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Bart and Mitch Join the 1000 pound club at their Recent Powerlifting Meet!

• Barton Bryan and Mitch Royer • Season 1 • Episode 57

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Mitch and Bart share their experiences from their first powerlifting competition, discussing both the challenges they faced and the personal records they achieved. 

• Overcoming the formalities of an organized powerlifting competition including weigh-ins and attempt selections
• Learning the importance of following judges' commands after both hosts had lifts disqualified 
• Competing in squat, bench press, and deadlift with varying degrees of success 
• Both hosts exceeding their goals with Bart breaking 1,000 pounds total and Mitch exceeding 1,100
• Discovering how competition energy and atmosphere affected their performance
• Noticing the pride from family members watching them compete
• Discussing future competition plans and potential technique improvements
• Finding community and connection with other powerlifters despite being in their 40s and 50s

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to DadBots and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.

Speaker 2:

And I'm Bart.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Well. I mean, look honestly, there's a lot of opportunities in there to be a little bit better. I mean, it's our first show, so we can talk about a couple of things that we didn't do as well or understood that we needed to fix.

Speaker 1:

Talk about all the things I broke.

Speaker 2:

I hit 1,012 pounds.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, dude. So I met my goal a little bit over it, your New Year's resolution goal and I hit.

Speaker 2:

PRs on both squat and deadlift, which is so cool.

Speaker 2:

In competition resolution and I hit prs on both squat and deadlift, which is so cool. And then in competition, in competition, that's cool, which I thought I that was what I was hoping for, because I knew that, like, with the energy of the competition in the crowd, that would just be like the obvious time to pull the most weight possible I think the coolest part about what you did was you had a plan and you stuck to that plan from beginning to end and you saw the results that you had.

Speaker 1:

So even I remember when we were doing coaching, it was like, you know, when we work out together, I'd be like I don't know, I might do this, I might try this, I'll see how I feel, whatever and you're like this is what I'm going to start with, this is what I'm ultimately going to hit on my third attempt, and you did everything flawlessly and you know, and I think james, with lift big, eat big, was very, was, very, was very savvy and, being a little bit conservative, I think he definitely didn't want me to gas out with an overly.

Speaker 2:

I think he thought I could get all the lifts but based on estimated numbers for what I was doing. I think he had the top range, that third lift being kind of the top range of what I thought I could do. And yeah, and I accept and I'll go into the bench Cause that that was the opportunity.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Not in a strength issue, but just in the technique, Cause I didn't realize.

Speaker 2:

I mean both of us had to kind of our own different experiences with just getting scratches when we could, when we actually got the weight but then didn't get credit for it, and which really throws you off Cause then, like, what you thought was going to be easy, doesn't you have to do it again, which is like basically negates an entire lift and then you only have one left at the end and anyway. So but man, I mean overall experience. Let's talk about big picture overall experience.

Speaker 2:

Let's talk about big picture overall. I mean it was a small uh powerlifting show there's only 16 total uh members or, you know, competitors and which made it very easy to kind of like get involved a lot of like, a lot of interaction.

Speaker 1:

A lot of judges were very cool, we could talk to all the judges. So we, we got a little insight into stuff. But here's the thing that I realized is, uh, it was way serious. I mean, I I kind of came in feeling like, oh, this will be fun, we'll hang out, we'll do things. And when it started very quickly, when we weighed in, I realized like cause I had to cut weight and that was horrible, but I got underweight. So I did, like high school I mean, wrestling practice, and I was grumpy. I was just like get me weighed in, but you have to have a card with your official weight and it has to be perfect. And then you have to put all your attempts, your first attempts, on the card so that they know it's ready, it makes sense. But also like the height of the bar, the height of the squat, like there was a lot of stuff. If you weren't there I would have been screwed.

Speaker 2:

I, you know I just had no idea and, uh, I think it was a long day, but it was really only five hours. It felt like a long. Yeah, I mean it was. We got there around 10, you know 10, 15 or so. They didn't even open the place up until like 11.

Speaker 1:

Just a little bit of a bummer, yeah, uh or maybe it was nine.

Speaker 2:

We got there at 9, 9, 15, but anyway so uh, so things started a little bit early and then, or just slow, and then we had to kind of wait. The actual event kicked off at 12 30 and then we were out there, out of there by like 3, 15, yeah, and we were the second flight, which means and this is we were learning as we go to we had no one told us anything, right.

