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Training Smart vs Training Hard: Expert Tips from Nick Best | The Best Experience · The Best Experience

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Speaker 2: Into the questions, i'd like I asked about the difference
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Speaker 2: between training hard and training smart. Which types of training
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Speaker 2: can be done every day and which ones require rest
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Speaker 2: days in between to avoid injury. Also, how often should
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Speaker 2: people go how often should people of different age groups train? Okay,
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Speaker 2: let me start with that one, because that's a good one.
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Speaker 2: When you're younger, you can train more often. You can
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Speaker 2: train probably fairly comfortably if you're not pushing it to
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Speaker 2: the absolute limit, but you're putting good work in. You
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Speaker 2: can probably train six days a week when you're pretty young,
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Speaker 2: all the way up to probably twenty five to almost thirty.
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Speaker 2: Now once you get thirty to thirty five, you need
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Speaker 2: to drop to about five days a week ish, is
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Speaker 2: probably the most you would want to do. I would
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Speaker 2: still even back then, I was training like four days
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Speaker 2: a week for training for four hard training days and
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Speaker 2: then three days off, so basically it would be two
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Speaker 2: days on, one day off, two days on, two days off.
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Speaker 2: And I did that for probably close to fifteen years.
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Speaker 2: And then as I got a little bit older, you know,
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Speaker 2: past forty five, I started realizing it would probably be
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Speaker 2: better to train three times in seven days and then
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Speaker 2: simplify it up or train three hard days in one
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Speaker 2: light day just to let my body catch up and
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Speaker 2: then you know, so that was probably over forty five.
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Speaker 2: You can go to like three days a week, right,
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Speaker 2: which is you can almost equivalate to every other day,
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Speaker 2: you know, three days one week, four days the next week,
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Speaker 2: and then just get a day's rest in between each workout.
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Speaker 2: Now that I'm pushing close to sixty, I'm kind of
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Speaker 2: every other day, but I take an extra day when
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Speaker 2: I need it, So it's between an eight and nine
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Speaker 2: day training cycle when I circle back to the body
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Speaker 2: parts or the area or the body parts that I'm training.
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Speaker 2: So basically it should be for everybody. I mean it
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Speaker 2: should be. You have a day to train your legs, Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's day one. Day two you train your chest and triceps. Okay,
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Speaker 2: Day three is off. Day four you're gonna want to
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Speaker 2: train your back and your bicet. Take a day off
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Speaker 2: Day five, or take a day off. That's five. Day six,
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Speaker 2: you're going to do shoulders, shoulders, and a little bit
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Speaker 2: of triceps again, and then you throw calves into there
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Speaker 2: twice wherever you want, once on leg day and once
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Speaker 2: on one of the other days. You're gonna want to
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Speaker 2: throw stretching in on your days off, and a little
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Speaker 2: bit of moving activity, but nothing like super crazy. Nothing's
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Speaker 2: gonna beat you up. Things will just get the blood
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Speaker 2: ploone like going for fifteen minute brisk walks stuff like that,
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Speaker 2: but nothing too crazy. It's going to cause you to
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Speaker 2: have to heal, and then of course take that other
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Speaker 2: day off. Now as I've gotten older, I just I
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Speaker 2: go on an eight day to nine day cycle where
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Speaker 2: it's legs day off, chest and shoulders, or chest and triceps,
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Speaker 2: a day off back and biceps, a day off shoulders
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Speaker 2: and a little bit of triceps again, and then another
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Speaker 2: day off and then start then either take another day
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Speaker 2: off or go straight to legs again on the eighth day.
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Speaker 2: So it just kind of depends. But that's kind of
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Speaker 2: what I'm doing now, and it seems to be working
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Speaker 2: pretty good. Still feel like I'm maintaining a lot of strength,
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Speaker 2: Still feel quite powerful and stuff like that. But the
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Speaker 2: rest as you get older is more important. You need
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Speaker 2: to be fully recovered before you train again. This is
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Speaker 2: going to really help with injury and and prevention that
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Speaker 2: and then still growing. You don't atrophy until the tenth day,
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Speaker 2: so as long as you're getting workout, getting training in,
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Speaker 2: You're gonna be You're gonna be fine. So just make
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Speaker 2: sure you get your training in. You're gonna be okay. Now,
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Speaker 2: the difference between training hard and training smart. You want
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Speaker 2: to train hard and you want to train smart, not
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Speaker 2: just one or the other. Yes, you need to do
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Speaker 2: both of those together. And training hard is coming in
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Speaker 2: with intensity, not necessarily like you're trying to destroy everything
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Speaker 2: and go crazy. But you come in with a focused
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Speaker 2: and you come in with a purpose. You're not coming
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Speaker 2: in just to go into the gym, go through the motions.
