Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 512 - Do So Much MORE With LESS In The GYM

Episode Date: April 19, 2021

The days of a 1080lb squat are in the past for Mark Bell, but he still loves training daily, still wants to go heavy, but has found a new passion for getting in more work with less time and weight. Today the crew shares some of their experiences with taking weight off the bar and the benefits on not spending an entire day inside the gym. Subscribe to the NEW Power Project Newsletter! ➢ https://bit.ly/2JvmXMb Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Special perks for our listeners below! ➢LMNT Electrolytes: http://drinklmnt.com/powerproject ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $99 ➢Sling Shot: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell ➢Mark Bell's Daily Workouts, Nutrition and More: https://www.markbell.com/ Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/ Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz #PowerProject #Podcast #MarkBell

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And this has got to be immediate. Yes. That's what we do here. We have boners on air. What's up with Ben? Was it Ben Askren? Right? What did he fight? Jake Paul. It was boxing, right? mean he's he's not a not a

boxer i guess still that's i wonder if he's kind of compromised from the you know when he got when he got knocked out oh that looks great yes it's a zaddy it's a zaddy hat damn your birthday bro you should get up on this table and dance whip that congo out and go do helicopters oh we're supposed to dance for him i guess no i don't i don't i don't agree you know do the helicopter on the table um but oh my god that i don't know if you guys saw the ben askren interview afterwards he just looked so i mean he came home with some money which is good for him well yeah like he made some money but still let's get killed by jake paul as a real fighter right and jake paul's a real fighter now i guess but damn three no three no well they showed um some footage from when ben askren fought i think robbie lawler

and i mean he is like ground and pound like this beating the crap out of ben askren and you know he's not fine but he doesn't get ko'd yeah and i understand that i mean actually i don't understand anything about both uh you know combat sports and what it's like to get punched by one of these killers, but I Don't know man. I don't know He was pretty happy to lose and walk away with a good chunk of money What do you guys think about these kind of different fights? You know we got the half Thor and Eddie Hall gonna be fighting soon. I see that uh Steph Cohen has been doing a lot of boxing I wonder if she'll like, this has,

I mean, it kind of, it looks great. It looks great. It looks good. Looking at it in the camera. Sorry. It,

uh, you know, I wonder if someone like her is going to like call someone out or something like it would just be, it would be really interesting. Like a lot of people would want to watch that. Right. Mm. No,

Steph Cohen too. It's like, she's first off, she's really amazing athlete as far as powerlifting is concerned, but she's taken all of that into what she does with boxing. So she's taking boxing seriously. She's not someone who, like, I mean, Hathor and Eddie are taking boxing seriously, but I feel like Steph is really training boxing, you know what I mean, in all aspects of it. of it. So I think it's going to be really scary when she actually starts fighting because she's just a crazy athlete,

man. Just an insane athlete. I think it's kind of interesting in the fighting game, I guess anyone can sort of enter into it, even though it's not true because you can get your ass kicked, but it's different than football. You can't just go and play on the 49ers, you know, for a weekend to see how you do. You know, you can't like call out the best defensive back in the NFL and and say like that you can burn them or whatever. Like you just won't have an opportunity to do it. Like there's no like and none of those guys would even even if you did like publicly, like on YouTube or something, no one would take the bait.

But for some reason with these other fights, people are taking the bait and there's pretty good money in it, I guess. Yeah. It's just because the people have made a name for themselves elsewhere. Right. You know, like, uh, not that anyone's going to challenge you or you're going to challenge anybody, but Mark Bell could draw a crowd, right? You know, he could,

whatever you can pull some, some, some, uh, some attention, but anybody who is your exact size, strength level, whatever,

if they don't have a name for themselves, it's no one's going to care. But then everyone gets mad because like Jake Paul, like, like, Oh, you're a YouTuber. Like you have no business being a professional boxer.

And then you're like the purist get all upset. But I mean, shit, no one's talking about boxing. At least, I mean, you know what I mean? It'd be really interesting to take people from different,

uh, things, you know, take, you know, one of the best NFL players and take a take uh lebron james having box like everyone would watch that right like but why is that more fascinating than watching two like i'm not going to pay for a pay-per-view of boxing but i would pay for that it's because people want

to see certain people get like people did want to see for the most part jake paul get his ass beat that's what people wanted to see that's true um but then jake paul ended up just like wrecking this dude which is that's tough um but yeah that's what people want to see or his brother that wants to fight mayweather um i think no logan yeah it's logan because may what like i remember people were talking about this logan's pretty big he's like 215 um and he's much bigger than mayweather so it's logan who wants to fight mayweather is that gonna happen i think it's yeah mayweather probably make a couple like more than a couple who make a lot of money yeah a couple million yeah that's just like you see i feel like that is in and of itself if mayweather wait if mayweather does do it he will just wreck

logan um but that's just like how can you use and like how can an individual be like i want to just fight the greatest boxer of all time and then they're actually able to because they're super famous yeah right that is disrespectful to boxing and say anything money may though i think he'll play around with him what mayweather will do is what he did with um mcgregor yeah he'll bet that he's going to win by KO or TKO in the third round. He'll play around for two rounds or whatever round he decides. He'll bet a shit ton of money on himself to end it in the third round, and that's what he'll do. Because he's Money May.

What if Logan Paul lands a lucky hit on Mayweather's chin? Impossible. That's what we'd like to think, right? I hope it is, too. This is why those pay-per-views sell. Yeah. On the off chance. The one chance, yeah.

Impossible, though. Just hoping that, like, the guys show up in shape, you know, that they're not, like, tired. That's what's been looked at, out of shape. That's what happened with the Tyson fight, too. It's like Roy Jones wasn't as prepped as he probably should have been. Yeah. Tyson looked like he was doing okay.