Speaker 1:

So it was like, and they had this guy on a microphone and he couldn't hear. So it was like I had no clue what was happening. Well, all these, all these guys, all these big dudes started like working, like starting to warm up at like 1130. I'm like, why are they warming up this early? And then it's like flight one, it's time to go, and they do all their three attempts. They go through the whole flight and everybody gets their three attempts and then our flight goes.

Speaker 2:

And this is the first event is squat, and so everything is set up for squat and they come out there and you really, you walk out, the bar is already set at your height with your weight, you get up under there, you unrack it, they have you, you know, you step back and once you're steady and stable, the lady will say squat. And you squat to 90 or below 90 and back up, and then you are supposed to stay and wait for her to say rack yeah uh, and so that, mitch, why don't you tell us?

Speaker 1:

about. Oh my goodness, so my first competition ever. I put 353 on. I mean it has to be kilograms. I think it was 160 kilograms and uh, which I get easy. You know, I knew it was going to be an easy lift. And I go out there and, boom, easy get I. Basically just like, touch my butts to my heels. I mean I was freaking low, pop up, so pumped, rack the weight it's like exclamation point rack the weight.

Speaker 2:

Oh wait, you can't do that.

Speaker 1:

I pull up, I'm like, yeah, I put it on and I I walk off the stage and I'm like what happened? And they're like you racked, before you were called to, I was like oh no, and I mean my plan was to go like hit the number. It was a stretch. I mean three 50. I've never done 300 would have been smart, three 30, whatever. But I was like three 50 could be a challenge or whatever. I wanted to hit 400. That was the goal and my on my third attempt. And so I was like I came back and I was like scared because I have I blacked out the first. Do you do you remember your first rep? Because it was like you get up there and it's just like I don't remember a thing. I blacked completely out.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's interesting because it combines like maximum weight. So there's like a, you know, there's a there's kind of a fight or flight opportunity there where you're just like, got this weight on the bar and you're like, okay, I have to do this. Well, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And then there's all these people yeah and so there's that like public there was a ton of people watching.

Speaker 2:

There was an audience, yeah, and so you know you're on stage, everyone's watching you, and so it's like your brain is processing all of this information all at once. I was not prepared for that. Yeah you, yeah you.

Speaker 1:

I don't remember a word I don't remember, and my kids were there like if my wife was there and I was just like I pop it up. I'm like, yeah, I'm a man, so and I put it on and I walk around and I'm like panicked and I go to Bart. I'm like, bro, I'm, I'm screwed like because I go to the lady. They're like what do you want the second attempt to be? You know they have that table where you tell them your second attempt. I was like I'm gonna go lower. And they're like you can't go lower yeah, you have to stay it again or go higher.

Speaker 1:

And I was like, well, now I'm like questioning whether or not I could do it again. You know, it was just a whole thing. So I go to Bart. I'm like I'm on full panic mode, like I almost just like shut down where I was, like I got a whole day of this. And Bart's like you got this, don't worry about it, just slow everything. Slow, you wait, slow. Okay, you did it, no problem, you were listening to instructions like a boss. And the second attempt, I did the same way and I went down, came up almost racked I mean almost. I remember thinking, oh, and then I waited, she goes, rack, put it down.

Speaker 1:

I got the number so like, oh, feeling way better up my weight to like 375 or whatever, and uh move on yeah and, uh, I get up there for the third thing, man, I go down, I push it up so quick, it was so easy and I step forward and I stopped because I was like I go to step to rack it. I was like, nope, don't rack. So I stopped, waited and then the because we had like spotters behind us and to our sides. The spotters then racked the weight with me. I was like all right, good, and I walked off and like that was a no good rep and I was like what you guys racked it for me. You know, like I I just was like freaking out. I challenged the judges, I talked to them all probably not a best idea, uh, to do that because they now I have two more uh lists to go so it was called no good.

Speaker 1:

So I ended up with two scratches. The first one I was like dude, this sucks it sucks.

Speaker 2:

And then you would think that, watching you go through that, I would be extra careful. But then it was my turn to bench, so I got, I got my three squats really well, I got.

Speaker 1:

I did 300, 320, 341 yeah, they all went well and I was super excited about it, I probably. I mean just in retrospect what did the guy say when they, when you walked up there because the bar was oh because you know it's so tall like the.

