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Love Strongman · The Best Experience

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  a hot one hundred and four and the other one they cold at like forty
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  five degrees exactly. You know that it's funny because, like I said,
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  that's what we used to do when we were kids that didn't know we were
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  doing what was healthy. You know that's it. Well for those watching,
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  obviously you can tell us where we're twins now, you know what I'm saying.
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  We got the same shirts on. We were just at the Winter Warrior.
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  We literally left the show, came straight to the house to do the
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  podcast, and uh, what a hell of a show, What a hell
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  of a day. And uh, you know Jeannie, you know who put
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  it on. You know she knows what she's doing. She's got it downpacked.
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  So props to her for running a very smooth show, a very fun
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  show. Yeah exactly. And the prize that she gave out, yes,
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  you know they're the they lined up with what the Winter Warrior is so big?
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  Yeah? Yeah, weapons? You know you know what happened, What
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  happens when you give adult kids weapons, You know what I'm saying. The
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  first thing you hear everyone started pointing them at each other exactly cool, which
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  it was cool. It was fun. It was a lot of fun.
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  And that video will be coming out soon because as soon as they stitch it
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  together, I'll put it out and everyone's gonna be able to watch it,
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  you know what I'm saying. So we had a lot of fun there.
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  Nick was refing, judging and running around. Uh you know, I think
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  he got more exercise today than anyone else lifting. It's possible I took more
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  steps. It took more steps exactly, but I was like, it's that
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  cat was above average today, which was great. And plus it's just fun.
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  I mean when you go judge contests like this, I like to judge
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  and then coach at the same time because I mean it's it's really neat.
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  You see somebody doing something wrong and they can't quite finish the deadlifting like lockanes
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  or put your hips through, you know, get your shoulders back, that
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  type of stuff, and then you see it click in their head and they
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  make the lift exactly. And we're doing shows like this, you know,
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  it's definitely needed because guess what, there's a lot of guys that are like
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  there was a couple of first time there's a couple of people that just you
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  know, like they're like, okay, I've done this before, but you
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  know what those cues are something you don't do when you don't compete on it
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  like a consistent basis. What's your first time and you're just green and don't
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  know exactly. So it's it's pretty cool. I mean, we had a
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  few guys like that today and I was like, hey, he'll put your
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  belt on. The guy was great Olympic lefter, really good and his log
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  he was jerking his log and he had the highest he had the best log
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  of the day, and it was just kind of neat. I'm like,
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  you should try this. Put you belt on, do this for that,
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  do this for the who's fel car And he's just like oh wow. And
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  I was like, yeah, it's yeah, makes that much of it.
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  It's a big difference, and yeah, no, there. But there's also
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  a reason why you're a professional. Also the reason why you're a pro and
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  also you know, it understands why you make a great coach and you and
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  you make a great influence because guess what all those little details you know it
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  you know, Nick said a few things today that you could see light bulbs
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  hitting, Like, why didn't I think about that? And I'm like,
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  exactly, it's well, I mean, strawman is about being the most efficient
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  as you're doing it, lifting it the heaviest, the fastest, because everything's
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  under time. It's not about you know, well I can lift this with
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  no belt on. Okay, so can I. But if I can get
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  through that event expend less energy and beat you at the same time, why
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  wouldn't you do that? I mean, when you have a paycheck lining up
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  at the end of this to where you can take months off of months off
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  of work and train or not. That's the difference between professional an amateur.
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  And it's like the amateurs, if they want to get to that professional level,
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  need to start doing those professional level things. Exactly. It's kind of
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  cool. No, it's definitely cool. It's definitely cool. And let's say,
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  we've already heard people saying that they can't wait for next year's Winter Warriors,
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  so I know, you know what I'm saying. That's a great day.
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  And like I said, it was raining today, so luckily we had
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  it. We were in the untamed strength and the Sacramento area and it was
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  big enough for us to have the contest in the show. Yeah, and
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  we're only in a small section of it, so it's like, you know,
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  the people other people are still coming in, still coming in to train.
