July 21, 2025 • 56 mins
Ever wondered if training with your partner is a recipe for relationship gold or disaster? In our premiere episode of the rebranded Fortis After Hours Podcast, we pull back the curtain on what it's really like to share training sessions, sweat, and sometimes tears with your significant other.
After a decade of training together through Orange Theory, CrossFit, and ultimately finding our home in competitive powerlifting, we've experienced the full spectrum of couple's fitness dynamics. From the early days of heated gym arguments to our current "diamond" training relationship, we candidly discuss how communication, boundaries, and persistence transformed our training partnership into something special.
The truth? Not every couple should train together. We explore why some relationships thrive in a shared fitness environment while others fare better with separate workouts. For those who do want to team up, we reveal the key difference between couples who succeed and those who struggle: alignment in passion and commitment, not necessarily matching fitness levels or identical goals.
Our journey through powerlifting has taken us across the country, with Liz achieving competition bests of a 385lb squat, 203lb bench, and 457lb deadlift, while Nate has hit a 585lb squat, 407lb bench, and 672lb deadlift. But beyond the numbers, we've discovered how our distinct training personalities have influenced each other, with Liz adopting more energy for certain lifts and Nate learning the value of strategic intensity management.
Whether you're currently training with your partner, considering making the gym a couple's activity, or have decided it's absolutely not for you, this episode offers practical advice on supporting each other's fitness journeys. The communication skills we've developed spotting each other have strengthened our marriage outside the gym walls – proving that sometimes the heaviest things we lift together aren't weights, but expectations and understanding.
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Nate (00:00):
What's going on, you guys?
Welcome to the first episode ofthe Fortis After Hours Podcast.
I'm your co-host, nate, joinedby my wife Liz.
Liz (00:06):
Hey.
Nate (00:07):
And we have a awesome episode planned for you guys
today.
As you guys know, we kind ofrebranded the podcast and our
new name theme is the FortisAfter Hours Podcast.
Why is that, liz?
Liz (00:22):
Because we're talking about things other than powerlifting.
Nate (00:26):
now that is true, and it's after hours.
That's the main thing I washoping that you would do.
Liz (00:31):
AKA.
It's about 7.30 on a Saturdaynight.
Nate (00:34):
Yeah, we record these kind of after hours and we're going
to be focusing and diving intounfiltered conversations about
fitness, mental healthrelationships, powerlifting and
everything in between, so goingto be a little bit broader topic
range for you guys.
Now, if you've been listeningto the podcast over the past few
months to slash maybe a yearyou've probably already
(00:54):
experienced this.
But this is just going to giveus the freedom to kind of just
talk about whatever we'refeeling.
Liz (01:02):
that day and time.
Yeah, because sometimes we feltlike we had to talk more about
like powerlifting, specific evenif we had, like, other things
we maybe wanted to talk about,and then we would still
sometimes talk about the otherthings anyways.
Nate (01:13):
But exactly now.
We're just going to talk aboutwhatever we want, so get ready
worry because we both still arevery much into powerlifting yeah
there will definitely still bepowerlifting.
Liz (01:25):
Fitness, nutrition, life, things related to that yeah, 100
.
Nate (01:30):
We just want a little bit more freedom to talk about other
topics in the fitness space,not just, uh, powerlifting and
not just kind of like I don'tknow being chained to that.
Uh, yeah, exactly so, anyways.
So welcome to the first episode.
And today we're going to bekind of reintroducing ourselves,
(01:50):
uh, in case we have some newlisteners, since we this is
technically going to be episodeone, I think I am going to title
it episode one, I'm going tohave some sort of denotation so
you can see the differencebetween the before episodes and
now.
Liz (02:02):
But this is episode one, perfect um, so yeah, who are?
You, because I feel like too,as far as like reintroducing
ourselves, even if people aren'tlike totally new, it's probably
been.
I mean, I assume most peopleprobably know who we are, but
like yeah they might not knowabout, like I don't know, our
past yeah, exactly, I don't knowmaybe they just know who we are
(02:22):
now yeah, so we going to startwith reintroducing ourselves,
and Liz is going to start us off.
Nate (02:29):
So who are you?
Liz (02:30):
Oh, I'm Liz.
Nate (02:32):
All right.
Liz (02:33):
Told me about Fell on the Couch.
Nate (02:34):
Yep.
Liz (02:35):
Trying to come join us.
Nate (02:36):
He did.
Liz (02:39):
What are we introducing ourselves about?
Nate (02:47):
Why don't you tell us how you kind of got started in the
fitness space, since that's, youknow, the majority of our life
Talk about, yeah, let's talkabout that first.
If I give you all of them,you're gonna forget them, so I'm
just gonna say that first.
Liz (02:56):
Probably yeah.
So growing up, sports fitness,whatever exercise, any of that
such was not even a relevanttopic in my life.
Nate (03:09):
Growing up, not on your radar.
Liz (03:10):
Nope, not even a little bit .
I did not play sports, I didnot participate in really any of
those such things.
Nate (03:19):
Okay.
Liz (03:20):
So it was probably oh, I don't know, maybe like after
Well, in college I would say Iwould like try and be like yeah,
I should, you know, go exerciseor something.
And I would go to the gym anddo like.
Nate (03:33):
Like an elliptical or something.
Liz (03:34):
Yeah an elliptical.
Nate (03:35):
And be like yeah.
Liz (03:35):
I'm exercising which, I mean, is better than nothing.
To be fair, but, like I wasn'treally like trying that hard,
not going to lie, it was morejust moving, a little bit sort
of, because I thought that'swhat I was supposed to do, yeah,
and then it was, I would say,after college.
I don't remember exactly howlong, maybe a year or two after
(03:59):
college.
I had realized that I wasstarting to gain some weight
that I didn't want to gain.
So I started going to the gym alittle bit.
I think I worked with apersonal trainer for a little
bit to kind of like teach mesort of how to move, I guess,
(04:21):
how to lift, how to work out.
I had no clue what I was doingno clue and then I ended up
losing actually like a decentamount of weight, I would say I
don't know something.
And then one of the teachersthat I taught with at the time
it was actually over the summershe invited me to go try out
(04:44):
Orange Theory, which was thisnew thing that had opened up.
Nate (04:50):
Like group fitness.
Liz (04:51):
Yes, but it was like new to the area or something and she
wanted to go try it.
So I went and tried it with herand that was kind of where I
like, really I would say startedconsistently working out.
Nate (05:07):
Gotcha.
Liz (05:09):
Probably five to six to maybe seven days a week.
Nate (05:12):
Okay, I always really enjoyed the strength part of it,
like the dumbbells, the floorpart, the weightlifting if you
can call it that weightliftingpart of it, I guess Weren't you
kind of naturally pretty good atthat?
I?
Liz (05:26):
at that.
I guess that you found orwhatever like you could like
start lifting the bigger weightstype thing yes, like, and I
would also like push myself tothe bigger weights where, like,
a lot of people maybe didn't,but I was always like I would
always push myself and that wassomething that I enjoyed then.
Yeah, I guess that was kind oflike the very beginning Cool.
Nate (05:45):
Right on Um.
So that's how you startedfitness.
And then I guess let's alsotalk about how you discovered
powerlifting, since you havespent the most time doing
powerlifting and competing inthe sport of powerlifting, um,
and then like how you discoveredpowerlifting.
And then what are your bestlifts all time and what are you
(06:08):
doing now?
Liz (06:10):
um, so I did orange theory for, I don't know, probably a
year and a half, two years,maybe that's obviously where we
met.
If you didn't know, um, now youknow we met at orange theory
yep um, and then we kind ofstarted going to the gym in
addition to Orange Theory andactually lifting like squat,
bench, deadlift, which I hadkind of done before with a
(06:33):
personal trainer.
But then I feel like we likereally started doing that a
little bit more.
Nate (06:38):
Yeah.
Liz (06:40):
Not like powerlifting, though I mean technically it was
, but like it wasn't.
Like for me, it wasn't at allin my brain, didn't even know
what powerlifting though I meantechnically it was, but it
wasn't For me, it wasn't at allin my brain, didn't even know
what powerlifting was really.
Then we ventured to CrossFitfor a little while.
Yeah, that was a time.
Ironically, it was my idea, butit was not for me.
Nate (07:04):
Yeah, Liz is not a fan of this.
