Mark Bell's Power Project - Power Project EP. 43 - Live With Mark Bell And Your Questions

Episode Date: April 27, 2018

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He had people farting the alphabet. I mean, he was a pioneer. I mean, let's face it. I mean, you look at what Joe Rogan is doing and some of these other people. Howard Stern. I mean, I think Howard Stern. Fuck, I want to say. I think he was offered $100 million, I think, at one point.

For what? For what? Yeah, exactly. For being an entertainer. You ready to go live i'm ready to go live all right we're going live oh my god and we are live we were just talking about howard stern maybe you can look that up andrew we're just talking about howard stern and i i want to say that like by serious radio or something like that he was offered some crazy amount of money, but it was also a long time ago. So maybe my imagination is running wild, but I want to say it was like something like $100 million or something or $50 million.

Was it Sirius or XM Radio? Yeah, either one. I don't remember. But I know that he got off of syndicated network radio, and people were like, what the hell is that? And then I think, I'm not sure if it was the same time or if it was before that, that Adam Carolla jumped ship. And he was like, screw you guys, I'm just going to start a podcast. Everybody's like, what in the F is a podcast? What are you talking about?

What are you doing with a podcast? And then Stern started kind of talking shit about podcasts after a while, right? Mm-hmm. He's like, that's cute, your little internet radio show. And the next thing you know, it's bigger than anything. Yeah, they're huge now. I mean, I don't know what the radio does, but there's probably some shows on the radio that are probably still pretty big. So it looks like it was $80 million a year from Sirius.

Nobody's making that podcast, and that's for sure. Well, we don't like to disclose that info. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. $80 million a year. Wow. That's just like, now my mind's really blown. So I was thinking like it was a 10-, a hundred million dollars, something or other.

I didn't know he was that rich. It looks like it might be even 90 now. Uh oh. The internet's going wild. Yeah. Yeah. Howard Stern was amazing. He had all kinds of like, he had porn stars on there and stuff.

And then, um, I don't know, every once in a while he'd get serious or something, but then he would reign the show back in by holding his ass cheeks up to the microphone and just letting one rip. Yeah, so it did look like it was a 12-year deal after all. Jeez. Well, whatever the case is, he made a... A fuck ton of money. Yeah, he made an insane amount of money.

That was fun to listen to. But, you know, I think what Joe Rogan's doing now is he's kind of, you know, in my opinion, he's, he's leading the charge. He's leading the way. Yeah. And, uh, he's showing people, you know, uh, a different, different form of entertainment because he's not just, even though he's a standup comedian, his show is not like funny. Um, it can be at times cause he's hilarious. He's got an amazing sense of humor, but, um, the other day they had a guy on there who's talking about cleaning up the ocean,

ridding it of plastics and stuff like that, you know? So it's, it's, uh, interesting what he's doing. And then he'll have somebody on there talking about flat earth or space or, or whatever the hell's going on. Yeah. I can't remember. Well, do you remember when we were in Texas with Kyle Kingsbury and he was like, you guys got to listen to this episode about mushrooms and fungus and stuff. Yeah. It was, it was so interesting. Like everything that guy was saying. And he was like, you're the most requested guest I've ever had on. I'm like, that's fucking crazy.

But yeah, he, he goes all over the place. He'll have, you know, an MMA fighter. He'll have some conspiracy theorists. Yeah weirdo or whatever When I went to listen to Joe Rogan do stand-up he talked about like psychedelic drugs a lot and I was like super interested Not that I've ever messed with any of them but I was just like what I don't know anything about this world and he was saying like what each thing did and everything and I was like What that? about this world and he was saying like what each thing did and everything and i was like what the hell what the hell's going on you know what what is what is he even talking about we just

got to get a shaman ready and we'll have just a crazy ayahuasca trip here at the gym oh my god i guess so his uh his gym was super cool and we're continuing to uh you know ramp up what we have here uh we got some bodybuilding stuff coming in, got some leg presses, preacher curl, a preacher curl, Smokey. Just one preacher curl machine? Smokey's going to be preaching on that preacher curl all day long. He's just going to move his desk to the preacher curl machine. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I'm going to do the same. I need to have bigger biceps. And, uh, we have a shoulder press. We got a bench press, um, leg extension, leg curl. We got two leg curls. Actually we have a, uh, Atlantis leg curl,

which in my opinion is one of the better leg curls I ever used. I just, uh, it's a standing, you know, one leg at a time type deal. And, uh, that one's a really good P anyway. It's just, uh, excited to get that stuff in here to get a sick pump. It was from a company called, well, the one hamstring curl is from Atlantis, but the rest of the stuff is from a company called Prime, and we got to use that stuff when we were in Florida. Remember we were on that leg press, Andrew? The one at ASPI?

Yeah, yeah, ASPI, and we could switch the weights around and everything. We got that sick leg pump going. But the shoulder press is the one that got me. Oh, I think crushing is bad. Because you can alter the weights to be harder in the beginning, middle, or at the end. And you're thinking, like, okay, fuck, okay, the middle was way too hard. Like, I can't wait to get momentum to push at the top. And you get there to the top, and you're like, oh, wait, this sucks equally as bad as the

previous one. Yeah, it was, it was bad. And then I used their, uh, I used the preacher curl when I was there and got a pump within, I don't know, like four minutes, you know, with no warmup or anything. So it's, it's kind of nice because, uh, dumbbells and barbells and stuff, it's kind of hard to get warm. It's hard to get, um, it's hard to always get a pump. and stuff, it's kind of hard to get warm. It's hard to get, um, it's hard to always get a pump.

Uh, you have to be in a certain like mood to, uh, just crush the day, you know, to, uh, to be able to get a pump from some of those other movements sometimes. And sometimes your nutrition has to be on point too, but with some of these machines where you get the isolation work in there, um, I think it ends up being a lot easier. And that's what they're made for. It's a specific spot in the gym to go and do a very specific thing. And I've mentioned this before, but, you know, you tell people, hey, yeah, you can stretch anywhere you want in the gym, you know. And if there's nowhere to stretch, then nobody stretches, you know. But our monolifts are where people squat. Our deadlift platforms, even though you can deadlift wherever you want.

