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Training and Gameday Mindset · The Best Experience

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  You're listening to the best experience with the sick Best. All right, this
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  helps us out. We appreciate it. And with that all being said,
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  Nick, you know it's been a week and morning. You know what I'm
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  saying this is, we're up early, We're getting this done. You know,
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  we've got a lot of stuff coming up. I just want to make
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  a quick announcement for us. We are going to be in a Sacramento area
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  at the Winter Warrior, Nick is going to be doing the judging. So
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  if you guys want to come see Nick, hang out with Nick, or
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  just come watch the events, well, guess what you can easily do that.
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  It'll be at the Winter Warrior in Sacramento. I'll put the address.
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  It's at untamed Gym and Nick, are you excited to actually be out here
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  coming out this way and judging? Yeah? Yeah, I'm looking forward to
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  coming up there and hanging out with you guys and seeing Gina and going through
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  all that stuff with everybody. It's it's gonna be a blast. It's a
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  heck of a place to to train and stuff. So it's gonna be neat
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  to see a contest round there, so it'll it'll be fun. And then
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  I just like talking to everybody and coaching while I'm judging and everything else.
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  So it's it's gonna be cool. Oh yeah, it's definitely be good.
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  You know. And this is a thing too, like what competitors and stuff
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  like that are actually gonna be there. You know. It's it's that mind
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  focus, that that that that that thought process you need to have to actually
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  you know, be ready to compete because you know, there's training mindset and
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  then there's game day mindset. You know what I'm saying, what do you
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  think the big key factors in that and the two differences are well, one,
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  you have to realize training is exactly that it's training. It doesn't have
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  to be. You want to just as close to the competition as you can.
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  You want your technique on the individual events, it's close to what you're
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  gonna do as possible. But if you got it that day, you got
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  it. If you don't have it that day, it's okay. You don't
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  have to push over the edge and drop the hammer completely down. In training,
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  you should train hard, you should train intensely, and you know,
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  more is not necessarily better. Better training is better, But the mindset shouldn't
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  be you know, it's it's game day, it's it's practice for game day.
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  So you're gonna go hard. You're gonna go into the you know,
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  eighty five to ninety five percentile, you know, in that range somewhere,
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  but you don't push that little extra that's say for game day. You always
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  just leave a smidge of the tank, a little bit, you know,
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  and that's where you ride the fine line and it keeps you from getting injured.
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  Your training is better, you last longer, stuff like that, So
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  it's better training is exactly that. It's training. You know, if you
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  you're you know, if one week you're an inch below parallel on your squats
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  and the next week you're a half inch high, Okay, it's not the
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  end of the world. It's training. The only day it truly matters is
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  game day when you're up on the platform, and that's when you got to
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  do what you're supposed to do. But you need to practice that in training.
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  But again, you want to be as close to what you're doing in
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  the contest. But you know, if it's not quite right on any one
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  given day, it's not the end of the world. It's just you got
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  work in, and the important thing is getting the consistent, methodical work in
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  to produce the result that you want. On game day. Game day you
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  just drop the hammer. I mean, it's everything's all out. You focused,
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  you you get your mental preparedness there. You visualize, you go through
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  things in your head over and over on what you're going to do on that
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  particular event, and then once you do that event, you have amnesia.
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  You move on to the next event like that last event didn't even happen,
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  you know, go through each one like that and try to get every point
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  possible that you need to be in the position that you're looking for at the
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  end of the contest. And if you're in a lead and you know you're
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  you're dominating and you're doing well, then you you don't necessarily need to push
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  to that line if you can save it in the tank for another contest on
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  the line and not get completely beat up and yet still win the contest.
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  The object is to win the contest. It isn't to you know, set
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  a PR every time you go, because not a whole lot of people alive
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  can set a PR every time they step on a platform, you know.
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  And eventually you get to where you know, you're at the peak of your
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  performance level, and that's where it's at. And some days you're going to
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  be close to that PR, and some days you're going to be over that
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  PR, and some days you're gona be a little behind the PR. That's
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  okay, just go do the best you can on that an and given day.
