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Unleashing Strength & Wisdom: Powerlifting Legend Chad Aichs and Nick Best Dive Deep · The Best Experience

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  Speaker 1: We are live.
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  Speaker 2: We're live, all right, Grizzly Adams are Ben? Is it
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  Speaker 2: the bear?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm Ben, and this is in you.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 3: So for abab of you don't know. This is Chadachs,
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  Speaker 3: one amazing powerlifter. The guys squatted over eleven hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 3: like eleven seventy three I.
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  Speaker 2: Think, yeah, it was my official.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then bench like eight twenty three. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: eight twenty one. And then uh pulled seven to fifty
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  Speaker 3: five in the deadlift.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was not my best lift, but I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did pull that seven fifty five with a torn hamstring.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, no, that's still so to hit those kind
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  Speaker 3: of numbers is absolutely like unfathomable for pretty much most
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  Speaker 3: of the populations. So yeah, it's neat to have Chad here.
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  Speaker 3: Chad has written a book and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about that too. But before we get started with Chad,
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  Speaker 3: Ben's gonna take off with the opening stuff and then
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  Speaker 3: I'll we'll get into thanking and questions and then get
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  Speaker 3: into that. I was just kind of letting you guys
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  Speaker 3: know what is coming exactly. We're gonna hear some stories
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  Speaker 3: from Chad, and then we're gonna hear what it's like
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  Speaker 3: to have eleven and seventy three pounds on your back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everyone that's tuning in now, thank you for joining
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  Speaker 1: the patreon. You know this episode will come out the
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  Speaker 1: next day. But as members of the Patreon, they actually
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  Speaker 1: get to ask Nick questions. They send them in and
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  Speaker 1: we picked the ones that we like and we put
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  Speaker 1: them out, and you know what, we appreciate it also
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  Speaker 1: to one of the things that we like to do
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  Speaker 1: is thank new members that have just joined, and we
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so, Ariel Gang, thank you very much. Tang Chang,
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  Speaker 3: hope I didn't butcher that too bad. Thank you very much. Ling,
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  Speaker 3: thank you very much, humble leaner, excuse me, humble learner. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good today. Thank you very much. And the
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  Speaker 3: first question is cretin is currently popular does it significantly
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  Speaker 3: help improve And we can ask Chad on this too,
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  Speaker 3: because Chad knows a lot about lifting and muscle and
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  Speaker 3: everything else. Does it helps significantly improve muscle strength? If
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  Speaker 3: somebody already regularly consumes way protein, is there still a
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  Speaker 3: need for to supplement with creatine? Does creating and alpha
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  Speaker 3: brain recommended by Joe Rogan provide any brain benefits for
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  Speaker 3: dementia prevention or adolescence preparing for exams. Thank you very much. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: creating is pretty simple. It works great. You get a
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  Speaker 3: dose of creatine in about every three pounds of muscle
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  Speaker 3: or three pounds of meat that you eat. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you do not eat red meat, let me say that again,
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  Speaker 3: if you do not eat red meat, creatine is a
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  Speaker 3: must in your diet, especially for your own muscle growth.
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  Speaker 3: It will just it'll make a massive difference, It really will.
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  Speaker 3: You will grow in a way that you didn't think
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  Speaker 3: was possible, and it's and it's stuff that you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna work for you, and stuff like that. You
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  Speaker 3: will retain a little bit of water, so drink a
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  Speaker 3: lot more water to help flesh it, because the answer
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  Speaker 3: to drinking, to having too much water is to drink
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  Speaker 3: more water. And you can go ahead and still have
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  Speaker 3: salt and everything else like that. Salt will if you
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  Speaker 3: eat high levels of salt, that will level off in
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  Speaker 3: a week ish and then your body will kick out
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  Speaker 3: all that extra water after a week. Is that about
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  Speaker 3: what you experienced? Chad as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would, I would. I would say that's pretty
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  Speaker 2: much true.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Creating is kind of an interesting thing because you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been around for a long time, and there was
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  Speaker 2: there was a there was a big popularity of creatine
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  Speaker 2: in like the late nineties, early two thousand and then
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  Speaker 2: again Yeah, and that was back again. I mean, do
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  Speaker 2: you I I used to have I think it was
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  Speaker 2: the ATP and it was like a serum with a
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  Speaker 2: dropper and you stuck it under your tongue right before
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  Speaker 2: you train. I actually really like that stuff. And then
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  Speaker 2: recently there's a lot of studies saying how creatine, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't lift weights, you should take creating. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: I believe like some of the brain dimension those kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things that said it's really good for.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's proven for women now the research for women.
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  Speaker 1: My wife has taken creating on a regular basis now
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  Speaker 1: because of the health benefits for for just cognitive function
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  Speaker 1: for women. It's shown that like the increase of it
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  Speaker 1: is dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I think, like Nick said, the one
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  Speaker 2: thing people forget about is making sure we should Most
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  Speaker 2: people don't high great enough anyway. Yeah, but if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do creatine, get the most you can out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, personally for me, you know, I'm building my barn dominium.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the longest I went without lifting weights
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  Speaker 2: in my entire life, and so I pretty much went
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  Speaker 2: off all my supplements. You know, I'm worried about electric
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  Speaker 2: and plumbing and doing all this stuff. And so now
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  Speaker 2: I'm back. I'm back lifting weights, and I'm holding off
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  Speaker 2: of the creatine for a few more weeks because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: let's build back, get my base in and then get
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  Speaker 2: that little bump from the creatine. And I'm actually kind
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  Speaker 2: of excited to get back on it again right now.
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  Speaker 3: That being said, if you have kidney issues, do not
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  Speaker 3: take creatine. Uh me, I eat about two pounds of
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  Speaker 3: red meat so every day, So that's that. That's good
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  Speaker 3: for me. Yeah, I'm getting it. Naturally, I cannot take
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  Speaker 3: a lot of creating because creating is hard. If you
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  Speaker 3: have healthy kidneys, it's great, there's not a problem. I
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  Speaker 3: have one kidney because I had kidney cancer and had
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  Speaker 3: a kidney removed, and it will your high curtain level
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  Speaker 3: will mess up your globular or filtration rate of your kidney.
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  Speaker 3: So you you want to keep your curtain levels in
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  Speaker 3: check and into acceptable amounts, which is like a like
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  Speaker 3: one point oh to one point three, So you do
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  Speaker 3: not want to increase that level if you have kidney problems.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, you're totally fine. I just want to
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  Speaker 3: make that I.
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  Speaker 1: Want to tell a quick story about creatine when and
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  Speaker 1: like I said, creatine, like just like in the nineties
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  Speaker 1: got popular and I was in middle school transferring to
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  Speaker 1: high school, and uh, the guy at G and C
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  Speaker 1: would sell us baggies of creatine, which is like he
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  Speaker 1: would tell because you cannot tell nobody, I'm selling you
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  Speaker 1: this because that's how it was treated back then, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, scooping Like you know, we're just
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  Speaker 1: putting in water and drinking it and then working out
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  Speaker 1: so hard. But at the same time, it was like
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  Speaker 1: I look back, I'm like, I can't believe that we
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  Speaker 1: were doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's there's all there's all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: This could take a right turn down to a whole
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  Speaker 3: there's a whole bunch of stuff that came out in
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  Speaker 3: the eighties and nineties that oh yeah, people don't realize.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Bill Cosby was real familiar with one of those,
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  Speaker 3: because that's when GHB came out, by the way, yep, and.
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  Speaker 2: Back then you can buy it. You could buy it
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  Speaker 2: at G and C.
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  Speaker 3: You could buy it a GNC, you could buy it anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: And the stuff really did work to increase your HGH levels.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is is it knocks you out and makes
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  Speaker 3: you almost unconscious, and people were taking that at the
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  Speaker 3: gym and passing out and trying to drive home and
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  Speaker 3: crashing their cars, which is why it became so quickly illegal.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I have my background with sleepash and
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  Speaker 2: I have narcolepsi, and they recently over the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. It's called zerum is the uh the brand name,
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  Speaker 2: and basically it's g HB, and they found it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work for me. But they found out with the narcoleptics,
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  Speaker 2: we don't get deep sleep. When they found out it
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  Speaker 2: helps people get it's even helping narcoleptics get deep sleep.
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  Speaker 2: So they basically they took a street drug and charged
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars for that.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds about right for the front companies.