Liz (07:06):
Is all competitive exercising this is all in
illinois so then we came down toflorida and the gym we came to
that we then bought, but it wasdefinitely like not crossfit but
crossfit, like they called itfunctional fitness, but it was
definitely more of like acrossfit s class um, and I just
it never was really likesomething I enjoyed doing, but I
(07:30):
always enjoyed the liftingaspect of it, like even then,
like that was still the partthat I enjoyed the most was
lifting.
And then, I don't know,somewhere along the way, like
you, brought up powerlifting tome or told me about powerlifting
, um.
Nate (07:44):
And essentially I said, no , I'm never doing that because
I'm not competing in front ofpeople, um somehow I think it's
because we were talking, youwere doing crossfit and then you
were doing olympic lifting fora while because you just liked
the lifting, but you didn't likethe olympic lifting because of
the, I think really just becauseof the lack of like.
You're not in control for asection of those lifts.
Liz (08:05):
I think that is what kind of bothered you.
I don't like throwing thingsover my head, it's just not it's
too free-flowing, crazy for me.
Nate (08:12):
And then I was like you know, I was aware of
powerlifting, not like in thearea, but just like the sport,
and I was like why don't youjust do that?
Liz (08:26):
And then I that, and then I think you did some research and
well, it took me a while toeven like be able to like be
willing to like compete in thattoo, like I trained for, I don't
know, probably like a year,year and a half, maybe like
following some online programsthat I found, or different
coaches, whatever, um, and thenat then, finally, somehow you
convinced me to sign up for myfirst meet in.
It's either February or March, Idon't know.
(08:48):
One of those two months of 2018was my first meet and I
apparently was hooked after that.
Nate (08:59):
Yeah, here we are, here we are.
Liz (09:00):
However many years it's been now.
Nate (09:03):
Seven.
Liz (09:08):
Yeah, that's a lot of years seven years later.
Nate (09:10):
And then, last but not least question how did fortis
come about slash?
How did you start working inthe fitness industry?
Liz (09:20):
um, so hold on.
You'd ask me another questionon the question before this,
what are your biggest lifts?
Nate (09:27):
And then, what are you doing right now?
Or like in the sport, likewhat's your next competition?
Liz (09:31):
So my best lifts are that right?
Nate (09:33):
there is called teamwork folks.
Liz (09:35):
I knew there was another question.
Nate (09:36):
I was working on it.
Liz (09:38):
My best squat ever in a competition was 385.
My best bench is 203.
And my best deadlift is 457.
Nate (09:48):
All of those done in competition.
Liz (09:49):
I think I technically benched 209 one time, like in
the gym, but not with like acompetition, like not to like
competition standards.
Next up, the meet I'm trainingfor is in September.
It is the power surge pro-amI'll be for.
Is in September, it is thePower Surge Pro-Am.
I'll be doing the Pro Day andyeah, that's up in Chicago.
(10:14):
I did this meet a couple yearsago.
I'm sure I've talkedextensively about that as well
as how the last couple yearshave gone, but we're working on
having fun and going and doingthat meet again, um, in a couple
months yeah, all right, okay,and then what was the third
question, or the next questionthat I oh fortis like?
(10:38):
how did fortis start.
So, if you guys didn't know, Iwas an elementary school teacher
for 10 years.
Um, I taught for five years inillinois and five years down in
florida.
We moved down here in 2016 yeahand then you were working at the
(10:59):
gym the other gym with theother owners back in 2016 and
then they left and sold us thegym in 2018 and I would say,
around that time I started doinglike a little bit of like
personal training kind of likeon the side as needed, um, maybe
with like some specific people.
(11:21):
And then that was 2018 and thenI kind of I was still teaching
full-time.
I was.
It was um an interesting timeduring COVID, for sure, um, so I
taught through COVID um.
I taught until 2021.
So, like May of 2021 was myfinal time teaching um.
(11:46):
At that point, I had starteddoing a little bit more coaching
at the gym, I would saytraining um at night and on the
weekends, around teaching and myown working out training um,
and so I was doing that.
And then in 2021, I did myfinal year of teaching and then
(12:10):
joined the gym full-time thenand really started doing,
obviously, more personaltraining, more coaching, online
coaching, things like that yeah,I think that's about right yeah
, yeah.
Nate (12:23):
Cool, right on, yeah, and then I guess one last question
would just be what's one thingthat you really like enjoy?
I know one thing is kind oftough, but one thing that you
enjoy about being a coach and apersonal trainer, and also your
favorite flavor of ice cream,and also your favorite flavor of
(12:45):
ice cream.
Liz (12:45):
So I think, like, my favorite thing with training and
coaching is getting people tolike accomplish things that they
didn't ever think that theycould do, or like helping them
reach their goals but then likegoing even beyond that, I guess,
because usually people can domuch more than they think they
(13:06):
can do, yeah, and so I justthink that's really cool,
finding like I mean, our wholething is redefining strong, so
it's finding like the strongthat people have that they never
even like knew that they couldhave, if that makes any sense at
all.
Nate (13:23):
Yeah, no, it makes sense sense.
Liz (13:25):
So just kind of helping people find that and like feel
empowered through their strengthand their progress, um yeah,
okay so that's probably myfavorite part about it and then
my favorite flavor of ice cream.
So like, just like generic icecream, like regular I would go
with cookie, but I really likehalf-baked Ben Jerry's.
Nate (13:44):
Okay, right on.
Liz (13:46):
Which has cookie dough in it.
Nate (13:48):
Nice, I did not have half-baked the other day when I
got some Ben Jerry's for us.
Liz (13:52):
Sad.
Nate (13:53):
The only way to buy Ben Jerry's realistically is buy one
, get one free at Publix or yourlocal grocer whenever they do
that, because otherwise it'sinsanely expensive.
It is, but it's so goodinsanely expensive it is, but
it's so good, yeah, all right,so my turn.
I'm going to try and runthrough the same questions that
I asked liz, but the problem isthey're in my mind.
Liz (14:07):
So the first question how did you get into fitness?
Nate (14:11):
how to get into fitness.
Well, I was, uh, about probably15 years old and I was tired of
being small and weak and Istruggled to do push-ups.
I couldn't really lift too muchweights.
And I saw you know again inschool.
You start to see these peoplearound you.
I'm like what is going on?
What are these kids doing?
Like, what am I not doing?
(14:31):
Then I realized it's notlifting weights.
So I started lifting weights,probably around like 15 or 16
years old, somewhere aroundthere, and then I started really
getting serious into it 17, 18.
Into it 17, 18, um.
And I became a personal trainerwhen I was 18, 19, what year is
(14:52):
it?
Liz (14:53):
what 2025.
Nate (14:56):
Okay, personal trainer in 2013, um, so whatever that is.
Liz (15:00):
However old.
Nate (15:02):
However old I think I was 19, maybe 18, whatever, but
anyways, yeah.
So once I did that, I kind ofreally dove into fitness
headfirst, made it kind of likemy lifestyle because I really
enjoyed it.
You know, I just like theprogress.
I mean, that's kind of theanswer to that question is how I
got into it is I just reallyenjoyed making progress and
(15:23):
seeing the progress in my body.
You know, I'd go to the gym.
I started lifting some weights,maybe I was only using 20s, and
then I did that for a few weeksand then I would use 25s and
then 35, so and so forth.
I definitely remember when I wasyounger being enamored with
people that could bench pressthe hundreds.
100 pound dumbbells like thatwas like insane to me.
And then here we we are.
That did not take me that longto do.
(15:45):
I did that a long time ago, um.
But yeah, I've gone throughdifferent phases of my fitness
journey.
Um, you know, I kind of startedoff just lifting, doing like a
lot of plyometric stuff, somepull-ups, like a lot of pull-ups
, muscle-ups, things like that.
Um, and then I've done, I'vecompeted in a lot of stuff I
would say pretty much the mainorganized sports as far as like
(16:09):
strength sports, so I competedin men's physique bodybuilding
first.
Then I did CrossFitcompetitions, I did Olympic
lifting, olympic weightlifting,so overhead snatch and clean and
jerk competitions.
And then I've done powerliftingcompetitions, like organized
powerlifting competitions, um,and then like actually like
sanctioned events forpowerlifting, like both.
(16:31):
Um, I kind of like backyardevents and then like real ones,
um.
And yeah, my fitness journeyhas kind of taken me quite
literally all over the countryat this point, especially with
powerlifting, kind of been allover, um, and it ended up
turning into my full-time careerand something I love to do, um
(16:52):
same I always say yeah, I alwayssay um, and I do mean this like
I'll probably be liftingweights forever, like until I
die.
