You Should Know Podcast - FINDING MY MOM AFTER BEING KIDNAPPED ft. Izzy Elubaydy **YOU SHOULD KNOW PODCAST**

Episode Date: January 7, 2020

EPISODE 2 TIMESTAMPS BELOW: 1:15 Growing up in Germany 16:08 The Beginning of Izzys Career 18:34 The Choice to Become Vegan 24:16 Mental Health in Fitness 28:30 How to Stay in The Gym and Find Motivation 39:22 Staying Motivated Through Success 45:39 Finding Good Fitness Information on Instagram 50:48 How to get started in PT/Fitness Training 54:20 Is Going to College Necessary 58:40 YOUR QUESTIONS    Follow me: Instgram: @psh8 Twitter: @thePSH8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Everybody, welcome back to the second episode of the You Should Know podcast. Thank you so much for all the support and all the encouragement on the first episode it surpassed any expectation I had but that's enough of me y'all know about me today we have a guest that is literally the epitome of why I started this podcast you have bro your wisdom and the gems you can give to these people I I know it's just like everything I wanted this podcast to be but let me give them the rundown he was voted the 2017 and 2018 best personal trainer in Austin, Texas. His goal is to help you be physically and mentally healthy.

And you can sign up for his online PT and programs at linktr.ee backslash Izzy Elubedi. It is the one, the only Izzy Elubedi, man. I appreciate you coming on here. I'm glad to be here, dude. I'm super excited. Yeah, I'm so bummed again that they didn't hear what we talked about in the beginning before it all went on.

That's why, like, we've been in here for probably three minutes. Great conversation already. It's been great. So many gems, and they're only for me. I know. They're literally just for you. Yeah, but let's start from the beginning, because I like to do a beginning, middle, end for my podcast. Well, beginning, middle, end for my podcast.

Well, beginning, middle, now. Ooh, I like that. So your beginning is super unique. Whenever I was doing prep for this podcast, I was looking at stuff and I was like, no fucking way. Wait, I want to pause you. You did your research, which is awesome, by the way. I want to be like everybody listening. That's super pertinent because I've been on some things where you find out who is who the moment of and that's not super oh yeah I mean like you can miss

so many good things yeah if you go in having just an idea yeah of who you're interviewing or who you're having a conversation with you can get so much more out of it yeah dude it's intentional yeah yeah and especially with your story I was literally on your Instagram and one of your Instagram highlights was you know know, the German flag. And I saw that I clicked on it and it's crazy. Let me not let me let you explain this. You were born in Germany. Yeah, dude. So we I was born in Germany, a little city called Wilhelmshaven. And I lived there for about 10 years. And then kind of long story short, we moved here to America, started over, you know what I mean, and just kind of rose

on the economic, or rose, rise? Whichever one, it's our podcast. We came in good words. I'm trying to think of a dictionary here, but rose on the ranks of the socioeconomic stratus here in America, and went down this route, went to college, and kind of pursued personal training. But kind of the thing, that's kind of the super concise version, right? The details

that kind of make the whole German thing pertinent and important to me and worthy of Instagram or posting on Instagram is that like when we moved, my dad took us from our mom when we were young and I haven't seen her in 16 years. So there a there's a woman out there my mom in Germany who hasn't seen her son 16 years you know to me she the last time she saw me was when I was 10 yeah so versus like now yeah like literally just got because I read this information but hearing you say it like chills like I can't imagine how do you think that shaped you dude that's that's a intense ass question in a good way i mean it um man i mean so we well you know like if you don't have like so i didn't grow up with that motherly presence right so i mean it it did a lot of things like i i grew up obviously i think

when we look at like the psychology of not having that kind of feminine energy in your life within your like super um uh like that stage of life where we're it's it's we're just very there's a word for it i forgot it's formative years like within your formative years i don't know why blank formative um like i know super intense muscle groups and super medical names of everything but formative got you yeah formative got me um but yeah so when you know when i'm learning of the world like from was it like 10 to 10 till now right i mean but even then like from 10 till let's just say 18 that's about eight years where there isn't a mother there like your mom you know i was fortunate

enough to be adopted into a family later on in life, and I had that. But even like, you know, and her name's Pam, I love her to death and she knows this, we talk regularly. And I say that, I preface it that way because it can be hard sometimes to be like a foster parent and then there still be like a real parent.

Like what a unique dynamic, right? And so It's I had a motherly presence, right? And like a nurturing presence, but I didn't I didn't have it for four years prior and when I did have it It wasn't like my mom who I knew who I grew up with right there is that that chasm still there And obviously with that, too, you know, any anyone adopted a parent or a kid in any kind of adoption realm, foster realm understands when it comes to like familial dynamics. It's so unique. So not growing up with that, man. I mean, it definitely changes you, dude. You know how you view the world, you know how you view women um yearning for them like i grew up just super focused and like hyper focused almost uh dependent like very codependent on women

because of that like you know when they they say like daddy issues when you know the dad wasn't there or whatever um that's a real thing for other people like for men who didn't grow up with mothers or even women who didn't grow up with their mothers right like those things have detrimental effects but um it's cool man like it you know that's a negative or an adverse effect of what happened but um i think it from from the adverse like effect like my my acting outward from those uh internal changes like i made a lot of mistakes that I learned a lot from. So I think even though I grew up with it, like it didn't serve as a crazy hindrance. You know, I wasn't just damaged goods.

You know, I wasn't just a statistic that has mom issues or like is weird with feminine energy or something. You know what I mean? Like you make the mistake and if you're conscious enough, you can understand like, hey, I think I'm noticing these patterns in my relationships or I'm doing these things. yeah if i really ask myself the hard questions or if i really do the hard thing and evaluate truly and zoom out and zoom in and and ask again ask ask ask a lot of questions about why you're doing what you're doing you kind of can trace back to

you know child trauma or trauma in our childhood do you think where did you get that introspectiveness from how were you able to just be like okay i know these patterns i caught that because there's people that have grown up in perfect households no trauma at all and they can't you know yeah realize things about themselves how did i think i think trauma is trauma slash pain uh charles spurgeon he's a great philosopher he says that it serves as a megaphone to rouse us amidst our deafness right and so like oftentimes growing up like even zooming back when i was a young child in germany like my dad was a lot of people know this i shared on a lot of podcasts too like he was this pablo escobar of germany he was like the central intelligence

agency guy in iraq like crazy ish jason, dude. Like that's a beast from the Middle East. Like he was Jason Bourne Sinbad. That's like, I can say that, you know what I mean? Like I can put the Arab emoji in there, but like, um, but that's who he was. And so, I mean, when a guy like that has a kid or has kids, man, like you can imagine it's going to be weird. Like those kids are going to grow up weird. And he was, he was super duper abusive. I mean, you know, we grew up on the laps of prostitutes watching like poker games with like Coke on the table, like people getting stabbed. Like you see that stuff, you know, it's nuts, dude. I know. And at the age of like four to eight to 10. Yeah. So growing up, like I, I, I started seeing things that were just not what I thought I was supposed to see.

