Welcome everyone to the RP Strength podcast. I am Nick Shaw and joined by Dr. Mike Isvertel.

What's up, man?

What's up, Mr. Nick Shaw? How are your legs feeling?

Yeah. So where I record the podcast, actually same as you, it's in the basement, mostly because we have no friends.

So we retreat to the basement to talk to one another only.

But I had a long day.

And so I had to train legs in the evening, which is very rare for me.

And, dude, I almost fell down my stairs.

I was like, oh, boy, oh boy, oh boy. It was gnarly. This is my peak week legs before I leave for the Mr. Olympia tomorrow. Oh, look at you, big dog. You're going to compete the Mr. Olympia? Yeah. Who is it? I think, oh, my mom. Oh, good old mom. I told her, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to be down

at the Mr. Olympia contest. She's like, oh, are you competing? And I was like, oh, mom. That's sweet.

That's so sweet. You know, Nick, a wise ancient philosopher once said, his name was Rich P it's great one day you may yeah one day

i may play is that what he said no i was just rhyming uh but check this out on the leg workout

so i think i said this before on the podcast i can't remember because a lot of times I talk with you. Sometimes we're not podcasting. Sometimes we are. I forget where I say things. So I just finally got over this like mental hurdle on hack squats. They just felt terrible at the bottom. You know, like that's just how they feel. Sure. And I thought there was like something wrong. I'm like, get sad. just my quads man they just felt terrible at the bottom you know like that's just how they feel sure and

i just thought there was like something wrong i'm like get sad just my quads man they just maybe

maybe this isn't the jam for me and i just finally got over that i'm like this is just how they

feel like this is just part of it and ever since then man like i just did 405 for 10 today for the

first time as first time i've ever done 405 for a work set. The previous set the week before was 385 for 8. Oh, wow. And like I actually, I saw my video. Like I had another guy that Jim recorded. And on my last wrap, I saw the facial expression that I made. And I was like one of like these like, huh, like one of those faces.

Because like I probably had another one in the tank. But, you know, like you have four or five or ten. Like that's pretty cool. Yeah. Take it when you can. Yeah, for sure. And it's like I'm going to be training legs. And this weekend down with the Olympias, I'm like, I'm good. And actually I made a little tweak because rather than taking another top set at 405, because normally that was scheduled in the app, so I just went right into the RPI hypertrophy app and just removed a set there. And then I just added in another down set. And I've never tried my Raps before. So I did 405 for my top set for 10. Sets 2 and 3, I did it like 295, 12, 10.

It's like real, real slow, just not full lockout at the top either.

And then I actually did another down set.

And I did 225 for like 15.

And then I mile met, myo rep matched it like 9 4 2 oh man it was terrible yeah

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