Mark Bell's Power Project - DK Metcalf CAN Be Natty, Shredded, Perform & Eat Candy Everyday, YOU'RE ALL WRONG! MBPP EP. 743

Episode Date: June 2, 2022

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talking about DK Metcalf, which we need to talk about this once again. This is a hot topic of conversation. Everybody wants to know how they can look like DK Metcalf, sprint like DK Metcalf, have a nice NFL contract like him, and eat three bags of candy every day. And a coffee.

Don't forget the coffee. Oh, yeah. Well, a coffee is probably burning all the fat off, right? Yeah. That's how caffeine works. The chemical structure of caffeine, when in took on a fasted state, is actually very beneficial for keeping the body fat off. Burns body fat. And he also mentioned, you know, he doesn't eat that candy until later in the day post cardiovascular work, which means that his body just absorbs the glycogen from the candy and he puts it back to use the next day so it makes a lot of sense

why dk madcalf is the way he is i think it has a lot to do with like overall habits and what something i wanted to mention and bring up just in the beginning here for a bit is and i was fucking with you guys i just have to say that you know we we have some decent habits here like we just went on a walk. Sometimes we podcast and then we walk and then we podcast again. The walk is a little bit like a cup of coffee for us. A walk is a little bit like a little wake up for us. And it's also just a nice habit to go to.

But it's of no coincidence that Encima chooses exercise even more so than Andrew and I. Like I exercise a lot. I move around a lot. I love it. I run, I lift. But before we did our first podcast today, you're like, I'm going to go in the gym and jump rope. And I think he jumped rope for literally like three minutes and you just, but like, I've seen you do that a lot. Like I go into the gym a lot. Andrew goes into the gym a lot. But it seems like a way for you because maybe of your soccer background as a kid, just the amount of activity that you've had, maybe every day you're like, I need to express some of this.

I need to move around every day. Otherwise, it's going to make me nutty. And so what is it for you? you think compels you to want to move so much? Because I'm imagining that someone like DK Metcalf or some of these guys that we look to where we're like, oh, he's just shredded because of X, Y, and Z excuse that we want to insert. But these guys, these individuals, they're exercising a lot and there is a calorie equation that can explain at least some of it. When I don't move, I don't feel that great or when I don't move enough. And like it's like my body has this internal trigger of like, dog, go do something. You know, you always say motion's the lotion. And that's how like I feel all the time. So like, you know, if the day has gone by and for some reason I haven't done much, I have to go either get outside, go do something, take a walk, work out. Get outside, go do something, take a walk, workout.

Because I know how good I feel after I move around. So there's this thing that's like just go get some type of movement in. Go get some long-range movement in the gym in as far as lifting or jump rope or whatever. And for you, you might feel like you need to do that maybe a couple times a day? Yeah, quite a few times a day. So I'm actually really happy I have those base blocks things at home because I can literally just hop on there, do some dips, do some L-sits, do some just whatever. And it's there. Kettlebells too.

Like I'm always touching these things. So it's just a habit. Is there any part of it that ever feels like a little forced? Like even going to jiu-jitsu, is it like, well, I got goals even going to jujitsu? Is it like, well, I got goals in jujitsu, so I don't know if I can go. But any of it ever feel that way or does it always feel pretty good? Like I should go do this. You know, we were talking about that earlier and I was trying to think about like when I started jujitsu too, did it ever feel like, oh, I like when I started jujitsu too did it ever feel

like oh I gotta go to jujitsu again and there's a period of time especially when my body wasn't as used to it my body was super fatigued but I always like even when that was happening I always wanted to go to jujitsu and I always want to go train in the gym because obviously I enjoy those things. So, you know, I can understand if somebody is like doing a workout plan that they don't like, like they're doing movements that they're just, I hate doing this or whatever. Yeah. Sometimes you got like a program, like a schedule. And sometimes there's a couple of things on there that kind of hurt or they're kind of annoying, but you have a competition coming up. Yeah. Right.

So those are those things that you have to do. So they have this level of resistance. But with the things that I do in the gym, I just have things set up that everything I do, it attacks all the goals I have, whether it's like my legs or upper body or whatever. I'm doing things that I enjoy that attack those goals. And that's why for me, there's personally no resistance into going and doing those goals. And that's why for me, there doesn't, for me, there's personally no resistance into going and doing those things. Like, I mean, I would assume even with you, even though running hasn't always, wasn't always easy, there was probably, I don't know if I'm safe in assuming this, but there's probably minimal resistance in you going and doing it, even though you weren't

like, it wasn't perfectly comfortable. what i've learned is that if there is resistance then something's probably a little off like i'm not eating enough uh or um i've been doing a little too much more recently you know like that that those are things um because that is really rare for me to be like oh i don't want to have to. And I might have – like when I get done with this podcast today, the first thing I want to do is like I just want to leave. I want to go home. But at the same time, I did run already this morning. So if I went home, it wouldn't feel like a loss or anything. I did some of my stretches.

