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My name is Isaiah Rivera and I have the highest officially tested vertical on the planet at 50.5 inches and am the co-founder of THPstrength, a company that focuses on vertical jump training for athletes.
What makes me a little different from most athletes that jump high is that I started with a pretty low vertical and documented my entire journey on this channel. Here is my journey in a nutshell:
14: Started working out to jump higher for basketball
16: Hit my first dunk and shortly after found out about the world of pro dunking
17: Trained like a madman and hit my first between the legs dunk
18: Entered my first professional dunk contest
19: Knee pain almost made me quit dunking
20: Met my coach John Evans, who helped me get rid of knee pain
21: Won my first international dunk contest
22: Tested a 48 inch vertical and started coaching full time
24: Tested a world record 50.5 inch vertical
The reason I make so much free content about jumping higher now is because it’s a resource I wish I would’ve had when I was in high school that would’ve prevented a lot of unnecessary mistakes and injuries.
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Wait, what is it
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What's good? I'm just doing an intro. It's on my dick. Is it on my dick
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Yeah. No, it's not. Oh. All right. So this is now day six of the hypertrophy cycle
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Today's upper body. I deloaded from my upper body workouts this last week
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So that means I get to do my daily max bench test
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There is literally no benefit to me doing this aside from I just enjoy seeing
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I enjoy doing any max lift, and it's a good way for me to track my progress as far as my upper body strength
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So, yeah, it's going to build up to a heavy single and then get some kind of accessory work for my back
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So this should be a pretty fun video for you guys. It's fun seeing anybody max out their lifts
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Austin is here with us today. And I think, are you going to max too
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Yeah, because why not? Just for glory. Yeah, I'm doing a landmine press, some, like, bicep work, and then carries
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That's my scheduled workout. But... So I'll probably record some of those top sets
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Okay. And, yeah, but, I mean, if you want to. Yeah. And then ... Also, if you guys..
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Oh, yeah, I'm trying not to cuss. Sorry. Also, if you guys don't know who Austin is, THP athlete, THP coach, one foot jumper and
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two foot jumper, 45 plus inch vertical. We don't know what he is exactly
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We don't know anymore. It's really confusing. Right now, I think after Friday, I think I'm back to 44
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Yeah. I think after Friday. So I think at least 44 right now
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But yeah, this is technically, we're still recovering from the big session on Friday
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The reason we're working out today, which is Sunday, is because Thursday before the session
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we didn't lift. So normally we do Monday, Wednesday lift. Legs, Tuesday, Thursday is general work and upper body
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but because we had a big dunk session on friday that we wanted to peak for we took that thursday
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off so i always see my thursday lift as optional but if i don't hit it on thursday i work out on
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sunday so i always do at least one rest day a week usually it's sunday but anytime i want to
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peak or anything like that i'll just take that thursday day off and just do isos speaking of
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which we also do isos three times a day every six hours on our general days which today is a general
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day yeah so you're to do yours today so far yeah i have i think in an hour and a half i have to do
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another i have to do that with my hip ones it's like so long 20 minutes like an hour and ice
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so having said that normally i would record the top sets for bench but i think it's dope to see
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the build up the warm up so i'll just set the camera here what do you think you're gonna hit oh so my last time i benched i hit 255 that was my max tried to 65 and i couldn't get it
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So my goal is to hit 265. We'll see. We'll see how it's moving
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If I'm feeling amazing, I'll go straight 265. If I'm not, I'm going to go for a small PR
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John always says, go for a five-pound PR, then make a big jump. That way you can leave with a win
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So that's my goal. What are you trying to do? . Do you remember what you got last time
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Dude, I think I did 215. 215? I don't bench at all. I do any type of chess work
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My max ever was 260 or 265 in high school. have you been doing any kind of chess
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just dips, ring dips so I have no idea in the last month
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it's possible it's possible you can get two plates so two years ago
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I did 225 for four and that's the most I've done I don't know, if I can hit 220
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225, I'll be a happy camper with my noodle arms I'm predicting it went up
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because I've been doing a flat dumbbell bench and And last time I benched, when I hit 250, my previous PR was 245 like a year ago
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And all I had been doing was dumbbell bench, and it still went up. So, yeah, it should be a fun one
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You can just set the camera up over here. This will be a raw lift
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Are we doing the whole thing? Oh, it is. What is this? The phone case is on the YouTube video now
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Wait, this is a YouTube video? Doesn't Batman normally have his nose covered? Yeah. All right
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I need to stay next to me. Here. This is the mic. Did you hear that? You can introduce yourself
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Everybody. I know him. Get in front of the camera. I'm not lying. Get in front of the camera
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He's my uncle. I know him. Okay? I'm not lying. I didn't line up in the way in the line just to get a picture of him
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And I definitely just beat him. No, no, no, no. Does Batman have his nose covered in canon
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Someone please respond. Because something's off here. You know, my little brother had the same thing happen to him at school