I don't obviously that's notgoing to look different as I
continue to age, but yeah, I'mgonna be doing some sort of
weightlifting until I die.
It's just my passion.
I love it, and part of thereasons I do love it is the
(17:14):
whole concept of redefiningstrong and, you know, finding my
own strong, because, you know,everyone has different journeys
and everyone starts at differentspots.
And for me, you know, there'ssome things that I really
excelled at very easily andthere's other things that took
me years and years and years tobuild.
Uh, so I just think that's cool.
I think that's a cool partabout fitness yes, um the next
(17:38):
question?
I don't remember yeah, I didn'tthink so um something.
Liz (17:43):
Oh, your numbers.
Nate (17:45):
I think we talked about that how I got into powerlifting
yeah, which you kind of justsaid yeah I kind of combined the
first two.
So, yeah, now I'll just talkabout my best powerlifting
numbers that I've ever hit um,585 squat, that was in a
competition 407 bench, that wasin the gym recently, and then
672 deadlift.
I've done that in the gym andon competition, um.
(18:07):
And my next goal is a meet innovember, uh, here in florida.
It's like the florida statechampionships for us apl and my
goal for that is to get as close.
I mean, it's the pr of thetotal, that's number one, but
then the main goal is to.
That's the main goal.
Secondary goal is to get asclose to 1700 as possible and
(18:28):
then tertiary goal would just beto win the weight class or the
meet, whatever is there on thatday.
And, yeah, I'm kind of reallylocking in and focusing on that.
For this year I focused a loton if you've been listening to
the podcast for a while, youknow that I've focused a lot on
like running and lifting lastyear, um, and I'm really kind of
(18:49):
like locking in just to lifting.
I'm still doing cardio, um, buta lot less running these days
for now, for the time being yesum how did fortis?
fortis appear yeah, sodisappeared.
Yeah, fortis not appear sevenyears ago.
Yeah, basically took a big riskwhen we first moved down here
(19:11):
and ended up paying off.
I was working for these peoplethat owned the gym before us and
it was called Husky MafiaHealth and Fitness and it was
more of like a functionaltraining functional fitness gym
Kind of did more like MetconsCrossFit-esque type workouts and
I was a coach for them andworked with them for a little
(19:34):
bit, kind of helped them buildup like a good following and I
built up my own like personaltraining clientele.
And then there was anopportunity to purchase the gym
or the majority share the gym.
So we did that.
And now to purchase the gym orthe majority of shares of the
gym, we did that and now we ownthe gym with our good friend
(19:54):
Joel Bretz.
We decided to rename it and cameup with the name Fortis.
My dad actually helped me comeup with that.
He speaks Latin kind of weirdbecause it's a dead language
language but he like can speakit right.
It knows it uh, very well.
And fortis in latin meansstrong and I knew I had the
(20:14):
concept of redefining strong andI knew that I wanted to call it
fitness studio.
Uh, because that was kind ofwhat I wanted, the I don't know
how you say it, but like,basically, like I wanted the
kind of like aesthetic, but inword form I don't even know how
it is, but I wanted that to beknown, just when you're like
(20:35):
looking it up, okay, this is afitness studio.
It's not just a gym.
A little bit like cleaner,higher quality, more premium
experience is what I was goingfor with that name.
So, yeah, I actually came upwith the Fortis or sorry, with
the fitness studio first, andthen we came up with Fortis, and
then we have Fortis fitnessstudio.
Here we are, so that was 2018.
And we have been open for justover seven years now.
(20:58):
It has been a wild rollercoaster journey of ups and downs
.
It's been a journey, yeah that'spretty much, I would say,
owning a business.
If you have any other friendsthat own businesses, that's
probably they'll tell yousomething similar.
But it's really really awesomeand really rewarding and I'm
super thankful to have peoplesupporting us, not only like our
(21:19):
clients and members loyalmembers I mean we've had some
people that have been with usliterally since the beginning
and are still members, but somemembers loyal members I mean
we've had some people that havebeen literally since the
beginning and they're stillmembers, uh but also the support
of my wife, liz, and joel.
Um, they've been supersupportive in all of my uh, I'm
kind of like the idea person ofthe business kind of and yeah
(21:40):
they're super supportive andjust kind of let me do my thing.
Liz (21:43):
Sometimes I keep you in check.
Nate (21:45):
I was just going to say they're good at kind of bringing
me down to earth sometimes,which I need, because I'd be not
down to earth sometimes, I'd bejust in space.
Thanks, so yeah, and what wasthe question?
Just kind of like how itstarted.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(22:24):
So that's how to take some time.
But while we're working on likefully rebranding is just that
like kind of one unification offortis, we're all strong
together, redefining.
Strong together, um, and wereally want our brand, our
branding, our messaging, ourmarketing, everything to reflect
that um, because I think we cando a lot better at that.
So we're going to okay.
Liz (22:45):
Okay, and then the last question yeah, what is your
favorite part about training?
And then your favorite icecream flavor.
Nate (22:52):
So my favorite part about training is definitely just like
communicating with people, likejust like I don't know building
relationships, seeing people,like you said, like seeing
people go from point A to pointB, being alongside, and I
definitely like the I guess, fixit part of training that's like
three or four different thingsall in one well, that's just how
I am welcome to my brain.
(23:14):
But yeah, I definitely just like.
Like you know, people come tome with a problem and I like
coming up with a solution.
Sometimes it's really easy,other times it takes me a little
bit, uh, but pretty much everytime I can come up with some
sort of solution that works forthem.
I also just kind of pridemyself in being able to do that.
I feel like a lot of trainersthese days, and specifically
powerlifting coaches, are veryone dimensional and I think that
(23:38):
that is unfortunately a bigweakness in long term success as
a trainer.
So if you're listening and youare thinking about getting into
personal training or coaching, Istrongly encourage you to try
and work with a lot of differentindividuals.
In the beginning, you're goingto have to work for free.
That's what I did in the verybeginning.
I worked for a lot of hours, alot of free hours, and just
(23:59):
build up that experience,working with human beings,
working with different everydayissues.
You know like there's I meanthere's a lot of like
theoretical, like knowledge outthere, but then applying it to
the real world is much different.
Um, so that is, I guess, justone thing that I pride myself in
is being able to really kind ofwork with anyone, um, and try
(24:21):
and you know, achieve theresults that they're looking for
.
Um, specifically, it's beenawesome to get in the sport of
powerlifting and coaching thesport I've been coaching now for
seven years and a lot of trialand error, and I would say my
favorite part of coachingpowerlifting which you didn't
ask but I'll tell you anyways is, of course you will uh, that is
going to be meat day.
I love making attemptselections, I love the rush of
(24:43):
it.
I'm also pretty good at it andI, yeah, I just love like meat
day in all aspects as a coach ora lifter.
Big fan, big fan couldn't be mein an ideal situation lizard,
write all your programs andcommunicate with you all, and
then I would just show up onmeat day and make all the weight
calls yeah, I love it.
(25:03):
Um, not to say I don't like theother stuff, I definitely do,
but uh, that's just like myfavorite part, because that was
the question.
Yes, my favorite ice creamwould be Ben Jerry's Cherry
Garcia, old man flavor.
Liz (25:16):
That's so gross.
Nate (25:17):
Not really yeah.
Liz (25:23):
I really want ice cream now .
Nate (25:27):
Okay, we need to focus up.
So that is us in a nutshell, orthe basics as far as really
quickly.
One last thing I did forgetabout.
Why do you like podcasting?
Because you enjoy it, otherwiseyou wouldn't be doing it, so
you must enjoy it a little bit.
When we first startedpodcasting together, this was a
(25:48):
little apprehensive.
We'll say this is after.
I was like talking to myselffor years.
So I'm like I mean, so, so whatdo you enjoy about it?
Liz (25:57):
I mean, really, the only reason I started doing it was
because you wanted me to do it.
Nate (26:03):
Yeah.
Liz (26:03):
And so I was just being nice, but I don wanted me to do
it, yeah, and so I was justbeing nice, but I don't know,
it's kind of fun talking andsharing stories and hanging out
and giving advice, and then Ithink, like I just think it's
cool too when people are likehey, I was listening to your
podcast and I really appreciatedthis, or I learned this, or I
liked this, and so I think it'sjust like another way of like
(26:26):
helping people and I thinkthat's cool and we get to just
hang out and talk on the couchand sit here and not be on video
anymore liz's anti-video.