I got some stuff in that was productive. But I also know that I won't be super proud or super pumped about my output for the day if I go home. Because usually once I go home, I just eat, I kind of hang out, and then it's time for bed. So it never really feels like a real struggle. And that's why sometimes I get a little frustrated when I hear people trying to promote how much of a tough guy you are for buckling down on something that you already love yeah i understand the mindset sometimes because yeah like okay your calf hurts or this hurts that hurts and so then you still go and run or you still go and do the

thing but if you didn't want to do it you wouldn't be doing it like you're in the middle of it and then you're yelling at me about it and i may be a guilty party i may have uh shared a similar message at times but after i thought i've been thinking about it more as i got older i'm just like these are things that i fucking i really i actually at the root base of all this stuff i really actually love this a lot you get to it's not that you have to you get to you have the the privilege of being able to go do that and and one thing i want to mention too is like um recently when i did that little thing to my back and we had chris kadowski work on it um you know i wasn't i had to not go to jujitsu the next day i really wanted to

but that day i was like it's not a good idea because if i go and i do something i might be You know, I wasn't – I had to not go to jujitsu the next day. I really wanted to. But that day I was like, it's not a good idea. Because if I go and I do something, I might be out for a long amount of time. So we're not saying that even when we're potentially in a situation where our body feels like it's at risk of injury, we're still going. Because in those situations, we adjust. But outside of those special situations, I'm doing, I'm figuring out something. If I can't go to jujitsu, I was still doing something in the gym that allow me to expend in a safe way. And I also really do want to, what you mentioned right there, you see it a lot in like some fitness stuff and some bodybuilding stuff, even powerlifting. some bodybuilding stuff, even powerlifting. And you see, it's like people are talking about these things as if they're painful, sacrificial, hardcore experiences. When I was going through

my bodybuilding prep, I wasn't sacrificing shit. There are times it felt hard because I was in a deficit. But at the end of the day, it's like, I'm doing this to get you know it's to get on stage but it's not some wild crazy thing i didn't look at it that way even back then and it doesn't it shouldn't be portrayed that way you know it's it's you're getting ready for a show you're getting ready for a meet you're getting ready for a competition you're going in and training and it's just what you need to do it's only as difficult as you want to make it to be in your mind. You don't have to make it difficult. It doesn't have, it doesn't have to be. And,

you know, going back to like, you know, thinking about like the greats, you know, you're going to have Ronnie Coleman and you're going to have these guys. Ronnie Coleman's a great example. Cause Ronnie Coleman is like super happy and super nice.

And like, he's like lightweight, you know, he's like making kind of like jokes. He's got 800 pounds in the bar. He's talking about the weight being light. What an amazing mindset. And, you know, I'm sure that Ronnie Coleman has talked about hard work before, but like I've never really heard him.

He's just motivating because he's such an animal. And the work that he just happens to be doing is really hard. Yeah. He puts out a lot of intensity. You know, he's a guy that he wants to put the work that he just happens to be doing is really hard. Yeah, he puts out a lot of intensity. He's a guy that he wants to put the work in. But is the work really hard? It's not hard because he built himself up to be able to adapt to those kinds of weights and that kind of intensity. So therefore, when he got there, just like someone getting a black belt in jiu-jitsu and stuff,

when you're thinking about it when you're younger and when you're newer, you're going to think, man, that's really hard. How do I ever become like one of those people? But then you become one of those people and you're like, that wasn't that hard. Yeah. And it sounds like, I was going to use the R word there. It sounds ridiculous. It sounds ridiculous to think that. But you look at Ronnie Coleman squatting 800 pounds, deadlifting 800 pounds.

It's just lightweight. It doesn't look hard. It just looks like this is part of the process. What's the guy in the back doing? Oh, he's holding the guy got it. The guy in the back is rocking some really nice shorts. Those booty shorts are real tight. Brian Dobson, I think,

was one of his coaches. I think we're bringing that style back. We need it. We need it back. Yeah. I see some bodybuilders actually.

I only saw a few people wearing crop tops. That's something that, I mean, I wear shorts that are short, but I don't know about the crop top, dog.

Some dudes wearing crop tops? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Russ Swole was wearing, he was doing the crop top for a little bit. That was like a 90s thing, like football players would wear. And he was a football player. That's what it is.

Russ was a football player, so. Jesus Christ, Ronnie Coleman was amazing. Wow. God, I love that guy. Anyway, let's get to DK Metcalf. Shannon Sharp was talking about DK Metcalf. I just wanted to bring some of that up because there's people that are on one side of the fence with their exercise where it's the last thing they want to do. They're having a very tough time getting into it,

getting involved in it. When they do have an energy expenditure, it might feel exhausting. It might feel difficult for them just because they haven't gotten to the other side. might feel exhausting. It might feel difficult for them just because they haven't gotten to the other side. There's a lot of us that are on the other side of it and we enjoy exercise. Maybe it's something that's been instilled in us when we were young and therefore we feel a need to move around a lot. So DK Metcalf, in some of this explanation of his diet, like what's being missed is like this guy works out a lot and he has worked out a lot. He's been doing so for decades. He's also one of a kind, like he is a damn near Olympic level sprinter in the hundred meters. He seems to be like an unbelievable specimen. So some of the rules that apply to

everybody else, there might be some rules that maybe don't apply to him directly. You know, maybe there's certain things about his body that are going to be slightly different, slightly different. But what about all the years he spent working on sprinting? What about all the years he's been in sport? What about all the years he spent lifting? I think people just want to, they just want to read into this and be like, he eats candy and he's shredded. You know, real quick about that rules thing that you mentioned, man. I think all the same rules apply to BK that apply to everybody else. And we'll get into what he's doing there. But when people hear it, they'll be like, that's ridiculous.

