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Build BJJ Buddy Live + Speediance | AI Dev Session πŸ”₯

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Welcome to my Sunday livestream! πŸŽ‰ Today I'm doing two things simultaneously: a live AI-assisted development session with ARIA, plus my Speediance workout in between. You'll see me building real products with AI assistanceβ€”not polished demos, but the messy, real process. What we're building today:

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There we go. Okay, now my mic is on. Sorry about that. So, I usually wear a lapel mic. I forgot to grab it out. I was trying to rush to get everything set up because what you should be able to see now is you'll be able to see my face. You'll be able to see the Speediance and I'll zoom in on the Speediance whenever we go over to it. And then I wanted to cover today uh my new project that I'm working on plus show off the Speediance plus the AI dev stuff. So, this is going to look more like what a a night in the life of me actually looks like. I figured I would finally show off. And I'm back shirtless only because I didn't have a shirt on whenever I was getting ready to record. So, you'll get to see the winter bulk mode version of me. So, back to a winter bulk. I also have like a So, my wife gave me kind of a sick burn. So, I was going for Wolverine and she said I look more like Sabretooth. And the problem with it in terms of the X-Men characters. By the way, the problem with that is they have the same facial hair. Uh it's just Sabretooth is fat. So, she she uh uh I don't think accidentally but was definitely calling me fat. Because they're they're the same character in terms of the look uh Sabretooth is a little bit more puffy in the movies and but in in the comic books they have the same facial hair. Which is pretty funny to think about and and like she just gave me like the biggest insult I've ever gotten. So, uh but yeah. So, I was going for that. I'm going to shave it off this week. I'm I was supposed to go to jujitsu on Friday but as you can tell by my voice, I'm a little under the weather. Uh I got I got some kind of a like throat issue going on. So, coughing my my little one's had it for quite a while and I finally got it. But yeah, so this is uh So, my new app that I'm building plus my new website launched plus uh I wanted to show you guys what what it looks like for me to actually kind of do work and work on the Speediance. So, the first thing I'm going to do is actually bring the Speediance back to being pretty much full screen. Right? Then, what I'm going to do is walk over to the Speediance. And you should be able to still hear me pretty well. Yes, good. Mic is working. So, now I'm going to go over to the Speediance. I'm going to go to my templates on the Speediance. Right? And then I'm going to go to one of my workouts. Hopefully. Is the Speediance going to play nicely? Well, that's new. I think this is probably the first time the Speediance has ever froze on me like this. I guess we will be restarting the Speediance. So, let me turn it off and turn it back on again. And while that boots up, I will go back over to my computer. So, you can actually see what it kind of looks like to be me. So, I'm going to go back over to my computer and then I am going to make the Speediance a little smaller. Bring the Speediance down while it loads and talk a little bit about what I'm actually building. So, now I've been working with OpenClaw for quite a bit longer and I've been working on this BGG BJJ Buddy what BJJ Buddy app plus my new website. So, I finally launched that new website that I've been working on. So, you can see it here. It's finally after years of having a website that I wasn't very proud of because I just wasn't willing to put the time into it, I finally have a website that I can be proud of. So, this this website and this was all built by Arya. So, Arya is the name of my main bot uh with the help of a course it's sub bots. So, that's the way this OpenClaw works basically. The most effective mannerism for using OpenClaw is to have a main bot and then sub bots to do the work. And the reason why is because different models have different capabilities and also you're rate limited on something like Claude Sonnet or Claude Opus on the amount of tokens you have because you're paying for them. So, it's much cheaper to offload to Clarity and I now have Nova which are my two local agents. And then these are all remote agents that uh are free actually. So, they have free tiers that are pretty lenient. So, now that the Speediance is back up and running, I'm going to go over to the Speediance. I'm going to click my templates. There we go. And now I'm going to click my favorite of all of my workouts. It's called Warrior One. So, I'm going to click that workout and click start. Going to move the bench out of the way. And I actually have the audio on for the first time in a long time. I forget what I was I was looking at something on there. So, the audio was actually on for the first time. And then I'm going to grab my smart handles. And you can see I'm not worried right now about them starting the workout and me not starting the workout. I have them on the wrong sides. They are labeled by the way with a side. So, and you can see that did not damage anything. It just dropped to the ground and it did not break. So, these things are pretty hardy. I wouldn't recommend doing that on a daily basis. But now I'm turning them on and they're activating. And now the weight is on. Let me turn the weight off real quick. And go back over to my computer. So, uh I'm going to go back over to my computer and make the the Speediance full screen for you. So, we'll make this full screen or close to it. And then what I am going to do is show you what warm-up sets look like for me. So, this is a warm-up set. This is set to um This is set to 20 RM. And I think it's at uh like 13. Is it Well, 13's the reps at 20 RM. So, this is the max setting that you can get for stamina. And uh and I'm going through and just doing a warm-up set. And unfortunately, even with the 3.1 software So, they show 20 RM down there and it was it was 13 reps. Oh, even with this version of the software uh sadly, even though they've redesigned the screen it still makes you wait. So, if I hit skip what rest, it will annoy the crap out of me the next time I go to do a workout. So, unfortunately, even still I have to kind of wait to do my warm-up sets. And then what I'll usually do is I'll come back to the computer while I wait on it or in this case it was quick enough that I'll go back and do my next set. So, you can see I'm walking back and forth back and forth back and forth. Right? So, that's what's happening. I'm going back to the computer. I'm going back to the Speediance. So, I don't actually sit there and wait for the rests. I come back and I'll work on something. So, in this case what I wanted to show you is my my new dev stuff. So, uh the new website is ready and uh So, what I wanted to show you next is actually the apps on my phone. And I'll tell you why because people ask a lot of questions about like Whoop, Garmin uh and in fact I just recently got a question about it. Like what do I look at from Garmin? What do I look at from Whoop? So, I figured I would just show you real quickly on the phone. Hopefully, I can get this to capture. Let's see. I boot this up and turn it on. Webcam Mac OS. Not that one. Oh, it's this one. But how do I see it? Maybe if I move it will that put it on the screen? Maybe if