Barbell Shrugged - How Tim Crumrine Lost 20 Pounds in 16 Weeks in the Diesel Dad Mentorship w/ Tim Crumrine, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #617

Episode Date: November 24, 2021

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Shrug family, this week on Barbell Shrug, our good friend Tim Crumrine, one of the very first Diesel Dad Mentorship athletes, one of our best success stories to date. We actually built much of the program that we offer all of our Diesel Dads that come through the mentorship program around a lot of his needs because he was one of the first athletes. So we had a big framework for what we wanted to do inside the mentorship and how we were going to develop this one-on-one coaching program. And then through his journey, as well as some of the very early adopters of the program, we were able to really hone in on exactly what we wanted out of

a final result after 16 weeks. Tim is now on to like week 32 of the program, which is really cool. We're doing some really cool lab work diagnostics with him and getting him as dialed in as possible. But this is the story of the first 16 weeks and how he lost 20 pounds in the first 16 weeks and really reshaped his life and mindset around food, nutrition, fitness, how it all works together, building the ecosystem, a lot of the systems in his life that allow him to live a strong, lean, and athletic life. I'm really excited. A little break in the action from all the overwhelming, maybe not overwhelming, but a lot of the super educational content that we post each week and a little bit of the real life story of what goes on inside our Diesel Dad Mentorship.

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tub. People, these things are insanely nice. And I highly recommend you get over if you are looking into having a cold tub in your house, complete human.com forward slash cryo. And friends, let's get into the show. Welcome to Barbell Shrugged. I'm Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and the world famous before and after picture, Tim Krumrein is on the show today. Man, you were like one of the very first people that answered the call when we launched the Diesel Dad Mentorship. And I'm incredibly proud of the work that we got to do in kind of building the program in real time and seeing the results and seeing just the overall transformation of your life over the last 16 weeks, which is why we're having you on the show to kind of discuss the process, where you were, all the things you had tried. And man, there's a

specific piece of this and i hope you talk about it because if you don't i'm definitely going to uh when we first uh jumped on the phone um that caught me by surprise because you're in colorado i'm in raleigh north carolina where were you sitting when we got on the phone for the very first time? Oh, I was in prison. Yeah. For all of you people, he didn't get arrested. There's no arrested. But when you have a fake zoom background, that is you in a jail cell,

there's work to be done on how you feel about your current situation and where you're headed. Yeah. Where, what was going on in life in 16 weeks ago? you feel about your current situation and where you're headed. What was going on in life 16 weeks ago? So decided that I got to do something different. I had been trying to lose weight. Was a competitive power lifter back in the day for the University of Texas and super strong. And then something happened. I don't know,

end of college, getting married, kids just kept gaining weight, gaining more weight. Eventually worked my way into CrossFit, started losing weight, was super happy with that. But I kind of got to a point where just nothing happened anymore, losing weight. Lost a little bit here and there and then gained a little bit back, but kind of stuck around the 210 mark and really nothing changed. So I had to do something different and decided that I'm not sure what's going on. I've got the tools, but for some reason not everything is coming together. What do I need to do?

So what were you actually trying back then? I'm assuming you're exercising in some capacity and not everything's coming together what do i need to do so what were you actually trying back then i'm assuming you're exercising in some capacity and thinking about your diet in some capacity but what were you specifically doing so i would try to work out three times a day uh and that was generally get up in the morning do some sort of calisthenics and then at lunch maybe go for a run and then after work uh would either do krav maga or brazilian jiu-jitsu uh go work out do something right so i'm working out like three times a day trying to do as much as i possibly can so yeah sorry go ahead for a second go ahead you're back on were you muted no you're good right now okay

