The Nick Bare Podcast - 179: Why I Always Go Back to Strength Training

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

I'm breaking down why I will always go back to strength training no matter what season, prep, or goal I'm chasing.I also make my case for why strength should always be the foundation underneath any goal whether that's a marathon, an Ironman, HYROX, or just playing with your kids. I also introduce our new Strength Collection: Pre, Pump, and Post, a three-product system built to maximize your training.CHAPTERS:0:00 "I Am a Gym Rat at My Core"2:08 Strength Has to Come First2:47 "Strength Is Never a Weakness"5:30 Introducing the Strength Collection7:43 The Eating Disorder I Don't Often Talk About10:46 Shifting My Mindset: Food as Fuel11:54 My First Pre-Workout Ever14:24 Falling in Love With Bodybuilding & Greg Plitt19:31 Launching BPN in 2012 With a $20,000 Loan26:06 The System That Inspired the Strength Collection27:45 The Age-Old Question: Gym or Running?34:16 My Best Endurance Shape Ever, But Not Strong36:46 The 700-Pound Deadlift PR I'll Never Touch Again42:08 4 Mistakes People Make With Strength TrainingORDER MY BOOK HERE: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Go-One-More-Intentional-Life-Changing/dp/1637746210FOLLOW:Become a BPN member FOR FREE - Unlock 25% off FOR LIFE ⁠https://www.bareperformancenutrition.com/collections/performance-nutritionIG: ⁠instagram.com/nickbarefitness/⁠YT: ⁠youtube.com/@nickbarefitnessThis podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal [health or profession] advice. Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN) is not responsible for any losses, damages, or liabilities that may arise from the use of this podcast. This podcast is not intended to replace professional medical advice.This podcast may not be republished without the written consent of Bare Performance Nutrition (BPN)MB01FIACPRYWBKW

All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today's episode is titled, Why I will always go back to strength training. Always. I am, and I've said it before, I am a gym rat, I am a meathead at heart, at my core. It is in my blood. It is in my DNA. I remember growing up, as I'm thinking about my bloodline and my DNA, my dad was a wrestler when he was in high school. And when I was young, I remember watching my dad come home from work. Maybe 5, 6, maybe 7 p.m., if I can remember loosely. And I could hear him from a mile away because

his windows were down his music was blaring it was hard rock and he'd pull into our driveway and he'd step out and he was wearing wrestling shoes he was wearing short shorts a stringer tank top

tucked in and then in his hand he had his double bag and his lifting belt and he had a mullet and a mustache and after work he would go to the gym he would train and then come home and I watched my dad come home after a long day, after leaving the gym with a pump and his veins

popping out, his muscles full. My dad growing up to me was a superhero. I would watch him every morning in our kitchen as my brother and I were eating breakfast doing his push-ups on the kitchen floor. When we never said anything, it was just this is what dad does every morning. He gets after it. He puts in the work. And he had a great physique. He still has a great physique for being 63 years old. Strength training, when I say it's part of my DNA, it's in my core, it's within the bare bloodline. I mean it. And I believe it. I want to pose a thesis. an opinion, a statement, if you want to be better at anything physical, marathons, high rocks, weekend basketball,

or even just playing with your kids, strength has to come first. As Mark Bell says, strength is never a weakness, and weakness is never a strength. Dang. That hits. And another thesis or opinion is that if you could only do one type of training for the rest of your life,

it should be strength training. Why? The benefits far outweigh the benefits of excessive cardiovascular conditioning to include the fact that one muscle loss or sarcopenia is one of the biggest predictor. of aging decline and has risk associated with injury, decreased lifespan and health span, and performance. The difference between health span and lifespan, lifespan is the amount of years that you live. You know, if you live to 100, that's great. But if your health span, the last 40 years or garbage, man, that 100. years is kind of a subjective goal.