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Speaker 2: You know, say hi to a few people. It's a
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Speaker 2: great place for social gathering, like granted, but do that
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Speaker 2: when you're done, or do that before you get started. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, talk to a few people before you get started,
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Speaker 2: talk to a few people before once you're done. It's
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Speaker 2: always better to be fully recovered before you get in
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Speaker 2: the car. I don't know how many workouts I finished
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Speaker 2: and my head were spinning. That's really hungry. And I'd
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Speaker 2: sit around and talk for like a half an hour
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Speaker 2: until I felt better and good enough to get in
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Speaker 2: the car and drive home. So which you want to
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Speaker 2: train hard, you want to train smart? And train smart
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Speaker 2: means listening to your body, and that's that's probably one
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Speaker 2: of the most difficult things to do, is listen to
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Speaker 2: your body. Find what works for you. Whether it's heavy
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Speaker 2: weights and low reps and not a lot of sets,
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Speaker 2: or you know, media weights and medium sets, or lightweights
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Speaker 2: and a lot of sets and a lot of reps.
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Speaker 2: Whatever gets you to your goal. If you want to
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Speaker 2: be strong, you know you're probably going to be lifting,
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Speaker 2: you know, heavyweights for not a whole lot of sets,
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Speaker 2: you know, no more than probably six to eight, you know,
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Speaker 2: total work sets on a body part. So of like,
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Speaker 2: if you do bench you do like a couple sets
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Speaker 2: of heavy bench press, Like are your work sets not
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Speaker 2: your warm upsets? Those don't count. So work sets, two
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Speaker 2: heavy sets of bench press, a heavy maybe one or
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Speaker 2: two heavy sets of inclines, a set of two sets
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Speaker 2: of good heavy dips. I used to do weighted dips
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Speaker 2: with up to three hundred pounds for sets of six
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Speaker 2: back in the day, and now I do my body
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Speaker 2: weight for like sets of thirty. So as you change,
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Speaker 2: as you get older, things change, and that's okay. I
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Speaker 2: can still do, you know, weighty dips when I'm trying
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Speaker 2: to get to where I can bench press a lot. Again,
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Speaker 2: I'll still do weaight to di with like one hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty five pounds, but it's you know, I just
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Speaker 2: go with what my goals are orientating me to for
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Speaker 2: that training cycle or that training day. You know, do
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Speaker 2: two sets of those and then do a set of
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Speaker 2: presses and flies with the dumbbells. So you do your
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Speaker 2: like presses where the and then you do the flies
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Speaker 2: where you come. And you're doing the flies in this
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Speaker 2: mainly for stretching. You're not doing the flies in it
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Speaker 2: to build muscle. You're doing the flies to the stretching.
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Speaker 2: So like when I was really getting after it, I
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Speaker 2: do a set of the one hundred and fifty dumbells
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Speaker 2: for a set of twelve, and then I drop down
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Speaker 2: to maybe twenty five thirty five pounds and do a
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Speaker 2: set of twelve, but ten seconds down, four seconds up
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Speaker 2: with the with the dumbells on flies to stretch out
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Speaker 2: my pecks and mainly just to stretch out the pecks.
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Speaker 2: And then I do one set of incline presses and
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Speaker 2: flies and my chest was done. Yeah, you know, and
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Speaker 2: that got me up to you know, a six hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty five pound bench press at one time. You know, raw,
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Speaker 2: no shirt, so it's very effective. It works, and you
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Speaker 2: don't you train hard, but you don't overtrain. I went
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Speaker 2: in there with a purpose. I went in there focused
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Speaker 2: and ready to go. So that's what I mean. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of like when you do cardio. If you're doing
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Speaker 2: cardio and somebody can have a conversation with you, you're not
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Speaker 2: doing cardio right. It doesn't shouldn't be like you're on
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Speaker 2: there for forty five minutes to an hour cardio it's
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Speaker 2: like fifteen to twenty minutes at most, and you're going
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Speaker 2: at such a pace or at such a level that
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Speaker 2: if somebody comes up to you and tries to get
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Speaker 2: your attention, you almost you almost feel bothered, and you
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Speaker 2: really don't want to answer more than one word because
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Speaker 2: you don't want to move your focus from it because
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Speaker 2: it's so difficult. That's kind of how you want to be.