That's where people deadlift and our bench presses are where people bench. It's like, you need a designated area for some reason. Yeah. Well, like yesterday, the vibe was pretty cool. Everyone was deadlifting. I mean, you had this, the biggest gym you've ever had and everyone's in one corner. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, it's, uh, and also it's, it's, um, like extremely inconvenient to lift together. Cause you got to keep changing, pulling the weights off. Um, but there is something about, you know, being together. I always, I've always said that, uh, and that's why we don't allow headphones in the gym because you know, if you're, if you want to have headphones on and you want to be in your own little spot, then you should either A, come in on off hours or B, you should go to a different gym because this gym is about being part of a team and being there for each other. And I get requests all the time. People ask, how do I get to your gym? How do I do this? How do I do that? And the gym is free and it's

wide open on Saturdays and Sundays. We do request that you take the time to hit us up on Instagram, which is just at super training gym. That way we can accommodate, uh, however many people are going to show up on that particular day. Uh, and we're just aware. And then people, you know, my, our staff can, can make you aware of whether I'm around or not. Um, but the whole point of all this is that, uh, you know, power lifting is difficult. It hurts and it's tough to do it on your own. And there's, there's like scientific evidence that points to when you have people cheering for you and you have people getting excited for you, that it then excites you more

and helps you to work harder. So, um, why not take advantage of that momentum and want to take advantage of, of what's going on. There's going to be days where you go to do a set of deadlifts and, uh, somebody says, yeah, we're doing sets of eight today. And you're like, Holy, like, I don't, I just don't want to do that. That's the last thing I want to do. But if the whole group is doing it, you know, um, that's what they say in the military. That's why they say they fight rather than run is because the guy next to him is doing the same thing. And obviously what we do here at super training is to a much lesser extent than, uh, what our men and women are doing fighting for the country and stuff like that. But it just kind of drives that point home

and it's just easier, uh easier when you do it together. It also just makes the logistics of everything easier. Let's say like we're going from one machine to the next or one piece to the next. If we're going from doing bench press to doing overhead press like we did the other day, well, there's some like breaking down of other equipment and there's some moving around of different things. and there's some moving around of different things. And I remember for years lifting by myself. BFT was not a very good lifting partner back in the day.

And I often found myself lifting by myself at Gold's Gym some 20 years ago in Los Angeles, California. My brother was a bullshit lifting partner too. And Mike O'Hearn was too busy fixing his hair and bouncing his pecs to be around. So I was often by myself and it sucked to set stuff up to try to just even set up a rack, you know, after you're waiting, you know, 10 minutes for a rack, it's just kind of, kind of a pain in the ass. And that's not too bad. Cause you're like, okay, well that's my first movement. But then you go to another movement and you got to like reset everything and keep doing that. When you train as a group and you train as a team, it's not really a problem because someone's like, oh, I'll grab that bench. And then while you're tinkering with the rack or whatever it is you're doing, it's just any barrier of any, the larger the barrier of entry into anything, the harder it's going to be for us to get momentum to even get started in the first place. Right.

You know, and when you think about like from a business perspective, the easier that you can make things and the more convenient that you can make things, the more money that you're going to make. You look at, you look at MySpace came along, you know, years ago and my, there was probably other social media platforms before MySpace came along, but they made it easier for people to have a profile. They made it easier for people to Facebook, kind of similar. Then Instagram came along, and Instagram was probably the easiest form. They weren't the first. You don't always have to be the first, but you have to be good and you have to be better. But you have to be good and you have to be better. So those are all things to try to figure out.

When you think about something like YouTube, I can send my mom and dad a YouTube clip. They can click a button and they can watch it. They don't need to subscribe. They don't need to give out their email address and their zip code. They don't need to. There's no area. There's no level. There's no hurdle for them to jump over in order to get involved in it. And so that's what we try to think about here at the gym. And that's what I try to think about here as a business is how do I get more people to train?

You know, and I think about what are the barriers of entry into training? train. You know, and I think about what are the barriers of entry into training? I don't know how many people I can actually get excited to just flat out go from their couch to powerlifting. That's a tougher message and I need a larger platform for that. I would need to be probably on TV for that one, you know, for that one to really strike home. But I think what I can do is I can make people feel more comfortable while they're training. And that's what the slingshots for, that's what the knee sleeves are for. And that's what the wrist wraps are for, because I've been training for a long time and I've had every nagging injury that you can think of. And I've tried just about every training

program that you can think of. And, uh, it's hard, you know, to do this stuff day in and day out, you know, this lifting career of mine started, um, you know, almost 30 years ago. Yeah. Almost, almost fucking 30 years ago. And, uh, it's not easy, you know, coming in day in and day out and getting these things done. And so for me, the knee sleeves, the elbow sleeves, all the different stuff just makes it easier. Training with the team, having Smokey, you know, yell at me to, to jump in with the group and just stick it out. Do more bicep curls. Do more bicep curls. Yeah. I remember like a while back when we were filming Hustlemania, you were talking to somebody about making like your own app, like whatever happened with that one.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, you know, shit, shit goes sideways. So the, uh, the guy that we had, um, you know, doing our website, we, we had to detach ourselves from him because we were having a lot of website problems and he was going to be the guy that was going to do the app. And, uh, so that, uh, fell the wayside, but a lot of things, what I've learned in business is that, you know, it's okay for ideas to take a while. It's okay for things to,

uh, to take time, you know, the slingshot pushup and even the slingshot itself was slingshot was like, um, three or four years in the making. The slingshot pushup was like two years in the making knee sleeves were something I pushup was like two years in the making. Knee sleeves were something I visited once and then I stopped and then I restarted again and came back to them. And then as far as like the app goes, it's something I probably do need to revisit because there's a lot of things that can be done with an app, especially when it comes to the nutrition side of things. When it comes to the book, The War on Carbs, I think it could really help people stay on track. Maybe it could have different information about restaurants they can go to, how they can order from certain restaurants and things like that. That'd be cool.

Again, lowering the barrier of entry, even for diet. Yeah, it doesn't have to. Not everything always has to be so difficult and so hard all the time. And I think that's, we, we do that for ourselves, you know, we do that all day for ourselves. And we're the ones that, um, as an individual, you just, you make up things in your head about why something's so hard or why you're not going to do something or why you're going to procrastinate or push something off. What I find really interesting is that so many things and so many people are motivated by like one singular thing. And it's a lot of times it's money.

And it's an interesting thing because there's some people that are just motivated because they maybe have like a creative side or an artistic side and they can't figure out how to make ends meet to save their lives. But then they have these cool creative ideas, but then are not sure like how to monetize them, how to turn them into anything. Yeah. They have zero organization. And then you got other people who most people that are really organized will always do pretty well with making money because they can figure out how to get tasks done because they can keep track of what needs to happen. Yeah. They can get from A to B. They can figure out how to get from A to B.

