Mark Bell's Power Project - How You'll Get OUT of Your Slump || MBPP Ep. 923

Episode Date: April 24, 2023

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I have always been in favor of like really just doing whatever you have to to be able to show up in the way that you want to show up. I wish every single day I woke up super excited about lifting and jiu-jitsu, but that's just not how it is. It's very discouraging. Sometimes the best thing you can do is take a day off of something. But how do you prioritize them? You like doing all of them. You like to lift. You like to run.

You like to be with your girl. And so it can make it difficult to try to juggle all these things all at one time. But you don't want to get to a place where you're just like, I'm sitting down all day. I'm not doing much. There's a bunch of different things you can do to get yourself kind of fired up and excited about things. Because you know, after you work out, you'll feel good. But if you're feeling kind of burnt out there and you don't have anything else, it's very easy just to revert to nothing because you don't have other options. You hear that when somebody's like, oh, I feel guilty when I miss a day in the gym.

Where do you think that guilt ultimately comes from? All right. You got to cook it first? Cook it. Get the crystals to come out? Mm-hmm. Or, yeah. You know, I think that's actually, that's a good start to the conversation.

Flavor crystals? Yeah, the crystals from the El Carnitine. I think it's kind of funny it's um i think it's it's not fairly common but it's fairly common right amongst stuff that comes in vials yeah crystals in your drugs you both have you guys dealt with this before i'm new to this game this is first first uh first rodeo for me when it comes to liquids not being fully liquid. Yeah. Yeah, if something's oil-based and it crystallizes, you got to throw it away. Oh, really?

You're going to get hurt. What does that mean? Like, how could you get – what type of hurt? If you inject it, it just is going to be too much irritation. It's going to just – yeah. It's not supposed to be there. Like, an object isn't supposed to be in that muscle tissue it's almost like you like uh it would feel the same if someone like injected your shoulder with a giant chunk of wood it just sits there for like a month just a big knot you

just yeah you just have this big thing sticking out of your shoulder forever yo i'm like this but water-based stuff, yeah, you can heat it up. You cook it on a spoon and then... That's what it feels like. Guys, if you don't know what we're talking about, well, Mark's talking about drugs, like drug drugs.

But recently we had Jake Benson, Andy Triana, right? They talked about injectable L-carnitine or their nectar, their choline carnitine. And Andrew and I just got some and I've injected twice now. And I saw some crystals or Andrew saw some crystals in there. So we were like, what the fuck is what's going on here? And it's natural, guys. Carnitine, choline.

But yeah. Kind of not natural. It doesn't influence your hormones. No, this is the thing. It's not breaking any rules. Yeah. It's definitely not natural. But it's not against the rules.

Yeah. It feels weird injecting, bro. Like I'm just like. Yeah, it's not good. It feels weird. People have been naturally injecting stuff for many years. Yeah. I feel like I'm doing something bad. It feels kind of good. It feels weird. People have been naturally injecting stuff for many years. Yeah. I feel like I'm doing something bad.

It feels kind of good. It feels great. Yeah. Although it does sting. Yeah. It does. And you notice a little, I don't know about you guys,

but you notice a little like, a little energy from it. At least that's what I feel. When I take a shot of it, I notice a little, like maybe 30 minutes or so later, I notice a little. Nectar, right? Yeah.

I definitely sweat. I sweated a lot when I was rolling today. Like the past two times that I've used that and then when I rolled, I was like sweating a lot. It felt great, but like I was just like, fuck, you know? And I woke up lighter a few days after using it too, lighter than I've been in a really long time. you know and i woke up lighter a few days after using it too lighter than i've been in a really long time so they they mentioned you know if you lean if you're a little bit leaner you might lean out a little bit more by using it which is interesting in and of itself but it's supposed to kind of like i guess liberate some fat they talk about it a lot on that

particular podcast they say it better than what we can say here because those two are some smarty pants going on. But I don't know. I have always been in favor of like really just doing whatever you have to to be able to show up in the way that you want to show up. And so for me, it's been, you know, I'm not against pre-workout. I'm not against stimulants. I'm not against caffeine. I'm not against stimulants. I'm not against caffeine. I'm not against kratom. I think, you know, you need to also kind of pay attention to these things though too. Like how much of that