He looked like he was still breathing good and still throwing some pretty decent punches. But I think that's the risk of like being out of the ring for a long time with someone like Mayweather. Yeah. Tyson looked like he was in really good shape for that fight. He was moving quick. He was moving pretty scary. it was uh he was moving quick he was moving pretty scary um but yeah and this and this askren uh jake paul fight ben askren looked bad like he he looked really just like kind of like smory and yes uh a tweet i read it was like smory yeah oh like a s'more like a s'more like smory yeah

just reminded me like because i looked at his back and he had these, like, lines and shit. I was like, looks like a S'more. Yeah, the Michelin Man lines. That's the greatest description of somebody I've ever heard in my life. That's all I could think about. Yeah. Somebody said it looked like your out-of-shape uncle that got off the couch to jump in the ring out of nowhere. I think because he normally fights at, like i don't i can't i don't know what weight so

he had to gain quite a bit of weight to try to fight paul yeah but i think he just said whatever i'm gonna collect a couple million dollars to take a punch yeah he oh yeah he didn't go in there to lose though either like he he he thought he was gonna win that's that's a rough part like he went in out of shape thinking he was going to win because i mean if you're going against jake paul you it's jake paul you're not that scared but this guy can box like he can box we can't take that away from him looks like he's got heavy hands he has heavy hands man and and i i did see a different angle so the first one i saw it was like them trying to like make it look like he you know was like a phantom punch or whatever but then i seen another

angle and his legs do lock up and he like falls over i'm like oh like yeah i i don't know i would love to believe that ben askren being a actual you know practitioner being a fighter wouldn't take a dive for a paycheck yeah um and i'll just go with that and be like hey jake paul's three you know i think that's just actually also like just what makes you really respect other martial arts because ben askren was a phenomenal wrestler oh yeah like he was a phenomenal olympic wrestler you know like insane once the ufc and he couldn't necessarily get things going as far as like maybe his striking and other stuff you know like insane once the ufc and he couldn't necessarily get things going as far as like maybe his striking and other stuff you know people were scared of him because he was a wrestler and he went to boxing and that wrestling didn't help that much right it's sports yeah it would

have made a difference if he could wrestle a bit but he couldn't yeah it's tough man the ufc is like the only show in town when it comes to mma and uh there's a lot of fighters that have had pretty good careers other places and then they've come to the ufc and had a couple losses and it just makes it look like you suck doesn't necessarily mean that you suck it just means that you're against some of the best in the world and that you're probably going to lose there's like very few guys are undefeated you I think Bones, Jones, and a couple other guys are... Well, Bones has a loss on his

record, but it's like a DQ or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's rare to be undefeated in that sport. Are there really any other undefeated UFC fighters that were great? Yeah, Khabib is undefeated. Oh, Khabib is undefeated. I'm not familiar with St. Pierre's.

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you get a fourth one absolutely free. Again, that's at drinkelemente.com slash powerproject. Head over there right now. Hell yeah. I was in Redondo Beach for a week, and it was a lot of fun vacationing with my family. And, you know, you got to figure out something to do for your workouts. But I wanted to get away from lifting just for a little bit, and so I just ran every day.

And I did like a run-walk, kind of more of a shuffle, if you've ever seen me run before, a little bit of shuffling out there. And I did some stairs and it was awesome. I probably did each time I went and did the stairs, I did about 10 sets of it or so. A couple of times I mixed in some pushups in between. And then kind of more recently, just with my workouts in general, they've been so different than what I've traditionally done. I've usually have like a bro split or, you know, I concentrate on like a muscle group and, you know, I do shoulders on one day and arms the next and legs the next day and so on. I have a rest day in there. But more recently, I've been kind of

mixing things up and doing full body stuff. A lot of it has to do with when we had knees over toes here, when we had Ben Patrick here, I was just like, oh, well, I might as well mix some of the sled stuff in while I'm doing my other sets, and I'll mix in the slant board, and that way it's incorporated into my workouts, and it's not something that I feel I need to do extra of. It's been working really great, and it feels really good, but the workouts are just different than what they used to be. And they're a little faster and they're sweatier than it used to be.

Yeah. I think, um, uh, just a big aspect to it is the backwards component can be added to a lot of things like the other day, um, uh, you know, suitcase carries and all that type of stuff where you're just walking boards. You can add a backwards component to that and feel a bit different like you feel like you're working you're working a lot of the same muscle groups but you're working in a different fashion actually walking backwards so i feel like that's something that's super easy that people can do but you know as far as rest periods are concerned it's been a long it's been a while since like i've

really taken advantage of rest periods. Like I used to, when I was concentrating on power lifting, which is why my workouts can be a little bit more succinct, you know? And I think that if you're, you know, doing a few movements at the same time,

a few different movements, you can get in a great lifting routine in like 30 minutes. You know, that's still progressive. That still allows you to work with weights. Um, but you don't have to end up being in the gym for an hour and 30 to two hours because not everybody has the ability to do that you don't really need much of a rest period if you're doing it with some strategy behind it you know um if you are trying to get bigger then there might be a need to move

around some heavier weights and so therefore therefore maybe on like exercise one, maybe you kind of have a main thing that you want to do where you're lifting maybe a little heavier and maybe there is some rest, but even with that being considered, uh, there's really no reason why, uh, in between a set of bench press,

why you can't do like a set of lat pull downs or even pull ups. Um, there's no reason why you can't drag the sled backwards, uh, in between a, uh between a set of bench press or a set of dumbbell flies or something like that so you can incorporate all this stuff and kind of mix and match it and still have workouts not only that are done faster and efficiently

with a lot of exercises but you can still strength train if you wanted to. Absolutely I think one thing that it's very easy for individuals to get stuck on is, you know, I really like barbell movements. I really like the squat. I like penalty rows. I like benching. I like deadlifting. I like those movements. But on the outside, if you're not somebody who's, let's say you're, again, competing in powerlifting, or let's say that you're, you know, focused on a sport where you have to maybe get stronger with those specific movements. ability to um it could just be a much better idea to do a lot of different dumbbell type movements or and add maybe some lighter barbell movements in and mix them together so that you you don't because like if you're if you're working up to a heavy deadlift or heavy squat or heavy bench as much as we like these movements it takes time to warm up to those to those heavy lifts right

let's say you're trying to work up to like a 225 bench and you have to warm up to those to those heavy lifts right let's say you're trying to work up to like a 225 bench and you have to warm up to it that could that party workout could take you a cool 20 minutes yeah you know and if you only have 40 minutes in the gym or 35 minutes in the gym that might not be the best use of your time to actually do that so you really need to think about as much as you like those movements Do your time constraints allow for you to really take like really do that and still have time for the rest of your fitness or? Is doing that having you neglect a lot of the other things that you want to actually progress that in the gym And there's a lot of ways to make things faster as well not that that's the only goal to make the workout super fast, but

You could do what I've done for a long time and that's kind of workout backwards. Just take all the fluff and puff stuff that you would do normally at the end of a workout, the higher rep stuff, the bodybuilding stuff, front load your workout with that and then finish your workout off with a squat, bench or deadlift, something like that. The weight that you're going to use, you're going to be forced to use a little bit less weight. Yeah. And you could also do some tempo stuff.

