going on with my knee is I have a really bad catch on my kneecap right now. So every time, like today I did the hack squat, every rep when I go deep on the hack squat,

not on the descent, but when I come back up, there is a bad catch on my kneecap that's really annoying. And what it is, I'm not sure. It's not uncommon after, you know, knee surgery, but it could just be... scar tissue in there. Could be, you know, some problem with my, it could be like five, it could be a hundred different things, you know, without additional MRI and more messing around.

There's not much to sue, but it's not, it's not super painful, but it's really, you know, it's uncomfortable and it's not a lot jarring. Yeah. Yeah. So when I do exercise like that, I have that bad catch in my knee. But all that being said, I am making a little progress slowly. It's just taking, it's just taking a really long time. Well, this one's taking a lot longer than the other one.

Way longer than my other one. This has been way, way longer, hasn't it? It's been 14 months, yeah, since I had surgery. Hashtag road to recovery. Like when I walk up the stairs, it's still my left knee doesn't feel like my right knee. You know, like not at all. Wow. So it's, but I do attack it a lot in training.

So that's just all I. And I do jump, I do explode, you know, jumping and landing on it two or three times a week. That should be helping. But even just like skipping, you know, I can just skip off of my right foot so effortlessly. And it feels like, it feels like I'm getting air between my foot and the ground. And then every step with my left foot, it's like just feels like you're skipping in quicksand, I guess is what I would say where it's like I cannot push through that. But then when I squat and deadlift, barbell stuff, it feels pretty normal.

It's probably because I'm favoring things, you know, without even knowing a little bit still. But it doesn't hurt when I squat or deadlift, like it's not painful. And do you get the catch thing when you're squatting? Or do you not get deep enough that it's really an issue? It doesn't bother it too much usually. Sometimes if I,

it's when I come to full terminal knee extension, like all the way straight. then back from there, it wants to catch going the other way too. Yeah. So I almost have to keep just like the tiniest of knee bend, you know, almost like on deadlift,

it's the same thing. If I go to full terminal knee extension, what gets it the most to the catch is if I try to do an overhead movement with a dip, you know, so you'd say a push press or, like I've been messing around with the circus dumbbell. And when I'm standing straight and I try to do that really fast or that really quick,

short dip. Sometimes it's like, I'll go to do it and I'm like, oh my, it's not like extremely painful. It's like my knee actually isn't operating in the correct, you know, the joint doesn't function properly where I go to do that dip and I'm like, I have to like catch myself and be like, oh my goodness, what is that? And then I'll like just bend it a little bit and be like, okay, yep, nope, there it's good again. Yeah, I don't like the thought of that. Yeah.

I don't like that. It's super. But that's also slowly getting better, I would say. And with that catch and, you know, what the most doctors would say, especially without imaging, is if you are making some progress, it's probably part of the recovery still. You know, like if it's the same forever, that's more concerning. But I will be like, no, if I'm being real honest with myself about it,

it's a little better than it was like a month ago or two months ago. Yeah, it's not drastically better. It's not as good as I want. but it is actually better. So more than likely, it's scar tissue and stuff like that that's just taking forever to be normal again. But it will probably be normal again. My training, though, is going pretty good. I actually finished like a 20-week cycle where I didn't back squat.

I didn't deadlift with a barbell. I was only doing front squat, other variations, and trap bar. That's right. Yes, you were. Yeah, you were. And I did decide to not go through the peaking block because I'm, I'm like, it feels like a... Were you doing it through juggernaut?

Yeah, I did it through juggernaut training. It's just my primary squat was the front squat and my primary deadlift was the trap bar deadlift. And then on bench also my primary bench was, I guess, close grip bench. Okay. And I did not, I was going to do the peaking block. And on the last week, I decided I'm not going to,

just because I was looking at it. And I'm like, God, some of these weeks just feel like a waste of time. Yeah, I think that's pretty fun. Unless you were really, it was really important to you to test and really find out. This other thing, I'm like, I don't care what my max trap bar. Exactly. I was just doing this as an experiment. Or your max front squat.

Right. Yeah. Unless that's like, and not even just finding your max front squat, peaking your max front squat. Yeah. Unless that's really important to you. I think it's totally reasonable to skip that out and just load it back. That's why I pulled that up, restarted the program and I'm doing deadlifts off the floor conventional. I did.

Today was my first day. And that just felt so easy where I'm, I hate the trap bar. I literally, I hate the trap bar. I hate the trap bar and I hate front squat. Why do you hate the trap bar, though? Like, what's... Because to me, it feels so much better than deadlifting for me. But that's because it's the way you squat versus the way I squat.

You know, the trap bar is way more of a, you know... Like, to me, it just feels like it's... And I'm sure this is how some people's older. Like, the trap bar is far more like a squat. Yeah, it just feels like I'm just doing the world's easiest leg press. Like, it just stands like, I go down, I wedge my body in and I just stand it up and there's no load through my back at all. Like, it just... Like, it makes total sense to me that the trap bar, you would like the trap bar, you would like the trap bar.

Yeah. Like I would, I would predict that you would like the trap bar compared to the. Okay. So, but like it actually doesn't feel it that great for you though. Like I just assumed trap bar felt great for everyone. No,

I hate it. Oh. I hate it. Okay. Wow. Okay. I actually thought even a high trap bar, I'm like,

ugh. It just never, even when I, if I do a lot of weight on, I mean, I've done a lot of weight on trap bars before. Like 700 or more, haven't you?

It never feels like, uh, it never feels good to me. I think I've done an 800 pound high handle trap bar before. And it just even, it all felt every rep kind of feels bad. Even when I'm doing it well, it just doesn't feel good. Interesting. And same with front squat.

Through the 20 weeks, I would say almost every rep of front squat and every rep of trap bar felt bad where I'm just like it never feels good. Yeah. See, that is the opposite though, because I like front squat, the only thing that ever feels bad. Front squat is just having it wedged against your windpipe, you know. But the actual movement muscle part always feels great. for me. Like that part always feels good too. It's, yeah. So I

ended both of those like it's the theory of do the thing you're not good at and I just wanted it. It's just an experiment mostly and give me to do something else. And I would say the first week back to regular dead listing with a barbell, you know, you could be like, oh, it's going to take some transitionary time and stuff like that. And

my top set was only 455 for six, but I did it and I'm like, that felt so easy and normal. Like I was just like, that felt so natural to me again right away. After like four or five months I was like oh that's right I'm okay at some of these things I because I'm like god I maybe I just can't do any lifts at all anymore and it did feel really good and also then I I'm going to safety squat bar is what I switched to next and the first week of that I also thought oh my god this feels so good yeah like this feels and I

I can definitely see it on safety squat bar. Yeah, I can definitely see it there. Yeah. Even with like more weight, you know, of course more weight than I was doing my front squat. I just, it just feels easy. You have more room for positioning to do it the way you want to do with those. So those both feel really, really good and kind of promising. And then upper body wise, my bench is going pretty good.

