Mark Bell's Power Project - Mark Bell's Power Project EP. 191 - Pump Your Breaks on Your Desires

Episode Date: March 16, 2019

Is it helping or is it hurting? That's the question Mark Bell posed on today's show. If chasing a big bench, maybe chasing the pump is out of the question. If leaning out, junk food is just going to cover up all of your hard work. Is it worth it? We also talked about the new Gangsta Knee Sleeves that will be releasing March 21st at 12pm PST. Why did Mark create them, who are they for and what are the benefits of a thicker knee sleeve. ➢SHOP NOW: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots Find the Podcast on all platforms: ➢Subscribe Rate & Review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-bells-power-project/id1341346059?mt=2 ➢Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4YQE02jPOboQrltVoAD8bp ➢Listen on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mark-bells-power-project?refid=stpr ➢Listen on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Izf6a3gudzyn66kf364qx34cctq?t=Mark_Bells_Power_Project ➢Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/markbellspowerproject  FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell Follow The Power Project Podcast ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MarkBellsPowerProject Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/  Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz

I still need to get some of those exogenous ketones for that Dr. Manhattan protocol. I really want to do that. You want to turn blue? Yeah, I want to turn blue. I have some ketones in my office. You can try them out. As Joe Rogan says, they taste like Godzilla's dick. Would those work the same way?

You don't need any of those? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I told you. I think so. I forgot that. I think they should work the same way.

I think, I think what he's saying is I think that you need to like, uh, kind of like prep for it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. He gave me some detailed instructions after.

Yeah. I don't think it's something you just like, uh, you know, eat a pizza and then throw down some keys homes. I think it's, you gotta like do a little prep work. Yeah.

He liked fast. He fast for like 24 30 hours and then use uh four ounces of pineapple juice along with his ketones and like he says like a few minutes later pineapple juice that's for the semen right yes yeah it's a pineapple we already talked about godzilla's dick and semen and they're not even not even a minute in not even a minute in it's gonna be great in seam It's going to be great. In semen? Yeah, that was my high school nickname, partially. It's better than spooge.

Spooge? Who's spooge? Somebody. Somebody's definitely nicknamed spooge. And you guys laugh so much. I don't know what a spooge is or what it may mean. Oh, it sounds bad, right? It sounds bad right it sounds bad

sounds negative i think your generation would call it skeet oh oh okay spooch or splooge splooge makes more sense splooge okay yeah i don't know whatever you want to call it yeah what do people always say when they're like on uh people like on YouTube, they're always saying I just came from Pornhub and I'm still fapping. It's impressive. And I'm like, that's kind of weird because this is like a deadlift video. But whatever. People like to use those videos for pleasure. Speaking of weird stuff, the Natty Professor showed us his feet the other day.

Oh, yeah. And we think you're going to end up on some weird internet sites buddy most definitely most like no a lot of the videos i've posted have uh probably been used for uh pleasure in some way not by women oh yeah it's really weird bodybuilding is odd it's not that weird a little bit no yeah i found out a little. So it was early into my bodybuilding, like, I guess, career, right? When I was doing my first few shows, I got this email from a guy in Canada. No. Is he going to explain how he doesn't have a job right now? I believe so.

No, it was an email from a guy in Canada. And he was like, you know, I want to sponsor you. I'll pay you, you know, to like, you know. Talking about Omar Issa? No, but in essence uh so i was like oh cool sponsorship go a little deeper he's like oh you just got to send me a few videos you're posing i was like posing like why just so i could see your progress i'm like huh all right so alberto nunez was my coach at the time and i sent him this stuff he's like nah bro i don't like don't don't

continue this is some uh this is some g4p stuff and then it escalated he's like okay you know what if you want to do this i could fly you out you know i got a place out here i could fly you out and then just to see what you're working with i'm like oh okay yeah this is definitely some weird uh some weird stuff so there's a lot of that yeah there's a lot of that so how was was Canada? Yeah, no, I didn't. You're like, so I lived on Vancouver Island for three years with a guy, but I was smart with my money. So I'm good.

So I'm self-employed. I can just chill at home. He's like, I'll pay you four to five K a month. And then I was like, wait for what? So bad. A lot of bodybuilders got to do that though.

Probably. That's pretty good money, dude. It's not bad. It is, but it turned it down. Oh God. Yeah. money dude it's not bad it is but it turned it down uh yeah i think it's it's definitely weird for chicks though too uh somebody who passed through super training was telling me how a guy dm'd her was like hey i'll pay you on like 10 grand to step on a mouse in high heels and i was like do you need a cameraman like i'm cheap

like what you got? I don't think you should be talking about Tony huge like that. He's becoming a good friend of ours. I said female. Oh. Yeah, no. So last night I went to Woodpile, Woodland. Hey, the old stomping grounds.

Yeah, and I went to this senior center that my dad is part of. They have all kinds of youth programs there and stuff. I don't know why it's called the senior center. There's a bunch of young kids in there. My mom trains there. Oh, does she? Yeah. Very cool.

And so my dad has been – my dad goes to church in Woodland, and so he knows all these people and stuff, and my dad's super personable. and so he knows all these people and stuff and my dad's super personable and um so my dad got involved in this uh uh this youth boxing program he just goes over there and just like helps out every once in a while um he goes and just talks to the kids and things like that and he's he's told the kids about uh me and my brothers and you know mike was a professional wrestler and talks about chris and you know my was a professional wrestler and talks about Chris and you know my parents are always talking us up big time but yesterday I had an opportunity to go over there and just basically give a talk they had an award ceremony and it was really cool they got

kids from the age of five all the way to about 19 in their boxing every day and just like a lot of energy like so there was while this award ceremony award ceremony was going on there's like 100 people in this room and then where the boxing gym is and they have an outdoor boxing gym as well there's another like 50 or 60 kids just wailing on you know heavy bags and speed bags and just really cool really cool to be part of something like that and then listening to the other speakers was an honor for me. It was really cool to, we got to listen to some police officers and some, just these people that are just, they're selfless, you know, they go in there and they devote their time. You know, I really admire that. It's easy to throw money at things, you know,

for some, for some people it's easy to throw money at things. But man, it's a, what a huge blessing it is to have people devote their time because a lot of these kids, they don't have, they just don't have a great upbringing, you know? So it was cool to go and talk there. And then also in addition to that, my mom and dad were there. And then my mom and dad brought my son and my son, he didn't, he didn't say much about it um but i can tell that he i can tell that he was impacted by it which was really cool because he was like he's like you get nervous doing that and i was like yeah you get very nervous doing that but uh you know i'm getting more used to it and um just getting that experience and getting up there in front of people and talking is always, I usually have like a little bit of an agenda, but I don't ever really write anything down and just get up there and just try to talk from the heart. The hard part of it is to

figure out who the hell you're talking to. That's the hardest part is, you know, these are basically like teenage kids, so they're not going to be impressed with too much and so uh you know i just i just tried to keep it very very basic and um you know made a couple jokes about woodland and how i and how i started slingshot in woodland and talked about uh some of the inspiration behind that and how imagination is a really important thing to have and then um basically said i made enough money to get the hell out of here and move to Davis. That got some good heat from the crowd, but it was a lot of fun.

