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Stronger Than Ever: Adam Erlich on Fatherhood, Fitness & Finding Your Best · Laugh Love Law

• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Laugh Love Law.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: My guest today is somebody that I knew long before either of us had careers, kids, businesses, or really any idea of what we were doing with our lives.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Adam Ehrlich and I met as kids at Manhattan Beach Jewish Center Day Camp.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we haven't seen each other in about 35 years.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Give or take 35 years.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Today, Adam is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, the owner of A1 Fitness and Nutrition, a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter, a husband, an autism dad, and as you are about to find out, still very much the same funny, completely unfiltered person I remember.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Adam, my friend, welcome to Laugh Love Love.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate being here.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: I love this.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me something that doesn't make it into your professional bio.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: Something about me?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Something that you don't list on your resume or on LinkedIn, but something about you that everyone should know.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: First and foremost, autism dad.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: I really don't put that in my professional uh life, although I am starting to now, and I'll explain that in a little bit.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I have a son who's 14, Ethan.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: What's up, bud?
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he was diagnosed at two and a half years old, and I've been an advocate for him and anyone who's on the spectrum since.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: And it's very near and dear to my heart, and I think more people need to be educated about autism, disabilities, special needs, the whole scope.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that's something that's me.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Ethan, he's 14.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: 14 years old.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm old.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: My youngest son is 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember when we found each other on Facebook probably 15 years ago.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think you were newly married, no children, and now your baby's 14.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: My baby's 14, and my oldest is 18, and like I was telling you earlier, just dropped her off at college, so I'm officially old.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, University of Delaware.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: University of Delaware, you did.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Love it.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: And do you still take Ethan to Chuck E.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Cheese any chance you get?
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: Every Sunday we go to Chuck E.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: We get pizza, we spend the day.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's his favorite place.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: You ask most people, the famous mouse is Mickey.
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  SPEAKER_01: My house, it's Chuck E.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cheese.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna keep going as long as he wants to go, and as long as they keep having us, we'll be there.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like Chuck E.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cheese is like paying homage to like our childhood.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's like an 80s, 90s kids thing.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: We tried to take my girls when they were little, and my middle one, Lily, who's 17, was petrified of the mouse, so much so that she would sit and shake.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we have to find other places to play Skee bowl.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be honest with you, I'm petrified of the mouse.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's a little scary.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: He's a little scary, but you know what?
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: My son loves him.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: My son, he'll go, he'll play one game, he goes on one ride.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: We see the mouse, he hugs him, takes his picture, does the Chucky dance, and then we leave.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if he's happy, I'm happy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if Chuck E.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cheese brings him joy, then I am all for Chuck E.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Cheese.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: I remember reading years ago that Ethan was non-verbal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Is he still non-verbal?
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: Partially verbal.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he's speaking a lot more.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's more like I would say, think about a parrot.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you speak in front of him, he can repeat what you say, but we're getting there.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I give all the credit to teachers in Levittown.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Wisdom, Abby, uh Lane.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: They've been amazing with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's really flourishing in that setting, and that's why I moved to Levittown.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Another shout out to Levittown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we were told it's a great area for autism, and that's why we moved there, and we have not been let down one bit.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's doing amazing, and I'm so proud of him.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope when Ethan sees this, he's very excited.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: And Ethan, make your dad take you to Chuck E.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cheese like today.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for that.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: I remember when we were kids, and I'd say teenagers, you were already very into fitness and bodybuilding, powerlifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell me about the journey because I know that you kind of fell off from the fitness for a while and then you found your way back.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Tell us how it happened and how it led you back here.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: When I was 12, 13 years old, I wanted to play football at my high school.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, went to Wagner High School in Staten Island and you know, Staten Island, Brooklyn.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Football was life and I needed to work out.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: I love football, but I fell in love with working out.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: I loved the feeling, I loved being in control of my own body, and I loved just everything about being healthier.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also loved the community in the gyms, where back then, and I'm gonna say that again, back then it was a community.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: I went to the gym, I'm 13 years old, I know nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: These big scary guys would walk up to me, put their arms around me, and guide me.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when it started.
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  SPEAKER_01: I loved it from the minute I started, I loved it then.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love it even more now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I'm that guy.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I've been told I'm the big scary guy in the gym, and I will put my arm around anyone and guide them any way I can.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: I like to pay that forward.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: But in between, I ended up going into bodybuilding at 15 years old.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: I did my first bodybuilding competition, got the bug for bodybuilding.
