Massenomics Podcast - Ep.22: Shoes and Sh*tters

Episode Date: September 5, 2016

This week we share and review our personal preferences in regards to footwear and bathroom hygiene. 2 subjects we are EXTREMELY passionate about here at Massenomics. Don't forget to LIKE and SHARE this episode on Facebook... Make sure you LIKE the Massenomics Facebook page... If you don't already have a closet full of Massenomics gear, go to the MASSENOMICS STORE and load up on swag... Also, please CLICK THIS LINK TO GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING ON ITUNES... Click this text to follow Massenomics on Instagram... Vote Massenomics for President in 2016... Have your barber shave our logo into the side of your head.. Maybe get a Massenomics tattoo while you're at it.    Or you could sign up for our email newsletter at the bottom of this page. Stay Strong, M

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We're just doing it, I guess. We had ambitions when we started doing this podcast that we were going to be dropping super awesome knowledge all the time, that every single week was going to be a bunch of game-changing information. We're finding that it's really hard to just, it's hard to just get schedules together. You know what I mean? But, uh, so some of those guys that have, have podcasts where they're like, man, just like dropping sweet information all the time, more power to them. But, uh, but we're just here to flap our jaws for a half hour or so. To let you know we're still around. Yeah.

Today I did buy two bidets. Not one, but two. So is it just like the bidet attachment? Oh, two bidets. Two bidets. I thought you meant tuba days. I thought it was a movie or something. I bought two bidets. Two bidets.

Hell of a movie. The soundtrack. Adam Sandler's in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't mind if I badoo. But anyway, so I got two of them because I couldn't decide whether my, like, I was, Megan was much, like, easier to convince to let me buy one. And then, but I couldn't decide where I would put it because I feel like I poop an even

amount between the master bedroom and then down here by the living room. It was too much of a toss-up, so I went ahead and just bought two of them. Is it from Amazon Prime then? How many days are we talking here? I think it should be here by next weekend, hopefully. You guys will get to try it.

I'll just start building up. I'm not going until then a crazy amount of mexican food and fiber between now and then yeah you get then you can go upstairs can i can i tell you a gross you know we tell gross poop stories every once in a while i feel like that's the best way to start yeah this isn't from me personally um a friend of mine was just telling me this story yesterday he is a cattle rancher uh-huh uh and they had a calf that it was born fine and normal and they didn't think anything was wrong with this with this calf and like a full week after it had been born it was getting super bloated like really really bloated and walking really funny like walking like one of us might walk like you haven't shit in three days and they they had to examine it and it did not have a butthole oh it was born without a but it was born like without a butthole like kim jong-un so yeah

yeah so what is the solution do they give it a butthole or do you have to or do you just got to put it down no they uh i think they talked to the vet about it and the vet said basically you can try to give it a butthole like you're gonna hopefully line everything up you know you you you hit your mark because otherwise it's gonna be bad but uh so he said they used a screwdriver and gave it a butthole and and imagine if you didn't have a butthole and hadn't gone to the bathroom for one week and then someone just gave you one. The mileage you'd be putting on yourself. But he's, I mean, even in just that instant.

That was like probably a really, really intense moment. Yeah. Yeah. What kind of distance are we talking? I think like right there. No distance. And I asked if it hurt the cow or if it looked like the cow was in pain. The cow was thrilled.

Oh, yeah. And that's what he said. He's like, no, I think the cow was the happiest moment of its really short life up to that point. Well, and they have such a tough hide anyways. It's not like they feel hardly anything like that. So the question is like is that a functional butthole from there on out like a butthole does more than just is just a hole like there's i asked him like how it's doing you know this has been that would have probably been in

like march that cow is a fucking hero yeah and i i said what what's it like now is it i mean does it poop and you know and he said you wouldn said an average person wouldn't know the difference. It's like the biggest calf that they have or whatever. Really? They just wouldn't be able to tell the difference. That's crazy. So my bidets are not powerful enough to give anybody a butthole. Does it have a laser cutter built in it?

What they actually are is they've got these uh it just sits you like bolt it underneath your toilet or like underneath the seat so you take your seat off you bolt the thing in and there's just like this little deal that and right on the side of where you're at there's a little knob so you just you turn it and it adds pressure you can decide what kind of stank you want to fire out and uh and you turn up, and this little deal just drops down. It goes click, and then fires water back up there. I had one at our old house, and I loved it. Absolutely loved it.