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Speaker 2: You want to be an oxygen debt when you get
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Speaker 2: off of the cardiovascar a piece of equipment, and that's
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Speaker 2: going to vary for whatever level you're at. You can
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Speaker 2: still achieve that that type of work, even at a
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Speaker 2: beginning level, because that's the level where you're functioning at,
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Speaker 2: if that makes any sense. So, yeah, so you go
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Speaker 2: in there with a tensity and train smart, but you
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Speaker 2: listen to your body. You listen to your body. You
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Speaker 2: figure out what works for you. A lot some guys
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Speaker 2: go in and they want to do five sets of
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Speaker 2: five on the bench press three sets, or you have
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Speaker 2: three sets of three in the inclines and then do
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Speaker 2: almost no dumbell work or no dips. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 2: but you find what works for you. And there's progressive
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Speaker 2: methods and stuff like that where you're doing ten reps,
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Speaker 2: eight reps, six reps, five reps, you know, four reps,
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Speaker 2: two reps singles and then start back over again in
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Speaker 2: those weeks, you know, So that's you know, five six,
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Speaker 2: you know, eight week five week training cycle and you
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Speaker 2: just keep rotating around things like that. Training smart. That's
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Speaker 2: going to be probably the biggest thing is learning to
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Speaker 2: read your body and know figuring out what actually works
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Speaker 2: for your body type and what works for you, what
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Speaker 2: works for your leverages. Some people are designed to just
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Speaker 2: keep going and never stop, their endurance athletes, and that's okay,
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Speaker 2: Are they ever going to be a world's strongest man? Competitor. No,
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Speaker 2: but as the world's strongest man competitor other than Mitchell
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Speaker 2: Hooper ever going to be a marathon runner, probably not so.
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Speaker 2: And that's that's just what it is. So identify what
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Speaker 2: your gift is in that area and maximize it and
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Speaker 2: do things that are going to increase your mobility and
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Speaker 2: keep you being able to move as you get into
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Speaker 2: your fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties. The goal is to
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Speaker 2: be able to have, you know, a great quality of
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Speaker 2: life as we get older. Yep, not to oh my god,
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Speaker 2: I'm all broken down, I can't move.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, and that's the opposite of training smart.
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Right, you're hurting yourself and
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Speaker 3: you're not giving yourself recovery. You're not giving yourself an
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Speaker 3: opportunity to feel good when you work out. You should
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Speaker 3: feel it, but you shouldn't feel wrecked. And that lets
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Speaker 3: you know that you didn't train.
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Speaker 2: Smart, right, right, I mean to where if you're hurting
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Speaker 2: for like five days after the training, yeah, too much,
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Speaker 2: way too much. If you're not feeling anything at all
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Speaker 2: the next day, yeah, that wasn't hard enough. So find
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Speaker 2: the balance and about day two you should feel the
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Speaker 2: maximum part of your soreness. In day three, it's gone
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Speaker 2: day four. By the by the middle of day three
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Speaker 2: you're almost like ey and then day four it's nothing.
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Speaker 2: You still got four more days, four more days to recover.
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Speaker 2: So that's kind of how you want to look at it.
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Speaker 2: That's good. It's that's what's going to make you last
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Speaker 2: a very long time and keep those strength levels.
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Speaker 3: And help you have a happy and healthy workout relationship.
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Speaker 2: Right exactly so, and then you can take to these
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Speaker 2: streaming decide you're gonna go to the world strongest man
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Speaker 2: in your forties, ten.
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Speaker 1: Times in your fifties.
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Speaker 2: So but you know it's there's nothing you can't do
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Speaker 2: if you put your mind to it. So just just
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Speaker 2: be smart about it. Read up on the stuff, learn them.
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Speaker 2: And the thing is is a lot of stuff you
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Speaker 2: get to read is by people with a goal that
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Speaker 2: wants you to buy something from them. So learn from
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Speaker 2: other ask other people with more experienced questions all the
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Speaker 2: time when you get to run into them at the gym.