And if you wanted to, you could do sets of 10 or sets of 15. And that'll be real. You're not going to use a lot of weight at that point. So it won't take much of a warmup. Plus you're previously warmed up from doing other things. But to your point, even if you were to do some dumbbell bench pressing before you did regular bench press, if you have the strength to lift around 300 pounds on a bench press, it's still going to take you a while. You kind of need to, it's not wise, you know, to go from,

even if you're a dumbbell bench pressing, a hundred pound dumbbells and they felt good and you felt like you could just, uh, you know, kind of load the weight up on the bench. I don't think it's a good idea. I personally would still bench the bar. Yeah. Some people can maybe argue like they would be fine starting with one 35 and I would agree with that. That's fine. But I,

I always start with the bar that I go to one 35 and I still usually take my time, uh, warming up. If I am going to cheat anything, um, it would be in the earlier sets such as like skipping the 45 pound bar and just going right to 135. But I think it's a big mistake to skip the stuff later on. Like instead of taking

that tweener from, you know, 315 and hitting 335, you just jump right to 365. And that's how people, yeah. And we've said this on this podcast before, but it's worth mentioning. Whenever you're thinking about jumping a weight, no matter what you're training for, no matter if it's bodybuilding, powerlifting, CrossFit or sport or anything. Whenever you have any doubt, always go with the lighter weight. Just always, just make that a rule of thumb for yourself. When you're like, should I add a 25 or a 10? The answer is add the 10. Yeah. Just add the 10. Yeah.

Just add the 10. Just do it. Even if you only did one rep with it, at least you did it. You felt it. You're like, okay, great. I got that out of the way. Nothing hurt. I feel good.

The lift was clean. I'm going to add weight now. Yeah. No, that's, that's absolutely important. One other thing that I do like to do though, because I still like to do those movements and I still do is as I'm warming up for my load in between my warmup sets, I'll be doing another movement. So I'll like, if I'm doing a bench press on that day and I'm working myself up to like a two 65 bench press these days or two 85 or whatever, um, in between those sets, I'll be

doing whatever sets of my dumbbell work I'm doing or whatever sets of the shoulder work that I'm doing as far as accessories. I will do those in between, come back, bench, go back, do that, come back, bench. So that none of the workout is being, none of the time is being wasted kind of sitting idly by, right? And again, if you're someone who is focused on powerlifting and you need to take those rest periods in between your working sets, cause you know, you don't want to be fatigued. I get that. Okay. So maybe this is not, maybe this isn't for you. Um, but again, if you're, if you're, if you do like to strength train and you're not competing and you want to kind of, again, be more active during a workout, that's something that you can easily do between those sets, take those rest periods and go do another movement, come back, and then do those sets of whatever you're about to do.

I would say even if you're powerlifting and even if you're competitive and even if you're prepping for a meet, just maybe that first exercise might be the one that you might need to have or you might feel the need to have, be separate from everything else. But for the most part, I've always paired stuff together, you know. You know, sometimes in terms of, like, a group environment or a team or even a training partner, sometimes it's not good to have too many things going on because then you're not really training together. And so, you know, sometimes it's good to, like, you do a set of, like, dumbbell bench press and the next guy goes and you get to encourage each other and make sure each other's not, like, you know, sometimes it's good to like, you do a set of like dumbbell bench press and the next guy goes and you get to encourage each other and,

and, uh, make sure each other's not like, you know, shit doing shitty reps and, and you can kind of coach and train each other. So for some purposes, there's definitely some application.

Uh, but even that's like, you're not resting for a long time. It's like, you're just, your rest period is like when the other guy goes. Yeah. And it's, it's not, uh, anything that's, that's really just, your rest period is like when the other guy goes. Yeah. And it's,

it's not, uh, anything that's, that's really long, but all through my powerlifting career, I always super said stuff. Um, it might've been like,

you know, if I was doing a heavy squat, heavy bench, heavy deadlift, I may not have done something in between that. But then once that was over with, then I still, uh,

paired exercise. I always loved the way it felt. It feels great to do a set of biceps and a set of triceps in between and then kind of go back and forth and back and forth. For you, Encima, do you ever feel like, because I've seen some people do this before and it just makes me wonder whether it's how optimal it is.

Sometimes people, they maybe hop around a little too much and they kind of start blending in. They start blending in a lot of things at one time they start blending in kind of cardiovascular strength agility like they might do a ladder and then they might like hit like dumbbells you know what i mean like and so do you feel like that's uh you feel like that's maybe a little bit of a stretch or is that kind of uh pushing more into the conditioning realm rather than the strength realm i don't think that's too much okay so it totally depends it's like you know what it's funny you know that video that we made um as far as like

adding cardio into what you do on the super training channel um a lot of there are a few comments that are like isn't that crossfit isn't this just crossfit isn't this just crossfit and then in my mind i was like no but i mean i guess technically you could call it crossfit isn't this just crossfit isn't this just crossfit and then in my mind i was like no but i mean i guess technically you could call it crossfit because but when crossfit came around people said hey isn't that just supersets right right exactly so like like when i look at that and let's just like take it a step further let's say that someone isn't just, you know, they're doing ladders. Let's say that they're, you know, they're doing some bicep curls and they're doing some step ups and then they're doing some goblet squats and then they're taking a lap around the gym and then they come back and they do that whole thing again. Right.

Well, I mean, it might not be optimal for the most muscle growth that they could have but that individual is definitely going to be able to gain some muscle and they're definitely going to work on their conditioning and they're going to get in better shape so they're not going to be a mass monster maybe probably not they're not going to be a mass monster but they're definitely improving their shape they're improving their health they're improving their muscularity. And if that's the way that they enjoy doing it, then I don't, that that's not necessarily a problem, you know? And it is to say like, who would even fucking know whether like, you know, what test or measure would someone have to be able to be like, Hey, that does not work. Like that's bullshit workout. That's the thing though. It will work. Right. But like in terms of getting

your biceps, maybe as big as they could terms of getting your biceps maybe as big as they could be maybe your biceps wouldn't get as absolutely big but you're going to burn a lot of calories you're going to have a good workout um there's literally nothing wrong with you're filling in that mental that mental gap yeah that we all have and some people just love to work out particular ways yeah and i i think that i, I personally used to have that kind of like, if you were to tell me what you just told me there gave me that example, I'd be like, Oh yeah, that's not optimal. Or that's what, like, why are they doing that? That doesn't make any sense. Your weightlifting routine shouldn't be during your cardio routine. But it's still achieving

that goal. I'll bet in, you know, in a different way. And it's, it sounds like for me, I wouldn't want to run around the gym, but adding a component that that's a little bit taxing cardiovascularly to me. I like that. Like now, like again, I'll do those suitcase or whatever carries and stuff in between my sets of things. Um, and other things that might be a little bit of taxing as far as cardio is concerned, because I do enjoy that. I enjoy that push.

