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Training Insights and Strongman Competition Prep with Tom Evans · The Best Experience

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  Man every show, Tom's Evans, Hey, guys, great and Strongest.
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  Oh yeah, is there anything I've you have to do? It? Giants
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  Live. That would be the only branch of the tree I've not covered at
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  this time. Well, reach out, what are you guys? Waiting on.
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  Well, you know, we're hoping for some things in the works.
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  There's been some conversations and I'm hopeful something will get you know, worked out
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  here soon. But we'll see, you know, we'll see. Well,
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  the one in the Vegas is deadlifting. If if I if I had to
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  pick, I think i'd rather left a long but that's just me. Yeah,
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  but remember the dead Lift Park. There's only one event, and you're
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  still going to place higher than you think at it because they take all the
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  guys from the Deadlift World Championships out of the mix. Yeah, because there's
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  only a certain amount that are doing that, so it's it's actually not as
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  bad as you think. Well, I get the then the Vegas, so
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  that would also be Yeah, come out and have some fun. Oh absolutely,
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  And they're shooting here at the range. Oh yeah, that'd be awesome.
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  That's why you see me in the car because I'm actually working at the
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  range. Right. I had to come out and take my links to do
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  this. Well, I appreciate you get you guys doing it early for me
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  starting to get the bad Easter time. So you excited about the saw extremely
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  excited? Yeah, Yeah, like last year was very much like, you
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  know, you hear about it, You're like, it's this heavy, it's
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  this many events, and then you get into it and then it's like,
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  Okay, it is heavier. It is even more taxing than I thought it
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  would be. So I'm excited to be, you know, a second time
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  around, have a better idea what was coming, you know, And I
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  like the competitions. With more events, I think for me, you know,
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  I can finish it hopefully like top five and every event, or at
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  least in the top half, and end up somewhere good and placing. So
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  I feel pretty confident about that. Weaknesses are getting better and strings are getting
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  better as well. You'll probably like a lot too, right, Yeah.
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  Yeah, I'm really excited for the squad two overhead events with three disciplines.
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  That's that's exciting for me. It'll actually only be my second time doing circus
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  dumb bell, but the training in a lot, I'm really excited to get
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  to do that one on the prest stage. Yeah, it's it's gonna be
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  pretty cool. Yeah, it's gonna be fun to watch. Yeah, we
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  just went and tested the the bail carry m hmm. Yeah, that looks
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  uh, that looks insane. It's gonna be pretty cool. It's if you
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  got a good grip, then it's just gonna be getting the thing moving.
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  Yep. Yeah, because I imagine it can feel more like a carry and
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  push than just a carry. Correct. Yeah, because those tires are huge
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  and they're soft, so they're they're pretty rubbery. You're gonna have to push
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  on it, and it's gonna be on a rubber floor, so you're gonna
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  have to lean into the thing when you're going. Interesting, it's not gonna
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  be what people think it's gonna be. And then you get to run back
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  fifty feet and sit down and do the arm over arm with that tractor,
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  and the tractor the way the tires are in that tractor, the first pole
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  in the last party are gonna be the same. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
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  that's why we were kind of getting at Yeah. I'm assuming it'll it'll
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  feel kind of like the safe right, no momentum, maybe a little heavier.
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  Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be not a lot of moments. You'll
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  get a little bit of momentum out of it, a little bit, but
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  not a lot. So, I mean, Brian has one technique. I
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  had another technique. Brian pulled it much harder because the actually it's gonna be
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  neat though, they're gonna be able to measure the pressure on the things that
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  you're putting on them. Yep. So that that's gonna look really cool for
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  the screen because Brian was pulling like five hundred and forty pounds of pressure on
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  the rope. Yeah, and it takes like two hundred and fifty to move
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  it, which I know he's told everybody I wouldn't be talking about this.
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's on the YouTube. We're good. Yeah
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  cool. So yeah, it's it's gonna be pretty serious. Yeah. And
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  the consistent, the consistency, the consistent pull because if drops below two fifty,
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  it doesn't move, it stops. Yeah, it will stop. So
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  and it it Brian. It took Brian a minute, So it's he's one
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  of the best ever seen. So I'm threaking there'll be two to three guys
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  that might get through the whole thing in the ninety seconds. But it's yeah,
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  I for some reason I thought it was gonna be a two minute mark,
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  but that that's still if Brian took a mane on it, that's uh,
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  yeah, there'll be a lot of this it's being measured most likely correct.