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Speaker 2: If you find some old guy that's been doing it
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Speaker 2: a long time, go ask him, have a conversation with him,
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Speaker 2: learn from him, especially if you're the young kids out there.
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Speaker 2: Go learn from them. There. They're your best source. Their
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Speaker 2: experience is far more valuable than anything you could read
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Speaker 2: it in an article. It really is like, if you
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Speaker 2: see anything like Dorian Yate's talking and he talks about training,
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Speaker 2: look at and listen to that is that guy. That
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Speaker 2: guy would go in, get it done and be done
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Speaker 2: and move on to the next thing. Straw Men's a
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Speaker 2: little different than bodybuilding. I wasn't worried about hypertrophy. I
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Speaker 2: was worried about strength and endurance, you know, being able
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Speaker 2: to compete in events. So the training is similar, bit different, yes,
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Speaker 2: but a lot of the philosophies I got were from
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Speaker 2: heavy duty and the way Dorian Yates does it. But
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Speaker 2: also a lot of it's from Ed Cohen and Bull Stewart.
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Speaker 2: So I learned a lot from those two guys. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I can't thank you know, the three of
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Speaker 2: those guys enough. I learned so much from them. It
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Speaker 2: really made a big impact on me. Uh, okay, that's here.
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Speaker 2: When I do squads, I'm not sure whether it's okay
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Speaker 2: for my needs to go past my toes. My martial
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Speaker 2: arts teacher used to say that if the knees go
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Speaker 2: past the toes and increases the stress on the knees
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Speaker 2: and it could lead to knee injuries. Not sure if
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Speaker 2: that's what he said is correct. Okay, well, yeah it's
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Speaker 2: it's correct, but it's not correct at the same time
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Speaker 2: it is correct. I mean if you go over your
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Speaker 2: over your yeah, your knees go over your toes. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's not a great angle. But if you're doing it intentionally,
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Speaker 2: you know that you're doing it, and you're working your
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Speaker 2: way slowly up and getting stronger doing it, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, if you're not doing anything reckless, like you know,
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Speaker 2: like jump squats or something like that, where you're where
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Speaker 2: you're doing something doing stuff like that, Yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 2: it's okay. If you worked yourself into it and your
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Speaker 2: body's used to it, you could be fine. There's actually
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Speaker 2: there's actually a guy who says knees overtes.
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Speaker 1: Knees over toes. Yeah, built his knees after they've been destroyed.
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Speaker 2: Right, So there's there's always some truth in some of
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Speaker 2: these things, and there's always some you know, truths and
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Speaker 2: other things. And you've got to realize if you have
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Speaker 2: a problem with your knees and they hurt like hell
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Speaker 2: when you go into that area. First try strengthening them,
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Speaker 2: and then try it again. And if it's something you're
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Speaker 2: just not designed or meant to do, don't do it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: if it gets starts getting stronger, and it starts feeling
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Speaker 2: better and it's not bothering you, you can do it. It's
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Speaker 2: it's that it's really just that simple again, learning your body,
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Speaker 2: learning how to read what works for you exactly. Not
16:43
Speaker 2: everybody's the same. We're not all built the same. The
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Speaker 2: length of our femurs aren't the same, the length of
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Speaker 2: our shins are not the same. So it just depends on.
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Speaker 1: Basically body mechanics exactly.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: One of those things too is like you know, people
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Speaker 3: tell you you got to go ass to grass when
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Speaker 3: you squat, but people also need to understand everyone's body
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Speaker 3: mechanics are different. But also to parallel is pretty much
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Speaker 3: standard for everybody, you know what I'm saying, unless you're
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Speaker 3: unless you're unless you're like in a competition, and you
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Speaker 3: have to break that parallel. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: Because a lot of you know, it's you know, knee
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Speaker 3: and hip have to pass on the from from what
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Speaker 3: I think I remember, but you know, the crease of
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Speaker 3: the hip. But that's what I'm saying. It's like that,
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Speaker 3: you know, for for most people exercising. For the everyday person.
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Speaker 3: You know, parallel which means thigh that's me, thigh next
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Speaker 3: to uh, thigh to the you know, parallels to the ground.