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  Speaker 2: Exacts sense exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But yeah, so cretin is a great thing. The
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  Speaker 3: alpha brain also great awesomes. It just it's really going
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  Speaker 3: to help for kids taking tests and you know when
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  Speaker 3: you need to focus on things and and like be
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  Speaker 3: able to regurgitate things very fast. Alpha brain will definitely
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  Speaker 3: help I have personally, it helps a lot with mental
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  Speaker 3: clarity and with the concussions that I've had it it
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  Speaker 3: has greatly helped a lot with some of the side
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  Speaker 3: effects from that.
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  Speaker 2: I just have to think, if it does help with
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  Speaker 2: that clarity, it's got to be doing something. I would
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  Speaker 2: think it would be doing something positive for the health
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  Speaker 2: of your brain as.
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  Speaker 3: Well, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And I used to use it for the pre workout too,
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  Speaker 1: because like the I'd be so locked in on what
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  Speaker 1: I was doing, I'd be concentrating up even more when
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  Speaker 1: I would at least that's how I used to use it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, because I.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't really care for pre workout, but that right there
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  Speaker 1: the clarity, because I could see the line of my training,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how I used to use it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you actually went down a big rabbit hole right there.
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  Speaker 2: I think one of the big problems with training is
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  Speaker 2: people just kind of do it and they don't have
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  Speaker 2: the intent, they don't have that focus, they don't have
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  Speaker 2: that visualization, that mind muscle connection. So I mean what
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  Speaker 2: you're telling me, I'm like, hey, that's one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: That seems genius.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to help a lot with those things.
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  Speaker 3: And it also the intensity. I mean, really, when you're
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  Speaker 3: working out and you're kind of training things that are
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  Speaker 3: cart of asklar if you're if you're doing Medley's and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that, or if you're on a piece of
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  Speaker 3: equipment riding a bike or riding a Steingmaster an elliptical,
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  Speaker 3: if you can turn and have a conversation with somebody,
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  Speaker 3: you're not really doing anything you need to be doing things.
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  Speaker 3: If somebody comes up and asks you a question and
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  Speaker 3: you're training cardiovascular you know, exercise in any way, shape
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  Speaker 3: or form, and you can give anything more than a
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  Speaker 3: yeah no, almost like, don't bother me until I'm done
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  Speaker 3: with this. You're not doing it to the intensity level.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna greatly improve your health. Work into it slowly.
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  Speaker 3: Don't just go from you know, just kind of going
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  Speaker 3: through the motions to like world class athlete, you know,
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  Speaker 3: going to you're gonna drop, you know, getting your heart
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  Speaker 3: rate up to like two hundred. Don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm gonna start running. I think I'll do twenty
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  Speaker 2: miles tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, don't do that. Yeah. It's so it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those things where you kind of work your
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  Speaker 3: way up to it, but the intensity level when you're
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  Speaker 3: doing it, once you get really good into it, you're
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  Speaker 3: about four or five months into it. If you're not
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  Speaker 3: going at a pace where you can give anything more
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  Speaker 3: than a one word answer, you're you're not getting the
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  Speaker 3: health benefits. And you don't have to do this for hours.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're doing it for health benefits, it's
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  Speaker 3: like fifteen minutes. You know, start with five. Start it's
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  Speaker 3: starting with three to where you're going at an intensity
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  Speaker 3: level that's uncomfortable for you, not not like miserable, but uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 3: and then you'll get to where you can you'll start
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  Speaker 3: playing games with yourself. I can push it a little
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  Speaker 3: bit harder ten you know, twenty more seconds isn't going
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  Speaker 3: to be the end of the world. I can do
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  Speaker 3: this type of thing, you know. I do that when
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  Speaker 3: I'm stretching. I get into a really uncomfortable position where
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  Speaker 3: I'm stretching and I'm like, all right, come on, Nick,
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  Speaker 3: another minute is not going to be the end of
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  Speaker 3: the world. Just stay in here. You need to ability,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's gonna be okay. So it's the
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  Speaker 3: same type of thing. I mean, it's you gradually raise
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  Speaker 3: the intensity and you challenge yourself over and over and
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  Speaker 3: over again. But it's not all at once. So okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's not Oh yeah, that's a second question.
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  Speaker 3: All right, second question, what advice do you have with
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  Speaker 3: people with gout to help manage their condition. Exercise is
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be very good for that. Diet is also
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be very good for.
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  Speaker 2: That, very key, right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there's some things you should not be doing now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, really fatty meats, stuff like that you should
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  Speaker 3: not be doing. I know, drinking alcohol is not a
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  Speaker 3: good thing for gout. Anything that's going to create inflammation
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  Speaker 3: is going to be bad for you with gout. So
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  Speaker 3: they have a lot of any inflammatories. But the thing
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  Speaker 3: with any inflammatories is those are hard on the kidneys.
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  Speaker 3: So I would definitely find any way possible to get
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  Speaker 3: rid of the inflammation as best you can, Like look
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  Speaker 3: at ice bath, you know, stuff like that that that
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  Speaker 3: should help with that. And then diet's going to be key.
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  Speaker 3: Finding out what and it's some of it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be experimenting something. It's going to be reading the literature,
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  Speaker 3: but which you should read the literature and then experiment
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  Speaker 3: for yourself find out what works for you. Most people
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  Speaker 3: do not do that properly. Don't just go okay, well
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  Speaker 3: this is this, you know, find out what it is,
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  Speaker 3: see what works, see what doesn't work. Jettison the stuff
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't work, keep the stuff that does, and experiment
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  Speaker 3: around a little bit. And it should help with your gout,
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  Speaker 3: It should help with your whole life, to be quite
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  Speaker 3: honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought, I have a client, client and friend Mark,
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  Speaker 2: he's seventy and he struggles with gout. And yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: went like kind of got to stay away from the
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  Speaker 2: red meat, you know, cherry juice seemed to help him.
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  Speaker 3: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's like Nick said, we kind of went, hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's do some research, see what people like, what don't like,
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  Speaker 2: and don't go, oh, this is what they said, it's
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  Speaker 2: what it is. Try and see if it works. If
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  Speaker 2: it works for you, keep it. If it doesn't, move
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  Speaker 2: on to something else. And the biggest thing is inflammation.
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  Speaker 2: Anything you're doing that causes inflammation is going to make
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  Speaker 2: it worse. And unfortunately in life sometimes stuff happens. So
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  Speaker 2: he can be doing everything right and sometimes it comes up.
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  Speaker 2: But I guarantee that if he was doing things right,
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  Speaker 2: it would not last as long he would get Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so we'll be eating a whole bunch of food
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  Speaker 1: that causes gaut flare up. But I do not have gown,
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  Speaker 1: so no one needs to work. I'm going to a
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  Speaker 1: craft feed on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So you like barbecues on the to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So question three, should we practice deep breathing consciously in
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  Speaker 3: our daily lives? I mean in daily not in training.
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  Speaker 3: Unconscious breathing is actually quite child. Yeah. Yeah, take ten
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  Speaker 3: to fifteen minutes a day and breathe deep. You gonna
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  Speaker 3: get more oxygen to your to your brain, You get
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  Speaker 3: to feel better, and it's it's something you should practice
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  Speaker 3: it by all means. It's gonna help oxygen in helps
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  Speaker 3: the body all the way around, It helps it heal.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's yes, practice that.
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  Speaker 2: What I think. And this this we can talk about
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  Speaker 2: it a little later, but it kind of goes into
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  Speaker 2: part of my book. It's not just the oxygen, the
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  Speaker 2: deep breathing actually puts you in more of a parasympathetic state, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and almost the effect of meditation. Yeah, if you feel
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  Speaker 2: yourself getting worked up, if you're getting emotional, you can
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  Speaker 2: stop and take ten deep breaths and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have this little wave that brings everything down. And
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  Speaker 2: if you're an athlete and you're trying to train hard,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in sympathetic all day long, you're not recovering like.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be in parasympathetic as much as you can,
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  Speaker 2: and deep breathing is one way to help learn to
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  Speaker 2: control those emotions and feelings and keep yourself in that
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  Speaker 2: nice state of recovery.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, too.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I've done, and I've done this
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of clients, especially people that train later
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  Speaker 2: in the day, like I Usually i'll train itt like
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  Speaker 2: five or six at night. Sometimes later if after my
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  Speaker 2: training session, I'll lay down on the floor, put my
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  Speaker 2: feet up on the bench, set my clock for like
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes, and I will just practice deep belly breathing, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: to get my body out of that state as soon
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  Speaker 2: as possible, down into parasympathetics so that it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be much easier for me to try to sleep that
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  Speaker 2: night and to go home and be calm and relax
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  Speaker 2: to get to get that rest that I need.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of people do not breathe with their
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  Speaker 1: whole lung The only breathe with the top part. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what keeps them in that sympathetic mode.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, one of the techniques that I
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  Speaker 1: learned through you know, all the stuff that I've gone through,
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  Speaker 1: I learned how to make sure I pushed the air
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  Speaker 1: into that bottom part of my diaphragm and into the
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  Speaker 1: bottom part of the lungs, and I like myself I
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  Speaker 1: practice I do dragon breathing before I go to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and it clears my sinuses, calms me down, opens it up.