And that's because I had like media and TV. And so I would see how Hollywood or, or just the media portrayed life like Zack and Cody or whatever with Shia LaBeouf. What was that? That was a good one. I forgot. Even Stevens. Even Stevens.

That show. I don't know why as a kid, it terrified me. I don't know why. I don't know why as a kid it terrified me I don't know why I think dude ever since anyways like that's when I noticed I was like you know I think kids like you just have fun like it's a frolic and like run around and I don't know like just get into fights and like you know playing mud and stuff and I just wasn't that's like one two random things right but I never we were stuck in our room like having to read biology books at the age of eight like stuff like that so and then we would see like sex and and and like violence it was so crazy so I learned to observe and question through trauma through like novel experience and um and I just kind of

carried that pattern I learned that I had to ask questions to find the answers and I found a lot of answers at an early age through seeing a lot in an early age but then that introspection I think carried all over to like my adolescence and even my 20s now where I I can make a mistake quickly and then and kind of say okay why did I do that you know yeah a lot and a lot of it is relational, you know, again, how we act as a result of our childhood, um, is a result of a lot of our childhood. And so if we have that introspection to see like, Hey, why am I doing this?

You, you can notice like, I did this because I yearn for that attention from that person. I really don't know them. I don't like them this much, you know, stuff like that. So, but you don't ask those questions when you when you don't have trauma like when we're comfortable we don't ask questions yeah you know when I mean that's a lot of Austin like we're very very freaking comfortable dude yeah and we don't ask any hard questions because we don't have many hardships here which is that's true okay we work hard for it but we just don't and so as a result I think we end up being not introspective we don't ask a lot of the hard questions we go through our so as a result, I think we end up being not introspective. We don't ask a lot of the hard

questions. We go through our life as a robot. You know, we don't challenge anything. We don't push the envelope. We listen to all the rules and don't question why it's even in place. Maybe I'm all about following rules. I'm all about doing the right thing. But, you know, the great minds of old say, like, you have the moral duty to disobey an unjust law in a way, you know? So it's, people aren't wondering that, you know, um, but we need to, it has to do with the body as everything to do with the body. Like if we're talking training too, right? Like we don't audit ourselves. We don't, we don't wonder what our body ought to feel like, how we ought to move, right? As a basketball player, dude,

like your range of motion is everything. Yeah, for sure. Right. So if, if, if your shoulder range of motion, like that was a horrible explanation, right. Um, freaking just didn't even get near the rim dude. Right. But like, if that's, if that's screwed, you're, you're screwed. You know, you can only know you're screwed if you ask yourself, what does it look like to not be screwed? And what is great range of motion? What is an optimal life? ought i to live you know that's deep yeah no that's really deep and before we get into the you know what you're doing now the training and everything you're going back to germany you've been working on it for a long time and recently

there's been some big dude moves forward yes man oh dude i'm excited i gotta learn how to contain this but um yeah man i uh so i did a lot of this work. I mean, I'll kind of go in through all the hoops. Immigrationally, we came here as refugees and then we had to turn into asylees and then we had to turn to residents, then permanent residents. Then I was I was mailed a couple of years ago when I was in college. I had my green card mailed to me, but it was it like everything said it was delivered, but it literally was never delivered and i did some research and there is kind of this like super rampant issue in the usps the united states postal service where um they uh they uh like if they notice it's like a green card some people kind of just snag it and sell on the black market yeah dude it's kind of crazy i mean my brother like i have i had a brother growing up through this and he went a different route like he stayed with my parents I ran away and got adopted but he literally just bought like an identity from some about of someone in the allegedly. Yeah, allegedly

This is all for podcast purposes and entertainment here at the You Should Know Podcast. You just winked. I love it. Why is it so perfect? But so, yeah, allegedly. But that's like, it's a crazy world out there. So I didn't get my green card, man. And I had to go through all of it again.

I mean, like, it's like thousands of dollars and so many little fine print pieces. But I got all the documents. And now I'm just waiting for a call from the government to go get a stamp. And then I'll be booking my flight and having, uh, two of my best friends come with me kind of documenting it in a way. Yeah, dude, 16 years, man. Like just picture that. Can you even imagine what that's going to be like? I I've tried a couple of times, man. Um, and it's, it's something that man likes dude, some days I'll think about it and I'll just weep. Like a hardcore, unattractive weep. You know, like wailing.

You know, like it's nuts. But then some days it just gives me like this peace. I feel as if I'm like at this culmination of a big chapter, a big protagonistic climax in my story, in my life story, you know. And I feel like this hero, you know. I have this, I've never felt so confident in my life because I'm, you know, I am doing something seemingly impossible, you know, like 10 years, like I found my mom on YouTube, dude.

I saw a video that she posted like, hey, we're still looking for you on YouTube. When I did everything, looking everywhere to find her, like embassies, immigration, I called everybody using as much German as I knew at the time. I'm super fluent in it now. I had to practice it again, but like all that, couldn't find her. Like embassies, immigration, I called everybody using as much German as I knew at the time. I'm super fluent in it now. I have to practice it again.

But like all that, couldn't find her. And you know, 20th century YouTube connected me. 20 years ago, dude, 20 years ago, maybe I would say, yeah, 20 years ago, because this happened 10 years ago. You don't have any tools to find somebody from this. I literally have to go to Germany. You know what I mean?

Maybe the time to get my papers would have taken double the time you know I don't know yeah but I imagine in and it just I'm like I'm at the end of something big here and you know it's hard to gauge like the universe or God or whatever man but like I'm like this just feels realer than anything realer than training people realer than the nine-to-five this is the real world this is life outside of austin like there are kids in this on this planet that go through this you know i'm one of them yeah um and and most of the time those kids that go through that they end up being institutionalized in a clinic you know they're mentally just

unhealthy damaged complete like you you know, committing suicide. Like, statistically, I shouldn't be here, dude. You know what I mean? And so I know my role, and I've never felt so much purpose and reason in my life, you know, justifying why I do what I do. And so this whole Germany thing hopefully serves as a catalyst to show people the real world, man, and get us to maybe ask these questions that we're at we aren't asking you know that's inside i'm super inspired like that's that's unreal and you know good luck to that to you and i can't wait to it's going to be on instagram where yeah yeah yeah okay what a weird question like this thing you're about to do is it gonna be on instagram yeah well because that's you know the way the world's like connected now you know if i want to hear about you know the

next chapter i'm excited dude like after i'm gonna do it and i'm gonna keep everybody tuned in um you know i think the cool thing is is that like i've been battling between like you know honoring the moment and um and and honoring myself in it like can i getting rid of any expectation you know i'm doing all this imagining i'm like this close to seeing my mom after 16 years. You can't blame yourself for doing all that. Yeah, dude. It's a weird mental game, dude.

And now in this training season, I've actually just slowed down. Specifically for this Germany thing because it's taken precedence. It's priority number one. But I've just done nothing. Just mentally prepping myself for it. I can't start a new venture right now. I'm about to go to Germany. I can't do this.