It was a game changer. My butt's never been so clean. Why didn't you take it with you? Well, when you sell a house, you kind of like, you have to disclose what is and isn't going to be with the house. So I'm sure the new people that bought the house probably took it off or didn't use it. Well, that's probably the reason they bought the house, was to be with the house. So I'm sure the new people that bought the house probably took it off. Oh, that's probably the reason they bought the house. They saw the bidet.

Well, the bidet. That is actually what I thought was I was like, well, maybe that was a bidet. For me, I'd be like sold. But I didn't want to take something out of it right before they moved in. And my intentions were to buy one immediately when i moved in here and it's one of those things you just you just never got around to doing but uh today's the day i it took about a half hour negotiating pretty intensely with my wife i don't understand why you need two but we were talking about it and it seems weird that it's one

of those things that just doesn't exist everywhere in the world like you would never ever in your life get poop on your arm and take a piece of paper and wipe it and be like of dry paper that's good like yep all clean on to the next thing like you would no one would ever do that you you would have the grossest freaking arm if you did that once but for some reason if it's your butthole it's like ah yeah it's so good like i didn't see very much poop on there on that last one like and then if you get to the gym and get sweating, and no wonder things just kind of are gross. You know what I mean?

There's nothing you can really pin down, but things are just gross down there. That might be why. The thing about this is these are actually super cheap. I think they're like $30 a piece. So it's really a zero investment to having the cleanest butthole you've ever had in your entire life. Low risk, high reward.

What's the worst that can happen? You could hate it. Then you throw $30 away. I don't know. Could it make you sick or something like that? You're pumping dirty toilet water at yourself instead. It's actually not dirty toilet water. It's high sense.

Well, that would be the worst thing. That would be the worst. You somehow hooked it up so you're getting bad water it's like actually making yourself dirty or something it actually has uh when i was doing it when i set up the first time you know you don't want to just sit on it first having never done it before so i stood next to the toilet and i turned the thing on just a little bit it was like a las vegas show at season's it actually it actually was it like it like fired all the way across the room and I turned the thing on just a little bit. It was like a Las Vegas show at season's end. It actually was. It like fired all the way across the room in like a straight arrow and then

splashed all over the shower curtain and everything. The water, not the poop. So then I knew that you definitely didn't need to just sit down and dial that thing up because that would light up your life for sure. But we have talked for almost nine minutes about poop. Mark Bell would be very proud.

That's true. Well, what do we have training-wise going on? I got some new gear this week, I guess, talking about buying new stuff. I finally made the foray into the CrossFit TR Lite 2s as an upgrade from the Chucks that i've been using for probably two years and uh had had my eye on them for a little while and just time was never quite right but then i out of the blue checked it again and i think the price is down like 45 bucks which for any shoes is really cheap let alone ones that i'll be using multiple times a week

and should last several years so um got them in the mail, got them for a squat session on Friday. I've been squatting in some flatter shoes lately and I really liked it. My chucks were getting to the point where I don't know if just from getting sweaty and like drying out that the canvas was starting to shrink, but it was really getting to the point where it felt like it was just squeezing my feet, having those on. And I really liked how just big the toe boxes it feels like your feet can really spread out and really give you that solid base so you don't get that feeling like the outside of your foot's gonna roll over yeah yeah you just the platform or the

sole of the shoe it really does feel like a big wide shoe and not big like in a clumsy way it just feels like you have this really big stable platform under you so um one squat session down first impressions are very good and you've been in now you also own some lifters as well yeah i have i have the idea the adidas what do they call them like the addy powers or whatever and you don't wear those all the time or you just not prefer them see i've been trying it out and i i lifted with them i'd squatted with them for probably six months and right away it definitely felt weird because it is different. But I got to the point where I was like, yeah, this is fine with it and I liked them

and you do feel like solid in them. You're like planted and it's a good feeling. But just kind of out of the blue, just to switch it up one day, I went back to flats and it felt really good. I don't know what it did and i think my big thing is like when i when i squat i like to kind of go into the hole kind of fast and get out of there fast and i think with when i have lifters on it just kind of messes

up my angles and my depth a little bit and it's like i don't find that right spot where i know like yep here's the spot you can go again and so so it threw me off just enough, but for now I'm going back to flats, and I'm sure someday here I'll throw the lifters back on and give that another roll too. I would say, based on at least your first day, that you probably have no ambitions of going back to the chucks, though, after these TRs. No, I don't think so.