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  You know, there's a lot of people doing things there that day that
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  weren't there for the show. But for the good part, man, it
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  was the hell of a turnout. Yeah, if you're in northern California,
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  one Thame Strength is a good place to go to trade strawman because there's I
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  don't think there's anything they don't have. Yeah, they get the Yeah.
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  Yeah, the amount of equipment they got was on point. Because the great
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  thing about it too, is like everything that every there, everyone was performing
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  on was equipment they've already trained with if they were from that gym, because
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  there was a lot of local people there and they're like, oh, I
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  they're familiar with this equipment, you know what I mean, Like Austin came
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  from Vegas. That's kind of cool, So that'd be kind of neat.
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  He's gonna be good. There's there's gonna be quite a few people that comes
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  out of there that came out of the show there. It'd be actually really
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  especially if they stick to it. That's the one thing, and the Reno
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  crew that came down some very good lifters in there, and that's it.
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  Competitors coming from there. So it's you know, it's kind of neat to
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  watch some of these guys improved in the area exactly exactly. And then we
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  also had Hawaiian barbecue for lunch. Barbecue is delicious. I don't care what
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  the moak says. I had a barbecue chicken, yeah exactly. I had
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  chicken. I had chicken katsu. And you know, I'm a huge Hawaiian
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  macaroni guy. You know there was rice, Yeah exactly, I could have
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  eaten rice, but god damn it. Something about wayan mac just hits.
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  Yeah. But I've been pretty disciplined in my diet. Yeah. Well,
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  you know someone's trying to slim down if you I'm well, you look at
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  the cheeks, they're sinking in. He's getting that that that he's gonna hit
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  the Olympia stage here soon. No, not a chi chits. And the
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  only way I'm hitting that stage is to like handle a trophy or hand somebody
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  a check in a suit or something, which I don't see happening anytime.
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  You know, we're throwing it out in the world. And guess what someone
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  might hear. Some from the Olympia Company might be listening to this podcast right
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  now. Oh, Nick wanted to do that. Why didn't we do that?
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  Yeah, you know, you know, And here's the other thing to
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  talking about the Wench Warrior. Las Vegas is coming up. So in Las
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  Vegas. Guess what Giants Live first time in Las Vegas, New Orleans Arena
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  and in September exactly, so you know, we we we hope to see
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  everyone there. And you know the other thing too is like, you know,
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  we hope to be there, to be able to support everybody and to
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  you know, have fun. Yeah, you get to see the guys and
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  see Colin and see Darren, all the guys from Giants Live, and all
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  the competitors as well. Exactly exactly. You know what I'm saying. And
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  if you want to see us there, mentioned in the mentioned in in the
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  mentioned in the comments, you know what I'm saying, get a couple of
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  likes. Oh, I know we're going to be there. We're not saying
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  we're not going to be there, but we want people to let us know
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  if they want to see us. You know what I'm saying. That's what
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  it is. You know, I'm not worried about me. I'm more worried
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  about Nick. That's all I'm saying, because guess what, he's the main
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  attraction and I'm the side guy. Okay, See, didn't hesitate, didn't
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  hesit. It's cool and I mean it's it's neat. You go to things
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  like this and you feel totally inspired at the end of the day. I
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  mean, big Josh like tore it up to them. Now come on,
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  yeah, like it was not just checked it so that that was he had
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  a great day. He didn't he want he won the open. You want
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  the open, work on the front carry stuff like that. It was exactly
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  he gets his front carry and stuff down, and he probably would have won
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  every event. Oh yeah, I would not be surprised to see him up
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  on the main national stage here soon enough. Oh yeah. That dead look
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  was insane. Yea, So it's gonna be good stuff exactly. And you
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  know it's the one thing too, is like that Josh, it happened to
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  uh, you know, attend your seminar and everything you taught him, you
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  know exactly exactly, you know, and that I'm not I'm not saying that
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  you had an influence on his victory today. But he did do quite a
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  bit of the techniques at your time. Oh yeah. His joke was that
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  it was it was like this close to like there was one person who was
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  just like much faster what not, It all the same way. He was
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  like, I'm beating that time. I'm like, yeah, but you you
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  guys are doing hundreds of pounds different. I think he was running a seven
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  yeah, it was one of than a seven hundred pound y know, yeah,
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  and it was it like eight point something, eight point nine six.
