The new Anchormake M5C is so easy to use, it can be controlled with one button. My name's Jim and this is the Edge of Tech. So Anchormake just released their brand new printer, the M5C, earlier this week. And since I've had it, it has been very good to use, and it literally just works. This one's really aimed towards new people into 3D printing, beginners, people who have never 3D printed before, and we'll see how that plays out through the rest of the video. There is one elephant in the room that we need to talk about with the M5C, and we'll get to that in a little bit. But first, let's check out what makes the M5C tick. It all starts when you get it out of the box, and it's a very simple, easy assembly. It literally is pulling a little panel off the bottom, putting the gantry onto the top of the printer, and screwing eight screws into the bottom. That's it. Plug the two Z motors in, and put the panel back on, and literally this printer is all together. But after that, you need the spool holder, and that goes on with four bolts. From there, it's just plugging this voting tube in, and one cable into the back of the printer, and you're done. It probably took me less than 10 minutes once it was unboxed to put this whole thing together, and that is very fast. From there, we're ready to power it up. Once plugged in and turned on, it starts booting and lights up. Right away, you'll notice something pretty crazy about this printer. There is no screen anywhere on this printer, and there is one single button that controls the whole printer. No screen. That's it. That's what you get. And since there's only one button, that's where the app comes in. You've got to jump on and download the Anchormake app, and once that's downloaded and installed, you'll need to register for an Anchormake account. Once you do that and sign in, this is where the fun begins. The app actually acts like your screen in a sense. You can see the status or the status of a current print. You can see and set the temps. You can retract and load filament. You can home the printer. You can even run a bed leveling sequence right from the screen. And of course, you can print right from the app as well. And it's in the app. You can actually configure your printer's settings. All you have to do is click the printer at the top, and then the little gear right next to that, and that'll bring you to the printer settings. Once you're in, you can do things like rename the printer. You can change the Wi-Fi connection. You can share the printer with somebody else who has the Anchormake app if you want to. You can do some custom config like turn it off and on the notification sound or the RGB lights. And also, you can change what that one button does right in the settings. That's right. In the settings menu, you can customize what that single button on the printer does. As we can see, while the printer's idle, there are three different options we can do by default. If we click the button one time, it prints the last print on the USB drive. If we do it twice, it'll actually repeat the last print you did on the machine. And if we hold the button for three seconds, it'll actually auto-level the bed. And that's all on by default. And that changes while the printer is printing. There are three other defaults. As we can see by default, when the printer is printing, it will pause the print if you press it one time. It'll actually resume if you press it again, by the way. If you press the button two times, it will do nothing by default. And if you hold that button for three seconds, while the printer's printing, it'll actually cancel the print. So you can use this button while it's at idle or while the printer's printing. But the really cool part about this is that these are just defaults. These buttons can actually be customized in this menu. While it's at idle, there are currently four different options of what that button can do. And you're using three of them with the three defaults. You can actually go in and change any of those button clicks to one of the four options if you want to kind of change it up. Currently, while the printer is printing, I believe there's only two options. Again, that can change with firmware or as Anchormake goes. But currently, four options when the printer is at idle, two options when the printer's printing. I think if you're going to get one button on the whole printer, it's really awesome to have that versatility to change that button to be what you'll remember, what each click means. I think that's very smart on Anchormake's part. Now let's check out the printer itself. The base of the printer is made out of a die cast aluminum alloy and is actually pretty heavy. But it should make this printer more sturdy and stable while it's printing at high speeds. There is a filament run out sensor right here on top of the dual gear direct drive extruder. And those hardened steel gears at a ratio of five to one push the filament down through an all metal hot end that can reach up to 300 degrees. That's perfect for those high temp filaments if you had an enclosure that you were going to put this in. Otherwise, this thing can print a wide range of filaments, everything from PLA to PETG to ABS and anything higher that goes up to 300 degrees. Again, if you have this thing in an enclosure. The build area is 220 by 220 by 250 and it prints down on a double sided magnetic PEI sheet. A lot of companies went to these sheets and I actually absolutely love them. So I'm glad to see it here on the Anchormake M5C. Also, something to note about this printer, they actually have guides for your flex sheet on either side of the bed. I really love that because all you have to do is literally drop it in. You don't even have to look.  