I don't know how. I just don't see that ever happening again. Part of it is, like is when shit gets so heavy, and if you're trying to drive off your whole foot, being able to actually, and you don't have that with the chucks, but being able to actually have your toes spread out and get a hold of the ground, that makes a huge difference. And when I first started, I didn't know anything.

So I was squatting in running shoes. And that was that same feeling when i bought it i bought the reebok well the same ones you lift in you squat in those uh i don't even know what they're called anymore they're like the lifter 2.0 or something like that yeah they have like a partially raised heel not as big as big or rigid as the regular lifters uh 0.65 inches versus 0.7 three quarters inches on like your shoes or uh the nike yeah uh-huh and when and when i got it i started going with the with the running shoe and i and i then i went to those lifters and like it made a world of difference i felt like i was nailed to the floor my feet all of a sudden i had room to spread a room i didn't know i wanted you know which was uh made made a big difference um what about style points like did you feel like you

look pretty strong i felt like i look pretty good there's something uh i personally like darker shoes i usually have black shoes or gray shoes um but something about lifting i feel like i need like something white looks kind of clean and have that have that look to it and uh so i have white lifters and so i had to go with the lighter color on these and uh i'm sure they'll be yellow from sweat stains within a few months but um as for right now i feel like i feel like the man squatting in them which i think is if you can't squat a lot you gotta at least feel like you squat a lot so it helps in that front the the lighter ones of those rebox always remind me of eric lillibridge yeah yeah they always have the way so that's kind of what you look like now and

i did see i think that's what the weight looks like yeah i think so i've seen what's the guy's name um zadrunov or what's uh i can't he's one of the he's kind of like the he has like the really curly dark hair i can't think of his name he squats like i thought him and milanichev were like going at it for who had the biggest squat you mean like the real the real ugly russian guy yeah yeah yeah so here uh yeah so here yeah whatever his name is he's like the ugliest powerlifter up and that's not not you know that's out of a group of pretty ugly guys most of the time so yeah he uh i think he said a few records in white chucks though he had white chucks on but which goes to show that i mean

the footwear doesn't make a huge difference but yeah curly hair i forgot yeah he's got like the long it's like a jerry curl there's like nothing on the top and it just oh it goes out the back the hairiest man in the world also yeah that's uh um yeah those shoes too like i really dig them i i don't have like a need for them i don't think when i lift i'm not like there's there's not really a hole for me that they feel because i'm really comfortable lifting and like my nike lifters and um but i think they look really cool and i dig just like walking around in them yeah they're comfortable and and and i know that everybody at reebok listens to this podcast but you guys need to make shoes for like real adults because they don't make anything over a size 12 in that shoe

i can't find them can't find them anywhere not on their website yeah because yeah my my brother i think you guys are talking about yeah he was having a hard time yeah my brother was a 13 and he can't find it online. And I don't know if they're launching something new, but there's only now a few colors. Yeah, there's only three colors of this new 2.0 version, and the first version is kind of getting discontinued, I think. And there's only like, if you're a size 8 1⁄2,

man, the world's your oyster for shoes. But when you need a size 14 or 15 like yeah fuck off yeah there's just nothing you can do and i don't know if maybe there's a point where they get so big that they just look stupid and that's why they don't make them because like because like chucks chucks look dumb much bigger than a 12 yeah it starts to look like a ski on your foot yeah because they're because they're so narrow but i do think those tr lights would be i think they'd be all on your foot pretty soon because they're so narrow but I do think those TR lights would be I think they'd be alright in a big size because they're wide they'd look alright

but yeah there's no hope for me so if anyone at Reebok would like to make me and send me a free custom pair of size 14 ish just hit us up at Get Big at Massanomics this is also my first maybe in my life the first

pair of reeboks i've ever owned i don't know if i've ever owned a pair of reeboks in my entire life i've i've always been a reebok fan because i was a big shaquille o'neal fan and if if you want to look up a cool shoe look up the shack gnosis it's a white white and black that he he wore when he was in orlando and if i still to this day really want to get my hands on a pair of those. They're pretty sweet. Yeah, but they're expensive. It's just like Jordan, retro Jordans. They're hard to get.

They did have some. I mean, through the years, they've had something like the Allen Iverson line, the question and the answer shoes. Those were all awesome shoes. Sean Kemp, his were the Kamikazes. Were those the ones with the green stripe? Yep. And they were, I would also really like to get a pair of those.

