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Nick, We're all, you know, we're getting back into swing of things.
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We have a whole bunch of stuff just happened where you know, we
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everything had to be put on pause. But we're back, you know,
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and you know with being back, you know, you have a lot of
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trips coming up, so you know our long trip coming up. Yeah,
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I got a lot of there's gonna definitely be a little bit of traveling.
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I think, what is it next? I think Tuesday, which we had
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I had to Colorado yep. Some of this equipment for for the Strongest Man
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on Earth yep. So you get to hang out with Brian on Tuesday.
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So that's gonna be great. And then we come back and then the twentieth
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I lived for Fief, which is the Fie for Power Week. So there's
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like Highland Games, stone lifting, straw man contest, seminars. Ed Cohen
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is going to be there, Gabriel Pinion is going to be there. Yeah,
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there's so many people are going to be there. It's it's absolutely amazing,
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and it's the most beautiful spot to go and have a straw man contest,
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and it just is so primal when you're there, it's freaking neat in
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the hercules hold. I just I can't wait to get a hold of out
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again. That's gonna be fun exactly exactly. You know what I'm saying,
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because you made it look so easy last time, So it's like, yeah,
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it's definitely gonna be nice to venture it and then have the information needed
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before you step on the platform this time. Yeah, yeah, so that'll
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be good. It'll be fun, and then it's always great to see it
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going the Kiki. It really is, and they put on a wonderful show
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out there, and the FIFA Hotel is absolutely amazing. The food is absolutely
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incredible. They have very different standards for food than the United States, and
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they can have no additives in their food. So it's all like if you're
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if you eat nothing but actually re organic, which there's an issue with foods
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now, but yeah, but if you eat real organic food, that's what
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it's like. It's all real organic food doesn't mean to be labeled organic.
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You know, they're not bringing it in from no, I don't know,
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China. So yeah, so going up there, the food's absolutely amazing.
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It is an incredible week. It's just something you got to experience at least
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once. And then climbing and going down to the lake and just everything.
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It's just totally beautiful up there and just what you're spending ten days out there,
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the twentieth to the first. So so yeah, yeah, it's gonna
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be sweet, but yeah, that's gonna be absolutely incredible. Looking forward to
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that, and then head over to the Shah Classic in August, so it's
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gonna be fun. Go to the thing in Colorado, get go to the
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strongest span on Earth. And then he's added more weight classes and stuff like
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that to the Shaw Classic instead of just the strongest span on Earth, so
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that's gonna be kind of neat. So running all the contests and stuff at
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the same time, there's an expo now that is absolutely incredible. It's it's
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the bomb. I mean, you go in there and it's just all really
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all these amazing people that just love strength. So it's neat. It's truly
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a wonderful and amazing experience. If you haven't made that trick, you got
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to make the track and then buy tickets and stuff like that. It's just
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it's really moving the spoort ahead. And then come back and then the Giants
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live shows here in September twenty eighth here in Vegas, so hopefully get to
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come out there and hang out and see the guys and do stuff and go
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around and maybe they'll have a wrecking ball hole that I can jump in with,
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you know, and that's your back that's your backyard, that's your stopping
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grounds out there. So exactly, that's it. It was not that long
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ago. I just saw that Rogue had opened up a gym in Vegas.
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You know what I'm saying, Rogue, if you're listening, make sure you
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send that invite to Nick out there, because let me tell you right now,
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that's someone you want training in your gym. Yeah. Yeah, Well,
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I mean I love Flex's gym too, so it'd be kind of neat
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to go see the rug place and go in there and get some training in.
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Plus, Calli and Dilloner doing CrossFit now, so I think it'd be
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fun for them to come as well, because exactly because Rogues the biggest CrossFit
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company out there. Yeah, they don't get much bigger than that, So
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exactly, it'd be kind of neat for them to see that and experience that
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and learn out there. So that'd be great. And then Uh, and
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we got a O s G which I'll be out uh in December, and
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so it's it's gonna be a good fall. And then I might even go
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up and do the pilot to meet in uh, Sacramento in your neck of
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the woods. Yeah, in October exactly, kind of make it up my
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mind because I can there's another one up there in March, so I might
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switch and just put all the effort into one and then go to the pilot
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to meet in March. So we'll see what happens with that. Exactly,
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exactly. That's one of those things too, exactly, you know, because
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a lot of people need to remember what it's been about a year and a
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half now since you got your kiddy removed, So you all you've done is
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try to correct the problems that surgery caused, and even with that cancer,
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that's all. That's what I'm saying. It's like, you know, like
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you had to recover from that and then and then you started, you know,
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as soon as you were cleared to work out, that was the first
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thing you did. Started working out, start trying to perfect the imbalances and
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then even seeing where the imbalances are, because you know, that's one of
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those things is you're very meticulous on how you train and how your body's reacting.