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  Yeah, So it's gonna be good, and it's gonna get guys pulling
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  to that last second because every inch is gonna count YEP. Absolutely, Yeah,
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  I'm I'm I'm excited. It's gonna be funny, and I'm gonna get
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  in there and talk while you guys are going. So it's gonna be a
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  blast. Oh that's that's gonna be. That's gonna be a long minute and
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  a half. But talk about going down time excited for the opportunity. Yeah,
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  and it's gonna it's gonna look incredible. I mean like having four giant
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  pieces of form equipment just moving on one go. It's yeah, yeah,
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  the bail to or the bailer will clear out and then when you pull the
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  chactors back, the only thing coming back out you're gonna be the chapters.
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  So it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty neat to watch, awesome. It's
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  gonna be visually really cool. I like the device you came up with to
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  do the arm over arm with too. Yeah, because that seat that's gonna
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  move and stuff is if the guys are smart, which I wasn't as smart
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  as I should have been I should have been using my legs. But if
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  the guys are smart and they use their legs, it's gonna help help a
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  lot. So I love that. And I don't think you'll be able to
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  loop it around your back and then just lean lean back and do some other
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  things. You're gonna have to stay in your hands with it that. Yeah,
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  So it's gonna be cool, really cool. And then they opened up
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  they opened one more section in the arena, so the floor is gonna be
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  even bigger. That's awesome. Yeah, and it's gonna be filled out too.
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  Every every year it's been Yeah, it's just sold out last year,
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  we'll sell out this year. It's it's gonna be crazy. And the expo
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  is gonna be pretty neat seeing the way they're gonna set it up there to
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  do in the South Hall now too, so it's going two halls, not
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  just the one. That's awesome. Yeah. That's good though, because it's
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  a lot a lot of vendors and opportunities and you know, people to get
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  in there and really see all this stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, anybody
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  that's listening, I highly recommend to go. It's uhh yeah, I've got
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  it. This will be my third time, and it's just from the fan
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  experience. I tell my family, like, this is the one to go
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  to. And it's a little bit it's a little harder to get to because
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  it's an hour north of the airport, but in my opinion, it's more
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  than worth it. Oh it's it's one of the best experiences you'll ever do.
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  And then just the speakers that are come and talk and the lectures that
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  will go on, and just some of the other stuff that's going on.
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  It's it's gonna be pretty exciting. I'm fired up for it. I can't
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  I can't wait. So, but how else is your training going. It's
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  going well. My biceps are finally starting to heal a little bit, so
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  you know, I don't know what my camera is doing, but you know,
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  we're really really excited to get you know, the squad event in,
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  really excited to throw the keg, excited to continue. I've been training.
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  I've been training axle for really since last October, so the axle is prying,
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  ready to go. Finally get getting back on the log. Dead less
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  improving still yeah, and it's just you know, we're gonna start incorporating some
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  more of the specific events. Uh here in a little bit, we're kind
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  of building the foundation, but we'll start getting a finger back in, start
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  getting the power shares back in. And I mean yeah, I mean,
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  is there's so many things to train. It's just it's you can't really cover
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  everything every week. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's eight events, but
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  I mean the way I count it is right, it's like eleven different disciplines
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  of train which is yes, yeah, trying to manage body fatigue and manage
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  it all. Right, when can I push this week or do I just
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  need to work on technique this week? Because if you try to push everything
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  hard for twelve weeks or have your long training cycle, is you'll break before
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  you even get there. Yeah, that's something a lot of guys don't understand.
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  You don't have in training. You don't have to do the events with
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  the actual contest way. You just get close and practice of technique and you
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  don't even know you gonna be able to lift the things. So just you
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  just suck it up and go get it done. So the guy that comes
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  in the healthiest usually does the best, to be quite honest with you,
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  yep. So that's a good way to think about it. That's the hope.