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What, his nose? No, they didn't believe I was his brother. and then I had them just FaceTime me
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That picture I showed my friends, it said you went into the line to get a picture
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Oh, my God. What? Well, now you got the YouTube video. Yeah, yeah
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I always tell everyone Isaiah Rivera's my best friend. And they don't believe me
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Oh, I didn't do the warm-ups, actually. I did. You did the warm-ups
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I'm trying to decide if I should like it. I'll do a little bit. You can do a couple warm-ups with that
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and then I completely forgot to do that. Holy cow. All right, I guess you guys are going to see
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my shoulder rehab work that I do as a warm-up. I'll put this right there
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I have to airdrop the rest of those videos to my phone. All right. I'm actually really happy with Friday's session, though
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Yeah? Yeah. I still feel like I'm a , though. Oh, wait, is that a curse word
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Nah, it's not. I don't think this is. It's okay. This will be like profanity
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I just have to mark it. No, no, no, no. You know what? I'm sorry. You shouldn't have to be profanity because of me
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I'm going to be better. To be fair, I have messed up a few times
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You have messed up? I started to use motherfreaker. Motherfreaker? Yeah. Shucks
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Motherfreaker. Oh, shucks. Oh, shucks. Golly darn. Son of a... How do you feel post, like, two days post-session
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So I noticed how my hips are really sore. Like it feels like all the parts of my hip, like in a good way, not in a bad way
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An ISO? I don't know. My knee wasn't the best yesterday, but I did a feel-good lift at night
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I mean, you talked about being hungover in the YouTube video, right? Yeah, I did. I mentioned that
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So I was pretty hungover myself. And yeah, I just spent the whole day like, I think I just answered athletes
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I went to see a movie called Stop Motion, which is weird
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Weirdest movie ever. Bro, I just watched Spaceman on Netflix and it's pretty good
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What Spaceman? It's an Adam Sandler movie that just came out. Oh, is it funny? Or is it
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No, it's like a serious movie. He's an astronaut. What? Adam Sandler. And then he befriends an alien on the ship
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It's like a really serious movie. It's a serious movie. Yes. Adam Sandler an astronaut with a friend alien Yes and it a serious movie yeah Okay It reminds me of I read this book by have you heard of The Martian
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Yeah, the one with Matt Damon? Yeah, yeah, so it's based on a book. And there's another book he wrote
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He came out with it in like 2022 that I read. It's called Project Hail Mary. Probably the best book I've ever read, bro
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It's so good. I actually put it on my planner today to read
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I've not read in so long. Really? It feels weird. Bro, a video of Victor Wemanyama got recommended to me
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And he says... Does he eat all the time or something? Yeah, so he says he eats dinner at like 7
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And then right after he eats dinner, he puts his phone on airplane mode. And all he does the rest of the evening is read because it helps him go to sleep
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He usually goes to bed by 9. Oh, shit. Maybe I'll start trying, man. I just watch Curb Your Enthusiasm until I fall asleep
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That's what I do, actually. Watch TV. No, I read until I get tired as hell
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I'll be in bed. Then I'll just read. All right. So for my warm-up, I'm going to do 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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It's my favorite way to max out for any lift. I guess I'm going to do that too
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Go five reps. Go up. Do four reps. Go up. Three and two and one
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And then I do singles until. Honestly, that's what I'm going to do. I did that indirectly. I just did five with that
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And then as you guys saw, I just did the warm-up with the bands and with the five-pound plate
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I always do it. In all my general days, I do some kind of shoulder prehab type stuff
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I think, yo, I'm so excited to lift though again. I miss lifting this whole month
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I'm excited, bro, just to be in the grind. I feel like the Burt went up a decent amount in the last month
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I don't think I already did enough of my moving around. That was hard
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Like, I think adding the strength work, plus I deload basically from lifting last month
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and get my confidence, I'm going to be at my best. I think I'm going to be at my best in like two months
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Ever. So that my hip doesn't explode and I don't die. You know what's freaking weird to think about
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is I'm at my best ever currently. That is crazy. You're not equal, by the way
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Oh, I haven't said it. I was like, don't lift that. That is crazy
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I think it actually feels a little weird. I can get further back. Oh
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Oh, is it off? Oh, it's on a pad. I saw someone commenting on YouTube about wiping away your leaves
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But I noticed your leaves are all gone. Yeah, that's what inspired me
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I was like, I need to organize this. I don't know if I agree with him about the mental
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Oh my God. What? This is really hard. There we go. Okay
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Yeah. I actually, I got a leak blower. I hate sweeping. I just got it
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That's what I do with, when I used to have the home gym in my garage, I used to have a
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shop bag and I'd clean it every day. Yeah. Because it would actually bother me. it's actually really low I might raise it a little bit can you raise it while I
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do this actually raise it like two two probably I'll just rest it here
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Yeah, rest it there. Chill out. I went a little bit higher than expected.