Nate (26:39):
Um, yeah, that's cool, I think, honestly, my answer is
probably pretty similar.
Like I just enjoy uh talking toyou and getting to talk about
the stuff that we love, which isfitness, powerlifting, strength
, relationship stuff.
And yeah, it's just an awesomemedium that I think has grown in
popularity greatly, for a goodreason, because it's awesome and
(27:02):
people can be, you know,learning and growing in their
car, uh on their way to work,coming from work at the gym.
Some people work out listeningto podcasts.
Liz (27:13):
I don't know how you do that, um I worked out listening
to a book the other day that'syou're doing like the pump work
out yesterday?
Nate (27:20):
yeah, not like heavy lifting it was just like
accessories and cardio.
Just to clarify for the people.
Liz (27:24):
But still, I listened to a book while I was working out
Cool.
Book Book time I don't know,it's like listening to a podcast
, but a book.
Nate (27:34):
Yeah.
Liz (27:35):
I guess.
So yeah, exactly.
Nate (27:36):
So people listen to podcasts when they work out and
books, exactly.
But yeah, no, and I enjoy itand I really hope to
reinvigorate our podcast that wehave here.
We also really appreciate allthe listeners that we have.
We have usually around 150 orso per week, which is fantastic.
(27:57):
If you are listening to thepodcast, you've been listening
for a while.
You haven't left us a review.
Leave us a review.
We'd appreciate that.
That'll help grow the podcast.
If if you want to share withyour friends, that helps as well
.
So let's go ahead and get intoour topic of the day, which is
training with your significantother which is something we've
been doing for quite a while.
Liz (28:19):
We met training together.
Nate (28:20):
We did Sort of yeah, sort of.
So we've been training togetherfor quite a while.
We've been training in the,been training together for quite
a while.
We've been training in the samesport together for quite a
while.
Liz (28:30):
We've technically been training together for like 10
years now.
Nate (28:34):
That's crazy.
That is true, I didn't eventhink about that.
Liz (28:37):
Yeah.
Nate (28:37):
Weird.
Liz (28:38):
That is weird.
Nate (28:39):
You know what?
Here's some crazy stuff.
Liz (28:41):
Oh.
Nate (28:42):
When we first started training, I vividly remember, I
vividly remember I was likearound like a 365 squat or so.
Liz (28:48):
Yeah, that was like hard.
I can do that, you can do that.
Nate (28:51):
And I just benched that for two today, okay, on a
secondary day, so that's prettycool.
Yeah, 10 years, so yeah, sotraining together.
Let's first talk about some oflike the benefits of training
together.
Start off some positives.
What do you feel like are someof the benefits of training
together as a husband and wifeteam?
Liz (29:13):
also should be noted that me and lynn spend basically all
day, every day, together, so alittle unique situation yeah,
we're literally together like 247, unless, well, like other
than like the hour or two you goto work before I get up, and
yeah, sometimes it's also kindof funny how many questions we
get about that.
Nate (29:30):
Like not I guess how many, but it is a pretty frequent
question.
People are like, oh, like, doyou get tired of each other?
Like, oh, are you good?
Like like we're like in jail orsomething.
I'm like yeah, I'm good, I likemy wife and I like spending
time with her.
Liz (29:43):
So but yeah, we are, are basically together all the time.
Yeah, we work together, wetrain together, we live together
.
That's all the things.
Nate (29:52):
Did you say we live together?
Liz (29:54):
Yeah, obviously.
Nate (29:55):
Nice.
Liz (29:56):
I'm just saying, we do.
Nate (30:00):
Oh my gosh, Hence 24-7.
Okay.
Liz (30:03):
Anyways, I don't know what I'm supposed to be saying.
Nate (30:06):
What is like the benefits some of the benefits you think
that there are to trainingtogether?
Liz (30:15):
I mean, I feel like this very much depends on the couple,
I would say Because some peoplecan do this and some people
can't.
All right, as far assignificant others training
together.
I would say because some peoplecan do this and some people
can't All right as far assignificant others training
together because I've heard alot of stories, of ones that
can't train together.
(30:37):
I do know several, obviously Ido too, and I think it just kind
of depends on, like what yourgoals are.
If you have similar goals, whatyour lifestyle is is like like
how important training is to you, and I think for us it works
well because we have similar,like important, similar goals,
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so like we can kind of like pusheach other and like make sure
that we're like both workingtowards what we need to be
working towards, if that makessense.
Nate (31:06):
Yeah.
Liz (31:06):
Because we both are like very passionate about it.
Where you know, sometimes Imean this isn't really what you
asked, but where I'm going withthat is like sometimes, if you
have two people like with verydifferent passion levels of the
sport or of going to the gym ortraining, like you have one
person that's super into it,like really invested, like it's
their whole life, and the otherperson just like works out a
(31:28):
little because like it keepsthem healthier, like I feel like
they would have a harder time.
Uh, maybe training together,which there's nothing wrong with
that.
But I think for us, like, itallows us to kind of like push
each other, because we do havelike the shared goals and so
we're able to, like, you know,make sure that we're we're
training like to the best of ourabilities.
(31:49):
Obviously, we also are our owncoaches, so that's, I would say,
another benefit, because wecoach each other and train
together, um, for the most part,yeah, so we have like a lot of
real-time feedback yes, you cankind of like see it.
You can make like on-the-spotadjustments if needed.
Um and plus, you just kind oflike have that person that's
like always in your cornercheering for you, no matter what
(32:11):
yeah, yeah, no, I would agree.
Nate (32:15):
I think, yeah, I think I get what you're saying.
Like I think it definitelydepends on, I guess, each
couple's like situation.
Yeah, um, I think I thinkpeople can have like different,
be at different spots, differentlike training levels and things
still train together, butthere's definitely a difference
between training.
I'm not saying training levels.
Liz (32:34):
You could have one person really strong and one person
just starting out.
But I'm saying I don't know.
Nate (32:40):
No, what I was going to say is it's definitely different
because we're both at a fairlyelite level in the sport of
powerlifting, or fairly highlevel, whatever term you want to
use.
We've been doing it for a whileand we have a lot of time
invested to it, a lot of moneyinvested into it and a lot of
muscle invested into it, andwe're both trying to really push
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our bodies to the limits tofind what we can lift.
So that is kind of the basis ofus training together.
So that is a good way to maybeput that.
And that is a differentconnection than, like, if you
are training with yoursignificant other and you should
not expect that, I guess, is mypoint.
You're training with yoursignificant other and they're
just not into that type offitness.
But that doesn't mean you can'ttrain together.
(33:24):
It's just it's going to be adifferent like experience than
like what we're doing.
So, like you know, if someonemight be into like we'll just
call it lifestyle training andnot pushing the weight, they
might not even moving up inweights.
They're just kind of using thesame weights.
They want to maintain, theywant to, you know, do a little
cardio and then you come in thegym and you're pushing your body
to the limits.
That's two totally differentthings.
(33:45):
Uh, it's not to say you can'ttrain together, but you, like
both, would need to have, Iwould say, like metered or like
correct expectations for whatthe other person is doing and
like respect for what the otherperson is doing, so like, if you
know, again, using my example,if somebody's like pushing their
body to the limits, whateverstrength sport you may be doing,
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and the other person is kind oflike training for life, I mean
the training for life personneeds to respect that the other
individual is getting after it.
And then in the off, you know,on the other side like that
person needs to respect that.
they're just in there trying tolike stay healthy, stay fit,
Because those are two totallydifferent things.
Liz (34:24):
Well and I think with that too, it comes the amount of time
that you invest in the gym too.
Typically someone who's more ofjust a lifestyle trying to be
healthy and all of that they'regoing to go to the gym for maybe
45 minutes or an hour, whereassomeone who is deeply invested
into powerlifting like what weare you're going to be spending
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usually two plus hours liketraining.
Yeah, so I mean not necessarily,but like for most people, like
by the time you like, warm up,get ready, like I would say,
maybe an hour and a half, twohours, maybe two and a half,
just depending on, like theworkout, how much you talk, how
much you rest, um, but you mightbe spending a little longer
(35:07):
than someone who's more justlike lifestyle training yeah and
so I think that can differ alittle bit as far as like
training together that can makethings kind of wonky yeah, if
you don't like understand thatbecause that's like a comment.
I know I've heard from a lot ofpeople like oh, they spend so
long in the gym and so you knowif you're not interested in that
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, then that's harder.
Nate (35:32):
So, yeah, all right.