okay keep going a second go ahead yep so i've been working out quite a bit and just couldn't really lose the weight and there was lots of different factors i'm finding now why i wasn't losing the weight so now i've got more tools in my toolbox and I have a path of where to go. And that's probably the most important, right? It's being able to figure out where do I go next, how to measure, what I need to measure, and what's the most important thing. So now that you've had some more recent success in the last 16 weeks, you've lost 20 plus pounds. What do you see as the differences between what you were doing and what you've done recently? Discipline. That's probably the biggest thing. Really focusing in on protein, which I love protein, right? I'm a meat eater by just nature. But I'd also combine

that with a lot of fat, right? So it wasn't just those proteins and rib eyes and things with a lot of fat right so it wasn't just i was eating proteins eating ribeyes and things with a lot of fat there's nothing wrong with that but if you're trying to lose weight and you're focused on eating those sort of things you can easily blow your calorie count out of the water you're not even that deficit yeah all right people think about ribeyes as being as being steak which of course it is it has protein but it's like 80 calories sorry 80 calories from fat and maybe 20 from from protein i don't know the exact numbers but it's something like that it's not it's not even 50 50 it's like way heavy bent toward most calories coming from fat it's a fat source that has protein yeah was it frustrating to you at the time that you you in competing and powerlifting, you're like

in the fitness world, you're doing CrossFit, you're in the fitness world, but a lot of the results just aren't happening. Like the thing that you want, you're doing all the things, you're trying as hard as you can, but none of the results seem to be happening. Was there like a point of frustration in that where you just like, what the hell's going on? Yeah, absolutely. It's extremely frustrating. You know, it's, I hear I'm working out, I'm doing what I think is right. I'm trying to eat right. Just really frustrated in the fact that I can't seem to get where I want to go. Part of that is having a million goals, right? You just can't do it when you've

got everything's a priority. I want to eat. I want to be really strong, right? So here I am trying to eat to get stronger, but also trying to lose weight. And you combine all that and it's very difficult to do. So you have to really set your sights on what it is that you want. I think the Diesel Dad program really helps sum it up for me, right? I want to be strong. I want to be lean. I want to be athletic. Yeah.

There was another piece kind of when we started breaking into this process that you did a really awesome job specifically towards the end when we were making like the final push to hit the 20-pound goal. And so many people that we work with struggle with this piece as well. And that is a delicious IPA in your life. I remember in our initial call in the first couple of weeks, you in a way really struggling with like the social social side of most of your friendships it was like we're hanging out we're gonna have a couple beers and you you really had to like work through that process and just become very aware of where you were with drinking yeah you got it it became part of my identity you know I don't think I ever was what you consider an alcoholic,

but I definitely had it as part of my identity. Oddly enough, COVID really brought it all together because we're not able to go to a bar with friends, so what do you do? You set up a Zoom meeting. Now you're just at home drinking. You don't have limits. Easier. It's easier. Way easier.

I don't have to worry about getting a ride home. It's like, I just drink, right? Yeah. And then plus, you know, you work out really hard and you think, well, at the end of the day, I deserve a beer, right? So you have a beer. Well, then the weekend comes around and you meet up with friends or you're even on like a Zoom happy hour and here you are drinking again. So just an incredible amount of calories that get consumed.

I don't think people realize it, but it's one of those things that you really have to watch for if you're trying to lose weight. I feel like on a similar note, once you've had a beer or you're in the process process of drinking a beer then eating junk food just becomes just a little bit easier it's like we're having fun we're partying we're having a good time it's just easier to grab some chips or whatever just happens to be around when you're already making one bad decision this the next bad decision is just a little bit easier you've already kind of broken open the gate to more bad decisions. Does that happen to you? Oh, it happens very frequently. I've got to really watch myself. Because you're right, it makes things easier. Because think about it, on a Friday night, I've had a couple beers. I don't really need dinner. I'm kind of full. So let me grab some chips and salsa. And half the bag of chips is gone. And who knows what else you're eating along with that.

