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Cori Butler Pro Strongwoman That's Too Much Cardio · The Best Experience

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You're listening to the best experience with the Nick Best. All right, this
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is the best experience with your host, Mick Best and the Angry Dad.
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And we got a special guest. We got pro strong woman Corey Butler.
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Yeah, does that mean it's to me and I get to take over?
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Now? That's it? All right? Well, hey, everybody, we
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have Corey Butler here. So Corey, you're currently getting ready for the Shock
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Classic. So let's talk about you getting ready for the Shot Classic because that's
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coming up in what how many weeks? Four? Four weeks? That's coming
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up? Quick? Yeah, going, what's going on what are you doing
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well? Training and rehabbing still a little bit so obviously the injury happened end
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of August last year, so this will be my first competition back from the
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bicep explosion. Um, yeah, we're calling it. We'll just call it
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an explosion. And so training has been unique, well, we'll call it
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unique. It's been challenging mentally and physically, and I think it's going well.
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Um, I do wish I had some more time. I don't think
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if I called Brian and said, please give me a couple more weeks,
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I don't think that that would Probably it's probably happened, but all the people
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involved. Yeah, so we're gonna We're gonna push for hair for another three
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weeks and then kind of do a recovery d load week and hope for the
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best. Um. I'm telling myself that I'm gonna be proud regardless. I
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think everybody out there who's a competitor can sympathize with the fact that I'm probably
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gonna be pissed off if I don't miss my goal or meet my goal.
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Will tell telling myself now that just getting back out on the stage is that
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first hurdle. So Yeah, well you've also come overcome far more than just
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a bicep injury. It's been a long couple of years. Yeah, we've
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got to consult or talk to or consult confined events in our journeys because we're
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both coming back from having cancer. Yes we are. And I don't think
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people that we'll realize you got it too. And for you to come back
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and do this is simply amazing. The spirit, the will to move forwards
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is totally touching to me. I'm so proud of you. Oh you're gonna
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make me cry. Nick. Sorry, No, don't be sorry. I
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appreciate it very very much. It is not something that I have talked about
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much. But I'm sorry. No, don't be sorry. Um. Yes,
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I am in my second remission. I'm circical cancer. Wow. Wow,
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that's yeah, that's that's wow. The Arnold pro that I did,
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I guess a year what was it, March twenty twenty two. I was
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five weeks out of radiation treatment, I believe, Holy yeah, and still
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still went out there. That's Uh, that takes a lot, you know
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what I'm saying that that takes a lot. It was it was a goal
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that I had, you know, Arnold pro has been on my bucket list
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for I mean since I really got into strong Man UM and there was no
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way. I mean obviously my performance wasn't excuse me, what I wanted it
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to be, UM, but it was a bucket list item, like I
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got to go out on that stage and compete, and I would love to
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do it again, you know, one hundred percent healthy. UM, I
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hope I get that chance. Uh. And then at my year check up
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here scans UM, they found out that it had come back. So I
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had things removed moved this time, not just removing tissue and tumors, but
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removing everything. UM, I guess, not everything but my cervix and went
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through some more treatment and three months, six months, I'm just about to
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have my scans at the next week actually for my first good yeah that's going
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to come back. Yeah yeah. So yeah, here we are again prepping
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for another show. You know what I'm saying, come coming in hard to
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doing it, especially like going through that, going through the news, going
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through surgery, and then being able to like regroup and be like, nope,
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this is my goal. This is because that's what helps you know what
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I'm saying, when you have something and you know, I always hate to
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say it like or I hate to say it like it's but something to live
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for, something to drive to, and that that point, it really emphasizes
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your your want to to exceed, live, survive, and persevere because that's
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that's exactly what it is. Is like when we have a goal and we
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have a mission on what's happening in our lives, that focal point pushes you
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so much more and gives you so much more. Like, um, I
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wish I could think of a good word for it, but it's just a
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drive to get to that, you know what I'm saying. It's like those
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those those life moments that we have, like said, these big competitions,
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these big shows, and to see you guys, because both of you guys
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literally, like I said, Nick, when Nick was going through hissing,
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I was there right with him. It was we we don't know situation and
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then still competed knowing that it was a we don't know situation, even though
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he came in second, he dropped a bar on his chest, found out
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a whole bunch of crazy stuff, and then still showed it to perform and
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to see you doing that too and not just for the first time, but
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for the second time. That's that's very inspirational, showing people to love that
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you have to do sport. I leaned on Nic a lot when I got
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that second second news, second bit of news. Like we we talked quite
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a bit about stuff and things, and he was a huge help through a
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few months there where he was really the person that I was talking to for
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for a few months. Yeah. Same, you helped me just as much.
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You really did. It was it's a very unique experience we went went
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through together. Honestly, that she shows how tight knit this community is because
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like a lot of people don't understand how like, you know, we all
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have our circles in this think. But the thing is a strong man's unders
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one giant umbrella, which is it's it's beautiful. Yeah, but it's just
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it's incredible your testament, your will, your drive to come back and to
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be healthy and to get healthy and then to compete again because you want to
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do what you love to do. It's the same feel, the same way.
