Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 12: The DIY Episode

Episode Date: June 27, 2016

 In this week's episode, we talk with Massenomics OG Ryan Anderson. Ryan is the gym's in-house equipment fabricator, so we asked him to share some of the secrets and methods he's learned on how to build equipment as well as muscle.  We also brought back special guest Ross Taylor this week as well. We have a companion article on HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN STRONGMAN DEADLIFT TIRES. These are basically the coolest way to deadlift, and they are a pretty damn easy DIY project. I highly recommend you check it out. Check out the podcast, read the article, make sure to LIKE and SHARE on Facebook, and don't forget to go on iTunes and give us a 5 star review.  As if that wasn't enough, scroll to the bottom of this page and sign up for our email newsletter. I promise we won't hassle you, it's really just a matter of keeping you in the loop when we've got something awesome going on. Thanks for listening, and Stay Strong.

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I was there. We all were there. Okay, well, we're live here in Massanomics studio. Live-ish. Recorded live. Recorded live, yeah. So we are here uh to my left is tanner hey everybody across the way we have return guest ross taylor oh yeah what's up and to my right is ryan anderson i'm your huckleberry that's right so ryan's ryan's ryan's this is first time on the show he's our second sit-in guest.

Ryan is kind of our resident everything manufacturer, I suppose, our fabricator down at Massanomics. So we're going to kind of get into some of the projects and stuff like that that he's done, a few things that he's done down at the gym, and just really just talk a little bit of shit. Sounds good to me. So I guess first thing, Ryan, how long have you been training in general, like with intention as opposed to just being around? And then how long have you been with Massanomics? Well, I probably started, well, training, I guess if you want to say training in a general sense you know i started doing push-ups and sit-ups you know back when you're when i was a kid you know 8 10 you know you see arnold schwarzenegger and all these want to get yeah all these all these action heroes that

you grow up watching on tv and you're just like, damn, you know, I want to be big like them. And so, you know, doing pushups and sit-ups and pull-ups and, you know, running all that. And then about when I was in the eighth grade, I started, well, you started playing football and wrestling. You were pretty big into wrestling, weren't you? Yeah, I really liked wrestling a lot. And I liked wrestling a lot more than football mainly because it was just me doing it and you know wrestling kind of has that blend of strength and stamina that you need so like uh I just you know there's a bit of a conditioning element yeah and I wasn't uh definitely like I

was not a very big kid, not that athletically gifted. And I just figured, well, if I can out-strengthen, out-work somebody, maybe that will count for something. So you start lifting weights and doing all that stuff. And then, you know, I guess. There has to be a time where just like every other kid that, you know, you just go straight to the bench press. Oh yeah. You started, started out.

It was, that's, I mean, I know Tanner and Ross and I have talked about this before, just how I wish that back when you're in high school and junior high, that you knew what a squat and a deadlift was so that you could have got started on this whole getting strong thing earlier because at the time it's just like well how much can you bench and how big you're on or even just some vague idea of programming that you're not just maxing out every single day some type of programming anything at all yeah like even if you just knew that like maybe i should do five sets of five every day on everything like Be like, all right, that's a good start. At least that's a start, yeah.

So I started doing that, and I grew up on a farm. And so I was working a lot because I was my dad's hired man. So, you know, we were throwing square barrels. Hashtag farm strong. Yep. And, you know, growing up, my dad was the strongest guy to me i mean he was just you know he could do all this stuff and it's just like geez i'm i'm just a bitch you know so you try to get up to his his caliber and whatnot and then oh you get out of school you

go into college start lifting a little bit and uh tanner and i we uh we're in the national guard together and we deployed once upon a time ago and that's kind of actually when i started dead lifting and squatting because when you're uh overseas across the pond there's there's a lot of supplements that you can take and there's a not a lot else there's a lot of muscle and fitness magazines so you're just like oh and everybody is you know it's like you think it's a lot of dudes that are just trying to push us more weight than the next guy so that's kind of where i started dead lifting and uh and squatting and actually seeing oh this is what strength is all about here and uh then uh we got home and you know, I had a period there. I had a congenital defect in my hip where if you can imagine like the femur,

the ball and socket of your hip not being like just real smooth and gliding real nice. Mine was more. Catching. Yeah, more just catching so i had to i had to have a surgery where i had my my leg dislocated from the hip and that all shaved down and put back in and uh i didn't i don't know for a while there i didn't really know what to think i kind of if you're going to be able to lift yeah i kind of i blowed it up to about 250 pounds and uh