It just spirals out of control. So you lose that inhibition to really monitor yourself, which is what's required. If you want to be healthy and fit, it's not an easy job because you have all these outside pressures constantly on you to not eat healthy, right? It's easy to grab fast food. It's easy to go to the gas station and just grab a snack, but you're not really getting the bang for your buck out of that kind of stuff. Yeah. How tricky was it in your household kind of becoming,

like doing the program knowing that you've got kids and you were actually the person that invented the dad tax which is like the coolest thing ever um and i hope that we make the dad tax like super famous and we just get to tell you uh tell people about you coining it forever um but the like how difficult was it in the house making the changes knowing that maybe your kids and wife aren't 100% ready to go all in like you are? Oh, they're not ready to go all in. They're still not. Dad looks jacked and we don't care. They're at all, right? And I've made a lot of this stuff in my house, which I think it's kind of

maybe getting into their heads a little bit. But I had a 12-year-old and an 8-year-old. So they love junk. They don't understand why things are bad for them. It tastes good. Why wouldn't you want to eat that, right? Yeah. And especially with my little one who loves fruit juice, right?

Orange juice, apple juice, pineapple juice. It's healthy, right? It's fruit juice. Yeah. It juice apple juice pineapple juice it's healthy right it's fruit juice but yeah it says the word fruit right dad's mixing the orange juice a little vodka over here yeah i'd love to know kind of like after you you got into the program where you started to feel really confident that you were you were headed in the right direction because i saw kind of like the snowball effect um and we get to see it from the outside where you go damn this dude is absolutely crushing it right now but when did you start to kind of see like either feel or see the the changes in which you were you were really

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So get over to Protee Challenge. Get to Walmart right now. Once I actually saw my calories really start to drop, you know, in that 1,500-ish range, even down to 1,400, it was cemented at that point. Like, not only am I doing well, I'm really doing everything that I need to on the program. That was huge. I mean, the weight coming down week after week is super important. If you look at it on a day-to-day basis, it kind of drives you crazy.

It's good to do. But when you look at it on a week-to-week basis, you really see that difference. But it was those low calories where I started to make much better decisions. I focused in on cutting some of the things that I don't need and then maximizing my nutrition. Then it became, that's where I can drop all alcohol, right? I'm just not going to drink for a while. I'm not going to do the dad tax as much.

Like I still have energy. I still am able to complete workouts. So I can do this and I can kind of up my game a little bit. Yeah. To clarify real quick, you were only at that low a calorie number, 1500 calories or so for a week or two. That was like the final push to hit your, to hit your goal on time. Uh, you weren't just, we didn't just put you on 1500 calories and just leave it and just leave you there. But during those week or two, um, you're saying that you, because your calories

were so low, you had to only, you only had space for the good stuff. Is that basically what you said? Yeah, you got it. So no, we definitely didn't start that low. I'd probably crashed and burned at that, but it was all those little steps. Yeah. You can't, to me, you just can't start cutting calories that drastically without having a plan, right? And it was all those weeks prior to that, that I was building this plan where I'm starting to change out those proteins for less fat proteins. And that I think that's, that's the key, right? It's trying to figure out these little things that you can do every day that really help you. So yeah, I wasn't at a low calorie count for very long, but it was in my mind that not only can I do this, but

I ultimately want to hit my goal of 12% body fat. I think that's when I started to see more of a long-term solution come out of what we were doing. Not just, okay, I'm losing 20 pounds. That's great, but where do I want to be six months? How do I drive that? Yeah. In the process, like, as the progressions and the calories, we always try and get people to kind of start out at just baselining things for two weeks. Were the progressions pretty manageable? Obviously, they were kind of looking back. But in the process, do you remember thinking like, man, this thing's getting really hard? Or was it pretty sustainable and not overwhelmingly cumbersome to see like a 100 calorie drop coming every week or every other