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It's not like it was an option. It wasn't an option that either
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one of us were going to stop. It was just okay, this is
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gonna suck. We have to get through it. We're gonna get through it,
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and then once we're through it, we're going to get back to where
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we want to be doing what we love to do. And I just have
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nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for the things that you've done. And
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then just to get back to a world level like this, it's absolutely amazing.
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I hope people can actually truly appreciate just how difficult what you did is.
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I mean, it's would say it's harder in climbing Mount Evers, but
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some people climb Mount Ever now completely different than the climb with I would say
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it's like climbing Mount Evers without oxygen. Yeah. I mean there were certainly
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some too many, too many dark days. Yeah, in the days where
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it's just like this doesn't feel right, it's not going well things and you
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just want to pack it in. It's like no freaking doing that. Yeah,
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definitely, very much so, very much so. Um it's you know,
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at the same time, and I think you can relate on some level
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like you feel lucky. You feel lucky for the situations. I mean,
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mine was just a regular checkup. Ladies, please go get your scheduled check
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ups do not skip them. But yours was just like a freak accident.
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Freak accident. Like you you in some respect have to consider yourself lucky that
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it was found when it was. You know, I had a nurse tell
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me that, which the situation was very weird, and I you know,
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I was kind of bad about it at the time, but I had a
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nurse tell me how lucky I was because with my my type, you know,
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typically they don't find it until it's later stages, whether that be you
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know, her experience or the case that you know, I don't. I
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don't. I don't know for sure, but I do in certain regards feel
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lucky to have found it when it was, and that I have you know,
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it wasn't a more final outcome, yeah, and that I can still
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do. You know what these things and what I want to do, I'm
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not I don't want to be done yet. I'm not right, i'd say.
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And with that being said, going into the Shaw classic right now and
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then actually like I'm the first time hearing this too, you know what I'm
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saying, and it's, um, I don't what what are you looking towards
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to do? And show off in this because like I said, you know,
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I've I've known, we've talked before just in passing, and you know,
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I follow you on Instagram, and I know you exploded your bicep and
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you you were going into some serious training I'm talking about you were still deadlifting
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with a brace on and a and a band over your shoulders. And I'm
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sitting here like your bicep's gone. Yeah, You're you're sitting You're still deadlifting.
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You're still trying to do what you can. You're doing one armed everything,
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and you're getting into training. And so like, um, going into
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the show, what's the event that you're you're most looking towards, and what's
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the event that you're like, Okay, I'm I'm being extra prepared for this
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one. Um, so I really want to do well on the the Well,
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there's there's a couple of things. The so the sandbag throw. Obviously,
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we had a unique circumstance last year, UM where I got the bags
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stuck on top of the rage, which it wasn't supposed to be able to
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do that, right, which I was told after the fact. I think
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Nick actually told me that they had talked about that before and there was no
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way that that was going to happen. Yeah, yes, very true.
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I would like to redeem myself a bit on that of it. I'm not
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necessarily concerned about it. I mean, it doesn't cause me any pain.
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It's just I would like a cleaner run. I want some redemption on that.
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I want we're going to see a quick time on that. I'm hoping
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that's the goal. I'm worried. The one I'm most worried about is the
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sandbag medley. Obviously, I just started picking sandbags. I was doing kind
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of a sudden med ball things and just trying to get the wheels greased,
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so to speak. But we've got for two hundred to two hundred and fifty
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pounds sandbags that we've got to load into a wheelbarrow and carry or push or
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however you want to say it. So I'm definitely there's a little PTSD and
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worry there that I'm not how you picking them off the ground lengthwise like this
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way? Yeah, and going straight up? Yeah, just we'll come up
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straight up to my lap and then load into the into the bag. I've
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never had much success with its standing you know, vertically and then doing the
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whole like pickup and oh, there is we'll have to talk off camera.
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Yeah, we can't give them all the way that all the trades either.
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I'll send videos of how I figured out how to pick them up because I
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can't reach down and get my hands underneath both sides anymore. Oh okay,
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my lower back's not limber enough. It just no matter how much I stretch,
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no matter what I do, it's naturally fused now. So getting all
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the way down to the ground is extremely hard for me. So in a
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standing position, there's a way to lean it into one hand, So you
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lean it into your your bicep that you had surge your own, okay,
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because it's it's gonna be your weakest link. Yeah, And then you grab
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the bottom of the other side and you use gloves and pull and it's basically
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a one arm row and you row half the bag on your under your knee
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because the moment you go to do that, the other one's already at your
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knee height. Sure pops right into your lap. Oh yeah, it's quick,
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there you go. It's actually faster to pick it up that way when
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you figure out how to do it, than it is to pick up the
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bag long wine. Well, I like this, okay, now you got
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and you have a little bit of time to perfect it before you get in.
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Yeah, if you did it three times before the contest gets here,
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you'll be fine. Perfect. Yes. I look forward to receiving those videos,
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Nick, Okay, just kind of go back and find them my way.
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Par I'll make sure I would remind them about it. Oh, I
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will too. And then and then like the belt and stuff like that,
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because you get to load it into a barrel, so just you know,
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pop it over the top. So if the belt, if it catches on
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the belt, you can throw it with your hips from a belt. Yeah
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excellent. Yeah maybe yeah, Now now I feel better about that of it,
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So maybe that will be. That will be such a worry. Um,
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I do love a yoke. I think we've talked about that before.