So it's been a weird one, man, but we'll see it unfold. Yeah, I can't wait to see it. And going into your career now, whenever you came to the United States, when along the road did you decide fitness? This is what I'm doing. This is what I'm passionate about. I love that, man. I remember the exact moment.

When we came here, I stopped playing soccer for a little while. I was playing soccer in Germany. That's like World Cup winners. You're playing Germany. You know what I mean? Yeah. And we came here, and we're just starting over. We're homeless for six months.

There's no way I can play soccer. You know what I mean? But I started it back up, and I just practiced. I played some catch-up. I worked really hard, and I made it on my high school team. And I remember one of the kids there, David Dewey, one of my good friends, he showed me his protein drink.

I was like, what's that, dude? Why are you drinking chocolate milk? He's like, no, no, no. It's something protein. I was like, protein? The stuff your muscles made up of? He's like, no, no, no. If you drink this after you train or you run, it'll help you rebuild your muscles. You get stronger. I was like like steroids you know like yeah like creatine that

one kid uses and we thought creatine is steroids like so he's like no dude it's like healthy it's like you eat like if you eat more you get stronger so i was just like i was like can i have it he's like no you know but i like tried on my own i was like protein i'd look it up and see what it's about and i just i learned that you can ingest something and it changed your body. You can do something to change your body for the better. You know what I mean? And when I noticed, I was like, I just noticed like a pattern essentially. Like, you know, you can breathe.

You can, if you run a certain amount, if you do something a certain amount, if you impose a certain stimuli on your body at a certain frequency, a certain result will come about, right? And you can create a desired outcome based on how you tune those frequencies, right? Of that workout or the types of workout, whatever. And so I learned that and I just got so passionate about learning how to change the body. I think, I think I more so just love that one can change. Like I grew up super overweight. There was a time where I was super underweight. Like I've been on all the, all the ends of the spectrum because we would eat like, we would eat like so much food and it was like greasy Middle Eastern food, rice and lamb and all that. And, uh, I would drink Coca-Cola more than

water. Like I would drink three liters of Hill Country Fair Cola, dude. Shit. Like sucralose water, basically. Yeah, yeah. You know, and so that, I mean, it was not healthy. And so when I learned that I could reverse that, dude, I was all in. I was so all in. I wanted to learn more and more about the body.

It was crazy. And you're vegan now. So this is the first time I'm hearing about, you know, your crazy diet you used to have. Yeah. And now you're like what yeah so it does your choice of being vegan now does that come from your childhood like if okay i know what it feels like to eat all this negative food and how my body feels and yeah or was it just like i want to try being vegan so so i'm actually plant based there's a little bit difference like and i know it's crazy because like if someone has a plant emoji on instagram you're like oh they're vegan yeah yeah but plant-based. There's a little bit of a difference. And I know it's crazy because if someone has a plant emoji on Instagram, you're like, oh, they're vegan.

But plant-based is kind of like, I don't know how to, I want to honor both schools of thought or ways of life. With veganism, it's a bit more in-depth. You're not wearing silk underwear because silk comes from silkworms you're not you know you don't eat collagen because I believe that's like bone cartilage from animals you know I think some vegans don't eat almond milk even because the pollination process is super taxing on the bees when it comes to the migration the whole pollination process right even though you know almond milk is a great plant-based alternative right but being plant-based is kind of maybe the the step before

veganism and and one kind of layman's easy way of saying which doesn't do it full justice I want to make very clear saying that veganism is kind of like the like the next level the step up we're kind of like religious in a sense like you're doing it for you know like the school thought where uh where you believe that like animals have feelings and they can feel pain um where plant-based people might or might not believe that okay and so um and and my at least where i'm coming from is being plant-based i wanted to experiment with just making a base a principal foundation of my diet plans and see what happens and i did and prep tutor has been

super awesome in helping me with that they're a plant-based company here in austin um and a juice all these awesome like plant-based companies have helped me kind of pursue like now five four months i think of intentional eating like just with making plants my my foundation um and dude i've never felt this good in my life. It's kind of crazy. Like not just endorsing it for the sake of all the hype, but I, I didn't want to do it because of all the hype. I didn't want to do it because like the politics and like the, you know, you're, if you're a vegan, you're crazy and you're like a religious nut about it or, or you're not, and you're a horrible person cause you're killing animals. I wanted to ease into it. And, um, I

actually met, I was doing an event for Vega, their plant-based protein company. And so one of my buddies, one of my best friends, Mike, was there. And he talked to me and meeting him and his girlfriend and a lot of other plant-based people and vegan people, they kind of showed me like what it was all about. And they were like, it was so cool. It wasn't like down my throat.

It was just super chill. And I learned about it over time. And I felt so confident that I got to make that decision. I didn't feel pressured to do it. So I was like, you know what? I think I'm going to just try to be plant-based for a little while. Like I want to see what happens. I feel like, right, you know, like I had a lot of stuff happen in my life.

How about like a little reset? You know, let's see what happens for six months. You know, anything good worth doing is gonna have like a long-term effect but you got to do it for a long while so why not try this plant-based you know I get to I do get to help you know make Austin a little bit more sustainable I get to be intentional with my purchase my dollars my eating you know I mean I started kind of being more conscious about like being more sustainable when it comes to you you know, like waste or like my shower routine, right?

Like the chemicals and parabens and even the containers, right? Like just thinking about like, man, this stuff really stays in the earth forever. It does not biodegrade. It takes thousands and thousands of years for this to even have a dent in it, you know? So maybe I can live a life with a smaller, you know, like chemical carbon footprint. You know, and I wanted to, I want to, I want it to be intentional. So I was like, let's do this. And so I have greater range of motion now, dude. Um, it required me to slow down, which is a super pertinent part of any kind

of successful, anything slowing down. Uh, you know, I was able to become way more flexible. I'm weirdly stronger, but I've lost weight and I've lost a little bit of muscle. But I think that's that difference. Like our body has this amazing ability to consolidate muscle usage, right? It's able to go and tell like, Hey, I mean, there's the analogy of Milos and the, and the calf, right? Like if you carry a calf over onto a mountain for it to drink water, this is a, in the storybook holes as well. Um, as that calf grows and becomes bigger you become bigger since you've been carrying it over time it's progressive overload you can progressively induce a dietary change you know same thing with mental

but it forced me to slow down eat more intentionally cook at home shop differently shower differently think differently and and it's cyclically it's like a cyclical effect because the actions to be more plant-based made me think and act differently but because my diet was cleaner and the things I'm ingesting were like better for me cleaner you know non-gmo like it was a simple healthy ingredient it was it was basic it wasn't there were there weren't chemicals I couldn't pronounce in it right and I started ingesting on like a high frequency. My thinking cleared up.