Yeah. Really cool. Yeah, Davis is the rival. That's right. They're cleaner, better version of Woodland. Yeah. And they got chicks too because of the college. At least that's what we thought in high school.

Do they have any programs like that with jiu-jitsu? Programs like? Do they have anything like that with inner city kids and things like that? Is jiu-jitsu expensive, first of all? Okay. Well, I mean, it really. Can be? I think it can be.

If you look at a gym membership, that can range between $20 and $45 a month or something. Well, that ain't too bad. But my jiu-jitsu school, not a gym, I mean like a commercial gym membership, but like jujitsu schools can range anywhere between a hundred to $150 a month, depending on like how much you want to roll. My school specifically is between like 120 and 140, 140 for like unlimited, 120 for I think two or three days. So for a lot of-

You get constant instruction though. You get constant instruction. You're always in like a class basically, right? Exactly, yeah. And like, I mean, the cool thing about my jujitsu school is that Casio, he has a gym in the back. So he has a squat rack, bench press. He has like a bunch of dumbbells and stuff.

So if somebody wanted to also get a workout in, they could use that gym as their gym. So, I mean, I would say that like for most people, jujitsu would be on the more expensive side. Like that's, it's not cheap by any means, but if you really enjoy it, then I think it's, you know, it's something you can invest in. Right. That's definitely, I mean, it's definitely worth it to be able to push your body that way. And I think there's the things that you can learn through that physicality. And then on top of that, it's most sports are like, you know, most sports are like these little individual battles, right? Like in football, there's like an individual battle between the tackle and the defensive end.

There's an individual battle between the quarterback and the linebacker. There's these individual, the cornerback and the wide receiver. But when you wrestle or you box or you do something like jujitsu, that's the main focus. It's just one-on-one. It's one person versus another. And ultimately what you end up really wrestling with is yourself, which is kind of the, I think, you know, kind of where this principle of body, mind, spirit comes from is that if you just go in there and grit your teeth and start throwing bombs, maybe that's not the best way to go about doing it. Maybe, you know, maybe trying to figure out a different way

to, you know, slay the dragon, so to speak, it might be better to have technique and to adhere to some of the stuff that you learn. Oh, most definitely. And what I find really interesting about that, just like when you have certain people that approach lifting in a certain way, we were talking about this with Jim Brown. Some people approach lifting really well when they approach it with a bit of aggression, and it works for them over long periods of time.

They don't need to change that. Some people I see approach jiu-jitsu with the same level of potential aggression there are some top level competitors that way um but you know a lot of the other top level competitors you could see like you could see their faces completely stoic they never look like they're out of control they never look like they're flustered like roger gracie or hodger gracie um was he's like apparently the he's won i mean eight nine maybe ten different world championships. Extremely stoic in the way he approaches his jiu-jitsu. When you see him rolling with people, it's almost like he has no emotion,

and he just tries to have as much control as possible. So I find it just really interesting trying to figure out what works best for you. I think that also comes down to like your personality too, but figuring out what works best for you in terms of the way you approach that, whether it's lifting or the martial art, and then actually learning how to develop that. Because like, you know, even when I started jujitsu, there's a little bit more, yeah, I pay attention to so much of his stuff. Well, let me, let me say something about Hodger Gracie real quick. I know we don't talk about jujitsu too much, but Hodger, he, he's won the most world

championships out of any competitor. But the thing that makes him so amazing is that the way he does it to people, he uses the most basic jujitsu concepts, the things you learn in your first year of jujitsu. He uses that on the top level competitors. He'll mount, and then he'll do like a cross collar choke. He'll do the most simple things. And it just shows how even the simplest concepts can work against the most, the, the, the, the highest level competitors. He doesn't do anything fancy, but because of just his perfection of like the, the, the easiest things he's managed to be the greatest, you know, Gi jujitsu competitor of all time. Um, so yeah, figuring out what works for you in terms of like how you

attack that, whether it's being calmer, whether it's attacking with aggression, um, it's, it's a very, I guess it's a very interesting thing. And you ha you gotta have a teacher that allows you to figure that out for yourself. Cause he, I feel like if you have like an instructor that wants everybody to roll like him, maybe with aggression or something else that he'll try to have all his students emulate him which usually doesn't work well this is why it's so important to stay in your own lane you know so these other people i mean um some of the footage that we're watching right now is pretty damn aggressive and it's obviously very very high level uh but the way that uh how do you say his name is it hodger so it's spelled roger right it's hodger gracie so the way that hodger gracie is going about

it you know he occasionally he's got to use a little muscle he's got to he's got to have these little uh sprints in there where he goes after something aggressively, but he certainly doesn't look like his opponent. You know, his opponent is, his opponent is overreaching. He doesn't have, he doesn't have the skillset. He just doesn't have it. And so when you're lifting and just in life in general, it's really important that you're not, you know, you gotta be really careful. You're not overreaching. You're not really, you gotta figure out ways of staying in your own lane and, you know, using pre-workout and cranking up some music and those things. Uh, we, we love to do that stuff, but at the same time, it might be a good idea for some of the guys and girls listening just to try, try lifting with a little less emotion and try having it maybe come from within a little bit

more. Try to, and you could try this with the lighter weights at first and just see how you respond to it. See if you can get connected to the weight. See if you can get connected to actually what you're doing. And that's going to be the best way to actually learn how to squat, bench, or deadlift is to be connected to the bar and be connected to what it is you're doing. To go out of your mind, I think sometimes that's fine. I think it's okay. I think it's okay to, to get a little loony tune with the weights.

Sometimes it's, you're just trying to convince yourself that things are going to be okay. When really deep down, you know that they might not be, but, um, and I, that can be fun and it's fun for me. I like to slap the chuck bowl and I like to get fired up. And it's just a thing that I've adopted. But when you see me training, I don't do every set. It's not all the time. I'm not going absolutely bonkers on every set. And so, you know, just give I would say give it a try. You know, try to lift with a little less emotion and try to hone in and focus on what you're doing. with a little less emotion and try to hone in and focus on what you're doing. Yeah, you definitely, like, obviously, you know when you got to pull it out. You know, you know when you got to use it. So it's just. I like he said, pull it out because, you know, to whip it out,

you got to have something substantial to pull it out. It's kind of different. Or just take it out. That's just a slight arch. Yeah, whipping it out. It's like you might slap somebody upside their head with it, right? Yeah. How long did it take you guys to realize that you could, like you had that aggression in the back of your pocket?

Because with me, I'm not either or. I haven't found my groove of what I actually should do to get fired up or if I stay calm. I know all I do is I visualize the lift itself, but I don't have a go-to. I'm not slapping the chalk bowl. I'm not doing anything like that. I know it came from experience, but like, you know. Well, and Seema, you mentioned a couple times that you tried to get fired up a few times.

