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show. You know, there's a lot of things that come up in training.
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There's a lot of things that come up in competition. And you know,
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Nick has you've seen the highest of highest levels, you know, saying
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you've been to the Big show many times. You know, and there's a
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thing like I see you train, I watch you train, I record you
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training, and you know, you know, there's a respect that you have
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to give the weights. And sometimes you see people on the internet and you
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know they're just squatting the squat, lifting the lift, and there's you know,
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you can't tell how much respect there is for the weights because sometimes you
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know, people just do things that hurt themselves. But one of the things
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that I always see you when training is you take yourself. You have to
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take yourself to that next level. Because like first and before we even trained,
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you warned me, you were like, look once again into this mode.
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I'm not mad at you, I'm not upset with you. I'm just
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letting you know directly that quiet, no talking, no laughing. This is
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one series flip switch. I'm on you know what I'm saying, and just
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you know, like and like I said, that's something that I've never really
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been around because I've always been around people where it's just distraction everywhere and as
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training stuff like that. But the thing is is that's not that's not your
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style, no, and it The thing is, I get used to focusing
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and getting in my own head. So if I have music at a contest,
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great, If I don't, also great, I can do with you
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the way. And it's more important you have the ability to get your head
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into the right place without external situations or without external stimulus. Um, because
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what happens if something goes wrong? What happens if you break your phone?
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What happens if you I don't know, people don't have watmans anymore, just
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dated myself, or or portable CD players that much anymore. Yeah, So
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basically it's your phone if you break If you break your phone and all of
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a sudden you don't have your your music, what are you going to do?
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Yeah? No headphones, no charger, dead battery. Yeah, so
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something can always go wrong. But the thing is, if you get used
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to not having that, and you can get in your head, you can
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turn the switch on, can turn it off. When I go to start
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wrapping my knees for a squat, you know you can get killed in the
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squat. I mean, if something goes wrong, you can go straight down
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through the floor, and you know, God forbid anything like that would have
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happened. But I'm very focused on what I am doing and how I am
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doing it. At that point, there's nothing that's a radic or out of
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control. I kind of I'm like a smoldering volcano that I save my eruption
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for the moment I go to push up on the bar. Everything else is
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control and focus to that final just explosive burst of power, and then then
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you just write it out, get to the top, and then coming back
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in and settle back down because you don't want the bar springing all over the
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place at the top either. That's bad for your spine and we'll do damage
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to you in the long term. So it's explode out of the hole.
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Have put the brakes on as you get to the top so you don't jerk
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all over the place, and then put it in the rack and come out
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from underneath bar just banging your head into things and doing all that stuff.
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I mean, if you want to be a little bit of a showman and
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you know going in it's not going to mess up your head. Okay,
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I can understand putting on a show for a crowd, but really, honestly,
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put on a show when you're done. You know, nothing looks worse
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than the dude go up there going banging his head, bleeding and then misses
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the lift and it's like, oh, it goes walking off. You know
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that doesn't it's not a good look. But you get the thing done,
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you get a little celebration, or you're just like yet done that before now
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time you'll get ready for the next lift. Maybe on your third and final
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lift you let it go and let everybody know how excited you were about that.
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But it's it's about yeah, I've been here, I've done that,
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and that's what it's expected. And at the end when I perform, well,
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I'm going to celebrate a little bit, but I gotta get ready for
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the bench after that, and then same thing with the bench, and then
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the dead's my last dad, I'll celebrate for a when I know I'm done.
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It's it's good to go. It's that lifts over, We're done.