And I just I just find it all very interesting. Not that one way is wrong or right. I mean, they're they're, you know, they they're, they're different tasks, you know, and I think, you know, for myself in trying to think of new products and think of, you know, some of the things that we're developing here at Super Training, what I realized, you know, a couple of days ago, I got thinking about, you know, a company like Nike. And I was just like, man, you know, what did Nike do? You know, when you think about a company like Nike, like, man, Nike's so cool. They had Jordan, they had Bo Jackson, and they had everybody, you know, in between. And they just do stuff on a higher level than everybody. And they still do.

And they've been doing it forever. And not only do they compete with the other sporting brands, but they compete with like Versace and stuff. I mean, they're Nike is just, it's, it's out of this world what they've done, but they sold people on like a concept, you know, they've sold people on, they literally sold people air when you kind of think about it and you break it down into its smallest part, they sold people on thinking that air inside of a shoe was somehow a great thing. And not only did they convince the world that that was cool,

um, and through athletes like Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson, um, but they made Reebok kind of copy what they were doing in having like a pump shoe. Yeah. Oh, we're going to like,

people think air is cool. Well, watch this. We're going to, we're going to blow, we're going to blow up a shoe, you know, with tons of air everywhere.

Yeah. You never go full air. That's when they made a mistake. Was Griffey's shoes Nike also? I'm not sure. I'll have to look that up. I don't know. Ken Griffey jr yeah because i just know yeah in school like i think so you weren't shit unless you had nikes no yeah you had you

have to have that i mean they they do a great job making their shoes uh look aesthetic right they've done a good job you know branding that swoosh um but I, you know, I find that company to be not only, uh, creative, but obviously they're organized. They, they have their shit together in, in many, many different, uh, many different ways, you know? Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And then remember they had, uh, oh yeah, that's a, that's a cool, that's a crazy design. That's a crazy design. Nike Air Griffey. Yeah. That's a wild looking shoe. 150 bucks. Man, you know what?

I'm so lost when it comes to shoes now because my feet have gotten so fat. I keep losing weight, but my feet keep getting fatter and flatter. I don't know what happened. I think like the arches fell or something. I don't know. My golden arches. Yeah, I think I the arches fell or something. I don't know. My golden arches. Yeah, I think I was telling you. I don't think it was on the podcast, but like when we fly now, I have to take my shoes off.

See, here's what's funny about that. If I take my shoes off on the plane, I can't get them back on. I do worry about that, though. So they make, now they make,'ve seen those uh those finger toes or whatever right like the vibram five fingers yeah the weird shoes right yeah i've had a lot of people swear by them people say man it's great because it it doesn't have to really like fit your foot the way a normal shoe does seems impossible to get on and they look really weird you know they're impossible to get on i i tried them once and i kept getting like a couple toes stuck in one like you gotta keep those toenails

well groomed too if you're gonna wear stuff like that totally fucked in that department yeah same with me my toenails just rip raise yeah yeah sometimes i do too just because i'm too fat and too lazy to get down there and figure it out. But I lost all this weight and my feet are still, you know, fat as hell. Now they make, so much like the Vibram shoes, they make like a glove for your toes. See if you can Google that and try to find it because it's supposed to correct your toes. it's supposed to correct your toes. And I guess what people are saying is like, you have no idea how screwed up your toes are from being in your shoes for so long until you wear this product.

It's a corrective product to like get your toes headed in the right direction. It's like a therapeutic thing. But you're, you think about it, like you look at your toes, they're like all screwed up. They're all like, those are,

those are like socks. Okay. Let me see. I had it on my phone the other day. I'll look for it for a second. But it was just a lot of people were commenting and they were like, man, my feet. I never knew my toes were so messed up. I don't know if it's like advertising hype or whatever.

Is it like a sock? No, it's like a little bit of a. Where'd it go? I got another good one to drop on you guys. Uh-oh. A couple things. A couple things. Oh, here it is.

It tells this thing called YB practices everything. I don't know. It tells this thing called... My brother said it to me. It's supposed to restructure your toes. And my brother's like, I wonder what would happen if you wore it for squats. I was like, my whole leg would probably explode. Yeah. I don't know.

It just says YB on it. I don't know what that means. Anyway. It's a crazy looking thing. I'll send you this. Send me the link. I'll send you the, yeah, I'll send you the picture and then you can, uh, at least, uh,

I'll send it to your phone or whatever. So I heard this other thing too. I posted this up on Twitter. This is for Smokey. Mm. Hmm. They make a, they make a lollipop and it's not really a lollipop, but

they call it a lollipop. They call it electronic lollipop. You put it, you put it in your mouth and it gives you, uh, sensations and, uh, on your taste buds to, uh, help with craving. So if you crave like pizza, it can give you like a pizza sensation. If you crave ice cream, it can give you like an ice cream sensation. Oh, there we go. Now we're starting to get into yoga toes. Yoga toes. Oh, man.

That's amazing. Let me look. I got to look up. Stretching out those poor little toes. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's interesting.

Cause you can totally do that with your hand, but no possible way. Could you do that with your feet? Right. And you probably should be able to, I remember my kids used to do that when her babies, they'd like stretch and their little toes would stretch out. It almost looks like that person has like eight toes.

It's disgusting. We got to get some of those. That could be a present for everybody in the gym. Maybe it could help Jessica. I'm not fine. I'm supposed to talk about that on the air. Real quick, Jake K, I don't know

if maybe he, just kidding, he said he was less than a year ago, he was 404 pounds at 5'11", joined the war on carbs, and now he's 330. And 6'3". He's still growing. Hey, man, congratulations. That's amazing. That's crazy progress.

Okay, so this is actually a really good question. So he says he feels like he's plateauing now because he did this without actually like going to the gym or anything, just eating right. So should he, what should he, basically he's wondering what he should get into next. Should it be more powerlifting, hypertrophy, or what do you think? Just movement, man. Just moving around. You know, if you haven't been exercising, just get to a gym. And, you know, there's a lot of, of just moving, doing some cardiovascular training of some sort. Um, that'll, that'll keep your progress, uh, flying. If you really hate cardio type stuff, then you can, you could stick a little bit more to the weights, but I think, uh, any, any lifting, uh, that you insert at this moment, I think will be, uh, it will be a huge bonus. How much weight do you say he lost? Like a hundred pounds, right? I think will be a huge bonus.

