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ROR 130: Prison Weight Pile · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 2: This is Randall Bob. I'm currently serving one thy two
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  Speaker 2: Hope to hear from me today. I'm gonna talk about
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  Speaker 2: a topic that's uh. It seems to be extremely popular
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  Speaker 2: not just inside of prison, but outside of prison and
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  Speaker 2: that's the prison. Wait Paul, And I mean I get it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got some.
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  Speaker 2: Dudes in here that are seriously, seriously jacked. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: to me. You've got some monsters in here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: You've got some big, big, big dudes. Uh, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: one of them, sizewise, just hard wise. Now, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of misconceptions about the Wait, pol. You know, from
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  Speaker 2: things I've seen on television and in movies. H for
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  Speaker 2: things you know I've read about in books, even exercise books.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have a lot of guys that's never
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  Speaker 2: ever been in prison. You know, they're personal trainers, and
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  Speaker 2: they write about the prison. Waitpol And pretty much everything
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  Speaker 2: they say is wrong. So almost such a reconstrate today
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  Speaker 2: because I'm finally, for the first time in my life,
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  Speaker 2: in a prison that actually has to weightpoles. You know,
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  Speaker 2: people say, especially you know, the physical trainers and so
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  Speaker 2: on and so forth, it's never actually stepped foot inside
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  Speaker 2: of a prison. What they don't realize is we don't
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  Speaker 2: have the best equipped gyms in the world. We don't
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  Speaker 2: get to lift weights for you know, ten to twelve
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  Speaker 2: hours a day, every single day. That's not the way
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  Speaker 2: it works. Mainly because most of the prisons in America
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  Speaker 2: were built decades ago. You know, you have some newer prisons,
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  Speaker 2: but the new prisons don't have weight poles on. They're
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  Speaker 2: not allowing weight piles in the new prison. It's only
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  Speaker 2: the older style prisons like here in Keen Mountain. You know,
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  Speaker 2: for example a red Onion, Sussex one, Sussex two, Wallace
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  Speaker 2: Ridge River North. You know, these are the newer built
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  Speaker 2: prisons in Virginia, and not a single one of them
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  Speaker 2: has a weight pole. As a matter of fact, those
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  Speaker 2: prisons are built on a much smaller scale, and they
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  Speaker 2: do it for a particular reason. The fire code. The
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  Speaker 2: fire code in America only allows a certain amount of
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  Speaker 2: inmates on the pod flour at a time. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason why they're building these prisons smaller is so that
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  Speaker 2: they can split the tears up so that means the
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  Speaker 2: bottom tier will come out for rec for one hour
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  Speaker 2: and then they will lock down, and then the top
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  Speaker 2: tier will come out for rec for one hour, then
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  Speaker 2: they will lock down and they will ceaseaw back and
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  Speaker 2: forth like that. That allows them to keep a smaller
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  Speaker 2: number of inmates on the pod floor. And they do
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  Speaker 2: that not because of you know, the potential for fights
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that. That that that potential is the
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  Speaker 2: same whether there's two people on the floor, there's two
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  Speaker 2: hundred people on the floor. When you put prisoners together,
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  Speaker 2: eventually you're gonna fight. That's just the nature of the
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  Speaker 2: beast in here. They do it out of sheer laziness.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the correctional staff are extremely out of shape,
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  Speaker 2: extremely You have a few here there that you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're good to go. I can name a couple of them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one or two of them. Hell, even I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't want to tangle with I would, but I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to. But ninety eight percent of your prison staff
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  Speaker 2: are extremely out of shape. I'm talking about walking up
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  Speaker 2: the steps there, out of breath like they can't even
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  Speaker 2: and walk up the steps. So when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: the weightpole, that hinders us because of the fire code,
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  Speaker 2: because of the staff being so out of shape themselves,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want us lifting weights. So we don't get
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  Speaker 2: hours and hours and hours every single day to lift weights.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, you only get access to
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  Speaker 2: the weight pile three days a week for maybe, if
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  Speaker 2: you're lucky, an hour and a half to two hours
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  Speaker 2: and like that's on a great day. Usually you get
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  Speaker 2: about forty five minutes to one hour. Now, we don't
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  Speaker 2: get the best of equipment. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: you've got I think, okay, we got two weight poles.
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  Speaker 2: You got one on the lower yard, you got one
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  Speaker 2: on the small yard, and there's no weight pile on
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  Speaker 2: the upper yard. Up yard is just we call that
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  Speaker 2: to walk around yard because there's pretty much all you
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  Speaker 2: can do on that yard is walk around because there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing else on there to do. They got a volleyball
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  Speaker 2: net out there, but it's just hard packed dirt. Ain't
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  Speaker 2: nobody playing volleyball on hard packed dirt. They got to
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  Speaker 2: pull up bar. That's that's it. Other than that, you
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  Speaker 2: just you go out there and you either talk or
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  Speaker 2: you run around or do push ups or whatnot. But
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  Speaker 2: back to the waypole. On the small yard, you've got
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  Speaker 2: about ten bench presses.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Of those ten, six of them are broken. I mean
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  Speaker 2: broken to the point where you can't They're just basically
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  Speaker 2: a metal frame. They don't have no padding, no cushion.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're just they're in really bad shape. They
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  Speaker 2: don't you take care of them. And that's inmates included
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  Speaker 2: you got some inmates out there that are just you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they think if they break state stuff, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: that's hurting, you know, the administration by making them pay. Man,
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  Speaker 2: The administration ain't paying for it. These benches have been
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  Speaker 2: broken for years. I mean, they're rushed it out. The
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  Speaker 2: only the only thing that's hurting is us, the guys
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  Speaker 2: that are trying to go out there and work out.