Just didn't feel right. Yeah, no, I would just try to think of things that would potentially make me angry. That's literally what I did. I would think about ripping the bar off the ground. And then I think of some things that would like bring about some emotion. But it again, it wasn't very comfortable. I mean, it's not like it always has to be comfortable. That's not what I'm saying, but it wasn't a, like, like I mentioned, it wasn't something natural for me. I don't get angry often, like just, just on, on a daily basis is very difficult for me to, to actually get super angry. So having to, uh, bring that about, uh, artificially was very difficult for me. So that's when I switched and I just started trying to think about nothing or just think about like before I'd visualize myself lifting the weight super controlled and with all of my cues.

And then before I get to the bar, I just try to think of nothing and execute like that. That was all I do. And that worked and that continues to work. Have you ever thought like in the past when you were using like anger, have you ever gone through a process of thinking like, no one thinks I can actually do this? You ever, you ever kind of go there or not really?

No, it's, it's never, it's never, it might be something good for you. I was going to say, I'm not supposed to be, I'm not supposed to be,

I'm not supposed to be able to do this. Right. Even though we're certainly not thinking that of you, but it's like kind of your own like mantra. Yeah. As you said, that has run through my mind before. Like Smokey, like he can always use that he's short and ugly, right? To like get out, you know, he's always been the underdog.

Everybody's always counted him out. Yeah. It's not true. Looks like a garden gnome. Still count him out. Yeah. His pre-lift routine is probably the best one in the gym, though. He's got a lot of hoosh guys in there.

Everyone jokes around. They try to mock it, but it's pretty solid. I will say that. The lifts themselves, who knows? They're a sketch. Yeah. I wonder what Smokey thinks about, actually, because that lift routine is spot on every single time. I'm really curious what he thinks about.

I want to know after. Pick his brain. And his beard. And his beard. You'll find something in there. Yeah, from Black Bear. Coins. Oh yeah, Black Bear Diner. We got some new gangsta sleeves coming out. Fatter than your mom's ass. Those are pretty thick.

Yeah. They're real thick. Thicker than molasses molasses yeah 9.5 millimeters we would have made them thicker but we broke the machine so so why'd you do this by the way uh you know just there's been a demand for it people been asking for it and uh people like hey can you make thicker sleeves make thicker sleeves and you know we've been like well hey like they don't allow they don't allow thicker sleeves in competition. People are like, who cares? And then plus strongman athletes and Olympic lifting and in CrossFit,

they don't have the same rules that they have in powerlifting. In powerlifting, you can only have 7 millimeters. So that's why it's got to be 7 millimeters or less in powerlifting. But in some of the other sports, they don't care. So they really don't have a thickness limit they don't care and they and and uh when it comes to strongman i mean you can wear like two belts and you can wear straps and you can kind of do they're like hey we don't care yeah you know go ahead and try to pick up 1100 pounds do it whatever way you want you can hitch the weight you know you can do it whatever way you need to so

yeah i'm excited about it i was wearing uh a 2xl the other day for some squats and it felt amazing i mean it felt as if i was wearing like an extra large because the extra thickness and it actually will kind of push your foot forward when you're walking almost like you're wearing a pair of knee wraps so i think this is a good uh a good blend in between somewhere in between a light knee wrap and a knee sleeve. How would you use them in, say, meat prep or something? Because I know there's going to be somebody that's like, well, why don't you want to get used to using them because they're so thick? I would say it would just depend on your strength level and depend on what you're used to.

I think the difference of going to something that's 2.5 millimeters thick probably won't make that big of a difference. At the same time, I don't think it's ever a good idea to bank on lifts that you're doing kind of quote unquote illegally. Yeah. So like a high squat, like I wouldn't take a high squat to a meet and like try to cash that in.

I wouldn't be like, Oh, I squatted four or five in the gym. But when you squatted four or five in the gym, everybody agreed, like, dude, you got to get, you still got to get like three inches deeper. I wouldn't, I wouldn't ever assume that that that's a weight that you can do. And, and having said that, that would be like a third attempt, you know, something that you would squat high in the gym, possibly maybe not even, but in terms of your actual training, um, I think it would be totally fine to wear it when you want to just roll the dice and go for something big, like you would with a slingshot. Um, or when, uh, you just got done with a competition and you just want to,

you just want to train, you just want to have fun. You just want to move around and maybe handle a little bit extra weight. Um, you know, for me, like I, I, I don't plan on squatting and competition anytime soon. So I'll just wear them all the time. And there's a lot of people that don't compete. Um, I don't think you have any plans to compete in powerlifting for a while, right? No, I don't. So like, that's the thing, you know, if you're, if you really love powerlifting and you really love lifting heavy, cool. But, but you also don't have to adhere by all the rules. You can use elbow sleeves when you bench. You can use super thick knee sleeves when you squat.

It's not going to have any effect on any type of competition later on. But yeah, if you're about to compete, just use normal knee sleeves when you're getting ready for competition. It doesn't take that long to get used to it. It's only two millimeters. Cool. And then in comparison to the strong sleeves, is it the same toughness? Yeah, it's the same as the strong sleeves. It has the same stiff jersey on both sides, which we have the only knee sleeve on the market that has that.

And if you don't know anything about neoprene, neoprene is basically kind of what a swimsuit or not a swimsuit a uh what the hell is it called uh like a scuba diving suit right a wetsuit there we go it's kind of like what a wetsuit is made out of where you can literally just pull that stuff apart it's very it's very soft um it doesn't have any real strength to it but once you take neoprene and you attach it to something, then it makes it stiffer. And that's what makes our knee sleeve stiff. And we put a jersey on the inside and the outside. And then we also, it's only a two-way stretch. So it actually only stretches and expands the way of your calves to make room for your calves, to make room for your leg to go through the product. It stretches outwardly, but it doesn't stretch vertically.

Yeah, it doesn't stretch vertically. It's really stiff that way. So if you take a pair of strong sleeves or the new gangster sleeves and you pull on them, you'll be able to pull them apart, but you won't be able to pull them up and down. They won't move hardly at all. Does that affect the sizing then? Like if I'm a large and a strong sleeve?

I think you should be able to still fit in the same size. And then it would just be a preference on how tight you want them to be. So for me, the other day in training, I don't really care that I'm hitting the absolute maximum weight that I can hit. So I went like a size up. But if you want to hit a little bit more than your best, then you just use the same exact size. Gotcha. And definitely illegal across the board except strongman. Yeah, I don't think you can wear them in any – I'm unaware of any powerlifting federations that just let you wear whatever you want but some of them don't check

so there's that just get a strong sticker and slap it over the gangsta exactly yeah something that uh came up the other day that i was thinking about um when i was thinking about some of the some of the things that are similar with bodybuilding, some of the things that are similar with powerlifting. And I even got to thinking of like, you know, I trained yesterday and I did 435 for triple on the bench. Felt pretty good. But this kind of training is, and part of the reason why I retired from powerlifting