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  Yeah, no, no, that's that's definitely true. And with all
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  that mindset and you talking about this right now, a lot of people,
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  you know, for those who aren't familiar with strong Man, those who are
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  just stepping into strong Man. Strong Man is a smart game, a smart
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  man's game, all right. And and this is something I've come to learn
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  because like one of the things that you know, and just just just from
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  the conversations with Nick, conversation with a lot of other strong men, it's
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  just not a game of lifting up the heaviest thing and putting down the heaviest
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  thing. Because this is a competition, this is a show, and there
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  is so much strategy that goes into this, and you know, with the
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  strategy and the thought process and like the methodical thought process that has to go
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  into every event and with points and all the way everything is calculated up there,
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  there's a whole other aspect that most people don't even think about. And
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  that's the thing too, is like you know that that only comes with experience,
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  and Nick, you got all the experience with that, because I've heard
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  you say so many things that I'm like, oh my god, I didn't
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  even think of that. Yeah, So I mean, if you're not the
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  biggest and you're not I mean, granted, I was blessed with some talent
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  I was blessed with the drive. I was blessed with, you know,
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  a willingness to hurt more than someone else. And that's okay. But I
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  wasn't put in Brian's body, Thor's body, you know these other things.
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  And the other parts is I'm not willing to take the extreme measures that others
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  were willing to take. So I had to be better and learn how to
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  do the events that best fit me in the way that you know, I
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  could get the most points out of it, and everything that they did,
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  you got to figure it out. I was way older when I got started.
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  I got started with most people their career has been over for five years,
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  and I, well, I am going to Worlds at forty one.
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  So it's you have to think about these things. You have to think about
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  motion and movement and you know, efficiencies on everything that you do to save
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  a half a second here, half a second there, or make things easier,
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  like wearing a belt in you know, in sandbag Medley's and or just
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  like any Medley like that, and use learning how to properly use the belt
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  makes a big difference. And it's it's not about you. You're already in
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  a strong man contest. So it's not it's not about you know, being
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  the guy that can make it the hardest on themselves and still do it.
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  It's it's about make it as most sufficient as possible and saving the most energy
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  for the next event, and then the last event you just let everything you
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  got left go. It's that's it's not rocket science. But you still have
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  to think about what you're doing. And the competition now is not like it
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  was, you know, twenty years ago. I mean, guys have a
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  lot access to a lot of the equipment now, guys, you know,
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  there's a much more training online and you see what a lot of the top
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  guys are doing online, and if you watch a lot of the videos,
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  you can learn a lot of stuff from him. But you got to know
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  what you're looking for when you when you go to look at it, you
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  look at their feet and their hands and how they grab things and stuff like
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  that. I mean, there there's so much there that people just still don't
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  realize. Yeah, now that there's a lot of things that you know,
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  and then they we get the Mitchell Hoopers of the world, who just have
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  a God give given talent to Yeah, he's super analytical and he will walk
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  up and ask people questions and listen to them. It's not like he doesn't
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  he gets an answer and he's like, eh, you know, I don't
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  know. He like literally sifts through it and goes, well, yeah that,
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  let me think about that, and then he'll actually try it, and
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  then when it works, he's like he'll walk over and thank you as well.
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  Guys don't do that, So it's it's pretty Uh, he's the craziest
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  mixture of all of it, and he's a good dude, So it's it's
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  you don't mind helping people like that. And like I said, he's he's
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  pretty special in a lot of those regards. But he's that type of guy
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  that everything he touches he's gonna be pretty good at. So I mean,
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  not only does he have the physical prowless, he has the mental process and
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  he learns things at a very very very accelerated level. You know. He
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  he he will take the ball and run with it. So you know,
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  he's gonna be a lot for guys to deal with until he's decides he doesn't
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  want to. Yeah, he's gonna be a thread on everything that he walks
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  into. Yeah, all the levels you know, and Here's the thing too,
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  is like he's multi facetating everything he's doing, and he's doing you know,
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  for a strong man, he's hitted the scene. He hit the scene,
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  and especially after winning, he hit the scene running to literally develop and
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  grow his platform as big as possible. And it's so great to see because
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  you know, like I said, Martine means Eddie Brian, you know what
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  I'm saying, like they've taken this sport and and given so much to it
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  to to help promote it, to help grow it, to help push it
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  forward. And he's doing the same thing, you know what I'm saying,
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  and that then you know it's yeah, it's a dronus. Like I said,
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  there's there's there's you know, certain athletes out there that that that pushed
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  and promoted and literally carried this sport to the next level. And it's good
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  to see that the younger generation that's coming in that's starting to pop up,
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  they're they're they're wanting to do the same thing too. They're trying to push
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  the sport and not just use the sport as a monetary game, but as
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  the as you know, let's grow, let's let's just the community. Because
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  the strong man community is strong. The strong man community comes out the strong
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  man community. It's, like I said, it's very diverse. And that's
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  what I like to see because, like I said, you're you're seeing people
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  all walks alive come to these shows, watch these shows, and it's just
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  it's just one of those things that I enjoyed the most, just being on
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  the sidelines watching. Oh yeah, for sure exactly. And then you know,
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  Nick, how you're training going. How would I know you've been working
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  on your squats. I know you've been working on the deadlift. You know,
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  a lot of people need to remember that it was around this time last
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  year that you had to have stomach surgery and you were still continuing to lift
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  in the six to seven hundreds after having surgery. You know what I'm saying,
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  a freaking nature. Yeah, training's going fairly well. There's there's issues.