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  Yeah, so it's it's what else do you think? What else are
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  you looking forward to this year? How was Worlds? By the way,
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  the world for me was it was a good experience. I was a little
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  disappointed in my performance really on one event. I so on the on the
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  sandbag, and I don't know if I showed this on TV. I made
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  it. I had injured my other bicep in training leading up to it,
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  not significant, nothing surgical, but enough to where I had to make some
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  modifications. Like on the deadlift letter, I planned to pull the first couple
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  of bars mixed script and I had a bell on that which probably ended up
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  helping me out take more time so I could get the last bar. So
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  that was a huge win because that was about that's off the floor. That
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  last bar was about forty pounds less than I've ever pulled off the floor,
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  So hopefully we'll pull a lot more now without I set up. So we
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  were happy with the deadlift. A Viking press was great. I was so
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  I made a conscious decision in the sandbag when my biceps started not to feel
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  great too. Just it's like I'm gonna be fighting from one point here I
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  wanted to stay healthy for the next events, and we had a really really
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  tight group. I mean between Rag, bish Aymar and myself it was like
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  like four I think maybe like three point spread going into like the last two
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  events. Wow. And I was I was really confident that I would win
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  the Viking Press. I was confident mistakenly about the car yoke. Where Nick,
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  We've talked about this. I I struggled again with the car yoke,
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  and I can't you know, I'm looking at some things, but you know
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  I can. I'm very confident in training. I'm don it with or yoga
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  turning chains on there. I tried to create some instability, but for whatever
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  reason, I had to simulate the car properly. And I finished that.
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  I finished it in a really bad time. That was the only thing.
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  I was really disappointed by the stones. I did have an a tacky issue,
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  but I was kind of I panicked with my taxi because I was worried
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  about my bicep. So I kind of like I would call it probably fifty
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  fifty bicep issue for the strength. The strength this wasn't there to bail me
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  out at the bad tacky and so what was I used a lot. I
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  used way too much and it was way too high, and I I started,
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  you know, set, I started wearing stone sleeves solely just for the
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  sweat. Tried to keep the sweat off the tacky and we I was in
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  the third group, and I under underestimated the amount of time in between.
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  So I definitely should have waited longer to put on my back as well.
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  Mm hm. That was actually my first besides like regional comps, that was
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  my first time doing stones outside. Oh no, okay, in training,
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  I've done it outside, but we all know it's very different in the competition
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  for the whole entire time to cook all day in the sun. Yeah,
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  that's differ yep O s g shaw uh the Arno lamb all indoors. So
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  not like I even said it, I'm like, well, that was my
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  first time on the real stage twin stones outside and so learned some lessons there.
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  So now with that, what we age, I have to put the
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  tack down later, and I have to. I see a lot of guys
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  will leave the TACKI out in the in the in the sun, so they
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  kind of see how it's reacting to the weather. I did not do that.
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  And I had a like I've always had issues sometimes getting out of the
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  jar, so I use a heat gun. So what I was using a
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  League standard because it wasn't it wasn't melting until we got out there. Should
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  it? Should I use the hot grade? Yeah? Yeah, Yeah,
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  that's the thing about doing stones here in Vegas. It's so freaking hot.
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  Even when they are in the garage, the stones are still over one hundred
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  degrees. It'll be one hundred like today, It'll be one hundred and one
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  hundred and five out right now. Yeah, so inside the garage it'll be
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  one hundred and five. So that's yeah. You get used to going okay,
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  nope, I need to put this time and need to put that on.
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  So okay, So did you go with like five or six different grades
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  or did you just go with like a couple. I went with uh three
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  grades, the hot, the standard, and the training for the the usually
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  throw in the back of my hand out but yeah, I just I told
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  I met the whole thing up. There's there's no no doubt about that.
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  Yeah. So like we're where Spider Tack has like two grades, Cerberus has
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  four or I think even five now, and so you get one of each
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  of those grades and then get a whole bunch of get all the different weather
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  ones for the elite, and then you take so up. Like in a
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  context like that, I'll end up bringing probably eight different types of tacking with
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  me. Do you do you leave them out in the weather to see how
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  it reacts or do you keep them covered? Well, the stuff that you
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  bring for the heat isn't even really gonna it's it's you're gonna have to heat
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  it up just to get it loose enough to put it on, got it.
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  Yeah, So you put it out in the sun, just try to
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  loosen it up. And if it becomes like puddly in the sun, it's
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  not strong enough. Yeah. The stuff that's like almost hard in the sun,
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  that's what you're looking to use going into something was super hot like that.