week for you? It was super manageable for me. It was because I was building those tools, right, to figure out what are the things that I can cut? where can I go from here. So I think really the progression is super key to what we're doing. Again, if you try to drop, you know, five, 600 calories, just boom, without having the tools, it gets really difficult. So I think depression was super helpful and dropping a hundred calories a week or a day per, excuse me, something that we added probably about a quarter, maybe halfway through was, was like the weekly behaviors. I'd love to know your thoughts kind of once that, once we added that in as far as like, you talk about adding the tools or gaining the skill set that you need to reach the specific goal. How did, once we, once we added those weekly behavioral changes or the habit that you would like to pick up? How did that start to kind of affect the results or affect you just your ability to stay focused on what you have going on? I think that's it. It's that ability to focus on

a small goal at one time, you know, not trying to make these massive changes where all of a sudden you have to drop everything that you're accustomed to. It's like, okay, this week I'm adding on. So you get that confidence of the week prior. Did I meet my goal? What do I need to do to make my goal this week? And then let's add something new. But it's all stuff that's good for you.

So it's not super hard, right? I mean, you can make it hard, but I think if you just take the goals and manageable chunks, you'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah. We actually just got off a podcast talking specifically about this and use your example of kind of like kicking the dog out of bed to improve your sleep quality at night and making sure you're getting the thing, uh, like the seven to nine hours that we, we want to see everybody getting, um, uh, a lot of that from our side of things, it's fun to watch people taking the next steps. Like you, it took you not very long to dig into the basics of the program. Um, and once you commit to the lifestyle side of things, it's, it becomes pretty easy to eat the way you're supposed to commit to the lifestyle side of things, it's, it becomes

pretty easy to eat the way you're supposed to train the way you're supposed to. But then that becomes, once it becomes easy, the whole transformation piece is about kind of like continuing the journey and, and trying to make things harder by implementing new, more challenging ways of living or like getting rid of the old unhealthy and finding new ways. I guess in that process, were you very aware of kind of like the mindset shift that you had? And whether it's from the behavior side, the habit side, I think it's overall could be lumped into like, was like the mindset shift from, can I do this to holy shit, I'm smashing this. That was fantastic. When you go back and you look at it, I mean, hindsight is

2020. What I'm realizing is that all those things are super important to keep thinking about, right? Because what you're doing is you're making lifestyle changes. You're not just, this isn't like a diet or just a program you're on. You're learning how to live differently. So even things that I didn't recognize, right? I mean, when we first talked about what are your goals? And it was, I want to go in and be able to buy clothes, but I want to buy a new suit and not have to worry about the size. It was changing that mindset to, buy, I want to buy a new suit and not have to worry about the size. It was changing that mindset to, no, I'm going to go in and get what I want because I can do this. And I realized,

I thought the jail thing was funny because I had used it for, for work all the time, right? It's like, everybody knows, right? I'm sitting down in my basement and I'm working and doing my thing, but I didn't realize sort of, it really got into my head, you know, feeling like that feeling like I was just cooped up and didn't know how to sort of break out of it. And with these lifestyle changes, I've been able to get rid of that mentality. Like I am in control now and trying to go from zero to a hundred is really tough to do, but you take those small chunks and you add in those little goals and these little lifestyle changes, it becomes easy. And you look at it and people look at it and they

think, oh, this is really hard. Well, yeah, but Rome wasn't built in a day, right? I mean, it took 16 weeks to get where I wanted to be. So little changes, right? I think people underestimate the time it's going to take to do something and they overestimate the complexity of it, right? Yeah. It's interesting because 16 weeks really isn't that long of a time. That was the beginning of summer. That's like literally yesterday when you're an adult and you have kids and you have a job and you've got everything going on. The beginning of summer just feels like yesterday.

I don't know how four months went by all of a sudden. And it really is crazy how much you can impact your life in a positive way by just taking small steps to move forward. It's 16 weeks is like nothing. And coming out the other side, do you remember, was it a conscious decision when you took yourself out of jail? Or did it just happen? Because it happened, I think, when you were in Alaska. Right. You didn't have a choice.

