How To Become a Strong Muslim Man In 2025 (feat. Sheikh Oduro)

One, two. Slow it down, slow it down. Prove to me that you can control. 3. Yes. 4. Push that right knee out. When you come up, push out. Push that right knee out. 5. Come on, come on. 6. Racket.

I got no more.

Okay, go ahead, because we're gonna do some more of these later, you know. Seven. Three more, three more, three more. Good. Ten, Right?

All right, go back on.

Okay, front sponsor, we're just gonna do some RDls.

Okay?

So it's here. It's kind of like the rose, but you're gonna push the bar a little, basically to the tip of your. Where the tip of your shoes are. No. Right. You can come further out, or you can stay where the Nolan meets, you know, shoulder width apart, bend. In the beginning, just come up, and here it's going to be a little more challenging. Right? So imagine you had a roll in between your forearm and your thigh, and it was, you know those foam rollers? Yep, yep. If you had the foam roller in between. So what you want to do is you want to come down like this. Just a little more out. It's pushing your hips out just a little, staying tight up here. Hamstrings, when you come up, you don't want to come up like this.

Okay.

You don't want to work the quads. You want to keep the quads out of the equation. The more your knees are locked, the more the quads are out of the equation. But at the same time, you want to protect your lower back. So you push out just a little, and then just bam. Bam. There's a sweet spot to where you don't work your lower back as much as you're working your hamstrings. Right.

There's hamstrings and lower back as well.

Yeah, mainly.

Yeah.

This may be a little helper. Yeah, Bend him just a little. Put it up. There you go. Huh? Huh? Nice. Nice form, man. Come on.

Two.

Come on.

Burn.

Come on, come on. Three.

Come on. Two more.

Come on. You don't have to go down that low. Stay still up top. You're starting to tug it up top, huh? Let's go. Questions you got for me? Any questions? Anyway.

Yeah. What do you. What motivates you to keep going? You're already in shape. You worked out a lot. Why keep working out?

I mean. I mean, yeah. I mean, in shape is not only here, man. In shape is nutrition and sleep. So I was close to pre diabetic. I had a sister that passed away from cancer, man. So those are things that keep me pushing, man. So that's really to stay fit for the family. Stay fit for myself. That's what keeps me going. Again, this is in a manner from Allah and it's worship. Okay. You don't have to go down that low. You don't have to go down that low.

Like keep the knee straight.

Right? When it gets below your kneecap, come straight up.

Up. Okay. Knees are straightened.

Don't lock me. Don't lock. Yeah, up. Keep those shoulders back as much as you can. They should stay like this the whole time. Stay like that the whole time.

Yep.

See it's given.

Yep.

Huh? Boom. See, when you're shaking, that's the best part. That's when you start doing more dicker. You start to do more dicker. There you go. Okay, see now you're starting to tug it with the lets you start to do this. Okay, we want this. This whole part stays still.

Okay, so stays back.

Huh? Okay, drop. All right, now we're just gonna go to some pull ups.

Okay, so this is the first round. Yeah. Okay, so five rounds.

Yeah.

All right. Makes sense. Pull up just as an option. You have a little more room over there. It's up to you though, if you we talking about. I think we can do manage. Can you reach these? Manage? I don't know. Now we doing too much. Now we doing too much. That's why he suggested he was trying to be nice. No, no, that is not. Come on, bro. Okay, I'm going to break the. I'm going to bring the ceiling.

Oh, okay. Okay.

Come on.

Little Indians here in the wall there. Okay, that was five, huh? Five.

No, let me do five actually. Which grip? Let's do chin ups.

Chin ups.

The easiest one there.

Yeah. No, no, I come back now. Let me find man. Okay, go ahead. Listen up.

Come on up. Boom.

Let's go. Watch your head. Watch it.

Boom.

Actually, I should be able to let the head hit the ceiling too.

Head to ceiling. Yeah.

Bro. Took that too literally.

Break the ceiling.

5.

Look at this. Wet, bro. Mar.

Yeah. Make my mark.

That's fine. Nice. He made a tea. That's the te for Mastermind. Oh. Let's go.

I didn't hear Nothing. Shake once.

2. Yep. 3. Yep. 4.

Nice form. Good. All right. Yeah. Get back to it. Let's speed it up now. Check.

All right.

We're gonna stay at 25 pounds. I usually do 45 on these.

Okay, let's just say 25. All right, next. Thank you. Nice. Me. Yeah. No. Okay.

There you go. There we go.

Three.

There we go. Here we go. Five. All Right, let's go light. Now we're gonna move. One, two, three, four, five.

All right, you want me, you want me a bit more.