Those guides make placing that sheet down super easy on this printer. Real quick, if you're getting value from today's video, please smash that like button. And if you want to see more videos about 3D printing, CNC and lasers, please consider subscribing as I'm on my way to 100,000 subscribers. Thank you, thank you, thank you all so much for being here on the channel. Now back to it. There is multi-point auto bed leveling built in. I believe it's 45 points and you can do that right from the app or by default holding down the button for three seconds, we'll start that process. The M5C is a very nicely built printer. It looks great and it has printed very well since I've owned it. It also features speeds up to 500 millimeters a second, which is great because printers are going faster and faster these days. And at the price point, this is that's actually pretty good. Now let's take a minute and check out some of the prints I've done on the M5C. Now AnchorMakes sent me over this white PLA plus that they make or have made for them. I'm not sure, but it is in a box like this and it came in two different rolls. So I got two rolls of white. So all my test prints will be done in the PLA plus in the white color that AnchorMakes sent me so far, pretty solid filament just so you know. Another thing I like about it is there's a little gauge here. It'll tell you about how much filament is left on the spool. You can see it up on the printer here too. That's a pretty cool feature for a spool, right? As I packed this away, the first print I did was actually the gorilla phone stand that's actually built into the software, into the app itself. And I chose it and printed it right from my phone. It printed pretty dang good with the exception of maybe a little bit of stringing up in this area. It printed pretty good. Overall, really good layer lines. It printed fast at like 58 minutes for this whole thing. I used the AnchorMakes slicer to slice the rest of the models you're about to see and send them directly to the printer from my computer. The first one I did was the 3D printing world gear fidget. And this thing came out perfect right off the printer.  I didn't have to flex. I didn't have to pop it. Nothing. And all of the gears turn as you can see.  This thing came out really nice. I have nothing bad at all to say about this print. Then I printed the Maker's Muse Clarence Castle. The drawbridge came down. The gate goes open. And you can see the tower spins. And this is how it was directly off the printer. No modifications. No adjusting. It just worked right off the printer, which means the tolerances are set pretty good because I love Angus' tolerance tests and this one came out very well. In an effort to step it up a little and test this thing a little further, I jumped onto things and grabbed the 3D printing world print in place Katana. I dropped it into the Anchor Make Slicer and used the default .2 profile to slice this thing and send it to the printer. I got to tell you when it came off the printer, it just worked. Everything came out. No adjusting. No finagling. Nothing. It just collapses and goes out right off this printer. My son is actually going to really love this because I'm going to take it home to him. But this printed in less than three hours. I believe like two hours, 48 minutes. That is crazy for the print in place Katana. And I think this printer did an awesome job printing this. And I love playing with it. So as you can see, this printer printed very well right out of the box. I didn't have to do anything special to make this printer just work. It may not have some of the fancy features of the original Anchor Make printer, but really I don't know if it needs it. The one thing I really found myself missing was a camera so I could look in the app and check on the prints as they were going. Being a new printer and not being able to be here with it. I was a little bit nervous because you never know if it's really going to finish. But I always went to that app and realized there's no camera. So if there's one thing I wish we could add it was a camera to this machine. Other than that, it really does hit all of the check marks for a great printer for the beginner or someone that's brand new into 3D printing and has never done it before. At the time of filming, the M5C is on their website for $399. Actually, there's a $40 discount going on right now making it $359 for the launch. I'm not sure how long that'll last, but for $359, this is really a great deal for how well made this printer is. I never got the original, but I am now sorry that I didn't. I really kind of wish I would have checked it out because I really, really like this printer. But there's one thing we need to talk about and that's the elephant in the room. I do believe that some people are not going to like that you have to go to an app or to the slicer to control your printer. There's no screen. All you have is that button as we talked about. As cool as that is, I do know that there's going to be some people that don't want to use it. They just want to use an SD card right from the slicer. And that's okay too. It has a slot right here on the side of the printer for a USB-C SD card. And that should go in right there. And you can use an SD card to print from. So you should be able to print from that. Now I don't know if you're going to need the app to print from that SD card. I haven't tested that yet because I don't have a USB-C SD card with me. But there are going to be some people that don't like that and I totally understand that. But for those of you who like to be connected, who like everything to kind of just flow, this thing is great. It sends prints directly from my computer from the slicer or from the app very fast and it just works. With all that being said, I do have to say thank you to Anchormake for sending over the M5C. They did send this over free of charge and they sponsored this video. So that's why the little sponsored thing was in the beginning. They did not get a say on what I said in the video. They told me to do whatever I wanted with the printer to say whatever I wanted and they just offered to sponsor the video. So I really appreciate that. And honestly and truly this is going into my rotation. It is that good. I really like this printer and I think it's going to get better with firmware. Since I've had it, it's had two updates on the slicer and the firmware. So keep going Anchormake. The M5C is a hit and let me know in the comments what you think of the M5C. And as always, don't forget to check out that one right there.