I kind of, I bloated up to about 250 pounds and, uh, it definitely was not muscle. And, uh, I was, I was addicted to Mountain Dew and cigarettes. And, uh, then, uh, I don't know. I was on Facebook one day and Ross, Ross Taylor sitting here, he had posted, uh, something about this program called five, three, one by Jim Wendler. And I just started reading it, and I really, you know, I've always kind of been one of them dudes where I don't react good to positive reinforcement. It's more negative reinforcement.

And that's exactly what he is. And that's exactly what Jim Wendler is. He's worthless pieces of shit. So I was like, oh, I am worthless. I am a lazy bastard. So I ordered this book, this 531, the second edition by Jim Wendler and started out with that. I was actually living in Condi, which is Ross's hometown of about 280 people. One side says 280, one side says 220, so i don't know yeah but uh was living there and uh

started doing that and then uh you know after i started working in aberdeen and i moved here and started going to the y where all the big dogs were at and kind of you know just kept lifting and trying to you know that's kind of really where it's like oh I gotta hang with these guys and I gotta I gotta start pushing harder and I I just started to like it a little more and you know Tanner he started talking to me about you know he was gonna start these start selling hats and shirts and stuff I'm like yeah i'll get into that you know i like i'm always i always like a fresh hat you know especially a flex fit one and if anyone else out there likes a fresh hat massanomics.com there's a lot of fresh hats that's actually the freshest hat

you will find and then the one day you approached me and said hey i think i bought 2 000 pounds of weights on craigslist and all this stuff and i was like you know yeah i'd be in for that and that's kind of where it started you know there's so one of the ogs yeah so you were in on the og massonomics gym yeah kind of right off the right off the bat i guess i can be labeled an og uh right ryan got to get in on multiple uh 12, day-long trips of going to pick up weights for the gym. A lot of Minneapolis chest between you two. It was really, but really when I started lifting at the Y, that's really when I started. That for me is my renaissance, I i guess of lifting where i just was like doing

everything looking back now that's where you feel like you can tell like where i actually thought you were doing something yes that is where i felt like i started on the right track yeah so at the ripe age of 26 i was i'm 28 now so i'm about two years into the process i that is when i uh actually started lifting the correct way not it's crazy because i you know i still don't feel like i know everything and you know you know i'm 30 and i still feel like i'm learning yeah well it's better to start at 26 than not at all yeah and that's a i know tanner and i have talked about this it's like oh boy i wish if we were in high school there was this oh sorry burp there well i it's like oh boy i wish if we were in high school there was this oh i'm sorry burp there

well i it's probably important to mention that everyone is drinking today yeah you hear like a lot of clanking and burping because everyone's drinking beer yeah yeah it's it's memorial day weekend so we're getting we're getting pretty american and uh yeah i, I guess I lost my thought processor. So that'll happen. That'll happen. So we, well, one of the things we wanted to talk to you about today was we, you kind of had your hand on building really kind of from scratch a few of the pretty almost centerpieces of what we've got down.

Probably been one of the most important members that we've had. And I don't know what the first one we've had down at the gym, but I know the first one I saw was the big deadlift platform that we thought was not fucking making it downstairs. It all started with the single deadlift jack, and we thought that was – Yeah, the single deadlift jack. We thought that was the best thing we had down in that old gym. Yeah, I do remember.

And I remember seeing that one down in the old gym. I had seen the old school deadlift jacks on the internet. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, but not buying one. There's no way I'm going to buy one. I'll roll one plate up onto another plate. But you guys had one down there. I honestly didn't know that it was fabricated until a little bit later. I thought Tanner just found one somewhere.