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  SPEAKER_01: It takes a lot to get up on a stage wearing next to nothing showing your body.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: But I was proud of what I built and I did very well with it.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: I started winning and I started getting a little more serious.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fast forward, I went to college in Florida because bodybuilding was so big there, and I kept competing, I kept winning, and now I'm 50, I'm still in this life, stronger than most of those kids back uh half my age, and it's just something that's given me so much, I just want to give it back.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good story.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: And now, somewhere in between, I don't know if it was being in your 30s or your 40s when we're getting old, but you had you had had some fluctuations with your weight and your health.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, so one thing about bodybuilding, you can build all this muscle, but there is not a myth, there's a fact, muscle turns into fat.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: And when you're 25 years old, 280 pounds of solid muscle, and then you become in your 40s, and you stop working out from a car accident, which happened to me.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: I fell out of love with it for a little while, and my body just went to crap.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I gained a ton of weight, was out of shape, was unhealthy, thought I had diabetes, thank god I didn't, sleep apnea, overweight, obesity, the whole nine.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I went from one extreme to another, and it took me a long time to just finally say, This isn't me anymore.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's when I found myself again, and now we're back.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: What was the spark?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: My kids.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, having kids where listen, I'll tell you the truth.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: I remember my daughter's friend going, Oh, that's your fat dad.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: And when you're used to being the guy that everybody looked up to and said, Wow, look at your physique.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: I can only dream about a physique like that to now I'm the fat guy, really hit home.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: But it wasn't so much how I looked, it's how it made me feel.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Depression, being upset, letting down myself, my kids, my wife, my family, and it just wasn't me.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: What things couldn't you do during your unhealthy phase that you so much enjoy doing again now that you're back in shape?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Standing for a long period of time.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: You try putting a lot of weight on your shoulders and just stand there for a couple of hours.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: When my son was born, being on the spectrum, he would run around and go crazy.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: How do you chase a kid when you're overweight?
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: You can't do it.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: And how am I a good father if I can't play with my kids, if I can't be there for my kids?
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: I always said I try to be a loyal person.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: I've always wanted to be a dad, and I wanted to be a good one at that.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: The best father I could be, and I was doing them an injustice.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, you know what?
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: If I'm healthy, I'll be able to do what I know I can do, and I'll be myself again, and I'll be that dad I want to be.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: Our first guest this season, Emily Phillips, talked about how being overweight doesn't necessarily mean you're unhealthy, and being thin doesn't necessarily mean that you're healthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you feel about that?
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: 100%.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: But it's not just necessarily the aesthetics.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you could see somebody who's overweight, and like you said, they could be the healthiest person inside.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: But sadly, society doesn't judge you from the inside out, they judge you from the outside in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And kids are cruel, but so are parents, so are other people, so are people who don't understand.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, even forget being overweight.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: Look at somebody who sees my son, they don't understand autism, they don't get it.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna teach their kids, oh, what's that kid doing?
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: Look at him, he's weird, he's not normal.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: When you see somebody overweight, that's not normal, and it's an eyesore.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I wasn't just wrong on the outside, I was wrong on the inside.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't healthy, I had medical issues, I had sleeping issues, my confidence was down, my happiness was nil, and I have a wife, I have kids, I have a family.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: I just wasn't pleasant to be around, so it affected me both on the outside and on the inside.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: How do you feel about the weight and fitness conversation with your kids?
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is something we've talked about this a lot on the podcast.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: Our generation grew up with being fit, being thin, that's what mattered.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Then there was that whole wave of you know, don't talk about weight, don't talk about fitness.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then you try doing that, and then you see things that are not healthy going on, you know, your kids eating junk or not caring so much about the fitness, and it's like, which is the right answer?
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Do you do you talk to your kids about weight and fitness?
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Do you avoid it altogether, or is there some happy middle ground?