So I guess, since you knowtraining together can definitely
be, I guess, more of like apersonal choice, we'll just talk
about like us training together.
Yeah, because kind of like Lizsaid, like it just kind of
depends on the individualwhether you guys are going to
train together or not yeah, Ijust feel like some people like
I've met a lot of couples thatlike can train together and like
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do, but usually I have not theydon't train each other.
Liz (36:00):
They can like work out, like in the same space.
More than often they don't workout together.
Nate (36:08):
I was just going to say, like I would say, if I had to
guess a percentage, I would saylike 90% of couples do not work
out together.
Like that I, at least in myexperience like I feel like most
people do not.
I feel like there's some thatdo.
Liz (36:23):
Yeah.
Nate (36:23):
And then like right, the second we happen to know like a
few yeah.
But I would say, over the yearsI would say most people don't,
and I do think that probablystems from just different like
styles of training, differentinterests, things like that.
So for us it's definitely beena kind of like journey, been a
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kind of like journey and we'vehad like a lot of different like
phases, I guess, of liketraining each other, and I think
now is definitely kind of likethe result of sticking it out
and a lot of years of I don'tknow, communication.
Hard work, hard work workingtogether, not quitting.
Liz (37:06):
It was rough.
Nate (37:07):
Yeah, in the beginning it was rough.
Liz (37:09):
It was rough.
Nate (37:10):
If you've never heard those stories, I don't even
remember why.
Liz (37:12):
Though, it just did not work out well.
Nate (37:15):
Yeah, I know.
Liz (37:16):
Because that was more.
You were coaching me was reallythe rough part.
Well, when we were doingCrossFit, that was rough too,
but just because I hated what wewere doing and I was not good
at it and I didn't like dying,and it was just terrible.
Nate (37:30):
Liz had a panic attack one time during a CrossFit workout.
Yeah, I couldn't breathe.
Yeah.
Liz (37:36):
And it created not great things.
Anyways, it was a lot ofrunning and squatting.
I still remember that it wasterrible.
Nate (37:43):
I don't even remember that day.
Liz (37:53):
I know, don't remember that it was terrible.
I don't even remember that day,I know I do.
It was traumatic.
Um, I remember your face, Iremember that, um.
But I feel like what was roughwas more the part when, like you
started coaching me because Idid, I had a couple like online
coaches when I first got intopowerlifting, because we didn't
really know, you didn't reallyknow what we were doing with
powerlifting, like yeah that wassomething new to us.
I mean obviously like the basicsof squat, bench and deadlift
and how to get stronger yeah,but we were trying to learn like
the actual sport yeah, so I dida couple different coaches, or
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I did like an online, like atraining app for one of them,
the hybrid and then I did getlike a one-on-one online coach,
um, for a while I don't rememberhow long- Neither one of those
worked out very good for me.
I don't know if it was.
I don't exactly know why.
(38:35):
I would be curious now to goback and look at what I was
doing.
I don't even remember what Iwas doing, but I'd be curious,
now, with more knowledge, to goback and look at what I was
doing and see if I could figureout why it it?
Nate (38:47):
didn't work.
I can tell you why is because,like 100 back in the day, you
did not fully like understand,like sport, and like the ups and
downs of sport well, so likethis mentally yeah and then I
think, like you just had a veryhigh standard of like this needs
to be happening here and thisshould be happening, because
that's what it says on the sheetbut not as high of an
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understanding of like real lifeand then like how to like change
or like adapt to that.
Because, like every time, likeI would like come in and like
peak you for the meat orwhatever stuff like that, that's
all I would do is just like tryand work around whatever things
you had going on and then makesure you're feeling good on that
actual day.
So I think that's probably whythose didn't those first two
(39:31):
didn't really work.
Liz (39:32):
Yeah, I don't know, but then you started coaching me and
we fought a lot about youcoaching me.
You would get like mad aboutthings if I didn't like them,
and I would get mad that youwould say things and it was just
a whole situation yeah so then,finally, like this would be
like we'd fight like whiletraining, we'd fight about it at
(39:53):
home, like it was like a wholething at home, like so then we
finally turned it into.
Like there was like coach nateand husband nate, because we had
to like differentiate the two,and so then it literally it had
to be like clear like who wastalking, because there was like
some weird fine line that likewe didn't really know how to I
(40:15):
don't know how to like cross theline.
Nate (40:17):
I don't know like I couldn't seem to find the
correct balance of likecommunicating and then like as a
coach versus a husband.
Yeah, and liz couldn't likefind the balance of like it was
like getting offended versuslike I was just trying to like
help me yeah, it was a roughtime yeah, it was a situation um
(40:37):
I think, uh, weaker souls wouldhave given up, but luckily,
luckily, uh, we are both reallystubborn hard-headed individuals
and basically I would say wehave now come to the point where
we've created a diamond andthat is our current training
relationship.
So a lot of pressure and then Idon't know how, but diamonds
(41:00):
come out of pressure somehow.
According to the internet, and.
I would say now is like thediamond portion of training.
So that's been like almost adecade, so that's cool, uh.
So just to let you know, youknow, uh, no big deal, but just
buckle up.
Yeah, it took a little while,and I think so you know.
On that note, I think that noteveryone does need to train
(41:21):
together.
I think that's something tonote, like I don't necessarily
like recommend it per se, like Imaybe I do.
It just depends on thesituation.
Um depends on your relationship, depends on your goals, like
liz said earlier, um and maybethat's just something to note
too is like you don't need to.
It's just kind of like it hasworked out well for us.
Liz (41:41):
Uh, after all these years of kind of going back and forth,
I mean, there's also a goodchunk of time where we didn't
train together, like when.
I was teaching.
You trained in the morning atlike 5 am and I came in and
trained at night afterwards, solike there was a good chunk of
time where we weren't trainingtogether.
Nate (41:58):
Yeah.
Liz (41:58):
And then, even when I was done teaching for a while, you
would still train in the morning, and then I would train in the
afternoon by myself, but, and Iwould train in the afternoon by
myself, but then that ended upnot working.
So then we just trainedtogether.
Nate (42:07):
Yeah.
Liz (42:09):
So I mean, there was a chunk of time where we weren't
training together.
So, like also, like for somepeople, like their schedules
just might not like, align, likeeven if they have similar goals
, similar, you know, styles oftraining, similar, whatever, but
like you have differentschedules, you just work out
separately.
It is what it is and there'snothing wrong with that.
Nate (42:28):
No, that's what I was trying to say.
It doesn't matter.
Liz (42:33):
You can still be supportive of your significant other and
their desire to train or theirgoals for training or what
they're trying to do withoutactually having to train with
them.
And I think that does getglossed over sometimes is people
are not super supportive oftheir significant other, and
what?
Nate (42:49):
they're trying to do um but then they, like, expect
support for what they're doingyeah, so just don't do that just
kind of throw that out there.
Liz (42:59):
you know, just because like you don't want to do, it
doesn't mean you don't need tobe supportive Like you're
running, for example.
Nate (43:06):
Yeah.
Liz (43:06):
Never, would I ever go run a 15K.
Yeah, that's a great exampleactually In my entire life,
would I go run a 15K?
At least I don't think so, butI didn't care that you chose to
run.
I drove you to the race.
I picked you up.
I'm going to support you inlike, however, I can.
Nate (43:31):
But I am not doing this type of training and that's okay
.
Yeah, um, yeah, no, I thinkthat's a really good point,
because I think that's the thingthat a lot of people I think
they're just interested likehuman nature and like themselves
, which is fine, but also, likeyou, should have a vested
interest in your significantother and what they're doing.
You know, like I don't.
I think that's one thing thatis just so strange to me.
It's like you definitely shouldbe like interested, like when
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you, you know if, like pro tip,if your significant other signs
up for a powerlifting meet, goto it or at least do the best
effort humanly possible to bethere Like I get.
There's maybe certainextenuating circumstances maybe,
but like like it takes a lot oftime, it takes a lot of guts,
takes, like you know, somegumption to get up there and
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lift weights in front of a lotof people.
They're going to definitely beglad if you're there, even if
they're like, oh, they do.
Liz (44:20):
And honestly, this goes to like I know we're saying
significant other, but thiscould also just apply to like a
really important friend in yourlife too.
Just significant other, butthis could also just apply to
like a really important friendin your life too.
Just so you know.
Yeah, that's a great point,like you might, maybe you don't
have a significant other but youhave like a really good best
friend that you are like, yeah,super close with.
If they sign up for somethinglike this, like go support them,
like again.