And I've been messing around with the other thing I've been trying is Farmers Carries. Like, that's a knee test thing. And I've just been doing that at the end of job. Juggernaut on lower body days and I've just been linear progressing at like 10 pounds a day. Yeah. And just going slow. Like I'm not trying to move fast, but I'm just trying to move and see what it does because walking with weight, you know, the other day I had 215 pounds a hand. So that means when I'm stepping with that left foot, my body weight of 240 plus 4.30, you know, it's 700 pounds on just that step, which I haven't done anything like that for at least 40.

13 months. So just trying that. And that, it doesn't feel normal or good. It definitely feels, I'm not saying, it's not like I'm hurting myself. I wouldn't be doing it if I was,

you know, but it just, if I ever want to be able to do it, it's probably good to practice because it just. Yeah. Does not feel normal, you know, like,

and I try to just, my goal when I do it is walk, not fast, but just don't walk with a limp, you know, don't favor it. Like, I just try to do them equal as possible.

And then I, because at Crew Falls, we did, everyone was messing around with all kinds of different implements. And one of them was a circus dumbbell because it's an implement in the Lift Hardly v. Z classic. And I basically never tried a circus dumbbell. Maybe once in Rapid City 10 years ago, I feel like I did one at a gym there. I've never done it. And we did it at Crew Falls and I'm like, I am so uncomfortable and bad at this. I have no idea how to do this. And the amount of weight I can not do is kind of embarrassing for like my size and how

generally strong I am. I'm like, that's actually pathetic. So I've been doing that and just linear progressing it too. And I can say from a skill standpoint, even like four weeks in. Well, that's what, yeah, it should. I've gotten so much better at it. You should be making enormous strides just off of a technique alone. Actually, what happens is I'm doing, I'm linear progressing it very slowly. And every week, I add a little more weight. And it's actually easier than the week before that. And I'm like, okay, good. That's making me feel a little better. I'm still not. doing impressive weights, but it is going up and getting easier in the process. Yeah.

And it doesn't really tax me in any way. Like, it's just, it's just like, I consider it like technique training almost. I just do it at the end of days when I have spare time. And it's fun. Yeah. And I bought that other MB Power Center loadable circus dumbbells. So I just want to try it. Yep.

Yep. That's it on training, still trying to lift the full weight Thomas. inch dumbbell and still have not successfully done it yet. Oh, still nothing, huh? I kind of moved away from it because I kind of picking up more on some of my other training now. Yeah. So then I'm like, like I got done today and I'm like, I am beat.

Yeah, I'm like, I'm not messing around with that today. I am like my focused a lot on my deadlift and hack squat and back raises and leg, leg extensions. And then I'm like, got to say, I don't got much left in the tank for any of that other messing around today. I'm like, I got to get, get the hell out of here. That's, that's understandable. You know, that feeling when you, you know, mostly on a squat day, like when you have a really hard one, you leave and you're kind of like, I'm just rocked right now, you know, like, you're just kind of like, I'm kind of starting to get that on my bench days. And I think it's just because I hit my accessories

so much at the end where I get done, I'm like, oh, I just kind of feel like I got my ass kicked here. Well, and just the weights that you're handling. Well, they do. Yes, they do start to be a lot more. just an overall greater load. Right. Yeah, when the singles tend to be at 300, or the top set tends to be at 300 or more regularly. And, yeah. So systemically,

it is just like a larger overall amount of volume no matter what, then too. That is true. Yes. Yeah. Anything, we haven't done a good training update for a while. So I know.

And I haven't even asked, like even when we tie, I haven't asked you about training in forever. So, yeah, I didn't know where anything was at. That was good. Yeah,

even in, to put it in more of a nutshell, I'm not that strong. My knee isn't great, but it all feels like it's getting a little bit better. Hey, that's all just a stepping stone to build off of. I'm pretty much still just happy to be training

and doing all the lifts. And I'm like, yep, that's what I really just need in my life is just to be able to train all the lifts that I want to do and then I'm pretty happy. Yeah, that's what it's all about.

Yeah, train and. Also, think train insane or remain the same. Rate that down. Oh, yeah. I mean, everyone wants to know, though. How many times have you listened to powerlifting the mentality from last week to this week? I actually haven't.

I need to watch that. I know. I did the same thing. I'm like, God. Bremi brought it up. I'm like, damn it. I was going to watch that too, and I totally forgot. I really do need to get to that.

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Please consider signing up if you're not already. If you've been a listener, if you enjoy the show a little bit, a lot, any amount, please sign up. We would love to have you. What do you think about a certified training facility of the week? Yeah, where should we go? We were just in Canada last week. Yeah, we went up to Alberta.

Yes. The old birdie, that's what we call it around here. What it's better known as. Oh, I'm just zooming in. Let's just go. What about in, boy. We've done a gym tour there. That's not what we want.

What's this place? What's premeditated health? and performance. How about that? Where's that at? That's in Lafayette, Indiana. We've never done that before, have we? I don't think so.

Lafayette, Indiana. Part of Indiana is that? Oh, it's right near Lafayette. I'm just looking here. It's kind of on its own. Oh, this is like a, more of a commercial facility here. Yeah, this is big, Dan, with the arm tattoos.

is what I'm looking at, I think, here. Yeah, okay, okay. Should we hop into this? Yeah, let's check this one out. Okay, photo one. Great photo, the certified training facility banner. I'd like to see that. Photo two, we have a GetRX combo rack.

Can't say I've ever seen one of those before. I mean, I know they exist. But I've never seen one of those. I'd be curious what that is like. And then in the background we have, it looks like a stone platform and maybe some jerk blocks. or something there.

Jirt blocks and a big, big wooden log back there. Oh, that wouldn't log look sweet. I'd like to take a little look at that one, actually. You know, it's the real deal when it's got the rope around the ends, you know? Yep. Photo three, we got the cardio section. We got some treadmills.

I see a rower. Colorless treadmills. Yeah, yeah, kind of like a true form or something like that. Yep. Back there. Yeah, photo four. Okay, we got a rig. haven't had a lot of

a lot of certified training facilities that have a rig in them, have we? Yeah, for those that aren't down with the lingo, a rig traditionally used in CrossFit gyms, uh, long featuring multiple squatting areas. It's kind of just like all, instead of being connected by cross members,

I did a real hard wad in the wig in the rig. But it's also all connected by like pull up bars, you know, right? Instead of, instead of cross members is kind of the, the construction. piece but yeah so you got uh one yeah you got like well actually it's both sides you got like four

stations you can squat and bench out of uh then you just got spotter arms that you move around so totally totally totally oh actually the far one no never mind there's three here three on each side the far one has like jammer arms on it doesn't it oh yeah there's jammer arms i see an adjustable bench in there i got they've got a bow bar of some you know whether it's the rogue cb whatever or i don't know which one that is. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. You can you can hit all the all the big three there. No problem. Next photo. Okay, where would this be in the gym now? I'm kind of turned around on where we're at. Well, you can see all his maces there. Yeah. Mases and kettlebells because he's the Mace Bell master. Uh-huh. He's got a wall of them there basically. Yeah. It's probably what all this open horse

stuff. Right. Room to just swing them. Yeah. That would make sense actually. So you don't catch someone in the teeth. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And then we got the wall of, of dumbbells there, right? Yeah. And some kettlebells too. Photo six. Lots of barbells. Titan Fitness SSB.