I played in church league basketball a while back. And there was a guy. Which is the most violent league of them. Because I played in that same church league. It's easily the most physically aggressive form of basketball I've ever played. But there was this guy in town who I don't think ever played basketball. But he had these Sean Kemps that had to be from his junior high days, which is probably when he stopped growing,

and then was no longer of any use to any basketball team. But these things were haggard. He had had to have them for 15, 20 years now. But I spotted them like that. Right away away we're getting ready to tip off i look over like no shit and you know right away i hadn't seen him or thought about him at all and i was like those are the fucking sean kemp's and i've never wanted to buy the shoes off a guy's feet more yeah but uh yeah so tanner what do you uh what do you lift in as far as footwear well i have the i have the tr light i don't know 1.0 or what's the difference between the two any

from what i could tell minor aesthetic differences and i don't know if they really changed anything okay i mean there might be something i mean you could probably go through a spec list i'm sure some new marketing term for something but i'm guessing there's really minimal differences. Okay. So I've got those, and I also have then those CrossFit Lifter 2.0s, but I haven't really been squatting in those. I always deadlift in the TR lights, and then squatting I do either or, but I've been using my flat ones kind of all the time lately,

and I don't know why. Sometimes I think one feels better than the other and i'll just get a kick on doing one for a while or sometimes i feel like if if i squat in those flat shoes for a while and then i go back to the raised heel it almost is like giving me an advantage you have superpowers yeah it's like aha now this raised heel uh but i have both i have those two and i have some days if i'm too lazy to change out of my chucks i wear my chucks too the whole time yeah i get to where i end up doing like the shoe dance the whole time i lift that's you know because there's we have some days where

it's like front squats and then some deadlifts and then something else it's like i just feel like i come in i warm up i don't like warming up really in my lifters because it's they're kind of cumbersome but you just do so you don't have to change your shoes three times you know i don't like warming up really in my lifters because they're kind of cumbersome. But you just do so you don't have to change your shoes three times. I don't like being that guy, but I'm usually that guy. At Mastodonomics Gym, it's not uncommon to see people changing shoes. A common thing you see is someone asks a guy changing his shoes, like, oh, you all done for the day? It's like, no, no, just done squatting.

I'm going to deadlift now. you all done for the day it's like no no just done squat now yeah yeah that's uh have you guys found any issue switching back and forth like you know because you've had you've had your high lifters tommy for a while um and have you done did you did you ride those for a few months or have you always kind of just dabbled in either yeah no i i did exclusively use the lifters for like six months and um i did a competition with him and everything and i i to be honest i don't know if you said max out i don't even know if it would make a five pound difference yeah and the only reason it would make a difference is just not being used to one over the other but um just in my head right now it just feels better in the other ones yeah i really think i would lift the same amount of weight no matter what. But, um, yeah, if it, if one feels better to me,

I'm going to go with what feels better right now. So it's, and I think it's mostly about how you feel when you're moving. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it, I think it's mostly what positions you can hit. You know what I mean? If you can't comfortably get into the bottom for me, I can't comfortably get into the bottom without my lifters um in your case it's probably easier you know because you fly when you squat you know you move pretty quick um if i think if i squatted as fast as tommy does i would like be more out of breath than i would like squat tired you know what i mean my wife was said the other day she was down lifting with us and and she said when we left she goes you know you told me that tommy's squat was was it was beautiful but she said

she said i think they should make it into a fucking statue or something a moving statue just just like maybe like five statues one in each position but yeah i would randomly have back in the days and we'd be at the Y, I would, every so often, it was about once every couple months, a total random stranger, typically a 50-plus-year-old male, would come up to me and compliment me on my squat. Where'd you learn to squat like that? Thanks, man.

All right, I guess you can keep watching me. But that would happen, and I guess some people think it's good to look at. I don't know. It is funny, though, the different style, because Tommy's is pretty much textbook. You know what I mean? It's pretty much always good depth, fast, consistent, everything. Tanner, you're more of a – I wouldn't say that you're inconsistent, but it's like super brute force squatting.