Nate (44:41):
I understand we're talking about significant others, but
I'm just gonna throw that outthere like I don't know no, I
think supporting your friendsand significant others and
family is super important,because if you would want that
same support, then you need todeliver that same support to
them.
You know you don't want to dounto others as you want it to be
done unto you, whatever that is.
Liz (45:01):
Sure.
Nate (45:03):
But I mean that's like a really good point, because I
think, like we say that, and Ithink it's like a really good
point because I think, like wesay that, I think it's like oh
yeah, yeah, but it's likeespecially with, like I feel
like relationships specifically,I feel like people just get
very complacent in theirrelationships and they're just
like, oh yeah, that's just whatthey're doing, but it's like, no
, like you should be there, besupportive, uh, be encouraging.
You know, on the bad days,maybe, be there to listen.
(45:23):
That's something that I had tolearn.
I was really bad at that in thebeginning, uh, but then I just
you always had to try and fixeverything yeah, then I just got
better and now I don't do that.
um, crazy.
Now I'm like it's like thescene from lord of the rings.
I told this to liz the otherday when something like this
happened.
But it's like, uh, the there'sa scene where gimley's like, uh,
(45:44):
let her be that, let her be.
That's what I have to tellmyself With me, yeah, yeah,
because sometimes they just needsome space, and that's a pro
tip for all of you out there.
Sometimes people just need alittle bit of space, because if
they want a shoulder to cry ontype situation, they'll probably
come find you.
Liz (46:04):
I mean, maybe it depends on the person, but also, you like
know the person, yeah.
Nate (46:13):
But I'm gonna go say uh, go out on a limb and say that
most people just might want alittle bit of space.
Yeah, like that probablyhappens more often than the
other thing, yeah, so, so, yeah,so, you know, that's just
another example of likesomething that I had to learn
over the years.
Um, something else, somethingthat's interesting to me and
Liz's training relationship aswe uh, continue to train
together and get strongertogether is that, uh, we both
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kind of train differently withdifferent like energy, and what
I mean by that is like Liz is avery like, by nature, pretty
like calm lifter.
She gets kind of hyped for likecertain lifts like squat, um
and deadlift, but by natureshe's pretty calm and serious.
Liz (46:55):
Even my like hyped is more like not even focused anywhere
near.
Nate (46:59):
Yeah, it's a different kind of mine is more like a
crazy person yeah, um sometimesyeah, yeah, sometimes I'll be
talking to myself sometimescuing myself, yeah, you know, um
, and anyways, what I was gonnasay is I have now, I think right
(47:20):
now I have like a good balance,and I think so does liz.
Liz has learned like somecertain moves, like slapping her
legs and things like this, tokind of get her real hyped and
ready to go and focused I thinkis a good term and I have
learned the value of being calmand collected on most training
days and then like reallyramping up for like a single or
a top set.
I also learned that I cannot becalm and collected every day.
(47:41):
There was a phase of mytraining it was like when I was
coming back from my injury, kindof like last year, where I was
trying to be like calm every day, including like, and I just I I
kept telling Liz I'm like Ijust don't feel like I can get
into like that last gear.
And then we finally, you know,discussed it and we're just like
(48:02):
yeah, maybe you just need to bea little bit more hyped when
you lift, and that's what I donow and it's much more
controlled than I used to be.
I used to get like hype forevery set, every lift, whatever,
and that does not work becauseyou I mean that and that's just
a, that's a blanket statementLike that will not work, because
you only have a certain amountof adrenaline in your system and
if you're just constantly goingthrough it, you're not going to
like that's not how it works,letting it replenish.
(48:23):
But I have found now this likekind of balanced sense of like
energy where I can, you know,hit most of my warmups.
Then when I'm at my top set ormy top single for the day, I'll
get, I'll get pretty hyped.
Uh, it's probably go from likezero to a hundred.
I try to save a hundred formeat day, but zero to 80%, we'll
call it and, um, I just thinkthat's cool because, like I said
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, that's kind of evolved forboth of us as we've trained
longer and longer together wherewe've kind of like taken some
of each other's like whatevermannerisms or whatever you want
to call it and applied it to ourown lifting and gotten better
from it it has gotten betteryeah, exactly, toby, toby agrees
, um, yeah, and I think, uh, Ithink the biggest thing with
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training like so kind ofwrapping, wrapping this up,
thank you, toby, wrapping thisup.
I think the biggest thing withtraining with your significant
other if that's something youare wanting to do is number one.
I would just focus oncommunication.
That's like, of course, thenumber one thing in like, uh,
relationships in general iscommunicating, but I think in
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the gym it's a good opportunityto like build your communication
skills.
I actually think that, like us,training together has helped
our communication skills in likeour whole marriage.
You know what, what I mean,like outside the gym, probably
yeah.
Otherwise I don't think Lizwould talk to me at all.
So really I think it's a.
Liz (49:51):
Just talk to him about training, that's it.
Nate (49:53):
Yeah, Well, yeah no no.
I'm saying, oh my gosh.
I'm saying like, because we'vetalked about that, then we'll
talk more about other stuff too.
Versus naturally you versusnaturally you would not really
want to be talking aboutanything at all is more what I
was saying.
But yeah, that's kind of.
I think that like trainingtogether and communicating
(50:15):
together in the gym has likeoverflowed into our relationship
outside the gym.
Probably you haven't thoughtabout that until this second.
Liz (50:24):
Nope, sure haven't.
Nate (50:26):
But think about it.
I mean, mean, it makes senseyeah, um, but yeah, I think that
could be a great way to kind ofbuild a good communication
bedrock, so to speak, becauseyou're both trying to achieve
something, whatever it's.
You know the same goal or adifferent goal, and there's
going to be days when you havebad days and there's going to be
(50:46):
days when you have good days,and communication is key for all
of those days.
Also, something to note offLiz's initial point if you don't
really understand what's goingon, like when the other person's
training, ask them.
Or if you're the person like,tell them, you know, share
what's going on.
Hey, I'm about to hit this PR.
I've never done this weight,this weight before.
(51:06):
If, like, they're not in thepower of thing, they'll be more
invested.
You know, I think sometimes,like a lot of people, they just
like expect it.
It's like well, I'm doing this,so they should know.
It's like, how would they know,like, if they, if you have a
significant other that's notinto powerlifting or maybe not
into insert whatever you'redoing, like they're not gonna
know just off, rip what thatmeans to you.
But if you share, it takes onesentence like hey, uh, before
(51:30):
I've only been pressed 203 andnow I'm about to go hit 209.
You want to watch this, likethey're probably gonna say yes
yeah um.
So that's, you know, an easy wayto kind of communicate and,
hopefully, grow together.
Grow stronger together.
Hey, grow stronger together.
Liz (51:45):
Oh.
Nate (51:45):
Nice, Crazy, All right, so yeah.
So I think that kind of wrapsit up for our first episode of
the Fortis After Hours podcast.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed that.
A little bit of areintroduction from myself and
Liz.
Liz (52:05):
Obviously, we'll continue to talk on future episodes about
we're going to talk in apodcast, really.
Nate (52:08):
Okay, our past, present and future is what I was gonna
say.
Um, and hopefully you guysenjoyed us talking about like
training together and I thinkthe biggest like key takeaway at
least my key takeaway, myadvice, is I'm just gonna go
with be supportive, beencouraging.
Uh, you know, deliver positiveenergy into your significant
(52:32):
other or training partner.
Like Liz said, it doesn't evenneed to be your significant
other, but I do think that iskind of different.
Uh, so, you know, deliver somepositive energy and
encouragement towards their way.
That's always going to be aplus, is never going to be a
negative and it will probablyalways be received well, you got
a key takeaway for everybody um, I don't know, I mean, that's
(52:57):
pretty good yeah I feel likelike I guess my thing would be
if it's like something that'simportant to you, like as a
couple, so like both of you.
Liz (53:07):
If it's important that there might be some growing
pains, so like if it isimportant to like train together
, like if that's something that,like whatever, is something
that you value, or you bothvalue that you might have to be
a little patient to like workthrough some of the growing
pains to get to where it'sactually like good training
(53:28):
together Because, like, at firstit might not be.
But that doesn't mean like ifthe first like I don't know, a
couple of weeks or a couple ofmonths are kind of like weird
and just like you don't, it'snot going great.
If it is something that isextremely important, like
communicate, like you said, andlike talk about it and see like
what you can do, and then justkind of be patient and like
(53:49):
allow the training relationshipto grow as your relationship
grows that was good veryinsightful of you.