And I think it's, I think for me at this point, it does fall in line with my goals. It doesn't feel great to just do like a set of like seated rows and then just not do anything else. Just sit there. Yeah. And wait. And that could be just where we're at with our lifting.

You know, maybe different people are in different spots. I know a lot of bodybuilders, too. They'll either stretch in between their sets or they'll flex. They do something in between. Usually, you know, flexing in between is great. It helps promote some blood flow and then teaches you how to flex the muscles properly, which is an odd thing that we don't, like, learn that. It's weird that, like, someone could be a sprinter their whole life and then no one ever has taught them how to flex their calves or their hamstrings or even with jumping no one's ever taught you like how to flex your quads or you don't need to be taught that to

be able to jump you don't need to be taught that to be able to run but it's odd like you figure that that there would be some conversation of like hey when you bring your heel towards your butt when you're standing that's your butt, when you're standing, that's your hamstring. Can you kind of feel that now, if you just kick your heel back a little bit more, that's how you would flex your hamstring. I mean, it just seems obvious. Cause like, you know, I want to produce a ton of force when I'm running. So it'd be great if I knew how to flex the things that are going to fucking propel me forward. Yeah. Let me ask you guys this. Do you guys,

this is why I think like weight training and strength training is super beneficial because it, again, it can give you control of different muscle groups. I don't know if this is weird, but can you guys like flex your lower back? Like can you touch and flex your lower back and like feel it tense and move and flex? Yeah. And if anybody can't, just raise your head

all the way to the ceiling and then drop it down to the floor. You'll feel all those muscles moving around in there. Now, can you activate it without moving? Without moving, I don't know. I haven't really... Let me try. Just stand and put your hand on your lower back. Yeah, I can do it with the kind of the reverse shrug method is where I can feel it the most. Just pushing the shoulder down a little bit. Yeah, it's odd. All I do, I just keep farting back here.

You keep farting? No, just kidding. Birthday farts. It's so, yeah. Touch my lower back real quick. It's going to i sound a little weird i tend to just tense up like if i'm like bracing yeah yeah he's able to make it like a wave yeah it's weird but that's the thing i think like that's what a lot of these move like when you get the hang of feeling a lot of these movements you're able to like just like activate certain muscle groups very acutely yeah

it's weird you also have back abs so but because i've worked them for such a long time like i can just like make them move so in in that video where we're being super serious about your two hours of sleep that everyone believed for some fucking reason um yeah i'm working off of a an hour and a half right now just 90 minutes yeah two because two hours nobody has time to sleep two hours coffee my eyes are red um i zoomed in to a picture of what kind of looked like like a decent picture of abs and then like i pulled back and it's like oh shit that's his back it looks great yeah it's funny but yeah i know the comments that were coming in on that video were

gold yeah straight gold that's cool i never try to flex my back maybe that's why i have back issues but this is the thing i have to tell you guys it's like that video was real like that's not a joke it's like everybody thinks that we're we're everybody thinks that we're being sarcastic i would say one out of 10 people see or think that we're being sarcastic people think that you're sarcastic about what being on steroids people think i'm sarcastic about being natural about people think i'm sarcastic about like getting two hours of sleep and having 400 grams of protein a day.

And it's legit. Like there ain't no lies here. That's just what I do. And you know what, what I do doesn't work for 99% of the population, but that 1% group, that 1% lifestyle, those people that want to live.

Yeah. Some people are hyper responders to stuff in that way you can well i think because you just made it on this you just made it super challenging right away and you didn't try to learn anything you just started out day one making everything really difficult right yeah that's just what you like you can't make things easy you can't adaptation no what's that adaptation is forced what's that what's that about right there ain't no reason for that no you don't ease your way in you force your way in in all aspects no gasoline get right up in there oh god yeah okay out of uh trying to just like problem solve i've been mixing in you know sled drags in between each set like no like no matter what uh maybe

towards the end of like uh this saturday i i didn't do it for the last set because i was going to just do it for like 10 minutes straight i actually did 20 minutes of doing um you know sled drags with the uh with the tank yeah outside but no um you know because stewart mcgill said i basically can't touch weight um he said i can't do my normal like treadmill cardio just walking so because i can't like i just can't get away from it so i ended up making it uh you know regular walking harder by adding weight to it well you know so um by doing that though like my workouts have been fairly short because i'm doing i'm just i'm not stopping at all.

Like I don't like, I will take a breather. I'll like maybe walk down the turf like a couple of times, but it's been great. Like the weights like have been super light. I don't think I've touched anything above like 35 pounds as far as dumbbells. Yeah. I know it's,

it's been amazing though. Like my, my diet's on point. Physique's looking better. Like, this is, it's, I'm like, why the, like, it sounds so stupid. Like, I made a post that, like, all I'm doing is focusing on not getting hurt and lifting the right amount of weight. And as I'm typing it, I'm like, oh, this sounds so stupid. You know, like, oh, do what you're supposed to have been doing this whole time.

But, you know, now I have no choice but to leave the doing this whole time but you know now i have no choice but to leave the ego yeah outside in the parking lot because if not i get hurt and on thursday or friday i did uh kind of tweak my back not bad because the weights are they weren't heavy i think i have 25 pound dumbbells yeah um i was just trying to do some incline press and on the way down i think i kind of like i leaned too far forward as i'm like bringing the weight up or something happened i don't remember and i paid for it but you know that like i learned from that i didn't like oh no pain no gain i have to fight through it um but i still did the same things you know i would walk up and down the turf with the with the sled and by doing that like i did get my my steps in we'll say my cardio in and i got a good

workout in and it didn't take me you know an hour and a half yeah maybe an hour or less and it's just been feeling great if you do like circuits basically right pretty much like they're circuits like i'll go how many circuits do you do maybe in a given workout like maybe two or three it would usually be it would typically be like three some days if i'm doing a lot of the same movements back to back because like sometimes it could be four different movements it's usually three to four different movements i don't think there's ever a time i do five um but usually it's three yeah usually three different circuits and i'll move through those movements then i'll go to the next thing move through those movements i was thinking just from from what Andrew said about that sled.