If you had strong health up until you were 60, and then from 61 to 100, you had limited health span, that's a long 40 years. That's tough. Strength training improves bone density and joint integrity, and there's plentiful hormonal benefits from strength training, building muscle. It improves testosterone, growth hormone, insulin sensitivity. Strength training is foundational. And in my honest opinion, I might be biased, but I believe there's a lot of science that backs

this up, a lot of data, a lot of research, studies, practical application. If we had to choose one type of training to do for our entire. life. It should and would be strength training, resistance training, being in the gym, moving weight, lifting hard. So we'll get in today why I will always go back to strength training, why I do always go back to strength training, no matter what prep I'm in or season or what my goal is, I always go back to strength training. We just launched our strength collection. I have the products front of me right now. The strength collection, which I'll get into deeper into this episode, it's a three product system, pre, pump, and post. So the way that I use the strength

collection, the way that I recommend using the strength collection is by stacking pre and pump about 30 minutes prior to your workout. You get increased energy, tunnel vision focus, muscular endurance, blood flow, contraction, better muscle pumps, which if you are into strength training

or bodybuilding, you know the pump is king. And then the way that I like to use Post is sipping on it during my workout, but you can also consume one serving after your workout. Post is essential amino acids,

branch chain amino acids, carnitine altartrate, and cherry pure. It is excellent. for muscle protein synthesis stimulating MPS, helping to repair the broken down muscle fibers from your strength training from the workout itself. You know, while you're working out and lifting weights,

you are creating these micro tears within your muscle. And then after the workout, through proper recovery and rest and nutrition and supplementation, That's how you actually repair and rebuild muscle tissue. So the strength collection is now officially live on our website, BPNSups.com, a three product system, pre, pump, and post. Now let's take it back a little bit, how I fell in love with fitness. I've shared this journey before, but it's pretty applicable to really back up.

why I always go back to strength training because my love for fitness started with strength training started in the gym and a lot of people don't know this but as a young teenager I actually wasn't interested in the gym all my friends

when we were 14, 15, 15, 16 even 17 years old they were getting into the gym and they would train at our high school gym after school was over for the day or go to a local gym. There was this local gym that I then started training at eventually and I worked at called New York Fitness and Palmire, Pennsylvania, where I grew up that everyone used to go to. And all my friends started getting into strength training in the gym when we were in early

high school. And I just didn't. I had no interest. I remember to this day my parents trying to get me to go to the gym with my friends. I didn't care. Like school would get out. They'd go to the gym. I'd go home. I don't remember what I did or what I worked on. But that was a weird transition period of my life.

Because when I was 13, 14 years old, I went through a pretty severe eating disorder. I was anorexic. I was starving myself. I was afraid of food. I lost significant weight. And it got to a point where my body was shutting down. I was hospitalized from that eating disorder. And for much of my life since then, I have struggled,

sometimes more or less, with unhealthy relationships with food. I would now say that I have a healthy relationship with food, but there have been many times over the last two decades where I've had hard times in extremely unhealthy relationships with food and nutrition and gaining weight and losing weight. So as I was starting to recover from this eating disorder, all my friends were finding the gym, and I just wasn't interested at that point. But after starting my recovery from the eating disorder, putting some weight back on and starting to view food as fuel

as opposed to a reward or even in some cases a negative, like there was a consequence to eating, But once I started shifting my mindset around food as fuel and building the body back up as opposed to tearing it back down, and I started eating more and feeling better, I eventually made my way into the gym. And I can't remember exactly why I made that decision or when or what those first couple workouts felt like. But what I can tell you is I remember my interest. introduction to pre-workout supplementation. This was probably, let's see, I graduated high school in 2009.

So maybe 2006, 2007 is when I tried my first pre-workout supplement. And back then, the supplement industry was very different compared to what it is today. It was so different. Pre-workout just made its way into the fitness industry, into the market at that point in time. And there were maybe a handful of pre-workouts to try and test. And my first pre-workout I ever used was no explode. No explode. It was in this red bottle by BSN, and it was a translucent bottle.

I remember how it tasted. I remember how it smelled. I remember how much it fizzed up when you shook it up. I remember the first time I ever used pre-workout. I can't tell you the first time I ever walked into a gym, but I can tell you the first time I ever tried pre-workout. I remember where I was sitting in my bedroom in our house, which was upstairs,

and my mom didn't want us using pre-workout back then. I had to hide it in this cabinet in my bedroom. I go up into my room and I add a scoop to my shaker bottle. I mix it up. And the first time I ever drank it, you know, the first time you ever consume or try beta alanine, it feels like every part of your skin over the entire course of your body, your hands, your arms, your legs, your ears,

your eyebrows, they tingle and they itch. and I remember the beta aline kicking in and the caffeine kicking in and the no tropics and the tunnel vision focus I had and from that first time trying pre-workout I was hooked I was addicted and I would go to this local supplement shop in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which was next to Pomerah, Pennsylvania. And I would spend multiple day there, days of a week talking to the person behind the counter. Tell me about these new products. Tell me about what's coming to market.