A bit more.

Yeah, Yeah. I never done this jump press.

Yep.

Pull up.

Okay. One. Bend that bar. He goes over the. Under the bar. Yep. Nice. Under the bar. Yep.

One.

Yep. Come on. Two. Come on.

Three.

Pushing yourself, pushing yourself. Perfect. Four.

Yes.

Right there. That's working the core. That's why I love Ohp. That's why I like to sit down and do the shoulder press. Maybe at the end, but the bar, I like to work out on my feet. Right. Because I'm always getting my core involved.

Yeah, that's good. I usually do this one by sitting down. That's fine.

Yeah. I like to do stuff on my feet in the beginning where I have my most power to do that. Unless you're trying to isolate something. But me, I'm just in a full body. Burn more calories at the same time to get a strong core. Right.

Can I ask you a question?

Right.

What do you think about when you. Like, for example, I know I need to go to the gym, but there's times where I don't do it. Right. Is there a specific mind, like things. Is a specific mind track or things you think about when you're trying to do things that you don't want to do? Regret one second, one thing. I was asleep and they can't fit the workout in.

Yeah. You know, Shaytan will come to you and say, hey, just do it. You're working out. It's just any kind of movement, any movement in. You know what I'm saying? And when it comes to going to the gym, it's like, no, just push yourself. And that's the essence of discipline. Discipline is doing what you don't want to do consistently. That. This. I'm in the gym every day. I don't. I hate leg workouts, but I know what it'll do for my core. I know what it'll do for my body. I know what it'll do for burning calories. I know it'll do for me as a 48 year old man. Is it better if I do this? Yes, it is. Okay. What's left is just making that choice and pushing myself and stop being a blank.

I was asking for someone else. He takes any opportunities to fire five shots. Let's go, let's go. We came here, we came here to work out. He came here to work us out. He's like, can you reach it? Stop being gay. Thanks. Come on, don't ask a question this time. I know, I, I knew I saw it. He's asking question when he gets tired. I can't do this one. Oh, let me ask you a question. Actually, watching this live stream, do you got any questions how you join the.

Mastermind group on schoolskol.com we have a group, I meet there once a month. We have about 5,000 people on there. And then there's also an exclusive group, the inner circle. I'm there once a week, every Wednesday at 6 Central. So I have a meeting today, inshallah.

So you can, you can either ask him a question once a month or once a week. But here they got you live.

Going live.

Yeah.

Ask your question.

Come on. If you ever have, what would you say are your men is your top one? And so a few topics you can answer questions about. Very confident. The top one by far.

Well, the top one that I love talking about the most is mindset.

Okay.

How mindset connects with spirituality.

What at the end, what do you want to achieve from having a great mindset? A strong mindset.

A strong masculine Muslim man.

Okay, so if you want to be a stronger masculine Muslim man, ask questions.

Yeah, you got definitely in any chapter of life. So also we have a premarital boot camp coming up. You can sign up the premarital academy. We have a master man. Inshallah, it's a six week cohort. You want to know about marriage, you want to know about how to be that right man? What's the right woman premarital count? What is premarital like? Not premarital, but what is it? How do you speak to the wali? What kind of questions do you anticipate? Right. Prenuptial agreements? How are these, how do these things tie into me being a Muslim man that finds the right Muslim woman looking the right way? Where am I in Dallas? Dallas, Texas. We're in Dallas.

In America. For the guys that don't know, I live in Dubai. I flew out here, what, 10,000 kilometers.

A lot seriously, about making the most out of things and hesitating to do stuff. Have you failed before?

Yeah. You ever failed? I fail more than I win.

You fail more than you win.

No one, no one knows when you fail. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

It matters when you win. If I show you all the failure, you never speak to me.

So what would you say to those people that, that have not done something because they were afraid of failing? What would you tell them?

First I say I understand because I've Been there. I used to not want to try things. I used to always, you know me, right? You watch my videos or you know him because you've seen him on my videos. How often do you think about him? How about me? Maybe like once every three months when you see me pop up on your street, on your feed. So technically, you don't really care about me. That's the exact way everybody thinks about you. So if you're hesitating to do something, it's like me saying, hey, guys, I'm hesitating to change shirts because the child is going to think something different. Five minutes from now, you're going to leave the child and do something else. I'd rather do what I care about because no one cares about you. But you care about yourself. So if you want to achieve something, don't let what the others think about you because they don't really care. Stop you and just do it. And then they'll care about you.

That's beautiful, man. He says too, man. Subhanallah. And it ties so much into Islam. Subhanallah. Nobody's gonna remember you two weeks after. Two weeks after you pass away, nobody's gonna remember you.