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  Speaker 2: So even when I kind of sleep with a sea path.
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  Speaker 2: So as soon as I put that on, I read.
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  Speaker 2: I read a case a long time ago, and I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember the doctor's name, but she had a young,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: a young lady tons of anxiety, high stress, and the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: first time she met her, she noticed she like takes
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the shallow breast and it was all it was all
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: in the chest. And so she finally taught her to
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: to belly breathe and like you, Yeah, drop the diaphragm
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: down and fill the lines up. Yep, And within a
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks her anxiety was almost completely gone.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So breathing does have a massive impact just on
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: your your whole mental outlook as well your body everything.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: It makes a it's a good stress reliever, it's good
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: for meditation, it's good for making your body recover. Yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: it's It's absolutely something you should be doing. All right.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: The next the last part of this question. Does flexibility
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: have a significant impact on people's health and physical fitness?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Should we improve our flexibility? Yeah? It has a massive people.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: The more flexibility you have, the more you stay in motion,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: the more range emotion that you have and you can
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: move through that, the easier aging is going to be
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: on you and everything, literally everything that you do. Y Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: It's is definitely one of the key things throughout my
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: whole career. And I'm fifty four or fifty five now,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I don't have shoulder shoulder issues, I don't have back issues,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I don't have hip issues. And I attribute a lot
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: of that to the fact that people made fun of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: me because I could damn near do the splits at
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: almost four hundred pounds, and so I was able to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: maintain better positions throughout my list. I was able to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: keep my joints healthier. If you're if your joint is
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: not mobile like it's supposed to be, every time you
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: move it, it's grinding and tearing things up that are
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: supposed to move smoothly. Not to mention a lot of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: people that have problems with knotted up or tense muscles.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I know it's that. I know there's there's tons of
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: great stuff. I love Donnie Thompson's tempering things, I love
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: magnesium gel. But stretching is also another amazing way to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: relax your muscles and get them to completely relax. And
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it's funny because I have friends who like kind of
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: bodybuilder guys and now like grab him on the shoulder
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, dude, relax your traps. Dude, you don't
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: have to act pumped all the time. And you're like, no, im,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, dude, your fucking trap is like a
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: rock man and yeah cool, And I'm like, no, dude, no,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: it's your muscle is not recovering. It's not supposed to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: be like that, right, I mean if you walk up
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: and grab Ronnie Coleman when he's flexed, it's it's supple,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: it's a muscle like, Yes, that's the way it's supposed.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: To be, when he's just sitting there relaxed. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: So flexibility is it's the key to everything, between deep
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: breathing and flexibility. I mean deep breathing you should be doing,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: you know, ten fifteen minutes a day flexibility wise, stretching,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: if you can start at fifteen minutes and eventually work
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: up to like half an hour forty five minutes, it's
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be optimal. And yeah, it's gonna eat some time.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: You have to make time, you really do. It's just
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: saying thing for training, you have to make time. But
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: if you train for an hour and breed deep and
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: stretch for another half hour, when you're done, it's an
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: hour half out of your day. But as you get older,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to keep doing all those things
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: you could when you were younger because of these things,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: and that's going to make the quality of your life better.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: And that's pretty much the goal of why we train
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and why we do everything. And so as we age,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: we can keep doing everything we did when we were young.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: That's it, and the quality of our lives better. We
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: can play with our grandkids when we have them. We
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: can play with play with our children when we have them,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: you know, so it makes it makes a massive difference.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: We can still ride BMX bikes.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Correct correct or go, roller relating, you ice skating, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Yeah, it's there's lots of climb like
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: climbing to the climbing to the top of fef in Norway.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: You know. That's that's still do it and still get
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: out there and go and it's it's fun. It's it's
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: hard to chase Haga. But Ed Cohen's wife if you
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: don't know who he is, it's Ed's wife and she's
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: from Norway, and man, that that woman.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Is like that she's that's like her stopping around.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, she's all over the place. But
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: it's so much fun. She's amazing. It's amazing too, So
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: it's kind of meat.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: He definitely is. He's one of my favorite lifters.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a very dear friend. So yeah, he's couldn't
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: be blessed enough to have those people in my life.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: So it's it's awesome, great friends. But so Chad tell me,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: let's start start with let's let's go with more about
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Chad and uh, we'll start with Uh. So I'm gonna
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: make you talk about I'm gonna make you talk about yourself.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Speaking of great friends, I call Nika and and we've
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: known each other for a long time, but we don't
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: really get to spend a lot of time together.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I call Nick up and I'm like, hey, man, I
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: finished my book. You know, I'm trying to promote it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Liked you know, cause you hook me up with Brian.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Can I be on your podcast? And You're like, how
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: seven o'clock And I'm like like tonight. You're like, yeah, dude,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: let's go. And I just came home and I was
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: talking to my parents and I'm like and they're like
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Nick best and I go yeah, and they're like wow.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, he's such a great dude, man. I go.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: The fact that he's strong and that you've like detest
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of time, like you've been consistent for so long, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: that that is, to me is so impressive. But it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: still just the fact that you're you're a good dude.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: That means more to me than anything, just just I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: was just thinking about that I wrung up with you,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, what a cool son of a bitch
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: that guy is, Well, thank you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Like can I yeah, no, probably I got a I
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: don't call immediately like send him up.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And I was like all right, I'm like can you
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: do this? And he's like, yeah, let's go. I'm like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: all right, here we go.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So here we are so funny.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Man, It's good stuff, but it's it's neat and know
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you deal a lot with mental health and things like
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: that and it's important and your book is I'm looking
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: forward to reading it. I really am. I just let's
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: let's hear about the book that you wrote and why
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: you wrote it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So the book is called Fight for Your Greatness and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: it's twelve principles to help achieve your goals and create
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a more harmonious life, which is kind of a weird title,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: but that kind of says it to me. And I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: was actually driving down to Prempt to visit my parents
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and I was thinking, you know, I really, man, writing
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: a book sounds enormously taxing to me, like that that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: was something that It's like, dude, that's me writing a book.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Are you shit me how.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Exactly it is?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And so I kind of decided, I'm like, well, wait
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: a minute, what do you want to write about?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: And I remember before when I was competing at the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: top and I was sitting in the warm up room
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and I'm looking around and I'm like, dude, these are
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: like twenty the strongest power lifters in the world. Like
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: this is the top of the top right here, man.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And so I have like this blue collar, scientific kind
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of brain, and I start going, what's the common ground?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I know, he trains like this, he
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: trains like this, he's like this, and I'm like, it's
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: all different. So like I keep going through it and
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like, go back, go back to the board, what's
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the common ground? And it came up that it was mentality.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I've known guys that train to me
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: based on like, you know, we have the bro science.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Now are the guys that are really science? I got
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: there's guys that train and you're like you do what,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Like how are your sessions? Like this is against everything?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: But you're one of the greatest letters in the world.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And so I think we don't talk enough about mentality
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: and then kind of like we were speaking about earlier,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: guys go, well, I'm in the gym, and they focused
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: on the gym, and it's like, dude, even if you
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: train a lot, you're in the gym eight hours a week,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: maybe how much time are you outside the gym. It's
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: a whole lot more. But they don't look at the
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: mentality of what it is outside the gym. And you
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: if you correct your life and your life is better
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: and your mentality is better, and you can control that
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: state of parasympathetic and sympathetic, you're going to recover better.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: That's going to make your training sessions better. That's going
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: to make you better. You're gonna be more apt. You're
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: not gonna go I need motivation. Well, if you need motivation,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: there's something mentally that needs to be fixed. I don't
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: ever remember needing motivation to go train. And so I'm
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: thinking about this and I'm like, I want to write
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a book. I just I want to do something positive
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: for the world. And then I'm looking at everything going
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: on in society today and I'm like, wow, man, people
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: are leaning into their emotions. They're getting all upset, they're
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: not thinking, and I just started coming up with these principles,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and you know, I've studied. I tell Peo, it's not
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I wish I could say there was my ideas in
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: this book, but I can't verify that any of them
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: are actually just my idea because I took stuff from Stoics,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I took stuff from Christianity, I took stuff from Buddhism,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: and that was very similar to what I did in training.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I liked conjugate, so I did conjugate. But I would
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: talk to Ed Cohen and I'm like, oh my god,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: that's genius. Like what he just said is I have
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: to figure out how to incorporate that, you know, or
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: talk to Steve Goggins and I'm like, oh my god,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I got it, Like that makes sense. That totally makes sense,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: and before you know it, you kind of have a
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: blend of your own thing. And so I thought, I
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: want to try to write a book and keep it simple.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's I think we ended up two hundred
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: and fifty pages, okay, so that people can can sit
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: down and read it and go, Okay, this is like
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: blue collar Chad's going, here's what he thinks, Here's why
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: he thinks that here's the experience he went through. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: just like the idea of the book for me is
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: to get people to kind of open their mind and
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: start thinking about, hey, maybe I need to maybe I
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: need to do these things, and maybe keep that keep
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: that paperback book somewhere close where every now and they
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: can go, you know what, I'm letting my emotions flip out,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: let me go read that chapter again and kind of
