Mark Bell's Power Project - MBPP EP. 735 - Stop IDENTIFYING With Injury, It’s Keeping You INJURED!

Episode Date: May 18, 2022

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Okay, so this is a perfect example. That was louder than when you were talking away from the microphone. I hate that you're right my dream my dream is all right we're recording for reals now my dream is happening andrew hasn't even gone to jiu-jitsu he's just been thinking about it yeah he's already planning out moves on in sema over here which i don't know man i don't know what's going on i do you want to tell the people what your dream was, at least? I think there might be

sexual friction. That could definitely be it. Well, I mean, I've been calling him zaddy for years and complimenting how big his penis is. Maybe there is some sexual friction that we don't know about. Have you been dropping hints? I'm just not listening. You're finally getting it.

Why do you want me to suck this microphone's dick oh he's congolese pause though you got to tell the people your dream you got to tell them what you dreamt i know so i was dreaming about in sema and andrew you guys believe that? I got nothing better to do than dream about these two guys. All while your wife's out of town. Right. Yeah. Yeah, what a dream.

Woke up in a cold sweat. Yeah, Andrew and Encima, they started having beef with each other. They started getting in an argument. And Andrew was doing jiu-jitsu for a little while, and then Andrew was adamant that this move would work. And he was like, it works every time. And Nsema's like, no, it can't work every time on everybody. And Andrew's like, no, fuck that.

He totally—they just kept going back and forth. And then Daisy woke me up before they got got into like the mix you know but i was like man like they were like and sema was shouting i don't think i've ever seen i've never seen and seen me yell before so i was like what is going on but andrew was like really sticking to his guns yeah that this move would work so come over here and try it out and i know right oh i wasn't there so i don't know what that move was but but I'm striving to be. It's in your subconscious. I'm striving to be the person who I am in your dreams. Yeah.

So, yeah. I think that's a sign that you're supposed to start to roll. I think that's like, I think God is somewhat speaking to Mark. He's like, send this to Andrew. He needs to start doing jujitsu. That's the next step. That is the next step. When I was wrestling, I used to roll with a guy that's about in SEMA's size,

and I didn't know anything about jiu-jitsu. So the guy would just like, he would just kill me all the time. Like literally just kill me. And I didn't know, I didn't even know what was going on. But like he wouldn't like tap me and stuff, but he would just put me in stuff and put a lot of pressure on me. I was like, this fucking, this fucking sucks. And that guy wasn't even that good, I don't think.

From what I remember, like everyone's like, ah, he's – the guy was jacked. Everyone's like, ah, he's a bodybuilder. He's kind of a pussy. And I was like, okay, well, he just demolished me really bad. I don't know where that leaves me. But I was just shocked. It's shocking how strong people are and how much weight they can have. I've gone against people that weigh like 180 and 160.

And you're like, okay, come on. The guy weighs 160. How much total force can he produce? Yeah, what's he going to do? And he feels like he weighs 700 pounds. Yeah. And it's just nasty. Do you guys have any like rules?

Like is there like kind of unspoken like or can you sort sort of you can sort of do whatever i guess right you can't sort of do whatever there's certain things that certain people like to do like ray is a fan of prison jujitsu so ray was talking about something he'd do in competition where like when he's going across somebody's face he'll like cover their mouth you're not supposed to do that, but like he'll do that type of shit. Hey, he provides us with nice shoes, huh? He provides us with nice shoes.

Check out Energy Ray on Instagram. That's our boy. Faith Kicks, K-S-E-K-Z. But yeah, there's a lot of things you're not supposed to do. But like if you're messing around with someone like me who doesn't know what they're doing, like you don't need to. No, you could just kind of move around and work on whatever you want to work on.

You don't have to like dig your knees and elbows into me. Yeah, absolutely not. No, you don't. But then you can also be like, motherfucker, just stop it. I mean, just stop. Try to stop me from doing it, right? Yeah, it's tough. from doing it right yeah it's it's it's tough man you'd be surprised with somebody who let's say they don't do any weight training but they just have two years of jiu-jitsu experience what they can do and what they feel like like they like it's like even if they're not in the greatest shape

they could still kick they can still kick somebody's ass it's amazing it's exploded um when i went to that uh conference the other day um over at my son's old school the man on caged uh you know matt matt is a you know very proficient uh did a lot of mma type stuff i think he maybe had some fights and he like fought with like got trained by ken shamrock and shit like that like so that guy knows what's going on. I started talking to this other guy, and he mentioned something about jiu-jitsu. And then Matt pulled me over later. He's like, that guy fucks people up really bad.

He's a black belt and has been for a long time. I was like, damn. I mean, the guy had decent stature to him, but he wasn't super jacked. You just never know. You don't even know, right? These people, the undercover people. people yeah it's definitely getting more it's almost like more uncommon when we have guests come in that don't do jujitsu at this point or it's haven't been exposed to it at all yeah yeah before it was like like oh and sema yeah that's right you're the other guy that does jujitsu like you know there used to be like three of us and now it's like pretty much

everybody that comes in is doing some form of it yeah i think a lot of people like get the benefit of number one the community so you're going to a class with a bunch of people that you roll with so you build connections with people so that's something that motivates people to continue because if you've built friendships and you're not there people be like oh where are you at right and then you get all this varied movement that doesn't get old for like, honestly, it really doesn't get old because there's so many different things to do. So many different ways to play different, you know, different move sets for your body type, learn different things, try different things. It really doesn't get old, which is why people who stick to it end up sticking to it forever and find it hard to stop. Yeah. And there's some people that are

just, just maybe messing around with it or something like that, or just getting started with it. And, um, I take a little while for them to start to adopt it. But like what my wife usually says, because she likes to just smash people all the time she's like if someone's like oh yeah that that person's a swimmer she's like no that person splashed around they're like yeah but they swim all four years in high school she's like that okay they just foiled in water they're not a real swimmer so you're not part of the club i'll say it and SEMA won't say it but I think in comparison to when SEMA some of these people are just splashing around there you go I think so

you know but this is one thing well you can't because Andrew's gonna fucking put you in his hold yeah jujitsu chop you somehow yeah the old jujitsu chop can you show me how it's a also it's been it's been passed down by yeah what's up can you make sure i need to make sure

