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Dinner with The Strongest Man in History · The Best Experience

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  it takes longer to heal. For your tenants. It doesn't matter if you
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  But when you're taking it as a crutch to every time you go to train,
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  kidney cancer and had one had an effect to me and one of the kidneys
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  the best means of fighting inflammation. And yeah, so there and there it
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  is. That was a long commercial. Now I'm with the show sometimes.
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  Well, we got two Mondays to go, Nick, Yeah, yeah,
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  till the Shot Classic, till we drive out there road trip. Yeah,
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  road trip, road trip. That's that's gonna be fun. And it's really
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  gonna be fun. I'm really looking forward to this. This is Brian's last
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  contest he's ever going to compete in, and I mean The Shot Classic and
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  he always puts on an unbelievable show. It's grown at an exponential rate,
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  and I mean nobody works harder than that guy. He is an absolute perfectionist.
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  So dedicated to the fans, I swear to guy, dedicated to the
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  fans, dedicated to the sport. Um. This will far and away be
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  the best one he's ever done. And each year it gets better. So
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  we got an expo this year. Eddie Cohen's talking, I'm talking, Robert's
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  talking. Oh, there's a huge line lineup of guests. Man, is
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  that really pulled out the spots for speakers talkers in pots. He did so
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  with you know, like guys like Ed Cohen and stuff like that coming out
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  there talking. When the Goat talks, you listening, it doesn't matter how
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  much it hurts. Yeah, oh boy, but you know it's helping and
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  it really has My squat death is getting a little bit deeper and a little
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  bit deeper every week. I'm getting where I need to be. So that's
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  going well. Um, but I digress. This is about the Classic exactly.
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  Yeah, we're you know, the strongest man on Earth, which is
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  like said, when you talk about jumping levels, it went from show Classic
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  being the next bit. Yeah. It like it's almost the competition between the
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  two shows right now is not it's it's it's great to see because what I'm
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  seeing is now there's two huge platforms with two one world's Strongest Man, strongest
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  man on Earth and the strongest. The world's Strongest Man is actually going to
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  be competing at the Shaw Classic. You know, I was just playing him
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  with the thoughts of my head what if he won mouth Yeah, yeah,
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  that'd be that'd be something else. And you know, I don't put anything
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  by by Mitchell Hooper. I mean, yeah, it's just gonna be if
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  it's his day, he's gonna win. It's just that simple. Um if
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  it's not. But you got tray trays on it twice, yep, so
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  I mean trays be able to go in at the moment. But yeah,
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  and then you got to figure there's not a lot of grip events this time
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  that'll bother trace. So it's gonna be interesting. I mean all the way
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  around. It's gonna be a fun show to watch. Yeah, and it
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  definitely you know, I'll say it myself because like I said, I never
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  want to put any bad energy out there, but I want it's not even
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  bad energy. But like you know, just being superstitious, is I want
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  Brian to win, to have that Covenant. The first Covenant title strongest man
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  on earth and then you imagine retiring with that. It's like, yeah,
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  like that's the icing on the on the cake there, and he's been training
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  real hard. When he'll get he'll get what we call media silent, you
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  know what I'm saying, which is fun. I mean yeah, yeah,
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  it's actually seven twenty I think. So, yeah, it's gonna be pretty,
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  it's gonna be pretty spicy. It's gonna be fun to watch it.
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  Really, that's gonna be a fun event to watch. I might get to
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  go out there and test it, so that's kind of cool. I'm looking
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  forward to that and kind of really getting you know, hands on point of
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  view the implement it would also make it easier to talk about stuff like that,
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  so exactly looking forward to that. I've been studying the open and the
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  women's well and the and the men's because I'm just gonna prepare for all of
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  it. Uh and uh just get ready to be able to speak on pretty
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  much anything when we get there to do the announcing and stuff like that.
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  So yeah, it'll it'll be fun. And then the events, the leg
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  of the car leg presses back. I'm super excited about that. U Evan
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  just actually posted this morning. Yeahound leg press. Yeah, so any and
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  it looked pretty damn solid. It looked really solid. But Evan, you
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  gotta pause it. So if you guys aren't pausing your leg presses, you
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  really should. And I mean you can get you can go to the hardware
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  store and get like sea clamps. You won't be able to rest it on
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  there, but at least you be able to bring it down when you get
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  to that range and set it on there and just touch it to it so
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  that you can press it off because you're not gonna want to take the weight
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  off the implement anyway. When you're there and it comes down to that stop,
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  you're not gonna want to take the weight off of it anyway. You're
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  gonna want to keep the pressure on it so it'll allow you to come down,
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  hit your hit your depth, stop and then press off. But that's
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  just my two sons on how I would train it. You know, you
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  need to practice stopping that thing. It's it's a whole different ball game than
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  coming down and getting the rebound or you know, the ability momentum, the
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  momentum that's not really momentum because you can't bounce it that kind of weigh is
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  dangerous to bounce. Yeah, but yeah, he looks really strong, like
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  a lot of the guys stole. Tom was training it and he looked like
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  he was doing pretty good too, So a lot of the guys are really
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  didn't get in after this, it's gonna be fun to watch. Well with
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  that extra, that extra little carrot off the top, it's like, you
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  know, like, oh that title, come on? Yeah, well,
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  I mean you also got to figure Brian at the contest raised the prize money
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  fifty grand during the show. Yeah, so what's going to happen this year?