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  Yeah, and human and then like put spray tack on your arms and
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  then put on your your sleeves or put a little bit of tacking on your
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  arms, then put your sleeves on, and then put attack on the sleeves
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  and your sleeves won't move when you're doing Yeah, yeah, I did.
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  I usually did the alcohol wipes and the spray tag and then tape them up
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  like the sleeves weren't moving. It was just good, just melting off.
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  And I may have had attacking on to get forty five minutes before. Oh
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  yeah, I am almost You're almost better off at that point, just wiping
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  it off and starting over. Yeah, that's uh, definitely what I'll see
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  I'll do the next time. I I I really underestimated the amount of time
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  in between each group. All right, it's yeah. And then I always
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  remember on that if you gotta do the songs and you're not ready, they
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  wait for you. Yeah. Yeah, so play with the time a little
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  bit, but don't don't necessarily, you know, just be like, okay,
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  well is it time to go? Yep, all right, well I've
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  been starting to get ready. I'm almost ready. I'll be there in two
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  seconds. And then you just finish up your process. I mean you've been
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  waiting around for them all day, right, yeah, so well we'll just
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  it well. And and I'm also not wondering if it was a blessing in
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  the sky to keep my bicep on, so yeah, you know that's why.
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  Yeah, maybe maybe it was for a reason, Oh yeah, for
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  sure, But that's why I'm like I'm just mad about the car. Like
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  there was no injury holding me back. I just just didn't get the job
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  done. Again, how often squads? Squads? Not often? Oh okay,
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  well add those in once every two weeks, okay, no, and
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  get heavy with them. Get get get up into the mid fives, low
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  sixes for singles and doubles. Get heavy with that. You you walk out
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  of the road with a six hundred pounds zer squad, You're not. You're
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  not gonna care if the cord of roads that moves or anything anymore. Yeah,
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  you just it just won't matter. Your core is gonna be so stable,
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  it's it's not gonna move. It's really not. You're just gonna breathe
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  as regular and it's gonna it's gonna move smooth. Interesting, it'll help a
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  lot, Okay, Yeah, yeah, I check that out a lot.
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  Well, So I'm hoping, hoping next time it's just a regular. But
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  when it comes up again, yeah, I know, we got the cars
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  in December. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm gonna be
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  watching the tape, I can tell you that. Yeah, I'm I'm definitely
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  gonna try to go faster than went last time. Yeah, oh you flew
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  last time I was there, I remember seeing that. Yeah, so I'm
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  gonna gonna try to be seven point six two seconds. Oh man, that's
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  freaking flying, Nick, That's gonna be awesome. That's gonna be awesome to
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  see. Where's those team this year? Wisconsin? Oh, Medicine, Wisconsin.
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  I kind of want to go. Yeah you should, Yeah, come
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  out. I'm actually going up to uh Color, Wisconsin in a couple of
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  weeks for a wedding. I love it up there. I love Wisconsin.
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  Yeah, yeah, you have to fly back a bunch of spoted cow Yes.
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  Yes, that's awesome. And then I got a lot of family up
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  there too, so it should be it should be cool. It's awesome.
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  I'm looking forward to it. Now. It's just get ready for the deadly
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  Ladder and all the other stuff that's gonna happen. M h, it's fun.
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  Oh yeah, can't wait to watch. Yeah. My issue is gonna
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  be getting down to the bar quickly. My hips aren't as friendly as a
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  also good down to the I figured out the way to pull myself in,
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  so now I just got to keep practicing that suld be able to get it
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  pretty quick by then, So I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, where
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  are the other events? Well, those are the two that I know of,
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  Okay, fair enough. I figured there's gonna be a stone. There'll
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  be stones. There's always stones, so that'll be That'll be fine. There's
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  gonna be some type of carrying dragon Medley because he always has one. He
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  went and told everybody we're gonna have the car walks. So there's probably not
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  going to be a farmer's or a frame, but I'll still train it anyway,
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  because, yeah, the foot movement on the farmers is the same as
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  it is on the yoke, so that's easy. Yeah, So how close
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  are your feet when you pick your yolk? By the way I go around
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  on my hips the same way I walk work, It's been fine for me
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  for other yolks, okay, all right, because I put mine actually inside
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  of my shoulder shoulder with so my feet are probably only nine the tendances apart.