We got a McDonald bar there. Love it. Yep. Still don't have one of those yet, no, Tanner? Wait for the update. Okay. Don't put the cart before the horse here. Okay, okay.

I don't want to spill any beans. Well, we'll just forget I said anything there. Don't tell me we still don't have anything yet. There is another SSB sitting there. Can't tell because the logo is turned away. It looks like a red Syracote, Texas deadlift bar, but I can't tell for sure. Maybe it's a squat bar. I don't know.

A bunch. It looks like a good collection of power bars. We got like a football bar or some kind back there. Ooh, the rogue, what's it, the 26ers? So it's sitting in the corner there. There they are. Yep. Oh, we got a close-up of the, oh, fat bells galore.

Definitely the biggest fat bell collection we've seen in one of these so far. Yep. He's got some big kettlebells there, too. I get my hands on those. You can see the maces, the clubs all hanging. And then, yeah, the stone platform, which one, two, three, four levels. Plenty of, plenty of pads. Brad would feel right at home with this place if you got them over there.

We got some kegs, bunch of stones. Yeah, a lot of, a lot of great strong man corner right there. Yep. Photo nine. Bike alley. Is that the same bike? Massonomics has? Looks like it, but I think a lot of.

them look exactly like that. Oh, do they? Okay. Yeah. I've seen a lot that look like that. Okay. I'll sure looks like the same. I'll take your word for it. Yeah. I got some bikes. And then the last photo, we got, what do you call those? Just like a, kind of like it's a heavy bag on a pedestal. I don't forget what those are called. Yeah. So if you're in Lafayette, Indiana area and you're looking for a place to train, I believe he probably even takes day passes. at premeditated health and performance. But Tommy, if you were in Lafayette at Indiana, do you think you could get strong at premeditated health and performance?

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Title topic. Oh, can we just get right into it? Should we just jump right in? Let's get it started. Yeah. All right. Let's start this podcast. Are we sure we're ready?

It's kind of fast. Yeah. I mean, the title topic kind of ended up being our training update. Actually. Yeah. Kind of did, actually. For the sake of the title of the episode, it might still be what we're about to talk about. We're probably going to talk about training considerably longer than we're going to talk about this.

But it was our premeditated. call back to the certified training facility of the week, our pre-meditated title topic. And what was the title of this topic? The title of today's topic is how to sell out a powerlifting and strong man meet in one day. So get your notebooks out. It's going to get crazy.

It should be very applicable to so many of you listing. Hey, this is the philosophy we take in. life. There's a little something you can pluck from anything. So even if you never plan on hosting a meat, there might be something here that could help you somewhere someday. A juicy little nugget in there. There's one thing we're good at. It's laying juicy little nuggets. So just pay attention to people. We're going to leave a little breadcrumb trail of juicy nuggets for you all to pick up on a piece of candy. Yeah, so how to sell out of powerlifting and strong man meat in one day. I mean, first,

just to do our own horns. The Lift Hard Live Easy Classic. Strongman and powerlifting meats are both completely sold out. The only thing you can do at this point is get on the wait list for either of them. And that's how many strong man competitors? 55 strong man competitors is what we capped it out.

And a hundred powerlifting competitors. 100 power lifters. More want in. But we said not yet. That's... The registrations didn't open on the same day. We staggered those. But strongmen,

Man sold out in like 12 hours of it being open. If that, I mean, it was like the first day. Yeah, I mean, within the, well, it was like, every spot except three was full in about the first two hours. Yeah, for the strong man competition. So that was just absolutely sold out lightning fast. And that was the biggest, that's the biggest strong man competition. We've, you know, we've never allowed that many before.

So, you could have said we had some, you know, it was like, is this going to sell out fast, with opening it up to more and then proved no, it sold out faster than ever. And then power lifting, I think it actually sold out, opening up to 100 people. It sold out faster than

it ever has before for us as well. And that's with some of those people getting poached by Strongman, because that was a larger group and some of those switched over. And the 100 lifter powerlifting meat still was faster than never. I think it did take more than 24 hours, but like, less than 36 hours.

I mean, I think it might have been at 96 on the first day, though. Right, right. At the 24 hour mark, we were, I mean, we were basically right there. But so, okay. We're still going to title the episode in one day. I'll just be able to say in one point. We're just rounding. We're rounding down here.

It's a rounding error. So, yeah, we have not talked about the powerlifting. No. Okay. Well, because last episode, like that's right. Yeah. So, okay. We've had 10,000 massonomics things happened since then.

So it feels like that was actually a month ago, but that was like a week. That was less than a week ago. That was six days ago. Oh, okay. Yeah. So the strongman, we won't talk a ton about it because we've already mentioned it

on other episodes. Right. Like the, just when the, the strong man went so good. It's the signup went so fast. You know, it has its own day this year,

all this stuff. And Tanner, I know, you and I, we just had the thought of, the power lifting meat has been just an absolute animal, getting this thing orchestrated

between changing some behind the scenes. stuff and new meat director. I mean, yeah, new meat director and just figuring out how this is all going to shake out and just everything that goes with it. It's just been changing the meat from being federation to an unaffiliated one. Just so many little changes we've made. Actually, actually a lot of big changes, but a thousand little changes, several big ones. And besides getting drug out and you just kind of think, all right, we did all this stuff.

We kind of shook the whole thing up. Yeah. Strong man's pulling more people than ever. Like is this the year that power lifting is going to be a struggle and actually just to give people a full peek behind the curtain Our conversation was dad. Okay, if at the 24 hour mark, if we haven't got 50 people in yet I think we have to send an email to the list and just see if we can get a few more people in here because 50 like if we can get 50 the first day, we'll be happy and I mean we had 50 within like the first 30 minutes. So we had six we had 60 within the first 15 minutes is the actual step. Okay, there it is 60 within 15 minutes of it opening.

And what's great is it is in Liftingcast this year, so you can just go refresh the page and it's right there. It's obvious. Which is a huge improvement, I think, for the, it was definitely for us, but also. We were just stuck talking on the phone hitting refresh constantly. Because we're like, oh, two more, two more. Oh, since we've been talking, five more.

And it was just boom, boom. And then we're like, okay, I guess we just doubt ourselves too much because the demand is apparently there and people are still as excited as ever. it is kind of the way we approach almost everything though. Yeah. Here's actually, here's the cycle usually that whether this is opening a meat coming out with a new product, doing almost anything. There's this in the conceptual phase. This is the creative cycle.

It's like the brainstorming phase. Hey, we could do this and this. And then it's like, oh, that's cool. Oh, yeah. This is the greatest idea ever is like where it peaks. And then it's like when it's time for stuff to start really happening, you go down the valley of, wait. This idea is terrible. And then you go all the way to full cycle.

This is the worst idea ever. And then when it finally ends, you're like, okay, actually, it's totally fine. Yeah, we were more, you know, it's always somewhere in the middle. But like, there is that thing where we're like, no, this is awesome. Everyone's going to support us.