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: because because I didn't, it didn't happen to me overnight.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: It happened over years. And I described in the book
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: one part about when I started studying communication and they said,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: you're in charge of your emotions, and my blaster dust
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: brain went, no, I'm not. I went to the most
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: extreme example. I go, somebody comes up and punches me
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: in the face. That son of a bitch pissed me off,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: and it's his fault. And it took me a long
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: time to realize, No, he didn't piss you off. He
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: punched you in face. Done, that's it, that's what he did.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: You chose to be pissed off. You could have been scared,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: you could have been confused, you could have handled it
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: any number of different ways. And if and if that
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: same guy punched ten different people. They probably all would
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: have reacted differently too. I'm not saying that guy doesn't
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: deserve something back, but I mean take responsibility for your feelings.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And I mean it took me a while for that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: to really sink in. And then I started, you know,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I kind of went, hey, I gotta train this. I'm
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: gonna train this like I trained my bench press or
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: my deadlift. And I remember somebody cut me off. Somebody
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: had cut me off in a way to worry, and
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you, stupid dude, Hey, wait a minute, chat.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Do you really want to be pissed off all day? No?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I don't. I was in a good mood. I want
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: to be in a good mood. Well, he didn't piss
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: me off. He cut me off, he didn't piss me off.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Right then, at some point I went, wait a minute,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: if I spend the rest of my day pissed, I
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: gave him control over me. I gave him power over me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: And that set me off because I'm a little bit
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: of a control break, Like, no, no, you're not pissing
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: me off all day, buddy, not having it. So I
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: kind of I kind of tried in the book, I
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: try to explain how I tweak things to make myself
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: understand it and how to work through it and go listen,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: we really have a tremendous amount of power that we
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: don't even recognize. Oh boy, I mean, I don't know
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: how far you want to go down the quantum the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: quantum rabbit hole, but you know, like the matrix and everything.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: But like, listen, there's life. There's an exterior life, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: we have to deal with it. It's out there, but
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: we always have the choice of how we want to
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: see it and react to it. Yes, that means we
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: always have power. And even when you come back, you
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: take this, you take these same principles. And what I
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: did is I learned these principles and lifting and under
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the bar, and then I took them into life, where
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you know, if I bombed out of the meat, I went, okay,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I can get upset, I can get
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: pissed off. I've literally done to me, didn't do what
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I want start my training in the warm up room
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: before they clean it up, which is completely stupid. But
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I let myself get emotional and dumb, right, and they're
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: kind to clean it up, and I'm like, bullshit, I
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: got two more sets, man, and but I eventually learned like, hey, okay,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I'm human. I made a mistake. I don't need to
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: relive it. I don't need to keep reliving those emotions.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: But what can I learn from it? And if I
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: learned something, if I learned something from it, then that
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: experience was valuable. And that's and that's what's important. It's
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: not important whether you make the mistake or not. It's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: important when you learn and then and then you go listen,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I'm releasing all emotions to that experience because it was good.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: And now I'm gonna take what I learned and the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: next meet, I'm gonna do better. Right, And there's no
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: getting pissed off, there's no getting upset. And I made
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: a video today, I haven't posted it yet where I
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: started working on my clients, my own like clients, and
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: my computer just went KABLUEI And so I did what
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I could do. I took it apart and took my
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: SSD card out and put it back in and couldn't
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: get it to work. So eventually I went on, I
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: need to try to say what's on here? So I'm
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: gonna take it to somebody that does more than me.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: And after I dropped it off, I'm driving home and
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I started laughing because I went, man, Chad, you changed
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: a lot. What do you think you would have done
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: if you were twenty and that happened? And I'm pretty
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: sure I would have headbutted that thing a bunch of times,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: took it outside and shot it. What good would that
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: have done me? It might have made me feel a
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: little better for a few seconds. Yeah, And so I
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: just went, Okay, this here, this computer doing this, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I literally thought, this, this computer doing this is a
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: training day for me. This is gonna train I'm gonna
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: can't train my brain and my emotions and feelings to
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be stronger today, instead of getting upset, instead of getting frustrated,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: instead of getting worried, because why would I get worried.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know the future. I don't know what's going
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: to happen, So why get worried. Here's the present situation.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: My computer's not doing what it's supposed to do. Okay,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: let's take it to somebody and see what they say.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Turns out I need a new SSD card. But he
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: thinks he's going to be able to save the information.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So I'm out of I'm out some money, but the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: information is going to be saved. It's not a big deal,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you know. I went back home and sat on my
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: new patio looking out at the desert in the mountains,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: and I thought, Man, the world's beautiful. Whether my computer
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: did that or not, the world's beautiful. This is amazing,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: And it's a it's all the mindset, and I think
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I think we forget that, and I think today's society
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: we push people into reacting to the external world instead
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: of seeing the power that we have over the external world.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think a lot of social media is designed
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: to divert attention and to cause conflict. Yes, absolutely cause conflict.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: I mean yes, they go put things in people's feeds
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: that is completely different from them, even though they don't
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: follow them. You're supposed to choose who you follow on
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: social media, and those are supposed supposed to be the
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: things in your feed, And then a little bit of
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: new things get thrown in and the majority of stuff
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: is like new things that you don't follow, and it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: just bad thing after bad thing trying to get you
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: to react and cause fights with each other online. They're
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: trying to cause mental chaos with everyone, mental exhaustion to everyone.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And if you control the way Chad's talking about, you're
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: not going to have those problems anymore. You'll look at
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: it and go, Okay, well here's what we know, and
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm sorry you're this emotionally involved in this,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: but here are the facts, and here's what I know.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: If you're going to choose to comment at that point,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: when you realize that you might not even choose to
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: comment it, you might just block the person so they
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: it can't be boosted or ever put back into your
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: feed again, causing you stress. So that I mean, that's
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: one of the things I will do. And at some
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: point Instagram is going to figure that out that you know,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I click on my fee because I mean, you make
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: money from social media, you have to go on social media.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, if you're going.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: To make money from it, you have to be on it.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: And you know, if if all this stuff keeps coming
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: in that you don't follow, that you don't like, at
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: some point, Instagram is going to start looking and going,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: oh these and if you start blocking that so it's
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: like I don't want to see this, block, block, block,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Eventually it's going to stop coming in.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a really it's a really interesting conundrum.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: And and like I remember when I I never really
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: officially retired, but I kind of knew, Listen, I got
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: to take care of my mental health and probably not
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: going to compete for a while. And somebody actually asked me.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: They go, oh, man, isn't life so much easier now
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: that you're not competing? And I went, no, life's harder now.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I go, I'm focused on bills and I and I
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: took that and thought about that for a couple of days,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: and it made me remember Arnold Schwarzinger and Puppy Iron
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: when you go, somebody can steal my car, I'm gonna
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: call my insurance and tell them about it. But I'm not.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I can't get upset about that. I have a competition
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: coming up. And so I really took that the heart.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: When I was lifting, I was like, I can't react
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to this stuff because it's affecting my lifting. And then
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: when I kind of stopped, I stopped doing that and
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I started letting the external world in and I went,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: holy shit, chad ding ding ding, the light's going on, brother,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: You're messing up. And that was kind of my thing
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to wake up and start researching more and looking more
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: into it and going, wait a minute, I like I
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: have control of this. And it's you see it all
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: over the world. You see kids that live in these
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: horrible areas in these other countries and they're happier than
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: kids here that have everything. Yes, that's they choose it.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: They choose that, correct. And if you do have goals
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and you do have a sport, if you know, like
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, even with the mental health and
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: depression and stuff, people would be surprised if they got
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: more sleep, if they did some stretching, if they did
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: some training and focus their day on those things. It's
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: going to relieve a lot of that. Even if you
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: have extreme symptoms, you're going to be way better.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: And then learning and then like you said, learning to go, Hey,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I don't need to get on this social media. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: don't need to listen to this and and and and
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: then train it like you train your body. M if
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: you if you if you save my instance example, if
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: the first time somebody cuts you off and you're like
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: you stupid son of a bitch, and it takes you
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: like thirty minutes to go whoa, wait a minute, I'm
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: wired and pissed off, and I don't want to be
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe the next time it takes you nineteen minutes, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: the next time it takes you eighteen minutes, and you
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: just keep building that resilience in yourself to where somebody
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: can come up to you and go, dude, you're a
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: piece of shit and you and I take the line
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: from the dude, well, that's like your opinion, man, I
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: don't really care.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Thanks for your opinion, Yeah, day, good luck to you.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Oh better.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And like in the book, I go through all these
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: things like like loving yourself, which I think I hear
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. I don't want to be a narcissist,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Like narcissists don't love themselves, no fucked up man. Like,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: so loving yourself and building yourself up and taking care
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: of yourself is the best thing you can do if
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: you have people around you that you love and care about.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: And so I think there's a lot of people that
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: are afraid to love themselves. And I even go into
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: the book there was a lot of time in my life.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I ever hated myself, but I