I unplug it, plug it back in again. It's connected. I wonder if I'm have a limit for how many of them I can show at one point in time. So, I'm still learning how this works. I may not be able to show you my phone screen. I did not test this ahead of time to see if I could actually get it to come up. Hm. It is showing as black. That's weird. But it's definitely plugged in. Well, that might not work. Video. Vertical layout, maybe? No. Ah, it is there, I think. Huh, I don't see it. Okay. Well, we might have to skip that slide for this time, and I will figure that out for next time. So, it's showing as black for whatever reason. See what happens if I do that. Ah, there it comes up. Okay. Got it. So, finally. Sorry, I had to figure that out. Okay. So, here is my phone. And what I wanted to show you is on this phone we have the Whoop app. And realize this is not my actual phone. The the phone that's shooting the the Speediance is my actual phone. So, this is just my old phone, right? And what we can see on this is we can see um my recovery for today is 35% uh I was at 5.2 strain. And I got a 4.9 for my running. So, I'm not going to hit my strain target for the day. Now, what's interesting is I don't necessarily Well, I probably will with this lift. So, finally, the Speediance lifts count towards your strain for the day. And let me go over and do one more lift. I like to try to keep my cadence on lifts to every minute or two doing another one. And this in particular is one of the lifts where that new safety start feature is designed for, and I don't think you should use it on this lift. So, you notice I turned them on whenever I grabbed the handles and moved them forward a little bit. So, people have a lot of problems with this lift in particular and a couple other ones where you're standing like this where it throws them into the machine. And my personal opinion is I'm doing this lift for shoulder health, not for maximum strength output. So, I don't I like this is not the the heaviest weight I could use. If I wanted to lift the heaviest weight even like this is my warm-up set, but during my top set, it's not the heaviest weight I can lift, not by far. And uh and so, what that means is I I would have to wear a weighted vest. So, for me to be able to do a top set on this, I would actually have to wear a weighted vest. And for me, that's not the point of that exercise. So, the point in particular of those high to low um curls like that, and I apologize my voice is not 100%, but the point of those is for range of motion and flexibility. And by using safety start, you're actually eliminating that. So, that safety start feature on that device is actually I think hindering people's performance and not helping it. Personally, that's my personal opinion on that feature. Uh I think it's going to cause more problems and not less. Be- Be- because people will use it improperly. Not because the feature is terrible. Um I don't think it's terrible by any means. I just don't think I don't trust users to use it properly, and Tonal didn't have it for a reason, right? Um to be honest with you, like that's not something that they brought to their device, at least not the whole time I had it. And there was a reason why they didn't bring it because it limits range of motion. So, anyways, so Whoop plus Garmin, my daily stack. So, I don't care about whether or not I hit the strain goal. A lot of people are fixated on hitting that strain goal. What I care about right now. So, I will say that changes with time. That's not a fixed thing. It It varies based upon where I'm at in my training cycle. Right now, what I care about is running. So, if we go over to Garmin, I have been hitting my daily suggested workouts. So, one of the things that happens is I get a daily suggested workout, and that does not show up on the phone in any way, sadly. So, if we look at my phone, I cannot find my daily suggested workout. It's simply not there, which is hugely disappointing that the Garmin itself does not have uh the ability to track what daily workouts it suggested uh and which ones you chose to do and what percentages you achieved on them. I can't find that information. And that to me is pretty sad, you know what I mean? Like it shows that I did uh 1.5-mile workout, but nowhere in here does it show that that workout was 91% of the daily suggested workouts. Um like there was a little bit where my heart rate was too high and my heart rate was too low. It's doing everything heart rate based, which is the way I have to do it because sometimes I'm running up hills. So, if you're running flat, you can use uh the speed and distance parameters, which is the default. But for me, sometimes I'm running up a hill, which uh heart rate is then the the limiting factor and the thing that matters the most. So, for me in particular uh using the heart rate zones, and then honestly, I think it should be the default anyways, but that's that's the setting that I have it set to, and I use their daily suggested workout. But the thing I actually care about in here, which this is why uh Garmin is both, in my opinion, the best platform and the worst platform. Because the thing that is the most important detail on this actual phone is if I click more, right? So, now I'm in the more tab, and then I believe it's under performance stats. And I think I can get to it from training status. Yes. So, training status, right? This Even this screen, not important to me, right? I mean, everything in on the screen is meaningless on its own. Then I click load. This screen's important to me. This I had to fix my my max heart rate for it to even show. Like everything was just low anaerobic because it had my max heart rate set from 8 years ago. In fact, that's the um short that I just posted today was from a previous video where I realized my max heart rate was wrong and fixed it, and now all of the sudden this data's flowing through correctly. So, now that I have my max heart rate fixed, you can see I get a little bit of anaerobic, a little bit of high anaerobic, and I'm right in the middle of the zone for low anaerobic. This is This is actually the second most important screen for me right now cuz I'm getting ready for a race, right? And I'm getting for a race, and I'm huge, right? I don't know if you saw whenever I was over at the Speediance, but I'm the biggest I've ever been. And so, to be this size and and going to race is going to be uh quite quite a challenge. So, what we're going to do is we're going to show the next screen, right? Which if I go into training load, this is actually the screen that matters most to me. And what I realized is this looks terrible compared to the version of me that I remember. So, the version of me that I remember most was the version that was a runner, right? And that was back in Oh, boy. Well, it would have been uh 6 years ago, 7 years ago. So, you know, it'd be a long time ago, right? So, 7 years ago, I was a runner, right? And this chart did not look like this whenever I was a runner. It was like the top of this line is at 600. That chart was the bottom of the line. So, like realize like when you're a runner, this chart looks different. But what I did not know is that um is that this is actually the best shape I've been in since like before 2022. So, I didn't realize that I've never been consistently able to move this green graph up. Right? You can see the chart is moving up and up and up. And what's happening, sorry for the cough, but what is happening is this chart's moving up and up and up, right? And it's moving