How much weight did he say he lost? Like 100 pounds, right? Yeah, so he went from four, so he lost 70 pounds, basically. But I think it was Lane Norton. Yeah. Hopefully I'm not fucking anything up, but especially for the documentary or the nutrition movie. But I think he was saying like somebody who's considered obese or whatever, if they lose even just 50 pounds,

they're now just as healthy as anybody who's not, you know, something crazy like that. Yeah. So what he said is, uh, you see like most of your results in the first 10% of a body weight that you lose. So if you weighed 400 pounds and you lost 40 pounds, that's where you're going to see most of the health benefits, which is really interesting, really interesting. Uh, you know, who knows how they find these, these things all the time, but I always say there's probably some truths to most of the studies that we see, you know? Yeah. So for someone like Jake, he's, he's, he's winning. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's crushing it, man. That's, that's huge progress. And, uh, you know, you're gonna, you're always gonna have a plateau, um, that happens with everything. And, and it's not like you can just work harder and have it, have the plateau disappear. Um, lifting doesn't work that way either. You can't like just, you know, you can't lift weight. So

you're not ready for, um, that's what I've always liked so much about powerlifting is, uh, the patience and the persistence that it takes. And even when it comes to weight loss, it can be a tricky thing. I mean, you can sit there and go, yeah, I'm kind of cheating on my diet. I'm not like a hundred percent in, but even when you go a hundred percent in, it's like, you know, day one, day two, day three, you're like, oh man, I'm okay. Making pretty good progress. Day four comes and you gain two pounds and you're like, what the hell happened? I, which was just doing so good. And I was, I did everything right.

I didn't eat anything off the diet and drink anything off the diet. And I just all of a sudden gained two pounds. Well, that's just what happens. It doesn't matter what diet you're following. It was going to be like a lot of ups and downs. And you also probably for, uh,

this guy, he should probably not be on a, you know, strict diet all the time. You probably have some, uh, periods of time where you mess around with some fasting and you should have some periods of time where you don't have some periods of time where you make sure that you not only have your breakfast, but maybe wake up earlier than normal and make sure you get more calories and more nutrition.

You got to kind of switch things up. The body is really smart. Your liver will kind of be like, Hey, you know, your liver will get grumpy, especially on a keto diet. Um, and you'll produce less thyroid hormone. Thyroid hormone can help you lose, lose weight. And, and so there's probably like little things that he can for now, I think just lifting is the answer. Um, but he may also want to just switch things up a tiny bit, which is a very dangerous recipe for somebody who's been 400 pounds because he's got to be careful that he doesn't slip down that rabbit hole and end up just crushing pizza and cookie dough and all the things that I love. Yeah.

And I mean, another wealth of knowledge was today's podcast that went up on iTunes, uh, with Stan Efferding. Oh, who's that? Dude, it was fucking crazy. Rhino? Yeah, yeah. That guy doesn't know shit. That guy's so fat. Dude.

You ever notice that? Yeah. Fuck, that guy's fat. 50 years old and he couldn't be any fatter. He's so smart, though. He is. He's brilliant. And he's freaking jacked.

I hate him. Yeah, or at least he pretends to be smart. He just throws out these big words that more than half the time I don't know what he's talking about. I think he has a photographic memory. Oh, yeah. I think he does. Because he remembers everything that he reads. Yeah.

You were saying Bohr, too. Your brother. Yeah. Yeah. And my brother is really weird, though,, there's other things where he's just like an outer space for, you don't know what the hell's going on with that guy. Yeah. We got a question about someone doing their first meet coming up on Tuesday.

Smokey has a pornographic memory. You do. You can recall any. Yes. Fill in the blank. What should this guy's diet be like? Or I think it's a guy. Sorry. Yes. Any scene. Fill in the blank. What should this guy's diet be like? Or I think it's a guy. Yeah.

So, yeah, going into your first powerlifting meet, the main thing is if the powerlifting meet is close, it's not to change anything. That's the main thing, is not to change anything too drastically. I would also say losing weight, going into a powerlifting meet, is the worst way to perform well and gaining weight is probably a better way. But I also would just, uh, advise you don't change too much. I mean, maybe you want to try to eat a

little bit more going into the competition, because if you weigh two, three pounds more, um, you might be a little stronger. You know, you'll find that if you lose five pounds, pull-ups are that much easier. It's the same thing, same principle here. People that, uh, are cyclists. One of the main things going into, uh, some of those long ass races that they do is their body weight. They're, you know, think about like the Tour de France. I don't even know how long it goes for. It goes for seven. It goes on for days and days and days, right? Think about if you weigh three more pounds, you know, you're lugging that body weight around the entire time. So those guys, they specifically will go into competition kind of frail.

And that's why when they fall, they're done. Yeah. Because. 23 days. Yeah. Yeah. So it goes on for several weeks, basically a whole month. 2,200 miles.

You know, they have to make sure that their body can still function and everything. But for a powerlifting meet, man, just, you know, I would eat up, but just really, you know, be careful of the, that you're not taking any food that's going to upset your stomach. It's going to throw you off. And then the other thing on that too would be the day of the competition. You want to make sure that you're eating foods that are going to digest easily and things you're used to. You know, you don't want to throw in out of nowhere something you're not used to and be like, oh my God, I'm going to shit myself on a deadlift. Any advice for selecting weight, like his opener and stuff? Yeah.

The first attempt should be something you can do for three reps comfortably. Second attempt should be something that you can do for a double pretty comfortably. And a third attempt, you should go for it. If you got to that point, if you miss anything because of any commands or anything happens, take the same weight again. Don't go up and wait. I've seen a lot of lifters do that. They're like, ah, screw it. I can do it. I'll just go up and wait. And they add weight and sure enough, they miss it. And it just really throws off the whole entire thing. And what you're trying to do is you're trying to make as many lifts as you can. That's the only way you're going to have fun.

