These people who are shocked that you base your life around physical self improvement. What do they base their life around? In my experience, the answer is not a great deal. Watching TV, killing their brains and body with drink and junk food. A person who had a positive focus in their life, even if different to yours, would be appreciative of the dedication and focus it requires.
Yea and there's also just having passion for the sport. An outsider will see it as just a means to get "big". Plus no one sais you have to take it to an extreme. Including taking "substances".
The intro talk hit home. Only been taking lifting seriously for two years but I know what you mean. Rescheduling interviews because I wouldn't have time to get to the gym after, asking your significant other to wait about an hour while you go out and condition, making conscious food choices to make a nutritious high protein diet, working at places where you can go the gym before or after... it's hard. Obsession is often just a word that the undedicated use, I think.
@@its_james_fitness Being better at lifting isn't more important than being a good husband, father, employee, etc. It's a hobby. You can take it seriously, but when you start effecting others, that's called selfishness.
I am 60 and still powerlifting, biking, surfing etc. Tested elite cardio age 25-29 and NOT overweight. You are Spot On about a lifetime of poor personal chooses. Fat and reduced physical capabilities are a direct result of poor diet, excess alcohol and physical inactivity (laziness)...Not age.
The fact that people tell you you're gonna be hurting more when you're older is completely outrageous. There's literally zero scientific evidence that lifting weights can accumulate injuries over a person's lifespan that was only manifest when you hit a specific age. Even though you're lifting more than most people can ever dream of doing and are on dat der celltech, chances are you're gonna end up being a healthy and mobile and strong as fuck older person. Strength training is the most important thing for people to be doing to stave off age-related health issues.
David Thomas but it is true that powerlifting tends to cause injuries whether you like it or not. It becomes a game of how not to get injured badly than not getting injured. But it does positively influence your life
The key is to lift properly with good form. Simple as that.. bad form for years and not learning to how brace properly can lead to some problems later down the line. I know captain obvious right? But I’ve seen way to many powerlifters at meets with some seriously atrocious forms and I wonder how they train when no one is watching..
I'm just turning 30 this year. Im way more fit and healthy than I was when starting fitness at 14. So I have a hard time believing I'll turn into a fatso in the next 10 years just by the nature of age.
Love the mindset, also great to see another upload. Was wondering if hook grip starts to hurt worse the stronger your deadlift is, or if it's just something you get used to in general.
I completely agree, even though I (and most of us probably lol) aren't on your level, I feel like nearly everything I do revolves around getting stronger. Even at work I essentially motivate myself by thinking about how the money I earn is ultimately going towards allowing me to continue to focus on my strength now and in the near future. I wrote about it a little while ago and realized nearly 24 hours in my day are about lifting, whether it's food, recovery, training, or work to finance it all.
@@otoyoto7153 every powerlifter at this level does conjugate training. All conjugate training is is just building up strength in other lifts that build up aspects of the main lift. Cailer's speciality is rows, which he focuses on increasing as he finds it has the most carry over to his deadlift
@@99999george Conjugate isn't just using variations to build up the main lift. By that logic almost all programs would be conjugate. There are also plenty of top level lifters that use very high specificity.
yo Cailer I agree with everything you said in this video, Most people cannot be great because they are lazy, mentally weak and full of fear. They cannot sacrifice the "momentary emotional high"s like partying, doing drugs, whatever it might be for the bigger goal deep inside of them. It is your extreme obsession and passion with lifting that got you to where you are today. You wont be pulling 400kg if you eat whatever tastes good; party whenever you feel like to; you know that your lifting goal lies above these temporary highs and you are willing to sacrifice them for achieving the greatness you know you have in you. See, most people, not most, 99.99% of the people in this world aren't willing to work hard, be disciplined and mentally tough in order to achieve greatness. That is why greatness belongs to the minority, not the majority. The dude who said you are gonna be fat when you get older is hilarious. Michael jordan is 57 years old. Does that mean hes not great anymore? Keep doing your thing bro, you are an inspiration ! Haters enjoy hating on greatness because they cant be that.
47, been training since i was 12. still competing in nationals, did static monster at 46... 27th in the world in 105s and 21 in masters. getting fucking stronger, and body has never felt better
Regarding what you start talking about around 3:30. Heavy lifting puts a stress on the body so yes, if you're unlucky there might be a price to pay in the long run. However, I also believe that heavy lifting is very good at teaching you how to deal with injuries and rehab or at the very least train around them so someone who's been training heavy is better prepared to pay that price. I've met a lot of old lifters and while many of them do have a few nagging injuries they still train in their 50s and 60s. Compare them to the average person at their age and they're still much stronger even with their injuries. I don't think that's a bad deal to be honest. People who don't train get injured because they're too weak when they get old, that's way worse.
Jack- that’s just something lazy people say. Just breaking balls 😉 Genetics arent written in stone. Posture plays a massive role in muscle building. Correcting my posture completely changed the way my shoulders grow. I never used to be able to build my lateral or rear delt heads, but the better my posture gets the easier it is to build them bowling balls. It all starts in the glutes. Strong aligned glutes allows for uninhibited spine, which changes the position of your rib cage, which changes the position of your shoulder girdle.
Hercules was one of my inspirations too. When I'm eating my second or third rice and meat meal of the day I feel exactly the same. Or if training isn't going well or I have an injury or I can't sleep or the weights feel heavy I'm just like wtf am I doing. But I just want to get stronger and people don't understand. Why not get ripped? Why not lose some weight? Why do you want to get bigger? I just want to push my body before it's too late.
“you don’t wanna be done with this one day and have regret, or have the feeling that maybe if you had done a couple things different it would have been a bit better” It seems like the opposite would be more likely. Seems more likely that one day you’d realize having everything revolve around lifting an arbitrary number of metal discs for a decade+ was a mistake. Not being a Debby downer or discouraging, just a thought about the bigger picture.
Yeah, he's not going to be standing before God thinking... "Man, I really just wish I had worked more RDL's into my programming." Lifting weights is awesome, but it's not even on the top 10 list when it comes to the purpose of life. The purpose is to serve our Creator.
@@rickstark85 Whatever you want to call it, there are definitely ideals and purposes more important than lifting more metal discs on a pole than most people.
Yeah now these days if I go home early too get a good night sleep everybody say ooh you're boring lol but I have a goal gaining strength and muscle Gotha have good sleep for gainssss I've partyd enough when I was young
I've always been confused to as why light weights tear up your hand when you hook grip and heavy weights feel better?? Explain this to me please lol. Also ya it's crazy when you realize everything you do is geared around you getting stronger.
Its only a question, no hate, but why his legs are like not proportional for the weight that he is lifting? I mean for 900+ deadlift he has to had really bulky legs. he also pull sumo that work the quads a lot.
You don't have to have really bulky legs to be strong. Training for strength specifically doesn't always get you big or a bunch of bulky muscle lol. Plus not everyone has the same body type so another person may get way bigger legs doing his workouts, but his will stay about the same size. End of the day, he isn't a bodybuilder so he doesn't care anyway.
The place where you work? Lol. Nah, brah. You aren't supposed to work, breh. You're supposed to tell everyone you're a full time jewtoober and an elite level celery and talk about how much time it takes to film and upload 1 video per week and you're not able to punch a time clock because of it. You're supposed to e-beg for PayPal donations and patreon subscriptions because it's OUR responsibility to pay YOUR rent and bills. Duh.