75 different times. I'm starting to be like brett farve over here uh part of the reason why i retired from the sport is like i hate it i hate parts of it like i hate the training for it because i like to just i like to just work out like i'm passionate about like just working out and i love coming to the gym and i love just having the worst case of ADHD that anybody's ever seen and be like, oh, look, and Seema's doing rows. I'm going to go over there. Oh, Smokey's doing dumbbell bench. I'm going to go over there. I love just kind of like almost hopping in with whoever's doing these different movements and just piling it on and kicking the

crap out of myself, you know, with five exercises or so. But when you're training for a competition, it's very specific and you have to like fast or starve yourself away from some of the things that you might want to do in place of the things that can actually align with whatever the goal is. So for me, my goal is to bench 500 pounds at 220. And in order for me to do that, pounds at 220. And in order for me to do that, I can't haphazardly superset cable crossovers and pushups because that probably doesn't align with my goal. That might make me too sore for too many days. And then right now I'm benching multiple times a week. So it doesn't really make any sense to do stuff like that. Where this relates to bodybuilding and relates to just about anything in life, but where it relates to bodybuilding

specifically is you have to fast and starve yourself away from, you know, maybe just doing whatever heavy lift you want to do or doing whatever you want to do in the gym to show your strength. In terms of bodybuilding, your biggest mistake, the thing that you can do to not align yourself with your goals, to knock you off track, would be basically to overeat. Or to eat too many of a particular macro that you're not supposed to eat. Maybe you ate too much fat or maybe you ate too much carbs or maybe a combination thereof. And so in both cases, if you're preparing for something, prepping for something, whether it be a photo shoot, bodybuilding show, or a powerlifting meet, in order to get what you want, you got to really pump the brakes on your desires, which sucks. And it's part of the reason why it makes it so difficult and so hard. If you're just trying to like lose 10 pounds and you're like 50 pounds

overweight, then you probably take three things and align them with that goal. And you're probably good. Like, oh, you know, I'm going to start walking three times a day and I'm going to use some intermittent fasting. And I'm going to use some intermittent fasting and I'm going to make sure that I get a good amount of protein in every day. Done. You'll probably drop 10 pounds very easily. But if you want to be a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, if you want to win a world championship in jiu-jitsu, if you want to set a world record in powerlifting, if you want to get on stage in a bodybuilding show and come in first place or become pro, well, now you've got to like stack everything you have.

You've got to align everything that you got. And that might pull away from all the other things that you do in your life. Oh, most definitely. And also, I think one of the big factors here is that that's, that's if one of those things is like if powerlifting is your, not just, you know, something you like to do in the gym and you like to get stronger's when it's really going to play a role because I mean right now, for example, I just I just like getting stronger. I just like training to be strong and get stronger. So I don't have to have that much specificity and I can give myself as much time as I want, you know, but if you're a competing power lifter and you're doing two or three competitions every single year, right? You, you, you're really going to have to back off on a lot of other things you may want to do in the gym because you want to get good or great at this one thing. Um, and, and that's something that I think it's a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people. Like if you want to be really, really good at bodybuilding, then, you know, you're going to have your off season where you can put on and bulk and gain, but then when you're cutting

and getting ready for show, you have to get away from all of those things that you typically enjoy just so you can get really lean and not just lean, like, you know, 12%, you want to get to single digit body fat. It's an insane amount of sacrifice and pulling away, like even from the way you like to train, because even your training has to back off, right? So there's a lot of backing off from those things that you'd really like to do and enjoy your training has to back off right so there's a lot of backing off from those things that you'd really like to do and enjoy just to get to that next level right now you probably enjoy lifting more than you enjoy jiu-jitsu enjoy lifting more than i enjoy jiu-jitsu just because you have a little bit more freedom in here oh okay yeah yeah yeah no i i get what you're saying i mean obviously you love you love both and you, and jujitsu is new, new ish, I guess, but there's,

you know, a real dedication going on towards that. So you have your ups and your downs and some days are probably pretty damn frustrating, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, I really enjoy it. Like I've always enjoyed lifting. I don't think there's ever been a time that I haven't enjoyed it, but I do like the freedom

that I have in the gym now. You know, there's not a day where like, okay, well I have to absolutely do this because this is going to get me ready to, to pull this number, to squat this number. I can go in and do like, I can progress in the way I want to. I can do movements that I haven't done in a while. Cause like, you know, I just can, and it's not going to impede my progress. Um, but jujitsu, like I still, the reason why I like it so much is because there's so much variability every single day. Um, like I get to spar with a bunch of different types of people. I get to practice new things. It's, it's, it's always evolving.

And like lifting can too, it's just like you, you, you do have certain things that you have to do all the time to be able to progress. So I do like the freedom though. I'd say that I like also like the, the, the funny thing is like, you know, when I was doing bodybuilding, I had like my program and I'd have these set things that I do and get out of the gym. I like how I just do different things. I still have movements that I do every single week, but I like to be able to vary it up and do different things every single week somewhat. Yeah. I, you know, I've, um, a couple of weeks ago I was just kind of eating a little bit of what I wanted. I still had some restrictions with the diet, just use, utilize some intermittent fasting. Um, but if the family

had pizza, I ate pizza. If the family, uh, went for some burgers, I ate a burger with the bun. There's little things like that. It wasn't like too detrimental. It wasn't too crazy. It's my fat coach, Jesse Burdick, just said, hey, look, you know, you dieted pretty hard for the last power thing meat that you did. And you should probably put some weight back on. And, you know, don't go crazy with your food, but also don't have so much restriction going on that you're making yourself crazy. And so I was like, all right, cool. Sounds good. And so, but what I noticed with that was, so going towards your desires, it covers up your potential. It covers up what's underneath. It covers up substance and substance is something that gets overlooked all the time. You know, you can't see the stars without, without it being dark, right? You can't see the stars without space. You can't,

you can't see a beautiful painting without the canvas that it's on. You know, you need, you need substance. You need, you need to have something that's substantial that lies underneath. And the things that we have underneath all actually look very similar. They all actually look the same. You look at an anatomy chart and you look at how muscular that frame looks when you're seeing the skeletal muscle of a human being. You're seeing all the little striations, all the little fibers and all these things. Well, you kind of see the same thing on a bodybuilder that starved himself away from a lot of the desires that your average person falls victim to every day. You know, eating ice cream, you know, and enjoying some alcohol, all these things, right? They're all things that are going to pull you away from what you're trying

to do. The thing that gets to be a little bit, the thing that gets to be really hard is you can't really see your true potential unless you worked really hard from it, unless you abstained from at least a good portion of your desires. If you just always went towards your desires, you'd probably end up in jail and single and divorced and like, there would probably be a lot of like mayhem in your life right oh yeah it would be and and you know you just like somebody's like hey man want to try some drugs and you just do that and you just kind of like just you just fucking do whatever right yeah it's like there's got to be and and we do it every day we don't always notice it but somebody might be like hey man want to have a beer and you're like no i'm good because it's like two in the afternoon and that's not where your mind's at and you don't feel like doing that. But sometimes we do it to a much stronger and much more powerful degree because

we're trying to align everything we got with this particular goal. The problem we we do have other people in our lives we do have other obligations and we are human so we don't want to become like a fucking robot yeah and then so it's like you know i heard what you said you want to be a brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt in this amount of time but do you do you want that in place of everything else in your life? It's probably, the answer is probably not really. Yeah, exactly. Like not in place of everything I got in my life, maybe in place of some stuff that I have in my life. Maybe I could take away some freedom. Maybe I can not work as much because I'm focused so much on the jujitsu.