Yeah.

Except your mom.

How often do you think about the Queen of England? The Queen of England?

Who is she?

He doesn't even know who she is. Think about it. That's crazy. She was governing for I don't know how many years. It's like United Kingdom, the uk, the queen. No one. She passed away as a year ago. No one remembers her. She was a whole. No one.

Exactly.

She even has her face on all the bills. All the bills. When you pay the pounds, she got her face everywhere. No one thinks about her. Half the people can't even remember. Remember her name.

Yep, that's it, man. So do what you can for the sake of Allah. Subhanahu wa ta'.

Ala.

Imagine when you have your children and your son and your demonizes you to your kids, number one. And they see how you still push through. How do you know if someone's loyal unless they've been tested? You don't know loyalty. Say, yeah, I'm loyal to you, bro. He hasn't been tested. You haven't tested him. That's why Allah continues to test us. That's the whole point. To see how loyal you are to his message, how loyal you are to the deen man. Alhamdulillah. So, all right, so we. Oh yeah, pull up.

Okay. Yeah. What are the kind of things I'm curious to know actually, because I Was there just a few years ago. He's hitting the wall. Look at it. That's a sign. Man.

I like this.

Yeah.

Tell you put something right here. If you don't hit it up. If you don't hit, it don't count.

Yeah, yeah. You should put a counter only counter.

Yeah, exactly.

Yo, that would be sick. That would be your whole gym vibe. When you do pull ups, it's like real man pull ups. It has to count. You can't cheat.

That's it.

You know the ayah is. You said allah keeps testing us, sir. Me too. I think we just listened to this during fajr.

Uh huh, Yeah. Allah says we're going to test you for something from fear and hunger. May Allah protect our brothers and sisters. We will test you with fear, hunger, tidings to the people that are patient, you know, within this instant gratification nation, you press a button to start your car, you press a button to eat food. You press a button, you swipe. Hopefully we don't swipe left or swipe right. You know what I'm saying? But everything's quick, right? Everything's quick. So when things don't come to you quickly. But I'll never forget one of my mentors from Yemen told me in Medina, he said, have the deen Allah. This is the religion of Allah. It's not my religion. So I can't worship Allah on my terms. Gotta worship him on his terms.

Subhanallah.

So whenever you're tested with stuff, man, you gotta be patient. We don't want to hear the word patience, but that's because the animalistic nature within us doesn't want to wait. But this whole life we're waiting to die. You know what I'm saying? It was Fuday IBN Yal Fudayl Binyal is the great scholar of the past. He said, he asked the man, come ali. He said, how many do you have? The man said, situn. He said, Six says 60 years and you're traveling to your lord. And the guy said, he said, really, we are for Allah until Allah will return. So.

Yeah, it makes it look like work. It is, it is. So like too much. So, chef, if you were to go back to your lowest point when you were younger, anytime if I say lowest point, it probably jumps to your eyes what it was if you were to go back in that time, worse mindset, worse performance in terms of your dean, your family, your business, everything. And you were to be able to talk to your younger self now with experience as yourself.

No, when I was a Muslim or non? Muslim.

Let's see.

When you were Muslim, you're a Muslim.

We do the normal one after. How long ago did you Islam?

19. 19. 1996.

Oh, yes. It's like. Yeah, 30. Almost. Yeah, 30, 29 years. That's what I was born. Yeah, 29 years. Okay, so we'll do the Muslim one. Since you were Muslim, you're probably at the lowest point in your life. What would you say to yourself now to your younger self? Imagine mini chef 10.

Remember, bend the. Bend the bar. Bend the bar.

Yeah, there it is.

A little lower.

There you go. And squeeze your shoulders together. There you go.

Look up, look up. Seven, eight, nine.

Hold it.

Okay. Or try let go. Maybe you bend your knees just a little more because your lower back is still rounded. Yeah. Oh, it's probably because your hamstrings are tight.

Yeah. What if people look at you, laugh at you?

That's. That's leading to the third point. And don't care what people say, because a lot of them.

People are affected by this.

Yeah, Because a lot. One thing that used to keep me going is like, everybody has their mistakes. Allah just hasn't exposed them yet. That's it. So if they. That they're not facing, that's the thing that they're not dealing with. They don't want. They don't want to encounter and deal with it. And that's a part of manhood, man.

And also, you'd only have the people that laugh at you that will be lower than you. You never have somebody in more because.