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Because as a parent, I still don't know the answer.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: So, amazing question.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: As a parent and as a trainer, I see it from both angles.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I see as a trainer somebody who's hired to help you look the way you want to look, feel the way you want to feel.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: As a father, I look at my kids and I want them to look a certain way and feel a certain way.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: But here's the here's the issue to my kids.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm dead.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not a trainer.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, they're not gonna listen to me no matter what I tell them to do.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: My daughter can play a sport, she could play basketball.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: If I teach her how to do a layup, I'm wrong.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: If her coach shows her the same exact thing, dad, he just showed me how to shoot a layup, I'm amazing at it.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Emma, I just got done teaching you the same thing.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm dead.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: But as a parent, I want to be able to be as open and honest with my kids as possible.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: We live in a day and age.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like you said, back in the day, we were told to be healthy.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: We were told to Hulk Hogan, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, work out.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's how we live.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: Your Flintstone vitamins, full of sugar.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: So good.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, I'm guilty.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: I've eaten an entire bottle of Flintstones.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so good.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: I thought, hey, tic-tacks have sugar, flintstones are vitamins, let's just eat those as a snack.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm guilty as charged.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um I like I like gruns now.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: The gruns, the green vitamins.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: I pretend to take them for nutrition, but I really just like them.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: They're like gummy bears.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Mint tic-tac, zero fat, try to justify it.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: With carnuba wax.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Just putting it out there.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, anyway, one of the biggest issues now is that kids have access to a lot of information.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean it's the right information.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: And when you have people, and I've worked at commercial gyms, and when I look up and I see somebody holding a uh tripod, taking every angle picture of their butt, and they have to do it 18 times over because the lighting wasn't right, and then they post their picture, and my influential daughter goes, Oh my god, look at that woman.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Her backside is amazing.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: No, it really isn't.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: It just so happens to be angles, filtering, editing, whatever the case is.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I would rather just tell my daughter the truth.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's not easy, it's hard work.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: Go to the gym, eat right.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: You're not eating well, let's clean it up.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to suffer and eat vegetables and salad all day long.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: You could still have a slice of pizza once a week.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: You could still go out to dinner with your friends, but I'm going to tell her what it takes to be healthy.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I have no problem holding back on that.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think, and maybe it's it's different as a woman, as a mom versus being a dad, but I I think it's it's a hard conversation.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: Very hard to have, but I would rather I'm gonna tell you uh something I live by.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you want honesty, you ask Adam.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you want something sugar coated, go get a freaking donut.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's how I live my life.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: And if the truth hurts, I can live with that.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell you the truth.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell you how I feel about a certain situation.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't like it, tough crap, deal with it.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: I have a question.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Is it a Dunkin' Donut chocolate sprinkle donut?
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because if it is, then I might choose the donut.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think once you walk into Dunkin' Donuts, we immediately put on five pounds.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, and I'm I'm guilty of drinking their coffee.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: I I do.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: My son eats the munchkins.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: And my son, believe it or not, I'm a trainer.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: My son is overweight.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to put him on a nutrition plan when he doesn't understand.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's another challenge that we face uh trying to explain to your kids why we're doing what we're doing, how we do what we do.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: Just gotta do the best.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's all, that's all we could do as parents.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's all I could do as a trainer is just guide you the best I can and hope you come along for the ride.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: What would you say to somebody in their 40s or 50s who's, you know, not necessarily overweight, but out of shape?
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: What's the first step to getting back into feeling healthy?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Love that question.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, as somebody who's 50, and when people say you're 50, there's no way you just lifted 900 pounds in the gym.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I did.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I've been working hard at this.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: I tell them that age is a number, it's the mindset that you have.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to better yourself, you can.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's something I like to say also.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um you're gonna learn that I'm I'm a lot of sayings.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the heaviest weight in the gym is the front door.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Once you open that door, half the battle is won.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody goes to the gym, works out for an hour, 40, 50, 20, 30 years old, leaves the gym and says, I regret bettering myself.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: But when you're sitting on the couch for an hour that you could have been at the gym, you're going to regret it.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to tell somebody who is ever listening, if you're 40, you're 50 years old, it's not too late.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: You can get into the gym, you can be healthy, you can enjoy it.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to devote your whole life to it.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to suggest that you devote some time.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: There's a what, 140 some odd hours in a week?
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: Give me five hours in a week to exercise.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: I think we could all find five hours.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: All right, I'm gonna give you problems.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna tell me best exercise.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Ready?
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Mom pouch.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Eat better and just go to the gym and do a little bit of cardio.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's all you need.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Cardio.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh flabby arms.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: Work out, build the muscle.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: The muscle will fill out the skin.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: You can't get rid of loose skin, but you can build the muscle into it.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Flat butt.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not asking for myself.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, do you want a flat butt or do you want a bigger butt?