Everyone loves this thing. The Lift Hardley vizzi classic is awesome. Like nobody can not sign up for it. But when it's like the day before registration is going to open, I'm like, oh, is anyone going to sign up? Like, what if nobody signs up? It is the whole thing. The reality check is just hours away.

And you know, you never know. Because there always this one. There is always a reality check that hits you when you're not expecting it. Right. And we certainly have had those circumstances. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And so far it still has never been signing up for this meet because it, I mean, this year, again, it, it blew every other year out of the water. Like only more, like the man has only grown for it.

Yeah. And just to caveat it again, you can get on the wait list for either one. There will be, you know, there's already a pretty extensive strongman wait list. I'm not discouraging from getting on, though, because the nature of our nationwide, honestly, international. Well, because how many states are? 29 states and four Canadian provinces represented that people will be traveling from for the two. So just because of travel things alone, and there being 155 competitors,

if 10% of those have to drop, you know, that's 15.5 people. I don't know who we're going to have to cut in half, but someone will take one for the team there. And I also don't know if we're going to cut them in half like hot dog or a hamburger. And some people might say like 15 people, but it happens. There's family issues. There's travel issues.

There's scheduling issues. It's also seven months away. There's injuries. Yeah. I mean, there's just a lot happens in seven months. And yeah, if you're interested in either one,

getting on the wait list now, especially if you're flexible about what one you could do, there's still a good chance you could. would get in. But you got to get on that wait list, though. Yeah. Then the sooner you get, there is, we do take it, you know, the sooner you get on the wait list, the better even, you know.

So get on it now because then you probably got a really good chance at making it in. But so I guess the title is though, actually is we talked about what we did. Yeah. But the title is how. How did we do it? Yes. And we were hoping you guys could answer that for us. Because we're sitting here, how did we do that?

How did we convince you all 160 of you to do this? How did. Did we do that? Well, it's all, it's like, it's a really simple answer and it's a really complicated answer both at the same time. Yeah, it is, it is. Like the really simple answer is, uh, over a decade we've cultivated this community, not to use, uh, silly buzzwords, but I'll just say it.

I've said it before and I've said it on other, I was on a podcast. I was on, um, big Andrew Jackson's podcast. Oh, yeah. You were, you were giving me the heads up. on that. Okay, you did do that already. Yeah, I already did that big Andrew Jackson's podcast, uh, turnkey coaching. That's not the name of the podcast. That's the name of the company.

But turnkey coaching, Andrew Jackson, you know, look up turnkey coaching and you'll find the podcast. And I was a guest. And I did. That is one of the things we talked about. And it seems like it comes up when I'm on other, when we're on other podcasts. And I'm like, we have this people say community. All companies say that crap.

Oh, every company, even a company that doesn't have like just shouldn't even have a says they have a community. Most of them that say they have that don't have that. You don't have that. You don't have a community. We actually have a community. Like I'm not saying to do my own horn and because sometimes I'm like, oh, we're not even, we're just part of it.

And it's not, here's the other thing. It's not even purely, it's not even purely an online community because online communities are great. If it was just online, it wouldn't be near as strong. And online communities are great. Like it's a way for people to link up.

But what really, what really bonds the people. is that these people actually do meet up in person, you know? Like we actually see people in person, in spots around the country. And no one else does that. Like no one else actually does that. Well, we're an online community with an in person presence in the way that we have the

lift hard leave easy, what we're talking about, a chance for 200 crew to, you know, make the pilgrimage here to the middle of western northeast South Dakota. Crew Falls is just a smaller, similar kind of event. But then also we go to the armed,

and arrange meetups like we talked about on here. We go to home gym con. We arrange meetups like we'll do this year. And then besides that, we travel to 50 of these people's homes. Every single. Tour their gyms, put it on YouTube. We do three to six trips across the country where,

you know, if things work out, we're meeting, well, first of all, we're going to people's houses, but then if we can do meetups while we're there, those happen too. So it's at the point we're kind of do a meetup

almost every month related to Massanomics. And then besides that, which goes way beyond us even, like we talk about and are supporting our supporting members, these people all just meet up with each other to do this stuff. You know, like without independent of us. So some of that stuff sounds too much like I'm bragging about it,

but I'm like some of it I'm not even talking about me or us. It is, I'm just literally talking about the community that exists. Oh, I think the, I mean, yes, like we would love to take some credit for it. And I think we probably have some part of it.

But that is the thing that is really cool. It's like, you know, we were joking about it a couple weeks ago, the crew England meetup. And I've only known these people. separately, but then seeing them all in a photo together. It just felt like they were photoshopped in, but no, these people just make it their own initiative.

They all get that, you know, we're all kind of on the same page and in the same, the same headspace as far as the way we approach training and lifting and having a good time. The secret sauce behind that. So it is the community. It's like the inside jokes that go into all of it. It's, which that, when I say the inside jokes, that that encompasses like 50 different things that I'm kind of talking about when I even think that. I couldn't even rattle off everything that I can think of. The certified training facility map and program is a big part about what we're talking about. It connects a lot of people.

Like literally people show up to train with each other because of that map. And, you know, the supporting membership program. But I still think those in-person events are really, like what you said, it is an online community, kind of. But ours is an online community with the option of five times a year doing an in-person thing if you want to, if you want to get involved in that way. Yeah, and it's fun. And it's really,

it's really interesting thinking about how that has just, that side of things has just grown so organically, you know, that was never the plan. It was never like, no, it was just like, hey,

I remember the time, I think it was when we were flying to Ohio to, to go on table talk for the first time. We're just like, you know what? It would just be so fun if we just did another like mini meetup in Sioux Falls from Asinomics. Right.

And you're like, yeah, maybe we just, we should just pick a date and get. the schedule. It was like just even there. The dream was if five people show up to lift, it'd be a great weekend. And you know, now you're like two, three years later. 50 people,

50 people sign enough. Yeah. And it's so, like it's always so fun. And I think if you asked any of the people that went to any of the stuff, they would tell you it's like one of their favorite weekends of the whole year. And I guess that's all just in a really long way to say that I, yeah,

that probably is why these things sell out in a day is people are so jacked to hang out and have a good time. And we have a track record now that this is the, this is an important part of it too. We have a track record. This is the fourth year of it. The first year it didn't, you know,

it wasn't this many people this fast. Right. But now it's like it has a reputation. It's built a reputation. So the fourth year that people are like, no, I'm hearing all the people that have gone that they say how fun it was. And that's all part of it.

Specifically about the meat though and ours, different than what other people doing. It is a three to four day a long event. It is a festival. So that it is a festival. Like it is. Like that also kind of sounds a little cheesy to say. But it is 100% true.

There's activities Thursday through Sunday. There's events all day every day. Yeah, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's a three and a half to four day festival of lifting, lifting adjacent, mostly just the Massonomics community, I guess. So many of the people that come, even to compete, will say the lifting is half of the trip or less to them as far as like importance. You know, some of the people that are competing at still, they'd probably say the lifting is 90%.