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It's something that you know you're so intuitive with because it's like I'm slightly
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doing this and this is not safe, and you you literally took the time
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back to like like, all right, let me dissect this and see what
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needs to be done to to correct these imbalances and these deficits that you have
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now. And you know, you've come so far and only in a year
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and a half. It's like not very many people in the world, you
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know what I'm saying, are coming back from cancer, abdomen surgery and then
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trying to correct your correct your the imbalances to still be doing the weight that
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you're doing. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, you gotta put a
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little thought into it so it helps. But yeah, I mean I noticed
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I was helicopter in a little bit with the deadlifts I get back up into
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the seven hundred pounds range, and it was causing a lot of issues that
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we're gonna make things worse. So I just took steps back, rebroke it
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back down, started strengthening the areas, and now the areas are getting strong.
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So now I'm going to start bringing it back up. And it doesn't
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it doesn't hurt that. You know, one of your good friends is Ed
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Cohen, who can actually let you know like, hey, I see this,
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you should try this, you know what I'm saying, Because since last
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Norway. All he's done is stretch you and let you know what you need
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to do correct and it'll be good to see ed. I love that guy.
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I mean, it's still one of my heroes. And I don't have
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a lot of heroes left. There's not a lot of people, as they
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get to know, people that I will still look up to at this age
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because you learn more about him and stuff like that. He's one of those
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people I still look up to. It's kind of neat that you can put
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you know, not only can you call him a friend, but you can
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still look up to him, man, because he's looking up to He's a
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great example of you know what I would inspire to be, you know,
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as a as a competitor, as a person, stuff like that. So
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it's it's pretty cool. Yeah, it's extremely cool. Like every time I've
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been around and hang and got that chance to hang out with you and him.
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Look, he's constantly putting everyone else up above him. He's constantly trying
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to inspire people to lift heavy and do it correctly, you know what I'm
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saying. He he like whether it's a seminar, whether you meet him in
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person, he gives the time to talk just like you do, and it's
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like you know, you know, and like I said, sometimes I know
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it frustrates you and it upsets me a little bit. But it's like this
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younger generation just don't recognize him. And you know, like I said,
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I think that it's starting to come around more because he's more on social media,
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more doing the seminars and a lot of times, you know, like
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he's one of those people that have revolutionized powerlifting and the way oh yeah,
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and the crazy thing is is the stuff he was doing was back when they
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used the same bar through everything, so you didn't have these joke of deadlift
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bars that give four or five inches, especially for the simo guys before it
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comes out the floor that the bar is so thin you can actually double thumb
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lock it, which is no different than wearing wrist traps. Yeah. I
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do not understand why that's allowed other than it hurts if you don't let go
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of the the thumb. You you you're basically lifting with straps as far as
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I'm concerned. Yeah, but yeah, I mean he did that with a
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met with you know, mixed max crip. The guy's grip was like an
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insane Absolutely, I'm still yeah, it's are ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Like
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when you look at it's it's funny because, like I said, it's a
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great guy. But man, he has got like the perfect bodies for power
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in the sup period. Oh yeah, no, well that was proven,
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you know, and and like I said, I mean, how much more
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is he gonna pull on a bar that's gonna give four to five inches before
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it comes off the ground. You know, the biggest mistake a couple of
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these sumo deadlifters dead was where Adidas socks before they went and did the lift,
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and the bar is like an inch below the three inches of Adidas you
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know lines, and then when it comes out the floor, it's an inch
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over that when it finally completely comes off the floor, and it's just like,
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why do that with a stiff bar? But that's why the deadlift of
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the IPF you see, they're still pretty darn good, but you don't see
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the Soumo polar Is pulling a thousand on an IPF bar. On the Iliko
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bars, it's you know, they're they're too stiff. So it's it's really
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gotten to the point where it's destroying the lungevity of the true meaning of the
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lift. You're beating records with different equipment, Yeah, I mean if you're
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using if you're gonna beat the record beating with the same equipment the guy set
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the record on exactly, you know. So anyway, that's my soapbox for
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today. Well then, and here's the thing. Let's let's steer it in
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a different direction because you just said illegal bar. What's your top three favorite
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bars? And if you had to pick one, which would would it be?