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But the focus on everything, not wasting any energy putting it out over here
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and just scatter all over the place like a shotgun blast. I would rather
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come out and be I don't know, maybe you got apare it to a
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gun like a parrot, you know, straight focused and coming out hard that
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will go through the next five buildings. That's that's how I'm coming out and
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exploding off into the squad or into the deadlift or into the bench when I'm
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lifting and it's very focused. I don't want to waste energy. I don't
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want to waste my mental energy. I want everything to fire it as one
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cohesive unit, not just come out there blind rage and anger or whatever the
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guys do and kind of be all over the place, because that's in the
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end what will cause damage and we will eventually pay for that. We'll miss
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lifts you should have gotten. Yeah, And see that's the thing is like
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you know that transition. I haven't had an opportunity to see you like I've
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seen you compete numerous times on TV, but I have not seen you compete
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in live action and you know, like there there's where the variables are,
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because, like I said, depending if there's loud music, depending on the
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roar of the crowd, how close to the close everyone is to the stage,
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there's a lot of little things happening, and so it's like, you
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know, it's like you know, being used to like everyone quieting down,
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everyone knows what to you expect as you start getting to these heavy lists and
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pull in these singles and you know, and so it's that transition that a
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lot of like, you know, it's it's applying what you've just done in
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all this amount of training leading up to the big show, and as you're
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in the big shows, like do those variables you know, like like does
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it affect you? Or are you completely drowning everything out and you can't You're
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you're completely blind yours ony um, easiest way I could kind of explain how
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that goes through me. I mean, I'm aware of the crowds there,
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but when it's time to go, you put that to the side for the
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love of the game. Kevin Costner movie Baseball, he's a pitcher to drown
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out everyone. And I get this because I used to pitch. And when
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he said clear this and throw at the mit. You know, that's what
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I did. I would ignore everybody is there and I would throw it with
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everything I had at the mit. Even though as a little kid doing that,
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that's how I had to do it, because if I paid attention to
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other people in the crowd other than the catcher, you know, I'm gonna
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be thrown over here or throwing them over there. I want to go straight
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straight what I'm even for, So same type of thing. You just clear
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the vision, clear the field, and focus on the one thing, like
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you're the only thing there. You still know in the back of your head
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everybody's there, just like he's still knew in the back of his head.
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But he would clear everything and just do that one specific thing. And it's
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it's how I handle things when I'm competing. Yeah, and that's that's good
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competing. You know. One of the things that I do. Know guy
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guys are getting messed up. First time I got a camera on them,
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yeah, you know, and then that's that's that pressure, you know what
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I'm saying. That's what I'm talking about ten twenty fifty, one hundred million
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people that can sit in your head a little bit. The thing you got
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to realize is is you can't worry about what everybody else is going to think,
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because guess what, You're in a place where only thirty people out of
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the eight billion that are walking the planet are getting to anyway, So there's
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not a whole lot of people sitting watching. They're gonna be able to do
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better than what you were. So just go out and give it everything that
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you have and leave it all on the field. Yeah see, And like
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I said that, that's like the experience, you know what I'm saying,
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Like, like a lot of times, I'm trying I'm always trying to cater
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to the new because like I said, I'm not new to strong Man and
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I'm not new to powerlifting, but I'm new to the professional stage as in
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like watching you and being there with you and you know, and just experience
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everything happening because it's basically like new to me because I've never seen it in
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person. I've never been there in person. But now that I'm starting to
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be at that caliber level of watching and it's like it's seeing the differences between
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everyone happening. From like this year alone, when we went to strong Man
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Jocko's first year, he fire out the gate. But then something happened.
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And then when it happened, you know what I'm saying is that's the thing.
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And then you see like people who've been there before, been at the
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show and understand to like ignore everything else and just handle your job. You
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know what I'm saying, not being overwhelmed, right, I mean, you're
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there for a reason, and if you if you're worried about beating other people,
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you're gonna struggle. If you're worried about beating your best performance and just
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bettering yourself every time you walk out there, eventually you're gonna end up beating
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everybody. And that's that's all you gotta worry about it. It took a
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while to get that out of Justin because I mean Justin's goal is to beat
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me in training, and you know what's it's fine and Jess, it's a
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young buck that's Dick's training partner. Yeah, one of them. And it's
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like, dude, if if you beat me, I don't I want you
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to beat me. I'm not worried about it. I'm worried about how I
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perform. And it used to be when we first started training together, we
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worried about beating me, and then he would end up hurting this, hurting
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that, hurting his back trying to do, you know, a nine hundred
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pound yoke when he probably should just be sticking with the seven hundred for a
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while, and he'd mess up his upper back. And she's like, dude,
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just because you you're not controlling it. Well, it's you could tell
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it's too heavy, But you want to try to keep up with me.