do you want to use just to have you show up for the day? And do you want that? Do you always, do you always want to have to rely on that? And instead, maybe you can just rely on the fact that you're going to do something fun and cool that you like to do. Or do you have to rely on like bumping some crazy music and getting all fired up and using nose torque? It seems to be harder to sustain the like cranking music mindset just to keep yourself training all the time. On the topic of training all the time, I don't know about you guys, but do you remember the last time that you felt like not as, because there's ways,

but not as deeply motivated to go to the gym or just more like you just like, ah, like you just haven't, you haven't been feeling it. Has that happened to you guys recently or you guys just been good? More recently I've been pretty good. But sometimes when you try something new for a little while, you are like, ah. Like because you know it's going to, you kind of are familiar with the fact that there's a little bit of like hurt involved.

And so it's going to take a couple weeks to kind of get familiar with the fact that there's a little bit of like hurt involved. And so it's going to take a couple of weeks to kind of get over that hump. So when I first started messing with running, even though I like running, I started to run more often. And then running starts to become like a thing. And then somewhere in the middle there, you get into this funk of like, I don't really want it. But you know that you want to do it. You know that you've kind of set out to do it, but you're also kind of anticipating the pain. I think the same thing can happen with something like myofascial release.

Like, you know how good that is for you, but like something kind of hurts and you don't want to take, it doesn't make any sense at all. You don't want to take the three to six minutes that it could take for you to release something and to feel better uh because you're like and that's gonna hurt and so you choose kind of not to do it and you go on and carry on your day and next thing you know that stupid thing that was very minor got to be worse yeah i think um yeah i've been really good lately with the introduction of jujitsu i've been been, I'll say, playing it smarter, not harder lately.

So like I will have a, on the days I don't do jujitsu, I lift. And there's been a couple times where I'm like, dude, I didn't sleep enough. I'm feeling wrecked. I'd rather put a little bit more energy into like jujitsu tomorrow. So maybe today I'll go a little bit lighter. Or like the sets of four that I was going to do, today I'll go a little bit lighter or like uh the sets of four that I was going to do maybe I'll do sets of three and I don't do my final set which is usually the heaviest and hardest um you you kind of you have I I personally have to get there though it's sort

of like I should save it all for tomorrow you know I can go in and do a little something and I'll go in and do a little something. And then I kind of, I see how I'm feeling and I make that agreement of saying, all right, we're doing three instead of four. We're not doing the heavy set, but that means we're going to do like all of the exercises that we kind of set out to do. Yeah, no, I dig that because it's not, it's not the all or nothing. Like I don't – I wish every single day I woke up raring to go and super excited about lifting and jiu-jitsu, but that's just not how it is. Like there are many days you get up and it's just like, all right, well, we just need to go, right? And there are certain weeks where just everything just doesn't feel great. You're just like, why is this happening?

It's discouraging. It's very discouraging, right? But, you know, I think the worst thing is it's happened to me before too where you just choose not to do something and the next day you're like, fuck, it's even worse today because I didn't do something yesterday. So always the best decision is just to figure something out. And what is it, you know, what's your goal? You know, what's your goal? Like if you're saying you want to lose 20 pounds or you want to move up a rank in jujitsu or you want to be able to run further, you know, how, how into it are you? I kind of like to think that way because then it's like a challenge, you know, rather than challenge. Rather than this thing that I have to do, it's more like a challenge and it sets a bar and then I can decide how hard I want to work at it. Am I going to do the same amount as a professional runner, someone that's making money doing it at this stage in my life?

No. I'm not. I don't care that much about it. I enjoy it. I have a lot that much about it. I enjoy it. I have a lot of fun with it. I want to do the best that I can with it. But I'm not going to set everything else aside just to be able to run better. And I'm also not going to lift the way that I want to lift just to run better.

So maybe someone can make an argument and say, hey, if you relaxed on your lifting, you would be able to run better. And even if I was to agree with that, I would say, well, I don't care because I like lifting even if it's to some of the detriment of my running. And I would rather this process take longer for me to work through. And also even if it means I never really reached the level that I could or should. I like lifting enough to keep that in there. So for me, I always kind of like to view it as like a challenge. How good do you want to get at this? I do want to improve a lot. I do want to make advances, but I also am willing to admit like I'm not so dedicated

to it that I'll remove everything else. I'm not so dedicated to it that I'll remove everything else. One thing that I noticed is like when that, when, when I start to feel that way too, or when it starts to feel a little bit run down, it's usually because like I've been trending down the road of like not resting enough or like going, like you were mentioning Andrew going a little bit too hard.