up slowly. I've never had it move up this slowly, but I think it's just the sheer size and the amount of muscle and and everything that I'm carrying now, and I'm older, right? So, I'm 6 years older. Uh I'm way bigger. So, unfortunately, my body is not recovering like this used to I used to be able to bring this chart the whole way up here within a couple weeks of training. And now you're looking at my actual training load. So, if I go in here, this is a 4-week timeline. So, you're looking at it's taken me 8 weeks, you know what I mean? So, I started this about 7 weeks ago. And in 7 weeks, I'm actually progressing that green chart up slowly. And you can see when I'm having bad recovery days, I do less difficult workouts. And that's all planned by the daily suggested workout. But, this is where this tech stack of having specifically, if I go into my fitness reports and go into my morning report, this is where this thing is so valuable to me. And the reason why it's going to be valuable and hold on, let me turn off the screen so that you can see what I'm talking about. Video capture device. That one? Nope. That one. Okay. So, what I'm talking about here is having these reports is extremely valuable to me because in the morning if I do a hard run, that's going to adjust everything else that needs to happen in the day. And the daily suggested workout wouldn't have been affected. So, that's where I needed to build out my own charting to say, "Hey, you already worked out really hard. You can't do today's daily suggested workout. You have to do a lighter workout." And that will be based upon this data plus actually what I see in the Whoop app for my already existing strain. Um, so that's the basics there. And let's get back and do another lift. And then I'll come back and talk to you a little bit more about some of this stuff. So, let's go back here and uh, do the do a standing double handle high cable. I believe it's a high cable curl. Right? So, we're here. So, we do that. Then I come back and I continue work. I mean, that's pretty much my workflow for the nights, right? So, I'll go over there, I'll do some of that, and then I'll come back and I'll do I'll continue through my work that I was doing. So, what we're looking at here, right? We're looking at my morning from this morning. And so, I use a combination of the Whoop app, I use a combination of the Garmin app, and then I also use a combination of my custom dashboards. And unfortunately, I'm still using it because I really do like the Garmin timeline. Unfortunately, it's buried five levels deep, and I will eventually recreate this graph that they have on the Garmin in my own stuff because I have access to their data. So, with access to their data, you can build whatever they have. So, if we go back and do do Now, I lost my place with the uh with with the slideshow that I built. So, this is where having OpenClaw is pretty powerful cuz I forget where the slideshow was. Can you send me the link to the slideshow? Actually, I think it's right here. It is right there. But, let me show you what this will do, right? So, slide show again. Right? So, all I have to do is ask this chatbot and it will come back to me. Boom, right there is the link. Right? So, that's the power of this, right? I can just ask it questions. I can ask it to build this. It actually built this slideshow for me. I looked over it before this, but it actually built it for me based upon uh what I wanted to talk about. So, I actually voiced in what I wanted to talk about and it generated the slide so that I would have a little bit of a more cohesive, coherent version of of what I wanted to discuss cuz last time there was a couple things I wanted to discuss and I missed them. So, what we're looking at here is the Whoop app, the Garmin Connect stuff. Obviously, I'll be back over on the Speediance real quick, do another set. So, I think this one requires the bench. No, that doesn't. That's just a regular lat pull-downs. So, when I do lat pull-downs, you notice her butt is the whole way back in her uh like her butt is the whole way back to her ankles. And I don't quite have the flexibility to do that, but I get as close as I can get. And then I'm pulling as hard as I can and trying to keep my butt down. You can see it comes up a little bit, but the goal is to get the maximum stretch possible. And even though these are warm-up sets, they're still not easy. Like they're not you know, I'm still able to talk to you during them, but they're not easy. So, now we'll go to the next slide. So, we'll zoom back in here and we'll go to this next slide. So, what we're going to do today. Going to have two ter- parallel tracks as you're already seeing. The AI dev session and some Speediance lift. So, I'm going to show you actually what I'm doing with my BJJ Buddy app. And we'll see if we can fix some bugs while we're here. Um and Arya is going to be doing the fixing. I'm not going to be doing it myself. So, you'll get to see Arya in action. And that's kind of the general gist of what I want to do. So, I guess if we start off, let's actually bring up So, this was the website. Let's close the website. And let's go in and ask Arya to bring up the BJJ Buddy app. Uh, actually I think it's on the next slide. Yes, it is. So, if we go in here, this is the BJJ Buddy app. So, I now have authentication. And let's test since if that's actually working. This might not be working yet. We'll find out. Ah, there we go. At least I'm getting the error. So, that's good. I'm finally getting the error that I was hoping to get. So, unfortunately, that is the right password. Let's see if I have not signed up. Account created. Okay, now I'm finally getting the account creation stuff that I was not getting before. So, there was some miswiring whenever I first set this up and I was not seeing the account creation and I was not getting the account creation email. So, now that is actually occurring. Okay, that's good. But, anyways, while while we wait on that, we'll actually go into the demo mode that I had it built out. So, inside this demo mode, we will go through it and start to take a look at it. Let's do another lift real quick. So, this lift these are single arm high to low lifts. You can see what I'm trying to do. So, with my workouts, the goal of these workouts is to hit different pieces of the shoulder. So, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to hit different angles to create to not create as many muscle imbalances as I used to have. So, when I was free lifting, I was doing the same exercise over and over again to progress. And I am doing the same exercises over and over again. That hasn't changed. The difference is the variety of the exercises is so much greater now. So, I have so many different exercises that I'm doing. It's not just one or two exercises. It's a combination of like 20, 30 exercises. So, now if I go back over here and I show you guys what I'm working on. So, now if I I go in here, right? I have this home page. I have the training log. Right? If I click here, you can enter in your your training information. And you should have a session history. So, if I hit save, that now shows up in my session history. If I go back, I can edit the session history. I do notice that I need to put a close button on here. So, and here's here's the trick to this. So, I need to put a closing button on here. So, can you have Clarity but So, why am I specifying can you have Clarity do that? Right? You know, it's very specifically and I'll make this a little smaller so that you can see