Maybe a little less time lifting weight or whatever the things would be that you'd have to cut back on, but you don't want to like lose your girlfriend. You don't want to lose all these other things that you have going on. Right. Yeah. And you know, you touched on something with, in terms of the desires, the desires aspect of things and like your goals, right. So, you know, if, if you have the goal of being a super strong power lifter, right, you have to back off of other things. Um, you might have to just eat more, but yeah, it's back off of other things in the gym. So you can, you know, work on that and get stronger. Uh, personally, one of my main desires for a long time has been like this aspect. And we've talked about it, like self-mastering,

controlling myself, being able to like, you know, just really have control over like my, my urges, et cetera. Um, so for example, when I found out how sugar affects an individual's brain, right. And their desires for that, I didn't want to be, let's just say out of control or like feel that I had an urge to have that thing. So I purposefully started getting it out of my life. And the thing about flexible dieting, right? When you hear about a lot of flexible dieters and they, they're proponents of the diet. One of the big factors about flexible dieting is that you can track your macros and you can really manipulate your body composition to where you want it to be. Even if you had an excess amount of sugar in your diet, and it's actually, it's very possible. Even if you had excessive amounts of sugar, if you're really active and you track

your macros and you're in a caloric deficit, you can drop body fat. Doesn't mean you're necessarily super healthy, but you can drop body fat and actually have a good looking body. But for me personally, even though flexible dieting is something that I practiced, I, I had to get, you know, I cut sugar, a lot of it out of my diet so that I could have more control over my urges, more control over myself since that's one of my goals. So the whole desire aspect of it and just like, you know, and this is another thing. Like when I, when I was a really young kid, I used to watch a lot of porn. Like when I was 13, 14. No, that's, that's when I got into it.

Like seriously. I said, I'm out of here. That's disgusting. What's wrong with you? No, like very, like very seriously. Like that's, that's when I got into it. And it like, it took a lot of my time. So I, I had to, cause I learned the effect that it had on me and my brain, et cetera. And I had to figure out a way to get it out and like, just like get it out of my life. So that's another reason why that's something that I, I just backed off from and I stopped because it stopped. I guess it had so much of an effect on me that it caused me to not have control over what I wanted to have control over.

me that it caused me to not have control over what I wanted to have control over. So it's that, that, that idea of abstaining from certain desires to get to that goal, my personal goal of self mastery and control over my mind. It's, you know, it's kind of weird, but it is what it is. Well, you know, um, you know, Andrew talked about, you know, getting in here and training early today. And, you know, I sometimes get here really early. I don't do it every day, but sometimes I'm here at like four o'clock working out. Things like that, when you make something so like oddly difficult, so overwhelmingly hard. For some reason, it's actually easier to like lean into that than it is to do something that's a little bit easier. And I don't know why, but it's like your ears kind of perk up. You're like, hmm, that's okay. That's like a challenge. You know, getting here and lifting at like two o'clock is not really a challenge.

Anyone can do that. Right. It's kind of a challenge because then you can make up tons of excuses why you can't work out now. Right. Right. Well, there's that, too. Yeah. Maybe you're tired from work. Right. So now you got a whole nother a whole nother thing of of excuses to kind of to kind of lean on. But I guess my point is that the second that you let anything like sugar, any of these things that can kind of end up in your life, anytime you let some of these things in, you just open a door a tiny bit, you crack the door open, you're like, I'll have some ice cream. What's the big deal, right?

And then it is a big deal. And that's why we meet so many people that are we think they're just totally crazy, like a Michael Hearn or Stan Efferding or some of these people we've had on the show before. Like, when's the last time you had like a cheat meal or some fucking French fries or something? And they're they'll say like 12 years ago or something. You're like, what? Like, how is that possible? 12 years ago or something. You're like, what? Like, how is that possible? Yeah. But they have just learned that there's for them, there's not any room for that shit in their life. They, they have, uh, continue to lean into the things that make them feel better, that make them, uh, want to be better. And anytime they deviate from that, you know, they, they end up wasting time. They end up going backwards. Training at 4am like that. It's not just the training at 4am. It's that if you want to train well at 4am, you have to sleep earlier. If you have to sleep earlier, you have to be better with

your work during the day. Like there's just, there's so many Andrew's face right now. Well, you know, when you're, you just said, uh, opening the door just a little bit, I looked at the clock last night. So I text Lauren. I'm just like, yeah, dude, let's train in the morning. We got to get in here at six because we're going to podcast at eight. And I looked at the clock and see you start calculating. It's like, oh, my gosh. Like, I'm only going to get like at that point, I think it was like five or six hours of sleep.

I was like, but then, you know, that door cracked open just a little bit. A little bit of doubt walked in. I was like, nope, let let me slam this door i'm going to bed right now i don't care it's gonna be fine but yeah at four in the morning man that's a that's a different animal because that's like for me that's almost no sleep you gotta wake up crazy crazy early and it might mean that like yeah you gotta uh you know go to bed like insanely early where somebody might have to try to figure out like when when's the time i can get a nap and maybe they don't have room for a nap in the middle of the day yeah so it can be it can be very uh very difficult to figure out but i like the dedication to it um i kind of like the challenge of it and i right now i'm trying to

balance out you know doing that kind of stuff with hitting this big bench because it doesn't make sense to not sleep so on days that i do wake up and get here that early i've been taking a nap which i haven't done in a long time but man it feels great like a two hour like a one hour um it's usually just like whatever i can get you know i've heard some different stuff about you know they say if you sleep too long it can make you more tired i'm just trying to like get in what i can what i can get yeah um i think i want to say like i would say like sometimes it ranges from 20 minutes to maybe like uh close to an hour 20 to 45 minutes i think it's hard for me

to really stay asleep anyway but that little 20 minute power nap feels pretty damn good i know that yeah i think matthew walker recommends like before that first uh dip into rem sleep or 90 minutes in is the like optimal times yeah i ended up waking up to this morning at like 12 45 i I jumped out of bed ready to go. Stephanie was like, what's wrong? I was like, I got to get up to go to the gym. I looked over at the clock and it was barely 1245. I'm going back to bed. were bigger like i know you're 30 like early 30s or late 20s you only got like three hours of sleep at night yeah that's that scares the hell out but that scared the hell out of me when i heard that i'm like how because i would have never i don't know how it would function like even in my worst times when i like was just really irresponsible with sleep i still maybe got five hours you know but three hours yeah it was bad i don't know how you i don't know how you did it man it was rough

i you know i i would fall asleep here and there randomly you know like just if i like sat down you know like a just like a typical dad you know i just pass out but like um the weird thing is is like yeah i was you know building super training and slingshot and had two kids so i don't know how I made it through some of that yeah some of those times but I survived it I guess I think you know I may have I may have gotten some like makeup sleep here and there you know like maybe on the weekends I might have slept in a little bit later or something like that but I mean I went to bed pretty late and then I still would wake up kind of early not as early as I do now um but I'd still wake up at six or seven and yeah go to bed at like 11 or 12 you know so still wasn't really

but I just had a hard time the hard hard part was staying asleep I'd wake up and then I would just be up and I just like couldn't go back to bed so I'd watch tv and then I was like okay I'm feeling tired now I'll go back to bed, so I'd watch TV. And then I was like, okay, I'm feeling tired now. I'll go back to bed. But that's probably the worst thing, too. Staying up like that watching TV is probably not a great idea. Watching SpongeBob, right? Watching whatever.

