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I know, I'm excited. I'm getting an ice bath. That's it.
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Hey. You know and with ice baths, you know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, well, hey there right now, Like it's nice to be
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able to take it down and move it when you can, because when you
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have something that's constructed in there. Guess what, that spaces just can't be
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utilized, you know what I mean? Like you know it Unfortunately that that's
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the name of the game when it comes to owning your equipment, having a
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home gym, having like you know, every piece of equipment that can take
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you to the next level, because guess what, if you can't train with
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it on a regular basis, you're not gonna be able to excel at it.
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But with a portable ice bath, you like, you can be like,
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oh, we're having a party. Oh I need to make some room.
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I need to move it exactly. We can drain it, pack it
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up, move it to the side. Honestly, even take it with us
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when we go on these things. When you start competing out there, you
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know, right, no, that'll be good too, Yeah, because we
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can pack it up, take it and then set it up. We can
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set it up in a hotel room, you see what I'm saying, you
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know, and then you put the lid on and if it's cool in the
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room and you put the lid on, because I got the thermal lid that
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comes with it, it'll save the ice for up to three days. So
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yep, and you're living out in Vegas. You know what I'm saying,
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It won't do it outside. Yeah, yeah, so I'll probably save it
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for like a day outside of the patio because I got the sun covered.
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But it's still pretty hot out here. Oh yeah, no, it definitely
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is. And that's the thing, is like when you were coming up in
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the ranks, when you're excelling, when you first started, because you got
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to really think, um, what was the aspect of thought of recovery?
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Then, you know what I'm saying, because like you got to imagine,
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like we don't know half to shit that we know now that wet then yeah,
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like this is true. Yeah, this is true. I think a
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couple of things, like for recovering wis for me, um, I've always
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kind of used ice, um, but usually it was just put a body
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part in or put an ice bag on, um, not the full submersion
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UM, because I can't stand being cold. I think anybody, I don't
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think anybody realizes that. Um yeah. Yeah. And then what you don't
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see is Eddie dumping the extra bucket on me in the end I've already got
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all dried off and warm, and then running out of the room. They
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thought they thought that was too means, so they didn't put it in there.
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But yeah, I don't like being cold, but it's something now I
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don't have a choice. I have to get over it. Um. With
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having one kidney, um, I I can't take any inflammatories. I can't
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take aspirin, kindric alcohol. There's some many things I can't do. But
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I can't take an ice bath, and so ice bath to relieve the inflammation
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you know in my tenants, ligaments, joints, stuff like that, and
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to a certain degree even the muscle pain. Which yes, I'm aware of
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the new report that just came out and went kind of crazy about ice baths.
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And I'm going to tell you this, these experts have no idea what
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they're talking about. There we go, what are so they're basically saying it
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stops the protein uptake in some of the things right after training, so that
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it slows down the recovery of the muscle. Yes, from the old,
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the old saying of rice correct. Well, guess what, I hate to
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break their bubble, But it doesn't matter how fast. If it takes one
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extra day for the muscle to heal, it doesn't matter. Everybody's so concerned
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about how fast muscle heals, and it's there. The whole industry is off
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into left field. I'm a chasing the wrong thing. It's easier to research,
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it's easy to look into, which is why they do it. The
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true thing is your tenins and ligaments. The true thing is your tenins and
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ligaments, and it's something you preach a lout about. The true thing is
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the tenons and ligaments. We know if you get an injury, Let's say
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you tear a muscle, it takes your muscle between eight and sixteen weeks to
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like fully heal and like that where that was sewn back together, or like
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when I had my abdominal surgery from my hernia, the doctor was saying it
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would be fully the scar that he cut would be just as strong as it
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was before he cut it eight to twelve weeks after the surgery, which I
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was kind of like, but yeah, okay, I get that. But
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when I tore my lad off, I mean I could that that thing couldn't
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handle heavy weights for six months and so it heals. Probably tenants technically heal
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three to four times slower than muscle. So if muscle than heman one two
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days, that means tenants are going to heal between six and eight days from
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a hard workout, and no one is talking about it. That's why all
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these people overtrain. They do this and they gotta get more in. They
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gotta get more in. That's why the muscle always gets stronger faster than the
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connective tissue, which will destroy your longevity. It has to get strong at
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the same time. There's nothing other than collagen that will help you really rebuild
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your tenants and ligaments, and which these guys make unbelievable collagen that will make
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that heal. And there's nothing really other than maybe a couple of compounds that
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make tenants and stuff heal faster. So if you're trying to work out a
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muscle group twice or even three times a week, you're setting yourself backwards.