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Don't keep up with me, just keep getting better. Eventually you're gonna do
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better than I am. You know, you could see it coming in.
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His deadlift is coming RIGHTL one thirty seven forty at some point this year.
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It'll probably be another year. By the time he's thirty, he'll he'll be
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able to out deadlift me with no album. So it's don't tell him I
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said that, you know, I justin if you listen to, just disregard
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the last couple of years. I don't want you getting a big head or
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nothing. I mean, his squat, his squat's coming along really good.
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I mean, he just said it's a state record I believe. Yeah,
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yeah, he did. He did. So it's kind of like he's progressing,
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he's moving along and stuff. Like that. But he just needs to
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worry about doing better than what he did last time. That's always got to
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worry about. Eventually, if he keeps putting in the hard work and keeps
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staying focused and staying on that and not getting you know, things that would
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mess up his life or mess up his training and stuff like that, and
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just stay focused on what he's doing, he'll he'll he'll be a world world
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level powerlifter and inside of four or five years, like elite level. Yeah,
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I can't I can't remember if what if it was on this podcast or
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who I was listening to a different podcast you you were doing where we're talking
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about incrementally adding five pounds per like almost year or like every training cycle,
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and then next thing you know, you're at that elite level. You know
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what I'm say just by making these small jumps, it is, it's thirty
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three pounds of the lift, so spot mentioned deadlift. If you put thirty
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three pounds on each one of those lists every single year, every single year,
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that's it. No more, you don't need to go more. But
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if you do thirty three pounds on every single lift every year in three years,
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that's three hundred pounds and if you're already total in seventeen hundred, that
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puts you in the two thousand. You do that again another two three years,
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you go to twenty two, twenty three hundred pounds. That's world class,
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elite level powerlifting. That puts you in the mix to win the world
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championship, to win the national championship and win the worlds and to be up
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there with the best guys walking the planet. And that's a very achievable thing
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to do. Everybody's so focused on getting there fast, and it's like,
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don't worry about getting there fast, just worry about getting there and then leaving
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when you're ready to leave. That's the thing. When you feel like you're
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done being at the top, then you can step back. But you're not
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gonna step back because you got hurt or couldn't last. I mean, yeah,
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I'm going into this twenty seventh or twenty eighth mix up the years now
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of squatting over eight hundred and deadlifte or totally over two thousand. You know,
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that's I'm coming up on thirty years of doing that. That's so you
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know, it's and that's over injuries, and that's like there's a lot of
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things that you've had to overcome to get Yeah, having and getting it fixed,
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getting a kidney, hernia repair, h rist risk that you or I
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had blood vessel problems, um, stuff like that, and then you know,
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little terrors and stuff like that. If you're pushing yourself to a world
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elite level, you're going to break something at some point. It's how well
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can you rehab it? How well can you he'll come back rehab and get
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to where you were, And I see that again. That's that's how you
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get people that can really figure things out. And it's it's not rocket science,
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but it's not easy either. So because if it was easy, everybody
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be doing exactly it acquires that work. Yeah yeah, so many guys pick
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up a couple of decent injuries and there they're toast, they're done. It's
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it's over and all the two stuff. Yeah, you know, that's the
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one thing that like, I definitely admire and appreciate what you've done because like
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I've seen you like had to surgeries. I've seen you like get hurt or
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pull something or even like dropping the bar and you're like I can't do this
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yet I can. Like you're like I can pull heavy, but I'm not
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ready to pull hit. You don't say there's a lot of there's a lot
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to say when you have to throttle back, and you know, and and
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I would say ninety percent of the people out there will not throttle back exactly.