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we're gonna be here forever this this stream this is the wonderful stream this is so good this is fun not spiritual banana on board they're loud and powerless congratulations to everybody who has the stamina to do this all night alone all night get to you for the three hour mark that's what it is all night long why don't sherman just stop just stop thank you morsel's thomas for being on board that's what the heck we need an scp on memetic liquid obviously it's a very important part of the stream guys look at those numbers right there i don't know if you see we had 18 viewers for a moment and 25 likes that is a channel record what what welcome to the most epic holiday special ever and i say most epic holiday special ever because i'm not sure anyone has ever done a live stream scp holiday special but on that guy we did it it's amazing go site 42 we're boss we're good it's amazing okay on to the next chapter this just keeps going let's this is i can already tell he's gonna be nuts oh god santa and the l stood on the roof of the factory of the darkness looking out into the overcast sky for any side said to check his pocket watch a quarter after one he sighed do you think chowder clefts all right oh rewind do you think chowder clefts all right fits right ask santa i think i think it's going to be a late delivery this year boys wait one of the l shouted look over there a faint glow shown through the clouds to the east it might have just been a warning light from one of the beacons on the river but as they watched and watched and watched he started to grow brighter and brighter and brighter still until Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer himself emerged from the fog and behind him came dasher dancer prancer fix it comic guvitt donner and blitzen and behind them the sleigh and riding on that sleigh alone smiling and covered head to toe and tomato sauce once chowder cleft a chair rose up from the elves as the sleigh alighted on the rooftop and cleft stepped off alto santa shouted i knew you do it it wasn't easy cleft said the doc tried to shoot us both down i guess they figured nobody would know if it was that if santa and the reindeer just had to get blown up by edit and missiles this year i was gonna have to have words with them after we're done here now this guy here cleft padded his red nose mount on the head now he is a real trooper thanks cleft Rudolph said all i did was do a barrel roll like you said don't be so modest Rudolph it was you came up close enough for me to make the jump onto the sleigh but how did you stop the Manhattan night santa asked well santa in the middle of all our fighting i asked him a question what was that he spent his entire life fighting to wipe out new england style chowder i asked him if he'd ever actually tasted any you mean he hadn't i had a special batch just for him calling a christmas present cleft pointed you a control knob on his chowder cannon which had been turned to the third and final setting i spent days trying to get that batch just right and to make sure it was perfect i ran it through scb 914 on the varying fine he was in tears after a single spoonful he poured the pot out over the Atlantic ocean and barely shoot it out wonderful alto you see christmas consumed the heart of even the most wicked man oh i doubt i've seen the last of him santa this isn't the first time we've dueled over the question of soup supremacy and it sure won't be the last well the important thing is i have my slay and my reindeer buck thanks for all the help alto i've got a christmas to save it's already a quarter past one santa cleft said as you look downwards it might be too late oh alto the magic works for any midnight i've still got six more chances but what about the toys the manhattan night never got anywhere near the toys alto i keep them someplace very safe santa said with a wink it's just a matter of picking them up and say alto yes santa there's one more thing we can do to make up for lost time i hope you don't mind lending a little hand of yours a little while longer and letting me borrow that cannon of yours i'm finishing this last chapter we're going all the way marathon let's go dr andrew sit the coffee in the styrofoam cup as he drove home along the docking roads his watch said it was 5 32 a.m christmas morning he had no wake up sleep in the past three days nobody at site 19 had with all the work convincing people that things would be just fine as soon as he out settled their label dispute with santa he'd spent all night on the phone with researcher james at chi and mountain tracking the bizarre radar settings all around the eastern seaboard and ultimately dealing with the blowback after the geoc had been caught red handed violating the rules of engagement trying to shoot down santa sleigh and the unidentified object chasing it what had become of them after that was anyone's guess it was a miracle norad was still standing after what the geoc liaison tried to do to neutralize their magic radar andrew's pulled with the driveway of his little house in the suburb and shut off the motor as he climbed out of the into the predawn air sector at her eyes had been kind enough to let him spend the morning at home and explain to his girls why santa hadn't come he'd grown as he looked at the headlines in the morning paper on his doorstep nope santa santa's christmas hangs in the balance lbj makes last minute call the north panel the strike