Speaker 2:

He's like I don't think we've had the bar bar set this high a long time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, they set the squat up and it looked very tall. And he comes up and like tall bart is obviously the tallest person here ever in the history of ever, by far.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, um but that was kind of a cool flex, you know to be, to have the bar that high because I mean, obviously I have to get so low in order to, in order to, you know, get below 90 degrees. But I nailed, I got all three. It went really well. I felt very excited about it because I, you know, I kind of planned to get 320. Knowing that if I got 320, I'd still be on track to get 1,000 pounds. But when I got 341, I was like okay, wow, all right, I'm way ahead of the game here. So again, bench rolls around, and one of the things I think was the deficit for you in squat is that you're probably used to doing the rep and then immediately rack it.

Speaker 1:

And it's almost like the exclamation point yeah, if you do the rep you rack it and you're like, oh, it's part of the celebration so I not understanding my like predisposition to do to doing that on bench.

Speaker 2:

My first set came down. It was like 237. It was like low, easy, easy weight. Uh, came down, pause up, boom, nailed it easy and then I rack it, yeah, instead of I saw it, I was.

Speaker 1:

I mean I want we were. The moment I did it. I'm just like, oh, you did, so we went. Uh, so bart and I were like back to back because our weights were pretty similar and they do it by smallest person with the smallest weight to the heaviest weight, so it's easy for them to change and so we basically was uh, back and forth, whether bart watched me or I watched him. And I saw it. He goes up. I was like no, yeah, like I saw him.

Speaker 2:

And then, of course, my, my family and friends were in the audience. They didn't understand yeah that I failed the lift, even though I got everybody's so excited for it.

Speaker 1:

My son, ran back. He's like you did it, you did.

Speaker 2:

I'm like no, I actually didn't do it, I again, and so you know, in retrospect I think I should have just gone up and done like 247.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because you knew you could do it, because I knew I could do it.

Speaker 2:

But I did the same weight again just to like so I could get it. So the second time through I did it yeah. And I didn't rack, rack, boom. And then the third time up, dude, it was like 247.

Speaker 1:

I just we got 10 pounds, you know, or so 12 pounds, and and I go down easy and it was like a little bit of a shake, but pretty easy.

Speaker 2:

And then I'm just feeling myself so much I'm like the rack and I'm just like no, no, he's on the bench and he grabs his head. He's like idiot, you moron.

Speaker 1:

And so yeah. I mean, that was the story of my life, right? So you had that moment in the squat, I had it in the bench.

Speaker 2:

So I only ended up with 237 for my number on bench, which is, of course, like 115, 112 and a half kilos. So that's the only score that counted, even though I got all three attempts.

Speaker 1:

I only got credit for one.

Speaker 2:

There's a nice little pat on the back, knowing you could do it, I know, but it was ultimately like but I really that was the one I really wanted to see, if I could bench like 265. Like I really thought like okay, I'm going to get 247. And I told James I said, dude, if I get 247, my third attempt, I'm going for 264, which is like the two red plates on each side which is kind of like a badass amount and of course I never got a chance to attempt it.

Speaker 1:

Well, the bench for me, I thought would be easy but, I'm so grateful I went to the lady because you can change your first attempt 10 minutes before the lift. And so I went up there and I said I'm just going to make sure, cause we were warming up my shoulders weren't feeling great, I was a little nervous. So I went up and I said put me down to two 75. Cause I know I can do that easy, and then I'll try three, oh five, then I'll go to three, 30 and I'll be a man, right, yeah.

Speaker 1:

And then, uh, so we, we did that. I did two 75, super easy, followed all the instructions and then I just couldn't lift 305 pounds. It was sad. My dad was even like called me later and he's like what happened, dude, you're like the bench press King, what in the world? It was the one thing that I was like I scratched the last two.

Speaker 2:

Bounce off your. You did like a double back. I still.

Speaker 1:

My chest still hurts, like I just would come down too quick. My wife took videos of it, and so basically what I did was I'd bounce it off my chest and then realize I have to rest it. And so then it would be like this resistance piece where I'd like up and down and then I'd hold it for three, I'd lose all momentum or anything. And then I'd like the first attempt.

Speaker 1:

I got about half and and I was like there's no way I can do this and they lifted it off me or whatever. And the second time I was like the third attempt of the second of 305, I would have died Like if those spotters, you didn't get 305?

Speaker 2:

No, I didn't get 305.

Speaker 1:

So you got 275? Yeah, oh man, I still beat you, though. Oh, of course you did.