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Bear Steel just has some bars that I really really like. So I'm
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pretty happy with that Texas power bar. You really can't go wrong with.
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They've been around for forever, at least forty years that I'm aware of,
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so probably longer, sorry guys. And then the Aliko bar, the Alleco
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bars absolutely amazing, the one that they use in the IPF which it's a
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fantastic bar. It truly is. And there's a reason why the bar is
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eleven hundred bucks because you can handle the weight and yet not bend or you
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know, so it's a great bar. Those were probably my top three bars.
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There you go, and so deadlift, bede and squat would you the
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Illego bar completely all the way across or do you have a preference between the
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three right there? Well, me, in a perfect world, I'd like
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to see the Ellego bar all the way across because it's it's wide enough for
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you to get your hands in and if you really need to put out your
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hands wider than that stretch stretch, if I can get into that thing,
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If I can get into the width of the Illego bar at fifty five three
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hundred pounds, come on, you can get into the thing too. You're
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not working your mobility, so we're it's your shoulder mobility. Get in there.
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There's ways to do it, so you really don't need the extra extra
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wide bars. So I like the Illco bar. I would like to see
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it done in all three of the lists because it's one bar. You buy
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it, you're good, you only need one. That's it. Instead of
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this having like a bar for squad, a bar for bench, bar for
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deadlift. It's like, you know, you're lifting with fifteen hundred dollars to
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two thousand dollars worth of bars in three lists. It's like why exactly anyway?
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But everybody likes to break records and do stuff, So yeah, do
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you think it should be records per equipment, Like you know, I hold
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like if someone holds the record, I hold the record on this kind of
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bar, I hold the record on this kind of bar. It should it
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be that way at all the process. I'd like to just see it one
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across because not everybody needs a participation or you know, okay, you either
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set the record or you didn't. You know, I can see they're being
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a tested and a non tested that I can understand. But other than that,
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it should I would prefer it. I'll be with the same equipment.
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That way, it's the same all the way across the board. You either
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didn't or you didn't exactly, but that's what I prefer. Yeah. Well,
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and also too like uh, you know, you get a lot of
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people too, like they have records, and then you know they're like,
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you can only set a record in an official sanctioned uh power lifting meat,
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you know what I'm saying. So you get a lot of people that you
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know, they're setting records or doing records at gyms in their home and stuff
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like and they don't have two national referee or two yeah, two national referees
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or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm okay with setting a record
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with you know, two national referees and uh, and just a regular ref
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or three national referees. I'm fine with that, but you have to have
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the quality they're judging to do that. So it's just just what I think.
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I mean, it's going to be unpopular in period and not like that,
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but I think it's right. I mean the w r p F.
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Now you have to do it at a national level contest, which is great,
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but what if you can't your there's schedules in people's lives and stuff like
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that, and the fact is if you can get the rest there, that's
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all that matters. Anyway. It's the same refs that are going to be
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in a national level meat as a non national level meet. So it's you're
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neither here nor there, But it's up to the federations. Yeah, it's
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just how it goes. So let's go. Let's go through the records.
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Uh, let's go through the records as you hold. What's the oldest records
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you hold? Uh, that's kind of that's kind of hard to say because
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I haven't looked at some of them in a long time. The oldest record
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I hold is the farmers walk in Strongman is the Farmer's Walk a record,
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I do that in two thousand and six. Okay, so at the Ifs
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of Worlds where I broke, I'm just Mormitz's record going seventy five meters with
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two turns on the IFSA handles which are about six feet long, and the
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handles are right yeah, and they're right inside the implement, so you can't
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get them off your legs, which is what makes that event actually so hard.
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Yeah, that's probably the longest one I've had that I can think of
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as far as records go. Powerla thing wise, I was the first person,
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which the record has been broken, but as the first person in California
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to squat eight hundred drug tested. It's first person in California. It's total
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over two thousand drug tested, and that was in ninety six, which is
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why I want to squat over eight hundred again because that'll that'll make it.
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This will make it twenty eight years, that's it in a contest that's insane
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become cool. That would definitely be cool, you know what I'm saying,
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Because that's a long time. Yeah, that's a bit, but it's cool,
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and I mean it's it's some of the longevity speaks for itself. Some
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of the just determination and not caring if it hurts or not, because you
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kind of have to. You're gonna hurt. Yeah, it's gonna happen.