Right. So we, we talk about sleep so much, but if it hasn't been drilled in, one of the best ways that you can kind of get yourself out of feeling like shit is to set yourself up for the next day not to feel like shit, which is actually meaning get a good night's rest, get a full good night's rest so that you wake up and you wake up feeling good. Because if you get seven hours versus you typically get five hours, you're going to feel much more motivated that morning to go get things going.

But if you've been perpetually under-rested, you'll have to bring about a bit more willpower and motivation to do the things that you know you got to do. Yeah, you'll start searching for the pre-workouts, the injectable L-carnitine, all these things when you can easily just get a better night's sleep. Power Project family, your normal shoes are making you weak. This is why I partner with Vivo Barefoot Shoes because they have a wide toe box, they're flat, and they're flexible. So with every single step you're taking, if you're taking a 10-minute walk outside or when you're working out in the gym, your feet are able to do what they're supposed to do in this shoe. They have tons of options for hiking, running, training in the gym, chilling and relaxing, casual shoes. If you're out on a date, you need to check them out. And Andrew, how can they get it? Yes, that's over at vivo barefoot.com slash power project. And you

guys will receive 15% off your order automatically. Again, vivobarefoot.com slash powerproject. Links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Better night's sleep, good nutrition. You know, nutrition is a recovery strategy that we kind of forget about sometimes. So making sure you have enough food. If you're trying to fast and like lose weight and perform better in the gym, there might be a handful of things that you're trying all at one time

that might be occasionally working against you. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to take a day off of something. You know, we are kind of talking a little bit about getting into a slump and getting into a funk, but I think to advance you further faster, you sometimes have to take the run-walk strategy that some people will use in marathon racing, half marathons, and even ultras. There's people that will still run really, really good times.

There's actually people that have recorded some of the best times in ultra marathon running by using some walking strategies. And you're like, how is that possible? by using some walking strategies. And you're like, how is that possible? Well, because they're pulling back just enough to rest just enough during the activity that when they feel rested enough, they go again. And right before they get to a point where they feel overly exhausted, they do this before they get to a point of no return. They shut it back down again and they say, okay, walk. A lot of people will walk a lot of hills when it comes to like a marathon. And when I did my last half marathon here in Sacramento, there was people that walked and jogged and they beat me and I would pass them.

I would pass them and then they would pass me. I'd pass them and they'd pass me. And I'm, and I'm, you know, I'm And I'm just paying attention to myself. That day was supposed to be paced at a certain pace and I'm not fast either way. So it doesn't matter too much. But you see them pass you and you're like, how's this going to end up? And a lot of them, I mean, I did beat some people, but a lot of them did end up passing me because they have a strategy, right? And so you need to have a strategy. How can you, if you stay up too late and watch a movie with your significant other,

that might have been, that might be important for you. The next morning you might wake up and go, shit, man, there's no way I can make it to practice. There's no way I can make it to the gym this morning. So you have to develop strategies that are going to allow you to recover from the things that you want to do in your life. And then you try to have to prioritize these things. But how do you prioritize them? You like doing all of them. You like to lift, you like to run, you like to be with your girl. And so it can make it difficult to try to juggle all these things all at one time. Yeah. I think one thing you could do too is like like if there's a certain week or a string of weeks where for some reason getting to the gym or getting to your jiu-jitsu class or something, whatever it is, it just feels like an undertaking. At least try to get in the simple minimum things, right? So even if like a week is just pretty rough, I'll still make sure

to get walks in. I'll still make sure to get some type of body weight movement in. So I'll do some pushups or just some type of general movement in. I'll do my best not to overeat. So even though like I'm doing all this stuff, I'll fast so that I'm not overeating too much and gaining too much excess fat. There are things you can do on those weeks where you're feeling a bit tired that will still have you having some type of forward momentum. But you don't want to get to a place where you're just like, I'm sitting down all day. I'm not doing much or maybe I'm going to work. I'm not getting any type of steps in. You don't want to totally move backwards. If you have those minimum habits, that'll at least keep you where you are

so that you can continue to move forward a little bit later. And if you don't have those habits, what happens to you? Do you like immediately go to 260? Not immediately. Like if you're not going to move much for a couple of days and you know that you're not going to be as active, do you have to be pretty strict with fasting and stuff like that? I have to pay better attention to the food I eat. Like I'm not going to eat nearly as many carbohydrates. I'm probably going to fast a little bit more so that I don't overeat because if I eat through the day and I'm not doing something too, I will gain weight quickly. So I think that's a good example. Like here's a guy that everyone always wants to just say it's genetics, right?