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: admit there's times where I kind of would tell people
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I love myself, but I didn't really love my I
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: didn't hate myself, but I didn't love myself. And that
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: was something it took me a long time to work out.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: And I kind of talk about that in the book
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean, just like not following other people,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: kind of like we were talking about earlier. I was
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: kind of chuckling because, like, yeah, just because everybody says
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: this is what you do for gout, we're all still
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: a little bit different, yes, And I remember I had
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Lee Roy Walker on my podcast and we were, you know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: he's insanely strong. We were talking about it, and he's like,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: one of the best things that ever happened to me
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: is when I got to the point where I said,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I don't care. I know it works for me. I
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: don't care what you people do. And I'm paraphrasing, of course,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think he actually said it that way, but
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I remember totally agreeing with that, and like, there is
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: a point and like I said, with the mentality of
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: all those guys, they all did different shit, but they
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: had the mentality that right, and they did what they
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: needed to do and they did second guess you could
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: come up and go, oh, that's bullshit. You shouldn't train
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: like that. Well, then beat me.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Right, right. I literally just I just kind of laughed
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: because what's the that's not the best deadlift technique. I'm like,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: for me, it is, That's all that mattered. I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: I pulled sumo one time, and you know, my best
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: pull sumo was like seven twenty seven. My best pull
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: conventional in a straw man contest is nine oh three.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big difference.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: That's a big difference. So the technique works for me,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: and I didn't get hurt doing it. Yeah, So that's
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: that's It's the technique that works for you, is that
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: the technique you can lift the most of that getting hurt,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: plain and simple. And my technique is very very different
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: from most people's. Yeah. So, I mean because my my
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: my feet are in real close, my knees bow out,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: and then my hands are really wide. Most people do that,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: their hands are really narrow. Mine are actually really wide.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: But it works for me, and it works great for me,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: and if people can benefit from it, great, and if
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: you don't, that's also great. But I also know not
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: everybody's the same. I don't say do my technique, I
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: say if you're built like me, give this a try.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: And but the goal is to experiment and find that
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: what works for you, because in the end of the day,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: it's finding what works for you, because it's not going
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: to what worked for me isn't going to work for
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: you every single time. It might it might eight out
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: of ten times, seven out of ten times, but there's
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: still what works for you.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm amazed at how many top athletes are like that,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: and then how many and I mean even you know,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of US coach and I've done I did
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of elite fts seminars where we had twenty
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: or thirty coaches. We can't always agree, but we were
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: respected each other. We respected each other's opinions. And if
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I could look it, and it's like, I don't know, man,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: it's just something hey, so and so, you know, come
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: over here, and you know, you know, like jam, come
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: over here and check this out and see what you
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: think you know, And it was like, dude, I'm just
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: trying to do the best for the people. And what
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I my opinion is my opinion. I can't say that
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: what I do is right for everybody. And I just
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: find that to be so common in so many top athletes.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but people will sit there and you don't
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: know what you're doing on this and you're you're training
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: back the wrong way, And I'm like, no, I'm training
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: back the right way for what works for me. I'm
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: doing I'm doing what got me to World Strongest Man
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: ten times and World power to Champion and world records
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: in powerlating, world records and straw man and you know,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: master's world strongest Man. I'm doing what has made me
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: successful because that's what works for me. And the mental
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: attitude and the game that Chad's talking about is the
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: mental attitude that a lot of the time guys have.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Brian has it, Eddie has it, Thor has it. All
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: these guys that I run too. You know, Ed's got it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, Chad sitting right here next to us, even
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Ben's got it. I mean it. Every if you go
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: into things knowing what's going to work for you, and
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: you're determined and you're going to work your tail off
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: and you're eventually going to succeed at whatever it is
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: that you're trying to do. You know, you don't just
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: you know, fold in when something goes wrong, you know,
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: and If you're constantly trying to learn, and you're constantly
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: trying to get better, and you're constantly experimenting and learning
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: from yourself, you're gonna do nothing to succeed. At the
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: end of the day. Every time you fail, you're going
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: to learn something, and every time you learn something, you succeed.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I talk a little bit about the
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Four Noble Truths and Buddhism, and it's you know, suffering
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: is inevitable. Yep, you are the cause of the suffering.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: You can fix the suffering and then onto the eightfold path.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: But a lot of the guys with this mindset are like, Okay,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna suffer. That's fine, Like that's how I'm gonna learn.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: And so they don't shrug off that suffering. They don't
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: fold when it gets hard. They don't fold when it
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: doesn't work out the way. You know, It's kind of
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: like they understand, Okay, I went this way and it
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: didn't work, So that means I need to go over it,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: under it, and around it, through it, like I got
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: to figure out something else. We're a lot of guys,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: especially like if you're talking in strength sports, there's a
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: lot of guys that hit like that mid level and
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: it's like do they're good lifters and they're strong, but
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: they don't seem to break through. It seems like they
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: kind of get stuck and then they just you doing
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: the same thing, doing the same thing. And when guys,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: you know, I, like you said, dude, I'm so blessed
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: to have met the people that I met, and like
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Ed Cone and Steve Goggins. I don't even know if
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: they know what have an effect they had on me,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: but there's times getting to talk to him. No, even
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, I can tell a story
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: about you where I was coming down for like a
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Highland Games or something, and I called you up and
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, dude, I got the Highland Games and man,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I'll load plates. I just want to come hang out
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: with you guys. And you're like, yeah, okay, we're training
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: at this time. And then I called you up and
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: you're like, Noah, dude, it was a tough, long day.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: We're not going to train today, Okay, you're training tomorrow.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: And you're like no, like I missed it, Like so
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: what And I was like in my head at the time,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I'm like what, Like how can that be? And here
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I am beating a shit out of myself all the time.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And then I ended up talking to like Ed Combe
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: one time, and I ended up talking to Steve Goggins
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: one time, and I'm like, Chad, you got a thick
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: head and sometimes it benefits you, but you need to
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: wake up. These guys are listening to their body. They're
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: listening to what it's telling them. And there's so many
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: guys that don't want to listen to that, so they
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: never break through to that next level. And it's and
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: it's the same thing they What really amazed me is
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I I had this blue collar mentality. I grew up
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: in the Midwest, whole families carpenters, mechanics, welders like and
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: and and we get we get this mentality of you
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: almost take pride and how hard you work and how
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: hard the job is, and so like you not making
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: it harder is almost a weakness, yes, and so like
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: it's like, dude, I'm beat the ship or I just
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: tore my hamstring, I'm going to the gym like because
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I'm tough and I'm a badass, and and and then
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: talking to some of you guys that were higher level
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: than I was at the time, and I'm like, wait
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: a minute, these guys aren't doing that, and they're not
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: feeling bad about it, like if I missed the training
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: when I was a kid. I tell people, when I
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: was a kid, I trained if I was sick, and
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: if I was so sick, like I had to runs
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: or something, I couldn't train, I would do too the
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: next day because like it bothered me so much that
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I missed the session and I couldn't let it go.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: And then I'm talking to the top guys are like, yeah,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I just we just not something felt wrong. Man. If
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I would have trained, it probably would have got hurt.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm just like, whoa what? And I didn't at
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: the time. I didn't understand that strength, that strength to
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: listen to your body and trust it and go No,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I don't need to stress out about this. I don't
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: need to look at myself bad. Like I did what
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I needed to do, so I love me. Man, I
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: did a good job. I took care of myself, and
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: when it's time to train again, I'm gonna kill.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: It exactly exactly one hundred percent. I mean, it's it's
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: one of those things. Look, you get under a team,
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: you stay consistent, you push the line, you're working hard,
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: you're doing stuff, and eventually your body's gonna let you know, Hey, yo, dude,
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: I need to take a break. Even if it's one
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: extra day, I need to take that day. I need
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: to take two days. And if you give it that
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: two days, and it's gonna give you the signs. It's
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: just whether or not you listen to it. That's a
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: big if. But when once you truly learn the signs,
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: like your body's going, Yo, this is great, and we're
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: getting stronger, but we're gonna go. We're gonna I'm gonna
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: give you a three to four months setback so I
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: can get some rest. If you do not slow down
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: You can listen to me. I'm gonna make you listen
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Right And that's where you'll get an injury. It won't
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: be super bad, but you'll strain you. You strain your quad,
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: you hurt your back a little bit, you you know,
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: strain your bicet or whatever, and it makes you slow
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: down and then the rest of your body catches back up,
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: starts feeling good again, and then you get right back
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: to training again, and a lot and you got to
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: learn how to read your body. It's not something it's
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: something that you have to learn how to read. And
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: you you keep your routine going and then you you
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: feel that and you you just add a couple extra
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: days of rest and then start right back where you
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: left off. You know. So if you're your next day
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be leg day, but you don't feel ready,
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: you're leg your quads are just not feeling right, and
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: you start warming up and you just feel like crad.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we even too, when I had my team, we
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: would all everybody was always asking questions. So you'd come
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: in and guys like, hey, how you feeling, man, how's
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: your sleep, how's your stand so well being? How's your apptech?