No, when we got that, that was something. There was a stretch of, I think, a week and a half. Where we didn't have one. I got to build this thing because trying to put your weight on is not easy. I got to build this thing because trying to put your weight on is not easy. So you built that, and then eventually we made a few just the wooden and rubber platforms down there. And you did that, the big 8x8 platforms that we have underneath of our big power racks. Yeah. Well, yeah, it started out, like I said, I grew up on a farm.

Yeah, well, yeah, it started out, you know, like I said, I grew up on a farm, so I have a little bit of welding experience and a little bit of machining from in high school. I took a two-year course on machine tool, and I guess I have kind of an equivalent of associate degree in machine tool technology from that two years that i but uh yeah and so i went out to the farm there and uh you know you always there's a you go to any farm around here there's always scrap metal laying around and i i didn't really know any dimensions i just knew that from the floor to the middle of the bar is about eight eight and three quarter inches so i started from started from there and you know built that and granted our farm it's not we don't it's not like it's a in that shop you don't turn out you know

the best stuff but it doesn't have the best equipment but it works and uh so i did that and then yeah i've uh bought a squat rack for you know in minnesota and uh we had delivered and then just like ah you know it'd kind of be nice to have a platform underneath that and tanner had already built a four by eight one and just like dead lifting yeah just for dead lifting and then we were talking and it was like oh if we had an eight by eight one you know you could set the squat rack on it and then you'd have deadlift out in front of you have a little bit of deadlift you know it kind of make use of the most space there so we built that and uh then and we did uh just really recently just this weekend we built another one of those and i took quite a few pictures along the way so uh i don't know if

it'll be by the time that this podcast is out to you guys or not but there will be uh kind of a instructional article on how to do that if anyone else is interested in doing that yeah we're kind of looking forward i think we've got a couple of those in the works now yeah and uh something else that he's built that we'll talk about uh we at the time that this comes out we'll at least have one instructional uh informative article on how to build something that ryan has built the master the master and then you kinda what started building that deadlift platform or you know that you can't bands on us because you can do we're interested in them West West said yeah yeah I started

yeah I started following a guy on Instagram Matt winning and he is a big conjugate conjugate a guy and then I bought his uh being as i'm in the military yet uh bought his manual on uh because he's also a big really big into training the military yeah he uh he's contracted by the the u.s army rangers and the 82nd airborne and the fourth infantry division out of uh fort carson but he also works with a lot of firefighters and police departments on how to how to train to be strong and lessen your injury because tanner and i both know that's what i was just gonna military pt test is it's not it really does not test your fitness it tests you know it and it doesn't test what would be important for actually a soldier being in battle.

Yeah. If you're a soldier and you're, you know, under the gun and you're trying to move on an enemy position and gain the initiative, you're not going to be running two miles. You're going to be doing sprints. You're going to be gas. You're going to be lugging something heavy. Yeah, exactly. I don't think how fast you can run two miles in gym shorts and tennis shoes no it's relevant even you know and that's why that's why

i was really interested in matt winning getting back to the conjugate stuff because he uh he was saying you know all right you know let's say you know just an average soldier is about 185 pounds well then you add in all the gear that a u.s soldier carries now you're looking at this guy weighing about 260 275 just with his rucksack his rifle all the ammo he's got you know whatever else he's got to carry if he's you know a radio operator i mean what is he a heavy machine gunner you know all that so it's like but if you can let's say you know you can deadlift 405 pounds or 455 that you know 275 for that's what 65 70 well that's going to be 70 if your max is 455 70 of your max that's going to be a lot easier for you to drag that guy out of the

shit or you know just to be a force to be reckoned with you know you're going to be a lot easier for you to drag that guy out of the shit or just to be a force to be reckoned with. You're going to be a lot farther ahead than somebody that can run 10 miles in an hour and a half. Really, who cares? You're really weak, actually, if you can do that. Because in combat, there's also not going to be a barbell sitting there with four plates on each side that you need to pick up. But that...