The only way you're going to have fun is, is to make a lot of lifts. Um, if it's your first meet, there's no such thing as a PRs because they're all going to be PRs. And so whatever you end up with is what you end up with. Um, all you have previously to that is gym lifts, which every other bro in the world has already. Were you nervous going into your meets? Uh, yeah, you know, I, I get pretty nervous in the warmup room, you know, when you're,

when you're in a warmup room and everyone's like fighting to, um, sometimes like almost literally fighting, everyone's kind of fighting for position, uh, to get their warmups in and especially like geared powerlifting. It just takes so long sometimes to warm up. Um, and so, yeah, I'd get, I'd get pretty nervous, uh, at those times. And then, uh, during the actual meet now it's fine. You know, once, once the meet started, um, I just didn't have time. I didn't have any time to be nervous, you know, handling those big, I would be nervous for other lifters when I'd watch other lifters go. I'd be like, oh my God, I can't believe this guy's lifting so much weight. This guy's crazy. He's going to

bench 700 pounds. This is nuts. Uh, but I, when I would go, it was almost like an out-of-body experience in some weird way. That's cool. This is kind of an interesting question from Rob, because I'm always confused as shit when I see you guys going to town on the smelling salts. It sounds like he's never tried it before, but is that something that you would, I don't know, give them some advice on going from not using them to using them for a meet? Yeah. Again, I wouldn't introduce anything new. I think it's, I think it's kind of a mistake. Um, I'd also be careful with your caffeine on that day because people tend to, they'll, they'll load up on it in the morning. Um, you know, cause they're, they have a power of the meet and they're excited. So they'll take pre-workout and stuff like that. I don't think you should do anything like that. If you're

going to, if you want to use anything like that, I would do it later on in the competition. Um, I think for your squats and everything, you're going to be plenty hyped up. You'll be plenty excited. Just make sure you get a good warmup in. Um, and then if you need it for bench or deadlift and then use it, but I've, man, I've gone through thousands of milligrams of caffeine in power with the meats before and got to the deadlift and, and, uh, 135 feels like 600 pounds and you just, you're, it's got that hollow feeling where you're extremely tired. Uh, but you're also a little like antsy and you have like anxiety cause you've had so much caffeine in your system. It's just, it's's just not working so i'd be really cautious of that gotcha uh sean's wondering if

uh the 600 pound bench is still in the cards or is that off the cards now hey man you never say never you know who the hell who the hell knows um you know you've been just focusing on just being healthy yeah and that was one of the things that kind of. Yeah. Maybe I'll make everybody wait till I'm 45 or 50. I don't know. Uh, main,

main thing for now is, uh, to continue to try to get my blood work better. And it's been pretty good. There's been a couple of things that I'm not that happy with. So I'm trying to make those things better. Um, and,

uh, I still want to get leaner, but I'm trying to just take my time with it since I've already lost so much weight. Um, try not to really like dive down, uh, too hard, uh, you know, with anything. So probably be probably within the next two weeks or so, I'll probably start, uh, actually like really like cutting and, uh, get a little more serious about it because uh i'm going out to uh uh first form um they have their summer smash i think it's called okay they got that big event going on and uh i'm gonna be out there and i'm gonna have to be jacked and tanned for that right got a big old big old announcement that going to make out there, which I'm really pumped about. Hey, back to this lollipop. So this is like a scientific lollipop. It's electronic, and they've been studying it in Singapore. It's developed by engineers, and it's a digital lollipop.

So, yeah, it can help curb cravings by giving your taste buds like certain sensations. That is just, that is just crazy. So it can give you like a salty, give you sweet, give you sour, give you bitter, whatever the hell you're looking for. And I post that up on Facebook, on Twitter. And then this guy wrote in and he seemed to have a lot of insight on it. He wrote to me and he said, I got a meat lollipop that will end all your cravings. I appreciate that dread. And then his emojis were like a thing of meat and then a thing of steak and then a thing of bacon and then the American flag.

Are you finding it? This is, I guess, the lollipop in development. And they're saying that it can simulate taste or some shit like that. Hey, man, any time we start making stuff like this, everything always turns into sex. So I wonder if they have a thing that they can simulate some uh some hey nowness on this thing right it does drive whatever uh industry you know yeah you're gonna be like hey i want to taste some pussy and be like wait what well what what what kind do you want you know you just you just push a button and there you go.

Right on cue. So on the screen right there, it shows spicy, sour, lemon. Minty. I don't like mint. I'm not a mint person. Are you a mint person? You like mint? What about like gum or fresh breath or whatever? No, I always like to have bad breath

i like to uh blow everyone's uh nostrils up with my bad breath no even even like certain gums like i don't like um spearmint i don't like spearmint oh that's weird yeah i can't i can't fuck with that i i kind of hate that well uh mint chocolate chip ice cream can't do it that. I kind of hate that. Well, uh, mint chocolate chip ice cream. Can't do it. Well, it's funny because I feel like, I feel like I just brushed my teeth and I had been to a chocolate bar. It tastes awful to me.

What? So yesterday I was talking to Jessica and Marcus or maybe that was a couple of days ago. Maybe I was when we had a in and out. Marcus knows about food. Yeah. And so I was eating fries and you're like you're the only one that's eating fries everyone else has got flying dutchman it was your birthday yeah yeah so that's what i said i was like well it's my birthday jessica talked me into it

but i was like i'd rather be eating this than like a cupcake and marcus was like really like a cupcake you're not putting it up against anything good and i'm like well name anything any kind of sweet and i'll probably pick this and so they're naming off like you know oh he was kind of saying a cupcake's not that good yeah so i agree yeah i don't like cake anyway cupcake it's like a cake but they were looking at me like ice cream cake or go home so that's they're like ice cream cake and i'm like well you put two things that i don't necessarily love together it doesn't make them any better. Like now, now I'm just having cold teeth while I try to bite into ice cream or bite into cake. And they were looking at me like I was a fucking weirdo.

I was like, dude, I just, I'm not into sweets. Yeah. Some people, some people like, uh, crunchy, salty stuff. That's it right there. Um, you know, some people like, some people just absolutely love potato chips or French fries and some of that stuff. I've always kind of thought that stuff's a waste of time. I always just be like, I don't understand.

But at the same time, I do like pizza a lot. I mean, pizza is not really crunchy, but it's more salty. Yeah, it's pizza and fries for me. And my mom's crepes. There's a big difference. You know, there's a big difference with pizza, though. You know, like pancakes are kind of pancakes, you kind of pancakes, and there's degrees of it all. Waffles and French toast, they're kind of all similar.