Everyone has to have rules. We all have to have some rules and we all have to set them. everyone has to have rules. We all have to have some rules and we all have to set them. And it's important that you figure out a way to stay attached to your fitness in some way. I think, you know, what are the things that you like to do? There's probably a handful of things that you really don't love to do. There's probably certain moves in the gym where you're like, that stupid move always kind of hurts my shoulder or throw my lower back out every time I try that.

I think you are trying to give yourself really good impressions of the stuff that it is that you're doing. So you encourage yourself to do it more often. There's a bunch of different things you can do to get yourself kind of fired up and excited about things. One is you can have a training partner. Sometimes that can be really useful. Oh, yeah. Another thing is you can try something new or different. Sometimes trying something new or different can cost some energy. Like if you try something completely new, like instead of going for a lift, you do yoga. That's like a totally different thing, but that could invigorate you and get you excited about something new and different.

But maybe instead of just doing like your normal bodybuilding workout, maybe you shift to lifting a little heavier for a few weeks. Or maybe you'd say, hmm, I wonder, you know, the Westside Barbell Program, they do box squats and these different things. I wonder how that would feel. I'm going to try that. You know, so you're just a little open-minded to doing something slightly different. You can also just do things where you use, maybe you use less rest. You're doing stuff in between sets. It gets you breathing harder. Just anything that's like slightly different than what you're currently doing will probably be something that you will learn very quickly if you dig it or not i think that's pretty fucking huge actually um because

like andrew you have a fuck ton of options now you have jujitsu you have your cable machine in your garage you have here you have a lot of things that you're pretty proficient at so for some reason if jujitsu is kind of shit for some reason for you, for me too, you have gym stuff that you could do pretty easily. And I think when you only have the option of just the gym as something to use to exert yourself because, you know, after you work out, you'll feel good. But if you're feeling kind of burnt out there and you don't have anything else, it's very easy just to revert to nothing because you don't have other options. else it's very easy just to revert to nothing because you don't have other options so a fucking bickering yoga class learning how to do a little bit of running uh jujitsu just going to a crossfit class all these things can give you a lot of options for because it's inevitable that there's going to be a time where you just don't feel what you're doing or it's just not as exciting

and you're like fuck what do i do now you know what's a good one is a new gym. Oh, yeah. Every once in a while, different scenery, different environment. Go to a new gym if you're a young guy and you're single. And you go to a new gym, there's also new ladies around. I have to be careful these days. That's true. But you could wear sunglasses while you're working out.

There you go. You get a good workout in. Steady wonder. As soon as you're leaving the gym another hot girl walks in and then now you're there for another 90 minutes and then you're about to leave 90 minutes later another hot girl walks i have done that before when i was younger so i finished a workout i was leaving and i was like seven and a half hours let me go do two more sets i was just checking to see if my car alarm was on boop boop yep it is yeah i wanted to ask you guys where do you think uh guilt comes from because

you hear that when somebody's like oh i feel guilty when i miss a day in the gym where do you think that guilt ultimately comes from comes from in sema makes us feel everybody he's real meanie about it i think guilt you think guilt comes from you just recognizing that you're not doing – you told yourself you wanted to do these things. And the body keeps score. You know what you're doing. You know what you're not doing. You know when you're jerking off too much basically and fucking around too much.