continues rides in new york la london outside of sold out toy stores bucky and vidal debate is santa a rad andrew's dropped the paper in amazement as soon as he saw the tableau in his living room beneath the golden little christmas tree leg dozens of presents all wrapped up in paper and bows he hadn't bought them karen hadn't bought them who had like an excited little boy he fell to his knees and examined the tags to jane from santa to amy from santa to mom and dad from santa he had done it somehow his crazy old friend in the black coat had done it santa was safe and it would be a merry christmas after all andrew's was about to race upstairs and wake everybody when he noticed something else a certain aroma wafting from the next room he turned the corner into the kitchen and there sitting on the warmer on the stovetop was a great big pot bubbling with cream and potatoes and clams and just the right hint of bacon and a little splash of sherry and over on the side read to the andrew's family from santa clef four brand new porcelain bowls and shining silver spoons sat on the counter next to the stove waiting to be used cautiously andrew stripped a spoon of the pot and took a taste hmm he said to himself the white pepper really does make a difference oh dr. clef saved christmas oh my god that tail was amazing that tail was amazing that tail was amazing i don't know what you're doing right now but if you are not upvoting the 155 upvotes how clef saved christmas you are doing it wrong i'm checking out the chat and my memetic fluid anyone else play a game chowder for christmas me has anyone beaten me yet i really need some chowder now i also need some chowder and it is a beautiful tail witness see jobs does denny's have chowder oh my god i need chowder i need chowder so bad and if my denny's has chowder i'm going for chowder oh my god scb219 is like a medic fluid plus it looks a bit like scotch and has an alcoholic taste well good on it inhabited is upvoting the tail if you like how dr. clef saved christmas go upvote it because it deserves it oh my god that was epic that was epic chowder clef saved christmas how do you how do you even deal with life i don't know what to do that was such a good tail that was such a good tail and we are at the three hour and two minute mark ladies and gentlemen boys and or girls and or whatever you identify as i do believe that three hours of live stream is a pretty epic site 42 holiday special and i don't think i'm going to top how dr clef saved christmas so i think we're about to wind this stream down and the way we're going to do that is chat you and i we can chat we can hang out for a minute we had a good run some of us have been here for three fucking hours this is the best holiday special of all time of all time we did good if you guys got anything you want to chat about let's chat let's hang out by the fireside and relax for a moment before i leave and go get some fucking chowder because i need some chowder and if my denny's has red chowder i'm going to flip a table because they better have white chowder new england style chowder none of this new york bullshit just saying just saying oh my god oh my god i will flip a table if there's red chowder ten gu i'm glad you caught the tail end i'm glad you made it for a little bit c jobs off to denny's we will all spiritually be at denny's together you'll go to denny's i'll go to denny's we'll all go to denny's and get chowder make sure you have the white powder it really does make a difference unfortunately we're a christian server let's stay family friendly and watch your profanity oh no oh no this stream is already demonetized sit due to no guys we're not done yet we're not done yet i'm sorry i'm sorry this is the director's cut this is the encore this is the extra credits if you did not quit when i say we were quitting we're not done yet because there's one tail it was requested i didn't do it it is tangentially close enough for us to do it it's very short we're doing it right now right now we're not done yet one more tail one more tail hold up hold up i'm not done yet i got one more in me i already recorded it for the channel i already recorded it for a dictation but we're doing it live we're doing it live on court we're doing it live scp spooky dash j scp spooky dash j doing it live are you ready it's a plus 82 if you need to upvote it go upvote it don't even ask it's amazing just go upvote it item number scp spooky dash j object class safe correction euclid spooky containment procedures scp spooky dash j cannot be faithfully contained due to the nature of its being in the event that scp spooky dash j manifests outside his containment chamber it is to be s forwarded back to his chamber and recontained scp spooky dash j's containment chamber is a standard humanoid containment chamber with a single lock security door to ensure simple containment description scp spooky dash j is visually identical to a typical human skeleton standing 1.72 meters in height and weighing 5.44 kilograms the skull face and jaw structure of scp spooky dash j is completely flexible and grants it the ability to make a range of facial expressions despite its lack of muscles or flesh as well scp spooky dash j's capable of vocalization and sapient thought scp spooky dash j is capable of vanishing and manifesting at will to any location within 66.6 meters from its original position during the month of any major commercial holiday individuals in the location of scp spooky dash j's