You know, if you're someone who's trying to get in better shape and you're trying to, yeah, so you're trying to get lean out, maybe just have a personal challenge to do your same workouts, but don't stop moving. Right. Like, don't have any segments of your workout where you're just sitting and waiting for your next set. It could be super simple, too. You could just do a set of curls and then you could do a set of lunges. Yeah. You know, it doesn't have to be complicated. As soon as you get done with your pull-ups, you can do some push-ups

or some air squats. And you can have different focus on different day. Like maybe there's a day where there's like a body weight component to the leg workout, and maybe there's another day where there's like a body weight component to the leg workout. And maybe there's another day where there's an actual focus on the legs where you might squat or leg press or do whatever heavier shit that you think that you need for some growth. Yeah. And again, it doesn't take time. personally have when i started doing that i started finding more enjoyment in my in-gym workouts because i again before that i was much more rigid about the way i would go about doing those workouts

for myself and the way i would program those workouts for people because i myself was rigid but seeing the benefit it's like there's there's really unless again you're lifting a crazy amount of weight and you really need those hours like not our but um you know the uh minute 30 rest periods or whatever then yeah you don't it's not yeah i want to strongly encourage people like what it seemed as saying with those circuits maybe maybe you don't dig that kind of training but maybe just do like one circuit because maybe you could do one circuit that includes like maybe two things maybe you could do one circuit that includes like maybe two things that you like and one thing that you know that you need

that you don't like. You know, Andrew has to do the big three pretty often. So from Stuart McGill, so maybe, you know, maybe you get down on the ground and do like some stuff that you just, you don't like, you know, you don't enjoy that one thing, but that one thing can keep you in the game for a lot longer. I remember Louie Simmons used to talk all the time about dragging a sled, doing single leg stuff, doing unilateral exercises, doing just unconventional stuff, just taking a dumbbell or kettlebell from the ground and doing some cleans. Why not? Why not get some more movement in?

Like, that's a lot more movement than just deadlifting. It's a lot more movement. It's way different than just a squat. It just has a different, a different challenge. Um, dragging a sleds is a great form of exercise forwards, backwards. Yesterday when I was done with my workout, which I did kind of a almost like bodybuilding workout, but I did the circuits that you're kind of talking about, but I mainly did just chest and biceps, um, throughout the whole workout. And then once those three circuits were up, I, I did, uh, some backwards sled drags, some suitcase carries and, uh, the slant board. And I went around and did that like four or five times. And that was, it was like, it was challenging. It was fun. It was like kind of fun, you know, but I went through it the first time and I'm like four or five times and that was it was like it was challenging it was fun it was

like kind of fun you know but i went through it the first time and i'm like oh shit this is going to be like i gotta like really kind of concentrate and i'm walking with a with a kettlebell that's not heavy you know i mean the suitcase carry i was doing uh like a 32 kilogram uh kettlebell or whatever so it wasn't some massive thing, but it was decent weight. Yeah. It's difficult to do it down and back. And then also like the way that you're kind of supposed to do it,

I'm supposed to bear down and all that kind of stuff. And it was, it was a great workout, but see, that's one of those movements. Like for example, let's say the suitcase carry, like we had Brian Carroll on,

we had Stuart McGill on showing, telling us all how important the suitcases carry is and how important the bottoms up carry is doing those movements on their own may be fairly boring if you would just like to say okay i'm gonna do this for three or four sets but when you add that into something like it makes it much easier to now go do the suitcase carry go do some pull-ups go do some bicep curls come back to the suitcase carry you go do some pull-ups, go do some bicep curls, come back to the suitcase carry. You know what I mean? Like these movements that you typically, again, the ones that you say that you know that you know you should do, but you keep skipping out on, pair them with some other movements and something that you like, it's much more likely that you'll actually go get it

done. And then, you know, we're talking about like, oh, that might take away from the strength of the movement order. But the way I see it, you know like mark said like doing nothing is kind of like that that seems worse but i see it as that is my break period like uh dragging the sled backwards is not taking away from my overhead press you know like it just i don't know i i get it i get it i get it i get it you know if you're gonna try to put on mass and try to gain strength, that should be your focus. But if doing one trip down the, the, the, um, you know, the turf is like really hindering your performance.

Like, I think there's some other underlying issues there. And the amount that it's honestly, if we're really thinking like, if we're really thinking about the amount of weight, it's going to stop you from being able to take away yeah ain't gonna be nothing but maybe five ten pounds like like i'm really trying to think of like if i was doing some shoulder pressing with uh maybe like a bottoms up well yeah maybe a suitcase carry and something else how much weight would that really take away from my shoulder press it's not gonna take 20 pounds off my freaking shoulder press it's not gonna take off that much it might take maybe five to ten pounds right yeah you should still be okay and then is today the day that you're going to really test it right maybe on that day

you can focus on it right yeah but today like no you're not you know you're not entering a strong man competition right now yeah yeah so i think this would be a great component for a lot of people who even if you like even you mentioned even if you are someone who competes this will allow you to get a lot more done in your workouts in less time because i remember what it was i remember doing two-hour workouts but i also remember like honestly i could have shortened those those workouts didn't need to be two hours for me to be able to make those levels of strength. They didn't need to be. There was a lot of dicking around and just sitting around that just didn't need to happen. I think efficiency can help you a lot with being consistent and

being purposeful and getting the workout done in a timely fashion. The two-hour workouts and stuff, while those can be great, how many of those you got per week? You're going to do two hours, seven days a week. The way that we're talking about working out or what we're proposing, you can do almost every day if you felt like it. And you shouldn't have any negative feedback from that. It shouldn't feel a whole lot different than just going for a walk or a light jog. It should be pretty easy so i i think it and then also it can help you with consistency because you can kind of pair

things up with things that you like you know if your favorite day is is back day well maybe pair up some stretching or something that you just something you freaking hate that you're just like i hate doing that i never get around to doing that. I don't have time for it. In between your lat pulldowns, you know, stretch your groin and hamstrings and, like, whatever the hell you got to do. Yeah, you can even get, like, some legit lat stretching in there, too. When you're doing hamstring movements, you can get some hamstring stretching in there. Have it be a cue for you to do these, you know, rotator cuff movements. You know, you're like, oh, man, I i hate doing abs well if do you love doing bench maybe every time you bench go do a set of sit-ups yeah yeah set of sit-ups fucking ab roller you could you could pair all these things together

and get them all done in a timely fashion because we all know that when you're not doing that and you say you have all these workouts listed by the time you get done you're tired the stuff that you're like just go home stuff that you didn't do is the stuff that you don't like made movements done i'm out of here yeah yeah you you skipped all those yeah another thing that you just reminded me of mark is also like if i if i am going up and down the turf and it does take away you know in my, a couple ounces from whatever I'm trying to push. For someone like me, I'm still learning how to flex everything. So if I do take the 25s instead of the 35s, I can now really, really focus on whatever movement I'm doing and get more out of that than I would if I was like trying to push 45, 55s, whatever it may be.

