What a Gym Owner's Workout Actually Looks Like

I've trained champions in multiple different disciplines, over 300 winners our studio has produced, as well as thousands of transformations. In this video, you're going to get an up close and personal workout with me. Today we are doing deadlifts. So we're at Enterprise Fitness, this is my home, and I'm going to be training with this big fella over here, Huey. He's been training me the last couple of months. How you going, Huey? We're gonna put this— yeah, mate, he's fucking going. Yeah, we're gonna have some fun today. So Huey, you ready? Yes, got deadlifts today. Excellent.

Let's go. Looking good today. Looking buff.

Oh, thank you. Since I have changed, I've actually started eating lean meat.

On the lean meats?

Believe it or not, I've gotten quite a bit leaner from switching from Scotch fillet every day and only eating fatty meat to eating lean meat. I don't know how many calories. It's a shock.

Lewis won't believe it.

I was just like, oh, you know, I should probably just start— I'll just try chicken breast. Then I had it on the web. I'm like, not that bad. And I stuck to it for a couple of days and I was like, yeah, I'll just see if I get leaner from making this change. All right, oh, we're going up to 155.

Take your time on each rep then. Just be fast.

Well, it's that balance. I need speed, but speed, but maintain accuracy. How many?

Go 3.

Go 3.

This is our last warm-up, then we'll go to 165. We'll start there.

All right, 3 reps. Take your time on the setup. Intense on the lift. So much better.

I pulled back on the heels a lot harder then too.

A lot harder, yeah. And that like set, set, go, that worked well.

Pull the— so think of your spine as train carriages, and imagine if you had a train and it moves really fast and the carriages like they buckled, right? And they did this. So that's often how people approach the deadlift. When they go through the deadlift, they use a lot of force on that first rep and you see their bodies tilt forward, then they come up. So the idea of the false start or the false pull is that we pull that fascia, we get the train carriages nice and tight, and then we lift. Because what happens— one of the common mistakes in the deadlift is people set up in the right position and then they pull, and then their bodies collapse upon impact. Because they collapse upon impact, the bar wiggles and moves. We want to pull that fascia tight, then move, so that when we make impact with the bar, nothing— none of the structures move out place. Everything moves as one. So when you look at me doing the false pulls, essentially what I'm doing, I'm loading up the heels as hard as I can and then getting everything tight. So then I— when I make that impact, my body just pulls it up almost like a crane. Nothing moves, the structure's as sound. So this is why also you'll see that people on the deadlift, their second rep often looks a lot better than their first rep, which is very common. But obviously in powerlifting, that doesn't help because in powerlifting it's one rep, right? So you need to get the first rep right, which is why setup is so crucially important, you've got to set up the lift correctly. Not that fast, but everything moves like really, really smooth.

It wasn't like you were jumping out of the reps.

So speed will come after because—

speed will come after.

Yeah, the technique is most important. I'm gonna get my other belt. So I have two different belts. This is a relatively new belt, and I've got that one from Loaded Lifting. I don't know where I got this one from, but this is my favorite preferred belt, and I got it on discount. What is this, a Texas? Yeah, this is a Texas belt. This is a really nice belt. I like the colors because it reminds me of Iron Man, and I love superhero stuff. So this is my Iron Man belt, which is my like more enterprise belt. I haven't got the fitting on this right. That was too loose, and I think maybe it's because I actually have lost a little bit of weight. So potentially that's why I need a little bit tighter, which that belt is there for. Enterprise coffee always on tap. Let me guess, this is Al's. What number are you up to today, Al? That is my favorite. This is our second one, but it actually counts as his fourth because a long black counts as two. That's not a short black. What, a long short? It's short. How? What, long short? What, 45? 30? Oh, that one. It's a short long. Extra hot water. It's not a short, it's a fucking long, long, long black.

175.

How many?

5. Serious weight now.

I'm overloading the abductor. Yeah, it was— that was happening last week.

The first rep was a bit grindy, got into it into your second and third and fourth.

The last one was all right. Yeah, I was avoiding.

Do you feel like your hips came a little bit high?

No, I think I was avoiding, avoiding the abductor. Yeah, avoiding loading.

Like a light band or something?

I think we'd go lower and just focus technique work, really, because at that weight, it's not the weight, like, it's this. That's the speed of applying pressure on this is what's killing it. I mean, we could do band, yeah, but technique work I think is what we need to do now. Yeah, so just on that, like, obviously I've been training since I was, what, 15, 14? And you have these days where shit doesn't go according to plan. Like, as much as I love it, we're filming, we don't film every day. I'd love to like rip out 5 reps of 200 and, you know, go for a PB, but it's just this adductor. I've been working through some knee injuries with Hugh, and, um, yeah, we need to, we need to play it, you play it smart because you don't want to push because is the biggest, the biggest barriers to progress are injury and illness. So if you get injured or if you get ill, they're 100% going to take you out of progressing faster than anything else. So you can have bad workouts, you can work through it, do the technique work, do the things that you're not doing, do the things that you've neglected, and live to fight another day. Last thing you want to do is you want to get injured. This even goes when people won't take time off I'm gonna go on holiday. Well, an injury is going to be more costly than a holiday. You can regain from a holiday pretty fast and pretty quickly. When you get injured, it's going to be weeks if not months. I've been injured quite a few times, so now I'm a lot more careful because underachieving is still achieving. Underachieving is still achieving. So what we have in our stack today for our intra workout, we have the KTS Solutions electrolytes. Got our Dr. Mark Schaus. We stock them here at Enterprise. They've got a 1 to 1.6 ratio of sodium and potassium. Jocko pre-workout— this is a great formula, only 95 milligrams of caffeine. Everything else in this is a nootropic, so really designed to enhance brain function, including L-carnitine. And can't go wrong with carnitine. You can't go wrong with creatine, monohydrate, standard. Creatine, take them for a workout, put them all in one, and there's our intra-workout shake. We stock this as well if you're interested. Hit us up, Enterprise Fitness, Enterprise Fitness AU on Instagram, or Melbourne Personal Trainers on the website. So this is too funny not to film. Can you film Hemming? I'm just gonna do running commentary, right? So this is Hemming doing a swing. It's marvelous, isn't it? He's trying to use his hips. There's no knee flexion or extension. Look at the uncoordinated nature of this. It's really, it's really a sight to behold. There he is. And Lewis, get it on. Lewis is trying to, trying to look at— Lewis is trying to coach him on it. It's like stiff. Trading with the owner and founder of Ed's Price. I was going to say, is that how you have sex?