Speaker 2:

I expected you to beat me by 50 pounds.

Speaker 1:

The bench was the saddest part is like. Thankfully, I learned from the squat and said let's just get one weight on the bark, Even though you.

Speaker 2:

You know that's the thing. Like you can't you don't want to like underestimate how different it is to have judges and an audience and all these things, absolutely yeah. So that you know. But here's the thing I we had kind of programmed for like two 50 on the bench as my second set. So I, even though I was at two 37, I had already I had was up a bit on on my uh from squat.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so I, I was still on track Cause you were going for a thousand. Honestly, at that point with the after the bench press, I was assuming that all hope was lost. I forgot that we were even going for a number Like cause. I was like what was your number 11?

Speaker 2:

Did you?

Speaker 1:

want to get to 1100, for sure, but I thought I'd get to 1200. Yeah yeah, I thought I'd have no problem hitting 12. And so we go on to deadlift and James shows up. About that time your coach and we're warming up and I'm so in my head, dude, like I have no idea. So I basically was like you know what, let me lower my first, because my first attempt was going to be 450 for deadlift, because I do that easy, right. I was like nope, what's yours Bart? Oh, I'm doing 402.

Speaker 1:

And I knew that could get me over 1,000 too. We were doing the math. I was like, all right, I'm doing 402. And we go up to do the deadlift and 402. I was like this is easy work. And so I go up to the lady to tell her my second attempt and she's like, what do you want it to be? And I said, uh, let's go 453, which is like whatever the kilo. And she's like what I said, yeah, 450, let's do it. And she's like, are you sure, because she'd seen me all day, she knows, you're a wild one.

Speaker 2:

You're like this guy. This guy is way erratic. You're like this guy definitely doesn't have a coach, he's just throwing numbers out there just rolled out of bed and decided to do this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah and we, so I did it. And then we go, I go up there, easy work, 455. Yeah, and I go up to the lady and I was like man, I just was like I want to do 500 and she's like 502 yeah she put me at 502 and man, I pulled it up it was, it was.

Speaker 2:

It was a little shaky, but you got it, man.

Speaker 1:

No, there like at any point I didn't feel like I watched the video. Yeah, you could see my knee was having trouble locking and like one second and then I kind of rolled it on my front knees, yeah but like, yeah, my technique was garbage, but I did 40.

Speaker 1:

I think it ended up being 503, yeah, and I held it up there. I was like man, that was pretty easy and I did. I remember being like nodding a couple times, thinking it was like a emphasis point, and I dropped it down. They called it and I walked off and I watched the video later and it looked like I was just trying to struggle like nodding my head, like maybe I got this, maybe I don't, it wasn't bad at all.

Speaker 2:

I thought I was so bad. And you know, and James had did show up at that point, uh, and he, he was like let's do four or two, and then he's like let's go for 20. We figured, out what what a thousand pounds would be for 23 or 424, whatever that yeah kilo equivalent of that is, and so 402 was easy yeah but my hamstring got a little grumpy, you were really I think on the way down from 402, just bringing it back down like wasn't strained but definitely felt a little tight.

Speaker 1:

You should do a sumo squat dude like the. Yeah, everybody was doing sumo squats, which look way. Our sumo deadlifts, that look so much easier.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, especially if you have like long arms like because which I have, it's like I think that would, that would. But you know, and james told me he's like you know, I don't, he didn't know, he wasn't. That's not his specialty teaching the sumo squat. So he's like if you want me to coach you, let's stay with traditional squat. Um, but he recommended that when we were done. His debrief was like you should find somebody to teach you sumo squat or sumo deadlift and then, you know, see if that changes things for you, you can get even more. But anyway, 423 went up there.

Speaker 2:

You know was really like worried about the hamstring but pulled no problem, no problem came to the top, brought it down a little bit slower just so I wouldn't like, like, like the hammy and and then I was like okay, I just hit a thousand. Yeah, do I do. I just call it and not like or do I?

Speaker 1:

do I go for glory, you go for glory, I, I know myself, I always go for glory and you look good and I and I put 434 on the bar.

Speaker 2:

It looked good, man. It made you look so strong, dude, that was so fun.