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  Exactly? So the guys are taking it as serious as we're taking it.
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  They're taking it a little more seriously now. So it's it's gonna be
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  fun to watch. And I mean who gives back to the sport like that?
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  Exactly. And plus you guys gotta remember it's gonna be live stream too,
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  so I'm gonna try to see if I could find the link and put
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  and put the link in the notes and you know, and also too,
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  there's actually going to be a special event coming up pretty soon. Yeah on
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  tickets go live for that one on Thursday the third, I believe, um
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  and basically Robert's coming in. Who Robert I'm you know, it's it's pretty
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  amazing. He's on the Righteous Gemstones. You get to sit there and watch
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  Robbie, you know, run from things. It actually looks scared. I
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  think they told him if he didn't run fast enough, they weren't gonna feed
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  him. So he got scared. But um and run and and just it's
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  amazing performance on the Righteous Gemstones. And then of course Eddie's coming in.
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  You know, it's brand's last show, so the four of us are going
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  to be there and Thursday night they're doing an event to where we're gonna go
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  sit down and have dinner. Um, you can be able to talk to
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  us, ask us questions, get pictures with us all. I'll be doing
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  autographs, you know, of the four of us signing you know, a
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  special giveaway that type of thing. So you could be able to go on
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  and get tickets to this thing. Yeah, it's it's gonna be a pretty
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  special night. It really is. It's always fun when the four of us
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  get together. But uh, as I know is there will be no waxing
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  involved with anything. No, no, no, no hand waxing. No
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  no thanks Eddie I love you. Yeah, so I really do love it.
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  But anyway, so yeah, so yeah, get your tickets, get
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  online. The link is up. I posted it on my Facebook, Instagram
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  and YouTube, and then I believe Brian's posted it Eddie's. I don't know
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  if Eddie's done it yet or not, but I know Robert has, so
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  yeah, and I'll put up the link in the show notes here too.
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  So you know, I always say I'm going to do it, but this
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  one time, I'll really do it. We're doing good today, you know
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  what I'm saying. Yeah that uh yeah, it's it's things are going pretty
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  good, you know. I'm I'm really excited. We got a lot of
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  really cool stuff coming up. You just can't wait for all this stuff to
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  go down. Oh yeah, no, no, there's a lot of stuff
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  going down and a lot of stuff happening too, you know. And and
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  that's the thing that did like we got was what do we got coming up?
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  We have the Shock Shock class coming up, and then immediately after September,
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  you know, and Nick, you are preparing for your your competition,
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  and how are you feeling going into this competition coming up? I'm feeling pretty
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  good. I think the squad. I think I'll get over eight hundred without
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  too much of a problem. Um, it's not gonna be easy. I
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  already came up at at once, but I need to get a bit deeper,
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  which is fine, which I'm doing now. Um, Like this week
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  seven hundred was nothing. Next week I'll go seven twenty five. For the
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  next probably four weeks, I'll probably jump twenty twenty to twenty five pounds a
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  week, and then I'll do my five or ten pound jumps for the last
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  couple of weeks to really kind of tweak it. But I feel like I'm
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  coming in coming in pretty solid. So that's because I'll go up twenty five
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  pounds until I get to eight hundred, and then i'll probably go up five
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  or ten pounds a week after that, because we're about eight nine weeks out
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  right now. So yeah. And then the one I'm worried about more than
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  anything is is the deadlift. I benched yesterday. Fifty five was pretty smooth
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  and pretty easy. So the goal is to get something over five. But
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  I think the deadlift I'm still a little nervous on that. I work with
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  Ed Ed Cohen, I mean on that and learn to pull with my legs
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  a little bit more and like drive with it, and I think that's going
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  to be pretty successful. This week, I'll probably try to pull seven hundred
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  and if that goes pretty smooth and I should be good. The goal is
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  to squat over eight hundred and total over two thousand again, so if I
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  know I can realistically get in that area without breaking the sweat, then then
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  we're good to go. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, That's what
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  I'm talking about. And you know, and that's the thing too, is
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  like you got the Shock Classic, this event coming on, there's a lot
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  of things getting ready to happen, and it's looking good, running smooth,
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  and you know. And that's the thing too, is like the style of
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  training you do is sometimes, like I said, I don't understand the training
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  because like you know, like it's almost like these three week periods where everything
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  gets adjusted. But the thing is is like it you methodically think this out,
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  you know, and like if anyone out here is going into a competition,
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  what is like the top thing that you see mistakes being made at when
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  you're when you're actually training for a power lifting me But what are like rookie
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  things that you see people do or or hear them say that is like something
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  that they could adjust if you needed to get some advice right now. Well,
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  the first thing is is treat your warmups like they're heavy. Every rep
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  should look the same whether it's super heavy or super light. There should be
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  no difference in your technique going through them. So there isn't you know,
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  a there isn't a certain form that it looks like when it's light and in
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  a certain form that looks like it's heavy. They should all look the same.