Like I'm thinking clearer than ever. I feel like I just level up. I've been feeling 2.0 real hard, real long right now. Just because I'm like, my ingestion, my audio ingestion, my dietary ingestion, any stimuli. Like I've become intentional about what it is that I'm eating or ingesting you know what's what I'm feeding my eyes and ears and everything and I just feel so great dude yeah and I I heard you say it now and I also saw on Instagram for Vega I watched the video where you were talking about going plant-based and you said you can

think clearer now and you really stress mental health mental health uh on your instagram and you know through your training programs when did you realize that physical health and mental wellness work in tandem dude yeah i think the moment i probably failed at like a deadlift or something i don't remember specifically the moment but i i knew that my workouts were affected if i didn't have a clear head. You know, if I had an argument with a friend or significant other, my whole day was kind of ruined. And so, and obviously too, if, if I primed myself, like if I changed how I woke up and I maybe listened to something motivational in the morning, maybe I meditated in the morning, right? I just tried all these things. I noticed that my days were better. My workouts were better. I was

more in tune with my body. And so I just experiment man same with a diet like i would just i would just experiment and feel out what's going on what's the what's the result and i would notice this pattern again like okay man like when i get my eight hours when i really try to get eight hours and the hour before i go to bed i turn off the tv um if i maybe meditate before bed i ease into sleep and i sleep deeper and then i wake up way more refreshed no bags under my eyes right i feel looser like i'm just so i feel so loose my spine is loose i have this great range of motion um you know i listen to a motivational thing while i shower and then i set my intention for the day right that's all brain work that's all mindfulness awareness and and then my day just dude I I felt like I could truly put a stamp of

approval on that day you know my stamp of approval yeah do you feel like people it has your mind your body have to work in tandem for you to be successful in the weight room because there's a lot of people that you know i know personally that you know go through mental health issues and like they can't control it they can't control when they wake up and they you know don't feel like doing anything yeah can they still be successful in the weight room like if they want to build a nice physique do they have to be it's hard man like it's it's kind of the cycle right like you tell people hey like i mean i have even i've had i have uh my brother used to be depressed i used to be depressed like um and we're told like if you're depressed if you're hurting go and do be outside

impose that stimuli right actual sunlight actual air greenery right like different colors you see the world the way it ought to be seen when you do that enough something happens some sort of like you're living how you ought to so you're feeling how you ought to and those kind of follow suit with each other in the same way like if you're depressed you know you don't you don't have to or i'm just using depression as an example but like you can go to the weight room and still be kind of like not in the zone but the sheer act of doing it can realign you back into the zone you know it might be the very thing that makes the mental get better right i noticed that for me i noticed that working out was a mental uh like uh positive uh effect like it had a positive effect on my mental um but i also know that if i started with a positive

mental it affected my workout even more positively right so i think they're exclusive and inclusive of each other for sure yeah it's it's a weird balance man and that's why it's very case by case as well for sure yeah like i with my clients or anyone i talk to i'm there isn't one standard like you're depressed like you need to go work out yeah und undepressed. Yeah, no, for sure. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. But it's so linked, dude. You look at, like, even, like, our mind, right? Like, it's our brain, and our brain is a muscle. And our brains, first, like, it's the brains, if you just look at the structure and kind of the purpose of it and what it does, you notice that its main purpose is to move this body it's supposed

to live survive right hunt do so it's an objective minded muscle essentially um so when you do things when you move when you move the way your body the way it ought to when you use your brain the way you ought to you weirdly start feeling the way you ought to which is clearer yeah not depressed but living like you ought to yeah it is clearer, you know, not depressed, but living like you ought to. Yeah. It's a t-shirt idea way to happen. No, yeah. I've been hearing it. I'm like, I'll definitely get that t-shirt. I gotta, I gotta learn how to Shopify. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, man. No, yeah, that's great. And outside of, you know, mental health and, you know, all that, you know, really true deep stuff, there's people out there, majority of America, majority of people that are just lazy.

You know, they just, people are like, you know, you hear this all the time around the, you know, January 1st. It's my year to go to the gym. And then, you know, it, you know, the weather's down after a while or people are just like, this week I'm going. Why do you think people don't go to the gym? Why do you think people that are like, not just don't go,

but have the mindset to go, and then just on a random Wednesday, they're like, no. How do you lock in? How do you be consistent? How do you be consistent? Man, it's a hard question, but it's hard because it's simple. You just have to do it. I know it's hard because it's simple you just you have to do it like it there's i know it's the platitude i i read it all i get annoyed by it too you know when you just when

you start getting older and you just do more of the right thing you realize like you just have to do it like you can't give up um like the reason why most people give up is because it's hard yeah that's it's it's look dude I mean how old are you 20 20 I'm 26 like I remember me when I was when you're doing so great for 20 I appreciate I dude I I would slap my 20 self but but at least in my age when you get older like you realize like dude like the world is just a division of people the people who who do the thing they're going to say and the people who don't yeah and and that's okay the beauty about this is that people can change right that's why these systems

and training and all this stuff is in place but jefferson says it this way he says that there are 80 of people who don't think 15 of people think they think and 5% of people actually think. And I've kind of noticed in my young, still naive observation of the world, um, that actions kind of meet that division, that kind of that ratio. Most of the people that I meet, like aren't thinking or wanting the easy thing want to pursue comfort and then it's that five and fifteen percent but the beauty is that you can be in any of those and change yeah it is an awareness it is truly an awareness and people can hear that and they can get upset about it um because I think they're hearing something they need to hear but don't like it and the 15 percent and the five percent like those people that are truly intentional or at least trying to truly be intentional like with a pure motive

and pursuing virtue doing the hard thing which coincidentally is almost always the right thing yeah you know like they know they're listening and they're like no yeah I remember I had to go through some traumas I had to do some things I had to grow up right yeah but you start realizing like people fall off because it's just hard like we're so used to i can go on around about this dude but like we're just used to short-term um like short-term pleasure short-term fulfillment fulfillment short-term missions short-term everything we forget like this mechanism the body dude it takes a long time to change it takes a long time but if you like i almost i'm so tempted to create some sort of program where it's like a

money back guarantee 30 days because if you do sleep for eight hours i can guarantee people 100 they sleep for eight hours a day and if there's some like weird anomalies here and there it's still okay if 90 of your month was eight hours of sleep 90 of the month you had in the amount of water you ought to have and you you impose the the amount that you need for stimuli when it comes to exercising and you you rehab accordingly and you eat accordingly the way you ought to for said stimuli the workout your body will change and you will change most of them tend to create like a school like an academy from like the greco-romana where

you come in and you're one person and you leave and you're virtuous yeah you know like the great minds of old wanted to do that but requires that like the reason why people quit is because they do a month of burpees and they're really hype about it and you realize like dude only doing burpees didn't do it for you like you needed to sleep accordingly wait you needed to med it like I know meditating is weird for a lot of people I get it it used to be for me I do it regularly AF now dude like I have to I want to get into I can't I've tried because headspace headspace I yeah I heard about saw it on an ad on YouTube and I wish I would have done it you know whenever I

was learning to meditate. So we would, I played Juco basketball. If anybody knows anything about Juco basketball, it's super underfunded. So I'm eight hours on a bus with the seven footers, and you're all like this. So I was trying to sleep. It would be like, our game would end at nine o'clock.