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It'll be I haven't quite and got up to. I think it's a six
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sixty yoke for contest, which is a which is a heavy I mean,
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Brian Brian show is not a light show. So um, you know,
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getting my overhead back and getting my yoke weight back up, like the technique
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is all there. It's just kind of building that I wasn't able to do
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yoke for a good amount of time just because getting into that position, my
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surgeon was worried about doing too fast. He had to shorten my tendon quite
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a bit to clean up the what was frayed. So I had he said
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normally he likes to start or at most he likes to shorten it is six
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centimeters and I had five and a half. So it was a lengthy process
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to stretch that back out to where it's yeah, yeah, full range emotion.
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So it was a long time before I could get out of the deadlift
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strap and get under a yoke to where I was able to get in proper
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position doing that. So of course when you train chests, are you doing
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flies? Yes? Are you stretch really light and then stretching them back as
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far as you can? Yeah? And then I do the like a chest
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opener with the roller too, So I'll put the roller to like up and
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down my spine and kind of out as far as I can, And those
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seem to have helped, But yeah, I don't. I haven't been doing
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like even so there's still the one position that still causes me quite a bit
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of pain is the hammer curl position. Yeah, and it's the ninety degrees
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to full flection. When that, my surgeon says, the bias that takes
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over from the brachialis and it puts stress on that in that range of motion,
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I'm still getting pain, so I don't like. Ten pounds is the
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most I've been able to do hammer curls, with which I don't necessarily do
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them except to rehab, so it's I'm not looking to, you know,
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curl hammer curl eighty pound dumbbells or anything like that, but it's yeah,
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that's where I've found my most like resistance as far as the where I'm at
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now, and the rehab is just that, and it doesn't affect log cleans.
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I mean, obviously you're not really strict curling a log, ideally using
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your biceps a lot when you clean log. Yeah, yeah, or at
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least that's that's the idea, So I think it'll be okay. I just
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I was worried about the continental clean on the axle. I was able to
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power clean two hundred on the axle a few weeks ago, so I'm hoping
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that I can have that pull together for in the medley here in the next
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couple weeks, so I don't have to worry about continental cleaning them. So
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you put for the rules on the axle for you guys, I was supposed
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to moment tape. So it's it's off of pads. I think it's going
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to be raised a little bit. No belt cleans, okay um. And
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then it's so it's two reps. So it's two reps in the log into
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two reps in the axle and then am wrap circus down bell with the remaining
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time you had left and it's seventy five seconds. Is that shirts? No
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spray tack. I think you can use, but that's it because it's got
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to be context shirt. The sprays accident. I mean you're putting it on
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your stomach and then on the shirt. Yeah, that's the trick I've heard.
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Um there's another another Worlds Strongest man that has given me that that tip.
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I wonder where he figured that one out. M I mean technically,
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technically you could actually put tacky light tacky like a light uh um which McCall
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it like the service number one, Oh yeah, like the all other stuff.
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You could put that on your stomach and then put the shoe on and
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then put the spray tack on your stomach. Um. I've been dappling a
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little bit and training with my son's pine tar for his bat. Yeah.
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But like the that that that'll make a difference to where it'll it'll help you
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take a lot of stress off your bicep. All right, and I get
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to drive so I don't have to worry about flying with Jackie. Yeah,
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so you know, well with TACKI yeah, um, I go with seven
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different things ATTACKI it's fun. I always get stopped, like it never fails.
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Like I've been through security. They think my lever belt is a gun.
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You're taking it on the plane though you're not putting it underneath, are
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you. Well, the tappy I usually put in my checked bag, Yeah,
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I put I put all the equipment in the check bag just yeah,
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because no, I've lost it once. And that was actually when I was
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going to Ohio to test the bail tote at Rogue when they were making it
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for the first time for the arm they lost my stuff and I had to
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use Steve Slater stuff. But the bag showed up like five hours later.
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And Nick's bag, his travel bag with his gear, is almost as big.
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Ash. Yeah, I bring the kitchen sink of athlete. I don't
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need yea. You are just you are. You absolutely are. And it's
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better. It's better to need something and not happen, or it's better to
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have something and not need it than need it and not have it exactly.
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And last Sacramento, when we was over there, a couple of you know,
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World Strongest Man competitors were like, oh and the Knicks, I got
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that in my bag, and you know, I was running out into the
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street like, oh, I get the car to go grab the Tackie which
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was like a half a mile to a mile away, Oh jeez, and
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bring it back. Yeah. And it was hot. Oh yeah, but
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I still did it, you know, because I mean literally, if I'm
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going to pack my gear, I have like severn different things at Tackie that
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I use so super well because it's one hundred like right now today it's one
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hundred and ten here. Yeah, So if I were to try to do
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stones out in the garage, not today, but if I already tried to
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do that, I would have to have Dave Austlins like Elite Tackie, the
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super hot weather TACKI yeah, to do it or be worthless. Yeah,
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I mean everything once you get passed about eighty degrees. You know, the
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service four can hold a little bit, but the other stuff just it can
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it doesn't work once it gets hot. It's just you have to put it
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on so paper thin. And nobody gets that. Lucky. I mean,
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I guess luckily. I've never had to combat that with where you know,
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Dubai obviously was very hot, but we were inside, so it wasn't it
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wasn't an issue, right, But I'll bring sun or eight different things.