And you get kind of pissed at yourself about it. So I think that's where it comes from. Yeah, you have expectations for yourself, right? I think all of us have goals, whether fitness or outside, that we want to be able to hit. And we know the things we need to do to hit those goals. But when you're not taking the actions you know you should be taking, you kind of feel like you're fucked up, right? But again, if you can just make sure you do something something like just take it a day at a time or even a fucking task at a time and just do one thing even even if it's today for one of you

that's listening like if it's today that you're feeling like shit just try to do one thing before the day ends that you know is going to be kind of good for you even if that thing's fucking doing a set of 10 push-ups or just going and taking a walk for five minutes or 10 minutes outside. Just do that one thing at least before it becomes tomorrow. Because a lot of the time it's like, I'll do it tomorrow. And then tomorrow comes and it's more of the same, you know? So get the ball rolling now if you can. Yeah, go touch some grass. Do you think it might also come from people's identity?

I'm a jujitsu practitioner. I'm going to compete later this year i didn't make it damn such a such a uh fraud do you think people maybe need to get away from identifying as a power lifter bodybuilder that sort of thing at least maybe for an off day yeah i think that can happen i also think that people you know we're comparing ourselves to other people and so that's where the shame of it comes in like yeah i mean even though you might not be thinking like that you might not literally have it in your head that you're like oh i'm not as lean as that guy so i'm gonna be sad

but maybe that is kind of what's happening in the background i would also say like um every once in a while you got to say fuck your goals. Fuck them, man. Just literally just don't think about them. I know it's hard. I know it's not an easy thing to grasp. But if you've been trying to lose weight and you've been trying for like six months and you're not really losing weight, it's not working anyway. So just chill the fuck out on it and try to put your energy into something different.

Try to put your energy into a different metric. Maybe you can measure your waistline. Maybe you can, instead of just weighing yourself and weighing the same and being pissy about it, maybe you can find a way to get yourself away from that for a moment. And maybe you can practice like, this month I would love to just see my strength go up a little bit, or I'm just going to measure my arms. Can I make my arms a little bit bigger in the next two, three months? I'm not saying to gain weight and I'm not saying to say, screw your diet by any means. That would be a big mistake. Still stay connected to that to some degree. But if you've been trying something and

you've been unsuccessful with it, now is a good time to try to sink your teeth into trying something slightly different. And you'll probably be excited and pumped about that. Next thing you know, you'll probably make a little progress there. And then you can always go back and kind of recorrect that other goal that you had. Yeah, banging your head against one thing for too long is so fucking frustrating. It's so fucking annoying. Like you probably experience it too, like when you're rolling with someone, right? And there's something you've been trying to do

and it's just not working. And it didn't work this week either. And then next week comes and it still didn't fucking work. It's just like, maybe it's a good idea just to distance yourself from that specific thing for a little bit just for now and then come back to it. And for some reason, it'll work. Yeah, so you don't lose your sanity basically.

But the identity thing you're saying is pretty interesting because it's like – I think it's – we all have multiple identities. We're all a bit schizo in that way. You're a grappler. You're a father. You're a great son. You have all these qualities. You're not just that way. You're a grappler. You're a father. You're a great son. You have all these qualities. You're not just one thing. You're a porn star.

Because that big-ass Congo dick you got. Let's go. It's like, yeah, you're a runner. You're an entrepreneur. You're a podcaster. You got all these things, man. It's like you don't have to identify with that one thing all the time. Right. Makes sense. Hey, Pat Rogers family, shut your mouth. No, not, not really, but kind of,

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Listen to C.T. Fletcher and just hear don't be a bitch. Yeah, right? Like ever. him and goggins all day long no i'm just like remembering like um trying to get out of like pe so you have your mom write you an excuse or something i don't know something like that and it was always like some bullshit that you weren't even actually like feeling but if somebody is feeling what like an injury like a five out of ten or something to where like hey like you should calm down right now you ten or something to where like hey like you should calm down right now you just did something today dude what was it what happened i don't do i'm still figuring out hopefully but you're gonna be on camera because i'm going like this and it

does look interesting on camera no i don't know what happened to like my adductor maybe or hamstring something connected right here by the side of my knee. I don't know what I did. It was fine all day. And then we podcasted earlier and I was like, Oh, something, something's painful right here. So I know for sure I'm going to smash the heck out of it. I'm going to cause some more pain that will hopefully alleviate the pain, but I'm not going to open mat in the morning. I'm not going to do hamstrings heavy. I might move them around tomorrow morning, but I'm going to definitely take it light for the next two days. And then when I hit the mats again, I'm not going to do the move that probably did it. And you can go from there. Yeah.