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Aging people don't do anything and they hurt, So might as well have fun
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while I'm doing it. And I'm gonna I'm in a spot where I can
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still do things twenty year olds can do and I'm in my mid fifties,
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so you know, the quality of my life as it goes on, I'm
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gonna be able to do a lot more. Muscle mass and grip strength is
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a very good indicator of longevity. So yeah, I'm feeling pretty good.
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That's it. Well, you know, like I said right off top,
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you you're you you have trimmed down you damn here have a six pack.
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Yeah, kind of funny, kind of fun it's you still have that muscle
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density there. And was it last uh sometime this week you just farmer walked?
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Was it like three thirty five? Yeah? Ahn, yeah, yeah
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yeah yeah yeah. I was like I'm like, oh, I'm getting close
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to the end. I'm just gonna slow down, all right, here you
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go. So it was it felt like a good run it's it's feeling good.
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My grip's feeling good with it, my movements feeling good, my feet,
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my steps are getting much better. Just like the yoke two weeks ago
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with seven hundred was actually I got my footsteps back, I got my pattern
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back. Yeah, And so now it's the rhythm and now it's just accelerate
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right, work on the work on the pick, work on keeping the speed.
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So like power wise, you can't really tell about my streets at a
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slight angle. One one way it's going down slightly and the other way it's
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going up slightly. So when I want to train the power and the drive
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with the yoke or the Farmers, I'll go uphill, and when I want
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to train the speed, I'll go down on hill because it gets down and
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it flattens out. Yeah, so you get you keep that speed through the
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flat spots and it helps you accelerate a little bit too much of a grade
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though, you got to decelerat it is you're going to go through fast,
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and that's bad. So it ends up being a great way to train it.
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It really does. Oh yeah, Well, before we get out of
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here, Nick, we're actually Nick is actually working with John Anderson I'm working
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on a mindset training program where what it is is Nick's Nick is a champion.
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John is a champion strong man. John's also done bodybuilding and pro wrestling.
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But the thing is is, like it's the mindset. You know,
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a lot of people always ask you what are you thinking about? What are
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you doing? But here's the thing is, like you've never had a dedicated
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program to that, to like, you know, to offer to people.
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So now you've actually are doing that now. Yeah it's Patreon, right,
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yeah, Patreon right on Patreon. Yeah, so if you look up on
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Patreon, elite, agelest mindset, that's John and I and wean't to talk
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about the little things that you need to be doing every single day, the
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patterns you need to get into, and the steps necessary to be better and
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to get better and to be the best you can be. And it's and
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it's an elite mindset that carries you there. It's the way you think,
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it's the way you look at things. It's it's all the little things that
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you need to do and steps in order to become successful, because being successful
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is in cumulation of a whole bunch of small all the little goals and objectives
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that you accomplish every single day without even thinking about it. But this will
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get you thinking about it so that you can do those better, so you
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can reach higher levels. And that is correct because that's one of those things.
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Is like everyone always wonders, what's the secret sauce? Well, guess
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what that secret sauce is? The mindset. Yeah, it's the way you
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line out your day. It's the way you line up your sleep. It's
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the way you execute everything during the day. And you know, there's the
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three p's and the favorite one is perge. You know, you have to
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find something that you do every single day that keeps you from getting better and
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purge it. That's it. You start cutting everything that's going to make you,
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make you not perform well or hold you back, and you purge those
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things. Eventually you're going to get pretty good at whatever it is that you're
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doing. And this applies to everything. You know, you come in with
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three positive things a day. That's the first thing. It's three post the
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things three two, one and then two. Purpose. What's your purpose?
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How are you going to go through it? You know, how are you
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going to execute this? What's your plan? How are you going to do
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it, and then the fourth P is purge. You're going to get rid
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of something that messages you up and that is actually going to you know,
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uh, that'll give you the fourth P, which is what progress progress,
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so you'll continue to progress and get better at whatever it is that you do.
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These things work for everything in your life, so you know, it's
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go check it out. You know it's it's going to be neat. And
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John just nails of the stuff, just dead on the head, I mean,
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just goes right on through it. And we both talk a lot about,
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you know, how we managed to do what we've managed to do and
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things we've seen other people do. And it's a way to guide and steer
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your way through not only training, competing and everything else, but your whole
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life. So it's it's a way to be successful in life as well,
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exactly. And guess what you can find that at Patreon at slash Elite ageis
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mindset and nick. As we get out of here, you have we have
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