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So when they're out there the heat and I'm like, all right, I
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got something for you, and that's like, go get it, and I'm
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like, God, I love him. Strong man's boy, scout, always
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prepared, always prepared. I swear, I swear even like a last year's
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real strong's man. In the year before when I was with Nick, He's
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getting phone calls, what do you think about this? What about this?
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And you know, different different athletes, just like you know, I eat
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that last minute picking him a brain. Like the first year that Mitchell Hooper
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showed up at Sacramento, he called Nick literally the night before the truck pull,
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was like, what do you think I need to do? And Nick
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sat there for a good amount of time. I was like, look,
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This is how you need to do it. This is how you got to
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strap yourself in. This is how you need to wear this brace when you
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get a chance to play with it. This is what you got. You
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know, like he's given literally gave him the whole breakdown and the knicks.
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You know, you know, it's like it's just it's insane, you know.
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Yeah, I what to look for and how in your corner that Nick?
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Thanks? Yeah, I do, okay, So but yeah, so
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I'm excited. What else you're worried about? Are you good to go?
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Um? You know, really, it's just making sure that the weights are
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there. Um, that's definitely something I haven't been back very along, and
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I still don't know that I'm capable of really elite level weights, like I'm
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there's some things I don't have, Like I don't have a car deadlift set
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up at all. Um, so I've been you know, training around that
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um Smith machine. Yeah, yeah, high sled sled push bull, Um
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little bit. Have you deadlifted in the Smith Machine? Oh? No,
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I don't. I guess I could go to like a commercial gym and yeah,
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you know how they're slightly angled. Yeah, they go like this and
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they come back towards you at the top. I could do that. There's
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a planet business. I probably get kicked out of here, and did you
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make sure you're recording that too? But it'll it'll help you with the way
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the bar travels, especially locking out the car deadlift part of it. Yeah,
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that front the front handle has never been a great event for me.
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We did it an America's Strongest Woman a few years back, and it's such
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a It's a terrible height for me, and it always sucks. So I'm
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a little nervous about that one I'm not being And then I don't have an
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actual wheelbarrow, so I think that'll be okay. I mean, I've used
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them in the past, they've been fine. Moving events are typically pretty good
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events for me. So I'm just hoping that statically I can be ready with
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the weights that I have to be. Yeah, I think you'll be ready
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And okay, so you get two instead of four. But that's the thing
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though, too, is your CNS is already going to be prepared because you've
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already gone through these competitions. So when that muscle memory hits, it's gonna
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it's gonna start fire. And the way you want it I hope. So
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I hope that that, like they adrenaline and you know that, like you
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said, that muscle memory will carry me through and give me, give me
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an extra little boost. I'm excited. Yes, I am nervous, but
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I'm more excited. I'm excited to get back out on the stage. Yeah.
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And shot, there's not a better show I can think of to be
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my first back than that one. I mean, Brian and carry run such
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an amazing show. So many girls that I know well and am friends with,
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I mean, it's going to be it is going to be a task
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to get on that podium this year, I think, you know, maybe
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even more so than last year for multiple reasons. I mean, the talent
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pool is huge. I was just about to ask about that, Like with
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the talent pool coming in, who who's someone you're looking towards really stepping sharing
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the stage with this year? So a lot of the girls that I know
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I have gotten to I mean I haven't gotten to share stage with Melissa Peacock
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in a while. I haven't share stage Stam Belbo since Shaw last year.
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Jody Kennedy is going to be there, Ogil be there. I mean,
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there's so many really awesome competitors that that I've competed with before. Obviously it's
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been a year since I've competed, but I look forward to all of those
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ladies. And then there's some new ladies that I don't know well that seem,
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you know, very capable and our bringing their A games. So it'll
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be it'll be interesting meet some new people, you know, get to know
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some new faces and girls, and and still get to compete with some friends
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like I don't. I don't get to see mel and say I'm all that
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often. And you know, there are a couple of girls I love,
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love to death, so I'm looking forward to some catch up time with them
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as well. Nice. Nice, It'll be good to see all of them
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too. I mean, I'm looking forward to seeing everybody. Yeah, oh
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yeah, and I get to see the guy, you know, I haven't
28:33
seen Trey for a bit, and Evan and everybody, everybody will be there.
28:38
It'll be it's always fun to go back and get you see which oh
28:45
my god, yes, yes, I no shirt. And then if you're
28:51
watching this, I love you to death, but got your dipshit, well
28:56
didn't kill somebody? Well we were well he kind of learned the right way
29:00
though. That's good. Learned from he learned from me. He learned from
29:06
me. So we were at OSG and Disturbed. There was like a fortnight
29:11
concert series playing, so it was like Slipknot Metallica and then Disturbed and then
29:19
slipped Not again, and we couldn't go we could go to the Day of
29:22
the Disturbed, so we went to that one and um towards the end of
29:29
uh uh and I'm drawn a blank on the band's name that they played.