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  When I pick a yoke, they're pretty close to go about hip wi
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  right, Yeah, maybe just a little bit about it, but maybe just
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  a little more. Now that way you take the first step and there's no
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  rock side to side at all. Yeah, it's just the motion goes forward.
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  Yeah, I got Well, I'm hoping when it comes out on TV,
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  I can see my feet to double check that. But I double checked
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  my feet because I thought that was the problem the first time was that I
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  went to wide, So like I checked my feet like six times getting into
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  that car. It may have been either taking me. But that's done now.
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  Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, it's it's
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  gonna be. It's gonna be fun to see where you go with this because
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  you're being methodical, you're learning about the injuries, you're learning how to rehab
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  the injuries and train around the injury too. That's gonna be. That's gonna
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  be a big part of it because the more things you go to and the
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  more these you do, all of a sudden you're doing five, six,
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  seven of them in the year and you get beat pretty bad. Yeah.
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  So it's learning that moderation point as you're going and waiting to push and way
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  to back off and Okay, well I got invited to this, I'm gonna
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  go do it, do the best I can, but I'm gonna save myself
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  on these things so that I'm ready ready for what you're actually what your goal
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  is you know, so, so what else is going on? Not a
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  whole lot, that's it's just uh, it's just work and training. It's
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  well, how's the balance between a strength, strength and conditioning coach and and
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  you know, getting your training in at the same time. Well, for
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  me, I kind of know my yearly schedule at this point, so I
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  just kind of I kind of roll with it. I'm not gonna well,
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  I say it's easy. I think every year, every year, I feel
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  like it gets harder. I'm getting a little more tired, going to bed
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  a little earlier, not wanting to do anything on my rest days. Yeah.
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  By the way, yes, so I've been told, but yeah,
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  I mean it's it's to me, it's just management making sure I can handle
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  everything. And then I I think this year, the second half of this
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  year, I got to do a better job of looking at the whole picture,
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  Like I if I have a really hard work day, like physically I
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  need to be or travel wise, I need to be more careful in training
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  following those days. Yeah, because I've I had to do a lot of
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  traveling in the spring, and a thing that had something to do with my
• 26:56
  biceps injuries. M h. There was a there was a span where I
• 27:02
  was on the road. I think about six weekends in a row. Yeah,
• 27:07
  not far, but it's still time in the car and uh, you
• 27:11
  know cars as roomy as you like them to be, as big as you
• 27:17
  are. No, no, so, but you know I love it.
• 27:26
  I want to change it. Not going to change it. I just gotta
• 27:30
  have to keep down and nutrition a little bit better, maybe so after after
• 27:38
  Worlds it's really the big thing is so I would work and go in and
• 27:45
  have been trained pretty quickly, so I'd be on my feet moving kind of
• 27:52
  like a we have many workout almost for three to two to three hours,
• 28:00
  and then I would go right into working out. With the way my schedule
• 28:04
  is now I can and I had to start doing this, like I will
• 28:10
  go force myself to sit and eat and hydrate and let that that just before
• 28:15
  I train to get to get really a second meal in, whereas before I
• 28:25
  was trying to operate off of one, and so I could get done and
• 28:27
  get on. Yeah, and then that wasn't at the end of the sessions,
• 28:32
  I had start dying out. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's someone to
• 28:41
  do is be done and yeah, you don't have you don't have the feel
• 28:44
  of the energy you need to finish, so that that's very good decision.
• 28:48
  Yep. So starting to do that and just being more adaptable trying not to
• 28:56
  panic too much. Is like I got to call an audible on a on
• 28:59
  a left, the heavy thing, and I'm like, it's not there here
• 29:03
  today, I'm going to have to adjust it. Yeah, yeah, don't
• 29:11
  get that. It's like, okay, your program for this, did you
• 29:15
  feel off? Don't worry about getting the number. You're strong as a bull
• 29:21
  anyway. One one, one variation isn't going to cost you your whole training
• 29:26
  cycle. So just get some training in so that you get something done and
• 29:32
  then shut it down and go hit it back again hard next week. It's
• 29:36
  how you stay in one piece that that makes the difference. With the biceps
• 29:44
  being sore and injured, how long is it taking you to recover from that?