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: And because we're always trying to pick each other, and like,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: you know, we can kind of see what's happening. But
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: still at the end, if that person is not being
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: honest with himself and he's not giving us true answers,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: it makes it that much harder and then we might
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: not catch it in time. We might catch it too late. Yeah,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: you know, where if if they're just honest with those answers,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: and and and and I mean I think there's all
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: my As I wrote my book, like I had like
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: twelve different principles and I saw him as separate. And
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: as I'm writing the book, I'm like, wait a minute,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: these are this is a mesh if they're all intertwined,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: like this plays on this and this, and so like
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, loving yourself enough to be honest with yourself
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: and going I don't have to fight and struggle all
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: the time. And there was one I wrote about in
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: there where it was like, I've always thought you have
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: to earn the best things, and I still feel like
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: they're earning things is better. But why do you have
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to earn everything? I mean, do you not deserve to
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: just have some good luck sometimes? And I never really
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: liked that, and I'm trying to change my outlook on that.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: But yeah, everything was blended together. Another eg Coones story.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: I remember I started doing linear periodization when I started powerlifting,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: and I ended up I didn't like it because like
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: every time I said a twelve week man, for sure
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: is shit, somewhere in the middle of there everything would
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: go to crap. And so when I first met ed,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: and I think we went to lunch or something and
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: we're talking about it and I went, holy crap, I
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: did it wrong, Like I was wrong the whole time
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: because I was Again I was like, you can't miss
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: because it's this percentage and you can't like you cannot
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: you can't miss, and if you do, get really sick
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: in the day, I'm like, fuck, do I do the
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: last one or do I do the next one? And
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: I would just freak the fuck out about it, And again,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: like I'm talking to it about it, he's like, yeah, well,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: you know, if something comes up and you miss your
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: miss he's just going to the next one. I'm I'm
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: like like I'm I'm like my jaw probably hung open,
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Like I'm just like, what, Yeah, you're not. You're not
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: you're not stressed, you're not freaking out about it. You're
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: just like, yeah, I'll be fine whatever.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: A lot of guys get ruined if they miss something
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: on their program, and it's just like, if you miss
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: everything on your program and you're being lazy, that's one thing.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: But if you miss if you're working your tail off
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: and you miss something in the spot, don't freak out
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: about it. Just have a short memory, get back up
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: and heal up and go get it the next week.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: It's not the end of the world.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: It's really not that big as here.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: No, and setting realistic, achievable goals is a big deal.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: That is probably one of the hardest things to do,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: because well, I want to hit this two thousand pounds total. Okay,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: you just totaled seventeen to fifty. Let's try to hit
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: eighteen hundred first. Well, I got it worked out to
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: where I can hit almost nineteen hundred.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you haven't worked out.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Uh huh.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, And I thought i'd do something,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: and life drop kicks me in the side of the head.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: Correct, And it's like, look, look, get eighteen hundred to
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: next meet. It's a fifty pounds jump, it's four months away.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: That's reasonable. Then do that again in four months, and
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: then do that again in four months. Guess what that
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: is eighteen fifty Guess where you want it to be?
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Right there? Okay, So just do it inachievable amounts. You know,
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: don't expect. Don't expect to jump more than one hundred
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: pounds a year, and that's busting your ass.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: And one hundred pounds a year is pretty awesome.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that that's busting you to get everything right.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: That's the world going perfect.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: I try to get people to do that. And I go,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: listen from my first meet was seventeen hundred, ten years later,
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: I told the twenty seven hundred or twenty seven thirty three,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I think. But and I'm really proud of that. I'm like, dude,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: you put on one hundred pounds like for that consistently
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: and it was really it was almost like every year
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: at the date, I go, but if you stop, if
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: you stop and start breaking that down, so you're talking
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: maybe thirty pounds on your bench over a year, that's
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: fifty two weeks. Like you're not making a gain every week,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: like it's minimal. Yeah, and that's and that's a good
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: and that's a decent game. And now the head the
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: head part of it, which is funny after taking a
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: year off. Yeah, yeah, and it's like if you set
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: that goal, you got a reasonable chance of actually doing
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: And the patience.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that's what like I always tell people, I
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: always set three to four goals. And one of my
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: goals was this whole shit if everything like miraculously falls
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: into place. And the only reason I had that goal
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: was if I was depressed or having a bad day,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: like I would start visualizing that goal and it would
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: just get me jacked up again. But I always had
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: my small goal, like listen, and my smallest goal was
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: always like, if you do better every single meet, if
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: you gain knowledge or you put weight on, then you're
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: moving in the right direction. And if you just stay
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: the course and you just keep getting better and keep
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: your head down, at some point you're gonna look up
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: and go, holy shit, I'm at the WPO.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, you know, and I'm there's nobody above me anymore. Yeah,
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: you're like, oh.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a big thing. A lot
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: of people want these huge numbers, and it's like, dude,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: takes the time to look at Like, if you if
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: you have somebody your respect, go don't look at what
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: they're doing on YouTube right now or on Instagram. Go
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: back and look at their career. They've probably been lifting
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: for fifteen or twenty years.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah easy, easy, you.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Know, because you're that fast, that's strong.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm those of nowhere.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, those that come up quick usually do not last
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: very long yet.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's the reason for that too. Your your
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: tenons and your ligaments and stuff can only grow so fast.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: So if you happen to get on a bunch of
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: stuff or some way you start getting really strong faster
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: than those things, you're gonna get stronger than them, and
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: they're gonna break.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Yep, and then you're gonna get surgery, and then you're.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Gonna have yep, and it's just gonna be a trail
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: of issues correct well. And I mean, and that's that
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: kind of goes back to my book is just like, dude,
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: just stop living in the past. Stop living in the future.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you need the past to learn
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: from and I think the future is cool to look
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: at every now and thento the cause you got to
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: set goals, you got to have a way to be there.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: But if you live in the present and you focus
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: on the present and you learn to enjoy the present
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: and go listen, it's not about what I want, It's
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: about what I have. And this goes for training as
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: well as it goes for building my barn dominium. It's
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of things went off the track. I'm off budget,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: I'm off my time frame, like, but I'm still moving forward.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: And so when I get frustrated. I go listen, chat
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: stop look at where you're at right now, think about
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: where you were a year ago. Like, you're doing fine, man.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: I don't care if somebody says, oh, you should do
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: that faster or it should be done quicker, and no bullshit.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: This is mine.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: This is my thing and I'm different than you. So
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: this is my time frame. And it's the same thing
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: with lifting. Stop comparing yourself to what other people did
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: and what time frames they did in Like, stay in
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: the present. Be happy with what you're doing. If you
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: spend a bunch of time pissed off about the past.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: If you feel emotion, our body doesn't know emotion over reality.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: If you live in the past and you're feeling those
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: negative emotions, your body thinks you're there, you're basically reliving it.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: That's no good for you. And if you live in
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: the future, nothing's there. You're always wanting that, and you're
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: telling the universe. So I want this, I want this,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I want this. You're not telling the universe. Hey, listen, dude,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: I got this, man. Like I'm living in abundance right
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: now and my life is good and I'm working and
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: it's getting better every day.