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Speaker 1: That's where it needs to be.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's plenty. Yeah, I mean you don't have Yeah,
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Speaker 2: So I mean, if you're getting ready for a parallel
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Speaker 2: to meat, the top of the knee has the crease
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Speaker 2: of the hip has to go below the top of
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Speaker 2: the knee. That's it. It doesn't mean two inches below,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean three inches below. It means the crease
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Speaker 2: just breaks the plane. That's all you need to go.
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Speaker 2: And then if you're just doing regular training, you know,
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Speaker 2: just get real close and you're fine. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: you're not going to compete, if you just get down close,
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Speaker 2: you gotta get real strong, you get to feel real good,
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Speaker 2: and you're gonna last a long time. So I hope
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Speaker 2: that answers your question exactly. Yeah, So let's see here,
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Speaker 2: what are we going to cover next? Uh? Yeah, Britain's
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Speaker 2: strongest man just happened Tom Stiltman won again, which is
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Speaker 2: pretty good. He's already qualified for World's Strongest Man as
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Speaker 2: a former World Strongest Man. You're automatically qualified. As long
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Speaker 2: as you're in decent shape and you say you want
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Speaker 2: to go, you're gonna be able to go. At least
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Speaker 2: that's the way it was for the last couple decades,
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Speaker 2: unless that's changed. Adam Bishop he qualified, he got second place,
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Speaker 2: he's going again. Patty Hayes is going again. Interesting. Gavin
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Speaker 2: got fourth, and I don't think he's invited yet, but
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Speaker 2: they still have I think there's twenty one guys that's
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Speaker 2: been invited now.
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Speaker 1: As of today from what I saw.
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Speaker 2: So they still either have four positions open because they're
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Speaker 2: doing twenty five because I hadn't I didn't pay attention
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Speaker 2: to the number that's invited this year yet, or it's
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Speaker 2: thirty anywhere, or it's thirty and so there's nine more guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: So whether they're going to go groups of five or
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Speaker 2: they're gonna go groups of six traditional groups of six,
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Speaker 2: but they go to five every once in a while,
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Speaker 2: so it just kind of depends on the total number
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Speaker 2: either either way, there's still four more invites to go
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Speaker 2: out that I've seen, and I can see Gavin.
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Speaker 1: Gavin's still getting in there exactly.
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Speaker 3: I got to hang out with Gavin for a little
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Speaker 3: bit at a World's Man when he was for the
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Speaker 3: first time.
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Speaker 2: We went, Yeah, Gavin, Gavin's a good dude. He's a
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Speaker 2: strong guy. He's just all just an all around nice guy.
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Speaker 2: He really is, you know, just fun to be around,
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Speaker 2: fun to hang out with, fun to talk to. He's
20:13
Speaker 2: just a really good dude all the way around. It'd
20:16
Speaker 2: be good to see him get in there. Luke Staltman
20:19
Speaker 2: also got an invite. So Luke's going. Yeah, this will
20:24
Speaker 2: be I think Luke's eleventh one. Yeah, so yeah, I
20:28
Speaker 2: mean Luke, Luke's been putting in the time and everything else.
20:34
Speaker 2: And yeah, I can see, you know, some people maybe
20:39
Speaker 2: getting in there.
20:42
Speaker 1: Through the list.
20:45
Speaker 2: Okay, so you got Patty Hayes, yes, deserved kicked year.
20:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:54
Speaker 2: But Evan Singleton yeah, oh yeah, strong, this man on Earth, Yeah,
21:02
Speaker 2: Luke Richardson, who definitely deserves to be there and stay healthy. Yeah. Uh,
21:10
Speaker 2: Matthew Wragg Yeah. Andrew Flynn which he's a strong kid, yes, uh,
21:19
Speaker 2: which don't kill me.
21:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that guy is strong.
21:24
Speaker 2: Yeah. Jack of Schoonfeld. Also real strong.
21:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's very strong.
21:29
Speaker 2: That guy is ungodly strong if he stays healthy, he is. Yeah.
21:33
Speaker 1: The first time we saw him at Myrtle Beach, I
21:35
Speaker 1: was like, who is this guy? Mm hmm.
21:38
Speaker 2: Rayn o'noll, who's the returning champion, the current Tom Staltman,
21:43
Speaker 2: who's a three time champion, Martin Less Martins. To see
21:48
Speaker 2: Martin's come back, see what he does. He's seeming seems.
21:53
Speaker 1: To be pretty healthy. Yeah, he's charged up.