• 29:51
  They like I have I laid off stones for a while. I've actually
• 29:56
  been able to clean axles, like with the underhand side to faster than I
• 30:04
  could do stones. It's weird as that sounds, but for probably about four
• 30:15
  weeks we did nothing. But like anytime I would do stones and programming,
• 30:18
  we just do a tremendous amount of bus of rehab and trying to make a
• 30:22
  specific too strong man where like you know, a lot of like traditional bicep
• 30:27
  rehabs done and like you know, full contraction or like isometrics at like a
• 30:33
  true ninety degree angle, but I'm trying to get into that, like the
• 30:37
  deeper isometric where I even did some like BFR training with a large met ball
• 30:42
  to kind of simulate a stone and just get in the angles that I'm in
• 30:48
  more and more of that like one hundred and twenty five degree angle rather than
• 30:52
  the ninety degree angle. This is kind of the prescribed or rehab no normal.
• 30:59
  Yeah, especially as we've kind of got out of it, I've worked
• 31:04
  on probably more upper body mobility than I ever have, really trying to get
• 31:11
  my pack to kind of let go, trying to get my forms mobile again.
• 31:17
  One that really helped with the axle too, cleaning wise, and yeah,
• 31:23
  trying to do all that without losing an impressing power. That's yeah,
• 31:27
  that's awesome. Yeah, not smart smart thinking. So you know, I
• 31:36
  don't know my stones will be where I want them to be in August,
• 31:41
  but you know, we'll we'll have to make a smart decision, and I
• 31:48
  know we'll we won't zero, that's for damn sure. But if I gotta,
• 31:52
  if I gotta eat some points there, I'm okay with that. We
• 31:56
  got some better events coming. So how deep under the stones are you going?
• 32:01
  Now that you say again, how deep under the stones do you get?
• 32:07
  When you have the bie officies? What do you mean deep? So
• 32:12
  you know how you reach underneath and almost at the bottom of the platform to
• 32:15
  scoop underneath it? Are you? Are you going super deep like that?
• 32:19
  Or are you now coming just part of the stone? I am trying to
• 32:23
  straight arm in as much as possible, keep it straight and like and telling.
• 32:30
  Let let the back and the glutes do the work as long as the
• 32:35
  tack you hold. Okay, so you know how you can reach down?
• 32:40
  Yeah, between your legs and the stone, and then your knees are on
• 32:45
  the outside of your elbows. Yep, you ever pushed your knees into your
• 32:51
  elbows as you're looking the stone at the floor. It sounds like you're a
• 32:57
  good idea. I have a thought it on that it squeezes your hands and
• 33:02
  elbows into the stones, so you can keep them straight yet keep extra pressure
• 33:07
  on him as you're lifting it off the floor. I know guys. I
• 33:12
  know guys have some bit side problems. Never even goes whose back won't go
• 33:16
  down undneath the stone anymore and his hips won't let him drop that low anymore.
• 33:22
  So I grab the stones pretty like almost squeezeish, like a hay squeeze.
• 33:30
  Yeah, you know, that's that's how I pick up the stones,
• 33:32
  and I go just probably two or three inches past the apex of the roundness
• 33:39
  of the stone. I don't get underneath them that deep. I just make
• 33:43
  sure I have the right tacky, because if you have the right tacky,
• 33:45
  let's do that. And then I'll always tacky the last two or three stones
• 33:50
  before I go with the fresh tacking that I have on then retacking my hands
• 33:54
  so by the time I get to him, I don't have to retack it.
• 34:00
  I won't play around with that. Yeah, you just see the light
• 34:02
  bulb going off above you. Yeah, you put you put it in the
• 34:07
  two spots where your hands are gonna go, and then you grab it and
• 34:09
  you roll it about halfway forwards and tack it again with your hands, touch
• 34:14
  it again with your hands, and get tacked on it, because that's where
• 34:15
  your hands are going to be when the stones lapped and you go and you
• 34:19
  go to pull it up. Interesting, Okay, yeah, I've had like
• 34:27
  for me, it's all getting into the lap, no bysee pain or even
• 34:31
  like stress at the load. For me, it's a it's all in the
• 34:37
  just getting into the lap, right, So I just want to make the
• 34:40
  whole thing as easy as possible. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, when
• 34:45
  when you're smaller and you find other ways of moving things that are super heavy
• 34:51
  and use your body to to to help you do to help you get it
• 34:55
  off the ground, to use the mechanics of it. Hell yeah, so
• 35:00
  those things will help a lot. And they may be texting you some videos.