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  His was like eight point ninety six and the other kid. Yeah, so
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  but like once again, these are two different classes. And he just got
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  mad that he ran that fast and he was like, I can run faster
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  than that seven hundred pounds and he almost did. Well, one was going
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  out the door. Yeah, so he had to put on the brakes then,
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  oh yeah, yeah, that's very true. Yeah he would have.
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  Yeah, he would have went through a glass door and looked like wildly coyote.
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  So it was it was cool. It was a lot of fun.
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  It was a lot of fun. It was like I said, and doing
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  stuff like this is it. It's always tremendous because, like I said,
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  even right now, we're excited because we just did it. We're excited because
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  we were just there and it's exciting to be there, especially like said,
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  supporting the local shows, supporting where the grassroots, where it actually starts,
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  you know what I'm saying. It's like that. That's where I always feel
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  it's the most funnest because everyone is literally shoulder and shoulder cheering everybody on which
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  you know, if you do strong man, guess what that that that that's
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  a normal thing. Not in every sport you see that, you know what
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  I'm saying, a lot of sports out there, it's me against you and
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  I don't talk to you and straw man, it's like no that. Yeah,
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  the guys are helping each other exactly from walking with each other and encouraging
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  each other and stuff like that. Yeah, So it's neat the camaraderie it's
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  there all the way around us. Yeah. Really special because it's it's an
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  individual sport and you can't change what the other guy is going to do,
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  and everybody wants to beat everybody on their best day exactly. I mean,
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  it doesn't do you good to beat somebody when the herd exactly, not doing
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  wrong exactly. So when you beat them at their best, then you know
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  you got it, you know, and and they each other. Yeah,
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  and it was like I said, it was tremendous. It was fun.
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  Yeah, you know, it was raining outside and it got cold, but
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  guess what we were inside, so it was even better. It wasn't super
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  cool, it was it wouldn't snow if it was cold, but for California,
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  it was quite chilly. You know what I'm saying. That's what that's
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  what we're getting. You know what I'm saying, that's what I think.
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  I'm from Vegas. Oh yeah, well, you know you're either extremely hot
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  or extremely cold there. That's there's there's no comfortable middle for you. Very
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  true. You know there's days Nick's training in under sixty three weather in his
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  garage or over one hundred degree weather. You know what I'm saying. I'm
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  just saying. You know, you know it's so hot that like you gotta
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  to wait for the implements to cool off outside because they're roasting. You know
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  what I'm saying, don't touch hot plates. We have to put it like
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  during the summer, we'll have to take a bucket of ice and water and
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  drop towels in it and put it over the handles like the farmers walk and
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  some of the other stuff to cool them off. And by the time we
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  get it cooled off, I remembers, like Archie can worry about the street
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  being by the time you get back, the streets dry, the implements already
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  starting to get warm again. You got to go exactly. Yeah, it's
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  kind of cool, exactly, But that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm
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  saying. You know what I'm saying. California. It's a little it's a
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  little bit more controlled. We you know, we have internal ac you know
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  what I'm saying. It's usually sixty five seventy five. That's where I like
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  it. Not too bad, exactly, not too bad. I like to
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  sleep like that too. But yeah, we did it. We had a
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  great day. It was a fun day, had a great day of training.
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  There a great day of training, yeah, exactly. That was a
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  soliday and training eighteen five was five hundred eighteen. Yeah, so yeah,
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  yeah, it felt good. The number was eighteen. That hit my number.
