GRACIE VANASSE MADE ME CRY!

Hello, my strong, strong friends. So, today I'm with the queen of it all. Her name is Gracie B. So, Gracie, I'm at her amazing gym, California Elite Training Center. CTC. In San Diego, California. If you're in San Diego, make sure you come check it out because this is the coolest gym I have ever been in, I think. So, we're gonna do a couple of videos here. This one is called, I think, that Meg Squats is quitting raw powerlifting or something along those lines because Gracie's gonna teach me how to, first, she's gonna teach me all the things that aren't raw powerlifting, which I don't even know, so you're gonna get to learn with me. We're gonna, what am I gonna do? Okay, so, I'm gonna guess and then you tell me if this is right. I kinda know. I can squat with wraps, so do raw with wraps. These are all things I've never done before. I can squat, or I can lift single ply and multiply. That's right. Those are the things. So, those are all different ways you can compete in powerlifting. There's a bunch of different federations and different ways to lift and those are how you can compete and Gracie has competed in a raw meet recently, but usually you compete in multiply. So, I'm gonna teach you. She's gonna teach you through me and you'll get to learn. So, we're warming up because I'm gonna have to squat with my legs out to here and I'm gonna go this high because that's how you do it. Oh, what's going on here? I thought I was gonna squat, Gracie. Okay, now walk yourself down to the floor. It has to be up your butt crack. Is it? Well, you know I haven't seen my boyfriend in a while. Okay. Okay, now lie back. Bend this knee and open up your hip. Let it lay out flat. There you go. You got it, Shields? Oh, jeez. And now squeeze that butt cheek. Oh, God, yeah. Squeeze your right butt cheek. I'm squeezing it. So, what am I doing? Why am I doing this? We're opening up your hips because you're gonna be in such a wide stance. Yeah, so when you watch the video, this will be much wider than where my raw squat is, where my regular squat is. Why is that? Because we wanna shorten the distance. We wanna, you know, just travel the least range of motion as possible. Right. When you lift raw, do you bring your feet in a little bit? A lot. I'm like a regular close stance squat or raw. My feet could never handle what they do in gear without the gear. Okay. Or my hips could never handle it. Got it. Yeah, so we'll stay like about three minutes on each side. Three minutes? Yeah. If maybe you don't know Gracie, you may have seen a video of her slapping the, slapping, Did you see the pain in my face? You may have seen a video of her slapping the ever living piss out of someone before a meet or during training or like, just like warming up. I don't know. I'll put links to whatever videos I can find here of classics. That's actually, Gracie is one of the first power lifters that I ever stumbled upon when I was first getting interested in it because I was just looking up like badass girl lifters and sure enough, I see her, Susan Salazar, just slapping the ---- out of each other. So this is, I crossed over to the power lifting side and now I'm here and I can't believe it. If you watch my videos and maybe I'm the only power lifter that you've ever seen in the world, if that's the case, then you should find more. But I always lift out of a squat rack or in a cage. So what that means is I have to unrack it from the clips in the rack and then step back. So in some federations, what you can do is use a monolift, which is what we're gonna use today. And what that means is you can unrack from the pins and then you have a person who will move the clips out of the way so that you can just unrack and squat exactly where your feet are. There are some lifters who prefer to walk back and they will walk out from a monolift. What federations usually use a monolift? Monolift? RPS, SPF, IPA, UPA. Not USPA, unless it's multi-ply. Okay. Some federations allow multi-ply for raw lifters, which is why we actually went with a federation like that for the US Open because we wanted the big squatters to come. Yeah. They only roll in federations that allows a multi-ply, or a monolift, sorry. Yeah. For raw with wraps. So most of the time, if you see someone who's squatting like crazy, crazy amount of weight, they'll do it from a monolift. Yeah. What's the reason for using the bands while you're warming up? I'm gonna actually work up to a one rep max with the reverse bands on today. Okay. So I wanna peak my central nervous system. I want it to handle more weight at the top. This training day will be harder than what the meet