21:56
Speaker 2: He's looking pretty strong. So he he is, and he
22:01
Speaker 2: is a technician when it comes to events. And yeah,
22:04
Speaker 2: you know he's he he'll still he'll he'll be a
22:09
Speaker 2: lot to do with it.
22:10
Speaker 1: Looks he's got that fire under him again.
22:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's good to see back. I mean, yeah,
22:16
Speaker 2: I remember that kid when he was like nineteen years old,
22:18
Speaker 2: and you know, we were carrying the Issa shield and
22:23
Speaker 2: I was like learning how to pick it up and
22:25
Speaker 2: do stuff with it. And that kid would do everything
22:28
Speaker 2: he could to you know, beat you and try with
22:32
Speaker 2: everything he had, and he would succeed far beyond what
22:38
Speaker 2: you know, what his talent level at that time, which
22:42
Speaker 2: he has that ability to push himself to the point
22:45
Speaker 2: where it's through paying everything, so it's gonna be fun
22:50
Speaker 2: to watch. And of course Mitchell Hooper, you know, who's
22:54
Speaker 2: also a former champion. Mitch is looking pretty solid all
22:59
Speaker 2: the way around.
23:00
Speaker 1: Real solid. He's put on a lot of size.
23:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the last couple of videos that I seen
23:06
Speaker 3: him in, I'm like, oh my god, man, he's like,
23:09
Speaker 3: he's not doubled, but he's he's he's a lot thicker.
23:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's he's putting on some size. He's getting strong.
23:17
Speaker 2: He's also got a lot of people looking after him
23:23
Speaker 2: as far as his health goes with all that stuff,
23:26
Speaker 2: which we'll get into that in a minute, because that's
23:28
Speaker 2: coming up in another part when we cover this exactly
23:32
Speaker 2: back to more invites. Evan's nah nah, Yeah, he's a
23:37
Speaker 2: good kid. And that kid is all hard.
23:42
Speaker 3: And he that's the thing. He's always asking questions, you
23:47
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
23:48
Speaker 2: He wants to know how to do things or what
23:50
Speaker 2: we think and stuff like that. So it's pretty cool.
23:52
Speaker 2: Luke Stultman, so I already mentioned that earlier, Josh, Hopefully
24:00
Speaker 2: I didn't blister his.
24:01
Speaker 1: Name too exactly how you said, Okay, And then.
24:05
Speaker 2: Of course Eddie Williams. Yeah, he's he's a pretty bad man. Austin, Yeah,
24:15
Speaker 2: he's Austin absolutely belongs there.
24:18
Speaker 1: He's absolutely that Man's.
24:20
Speaker 2: A Sherman tank, really strong, got a lot of heart.
24:24
Speaker 2: He's actually a really good dude. He's a fun guy
24:26
Speaker 2: to hang out and talk to him. Be Lucas Hotton another.
24:31
Speaker 3: From Hey, and we remember we were just talking with
24:34
Speaker 3: him at the original OSG before. He's not original OG,
24:37
Speaker 3: but at OG when he was like, oh, I'm getting
24:39
Speaker 3: ready to do this, yeah he hey, and guess what, man,
24:44
Speaker 3: he he literally dialed himself in and prepared himself.
24:47
Speaker 1: He did it completely right on my on the way
24:49
Speaker 1: he's approached this.
24:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's taking his time. He's taking his time, and
24:54
Speaker 2: now he's there. He's to be there for a long time,
24:57
Speaker 2: so it's gonna be fun to watch. And of course
25:00
Speaker 2: Trey Mitchell, who's been there a lot of times now,
25:04
Speaker 2: and Trey's Tray's tray big thing. He goes to work
25:11
Speaker 2: in the off season. Yeah, and he literally goes to
25:15
Speaker 2: work in the off season and he's got his home
25:18
Speaker 2: gym set up to a point where it rivals probably
25:22
Speaker 2: almost I was. I would almost say even Bryan's I mean,
25:26
Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't go quite that far, but it's still
25:29
Speaker 2: He's got an amazing home gym. He goes out there,
25:32
Speaker 2: he puts the work in by himself. Yeah, now that's
25:37
Speaker 2: saying something, because nobody's gonna see what's going on with
25:41
Speaker 2: that guy till he lets people know. So he comes in,
25:46
Speaker 2: he's healthy, He's got a really good shot at at anything.