the full prompt. So, I specifically called out can you have Clarity do this? Right? And all of a sudden it caused a session.spawn and it says Clarity is on it. What is that actually doing behind the scenes? So, if I go to my dashboard, Clarity is running Quint 3 Coder. So, what that means is that's actually running on the local machine making this change. Instead of having um Claude's on it do that change itself, I'm having Quint 3 Coder do it on the machine. And the reason being is because of this. So, there is that would use a ton of tokens to have uh Claude's on it making these changes. And I'm at 47% used already on my on my subscription. So, I'm using the subscription still. That is going to go away for a lot of us. Uh they've already started banning people, which is a real real shame that you're paying that kind of money and they are banning people. But I I offload a lot of the tasks to something like Quint 3 Coder. So, now if we go back in, we'll do the other arm. Right? So, I did one arm. We'll do the other arm. And I really like by the way, I think in the last episode it sounded like I was pretty down on the Tonal because I do not like the V3.1 software to be honest with you. Um I don't think it was a necessary software update and I don't think it added value. Um I didn't add it significant value for the amount of effort that they had to put into it. Like they had to put real effort into these UX redesigns and I would rather have custom partner workouts. You know, which would take a lot less effort in my opinion. So, uh but in terms of using the machine, it's phenomenal. I mean, it's absolutely great even with uh even with the retraction bug that it has. And I'll have to see if the retraction bug's still there cuz I'm not noticing it right now. So, I wonder if they fixed it uh because they just got back from uh I just sent them another message about it and I think they just either today or tomorrow are getting back from a Chinese holiday. So, they may have actually taken care of it and I just didn't realize that the firmware updated. That could have been why the machine didn't work the first time is because the firmware just got updated. So, one of the problems that someone was complaining about and I agree with that person is on the screen there is no indication of what level these should be. And so, I'm kind of trying to look and see what level she has them at and you can't really tell. So, what I have to do is I have to come up here, click here and click I think exercise expectation and scroll down. So, it was L1 and R1 is where she was at and you just can't tell. Like if they're on L1 and R1, it's really hard to tell the minutia of the difference between the arm positions. And this is something that that I realized Speediance needs to have that on the screen somewhere here because or they need to have sensors in here like what Tonal had that tell you that it's not at the right position. Especially for this exercise because this exercise when you're not at the right position, you actually won't be able to get the full stretch. If you have it up at the top of the bar, you won't get the full stretch. So, you have to be down where she is at L1 R1. And you notice the way she's doing the exercise, the other trainer actually does it differently and she's doing it in my way in my opinion the correct way. And so, that's kind of why I switched to her because most of the exercises I do the way she does them and not the way the other trainer does them. So, she's grabbing the handles like this and then pulling down. And I know that sounds but he was grabbing them on the sides and you can't get as much leverage on the handle, you can't lift as much weight. Which I know for like a flexibility exercise isn't the end of the world, but I don't want my grip strength to be the limiting factor in this in this stretch. So, this is more of a stretching exercise than anything else, but I don't want my grip strength to be the you know, the way he was doing it my grip strength would have been the limiting factor cuz there I'll show you whenever I get up what I'm talking about where he was on the sides of the handles. But it's definitely not ideal to do what he was doing. So, what he was doing is instead of gripping them like that, he was gripping them like this. All right? So, he was gripping above the ropes and pulling that way. My grip is going to be the limiting factor in that. And it's going to be a little bit of a uh Yeah. It's still has the retraction issue. I can tell just from that that it does not retract the way it used to. Hopeful hopeful thinking that the retraction was fixed. But I think they'll take care of it sooner than later. Uh the one downstairs does not have the retraction issue. So, you know, the original Gym Monster. Only my 2S has it. And apparently people with the same firmware and the Gym Monster 2 do not have the retraction issue that mine has. So, it's particular to the 2S unfortunately. Which is a real shame that their most expensive device is the one with the issue. But it is what it is. Getting back to Open Claude though, so I have Clarity and Nova and actually I spent a ton of time this morning debugging the idea that uh what was happening is Nova was just failing and at first I'm like, "Huh, that's weird because it's a newer model um and I actually should probably put the model there. The model is in particular GLM 4.7 Flash and I need to fix this so that actually says what model it was cuz all the rest of them say the exact model names. But yeah, this is GLM 4.7 Flash which is a relatively new model, but it should be able to fit uh on on the within the RAM specification of my computer. Unified memory RAM that they're not interchangeable, but they're functionally the same cuz Macs don't have RAM, they have unified memory. They have a a shared memory pool for everything. Uh but the unified memory on this Mac, Quint 3 Coder and GLM 4.7 should be able to fit in memory at the same time. And what was happening is it was getting offloaded. Well, I had a I had not just Quint 3 Coder sitting here, I also had a smaller Quint 3 model and that's what I was using for all my cron jobs. And what I didn't realize is the model for my cron jobs was actually booting out the two bigger models because anytime a cron job would fire, it would actually uh kick GLM 4.7 out of the pool cuz it was too big. It doesn't It doesn't not allow the smaller model to run, it actually boots the bigger one out. So, uh I had to take away that and just use Quint 3 Coder this model for everything. Um for all of the cron jobs and everything that is not uh what Nova's going to be doing. So, the reason why you want two different models like this is this is specifically a coding model. Obviously, it's called Quint 3 Coder, right? So, it is a coding and this is more general intelligence and I wanted to be able to offload some of the brain that Claude Opus is doing onto Nova to do the thinking locally. Uh that way I'm not hitting my token limits. So, that's what I was setting up this morning. Ironically, I used quite a bit of tokens to figure out what was going wrong. So, it's kind of like one of those things where uh it's a learning experience and it's really important to continue to learn while you're going through this. But that's the general gist of what's going on here, uh where I'm at with all of these models, and uh let's see if it fixed the issue. So, it's already there. Added it. Choo choo choo. Top right, it should be in the corner. Uh let's see if a hard refresh fixes it. So, if