You know what I I like the way my deadlift looks and I feel like that is consistent you know and it you know every every rep of a deadlift looks pretty similar to a certain point at least but squatting is really a a week-to-week thing on how it's gonna feel and I was talking about this at the gym on friday when we were squatting i really have two different ways that i squat that i go back and forth with like trying to have one work like i don't need them both to work but i just want one to be able to work but you haven't decided which one to like well i have your horse neither of them really ever feel like they work yet so but i do one where um i hinge i tried almost hinge exclusively at the hip so i i don't really get any forward knee travel whatsoever but then uh in order to to do that my torso bends forward a lot more so it looks like a lot more of a good morning uh in order to keep the

bar path centered over my midfoot yeah that's just you know i'm there's not a rounding of my back but it's just my back gets way more horizontal yeah at the bottom of your squat your chest is very there's very little bit upright yeah there's nothing wrong with that it's somehow people right and uh and also when i do it that way you know how tommy like you'd call it attacking the hole or he goes very aggressive down i can't do that whatsoever if you did that you'd get fucking pinned that's like that like it has to be slow down and then because it's slow down it's you know it's kind of slow up even when regardless of the weight you know even if if i'm warming up to go over four plates even when i'm doing three plates or two plates it's still kind of like just generally a slower rep uh and then my

the other version of the squat that i try sometimes is where i get a lot more uh my knee angle uh gets a lot narrower so my hip angle stays wider so I'm able to keep a more upright chest and back, but my knee, knee traveling forwards a little bit, quite a bit farther, but it, uh, I'm able to go quite a bit faster when I do it that way. You know, I can hit the bottom of the hole quite a bit farther, but, uh, sometimes I feel like I get a lot looser in the bottom of the hole. It's hard to keep your shit together yeah and it's like I almost have a problem where I when I do it that way I have to go almost too deep like I can't I don't just hit like a good slightly below parallel depth I go almost too deep so if I try

to do it in the competition when I do it that way I feel like I'm kind of screwing myself by covering too much yeah like trying to bounce off the floor almost do you feel like you know because you did say like you kind of like when you're doing the lower bar more of the good morning style yeah do you um you feel like the reason you do go slow is because it kind of helps you load up for coming back up yeah keep tension yeah because uh between the two you know when i do the maybe slight you know i don't change the position on my back a whole lot on the uh it's just the way you engage yeah more so it's more so thinking about just moving at the hips versus allowing some movement at the knees you know maybe first or at the same time um and i could do that with

either position on the back or I could do them both with the same position bar position on the back. But yeah, if I, if I tried, I just feel like I physically couldn't go fast when I'm hinging out the hips and trying to get those hip hips back and engaged. I just, if I went fast with that, I feel like with any amount of weight, I would like crash and die. I don't really know. Tommy, with you, you do hit the bottom pretty quick. I do notice it. It's not like you're falling apart, but I know if I moved that fast down,

I would have no control over what's happening with the weight. There would be this huge moment of all of a sudden trying to activate a shit ton of muscles when I was trying to push up. Is that something you gradually worked on that speed and trying to keep? Because you do keep it together. Yeah. You know, I don't even think I'd ever seen my squat really on video for reps until the old gym. I think one day actually commented to you. I said, like you did an Instagram video um so what was this maybe six seven months ago yeah and i was like oh that's what my squat looks like because i'd only seen a single and you know a single at maximal effort always moves kind of slow it's not like your

reps look and so like in my head when i saw them like that is not what it feels like in my brain at all i thought i was moving really slow all the time yeah then i saw that and i was like oh that must have been kind of like a fluke day or something and then since then you've done a few more videos yeah and every time it's a guarantee that in my head i think this is moving so slow and then i watch the video and think i could throw another 50 to 100 pounds like even even the other day i had to have um it was like the lightest um sets that i'll be doing over the course of the next eight weeks and uh i have, um, it was like the lightest, um, sets that I'll be doing over the course of the next eight weeks. And, uh, I didn't feel like it was moving that fast. And I had my brother film it just cause I wanted to see what it looked like. And then when I watched it, I

thought that looks, it looks like it's a warmup weight. If I had never seen that person, I would say, yeah, they're still warming up. And in my head, I really thought that they were taking about twice as long as what they were. So I, I think it's just something I'm, I don't like having the weight on my back so i'm just gonna get over and get it done with as fast as i can yeah yeah that's interesting yeah that's something i i never really you know you used to always kind of like make fun of people for always videotaping their shit until you like actually videotape your shit and it's like one of the best ways to get information now yeah it's like i'm watching someone for the first time like who is that person yeah what are they doing because i would that's not me i don't do that my head doesn't say that's happening at all it never

looks like what you feel like it no i used to think i had like this big like butt wink problem and like i was just all out of position i watched it and it I, if I, if you had a mask on my head, I would say, nope, that's not me. I wouldn't have been able to pick it out. I had the same issue with like, you know, with the Olympic lifting, it's really hard because things are all happening so fast. And I'm still at a point where it still feels as uncomfortable as it did when I started. Like, you know, if I'm pulling up for a snatch or pulling for a clean, it's still, once it's so heavy, it's, you just move what heavy is, but it still feels as awkward and cumbersome. And when you fuck up, it's terrible.