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Just relax. So that's right. Holy shit. Did I do it right
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Or is it crooked? Should I do it right? Or is it crooked? Oh. Oh, it's crooked
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Yeah. Damn it. It's actually so nerve-wracking. Like, I was trying to do it while you were, like, doing it
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What do you want to do? Let's go. I'll probably go 185
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For three? Yeah. I need to, another thing I need to do with my bench is I go down really slow
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I need to, like, that's why I was, remember, I was having that issue
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let's actually go I want to put the red in actually not it I don't have to use the reds
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I like how two reds look yeah nice I'm gonna struggle just do two oh god my bench is terrible it's okay again I just want to put a
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disclaimer out there that bench has like no benefit to dunking because it's a high-risk
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activity for your shoulders and then you don't really use your chest. The chest isn't really a
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specific muscle group for jumping higher. But I think it's fun as hell
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I think we should start shouting out athlete wins
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on the videos if we're doing it daily. Oh, that would be..
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That's not a bad idea, actually. Okay. I'm trying to think if I should do the same jumps
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as when I lift legs. I always go 95, 135, 185, 225
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I don't think I'm here much longer Let's go red it, I'll just go straight to 25
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Try it Jesus Christ, okay Let's try it What do you want to try next
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I don't know, man Try Try the green It's 205 Green is 205
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That's a fire-ass angle
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Oh, yeah, this is dope. . I mean, . golly darn Fire yard Fire yard Fire yard I gonna take these out for focus Okay my bad That all me
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I'm the green master. One second. I'm taking. There we go
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Yeah. This here's perfect. I see the prison line in here. He's back
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easy I go down too slow I feel like yep yeah you know when I was making the
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like the strength training master class and I was reading the book it explains a really interesting concept
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I'm gonna do yellow but it was saying like so you have like the force velocity curve right
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and force velocity curve is like the faster you do a movement
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the less force you can apply. And then it's playing Olympic weightlifters
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The reason that they pull slowly off the floor is because the strongest position
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someone is in is here. That's like when they do max isometric pull and research and they go like
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and they're holding it. That's the strongest part. So the point is to go
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slow, slow, slow here. And then when you're strongest isometrically, that's when you start
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trying as hard as you can because you can apply force. If you have too much speed, you can't apply
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as much force. and it helped my cleans like ever since that
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like I've just been like you know what helped my clean a lot is watching you clean just watching how you clean
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I was like shit that's how I learned bro I just watch a hell of people with good technique yeah
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I ain't have a coach alright you don't need a spot for this
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this is gonna I'm gonna be able to tell how heavy I can go today
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from this rep. Okay. I think I can go heavy
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It's been pretty good. Damn. What did I say I got last time
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You got 215. Last time? That's what you said. Unless you were lying
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I don't know if I... I honestly don't remember. I think it was 215. Yeah. 220
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Maybe I just need a sense of danger. Of what? Danger. Yeah
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I have guns to my head. That 225 felt, when I was doing 185, I was like, oh, it's going to be horrible
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But then I did this, and I was like, okay, never mind. 205 felt easier than 185
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All right, let's get it. Hold on. You moved it sideways
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Oh! Okay. Yeah. Better than me. All right. No spot so I can get the primal instinct
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Deal. All right. So permission to watch you die? Yeah. Say permission granted for legal purposes
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Permission granted. Perfect. Oh my god
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That's 245? Yeah. Good shit. I don't know if I have 265 to take, though
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I'll be honest. That looked pretty easy. Really? Yeah. How'd it feel? Not easy? No
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Oh, man. Like, it felt... Yeah. It felt easy, but not, I can get 265 easy
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I did 255 last time. Like, I think I can for sure get in, I'm in that range, 255
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265's up in the air. Why don't you check 260? Yeah. So the 5's in the 2.5
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Mm-hmm. Where's the other? Right? Yeah. Yeah. Where's the other 2.5? It's in here
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All right, I'm going to take a big-ass rest, though. Yeah, take a big ass rest big ours
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All right, so that felt I mean you guys heard our conversation. I'm gonna go for a five pound PR time
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But I'm going to force myself to rest a little longer on this one. They just announced the way away to 11s
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Really? I wouldn't have tried them. They look creepy in a good way. Really
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No, they don't look creepy. They just look crazy. Yeah. Do I have water out here
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Goodness. I'm terrified. You'll be fine. Oh, those look tough
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Yeah, I know. It looks sick. It looks tough. Oh, man. Come on, son
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This is all you've ever trained for. I can't believe I still have a full workout to do
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I'm doing this no height, too. No music. You don't need music. Yeah