If there was, we would kick ass. We would. And that is a lot more comparable, though, or it does transfer over a lot more to things that you would actually be doing, other than just running in a straight line for two miles. And then getting back to that winning, like conjugate is lot of like band pulls and stuff like that a lot of bands accommodating resistance with the chains so i you know we had the when we were going to move i said to tanner's like would you be would it be cool if i built a a steel frame for his the deadlift platform he made you know that had pegs on it so you could slide the bands over it and and tanner said yeah but

you know make it i've read that make it at least six feet wide instead of four because then you get the most stretch out of the bands i said oh no problem so there we go again powerful yeah so i i was really excited because this was like i had i'd made a chalk box to screw onto the post that we had sitting in the middle of our room and i just it was kind of when mass and i was came along i got back into making stuff and i've always enjoyed welding and i was i ran out specialty manufacturing and got the steel and went back and welded it all up and i was just you know super happy but unfortunately i had a month to wait before you could actually use it and then and then we got it there and then tyler

stone if you were like oh i don't think we can get it down the stairs and i was just oh in my head i was just like no cut it cut it in pieces so but it uh. It got down there, and it's nice. It's really. People have been doing a lot of banded pulls off of that, too. I never thought I'd be able to be at a gym that would have something like that. So, that's kind of nice. That's the stuff, too, that you just cannot do at a YMCA. Right.

You know what I mean? You know what I mean? It's not even to say a negative towards them, but that's just the way it is. It's not the way it works. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, that's one of those things too, that when you, when people get to take in like strength training seriously, that's the, those are the types of things that you see. You know, you, you see those things in strongman gyms, you see those things in powerlifting gyms.

For sure. You know, when you get to that next level, it's just kind of of the the way things are and you've either got one or you don't and um fortunately we got them so the other the other thing we got recently is the uh that i that i am really looking forward to getting down and uh getting a hold of is the the tie the deadlift tires yeah oh yeah we're so fucking awesome yeah oh yeah and that's what I was talking about earlier. We'll have an article out on that that shows you how to build those because that's probably one of the simplest things that you built, but also one of the coolest.

For sure. And visually, it's pretty cool to see. I walked in. I had no idea that they were getting built, that they were going to be there. And I went in, and they were kind of off in the corner so i i don't remember what i went back there for i went back to grab their tires yeah i went back to grab like a platform or something i i go back and i go oh shit so i sent tanner pictures right away like and i and the the problem was is i was there for like kind of a bro sesh. It was just going to be me and some dumbbells and the cable machine.

Because I was between workouts, and I was like, do I dare fucking put a barbell on these things? So I didn't do it yet. So I haven't even touched them yet, but they look like a blast. Do you want to tell us a little bit about that project or how you had heard of it? Well, that one, the idea from that came from tanner and i we went over to to uh we went on one of our 12 hour long drive sessions and uh

uh a bro sesh you know in the truck i guess and uh we get to we go to minnesota and we had to pick up uh was that when we yeah that's when we picked up the uh a bunch of atlas stones yeah and they we picked up the cable crossover and then we went to this dude in anoka minnesota and this dude is a uh a pretty legit uh strongman uh he's middleweight or a lightweight competitor he probably weighs about 185 pounds and he is just jacked yeah and he's freaky strong like i mean this guy can he showed us videos he uh can pick up and throw around a 300 pound stone which if anyone's ever messed with those that is yeah you might think 300 pounds a 300 pound stone like oh i can deadlift 315 well 300 pound stone is a whole different animal if you've tried to tackle it

and uh so we get to him and we're just looking around his garage he's got his whole you know he trains in his garage he deadlifts out in his lawn he flips tires along the road he was really a bad like a badass dude you're like jesus i do not want to screw with this guy he had he you know he had kind of the i think he probably had a couple barbells in his living room, I would guess. And we're looking around and we see these tires and it's like, oh, what are those? And he's like, oh, I took these 10 pound weights and drilled holes through them and put a bolt through the lug hole or the rim. And, you know, now I got us, his were 70 pounds. He's like, now I got a 70 pound pretty much tire plate, if you will,

that I can, you know, deadlift off of. You use it instead of like rack pulls or something like that. And, well, apparently there is a strongman lift that's an 18-inch pull. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so, you know, he's trained for that. And, you know, we get back in the truck after we load up all the outlast stones. So he's like, boy, we got to build some of those and uh i think it was just a couple mondays ago i you know i get