Speaker 1:

Well, your wife and son were front row front and center, which was terrifying yeah. Because we were also wearing singlets, and so our ding-a-lings were hanging out. It was crazy, but also it was impressive to watch. I think the conclusion to everything, what I realized, was I was thankful I hit something I never did when I hit five. Same thing. Like you hit everything that you wanted to. You got over a thousand, I got over 1100, which was really fun, but it was just like to see my wife I I mean, I've run 20 marathons and I've never seen my wife proud of me she's always like what man?

Speaker 1:

this took a whole weekend right, that's no the she, she was like genuinely proud of me and it was my anniversary weekend. We were going to like a concert downtown you know after and uh, it was really cool. It was the first time. I was like maybe I have something here. Yeah, because if I, if I don't suck and I just rack things on, if I don't suck and I just rack things on, if I don't take things as loosely as I have, which you've been- frustrated.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you locked in about three weeks ago. Yeah, you were so pissed I was like Mitch, do you care about this thing at all? You're doing this Like what's going on.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, about three weeks ago, I decided to start working on it.

Speaker 2:

Ordering belts like a week or something.

Speaker 1:

Dude, I went through three belts. Should I wear a belt? That is exactly you were. There was one episode we did and I was asking you questions about it. I thought I was being cute and like I legitimately was, like, I think, bart might not be my friend.

Speaker 2:

I was so annoyed, you were getting so pissed. I was like you kidding me.

Speaker 1:

You hide it very poorly, I know well with my friends.

Speaker 2:

I hide it with people I don't care about. I can hide people.

Speaker 1:

Well, that that means a lot. I want you to know that you're disappointing me when you say idiotic shit well, I think what was cool about it was it was fun to see your wife and son. If my son got to see me do some stuff and it was like it's cool for them to see us do hard things, because it I can't imagine the difference between us. My, my world's races coming into this space was completely different.

Speaker 2:

So your world's racist, racist, racist, you know marathon tongue twister, um and going into this.

Speaker 1:

there wasn't as much energy. There wasn't as much like yeah, I was nervous, but I don't think I pulled any energy from the crowd Like even though everybody was like, yeah, there's only for me. It was like I can either do this or I can't. It wasn't like I'm going to get this extra push, so. But I'm a little different sometimes.

Speaker 2:

I just it doesn't affect me like that. I think my desire to not disappoint and to like show up big and like and like, be kind of a hero to my son and to like the people that cause. I had a lot of clients come out to watch me.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my goodness, you brought like 15 people.

Speaker 2:

Diane and Steve. By the way, steve had a really interesting. He's like do you know that you and Mitch are the only ones that didn't rest the bar on your rib cage for the pause? I was like that's interesting, that's a good observation. Yeah, because we actually did our chest, Because we like came down Well no, we came down and we just held it and then we pressed and he said Everyone else, especially probably guys with big rib cages- came in and just rested like literally just put it on your chest.

Speaker 2:

They didn't take their hands off, but they just rested on the chest. And then so it's like you're taking a little bit of load off your chest and arms, and I thought to myself, I'm like hmm, that might be like a not necessarily for me, because I just think arm length and chest size in terms of my rib cage is not really conducive to that. I don't know, might be something to look at though. Big guy like you might.

Speaker 1:

Might actually help, yeah, so what do you think you're gonna do next? I mean, are you? You got the bug?

Speaker 2:

Here's the thing I have had some neck stuff since I've been done. My rib is fine. It's still a little wonky but it never bothered me the entire time, which is amazing. I couldn't believe it. Low back's fine. Knees are fine, hamstring not really an issue. A little bit when I'm driving around I feel like it's a little crampy. But my concern is my neck because I've just got some slightly compressed discs in the T-spine and in the C6, c7, which sometimes show up as like nerve stuff in my left, yeah, and.

Speaker 2:

I felt. I felt that a little bit, since the thing like a little bit of the like tingle or just like a little, and so I'm letting it kind of like to see how, how things feel the next like a week or so. But I mean I would love to do it again maybe one more time, like a year from now or six months from now or something like a long enough time where I'm kind of like, where I can maybe like hire like a specific powerlifting coach to just like you know, for like four weeks to just like ramp me up for the show yeah, I'm gonna were there present when you're working out, yeah, like are they're really there like as, as like the specific, like well, I don't even about working out, but like, yeah, maybe meeting them once a week we're running through all the work, all that thing lifts, and they have like something I'm doing on my own but like actually at the, the meet with me, like you know, you saw, like those guys guys they have their hand, their handlers, and they're

Speaker 1:

like you know, cheering them on, and then there were multiple guys that had headphones in their ears and they were standing waiting for the judge to say you ready for your weight, and there was a guy behind them that pulled their earbuds out for them so they can walk straight to the way you see that it was like. This is weird, but I mean those guys were beast, so I just I think.