29:34
Mud shovel Stain was playing and I kept yelling mud the last song and everybody's
29:45
like standing there holding up their phones. I'm like, you guys are boring,
29:48
and I literally started a mosh pit, which was a blast. Now.
29:55
I kept telling Evan I was going to do this, and Evan thought
30:00
it was going to be like searching destroy in the mosh pit, and then
30:02
he realized, I'm just in there, bouncing around and people are bouncing off
30:06
of me. But I'm not like freight training people. It's just it's fun.
30:10
It's going in you you bounce off people. People could come and hit
30:12
you really hard because they're gonna try. And then they realized that was not
30:17
a great idea because you don't give so you just bounce around and have fun.
30:22
And he kind of realized that and then stayed finished and we walked all
30:29
the way over to the other side of the Daytona Speedway for Disturbs and Disturbs
30:34
playing. He's like, I can't find the pit. I'm like, move
30:37
your big head out of the way. I can't see around you. I'm
30:41
like, it's ten feet in front of you, a butt, And so
30:45
we go ten feet in front and we went into his first mosh pit and
30:49
it was it was a lot of fun. We were probably in there like
30:52
forty minutes. It was. Yeah, that's a lot of Cardio, a
30:56
lot of Cardio. There's a lot of Cardio's money. Yeah, yeah,
31:00
great time. We really did eisode. That's a lot of Cardio. That's
31:07
a lot of that's a lot of Cardio. I like it, but it
31:14
was it was a great time. We had a good time that night,
31:15
we really did. And then I felt kind of bad for the people at
31:21
the pancake place when we went to go eat afterwards. Yeah. Yeah,
31:26
an after concert an after concert restaurant. Oh my god. Yeah, they
31:30
gave me this plastic silverwear. Oh I would too, which was pretty funny.
31:37
That would be pretty funny. I'm still late to come out so we
31:40
can go do that for pound burrito. Yes, excursion, we're definitely doing
31:45
that when you get I'm looking forward to that to do that again too.
31:53
But I just I don't think it'll wreck me for a couple of days like
31:56
I did. We were a little bit more prepared this time when we go
32:00
because we had a big breakfast, we had a big lunch, and then
32:04
we went in and had a big as burrito. Then we had a car
32:07
games and burrito. Yeah that thing is menacing looking all about it, though,
32:13
I'm ready for it. Yeah. No, maybe next time too,
32:16
we'll try the pizza because he do a Mexican pizza there too, So I
32:19
was like I had my eye, but that burrito was looking really good.
32:22
Yeah, well we could always go back twice. We could go back to
32:27
the burrito back challenge. I like it. Yeah, like it when the
32:32
vacation is all about food too. I want to say it was last time
32:38
I was down there, we were supposed to do um one hundred daco challenge
32:44
and I told Nick, I was like, we can do it. Was
32:45
a team effort. I was like, he does, he'll he didn't have
32:47
to do fifty, But I was like, I know, I can at
32:50
least handle just a little bit more than half. Yeah, I got a
32:53
little. I got a little afraid with that one. I was under tacos
32:59
between the two us well defined like is it like the little street tacos.
33:04
Yeah, it's a like a slightly bigger than the street tacos. But they
33:07
are double tortilla and it you can have a variety of meat because like one
33:12
person I saw do it, they had uh asada, uh pastor, they
33:17
had chicken, and then um they had I want to say, they had
33:22
carneathas too. So it's like it was a very nice variety. So you're
33:24
not sitting here just eating one, you know, the same kind of taco
33:27
the entire time. Yeah, no, I can probably get down on that.
33:30
We'll see. I've I've personally myself personally, I've eaten for thirty seven
33:35
tacos in one sitting. So like you know, I know I and I
33:38
you know, and well I've done a lot of food challenges there. Yeah
33:47
I cannot. You're just like, all right, well I'm out of this.
33:52
I'm not doing that to myself. Again. I tried once that was
33:57
good. So I'll just eat keep him like encouraged to kid there you go,
34:01
that's all right, like a call when oh yeah, but yeah,
34:09
there's a lot of cool things like that. And then um with a lot
34:13
of stuff with you know, because everything's in Colorado, yep. And we're
34:16
gonna be in the Budweiser Stadium, uh like with the expo and there's a
34:22
long list of guests that are actually mean there. I was looking there at
34:24
a second ago, Um is there anyone or are you gonna when you get
34:30
an opportunity, you're gonna kind of visit the crowd in the expo and maybe
34:32
take pictures and sign autographs. Yeah. Absolutely we when um so Sam and
34:37
I last year in between we kind of walked around when got the some sha
34:43
merch, visited the store. Um, it'll it's I'm excited that there'll be
34:46
a little more to walk around and see for sure, Um and tennessee who's
34:52
there. And yeah, I'm always open to taking pictures with with people and
34:55
saying hi and having short combos. So that's fun part. I love.
35:00
We took so many pictures with kiddos last year. I love taking pictures with
35:05
the kiddos. Well, you know, that's the next generation that's getting ready
35:07
to come up after seeing right, everything going on. It's like, you
35:10
know, he's passing it on. You know. That's one thing Nick takes.