than I would if I was like trying to push 45, 55s, whatever it may be. It's been, like I said, it came out of problem solving, but I'm learning so much more than just trying to figure out how to do cardio and lift heavy. Like I'm learning a lot about my body, learning a lot about the movements and just like what you can get done in a short amount of time with like a short amount or with a little bit of amount of weight you know it's been it's a fucking it's mind-boggling you know but but so what you said there what you can do with a little bit amount of weight i think like i don't know if it's been these past few years that we've kind of all been like realizing like you know you not that we've

been realizing it you know it but you can and you should be trying like especially when you're doing these smaller movements focusing on your triceps or whatever you should be using a movement that that specific muscle can handle well where there isn't much interference from a lot of other muscle groups like you know when we were talking about back the other day when you load a lot of plates on your get a lot of forearm and bicep and you're not working your back as much you take some weight off you're able to activate your back better you get more out of the movement right it it's doesn't look as impressive maybe to the outside viewer but for what it's actually doing to your body it's going to make a big difference yeah those tutorials have

been fantastic by the way too yeah the ones on the super training channel um i was actually i was using um uh i think you put it on your your igtv about getting an extra cup size in your chest yeah so i was i was in here i was listening i had the music up loud and then you know i i turned it down it's like i watched this video and i'm like oh okay and so i implemented that stuff during that workout um but no they've been great, that back workout, like your back looks insane, but super helpful. I think, um, yeah, you're going to help a lot of people with those videos. You guys have been doing fantastic stuff over there. I think people lose sight of, uh, what they're training, what they're training for, you know, and you try to keep that at the front of your mind.

they're training for, you know, and you try to keep that at the front of your mind. Do you want to, you know, be in the Olympics for the hammer strength row machine? You know, is that the goal, you know, or are you trying to grow your back, you know? And same thing with like pull-ups. Like I've seen some people before, you know, like I can crank out like 50 pull-ups, but they don't have a back. And it's like, that's the pull-ups are great. That's cool. They can do that. But you know, and it just depends on what someone's goal is that their goal is to do 50 pull-ups and congratulations. That's fucking awesome. But if you're trying to look good or look bigger or have

a wider back, uh, then, you know, what are some things you can do to accomplish that? Or why not just try to keep that in front of your mind during your training session? That way you're not as worried about how much weight is on there. Yeah. No, but that's a tough thing, especially when you're a commercial gym man and you're putting on weight. You feel like other people are watching you. It's difficult sometimes. Yeah.

I also don't see anything wrong with like, we've talked about this many times before, but like sometimes you got to go a little too far to kind of know. Yeah. Either recalibrate, you know, where you're at. And so it makes sense to do a set where you're,

you know, going for 10 reps and, uh, you know, seven, eight, nine, and 10 are just not great where you threw a little, but

just be reasonable and say, ah, you know what? I could probably pull the weight off. You got a pretty good stimulus from having that extra weight on there as it was. A lot of times that's what I've do in my workouts. I've been doing that for years. I'll just go up to something pretty heavy. I'm like, ah, the form could be way better on that. I'm going to bring the weight back down.

And, and then that way, when I bring the weight back down, I can just say, Hey, like if I need to feel it, I'll just do more reps. Yeah. A lot of times people just aren't willing to do 20 reps or 30 reps. You know why?

Just give it a shot. I bet your shit will be burning. And that's one of those things that I think will like help people get more aware of what they're actually working. When you do lighten things up, you know, those things i think will like help people get more aware of what they're actually working when you do lighten things up you know and you do things within the 12 20 25 rep range you really get an awareness of the muscle group that you're trying to focus on and i think a big component that people can add that'll be really beneficial um. Like, uh, a lot of the movements in the gym that I work,

I do small pauses. So whether it's a face pull and I have a small pause at the end, so I can really feel that, um, or, uh, tricep pull downs or bicep curls, shoulder pressing. I always typically have small pauses at the end range of the movement so i can really kind of get an idea of what's being worked and how hard it's being worked and how much is being activated makes a big difference but again when you add those pauses in it makes a little bit more difficult you have to use less weight for that set so you got to make a little bit of a sacrifice there but i think it's worth it yeah i'm a big fan of a drop set too because you get to start with a heavier weight you know you get to start with a heavier weight,

you know, you get to use a heavier weight for a couple reps. And I, and I think the best way to do a drop set is to have the weight be heavy enough to where it's like a six to 10 rep. That way you're not doing a million reps, have the heavier weight kind of knock the crap out of you a bit. And then another set of six to eight, another set of six to eight.

Yeah. You did a lot of reps still at the end of the day. Yeah. And I think pause reps. So, like, let's say the lat pull down. If you're doing a pause rep, you're not able to use a lot of body English to, like, really, like, swing that weight. You know, you see that a lot. I'm guilty as, you know, I'm guilty for doing that.

Yeah. But this is also why I i also love um dog crap sets because that you know again if you're new to feeling like you're you know your lats or something doing a dog crap set of lat pull downs you will feel something explain the dog crap sets uh so that's um and mark correct me wherever i i slip up but basically you're gonna get a solid weight where you do 20 reps and it's pretty hard to get to 20 you still have some in the tank but it's going to be hard and then you'll take about anywhere time wise we'll just say breaths we'll just take five solid breaths and then you hit

another set of five to ten and that's one set so then the next one you you finish that that that second set technically the first one uh another five breaths and then you hit another one finish that hit another one and another one so that way you are getting a lot of work in yeah but the time is like instant and then by time you're done you're like holy like you start filling your body and you're like dude i am lit up and it took i don't know like 45 seconds like depends on you know how much work you're like, dude, I am lit up. And it took, I don't know, like 45 seconds, like depends on, you know, how much work you're doing. But with that, like, man, it teaches you so much about how to flex. Like the pump is like, it's undeniable at that point.