I do a Now, it's down. Uh let's see. And while I'm waiting on that to respond, I will do another lift. Ah, it's responding now, but we'll still do the the next lift. So, this is a pretty fun lift actually. Just a wide row. Mhm. >> And yeah, it's a pretty simple routine, right? I'm just interchanging, lifting, and working on my computer. This allows me to get more done at night, learn as much as I can, and make sure that I get my lifting in. Fixed. Okay. So, let's go back here. Go back, and click on this. There's my close button. So, it was added. So, we've got the close button. Oh, you can't see it though. So, if I go back and show you, open close was like, "Hey, I fixed everything." We have the close button, we have this. Sure enough, I go back. Boom, close button's there. And we have everything else. We can close, click save. Now, at that time, that creates a new one. So, this will create a new one. Now, how do I delete? Uh edit session needs to have a delete option. Right? Or there needs to be a swipe to delete. Clarity. Add that. And now, while that does that, I will do actually one of my favorite workouts. This is actually one of my favorite ones. So, this is actually one of the benefits of having this cage around it is this cage locks the bench in so that it doesn't slide back and hit the hit the uh ropes. And then we got to move this up. And let's see. I might actually need to turn the lights on in here. Let me get this to be a lot brighter. There we go. Okay. So, a lot brighter. And let's check the positioning on these. Exercise explanation. And we're at L3 R3. Perfect. And yeah, like I said, this is one of my favorite exercises. And before I had this rack here, I had to use my power blocks to hold this in position, but every time I'd have to move the power blocks, and it's actually a little bit of a headache. And now that these are here, they actually kind of lock the bench in place so that it won't slide backwards. I can go and just do my exercise. Oh, the Whoop is also on my bicep now, almost all the time. It was always on my wrist before, but I gotten the Moto uh 2R, and unfortunately, I'm returning the device. I hated it. Gemini was terrible. Like, Gemini on it was not Gemini on your phone. I talked about that in the last live stream. It is so bad, I'm returning it, and I'm finally going to give Apple another chance. So, I had the Apple Watch Gen 1, and I had the Apple Watch Gen 2, and I thought they were the biggest pieces of garbage I've ever seen in my life. Everything before them, everything after them was so much better. So, I thought they were absolute trash. And uh I they forgot notification settings cuz I don't like to have any of that stuff on constantly. Like, they were terrible at uh sleep tracking. They I don't even think it has sleep tracking. It was such an awful device. The battery life on it was horrible. Uh the Microsoft Band was a much better device. Everything else on the market was so much better. And and they ended up winning, right? It's like they created the biggest trash device I've ever seen and and won, but we're going to go back and revisit them because it's been so many years. People say all the notification issues are fixed where once you set notification settings, they stick across updates to the OS. We'll see if that's actually the case. I'm skeptical, but um especially cuz they don't always stick on Uh they do stick on the Mac though, to be fair. Once you set a setting, it it stays. It not only stays even if they delete the user interface. Like, there I had a specific sleep schedules on my Macs, and they deleted the interface to be able to edit the sleep schedules, and the sleep schedules stuck. Meaning I had no user interface to edit them, but they were permanently stuck on my machine unless I went drop and dropped into the terminal to fix them. So, uh yeah, I had to I had to already in the code, the delete session button should be there. It's red. Um the current build should have it. If you're not seeing it in the edit session modal, let me know. Okay, so I am not seeing it. The last thing that I see is submissions received. So, I think the edit session is overflowing the page. I think the edit session is overflowing the page and not scrolling. Because the last thing that I see on this edit session page is um submissions received, and intensity is outside of its bounding box. Submissions received. Right, it is submissions received. Submissions received, which is a weird word. I'll have to fix the wording on that. It is the last You can see I got the spelling wrong, but it'll it'll figure it out. Last in thing in the bounding box, and is Okay. So, we'll see if they We'll see if they Oh, I realized you couldn't even see my typing there, but that's fine. My spelling was atrocious, but uh now we're actually getting go into working sets. So, on the on the speedian side of things, we're actually going to be getting into working sets, and on this side of things, we're still working through. On this side of things, what I found is in this training log, this bounding box is not where it should be. So, do you see how this is clipped here, and it's not going down the whole way? And I'm guessing there's a delete button, but I can't scroll to it. So, I have to get it to fix that. So, I'm asking uh it to look into that. And in the meantime, I will actually get into my working sets. So, oops. I accidentally clicked on something in OBS. Okay. So, we will get into an actual working set. So, I just moved the bench out of the way, and you can see my positioning on this is probably going to be even worse. So, now I'm at 94 lb with 28 lb of eccentric force. So, what that means is on the way down, it's at 90, and then you can see it going up up And you can see my arm shaking a little bit as I'm doing these reps. It's because this is not light. So, here here it's asking me, "Hey, you beat your 1RM. Do you want to add to it?" And then I'm going to select no. But it's offering me 0, 7, or 14 lb. Now, if I hit no, this is where I think this is still glitched, but we'll find out. We were at 94 lb before. So, luckily, I remember the weights. So, unfortunately, I think single arm motions are still glitched on the device. But, we will find out as we're going through it. So, once it gets past that screen, it will go in and you can see here here I'm out of breath. Right, my warm my warm warm-ups as you could hear there's no out of breath, no nothing. But, once I get into my working sets, I actually need a recovery from it. So, I need to come back here and work on stuff because fundamentally, I'm tired. You know, so I can get back here and see what it told me. If I go back into the open claw control, done. Boom. So, you can see it went through. And now we should have this working properly. So, if I hit shift refresh on this, go back in, click on this, there we go. So, now I have scrolling working properly. Save, delete, cancel. I don't love the idea of having a save button. Uh cuz if I close, it should do the same as save yet does. Maybe I have to get rid of the save button. That's a small detail, but maybe I will have it do that. Now, we'll go to the other side and do the lift and see what it actually did as far as size as far as weight goes. I'm actually pretty curious myself. All right, so if I go over here and now it left it. Hey, they may have actually fixed it. So, what happened was uh if you're just now joining in, what ended up happening is I I was on my last lift it suggested for me to up the weight and it had huge problems in the past and even