You're not going to stop. But no, I'm not going to stop. Yeah. Yeah. I think an excuse is that you need to pull back a bit. In order to advance forward, you need to pull back. Sometimes the best thing for you to do might be to just get some sunlight when you work on your computer. Maybe you sit on the floor. Maybe you do both things at the same time that we see Encima do a lot.

Encima will be in the gym, and he'll be on his laptop, but he'll be in a position that's advantageous to you staying mobile, right? And being able to get in and out of different positions. There's a, you know, maybe you're on a powerlifting program and you've been training and training and training. Something's weird with your back. You wake up, you can barely walk to the bathroom and you're supposed to deadlift that day i hate that feeling dude sometimes sometimes a day so i've had these blisters on my feet over the last couple weeks and they came out of nowhere i haven't had any blisters the entire time and of course the marathon

is getting here and it's just bink fuckery right i mean it's just like oh here's a bunch of shit we like to deal with because the hills at 20 miles at the Boston Marathon aren't enough for you to be stressed out about what's going on so but what a difference a day or two makes you know I have scheduled like this run supposed to happen this day

fuck the run I got blisters on my feet what is running going to do? It's going to make my blisters worse. They're not going to get any better. So that planned deadlift session that you have, you have no choice. You have to miss it. Is there some other way you can participate?

Can you go and encourage the other guys that are lifting for the meet? Maybe. Maybe you fucking hate that. Maybe you can't do that, and that's fine too. But could you watch some uh lifting could you watch and try to learn your own technique and can you uh do some myofascial release uh could you um maybe try to address it try to hire somebody to do some manual therapy on the area to make it better could you stretch or exercise in some way to promote blood flow

to the area? Could you put your feet up for better? I mean, there's cold plunge. Could you try to find a place in your area that has a cold plunge and has a sauna and has a hot tub or something like that? Now you're talking about, this is a really, really good quote unquote excuse to really reload and to give yourself a moment. If you give yourself one week, if your shoulder hurts from bench pressing, if your back hurts from deadlifting, you give yourself one week and you're a young, healthy person. Dude, it's insane. It's absolutely insane how fucked up you can be in the course of like a three-day span and then boom, all of a sudden be totally fine out of nowhere. And you're like, holy shit, I think I'm good to go again. It's unbelievable.

And just to add on to that real quick, one thing that I think can help with all types of injury that you're dealing with is like Andrew mentioned, he's going to be smashing it and leaning into it. But as you're dealing with that injury, or it's like it's a lower back or it's a, it's the, it's your knee or whatever, when you're doing stuff with it, try not to hold your breath or try not when you're doing certain, when you're moving through it, like moving with it, try not to hold your breath. Cause one thing I've found every time a little injury happens or something somewhere, when I start to – like I said, it's lower back. When I start to bend to pick something up, I'll stop breathing for a second as I bend. And then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, breathe. Breathe like you normally would because whenever I do that and I focus on my recovery, moving through everything while making sure I'm breathing through everything, shit just recovers much faster partially because the breathing tells my brain it's okay.

It's okay to chill the fuck out whereas when you're holding your breath and doing something your brain is like oh fuck this isn't good okay guard the fuck out of this area so just breathe if you can please you and you end up inducing the pain because you're expecting it yeah you just kind of embrace yourself during your life yeah in this uh j Jordan movie, the movie Air, the owner of Nike, he's different. He built this multi-billion dollar juggernaut of a company. And he is very Zen and finds like Buddhist type stuff and has these quotes and stuff that he says all the time. He talks to these guys about how they should breathe in this

meeting that they have coming up. He's like, when you're breathing out, really concentrate on breathing out. Be with your breath. They're looking at each other and he goes, when you're breathing in, concentrate on the air coming in and just really try to relax. He's like, that's going to

help put you in the moment. Is that Ben Affleck's character? Yeah, and he nailed it. I mean, I don't know Phil Knight personally at all, but I've never really seen much on him, but he nailed this CEO position of this guy trying to raise this higher level. as soon as he walks away,

Matt Damon and the other guys, they look at each other like, what did he say to breathe in while we're breathing out? They're like, they're just at a totally different stage in their life. They have no idea what he's talking about. Yeah, man. See if we can play this clip from Jocko Willink. It reminds me a little bit of what we're talking about here. It says in that manual, it says, other than death, all failure is psychological.