Watching reruns of SportsCenter 50 times in a row. That's when you know you're at a low. How did you guys do with the Instagram crash? Speaking of urges. Oh, yeah. The IG crash. I didn't hear about it till later, I guess yesterday was when it was.

My phone seemed to be fine. I didn't see anything. Mine stopped working on Monday and then when it didn't work, I didn't get back on until Wednesday. I didn't realize there was a crash for a while. So I guess that's a good thing. That is a good thing.

Yeah. I think the main part was you just couldn't post, I guess. i couldn't see anything you couldn't see anything nah no nothing would pop up so i was just like oh well yeah i like i said i had no idea that it actually happened right so i know a lot of people were uh were dying so i i sent a uh a message to michael hearn about you know him and he he's just had a baby and stuff like that. And the baby, by the way, this thing is eating like every 10 minutes.

And Mona's getting nervous. She's like, I don't know what's going on with this guy. He's already like 12 pounds. He's a little monster or 11 pounds or something like that. But I told Mike, I was like, oh, just try to take a week off of because he he films a lot of stuff in the gym and and i was like you know it'd be good for you just to just you know chill just relax for a little bit and so he's like yeah all right well i'll take the challenge and then he probably called back

maybe like an hour later he's like i failed I failed. I failed. And then he called yesterday. He's like, failed. He's like, failed again. He's like, I'm not doing so good over here. It's kind of funny because like that guy's got some really, you know, he's got some amazing dedication and consistency. And so, you know, if he's saying it's hard, like it must be a lot. It must be a lot on other people as well.

Yeah. I mean, the thing about Mike, though mike though is like i don't know what his personal life is but he puts out so much i guess just motivational stuff right um and i see that a lot of the people that follow him positive stuff exactly positive and a lot of people that follow him are super invested in that stuff he puts out i can't imagine how many people like are waiting for something from mike every day that if he goes rogue for one week, some of his people will be like, where are you, Mike?

I want you, Mike. It's pretty interesting that he's so disciplined with everything, but he couldn't step away from Instagram. It's part of his routine, I guess. It really is. It really is part of his routine. The interesting part is he's been doing all this way before social media. But it just goes to show you you can get really connected to it we make excuses for it and i think you know that he you know now that i kind of brought it up to

him i don't think he would make an excuse he would just be like i screw it up but i think a lot of people will make an excuse like oh i'm working or this is for work. And it's like, your, your checkbook is not, you're, you know, your bank account's not getting hurt, uh, by, by you not posting.

Like it's fine. I'm sure maybe, maybe you can show like a little difference in, in, in, uh, money, but like,

you know, I've been to his house, like he's doing, he's doing fine. I feel like the main reason or the, the only reason he would really ever uh or even anyone would stop using it is like what's the real benefit of me not right right you know like if you if you have to sacrifice something are you sacrificing it just to sacrifice

it or are you sacrificing because there's something better on the other side and if you can't actually see something better being on the other side then in the back of your head you're like you're like why yeah so why stop no that's that's true you can't see it and that's what happens with lifting right like how long does it take to see uh something in your biceps like how much lifting do you have to do to notice your shoulder or your tricep or like you get a lift for a really long ass time yeah you know or just be super super skinny when you start and you might have some little bit of muscle popping out or something but but it's, it might take, it might take years, might take decades in some cases. Sometimes, I mean, some people have been lifting for, you know, 10 years and because they, because they can't get the diet down ever, you can't really see much. You're like, oh, well, you know, so it's, if if you can't see it there's really no reason to work towards it exactly but that's what i was that's what my point to mike was is like i would

like to see if he can uh you know if he can fast away from it for a few days uh to see what he would like learn and feel from it so he's it he's giving me like updates every day it's kind of funny um because he i know he's he's trying um i don't know if he's it he's giving me like updates every day it's kind of funny um because he i know he's he's trying um i don't know if he's had a successful day yet but i know he's working on it he's just in his house in a panic just calling you every five minutes right help well i think that i think the hard part there is just a and and what i was hoping that he would see from it it's just that he doesn't actually need it. So it's cool that he does it. And it's great.

It's a great service that he provides to a lot of other people. And like you said, it's very motivational and people are getting fired up from it. So that's great. There's no, there's really no downside to that. But also just for him to just know, like, it's cool if he takes a day off. Yeah. You know, like it's totally fine. He doesn't have to be so attached to it.

I mean it is part of the reason why we choose to work for ourselves. In this case, by being so attached to your social media, well, now you're working for everybody else just like everybody else. But you always work for somebody kind of no matter how you slice it. You know, I, I work for, uh, the people that buy my products. That's what, you know, so you end up, you end up ultimately working for, working for somebody no matter how you slice it. Do you, I'm curious, actually, like on that note, has there been anything that you've like done or a habit that you've picked up because plainly because you just wanted to do it not because there would be any type of benefit for yourself or mental physical etc have you done anything purely just because

just want to do it to do it um because i'm literally trying to think of something that i've done that i didn't have some type of end beneficial result, you know? There's a lot of things I didn't know what they would turn into. Um, there's a lot of things that I didn't, that I didn't, that I didn't realize, like, um, obviously like lifting, you know, I always knew that I always knew there was results down the road. You know, I always knew I'd get stronger, I'd be in better shape. Um, but I certainly didn't know it would lead to any of this other stuff, you know what I mean? So like, I kind of, I refer to that sometimes like you're sacrificing for the unknown, you're sacrificing for things that you don't know that are coming.

And so like I obtained a lot of this knowledge and then now I do seminars and, you know, people, people come to me to learn how to bench squat, deadlift, stuff like that. But yeah, there was still a benefit, direct benefit to me. Of course, you're going to always probably, you're going to probably always look at like, what's the, there's always going to be some. So, I mean, that's just the way, I think that's the way, the way it all works. There are some things though, like, you know, in terms of just like waking up early, obviously I still, I feel there's a benefit to it. Is there really a benefit to it? You know, I don't, I don't really know.

You know, I know that I like the discipline of it. And I think that that in of itself is kind of a thing that you're not really sure about like is having this crazy amount of discipline does it really does it really matter what's it going to turn into uh having more willpower having more control over your thoughts um even just something as as uh mild as abstaining away from porn, you know, like things like that. Yeah, what's the real, like, what's it really hurting, right? And what's it really helping?