that that camera's on you because there was a point where i yeah i had to move it you did okay all right yeah did you do something to it i was walking by it at a certain point the camera just like it knocked i was like oh yeah like the camera jumped out and bit you yeah it's like i don't know how it moved on its own but yeah no it was i couldn't dodge it yeah when i turned everything on it was pointed way that way so it was like i wouldn't be on screen right now yeah but it's okay you know one of my fears when i started jujitsu was like what six years ago now so i was 23 yeah um i had like i stopped playing soccer because my knee and actually a year into jujitsu i ended up i think getting uh surgery on my meniscus so i've

always had this thing with my knee where i'm like oof like there was fear around my knee um but you know by doing a lot of stuff that we've had with people on the podcast and continually just trying to figure out ways to stop it from hurting, strengthening it, my knee is not really an issue anymore. And for, for like, even through childhood in high school, since I had hospital slaughter, my knee was always like, Oh, can't do that because of my knee or I'm going to stay away from that because of my knee. I'm not going to squat because of my knee, all this type of shit. Right. But I ended up finding solutions.

I ended up figuring out ways to strengthen it. And now it's like a non-factor for me anymore. So for a lot of people who are like, oh, I want to start jujitsu, but I'm not in shape. I want to start jujitsu, but I have some back issues. And these are legitimate things. At the end of the day, like you can always figure out ways around that like that doesn't have to be a staple part of your identity to stop you from doing certain things you want to do i want to get in a powerlifting but i'm not strong enough i want to start running but i'm not in shape i want to start a diet but i'm not not a diet person. These are all things that are really easy to attach yourself to,

and the only way to get through them is to do them. That's literally you have to, the Nike just do it. It's kind of the ultimate thing. You do have to just get yourself to doing it, and I think that when you do it, you'll be kind of surprised and shocked that you're you're um I don't know how to like voice it any other way but like something in your brain at some point will burn or like feel like you're on fire like it will feel like your body's on fire like not in a painful way but in a in like a euphoria kind of way. Almost like your favorite song comes on and the favorite part of the song

hits. Or if you've ever had goosebumps from seeing a particular scene in a movie or you're just, I don't know, somebody says something really motivational or something that you really value highly or you're about to speak and you almost start to cry. Like those kinds of feelings can happen from like a breakthrough. But the breakthrough part, as we talked about on previous podcasts is so hard to get to. It's very, it's like difficult to get there. It doesn't feel good, you know, to start running doesn't feel great. And you might not ever get to the point that we're talking about with your fitness because maybe you kind of felt like you had to bow out early because you feel like you have a bad back, a bad knee,

or it could be something different than something physical. It could be something more mental. And for me, I attached myself to this story that I couldn't learn any further. And I did have some trouble learning, but it was only like with particular things. And then my mom and my dad were always like, wow, you have like different way of like figuring stuff out. And how interesting that would have been as a spin on things to just say oh that's interesting you think different and then another great uh promotion was from apple and that was uh steve jobs's thing think different like that always stuck out to me

i'm like that's fucking awesome yeah think different. Like think almost opposite sometimes of what people think. And so when I was a kid and they would ask, you know, what color the sky is, I was like, I don't know, it's gray. It's white. It's blue. It's red. It's orange. It's yellowish. I don't know.

It's like – but, you know, they want you to say the sky is blue. And I just was never that kind of kid. I would always like kind of I don't know just maybe thought differently for whatever reason but meanwhile I thought that was like some sort of thing that had to like hold me back and so I encapsulated myself in this like box so I could stay safe and I don't want to ever feel dumb and I don't want to feel different than any other kids I just want to lay low you know when you're a kid you don't want to be too tall you don't want to feel different than any other kids. I just want to lay low. You know, when you're a kid, you don't want to be too tall. You don't want to be too fat.

You don't want to be too skinny. You don't want to be too weak. You don't want to be too strong. You don't want to be too fast. Like you're just kind of hoping you don't really stand out anywhere. Maybe fast and strong and stuff like that. Something has become like a teenager. You don't mind like, oh shit, like I can kick everybody's ass.

This is kind of fun. But as a kid, a lot of times you're just trying to like you see tall kids they start to hunch over because they're just trying to like hang in with the crowd like they don't want to be like i'm fucking six five and i'm 14 you know like they start to really hunch over it's not from just jerking off in the shower it's also because they're trying to like you know shrink down to be everybody else's height so but mainly they're trying to like you know shrink down to be everybody else's height so but mainly from but mainly it's from jerking off in the shower yeah it's so funny you had mentioned like you know we we strive so hard to be like you know kids want to be unique and we want to you know like i forgot the guy's name um oh the uh goliath goliath craig glass how you know he's trying to there you go yeah he's trying to be

you know he's a fucking huge bodybuilder but he even said that like you know he will wear big baggy clothes when he's out and about and he gets kind of embarrassed when people come up to him and it's like we try so hard to you know get above and beyond but then we still will regress and make sure that we don't stand out too much because then it's like oh shit now they are paying attention to me i think it's weird feels weird yeah no i i get what you're saying there and i agree with what you're saying there it's a it's a rough thing like especially when you were mentioning as a kid right you you you had problems learning so like maybe told yourself at a certain point like i just i'm, I'm not good at learning. I'm not good at reading or whatever. And it's really

a bad idea to attach yourself to negative assumptions. I didn't want to get a job because I'm like, I don't, I'm not going to be able to figure out like a cash register or like working at the movies, but like, I don't know why I just, uh, I mean like I could sweep the floor. Like I could figure out stuff. Like I could, um, I could do a bunch of tasks and then learn the harder tasks. I mean, that's how everyone starts, right? Everyone starts with like, Hey, you know, your first job here is like, you're going to start here with, with, uh, almost like maybe some manual labor stuff. Cause a lot of people can figure that out. And then, of course, you wouldn't – how would you know how to work a cash register if you never used one before? But I had like a fear.

I was like paralyzed by it. Like I don't think I can even – I don't even think I can be taught that. Like it's numbers and stuff and I'm not great at math, so I'm just not even going to – my answer was to just not even try, which is not great. Did you ever get over that aspect of things? in like the, the, that aspect, like great at math or whatever. I know you're not doing math and as an adult or whatever, but I'm assuming at this point you don't believe that if you had to learn it, you couldn't learn it.