You'd get on the bus at like 10. So you're trying to sleep, go back eight hour drive and I couldn't sleep. And so I've heard J. Cole talk about it. I've heard other people talk about meditating. So you try to focus on one thing, maybe a sound or something. I honestly don't know how to do it. How do you meditate?

What I like to do is if I don't use the Headspace app, I just, when I'm still, I find a comfortable position that might be laying down, that might be sitting up like I want No tension and I've noticed the best like I even encourage you to do a floating Maybe the reason why I said is because if you can mitigate any kind of or as much stimuli as possible in your body Then you can really like hone in on your brain and your mind and then I just usually like I just think Like I think and look and kind of like this spot

right here and i just i just like think there i look there you know and i i let thoughts come in there i literally just exist and if i think something like oh okay cool and then i just okay so you let thoughts yeah yeah you're thinking whenever you're not though like because our brain our brain does yeah without us wanting right like you could be rolling out and and like doing rehab and like a traumatic experience happens or a memory comes up right like our body just our body our brain just thinks it just thinks it just does with you know it's it's involuntary a lot of times too but it's very voluntary as well and so you can voluntarily let your brain be involuntary or act involuntarily and have control over it. It's hard. It takes,

it takes some practice. And it took me spending some time with that headspace app for sure. But, um, yeah, man, like it's, it's a direct correlation to any kind of betterment because dude, if you can control your thoughts, you can control your emotions. You can control your emotions. Then you can learn how to be patient. You can be a better boyfriend, girlfriend. You can be a better husband, wife, partner, whatever wife partner whatever you know it's it's a lot of this is control man it goes back to training and success we learn how to slow down and just control that deadlift it's cool to lift it from point A to point B if you can slow down and really feel everything shoulder scapular

retraction everything and just lift that perfect line of energy going up. You're so good at that point. That's a cleaner. It's gymnast-esque. It's very graceful. I always think of dancers too. That sounds weird, but the way they move, it's intentional. It's fluid, and their body, dancers' and gymnasts' bodies have the most strength.

Why? Because they pursue that control. That's really deep. The thing about my meditation meditate so whenever I try to meditate I've done it in my house I've done it you know just I try to find the most like secluded place try to you know where I'm comfortable yeah and so but I have like I have anxiety like bad anxiety so yeah so when I'm sitting there I'm just like oh that 3,000 things are happening I'm like breathing too I'll tell you breathing actually so I can't believe I didn't mention this breathing helps especially with anxiety in public or whatever to like

Sometimes just like taking deep breaths again. Like what we've done is this goes back to how we ought ought to live It's about intentionality. Why are you doing what you're doing? Is it how you ought to be doing things and when I look at like slowing down we should be able to so if we can't What's wrong something we're doing is not what we're what we ought to be doing and then you look and you're like okay well to calm down what's required okay eyes no stimuli oh we need oxygen breathing and so taking in super deep breaths into the nose out of the mouth patternizing it you know four seconds in six out whatever there's certain number

patterns that elicit a different kind of emotion or like effect. But breathing slows you down because breathing directly affects our heart rate. If our heart rate is slow, then everything else slows down with it. So people thousands of years ago found out, obviously, it starts with breathing. Okay, timeout, timeout, timeout. There is a little technical issue whenever we were filming it, so I didn't know. But whenever I got home and started editing it, I realized that two of the cameras went out during recording. Normally I have somebody behind the camera, but I couldn't this time. So for the rest of the podcast, this is going to be straight Izzy.

You're just going to see him, which is great because that's what we're here for. We're here to learn from him and he has a bunch of gems to drop for y'all. So this is the timestamp for how to stay motivated through success. Here's a timestamp to learn how to find the right information for fitness on Instagram. If you're looking to get into PT or training, this is the timestamp where he gives you advice

on how to get started. Then Izzy gives us great insight if college is necessary for those who want to get into PT or any kind of creative field. And finally, I went to Instagram and told you guys to ask Izzy questions so he can answer your questions personally. And this is the timestamp for that. Enjoy the rest of the podcast. Okay, that's it for me. Bye. Yeah. And this isn't on the docket,

but this is a hundred percent serious question. Have you ever thought about being like a therapist or getting into that? Dude. A counselor at a high school or something. Dude. Oh, dude. I would love to. I used to be a pastor, actually. Okay. So I used to counsel a lot. But, dude, it was dumb, man. Like, I was still very young.

And I was a freaking pastor at 21 to, like, 22 or 23. And I did not know the world yet. And so, but I love it. I would love to be a counselor. And I dance with that idea a lot, you know, because I know. Dude, I just, I love it. I would love to be a counselor and I dance with that idea a lot, you know, because I know, dude, I just love how I just, I love helping people think, man, I want to, I'm, I'm, I want to do like after the Germany thing, I'm thinking of doing like a couple certs and stuff just for like mental and counseling. I would love to see that, you know? Um, yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. Cause I was sitting here and I'm'm like i'm learning about myself when you're just

talking about you i'm learning about myself like oh damn that that makes sense people if dude you know we're all counselors man i think it's our role to help counsel other people but obviously we've like dude i want to normalize going to a counselor dude like that's dude i'm a personal trainer like i'm the counselor for your body essentially right but inadvertently i'm also the counselor for a lot of people emotionally it's really funny so but um counselors are just personal trainers for our brain so i always strongly encourage it but we also can counsel each other that's a good friend is a good counselor to you who he who counsels you well you know is a good friend and so we ought to do it you know you dude when i walked in here you didn't know it but like you had counsel that i listened to and i was like oh interesting yeah i mean it's not age restrictive either yeah yeah and so

i deem you to be successful i don't know if you deem yourself to be successful because everybody has you know this is if i achieve this this is what success is smart yeah so i i see you i'm like oh this guy is successful and do you see yourself as like successful? I think so. I do. I do. I'm doing everything I've wanted to do. Okay. And in success, how do you stay motivated to keep doing more?

Because you can reach the peak and be like, yep, I did it. I'm sitting back now. How do you stay motivated to keep wanting to do more, keep achieving more? When it comes to wanting to do more man honestly like there comes a point where you you do something and you're like i made it you know i remember that was like winning the best trainer the first year in the right or the in the magazine and i thought i was gonna like just kill it and i did and then i realized i was like okay but this isn't everything so i started looking at other things right i? I look at like, you know, can I be a Gymshark athlete?