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And you got to know how to read that and know how to bring
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it along. This week, I pulled for eighty five for twenty on my
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deadlist. I probably I'm like, well, I said I'd go to five
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hundred, but it's forty Five's close enough. Yeah, And it wasn't that
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bad, so um, but now I need I followed that, which you
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guys will see because we haven't put through YouTube video not yet. But I
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did blockpoles after that, and I went up to seven or five on black
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poles and I pulled a set of ten with that, And the range of
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motion wasn't that. It was from the top of my knee just to lockout
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position. But I'm bracing my abdomen again, and you can see on the
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first one, I'm like, I'm any minute if I felt anything funny,
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I was ready just to put the bar to open, you know. And
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once I got to the top, I'm like, okay, this isn't it's
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not going to be an issue, and then I pop off nine more.
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It's it's testing it, it's building it. It's going a little further each
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time. And if it's sore, back off a little bit and let it
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heal up again and take it back again. And you got to play that
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fine line and you can't be worried about the calendar, the clock or anything
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like that. I picked the meat September twenty fourth that I want to compete
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in. Ye If I'm not where I think I should be going into that
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meat like I could injure myself, then I'll back off and pick another one
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later on later on the year, at the beginning next year, I will
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get back on the platform. I will compete again. But I got to
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do it when it's ready. Now turning off the last fifty weeks later,
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I came back and pulled seven forty four again, so which you know it's
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it's bad. So now I just have to get over the abdominal thing,
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which I don't. I'm just gonna be cautious with it. And I don't
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even think it'll be the fifty weeks that it took for the lot. I
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just have to make sure I bring that an advance at a rate that is
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it's going to sustain and keep getting stronger from Yeah. No, no,
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that's definitely like I said, And it's the hardest thing because like you know,
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you know, it's training, it is discipline. And that's the thing
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is like there there's there's people feel they have discipline, but the thing is
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disciplines all around life. It's not just training discipline, it's mind, body,
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and soul discipline where it's like Okay, I know I can do this,
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but guess what can I do this? And that's the thing is like
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that the amount of discipline that I've seen you have in the way that things
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are treated. It, Like I said, it's a glimpse into the mind
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of the pro and that's you, You being a pro. You being a
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professional, especially for as long as you've been doing this, and how many
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people are really in, you know, in the shape that you are in
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to continue doing this. You know, well, I feel very blessed that
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I've been able to do the things that I've been able to do. But
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as anything, if you don't working at it, am I as physically gifted
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as branch Off? No, Am I is physically get through this hot door.
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No, Eddie, No, But do I have the will and determination
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and planning to get after it? Yeah? And I have fun doing it
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and I enjoy the process. And you make a plan and you execute the
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plan. When you're coming back from an injury, you have to make a
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plan. But the plan has to be you know, it has to have
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given it where you push forwards a little bit or back off a little bit,
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but it has to be methodical. You have to execute each one before
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you move on. And if you need to back off a little bit and
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reaffirm that a couple of times a couple of weeks in a row, and
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then take that next step forwards, well then that's what you have to do.
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And if that means resting an extra day, and that means resting an
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extra day, if that means not going to concerts or hockey games or whatever
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and eating a good dinner and getting a good night sleep instead, and that's
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what that means. Yeah, And that's that's the hardest part to take.
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And that's the hardest part pretty much on the family and your spouse and your
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kids and everybody else, because that's that's a hard, very difficult uh,
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you know thing to manage when you have children and you have a family.
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Single guy, I mean it's not as hard to yeah, but you know,
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nobody wants to be by themselves. Yeah, when you when you have
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obligations like that with family, it you know, it's hard to to.
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Like I said it, you know, when you're at the professional level,
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it's not a more understandable, but it's like it it's more in the more
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fun of like, Okay, he has to do this, you know what
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I'm saying. But it well, a lot of guys will go out and
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they'll go ride at the dunes, or they're going to do this, or
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they'll go do that, and they're out having a lot of fun. But
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my fun, my fun is going to the contest and performing. Well,
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that's my fun. That's what I like to do. I like to go
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out and just perform and execute, and that's where my form fun is.