Yeah, no, I'd certainly got over that. It just might take me a while. certainly got over that it just might take me a while um particularly with math it's like it just gets very confusing to me i don't know why but i'm sure that i'm very certain that i could learn just about anything yeah but it might take a minute and it might take me uh maybe a little bit more time than i kind of compare some of these things to like some people have these like interesting attributes about them sometimes somebody can pick up like a ping pong game and they can just be like back and forth yeah sometimes i can do some stuff like that uh when it comes to like coordination it's not that bad but if it's like really intricate and uh complex then i start

to get a little like uh i almost turned around, you know, it's almost like you turned me around a bunch of times now. I don't know which direction I'm going in. And I think like some people that are really good at like pool and stuff like that, they have like some of these little things like figured out somehow. You see angles. Yeah. Like the angles.

It's like, I don't want to say that everyone that's good at pool is like good at math, but like it would make some sense to me. And I'm I have a hard time like I suck at pool. Yeah. But I also haven't like tried to play it a lot. So, you know, there's a lot of these things that we just think that we suck at. It's like, how fair is that to even say that you suck at it? You haven't really even fucking done it yet.

Dude, that's that's a thing, though. It's like for for you,, you know, where like places where you're really strong, you like, you have really good physical attributes and you understand where you're really strong, but you still decided to be like, I'm going to take up running. I'm going to learn how to be a runner, even though I'm 235 pounds of muscle. And most would say, that guy's not going to really be able to run well. You chose to take up something that is honestly like opposite to the things that you're good at. And you've gotten very proficient at it because you stopped allowing yourself to just be identified

by I'm a guy that's just strong. And I think it's really interesting. Yesterday you mentioned like you ran at Quinn's game or something. Could you like, I think that that's an interesting thing cause you've been running for a while, but you ran miles yesterday and didn't even feel tired at all. Yeah. I just, I dropped her off at a volleyball practice and her volleyball practice is

like a two hours. So by the time I drop her off and go to like a location that I like to run at then, and I run, you know, several miles, it's like kind of perfect timing. I to run at then and I run you know several miles it's like kind of perfect timing I come back I swing around and you know I kind of have maybe half an hour before she's like done or whatever but um yeah it was amazing yesterday I ran I had no pain um

I've had pain in my right knee um pretty much since I was like 16 or something i would love to play but i loved playing basketball i always loved basketball i always had so much fun playing basketball yeah but i had to stop because it would just kill my knee just the the running and the stopping and and all that stuff i just like the hustle of the game i wasn't like great at it by any means it was just fun um and you know my concentration was on like football and lifting weights and stuff like that so it was just like it doesn't make sense this is just something i do for fun and it's always uh killing my knee so over the years my knee has hurt you know uh it's been in pain it's bothered me um but i've been able to manage it and been able to kind

of uh you know kind of just have it in the back of my mind, not in the front of my mind while I was doing these big squats. But I was always like, it's fucking possible that this thing just explodes all over the place during a big squat. But it never really bothered me during squats, interestingly enough. So I was fortunate for that. But that was a big fear with running. Like, hey, I'm heavy, and I keep hearing everyone say it kills your knees. And I started messing around with running, and I didn't really have any complications with the knees, and I started doing the knees over toes stuff

and training your feet and training the shins and all that stuff, and that seemed to be really helpful and useful. And then more recently, I was like, well, fuck everybody else. What do they know? I'm just going to run every day and see what happens. Maybe I can just build up a tolerance for it. And that's kind of what I've been doing. It's not every single day, but it's like five, six days a week.

And the big thing there is that when somebody has something that they're dealing with, as far as an injury is concerned, as far as a pain that they've had for a long time, the immediate thing is to number one, zone in on that. And then number two, not give himself enough time for that to get better, go away over time as they work on it. So like, for example, you and running, it took a while for your knee not to bother you during running, but you also were careful enough not to overdo things, right? And then on the back end, you were also doing things in the gym, the stuff that we've learned from Knees Over Toes Guy, the stuff that we've learned from Graham and a bunch of other guests

in terms of strengthening the feet, because we understand how all that stuff can work upstream. And you gave it time to improve. It wasn't immediate. This has taken years, actually. But now you're running, I think you ran four miles yesterday, right? Yeah. And you don't have any pain in your knee. Yeah, four miles, no pain, no pain anywhere. That's really rare. Like usually something's like off.

Yeah. Just, I don't know. I'm running and I'm like, Jesus, my fucking ankle feels a little bit weird. Or yeah, my knee, like it would always kind of just feel like uh i don't know it just feel like if i just exploded and tried to take off that i could hurt myself it kind of felt like that um but yesterday yeah i didn't feel anything and i didn't feel tired i felt really good and i was able to actually like run not just jog yeah so i was like damn this this feels uh this feels incredible but i agree

with you that people aren't they're not like um i guess we're not thinking that if you have a bad back potentially doing something like a deadlift or jefferson curl or something like that might just be the very recipe that might get you out of it when you're thinking like, that's the last thing I want to do. Or like a seated good morning. Like, fuck that. I ain't trying that. Now, you might have tried it and you could be correct. But how do you know unless you've given it a go, unless you've tried it?

This happens a lot with kids that have asthma. I think you had asthma when you were young, right? I had asthma when I was young. I had to always use an inhaler. And sometimes the best thing is like, go outside a lot, get exposed to the grass and get used to it. And it doesn't work for everybody. Some people will still need to use intervention of medication or something like that. But a lot of times it helps. For me, man, I was always the bigger kid on the field. And for me, whenever we would do drills drills when it came to cardio

i was always usually in last when it came to stuff for speed i was always first but when we had to run miles i was always the kid at the back of the pack that was like fast initially and then to like and then my asthma would pop up and be that would happen every fucking time. But when I started training more on my own and running more on my own, outside of practice, a few, like it took a little bit, but my asthma went away because I be, I think my asthma not just was a physical thing,

but for me, my asthma as a younger kid was a mental thing because when I'd start to get winded, I'd start to, exactly. When I started to get winded, I would start to be like, I would'd start to... Exactly. When I started to get winded, I would start to be like... I would lose my breath.