Can I be a Gold's Gym this? And I start creating these next goals and I achieve them. And I'm like, okay, there's got to be like a goal goal, like having the best program or something, whatever, being like Arnold. But I realized kind of quickly in the game that like you're always going to want more. And you just, in terms of success success like how do you define it what does it mean like how do you keep wanting to do more it's it's realizing that like first off you're gonna keep hunting the wrong thing if you don't learn about the hunt like if you want to be successful you have what does success

even mean anything that you want ask about it like learn about it like if i want to be successful you have what does success even mean anything that you want ask about it like learn about it like if i want love in my life i have to learn about love i have to learn everything that it is right or at least as much as i can handle right so if i want to be successful i have to learn like what does it mean to be successful well does it mean that i'm happy like okay when am i happy well what about joy what is joy you know so i realize like for me personally success is not like materialistic things you know even those things are abounding right now and i'm really thankful having like where i've come from i'm like this is crazy but um i just i usually stay motivated for the next successes um thinking about like how or how is

that what is the way that i can do this current thing to help other people you know what i mean like um yeah yeah success is a tough one man it's it's how are you successful or how can you be motivated to keep pursuing it i mean ask what it is first and then and then obviously go for it but learn that it's not some tangible thing you're it's really not about like getting it it's about maintaining it i think pit bull says that too shout out to people yeah yeah like he like you're gonna get to wherever you want to get to if you do what is necessary it's just simple it's simple matter of fact when you get to where you wanted to get to because you did what you needed to do you're

gonna realize okay like this is a current space that i exist in this area of success uh because most of the time we usually attribute success to some material things so let's just say you get that house okay cool now what yeah okay let's get you get the rari okay cool now what like now what then then you maybe realize okay success means something other than my body maybe it means i i win this accolade. Maybe I'm the fittest person in Austin. Okay, and then what? What's success?

Okay, maybe you helped build wells in Africa. Maybe you helped cure cancer. And then what? What is success? We got to get the right idea about it. And so I think success is what you define it to yourself. That's like finding a dating partner. It's not one thing.

It's not a one-size-fit-all kind of thing um it's very case by case you know and and we can't tell someone else's success idea is bad or good like if someone wants a rari go for it dude right like that's cool i they look great and i'm super and even me doing this right i'm like it can be very like pitying but i'm like no dude like i'm not you and if that's what you want and you're happy when you have it, fuck yeah. I think, I think if you want to listen to me, I think that might be short term and you could use that money somewhere else. That's just me. But, um, but yeah, I don't know.

For me right now, success is really helping people. I want to, I just, if I were to, if I were to kind of create like a little list or something it would be this Germany thing Oh successfully having like a good outcome of it you know like packaging it making it look good so it can help inspire other people and then like a gym you know better more sales on the program you know but other than that like I wouldn't want to help people it might mean getting more certs to do that very thing I got I got big goals, two that are like big success things for me. But I want to normalize teaching ethics in schools, like if I want to lobby for that politically.

Okay. And equip and kind of bridge and equip underprivileged families, bridge the gap between Whole Foods food and their access to it. I grew up in that. I did not have access to that yeah looking back I I know how to do that you know and so I want to I want to help teach a lot of people how to do that and kind of reform our whole education system and reform the whole system yeah I mean we should be doing a lot of things very differently for sure we're not doing it the way we ought to yeah for sure moving actually it's

a lot of lack thereof a lack of true teaching lack of true moving that's 100 and you know to round off this whole success thing at the end of your days whenever you're it's time to hang it up what do you want to be able to look back and say yeah i accomplished that dang man I just I want to look back and say that I made a difference man that's that's all that I want man I you know people don't like it like memento mori like remember your mortality like I'm and I was born and I'm gonna die one day that's scary you know it's just real I might get scared more of it when I get closer to you probably right like I'm talking like I'm invincible right now like geez but I I know I have a certain amount of time here man and and if I can do anything I can to help make it better for my kids my my wife my partner or whatever their kids then I'm gonna

do whatever I can to make that happen and And I think I will, you know, but I want to look back and see that I did. Yeah. And people can already tell you're so different from majority of, you know, fitness Instagrams that you see, especially for me, whenever I was, you know, cause I'm a skinny guy, you know, I weigh like a buck 90, maybe six up and a buck 90. Six at night. Yeah. So it's like, it's, it's slim. It's spread out. But so I'm looking on Instagram, like, okay, let me try to find some fitness accounts. Let me see who's going to help me get jacked. And I go on these fitness accounts and there's not a lot of information on some of them. And they got, you know, you see like 3.5 million followers. I'm like, okay, so they must know something.

But then you see it's like, oh, they're selling tummy tees. And I just like, I'm like, I don't, I don't, I'm not learning anything. I mean, you look good. How do I look like that? So when you were. Great question. Yeah. When you were creating your Instagram, when you were creating your Instagram, how did you, were you aware of that?

And did you make a conscious effort to like, this is how I'm going to be different. This is how I'm going to separate myself. 100% dude. I knew, dude, I was watching Steve Cook like five years before I went into the game. I knew five years before I got into this that I wanted to do this. I needed to take care of some other stuff, bills. And I wanted to, I wanted to put in an action like what Steve Cook what Arnold did for five years so I did the hard jobs I did the babe pill-paying pit bill paying Wow worked the hard whatever is

like got the certs had the experience elsewhere trained people while doing a nine-to-five I did all that work and I studied the game and I studied the the market and the industry and what's going on and I Saw a super super saturated one. Yes, and then to saturate with a lot of misinformation And I used to live that out like I remember like you used to have to show your apps to sell a program in a way But we've gotten we've learned now slowly. That's like okay, dude You can have abs, but your internal be so messed up like your literal second brain, dude, is so messed up because you're eating nuggets. Dude, literally the foot of my car had, like, a week's worth of, like, nuggets because I needed to get my protein in.

And no wonder, like, I had horrible acne. And, like, it was just coming out of my skin. You know what I mean? Um, but I, I, I looked at that and I was like, no, I want to inform again how people ought to move because I knew that if people do the thing with their body, that the way they ought to, if they do the thing they ought to, man, the physique naturally follows again, dude, 80% of people, we want to look good. They want to look good. I get it. Um, I did it for so long. I spent eight years training hypertrophy, just getting the gains the part looking cool and jacked and i couldn't i had no range of motion i couldn't climb i was like i used to love doing that stuff so you can do the right thing in the wrong way

for a long time and it really messed you up and that's everybody and that's a lot of these instagram guys um they're they're misinforming they're they're giving maybe one chunk of the information you know they're saying that i don't man this is like a big soapbox for me like i feel like there are a lot of personal trainers out there basically making people sweat that's it yeah we're not equipping them we're not equipping our clients with a mental like tool belt you know like what ought you do ought you to do if you if you're anxious should Should you work out? You know, like, is it okay to not work out sometimes?