But a lot of them would say it's less than half the importance of the event, don't you think? I totally agree. Because if we just did the meet, there was just a powerlifting meet, nothing before it. And when you're done, it's like, yep, see you later. We'll take the group picture at the meet. Then everyone go their separate ways. 100 people wouldn't sign up from this from 30 different states.

Like not even close. There's no way. Yes. But on the flip side of it, if people hosty meets or all of a sudden like, oh yeah, so that's the secret. You just got to have a bunch of activities for people.

It's like, no, that doesn't work either though, because you just book a bunch of random ass activities for people all weekend that have nothing to do with each other. Some people will have fun, but a lot of people like, yeah, I'm not going to waste my time with that. So it's not just that either.

It's the combination of all of it and the cheesy buzzword of community. Yeah, I think you can, you could, there are other meats out there that can or do, maybe they do sell out just as fast as ours

for as many people. I'm not actually sure. Probably not very many. You know, there's like, whatever USAPL maps. But that's a whole other thing. Like that's a different thing. Yes, that is a totally different thing.

It's not a local meat, you know. So I don't know if there's many that are getting 150 competitors signing up in one day. There might be some, other ones, but if they are, it's a completely different, different recipe and formula that we've concocted that goes into ours. Because I think there are no other lifting events that are like this that are for any,

any man or woman, strength level completely irrelevant. Like, it does. I couldn't stress enough how not important this is. This isn't built around the strongest lifters in the world, which a lot of these other things are. That's completely irrelevant here. it's so irrelevant. It doesn't even matter.

It wouldn't even make the event better if stronger people came. You know, if like the average strength went up 50%. It wouldn't make the event better at all to anyone involved. And I actually get worse because it's just like, it's like you be getting these people showing up here. Right. And with that, you're getting people that don't get the vibe. And the vibe is the most important part of the weekend.

like, you know, like that is the most important part by far. So if you screw that up, the meat doesn't even really matter. Like you screwed the whole thing up, I think. You'd get the vibe off. Yeah. So to answer the question, I actually don't believe the more we've talked about it that anyone can rep. Like, it's not replicable at least the way that we did it. I'd say, like there's, you want to take 10 years to cultivate online community that's like really bought in

to an entire group of hundreds of people that all have like, like the same kind of fun. There's definitely people with bigger audiences. People with bigger sway and pull and things. But I don't know, even if they tried to just have a meat that was, well, first of all, a lot of those people that are bigger, though, don't make themselves accessible either. You know, like they're not at all.

You know, like that's kind of part of the whole thing is like they're not accessible is that they sort of live the pseudo celebrity life. and yeah take like make an example like uh take a really like Bradley Martin or someone yeah he's not gonna like if he says I'm gonna set well he just can't he can't invite people to his house you know like he just can't even do that right right it just doesn't work the same way yeah yeah it just it doesn't it doesn't like we are just uniquely at this size right it works but yeah it's just it is it is it is it is it is it is it is a one of a kind thing.

Like it is its own little thing. Yeah. Other people could run just as good or a better of certain aspects of it. But I just don't think anyone has like the hasn't built the path even if ours is somewhat by coincidence

at times that allows it to exist like this kind of. You know, like it just, I can't. I'd be just genuinely curious if there is any of their meat that has, here's an itinerary of fun for the weekend. You know, does any other meet actually have that outside of... Let us know in the YouTube comments.

Maybe the ARL has... The Arnold kind of in sort of a way he does, but that's also... I wouldn't really say that counts. Like, you know, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of people with millions of dollars behind... Schwarzenegger's festival. Yes. You know, like that... Yeah, that's a whole...

Again, Arnold is inviting you to his house either for that. So... Right. Like, what is a comparison at someone that is more of our... You know, I don't even know, like, our friend. uh juji mufu if he threw a if he said i'm doing a powerlifting meat that i'm it's the juji mufu in uh annual open meat and everyone because we've been there you know he could have a hundred people in its yard come do a cook out oh yeah totally maybe there would be a hundred maybe he would

get like he could he's way bigger he has a way but i'm thinking he also has an enormous pull you know many times over of ours he could probably do that juji i think juji could pull it off i don't think would want to, and I'm not blaming him at all. I just don't think he wants all these people that he doesn't know showing up. You know, for us, for the most part, everyone. But it's people we know. That's what I'm saying. We kind of know everyone that's showing up.

Juji wouldn't know many people. I know. Like they're all 200 of our friends. And a lot of them, their spouses and extended family. And it's just, yeah, it's a lot of people. Or on a woman's side of it, Meg squats has a really dedicated following. Also there again, many times larger than us. She could probably do it.

But there again, are they going to like? Well, we know first hand, you're going to get weird creepy dudes. Like we've seen it at her booth happen. Like, you're going to get the dudes that just hang around and you're like, so then you don't have everyone over to come in your bathroom. You're going to get that thing though. It just,

it draws some of that. Yeah. We're not females. So we don't get that many weird creepy dudes. Still waiting on them. Where are you guys? Yeah, because then I think of people that, you know,

maybe have a similar. precise following to us on different things. And then I don't think they could pull it off. Like they wouldn't be able to, they wouldn't get the draw, I don't think. No. You know, that are a little bit not, not as big as a mag squats or a juji mufu or insert.

Brian Shaw. Okay, Brian Shaw, of course. He's huge. You can get a, he's done it. You know, he can get a ton of people to come sign up and do an event for his. But you're not going to hang out in bullshit. All 200 people are going to hang out with Brian Shaw for the weekend and drink beer with them.

That's the thing because, yeah, they've gotten too big so they can't do that anymore. You know, it's, yeah, it's an interesting thought experiment. Yeah. Yeah, and I probably, I've said it again, I'll say it again, and probably sounded like our tooting our own horn a lot on that,

but not I'm just kind of thinking out loud, realistically about what the comparables are and stuff. Yeah, so how to sell a powerlifting and strongman meet out in one day? You probably can't. Probably not. At least don't, at least don't follow. formula because it'd be really, really, really hard to replicate that. Here's how to do it.

Don't do it our way. That's the easiest way to do it, not our way. You could create an awesome powerlifting federation that a lot of people like to participate in, like the USAPL or whatever the soup du jour is and you get people to come to your nationals. That's one way to do it. It's almost too easy. Yeah, it's like taking candy from powerlifting babies. It's like taking the sour patch kids from the lifting.

kids. Really, it is a, subsequently, this was a good sales pitch for the Lyft Hardly of Easy Classic. Yeah. I don't even really think about that, but it, like we said, you want in. You kind of can't, but you can get on the wait list. So maybe you can. You can't.

Like you can't write this second, but you can get on the wait list and probably get in. And to another point, you can just come anyways. There's a whole bunch of people every year. That's a very good point. That's a very good point. And I guess we probably failed to mention. that. But there's many people that come multiple years and don't compete. And a lot of them eventually they say, it's my third year. I'm just competing this time. I don't even want to. I'm just like,

whatever. I'm coming. I got to do it anyways. So that is a good point because if you just say like, well, that sounds really fun, but I don't, I don't lift competitively. I don't compete in powerlifting. I would say, first of all, I would say, yeah, it doesn't matter actually. But if you're like really insistent like, no, like I already don't know any of these people, I'm going to a place I don't know. There's just too many variables to worry about. You can absolutely come and hang out. And I mean, all the events are always looking for volunteers. That's one way to get involved.