And so it feels terrible, but then I'll videotape some stuff, and I'll be like, oh, well, that actually looks okay. But every single rep just feels like shit. And I had run into it when I was doing some you know some uh online programming where i'd submit some videos and get some feedback and stuff and and the guys you know the things that i was complaining about well what about this i feel this way and this and they're like yeah well i don't know it all looks fine to me so it's like it is more about how it looks than uh than just how it feels that's we always there's always anytime you come into our gym you'll see someone videotaping someone else it happens all the time but before when we were did not have our own gym oh like it never happened and it's i did it a few times and it's like you get evil stares from people right

oh you think you're so cool that you need to videotape yourself like you're gonna put it on facebook doofus but it's like any other sport you play, you're going to watch. I mean, if you're playing anything seriously, you're going to see film of yourself at some point so you can study and see what you did and how you. And this is all such a technical. Yeah, it makes perfect sense. If you're not worried about your technique,

what do you even worry about or what do you even try to get better? And it's almost, you know, because when I lifted in high school, you weren't really taught how to squat either. So it's like, you know, if you would start people more down that path right away, film this is what it should look like. This is what it does look like. You could probably, you know, cover a lot of ground really quick.

Yeah. But, but yeah, so that's kind of our, our equipment conversation as far as shoes and toilets. One other thing, equipment slightly off the soul, relating to the gym. Masonomics superstar engineer Nick put together the... Oh, patented. The patented Masonomics knee sleeve, elbow sleeve drying rack holder, which is amazing. Before that, we have lockers at the gym where we just kind of throw.

We have this pile of just knee sleeves and elbow sleeves that are. It's the most heinous smelling corner. They don't smell good. And so they would just kind of get piled up on top of the lockers, and hopefully they dry out to fix the smell. I got to sneeze. To fix the. Just thinking about the knee I got to sneeze. To fix the... Just thinking about the knee sleeves, those things.

It makes the eyes water. But, you know, to fix the... I thought we kind of came to a pretty good solution with the smell of the knee sleeves, the stick and dryer sheets in them, which actually works pretty well, I think. I think it masks it down. It does. It's an improvement. It is.

It is an improvement. Well, then Friday when we head in the gym, there's this awesome kind of like a pegboard almost hanging above the lockers, painted red. You can see the hard edges have been whittled off and turned into rounded edges, and it's been red. It looks like there's been some polyurethane on it. It's definitely been finished nicely, and all the sleeves are on it hanging with uh dryer sheets in them it was it was like a little like santa's little workshop that came through and picked it all up for us so that's yeah nick nick hooked it up with the stank rack for sure anytime nick does something it looks better than what you would buy from a professional for sure i hope he's i hope

he's really efficient at it so it doesn't take him so long. But what else did he make? The bench boards? Yeah. And those are legitimately higher quality than the things that I see on the internet that you can buy. For sure. Yeah. No, those aren't stained. No.

I think they're raw. I don't think so. But I think that's the next step is we need to get some lacquer on them bad boys. We also use those for gym member initiation. Yeah, for sure. It looks exactly like the paddle from Bills and Confused. We all have hoods that we wear. Except it's like 40 pounds on one hand.

But yeah, that is the new addition down at the gym. And at the gym, they just got shipped this week. Finally, after about four months or three months of when we had originally kind of ordered them, we have a Cambridge squat bar and a safety squat bar that should be here this week. You guys ever used either of those? I've used a safety squat bar a few times, not necessarily a super high-quality one. I've never used one. I'm kind of excited just to get some squat variation. Yeah.