And when that would happen, I'd need to get my inhaler or else I wouldn't be able to breathe. But as I started practicing more and running more on my bike trail and just getting the hang of just running, who knew a few months later, you don't have asthma anymore. I don't think I actually had asthma though. I think I was just mentally stunted because I was always in last when it came to endurance running yeah there's a lot there's a lot to that you know because like when you think about

i i i'll just use back because that's where i have a lot of experience with back pain um i assume that if i go down and i pick up the bar that it's gonna hurt like we'll just say an empty bar well and behold you go down and it oh up the bar that it's going to hurt. Like we'll just say an empty bar. Lo and behold, you go down and it kind of hurts. You're like, yep. Like, yep, I was right. And then there's other times where not a lot of weight. We'll just say a plate.

And it's like I will tell people because they'll ask me like, oh, like what movements hurt in the gym and this and that. And I'll be like, actually, it's when I'm like deadlifting and doing things like that is when it hurts the least like that's when it doesn't hurt at all you know and that's probably because my mind is somewhere else and i'm not even thinking about it but i'm like not giving the pain power to like even register um now on a on like a squat like especially like a safety bar squat where it kind of does pitch you forward a little bit. That's gonna, that's gonna really bug me. But other than that, like it's, um, you know, again, I'm getting into like this whole like mind and, you know, muscle and all this stuff. It's like, yeah, like it doesn't hurt when I'm moving. It hurts when I'm, you know, standing still. It, uh, when we ran yesterday, it didn't hurt at all the whole time while we were running.

Felt good. Um, my calves are really sore today. Cause it all the whole time while we were running. It felt good. My calves are really sore today because it was the first time I ran. Yeah, it's the first time I ran in my Vivo Primus 1, Primus 3s. Primus Lite. Primus Lite 3s. So they're very, very minimalist shoes. And it's the first time where I had to be on my ball of my feet and toes for a long period of time. And so my calves are like oh

that feels weird um but i didn't feel pain um before that had you asked me like oh can you run without pain like i don't know like i'm not sure but then doing it because the rain was coming down on us pretty hard um my mind wasn't even on my back and then we were we were totally fine yeah had i probably thought about it i would have magically took a misstep. And then all of a sudden it's like, ah, guys, I'll see you there, you know, cause like something would have happened. So I think what you're saying about your asthma, I think you're absolutely right. You know, you could, um, be eating something and then somebody next to you and be like, oh dude, I think my plate's bad. I'm not going to eat it anymore. And then you think about the whole plate that you just scarfed down, what happens?

Your stomach starts hurting cause you get grossed out. You know, you start giving it power. And it's just the mind is a very powerful muscle that we don't flex enough. I think one thing that literally everybody can do is think about something that's been giving you issue. Because like, for example, for me, for many years, it was my knee. For Andrew, it's been your back. And we always talk about being very

careful about the way you say things, right? So instead of saying, oh, I have bad knees or I have a bad knee or I have a bad back, instead be like, oh, my back's not feeling the greatest right now or my knee's not feeling the greatest. What can I do for it? Because then what starts to happen is we look for solutions or we look for solutions within what we're currently doing. Even though my knee was kind of wonky for a while when I was doing jujitsu, I looked for solutions in terms of mobility, et cetera, of what I could do. Because when you say I have a bad knee, you relate to that knee or you relate to that back. And then what starts to happen is it always ends up being a problem. You always are like paying attention to it and you're

not doing enough for it. You're being a little. You always are like paying attention to it and you're not doing enough for it. You're being a little bit maybe too conservative and ginger with it and not finding solutions. And it just ends up being something you have for the rest of your life. Just like Mark, you were mentioning when you were a kid, you believed I couldn't do this or I couldn't do that. In the past, I believed I wasn't creative or this.

I stopped using those words and I'm like, I stopped telling myself I wasn't something and instead was like, how can I be more creative? How can I get my knee to feel better? How can you get your back to feel better? And suddenly solutions start popping up to the point where now my knee isn't a problem anymore. I, you know, when I started doing more mobility work and et cetera, doing more stuff from Ben, my knee got better. My knee got stronger. Now I can do a lot of stuff with my knee and it's not a problem. But if I kept saying, I have a bad knee, I have a bad knee, my knee probably would have gotten worse over time because I wasn't finding solutions for the problem.

Yeah. And one thing really quick is like, when it comes to exercise, I have never made my back worse so long as whatever I'm doing is within reason. So like I've, I have never made my back worse so long as whatever I'm doing is within reason. So, like, I've never hurt my back doing a deadlift that I should be lifting, you know, whether it be a plate, even two plates. I've hurt my back when I've tried to go to, like, 285 or something. Yeah. Like, that's when I mess myself up. I've never hurt my back squatting 225 or less. I've hurt it squatting more than that.

225 or less i've heard it squatting more than that so again that's you know uh that's kind of something else when we in regards to like ego lifting or whatever but so long as the weight is uh it's a proper weight i have only felt better every single time and it's interesting like because can you build up a bigger capacity for it exactly yeah i don't know if that fixes your back pain, but... It just fixes the capacity. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it gives you, maybe your body can

handle bigger stresses or something. Are you farting over there? What's going on? No, man. I just... Blown out of your

back? You know what? I think now it's been, I was 20, I was 23 or 24. I can mention this on air now. Y'all know how I really fucked up my knee, right? You know?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right. I have a funny story for you guys. Story time, everybody. So we've all had sex injuries, right? Oh, yeah. Right?

Pulled groin. Ah! You know? Hamstrings too tight. Oh, dude, the cramps yeah hamstring cramps fuck if you guys want electrolytes head to within you.com or i think it's just markbellslingshot.com check out the within you supplements promo code power project 10 for 10 off go ahead yeah yeah so i remember this happened um in jujitsu there is

one day where this guy jack he did a little something and my knee went a little, you know, it was just, it wasn't the greatest, but I was like, ah, that sucks. I went and got an MRI.