is. Okay. Because we're handling, so we're gonna peak our central nervous system and then we start tapering down and then we peak 21 days later. It's a science. So you guys can look up delayed transformation phase. We call it circuit max. So we do it 21 days out of the meet. It's the most important training day of the whole cycle to when we peak. And that's why we use the reverse bands to handle more weight than we can. Woo! Okay, so I'm putting on what I need to put on so I can get the brace on. Hoping they fit. Gracie and I might be around the same weight, but she's a lot more muscle than I am. So these are slippers. These are slippers so that the briefs can fit on like silky smooth and they can just go right on. And I'm wearing these. Nice. Gracie's putting on her two-man jock. She's like, I don't have to have my compression shorts. I can't tell if this is a sexy sport or not. This is the sexiest. Like the video if you think it's sexy. This is the sexiest thing I've seen all day. Got my slippers on. Now I should put my shoes on. So you need flat shoes, not Olympic style like heel shoes, right? Because you're going to be in them like this. I put my multi-ply briefs on one leg at a time, just like Gracie. Make sure those are size 32. They are. Hopefully it's like 32 extra double wide. Oh, I don't know, dude. Is it going to come off? Yeah, yeah. Grab the bar. Check that booty. Woo! These ones didn't fit. My fat feels nice. That's it, right? That's the workout. Just the size. I feel like I will eat. It took about maybe like 10 minutes. 11 minutes and 43 seconds. Okay, well that was for the first one too, right? Oh, that's true, yeah. So I made it. This is the size 33. First one was 32 and a little bit more stiff, so I'm in there. You know how you put on your knee sleeves, your Eskinese, and you have like. Yeah. This is that times 100. I don't know how I'm going to hit that. But I'm definitely tomorrow, I can already feel it. I'm going to have bruises right here. And the juicy spots. I don't know. I told Gracie maybe I would switch, but it's hard. It's really hard. Just getting high, don't take it personal. Oh no, oh no. When I come down, you'll be the first to know. Oh no, oh no. But I ain't never coming. Ain't never coming. But I ain't never coming. Nigga, I be so ghost. Come get lost with me. Getting money cause that talk is cheap. Bitch, niggas do them hoes. Shit, ain't that the truth? Told Bishop he should pass the juice. ------- so ice cold. That's frozen. Throw him in the ocean for boasting. Nigga, I don't feel a thing. Not the love or the hate. We don't budge, we don't break. It's just us. Three crowns, three kings. And we been watching the throne. Can't stop now, I'm locked in the zone. Won't show no love. Yeah, I ain't ground up to the end. Only ones I trust is my friends. Won't check nobody. They don't got a team like mine. Lose sleep. This ----'s going to hurt. Don't be a ******* ass. Of course not for pussy. Keep your tongue pointed up. What? Oh, ****. Ow! Right there, dude. Right there. Go, go, go, go! Go! So many other drum things. I like it. I wish the music was off when you were talking. Because I'm not sure if everyone else is. It's okay, I'll do some pedals. Yeah. This is a really cool experience. Oh, God. You're ******* awesome, Megan. Awesome. I'm not a fighter. They be like, Marty, where you been? I see your socials rising. I been analyzing ----. Yeah, remember we was friends. I hope you ain't forgot about me. See you living lovely. Nah, nah nigga, don't hit my phone. Nah, we ain't bros. Nah, we ain't woes. Shit, real niggas been by my side. So I know who rides. Cause you fakes ain't bout ----. So let me sit back like my J. So that's gonna be the end of this video, you guys. I hope you enjoyed it. If you're not already following Gracie on her YouTube channel and her Instagram, make sure you do. There is a whole world of power lifting that is not just raw. And Gracie has competed raw and will compete in Australia in about a year. A year from now? Yeah. So make sure you check her out. And there's some crazy fucks out there who are way stronger than you and everyone you know. But that's okay, cause you just love them and they'll teach you how to be strong too. That's right. Okay, thank you guys for watching. Like this video if you like it and let me know, should I be an equipped lifter? It's so hard. It is no joke. Whoever decides to do like equipped lifting is a little bit crazy, but also really, really awesome. So I love you. Bye. ♪ Give me some space to contemplate myself. ♪ ♪ Get the **** out of my face, **** out of my face. ♪ Get the **** out of my face, **** out of my face