Where did we get off on the idea that we have to work out every single freaking day? You know what I mean? Like, how much water should you drink? We're not equipping our people at all. You know what I mean? And so I personally think I can do way better too now in terms of like equipping on Instagram, right? Like I'm there with white letters and doing leg days. I'll'll write leg day all day but it's not just hypertrophy it's function

it's range of motion it's static eccentric dynamic right plyo everything you're that muscle that you're gonna get dude you're gonna get jacked if you do the right thing yeah it's just be patient again these guys a lot of these guys are selling a short-term low quality product for short-term expectation people that's that's and so yeah like if 80% of the world is wanting something quick to fix their body just to look good and that's it yeah like it's a very shallow reason it's it's not like negatively or like I'm not talking about or anybody but it's just like shall like you just want to look good okay like that's you can you can yeah it's there will be no foundation and your body will literally hurt yeah you will

not feel good you will have no range of motion stuff like that you'll probably overwork and not sleep and have anxiety because why you need to look good because you believed some rule that you need to look good you need to look super fucking jack you know and so I want so I want to differ myself from those people and learn how to just equip people. I want to equip people for them to never see me again. I get joy from helping people figure out their splits or what they should do on a certain day when and what frequency.

And then I want them to practice it. I love my clients who actually learn how to practice it i love my clients who like actually learn how to roll i love my clients when they do that workout day that we talk about because seeing me for one session isn't going to do anything watching one leg day video for me i'm going to do anything for you right so for people that want to get into what you're doing and not be the conventional you know like what we were talking about the negative side of everything the saturated part of everything what advice would you give them that's good

i would say if someone wants to like what advice that's there's a lot of pieces of advice i can but i would say just to start off i would would say study the market, like study the market, look at what's going on, look everywhere. Like you're going to, because if you're trying to get in there and you're just going to do mirror selfies and tell, and like writing bullet point workouts, then you're not going to do anything. You know what I mean? You know, if you're going to sell workouts and programs and stuff, like how are you equipping people are you talking with them you know um learn learn what it learn what real fitness is cheesy and it's very virtuous but like what learn about what actual fitness is you're a personal trainer you're supposed to train the body do you like i mean i'm all about the nasm certifications and stuff but

they're not equipping us fully on how to train people at all okay not at all yeah and I saw you stated that you don't need a PhD to start becoming a trainer what is the most important part of becoming a trainer is it relationships is that's a good one yeah I think it's just knowing knowing people Because if you know people, you learn people's motives. And one of the big motives in this fitness industry is wanting to look good. So if you learn the why behind why someone wants to look good,

their why, you can help contour it and see, okay, we can get you looking good, but we gotta do it the right way. If you just trust me, and because of all the info that I you know like touted to you client if you do this with me for this amount of time we're going to see that result you're going to start seeing but you got to be patient yeah i always try to bust out to new clients that

jefferson quote because you got to think this this is the i want them to know i want anybody starting up to know like the industry that we're trying to get into that they're into that are trying to get into essentially you're dealing with 1% of people in the world pursuing betterment. And out of that 1%, half of them start and do it long enough. Sorry, just start. And then some of them drop off.

And then half of that half do it long enough, but they do it in the wrong way like they they did the output just to get the aesthetics and now they tore a bicep right like that's i've i've seen that happen multiple times for the sake of size only yeah like that's that's it blows my mind and i used to do that it's so crazy i can't believe i did it but i did the other one is like point zero zero one percent those are the people are going to do the right thing long enough in the right way and listen to you and eat accordingly, roll out, foam roll, rehab, float, meditate, whatever. Do all the things because this human body is supposed to move a certain way again.

And just lifting it for curls is not it. You know what I mean? But they need to know that they're getting into that industry. You know what I mean? They need to know that it's super saturated and everyone wants to start but no one wants to finish and do the hard work not a lot of them do everyone wants to start so you're getting into a business where you're about to have people pay you some money real quick and drop off all the time and you're going to think it's your fault you're going to think it's like you have you're

a bad trainer yeah it's not that most of the time honestly yeah and i don't know if we were talking about this off camera or on camera but you're talking about going to school like a lot of people are like i don't want to go to school it's not important you were saying how it was but you know i see personal training and tell me if i'm wrong as a mix of you know education and the creative field so a lot of people in the creative field like people with what I'm doing people who are in arts or whatever we sit in school and we're like I don't want to learn how a butterfly affects the ecosystem I want to go make videos I want to go draw this I want to go do that do you think that going to school for a personal trainer is important or should you just focus on getting your certification and building connections yeah

i think going to school in a different way is saying like getting educated and currently the a lot of the schools in the school system aren't educating appropriately or educating a person the way they need to we it's it's not varieties it's not it's not case specific it's not person specific it's it's very conveyor belt it's it's just very one product everybody learned how it's the Albert Einstein picture if you've ever seen I'll send it to you it's basically one tree you've got like a giraffe a gorilla a lion you've got like a goldfish in a bowl a cheetah and like this Albert Einstein looking character says okay class you know if your first test you're gonna have to climb this tree and you've got

all these different types of animals different you know mechanics thinking having to climb this one tree like that's what the school system is right now yeah for sure yeah and so like you might be a cheetah dude and you might kill it on flat ground running right you might be a killer predator but you're in a system where you get to never practice those i look to a lot of europe and a lot of germany does that where their school system primes kids to test and try things before they commit four years occasionally to this. It's rad, dude. That would change our education system so much.

Yeah. Because I know personally so many people that are like, I'm not doing school because I want to do this and I don't know why I'm learning this. I don't know why I'm going to class every Tuesday and Thursday and measuring the circumference of a snow cone. It's tough, man, because we're told that we have to, and I look at like certs and, and diplomas as a fancy way of telling people that they have to listen to you now. Like,

you know what I mean? Like I don't have my college degree and I, I have my cert, all I have is my cert, but I'm able to go ahead and like dabble and and phd-esque science for the body um i i can hang out with master's degrees of kinesiology and i sometimes know more only because though i think my own passion for it carried me so far so i don't think you need to go to school maybe ask that that kid or that person wanting to get into personal training they need to ask themselves like who do you want you educating or who do you want educating you? You know, I use it.

I love some, someone specifically right now in Austin that I love is who mayor he, he trains a couple of my friends and he's trained a couple of other friends too. And it's, it's this guy who literally just, he's a sensei of the body dude. Like he knows it so well

i'm like i would rather kids go to him and kind of get that intensive study kind of that apprenticeship for the body and and be freaking equipped out the wazoo dude rather than a nasm certification class or even the ut training program they they all do they do educate yeah but i feel like you could have learned so much more in such little time with more intention and made it more creatively applicable to a client and learned relationship. These classes aren't, I mean, I don't know.

It's been a long time since I got certified, man. I've gotten the continued education constantly, but I don't know if any of those formal classes, when I took mine years ago, we weren't taught about how to talk to people yeah we weren't taught about bedside manner or like how you ought to say something you know how to I think like you can't just pull out calipers on someone that's not very comfortable like lifting their shirt you know it's just protocol right you aren't taught that the book says, so you're coming into your first session with calipers.

It's really scary. Yeah. And so already the gems on this podcast have been crazy. I'm going to have so many clips to put out. Let's go. Yeah. A lot. And whenever I, a couple people ask me who's the next person on the podcast,

and as soon as I, you know, booked you and we got everything ready to go, I told them, and ask him this, ask him this. Because so many people are like wanting to learn about the body. And so I went to Instagram today. I was like, you know, let me just get their questions. I wish I would have seen. I would have put my own question in there. Like a little toss up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a homework for me. Let me see. This one is a good one. How do you eat healthy on a college student budget? That's a really good question, dude. That is. Because we've associated health with money.