But it's a mindset that you're trying to get into because you're like, no, I don't want my mind drifting that way. I want my mind going this way. I want to be going in that direction. This other direction, I don't want to be going in that direction. And so I think maybe to your point, maybe it's not the things that we do. Maybe it's a little bit more of the things that we don't do, uh, that, that we might not totally understand how they exactly benefit

us. Like, uh, for example, some people just don't drink. They don't ever, they don't ever drink. They don't ever have a, they don't even have a drink. Um, you know, there, some people just don't drink. They don't ever drink. They don't even have a drink. You know, there's some people that have had issues with it in the past, but there's some people that just won't even have a shot. They won't have a drink at all. And they're seen as so weird. They're seen as not. No, it's just your decision.

Yeah, everyone freaks out, right? Everyone loses their mind. Always the odd man out. What? You're not going the odd man out. What? You're not going to drink? Yeah. What's wrong with you? But I don't, I would say that there's not necessarily like a real benefit to that.

There's also not a real benefit to the guy saying, hey, like I'll just have, I'll have one, you know, other than just like to please everybody else, I guess. Yeah. So maybe some of the things we abstain from, maybe we don't really know exactly like you having less sugar. We don't know if it's a guarantee that like you're going to live longer because you had less sugar. But you feel better. Oh yeah.

So you try. I mean, I think that's the thing. It's like you just, you try stuff. You got to just, you got to try. We got to try shit.

See what feels right to us. What about like relaxing? You know, I know you like to go to the movies like how's that helping or hurting in you know the big picture or whatever but you are kind of recharging right so is it like dangerous to get into the habit of excusing things like excusing things yeah like so i i've been trying to watch more of uh the sacramento kings because like i just i haven't been watching them for basically since i got here to Sacramento Kings because I haven't been watching them

basically since I got here to super training because I've just been, how is it, helping or hurting? Okay, if I watch the game, it's not going to get my photography any better. So now I'm like, I got to get reconnected. And I was like, well, this is a little bit of downtime. So I'm just going to chill out, not think about work. I'm going to enjoy the game.

And then as soon as the game's over, I'm like, man, I kind of wasted a little bit of time there i should have got better at doing something else i think doing the things that you like to do can uh inspire inspiration in a lot of ways so i think that you know while you shouldn't always be working you should be like you know chilling here and there i think that even just by watching the, because it's something you like to do, could make you happier, can make you more excited about stuff in general. And even just abstaining from doing the thing that you normally do, I think will yield some positive benefits as well. So just by simply not focusing in on like always trying to get better and doing this like

side thing will just automatically make you better because it'll make you more hungry towards uh once you start getting back into work mode just like taking a vacation and going away for a few days it'll kind of recharge everything you'll feel stronger you'll feel better even if you just stop lifting for a couple days you you lift more weight right that's why we take about a week off for a competition. Um, so I think that a lot of that, uh, makes sense, but I, I do think the things that you like to do, I think should be earned, you know, and they should, so you should, uh, you should kick your own ass a lot. Like you should, you should work hard. Um, but also you should be like, this is just like, I just like doing this. I just, I like going to this

dessert place with my girlfriend or I like doing, I like doing this. So I'm just going to fucking do it. I think that there's, there's definitely a huge benefit to that. And I think that that's like an admirable thing to accept, to just say like this, I like drinking every Thursday night when there's football on or something, whatever, whatever your thing is. I think it's, I think that's a great thing to actually recognize. Yeah. As long as it's earned. I think that's the main takeaway though.

Yeah. You mean you're not sitting around watching Kings clips and games all day long. Like you're still super, you know, productive. Yeah. You know,

you're, you're, you're using that time to probably that's helping you to be able to get back and focus. That's, that's actually a total benefit for you. But if you were working all the time, you'd burn out, bro. And then you might take a whole day away just because you didn't give yourself any time away from it. Yeah. So season tickets next season. Let's go guys. There we go. Do you,

uh, do you guys make yourselves do stuff when you don't want to do it? Oh yeah. I mean, I mean for me there, that's, that's all the time. Like every day that I, certain days I had to go to jujitsu and like, I'm really freaking tired. I think that's actually a, it, even though I do like jujitsu on those days that I'm really dead, which is a lot of the days of the week, but I still go. Um, it just helps me to realize that I can do this with a lot of other stuff. If I have to do work or et cetera, like I made myself already go do this, which is difficult. So I can make myself do this other thing, which is going to also be difficult. So yeah, it goes back

into the adherence to nutrition and adherence in the gym and, and saying like, I'm going to the gym, I'm doing these four exercises and I'm going to, and instead of doing the three exercises, you did all four of them. It bleeds into everything else. Right. For me, it's the, um, the, the really small, like meticulous things like getting your clothes ready for the next day. It's a, it's, it's a small thing. So I'm like, you know, it's going to take me five seconds in the morning. I'll just do it then. And of course, you guys know it's like, okay, that five seconds turns into five minutes. And then you're like, oh my gosh, now I'm even further behind.

So it's doing small, little, annoying things like that more now. That's been a pretty big deal for me. And then obviously, yeah, waking up early on Fridays has been uh it's been quite quite the chore but uh it's yeah because I normally wouldn't want to be waking up this early any day really but uh to come in and train before work it's um yeah it's it's definitely something that I wouldn't want to be doing all the time it's kind of a great thing to like, you know, on a Sunday you wake up at like five and you train at like 6 a.m. But it's like your discipline in other areas has become so strong to where you're like 6 a.m. is like sleeping in. You know, like you start to get so used to all these things.

You know, maybe like training three times a day becomes normal. Like I went to jiu-jitsu twice and i lifted today and i fasted like just another just another normal day you know like your your hardest day uh would take some you know epic uh effort by your average person and your worst day is still more powerful than what most people are able to sustain or do. And that, I mean, that's what we're, I think that's what we're trying to work towards. Yeah. That's the goal, right?

Yeah. The exclamation point for me would be to also be there for the family because there's times where, you know, we will come in super early and then it's like three o'clock and I'm like dozing off and I feel really guilty for doing that. So that's going to, that's the, uh, the next step from's the next step for me is to be a savage from 4 a.m. to whatever, 8, 9 p.m. at night. That's the next goal for me. They don't care anyway, bro. They don't care.

They don't care about you. They're watching their shows. They're on their phone. I'm going to pretend that they care so that way I can keep going. Because I think the same thing a lot of times. And I'm like, oh, man, this would be cool. I'm going to get home. And then no one's even there.

Or Jake's playing a video game. Quinn's up in her room. And Andy's hanging out with a friend or something. I'm like, I got nothing. I thought I was going to come home and party with everybody. Nothing going on. You thought everyone's going to greet you at the front door. Oh, my gosh, you're finally home.

Yeah. Where have you been all day? Yeah. No, it's a total side note. It's kind of cheesy. Like when I, when I started doing the jujitsu and lifting stuff on the same day,

there would be certain days I would wake up. Right. And like one of my mantras was adaptation is inevitable from a Kendrick song. Do you, was it, is it DNA? Did you listen to much Kendrick or no? Come on,

man. Yeah. Okay. So is it DNA? Is that the song? I have no idea. Do you, was it, is it DNA? Did you listen to much Kendrick or no? Come on, man. Yeah. Okay. So is it DNA? Is that the song? I have no idea. Okay. Well,

yeah, I cannot name you one Kendrick Lamar song. How? Like you love hip hop and you don't like Kendrick or do you just like not listen to Kendrick? I don't like anything past, I don't know. 1996. Basically.