The guy was like, oh, he actually, he didn't, he chose not to give me an MRI. He's like, you don't need one of those. I'm like,

man, there's something really wrong there. He's like, you don't need one. Anyway, I was single at the time and I was hooking up this girl. And, um, there's one day we, we know good we uh we're having sex and i'm on my knees and then i get up the bed to get a

drink of water and my leg when i get off the bed i go my leg goes and then i'm just like oh no no no no no no and she's like what happened i'm like i think i just i think i just tore up my knee i think i just fucked up my knee that is the true uh that is the true way of how i had my bucket handle tearing my meniscus and had to get surgery it started on the mats okay and then a week and a half later it ended in bed and with every yeah and uh yeah you know who you are you don't yeah you know who you are but what was the excuse that you told people for i just told people it happened in jujitsu uh and it was like a little squat thing that happened and these were preambles to you weren't lying.

I wasn't lying, but the place where it happened was in the bedroom. That's why I made sure to be really good at the saddle position, right? You know the saddle position where you lean back on your knees? I make sure that that is A1. I'm not having that happen to me again. What if you had some knee sleeves from MarkBellSlingShot.com? Would that have helped? You know what?

Maybe I would have been more aware aware what was going on to my knee because knee sleeves do help with proprioception of the joint he's trying to put on like the gangster the triple x sleeves but after that i had so much i had so much like ptsd whenever i would like have sex i would just be like okay we're gonna i'm gonna get into my get on my knees and then every time i'd come off my knees i'd be like super slow and ginger make sure that nothing fucking are you okay yeah damn you gotta watch out for that i left that girl's place like literally just like limping she's like are you okay i'm like yeah i'm good yeah shouldn't it be the other way around the stairs oh god that's great power project family how's it going now a lot of you guys are lifters athletes you're serious about the gym and we are too and that's why we've been using slingshot

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as well as the podcast show notes. That's amazing. I sent you that Ed Milet clip if you want to try to bring some of that up. Email it or? I emailed it, yeah. That's why. It's easy.

Yeah. Lord. God. Let me pull this clip up. So the sad but what's this uh at my like clip about i found it to be really cool he was talking about um he was talking about the book think and grow rich and he was talking a lot about um you know how you know when you first get into something it might be difficult it might be hard you know, how, you know, when you first get into something, it might be difficult, it might be hard, but if you push past that and you get through like kind of a breaking point, a sticking point,

that you'll end up feeling amazing. And he basically kind of said on the other side, on the other side of, you know, pain and this discomfort that you're going to go through is going to be another version of yourself. And I thought that was really amazing. Like, that you're going to go through is going to be another version of yourself. And I thought that was really amazing. Like you're going to meet another you. And I think that if you think about it in your life, you probably have kind of recreated yourself multiple times. I think we might be in like our best form when we're like little kids. And then a bunch of weird shit happens to us in the interim.

And then, I don't know, you play soccer, you play football, you play these different sports, you do these different things. You say, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. And there's some people that might be supportive, but there's a lot of people and there's a lot of like, even just realization sometimes. Like you're playing a sport and you're like, wow, okay. I like the sport a lot and I thought i was pretty good at it but who the hell are these guys you know and you see like all-star

game or something like that because as a kid you only you only kind of are confined to like this little bubble and as you get older then you're like oh there's kind of like an encema like character at every high school. There's somebody like me, similar in some way, that loves soccer. Maybe they started two years younger. Maybe they had a better coach. All these different things kind of factor in. Then it's like you're trying to get a scholarship or all these different things happening. Then kind of some of the reality sets in.

You're like, I don't know how good I am. It seems like I'm pretty good. I do try really hard. I'm working at it. Doing what you think is the best that you can do. But still, sometimes even that's not enough. There's a lot of components that go into trying to be like really high level at something. But the cool part is, is that what you don't understand as a kid is that by going through that process it is kind of nice to butt up against reality but it's also cool to get through the other side to kind of start to find out who you really are and what you're really made out of and so yeah ed my let talks addresses this in this clip and i think it's like maybe let me look at my i uh took a screen capture of it but i've had this happen

many times over um in my own experience with stuff yes 16 it's like 1628 or so he talks about what people suffer from and i think that that's an interesting uh part two where he talks about um people suffering from like these six or seven different things. Again, a lot of it's just him reading from the book Think and Grow Rich. All righty. These are the six basic fears, according to Napoleon Hill, and they're really interesting. He says there are six basic fears with some combination of which every human suffers at one time or another. which every human suffers at one time or another.

Most people are fortunate if they do not suffer from the entire six. Named in the order of their most common appearance, they are. This is interesting in sequence. The number one fear is the fear of poverty. And just process that. Do you have the fear of poverty? Do you have the fear that whatever you're going through right now, you're going to be broke?

You're going to fear that you're going to run out of money, that you're not going to eat, or whatever it might be? The fear of poverty. Number two, the fear of criticism. By the way, these are the bottom, not the top. The fear of criticism. Do you have any of that? The fear of ill health. Those are the bottom three, not the top three.

Bottom three. Fourth fear, the fear of loss of love of someone. In other words, someone you love will no longer love you. Okay, five, the fear of old age, getting old and missing your prime, missing your moment, missing your life. And then lastly, the fear of death. And so those are the six fears, poverty, criticism, bad health, loss of the love of someone, old age and death.

And usually I think you'll find that when you're experiencing stress and anxiety, it's born out of one of those fears. And I know you're sitting there going, Ed, this is damn good. Thank you for doing the show today. I hope you are. And if you do feel that, share it. Fastest growing show in the world, share it. So I'm aware of the fears that I have. And that's why success requires no apologies. I'm not worried about criticism and failure permits no alibis. There are no alibis. There are no excuses. There just aren't any. And you go, but Ed, you don't understand. I do have this excuse. I do have this issue. I do have this situation that isn't fair for me. By the way, you're probably right. And if you think it, you're definitely right.

What you have to ask yourself is, does it serve you to believe that? Or what would you need to believe in spite of that? You say, well, hey, I started too late. I don't have enough money. What if you started to think, man, what a story this is going to be that I started with no money?