35:14
He makes sure he takes his time with every single person. You know,
35:16
every person gets a nice little piece of Nick before they get to walk
35:20
away. Yeah. I don't, I don't get you know, I'm I'm
35:22
definitely not to the point where I'm walking through a crowd and get stopped a
35:27
ton. It doesn't. It doesn't happen a lot, but I enjoy it
35:30
when it does happen. I'm happy to take pictures with with anybody. Yeah,
35:34
it's fun. It's fun part of things. Oh yeah, I definitely
35:37
is. Yeah, that's a good time, it really is. So are
35:42
you are you online commentating? Are you floor? Is Callie commentating again this
35:45
year or what's the so? Uh, I'm not sure. I just know
35:54
that, Um they got my shirt size because gave commentating one and I'm commentating
36:01
the other. So that's all I know. The important details. You just
36:07
got to be there, right, Yeah, I'll just research everything and figure
36:14
it all out and prepare and just be ready to go for whatever he needs
36:15
me to do. It's all I It's all anybody can really ever do.
36:22
And if he needs me to do something more else more, if he needs
36:23
me to do less, I'll do less. It's just whatever he needs me
36:27
to do, I'll go do it. I mean I had a blast with
36:30
Matt sitting out on the floor, sitting there talking last year when when the
36:37
when the pro guys were going. So it's fun. I mean, whatever
36:42
they need me to do, I'm gonna do. It's just fun. It
36:44
really is. Plus a little sport. It's getting back absolutely. Oh yeah
36:51
with Nick boys. Like I said, it's funny because he says he's going
36:53
to do some research. He doesn't need to research. He's the wealth of
36:57
research, you know what I mean. There's still things I need to do,
37:01
and look at you. I need to be able to talk and and
37:07
and run my mouth and stuff like that. Well, hopefully we'll be out
37:10
there commoding for you. They did a great job last year. Yeah,
37:16
um, thank you, thank you. It's very very kind. Um.
37:21
I'll drink a lot of caffeine and I'll take my brain pills and then I'll
37:24
remember we're Loveland, Texas. We're Loveling Colorado. So that was so funny.
37:32
I did that so many times last year and be like, yeah,
37:37
I love lovel and Colorado. So it's Colorado. I mean it's basically the
37:43
same before each other, Loveling Colorado. So I've been practicing that one just
37:49
a smidge more this year. Uh so it's just good times. Yeah.
37:59
Well the altitude, yeah it's not that'll help. Yeah. Well, I'm
38:04
like, well, this part of Vegas where I'm at like three thousand feet
38:07
are you Yeah, the part where I'm at. I get that question a
38:12
lot about the out we're I mean, we're not obviously mountains where I'm at,
38:15
but we're six six thousand and seven thousand feet elevation in the hill.
38:22
So I really don't notice I have any difficulties when I'm in Colorado competing or
38:27
training. Yeah, you won't. You won't have any issues with that.
38:30
No, I'm not worried about that at all. I don't have any issues
38:35
going into Denver to do things, going up to S's Park. It's at
38:42
seventy seven hundred feet and I can feel it quite a bit when I'm up
38:45
there. Yeah, it's a little fun. Two years ago before the year
38:51
before they had the Ladies Show. Um, Sam and I were doing some
38:53
event training in the parking lot of the hotel we were staying at, and
38:59
I could tell a little bit just it was just a little stuffier, like
39:02
I could feel it. I didn't think it affected my performance or not,
39:05
but you can still you can for sure tell that it's a little a little
39:08
more difficult up there. Yeah. Yeah, and there's there's things you can
39:13
do that'll that'll help with that. Little things for your training and things like
39:17
that that make a difference. So for sure, Yeah, for sure.
39:22
So what are you most excited about. I'm just excited to go. I'm
39:29
it's going to be such a special thing all the way around, watching the
39:32
guys compete, watching and women compete, watching the pros go after it,
39:37
watching Brian do his last show, the experience of I you got to go
39:42
up and talk ed. Cohen's going to be there again, So I spend
39:45
some time to hang out with Eddie again. Man, that video you posted
39:49
of you and Cohen was freaking gold. Like I laughed so damn hard.
39:54
Yeah, Well that was the goal. I mean it was I wanted it
39:58
to be kind of funny because it was. It's pretty serious in a few
40:00
of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I mean he is just
40:08
a wealth of knowledge, he really is. And you know, for me
40:13
to still have somebody that I can look up to um at this stage in
40:19
my career and stuff like that, he's still he's still there for He's still
40:22
that for me. I mean, he really is. Most of the people
40:25
that I look up to have, you know, let me down in some
40:30
shape or form. He never has, and you never will. It's the
40:35
type of person he is. And it's just really really neat to get to
40:40
hang out and be around him. I mean just the knowledge, the thinking,
40:46
the positivity, just everything. And it's just the flat out people don't
40:52
realize how funny he is. And and Haga as well. I mean,
40:57
Haga is hilarious. I mean, oh my god. And she got me
41:00
to climb a mountain while I was in Norway, so that was a lot
41:02
of fun. That was a lot of fun. She's like, you want
41:06
to go up there? I'm like yeah, She's like, are you serious.