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  Some days I'm super motivated, in other days it's it's it's tough,
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  some of it's getting older, some of it's life. But for the most
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  part, I keep trying to analyze things and work on things and change things
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  to better suit what's going on and how our body's reacting to it. Just
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  case in point, this week, you know, I've been having trouble,
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  like right at that where I hit parallel on the squat and half these squats
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  really helped me with a lot of things because I can come down more even
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  with a balance. And then the next week I do squats, so I
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  go back and forth between the two, so I don't develop a groove one
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  way and forget my regular squat groove and have to relearn that. So I
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  go back and forth week to week. And then I was I've always been
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  kind of against box squats, but I was, you know, sitting on
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  you know, the box that I have, and I was stretching and taking
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  an implement and trying to pull myself forwards and like loosen up my adductors and
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  that type of stuff, and realized that the box I'm sitting on almost has
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  me at perfect death one and then two, it keeps me straight at the
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  bottom because my hips are crooked, so my left side's always a little bit
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  lower, about an inch lower than my right. And some of that's,
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  you know, having the surgeries. Some of that's you know, my right
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  hip doesn't like me anymore, which is fine, you know, But I
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  started doing the box squats I just thought, hey, why not do the
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  put a mixture of the two together, and it as I came down and
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  as I touched the box at the bottom, I could feel the left hit
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  and then I'd keep sitting till the right hit and I'm like, now,
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  this is what it's supposed to feel like when my hips are straight at the
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  bottom. I can feel that and then come back up. And then so
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  I do that again, and I worked the groove, you know, with
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  the lighter weights, and then I come out and I was doing sets of
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  three going up once it started getting heavy, but it felt much better because
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  it managed to get me to where, you know, I now remember what
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  it feels like to have those hips straight at the bottom, and that was
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  kind of a big deal. And then it's just little things like that we'll
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  make a big difference in the long run because I got to fix that imbalance
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  there, and it's it's going to fix the imbalance. And I ended up
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  doing three with seven hundred, which you know, it's a lot of weight,
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  but to me, it's to what I've been capable of. It's you
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  know, it's in the ninety percentile, but it's not you know, out
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  of this world. So it was I was pretty happy with the results I
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  got out of it, and it's little things like that. Now, with
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  the stomach surgery and stuff like that, I'm now gonna I've been working my
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  ads, but not as much as I would like to have. I'm gonna
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  have to concentrate on that more to develop the recta saidamas and stuff like that
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  again in a better way. Because I'm having problems pulling myself forwards with my
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  own body, so I have to grab the bar and like wedge underneath it.
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  And I've noticed I'm getting like I'm at cramps as I like pulling the
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  wedge into the bar and stuff like that. So it's like, Okay,
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  now why would I be doing this Because I have a weakness. So now
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  I got to fix that weakness. And now I'll figure out ways to specifically
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  fix that weakness in that position so that I'll be able to pull off the
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  floor better. That's all. Oh yeah, I mean my goals that I
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  have set for next year are very achievable. I mean this year, this
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  year, gosh, at least track your time are very achievable. So I
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  just have to be smart and achieve those goals and then if I exceed them
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  a little bit, great. If I just get to those goals, great,
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  that's that's that's where I'm headed. So and then I have some further
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  goals at the end of the year. But we'll see, Yeah, that'll
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  come exactly exactly. Well, then, I think we covered quite a bit
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  for this this episode here. Okay, I just want to do one little
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  shout out for one of our good friends and other podcasts co host. Happy
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  birthday, John Anderson. Happy birthday, John. I hope you have a
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  great day. Yeah, yesterday was his birthday. Oh okay, well you
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  know so he's the big fifty two. Oh such a young man. Oh
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  yeah, that's good. Well that's it. And Nick, well, let
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  these people know those beautiful words. Let them know what they need to do
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  so then we can shoot on it. All right. Well, if you
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