Right. Yeah, it was my choice. I was in my happy place, right? That's where I love to be. So it was nice to feel like I can break out of it. But with all the temptations in Alaska, right. And you're on vacation, you're seeing old friends just that mentality of like, okay, I can do this. It's tremendous. Right. And it's very fun to allow yourself sort of the discipline to keep moving forward when things are difficult and making these lifestyle changes and really pushing aside the things that aren't good for you. Yeah. I'd love to hear your thoughts on, in general, what coaching means to you and like the accountability side of it, because

you've gone and hit this this goal 20 pounds 16 weeks you lost four inches off your waist and we're continuing on we're going to hit 12 body fat we've got a big road ahead of us and it's it's been interesting because now in our calls and i like doing this we have a call set up today to do this podcast, so I likely won't text you tomorrow. But you've asked for more accountability in the process, which I think if you were to ask a normal person, they'd be like, okay, you hit your goal. Time to move on. What's next? And for you, it's kind of like doubling down on more coaching, more accountability, and more check-ins just so you have more touch points to not veer off course. How important do you feel like having an actual coach in the process?

How much that impacted your results? Well, I had been about 210 pounds for well over a year and not getting anywhere so I'd say it's it's huge accountability and not wanting to disappoint my coaches right it's not just disappointing myself it's like other people are relying upon me to do what I said I was going to do uh yeah me your work means a lot right so if I have that accountability, even multiple times per week, I'm thinking, okay, what am I doing today to make sure that I'm successful at the end of the day and even next week? So without having the accountability, you can really let yourself slack off and just do whatever you want and you forgive yourself, right? It's easy to say, oh, I had a bad day.

So today I'm going to have that beer and chips and sauce and make myself feel better. But when you have that accountability, you think, I can't let myself down. I don't want to let my coaches down. I want them to see that I'm working hard. Yeah. And that's super important to me. Yeah, you really were incredibly consistent. Every single thing we asked you to do, you basically did all of it.

And the results came very naturally from doing the things that you know you needed to do. But just in the last couple of weeks, you can tell your side of this. Instead of tracking things on a daily basis, it was like every other day or every third day. You started to get off track a little bit as far as updating your sheet on a daily basis, looking at things every day. And just that little bit of inconsistency seemed to be putting you a little bit off track. And then you reoriented

and now you're doing it every day again. Can you tell us about that real quick? Yeah, absolutely. That was something that I really prided myself in the beginning of the program was that every single day I got on my iPad, I entered my information in. Then when I did get off track, I'm finding that there's less accountability, less self-accountability, right? At the end of the day,

I want to be proud of myself. I want to be able to get up the next morning, look myself in the mirror and say, I'm doing a good job. That's hard to do when you start skipping days, right? And that's where it's so easy to get off track to start building those bad habits is when you don't have that daily accountability to yourself. And that's, that's huge, right? I mean, you guys said, here's what you need to do to lose weight. That's fantastic. It's a roadmap. Just do these things and your life will improve. Yeah. Great. Right. That's what I was looking for is, okay, what are the, what is the toolkit? How do I put all these things together? Metabolism and weight training and nutrition and everything

together in order to make it work. I think we just named the show, do this and your life will get better. I like that. So good. Um, dude, what's the, uh, when, when you're kind of looking ahead and getting, hitting this goal of 12% body fat, one, why 12% body fat? And, and two, uh, you're kind of, you've, you've gotten to this point where you're very strong, pretty lean. Uh, you've, you're, you're training well, which is all the athleticism side. You feel good in your body. A lot of people go high five. You did it. You don't need to go climb the mountain again. Um, what, what are the goals going forward? uh why why do you find these to be kind of the next mountain you'd like to go climb i think just having success is addictive you want to keep

building upon those successes i chose 12 really just because of great internet research out there right so i just looked up and it's okay what is 15% body fat look like what is 10% 12 11 you run the gambit it really was like anything less than 12 people were saying that they felt hungry all the time and I thought that's that's a short-term goal and it's well they feel that right but I'd rather shoot for the moon and fall a little short. I mean, what if I'm 12 and a half percent body fat? Okay. I've done the work. I've built that. I'm good with that. Right. So I think the next part for me is to continue to build that athleticism, that nutrition, and really help my family understand like we can do this. We can do better.