mondays off i only work four days a week tuesday through friday so i was i was at menards and i said you know i'm gonna drive out to myers tractor salvage which is north of aberdeen a few miles and i said i'm gonna see if they have any rims laying around and i get out there and you know myers anybody that's from erity myers is pretty much a quarter of ground which is 160 acres just covered in shit junked out junked out tractors combines everything i got there and i said you don't got any 15 or 16 inch truck tires laying around do you and well i don't know what are you using them for and you know you don't want to know they're thinking you know i want to use them for a trailer or something i said well i'm

well you you described that you kind of like i don't really want to tell them at first and you like didn't really explain right away in that for a while they're like i just yeah and then i just told him that uh i said well what i'm gonna do is we're gonna use them for for deadlifts we're gonna put them on a barbell and so the the lug nut holes can be out around i mean they gotta they gotta hold a tire they can't be that bent that and the guy he was like you know he thought that was pretty cool so he's like oh i think i got something right over here and there's this is pile of junk and he said well i know there's two i know there's two rims in here i just know there is and he jumps up in the cab and you know like you see in a movie he's got you know the big magnet picks up the picks up the stuff moves it and you know they're stuck to the bottom of it so he drops it and they were underneath all the junk so he picks it up again and drops it again while they're out towards the fringes of it then so

got those and he's like yeah well you know 20 bucks for both of them and uh so okay you got any tires and he said yeah over by the shop there's a there's a pile of tires and i just put three three tires that'll fit these you know perfectly you know and and that's how people are you know like you might think that this is just there's no method to the madness but this guy he's probably put everything where it belongs you know so I go over there and I find those three tires and going to pay for is 40 bucks total and then I go get them go get the tires mounted on there that was five bucks you know because you don't have to get them weighted or, you know, whatever. And then, uh, went to, I had the 10 pound plates.

So I just took a vice grips, put it on the inside where the, or put it on like in the center of it, the vice grip on there real tight just started drilling and had a drill the tip that the uh strongman guy gave us that had his own is on those 10 pound plates use uh don't use nice or high quality plates don't use cast iron standard or york plates use like the cheapest ones you can find like something you find from walmart for one they're cheap but also it's a lot easier to drill through he said if you use the really yeah you'll be in for a fight he's like don't do it it's not gonna work how you want it to you know yeah and that's like go to your best bet go to walmart and you can buy two 10 pound olympic plates for probably 10 bucks they were whatever they'll drill like butter yeah yeah and they did they uh i mean i drilled a pilot hole and then had a five inch five eights bit drilled through it just put you know

three holes in it to bolt them on there and you know did that to one and did it to another one and ready to go they're ready to go and and then it fits perfectly on a standard barbell that way because obviously a 10 pound plate fits right on a standard barbell and uh then there's still plenty of room to add weight after that we had a strong man competitor from california in the gym who tried him out the other day and he went up to 705 pounds and that fit on there nicely you could probably load about 800 pounds on there if you did it right still so you can get plenty of weight on there yeah and so speaking of that we had that strongman guy in from uh from california what's uh what brought him this way he's here for work this is the kind of the second uh pretty legit either strongman or

powerlifter that we've had just kind of come through town for work and they just uh like anyone that lifts pretty seriously if you've been traveling for work or for something else, you kind of want to find somewhere to train. Tyler, you were just in Orlando. Had you researched beforehand where you were going to lift? I did. Like when you went down to Florida. When I go to Florida every year, I always research where I'm going to get to lift,

and that's what they do, and it's pretty cool. We've popped up on a couple of those guys radar so far so yeah and i and i would guess this you know in this area there really isn't there there's some generic fitness gym you know there's some basically globo gym only or a ymca you know that's exactly what this guy said too he saw a couple pictures and he read a description about he's like oh well obviously this is where I'm going. And that is his Instagram. He kind of has a strongman club out there in California. So check him out on Instagram.