But, you know, when he mentions his practices that he goes to, all the things that he does, one thing is, as you do something over time, physically it gets easier. You don't burn as many calories when you do it. He's been playing football for a long time. He's been doing a lot of these things. So naturally he's not going to be – even though he's explosive and he's wild, he's been doing this for probably over a decade. So he's used to these athletic movements, these things.

They're done in a way that doesn't break his body apart as it would be for somebody who just started doing things like that. So you got to understand now like he doesn't need to have crazy amounts of food or whatever right before he goes to exercise. He's used to it. It's part of him. It's what he does. So I just want to say that before we get into this. Indeed. And, of course, just from a genetic standpoint,

like some people can hold more muscle mass. Like this is a very big individual. He's 6'3", 6'4", and like 240 pounds. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Kevin Gardner's podcast. And your diet.

One cup of coffee, two cups of coffee. One cup of coffee, three to four bags of candy, and one meal. Is that true? I don't have time to lie. Hold on. You wake up in the morning, you get a cup of coffee. Okay, are you eating anything

with that cup of coffee? You eating grits, eggs, oatmeal, bacon, pancakes, stuff? What's with the cup of coffee? Just a cup of coffee? Just a little latte. Okay. A large latte. Large latte. Okay.

So then you go work out? No, I've already worked out. You've already worked out. So you worked out fast. You do fast work out. Yeah. Okay. Come on, get your latte.

Sit down, watch a little TV. Maybe you catch it up on Snowfall, something like that. You know, Ozark. You watch a little TV. You eat again. So what time you work out i work i wake up at six work out at seven to on all right so normal monday looks like i wake up at six work out at seven to like 8 30 drive like 30 minutes work out again from like nine to ten hold on hold on you wake up you work out it's from seven to eight thirty all right so what's that workout until this is my uh physical therapy.

Oh, okay. You do it. That's PT. That's PT. That's what you put. Okay. Then you drive 30. Do you eat anything?

No. Then I drive 30 minutes, and then I up a body lift. Yeah, see, that's your problem. You're not efficient. You ain't fueling yourself. Well, man, I don't care what type of car you got. You got to put gas in it. I'm not a car.

Yes, you are. I'm an alien. Well, see, just think of how big an alien you are. How, you are. I'm an alien. Well, see, just think of how big an alien you are. How are you more freaky of an alien? I can't. I've been doing this since I was like

almost in college. Here's the thing. Sometimes people can do the wrong thing for an extremely long time. Right, I can understand that. Well, I mean, if it ain't broke,

don't fix it. You don't think it's broke. What if you tried it? See, that's the thing about training. You have to be willing to go outside sometimes to do something different to's broke what if you try to see that's that's the thing about training you have to be willing to go outside sometimes do something different to see what would it hurt to see if i ate some just say 500 calories don't last long with me like i know that's what i'm

saying yeah you're not fueling your body enough as much muscle as you have you got to fuel it i what a wood i ain't missed a game in the league so this is what i'm thinking of i know it's not about that i believe you could be more efficient. I believe you could be better. I do believe. I believe if you went and saw what a nutritionist got your work done, your blood work done, what you should eat, how much of it you should eat, I believe, DK, I believe you could take your game to the next level.

I mean, you got to think about it now. The elites are the elites, and you are. But if you want to get to that LeBron, that upper stratosphere, you got to do it different. That's because you said that I'm going to show you how to do it my way. Who, me? No, no, no. I'm going to do it my way, and then I'm going to reach you.

Okay. All right. I love that. You got to die like a 10-year-old. You do realize you're a grown-ass man, right? I mean, if somebody told me, everybody, if I came over to your house

and I saw this kid, I'm like, oh, this dude got like four or five kids. Oh, this kid. I'm trying to, I will say, I'm going to change

on my diet a little bit. I'll change it up. You know what to do. Oops. That was cool at the end where he was like, I'm going to change it up. Like, he's listening

to Shannon Sharp, which is awesome because Shannon Sharp is a legend and a Hall of Famer. And so he's got the credentials behind him. And also a freak in his own right. Because Shannon Sharp now, he looks just as good. And Shannon Sharp was part of that Denver Broncos team in the late 90s that they had a lot of influence

from EAS, the supplement company back in the day run by Bill Phillips. And so I think that they were on to bodybuilding style diets a long time ago, having some good complex carbohydrates, some good sources of protein and obviously enough fat to where you can perform well enough to where you're also not gaining body fat. And you look at Shannon Sharp. He was – I mean he still is in amazing shape. But DK Metcalf, you know, what they're kind of leaving out a little bit, which you're not – I guess what people aren't focused on is like what is this meal that he has? They just focus on the candy. that he has. They just focus on the candy. And I originally, when I heard it, I thought they said that he eats the candy. Um, he eats the candy, has the coffee and it was part of like one meal.