25:53
Speaker 2: If he ever gets his grip straightened out, if he
25:56
Speaker 2: ever gets that to where it's not going to cost
26:02
Speaker 2: him any points, he'll win. He'll definitely win World Strongest Man.
26:07
Speaker 2: And then Nick Gordion, which I love Neck. Nick's a
26:11
Speaker 2: good guy. He gets better every single year, like clockwork,
26:15
Speaker 2: great attitude, great work with him and Austin and the
26:20
Speaker 2: Texas Boys, they just get in there and they get
26:23
Speaker 2: after it and they're constantly approving and they're having so
26:26
Speaker 2: much fun and they give back to the sport and
26:28
Speaker 2: they give back to people. So they're both great guys.
26:32
Speaker 2: They both deserve to be there, and they both will
26:35
Speaker 2: have an impact.
26:36
Speaker 1: They really will, exactly.
26:39
Speaker 2: And then my understanding is Adam Bishop got invited again today,
26:43
Speaker 2: which is awesome. Has been around a while now. I
26:48
Speaker 2: think I think the last time I had him in
26:52
Speaker 2: my heat was twenty sixteen, and man, that kid, you
26:55
Speaker 2: can see it back then. I mean, he's he's got
26:58
Speaker 2: a strong back, he's and he knows the body. He
27:02
Speaker 2: trains people, helps them with therapy and stuff like that.
27:07
Speaker 2: He's he's some you can never take him lightly, never
27:11
Speaker 2: if he's healthy. If he's healthy and he's in shape
27:15
Speaker 2: and he's ready to go, he can be lights out sometimes.
27:20
Speaker 2: So I mean it's all going to just be kind
27:22
Speaker 2: of you know, who's healthiest on that day, who can
27:26
Speaker 2: make it through the six events in two days, and
27:29
Speaker 2: then the other six events in the next two days. Yeah,
27:32
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's almost like strong Man Survivor Series,
27:36
Speaker 2: you know, because like when I first started, you had
27:40
Speaker 2: four days to do six events, four days, two events,
27:45
Speaker 2: one day, one one event, one event, two events or
27:49
Speaker 2: any combination of two to one two one, you know,
27:53
Speaker 2: and then you had three days off and you could
27:57
Speaker 2: do the finals. Yeah, you had three days off to
28:02
Speaker 2: rest and recover, and then you would do the finals.
28:04
Speaker 2: And now they bring the guys in. You get six events,
28:09
Speaker 2: you might get a media day, and then you get
28:12
Speaker 2: six more events, which ye maybe it's cost cutting. I
28:16
Speaker 2: don't know, but it's a survive. It's whoever's gonna survive,
28:22
Speaker 2: whoever can get through into the finals and be the
28:26
Speaker 2: healthiest and ready to go, you're gonna have the best
28:30
Speaker 2: chance to make the top five. So it's gounda be
28:32
Speaker 2: fun to watch.
28:34
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great to watch. It'll be in Myrtle Beach.
28:39
Speaker 2: I know, I know that was a lot of fun
28:40
Speaker 2: when we went there last time. So oh yeah, looking
28:43
Speaker 2: forward to going there again. Have to reach out to
28:46
Speaker 2: the guys at Worlds and.
28:48
Speaker 1: Uh, it's gonna be fun.
28:51
Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be a neat thing to go see.
28:53
Speaker 1: It really be third to the twenty six those that
28:57
Speaker 1: are listening.
28:59
Speaker 2: So so yeah, so's it's gonna be fun to watch.
29:03
Speaker 2: And you don't want to miss it. I mean, you
29:06
Speaker 2: want to come out there. You want to go see it.
29:08
Speaker 2: It's on the beach. It's amazing out there. It really is.
29:11
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly, it's it's it's beautiful, you know. So I'm
29:16
Speaker 3: definitely ready for this year exactly.
29:19
Speaker 2: Now. That brings us to Thor Bjornson.
29:23
Speaker 1: And Mitchell Mountain himself.
29:26
Speaker 2: And Mitchell Hooper and Mitchell Yeah, they're both doing the
29:31
Speaker 2: enhanced Games here in Las Vegas. It was it late September, right.
29:36
Speaker 1: No, May twenty fourth, it's that weekend of May fourth.