manifestation often report a subtle rattling noise originating somewhere behind them individuals exposed to scp spooky dash j and its anomalous effects are to be administered class a amnestics prior to recontainment of the entity when interacting with living human subjects scp spooky dash j will typically display display verbally aggressive behavior often the form of insults and challenges to physical altercations despite this behavior scp spooky dash j has yet to seriously or purposefully injure a living subject out of observable malice scp spooky dash j displays an anomalous understanding of individual subjects mothers and sisters where these relations are applicable entry incident october 28th 2016 the following incident took place between dr randy m filler and scp spooky dash j prior to a recontainment incident again scp spooky dash j you insufferable fuck stay away say the fucking your chamber before i beat your sorry ass you can't tell me what to do you skin sack davie bones does he pleases shut do you even care anymore this is why nobody visits you anymore jesus you're so fucking annoying shut your dog slobber fuck boy you can't rattle these bones you can't rustle these jimmies spooky dash j if you keep this shit up i would call security down here and get you terminated if you know you're gonna what kill me i'll fuck you up you bitch then i'll fuck your mother i'll no scope you i swear to god why you have to do this every year jesus you're an absolute twat waffle suck my scallop balls scp spooky dash j and dr filler proceeded to argue for several minutes before dr filler was removed from the observation room and dismissed from active duty in site 12 and has been placed on pay leave entry incident november 23rd 2016 scp spooky dash j appeared in the cafeteria of site 12 and began to collect all the uneaten holiday food into several trash bags before disappearing from staff perception it then appeared in the quarters of dr randy and filler and smeared cranberry sauce across the surface of his desk before consuming large amounts of bread stuffing it's thanksgiving you asshole you ruined my novel scp spooky dash j continues to consume excessive amounts of stuffing where it exits scp spooky dash j's body through its ribcage and now it's coating the floor why are you even doing this you don't even have a stomach you fuckwit i'm doing it because i love you dad scp spooky dash j throws the rest of the bag at the wall where it bursts open of dr filler's bed and proceeds to run out of the room before security can arrive dr filler has hence requested to transfer to another site request pending entry incident 12 24 to 12 25 2016 1950 hours scp spooky dash j exits his containment chamber undetected 20 30 hours the hubcaps from all vehicles in site 12 staff garage go missing and are not found for several hours 23 14 hours dozens of large gift wrap boxes appear in the common area of site 12 all the room is vacated oh 110 hours scp spooky dash j appears in its containment chamber displaying erotic excited behavior he's wearing a green santa hat at this time oh 750 hours it an announcement is made that staff vehicles have been vandalized and on-site personnel display warranted agitation 10 35 hours various personnel enter the common area of site 12 and discover the gift wrap boxes on the wall farthest from the doorways the statement merry christmas fuckboys is painted in expired gravy 10 55 hours all gift wrap presents are opened by an eod team and are discovered to contain the stolen hubcaps from the staff garage our request has been submitted to the administrative board on the topic of the termination and archival of scp spooky dash j to prevent future nuisances and possible hazards to site 12 entry incident february 14 2017 dr randy and filler received an anonymous package containing a human tibia and a letter reading this valentine's day i'd like to be your fuckboy from your spookily contents of the package have been moved to forensic storage dr filler's requested an indeterminate leave of absence after receiving this package request again denied oh my god scp spooky dash j that was just freaking amazing i love that skip that is the end jacob hall how much is left you just showed up in the last tail that is the end but like we're gonna chip we're gonna show it for a second you can hang out in the chat spooky dash j is amazing that was i had to read him tonight because like he shows up on christmas once that's a christmas tale right he shows up at christmas one time that's fine he did it it's a christmas tale it's good we did good all right memetic fluid happy memetic fluid holiday to you all you caught the livestream for that yesterday when i couldn't say the word indeterminate or any words ever because i couldn't speak yesterday so bad ten move my bones are rabble see jumps how are there no umbers that's so bad you gotta get to denny's but don't drunk drive drunk driving is bad don't do it not a spherical happy holidays happy holidays do you do man christmas miracle we all wake up on christmas day there'll be chowder beneath our trees oh my god witness you are that is all that is the magic that is the magic of the holiday day there's this thing called a taxi they still exist rustle you're lying that's just an anomaly that you came up with that's not a real thing they're no taxis with a taxi no one's ever heard of a taxi you've never heard of a taxi they're not a thing that exists ah they slow as fuck do man jesus i site 42's holiday special