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  Next next week the number goes up a little bit. So well,
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  and here's the thing too, is like, you know, when we were
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  training, people were like Nick, do two more? Do do this?
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  And he's like, no, I have a program. This wasn't the number.
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  This is my number. This is my program. The same thing with
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  the squats, you know what I'm saying, Like, was you squatted up
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  seven on a single? You know what I'm saying. He's like, no,
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  I could. I had more in me, But why am I going
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  to beat myself up if I'm you know, you're doing the program. You
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  know that that's something that you always see people like, you know, I
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  don't know how manytimes we were in the gym and we hear people talking about,
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  well, I'm not supposed to do this. Yeah, you're in a
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  program, followed down program. It's written for a reason. Yeah, it's
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  written for a reason. And I mean, dude, unless it's a week
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  where you're supposed to be testing or you're in the competition, you train hard,
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  you get up in there pretty good, but you never lay the hammer
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  all the way down. Yeah, all the way down. You get close,
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  but not quite, not till it's time exactly exactly. And that's one
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  of those things too, is like like I like I said, you know
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  when you're young, you can get away with it. And when I mean
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  young, there's a lot of hundred twenty year olds that you know, they're
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  they're just starting. No, there's a lot of people in their twenties.
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  I still consider that they were going in. But you know, like I
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  said, we hear it all the time. I hear it all the time.
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  You know, people like, you know, I'm not supposed to PR
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  today, but guess what I'm going Training for a PR every time you go
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  out is not good. There's a difference between training for a PR and doing
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  a heavy single. There's a difference. There's a massive difference. And it's
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  not about going to one hundred percentile, but you get up into the high
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  nineties, it's okay. You just you push to the edge, but you
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  don't go over. And a heavy single that's meant to freeze for training,
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  that takes you four or five seconds to do and is a training single is
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  good because you've when you do a training single, you still do work sets
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  up to it, and you're still doing you know, five reps and then
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  three reps and the single. We're in a competition, you're doing you know,
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  four reps and then single single single, single and single, and then
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  you're warm and you go hit your competition weights. Whereas training's training, you
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  hit you know, three or four, hit fours, threes, threes,
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  threes, threes, threes, and then you hit your five, your three,
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  and you're one. I mean, it's kind of how you do it.
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  You save it. One is training and the other one you're saving yourself
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  to hit your heavy less. That's the difference between the two. I don't
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  think people seem to get that. No, no, they don't. You
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  know, everyone wants the glory of the PR every time. But you know,
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  like I said, to advance and to get better, you know that
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  there's a reason why there's a problem. Well, and that's the thing.
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  I mean, it's great to hit prs, great, it's it's a great
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  thing to do, but never putting it down. But you're not always going
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  to hit them. And if everything you function about is hitting a PR every
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  time you train, you're gonna be pretty disappointed. Well, you know,
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  but it's good work. It's yeah, it's solid work, solid work,
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  good work. Not everything has to be, you know, better than the
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  last time. But if you slowly, methodically get better over time, you
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  never go backwards. Then you'll continually move forwards and you continue to grow when
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  everybody instead of doing this, yeah, you know, throughout your training,
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  it's just this exactly, and it just keeps moving and it keeps moving,
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  and all of a sudden it gets to you pass the peak the peaks and
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  valleys of the person doing this and you never look back. And that's the
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  goal in the end, and that's real training. You know what I'm saying,
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  patience and man me tell right now, you gotta have patience to do
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  this because you know that man nephew was with us today at the at the
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  show and he was like, I'm just going to pick this up. I'm
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  like, no, you're not. You're like you got to build up to
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  this like this. You just can't magically like be this strong already. All
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  but what he's stable to the floor. Yeah, it's well there's yeah,
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  you're not just going to pick that up. But you can pick that up.