I think it'll be fun. And I've never used a cambered squat bar, and this has a pretty significant camber or drop down, so I think it'll feel quite a bit different. That sounds neat. Sounds fun. I don't know when I would plug it in. For me, it's just something I would do some of,

but I think that's the way all that stuff works. It's just a different way. Impressive quiver of barbells. We're going to get so we have a pretty full encompassing array of barbells in varieties. Go from lifting at the Y where there was

nothing. There was silver ones and dark ones. And some of them had Merlin. And now we've got, how many do we have? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. That's a good question. There's the earthquake bar.

We got the axle bar. Probably just regular bars. There's probably like, like what five or six yeah i think there's six but then yeah we have so many special tools between the earthquake bar the camera bar the safety squat bar the swiss bar um fat bar or axle bar whatever you want to call that yep the the one bar we use for deadlifting has the olympic marks on it too which is a little different um i guess it's not really a bar but the uh shoulder rock yeah kind of sits over there with all those bars too we're gonna have to get another

bar holder probably yeah we did just get a bar holder and it's already kind of maxed out as well so but it's cool to see that stuff to go in there and be like i'm just seeing this online this is kind of fun to see in person even if i don't like cambridge squat bar even if i use that like a few times a year i just want to be able to use it a few times a year like when that day comes that i'm like i want to use that today i want i want to have that option and even the texas power bar like that that is my favorite bar i love that bar i think we'll definitely be getting another one of those soon too just because it's rock solid it has if you're benching or squatting, it's hard to beat that. Yeah, it looks good. I try to use that bar for everything possible. That's a sexy bar.

It is. That's one of the advantages, though, of having a gym that is not run for money at all. Yeah. Is that, well, there is some money, so I guess we should buy some shit. Yep. All the other loose ends are covered. And we, you know, even though we went from a very small place to something considerably bigger, we don't have a ton of room to be adding, like, big pieces of equipment. No.

So one thing that we can do without worrying about room is get every kind of bar under the sun. I think something that would be coming pretty soon is a Duffalo bar. I think that'd be cool, too. And then Tanner's going to buy me an $1,800 Laco bar. Is the Duffalo bar, is that the only bar that kind or is there other brands west side barbell son sells a bow bar uh-huh that's a lot cheaper and i don't know anything about it okay what is that is that the one with the ones with just the uh it's just a little bit of a curve looks like a bar that just had kind of a rough life yeah then it got ran over the duffalo one probably has a pretty from the if you were to sit it down probably has over an

eight inch drop to it doesn't it the duffalo bar has more oh it doesn't work to it then the bow bar does that west side sells all right but so going back to the name duffalo is there actually a buffalo bar yeah okay that's what those are called i think so i don't know if there's a buffalo brand or what i i guess i don't really know how that what the origins of that name are but all the best information here at massonomics i i don't know maybe we kind of know some things here's what we would advise you guys should google that yeah i mean so few people are in the market for barbells that i can't imagine anyone's really been sitting around thinking about that one so yeah if you if you have a home gym you're not like you know i better get a fucking buffalo well and these bars are not

i mean a duffalo bar is 660 a texas power bar is 350 dollars a deadlift bar is 450 dollars a camber bar is 300 you know like it adds up quite a bit too, to be able to, like, if you just had a home gym, you're not really going to get those options. Yeah. Put like $6,000 into bar.

Yeah. I'd try. What is it? What's that earthquake bar cost? That is $300. Is it? For a six pound. It's like plastic.

It looks cool. It has kind of the wood composite to it or whatever. That gets used a lot. Yeah. Like there's always someone using that. When I was at the Arnold, they had a booth there for people checking out the earthquake bars. It was cool. I really liked it.

I was like, yeah, I definitely want one. I was like, I can't buy one here. They also was like, why don't I take this thing on an airplane? That was the same way at the Rogue booth. All this stuff is so much cheaper because it's it's just there yeah you know you're not paying for shipping or i mean you can buy it and walk out but are you gonna buy a four hundred dollar rogue bar and then well yeah or

like they see you know they had they sold everything there but like you could buy like bumpers or bars but you're not gonna wander through the crowd of a hundred and some thousand people at the arnold with a fucking barbell on your shoulder right so but uh yeah that uh that earthquake bar that was the first time i'd handled one was down at the arnold and that was that's an that's an experience to try those for the first times yeah it's weird yeah it catches you off guard does that company make anything besides that i don don't think so. I do think, I could be wrong. What's the company even called that makes that thing? Bandbell, I think. Bandbell, yeah.