41:07
I'm like, yeah, I want to go up there. She's like
41:10
okay, let's go. And you know, there was about twenty of us
41:15
that went on this climb up the things. She's like, you're really doing
41:16
this. I'm like, I said, I was gonna do it. I
41:22
had to keep stopping though, because it was funny. It wasn't because my
41:24
breathing. Even though I was breathing heavy, it wasn't that I couldn't breathe.
41:28
My legs were getting pumped. Oh yeah, going up the hill,
41:31
my hips and my glutes were just like getting super pumped. And then on
41:35
the way down, my quads were getting super pumped. That decline yeah yeah,
41:42
yeah, coming down. Well, we also we kind of took the
41:45
long way around to get to the top of the ski area, which probably
41:52
adds a half a mile to the walk, me even a mile to the
41:54
walk on the way up. But the climbs a lot more gradual. There's
41:59
a couple spots where it's a little bit steep but not too bad. Um,
42:04
and then once you get to the top of the skier the ski lift,
42:07
then the climb is it's it's a climb. It's yeah, you're going
42:12
up, it's it's steep. And to try and convince Bobby that we need
42:15
to go next year, oh you have to. I mean it is the
42:22
it is the most beautiful place to do any type of contests like that you
42:29
could ever imagine. And it looks it like the videos and the photos.
42:31
It looks that way, so I can't even imagine, like if it looks
42:36
that good in photos, I can't imagine like actually experiencing in person. And
42:40
it's I'm so glad I went. I'm so glad I'm going back here year.
42:45
I can't even begin to say how much I love the place. It's
42:51
like, you got any positions, but no, it was. It was
42:58
really neat. I mean it truly was. And the bugs aren't that bad.
43:01
They're not like going to Alaska, where you arrive you still get you
43:07
still get a few bug bites and stuff, but it wasn't that bad.
43:09
I think I only had to spray like twice while I was there, So
43:14
yeah, that's definitely on my bucket list. But it's just it's just stunning
43:19
when you look out over the grass and you know the the hercules hold you're
43:24
sitting there, and not only the view of looking at the hercules hold,
43:30
the view from the hercules hold see everything when you're up there is really cool.
43:37
So I'm definitely looking forward to doing that again next year. I might
43:42
use you in my sales tactic. Yea, you go, it's going to
43:45
be there, you know. Well, and then that climb up there,
43:50
and then like Alex, Alex brought a a drone and the drone the drone
43:58
footage you got up there is just donning. He He's got a lot of
44:00
stuff like with drum footage and stuff just all over. Norway's beautiful. Yeah,
44:07
it is. It truly is. And I mean it was just fun.
44:10
And Hagan is just like flying up the mountain like just like trying to
44:16
keep her in sight, and I'm like, okay, I gotta stop for
44:19
a second. Okay, you know, Everyone's like, okay, go,
44:22
Yeah, I'm fine, Just my legs are pumps. Get the blood out
44:25
of my legs. Back back going. So yeah, well there's three peaks
44:32
up there too. Once you get up there, there's like three peaks.
44:37
So we went to all three of them and then back. So it was
44:39
really cool. And they have all these like hand built rock structures on top
44:44
of it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's nice, really amazing.
44:49
It's kind of one of those things. I'm really really glad I did it
44:52
doing it. I'm sold definitely with the Shot Classic, getting ready to pass?
45:00
What what's the next? Do you have any plans for any more events
45:05
coming up at UM? So I'm kind of going to use this as a
45:10
limus test for what I'm actually ready for UM. I don't want to go
45:15
too hard, too fast. But there is the ninety one kilo Pro Strongman
45:21
League show in October, which is actually where I got hurt last year,
45:27
so I'm on the fence about that one. We'll see how this one goes.
45:30
I would like to do so America's Strongest Woman. I've done several years
45:37
in the past and always have come in second. So that's in Orlando in
45:42
December this year, so that's definitely on my radar as well. So we're
45:46
kind of going to see how this one goes and then and then go from
45:51
there. Obviously they haven't I haven't heard anything about any qualifying or anything for
45:57
the Arnold Pro. I don't know if that's going to be in my again
46:00
or how they're establishing that. Obviously would like my name to be thrown into
46:05
that hat. So if you're listening, please to invite you know what I'm
46:08
saying, anybody paying attention, We're throwing our flag in the air for you
46:14
pick me. That's it. I will send audition tapes, profile reels,
46:20
whatever I need to do. Um. So, yeah, those are some
46:24
things that are kind of in the hopper or on my radar. Um,
46:28
I'm just gonna kind of not committing to or I guess I shouldn't say committing.