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I had a flat butt, which which I do.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: How do you fix that?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: You treat you treat your butt like you would treat your arms, your back, your legs.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's a muscle.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: You build it up.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Why is A1 fitness different?
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: How are you different?
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how are you not just like every other guy that tries to sell you a program?
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is my life.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's been my life since I'm 12 years old.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: That 12-year-old kid, 13-year-old kid you met at Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in Brooklyn, who got into it, I'm still that same person.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: I am going to explain to you why you should do something.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to teach you.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to hold you accountable.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to motivate you.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not just there for a paycheck.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: I am there to become your biggest fan.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: When I train someone, I am literally louder than you cheering.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: I you hit a goal, nobody's happier than I am.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I give that personal touch to everyone.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: And if you ever ask any of my clients, they will tell you, he's a friend.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: I don't look at him as my trainer, and he's there for my best interest.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: And to me, that's what's different.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: If you go to the gyms, and I'm not going to mention the name of the gyms, but we talked about this with a few people here.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: You will go to a commercial gym and see a trainer on their phone.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: Five more reps, they're not even looking.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Then you're going to hear me screaming, yelling, motivating, applauding, hugging, clapping, high-fiving.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I bring to the table.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's coming from here.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: All from the heart.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's coming from here.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: All from the heart.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: What is your biggest fitness regret?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: My biggest fitness regret.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: When I was in my early 20s and I was a competitive bodybuilder, I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I went into the gym.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: I was the guy in the corner with the muscles, lifting the weight, grunting and yelling, who never smiled.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: It was a job, it was work, it was hard, it was tough.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: I would enjoy it in the privacy of my own home.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: I would enjoy it when I won that trophy, but I didn't laugh in the gym.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't talk to other people.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: I just put my head down, put my headphones on, and minded my own business.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now I go to the gym.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: I am in the middle of a set.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm about to lift 900 pounds and I will laugh at something.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: I will enjoy every second of it because I am gonna keep doing this until whoever it is doesn't allow me anymore.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm that's my biggest regret is I just didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um you've been married to your wife, Kim, for a long time.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: 20 years.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: We just celebrated 20 years.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations, happy anniversary.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I think our generation is coming back to putting the work into the marriages.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think there was that generation first where everybody was divorced, right?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then after that, marriage was like not a thing.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: But I think our, you know, us 50-year-olds, you know, 45 to 50.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: But do you wait for people to say, oh, you just said it, you're not 50?
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Or like I I do the pause.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like if somebody says, How old are you and I say 50?
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: I wait.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: I wait for them to say, Oh, you're not 50.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, see?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'll sit there and I'll I'll tell them right, oh yeah, I am 50.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, it is what it is, but inside I'm like, oh my god.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe they don't think it.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: So secretly I enjoy the fact they don't believe it, but I have to try to play, you know, too cool for school.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: So what makes a marriage last?
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: You're married 20 years.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: 20 years.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: What makes it last?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Still learning that.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's always great answer.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's always something that we can improve on.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, communication, obviously, you're a team.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, one minute, my son is my best friend, and my daughter is her best friend, and you know, then next thing it flip-flops, and we just have to roll with the punches.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't think there's a magic answer to that question.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: I just think every day you wake up, you look at your partner, and you say, Wow, am I lucky to have this person?
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: You love them more than life itself.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna argue, you're gonna fight.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: I was fighting with my wife yesterday.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 180 degrees.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm carrying every piece of furniture into my daughter's room, and she's putting a bed together, yelling at me, and I'm dripping sweat, hating life.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: And I yelled at her.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then today, first thing out of my mouth was, I'm sorry I yelled at you.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: And we just move forward from that, you know, ups and downs.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Life's a roller coaster, marriage is a roller coaster, you you deal with it.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're we're married 21 years, and I think that the people that post about perfect marriages.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: No such thing, and perfect vacations.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: No, nope, nope.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know, post the stuff that's real.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Post when you're fighting over putting a piece of furniture together.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Post over Josh and I had a fight the other day.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're listening, I know you're laughing, but we had a fight the other day about the new laundry basket I bought.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: I bought a laundry basket that had a lid, and he didn't like that now he had to lift the lid and put the laundry inside versus versus give the guy credit, that's a lot of work.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: But that's what he said.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: For me, it's aesthetically pleasing, and I don't have to smell his dirty socks.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: So this was our argument, but the argument became we were we were cracking up by the end of the conversation.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're like, oh my god, what the fuck are we arguing about?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was hysterical.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to say that the next day he did put his socks inside the laundry basket.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, Tasha.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: You did, you did, you did.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know what though?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: I think when you think of things like that, yeah, I'll sometimes spite my wife.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: I will purposely not pick up clothes off the floor just because she's getting aggravated.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: But then I noticed that in the last month my daughter's room looked like a nuclear bomb hit it, and my wife was cleaning.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, Why are you not making her do it?