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The muscle is gonna get stronger faster, and if it does that four or
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five six years in a row, you're gonna have this really strong muscle and
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this connected tissue they can't handle it. And that's why these kids that skyrocket
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up on the middle of nowhere, they come up, they shoot to the
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top, and then they get big, they get hurt, and then or
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athletes that have been out of it for a little while and go and do
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another sport and then come back to it and try to get right up to
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the top in less than a year. Blow stuff off the bone. Yeah,
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muscle can't. If the muscle gets strong or faster than they connect a
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tissue, you will create long term injuries that will keep happening. You have
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to get strong at a rate that your tenans and ligaments can handle it.
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And this is the biggest issue with the industry. It doesn't matter in bodybuilding
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because they're not lifting stupid poundages. Yeah, they're not putting on heavy weight.
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They're literally just building muscle. They're not worried about like like progressive overload
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of what you guys are doing in a competition. Correct, And they're also
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not worrying about running a sprint down the field and making a cut to catch
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a football or soccer or rugby. It's not athletics, which you know.
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It's it's kind of like all the people online that try to pitch about my
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rows and my lap pull downs when I'm training back. But you look at
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primates. Primates do not move like a bodybuilder in nature. Yeah, again,
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primates do not move like a bodybuilder in nature. If you watch um,
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what's the thing where they the show where they ultimate no American jin Wier
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American injine wire. If you watch that, these guys aren't like they're they're
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out here swinging this way. They're not doing like full extensions. They can,
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but they're not they're not doing they're athletic event like a bodybuilder. Bodybuilders
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and dirt to specifically shape and grow a muscle in a certain direction, to
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look a certain way on the human body. Yeah, And I wish the
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general population would figure this out and understand this because they're so misinformed. If
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you want to be athletic training like a bodybuilder is not going to do it,
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Which is true because like we just had coach Cannon last week and he
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was talking about it, Like I said, football players, you know what
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I'm saying, You got to think about basketball players, baseball players like like
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they're not bodybuilder shape. They might have muscle muscles, but a lot of
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these guys are doing Olympic lifting. They're doing dynamic lifting because they're trying to
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increase what they're doing. They're doing explosive movements speed with white. I mean,
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you have baseball pitchers now that they discovered that they'll take a weight in
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the hand that's like the size of a baseball and throw it going through the
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forming motion whole speed, and then pull it down and hold onto it um
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And it actually makes their throwing on better, you know. And that's about
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as snappy as you can get it for something, you know exactly. It's
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drives me crazy. I can't throw the way I used to anymore. And
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I used to throw the jablin in the discus and the football. You can
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just throw a football forever. But it's the movements are dynamic, Yeah,
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you know. It's it's speed. You're trying to pull things as fast as
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you can. Can I do more weight? Yep? Can I do it
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that same weight and do it strict Yeah, I can do it do the
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same way and do it strict for less reps. But I'm not trying to
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do things slowly. I mean in strong and we pick things up and go
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fast and power letting. The goal is you load the spring and then you
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explode out of it. Yeah, you know, everything's that way. It's
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explosive power to be athletic, and tenons and ligaments would hold all that together.