But after I listened to it again, he has a meal additionally to that. So it's not like his meal is candy and coffee like that., your luck would run out very quickly if that was the case. Yeah, because he's, so he's fasting throughout the day. Then he has whatever three, four bags of candy is. Like what does that,

I don't know who knows what that means. I think I heard starburst. Starbush? Starbush. Starburst on one other thing where you mentioned this, the KG podcast. Got it.

Okay, so then it's like maybe if he had three or four candy bars, it would just be like the bars. So he's having three or four bags of candy. Bags of candy. It's like a bag of gummy bears or something. And candy bars would be different because you might be talking about something that has fat and carbohydrates in it.

Not that that would cause anything different to happen either if the calories were still controlled. But if he was eating like snickers or something that could push him over every day and maybe he wouldn't be as lean but that's the thing i just even if he did i just don't think it's enough nah nah it's not enough it's not enough and that's where in same way you're talking about well we don't know what that one meal is yeah dog it's like a lot of people are chiming in especially in the fitness community people are commenting on this being like this is why he's on drugs.

Obviously he's on drugs. And okay. Like, all right. You guys who think that there's no, whatever, there's no talking in that sense. Cause that's, that's the belief there. But like this guy, he could, he's probably having a pretty sizable meal, like a pretty decent meal. And if there's anything that like we figured out,

you know, since we've been doing a lot of fasting ourselves and I never would have thought it was possible either, but if I have one big meal in the evening and I wake up the next day and I have some electrolytes or whatever, I can have a decent workout and I can do some jujitsu and I can have another big ass meal that evening and feel good. So it's not something that is common because not a lot of people DK pretty much. He said he does fasted workouts. Most people in the sports realm don't even experiment with that because fasting is something that a lot of people are like can't perform well if you're fasted. Right.

And I can understand why. But he's one of those athletes that applies it and it works for him and i'm assuming that meal is a good meal a big guy like that can fucking eat sometimes these athletes too like uh they're sold to us as like this is what they're good at and then the guy of course he's not allowed to be good at anything else he's not allowed to be, he's not allowed to be good at anything else. He's not allowed to be smart. He's not allowed to have good ideas about how his own body performs. He's just this. Stay in your lane. Yeah. But if you listen to what he fucking said, it was really intuitive. He's sharp. He's like, why don't you just have like four or 500 calories? And somebody could

say that about either one of us. Why don't you have a couple hundred calories for your exercise? And we could sit here and try to figure out whether that's better. Like it might be more optimal. But his response was that just doesn't last that long with me. That's fucking amazing. That's kind of brilliant because what I'm interpreting there is that he's just saying like, that's just going to be burned up super quick anyway. It's not going to necessarily impact the workout that I'm about to do. And we could argue whether it can or can't. I don't know what studies show or whatever. But for him, he's like, that shit just evaporates.

I don't know. Like we've been experimenting with fasting for a long time. And if you have breakfast, sometimes you're like, holy shit, did I eat today? Like you're like, holy shit, I'm really hungry today. Yeah. You're like, what's different? You're like holy shit i'm really hungry today yeah you're like what's different you're like oh i did have breakfast that's like so what he's saying is actually kind of accurate you put something there your body's probably going to want to use it and burn it now does it give you more energy for the workout i don't know but i think that sometimes with these athletes these these uh outliers, I think that people think that they don't know what they're talking about. But this guy knows exactly what he's talking about. And I think he has felt it out for himself and he's found what feels good to him. on the diet is the candy like kind of pointless maybe but also if it makes him happy sounds like

he lives a hell of a life sounds like he's he seems like he's uh very disciplined in a lot of ways so if he has the candy and makes him feel good hits you with some dopamine after some hard practices sounds like hey go for it. Yeah. Like physical therapy, another practice, goes home, probably has a candy or whatever. It's like the guy's putting in consistent work. And yeah, I mean, there probably are ways that he could improve upon it. But at the end of the day, like he is where he is doing what he's doing. Right. So everyone's going to say it's like it's drugs, it's this, it's that.

But they're not even saying the right drugs. So everyone's going to say it's like, it's drugs, it's this, it's that, but like... But they're not even saying the right drugs. Like, I'm looking at the comments and people are like, hold on, let me pull it up really quick. I'm an alien. Translation, I use HGH. How the fuck is HGH going to help be like that? It's like people don't even know. Yeah, I think people really underestimate how long some people have been doing things you know especially if like you know he's he's an athlete he's probably been playing sports since he was a fucking kid like people underestimate that shit and then they

think that everyone works with the same template you know what i mean like his template five years ago was different than his template now and his template right now will not work for you. But there could come a point where that template actually, it could work. Because, I mean, I'm not saying I'm DK Metcalf, but I could do that because I understand what's working. I know and understand what's going on there. As long as the meal in the evening is enough food, you could do that. I mean, you know you could because you know how much you need to eat in the evening. So you could eat in the evening,