What are people coming in here and buying and trying? And what's the feedback from this protein and that amino acid supplement and this pre-workout? All the brands back then, or majority of the brands back then, aren't brands any longer. There wasn't a lot of innovation. And products didn't taste nearly as good back then as they do now. I can vividly remember that. There were some brutally bad tasting products back then.

But you'd mix it up, you shake it up, you'd slug it down, and it would kick in and you'd go to the gym. And I was hooked from that moment. You know, and it was much more than the workouts. It was much more than the training. It was the entire lifestyle and routine around strength training. And if we even like carve out that niche a little bit more narrow, it was it was bodybuilding. Now I was reading the bodybuilding magazines and watching content online, which there wasn't much.

I would watch Greg Plitt videos. I had a membership to Greg Plitt's website. Greg Plitt was this hero in the fitness industry back then. He was a West Point grad and then an Army Ranger. He served in the military, transitioned out of the military, was a fitness model, made motivational YouTube videos, and he would create these vlogs and these YouTube videos, and he put them on his website, and you had to have a membership to access the website

and I would watch these every video. I mean, it ranged from him going to the gym and doing a cardio circuit to a bodybuilding workout, to cooking meals at his house, to DIY home projects of like a remodel that he was doing in his backyard. I watched every Greg Plitt video back then.

And unfortunately, Greg Plitt passed away from a training and filming accident years ago. But he is a legend and pioneer a leader in the fitness space. I would watch his content back then. And like I said, I fell in love with the lifestyle. I fell in love with the routine, the ritual. My whole day, late high school, early college, and even to today in some way and capacity,

I would build my day and my routine and my schedule around my workout knowing when I was going to consume my pre-workout meal and what it was going to consist of to make sure I was fueled and it digested properly and then I would time up mixing my supplements, my pre-workout, let that kick in. I would remember back in college,

I'd be sitting in my dorm room and I'd after drinking my pre-workout go to YouTube and I'd watch bodybuilding motivational videos Jay Cutler, Ronnie Coleman, the greats and I'd watch them train and I'd let the ingredients do their thing

and I get so motivated to go hit the weights and I'd get all my stuff, I'd drive to the gym and I would train with intention, with energy, with intensity, like pure passion. Those early years for me, I mean, they shaped the trajectory of my entire life. I would not be here doing what I'm doing today if it wasn't in, and this is no exaggeration, if it wasn't for my experience and introduction to pre-workout and bodybuilding and training,

and the routine and the ritual around it, I fell in love with a lifestyle. And over two decades later, I still love it. And I trained this morning, shoulders and arms, and everything from the pre-workout meal to taking the pre-workout, to setting the conditions, to hitting the gym with pure intensity and intention and passion. Two decades later, I still love it.

I love it. gym culture is something special. I've trained for just about everything at this point. Marathons, Iron Man triathlons, ultras, high rocks, bodybuilding competitions. But being in the gym, throwing weights around, getting a pump, I always find myself coming back to that style of training, that lifestyle. And that led to the formation and launch of BPN in 2012. Our first product that we launched,

the first product that I launched in 2012 on my college apartment was a pre-workout. It was flight. And before that, I was mixing up my own pre-workout in my dorm room, in my apartment. I buy these ingredients in bulk, caffeine, cituline, creatine, beta aline. I had this food scale in my dorm room. I had these bulk ingredients, and I'd weigh out the ingredients that I wanted and needed for my pre-workout.

You know, three grams of beta aline, five grams of creatine, 200 milligrams of caffeine, a gram and a half of tyrosine. And then I would add some like sweet. knur packets. I can't remember the name of it. It was before electrolytes for a thing, but you could, it's on the tip of my tongue.

There were like these flavored, powdered, powdered packets that I would buy. Artificially sweetened and flavored. And I would add it to my water throughout the day, and they were super popular. But I would add this to my pre-workout ingredients so it didn't taste bitter and sour and just off. You know, these ingredients on their own, caffeine, cituline,

beta aline, even though they're unflavored, they have a flavor of their own. Bitter, sour, tart. So I would add flavor and sweeteners to make it taste better. And for a while I was mixing up my own pre-workout. There were times when I had $50. left to my bank account if I didn't overdraft my bank account at that point.