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Yeah, it's what makes the movement happen. You know, I'm saying
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the muscles support the weight, but you know what I'm saying, well,
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what guides the what guides the movement? You know what I'm in right,
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And so if you're an athlete and you train like super hard, super heavy
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more than once a week on any area that you're working on, you're going
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backwards, you know. So, I mean if you take a fighter,
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like an MMA fighter, which I've I've worked with a couple of those,
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I mean, they shouldn't be They should have an upper body day and a
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lower body day and that's it. Yeah, you know, and a couple
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exercises and things that are that training methods that apply to them as well.
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Like you know, it's funny like a truck poll. A truck poll for
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MMA is brilliant because it's all out exertion for them for ninety seconds, sixty
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seconds, because you're pulling a vehicle. That's it's going to take them everything
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in their body to get that everything engaged. Yeah, you get used to
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doing that. You do that two or three times. You're getting a fight,
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and you expend a little bit of energy. You're not going to expend
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the energy that you're spending pulling a truck. Yep, you're just not and
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you're gonna be able to recover from it faster and still have gas in the
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tank. And when you need that extra bit, when when you're rolling with
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somebody to like go all on on it, you can to put somebody over
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the edge when you can feel them starting to fail and know that if you
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go all out for the next twenty seconds, they're gonna cry, they're gonna
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break. Yeah, it's it's stuff like that that makes the big difference.
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But again it comes back to recovery and stuff like that. I wouldn't have
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him do that more than once a week. Yeah, and carrying drags.
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Same thing. If you can pick up a sandbag that's as heavy as your
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heaviest opponent. So if you're a heavyweight fighter in the UFC, if you
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can pick up a two two hundred and sixty pounds sandbag or two hundred and
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eighty because say guy cuts weight and go, oh yeah you get that rehydrate.
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Yeah, a two hundred and eighty pound sandbag and you run with that
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twenty five meters, dropped them an attire and then drag that tire backwards you're
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the way you're able to function under Durest. It's going to change and it's
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not something you need to do all the time, but it's also going to
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develop muscle. It's also going to develop strength and stuff like that. So
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you get strength and endurance and that's it. You know, heavy squats one
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week, heavy dead lest the next week. And people need to remember too,
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is like strength and muscle shape don't poor don't They're completely different, you
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know what I'm saying. So like we want to make sure that we'll get
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that straight because like you know, we reference bodybuilders. They build muscle,
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but the thing is is building muscle and building strength they do go hand in
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hand, but they don't line up the majority of the time because there's a
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lot difference between you know, a strength athlete and a bodybuilder. You know.
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And then you have the freaks of the freaks you have coming here.
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Oh yeah, Kirk Kaswolski and both Stewart and uh what's his name? Oh
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he's gonna kill me is uh, I'll get back to it. But um,
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because I was just looking at me Sera Vegas training for DC. He's
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turning with Joe Sullivan today. Um, and even Joe Sullivan, I mean,
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Joe Sullivan looks Jack, I mean they all. But you can have
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a guy that's you're not gonna have a guy that's super strong that doesn't look
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pretty good or being pretty big. You can have a big guy that doesn't
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look very strong, that isn't very strong. So that's kind of the thing.
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But it all comes down to getting the muscle getting stronger at the same
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rate as a connected tissue. Yeah, if you're getting stronger faster, you're
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connected tissue can If you don't get you're connected tissue healing. Right, that's
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where all your nightmares come come true. That's that's where you're that's the biggest
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goal, that's the biggest challenge. And everybody sells the industry, everybody sells
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how fast muscle means to recovery. Yeah, that's not the case. That's
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why when you get into an ice bath right after you're done training, it
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really doesn't matter. It's not going to affect how fast you get stronger in
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the long run because technically you shouldn't be working that out intently twice a week.
