I’d love to read bro but no access to email right now.

@@Howardk2 np. Just something that came out of the blue because of my unique abs training.

That’s a good idea I didn’t think of that!

@@Howardk2 Yeah man, it's a good route to go. I'm almost done with my first year of my electrician apprenticeship. It's been great, looking forward to the future!

You have every right to be!! Keep up the work!! 🫡🫡

Thank you

Yes well said! That’s true, sometimes I like to read books and apply them in different areas of life and sometimes they’re applicable.

Glad you enjoyed it, if there’s any video you’d like me to create just let me know 😁

@@Isa-wz5qm Go to your local gym and use their indoor courts, ask the gym instructors which marks are 20m or measure out yourself, there’s also plenty of beep test audios on KZbin you can use. 6.20 m/m is excellent, your smashing out everything else it seems. From the looks of it you’ll have no problem graduated bro. Just your foot has to touch the line that’s why technique is everything!

@@Howardk2 hopefully bro, just worried about my age. got my medical next week. PJFT I'm doing for my warm up lol. then hopefully the 3 days away with the Reg.

@@Isa-wz5qm you’ll smash it, it won’t be the end of the world if you don’t get in though. Whatever happens, gods plan. Don’t worry about things out of your control.

@@Howardk2 hopefully I do mate. recently divorced so fully committed to this now. If Its a definite no, then the legion it is hahaha

Training still on point bro?

Thanks for the support bro!

@@Militaryman69420 I can try and do that yes! Stick around the channel, turn the notification bell on so you don’t miss out

Intrinsic happiness 🐺

Big up

@@JoshRaf2025 that depends on what your AFCO tells you. Depending on why your rejected (if it’s due to fitness, they’ll give u maybe 6months to a year to get fit and you can re apply. If u haven’t been rejected yet, don’t stress about it. What will be will be!

@Howardk2 15 at the moment but hoping to join next September and I really need to work on my fitness

@@louisedits123 thank u, msg me on Instagram and I’ll check ur work out.

@@Howardk2 can you give me your instagram i couldnt find that on your description

That’s great bro. Keep up the work!

Gunner

Yeah completely agree. People are faking it before actually making it. Everything I show on my channel are things I know & have accomplished. For me, yes I want money (everyone does) but I won’t show people how I’ve done it until I’ve ACTUALLY done it. But for now, I can teach stoicism, how to build a robust mindset and mega physique because I’ve done it. Hope u enjoyed the vid, remember any feedback let me know thank you so much :)