wake up the next morning, have a coffee. I'm going to do it. Probably some electrolytes. Let's go get some candy. Go on your run. Do some physical therapy, right? I know you probably wouldn't, but you could have a bag of candy or two

and then go do something else and then have a big dinner and be okay. Absolutely. Because again, we understand how this works. Again, the candy, I don't know if I mentioned it off air, but it just doesn't have any fat in it. So it's like there's hardly any calories. And even three or four bags of candy,

now it could depend on the size of the bags of candy, right? I don't know if he's going to Costco and loading up, but the videos I saw of the bags of candy right like yeah i don't know if he's going to costco and loading up but the videos i saw of like the bags of candy that he eats they're just like those small ones you get at gas stations that have the starburst in them and stuff like that so i don't see anything wrong with what he's doing um is he leaving stuff out you know is he like not sharing with us that he has like protein shakes and like probably has other some other good habits and i'm sure i'm sure there's probably some other stuff in there that he's just like now now it's a thing right because he mentioned his diet and now it's a thing and now it's like he may as well someone needs to make a video doing the dk metcalf diet and doing workouts that probably do pretty well all right there we go we got a million video for you will

tennyson should probably do that shit he would crush it too but yeah I mean but can you guys seriously like do you think do you not think that he could improve though if he were to ditch the candy and then have I don't know an extra meal I can only look at

personally the way I my body responds to candy if I have that much sugar I'm gonna knock out like I feel If I have that much sugar, I'm going to knock out. Like I feel tired. I have to – if I eat candy – So if he's doing it at the end of the day, it might not be a problem. Exactly. Yeah, for me, if I had like a bag or two of candy, I'd feel sleepy.

Like I'd want to go to sleep. Sounds like that is when he does it, right? Like after he's done with everything for the day, right? Yeah, that's what he makes it sound like. So like – A good way to wind down. It's a good way to wind down for some people. I know you're enjoying this episode, but listen up.

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Yeah, I'm just trying to think if there's anything. Like, nutrition is weird. Like, I think that if your nutrition doesn't, like, fuck you up, like, if your nutrition doesn't hurt your sleep, doesn't like fuck you up, like if your nutrition doesn't hurt your sleep and if you're not like malnourished and or overeating excessively, I think the rest is fairly nuanced and it's really difficult to say

like what would work really well. Power lifting was a crazy example of this. I mean, there were guys at Westside that like rarely got 100 grams of protein in a day. They just ate so much like junk that they didn't even have room. Were they kind of fat though? Yeah, no, they were fat, but they, but performance, they were very fat, but performance wise, they lifted like crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so that made Louie Simmons just think like nutrition didn't matter at all. We've heard John Donahue talk about some of that before where he doesn't think the nutrition matters at all. And obviously we're

on a different, we don't believe that nutrition doesn't matter at all, but it's kind of hard to say like, are you going to have more or better energy because you ate a very specific way? I don't think the human body works that way. I think that the human body's like, the human body's not like, this is a horrible carbohydrate. What's this decision about? Let's all freak out. I don't recognize what this is. Therefore, when we're asked to burn sugar, we're not going to utilize you because you didn't come from a potato. You didn't come from fruit. You came from fucking Starburst. So you go over there

and your store is fat. You're just going to hang out over there and you're never going to be released. You're never going to come out of your room. I don't think the body doesn't work that way. The body will grab onto like whatever. So if you ate some fucking pizza, your body is going to utilize the pizza for energy. Will it use it as efficiently for someone who's running 100 miles as a potato or rice?

I would love for someone to try to prove that to be a wrong idea. Like I don't see how it wouldn't. I guess I could say it that way. Now, again, if the pizza is fucking you up because you have autoimmune disorders and because you're not sleeping well, then we might have a problem. If you're not getting in proper nutrition because you need the nutrients, then you might have a problem. But other than that, like as much as we love nutrition, I don't know how much it matters for a person that's like trying to pay attention to their body composition yes

yeah like like okay so i reason i asked you about those power liches i'm like were they fat oh they were fat right but in that sport your body composition isn't the thing that you're competing against you know i mean isn't the focus it's like how much weight are you loading on that bar and what's your total going to be? So no matter what you look like, you got a big total, hey, you're the man, right? In football, I mean there's different positions. Body composition doesn't matter. But DK Metcalf is jacked. He's doing a lot of sprinting.

He's already ahead. He's doing a lot of weights, a lot of sprinting. He's ahead of the game, right? So the way he eats, it's like he's honestly just going to be able to burn through a lot of things. And again, if you think about like one big meal, four bags of candy and a latte, how many calories that probably is or it could be. If he can eat like – if he can eat how i assume he can eat that meal's a big fucking meal like a lot of the time that meal's huge because when i do one meal it's a lot of calories right so you can't underestimate that and he's a big dude so it's just like it the body composition

is baked into his sport that's what i'm trying to say here that's why i think nutrition does matter because donna her also mentioned nutrition doesn't matter. But it's rare that you see – you'll see a few kind of chubby high-level grapplers, but you don't see many. A lot of them are pretty lean and pretty decent shape because of the nature of the sport. The nature of the sport has you burning insane amount of calories. But frankly, when it comes to like just power lifting, within the sport, unless you're paying attention to what you should be paying attention to what you're eating, because if you're only doing that sport, you're not burning that many calories compared to everything else you do during the day and compared to other sports. Normally, it's not more efficient to hold on to