Speaker 2:

But I would like to do it one more time, as long as my body can handle it. Yeah, you know, kind of one of the things you don't know until you do it, but it's not something I feel like my body would do well at doing over and over and over. Yeah, but maybe like one final hurrah and like shoot for like 1050. Yeah, because I one final hurrah and like shoot for like 10, 50. Yeah, because I think I could do, you know, I think I, you know, with better, better, just like practicing, just everything, the way it's going to be in competition.

Speaker 2:

I think I could do 350 360 on squat, like even right now if I just signed up for another show 350 360 on squat, 260 on bench yeah, um and 450, 460 on on dead and so and if I, if I switch to a, to a sumo dead, and that that might get me to 495 I think you would, I think you get you up there.

Speaker 1:

I I mean, I, I'm probably in. I I think it was the first time I felt like, oh, these are my people, yeah, um, so for me I was kind of like yeah, some big dudes.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, there's some big old, boys but I mean with my weight class, where I'm at, I think. I mean we were looking at the, we were looking at the numbers. There's a certain level you have to be at with just your total weight to be considered intermediate, expert, master, whatever, and we're both in the intermediate in our weight class and age.

Speaker 2:

Well, they're just a weight class. There was no agent really so so at 40 and me at 50. That's the other thing. Like we're in a because we want our divisions, let's just let everybody know we won, got first place, we got a medal.

Speaker 1:

That just says first nothing else. It'll look like they got it on amazon. It was definitely an amazon. I was like I am not keeping. This is what I told my this I gave it to my son immediately. I said hey, buddy I tried to give it to my son. I was like dad, I don't want this. He's like I got my own metal. Yeah, exactly, my son liked it, he likes.

Speaker 2:

He likes collecting metals that's so funny.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so I mean we're both in the intermediate rank of weight class.

Speaker 2:

Um, yeah, so I mean yeah so and I guess there's something fun about being 50 because it does kind of, you know, take some of the yeah, the really uh, the really young, strong dudes out of the competition but uh, yeah, I think, I think I'll kind of wait and see for the next, uh, you know, a couple months, get back to like regular, kind of, you know, hypertrophy bodybuilding workouts yeah dude, get back to yoga, get back to like doing cardio yeah like I did, like 20 minutes of stair master yesterday yeah, I was like god, I hate this, well, but I mean I.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I've been still running I the week of the event. I ran 20 miles a week, so like I'm still running, which is great, but I'd really love to spend. I'd like to get a coach. I, you know, that's why I think I'm going to kodiak.

Speaker 1:

Strength is like they, that's what they do, yeah, and so maybe I can have him kind of the big guy that the owner there like be my coach and like get me to be where I can get over 1300, which I think is probably reasonable where I'm at I I think I reasonably get over 1200 now, so I'll probably do. God, gods of iron in july.

Speaker 2:

I think that's a great idea. I think you're.

Speaker 1:

I mean, as long as you don't hurt yourself, I gotta do deadlifts today, like I gotta actually still work out, which is annoying, but I'm gonna do deadlift workout, deadlifts today and I just need to.

Speaker 2:

Probably you just need to work on form at like a at at a high enough weight, Get in that 375 to 405 and just work sets of three to five where everything's form you start the same way shoulder blades, back lift, so that it's like clockwork, so that when you get to the heavy, heavy weight, your body. That's the thing I was proud of, proud of myself with a deadlift. I watched it and I never let my.

Speaker 1:

I never, never did anything. You could have broken form to get a heavier weight, probably like. I did with 500, but, like you were always, you were exactly what I thought team Brian wellness would look like. I mean just perfect, perfection.

Speaker 2:

All right, guys, that was. That was a lot of fun. Hey, we had. It was an awesome event and thanks for going along with this kind of journey with us. We obviously kind of made it a priority piece of the podcast in the last several months and so just really enjoyed sharing this with you. Mitch, of course first and there was nothing better than doing it with with a buddy you have to do it with you got to do it with somebody, and it was.

Speaker 1:

It was great Cause we got to spend a lot of more time together. I could have done it without you, brother.

Speaker 2:

And the family's all got to hang out. Yeah, our family's got to hang our.

Speaker 1:

You know, it seemed like everybody had.