• 35:05
  Okay, absolutely, Yeah, that's that's the stuff I like to do.
• 35:10
  Yeah. I like to get with the higher competitors and just go hey,
• 35:15
  have you done this? Have you done that? Have you done that?
• 35:16
  And just point out little things yea. And that's why I experience everybody
• 35:22
  that's it. I don't know how many times we've been on this podcast and
• 35:27
  all of a sudden you can see the whites of people's eyes and that little
• 35:30
  light bulb go off, and it's like, why didn't I think of that,
• 35:34
  and I was like, you just don't have the experience yet, and
• 35:36
  that's why you're on the show. Oh man, that's awesome. Yeah.
• 35:42
  So I helped some of those things help. And you know, I because
• 35:45
  I did that a the Arnold and the stone was five thirty five and I
• 35:51
  was able to lap that thing. I almost got it over. I lapped
• 35:53
  it like four times. I just this was the last time they had the
• 35:57
  stone in the Arnold and uh, I nearly had it over the bar and
• 36:01
  then I dropped and ended up doing the four sixty five four times. But
• 36:07
  it's with with my biceps. Later on, I can't I couldn't dead my
• 36:12
  arms. So I was able to do it with a good taxi, you
• 36:15
  know, and just pull it and squeeze it like that. Yeah, that's
• 36:20
  how I was able to move him. Yeah, very much noted, And
• 36:24
  I haven't told anybody that, so now everybody knows. Are sure we want
• 36:30
  to air this episode? We did make it later if you'd like, because
• 36:39
  you still gotta go do it. You still gotta figure it out and play
• 36:43
  with it and stuff like that. So it's still challenging it all on its
• 36:45
  own. But I I you got amazing potential. I just can't wait.
• 36:51
  It's just so much fun to watch you do what you do. It really
• 36:53
  is. I appreciate it. It's Ah, that's been an awesome experience,
• 36:59
  Sketty, I keep pushing forward exactly. Hell yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
• 37:05
  there's a lot of good guys coming in. Yeah, people come in,
• 37:09
  they come in fast and hard. But it's the ones that stay, yeah,
• 37:15
  you know, it's the ones that are there year in and year out
• 37:17
  that the opportunity will come to. I mean, you can get there,
• 37:22
  you can do things that will get you there fast, but can you stay
• 37:25
  there and then as you're staying there you learn things and then you just keep
• 37:30
  improving. Yeah, you know, and that's the biggest probably the biggest thing,
• 37:34
  because guys have come in kill it for two or three years, then
• 37:37
  they just break. Trick is not to break yep. So but anyway,
• 37:45
  well, I can't thank you enough for your time. But oh no,
• 37:49
  it's been awesome. I'll always be able to go on this show anything,
• 37:53
  just so I can learn the phone call away, don't you just pick up
• 38:00
  the phone and ask me something? What do you think of this? As
• 38:05
  I No, man, it's always an honor talking to you. Guys,
• 38:07
  and you know this is there's still very surreal for me and kind of being
• 38:14
  part of this. And like I said, I'm just gonna keep pushing,
• 38:17
  keep keep hanging in there and hopefully break podium here soon. It's not.
• 38:25
  Yeah, And the thing is, you're big, you're strong, all that
• 38:30
  stuff. Put weight on that you need. Do not put on weight that
• 38:34
  you don't need. If it's not going to help you, don't do it.
• 38:37
  Don't put it on. You know, it's only put on weight you
• 38:43
  need to help mm hm. So if it's gonna slow you down or limit
• 38:49
  your mobility on something in the in the end, it's not really useful.
• 38:55
  You want useful weight on. Well, Nick and Tom. You know Nick
• 39:02
  is saying and we always like to use it at the meat of every episode.
• 39:06
  You know what I'm saying, it's inspiring and let it. It's words
• 39:09
  that define Nick because you know what, that's exactly how he trained. Well,
• 39:15
  Hey, guys, go follow Tom, go following him. He's absolutely
• 39:19
  amazing. If you don't go follow him, you know, I don't know
• 39:22
  what to tell you. The guy's amazing, he's smart. He's also a
• 39:27
  really good strain coach. So hit him up. On that as well,
• 39:30
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• 39:34
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• 39:37
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• 39:42
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