All right. Early, early two thousands were, were dope. Uh, but yeah, I guess anything past 2010 i can't really i can't get can't get jiggy with it i feel it oh will smith showed my age yeah there we go but yeah no i'd wake up every morning and my mantra would be adaptation is inevitable adaptation is inevitable

because that shit was difficult so meaning just like you'll just get used to it i'll get used to it but i would say that to myself literally it the be the first three words i had to tell myself every single morning until i got used to it i haven't said that in a while but i just remembered it because uh it's been a long time so i yeah it's just uh i had i had to get myself that idea what works now what works now i'm used to it though just happen like that's the thing like it's like were mentioning, like you do something so much to a point, like you getting up at 4am every single morning, it's kind of odd for you not to get up at 4am. If you wake up at six,

like, oh shit, this is late. You know what I mean? But you got used to it. You adapted to it. It's part of your life. So that's,

that's why I was telling myself that. Cause I'll initially, I was like, this is some hard shit. I don't know if I can get used to it, but I was just like, it's inevitable. If I just keep doing it,

I'm going to get used to it. I'm going to get better at it. So something that helps me is the second that, uh, any sort of self doubt creeps in or that, uh, other voice starts talking into doing other shit. That means you, you better go like you better fucking get like, you better get moving like right there. Yeah. You got it. You got to juggernaut it. You got to get moving. And that's, uh, uh, is it Mel Robbins, right? I think she's the one that talks about that kind of five-second rule. But I think that's really important. So if you wake up and you're groggy and you're like, oh, I was going to go to the gym.

But then you're looking at the clock and you're like, well, it's 20 minutes to the gym. And it's by the time I get ready and you're already, you're, you're so done. You're so done right there. Just, just go, just, just get, just go and get it done. Whatever it was that you were trying to do, just, just make sure that it happens. And I think there's also a time and place to adjust and to move things around a little bit. Um, and so like you might have to say, you know what, I kind of missed my window on that but i'm going like figure out a way to make it happen later you know i'm gonna go to jiu-jitsu later i'm gonna lift later i'm gonna you know i'm gonna make sure that this happens later maybe you just

text somebody that you're gonna meet there and say hey i'll see you you know that way you're like a little bit more accountable for like being there you're kind of like now you're stuck and then someone's like where were you at bro, bro? Why didn't you show up? Setting traps for yourself. That's a really good idea. Yeah. I had to do that today. I had to tell Lauren like, Hey, let's go at six in the morning. Got here at 6.15, but you know, I still got here. Yeah. And if he would have said no, he'd be screwed, right? Uh, I, yeah, yeah probably i think i would have because i was gonna text smoky first but i know that he's doing something with josh so i'm like okay i'm gonna see if lauren will come in and then i could trade with him and get it in that way so if he said no i would have moved on

and be like hey can i jump in with you guys you know i had options um that five second rule book i just want to mention if mention if any of the listeners, well, people are listening, but you might want to get that book. You know, like, I mean, we all have these different things as tools in the toolbox. And I think understanding that, like I don't use it all the time,

but there are certain times that I find myself counting and just going, like you mentioned. You know, if that self-doubt happens, just making sure that you get yourself moving. If you haven't read it or you've, you know, you've never heard of it, maybe you want to pick up the audio version of that book, The Five Second Rule. It's really beneficial. A lot of good information in it, which will help you understand the way you think and how that kind of doubt creeps in and some ways you could combat it. It's just another tool in the toolbox.

Our, like, self, our internal dialogue, it's just so ridiculous it can be the amount of stuff that goes on and um you know it's kind of like the idea of just just ain't just go like you know aim and shoot at the same time you sometimes just need to you just need to do it and a lot of times when you just do it you do it better than you than you normally would because you're not really like overthinking it not overthinking like all these steps and all these different things that have to happen. And I think we also have a tendency to talk about stuff that we, a tendency to talk about stuff that we're never going to do, which is a really awful habit because that gets cement, your, your body and your brain doesn't forget that you've talked about doing that shit right there's also um it's also a good idea to really not talk about stuff until you've started

doing it already you know it's a good idea to like try to get out in front of it a little bit we john cena does that you know he's like uh when he was like learning mandarin or whatever he's like i learned mandarin but like or he said i'm learning mandarin but. He's like, I learned Mandarin, but like, or he said, I'm learning Mandarin, but he sent me like an audio of him rapping it. I'm like, you're not learning it. You fucking sounds like you got it. Yeah.

So I remember when I first saw that, there was one video on YouTube of John Cena speaking Mandarin. And that, that was so wild to me. It's so, and he sounds good. I read all the comments and they're like, he sounds like a native speaker. And that's one of the hardest languages to learn too.

That's insane. That's a good way to do it though. You're already a couple of weeks in, you're already a couple, you're already a few steps into something. You're already, you know, you're already moving, you're already moving in that direction. And then you kind of just, you know, say it as if it ain't no thing, you know, you just say it it like as if it's not a big deal. Like, oh, yeah, I'm doing this now. People be like, really? I did.

Oh, OK, cool. I didn't I didn't hear you say anything about it. Like, yeah, I just just picked it up. Started doing it. What else you got over there, Andrew? I'm looking for the John Cena video. Oh, dude, it's so I think it's on Twitter. I got it right here.

Let me turn this up. It's so freaking impressive.'s on twitter i got it right here let me turn this up it's so freaking impressive that's one thing i do though i always say oh i want to learn or pick up more spanish but i do it and then i stop like i really do but i I like freestyle rap. My WWE colleagues asked me if I could freestyle rap. Yes. Let me tell you. Yes. Now I know that Z-Yo is injured. My song is the best.

You don't dare to imitate. My reason is very disgusting. My reason is professional. I am a champion. I can fight back. You have never heard of Ren Yi-an. That's seriously. I'm more like you. I'm more like you.

You don't forget me. You laugh at my name, John Cena. You don't see it. So crazy. Somebody did have a question about the gangsta knee sleeves um as far as like a novice lifter should they hop into that or should maybe they i don't know try the 2.0s or even the strong sleeves yeah if you never really had a pair of knee sleeves before um there's probably not a great reason to dive into the thickest, fattest knee sleeves that we got.

But if you also have some knee pain, you got some problems and you, then it might not be a bad option, but I would say just start with the strong knee sleeves would probably be a good place to start. Especially if you're trying to use them specifically for squats. We have a sport knee sleeve too, which is more, you know, it's got more like mobility to it's more for like lunges and other exercises but i'd say the strong sleeve would be a good place to start um when are those coming out i so they'll be available next thursday the 20 what's that 21st 21st my bad okay because somebody else had asked that as well so i just wanted to make sure that thursday thursday at 12 p.m pacific standard time that's west coast time all right that's all the time we got for today strength is never weakness weakness never strength catch you

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