This was when I was in college, really budgeting. And if I had $50 left to my bank account and I had to choose between going and buying food or saving it for gas or going to the local supplement shop and buying pre-workout,

I was buying pre-workout. I would prioritize my pre-workout and supplementation over everything else. So when I launched BPN in 2012 when I was in college, and I shared the story many times before, but I took on a $20,000 alone,

found a manufacturer. It just made sense to launch with a pre-workout because that's why I fell in love with fitness. And the routine and ritual around that lifestyle is what drew me in. kept me there. Something I like to say is that we are a brand, BPN, was built on strength from the early days, the inception, but forged by endurance. What has shaped us to where we are today, built on strength forged by endurance. And to touch on the strength collection

briefly. So Flight has been our pre-workout since 2012. Like I said, our first product we ever launched. And we've discontinued the name Flight, and we've rebranded it to Pre. And I'll talk about why. So pre is a similar formula to Flight. We made one change.

We added an ingredient. So we added Alpha GPC, 300 milligrams of Alpha GPC, which is one of my favorite notropics. It's the same notropic in G1M Sport Plus gives you the mental energy, the focus, that tunnel vision focus. It stimulates the mind, but it's not a stimulant, not like caffeine. So we added Alpha GPC to our pre-workout, which is now pre. It's got 200 milligrams of caffeine, which I believe is a sweet spot, 3.2 grams of carnison beta alanine, 6 grams of cituline. It is, in my opinion, a complete pre-work-on supplement.

Everything you need, nothing that you don't. Then you have pump. So we discontinued our previous pump supplement about a year and a half ago, two years ago. That was called endopump. We knew we wanted to bring a pump. supplement back, and we made it even better. So pump has six grams of cituline, two grams of nitrates, one gram of agamantine sulfate, you get incredible, crazy blood flow, muscular contraction,

and pump to the muscles being trained. When you stack pre and pump together, 30 minutes before you work out, you get 12 grams of cituline between the two products. If you know anything about cituline, that's a great hefty dose. You will feel the muscular endurance. You will feel the blood flow. You will feel stronger pumps. I promise you.

And then post, as we talked about, branched chain amino acids, essential amino acids, carnitinal tartrate, cherry pure. We wanted to, and I wanted to relaunch some of our strength products under the strength collection, because

I believe a system helps with adherence. And it reduces the friction and lack of education of how to use these products around your training. And I truly believe if you use all three of these products around your workouts, when you go into the gym, it will revolutionize the way you train, the way you feel, the results you get. So the goal with creating a system was to improve adherence. adherence to the protocol, the way the products were designed to be utilized. And I've shared this with our brand team, and we actually made a social piece talking about this. But the first idea of the strength collection was sparked by this skincare system that I used back when I was in high school.

It was called proactive. If you guys are as old as I am, I'm mid-30s, you definitely remember seeing commercials and ads for proactive skin care. I used proactive skin care. You know, when you're young and you're in high school and you're dealing with breakouts and oily skin, you're willing to try anything. And I remember seeing these commercials,

and it was a system. It was a three product system. It was the cleanser. It was the toner. It was the moisturizer. And that system helped me adhere to the protocol. And it provided me

healthier, better, clear looking skin. Because I stuck to the products and the way they were meant and designed to be utilized. It was a, collection. It was a system. That's what sparked the creation of the strength collection.

A three product system to be used before, during, and or after your workouts to maximize and improve adherence and ultimately a better experience and better results. So you said, the strength collection is now live. I and we here at BPN are extremely proud of these products, this collection, and we know that you guys are going to love them too, especially when used together, all three of them. Now, the age-old question, I've been getting this question for years. If you had to choose between the gym and running, which would be? Easy answer, no-brainer, the gym.

And we'll get into why. But one of the reasons, as I was thinking about this answer, because they both have pros, and some have cons, when done excessively or incorrectly. But when I think about running and cardiovascular conditioning and training as a whole, I personally, very rarely love it while I'm doing it. That's just the truth. But I always love it after I'm done. When I'm on a five-hour bike for an Iron Man,

do I love it and love the way I feel? No, not really. When I'm running in the morning, do I always love the way I feel? I mean, sometimes, sometimes I have the runner's high and it feels really good. But oftentimes it doesn't. But I will tell you,

as soon as I'm done with that run, I feel great. Endorphins are lit up. Energy is high. There is truly this elevated feeling and joy from endurance training, from running specifically. But when I'm strength training and bodybuilding,

I not only love the way that I feel afterwards, but I love the way I feel during. During the movements, the rest periods, the pump. I mean, I can't talk about this enough. I'll reference Arnold in the documentary in the film Pumping Iron.