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think people don't understand when they are
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: living in abundance. It's they're looking at everybody else's stuff
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: and I want this and I want that. It's like,
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: can you pay all reels? Is? Can you put food
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: on the table? Can you keep a house over your head?
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: If you can do all those things, you're doing pretty
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: darn good.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you realize that maybe seventy to one
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: hundred years ago people didn't have hot showers. Oh, I know,
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: you can jump in a shower and have hot fucking water.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: I'm in a trailer right now that has a uh,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: it's got one of those tank less water heaters. Yeah,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: so like you let it heat up and you bathe up,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: and you like turn it off, and then you turn
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: it back on and you're like, oh shit, son of
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: a bitch man, like freezing, like kind of a cool
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: thing to have.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, could you tell us where you can get
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: your book?
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, it just went up on Amazon. You can
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: either look under chat ikes or fight for your greatness
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: if you follow me on Instagram. I have it linked
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: in my bio, my link tree in my bio, and.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I'll put all that information in the show notes those
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: who want to get that.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I mean gonna lie if it. If it sells and
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: I make a few bucks, that's cool, because I kin't.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: I want to write a's version of it. Yeah. And
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: and it's funny because I have where I live, there's
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: there's I have a kit Fox, I have these desert tortoises,
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm gonna make these into characters because
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: if I could get if I can simplify these lessons
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: for kids, and just think if we instead of teaching
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: kids that their feelings madder and if somebody hurts their feelings,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: that's thegether. Just think if we taught them that, hey,
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: you're in charge of your feelings. What's gonna happen when
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: all those kids are twenty years old? Yep, our country
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: is from our country. Our world is gonna start looking
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Yep, that it will.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: So I want to do that. And then again with
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: the book, I tried to write it in a way
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: that like just to introduce people to it kind of.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: I don't go super super deep into anything, and I
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: would eventually like to go deeper into some of the
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: topics and write another book, but it took me some
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: time to write that thing, and I'm not I'm not
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: a computer guy, so like formatting in and everything. Uh,
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: I did the artwork. I did the artwork for the book,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: and so I loaded up in Amazon and it's backwards.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh ship, thank god, I save everything, go
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: back in the photoshop.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh, that's amazing.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: That's part of it. Just go well, I learned. I
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: just ye how to format my next cover book if
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I ever do one. So that's good. That's possible. Mistakes, Yeah,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: because we're all going to make them. We really are. Yeah,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: if you learn from around.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, very few people get everything right right out of
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: the gate, very very very few.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: I don't really know how smart I am, but my
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: level of smartness is a definite correlation to how many
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: times I sucked up.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I'll say, very very similar, very done. A lot of
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: even I have done a lot of only in the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: last couple of years. I really I look at the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: world a lot different than I used to. And you know,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more. And it's absolutely honor
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: and pleasure to have you on and to go over
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: something that's gonna be this impactful for people, isn't it.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Isn't it kind of fun? Though, Like I kind of
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: look back at times and I go, dude, Chad, I'm
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: proud of you, man, Like you're still learning, you're still
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: putting things together, You're still you know, I took a
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: big jump doing this barn dominium thing, and I kind
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: of did it because life was My life in Reno
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: was pretty good, but there were some things that I wanted,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: and I went, Chad, you need you need some struggle,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: You need to to kind of help educate yourself a
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: little more. So I took the jump to do this,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: to do this, to take this risk and build this
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: barn dominium, to expand my gym and hopefully have more
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: space to build more bikes and build my own pump track.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: And I'm really the thought of a master's shot put
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: is is in my head right now, and I'm like,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: I have the space to build a ring now, So
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: that's definitely something on my mind right now. And just
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: to keep just just to keep living and learning, and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: like I think it's so amazing studying this stuff, and
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: and to just keep keep learning, you know, to go, hey,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: maybe I didn't have it wrong, but there's a better way.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, there's there's always a slightly As long as
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: you keep improving, you'll find better ways to do everything.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: Even though you got it right, even though you're being
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: very successful with it, there might be some simple little
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: thing that just makes it infinitely easier.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: And that, like that was kind of the interesting thing
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: right in the book too, is it kind of actually
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: sitting down and trying to write it and put it
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: into words that other people could understand. Mm, that's kind
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: of changed how I started looking at things and think
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: about things, and I'm like, dude, like at some point
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: I got to sign the painting because I'll fucking I'll
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: go back and read this and like start changing shit.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: And that's where it's like, hey, if this can if
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: I can build this a little bit, and maybe I
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: kind of I kind of would like to start a community,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: especially for people with mental stuff. And even I had
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: a friend call me up the other day. He was
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: a client of mine and we became friends, and he
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: always talked about how he loved the advice I gave him,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: like despite our training, like the advice in life and stuff.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: And he had an issue with the girl and he
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: called me up and I go, hey, listen, here's my opinion.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: I think you're looking at this all wrong. And da
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: da da da dah. You know, you're letting your feelings
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: take you away from the logic of this. And like,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: when we're done, he's like, damn, thank you, dude. He's like,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: I feel so much better and you're right. And he
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: even text me back the next day he's like, dude,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: I've been thinking about it more. He goes, You're so right.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: I was looking at this all wrong. I'm actually lucky.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: I actually this is actually a good thing. And that's
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, if I could have a community where
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: people could have access to talk to somebody when they
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: do have these problems, And ironically, I don't do you
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: guys know Art Bell? Do you guys remember Art Bell
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: and Coast to Coast? Yeah, his studio is down the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: street from where of my house and everything is still there,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, I wonder if a radio show
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: would work again where people could call in and ask
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: questions and listen to other people calling in. I don't
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: know how you do that these days, but I think
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: about it every time I drive by his place. They
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: call in live and actually, yeah, okay, yeah.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: You guys.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: Do you guys have people call in now?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: No, but the ability is there.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the ability to do so even like that somebody
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: calls in about creatine and you go, okay, well what
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: are you eating now, and like you can kind of
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: go into it yep, a little bit more. And I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: think that people in fun. Yeah, and even in terms
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: of strength, it would be cool to do that for training,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Like somebody calls up and goes, dude, I bet four
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: hundred pounds. I've been stuck there for a year. Okay,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: well what are you doing?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's go through what you're doing now so
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: we can pull it apart, look at it. See if
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: you're under training, overtraining, what works for you, what doesn't
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: work for you, and and fix it. Yeah, that's it.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: And alls you gonna do is optimize what you're doing that.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Works strengthly and that just like how that we did
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: the questions in the beginning of the show, that's the
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: you know, that's the bread and butter here of like
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: telling people like, hey, what is your question? What do
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: you want to know?
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Even someone who's going to listen to this is going
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: to spark a new a new question because you know,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: we get a lot of nutrition questions, we get a
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: lot of mindset questions. But you know, here's the thing
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: is a lot of people sometimes forget like, oh, just
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: like you said, I'm stuck in four hundred, what can
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: I do?
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, but I think we all. I think
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: we all I mean knowing knowing Nick definitely, and I
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: think you're the same. I mean, we might do this
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: for financial reasons, but there's definitely a big part of it.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: We just want to help people. Yeah, you know, just
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: just I want to. I want to. I want to
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: go to bed knowing I did something to make the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: world even just a little bit better, exactly.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: Definitely not.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: Basically why I wrote the book. And you know, I thought, well,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just put it out there and if people want
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: to read it, hopefully it'll help them. And if they
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: don't want to read it, that's fine too.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: It's I want to read it. So I'm going to
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: say that right now, and I will be reading it. Yes,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: I encouraged everyone else. Please, I mean, I'll teck, I'll
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: go buy it. It's just people need to understand the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: point of view that you're coming from, and it's really
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: truly going to help people. And it's an honor to
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: get to do this with you, so thank you.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: It really is an honor for me. Like I'm serious,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: I I'm not joking. I was laughing when I hung
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: up the phone, and I'm like, OK, cool, dude, man,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: it just makes you laugh. Like every time we've done
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: we've done podcasts or something, I'm like, yeah, that's just
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: laid back. That's just that's nick man. And I love people.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: I love people that are like just genuine no thanks.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm laid back to like colorland of a bar.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely what you see me lift. There's definitely
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: nothing different when you put something heavy in your hands,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: for sure, no doubt.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Right, And that's the whole thing. There's there's there's appropriate times,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: there's not appropriate times.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: But I still I'll tell I'll tell the story now.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: I don't remember. It was in the two thousands and
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: we were in Elco, little bitty Elko, Nevada, and you're
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: and you were I swear you were like two twenty
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: to forty. I mean you were lean. You were kind
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: of sizable, but you were lean, like not three hundred
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: pounds like you are now. And you forgot your single
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: it for bench press. Yeah, and you wore my squat
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: suit as you single it. God, and you have long
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: long blonde hair.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, I did. I did. Yeah, I squat at eight
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: to fifteen that day.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you put it was the good numbers.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: That was the I think the first time I I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: total twenty.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: One that was a was that one at us a
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: PL I think it.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: Was, Yeah, it was, Yes, I went twenty one five
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: that day.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's it was a big total in that
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: year that year back then, wasn't It wasn't much compared
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: to what it is now.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: No, No, might as well have been left in the way.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Probably just hurt more than anything. I think.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, those bench shirts were just not good. The squad
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: suit was pretty solid, but I mine wasn't super tight anyway.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: But yeah it was uh yeah, the bench shirt was
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: very unpleasant, but it was fun.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: That was I don't I don't think people because I
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: because you you know, you got more fame when you
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: went to strong Man and especially later in that and
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: then through the History channel again, like we talked earlier,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: like people go, oh, I like him. I wonder how
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: many people go back and look and go, do you
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: realize how long Nick has been lifting?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I didn't.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't don't even know how you were when you
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: started competing, uh fifteen, Yeah, I did my train pretty
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: damn consistently till now correct, Like that's that's pretty amazing,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Like you did it didn't just come and fall in
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: your lap?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Oh no, like you were, No, yeah, every bit. I
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: think my first total was like eleven twenty five. It
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: was my very first total.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: What did you wig?