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  You will be able to pick that up in time. But you have
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  to do the things necessary to get you there. And you got to put
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  the work in and the long work in to read the benefits and the rewards.
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  And that's how it works. You know what I'm saying, he was
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  just like so pumped up because he was like, oh, he wanted to
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  do it next year. I'm like, well, guess what and fast up
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  brings fast down. That's it. We want to go. We want that,
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  Like I said, that steady climb, that steady. Well, the
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  other thing is is you also want the muscle. The muscle is going to
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  recover the muscle. And people don't seem to get this about training. The
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  experts that can't beat me with the internet keyboard warriors to or haven't haven't done
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  some of the things that I've done, or Ed's done, or just Brian
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  or any any of the other great guys doing this and all of them.
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  Is they don't get that. Yeah, must everybody's so concerned about the body
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  of the portion of it where muscle heals in two days and you got to
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  get back to training it and stuff like that. Now you need to heal
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  when the connected tissues healed. Let me say that again, you need to
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  train again when the connected tissues healed. And why does the connective tissue take
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  so long to heal after you've had a surgery or an injury or whatever.
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  There's not good blood flow to it, so it heals slower. Now why
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  people can't figure this out, I don't know, but it just heals slower
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  than muscle does. Therefore, your training should be when that muscle's healed,
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  not takes two to three times longer for the connected tissue to heal. The
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  muscle. Muscle will not atrophy till the tenth day. So as long as
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  you get that between six and eight day timeframe in there, you're good.
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  You're good, and you're going to train. You're gonna get stronger. You're
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  gonna train, you're gonna get stronger. You gotta train, you're gonna get
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  stronger, and it'll be a little bit slower process. But if the muscle
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  gets stronger so much faster than the connected tissue. When you start getting up
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  into that international elite level and the muscle is stronger than the connected tissue,
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  that's where you start running into injuries where you pop things off the bones.
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  Ye, muscle belly tears, muscle barly tears where you just pop the tendon
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  off and then they're sewing it on muscle belly, it's gonna heal. And
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  that's guys who tether musclebillies. They're connected tissues stronger than muscle. That's impressive,
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  guys that pull it off the bone. The muscles stronger the connected tissue,
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  and that's where you run into your issues getting too strong too fast there
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  it is, it's the difference. You know what I'm saying that this is
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  a million dollar information here as you guys need to and it's not talked about
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  very much. Yeah, which I don't understand you. But everybody wants to
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  sell quick. Everybody wants to sell fast. Everybody wants to sell this and
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  it's muscle, that's what That's what it is. It's muscle maturity, and
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  it's patience, and it's understanding. You can work things to make them go
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  a little bit faster, but in the end, the getting there super fast
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  is going to get you out of there super fast, exactly. And that's
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  what we never you know, like I said, we don't. We never
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  want to see when somebody jumped to the top and then all of a sudden
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  there's like exactly you know what I'm saying, But also too like say,
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  this is information that Nick always shares with a lot of his elite people that
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  are coming up. You know what I'm saying, Like, hey, understand,
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  and you know, so people get it, so people don't. It's
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  you know, I've been talking about this for a while now, yeah,
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  you know, tell people who listen, and it's it's just you go through
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  enough stuff, you go through enough injuries you start thinking about, well,
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  why is this heal at this speed? Why is this here at this speed?
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  And you start learning the difference and we're like, okay, well if
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  this heels, if it takes tenants you know, two to three times longer
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  to heal than a muscle, terror goes, why is that? And it's
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  because you start thinking it's the blood flow, it's this the body reacts.
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  And if you want to help your tenons and ligaments, you can take things
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  like recovery that Brian sells with undefined nutrition that's hydrolonic acid in it, and
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  then you can also take collagen and stuff like that so that that will also
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  help those repair. And I don't think a lot of people you know,
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  really explore that avenue or not for either exactly. So wow, you know,
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  we covered quite a bit and we had a great week. It was
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