now, it offered me 0 7 and 14. Those are massive progressions. Like, I'm looking at going up 1 2 lb, not 7 lb, right? So, if I wanted to progress the weights right now, by the way, which I don't because I'm kind of sick, but let's just say in an average day, whenever it got gave me that progression notification, I would up it by 1 lb and that would up the one I'll actually do it for you. So, I will up it for by 1 lb and that should up my 1 RM on this exercise. Small incremental increases. And also, I'm going to up the eccentric by one, by the way. So, eccentric by one and weight by one. What I'm trying to do on the way up is count to three. You can see I can't always get there. But, the goal is to do a three centric eccentric or a three second eccentric and that is hard when the weight is that heavy. And it did not pop up a new one rep max on there. That's interesting. I would have expected it to. But, I bet the weights will be a little bit higher next time I work out. Woo. Okay. So, now if we get back into here, so if we take a look at BJJ Buddy, let's see if there's The biggest thing that the whole reason why I wanted this app is this technique library. So, this is the reason why I wanted to build it is because I wanted the ability to and and we're working on this technique quiz. I actually want to see So, 10 questions, start the quiz. Right. Question one, guillotine choke from closed guard. Okay. Applied to the front where the opponent's head is trapped under the armpit. Often, the opponent postures down or drives forward. Yeah. Yeah, that is correct. So, what's cool is it has the names in Japanese, which I don't actually know. So, realize that this was all and I'm going to have to proofread these and fact check them just to make sure they're right. But, this was all done by my AI agents. And so, I wish it would show me whether I was right or not right there, but I mean, that is what a guillotine is, right? It's just a it's just a move where actually I'll go over this being so that I can show you. So, guillotine is just a simple move where you're uh where you're wrapping their head underneath your arm, right? You're locking it in and then usually if you're standing, you're going to be wrenching up onto your toes to try to finish it, right? And actually, if you can kind of push down on their back, which I don't think you're legally supposed to do, but if you push down on their back a little bit, you'll get a better angle. You'll get a better fulcrum to get that hand deeper under the neck. So, the goal is to actually to get the choke Well, to get not a windpipe crush, right? If you want to get the choke, your goal is to get this arm actually as deep as you can over to the other side. That's what actually makes the blood choke as as strong as possible getting this arm this way, right? Um if you can't get that and the person's grabbing a hold of the arm, you can still finish it by wrenching down and up, but you're right on the trachea typically. And I've seen it break people's windpipes. So, for people who won't tap to that, you know, I would much rather tap than have a broken windpipe. So, just my own two cents on that move. But, yeah, so you know, that's that that's that move, right? So, this actually looks pretty cool. I'll go through the rest of the technique quiz later. But, this is actually pretty cool. This is again stuff that all the AIs building out. But, if I click on one of these, you can see it it'll show a YouTube video. I have to work on the the sizing and the and everything else so that it's smaller, right? I don't want it to be that big. But, um maybe I have it work on that now actually. Let's put these Are they all like that? They might all be like that. This will probably look a lot better. And these are actual videos on YouTube. This will probably look a lot better the smaller it is. So, yeah, the smaller it is, it actually looks better. So, this will look a lot better on a phone than it will on a desktop. So, maybe I have it um let me see. Let me go in the technique detail page. So, in the technique page on desktop, the videos need to be small enough that you can see the uh content below. Have clarity fixes. So, that will spin that up. Have clarity go fix that. I'll go do another lift. Now, we're into my working set, so uh they're going to be a lot harder. So, we're actually I only planned on doing the warm-up sets tonight actually because of how sick I am, but I don't feel that bad. And these are some of my favorite exercises. So, it's not like But, you can see this exercise in particular, it brings my arms up. Right, when I turned on the weight, my arms went up. That's because the weight's heavy enough that I uh you know, that it will move my arms. Now, this this in particular, I could like I said, I could do a lot more weight. You can hear I can actually talk during this. But, if I do a lot more weight, I have to put a weighted vest on and it's just not worth it for me to have to take the weighted vest on and off, uh especially for something that I'm using as a shoulder stretch primarily. So, I can hear my shoulder snapping and popping because I'm old and I've torn both of them. And oh, that's the other thing. You notice how I brought it back to the how I brought it back. So, when I have both handles in my hand, and this is why I think safety start is dumb. So, when I have both handles in my hand, what I did So, I didn't use safety start, right? I didn't turn it on here and only have this range of motion. But, what I That is really annoying. That's the retraction, by the way, bug. Like, the second I went to bring it back, it didn't actually bring them back uh because the weight's turned off. So, it works perfect when the weight's turned on, but when the weight's turned off, it is freaky. It does not bring the things back. It's like you have to go really slow or else it gets I don't know what the word for it is, but it's like the cables getting caught inside the machine. It's really scary feeling. It it absolutely needs to be get fixed. But, um what ended up happening is I held it here until the the two seconds turned it off, right? And I have that unlimited sets or unlimited reps setting turn on and that's what's giving me those extra two seconds and I find that so beneficial to get the full stretch of my arms and have to wait the two seconds with it and then I can bring them back safely. Um and then and then for single arm motions, by the way, what I'll end up doing is grabbing it with the other hand and bringing it back that way. So, that's that's the that's the way I end up doing that. Is I end up And I think it's important to realize, that's why I don't like the safety start feature. So, let me show you safety start real quick to to now that it's working on my device, I'll show you. If I turn on the safety start So, if I pull it out and turn on safety start Uh, oh, sorry. I forgot. You have to start it here and then pull it out. Okay. And then how do I do it with the other one? Uh, I always forget how to do this. Confirm. Pull the cable out to adjust it. Pull the cable out to adjust it. There. Now they're both locked out there. So, now both of my cables are locked out and if I hit complete settings that means I will start the range of motion here. And for this exercise especially, I mean this there was a someone who's using this for every exercise. If you're using safety start on this exercise where the you know, you've got real issues, right? Like you should not be using it for this exercise in general, but you get the idea. And now the