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I like traveling. You know, the cool party is like to do veggas
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next time. But yeah, I like traveling around the country, around the
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world and going and showing up and executing and doing things that nobody thought I
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could do. It's fun. Yeah, it's crazy. You know, one
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of the things that you always constantly repeat and that you always constantly say,
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which you know, like I said, I'd never even thought about it until
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you really started like talking about it. But the thing is, you always
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constantly reaffirm what you're saying to me about it, and that's resting your tendence
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and recovering the tendons because you know, like I said, you know,
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we're all considering muscle, We're all trying to build muscle, We're all trying
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to like do these things. What the thing is is like, Um,
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you know, I've never actually like and I've had those days where my joints
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felt sore, but I never understood what why there was. I was like,
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you know, I did too much for the muscle. I did too
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much for an arm book. Guess what all that pressure I put it,
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I never really thought of like resting my joints to let the ligaments actually heal.
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Yeah, you know, it's it's a massive, massive thing that everybody
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overlooks. I mean, it's really neat because next week I'll just tell everybody,
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now, Um Joking is going to come on the show. He's an
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amazing one of the best strength coaches walking on the face of the planet.
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I mean he he was the guy that you know named Brian Gigant or well
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maybe maybe maybe maybe not, but he was Brian. Actually, he worked
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under him as an assistant strength coach at Arizona State. He learned from he
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still coaches Brian to this day. And he's a great guy. He's an
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amazing lifter and he his proofs in the pudding. He'll he gets in,
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he'll go out and he'll train before all the other guys do because he doesn't
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feel he can tell you to go do something unless you do it yourselves.
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So he's going to be on the show next week. We talked to him
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in a few days here and we'll do the podcast with him. But that's
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one of the things I want to pick us brain on, as well as
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doctor Horshock from Squatt University. I would also I want to reach out to
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him fairly soon and see what he thinks. I'd like to get into a
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couple of conversations with him, because, yeah, that guy's just a wealth
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of knowledge. Yeah. I enjoy his videos. Yeah, and he knows
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how it'll apply it from an actual competitor's point of view, Yeah, which
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very few guys at that level, UM really get it that right. There's
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a he's hyper educated, and a lot of guys that are hyper educated really
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don't relate it well to m the elite level lifters. He does, and
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it's it's it's neat talking with him. And I mean he helped me out
25:19
a lot with my lap and everything else that I've been through. So um,
25:23
I'd like to reach out to him for at least soon as well good
25:26
and if anyone on the here listening to his podcast knows him, just let
25:30
him know that we'll be trying to reach out to him. It was a
25:33
number all called him. Yeah, there you go. That'll help just as
25:37
much. But I don't like to bother people that I think this would be
25:44
a good thing for us to talk about, and like ice bass and stuff
25:48
like that. He's bought stuff like that up because it's right after apparently slows
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down the healing process. And but the my point that I had to him
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was is it doesn't really matter if it slows down the healing of the muscle
26:02
over a couple of days, because muscles don't atrophy till ten days after training.
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They don't start, So as long as you work out in that time
26:11
frame before ten days, you're not going to get me weaker. And people
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don't get that. They're concerned about like as soon as it's heal, working
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out again. But your connective tissue, no matter what you do, takes
26:22
longer to heal because the blood flow and the nutrients going into your tenants and
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ligaments doesn't go in as fast as it does with the muscle tissue. Yeah,
26:32
and if you want to last over a long, long period of time,
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that's the key to it. I mean up to popping my lad off
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most of my injuries of muscle tears. Think about that for a minute.
26:47
I haven't popped the tendons off. I tear the muscle fibers, you know,
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not, so the tenants strength is more than the muscle. Most of
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the kids that get into the sport real fast and show up and get super
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strong, super fast, they pop tendons off the bones like it's going on
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of style. But you haven't had that time to mature them exactly, and
27:10
or the time to let them heal and get get the tendons stronger than the
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muscle instead of the other way around. Yeah, that's why you do super
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heavy partial movements. As well, because it makes all that stuff get a
27:21
lot stronger over time. So you see, and this is the general knowledge.