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Now. Sports, you're doing running, you're doing a lot of stuff,
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but still really in a football week, you have one that two really
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hard practices and the rest is just conditioning stuff, a lot less stress on
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your joints, intendants and ligaments and stuff like that. It's just trying to
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get your cardiovascular output up. So big difference. So yeah, you know,
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that's just one of those things that you know, that's why we bring
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this up because, like I said, we want to talk about the importance
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of recovery. Because I said, we used to know little to nothing then,
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which everyone just kind of did stuff on how they felt, you know,
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see, but now that there's a little more science behind it. But
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the thing is is sometimes people look depend a little too much on the on
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the article and not on the true facts of what people need to dig into.
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Well well it's science. Well okay, okay, guess well we've learned
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some things about science in the last three years that we did. But that's
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a completely different subject. But like the most making money from the research and
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who's what your intentions are with the research? Yeah, and you know,
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you really got to look at things and when you see guys like Brian shawaks
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Eddie Hall, Sovikus Ice Bass forb juranceon Ice Bass, I mean the me
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Ice Bath And you have the elite of the elite of the elite in the
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in the in the world of strength, and that's it. And this includes
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power a litters and stuff too. There's a ton of power alters. Travis
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Ortmeyer, mister Ice Bath Um, same thing with Chad Kay and I mean
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just all these guys. Yeah, Um, when they have the proven track
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record, you can't argue, you can't argue those facts because that's that's the
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experience coming out, right. But the thing they're doing, they're they're not
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going back at day three in training the muscle again. Yeah, and that's
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the difference between what these guys researchers are trying to do. They want you
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to work out the moment that muscles healed all the way, Well, it
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doesn't matter because if the connected tissue isn't healed, you shouldn't be working out
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before the connected tissues healed. That's it. Okay, But you know,
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like I said, that's why we bring this up. But I just find
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it's hilarious that a multi billion, probably hundreds of billions of dollars industry does
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this. So the question is is how hard is it to really research tendant
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strength and how much do they really know about how fast tendancy heal and how
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the blood flow gets to it? You know? And well, even before
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we get on this podcast, you literally googled it just to verify, you
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know what I'm saying. What was the first things that popped up? Well,
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technically I used DUC dot go because I don't use all you know what
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I'm saying. One I don't like my searches controlled, and two I don't
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like them selling and making money off of my searches. You know that ain't
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cools. So I used DUC dot go, did the searches and like Mayo
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clinic tendonitis and all these things come up for tendon injuries, but nothing,
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you know, And I typed in, how long does it take tendants to
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heal from a from a hard workout? And there's literally nothing that pops up.
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Three pages and stuff and none of it. Nothing came up. Maybe
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I need to go to page twenty. I don't know. Yeah, but
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that that's those are the things that should be popping up because it's a legitimate
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question. Yeah, exactly. You put in the exact thing you wanted to
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know and it didn't pop up. So I just let you know right there,
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that you know. So there's an amazing doctor out there that knows this
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stuff, that sees this and knows the answer. By all means, let's
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talk about it and come on the show and talk exactly. I want to
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learn more with this, but I know through my experience that those things aren't
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healed. I mean I've literally torn one tenant one all the rest of my
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my injuries with muscle terrors and stuff like that, I've literally torn the muscle
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both my biceps won from pitching baseball when I was a kid and the other
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one from cleaning an axle. That was a muscle belly. The tour my
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peck went It tour, that was a muscle belly. The hernia and my
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adomin that I got that was a muscle belly. My calf, the soulis
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from that tour. That they're all muscle bellies. My connective tissue isn't what's
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given now. The pretending I did tear off was my lat and the week
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before I was at Temple and with Nama Georgia chain bud to the third and
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I was picking up a VID receptor and it was like the heaviest one.