And to show my kids that constantly working toward a goal makes you happier in life than just being proud of yourself and then slacking off. Plus, the other thing is I want to keep building these habits so that I don't have to worry about this when I'm 60 years old. I'm not back up to 30 something percent body fat. I want to build that lifestyle. And I think continuing with it is where I'm going to really build the next set of tools to do this. I think also there's a component to this. And I've talked about this in some articles I've written or email articles that I've written of like, when you first start a program like this, like nobody cares. Like it's really hard to fight for the space

in your house and with coworkers and friends to say, no, I'm not having the beer. Or this is now what we're eating for dinner. And everyone looks at you and they're like, man, you're like a total pain in the ass right now, changing everyone else's life for your own goals. And it's just annoying. But the more consistent with you are with it, the more people have to respect it. And the more it's in their face, the more they kind of not get out of the way, but they want to help you because you're working so hard at it. Did you find that as, you know, around your friends and around kind of everybody in your inner circle where, where there was a point where they went,

oh, this dude's serious. He's going to make this thing happen. And now all of a sudden you have a very supportive community where likely at the beginning, it's like, why are we doing this? Why are you, why aren't you having the beer with us? This doesn't make sense. Yeah, I see that a lot more with my family than anything else. Friends are pretty respectful. Coworkers, I was really surprised. There was a lot of, hey, we're going to go out to lunch and you want to go and hey, give me a little bit of a hard time if I wasn't going. But it became pretty obvious pretty quickly that, no, I brought my lunch. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do it correctly. Family was the hard part and it's still the hard part, right? Because we're used to going out to eat every now and again, right? And I've had to really

pull back on that simply because I know that I'm not going to make good choices. I have extremely low willpower. I think most people actually do and they overestimate it. So keeping it out of the house is one thing that's helpful. And they're actually really getting on board now. We talk about, okay, what are we going to have for supper? Well, dad needs to have this. So let's accommodate that, right? It's not like you can have a chicken breast and we're gonna go have

pizza right it's okay well now we're all going to have chicken chicken breast together yeah it's it's it's a lot easier and i think they're they're really bought into it much more now still kids right so totally but it becomes the norm there's like it's like it's about really like setting a standard and this is you know what i've written about There's like, it's about really like setting a standard. And this is, you know, when I've written about it a couple of times, it's nobody's going to respect that standard unless you uphold it. And the more you poke holes in your own game, the easier it is for somebody like, I noticed this the most when I'm traveling or I'm with my in-laws or even my immediate family. And like, I eat a certain way because I want a specific result or I want to live like this is the standard that I want to eat before it gets really hard. And then you'll have

like a little cheat meal. And as soon as you have that cheat meal, they will look at you and they go, oh, oh, look at that. You're joking on me for eating unhealthy, but look at you with your bowl of ice cream on a Saturday night. And you're like, ah, this is the thing. Like, if you want to stay at it and you want to keep their attention and you want to raise the standard, it's really, really challenging because people are always looking for that like super simple way to poke a hole in your game and it it almost when you dig in it it forces that accountability on yourself as well where you go well this is just the way i live and if i break it everyone knows that uh i i will let go or i i i have a hole in my game and i i will

lose that standard myself i think that's the really hard part that many people run into when they lose the coaching or they lose the accountability or they're they're not chasing some specific goal it's like it's just so easy to get wrapped into lowering the standard because it's comfortable and it's easy. And in all honesty, when you were getting towards the end of the 16 weeks, I felt like you dug in so hard. And it was really impressive to see just how well you were able to chase the final few pounds after 16 weeks. Oh, gosh. I was just talking to my engineering team this morning I said saying yes is super easy saying no is incredibly difficult yeah you're always on the outside yeah yeah there's like the social implications of

saying no are very painful for humans oh absolutely right We're geared to go along with the group. If the group is eating pizza, why aren't you eating pizza? Why are you the outsider? So you have to let them know that there's a certain standard that you're willing to uphold. And I think it's, I think it's a brilliant way to put it by the way, is that I have a standard, right? And I'm not forcing you to that standard. I'm just saying that this is for me, right? This is the way that I... It can get really offensive too when you hold that standard in some rooms.