29:41
Speaker 2: Where did I guess? September from m That's what happens
29:45
Speaker 2: when you get a concussion in a car wreck. You
29:50
Speaker 2: suffer from CRS sometimes. Yeah. No, So that's gonna be fun.
29:56
Speaker 2: I'm glad that's coming up like that so soon because
29:59
Speaker 2: I'll get to see those guys and it'll be a
30:00
Speaker 2: lot of fun exactly.
30:02
Speaker 1: And they're promoting as World's strongest man versus World's strongest
30:06
Speaker 1: man is man.
30:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Hooper's pulled over a thousand Yeah, I think
30:11
Speaker 2: it was what one thousand and thirty six? I think so, Yeah,
30:16
Speaker 2: And he tried eleven hundred and he had it to
30:19
Speaker 2: his knees. He had it to his knees here in
30:23
Speaker 2: Las Vegas last time. So can he do it? I
30:27
Speaker 2: would not say he can't do it. I wouldn't.
30:30
Speaker 1: I would not.
30:31
Speaker 3: I would not put it past him because you know
30:33
Speaker 3: he he's a thinker, you know what I'm saying, And
30:36
Speaker 3: he wouldn't be just jumping into something without having that confidence.
30:42
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh yeah, So it's gonna be fun to watch
30:45
Speaker 2: they're going to the enhanced Games, which you know, it's
30:52
Speaker 2: kind of interesting, but they're going through it pretty good.
30:56
Speaker 2: They're going through all the medical stuff. They're monitoring these guys,
31:00
Speaker 2: they're showing it all, they're walking them through all these
31:03
Speaker 2: things and all the research that they're doing on them
31:05
Speaker 2: to see what's what as they go through this, I
31:10
Speaker 2: definitely think for them. Yeah, I definitely think Thoro will
31:14
Speaker 2: break his own world record. Yeah. The question will be
31:18
Speaker 2: is where can Mitchell get to. I think he's got
31:22
Speaker 2: eleven and when he got that thing to his knees,
31:25
Speaker 2: I think he just he if he really fought that
31:30
Speaker 2: with everything he had, he probably would have got it. Yes,
31:33
Speaker 2: So that being said, it's kind of like, you know,
31:40
Speaker 2: is it possible? Oh heck, yeah, I think it's possible.
31:42
Speaker 2: We'll just we'll see what he plans out. He's just smart, smart,
31:46
Speaker 2: He's probably one of the smartest competitors out there right now. Yes,
31:49
Speaker 2: So it'll be fun to fun to kind of watch. Plus,
31:53
Speaker 2: I like both these guys. They're just incredible athletes. They're
31:56
Speaker 2: incredible competitors. It'll be fun to watch him go head
31:59
Speaker 2: to head on this.
32:00
Speaker 3: Big jo and you know, it's the world record bonus
32:05
Speaker 3: of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars dollars, you.
32:08
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, So whoever breaks.
32:10
Speaker 2: Which is more than every contest pace.
32:15
Speaker 1: And for only one event, Yeah.
32:18
Speaker 2: For for doing one thing. So I bet Eddie's kind
32:21
Speaker 2: of wishing he hadn't retired at this point.
32:25
Speaker 3: Well, you know, a quarter of a million dollars, you know,
32:30
Speaker 3: you know, that's a nice little sum plus to hold
32:33
Speaker 3: the world record, you know what I'm saying.
32:35
Speaker 1: You know for the Enhance Games, it's uh insane.
32:39
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great feat and it's gonna be
32:41
Speaker 3: happening in Las Vegas, May twenty, fourth weekend, correct, So
32:48
Speaker 3: we'll be there. Yeah, exactly, it's gonna be great. It's
32:52
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of fun. And uh just because
32:54
Speaker 3: originally it was just for and it was gonna be
32:57
Speaker 3: great to see him break it, but a little competition always.
33:01
Speaker 2: Never heard anybody, anybody. Yeah, so it's gonna be fun
33:07
Speaker 2: to watch. It really is looking.
33:08
Speaker 1: Forward to that, No, exactly, you know what I'm saying.
33:12
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of strong band news hitting right now,
33:14
Speaker 3: so you know, the season is getting ready to pick
33:16
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33:19
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33:20
Speaker 1: You know. So it's it's coming.
33:22
Speaker 2: First yep, winning Worlds and then the enhanced Games and
33:28
Speaker 2: then on from there, so the road after that.
33:32
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33:35
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