Or you know what? I'm a particular group of people that's marginalized and it's more difficult for me. I would just submit to you that, isn't the story going to be sweeter when you do win? Isn't it going to even be more inspiring when you do win? Isn't it going to move more people? Isn't your test going to be your testimony? Whatever this thing is, that is the alibi that you have in your life, whatever it is, someone hurt me, this

overcame, I'm in this situation, you don't understand my health situation. Listen, if it serves you to believe that, keep believing it. But as your friend and your coach and a mentor to you and someone who loves you and cares about you, I would say this does not serve you, even if it's true. Even if it's true, what would you need to believe about it that now gives you power instead of kryptonite? And you begin to ask yourself these questions. So, you know, you're going to show up. So that's one thing you're going to show up 20 years from now somewhere. The question is where, and what I would submit to you is that one of the ways out of difficult times is huge, bold, God-sized dreams. Like what is your huge, but the one you're embarrassed to tell people, the huge, bold God-sized dream in your life. And the more that

you can project into that dream state of what you want in your life, the more it gives you the inspiration. If your dreams are bigger than the adversity, you'll get through it. But the minute that adversity, those emotions are bigger than where you're going, bigger than your dreams, you're toast. You got to reevaluate that. You got to look at it. You got to say, wait a minute, what's my big dream? What's my big goal? What's that big emotion? What's that thing? What's that place? What's that person? What's that contribution? Whatever it might be. And you got to begin to obsess about it because what I said earlier is true. Your mind moves towards what it's most familiar with. So if you're most familiar with your fears, those six fears, or these emotions you don't want, or your problems, or your setbacks.

He was going off. He was going off. He's got great content, by the way. Make sure you follow Ed. He's got a great podcast. He's got great guests on there. And he systematically is always pumping out all these rules. He's got a whole list of all these different things that you can do.

And one of the coolest videos I've ever seen that he did was on like running a business. And it was just sick. It was so good. Like how to treat customers, how to treat employees. Like this guy, he's got his shit together. But I find those, you you know those fears to be really interesting and and i think that it ties into a lot of what we're talking about here today where it's like for some reason like human beings do need to attach to stuff like uh the worst the

worst part of um like the worst thing they can do to a criminal is put them in solitary confinement, put them by themselves. So we have to attach ourselves to other people. We have to attach ourselves to concepts, ideas, beliefs. And sometimes we might have to attach ourselves to a belief that doesn't really serve us because we're fearful that we're going to get hurt if we overextend ourselves in a particular direction. Like I feel safe like in here, but once I go out here, it's like I start to go outside myself a bit. And we feel like that belief serves us though.

It doesn't, but we feel like it truly does. And it may have served us in some way. It may have allowed us to kind of, quote unquote, like skate by or to uh just continue i guess continue every day like we can keep sweeping stuff you know sweep stuff under the rug and then eventually the rug piles up and like gross shits underneath there like you can't hide it right so i think that that happens to us and we kind of just i'm not really worried about my diet it's not a big deal.

And you say it over and over and over and over again, and then it manifests into you looking a way that you don't love. And you're like, oh, man, how did I get myself into this position? Or it could be financial stress or it could be any of these things. So that list is really interesting. I think some of the stuff on there, I think if you were to really think them through in a rational way, that I think you can dispel them quite a bit.

I think that you can kind of think about them more. Like poverty, like I think most people that have Wi-Fi that are listening to this podcast right now that might be listening to it from their iPhone now that might be listening to it from their iPhone, that might be listening to it from the comfort of their home, or they might be listening to it on their drive to work. Real poverty, it might be a fear, but it's probably not real. I know some of us feel like we grew up kind of broke but we probably it probably is not probably not real like hardcore poverty uh it's not like we grew up like the sharp brothers where

they killed squirrels and possums and ate them and shit like that and didn't have hardly any running water and shannon sharp gives that story about what his grandmother wanted. And he was like, I can buy you a nice car, buy you a nice this, nice that. And she was like, I would love to have a home where, you know, one night it just rains like crazy and I don't get wet. How about a, how about a home that just doesn't have a hole in the roof? You know, so there are people that really do suffer from a lot of poverty like that. But I think most of the people listening to this show, maybe not having enough money or finances might be a concern, but poverty probably isn't necessarily that real for you in particular. So if you go through each one of those, I think you can probably dispel some of those things and say, you know what? I'm really not even being that rational about this.

Like, I think I can, I think I can change my mode of interpretation and I think I can change, uh, the way that I talk about this particular thing so that I can, um, kind of get myself out of this. I just wanted to pull them up so that we guys can see them. Yeah. You know, the one that really, uh, stuck, like the one that's always stuck out to me ever since I was a kid is like ill health. Like that's like, I know. Initially, you know,

I wanted to, I wanted to go to school to be a doctor. That was the thing. But then I moved into the like fitness and health and the fear of ill health is the thing that like got me trying to do everything that I do because I understood partially because my mom was super healthy, but also seeing a lot of relatives and people around me that like

what you're, what you have or what's going on with you can be avoided. That's what has me so zoned in on all the things that can be done as to not get sick. Something can be done about all of these things. Absolutely. Something can be done about all these things. The fear of criticism, you're going to be criticized. Interpretation of that. Yeah, you're going to be criticized. And the more outward facing you are, the more criticism you'll be subject to. So if you want to be like a business owner but you want to be low key, then you might be subject to less criticism.

Something like Ron Pennant. Like people didn't even know that he had Quest Nutrition. So there's some people that they lay low and there's other people that as a business owner, they kind of want to be out there like myself. But I'm open that there's going to be criticism. It's part of the game. So over the years, I've had to kind of reinterpret. Somebody makes a comment. How do I know it's not some 11-year-old kid?

Randomly just spitting fire because he's mad. Like those little motherfuckers that used to kick my ass and mad me. Take that, bitch. Randy Moss fucked you up. I'm like, what the hell? How old is this kid? They would roll out with Dante Culpepper and they would just throw a bomb every time to Randy Moss. And I just couldn't figure it out.

But you're going to be criticized. You can't do anything about it. I couldn't figure it out. But you're going to be criticized. Your health, you do have quite a bit of control over the things that you can do and manage. Unfortunately, many, many people are born with disease and many people are born with certain things. But even with those certain things, you can do things with that to ensure that you're going to be healthier. There's no guarantees with trying to do stuff for your health.

But there is a lot of things you can do to work on it. The fear of losing somebody that you love. Loss of love. Yeah, loss of love. Shit, that's going to happen. It's going to happen too. There's some of these things on here. While I'm saying you can do things about them, I guess some of it is just in your mind what you can do about them.