Nate (53:57):
I like that.
I agree with all that um sosmart yeah, no, I would agree
with all that.
And yeah, I just think trainingwith your significant other can
be a really special bond thatyou guys can grow, uh, so if you
don't already do that, talk tothem about it.
See they'd be interested.
Um, if you have already triedit, talk to them about it again.
I'm telling you, it's a funtime.
And if you've decided as a teamthat you're like, nah, we're
(54:21):
not doing that, then valid, staytuned for the next episode.
Uh, yeah, and also valid,that's totally fine.
Like Liz said, schedules andsometimes, just like you know
personalities, like maybe youlove doing everything else
together, but that's not for you, so that is cool too, and
that's no problem.
I think that's another thing.
That's just what we're talkingabout, because that's something
(54:41):
that we have done now for, likeLiz pointed out, 10 years, I
didn't even think about thatCrazy.
Now for, like this point out,10 years, I didn't think about
that crazy.
Yeah, um, right, but that mightnot be important to other
people and other people'srelationships.
Yeah, um.
So, if it's not, I'll leave youwith this.
If it's not, find something thatyou could do with your
significant other that you bothenjoy doing.
Um, that's some good advice forlong-term success, I think, in
(55:03):
a, in a marriage or relationship, and, and even if you, uh,
don't fully enjoy it as much asthe other person, if you at
least enjoy it a little bit,then you never know, you might
find yourself, like me, sevenyears deep into a sport that I
didn't really too much careabout as much as Liz in the
beginning and I really enjoy itnow.
(55:24):
Um, and honestly, I didn'treally enjoy it now.
Look at that and honestly, Ididn't really enjoy it until
recently.
So there's that weird yeah takestime takes time and patience.
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What's going on, you guys?
Welcome to the first episode ofthe Fortis After Hours Podcast.
I'm your co-host, nate, joinedby my wife Liz.
Liz (00:06):
Hey.
Nate (00:07):
And we have a awesome episode planned for you guys
today.
As you guys know, we kind ofrebranded the podcast and our
new name theme is the FortisAfter Hours Podcast.
Why is that, liz?
Liz (00:22):
Because we're talking about things other than powerlifting.
Nate (00:26):
now that is true, and it's after hours.
That's the main thing I washoping that you would do.
Liz (00:31):
AKA.
It's about 7.30 on a Saturdaynight.
Nate (00:34):
Yeah, we record these kind of after hours and we're going
to be focusing and diving intounfiltered conversations about
fitness, mental healthrelationships, powerlifting and
everything in between, so goingto be a little bit broader topic
range for you guys.
Now, if you've been listeningto the podcast over the past few
months to slash maybe a yearyou've probably already
(00:54):
experienced this.
But this is just going to giveus the freedom to kind of just
talk about whatever we'refeeling.
Liz (01:02):
that day and time.
Yeah, because sometimes we feltlike we had to talk more about
like powerlifting, specific evenif we had, like, other things
we maybe wanted to talk about,and then we would still
sometimes talk about the otherthings anyways.
Nate (01:13):
But exactly now.
We're just going to talk aboutwhatever we want, so get ready
worry because we both still arevery much into powerlifting yeah
there will definitely still bepowerlifting.
Liz (01:25):
Fitness, nutrition, life, things related to that yeah, 100
.
Nate (01:30):
We just want a little bit more freedom to talk about other
topics in the fitness space,not just, uh, powerlifting and
not just kind of like I don'tknow being chained to that.
Uh, yeah, exactly so, anyways.
So welcome to the first episode.
And today we're going to bekind of reintroducing ourselves,
(01:50):
uh, in case we have some newlisteners, since we this is
technically going to be episodeone, I think I am going to title
it episode one, I'm going tohave some sort of denotation so
you can see the differencebetween the before episodes and
now.
Liz (02:02):
But this is episode one, perfect um, so yeah, who are?
You, because I feel like too,as far as like reintroducing
ourselves, even if people aren'tlike totally new, it's probably
been.
I mean, I assume most peopleprobably know who we are, but
like yeah they might not knowabout, like I don't know, our
past yeah, exactly, I don't knowmaybe they just know who we are
(02:22):
now yeah, so we going to startwith reintroducing ourselves,
and Liz is going to start us off.
Nate (02:29):
So who are you?
Liz (02:30):
Oh, I'm Liz.
Nate (02:32):
All right.
Liz (02:33):
Told me about Fell on the Couch.
Nate (02:34):
Yep.
Liz (02:35):
Trying to come join us.
Nate (02:36):
He did.
Liz (02:39):
What are we introducing ourselves about?
Nate (02:47):
Why don't you tell us how you kind of got started in the
fitness space, since that's, youknow, the majority of our life
Talk about, yeah, let's talkabout that first.
If I give you all of them,you're gonna forget them, so I'm
just gonna say that first.
Liz (02:56):
Probably yeah.
So growing up, sports fitness,whatever exercise, any of that
such was not even a relevanttopic in my life.
Nate (03:09):
Growing up, not on your radar.
Liz (03:10):
Nope, not even a little bit .
I did not play sports, I didnot participate in really any of
those such things.
Nate (03:19):
Okay.
Liz (03:20):
So it was probably oh, I don't know, maybe like after
Well, in college I would say Iwould like try and be like yeah,
I should, you know, go exerciseor something.
And I would go to the gym anddo like.
Nate (03:33):
Like an elliptical or something.
Liz (03:34):
Yeah an elliptical.
Nate (03:35):
And be like yeah.
Liz (03:35):
I'm exercising which, I mean, is better than nothing.
To be fair, but, like I wasn'treally like trying that hard,
not going to lie, it was morejust moving, a little bit sort
of, because I thought that'swhat I was supposed to do, yeah,
and then it was, I would say,after college.
I don't remember exactly howlong, maybe a year or two after
(03:59):
college.
I had realized that I wasstarting to gain some weight
that I didn't want to gain.
So I started going to the gym alittle bit.
I think I worked with apersonal trainer for a little
bit to kind of like teach mesort of how to move, I guess,
(04:21):
how to lift, how to work out.
I had no clue what I was doingno clue and then I ended up
losing actually like a decentamount of weight, I would say I
don't know something.
And then one of the teachersthat I taught with at the time
it was actually over the summershe invited me to go try out
(04:44):
Orange Theory, which was thisnew thing that had opened up.
Nate (04:50):
Like group fitness.
Liz (04:51):
Yes, but it was like new to the area or something and she
wanted to go try it.
So I went and tried it with herand that was kind of where I
like, really I would say startedconsistently working out.
Nate (05:07):
Gotcha.
Liz (05:09):
Probably five to six to maybe seven days a week.
Nate (05:12):
Okay, I always really enjoyed the strength part of it,
like the dumbbells, the floorpart, the weightlifting if you
can call it that weightliftingpart of it, I guess Weren't you
kind of naturally pretty good atthat?
I?
Liz (05:26):
at that.
I guess that you found orwhatever like you could like
start lifting the bigger weightstype thing yes, like, and I
would also like push myself tothe bigger weights where, like,
a lot of people maybe didn't,but I was always like I would
always push myself and that wassomething that I enjoyed then.
Yeah, I guess that was kind oflike the very beginning Cool.
Nate (05:45):
Right on Um.
So that's how you startedfitness.
And then I guess let's alsotalk about how you discovered
powerlifting, since you havespent the most time doing
powerlifting and competing inthe sport of powerlifting, um,
and then like how you discoveredpowerlifting.
And then what are your bestlifts all time and what are you
(06:08):
doing now?
Liz (06:10):
um, so I did orange theory for, I don't know, probably a
year and a half, two years,maybe that's obviously where we
met.
If you didn't know, um, now youknow we met at orange theory
yep um, and then we kind ofstarted going to the gym in
addition to Orange Theory andactually lifting like squat,
bench, deadlift, which I hadkind of done before with a
(06:33):
personal trainer.
But then I feel like we likereally started doing that a
little bit more.
Nate (06:38):
Yeah.
Liz (06:40):
Not like powerlifting, though I mean technically it was
, but like it wasn't.
Like for me, it wasn't at allin my brain, didn't even know
what powerlifting though I meantechnically it was, but it
wasn't For me, it wasn't at allin my brain, didn't even know
what powerlifting was really.
Then we ventured to CrossFitfor a little while.
Yeah, that was a time.
Ironically, it was my idea, butit was not for me.