more body fat for most sports. But then you do have a Tyson Fury. You got situations where there's like guys uh who are outliers in that way but like that doesn't mean you can hold excess body fat that just means that that guy has worked really hard to get enough conditioning to where he can handle uh lugging around that extra body fat and technique and technique being in the right place the right time. And he's a tremendous athlete, so it's kind of hard sometimes to even see. When you see a guy like – I mean, first of all, you forget the fact that he's like, what, 6'7 or 6'8 or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when you see him and he sticks his gut out and he's laughing about it and stuff, he's not the picture-perfect athlete that we might envision in our mind,

but that's an athletic motherfucker right there. People are fancy UFC are going to hate me, but what is the black wrestler that has always gone back and forth to John Jones? Daniel Cormier. Daniel Cormier. You remember that thing where he was like, this is what peak performance looks like? Oh, yeah.

That's exactly what came to mind. Yeah, yeah. He's eating all that junk. Yeah. Yeah. But look at him. Yeah. Shit. There's a. He's eating all that junk. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's... But look at him. Yeah. Shit.

There's a lot of athletes that dominated that eat like crap. Yeah. Babe Ruth would eat a bunch of hot dogs before you go out and smash a bunch of home runs. Jesus Christ. Right? I mean, it's just... So Google has Tyson Fury at 6'9". Nice.

Wow. 6'9", how much does he weigh? Like 270? Why doesn't it show that? Let's see. Oh, come on. Fucking... I guess it's between 260's see. Oh, come on. I guess it's between 260 and 270.

He's a monster. Again, I think if we're talking about a sport being impacted by your body composition, then you're going to have to tighten up your nutrition. And there's a lot of sports that fall in that category.

Like you can't be a fat sprinter. No. Like there's not someone that runs 100 meters. DK Metcalf's talking about being able to run 100 meters in potentially under nine seconds if he had a year to train for it, which is really cool. I love the guy's mindset.

Yeah. He's fucking savage. Because he ran like a 10, three, I think they said at 240 pounds, but just because he's carrying around extra weight, doesn't mean that that weight is useless. He is very, very muscular. So his point was like, if I lost a little bit of weight, even though the muscle, uh, is, you know, for strength, it's like, that's a lot of weight to be shifting around moving that fast you know i think it is super important though like you know i i've always looked at the basketball

phenomenon when you have a lot of former pro basketball players like you can tell chuck or charles barkley when he was playing like don't say nothing bad about chuck i love him i love him but his ass is as big as this table right now. I know. That's the thing. When he played, you're running back and forth on the court. You're jumping and whatever. And then when you stop but you have the same eating habits because you're burning so many calories, you just balloon up. That happens to a lot of former players of sport. Like look at former college athletes who gain 100 pounds.

Like I used to be in such good shape. But they had bad habits as far as eating and they were able to get away with it because of the nature of their sport. They stop the sport. They don't have anything else that they do. They keep the eating habits. They gain weight. So for sport, like yeah,

maybe the nutrition aspect matters, but it's not as big of a deal. But for life, yo, for life, that's why we talk about what we talk about because we know that everyone's out here just trying to live. Yeah, and then then like does age like you hear about it but like do we actually know for a fact that like age like plays and plays a part in it like you know because you're talking about like a college athlete and then they gain weight it's like well when they

were in college they were 20 years old so it's like now that they're 30 they're you know you hear about all as soon as you hit 30 your metabolism slows down and blah blah blah but I mean all three of us are at different ages and I just feel like it doesn't matter. I think most of the information you know is on the general population so what I'm always thinking in my head is like I don't know

if they tested me or if they tested somebody like me or like us those listening that lift because that's where a lot of the information comes from. It comes from people like losing muscle mass. And they'll say, well, you handle carbohydrates way different from being 11 or 12 versus when you're 45. But how different is it if at 12 in comparison,

like do we have a study in comparison of a 12-year-old weighing a very specific body weight, eating a very specific amount of carbohydrates versus a 220-pound male who was able to keep his body fat in check? Like you may have made your body respond better. I'm not saying that carbohydrates are the only thing that determine your body fat, but I'm just saying like you might have optimized some parts of your metabolism more being in your forties than you did when you were 12. Cause you just didn't have any knowledge of that. Yeah. I absolutely think like when I got my DEXA scan the other day, I was talking to the lady who was doing it and I was like, have people come in that like, maybe they were a little bit later in age because they say that, you know, you want to build up your bone density when you're younger because over time, not only does sarcopenia, which is muscle loss, happen, but osteoporosis, which is bone density loss. But I asked her, I'm like, I mean, have you seen people who have come in who've like

just started looking maybe in their thirties or their forties? And have you had scans to see if like they've gained muscle and bone density? And she's like, I see it all the time because people always come in that are doing weight challenges or body transformation challenges. Women in their forties that come in and they get a scan six months later and they have higher bone density and more lean body mass. What you said was on the money. It's because a lot of these things come from general population. What does general population not do? General population doesn't use weight-bearing exercise much. General population doesn't generally pay that much attention to their nutrition. They're living pretty sedentary lives. But if you just add in a few habits,

you don't have to go through those things. They won't affect you as harshly. Sarcopenia, I think like we talk about it, but I think like if you're lifting, it's not going to affect, you'll lose muscle later on in life, but it's not going to be to the degree that a lot of people talk about because you're stimulating that muscle. Bone density loss, you do continue doing some weight-bearing exercises. I don't think you're just going to start losing bone if you at least, like a little bit slowly, but it's going to be way slower than everybody else. You don't automatically get fat just because you get older. to be way slower than everybody else.