They don't got time. They don't have time to be fooling with you, man. They don't have time to be worried about the mistakes that you made. There's a lot of people. I know you've seen it now in your line of work, in business, in general, of guys that are killing it. They're high performers and whatever it is. Right. They'll talk to you with general talk, but once they've seen that you put work in, they'll give you their time, they'll give you their space, they'll give you their wisdom because you had to have reached a certain level to be able to even earn time with them. Because they don't waste time. They don't have time for negative asking. If you're gonna be streaming from now.

On, what do you guys want? What do you guys want to see a stream about? Actually, I'd be interested. And also, please be a boring guy that just watches without speaking. It's interactive. It's A chat. It's a live stream. Otherwise I can just post a YouTube video. If I make a live stream, then we speak live. So you have a chat, you can write and post stuff and I can read it live and then give you answer live. Crazy, right?

We're going for ten though. Five. Let's go.

Six.

Nice.

I didn't sign up for this.

Come on. Ten.

That's too light.

They're working. That's it.

Let's go.

Nice work, nice work.

Now he's doing too much. You know what I thought about? That's the important I thought about. I was pushing it up. I was thinking, actually, this is not even my two children.

Subhanallah. Yeah, that's it.

You cheating though. That's not even my two children. I have three. How am I not gonna. It's an unwritten rule. You can't be in the gym and use the duck strength. That's not enough. It's unfair. It's like steroids. It's not enough. No, but that's the thing. You're doing too much because now did 12. And that's the thing when you surround yourself with confident people. I was going to do five, then he said, let's do 10. Now you're doing more.

That's the brotherhood, man.

That's the mushkilah.

Push each other.

Now he's about to do 15.

That's even in the mufala though, when the prophet was raising money for. For Taboo, you know, ninth year Hijra.

Let's go, let's go.

As it's a fundraising two above your head. Control, control, control. Lift it all the way. That's the lift right there. That's the lift. See that core? That's the core working. Oh, you don't even realize. Woo.

Let's go, let's go, let's go. Come on, let's go.

Okay, let's go.

I got no more. Okay, let's have. We tied it. Nice. Oh, really? That's, that's fine.

I didn't.

I guarantee you. One of the students.

Yeah.

Waiting in. He said he's trying to get hench for the wedding. I mean. That. Yes. More creating now. Matthew Creatine. Nothing, nothing. The double shot, espresso and chicken. That's all we got.

Yes, sir.

Alhamdulillah.

Let's go. Yell. Let's go.

Somebody asking how can you gain muscle as somebody who's skinny? They probably already tried stuff. They're probably already eating. Are they training? Give them the little nugget. Somebody's skinny. Trying to get weight.

First thing, he's got to eat more. Primarily eat more protein. Clean protein.

Give me examples.

Chicken breasts. Some chicken breasts, like, bake pound or grams of protein for body weight. Desired body weight.

Your body weight in pounds.

Yeah, the desired body weight.

Okay. So it's about. It's about two grams per kilogram. Yeah. Of body weight, because they're from the uk.

Two pounds? Yeah, yeah. So you want to get two grams.

Per kilogram of body weight. It's like one pound for one pound.

Right, right, right. Yeah, exactly.

Makes sense. One gram for one pound.

Okay. Yeah. You want to eat a lot of the clean stuff.

Just so they know if you're 80 kilograms, it's about 160.

About 160, yeah.

160 grams of protein. Yeah.

And like, chicken breast is about 20 grams of protein, roughly, per 100 grams.

20 protein.

About 20 grams of protein in 100 grams. Yeah.

You're talking a chicken breast.

One breast.

Okay.

20 grams of protein. Okay, right.

Okay.

An egg is six grams of protein. People think, like, one or two eggs in the morning. Nah, you got to. You got to get, like, five or six.

Okay.

And the thing about protein is from Allah, you feel fuller. So you won't want to eat a lot of trash. That's why you go to these coffee shops, especially, like in the Middle East. They have a whole bunch of pastries and all that stuff, bro.

This guy. This the guy. This the guy eating French toast for breakfast. Damn. Look at this. Look at him. Pancakes. Look at him. Look at him. That's. He alive. That's why I did it. This is a different kind of snitching, is it not? He shot at me with a bar. I shot at you with the rest.

Yeah, yeah. So eat a lot of protein, avocados, especially avocados after your workout, because it has potassium, even more potassium than bananas and no sugar. So avocados is good for, like, Postburg. So main thing, you want to eat a lot of protein. Get a lot of good, clean protein. If you got to get some. Some shakes, it's fine.

10.

10.

Yeah, yeah.

10. Yeah. Keep those elbows push back on your way down. All your way up. Keep those elbows up. Yeah.

Keep talking, Keep talking. Tattoo the viewers.