But these things, they're going to have if you ever loved somebody you're going to have a point where if they loved you and you love them they're probably there's probably going to be a break in that to some capacity even if you're somebody that has had a lifelong relationship with uh with a person um there's still like other relationships that you have over the years where somebody's really heavily involved in your life and then they're no longer part of your life like that happens as well the fear of old age you can up that feeling of old age you know i think years ago people would think if someone was 50 or 60 that they would be old and now we're seeing more and more examples of people that are 50 and 60 that look like they're doing pretty well and they're still really enjoying life. And it seems like they're going to continue to enjoy life for decades and decades to come.

And I honestly don't believe that that formula is that hard to be able to get there. It may seem out of reach for people in this country. But like I was reading that book again, Exercise, like when he when he was looking at some hunter-gatherers from the Hadza, the 70-year-old woman, the amount that they walked, he said like they had a – they were 70 but they had like a biological age of like a 45-year-old in America, right? Because of just walking, because of just staying active and not overeating because a lot of these... They're not in a weight room. They're not lifting weights. You know what I mean? Not doing yoga.

Nope, they're not doing anything. They're just living life, but they're living active lives, which is like them at 70 is comparative to a 45-year-old person here in the United States. Yeah, and great examples, Sean Lake and TJ Ferreira. And myself to a certain extent because I didn't start, like, really taking care of my health until I was, like, 27, 26, 27 years old. They talked about, like, they didn't get into the gym until they were, like, 30s. And look at them now.

Like, they're both in amazing shape. And so it's like, you know, like, you don't have to have been doing this since you were five years old like um oh god jiu-jitsu black belt uh wwe superstar eventually house jimmy house jimmy house all right sir right you don't have to be like that anymore you know the human body is kind of incredible so you can push and push out quote old age for a long time it's all this is another just i don't mean a tangent too much but this is is Anya's, we're going to have her at some point, but this woman, Anya's Reviews, she's this person who's gotten a lot, like really deep into barefoot stuff. Her website has like a ton of different types of barefoot shoes and stuff like that. But if you look at the way her foot changed from when she started doing barefoot stuff in the past like eight years

this isn't somebody who was doing that since she was a kid but her foot transformation is something just wild her feet got substantially wider the tendons got substantially thicker and it's just by starting to take her the feet and she was an adult when she started that so understand like these things you can start them as an adult yeah imagine the changes you can make to your mind over the years you know yeah if you guys ever seen that image of uh what your brain looks like on lsd you ever see that versus a couple yeah that's always like an interesting uh image to bring up but i i think that obviously you're not going to be able to like make your mind go on fire quite quite the same way but i do think that obviously you're not going to be able to like make your mind go on fire quite the same way.

But I do think that through personal development, you can link a lot of things together and you can start to understand things more clearly. When you start to hear, there you go. Golly, I need to go do some acid. I know, we're looking at, yeah, placebo versus what LSD does in the whole brain. Every part of the brain is just completely lit up. In whatever way they tested this, who the hell knows what they figured out. Anyway, I think that you can get a lot of your brain firing and your mind firing when you learn and when you grow. We talk so much about training in the gym and the growing of the biceps and triceps and quads and hammies and all that stuff.

And we know for a fact that you can see huge improvements in these things. huge improvements in these things. You can go from being a young kid who kind of just has a string bean body to, you know, having 18 or 20 inch arms. You can go from, you know, bench pressing the bar to bench pressing, you know, 600 pounds. I mean, there's all kinds of, and we've seen people make these massive transformations with their physique in terms of like them losing body fat. There's so many different changes. We've seen people that were really thin gain a lot of weight and bulk. But we just – we continually neglect what the mind is able to do. you see right here. Any of what we talked about today, most of what we talked about today can fit into some of these categories. Like I remember just a minute ago, I was saying that these fears,

you can probably talk yourself through them and talk yourself almost out of some of them. There still might be a fear that you might have a loss of someone that loves you or you still might be afraid of death. But I think you can start to have a more rational relationship with it. And I don't think you necessarily need to do psychedelics to get yourself there. But I've heard people say they've done like DMT and they no longer fear death. there, but I've heard people say they've done like DMT and they no longer fear death. I don't think that that necessarily is a route that you need to go. I'm not against exploring that, but I also think that you could, what if you read about death? Like how many people read about death? Nope. Right? Like who wants to read about death? And there's a lot of great books on it. There's

a lot of great information on it. My dad was telling me about a book the other day about a guy that says, don't leave behind a legacy. And I was like, how interesting is that? And legacy, he meant in this case, he meant money. He's like, don't leave your family with money. Don't leave your kids with money. And it was just an interesting spin on things because he thinks that everyone should like earn everything and all they're going to do is fight over it. So it's not worth like, why, why really set them up that way?

And he had other means that other ways to like, uh, maybe put them a little bit ahead, you know, in the game of life. But he was like, give all that, give all that shit away,

you know? Um, give all that shit away. So it's just interesting. We can interpret this stuff and we can do with it what we like. But these things that we adopt, they paralyze us. Tea Time with the Reaper. That's a book that you can read about death. We actually had the author on the podcast. So that was a very, very good book.

But something that we always talk about and it's something that I'm thinking about more now since I've been starting to run to and see the physical difficulties I have with it and see how my body hurts at certain times because of it. I haven't felt that this much or this often since I started jujitsu. And one of the things that I was always thankful about jujitsu for is when I started, I wasn't good at it. I wasn't talented at it. Um, and it was very uncomfortable, but by getting good at it, I was like, damn, I took on this totally new thing and became pretty decent at it. And that feels great. And now starting to add in running into the mix and not being very good at it and not feeling very comfortable with it. Again, it's like I'm going to be a different person when I become proficient with this. And it's going to open up different capacities that I didn't used to have.

So, you know, you always talk about leaning into discomfort. That's exactly what we're talking about here. You might have an uncomfortable knee, an uncomfortable back or whatever. and it's good for you to pay attention to those things. But obviously, as we've been talking about, do not identify to it and identify with it and then lean into things that it's going to make you challenge that and make you find answers to improving that. Because through the things that we've been doing with feet, with knees, et cetera, now I don't have knee issues. Now I can lean into running, which is something that I wouldn't have done in the past

because my knee wasn't the greatest. So find some things that you're not that great in, get better at it, lean into it, and you're going to be a different person because of it. I think everybody can get better at just about anything they think about. I think everybody can get better at just about anything they think about. It might be a daunting task to think about like taking something new on or it might be a daunting task to think about like being amazing at something. But I saw something the other day where the guy said, to sprint, you don't have to run fast.