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  Speaker 2: See right now, I'm in the position where when I
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  Speaker 2: want to go out, if I want to get a
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  Speaker 2: particular bench, or if I want to get you know,
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  Speaker 2: some particular uh weights to say, the thirties. Yesterday I
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  Speaker 2: went out to get the thirties and I couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: the dumbbells, you know, because guys that beat me out.
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  Speaker 2: Because you've got a lot of guys. When they go
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  Speaker 2: it on the rick yard, on the reck yard, they
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  Speaker 2: take off, I mean they haul and ass running down
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  Speaker 2: there just so they can get there first, because it's
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  Speaker 2: first come, first serve. You know. So far, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen anybody get there laid and you know, try to
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  Speaker 2: poke their chest down like yo, look man, I'm taking
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  Speaker 2: this mesh man get off here. You know, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen that yet. Maybe in some of the other parts.
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  Speaker 2: It just it hasn't happened in my part, in the
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  Speaker 2: other part next door, because we we're the A one
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  Speaker 2: and A two are the only two parts that work together. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: And that's just because I'm in the old man's part
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  Speaker 2: in A two is the kitchen part. So most of
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  Speaker 2: them are at work every day. Now we can't adjust
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  Speaker 2: the weights. It's all welded together. That's what. If you
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  Speaker 2: ever heard the term pig iron, it comes from prison
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  Speaker 2: because the weights are welded together. Why they call that
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  Speaker 2: pig iron, I don't know. I'm actually interested in that.
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  Speaker 2: So if somebody can find that out, shoot an email
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  Speaker 2: to uh right on your Randy dot com and let
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  Speaker 2: me know, because that I am. You know, I am
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  Speaker 2: curious to the history of that word. Why they call
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  Speaker 2: it pig iron. But that's what pig iron means. It
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  Speaker 2: means weights that are welded together. You get as I
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  Speaker 2: see crap. You got a seventy pound barbell, You got
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  Speaker 2: a ninety five pound barbell one fifteen, A one thirty five,
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  Speaker 2: A one fifty five, A ones one eighty five, You
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  Speaker 2: got a two o five, A two twenty five, A
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  Speaker 2: two seventy five and a three oh five bar bill
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  Speaker 2: and uh, that's it, and then you got you got
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  Speaker 2: a decent selection of barbells. They go from fifteens all
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  Speaker 2: the way up to one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there's this dude named Tully
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  Speaker 2: here that I'm pretty cool with. He actually helped me
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  Speaker 2: out with some knowledge and stuff when I first got here,
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  Speaker 2: when I first started lifting weights. It dude is about
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  Speaker 2: six foot three, about maybe two twenty five. He's pretty ripped.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not a huge, huge guy. He's the
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  Speaker 2: only person on this compound that I know of that's
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  Speaker 2: taking one hundred pound dumbbells and he's doing shoulder flies.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing shoulder presses. This dude is curling them. He's
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  Speaker 2: doing overhead tricep extensions with one hundred pound dumbbells. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't get the thirties, so I had to do
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  Speaker 2: thirty fives. I do thirty fives, twenty fives, and then
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  Speaker 2: twenties and I super set. So I'll super set the
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  Speaker 2: triceps extensions with ben over tricep kickbacks, and I'll do
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  Speaker 2: them with the thirty fives. I'll max out with that
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  Speaker 2: and then I'll set them down, grab the twenty fives,
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  Speaker 2: max out with them, set them down, grab the twenties
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  Speaker 2: and max out with them. And it's working for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's putting a little size on me. I was struggling
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  Speaker 2: with the thirty fives because I couldn't get the thirties.
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  Speaker 2: This dude is doing the same freaking thing on your
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  Speaker 2: pound dumbbells. And he's not seriously, Jack, He's just freaking
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  Speaker 2: strong as an offs, you know. And he's been listing
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. And you would think that he
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  Speaker 2: would be two hundred and seventy five pounds if your muscle,
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  Speaker 2: but he's not. And this is where a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that lift weights go wrong. They think strength comes
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  Speaker 2: from muscles. Your strength does not come from your muscles.
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  Speaker 2: Your strength comes from your joints and your tendons. If
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  Speaker 2: you strengthen your joints and your tendons, that's when you
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  Speaker 2: were going to get extremely strong. That's when you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do some crazy feats of strength.