is 194 minutes right now delegate if you got work to do we'll see you later i'm glad you'd hang out with us for so so long man i was before i started this stream i said to myself you know what you say you're going to go for like two or three hours that's arrogant you're not going to go for two or three hours just say it's going to be long because like don't be rude don't be arrogant don't be like i'm gonna go all night long now we've gone all night long that's the name that happened we've been here for three hours and it's been amazing we've told so many tales and we had christmas carols and oh god witness let's go for six hours next time we'll go for six hours but i gotta like cater that first like jesus i am freaking hungry like as soon as we close the stream i'm going to denny's to get some chili my god this has been an amazing stream everybody who watched it all night long i'm so very happy to have shared this night with you move the stream to your phone and take us to denny's amazing actually it's funny i'm i film on an iphone 5 because this is my iphone that i just got for christmas from my mom because my mom is wonderful yay mom but uh this is my old iphone 5 it still gets wi-fi so it's a good webcam and i can still use my phone and but the thing is the iphone 5 now that it's not a phone it just has wi-fi so if i leave the wi-fi will die so it'll turn off otherwise i take the stream to go get some chowder we don't have a chowder adventure god damn why my god but yes as soon as we're all done chatting we'll go get some chowder everyone's gonna go get some chowder from wherever they're going in the meantime this is let me get real for a moment let me get like super real super end of holiday live stream real thank you guys for tuning in this has been super fun for me uh it's been fun for you guys you guys have had fun i have had like how a fun this has been the best experience we had a great night this is like a six hour fireplace so we could go for six hours later on sometime but thank you guys for tuning in it has been amazing playing games with you all and reading scp's like i still have like 10 christmas scp's on this list that we couldn't do i did mainly the good ones that i knew were like boss funny and like awesome and entertaining but there's like some really long serious ones and some like really heart wrenching sad ones and like we'll have to do those at sometime too because like god man like there's just so many but thank you guys for being a part of site 42 uh we grow because you guys want to watch what the hell we're doing here and you want to hang out in the discord and you want to talk and we will keep doing this thing because as long as you guys like doing it as long as we create growing this is a fun thing to do site 42 will keep growing we'll keep finding new ways to expand we'll keep doing fun things we'll keep improving the art we'll keep helping the scp community because i don't just want to like work off the scp fandom i want to help the scp fandom i want to like write articles for the wiki i want to help people figure out their stuff i want you guys to do better fandom things i want us all to grow as scp fandoms and drink some water because you've been drinking memetic fluid all night and you don't want to die exactly Russell Russell's got our backs sis thank you guys for being part of this stream uh remember to do all the youtube things the like in the share and the patreon the discord and the patreon the merch and the merch and the patreon and the patreon and the merch and the discord and the patreon and the merch and the discord and the like and the share and the youtube stuff because we keep growing we keep doing things like this this has been a blast we'll do this again and uh yeah next year i think even if we do get to do a uh live thing with volgan and we get to do a live like event and we'll fly volgan all right so i really want to fly volgan in like it makes my heart happy the idea of flying volgan from ireland to california to do a crazy thing so we'll do that but we'll still probably do the live stream like even if we have like a huge budget in a year and we're doing like crazy good things we should still do the like this ghetto ass tv fireplace live stream just for like the fans this is a fan thing we'll do like the real art thing but also this is for you fans because y'all are wonderful and we're making good things man and right now we're about to hit the fabled 200 minute mark so you've got 45 seconds 35 seconds sorry and then this stream is cutting off right at 200 seconds so we're calling here kick it start fly volgan here kick start fly volgan to california volgan's come to california we're gonna kick start it we're gonna go fund it we're gonna crowdfund this sucker noom's gonna program it i don't know what noom's gonna do we're gonna involve noom he's gonna make a site 42 game with pabs pabs is gonna do it it's gonna be great we do all the things we have 10 seconds 9 seconds i love you guys site 42 live stream christmas i'll see you guys in the next video so glad you guys could come out and we're gone