@@Howardk2 I grew up with a hard shell. Starting life in an orphanage was not fun. Leaving to do gymnast during the day was a way to escape. I've come to remember how I was bullied and punched when I got back when older boys met me. My mom later told me some of why she wanted to adopt me and how I was treated was one. Coming to USA was happy for me--to leave bad situation but then later to find new place to be bullied. I don't know. I think I believed that being bullied was normal human life. Bully or be bullied. I don't remember me being a bully given the situations. I was on receiving end. There's also the group against just me. Leaving American school to get away and do gymnastics at the academy was also sweet get away. After I got beat up (again a group of guys) I finally found a group of guys who would back me. But later of course I learned that they enjoyed me getting into severe abdominal training. I came to see how they manipulated me and that affected my personality and maybe mental health. I knew they liked having me around for what I would let them do to me but I did it anyway. I rationalized how I was getting stronger. And I did like the challenge. But I also was trying to build my body into a hard shell. I don't know how much my Ukrainian DNA also makes me. I remember identifying with Eastern European bar athletes and saw myself among them. I know how hard life is in Eastern Europe and feel so blessed to be in USA. I've been rethinking that I'm younger than I always thought I was. I grew up trying to keep up with other in my grade. Part was of course learning language but also being smaller than other boys in my grade made me try to be tough and strong. I think me striving to keep up and be better made me tough minded. I didn't know the word stoic until recently tbh. I saw some channels promoting it. Then saw your shirt and it hit me you are talking about stoicism. That must be part of my personality. I"m now training a guy to take hard punches and find it all a bit weird. I think maybe he is stoic. I've lived on my own since age 15 (thinking age 16) and have been happy with whatever I could find to get by. After my adoptive parents divorced we were poor and had to move into a tiny house on a farm. My mom was heroic I think in keeping us going. Maybe stoic herself. As I saw her struggle I didn't want to be part of that struggle and was trying to be more self-reliant. She was happy for me doing that so I tried all the more to be my own guy. She left money on table for me to use. But that wasn't enough to stay in gymnastics so working was just a natural thing for me to do. I feel grateful to be able to be where I am. I've not dreamed to be a millionaire. Maybe I've not adopted the American Dream but know that the good life doesn't mean they are happy. I have to be honest to that I'm not sure what happiness is. I liked being away at gymnastics but I realized I loved training for gymnastics more than competing in gymnastics. I think I've been my happiest when working out. I got into exercising my abdominals a lot very early in life and used it to cope with stress. I later understand that I was addicted to abdominal training because it released for me pleasure hormones. I got a high that I wanted more--I think because of not being happy. After I got into taking hard punches I started to get that high after a good hard "workout." It's not easy admitting that I got a rush being held in a full nelson or hanging from a pull up bar taking very hard punches. It wasn't want I intended but then it somehow gave me something I felt I needed. Re-living my life as a guy a year younger and training for the upcoming abs challenge has brought back a lot of memories and feelings. As I've been really leaning into severe abdominal training and having a group of muscular guys pushing me more things have surfaced. Thinking of happiness again. I struggled with addiction to abdominal training during the pandemic. I was so close to being out of high school that the pandemic just fueled it. When community college closed down and finances were dwindling my stress levels increased. Finding places outdoors to bar workouts turned out to be great. Finding a gorgeous young lady in my building to play tennis with was great. But then she moved to bubble with her family. Working at Menards then later at the construction company now helped me big time. I would say I'm leaning toward happiness. No one I know here knows my history of body self abuse (that is what it was). I feel somewhat dirty driving Friday nights to go to a gym and using the name my adoptive parents gave me and the nickname at that--Tony. I wanted to go where no one knew me but also be honest to say I was there to train for an abs challenge. It feels good them know why I'm training as I am but not really who I am. I still have some chills about what happened with me on IG and being targeted for extortion using my many nude pics. I haven't felt any blowback from their threats. But that still haunts me. Guys here have taken pics and videos of my workouts and I tell them to be careful as I don't want guys targeting me--they know my story of getting beat up. I'm trying to live in trust with them. They are good guys and treated me well. But I see them once a week. I'm rambling on a Sunday morning trying to follow Olympic tennis gold medal match in background. Stoicism and happiness. Stoicism maybe redefines what happiness is? Am I happy now? I can say that I'm in a job I like and making good money. I'm saving for the future which means I imagine myself having a future. What that is I don't know of course. I turn age 22 in just over 2 months. Deja vous with that birthday. In high school I celebrated my birthday with each guy giving me birthday punches. That's a memory I have each birthday. Have a good day.

My guy! You like texting for sure 😂 aye great story though bro, some tough upbringing for sure. Keep grind hard you’ll get whatever you put your mind to 🦈

@@Howardk2 My point I guess is that I've never had any body dysmorphia issues or felt bad about my physique.

@@DailyLukeSpurgeon cheers lad 😉

I like muscle ups a lot because they do pull ups and triceps in one great functional move. I visited my high school this weekend and have not been back in almost 5 years. I did a full long bar workout at the very spot where I got beat up. A friend drove in to join me and we had.a great talk about that night. We camped 2 nights and did some long hikes. It brought back a mix of good and bad memories but I've decided to create new memories.

That’s a great story bro. Heroes like yourself always come from some pain/drama and overcome it in the end. So happy that you found lifting weights like myself. Changes your life massively. Making friends in the gym has never been easier 😅 You should be very proud of your transformation. Have you considered boxing?