46:32
I'm not getting my hopes up for a whole lot of things, just
46:36
because I think that got me into trouble last year going from Shaw right into
46:42
the Baltimore show. Um. So yeah, that's those are the things that
46:46
are on the radar hoping for. We'll see how that's how this one goes
46:53
from. This would be a good just would be a good a good gage
46:57
too, because like you said, the Shaw class is known for it's it's
47:01
weight and so like being able to see it and then like most of the
47:06
shows are almost athletic based, but you know they're they're still heavy, don't
47:09
get me wrong. Oh yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, I
47:15
do. Like you know, Brian does heavy, but it's a mixture of
47:20
of moving as well, like the overhead medley. Yeah, it's a lot
47:23
of weight, it's a lot of but you know, it's a lot of
47:24
reps you're going you're one for seventy five seconds, so it's not like it's
47:28
a purely static event um, And I like that. Yeah, he I
47:32
mean, the man doesn't mess around. You are You're definitely going to go
47:36
out there and you're gonna prove yourself. So yeah, that's that's I'm really
47:40
putting a lot of time and focus and as much mental prep as as physical
47:47
prep um. Like you know, we kind of touched on earlier, there's
47:51
been a lot of self doubt and darker days in this uh, in this
47:57
prep, so trying to get through and stay positive. Been doing. I've
48:01
never utilized you know, meditation and journaling and those kind of things as much
48:06
as that breath work as much as I have in these last this last pret
48:09
but really in the last couple of years. Yeah. Yeah, that that
48:13
stuff really helps. It really helps a lot. Yeah, it really does.
48:17
It prepares your mind for what you're about to do and your body at
48:21
the same time. Yeah, it's a hard spot to be in when you
48:22
can't you know, you're not You're used to being able to do so much
48:28
so often, and then you go from not being able to for whatever reason,
48:32
not being able to do those things that you're used to do. It
48:36
is a it's an interesting mental challenge when you when you're used to I mean,
48:42
that's your sanity. For me, that's like that's my outlet, right
48:45
Like I don't do it because I have to do it. I do it
48:45
because I enjoyed do it. It makes me feel better. It gets all
48:49
that like mom, frustration out, work, frustration out, all all of
48:52
the things. And so to take that away, in addition to having stress
48:59
pounded on to you, that was just not a good place for me to
49:01
be in at all. Yeah. Well, I'm really looking forward to you
49:06
tearing this up. So it's gonna be fun. I'll be I'll be cheering
49:10
for you no matter where I'm at, So it's gonna be thank you.
49:14
I appreciate that. I'm looking forward. I'll try to stay non biased.
49:21
I mean, I'm not going to complain. Oh yeah, try is the
49:28
key term. So yeah, that's it. Well, Nick, it's almost
49:31
about that at that time. You know what I'm saying, Uh, Corey,
49:35
is there anything you'd like to promote or share before we start hitting at
49:39
her? Um. You know, it's always nice to have some time to
49:44
think. The people that support me and have supported me through this whole ordeal.
49:49
Um Cerberus Strength USA has been kind of my ride or die since day
49:53
one. M and Depth Force Honor has been a great support of mine as
49:59
well. I actually just partnered up with Reach Supplements. Have you guys heard
50:05
of them? Yes, so super awesome. I've looked for a non stim
50:09
workout pre workout forever because I work out later in the day. Usually it's
50:15
like after work, five thirty six o'clock and if I take anything with caffeine
50:20
in and I'm up till three o'clock in the morning. So they actually created
50:23
a non stim pre workout that has like the neotropics and green super greens,
50:29
electrolytes and creating all in one container. And I really like it, Like
50:35
I don't know if it's just the word neutropics, but when I take it,
50:38
I feel like I'm more focused. So I actually just started working with
50:44
them back in June. I really really like their stuff, and they do
50:47
have caffeinated versions for you stimulant addicts, but they They've been awesome to work
50:54
with. I really like their stuff a lot. I'm anxious to see how
50:58
it compared, like how it compares on contest day, what capacity, And
51:02
I'm excited to take it on contest day and see what it does for me.
51:07
Um. So yeah, just a few people that you know barefoot shoes
51:12
are awesome. Um I've gotten some love from them too and some support.
51:16
So just thank you to all the people that obviously have followed the journey as
51:22
well and not you know, has have been nice, not been, not
51:27
been nasty, and keyboard warriors I always appreciate. Yeah, make deals with
51:30
a lot of those guys. Oh couple of those huge huge pet peeve of
51:37
mine, like hold, that's a whole nother. Yeah, we get that's
51:40
a whole another podcast. Yeah that is too much content? Too much?
51:47
Oh yeah, too much content? Is too much content? Well okay,
51:52
episode content for sure. Well i'll tell you what. I'm so you were
52:00
able to make it today and came on and thank you for everything and thank
52:05
you for sharing your journey. I know that's difficult and it's hard, but
52:09
you're going to help a lot of people by sharing that, and so you
52:14
really are, because people get in dark places and stuff like that. You
52:17
know, we've we've all been there, and you getting through you know this
52:23
and being a shining example of what you can do when you go with a
52:29
positive mental attitude and knowing that you're going to beat this no matter what the
52:32
cost, and you're still going to do what you love to do. And
52:36
that's really motivating for me. So thank you, really truly thank you,
52:39
no, thank you, thank you. You have been amazing through this whole
52:45
whole thing. I'm not sure there are some days I'm not sure I could
52:49
have made through as well if I didn't have your you to be your sounding
52:53
board. So I appreciate you as well, and thank you for having me
52:55
on same no problem, and it's we're doing this again as well. So
53:01
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