Aha.

Yeah, so as I make contact, come up, there's no real movement. That's, that's what we need to play with going forward.

Yeah, so let's just do for the next like few weeks lighter, 3 reps.

Well, I don't necessarily think it has to be lighter. It's, it's— if we can, if we can avoid— like, I think part of it is, part of it is I came in and this is already a bit sore, and then when I move into that position, I'm overloading the hamstring in that position as well due to the technique. Yeah, so if we hone in on the technique, then the load can be relative. Because if my technique's good, I'm not feeling it, then— so when we say lighter, it's not necessarily needs to be lighter, it just needs to be relative. A weight that my technique isn't going to suffer. To drum the technique of what we do in, so the technique becomes second nature. Because you don't rise to your level of potential, you fall to your level of training. Remember that. How you doing, man? I saw your transformation photos, amazing. Amazing. So I was just saying that you need to apologize to the audience because when you got your food, I just gave away the secrets to how I hire and maintain such a unique work culture of amazing trainers like Tyrone and Hugh and yourself. We just hire people who are otherwise unemployable. Tyrone just said, I heard you say amazing trainers, he only heard one. So yeah, we just, we just hire people who are unemployable and they have nowhere else to work and give them homes. Case in point, this guy over here.

There he is.

A good morning. What I'm really trying to accomplish with this is to stack the rib cage on top of the pelvis and then move everything as one as I get into that hip extension. So I don't want to be in a thoracic extended position, I want to be rib cage stacked on top of pelvis, keeping everything nice and tight, then moving into hip extension. That is more akin to how I'm going to deadlift and definitely how I'm going to squat in that position as well with the upper body and the ribs being stacked on top. So me and Hugh have been working through my knee injuries. I injured my knee in 2020, 2019, and injured it squatting, actually doing my max, 200 kilos. I actually got the squat, but it was on a night that I really shouldn't have been training. For one, I don't train at night. Yeah, but I got invited to a powerlifting gym in a closed-door session, and they're the 3 strongest guys in Australia there. Legit, Jordan Shallows was there, and Emad said to me, go for your 1-hour rep. And I'm like, I've got to go for it, you know, you don't say no to Emad. And, um, so then I went for it, and, uh, you know, from Pro Raw, and went for it, and I got it. But yeah, in shoot, like, you looked at my technique, my knees came in, and It's when I started getting really a lot of knee issues, it's from that squat. Yeah, anyway, from there I've tried a lot with the rehab, had mixed success, but now it feels like with Huey by my side, we're making some good progress. Good progress, Tim. Yeah, good progress. We're not back where we were, but we're getting there. I suppose this is a good time for an intermittent advertisement. I read a book called The Enterprise Diet. And it's about everything I do. It's a very holistic look at nutrition and how you're doing things. And we'll just Google Enterprise Diet, available on Amazon and through the website enterprisediet.com. You don't have enough camera frame for this. How is Mark still bigger than me?

You son of a bitch.

He just said someone's lean, it's not you, Hammy.

Gym's pretty busy, eh?

Yeah, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7 sessions plus me, so 8 sessions plus me plus Tom, 10 people plus gaming. Well, when we say busy, this is probably normal for us. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5— I've lost count. That's it. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Listen to this guy, listen to this guy. He's a strong fuck, he's a big one as well. He's a big one, he's huge, it's actually massive. His banana. It's pretty steep, mate. Stealing an Italian man's banana. You know they don't grow bananas in Italy. They do? No, they don't. Oh, they don't? Yeah, that's why they got to come to Australia.

What? Export.

They come to Australia. Oh, right.

Last one.

Oh, thank you, ab coach. Thank you. See, my ab coach gave me the right tips.

See how like I tell him to do that and he doesn't listen to me, but then he comes in an external source.

He's the ab coach. Ab coach. Ab coach.

Cristiano ab coach.

He gave me the right cues, just connected with my nervous system, you know, when he said it. And I was like, he said stop swinging. I was like, oh, that's what you mean by stop swinging. Oh, right, okay.

So I just wasn't sat— when I said stop swinging, I just wasn't registering the same way.

Oh, don't stop swinging, mate. Yeah, it's what he said. He's like, don't swing, don't swing, not bend this way. Swing back, back, back, swing. Let's get Al, because we'll get more views. Let's film him getting changed. View count has just increased. He's getting changed. Yeah, that's it, that's it. Thank you, thank you. It's a pleasure training with you today and filming. This is Huey, he trains me now. Twice a week, 3 times a week, sometimes 4 times a week. I wish this handshake would last forever. This is amazing. So nice. It's great. It's almost as good as me and James. Not quite as good though. Oh, this is now rotating. This is— yeah, we're feeling each other's energy. We're connected. I feel the energy between us. Oh, that's really good. If you've enjoyed this video, this workout, make sure you subscribe.