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It was four hundred and forty pounds. I went, yeah, but it's
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awkward. You can't get up onto it like a bar. Yeah, because
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the the spheres that are on it, on the sides of it are huge,
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and you can't get up on it, so you're actually pulling it from
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a really bad position. And I cracked it off the ground and then dropped
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it and it was like wow, And I'm kind of doing this and he's
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like, I wouldn't you know, I don't listen. And he's like,
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I wouldn't do that contest in three weeks and I'm like, I'm like,
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thank you, I went and did the contest. I should have listened,
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you know. But let'son learned. Yeah, let'son learned. Um. But
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yeah, so it's it's that's the only tendant I've ever heard, you know,
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so out of forty years. Like I said, you're connected tissue,
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your tenants and ligaments. The muscle needs to get strong at the same rate
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as they do. If you're getting stronger faster, then you're connected tissue.
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Is then you're that's where you're going to run into your catastrophes. Yeah,
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man, And that's it too. And like I said, we're saying,
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you know, like we're targeting this to the to the new generation, but
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also to the master's generation because it's like we you know, one of the
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main things is we want to make sure the sport excels in power thing and
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in strong man. And that's the thing too, is like, you know,
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sometimes these are things that people don't honestly think about well. And as
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we get older, the tenants get stronger, and that's something else people don't
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soon realize because there was that old man strength that everybody talks about. The
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dad comes out and or grandpa comes out and they roll around with the kids,
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or they do something kind of crazy, pick something up that nobody expects
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them to do it. They're able to do it and not get hurt,
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but they're walking around sore for the next five days. Yeah, that's because
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the tenant and connected tissue are so strong they can handle it, but they're
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just not going to recover like they did when they were younger. So the
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problem is it loses its elasticity, so you have to concentrate and work on
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mobility, work and flexibility as you get older. Much more than actually the
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strength actually still comes pretty good. To my shock, the numbers come back
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pretty good and they climb at a nice steady rate. I have yet to
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see when I really start going the progress gets slowed because of that. It's
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the mobility that I have the most challenge with now. Yeah, and um,
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you know, I want to pivot from talking about ice bazz and stuff
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like that. I want to get a little more into what happened last week
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to my learning experience. Last week. Yes, all right, well most
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of you know, UM, I had a renal cell carcinoma um and my
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right kidney that was a tumor. It ended up being about a third of
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the size of the kidney. And they got the tumor and the kidney out,
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well they got they got the kidney out with the tuner in it,
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so none of it least none of it's spilled cancers out of my body.
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Life is great, um, which the road recovery yeah, um, but
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I now have one kidney and to my biggest issue is all my tests have
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been pretty good. UM. I learned a lot about the filtration rate stuff
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like that. Um, Like, when you're a teenager, you're filtition filtration
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rates up about one hundred fifteen. If you're perfectly perfectly healthy. By the
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time you get to sixty, it's at eighty five and then anything below fifteen
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fifteen to five you got to start doing dialysis. That type of stuff one
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kidney. So you cut that those numbers in half, and those numbers will
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come up a little bit because you're in most cases you kidney. You'll grow
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and take over a little bit stuff like that even as you get older.
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But which that's the part I'm kind of learning about. But if you're not
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really going to be an endurance athlete anymore, because it's very easy to go
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into rabdo so wrap do so you're explain what rado is real quick, just
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so the people that don't know. So you're doing traumatic things to the muscle
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in your body. So like if you get crushed, if so you get
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too hard of a massage, if you work out too hard, your kidney
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has to filter all the toxins and everything from that out of your body.
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If you get too much of that at once in your body, you can
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shut down your kidney and then you have to go get dialysis, and that
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is bad. If you limit enough, you'll cause a cute kidney injury which
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will injure your kidney. And if you do that enough, it'll lower your
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filtration rate and eventually get it to where you'll either have to replace the kidney
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or you'll have to go on dialysis. Now people now have lived up to
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thirty years on dialysis. But I don't know anybody that wants to get poked
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between three and seven days a week, or or have an open port yeah,
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or I forgot the name of what it's actually called to where they can
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just plug it in and you sit there. I know they have home home
26:45
units now where you can do it every single day. Yeah, but you're
26:48
on it for an hour every day and you're stuck to that. When you
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travel, you're tied to the machine. And that's if you get the one
26:56
that you can travel with. If you go to the hospital or go to
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the dock office all the time to get this, you are now stuck.