If you just want to like volunteer, I mean, it can be as little as, you're just running to stopwatch or just throwing a pad around. You know, maybe you'll get a nickname out of it. You know, volunteering's kind of fun even, I think, in a way. Because you're in on the action.

Yes, you are. You are. And it's a lot less stressful. I mean, it can be a little action packed. And there can be some, but it's just kind of a lot of volunteers. So the load is shared. Yes.

Yep. So that's a way to get in. involved as if you want to volunteer. But even then, you still don't even have to do that if you don't want. Like, there are some people that just come. They kind of treat like a vacation. They sort of hang out in their hotel room. They relax.

They go around the town. Everyone goes to the gym and hangs around the gym at various times together. They'll go sit in the gym for five, six hours and hang out. They'll just take their time hitting a few different restaurants. Go to the hotel pool with everyone. Yeah. Go to the pool. Come to my house.

Live it up. Drink all weekend and not worry about being hung over at events or at least having to perform. Like, that's, I, man, that would be a very fun weekend if you didn't have any obligations. A bunch of people do it every year. So consider it. I should do that some year.

Just go and hang out. I'd love to do that. Maybe we'll both do that this year and just see what happens. We'll just show up at your house. Oh, no one got anything ready. That's going to be a problem. Yeah, come do that though, honestly. Come just hang out.

what will happen is even if you think you're someone that doesn't like to compete, you'll probably think, man, that did look a lot of fun for those people. And you will say, because I don't, there's some people that don't believe it that haven't seen it. A,

most power lifting meets in general, the weight you're lifting really doesn't matter, especially at ours. I still, I take my training very seriously leading up to it. I still couldn't tell you what my total was. I routinely have to think, what was my total?

And I can remember what I hit on my lifts, but I don't remember what the actual total. number is. And to think if someone else lifting there that day could tell you what your total was would be a crazy thought. Yes. Like that's what I'm saying is like nobody, everyone just wants to see people do what seems like there is well for them. Yeah. Hit big lifts, have a good time. Yeah. Like whatever seems big for them. Like you go out and you get a big, you go out and get a third attempt and you look excited about it. Whether it's 100 or 700 pounds, everyone's going to be cheering. Yes. Like that's the case for that. All right. Is that it? I think that's it. That is how to sell out a powerlifting meet and strong. I'm meeting one day. It's just that easy. Should we do the big, exciting crew announcement to something that we got coming in the pipeline? Yes.

We can't give it away. But we had an important meeting today and a meeting of the minds. And we have probably at this point, like 90% finalized what the next support. member gift is going to be what the next supporting member mailer that we're going to send out is going to be. I think we kind of got it pinned down. Maybe just to figure a few last details. We're shooting for this spring, roughly.

So you're going to want to get signed up for a supporting membership before this spring. It's kind of a broad statement at this point. So the clock is ticking. Yeah. There is a sense of urgency now. To throw it out there, I guess it has to be said, there is going to be a line in the sand. We don't know where or where, but we do know that at some point there will be another line in the sand. We are getting that ready.

There is, in fact, going to be a hard line in the sand at some point. So if you've been waffling on it, get signed up now. So you're definitely going to ensure you're on the right side of history on this one. This one's very funny, I think. Yeah. Like there's different levels of supporting membership, mailers and gifts. Some of them are sillier than others and some of them are more like the Hall of Fame checklist was that one. That's a very impactful, you know, thing that really resonates for a long

period of time. But then like one time we just sent everyone a $2 bill and like a Jefferson deadlift thing or a South Dakota scratch ticket. This one I think is very funny. Yeah. And it's probably going to be the only way you can get it. So if you don't get in as a supportive member, you're never going to be able to get this. It's going to be a very funny piece of massonomics lore history that you'll end up with. We've had this rough concept for a while now. And I've been very excited to use it.

We just didn't know how we were going to use it. I think we got a great application for it here. Just mentally picturing the actual product. I just did it. It's why I laughed out loud just because I was picturing, like in this existing and where it could potentially exist for people. And the idea of also people getting this. And like some people also will be like,

I don't even know what this means. Even send supporting members potentially. And other ones will get it and be like, I can't wait to explain to people what this means. So please sign up to become a supporting member. That's one of the things we do is those mailers. We probably got like two of those planned for 2026, I think, roughly. So, yeah, it'll be very fun.

And I'm already excited for it. That's why we're talking about it already because it's it's going to be fun. Should we do some sack segments? I got so much shit over here. Yeah, I do too. I think we probably have a lot of the same items, I'm guessing. I don't mean shit in the bad sense, but I got a lot of sack stuff here. A lot of freaking mailboxes overflowing when I went to it today because I had gone for like two weeks.

So do you want me to pick a thing? I'll pick something that I know you don't have. Oh, okay. Well, I don't know you don't have it, but it'd be, It would make me laugh of you also got one of these. I want to see. This is from Big Dan H. sent this over from Pennsylvania. I've had this for a little bit.

I kind of forgot about it. I haven't looked at it too closely yet, aka I haven't read it yet. But Big Dan sent this over, and it is, I'm curious, if you even recall this, it's been a few weeks ago, do you remember us talking about this? because I got a picture, a text, a photo text for my wife one day, and she said, did you talk about X? Did you talk about this on the podcast? Because she got this in the mail, and she's like,

now realize she now knows if we get something odd, it probably means we talked about it on the podcast. And this is a book on cuckoo blocks. Okay. The timeless cuckoo, a history. Tommy, you like that? A history of cuckoo clocks and craftsmanship by Kurt George. Wow.

He said, Big Dan said, please turn on your cuckoo clock, gather the family around the fireplace and delight them with this tale of the only S-tier clock on earth from Big Dan. Did we say where do we believe the cuckoo clock originated, what country? I thought it's Germany, but we never fact-checked that. Oh, okay. It's one of those things nobody really knows. to consult the historians. What's that, what's a, what's a story called that nobody owns the copyright to

and like the exact origin and the story's almost unknown? Yeah, like a fable sort of. Yeah, it's like a fable. Yeah. That's like what cuckoo clocks are. The fabled cuckoo clock. Yeah. That's good.

Yeah. As you ever want to borrow it, you could give it a read. I'm probably going to put it up there by my cottage cheese recipe book, my George Foreman recipe book and you know I'm just going to have to get rid of that clothing shelf for an actual bookshelf pretty soon here

I've talked about the house of cards before it only gets wilder you wouldn't believe what's all propping things up back there the Macedomics official library surprisingly diverse collection of books books in their other media a stiff fart would blow this whole come send this whole thing toppling back here

We're like, oh, no. It took me like 20 minutes to organize. What do you got? You got something in your sack over there? Yeah, okay. We'll start right here with a little something from a guy that really knows how to strum, if you know what I mean. That guy can strum. We're talking about the Roar Man.