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Fun fact, I don't like working out with music. I treat it like caffeine
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I feel like you can get adapted to it I just use it when I need it Which honestly right now would be a good time but I a prideful human being Pride is a demo
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It's been like two minutes. Maybe like one more minute. I have landmine press
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It's always awkward when I'm doing the rest in between sets, and I'm like, I don't know
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I don't know. Ask how they're doing. Huh? How are you guys doing? Because there's like a, I don't know
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I feel like there's a balance of, I like to lock in. between something like this
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But I don't want you guys to be bored while I lock in. That's what looks like
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Yeah. Hi. Go to THPstrength.com. My name's Austin Burke. Wait, was it the one thing I used to say
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Austin Winters? Oh, yeah, yeah. Hi, I'm Austin Winters. We're Winters and Winters Insurance
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We don't sell insurance. We sell peace of mind. That's it. Perfect
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I need to work on it more. All right, I think it's time. Go for it. You want a spot
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Yeah. Or you want primal? No, I want the spot. Just hands behind your back until I say help
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And you're going to say help? Yeah. All right. Or nope. Nope
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I used to say nope. Help. All right, I got you. Anything with a P in it
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Go for it. Ew. It was a tree. It was a tree
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It was a tree. Come on. Like, wait, give it! Yes. All right, come on
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Let's go I was listening for help and I forgot nope was the other one
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Primal instinct didn't save you there. Oh man, that was horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible
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I have to do the, you know the landmines with the half paws
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Yeah, I do that. I'm going to die. Alright. I'm just going to do a rose probably
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Heavy-ass dumbbell rose. That's so funny. Nope. All right. So for future reference, the behind the back
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hands behind the back is not key for spotting. I did not feel ready
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Wait, don't take that off. No, I'm going to take it off. I'm going to take it off. I'm so sorry
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At least you're catching yourself. All right. YouTube should honestly incentivize cursing
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Like if you could still get views with a lot of classes in your videos, it's like, you should have more money
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I think, I don't think it's YouTube. I think it's the advertisers. You need to like aim for better advertisers
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like Budweiser or like Monster Energy or something like. Bro, my CPM on YouTube
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Like GoDaddy.com. Low as hell. And then I realized because I post short videos
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Because I was looking at how much like YouTubers make. Yeah. And they were like
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they were saying how much they made for a certain amount of videos and showing their ytics
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And then I was like, I should be balling. I should be balling
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's because of the length of video. So those creators, they'll make like 30-minute long videos
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30? Yeah. So, I mean, this one's probably going to be what? This one's probably, yeah
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If it gets to the point where it's like. And people seem to be liking this type of content. Sick
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It'll help me feed my child. Help Isaiah feed his child. Click the ads
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Don't skip the ads. Just click on them. Click on them. Browse through the website
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A minute a day. Keep. Look, baby formula is really expensive. And diapers
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And diapers, wipes. Daycare. Daycare is $300 a week. Oh, my God
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Is it actually? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Damn. $300 a week, man. Wait, I should not do a holding isometric of a landmine press while I look at the rep ranges
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All right. What was I going to do? Oh, yeah. Okay, so 12
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I'm going to show you guys one set of... with my shirt off
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Why? Because who doesn't love vanity? All right. Who's on your socks
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Who's what? Who's on your socks? Me. You're on the socks? Yeah
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Who made you use socks? This is... What's a really big sock company
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Silky socks? Stance? No, bigger. Yeah, Stance. They made you socks? Yeah, when I went to China
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You never told me that. That's a thing you tell your friend. Bro, they took us to the Stance factory
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I want to say something about it, but I'm on YouTube, and I don't want to talk
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You can probably guess what I mean. Okay. How much did that borrow
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45. Oh, my God. This is stupid. Why do I have 90s
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Look. Demons. Demons
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Holy freak. All right. That's all the sets I'm showing, y'all. If you want to sign up for coaching, you'll get coached by me, John Evans, Austin
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jump higher go to tspstrength.com shout out to joelle wait do a jump shot for the video
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do a jump shot for the video yeah do a jump shot do a jump shot wait no dunk it dunk it
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wait what height what height where do you wait where do you
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I want to dodge. I can't jump right now. All right, I'll put it on 10 feet
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Wait, it's on me? All right. It's on 10 feet. 10 feet
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Yeah, it's on 10 feet. I don't know. Like a 720 windmill
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Yeah, 720 windmill. Something light. Something light. You said 720 windmill? All right
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Here's Crocs in sport mode. Hey! Alright y'all. Wait, you want to do one for the video
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You got that. Did you want to do my top sets too or no? I don't really care
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Hey! Alright. Like the video
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