27:03
You can't go more than a day or two before you have to go and
27:08
you know, get your dialysis. So it it becomes like a can you
27:15
survive it? Yeah? Does it become like an anchor or a volun chain
27:21
that sticks you on in place? Yeah, But like I said, they
27:23
have the travel ones stuff like that. But yeah, so I want to
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avoid that at all cost. I trained really hard, been getting after it
27:36
pretty good, and then I missed the day and I thought I would do
27:44
I did before. If I missed to day, sometimes I'll do two workouts
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in one day. So I put a really hard, intense because I was
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I was on fire that day. I felt good back workout with a really
27:56
intense shoulder workout where I did biceps and calves and a little bit of abs
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at the same time. Yeah, I'm doing that again. So my nephrologist,
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who went on on maternity leave right when I got out of the hospital
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from an effect to me, saw the numbers. I'm like, well,
28:19
there's that that I can do for you. Look great, I'll see you
28:21
in four months. She gets on. I did my blood tests and stuff,
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and I did it probably two hours after I did that workout, maybe
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three hours after I did that workout, and she saw the numbers and she's
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like, you need to get to the hospital. I think you're having a
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cute kidney failure. And I'm like what, But I felt fine, I
28:42
wasn't having any symptoms. I get to the hospital. My filtration rate is
28:47
actually not not bad right there where it's been the whole entire time. But
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there's another test where they can test you like for RABDOS stuff like that.
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And the number four dialysis is five thousand. Normal is you know, up
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to three three fifty. I was in about twenty two hundred, so I
29:11
just overdid it. And Doc thinks normally after a workout, I go somewhere
29:21
probably in the eight or nine hundreds and then come down from that and then
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I just completely overdid it that day. Okay, So yeah, so I
29:30
was in about twenty two hundred. So they gave me two bags of fluid,
29:33
which you need to flush your system. When you get that, you
29:36
need to you actually need to drink more water. So they gave me two
29:38
bags of fluid, and I drink probably two liters of water. And now
29:45
than you know, going to the bathroom and now I'm just I always have
29:52
a glass of there, it is a glass of water or something with me,
29:56
and I probably now I'm drinking probably between a gallon and a half and
30:02
two gallons of water a day, and that seemed to help I. As
30:07
soon as we get downe with this, they're gonna take another blood test.
30:10
So now I'm going to go be going through a process where I took a
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week off. The test today will be where I'm at before I train,
30:19
and I'm gonna have to go tomorrow and take another blood test for where it
30:22
was after I trained, and then see how that goes and adjust the intensity.
30:29
I also now we'll take two days off after leg day to let my
30:36
body catch up and just an exorbiting amount of fluids. We're gonna We're looking
30:42
at a prescription from the docks so that I can go buy backs of fluid
30:48
ivs and then my wife's in the yarner so she can administer those with the
30:55
doctor's prescriptions. And then probably on a leg day when I trained in my
30:59
heart, I'll take a back fluids and then drink a lot of fluids so
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I can get those in me and flush the system, and then probably then
31:07
two days later train chest and triceps and probably throw in like one or two
31:18
overhead and on one side ladd row and that's it, and then take another
31:22
day off super hydrate, and then come back and do back rear delts and
31:29
biceps, and that'll probably be my three days. And I'm probably going to
31:36
talk to my training partners and switch from a seven day cycle to maybe even
31:40
an eight day cycle, which is going to get really weird how things are
31:44
going to bounce around because they talk about this for a while. Yeah,
31:48
and get that extra day in there to just see how that, see how
31:53
that functions, and then get back to normal, because I don't want to
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keep her team my kidney, so I got to find that out. I
32:04
reached out to any Bolton. He actually tried to call me back, but
32:08
I was in I was out in Overton at my mom's house and the internet
32:10
out there is terrible and it dropped them. So you send me a message
32:15
to call him. So I'll probably reach out to him, probably later today
32:19
or tomorrow. I know it's already like eight o'clock at night in England now,
32:22
so um, I don't want to wait too much longer. And I
32:27
got a ton of stuff to do today, so I might call him tomorrow.