If you've never watched Pumping Iron, that's what you should do as soon as possible. Go watch the film, the documentary, Pumping Iron. It's a classic. And Arnold talks about the pump. and the chase for the pump and a better pump and how good it feels. When I'm strength training, when I'm bodybuilding, I feel just as good, if not great, or during, as I do afterwards.

That's one of the differences for me from running compared to strength training. Now, when we talk about training, whether it's strength or strength, or endurance, cardiovascular conditioning. You know, if you ask someone, if you had to choose one, which would you choose? And that's obviously opinion. That's biased. That's preference. Like for me, I would tell you, easy answer.

No brainer. Jim, that is based off of subjective feel and preference, as well as objective. Data. What does the data and science tell me? Now, if the data and science told me that strength training is bad for you and endurance training is better for you, because I love the gym so much, I would still go to the gym, even knowing that it's not as good for me. So that argues the fact that it's not just data driven.

It's not just objectively driven. I say easy answer, no brain or the gym because I love it and the research that I've seen reinforces why I believe it's the best option of training. But what matters is your goal and then applying specificity that is necessary for the goal during that time. So if being the fastest ultra runner in the world is your goal,

then your training obviously requires specificity. if my goal for the time being, I mean, over the years, you have seen me training for different goals, whether that's, like I already mentioned, marathons, Iron Man Triathlons, high rocks, bodybuilding, powerlifting, or just from a day-to-day hybrid training approach, you have seen me, and I have applied specific. specificity to my training based off my goals. If I'm training for an ultra or a marathon or an Ironman triathlon, I am spending 90% of my time endurance training. And then a little bit of my time is spent on strength training. But as soon as I'm done, chasing down that goal, accomplishing

that goal, you always see me go back to strength. training and bodybuilding as soon as that prep is done. That is my safe place. That is where I feel my best. But I love chasing down a big goal and a big goal requires a specific style of training necessary to accomplish that goal. But I always go back to strength training, always go back to bodybuilding. For my Iron Man prep this past year, which was November 2025, That was about 20 weeks of strict endurance training. I did very, very, very little strength training. And I got fit.

I got fast. I got lean. I got light. It was the best endurance shape I've ever been in my entire life. A 22-mile run almost felt like nothing. I felt light, fit. and fast, but I did not feel strong. That goal, that training required specificity.

But as soon as I was done with that race, the next week I was back in the gym. Because I wanted to rebuild. I wanted to feel strong again. I wanted to feel better. I feel my best when I am prioritizing strength training and then incorporating running, endurance training. layered onto my strength training.

I hear the comments all the time, you didn't build your physique by running. You're right. I did not build my physique from running. I dedicated over a decade to strength training before I actually started taking running serious. I didn't start taking running serious until I transitioned out of the army.

I signed up for my first marathon in 2018. And then from there was marathons and triathlons and ultras. And then I got serious about running and endurance training. But from the time I started strength training in 2006, 2007, up until 2018, the priority was strength training. And I ran because I had to in the Army. That's the only reason I ran. When I transitioned out of the Army in 2017,

I said, I will never run a day in my life again. And that is obviously changed because if you look at what happened from 2018 up until today, there have been many miles, thousands of miles logged, many races completed,

and goals accomplished. But in 2018, after I transitioned or 2017, after I transitioned out of the military, I said, I'm not running a day in my life again. And for a year, I was committed to that.

I ate a lot of food and I trained a lot. I was in the gym twice a day. I got my deadlift to a lifetime PR of 700 pounds, which I will never touch in my life again. But that was a proud moment. That was a proud day.

and that goal, that 700 pound deadlift, that required training specificity. A lot of strength training, a lot of food, a lot of volume, a lot of intentionally programmed deadlifts to pull 700 pounds off the floor. It required specificity. And the reason I say I will never accomplish that again is because I enjoy a balance of foundational strength and then endurance training layered on top of. And I believe that that endurance training that running that I do will and does hold me back from pulling 700 pounds off the floor again.