You don't automatically get fat just because you get older. However, I think that certain things might happen when you get older. Like I've noticed that, and this could be just because I've been on a path of like being more conscious of my nutrition. I tend to enjoy the foods that my body I tend to enjoy the foods that my body enjoys a lot more than I used to like I don't want to eat foods that

don't agree with my body as much as I used to so there's definitely like a swing in that but I don't know if that's like just maturity or, or what that is. You'll find a lot of older people, they start to move into like, nah, I don't eat that anymore because it hurts my stomach. Like they'll just flat out say that. But that's pizza, man. Like we're talking about pizza, bro. Can we make an exception for that?

You know, but they, they, you find out later on that like a lot of people won't make those same mistakes any longer. They won't walk around just being bloated, having gas and whatever else goes on with eating some of those foods. So you end up with a lot of guys that might be like a Tom Brady. You know, you hear so much about Tom Brady's nutrition, but what is, what is the nutrition that Tom Brady had for him to get selected by the New England Patriots in the first place? It probably was real. I'm just imagining it was probably very, very like, it was probably shitty for a long time.

Although his dad was like a coach, I think. So maybe it wasn't too bad, but he didn't have the physique to show for it. Now he looks amazing. Now he looks like a 20 year old dude out there. Dude, I feel the exact same way though. What you just said is like, I love cereal. Don't get me wrong. I love cereal and candy tastes amazing. But I just said, the reason why I wouldn't do that is because if I have that just like boatload of sugar, I want to sleep. I feel, I feel sluggish even though it tastes amazing. So I also like stay away from things that even though they taste good and I could probably have it, I don't because I just know how I feel after. And we've talked about this before too how when you don't – like there are some people who eat cereal every fucking morning, sugary cereal, and they feel great.

I don't know about older individuals or people in their thirties and forties, but I know quite a few people who have like a bowl of cereal. And I look at them just like, you feel good after. And I wonder if maybe they're just used to it. So they don't feel that way or the way I would feel after having a bowl of cereal, which is like tired,

sluggish, and I want to go to sleep. Right. Or if it's, I don't know. or the way I would feel after having a bowl of cereal, which is like tired, sluggish, and I want to go to sleep, right? Or if it's, I don't know. I don't know if the body just gets used to it and figures out a way to digest it and handle it because it's this consistent input. You know, do you get what I'm saying?

I do. And it made me think like when you're a kid, you don't think about much of anything. Like when you're like, so I even would challenge like how good that makes them feel to eat some of these foods. It may or may not be productive at all. Like it might be as detrimental as it is to us when we're older or at least the feeling of it. It's just that a kid can't concentrate on anything for like more, an adult can't concentrate on anything for 30 seconds either.

Yeah. But a kid, we already know like from study, like literal studies, that a kid's attention span is a lot shorter. And also like, is a kid going to sit there and like play a video game and like chow down on cereal, like in between or chips or something. And there's like no conscious thought,

like a kid's not going to be like, thank you, Jesus, for this meal. You know, they're not going to sit there and like have this like ritual with their food as to maybe like an adult is like i'm appreciative of this food type thing they might not have any sort of uh value assignment to the food that they're about to eat so like that might play into some of it as well yeah cereal i can't like that now that i think about it, when we're talking about what was the last thing we had,

I didn't binge, but I had Lucky Charms because they were there, and I'm like, these are so good. How did you feel? I felt okay because I had it with protein shake. I used that as the milk. And I just said, I'm like, hey, because normally it's the box of cereal

and then the carton of milk. And it's like, I'm going to finish when one of these runs out. Like, I'm not going to, I'm not losing. I'm not going to get full. So what I'll do is like, I'll have, I'll make the protein shake and I'll put everything, well, I'll put the milk away and I'll just have the protein shake. So I can only refill it until I run out of my protein shake. That's how I get by.

So I don't feel terrible afterwards. I don't feel great because I'm like, ah, I let the cereal win today. But at the end of the day, it's like, okay, I don't know, less than 500 calories and I had at least 30 grams of protein. It's not bad. One thing I'll say that is a wonderful thing that you talked about is like, yo, take maybe some, this is the way, or you don't have, you guys don't have access to the keto pro yet, but what do you do? If you like milk, I like milk, put that and use that as your milk for your cereal or your milk. Cause like I have

granola that I use with, uh, with yogurt. Um, but I just, the other night I had, I had some granola that I use with yogurt, but I just – the other night I had some granola and I used some milk, but the milk was protein milk. It was like I got like 60 grams of protein with that bit of granola and it was just a fucking party. Yeah. So. The internet says that DK Metcalf has a body fat percentage of 1.6%. That seems legit. I mean, at what point do you have, like, how much do you need to live? It's funny.