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  Speaker 2: It does not come from your muscle. Your muscle is
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  Speaker 2: nothing but show. That's all your muscles are ford. It's
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  Speaker 2: just to simply look good and feel good. True genuine
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  Speaker 2: strength and power comes from joints and tendons and the
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  Speaker 2: speed you can use with that strength speed time strength
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  Speaker 2: equals power, which is one reason why I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to get too big, you know. But it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's funny, man, because you see guys out there and
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  Speaker 2: you look at him and you have this misconception of him, like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, I'd easily whoop that dude's ass, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's a dude here. They call him jew Boy.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh, he's about five foot five. He's got a
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  Speaker 2: little size to him, but he's got like a gut
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  Speaker 2: on him. He's got it. He's got a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: beer gut on him.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, just.
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  Speaker 2: Because he's so short and he's kind of fat and everything,
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  Speaker 2: you look at him and think, like, oh man, I
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  Speaker 2: dust his ass off. He bends down and grabs a
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy five pounds barbell eighty five whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, and like it's in a piece of candy,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And that's the thing I do like about
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  Speaker 2: the weights. You see these guys out there, You're like,
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  Speaker 2: you got this really really skinny guy, Like this dude
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  Speaker 2: is out there I'm like, he's extremely skinny, Like he
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  Speaker 2: makes me look big when I'm standing beside him, even
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  Speaker 2: though he's like five inches taller than I am. I
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  Speaker 2: look jacked compared to this dude. And yet he's out
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  Speaker 2: there lifting freaking wasted. I can't. I can't even look
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  Speaker 2: at them just yet. The only reason I can't build
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  Speaker 2: muscle doing klistenics purely is because I can't get the
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  Speaker 2: proper nutrition I can't eat right. If it wasn't for that,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be lifting waste right now. Now, I have
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  Speaker 2: grown to enjoy lifting weights. I definitely understand to see
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  Speaker 2: the appeal in lifting weights, because you know, when you're
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  Speaker 2: lifting let's say one hundred and fifty five, I mean
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  Speaker 2: that's one hundred and fifty five pounds of dead steel.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's just and weight that's difficult. I mean
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  Speaker 2: you see guys thinking, oh man, I can do two twenty,
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  Speaker 2: I can do this and that, and you really can't.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, I was one of them. Before I came
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  Speaker 2: down and actually lifted weights for the first time, I
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  Speaker 2: genuinely fought I could bench press to something straight out
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  Speaker 2: the gate. And the reason why I thought that is
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  Speaker 2: because at Buckingham back in two thousand. When I was there,
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  Speaker 2: they had a universal machine on the weightyard and I
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  Speaker 2: put it on two fifty, which was the max, and
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  Speaker 2: I was able to do sets of ten. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I was benching it ten times and I thought, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm doing two fifty on the machine,
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  Speaker 2: take about forty fifty pounds off. I can do two
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  Speaker 2: hundred on the steel. No. No, When I actually first
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  Speaker 2: got here, I actually struggled to do one fifteen. I
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  Speaker 2: struggled to lift one hundred and fifteen pounds barbell. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm up to one hund hundred and fifty five pounds
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  Speaker 2: and I got that four in about three quarters of
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  Speaker 2: the way up. In that last little bit, my workout
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  Speaker 2: partner had to grab it and pull it up the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the way for the fifth rep. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: know I went in two months. I went from one
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  Speaker 2: fifteen to one fifty five. Like I was getting good
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  Speaker 2: strength gains out of it. But this is the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely believe that you get much stronger doing calisthenics
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  Speaker 2: than you do lifting weights. And the reason why is this.
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  Speaker 2: If a person has never done push ups before and
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  Speaker 2: he goes and he lifts weights. You can get to
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  Speaker 2: where you're lifting three four hundred pounds and it will
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  Speaker 2: not help you do push ups. Lifting weights will not
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  Speaker 2: help you to get stronger doing calisthenics yet, calisthenics if
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  Speaker 2: you start doing push ups. And there's a guy in here,
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  Speaker 2: my workout partner named Ryan, he lifted weights and he
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  Speaker 2: would he was struggling to lift heavy, like he really
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  Speaker 2: couldn't lift a lot, and then he kind of hurt
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  Speaker 2: his shoulder, so he fell off of the weights and
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  Speaker 2: for months he just started doing push ups. After he's
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  Speaker 2: his shoulder heeled up enough to where he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: go out and shot the lift weights again. He went
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  Speaker 2: out and threw up one ninety five like it was nothing,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I'm a purist when it comes to it.
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  Speaker 1: You have one minute remaining.
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  Speaker 2: The waypole is slowly fading away in prisons, and I
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's a sad, sad thing because we're
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  Speaker 2: already stripped of pretty much every other form of anything
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  Speaker 2: to do, Like there's nothing to do in prison anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So when they when they when they eventually phased out
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  Speaker 2: all the way piles because the CEOs can't handle us anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Because We're out there lit, thin and getting stronger and
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  Speaker 2: bigger and in better shape. The frustration level is just
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  Speaker 2: going to go through the roof. There's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a lot more violence. I hope this clears up you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the knowledge on the wait pole and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for listening to me today.
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