And I think, is there like a smaller, I could be wrong, but is there almost like a curl bar size one that's maybe like, I don't know, four foot long? There might be. And a different brand, and I don't know what exactly the bars are like it's tsunami bars i don't know if you've ever seen those before but they're even crazier i think like they like more whippy flop around i don't know i don't i've never seen one in person just kind of seen it on instagram here and there but tsunami bars is another thing to look into huh well we'll get one next month i guess yeah if we can't get stronger we're at least gonna get like enough different things to trick ourselves yeah in the like i don't know

what i can do with this so yeah and then there's the cool rogue holder that holds all of them yeah it's like putting swords into putting the sword in the stone yeah this awesome rogue metal block that does all these things sit into that i trip over every time i walk past but uh what else we got coming up guys um i do have i'm trying to think in real time by the time you're listening to this the strongman competition is long past yeah we did it went good it went it went great things were nice we hopefully didn't get rained out on and uh everyone looked really strong. And me and Tanner both tied for first.

And Tommy ran a really solid event. I've been getting offers for MCs and other things. My color commentary is so great. I did see the campers piling up out there, which I would imagine they're all there. Are all for the event. Yeah, I would assume. I think so. That's true.

Six-day camp out for them. Yeah, I guess this is weird because this is going to air after that happened. But I was going to say, if you're in the local area, tune into the radio station. But that doesn't make any sense because it will have been passed. So I do have coming up, hopefully now, are all things, everything's lined up. I'm going to be flying to Texas. We're going to have a guest on the podcast. It's just going to be me. But we have an adaptive athlete that we're going to be interviewing

who is a guy I came across on Instagram who does some pretty sweet shit. We're talking like Olympic lifting, tire flipping, strongman type stuff with one arm. And he can do basically any pretty much yeah a lot of like crossfit type stuff and um it should be should be really cool i look forward to meeting the guy i've talked to him quite a bit you know via the internet basically his enthusiasm for lifting weights and really aggressive death metal in his videos is what what drew me to him so is it bags yep he's the bags with three g's triple g's and a z so um trevor i don't even know how to pronounce his last name so we'll just uh i'll just lead with that for now um but yeah so that's kind of

the plan next week we're gonna have a um hopefully a piece done with some uh unconventional training that's very foreign to us, and we'll just tease with that. We won't go into too many specifics. But then the next weekend I'll be traveling to Texas for that, and that should be a good time. Get a workout in and have a chat with the guy, and that's kind of what we've got. So is it either a ploy for you to murder him or him to murder you?

It would be. Yeah, I guess i'm not really sure it was one of those things when i when you first contact somebody about that stuff you have to be like i just want to let you know right off the bat that i'm not fucking weird and you know you have to and they either take that and be like okay he's not weird yeah but they really are only taking my word for it that i'm not weird so So, um, but no, it should be cool. The only, you know, the only possible hiccup is the way that we, the way that I fly is, uh, you know, my wife works part-time for an airline so we can travel for free, but it has to be standby. So unless there's a seat open on the plane, you're not getting on it. Um, so everything looks good

now, but I've had crazier shit happen with cancellations at the last minute or that type of stuff, but everything's lining up. That's, that's the plan. So hopefully, hopefully we get all that done. Um, anything else for today? Oh, I had something and I just slipped in my mind. So I'm sure I'll remember as soon as we sign off here. I was browsing the Instagrams, saw Bryce Lewis deadlift 800 pounds. That was pretty cool. Yeah, 800 pounds.

What did he say, like a 30-pound PR or something like that? Yeah, it was something like that. That was pretty awesome. What's with his head when he deadlifts? He looks like straight up to the ceiling. I think I remember he might have had a post talking about it because he had referenced how certain Russian deadlifters that do sumo, he has noticed it too.

And I think he even said that it doesn't really add to... I think he said it doesn't really add to performance or even like a balance thing, but it's more just like a cue for him to go, if I'm remembering correctly. But I know he's really big into cues at all times for all lifts, and that's all I can really think it is. It's just something he does, though. It works for him.

Yeah, obviously. Yeah, that was cool. So, well, that's going to do it for us this week, guys. Don't forget, go to facebook make sure you like the massonomics page on facebook go to itunes give us a five star rating i think we've got do we have more of them have we been getting any more of them um i meant to i believe i believe i looked i think we have i think it says we have like seven yeah i was gonna say seven but the only ones i could read we're still we're still from me and Tanner. That's five stars.

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