27:26
Like I said, you know, um, I get these tidbits from
27:30
you. They're like bread cuts. You constantly lay them out there and I
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catch them, you know what I'm saying. I hear them, and I'm
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like, I sound like a meat head, So people don't want to listen
27:38
to me, and then I don't talk like a doctor. Yeah, and
27:42
sometimes I can explain it, or it takes me a while to get it
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right in my head so I can get it out of my mouth to explain
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it to you. But there's a reason why, yeah, not and and
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and that's the importance. Like I said, that's like why you even bring
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in this up because, like I said, I want people to understand,
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especially with a lot of stuff that I've been learning and watching you do,
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is the amount of mental focus that you need to apply to your training is
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at that level because like I said, any weight can hurt you. But
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the thing is is if you take it serious and you put the focus into
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what you need to do, it will elevate your level of where you're trying
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to get to. You know what I'm saying because like a lot of us
28:26
don't take it to a lot of us love to weight lift, but they
28:29
don't take it serious enough. And I feel that's where the disconnecting. Well,
28:33
and here's the other things is there's certain things my core lifts, my
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core list, my squat, my bench press, and my dead lift very
28:40
controlled, very controlled. The form is perfect from my body type for me
28:48
to do it and I execute. There's other lifts like when I'm training lats,
28:56
for instance, that people on the internet like to tell me, I
28:59
have no idea what I'm doing. It's like, but I deadlift like between
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eight and eight fifty when I'm feeling pretty good without too much of a problem
29:10
or stones off the ground. Yeah, when I'm doing low rows with three
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hundred pounds for a set of thirty, you know it's it's not that heavy.
29:19
And my goal is to be quick and explosive. You can't be in
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a standstill and just go explosive. Nothing nothing. Athletically, you do,
29:30
what do you do before you jump? You go down a little bit and
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then you jump up. Yeah, everything you do athletically involves motion, and
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these guys all this is improper technique and you're just like, no, for
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what I'm doing, it's perfect. I'm trying to be explosive, and I
29:48
want to rip stones off the ground, off the ground. I want to
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grab a keg that's three hundred and thirty pounds and rip it off the ground
29:53
and go running down the street with it. Those aren't things you can train
29:57
slow, especially when your race with somebody trying to make it into the World's
30:02
Strongest Man final. Yeah, trying to do a three lift metally. Yeah.
30:07
So it's kind of like there's certain things you can be explosive on.
30:12
There's certain things like a power clean. If I do a power clean,
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I'm going to be super explosive on it. Yeah. I'm not going to
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drop down into a full front squat cleaning it that way, because there's nothing
30:23
I do that's that way. Yeah, but I'll pop it from my hips
30:27
up, which will give me explosive power so that when I'm cleaning an axle
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or you know, doing a sandbag toss or something like that, I'm explosive.
30:37
And that's how you need to train if you're going to be an athlete,
30:41
if you're going to do things. I can't remember it was with Chad
30:45
or who we were talking about this specifically where they were trying to explain.
30:49
I was like, we're not building much mule muscle atrophy or we're because we're
30:55
talking about like we're not building muscle. Yeah, that's what I'm saying,
31:00
Like, like we're not. You're not sitting here trying to build this giant
31:04
defining back. You're trying to build strength and power in your bag. The
31:08
funny thing is your back ends up pretty darn big, and it does.
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It does. I was excited when I standing next when we train. I
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took that picture. Yeah, I was like, I didn't realize my pack
31:21
was quite that love, you know what I'm saying. But that's but you
31:23
know, that's the thing is like people feel like I got a degree,
31:29
I've been to the gym once, I'm a professional. You know, like
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there's so many people out there that will be like that's and there. I
31:37
was like, you know, everybody trained specifically different towards their body style,
31:41
their sport and what they're going to do. You know what I'm saying,
31:45
nobody needs to. And there's Henry Rawlins. Yeah, he's like education without
31:52
mileage, it's bullshit. And hey, and that's exactly what it is.