And I went and checked the mail today that we used to be a proper freaking country t-shirt with the album art. and I can't wait to the first time I put this on and Leah, because she doesn't know I got it. I walk out and she's just be like, what the hell are you wearing? I love this shirt.

I haven't worn it yet because I've been saving it for this what we're going to talk about on the podcast. It really feels like it's one of those shirts that belongs on, you know, like the t-shirts of Walmart

or wherever it. It absolutely is. That's exactly what it reminds me of. You know, where people are just like wearing a shirt with too many words on it and too much stuff going on. You're like,

What's going on there? This is another one. My wife, when this came when I was gone, she sent a picture of this, and I think she said, you have to be kidding me. That was her response on this one. And I,

my son saw it, or I forgot it because it was sitting out, and I'm like, oh, did you see your car made it on a shirt? He was like, yeah, that was pretty sweet.

And he keeps harassing me because his friend has like an old pathfinder finder or something that has a light bar on it. Oh. And I'm like, and he kept saying he wants a light bar for the, for the freestyle. For the freestyle. And I kept telling, no, that's ridiculous. And I'm like, not you see it here.

And I'm like, did you see it has a light bar? And he's like, I know. It doesn't look out of place on there. No, it looks good. Also, the massonomics decal on the hood looks good. Yeah, this shirt's incredible. It is the album art for the single. We used to be a proper freaking country on Spotify.

Everyone go listen to it. Get some views. Get some plays on that bad boy. Okay. I've got something else that I don't think you've got over there. Okay. Hit me with it. Make more room on the shelf.

This came to me on a, you know, I was from a mysterious sender. We had a book this week, so it'd only be fitting if there was also an album to add to the shelf back there. All right. Yep. Got to have music. We do have, would it kill you to ever play a little fog hat? Fool for the city. Yeah.

Is that what slow ride is on? Fool for the City? Yes, it is the third track on Side 1 is slow ride. Wow. Okay. I forgot Fug Hat sings Fool for the City. Is there any other songs I'd recognize on there? Let's see.

My Babe, Terraplane Blues, save you're loving for me. Drive me home. Take it or leave it. Is take it or leave it? That sounds a little familiar too. Oh, this is two. Two.

It's a double. Oh, there's two LPs in here. Okay. Okay. Live at the arrogant ballroom. Oh, the other one's live. Yeah, that's a live album on the other side. Fool for the City.

Home in my hand. My babe, honey, hush. Slow ride. I just want to, I just want to make love to you. Okay. That's a, yeah,

that's maybe a known song. Classic. Little fog hat. Would it kill you to play a little fog hat? So, yeah, that's going to have to make, this didn't, wasn't a dress.

from a particular sender. I have a bunch. It's from a gentleman down in southeastern Texas that goes by the president of North Dakota. It could. I'm just going to go out on a limb there. That would be a good guess.

Also, look at this classic Ford pickup on the album cover. I just notice that now. Yeah, that's nice. It's legit. I guess it wasn't classic at the time. It was just contemporary. What, did you have anything else over there?

Yes, I do. This next one is from our good friends at Barefoot Shoes. I thought. Also, this is a Barefoot shoes ad. Yeah, I was saving the average just for this. Barefoot. This are the, help me get the technical term right here, Tanner. This is the also 2.0.

Also, CG2, if we want to get really technical, I would just say 2.0. for those that are uninitiated. Also, CG2 in the black and white color way. And this is your classic slip-on loafer style. I did not, you didn't have any of these, did you, any of the slip-ons? No. I didn't have any of the slip-ons either.

I am very excited to add these into the rotation because, yes, they do slip on nice, and it is just a comfortable shoe. I can tell that immediately, it's just a comfortable shoe. They are extremely comfortable. from just wearing them a couple times. I'm actually nervous about getting that white dirty because all my barefoots have just been black.

You just take a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, hit it with it. It's like brand new. Yeah. They are very comfortable. Yeah. Off the bat. And this has that just slightly thicker soul on it.

You know, it's still very minimal, but it's not the true. That's the difference with the Gen 2. Yes. Yep. It's not that true just, you know,

and so that does two things. One is it just gives you a little more. but then also it gives it a little bit more of a traditional shoe look as well. So if you want something that has a little bit more of the shoe vibe, you could wear these most places and people wouldn't think twice. They just think it's either some variation of a van slip-on or just any company that makes a slip-on now because it has more of that vibe. Yeah, the slip-on, just making life even easier.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I am excited for these. and I think they're back in stock now in like mostly all sizes. So yeah, you haven't worn yours out and about yet. I just pulled them out of my mailbox tonight. Okay. I was like, oh, I got a big package here. What is this?

And I opened it up and I was like, yes, that's what I wanted. That's not all. Discount code mass 10. Is it mass 10 or just massanomics? It's just massonomics. I think it's just miscalcode massanomics will save you 10% at everything at barefoot. dot store, including the Oso, Gen 2 or whatever you want to buy. Save 10% on all of it.

And thanks, barefoot for the shoes. Yes, yes. Thank you, barefoot. Awesome. They asked us on sizing the other day, and I'm like, ooh, what is it going to be? I didn't want to spoil the surprise for ourselves an ass, though. I know. I don't want to know either.

Yeah. And when it showed up, I was like, oh, nice. I do not have the Oso's. And I've always kind of wanted a pair. Yep, I was pumped. Okay. Do you have anything? I got one more thing.

Oh, my sack's empty. Oh, I got one more thing. All right. Jeez. Do you know what this object is, Tanner? What is that? I feel like I do know what. I don't know.

Do I know what that is? Yeah, you do. What is that? It's just like an adder plate for a lap pull-down machine. Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. So I, my lap pull-down machine,

it's selectorized, you know, we've talked about on this show, it makes 15-pound jumps, which is fairly big. And especially if you're doing more single-arm stuff, you know, it's a 15-pound jump can be pretty considerable.

And even on the lap pull-down, there are times where 15 pounds is just a little more than what I want, and I don't really want to cut the reps down. Right. And I had been taking kind of as the cheap, um, as kind of a cheap gym pin.

I had been just throwing a plate over the end of the pin. And it was kind of staying in place, but it would start to roll in. And then as you get to the bottom, the stack comes down, it was hitting the other weights and could buy a gym pin too. But I also, I didn't really want a gym pin for the sake of adding more weight,

which I feel like is more what the point of a gym pin is. Right. I don't need that. I mean, I know it gives you the thing to load. But I've been looking at these. And what first got me going is I knew Fringe made a gold one, but they're like two and a half pound adders

and I went and looked and I want to say they're two and a half pound adders were like $60. I'm like, that's a lot for two and a half pounds. Also, I would like to do jumps between zero and 15 so like five and 10 would be preferable.

It would be better. Yeah. And then I was looking around Amazon because I'm like, well, this is kind of a no name product. Amazon's got to have something. And I found a few that were on like $30-ish,

$30, 35 on Amazon. Yep. And then I did a good. Google search and company, I think it's called Sports Smith, and I'd ordered a replacement pulley for my lap pulldown from there before. And they had these five pound ones for like $20 each. And I'm like, all right, I'll get two of those. That way I can do five, ten and the full jump. So I ordered this. It just came today. And I'm excited for just to have a little more option on my lap pull down machine now. If you use two of them on there, it wouldn't be reducing your range of

potential range of motion, would it? Because like I'm just thinking of the height of it. If you're putting that on the top. Well, actually that's a question. I actually don't really think of that. Like when it gets to the. Yeah, on that pull downs, it wouldn't be an issue.