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  To train the way you're going to compete on the platform, you know,
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  you see all these guys they do all these super fast deadlifts and then
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  they drop the bar and stuff like that. Don't train that way. I
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  mean, pull it off the ground, pull it up, get your thing,
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  and then set it down with your hands on the bar. Even if
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  you set it down hard, do it the way you're going to do it
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  on competition day. Muscle has memory and your brain will shut off and do
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  what it normally does on occasion, just like this weekend, I judge to
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  like a police and fire powerlifting and a couple of the guys. There's a
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  start command in the bench there's a press command in the bench, and there's
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  a rat command in the bench. And two of the guys forgot about the
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  press command in the bench. One of the guys forgot about the start command
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  of the bench. Practice the events for at least six weeks as you will
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  do them in the competition, even though your workout weights you know, still
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  coming up. Practice the full function of what exactly what you're gonna do when
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  you when you get down to the bench, set up your feet, drive
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  your shoulders into the thing, get your little arch going, make sure your
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  ass can't come off. Set your hands, get your hands set, get
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  everything set to go, get your lift off. Wait then your training partner
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  should say start, and then you come down, hit it, press,
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  get to the top, rack and rack. You should get all three of
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  those. One of the guys like got to the top and then was coming
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  back and got the rat command. It's like you didn't get the lift because
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  you didn't sit at the bar at the top motionless and you were still in
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  motion. Stuff like that. You have to follow the rules through the thing,
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  and if you don't train that way, you're going to run into issues.
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  And that's a massive mistake. And there you guys go yeah, yeah,
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  And then two is warm up, don't work out. You're not there
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  to work out with the warm up weights, you know, so get your
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  motion, get you get your form, get your technique, get your things
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  set right. But you're not there to do like ten, eight, six.
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  You know. All the way through these numbers is the weight's going up
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  three three three, It's like, get get your light opener, get your
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  lightest lift that you're gonna go and maybe do five. Put that in the
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  bar, come out, do a set of two with the next weight increase,
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  and then from that point on it's all singles. There's no reason to
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  waste energy working out when all you're trying to do is loosen up and get
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  get everything primed and ready to go. That's a massive mistake that people make
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  going through that. And probably the other biggest massive mistake I see is guys
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  that are just flat out out of shape, flat out out of shape.
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  You should not be trying to catch your breath if you're wrapping your knees or
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  you walk up, squat and walk back and do your thing, and I
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  mean, you could be breathing a little bit because you're gonna strain it's gonna
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  be strenuous, but you shouldn't be like needing twenty minutes to catch your breath
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  if you can't bend. I mean, I have a hard time bending down
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  and getting into my shoes and then tying my shoes. But I can still
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  bend down and tie my shoes, and I'm not out of breath. If
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  you're out of breath when you're trying to tie your shoes, you're not in
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  shape. And if that means going on ten minute fifteen minute walks at a
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  good pace where you can't talk to somebody while you're doing it, do it.
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  It's not that big of a deal. It's not going to eat up
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  all your muscle tissue, you know, but it will help you recover while
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  you're on the platform and getting ready for the next lift. So yeah,
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  those are like really kind of mistakes I see in power lifting. Oh there
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  you guys, go for those got competitions coming up. Please understand that this
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  is what Nick said, and you know it should be taken as a butt.
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  Relying on your music, Oh there you go. You've stop talking to
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  me. Relying on your music. If you can't get your head into the
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  right space without any stimulust that includes caffeine. Um. If you can't get
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  into the right mindset, you know with with to go perform a super heavy
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  lift, you're doing it wrong. You you should need no stimulation. You
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  should be able to get in your head, walk up and do the lift
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  and then walk away and then go back to whatever you want because you never
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  know when somebody's going to step on your cell phone, or the batteries on
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  your AirPods are going to go out, or whatever could go wrong, and
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  then what happens if it goes wrong, then what do you do? You
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  can't get into your right mindset and yeah, train without all that stimulus,
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  get your head right. So if anything goes wrong, if you have the
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  stuff, they're great, But if you don't, you need to be able
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  to do it without any other stimulus. So that's another massive mistake, you
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  see, And there he goes like a lot of people rely on that.
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  Yeah, a lot of people. I know, a lot of people are
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  like, oh, I got to change this song because this is not good
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  enough for me. You know what I'm saying, like I need a little
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  more of a pump, and you know, you do see a lot of
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  people side would definitely see the ability of actually training, because that's another piece
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  of training, is like you have to be able to create mental capacity to
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  get your head where it needs to be without doing all that stuff. It's
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  a really good discipline and it works well in every form of life. It
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  really is. You should be able to go from you know, walking down
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  the street to doing what you need to do in like ten seconds exactly,
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  exactly, should be able to flip that switch and go because I haven't call
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  it that many times exactly. The other major thing is and calmback down once.
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  Yeah, is that switch flips both ways, and you've got to be
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  able to have that ability to do it. M and with flipping a switch.
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  Nick, let these people know those good words because guess what everyone needs
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  to hear them, all right, Well, it's always please like, share
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