It feels amazing. And I love doing that because it is like you are hitting that 20 rep set initially. But then after that, you hit another 20 reps or so It doesn't feel like it. You know, you put in a lot of work and it's fun so here's also a suggestion for that because like if you guys want to add those in like it's very Fatiguing because you're you're moving to that place where you're very close to failing or sometimes you do fail a bit on some reps Do that as your last set or as your last two sets. So let's say you've done multiple sets of a back movement, right?

Do that as your last one because your back is going to be so fried after that set that it's going to be hard for you to do another set of a lot of reps. It's just going to be really, really hard. But that's an amazing finisher. Yeah, dog crap training is great. It's basically just kind of five sets in a row yeah i think of it that way and you're not necessarily like drop it's not always a drop set but ideally i think you're trying to keep the same weight but it's hard and so then you end up dropping the weight at some point five five uh sets in a row five breaths in between you just look it up online you'll find a lot of information on it yeah i think the way um uh what's uh super

shredded bodybuilder natural um he coached you and sema nunez alberto nunez way burdo explained it he was kind of like okay like that set of 20 gets you to i don't know we'll say level like eight effort you take a breath and now five to ten gets you to, I don't know, we'll say level like eight effort. You take a breath and now five to 10 gets you back up to that same effort. So you're putting in the same amount of effort in just a short amount of time for those five sets, which is pretty sick. Yeah. It gets to be difficult on certain exercises. Like if you're doing a back exercise, your grip might wear out.

You might want to wear straps or something. You're doing that many reps. It's just, you just feel it all in your forearms after a while. So I want to try that out. I've been staying consistent with the running, though, since I went to Redondo. I just kind of made a commitment to do a little bit of running every day, and I've been throwing that in. And there's not really great places to do stairs around here,

but I'd love to find some and hit up some stairs because I kind of like that better than just actually going, like running or even running like a hill. But anytime I go to Bodega, I can do the stairs there and they have some good hills there, which I like a lot. And when I got here today, I just took a lap. I ran most of it. I just run until I'm like, I don't know,

I just don't feel like running anymore. And then I walk and I run and I'll just push it more and more. But I want to see if I can keep some consistency up. Around this time last year, I ran for a while and it felt pretty good. So I think this time around it will feel even better. I'm a little bit lighter and it's been feeling really good. Let's see if I can keep some consistency with it. You've never, I've never heard you mention having any type of like knee problems as when running, right?

Have you ever had any knee problems in running? Has that ever given you issue? Um, my right knee bugs me, uh, quite a bit, but it doesn't really bother me that much when I run. Yeah. I was going to ask like if the stuff that you've been doing at all is for your knees and stuff. Oh, yeah. Knees over toes stuff is feeling really good.

And then just also learning, like, how to run. Mm-hmm. Um, I, I strike with my heel quite a bit. And then just in knowing that, rather than trying to correct it and, like, it's just, you know, trying to teach an old dog new tricks is not easy. So just buy shoes that, uh that help absorb the impact better. And so I just have shoes that are running, just running shoes that are specific, that have, you know, heels on them that are pretty thick. That way it's okay if I fuck up when I run.

So that's been helpful too. But the knees over toes stuff has been amazing for a lot of things. And also I just noticed reducing the weight in the gym has been really beneficial. I think that the combination of those two things are, are helping just with like everyday movement. I, I just,

I loved, I love to lift heavy and I just, I guess, I guess cause I lifted heavy for so long. I haven't even, you drop an ass over there? Bro, I drank that coffee, bro. I knew I had to take a shit.

Oh, no. Oh, yeah. It's bad. It's warm in here today, too. It's bad, yo. I might click on the AC for the first time. I don't like it. Oh, my God.

It's your own brand and you don't like it. Let me see if I can wave it. Wow. Wave it away a little bit. Wow. Andrew, you're all the way over there. What are you talking about, man? This isn't... I know. I think I just't like it let me see if i can wave it wow wave it away a little bit wow andrew you're all the way over there what are you talking about man this isn't i know oh god and there's more but i don't i i don't necessarily want to leave the episode yet to go poop so in the news you're gonna have to just deal with it mark i'm sorry man

you're just gonna have to deal with this you're gonna have to take all this the new studio has to have walls built with like some kind of like a separate no it's just like um it's like smell absorbing material like those uh those underwear that we're supposed to be able to like oh with the coal in them yeah yeah coal in them yeah filter out the smells wait really filter out your farts yeah yeah oh my god you want to make a whole room just we gotta get a bill that yeah oh my god you want to make a whole room just gotta get a bill that yeah oh my god put these on before the show i know that lululemon says that they have like i don't know zinc or some shit in their thing that's like non-smell or whatever makes it harder for your bo to like stick to it but it's not working oh

i don't know well it's definitely not i'll say that it's definitely not. Oh, I don't know. No, it's definitely not. I'll say that. It's definitely not. I'm so sorry, man. This is not okay. This is really rough. What a shitty podcast.

It's just something. Yeah. But I will say my pin. Um, finally. So, uh, those,

the ATG guys, athletic troop group guys, they have like a, a course thing where you can, uh, learn all of the stuff and all the reasons behind all the movements along with everything else that they're, you know, they're talking about. And a lot of the stuff as far as like, I mean, you've talked about this before, how you used to like do good mornings. I think you said you used to do good mornings with a rounded back on purpose. Yeah. Like a lot of that stuff is stuff that you know they're talking about

getting uh and it's not like you know for example i was on the slant board the other day and i'll post the video just shoving your knees forward on purpose kind of no not even that so i had my feet were on the slant board and my toes were pointing upwards and i flexed my quads so that my hamstrings were at full length. So it wasn't here. I was here. I took a kettlebell again up on the slant board here and the slant board was high off the ground. And I would like, I forgot what the movement's called, but my back would around and I would

have the kettlebell all the way down while this was flexed. So my hamstrings could be at full extension and that allows me to get stronger while having my hamstrings fully lengthened. Right. But my back is also around the kettlebell. And after I did that, it's like, first off, I was able to gain more immediate mobility. Right. But I was also able to be strong with that new mobility that was gained because the loads that I was moving within those ranges.