His name's Andrew, but the name of their club is Slow Strong, S-L-O Strong. And they're doing some pretty cool stuff. They've got quite a few strong guys lifting there. Yeah, and he is at Slickwick 33 yeah that's andrew andrew not to mention that dude from uh texas that saw on was it facebook or google it said the strongest ship in aberdeen he said oh that's where i gotta be that's where i'm going and then probably i would say maybe the yeah maybe the most impressive thing that he's built. Yeah, probably the best piece of equipment that I think will transition over to powerlifting would be the reverse hyper. That thing, no other GM probably has something like that.

A reverse hyper, you can basically buy them from Rogue. Sells a model now that they, Louis Simmons invented it from Westside Barbell in Ohio. And Rogue now they have some deal with Louie that they make one too. They make it under his path. Yeah. So I don't know if you can buy them from any other places other than Westside Barbell and Rogue. Westside and Rogue is the only place you can buy them.

And they're $2,000 pieces of equipment. Yeah. They're not cheap. Yeah. Well, we saw that one on Craigslist for $800 and we. And they're $2,000 pieces of equipment. Yeah, they're not cheap. Yeah. Well, we saw that one on Craigslist for $800, and we just thought, oh, boy, we got to have that. Yeah. But, yeah, that one, after I welded up the deadlift platform, like, it had probably been seven or eight years since I'd welded anything. And I was like, oh, I haven't lost too much of the touch.

So I was like, oh, this is the next thing I'm going to tackle. And, uh, you know, just, you can go on, on Google and type in, you know, do it yourself, anything. And you know, you get a couple of dimensions and you, you know, get a couple of like, actually how I figured out there, the proper angle of the legs. I just took a board and cut it. You mocked one up, mocked one up out of wood first just to sure make sure it was right and uh yeah built that and it it really didn't take that long i think it took i mean i started it took me one or it probably took me about 10 or 12 hours total but it was you know it turned out really well and it it's tough like i've had people come down there

they're like oh where'd you guys buy that from and i was like actually it looks really good it looks i mean it looks all exactly all we had to all you really had to buy was the uh strap that you that looks around your legs they're uh rogue rogue well rogue sells it but spud ink makes it it's a reverse hyper strap. It's made for a machine that just slides over where you place the weight on. Like you said, all the weight is lifted with your lower back, and it's the only machine that will strengthen your lower back without directly loading on your lower back.

And it pumps uh uh juices it pumps blood back into your around your spinal column for rehab and you know you get a little bit of that um a little bit of that extension there too that you don't get in any other movement where there's a load you know what i mean you're not going to get you're not going to get loaded like that right underweight unless you're doing weighted good mornings which i'd kind of advise you know i'm not a huge fan of those yeah this is a pretty pretty it's a pretty safe alternative it's a safe safe alternative to strengthen rehab you know just someone that's someone that's had a lower back injury this would be a pretty awesome tool for them to be able to and i would say if you squat or deadlift

and you don't have or haven't ever had like lower back just issues even if it's just tightness or a little bit of pain here or there or some swelling like fucking congratulations you're lucky i use that machine three times a week yeah about when i deadlift squat even sometimes when I bench I go down there and because it's a traction-based exercise also where it just kind of gets everything back in line and you know it's like a glute ham raise or something and it just you know gets everything back in line and kind of just rehabs you and gets you ready for the next go around and I would guess that we are the only gym within a really far radius that's got a reverse hyper i bet we're the only gym on the east side of south dakota that has one that's uh one of the

things that i'm most proud of being able to have there you know it's cool to be able to have uh some of that really legitimate strength training equipment that other places don't have yeah definitely definitely so um what else did we have does that i think does that cover most of the stuff we've got in the gym yeah i mean besides the besides the like uh pile boxes or squat boxes i guess uh that was just kind of a i had a bunch of plywood laying around and i got excited one day and started building i built a 10 inch box first and then that was too low, so I decided to build a 12-inch, and that wasn't good enough. So then I was like, oh, I'll just build a 14. So then I built a 60, and then I just thought, whatever,

I'll just build a 2, 4, 6, 8. And that kind of was – I read an article from Louie Simmons on what a good gym should have, and one of the things was uh pile boxes or squat boxes from you know from two all the way up to he had like 22 inches every imaginable yeah yeah but it's it's surprising how much those get used for so many different things like you every day you'll see someone using a couple of them for something yeah Yeah, between deficit deads or the pitch arcing, or just Ross used them to spot himself on a heavy bench.