32:30
But but yeah, it's just figuring that out. It was a good
32:36
learning experience, and you know, it's like, Kelly does love me,
32:43
and see that's the thing she's freaking out, and I'm like, which,
32:45
thank god, So well, it's good that your wife's nurse because of me.
32:51
To right now when you're dealing with a serious situation that you dealing with
32:53
it. It's good to have that knowledge there, and especially like they can
32:57
actually prescribe you fluids and then you know what I'm saying that that that that
33:00
in itself, it just helps so much more. You know what it's it's
33:05
gonna be great. Um. And then we'll see how that goes. And
33:07
then that's kind of how my new norm will be. UM. Like I
33:13
said, I haven't really had any problems up till now. This was the
33:15
first time I threw two different training days into one day. Yeah, and
33:22
I now know that will not be happening. Yeah. Yeah, I cannot
33:24
push the limit like that anymore, you know. UM. And you know,
33:29
with all that being said, how are you feeling towards your next competition
33:32
coming up? I feel pretty good for it. I feel really good to
33:37
it now. It's just now now that I've pulled the forty five for twenty,
33:43
UM, I'm probably I'm going this week will be the first week.
33:46
I'll probably put six hundred on the bar and pull that from the floor.
33:51
Um, and just try to get comfortable bracing with that kind of pressure,
33:54
because I know I can pull it all day long. So I just got
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to get comfortable bracing my advent into that, into that kind of pressure again.
34:05
Then I'll eventually work you know, over the next probably month or two
34:08
to the sevens. Then the next month or two just slowly moved towards the
34:14
eights again, and then by September, by late September, come after that
34:19
that piloting eight spots are going good. Um, I've already come back to
34:25
seven seventy five, so now it's taken it. Now, that's basically I've
34:32
already hit the seven seventy is going to be my opener at the contest.
34:37
Yeah, and then I'll probably jump to eight fifteen, and then depending on
34:39
eight fifteen and how that goes, then I'll decide where I go from there.
34:45
My goal is somewhere between eight thirty seven and eight fifty nine. Nice,
34:50
so nice and yeah, oh with that, how was your benchman feeling?
34:55
Because you know, so I know a lot of people always breast concerned
34:58
about the who dropped the ball, and you know, like if you're gone,
35:00
So it's it's like, you know, it's always something I like to
35:02
touch upon because it's like, you know, just a little mental check in
35:06
because the way you grab that bar is unbelievable because it's like it's it's locked
35:10
in there. I'm always there watching a bench. Yeah, and so,
35:15
like I said, I think it was an act of higher power. Yeah,
35:21
that took it out of my hands, dropped it on my chest because
35:24
we wouldn't have found the kidney otherwise, so it was supposed to happen.
35:29
That's all the other understanding thing I can think of, because it's been forty
35:32
years ot of doing this that I've never dropped the bar myself. Yeah.
35:36
Um, I did four to sixty five last week pretty pretty good. I
35:40
blew it off, caught it, and then finished it, and I was
35:44
like, well, I was a lot of easier than I thought it was
35:45
gonna be. But I think a lot of that as I started doing pretty
35:50
heavy dips again. I put it's one hundred and forty first set of eight
35:53
on the on my depths plus my body weight, so it's like four or
35:58
forty I'm doing dips with so um, I think that's going to be kind
36:04
of a big factor to my bench at the contest is keep doing the heavy
36:07
dips, Yeah, and they'll work in concert. And my left tricep is
36:13
starting to fire even better. Now than it was. Um. The nerve
36:19
damage from the surgery is still there. Um, but it's firing, just
36:23
like the lot the lot um. It's still numb in some places, but
36:29
it's still fires. So the only thing that matters is it fires. Yeah.