More than that, I think. I think, who was it? Was it Ronnie Coleman? Yeah, he had, like, negative or something like that. Yeah, I think he was on Rogan, and he said he had a 2% body fat or something like that. And Rogan went back and forth. Yeah, I think they just like they were unable to measure his body fat percentage. Yeah.

Some shit like that. But yeah, who knows? This is weird. Like I'm reading like some of the stuff on the internet about TK Metcalf's diet. He says it's kind Metcalf's diet. He says it's kind of a lower carb diet. And this is probably from a while ago. He eats a lot of protein, a lot of veggies.

For breakfast, he has a private chef. Eating a lot of vegetables. Slic of bacon, and some fruit. I try not to eat lots of fats. And that's kind of about all it mentions there. But I don't know. It's interesting. Again, this guy's probably had habits that have probably been pretty good for a long time. And he sounds like he may have somebody that cooks for him.

And it's like that one meal that he's having. I mean, even if the meal is not great, again, the overall amount of calories that he's eating in a day can't be that much. And let's just for a second, let's break it down. Like how many carbohydrates is he really eating from these three or four bags of candy um i'm assuming maybe i assume it's maybe 200 grams 200 grams of carbohydrates yeah because i'm less than a thousand calories still yeah so even if he was to eat kind of a lot even if he ate like 3 000 calories worth of food somebody who exercises the amount that he does, he's still not in

like a giant surplus, right? No, I don't think it's as low as 50 grams. I think it's maybe each bag is probably like 120 grams of carbohydrates. I mean, who knows? I just pulled up like Starburst Nutrition Facts. So for six pieces,

120 calories, 2.5 grams of fat, 24 grams of carbs. How many pieces is in a bag? And so this one says 14 servings, but I think that's just like the big bag, right? The big bag. So let me try to find. It's funny how we're trying to calculate this shit right now. I love it. Oh, man.

But I just don't, I don't even, like I just – again, like what do we know from Dr. Lane Norton? Probably nothing, right? No, I'm just kidding. Dr. Lane Norton would say that if he's gaining weight on the scale, he's in a caloric surplus. If he's losing weight on the scale, he's in a caloric deficit. If he's losing weight on the scale, he's in a caloric deficit. So he must be hitting it dead on-ish almost all the time for him to consistently weigh around 240-ish pounds. Yeah, absolutely.

It means he's not overeating. He's not doing anything that is causing him to gain any body fat. So in a box that you would get at the movie theater, so two and a half servings per container. So yeah, same thing. So per serving is 34 grams of carbs. And there's two and a half per box. Yeah, so about 80. That's about 80-something grams of carbs.

So total 320. It's about 1, 1300 calories around there. All right. Fuck it. I'll just say it. DK Metcalf. He's genetic freak and he can eat whatever he wants. He's shredded.

So don't even bother trying to do anything fitness wise. Don't bother trying sprinting. Don't try football. Don't lift weights. Don't bother doing any of that shit because you're just going to be fat. You're going to be out of shape no matter what because your genetics are crap and you don't have anything to compare it to any of these professional athletes. And he's on HGH. And he's on HGH and God knows

what else. Blocked. That was bullshit. Blocked. But yeah. Right. Don't even try. I think that's a great way to end the podcast. That makes a lot of sense. HGH, all the fat burners. And he's rich, so why wouldn't he be taking drugs? Personal chef.

That's what it is. He has a personal chef. If I had a personal chef, I could probably. If I had a personal chef, millions of dollars on an NFL contract, why would I not take drugs? take drugs if my my financial well-being depends on my body it would be silly of me not to take drugs it's just facts guys right mark i don't know anything about any of this take us on out of here all righty thank you everybody for checking out today's episode uh please drop us your comments down in the comment section below let us know if if you guys think this is all bullshit and he should be eating more. Maybe he's lying.

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Too busy to lie. At InSimaInia on Instagram, YouTube, and InSimaInia on TikTok and Twitter. Join the Discord, Mark. I got to see DK Matt Calf up close. I got to see Cam Newton up close. These are some special human beings. Like, holy shit. They're fucking jacked. They human beings. Like, holy shit.

They're fucking jacked. They're tall. They're so athletic. It's just... Cam Newton's calves. It was insane. He's a quarterback in the NFL. His calves are like in Seamus. What's the other receiver that...

You're like, what the fuck? The receiver that crushed the Niners at the game I was at? Adams? No. Oh. For the Packers. Oh. Ah, fuck.

Fuck. He's like one of the best receivers. Yeah. Oh, fuck. Fuck. He's like one of the best receivers. Yeah. Saw him with Aaron Rodgers. That was incredible. It's fucking amazing, dude. Yeah, freaks when you see them up close, right? I'm at Mark Smiley Bell.

Strength is never weakness. Weakness is never strength. Catch you guys later. Bye. Devontae Adams. There you go. Devontae Adams? Is he a tall guy?