We've associated it like a luxury. Health is apparently a luxury, and it's not. The question is, how do you eat healthy on a college budget? Yes. Cook. Cook. there's nothing cheaper than cooking um even even the expensive whole foods it's so much cheaper compared to going out right and and oftentimes we ask and we say college budget but it's also a college time budget

you have to be intentional and budget your money and budget your time to have a day or two a week to dedicate to cook for the next couple of days. It's the only thing that makes sense. It's hard to cook every single day all the time. Maybe you could cook one meal a day in the house and it could be something simple like salmon and broccoli. You obviously have to know your calorie separation in terms terms of carbs protein and fats but you if dude the quick one one-liner is cook at home on a college budget you know there are there are HGBs out there I almost love and hate this question because it's really tough yeah a lot of people I do I remember you know like

tuna cans and rice that was super duper budget man like tuna cans and rice tuna cans and rice and I literally wouldper budget man like tuna cans and rice tuna cans and rice and i literally would smell like tuna i would sweat i would smell it was bad dude had juju but um not the healthiest right definitely college budget but not the healthiest so there is this like having to meet each a little bit um but cook and look at the ingredients keep it simple it's ironic that sometimes the simplest of ingredients are the cheapest, you know what I mean? And then we're worried too, like we eat, we really do eat a lot more than we need to.

We really, really do. And so you realize like, okay, that higher price whole foods maybe might inadvertently lower your portion size the way they ought to as well. Because in America, no joke, even healthily, we're eating way more than we need to in terms of portion okay yeah so i hope that answers your question um what are some of the main keys to build and maintain explosiveness ask that again what are some of the main keys to

build and maintain explosiveness build and maintain with any kind of mechanics. When it comes to kinesiology or biomechanics, you want to just practice it. So it's repetition. So if you want to become more explosive, I look at like a squat jump as explosive plyo movement, right? If I wanted to train somebody in becoming more explosive with the squat jump which would mimic it which would mimic it would trickle into jumping sprinting um picking yourself up off the ground kicking etc if you wanted to do that you would definitely look at the mechanics so if you wanted to get more explosive you do different varieties of that plyo box jump if you look at a box jump

you can focus on jumping up on the box but then also you have to you have to condition your muscle that's whatever muscle group that you're trying to make explosive or the complex muscle region that you're trying to make more explosive you have to do the negative version of that movement you have the come down the jump down we're always focused on jumping up yeah right what about jumping down what about the reception of the movement the the d like the de-oscillation de-escalation of that movement right um what about mimicking that movement with weight um doing it with one foot unilaterally right sideways hit every plane when it comes to the body i'm using just box jumps as an example because it's really easy to grasp. But yeah, side box jumps, high knees, leg complex, right?

Squatting. I go back primarily most of the time to control. Like if I want to be more explosive and I'm not trying to get lost in the waters of all these different techniques of explosiveness because there's a lot of them and they all do work. But then we kind of get bogged down like when I should be explosive,

when and how many times I should hit legs and how, you know, when should I recover. I almost say like, dude, first and foremost, if you want to become, like if you practice the easy explosive moves, like the super simple, you're like, dude, I did this in elementary school. I guarantee you if you couple that with the right water, again, I'm talking gallon a day. And if you sleep that eight hours and you roll and prehab

or whatever the day after and before dude you're going to become explosive and you learn how to control the movement if you want to learn how to jump dissect every part of the jump okay but it's it's it's a it's really hard to consolidate it man but like dissect the movement practice it in a variety of ways. Practice it in multiple planes. Add different stimuli to it, right, when it comes to weight, resistance type. You can literally do work with bands, ankle weights, vests, carrying it with weight. There's so many ways to become explosive.

I could talk about this for hours. No, yeah. We need a second podcast. No, 100%. I might break this about this for hours. No, yeah. We need a second podcast. No, 100%. I might break this up into two podcasts. This is great. I think for the final question, I wanted to save this until the very end

because this was, everybody asked this. And I think- Everybody asked this. I'm scared now, dude. Everybody asked this. It's one of the most popular questions in the world. A lot of female friends of mine. Oh, God.

No, please, dude. No, I promise you it's not bad. I'm not trapping you right now. I'm not trapping you right now. You're good. You're good. Oh, God. This is my safe place.

Yeah, yeah. You're good. I can't hear because I thought it was safe. You're good. I promise you. But the number one question, I'm pretty sure if you go into Google, it's probably the number one asked question. Oh, God.

How do I get thick? Dang. was okay that's i'm like no yeah i promise you i got you you're safe you are safe dang i was like if i got on the spot i would hate you so much i wouldn't do that to you no i don't know what the question would be but yeah um how do you get thick dude what is thick talk to me like what is the kind of like slim thick, thick thick, two C's? I'm sure. C and a K. I'm sure. You know, if I were to guess, it would be – it's just like a nice slim thick, something good.

Dude, if you're trying to get thick, caloric excess. Okay. A great combo is like we're eating in accordance to hypertrophy and training in accordance to hypertrophy. So I usually just have my plant-based buddy even. Dude, you would think you can't make gains on plant-based or anything. Had this guy already increased 10 pounds. No, was it 10 pounds in six or four weeks?

One of those. Still really, really awesome. He got thick, right? Like bulky, jacked a little bit and um he was eating in excess calorically and he was training in accordance to a hypertrophic response so like he would train six to eight reps um sometimes you're feeling crazy you can do 12 for a little bit of endurance and it would all be within a minute 45 second to a minute rest time i think that's even like the clinical clinical like standard when it comes to hypertrophy

so we're trying to get thick that means the muscles under it under the you know everything is trying to get bigger but then we like a little bit of padding like that little you know something i guess yeah yeah such a unique question yeah that's true floor guys eat more and then just work out that region your whole body um you gotta do the whole body you can't just do leg days you can't that homeboys can't like we can't be doing just upper body yep and if you train your legs your upper body grows guaranteed that's just how that works is that right a hundred percent that's a gem i didn't i didn't know that no dude that is a gem well played yeah and if you're trying to train your low if you train your upper body your lower body will get. And if you're trying to train your upper body, your lower body will get better. But if you only limit it to your upper body, no.

Your lower body is supposed to carry your upper body. Like, we got to work them out in tandem. Right. Yeah. So there you go. Ladies and gentlemen, you learned how to get big. That was the raging question. Y'all got it.

All right. Y'all made me. Y'all made me get it out. But, you know, if you have any more questions you be sure to hit up izzy on instagram izzy go ahead and talk to your camera where they can find you at yeah yeah you guys uh can follow me on instagram at izzy lubady i think uh you're gonna post it up there for them to see 100 um yeah i love asking and asking uh and answering a lot of questions so if y'all have any feel free to shoot them at me yeah i promise you guys this guy his knowledge is goes beyond anything i've ever seen you can see he's very passionate about it we can

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