36:32
So I just have to be careful because I can't feel it. So
36:37
something starting to terror, you just have to be very mindful of it.
36:42
Yeah. No, No, that that's true. Yeah, you know,
36:45
and man, you know, with that all being said, Nick, let
36:49
me tell you right now, we we covered quite a bit today. Oh
36:51
we got one more team to cover. Yeah, let the people know.
36:55
Okay, So I I'm really want to get into I have a few guns
37:02
I like to you know, I believe in the second modment. I believe
37:07
in defending our homes and stuff like that, and I've always wanted to learn
37:14
more about them. So the easiest way to do that is to learn from
37:19
people in that industry. Yes, So I went down to Range seven or
37:22
two and talked to Kim Chris down there, and Chris is like, well,
37:29
she's I don't hire in a spot. I'm like, okay, So
37:31
I'm gonna be down there a couple days a week going through every part of
37:37
that industry and business. I'm going to start at the bottom and kind of
37:42
go through it. This is more fun thing for me more than anything.
37:45
But I'm excited to go through all that and learn everything you can about guns
37:51
and the tolerances and just everything. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
37:55
I'm really excited. That's it. And it's about to be a gunsmith here.
38:00
I mean, you've gotten a building yet, So we'll keep you guys
38:06
updated with that. Guys are in the Las Vegas area. The name of
38:09
the gun places again Range seven oh two. Range seven oh two. So
38:15
it's right off of Industrial. It's it's right there, right by the trip
38:20
So it's off of Industrial. It's right across the Hustler Club, you know,
38:25
right right off the fifteen, So just past Dropicana, just before Russell.
38:30
There we go. If you want to see Nick there when you come
38:34
down, guess what he'll be there. You just got to find out what
38:36
days it will be. Yeah, soon as we get the schedule, we
38:38
might let you know. That's true. Yeah, I'm going to be actually
38:44
walking people through shooting the weapons because they have like barretts and machine guns and
38:50
nine to elevens and Quadzilla, which is a monstrosity of Again. Yeah,
38:57
it's basically it's for fully a mac Air fifteens each with a hundred rounds and
39:04
it's all sighted at twenty five feet and you can actually aim this thing and
39:10
hit stuff with it. But it's so you got four hundred rounds coming out
39:15
in about three seconds four seconds it I can only image the feeling in the
39:20
chest. Well, it's on a stand, so you don't have to hold
39:24
it. It's not like the it's not like the Barrett that's going to knock
39:30
the wing down either, so it's a little different, but it's it's fun.
39:32
So yeah, I guess I'll be in there helping people shoot those and
39:37
going through some of that stuff, and then eventually you get behind the counter
39:42
and work on the sales that and eventually get into the guns spinning side of
39:45
it, and just go through it all because the only way to really learn
39:51
something is to go through it, start at the bottom. And I did
39:53
that with the beer business. You know, I was in that business for
39:57
twenty years. I started out as a merchandiser. That's the low position you
40:00
can go to and work my way, you know, I'm to the point
40:05
now where I can run the on premise, I can run the off From
40:09
this, I could theoretically be a general manager of a I know enough to
40:15
be a general manager of a distributor ship. Now, so that's it.
40:17
Well, I guess we're about to learn to be a general manager for gun
40:21
company, because well, when you do something, you do it all the
40:24
way. I always that's just who you are, what you do. Yeah,
40:28
I like to go through one step at a time though, so first
40:30
steps, and I don't feel I'm any better than anyone else. I just
40:36
I just want to come in and learn. That's it, and I think
40:38
I think Chris the opportunity. Yet, if you guys don't follow range seven
40:43
or two, you should. That's it. Well, I'll put their instagram
40:45
in the bottom so you guys can make sure you check it out now,
40:50
Nick, thanks for the update. With everything going on, you know what
40:52
I'm saying. Hit these people with the beautiful words. Well, thank you?
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