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: Uh when eighty one? And then the next year I
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: was one number eight Yeah, yeah, that's when I'd hit
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: in my gross spurt. So I was like probably five
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: to eleven at that one, and the next one I
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: was in my senior year, I was like six one
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: and a half, almost six to two my senior year
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: at one hundred and ninety eight pounds.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: That's pretty funny because.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: I graduated away in one ninety five playing defensive end
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: or no god, yeah, so but I was I was
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: spotting like four ninety bench in I think three and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: a quarter and deadlift from like four to twenty five.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: So that was that was.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: Is still still respectable high school list for Shure.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that that was enough to win the state
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: championships in the one ninety eight in nineteen eighty six.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: Nineteen eighty six, Yeah.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: That was forty years.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: Are you older than me?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: I'm fifty seven.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: My sister just texted me. She's like, you're fifty four.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like that, that's funny. Yeah, I'll be fifty eight
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: this year. But it's a ways a way, so I'm good.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, But I mean, I love I love lifting,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: I love training. I do it because I love it,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: and then the competing the fun, you know.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: And I was like, when I moved to Front, there's
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: just one gym here, and it was absolutely I went
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: one time and I'm like, I can't do this, Like
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: this gym's horrible. And then I tried to plan it
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: to where I wouldn't have to be without my gym
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: for very long, but that did not happen at all.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: So I had my big tire, and I had my hammers,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: and I have these huge hunks of iron that are
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: like two or three hundred pounds, and so I put
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: all that stuff on my land and I'm like, screw
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: the gym. I'm gonna go beat tires and xert your
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: squad these metal things and run hill and and because
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: it was just like do I I seriously and didn't
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: like when I could get my equipment set up, I
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: was so excited to like start training it because it's
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: not it's yeah, I loved competing and I loved pushing
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: the limit, but I just love lifting.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: And I mean the funny part is is when I
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: first found it, I started for sports, but then I
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: found it helped maintain my aggression and my anger, and
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: so I did that for a long time. I did
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: that even to when I first started powerlifting. It was
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of anger that kept me going. And then
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: I got approached and and and like Dave tastes like, well,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: do you want to lift to control your emotions or
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: do you want to be one of the best in
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: the world, because they're not going to go together. And
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: that was the big wake up call for me. So
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: now I don't lift like before I felt like I
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: needed to lift or I was going to kill somebody.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: And now I was like, no, I just love to lift, like,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: I just love to lift, man. Like, So even now
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: even when I get kind of frustrated because.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, I'm going bench it. T twenty five.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: This fucking sucks. And I'm like, put your lift in, Chad,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: and you know what, this is where you're starting. So
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: tomorrow if you do two five for two sets or
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: three sets of ten UPR so I can be happy
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: about it, dude. And I'm just I just yeah, I
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: just love lifting. I don't know what it is.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: I remember one of the one of my first days
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: back after training, I have these hexagon lights hanging up
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: and like I got done training and I'm all sweaty
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm tired, and I just laid underneath those lights
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: and I just started smiling and I'm like, this actually
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: feels like when I trained in my basement as a kid,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: and just that feeling after you trained and you're like, dude,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: I just worked hard, man, I did something positive for myself.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: And you just sit there and you're just like, I
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: just feel I'm tired, exhausted. I feel great, man, Like
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I just feel great. And it was so it was
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: so cool to have that feeling again, and like it
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: just shot me back to my basement doing the same stuff.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Yeah, we all go through kind of moments
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: like that. It's it's pretty neat. It's like coming back
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: from bad injuries or coming back from surgeries or whatever,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: and it's like, Okay, well here's my new normal. Now.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to try to make that the best
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: I can make it. And am I going to be
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: the nick best from you know the TV show? Probably not? Yeah?
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: Am I gonna be pretty strong for my age and
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: my size and everything else? Oh yeah yeah. And I'm
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: just going to enjoy this process as I age and
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: do things, and you know, I still think I can
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: get a lot out of it. So and I so
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: enjoy training. I love going in. I love getting done.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: There's nothing better. When you get done. You go just
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: kind of lay down, chill out for a minute, and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: then you go get something to eat and you just
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: sit there and relax, and it's like all right. I like,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: like I said, I put some work in, I got
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: some good things done for me for and it just
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: makes your whole soul feel better. Yeah, you know, from
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: the inside all the way out. It makes everything feel better.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: And that's why training is like so important just for
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: mental health and everything else, because it is a self
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: love thing when you deal it the right way.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: And I think it's I think it's it's kind of
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: a good blend of the physical and the mental age.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: Correct, because how can you have good mental if you
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: don't have good physical? They go together, yeah, the thing
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: they blend. Yeah, exactly, it's not one separate from the other.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: They go together, they truly do. So if you're not
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: taking your body, taking care of your body, but you're
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: taking care of your mind, the body's not gonna last
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: that long.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: And I think that's one of those things I would
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: like to teach people, and I hope it comes through
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: in the book. It's like, okay, you can you can
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: go I'm gonna work for that ferrari or I'm gonna
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: work for that boat, or I'm gonna and you're gonna
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: get it, and like it's gonna feel great at first,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: and that's gonna quickly fade because it's just this external
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: world thing. It doesn't really have anything to do with
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: your heart and your soul and your mind. And we're
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: lifting still, you know. And I believe in meditation and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: all that stuff working on the heart and the mind
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: and especially if you want to go into the mind
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: heart coherence, but the lifting kind of brings them both together, yes,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: it and if you do it right, like you said,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: if you do it right and you pay attention to it,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: it can't help it make your.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Life better, correct, you know, And that's a great spot
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: to end, because you guys have absolutely killed this conversation
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. This is great for everybody here listening
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  Speaker 2: Because isn't to Fight for Your Greatness Twelve fundamental principles
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  Speaker 2: to achieving your goals and creating a more harmonious life.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: It says, I truly believe a lot of people focus
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: on their goals and their life falls apart, their goals
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: start coming up short again. Again, it's all tied in together,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: that's it.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: Social media is throw it out there for us so
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: everyone can know where to find you, which I will
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: put in the links.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: To I have. Basically right now, I just have chad ikes.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: It might even be chad dash ikes on Instagram. I
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: just put up for Fight for your Greatness, but there's
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: nothing posted yet. I don't even know if I need
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: to separate those ones more. Lifting the other one might
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: fight for your greatness, might be more mental, but it's
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: so hard to separate them. It's so hard to separate
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: them for me because they're there.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that is fighting for greatness.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the way around. And that's like one of
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: the things I say in the book. And I think
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: I end it with this. I truly believe, truly with
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: all of my heart. Everyone is special and everyone has
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: greatness inside of them. The difference is how deep that
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: greatness is. And do you want to till it up?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: Do you want to dig it up? Do you want
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: to cultivate it and do the discipline to grow that
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: greatness so that you have the energy of that greatness
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: shining out to the rest of this world and and
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: and in essence, that positive energy is going to help
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: change this world and make it better. Yes.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: You know, Nick has a great saying that we end
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: every show with which it sums up a lot.
• 1:18:47
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• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: best you can be. Thanks Chid for being here. And man,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: I love you, brother, I thank you guys. I'm so
• 1:19:01
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• 1:19:04
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