Spot myself on the regular bench, yeah. Just stacks them up. So, you know, like when you're benching, you get that good arch in your back. Well, if you have to bail on the weight, you just flatten out and it lands right on it. Yeah, and I suppose there is quite a few times where you're in there, Ross, and if there's not anybody else there, you're either going to not bench or you're going to. Well, I used to go bench in the power racks. And, you know, it was nice, but we have a really nice wide bench.

And I was like, God damn it, I just want to use that again. I really like that bench. It's better than you know pulling one over in the paw rack so i was sitting there and i was like there has to be a way and i was looking at them boxes and i was like you know what i was like i can make them work so i piled each one up you know i got a couple of them piled them up just so they'd be high enough and i did a couple test runs with 135 and i was was like, this will work perfect. That's the issue I've got in my garage gym is that I can't, one, my bench is dog shit.

The actual bench I have is kind of one of those that's a toy. It used to have like the. A Sears model? Yeah, it really is. It used to have the little like foam things where you hook your legs in. Oh, yeah. That's funny. That's the first bench we started out with that much. There's just enough space to fit your head in between the arms.

That one lasted about one week there, and you're like, this is not enough. What I've got, it's actually just the standalone, just the bench portion. So I've got my squat rack is what I use to hold the barbell. But this thing is so, if you actually read the weight ratings on a lot of benches that you buy, even at like, say, a Dunham's or a local store. It's like 300 pounds. So it's me. It's just me. Oh, I can take a nap on this thing.

And there's no way this thing is rated for more than 200 pounds. There's absolutely no way. So I bench on it sometimes, but it moves. It gets real squirrely there's a i gotta sit so deep in it that there's this piece that comes up that used to hold the little leg foam things yeah it's just right in your crotch so i mean you're it's a it's pretty dangerous but but i if i'm doing anything by myself i can't you know the bench is the one thing where if i if i'm going to do it at home i just leave the collars off so I can miss hard.

And just tip it to one side. Actually, that reminds me, Ryan, there is one other story you could tell. Oh, boy. Yeah, it was the American News wanted to. Our local newspaper. Yeah, Aberdeen American News wanted to. Our local newspaper. The Aberdeen American News wanted to... Was it in January? It was kind of after New Year's because the article came out.

It's like lots of... Yeah, shortly after New Year's. Lots of health decisions. Yeah, it was. I definitely had a play in this story, too. It was a lot of... Yeah, it was kind of... They did an article with basically all of the New Year's resolution fitness-minded stuff.

So I think they covered a lot of the other gyms and then this new gym that came up. So they were down there one day, and it was my bench day. It was like 3.15 for me. I used to be able to get it, and for some reason lately I've had to just take a big step back and work my way up to it again. reason lately i've had to just take a big step back and work my way up to it but again but uh yeah i was going for 315 you know a pretty big uh big pr and yeah i've come down ross was spotting me and uh the american news is filming me doing this there's two two ladies in there two ladies literally recording him as he's done and i was i was just you know i was i was jacked i felt good i got into a good position i bring the bar down and i start going up and i get to the

point where i'm usually you know stalling and i'm i'm kind of grinding through it and my for some reason my left arm you know on bench you know everybody kind of has that a little bit where it goes up well my left arm was going up a lot faster than my right arm and all the weight slid off the right side and it just went hit the ground and then the bar you know i felt i felt so bad but during the meantime i was like i didn't want to rob him of it just in case he's gonna get it so i was in the middle of like should i grab it i should have not i was like if i grab it he's gonna you know it's not gonna count i was like He's really grinding it out. I was like, maybe he'll get it. It's not going to count for all of our... If you touch the bar, it doesn't count.