Our next caller is Will from Texas. Hey, Will, how can we help you? What's your question? First, Will, tell us why Sal annoys you so much. Yeah. I know you express that. That's OK. Now go ahead and ask your question. All right. So my wife is pregnant, and I would like to know how I should be structuring my workout pre-baby. And more importantly, during the sleepless nights of the first couple of months when he is born, I'd like to continue my strength goals. Hey, congratulations. First, second, third. You did it. Which baby is this? Yes. First. Yeah. You are in for it, my friend. Yeah. Don't listen to him. It's hella easy. Don't listen to him. It's hella easy, man. OK, so there's a couple strategies that you could take. So I'll give you my favorite strategy. I've worked with a lot of mothers that were pregnant and their husbands during that period of time. And so I like to tell people to go into the birth at a good fitness level. And the reason why I recommend this is because you're going to miss workouts. You're not going to be as rested after the baby is born for at least a couple months, if not more. And so you want to give yourself a bigger buffer. So go into it doing pretty well. So right now you have the time. Do some good workouts. Have good nutrition.  Now, when the baby's born and you're losing sleep, sleep is a priority. Do not make the mistake of pushing through it with the lack of sleep. You will hammer not just your testosterone levels, but your immune system if you do that. So a good workout, a general workout when you're limited on time and availability or whatever is like a two or three day a week full body workout where you're just focusing on the main lifts.   So right now I'm in phase, about halfway through phase two of MAPS PowerLift. Excellent, excellent. How's it going for you, by the way? I'm about to be 30 in April. No, how's it going for you with the workouts? Oh, sorry. It's going good. So far, so good. I'm actually transitioning to building a home gym because of how crazy the gyms are gonna be now. But it's going good. Strength is progressing pretty nicely, I think. So the advice that Sal gave is exactly how I did it. Like I really, I knew that I was gonna have to sacrifice some days in the gym. I knew that I'd sacrifice some sleep. And so I had some pretty good momentum going into her pregnancy. So I just kind of, I tried to push the volume, try to be as consistent as I possibly could. And it's disciplined knowing that the inevitable is going to happen, that I'm gonna have days. And I actually, the first couple weeks, because he's so attached to her, and you can't really, as a father, there's not a lot you can do for the first couple weeks. I still had really good momentum for those first couple weeks. It wasn't until I'd say probably weeks three and four did it get really challenging for like me getting to the gym and her being able to get to the gym. And so, then my workouts started to look kind of like a MAPS anabolic phase one. And then eventually it even got as bad as probably like pre-phase. And no doubt, like I lost some strength. I didn't, I don't look as good as I did right before I came in to pregnancy. But I mean, it's, we're back in the swing of things. I think I've already surpassed where I was before that. And it only took about a month to rebound and get back because I still maintain some training, but my priority became my wife and child. You know, and that's really where it should be for you too. It's like, if you can get in there as a new dad and still get one or two full body workouts in while you're going through all this at the very beginning, I think you're killing it. Everything you're doing right now is what you're gonna kind of carry going forward. And I think like, what you're trying to do in terms of like building your base of strength and having your intensity up right now is a good way to go. And then really just shifting your mindset once you're in the thick of it because it is gonna change everything. So you just gotta adjust. One more option too, Will, is especially if you have a home gym is to do many workouts. So, you know, like 15, 20 minute workouts here and there. I did a lot of that. Yeah, two a day or three a day sometimes or one a day sometimes. Basically going out to your home gym when you have a little bit of time and doing a few sets of an exercise. And believe it or not, the body, especially when it's new, the body response really do well for that. Sal, I love that advice. And I don't have the luxury of having the gym in my actual house, but the studio's not far from my house and I would do this a lot.  And so those little 30 minute hour naps were perfect times for me to get a couple exercises in. And that's how I look at it is if you can do that and you have an at home gym where maybe you can stick to the routine that you're already on, but you just break it up in two or three mini workouts throughout the day, there's a lot of value to that. So I think that's a great strategy also. Totally, congratulations again. And thanks for the question, Will. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. You know, that's such a, that's a hard one, right? Because it really depends on, I mean, I'm lucky, right? Like Katrina, it really handles a lot of the nights and takes the responsibility, we have support. And so I know that I have a lot more flexibility and some dads have to be doing all that stuff. And so hands on. Yeah, so asking him to get up in the middle of the night and be doing a lot of feedings with her. And then in addition to that, also be trying to progress your workouts. That's a lot to ask somebody. It is, it's a tough situation. That's why I like to say go into it, you know, really fit because you're gonna lose some of it. Exactly, yeah. And it's better to have that buffer.


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