And to jump, you don't have to run fast. And to jump, you don't have to jump high. You know, just jump. To throw, you don't have to throw like a 100-mile-an-hour fastball. So I think we're always thinking like, how interesting is it? You know, Usain Bolt can sprint. Like we've seen that. Like it's insane. And, yeah yeah we would all

love to be able to do something miraculous like that but how cool is it that you have an opportunity to do the same thing as him it might look different it might be a little slower but you can literally do the same thing and i think it's just it's an it's amazing thing like you can just go out and you can just you can run you can jog you can there's not a lot of other stuff that like it's harder to do other stuff at it's hard to like mimic other stuff like jujitsu you can't even really do it unless you're like you've got to like kind of learn it you know it's it's hard it's a harder thing to like grasp but everybody has jumped. Everybody has run.

Everybody has walked. So these are things that it's not that difficult to get better at those things. How long have you been messing around with running for? Well, actually making sure I'm staying consistent with it, maybe the past three weeks. But every now and then, i would just intermittently run but like since graham got here and injured me joking i injured myself when i was sprinting with him um i was like nah this this isn't okay like i i can't i can't be doing this with jujitsu be doing this with lifting and then i go out and try to do something that i should be able to do as a human and i injure myself nah like we're not gonna let that happen again so i've been starting to run more so i could get better at that and then so i could also get better at

sprinting again because that sprinting was a strength for me like that that was one of the that was my thing in soccer i was always straight straight line speed. I could catch anybody. So I want that back. And I also want to be able to run again. Right. I think once you're doing it for about six weeks or so, it's a really good kind of turning point. Yeah. And you picked a good time of year to do it

because it's not like get a million degrees out yet. Yeah. But once you get to that six-week part, you'll just be a little proficient at it, and it will rarely feel hard i mean you're probably running pretty at a pretty good clip yeah not not necessarily right now like i i think i i did a little jog for two and a half miles the other day and my pace was like 955 oh those are that's perfect but that's a good that's a good thing that likes that's a

great place to start i'm glad to hear that because i i'm thinking like he's probably trying he's probably trying to haul ass that's good i'm trying to make sure that the breathing's in control i want to keep all the breathing in the nose um there will be phases where i'm like okay i'm i'm feeling pretty warm let me just push it for this in the next minute minute and a half let me just do that and i'll slow it down but i won't go below a certain pace so i'm just trying to slowly keep things slowly progress it people are fucking crazy people are fast oh yeah when i like and they're running far it's like what the how are you how are you running fast and far at the same time didn't nick bear say he did his 26.2 and like his pace for each mile was like seven something yeah he's insane when i think about that i'm just like god i'm such a bitch yeah i mean not really but like yeah how many miles ahead

what do you know what i mean like it's insane yeah it's to me it's like the equivalent of like oh you you deadlifted 700 pounds like that's cool he's like yeah but i did it for like 25 reps like wait hold on you can't do both like what are you talking about you know they're running fast and far yeah it's fucking wild yeah i think people say that like a good half marathon time like a decent marker is like under two hours i'm like i did mine under three there we go i got my home pace you got it within the second hour so you're right there yeah exactly well damn this is the thing because i think a lot of people are going to be taken up running because you're taking up running don't rush it like yeah don't rush it give yourself time to get good at this give yourself time to get better at breathing your body get used to the stress your body will hurt your feet will hurt your calves will be tight

it's okay right it's all part of this whole process i get weird shit that happens to me like since i've been you know since i was a kid i get these kinds of cramps like in my groin. I don't know what the fuck it is, but something's super tight on me. And that happens occasionally. It doesn't happen as much as it used to. But it's just like, it's crazy annoying. So when I'm running, you know, all that activity of like the hip flexor and the groin, you know, as I'm running, it'll start to like get tight. So I've, I've been on runs before where I'm, I'm going along, everything feels fine.

I'm all fired up. I'm doing pretty good. Breathing's going pretty good. And I'm like, Oh, I'm like, what's that? And then I'm able to like kind of jog it off a little bit, but I have to slow down a lot. And I'm like, fuck, but i'm just thinking to myself like okay if if you really do cramp up then you then just stop and stretch and like so sometimes i will actually just stop um but you really do have to take your time with this just to give

you guys an idea of like where where i started with some of this when i was at my heaviest and I went to a local gym in Davis and I'd walk on the treadmill, I was so out of shape that even just getting down from the treadmill, I get a cramp in my inner thigh. So like I would do like 20 minutes, 30 minutes on the treadmill. I just on a little incline going three, like I'm not going like super fast or nothing about it should have been hard or difficult. And then I'm like, okay, how do I get off this treadmill without this being like embarrassing?

Cause I feel like I'm going to like tear an adductor or something. And so I'd like have to like, you know, kind of first of all, wait for no, like people to not look or whatever. And I have to like grab on the machine a little bit and then kind of step down.

But it's not a very far step. So that's how bad it started. But I never stopped. I never gave up. And I would walk sideways on there and I'd walk backwards. And once I started doing that, then my hips started to kind of open up and it wasn't as bad. But still this day when I'm running,

I have plenty of things that want to like defeat me or slow me down or prevent me from doing it but i just i still do it and then because of that because i've been doing it for a while it's more encouragement to do it and as ed malette said uh from the book think and grow Uh, he basically says that when you work through something and you work at it for a long time, you're going to get to meet your other self. And that's kind of what I feel I'm doing. So if you want to feel that same thing and be fired up, uh, give these new things that we recommend on almost every single show, give them a shot. What's something that you maybe did years ago?

Maybe ride your bike. Maybe you did some mountain biking. Maybe you did some climbing. Maybe you did whatever it is that you used to do. Go out and do it. Maybe you can still do it, but also be cautious. Don't just randomly go into a hardcore pickup game of basketball or soccer soccer you're gonna like fuck yourself up so give yourself some time and uh that's i think that's the only way to do it is give yourself some time and keep the expectations really low

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