@@Howardk2 I only thought of boxing about a year later. I found Shane Fazon;s FightTps channel. But the big thing for me is that the night I got beat up totally change me. I became a new man in the middle of getting beat up. I had done serious abdominal training for over 10 years before that night. I knew I have extremely muscular abs--and that is why those athletes wanted to punch the shit of them. They knew me from school. I had used those pull bars by the sports fields as they did their sports practice. I was a shirtless show off (that is I am a gymnast). I was held in a full nelson shirtless with my torso wide open and waiting for them to beat the shit out of me. I was scared shitless but never thought to cry or beg. I'm Ukrainian. These guys were very big and muscular athletes. I had done over an hour of bar workouts when they came. I was exhausted and hot. But I took 1st guys punches very easily. His punched almost bounced off my abs. After he threw a lot more my Fear drained out of me. I started to be very curious how I can take their hard punches. As they kept going off and on over 30 minutes they finally let me go. It was too dark and the mosquitos were biting us all badly. They beat me very badly and when I was let out of the hold I fell to my knees. But I quickly got up and stretched. I felt great For the first time in my life I was full of confidence like never before. I had confidence as a gymnast but not as a man, if that makes any sense. My birth name is Anton. When I was adopted and came to America they legally changed my name to Anthony. From that night on I decided to be called Anton. Why not boxing right away? Part of the answer is that I wanted to gain a lot of lean muscle--especially build up large muscular quads. But also I then wanted to explore building up my abs to take hard punches. I hope I don't sound weird to you. At the time I was addicted to core training for gymnastics but also to cope with stress. Abdominals are amazing muscles. They are rather large and oan be trained very hard. They are amazing strong muscles. For me I realized that I got a "high" from training my abs for long sessions. After I discovered I could take punches I asked the wrestlers I trained with to help me build up my capacity. I became very popular and I liked the attention. I also found that taking hard punches became a challenge that I liked very much but it also addictive. We bought some pairs of MMA fight gloves and I got deep into training to take punches. I had been bullied all my life and became popular. I liked being included when they did things together. I"m more a gymnast than a fighter. I later learned from Shane Fazon who said in fights they do punch the abs but it is the kidney and liver shots that will end a fight. The night I was held in a full nelson my biggest fear was taking shots to the head. I had 1 concussion as a gymnast and that was not pleasant. They said they only wanted to target my abs but I didn't believe.them. I later wonder that if my abs didn't take their punches so well that they would move to my head. They got very interested in why I could keep taking fists. I'm age 22 going on 23. I've not taken punches since the night of my high school graduation. I never made it to the college where I wanted to do gymnastics since I was a very young gymnast. By age I8 I left gymnastics after 14 years. I did do a college visit when I turned age 18. I thought maybe I could go afford it without a gymnastics scholarship. But I got there and soon wanted to show off. It was way too easy to find guys more than happy to throw punches. I got in over my head and let myself get badly beat up. My pride caused me to take punches well past what was sane. One good thing did come from this. I met a college student there who also was in great shape and had wrestled in high school. He was in engineering which is what I thought I'd major it. He was not happy I let guys just beat me up. He wanted me to come to his college but said I had to be careful. We clicked immediately. He also had impressive abs but didn't ant to take punches. He and I talked about my abs trining and he wrote up a summary of what I was doing at high school--in high school we called it SAT for Severe Abdominal Training. Here's the google doc on that-docs.google.com/document/d/1VBWiAaGaGCIBFssIqkWofBGNCwrt-UKFlV3Gk5imuSI/edit?usp=sharing I'm vomiting again and only about abs. Let me know if you like SAT or have questions maybe.

@@anthonywilson1754 bro you need to make a channel about ab training

I know I could go for 8 so really still in the hypertrophy range :)

Always!

Cheers bro. 6ft.

Yeah bro just turned 22

Kg bro

Crazy bro keep it up

Yeah bro I sometimes like to ego lift ngl

Most of the time I work around 35kg but it’s always great to push yourself, test yourself even if that means sacrificing ROM

There's really no issue with his form unless it's painful for him. I personally do the lift with elbows a bit more in but we can't forget that anatomical variation exists and therefore there is no universal perfect form for a given lift Looks good to me bro 👍🏼 keep it up

Like 5 years bro. But first 2/3 was super inconsistent. Past year I’ve made the most gains (strength and size) all because of my knowledge and discipline!

Aha that sucks bro! I feel ur pain. I hate rest days too but I hope you have a speedy recovery!

Yeah bro 40kg

for hypertrophy

maybe you know what ur doing

There are some studies that show a correlation between hypertrophy and training at close to full muscle length, but the reality is that there are also conflicting studies, and to top it off there aren't enough studies in general. Maybe it is significant, maybe it's not, maybe it works for some and not for others. Long story short, never speak in absolutes regarding rep styles, the jury simply is not out yet

Yeah bro. Hard to do with heavier weights but yeah you’re right!

@@pineapple311 so what should you do?

Thanks shiny. I have way more to offer because of the experiences and hardships I’ve done. I’m gonna mog the self improvement community

Any advice bro for a cover page? I’ll get a premium one up by this weekend :) thanks for the comment it’s so awesome 🔥🫡

No worries arhaam, just trying to help :)

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXfNeaWjat6drqMsi=YrN3ede5_ZcpFCb5 this may help you further

@@Howardk2 thank bro! 🤝

Thanks bro!!

22

You look older

Happy to help

I personally would never eat for maintenance, always be in a calorie surplus, if you find your putting too much weight on the simple trick is to move more than you eat. If there’s anything specific you need help with I’ll make a video about it 😀