Whether you go to Black Bear Diner or Denny's or whatever, they all taste amazing. They're all really good. whatever. They all taste amazing. They're all really good. But when it comes to French fries and pizza, where you get them from really is a big deal. And then French fries are just done. If they're cold at all, you're kind of screwed. Nachos are like that. Nachos always seem like such a great idea. And they are amazing

It's like one of the better foods on the planet work. I'd rather just have tacos It's a lot of work and then yeah, it gets all over your hands and then you smell like that the whole day But then it's it also just gets soggy You know, like I'm really missed out like fuck. Yeah Kyle Rice has been doing the carnivore diet He's trying to lose weight, but he's wondering if condiments are like kind of like a waste, like to do it all together. Should he lose the condiments like ketchup, mustard and hot sauce or leave them in there? I think sometimes some of those things boil down to, you know, how long have you been dieting for?

If you're like a veteran dieter and you've been doing you've been messing with diets for a while and you want to try to get the most out of it. dieter and you've been doing, you've been messing with diets for a while and you want to try to get the most out of it. And I'd say, yeah, ditch everything, you know, go in hardcore and, and do the carnivore diet and see how it works. You know, try three, four, five days of just eating pretty much meat, kick out the vegetables, kick out the condiments and, uh, you know, salt, pepper, um, is, you know, you can have, you know, with you can have some butter. That could be your condiment is butter and maybe some like eggs or something like that. But, you know, I think that it depends, you know, if you haven't really dieted before, then I think you should be a little bit more cautious. And I think you should be a little bit more careful and just just realize that it's a huge step beyond wherever you were before.

You know, we have a hard time, you know, keeping that in our fat heads that, uh, if you, um, are deadlifting 225, maybe you don't want to deadlift 225. Maybe you want to deadlift 250, but you're not there yet. You know, so you have to continue with that, with that particular weight and you just, wherever you're at is where you're at. And you have to understand that it's still better than you did before. I think we have a tendency to kind of beat ourselves up and be like, oh man, you just want to be better. You always want to be better off than where you were before. I think his problem is, and I'm not trying to be too offensive, but he has carbs in his name. His name's Kyle Rice.

Oh, man. Well, maybe he's trying to go vertical. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. So if he does something like the vertical diet, he might have a little bit more success that way. We got my boy Eddie Cohn coming in this week. Oh, shit. That's going to be awesome.

We got Coach House on the roster as well. We're going to do two podcasts, probably in the same day, probably both on Friday. Coach House is the Carolina Panthers strength conditioning coach and has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He is, you probably don't want me talking about this, but he's one of the highest paid strength coaches in the world because he's been a strength coach for a really long ass time.

He's coached at ASU. He's coached a bunch of different colleges and basically coached his way. It's actually a really cool story. Hopefully we can get him to tell it on the podcast. on the podcast coached his way around the United States, working his way back to where his wife wanted to live, uh, which was where they live now in, in, in North Carolina. Um, but it took him like a decade to do that, you know, and she's, you know, um, they've, they've been together for a long time, but she stayed by his side the whole time. And he kept saying, babe, I promise you, you know, a couple of years, like we'll keep, you know, and he, he started out, um, more on the West coast and just kept inching his way and

inching his way, inching his way. He's like, see, I told you we're getting closer. We're getting closer. And, uh, I think it's a cool story because, uh, you know, I think sometimes we look at people and we think that, uh, they're doing it on their own and, uh, they're not, you know, we always, well, we need help. We need support. And so it's cool that he's doing that. And he's you know, he's just a consumer of the iron game, man.

That guy, you're not going to find a coach that knows more than him. He knows a lot. He's also super fired up. Kind of has that old school, like I'm going to pull my shorts up a little too high, coaching thing going on. Hork him. Yeah, he's going to pull my shorts up a little too high coaching thing going on. Hork him. Yeah, he's going to hork him up.

Yeah, he used my word I taught you. Yeah, he's going to hork him way up there. He's got him like way up over the belly button. And he's in his 50s and he's still deadlifting over 500 pounds. I'm super pumped to have him on the podcast. And obviously, you know, what the hell? Ed Cohn, like, what can I say about that guy? We got Ed Cohn and Jesse Burdick and Stan Efferding, uh, all here for the, uh, seminar, free seminar.

That's, uh, April 22nd starts at 10 AM. I think doors are going to open at like nine. I think we're going to try to shut this thing down at around two, but the seminar actually ends at one, um, just so we can get everybody off to where they need to be. Ed Cohn has to head back to Chicago. His mama isn't doing so well, so he's got to get back to her to attend to that and really appreciate him coming out, especially, uh, at a time like this, where his mom's not doing so well, but he's been a good friend for a long time as well. And I'll explain the story to you a little bit. If I can get the chronological order correct, I probably can't because I ain't that smart. But basically what happened was Stan came to Super Training Gym years ago. I saw him doing some lifts on YouTube.

He did a 20-50 total. And I think it was on powerliftingwatch.com at the time. I was like, oh, my God, who is this guy? And with the bald head and just his look and the way that he kept screaming, he wasn't screaming anything that I could recognize his words. So I was like, is this guy German? What's the deal with this guy? And the name, name Effording, you know, I didn't know what was going on. I thought he was foreign, whatever the case was. And, uh, I was like, well,

shit, I'll try to hit him up. And I browsed around and I couldn't really find any information on him. And, uh, I did find out that he was a bodybuilder and I was like, oh, I'm like, he's a bodybuilder, but he just came into powerlifting out of nowhere in total 2050 and he's not wearing any powerlifting gear. And at this time, actually, there was no raw powerlifting at the time. I repeat, there was no raw powerlifting at the time. Super Training Gym and Stan Efferding are largely responsible for the raw powerlifting movement, period. And probably Stan more so than anything. But when we came together,

it ended up being a good marriage that ended up showing everybody that you don't have to be fat to be a powerlifter. But Stan came in and he threw some money on the table and said, I want you to train me. And I was pretty broke at the time. So not only broke, but fat. And so we started working together. And I threw everything at him that I possibly could. I quickly learned that, you know, with an athlete like Stan, it's not a great idea to make too many changes, but we made some small tweaks and those things ended up having huge reward. I learned a lot from him, from coaching him.