Other than death, all failure is psychological. Think about that. Just think about that. This failure, this upset, this catastrophe. If you aren't dead, then it's just psychological it's in your head now this does not mean that you won't

lose some battles because you will, we all will it's I really like what he finished with I think is the most important part is that there's battles that you're going to lose. And I made a video not too long ago just talking about how I'm here to play the long game.

I don't care how long it takes me to get good at something or to get better at it. And even if you really, really stink at something, you're really just, you're not good at it. You're poor at it. If you do it for five years, what does that look like? If you do it for eight years, what does that look like? Do it for 10, you know, maybe, maybe you're still not amazing at it, but how much better are you now at that thing than you were when you started and you're going to lose battles. Life's not always going to feel easy. You know, I don't think you're supposed to be like happy and pumped 24 seven.

I think that's part of what makes being happy and excited. So cool. And sometimes you're on your way to work and you're super happy and excited and you go and you see other people and they're happy and excited. You're like, this day is fucking rock. And you go outside, the sun's out. Like it's just beautiful day. And you go and you see other people and they're happy and excited. You're like, today is fucking rocking. You go outside.

The sun's out. Like it's just a beautiful day. And you're trying to figure out how do I live my life in that zone all the time? It's just not meant to be. You're not supposed to be in that zone all the time. You're just supposed to get little glimpses of it. The sunny days wouldn't mean anything without some of the rain and some of the clouds. It's the way the way that it goes it's the way that it be the yeah the peaks and valleys right you can't have the peaks without the valleys those mighty peaks you need to have it all peakers that's a good place

to end it or you got something else i don't know i'm good there what else else do I have? Yep. That's all I got. All right. Hi, Andrew. Sorry. I forgot that this, we were, my bad. We got editing power. What are you guys going to edit out? I don't know. Everything I said.

Just the whole podcast. Just all yours. You guys know I don't watch it. So how many times have you guys deleted me from the entire show? Just a couple times. Find us at mbpowerproject.com. I think just one time. Alright, anyways.

You said that monkey thing, remember? Oh, yeah. Dude, thankfully, this is all getting edited out, by the way. I went back, I edited it out, and then I watched it again, and you said it twice, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm so way i went back i edited it out and then i watched it again and you said it twice and i'm like oh my gosh i'm so glad i went back twice yeah me too thank you so much yeah mark if you can do it again just take it andrew take us out of here buddy absolutely thank you

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Yeah, yeah. Last thing I'll finish with is try to find a group or a training partner. I did mention training partner briefly. But the tendency is if you get with a group like Andrew has been going to jiu-jitsu and when you have those people that makes you accountable. Oh, yeah. And, you know, find some accountability partners that you can kind of figure out how to keep yourself motivated with, whether it's for a bike ride or run or whatever the hell it is you're trying to get better at. It will help tremendously. I've been lifting with Kenny Williams, and it's been amazing. For running, I don't really love to run with other people as much.

It kind of throws me off a bit. They got their pace going. They got their pace going. I got my pace going. I'd rather zone out and listen to music and things like that. But for lifting, I found it really motivational and something that helps drive me. Yeah, and see if you can give something back to the group, right? Especially early on with jiu-jitsu, I couldn't really do much. But I'm like, hey, do you guys want to go lift?

Oh, yeah, when your feet got all jacked up too, but you still went to practice right yeah so i was like whenever i was i've been out the feet thing was different because i couldn't even walk but when i've been out i still show up but like this weekend we got in because one of my guys is he's actually competing in two weeks so he wants to stay connected so we ended up getting mats inside my garage oh so we did giant sets of a super set of a push pull plus rounds on the mats what and we just had a round i had to kill dude it sucked it was it was tough but falling apart back here but that's something that i could give back to them so those three guys they were all way better at jujitsu than me but just because i can't imagine what that would feel like that's gotta be tough it was cool it wasn't too bad it was because the the lifting part was actually the break you know and so again

like i said i set up a push i set up a pull and then drills on the mat so it was dope so i could give back you know experience and knowledge on the lifting side and then i received tons of experience and knowledge on the mats and so when you get it with the group think about what you can provide and then that will help solidify the crew. You become a part of it. I'm at Mark Smelly Bell. Strength is never weakness. Weakness never strength.

Catch you guys later. Bye.