cables start here and I have to be the whole way back here or else I'm not going to get the full stretch and I'm going to turn this off cuz I hate it, but I hate I I hate even the concept of it. So, I want to start my rep I want to pull them out and now there's tension the whole way through the range of motion. The whole goal of this is always have tension on the cables. The whole idea of having one of these machines is to always have cage tension on the cables. The idea of using that feature in my opinion is bad. Right? Like the whole goal is to have tension the whole way through. So, now it has tension and you can see I actually can't stand the way she stands. So, she's standing with both of I might be able to. I have to lean back, though. So, you can see I'm actually leaning back and she's not and the reason is the difference is she's using 8 lb and I'm using 38 lb. Right? So, unfortunately, if I stand straight up I can't actually get the full range of motion. Right? So, the last rep I stood straight up instead of leaning back, I can't get it pulled the whole way to my head. So, my goal on that motion is not to have the exact same form she has where she's standing like hit this. That's not my goal. My goal is to actually get them back almost to my ears to get the full range of motion in my arms. So, now if we go back here right, done. So, boom. We look at that. Go here. We go back. And we go into the technique library. Look at that. So, now it capped the size, right? So, now it's not going crazy big. Um, and that way this stuff will fit on the screen. So, pretty simple. Um but the I'm I'm I think this is coming along really nicely. Uh, this will be the next thing that I launch. So, first it was my new website which uh, I couldn't be more proud of this new website. And especially just um, to think that Arya built it for me. Right? And the way Arya built it is it went through all of my YouTube videos and I actually gave it so for the first version of the the the the website this about page um, I was really uh, sorry. It's not the about page. It was the buh buh buh BJJ page. I actually really did not ha and you can see I actually changed the wording on this at white belt. So I really did not like what it what it had created for that page in particular. So, for that page it had said that I won all of my matches at white belt and I'm like, I lost so many matches uh, when I first, you know, I I and that's why I put I lost a ton of tournament matches at 170. It wasn't until I went up to 185 that I started winning. What happened is at my original school you know, I was running and uh, I always had all these running races that were more important than BJJ tournaments. Uh, so I didn't train properly for them and that's on me, right? Like I was not adequately trained to do BJJ tournaments. So, I would go through and not only was I not adequately trained, I'm slow. Uh, and at 170 lb, so I'm tall, I'm 6 ft tall, right? So, I was lean and big. Um, hopefully let me see if we can see. Uh, do they show? It might be on my about page. So, we added some of those photos. Yeah, so look at this. This is me at 170 lb and this is me at 185. So that gives you an idea, you know what I mean, of you know, this is me at 100 like I shouldn't be smiling, you know? Uh you know, you lose every match, you should not be smiling. No offense, but that was my mentality at the time. I I It's not that I didn't care is that I was so new to BJJ and so happy to be training uh, and didn't have the right mentality to win tournaments. I had the wrong mentality. And I didn't realize that I needed to be bigger. You know, I'm too slow for 170 pounders. Uh, and in fact, I have a a real problem. I mean, two of the people that beat me in the last tournament were the lightest people in the tournament. Right? And it's because uh, the work ethic and the pace that they can put on me. Uh, you know, in the first couple minutes I'm really dangerous, but you get me into deep water especially now. I mean, this is me at 185. Realize the person who walked in front of that screen was over 220 lb. So, you know what I mean, I'm way way bigger than even that version of me. So uh, but yeah, these are, you know, these are it's just crazy to look back on the old versions of you at white belt. And uh, this was more towards the end of white belt. But yeah, I added all I had it So, what this is actually from my Facebook, by the way. You're wondering like I gave I actually did a download of all of my Facebook data and uh, told uh, my local model to go through it and like only flag the stuff that's just me. Right? And then it got a little it actually picked these photos that are not of just me, right? But uh, then uh, Arya actually flagged these and said, "Hey, those aren't just you." I'm like, "No, these are safe." Like it was right. It now did pick a couple family photos that should not be And it picked one of food. Why why would I want to put a picture of food on my website? So, it picked some really weird like stuff to try to put on the website. But in general it was uh it you know, it did a great job of rebuilding this website. And you can see it has uh, I I'm just very proud of it, you know what I mean? It has all the information that I would want on there. It has my uh, fitness tech podcast as the Open Claw podcast which actually we'll get into now. So, if we go here through here um So, we just covered the BJJ body app and then the Tokyo fitness tech stuff. So, this is probably the coolest thing and most frustrating thing that I've had it built so far and this is Bob that's building it and not Arya. So, if we go back to the dashboard, Bob is over here. It's running MiniMax and I think what's happening with MiniMax is it seems like it's reasoning and intelligence in the morning is extremely good and then as the day goes on, it's almost like I run out of tokens and it MiniMax drops me cuz I'm paying for the $10 a month plan with MiniMax to try it out and it seems like they drop me down to low reasoning and all of a sudden it becomes incredibly dumb. So, it goes from almost Opus level intelli- or almost Sonnet level intelligence, not Opus, but Sonnet level intelligence which is like very very intelligent to dumb as a box of rocks. Like unbelievably frustrating and I'm yelling at it because it can't do basic things. Like it's trying to do stuff like um, and it what's crazy is it built two episodes. The reason why I allow it to build these episodes is it built two perfectly with no interaction from me. I just listen to them. The reason why I wanted these is because I want a podcast that tells me what's going on in Open Claw every day and uh, brings all of the information uh, about what's happening and the updates and that kind of stuff and surfaces it to me without having to go through a million different sources and you know, look up look up RSS feeds and all that kind of stuff. I just want it delivered to me in audio format in a podcast. And so, that's the goal of this thing and the first two episodes uh, episode zero is something that I actually I had uh, Arya build uh, because what I realized is what I asked it to tell me was way too complicated and it spit it out like a novel to me and I'm like I don't want to read this novel. And so what I did is I'm like Arya just send this all to me in an audio file. And I'll listen to it all. And so that's what episode zero is. That's actually Arya telling me a whole bunch of information about local models and uh cloud models. So that's what that one is. That's that's Arya. But then the these two