I learned a ton of different things. Probably the first thing that I learned was when he went to squat, he had a little bit unusual squat style where he would descend really, really slow. squat style, uh, where he would descend really, really slow. And so on day one, I was like, well, you know, down fast, up fast. It's, you know, that's what we kind of learned. Uh, we can take advantage of our, uh, stretch reflex. And if we go down fast, up fast, that's what they teach you with Olympic lifting. The faster that you can go down, the faster you can pop right back up. Right. Well, Stan, you know, started his powerlifting career at an older age. And, uh, I think at the time he was mid forties when he was, uh, hitting some of these lifts. And so, uh, Stan was moving super slow on the descent,

probably six, seven, eight seconds on the lowering portion of the lift, which is really, really rare for a raw powerlifter. You see that quite a bit in geared power lifting, but it's very rare in raw power lifting. So I tried to have him speed up and, uh, he quickly kind of lost his balance, even with just like three plates and it just didn't look right. And so, uh, you know, I watched him go again and I'm just sitting there scratching my head and I can't figure it out. I'm like, that doesn't look right. I'm like, okay, you know, go back to the way you were squatting before. And, uh, so he did. And, you know, he, he worked up to some weight. He worked up to about five plates and moved it around for a couple reps. So his knees were bothering him a little bit. And I was like, well, you know,

your stance is pretty close. Why don't we open that stance up a little bit? I mean, you know, a lot of, uh, a lot of people have had a lot of success with squatting real wide because when you squat wide, it creates almost like an internal suit and it locks up your hips. And therefore, it's hard to get below parallel. And so that's why some people choose not to squat that way because it is a lot on your hips, kind of hurts in some way. Um, but when you learn to squat that way, it can have a great impact because it can be a really good, uh, stopping point for your squat because you have the stances wider and getting more tension from the hips. And years ago in powerlifting before they had powerlifting gear, that's the way a lot of lifters squatted.

They just squatted as wide as they could with their feet pointing straight forward. So we took Stan's, uh, stance out and stance out and he went to do another set with 500 and he was just flying with it. I mean, the weight was just popping off his back and I was like, holy shit. I was like, this is a, this is a little bit different type of type of person, you know? And on that particular day, I think we had him work up to about six plates and, and called it a day. But then after that, I was kind of looking at his head positioning. He kind of kept looking down. He was looking almost straight down at the ground. And, um, you know, I, I've been powerlifting for a long time and I've been trying to, you know,

figure out some of these, uh, things with my shitty squat. I kept rounding over in my squat. I was like, what is wrong with my squat? And I kept trying to arch up and I kept trying to keep my chin up and my head up and all these different things and nothing was ever working. And, um, when Stan came in was around the time I met, uh, Kelly Sturette. So all these things were kind of coming together. So I had Stan pick his chin up on his squats. And again, he lost his balance. Even with the lighter weight, we had, it went back down to about three plates and it just didn't look right. And I was like, man, that's dead. Look like shit. And he's like, Biggs, if my head's not down, I lose my balance. He's like, that's why I like my head down. I was like, all right, let me see you go, you know, with the head down again.

So he went with the head down and boom, you know, he just knocks the weight, you know, 15 feet in the air, pretty much off his back because he's just so damn strong. I was like, all right, well, it looks like, you know, your stance should be wide. It looks like you should keep your head where it is. And we made some adjustments with where he kept the bar and some things like that. Um, but what I noticed with him and what, what might be impactful for a lot of you guys listening right now is that your head doesn't have to be up for some of you out there. It has to, and for some of you guys listening right now is that your head doesn't have to be up for some of you out there. It has to, and for some of you out there, it doesn't have to. So play around

with that, play around with your stance. The current stance that you have right now might not be the stance that you're using two years from now. So you always want to try to check, just double check, triple check, maybe when you're warming up and maybe when you're, um, even when you finish a workout, just check and see, you know, see, see how the, um, uh, how the different stances feel for you, see how they impact you and see if you're stronger with a slightly different stance. You need not, not really sure until you try. And so, you know, as Stan and I were going through this, uh, this process, um, we were trying just to learn more about power of things. Stan would send me, um, uh, or I was trying to teach Stan more and more about power of things, teaching him who the,

who the players were in power of things. He didn't know anybody. He didn't know any of these names or anything. Occasionally he would send me a video and be like, who's this guy? Be like somebody deadlifting, like 860 pounds or something. And, uh, he and I got talking one day and we got talking about Ed Cohn. And, uh, we were just like, yeah, Ed Cohn, just absolute beast. You know, what's the deal with this guy? You know, he's had all these records and stuff. And I said, you know, actually Ed Cohn, he actually helped my brother at a powerlifting meet. My brother was a kid. He helped wrap his knees. And, uh, Stan was like, no way. And he's like, you know, Ed Cohn. I was like, nah, I don't really know him. I mean, I, I send messages to him and stuff. I, I actually never met him. Um, and I actually used to troll on powerlifting, uh, on a powerlifting watch. I used to always write

in and I'd always say, uh, like you're not Ed Cohn. Anytime anybody did anything that was remotely good and powerlifting, I'd always shit on them and say yeah but you're not ed cone and it'd always start like a huge thing and people would be like can't you just congratulate somebody and i'm like no fuck you guys you're not ed cone you don't understand was that under your name or was that when you were jackass or whatever it was yeah it was just under like a random random name some offshoot of like Jackass or something like that. Anyway, so, you know, Ed Cohen was somebody that we were talking about quite a bit. And Andy and I were discussing possibility of having a magazine. And I was sitting there one day thumbing through Powerlifting USA and I was like, this

magazine is shit. This thing's crap. There needs to be a magazine that focuses in on the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the best in the business. And this magazine focuses on like some 65 year old guy that deadlifted 185. I'm like, who gives a fuck about that guy? Come on. And that's the whole premise of that magazine was like that. That's why people bought it. People bought it because they'd see their name in print in there because they print out some of the meats. And people were like, I'm in Powerlifting USA. I was like, this is the sad side of Powerlifting.

This is the side of Powerlifting that I don't want people to even know about. The side of Powerlifting where everybody gets a trophy. It's just absolutely pathetic. So I was like, fuck this. And Andy, you know, she was like, well, we can make our own magazine. I was like, oh, we can? She had a lot of background in magazines. She worked for a few magazine companies at the time.