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Well, she has a lot on her plate.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: So when she said, Adam, the side of your room, it looks it looks horrible.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I just have a lot going on right now.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I pulled out the spite card, I absolutely did it, but I ended up doing the laundry anyway, and now it's just clean sitting in a pile.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's clean, so baby steps.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, you know, on behalf of Kim, keep your side of the room clean and put your laundry away.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: I should love you for saying that.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're gonna play some laugh love law.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: You ready?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: So let's remind our viewers what this is, right?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, Adam, you're gonna grab those three paddles.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'll help you out.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm gonna Give you some very random topics, okay?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: If you love it, if it resonates with you, you hold up the love paddle.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: If it's something that makes you chuckle, you hold up the laugh paddle.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: And if you hate it, well, then you hold up the law paddle.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: If you have a story, somebody you want to tell us, you can, but you don't have to.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's gonna be bad.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do this.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Speed round.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Parallel parking.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Why is that funny?
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's terrible.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because nobody can do it right.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't have a camera in your car, you're screwed.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: I needed that rear view camera to do it, and my wife still makes fun of me that I use the camera because in Queens I was taught how to parallel park.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Screw you.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: I need the camera.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna laugh at that all day because it's a crazy topic.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: All right, autocorrect disasters.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: Autocorrect.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: You've ever had a I get yelled at for text that I send out that in my mind and in my fingers it was right.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then when it translates to what actually came out, it's hieroglyphic.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: So screw autocorrect.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: When when the autocorrect thing first came into existence, I had a boss that was very cool.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: We had a great relationship, but I meant to say thank you, but instead it sent fuck you.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: And we weren't working together long enough where he would think that was funny.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I called him right away, and autocorrect was like new.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I'm so sorry.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I was beginning to think what the hell I did to you.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, so to this day, I'm like always double introduced.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny you say that because any of my clients who are gonna watch this, the joke is I put them through such hard workouts that they say, Adam, fuck you.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: But to me, I take that as a thank you.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: I love you.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: I love you.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: But the fact that you said that to your boss, in my mind, you literally said thank you by saying fuck you.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I just said fuck you.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Love that.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, leftovers.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love leftovers too.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: Look at me.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: Do I look like I pass up on any leftovers ever in the history?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: But I like leftovers cold.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't like to reheat.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if I'm gonna eat something the next day, like, give me the pizza that's cold.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: I like that.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: I want any leftover hot, cold medium.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: I just, that's the one thing I'm going to say.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: The fact that my daughter now is going to college, my leftovers will still be there.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing is worse.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing is worse than having your mindset on those leftovers and somebody else ate them.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: All right, unusual baby names.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think they're ridiculous.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Don't name my kid Apple.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: You should not name your kid after a fruit.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: After a fruit or a state or yeah.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: No, I got it.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I'll give you one more photo booths.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like it too.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: We bar mitzvah's.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: Think back to when we used to go to bar mitzvahs.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: But only the rich kids had the photo booth.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but that's what made them so enjoyable.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: We could hold up everything.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: You just made the faces so much fun.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: I would love that.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: I wish we could do that every day.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Adam, you did very well with Laugh Love Luck.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: Before we transition to Capsule Confessions, if I said cheers, cheers for MB Day Camp, would you know the next line?
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be very, very disappointing.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, I I went to I went there two summers.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: I went there because of some friends from school.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm thankful that I did because I made some good friends and I love the fact that three or some odd years later, I could sit here and catch up with you.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I enjoy I enjoy that, but I wasn't the rah-rah, big time daycamp guy that everyone else was.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: I just went because sports are fun, hanging out with people are fun, and honestly, my parents kicked me out of the house for the summer.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: We got the spirits, we got the champs.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: Come on, Adam.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: All right, ready for some capsule confessions?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now I am definitely.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we did capsule confessions off camera because although Adam is a superior bodybuilder, he is not a good capsule grabber.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: I blame it on my parents.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said this before.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: They should have given me those quarters outside the supermarket.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: I could have got the little bouncy ball that was gonna go into the street and cause an accident.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: But because they didn't, I'm an idiot with this.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: But why do you think we have this machine, right, to make up for childhood trauma?