But I didn't build my physique from running. You can get leaner from running. You can burn calories, get lighter. You can burn up both fat and muscle from too much running. But you build a physique. You improve body composition with muscle. And muscle is built from resistance training, strength training, being back in the gym. In the future, I will train for different events and different races at some point.

I will probably do another marathon, maybe another ultra at some point. But I can promise you, I will always go back to strength training as soon as that prep is done. because what I love and I have to rebuild. But strength training also does improve cardio capacity indirectly in a few different ways. So both can be complementary if programmed correctly. So your cardio can help your strength training. Your strength training can help your cardio. When there is an improportional excessive amount of one of them, it's going to affect the other.

So too much running or an excessive amount of running will affect your workouts in the gym, your strength training. Too much strength training will also and can affect your running. Cardiovascular conditioning. But the truth is that stronger athletes can tolerate higher intensity intervals, steeper hills, and longer sessions because their muscles and connective tissues can handle the load, which drives further gains in VO2 max and endurance. Strength training improves muscular efficiency. So strong muscles can produce the same force at a lower percentage of their maximum capacity, which means they fatigue more slowly during cardio efforts.

And strength training can also improve cardio capacity indirectly with movement quality and durability. So strength work enhances joint stability. posture and movement mechanics. And you can maintain efficient technique for longer during cardio sessions when you have better joint stability, posture, and movement mechanics. And you actually get fewer overuse injuries when you are incorporating strength training while endurance training. So you can train more consistently over time.

something that I have found with all these endurance preps that I've gone into is that when I remove strength training completely, especially lower body strength training, I find that I am more prone to injury, especially overuse injury. It's really important for me that I build in an off-season and maintain some type of strength training while prepping for an endurance event, primarily lower body. and if I don't, I find that I get overuse injuries in my hips, my feet, my calves, quads, hamstrings. So making sure that I'm doing some sort of squat, hinge, pull movements, lower body focused to prevent overuse injuries is extremely important.

but strength training on its own can improve cardio capacity indirectly. It is something that should always be incorporated no matter the endurance goal because strength is foundational. And as I was preparing this conversation, this podcast, there's a few mistakes that people make. One, it's over-prioritizing cardio for too long. This is why I like doing these 12 to 20 week preps. There's 12 to 20 weeks dedicated to this one goal that requires a specific set of instruction in programming. And I can commit to that prep. But as soon as that prep is done, I go back to strength training.

I rebuild. I feel better. I put some size back on. I put some mass back on. But when you overprioritize, cardio for too long, you go from race to race to race to prep to prep and you neglect strength training for too long, this is where you start to feel and experience some of these negative side effects and consequences. Another mistake that people make, not lifting heavy enough.

I'm going to have my wife, Steph, come on a podcast soon to talk about how she has started incorporating heavier lifting into a routine the last couple months. And, and, you know, And the changes that it's made to her physique, body composition, the way she feels, the way she performs, where she moves, Steph has started lifting heavy again, and it's made a huge difference in her body composition. So it's not just going to the gym and moving weight around. It's moving a large percentage of your one-rap max on some main compound movements and really pushing weight. lifting heavy. Another mistake that people make is program hopping

and not being consistent on one type of program or style of training for long enough to actually experience the results, the benefits, and then ignoring proper nutrition and recovery. Another mistake that a lot of people make. I love training. I love fitness. I fell in love with fitness as I've shared

through the gym, through pre-workout. And that's led me to where I am today. And there are seasons where I want to train for a marathon. There are seasons where I want to train for an Iron Man triathlon. There are seasons where I want to do an ultra, and I want to push it and I want to see what my body and mind is capable of. But that's a season. A season is layered onto a foundation.

And the foundation, in my opinion, should and has to be strength. That's why I will always go back to strength training. I believe in it. I love it. I know that it works. It benefits the body and the mind in many, many ways. But it's foundational. And I'll go back to my initial thesis that I wanted to pose.

If you want to be better at anything physical, marathons, high rocks, weekend basketball, or even just playing with your kids, strength has to come first. And if you could only do one type of training for the rest of your life, it should be strength training. So, with that being said, I appreciate you guys, tuning in. If you haven't checked out the strength collection yet, pre-pump and post, go to BPNSups.com. try it out. Let me know what you guys think.

Transform your training experience and the results you get from being in the gym. We'll see you guys in the next episode.