And we started to, you know, talk about it more and more every day. At the time, we didn't have much money. There was no Slanger. There's no Slanger Mansion. There's no Slanger Mobile. There's no slinger mansion. There's no, no slinger mobile. There's no slinger, nothing. There's no slingshot at all. And, um, so I was like, well, what is it, you know, what does this cost? Like, you know, what do we got to do? And she's like, well, you know, it won't cost too much, but anything was too much at that point. We just didn't have any dough. And, uh, I talked to, you know, I was talking to Stan about it and, um, I was like, yeah, I'm going to have Ed Cohn on the, on the cover and I'm going

to do this, this and this. And Stan said, you know what? He's like, I think I can get it paid for. And so Stan worked out some deals with, uh, Flex Wheeler at the time and Stan got advertising for power magazine. And I think Stan paid for like the other half of it. Um, and the first time that all three of us were together, uh, we're at, was at the Olympia where we had a power magazine with the first issue, um,

of power magazine with Ed Cohen on the front. So that was, uh, I mean, that was many years ago. I don't even know what the hell year that was uh i mean that was many years ago i don't even know what the hell year that was it's probably um shit the slingshot is uh about eight years old um and so that was probably like not that was probably like nine years ago or something like

that yeah that was probably about nine years ago. Yeah. And, you know, and so Stan actually paid for Ed Cohn to fly out to Las Vegas to be at that event. And Stan paid for a couple of hoes to be in. I should probably leave that part out. And we had Flex Wheeler there and he had his one of his cars there. And it was a good time. It was a lot of fun. And it was all three of us just trying to like we don't know anything about like the fitness industry. That was the first trade show that I really went to in that capacity. I've been there before, just like every other jabroni with a bag to get a bunch of free shit, you know, get some free bars and, and build up a

lot of protein farts on the day. But, um, that was kind of how we, we came together and I'm super excited about, you know, us being together, uh, for this seminar and to, uh, share some of that story with people. And we've all kind of grown together. We've evolved together. We communicate, uh, all the time still. Um, I could communicate with Stan a little bit more just cause he's, uh, he's closer and he's somebody that I, uh, get a lot of information, uh, on diet and stuff like that from, and he's somebody I've consulted for a long time, but, uh, it's just going to be a lot of fun to have, uh, all those guys, you know, all of us together.

Ed's a really amazing person, and he's somebody that also took, he saw what Stan could do, and he just took Stan under his wing. And Ed does that with all kinds of people. You don't have to be the strongest person in the room to get Ed Cohn's attention. If you're somebody that's excited and passionate about anything that you're doing, Ed Cohn's going to be a fan of yours because he's just that kind of person. But, yeah, he took Stan in his wing. Those two worked together on a few movements for Stan, too. And it was just, you know, we were just kind of off the races.

Stan ended up hitting a 2300 plus pound total breaking all-time world records he broke every record that he wanted to break he you know he was somebody that mapped it out and mapped out a giant plan of what he was going to do and how he's going to do it and he just went out there and he did it much the same way Ed Cohn did it. And when you watch some of those old videos of Ed Cohn lifting, you only see Ed Cohn be excited normally after a lift. You know, a lot of times it's after he lifts. Ed Cohn has squatted over 1,000 pounds in competition. We're watching a video right now, and it's, all these guys have these Zubaz pants on, these MC Hammer pants.

And they, that are American flag print. And Eddie's squatting, you know, tons and tons of weight. But yeah, Ed Cohn squatted over a thousand pounds. I think he benched like 585. Ooh, that's when he took his tumble at the Mountaineer Cup. That was brutal. Not a lot of people know this mountaineer cup. That was, uh, brutal. Not a lot of people know this about Ed Cohn. Ed Cohn was actually banned. He was like flat out banned from powerlifting period. And, uh, we'll talk to him about that, um, on the podcast,

because we, we talked about him. We, we talked about it with him a long time ago. Uh, but that was kind of many, many, many moons ago. But he was such a badass that he was pretty much banned from powerlifting. And there was obviously other reasons on why he was banned. But he was in the Drug Tested Federation at the time. And you can kind of read between the lines on why he was banned. But they made all kinds of rules against Ed Cohn. How low you can carry the bar on your back is an Ed Cohn rule. Because the guy was changing the game.

People didn't know what to do. They're like, well, he can't win every single meet every single time. It's like, well, yes, he can. Because he's that strong. There's also old video of people would always criticize his bench. There's a video of him benching 545 for an easy double. With a pretty close grip from what I remember. He also would behind the neck press 405 for reps, I believe.

You should try to look that up too. I mean, he's just ridiculous. The last time he came here to the gym was quite some time ago, but he you know what's going to happen when Ed Cohn comes here? The guy's going to cry when he sees what we've built up over here, it's going to be emotional for him because we've been such good friends over the years and he, he knows the vision, he knows the dream and he, he's very connected to it. And so I, I think, I think it might be kind of emotional for him. He's going to be super excited, but he, he might see some tears shed by him because he's very,

very emotional, but yeah, he had a really strong bench, strong upper body. And then obviously, you know, he's most well known. Here we got,

that's at least 315. This is the 405 one. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's just, yeah, that's,

that was like three. Yeah. That might've been, that might've been that might have been 405 because it might have had a dime on there yeah yeah i mean you got to keep in mind too he doesn't weigh a lot you know in that video his waist was tiny probably 190 pounds just it just doesn't make any sense some people are just strong you know everybody wants to talk about steroids and stuff and obviously ed did what he had to do to be the greatest power thrower of all time.

But, you know, that kind of strength is just not normal. It's, you know, highly genetic and obviously a huge, it has a lot to do with him working his ass off. And the other thing is too, is a 901 deadlift sumo at 220. And then also an 887 pound deadlift done conventional. The 887 pound deadlift done conventional was to break the all-time world record at the time that was held by Bill Kazmaier, who was a super heavyweight. And Ed Cohn broke the all-time world record that a super heavyweight had when he weighed 220. That kind of shit ain't ever going to happen again, I don't think. I don't think we'll see that, you know, anytime soon.

Although maybe Larry Wheels can do something. He's about, he's pulling 900 pounds, benching 600 pounds. I don't know if he'll ever have the squat to be able to do what Milanochev has done. That's crazy. So, yeah, correction. It was 400. 400 pounds? What a pussy.

Yeah, I know. He didn't add the five. Who else? Oh, Nick Platinum checked in. Oh, what up, Nick Platinum? He just said he pulled 405 the other day. That's great. Yeah, and then a 56-year he just said he pulled 405 the other day that's great yeah and

then a 56 year old working on a 405 squat and i say he has a ways to go though but still people are people are getting stronger all over the place that's awesome hey guys thanks for watching we're gonna hop on out of here make sure you check out the power project live we'll be live um on friday uh twice don't know the exact times but we'll be live with coach house um i think around 11 a.m and then we'll be live with ed cone probably later in the day i think he wants to come in and uh work out first and then uh hit up a training session and if you're in the area hit up podcast this sunday seminar here at super Training at Slingshot HQ. Yeah, and we're releasing some sort of shoe.

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