And then just... You can't put it on the PR board if somebody touches it. Ross, he felt pretty bad about it afterwards. He texted me and was like, oh man, I'm sorry. Luckily, they didn't put it on their website. That's what I was worried about. Or film it. They were filming it.

Not just pictures. They were taking a video. They probably have a fail video somewhere out there. I remember it was all quiet and Ryan got up and he's like, well, that sucked. And Tanner was like, that doesn't happen here every day. I was like telling him like, that's not always what it is. They're probably like, who are these fucking idiots?

We kind of thought the video would be like, if you want to be, or the article in the newspaper would be like, if you want to be safe, don't lift a mass atomic bomb. Yeah, no shit. For all your New Year's resolutions, stick to Zumba. Oh, shit. That's great, stick to Zumba. Yeah. Oh, shit. That's great, actually. That's really funny. Well, maybe that's why after we moved the gym, we let them know if they wanted to release a little bit of action on all this new stuff we've been doing.

We kind of filled them in on everything. And where did they put us at? They did respond. She said, OK, yeah, well, we might be able to do something. So just this week, we got our big break again in the local newspaper. Yeah, they put it at the little two, three sentence article. You know, we were really important because right above us was the local Taco Bell drive-thru news. Yeah, they're getting a remodel.

Yeah. And then Mastanomics gym was to a new location and not only that that was the that was at the very bottom which meant if there was something that was less important than taco bell getting remodeled it was probably still more important than us moving so yep um whatever they'll be calling when we take over the world so that's right um we're on our way that's right well guys i on our way. That's right. Well, guys, I think that'll do it for today. I think we've got a lot of stuff covered,

and we're probably going to have Ryan and Ross on in the future again, definitely. I was going to say, if Ross – this is the first podcast we've done with Tommy not here. Yeah. If Ross ever has to sit in any more often, he's probably going to need to grow his hair out. For sure. Actually, with Tommy being gone collectively, there is no hair yet here. I have the most hair, and I have the most hair. Your beard has the most hair.

My beard does have the most hair, yep. I lost all my hair at 20, so. Yeah, I got one of them of them ever weakening hairlines as well so we're all super jealous of tommy and his hair and all the fun he's having uh his hair is out having a bunch of fun right yeah he's out he's out at the sound set uh music festival in minneapolis which does have a sick flow god it's ridiculous it's ridiculous i'm i'm super super jealous that is kind of funny like me and to and Tommy back in high school, going back to wrestling, me and Tommy wrestled each other an awful lot in high school,

like when we used to weigh 160 pounds. When I started lifting at the Y, I had just seen this dude with long hair, and I didn't think much of him, but I was at Logger's, the bar down here, one night, and this guy came up to me. He goes, ryan anderson i used to wrestle you all the time i was like oh who are you he's like i'm tommy defay from ilby like oh yeah and you know now uh you know it's a small world you know it goes around comes around so tommy and his powerful powerful hair damn it my first time samson yeah don't cut off. The first time he came over to my house, my wife said, he looks like

that Blake guy from Workaholics. Yeah. Which if he would just grow a really, really gross mustache, I think he'd have it. He showed me a picture on a, dang, I don't know what, I can't remember, Tumblr or

whatever. Grindr. On Grindr. Yeah. On Grindr where he had a side-by-side of him and Blake, and he looked just a lot like him. Excellent. So, well, we're going to call it a show tonight. So if you want to hear more or check out anything, please make sure you go on iTunes and make sure you give us a five-star review.

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Everybody around us kind of gets sick of us. It's actually the same exact thing that everybody else complains about with people who do CrossFit. Yeah. It's the same. It's the same. It's exactly the same. Yeah, this is your CrossFit. It's just maybe there's less of us or something. I don't really know.

I don't know. You're just bigger and louder. Bigger and louder. Like, so what? But definitely do us a favor. Five star on iTunes. Check us out on the website. Read the articles.

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names apparently. I never look at my i don't even know what it is i always have to look it up on my phone oh shit what is it mine's just my uh email address from college well i couldn't have mine that's for sure so daddy fat sex so thanks a lot for listening and uh please everybody out there, stay strong. See you. Peace.

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