episodes were built by Bob flawlessly. And then episode three was a little bit of a battle and episode four I had to have it rewrite the script three times. I had to have it send me the file like 30 times. It just was unbelievably terrible at building that. Um it was shockingly bad and it was getting annoyingly frustrating. And then after like I just waited till tomorrow this morning and it built it perfectly the first time. But you know, I just said, "Hey, rewrite this thing." And And so that's where where you know, that's where we we're at with this podcast. So it's it's coming along and hopefully we don't have any more problems like that. And I'm trying to figure out exactly what happened. And the AI agents are not good at telling you what went wrong, right? Like literally I had it write to its memory files. I had it write to its identity file to not do the things it was doing and it was still doing them. And it's like, "Okay, I don't understand how you are failing in this way." It almost seemed like Minimax was just putting me in low reasoning mode and then it was falling back and falling back in a really really bad way. That's all I can speculate with cuz this morning it built it perfectly fine on the first try. So now yeah, so this is the AI stack, right? All in the Mac Studio 64 GB. Oh, so the biggest thing is I had a like I said before I had a another model in here and that was kicking Nova out of the pool. And so with Nova kicked out of the pool it for sure was uh was having problems. So let's go back and do one more lift and then I will probably call it for the night. So So yeah, with the with the speedians in general I've lifted over a million pounds now. So lifted all kinds of different uh And and actually what's funny is it was guessing. So this is it guessing at what I did. Right? Um so it's guessing at what the workout for today's going to be. It's more of a full body workout, but I guess it is mostly upper body. But it's mostly upper body pulling and not pushing, but um And then what's what's next? BJJ Buddy is going to get launched soon. Um we're working on this, but I might just abandon it for right now because it looks like it's pretty complicated to build. I wanted to have video podcast. What's crazy is I have the script for it and it's on progressive overload. And it's a phenomenal podcast. But I'm really not happy with the video portion of it. I wanted to launch it as a video podcast, but not a video podcast with me in front of the camera. I wanted it to be fully AI driven. And I love the podcast. I love the like the video, the presentation of of how progressive overload should work. But unfortunately, I can't get the talking head software to work properly. And I'm still debating on what I do with it. Uh we're definitely going to be doing more open call daily podcasts. Um And then BJJ Buddy's going to be launching soon. So blog comments is something that actually does need to get integrated tomorrow. Um or the next day depending on what tomorrow night. If I go back to jiu-jitsu tomorrow night, which it doesn't look like it because we are going to be getting some snow in the northeast. So yeah, I'm guessing that we were not going to be returning to jiu-jitsu tomorrow night. So I might actually have time to wire in the blog comments tomorrow night. Actually, I'll do one more lift for you. So one more top set. So And you can see I brought it out. And then I turn it on. And then oh, this is heavy. So you notice I had to angle my foot back against the machine. That's because the weight's actually so heavy that I have to lean forward and angle my foot back and I'm still shaking. And look, I grabbed it with the other hand. And then this time I weighed normally I'll bring it back to the machine. That's how I do this. I don't use safety start. I think if you're using safety start you're using the machine wrong. I'm sorry, that's my personal opinion on it. You notice I didn't turn on safety start, get it to here and then start lifting. No, no, no, no. I brace myself, brace my foot, and pulled, right? Brought it through. Left it to one arm, pulled, pulled, pulled, pulled. And then whenever I was done I grabbed it with the other hand and then let it come back up to the machine. Here, I'll show you on the other side. Right? So I bring it on I bring it out. I turn it on. It activates. There it actually counted a rep, which is wrong, but every now and then it'll do that. And I just don't care whenever it does that. It doesn't matter to me. It does not bother me that it counted a rep. Some people get bent out of shape out of that. I don't care. I'll add the extra rep at the end. So that's the other thing I can do. I just add the rep. Boom. Now I grab it with the other hand and I bring it back slowly. No safety start. No need for that thing. And the amount of time they took to build safety start and you can see that up my one rep max. By the way, that is the only problem with doing an extra rep. Every now and then it will tweak the one rep graphs. One one rep max, but oh well, I'll have to lift a little bit more weight next time. Not a big deal. You know what I mean? It's actually a bonus to have it like that. And you can hear I'm kind of out of breath. Right? So if you're not out of breath when you're done with the set and it's a top set, it wasn't hard enough. So you know, I I don't want to be mean to people, but like some people say they see no gains. And I'm like, "Are you out of breath?" Cuz if you're not out of breath you didn't actually do a top set. You know, and that could be through more volume. That can be through heavier weights. However you want to do it, but you should be out of breath. And you should need your recovery time. So then uh we go to the last one, right? So you can see you can ask me in the comments down below on any of my videos. I'm usually pretty good at responding to them now. Uh I might not always be depending on whether I'm in town or not, but you can always shoot me uh shoot me a comment down below. I will do one more set because it is my favorite exercise. So of all of my exercises this is actually my favorite. Uh for whatever reason I just find that my shoulders feel a lot better after doing this exercise and not a lot worse. So And that's the biggest thing like some people argue free weights are better. Not for me they weren't. Not as far as injuries go. You know, uh And I was able to get plenty strong just using these machines. I mean, I am much stronger than I was in that 185 lb picture. I can assure you. I can throw that guy You know. And that's not I mean, it's a long time ago, but it's not you know, it's not a different person. I'm also trying to focus on my breathing when I'm lifting. So I'm trying to go slow on the eccentric. And you can see I rushed it a little bit there. And then I'm trying to breathe. And I'm trying to get the full stretch. Trying to get the whole way down. Boom. And we will wrap the workout there. Yep. So yeah, that was all I really have for you today. Uh I want to thank you for your time. You know, I really appreciate it. I'll wear my normal hair next time. I won't have this. So shave this all off and look like my normal self, but want to go to jiu-jitsu at least tomorrow if we don't get too much snow and show off the apparently saber tooth look and not Wolverine look. The goal was to look like Wolverine. Apparently I'm a little too fat for that, but But yeah. Yeah, thank you for your time. I really appreciate it. Uh I'll catch you guys on the

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