I can tell you that because I'm not going to full range of motion. On single arm stuff, I can put it in the middle one because it hits on the sides before it hits in the middle. So I could for sure five pounds, if I'm going to max out the travel, I would be okay, I believe, on the middle. But if I needed two, and I put them on the ends,

that would probably bottom it out. So then the question is, can I fit two in the middle? And I don't know. I haven't gotten that far yet. So that's an important point. We'll find out at some point, though. Follow up.

Yeah, there will be follow up some point on that. So what are they called? It's just like a lap. It's like a no name lap pull down, add on weight, adder weight, depending on what you want to call it. All right.

Do we have a, do we talk strength co? This week? No, we're missing. Should we hit them with a little something old school here? Oh, yeah. This is the Strength Company. We've set out to build a better barbell plate on American soil. We ended up here at Wisconsin's legendary Wapeka Foundry.

With over 60 years of ironworking experience, the Foundry had the knowledge, technology, and processes to build our weights to our exact specifications. The strength company plates are slim but rugged, smooth but easy the grip, and electrocoded for durability and to look great in your gym. This is the next generation of American eye, only available from the strength company. Speaking of the strength company and smaller weights too, they even have 0.75 pounds.

I know. It's the collection thing. You just feel obliged to. The one in a quarter are, yeah, one and a quarter, that's a practical plate. Like I think a lot of people would have a place for that in their gym if you don't have one already, you know,

if you're benching or overhead pressing, maybe it's, you have loadable dumbbells and some other smaller movement. You know, those one in a quarter pound plates could be a beneficial, pretty cheap, affordable ad from the Strength Co. The Strength.com, click through, if you're going to purchase from them,

go to our website, massonomics.com slash affiliates. You'll find the strength co in there. Click through that. Go purchase that way. We get a small, you know, residual back from the company. Then also, we also have a whole bunch of other affiliates in there and several discount codes.

That's the main thing. If you ever plan on buying gym equipment, just head on over to that massonomics affiliate page because we either have a discount code or an affiliate code or something that can potentially save you some money. And also, it's a way to kind of give us thanks and give us a little tip along the way. And if you're just buying something anyways, why not do it? I got to do is visit one extra web page before you click that buy button. Unless we said something to personally offend you this episode, I would ask that you do it.

If you are offended, I kind of get it. I wouldn't do it for us either. But it's part of also learning and growing as a person is to get over that. Forgive. And to forgive and to give us an affiliate link click. Forgive us and please forgive us of all our shortcomings and click on our affiliate links, please. Yes. And we, I would say, noticed even people talking in our Discord and a lot of people talking about doing that.

And we'll also like forgive and forget. Well, forgive and forget, yes, but also clicking our affiliate links. And then us getting some payments from companies too, like seeing that it actually works and that's pretty sweet. It's very sweet. It's way easier than making a new horse. all Matt Gryper to sell someone. Significantly less labor involved, that's for sure. This week's episode,

the Oso 2.0. I think we kind of covered it all, didn't we? I think we got it. Correction, beginning of the episode, I said episode 511, really. This is episode 11 of season two. Important distinction. Yeah, I kind of messed that up. So I just want to make sure people understand that. Head over the...

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What's the, do we forget about something here or not? Yeah, we have a drop the week that this comes out. Oh, damn. So on the 22nd, we have a drop. We don't really bury the lead an hour and 50 minutes in here. Yeah, we do right. We're planning on January 22nd, right?

I think so. Yeah, January 22nd drop. I mean, if you're listening to this, it still means it's like four or five days before the drop hits, but yeah, January 22nd, we've got a drop coming and maybe for the sake of time, we won't tease what we got coming too much, but there's going to be, there's going to be a new long sleeve tea. I'll tell you guys that. And it's friggin' sweet. Do you have that stuff yet? I actually, that was in my mail today too. Yeah, yeah. There was a lot in there. What is there? There's a couple shirts in the drop for sure.

We'll talk more about it. You just just be. on the lookout January 22nd and that new long sleeve shirt's freaking sweet. You'll want that to get you through these last few days of winter here heading into spring. Long sleeve shirt in South Dakota. These last few days would be the perfect attire. That's this new one. I'm just, I'm going to take one

just so I can be dressed in the perfect attire going forward. So January 22nd, please buy something. We still also have like four goose hats left. Oh, there's four, huh? I don't know. Someone bought one today. I got to pack that up still. So There's like three goose hats left maybe.

Better get on that, people. And become a certified training facility if you're not already. And become a supportive member if you're not already. And a supporting member. And just do a little bit of all the stuff. Whatever. Just a little bit of everything. It would be good.

Sent to enter some obscure book that you can read later. Send me more albums and books. I think that they're hilarious. And it's like make me decide what the hell I'm going to do with this. I now have this. There actually isn't that disturbed albums right there. Oh. I can't even see that.

Your head's hide in that thing. I got a, does this, does this come across in the YouTube where I'm pointing right now? I don't think that shows up on YouTube, no. Okay. I think it's the limits about just to the edge of the slide there, I think is. Yeah. So is this like YouTube right here? I think right in that area.

Yep. Okay. So the George Foreman book might be getting cut off possibly. Right. I don't know what I'm going to do. I got to like start to rethink where I'm going to display all these albums. books. So yeah, send me Send me more records.

I love my record collection is just getting sweet over here. Like I have not listened to these records yet, but I actually fully intend on listening to all of them soon. Yeah. Talking about some greatest songs of the 21st century right there. Yeah. This is kind of a history book, so I wonder if this should be, you should have this.

You know, I just, you might need a shelf on that wall, that wall back. Your wall is so far back. That's the problem is it's so far back that you won't be able to tell what the stuff is a lot of it. Well, you could really have a lot of albums. Well, I could fit a lot. The, uh, the wall, the history of wool book did show up today too in that package.

Oh, yeah. I have that. Have you read that or two? No, I mean, I just opened it like four hours ago. So yeah. Oh,

so you haven't read it? No, I just page through it a little bit. Made some mental notes. Highlighted a few things. Well, we haven't had much going on. Yeah.

All that to be said to wrap this up, I have to say, I've said it before, I've said on other episodes, this last week might have been the busiest week of massomics I've ever had in my life, where I'm literally, there is constantly something on my checklist to be going, like, I'm never, it's just lost all perceptions of time and space.

It's literally just going from one thing to the, like you, I need weeks of just being locked in a room and have nothing to do but work on that. That's what I need right now. Which is great problems. Not even problems. This is a great scenario to be in, actually. Tommy, where do they find you up? You can find me at Tomahawk underscore D.

You can follow me at Tanner underscore Baird. You can find me in the dean, and you can most importantly follow Massonomics at Massonomics. See you.