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: All right, ready?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you, but screw you for bringing up this memory.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: All right, open them up.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: What do we got?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: What was your favorite age?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: So my favorite age by far was 20.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's when my bodybuilding career really started to take off, my physique started to mature and take shape, and it really was just a great year.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was in Florida.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I was a bouncer, I was a bodybuilder, I was just living my life.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: You're having fun.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: I was having fun.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, alright, that's a good one.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: What do we got now?
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, this one is.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: What is one thing you hope that people you love know about you?
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna answer this one.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm 275 pounds.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: I apparently look scary, I lift a lot of weight, I grunt and just curse in the gym.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: I am just a person with a big heart who loves first, love to laugh.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the animal that the gym sees.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just this is me.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: This is me just having fun, making fun of myself, just loving my kids, my family.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: That that's what I want to tell you.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: And being really bad at the quarter machine.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: So bad at the quarter machine.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: So bad at the quarter machine.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, here we go.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh hey, at least I can admit it.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, that's but that's you know the first step.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: What is your favorite thing about getting older?
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give that one to you.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: The the life experience.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Having the memories, having the stories, having the like this giant pool of of stuff you can grab from.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm I I think my new attitude about aging is not that I'm afraid of it, I'm embracing it because what's the alternative, right?
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: Being dead in the ground, wishing that you had the time.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I love it.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I love all that stuff we can pull from.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: See, I think about this whole getting older thing.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: I had a five-month span where I turned 50, my wife turned 50, we celebrated our 20th anniversary, my daughter graduated high school, going to college, my son is now going into high school.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I feel like all those things just happened at one time, made me feel really, really, really old.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, old.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: But now that I look back on it, and literally a day later for my daughter going to college, I am extremely lucky that I have this life and I can look back, but I'm excited to look forward.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about if somebody wants to get in touch with you and hire your company for services, how would they do that?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, thank you for that.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: So my company right now is me.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, A1 for Adam.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I do personal training.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: I am a nutrition coach.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: I do plans for people as far as gaining weight, losing weight, getting healthy, bodybuilding, powerlifting, you name it.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: I do it.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to get a hold of me, you can call me 516-310-3338.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you can email me a1training5438 at gmail, or you can go onto my website, which is a1fitfnutrition.com.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I want to say this.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't just train what I like to refer to as typical people.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, what I mean by typical is just the everyday average person.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: I am really, really embracing training non-typical, meaning on the autism spectrum with any disabilities.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's something near and dear to my heart.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not just a trainer, like I said earlier, I'm an autism dad, so I like to help people, but I have that unique perspective of doing it as a parent who a lot of parents of my clients who are on the spectrum or have disabilities, they're nervous.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: How do we relate?
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: What if they throw a tantrum?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: What if they have a fit?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: What if they run out of the gym?
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a dad of an autistic child.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: I embrace it all, I can handle it all.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: So if you have a family member, child, brother, sister, father, mother who has disabilities but wants to get healthy, I am definitely your guy on that one.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're typical and you just want to lose some weight, get healthy, build some muscle, or explore bodybuilding, powerlifting, whatever it is, I'm also your guy.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um, Adam's awesome.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: Adam's been awesome for the last 50 years, and I'm so glad You're not gonna disagree with that.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad that we got to sit down today and chat a little bit.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: I need you to give me a little signature on that laugh love law token, and it's gonna go into our special jar.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I love that, and we'll keep your memory here, and then I'm gonna give you a little sweatshirt.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, not little because you're big, but uh, here's a laugh love law hoodie.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: Throw it right over your tank top and enjoy.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: I love this.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm gonna give my old friend a big hug.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because you gotta move that microphone.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a long time.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's been such a long time.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: And such a good time.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for having me here.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'll be honest, I was wanting to let people know that I'm branching out with my own personal business.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm very technically declined.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm even worse on computers than I am with this quarter machine.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm really bad with that again.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm that old school 50-year-old, but this is amazing just talking about life.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: But what I love about this is getting to do it with somebody who, even though we haven't seen each other in 30 some odd years, we just roll right back into it.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you so much.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you need advice on the technical stuff, ask your teenagers.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you so much for tuning in, and we'll be back next week with a new episode.