People get bothered by it. Oh, yeah. Especially if they think they're eating healthy. Right, yeah. Wait, you sound like you have a story to tell. Oh, absolutely. So my dad is my fishing buddy, right? I love him to death.

He eats like a four-year-old sometimes, and it just drives me crazy. He's like, but I'm going to get a cinnamon roll. It's good for me. It's not fried. It's baked. What's the problem? I'm like to get a cinnamon roll. It's good for me. It's not fried. It's baked. What's the problem? I'm like, you've got to be kidding me, right? Or, you know, what's wrong? Why aren't you eating two pieces of toast in the morning with your breakfast? Why are you not eating bread? Bread's good for you. Okay, believe what you want. That's fine. But for me, I'm not doing this. So he's actually been the one that's

super difficult to uh try to adjust to is because he just doesn't see it uh as being a bad thing you know and for most of his life he's been super scrawny compared to most other adults like you can eat whatever you want and it's like look at me I don't have any fat on me, but that's not me. Yeah. Dude, tell all the people, all the things that you like to do. Tell them about Alaska. I love hearing you, the times that we've been up there or I've been up there on Zoom with you, never actually been, not yet. What are all the hobbies? I want to hear about your fishing career and where you're going to in Alaska. Yeah. Alaska is, it's just definitely my happy place. Um, we lived there for a little over eight years and just loved it. Right. So we ended up moving for various reasons, but it always just felt like home. So we have a cabin in Cooper Landing, right on the

Kenai River. It's a fantastic place to go fish. If you want to go hike, you want to do anything around there, it's literally minutes away. And it's a fantastic place to be. I mean, it's like one of the prettiest places in Alaska. Considering that Alaska is pretty across the entire state, it's a really special place. So I love it there. That's what I want to do forever is live in Alaska. Eventually, we'll get back there. But yeah, fishing, whether it's salmon, trout, whatever, is just my thing. That's what I want to do. So I brought some of those hobbies to Colorado. I like going mountain biking. I like going fishing here.

A lot of cool things to do in Colorado. Just have that happy place in Alaska. It's just so much, I don't know, it's freer. It's just you want to be in the wild, just walk outside, and you're in the wild. Alaska has that vibe about it. Once you're there, it's like just you and Denali. Yeah.

A whole lot of ice. Yeah. I mean, a cabin is actually built out of ice. It's an igloo. Wait, is that real? That's not real. No. You almost had me going there for a second.

Oh. I've even seen it. I know it isn isn't but it was still too good of a joke yeah we just painted it brown yeah don't worry about all that wood stuff yeah yeah it's a fantastic place so yeah those are the things that i mean i really enjoy being up there and fishing is just one of those things that I, I found fly fishing when I moved to Alaska. My dad was a bass fisherman. We fished when I was a kid, but something about being in that stream and catching trout and salmon is just, wow. I can't hardly describe. Yeah. Um, dude, if the people want to reach out and ask questions about the mentorship or your journey, is there a place that you're okay sending them?

Yeah, I would definitely send them to my email, the TWCrumRhyme at Yahoo.com. Beautiful. We can put that up at the show notes if anybody has any questions about the process. Doug Larson, tell the people where to find you. My Instagram, Douglas C. Larson. Yeah, and everybody listening to the show that would love to follow the same journey that Tim's been down for the last 16 weeks and where we are going to 12% body fat over the next 16 weeks, you can head over to dieseldadmentorship.com.

That is where all the busy dads are getting strong, lean, and athletic. My name is Anders Varner. You can find me at Anders Varner and barbell shrugged at barbell underscore shrugged. Friends, we'll see you guys next week.