When you see the video, it'll make more sense. But a lot of that stuff, that's partial. That's why Ben is able to just like hop into the squats without really stretching or, and a lot of these guys are able to do some of these things because they're doing really long end range movements with load. Again,

not a crazy amount of load where they're going to hurt themselves, but a load that they can control. Kind of like the chest movement that we were doing the other day. Yeah. You know, you're not a crazy amount of load where they're going to hurt themselves, but a load that they can control. Kind of like the chest movement that we were doing the other day. Yeah. You know, you're not using a lot of weight, but you're allowed to get very strong with load through these really long ranges. And that's going to be really beneficial for people. Again, I think it forces you to use less weight, which I think can be a good thing. I, you know, have been lifting for so long and just been, uh, smashing myself with heavy

weights. I just, I just didn't even really realize, I guess, like, uh, what my body would feel like if I just didn't do that. And so I was addicted to it. And so I just didn't ever stop doing it. And I actually remember it was a couple of years back. Uh, I told someone how long I've been lifting for and they're like, so you've been sore for like the last 20 years.

And I was like, yeah, I was like, yeah, pretty much. Because they asked me if I ever stopped, and I was like, no, I don't ever really stop. I mean, I have taken a week off here or there, but for the most part, I don't really ever stop. And so, yeah, I have not only sore, though, but like rickety would be like another word thrown in there. Like just cause all that weight just on top of me for so long, even so even like even getting away from like the big weights, like that wasn't really enough to do much because the weights, if I just lift anything that's challenging,

it's almost the same for me. You know what? Does that make sense? Like I'm not as strong as I used to be. So if I put four Oh five on the bar, it's the equivalent of 700, you know, used to be or 800.

Um, just cause I just, I don't have the same strength. I don't care about it as much. So that 400 still has a, uh, too much of an impact on me to the point where I'm just like, you know what?

Just get rid of that shit for a while. And I can come back to it if I feel like I want to, uh, you know, start to push those weights again. But at the moment I don't care. I'd rather just feel better day to day. What advice do you have for younger lifters or just lifters in general who haven't lifted that much weight? And when they hear you guys say, you know, and and this this is kind of where i used to be also but you know it's like well we haven't hit those big numbers to go light and be okay with it you know i still want to hit that you know 405 bench i still want to hit that you know 700 dead lift even um so like what advice you have for them that are like maybe they understand what you're saying about like going lighter and getting in the stimulus and whatnot, but they're also like, man, I don't know.

I still want to hit that big number. They'll just get there faster if you don't try. If you don't try too hard, you'll get there faster. So just fucking take your time with it. It's going to be a process. It's going to take years and years to be able to build up that kind of strength you're not going to be able to like cultivate it or have it happen overnight anyway so you may as well just be like hey you know what i'm uh in for the long haul doing the reps and doing the sets the right way the correct

way is going to get you there the fastest you got poop i mean yes i do um but that's not what i was laughing i was just there's a parallel that this has with something else that um some friend of mine we're talking about recently just thought it was anal beads not necessarily anal beads so okay not necessarily but that's not the exact thing he's talking about right now yes um all right so let's let's first let's first like you know be serious about this year so i mean yeah if if you have these goals of like hitting these big numbers i think a big reason or a big something to ask yourself is like why do you want those specific numbers um i think it's like yeah sometimes like having the four or five bench goals it's a great

goal to have um maybe you should ask yourself are you trying to compete or five bench goals, it's a great goal to have. Um, maybe you should ask yourself, are you trying to compete or not? Like, what is it costing you to try to get there? Um, and figure out if like, that's like, that's a really good goal for yourself. Uh, and then, I mean, if you're someone who's like bodybuilding, you'll notice a lot of bodybuilders don't tend to really care. Like, yeah, to some extent they care how much like weight they're putting on the bar, but they're really good bodybuilders. Like like aren't just loading weight on the bar to load weight on the bar they're really just focused on what they're doing what they're trying to grow so they're staying measured in terms of what they're doing they're not just throwing weight on the bar and for the most part getting injured etc so just um just keep that in mind now the parallel that i just made me laugh a little bit in my head

okay so a buddy of mine were talking and um he was like yeah in college like i i i ran through everybody like i didn't yeah but you know when i look back i would i would advise young men not to do that like that's just a waste of time you know like a lot of guys they want to do that they want to smash as many women as possible like that's just the goal that they want to do it but it's just a waste of time and it makes you feel empty that's a very good parallel and it's just think about it it's like when you think about it you're like all these guys they want to do this they do it and they realize how much of just a waste of time and energy and effort that was they could have just gone focusing on the thing they should have been focusing on and letting whatever come

to them but yeah so i was just trying to tell a pubescent right like hey dude don't run through a lot of women you don't need to do that do the thing that feels the absolute best that you're striving for. Don't do that. Trust me. Trust me. I did it. Or even just. Busting nuts everywhere.

Don't do it. Or even just getting lost with one woman. You see it happen all the time. Yeah, that's actually. Oh, that's true. That is true. I mean, people get in relationships when they're really young. It might be 14, 15 years old with somebody until they're like 20.

Yeah. And, you know, I don't think it's necessarily a waste of time, but you could have maybe been concentrating on some other things and maybe gotten further ahead. Absolutely. That's another thing. That's another thing. But I just found that so funny because it's like it's like in the same vein you know i think it's all similar shit you know getting abs being strong being rich you know it's like when people make a lot of money they just start giving it away they just care about it a

lot less people get people that people that uh you know get in really good shape they have even even when they're not in shape or they're not in their best shape they have a lot of times they have a little bit better perspective on their physique why the other person is you know uh rigorously always trying to like lose weight or get in better shape yeah the other person's a little bit more cool about it they're like yeah i'm fine being i'm fine being right here like even like take like hottie who's in our gym um he lost like 200 something pounds yeah and then he gained around 40 or 60 back just because he knew what it was like to be lighter and people were like well why would you gain a bunch of weight back well he's like i just i have different goals now and I've, I'm comfortable with it now. And so it's, it's hard to, it's hard to be comfortable with where you're at.

But if you've ever been anywhere before or ever done anything before, it's really easy to feel comfortable to pull way back after you already did a bunch of shit and already felt like you were somebody or did something cool. You don't know what you don't know, man. Sometimes you just, you got to go experience it and understand and really understand before you're like, okay, I know what that's like. Let me move out of that. Agreed. Yeah. Want to take us on out of here, Andrew? I will. Again, thank you everybody for checking out today's episode and please head over to drinklmnt.com slash powerproject. Check out that watermelon salt flavor. you will not regret

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