32:00
Just because you read in a book someone else's opinion on how to do it,
32:05
you still need to use their competion because there's things you can learn.
32:07
The best way to learn from peoples go talk to him. Yeah, and
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go to the biggest guy in the gym. Maybe you think he's doing something
32:14
wrong, so you go ask him or just watch him, and then when
32:16
he's done, go, hey, I just want to ask what are you
32:20
doing that for? I just trying to learn. And most of the guys,
32:24
for the most part, will stop and explain it to you if they
32:28
have the time, Like, yeah, I got to drink my shake right
32:30
now, and I'll just have a quick two minute conversation. Don't ask him
32:35
a three hour question. Yeah, but ask him a ten minute answer.
32:37
You know, question it has like a five or a ten minute answer.
32:40
You'll get it. Just be kind of focused on your questions. Don't ask
32:45
somebody a question, be like you just ask me something that's going to take
32:47
me two hours to explain to you, because there's a lot that goes into
32:52
it. But you're asking me why you're doing it that way, I'll tell
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you because I'm training for explosion and I'm training to do as many reps as
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I can in you know, a minute, because that's what the parameters of
33:07
what I do is. You know, you have to clean and press of
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three hundred and thirty pound axle as many times as you can in sixty seconds.
33:16
Yeah, you have to be quick, you have to be explosive,
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and you have to do more than one because one's not going to make it.
33:23
Which that's a bad example because I'm horri about the axle, but stead
33:28
less still did you still did it? But the same thing that like deadlife
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for reps. You know, I pulled what seven sixty five for eight in
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thirty six seconds in one contest. You know it's you know, just getting
33:47
in that rhythm and going and but you got to train to do that.
33:50
You can't do this perfect little movement formed thing that no that that's bodybuilding or
34:00
or like a fitness figure physique type of thing. And you know what,
34:05
if that's your that's your thing, that's good, that's enjoy it, keeps
34:07
doing to it. Yeah, I wouldn't want you to stop for anything exactly.
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But I can still lift the way I want to lift. Yeah,
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and I get the results running your mouth like you know better than I do.
34:20
Yeah, because if we do right now, when you when you've been
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the world's ten times, when you're a power lifted champion, then come talk.
34:27
You know what I'm saying, because that's what it comes down to.
34:30
Like, uh, just like the hit and row. I'm saying, you
34:34
got the experience. I've been there, I've done that, not at just
34:38
the highest level, but I've got the knowledge from what I've learned, and
34:42
then I have the experience to back it up. So that's it. Yeah,
34:45
And it's it's those things. I try not to be cocky. I
34:47
try to be nice to people and stuff like that, even when you're fairly
34:54
rude. Um, and that's my job, you know what I'm saying.
34:58
I do step in and I will say things. You know what I'm saying,
35:01
because guess what, Nick, you're a nice guy and I've never seen
35:05
you want to upset anybody. Well, it's part of being Buddhist, just
35:10
just not I can't see being intentionally mean to people. Yeah, I mean
35:15
I can definitely see letting people know when they've done something that isn't right.
35:21
Yeah, and maybe not the softest of ways, you know, but understand
35:27
that I'm not Buddhist, and I will say some things and thank you Chad
35:31
for always answering the call to Yeah that's true too, Yeah yeah so,
35:37
but you know, for the most part, it's it's it's it's a lot
35:43
of fun. I love this to death. I want to see other people,
35:46
you know, enjoy the sport as much as I do. UM,
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And I just want to share what I do know and have people build on
35:57
it and take it from where I left it. That's what I'm talking mom,
36:00
Nick, give these people those beautiful words. Well coming up, we
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got joke in coming up next week, so look out for that. Uh.
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He coached for the Panthers eight years. He's you know, also Arizona
36:15
State strength coach is and he coaches all the sports, not just one.
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So he's strength um for next week and until then, training hard, train
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sparted to do the best your experience what they can bet