Nate (07:04):
Yeah, Liz is not a fan of this.
Liz (07:06):
Is all competitive exercising this is all in
illinois so then we came down toflorida and the gym we came to
that we then bought, but it wasdefinitely like not crossfit but
crossfit, like they called itfunctional fitness, but it was
definitely more of like acrossfit s class um, and I just
it never was really likesomething I enjoyed doing, but I
(07:30):
always enjoyed the liftingaspect of it, like even then,
like that was still the partthat I enjoyed the most was
lifting.
And then, I don't know,somewhere along the way, like
you, brought up powerlifting tome or told me about powerlifting
, um.
Nate (07:44):
And essentially I said, no , I'm never doing that because
I'm not competing in front ofpeople, um somehow I think it's
because we were talking, youwere doing crossfit and then you
were doing olympic lifting fora while because you just liked
the lifting, but you didn't likethe olympic lifting because of
the, I think really just becauseof the lack of like.
You're not in control for asection of those lifts.
Liz (08:05):
I think that is what kind of bothered you.
I don't like throwing thingsover my head, it's just not it's
too free-flowing, crazy for me.
Nate (08:12):
And then I was like you know, I was aware of
powerlifting, not like in thearea, but just like the sport,
and I was like why don't youjust do that?
Liz (08:26):
And then I that, and then I think you did some research and
well, it took me a while toeven like be able to like be
willing to like compete in thattoo, like I trained for, I don't
know, probably like a year,year and a half, maybe like
following some online programsthat I found, or different
coaches, whatever, um, and thenat then, finally, somehow you
convinced me to sign up for myfirst meet in.
It's either February or March, Idon't know.
(08:48):
One of those two months of 2018was my first meet and I
apparently was hooked after that.
Nate (08:59):
Yeah, here we are, here we are.
Liz (09:00):
However many years it's been now.
Nate (09:03):
Seven.
Liz (09:08):
Yeah, that's a lot of years seven years later.
Nate (09:10):
And then, last but not least question how did fortis
come about slash?
How did you start working inthe fitness industry?
Liz (09:20):
um, so hold on.
You'd ask me another questionon the question before this,
what are your biggest lifts?
Nate (09:27):
And then, what are you doing right now?
Or like in the sport, likewhat's your next competition?
Liz (09:31):
So my best lifts are that right?
Nate (09:33):
there is called teamwork folks.
Liz (09:35):
I knew there was another question.
Nate (09:36):
I was working on it.
Liz (09:38):
My best squat ever in a competition was 385.
My best bench is 203.
And my best deadlift is 457.
Nate (09:48):
All of those done in competition.
Liz (09:49):
I think I technically benched 209 one time, like in
the gym, but not with like acompetition, like not to like
competition standards.
Next up, the meet I'm trainingfor is in September.
It is the power surge pro-amI'll be for.
Is in September, it is thePower Surge Pro-Am.
I'll be doing the Pro Day andyeah, that's up in Chicago.
(10:14):
I did this meet a couple yearsago.
I'm sure I've talkedextensively about that as well
as how the last couple yearshave gone, but we're working on
having fun and going and doingthat meet again, um, in a couple
months yeah, all right, okay,and then what was the third
question, or the next questionthat I oh fortis like?
(10:38):
how did fortis start.
So, if you guys didn't know, Iwas an elementary school teacher
for 10 years.
Um, I taught for five years inillinois and five years down in
florida.
We moved down here in 2016 yeahand then you were working at the
(10:59):
gym the other gym with theother owners back in 2016 and
then they left and sold us thegym in 2018 and I would say,
around that time I started doinglike a little bit of like
personal training kind of likeon the side as needed, um, maybe
with like some specific people.
(11:21):
And then that was 2018 and thenI kind of I was still teaching
full-time.
I was.
It was um an interesting timeduring COVID, for sure, um, so I
taught through COVID um.
I taught until 2021.
So, like May of 2021 was myfinal time teaching um.
(11:46):
At that point, I had starteddoing a little bit more coaching
at the gym, I would saytraining um at night and on the
weekends, around teaching and myown working out training um,
and so I was doing that.
And then in 2021, I did myfinal year of teaching and then
(12:10):
joined the gym full-time thenand really started doing,
obviously, more personaltraining, more coaching, online
coaching, things like that yeah,I think that's about right yeah
, yeah.
Nate (12:23):
Cool, right on, yeah, and then I guess one last question
would just be what's one thingthat you really like enjoy?
I know one thing is kind oftough, but one thing that you
enjoy about being a coach and apersonal trainer, and also your
favorite flavor of ice cream,and also your favorite flavor of
(12:45):
ice cream.
Liz (12:45):
So I think, like, my favorite thing with training and
coaching is getting people tolike accomplish things that they
didn't ever think that theycould do, or like helping them
reach their goals but then likegoing even beyond that, I guess,
because usually people can domuch more than they think they
(13:06):
can do, yeah, and so I justthink that's really cool,
finding like I mean, our wholething is redefining strong, so
it's finding like the strongthat people have that they never
even like knew that they couldhave, if that makes any sense at
all.
Nate (13:23):
Yeah, no, it makes sense sense.
Liz (13:25):
So just kind of helping people find that and like feel
empowered through their strengthand their progress, um yeah,
okay so that's probably myfavorite part about it and then
my favorite flavor of ice cream.
So like, just like generic icecream, like regular I would go
with cookie, but I really likehalf-baked Ben Jerry's.
Nate (13:44):
Okay, right on.
Liz (13:46):
Which has cookie dough in it.
Nate (13:48):
Nice, I did not have half-baked the other day when I
got some Ben Jerry's for us.
Liz (13:52):
Sad.
Nate (13:53):
The only way to buy Ben Jerry's realistically is buy one
, get one free at Publix or yourlocal grocer whenever they do
that, because otherwise it'sinsanely expensive.
It is, but it's so goodinsanely expensive it is, but
it's so good, yeah, all right,so my turn.
I'm going to try and runthrough the same questions that
I asked liz, but the problem isthey're in my mind.
Liz (14:07):
So the first question how did you get into fitness?
Nate (14:11):
how to get into fitness.
Well, I was, uh, about probably15 years old and I was tired of
being small and weak and Istruggled to do push-ups.
I couldn't really lift too muchweights.
And I saw you know again inschool.
You start to see these peoplearound you.
I'm like what is going on?
What are these kids doing?
Like, what am I not doing?
(14:31):
Then I realized it's notlifting weights.
So I started lifting weights,probably around like 15 or 16
years old, somewhere aroundthere, and then I started really
getting serious into it 17, 18.
Into it 17, 18, um.
And I became a personal trainerwhen I was 18, 19, what year is
(14:52):
it?
Liz (14:53):
what 2025.
Nate (14:56):
Okay, personal trainer in 2013, um, so whatever that is.
Liz (15:00):
However old.
Nate (15:02):
However old I think I was 19, maybe 18, whatever, but
anyways, yeah.
So once I did that, I kind ofreally dove into fitness
headfirst, made it kind of likemy lifestyle because I really
enjoyed it.
You know, I just like theprogress.
I mean, that's kind of theanswer to that question is how I
got into it is I just reallyenjoyed making progress and
(15:23):
seeing the progress in my body.
You know, I'd go to the gym.
I started lifting some weights,maybe I was only using 20s, and
then I did that for a few weeksand then I would use 25s and
then 35, so and so forth.
I definitely remember when I wasyounger being enamored with
people that could bench pressthe hundreds.
100 pound dumbbells like thatwas like insane to me.
And then here we we are.
That did not take me that longto do.
(15:45):
I did that a long time ago, um.
But yeah, I've gone throughdifferent phases of my fitness
journey.
Um, you know, I kind of startedoff just lifting, doing like a
lot of plyometric stuff, somepull-ups, like a lot of pull-ups
, muscle-ups, things like that.
Um, and then I've done, I'vecompeted in a lot of stuff I
would say pretty much the mainorganized sports as far as like
(16:09):
strength sports, so I competedin men's physique bodybuilding
first.
Then I did CrossFitcompetitions, I did Olympic
lifting, olympic weightlifting,so overhead snatch and clean and
jerk competitions.
And then I've done powerliftingcompetitions, like organized
powerlifting competitions, um,and then like actually like
sanctioned events forpowerlifting, like both.
(16:31):
Um, I kind of like backyardevents and then like real ones,
um.
And yeah, my fitness journeyhas kind of taken me quite
literally all over the countryat this point, especially with
powerlifting, kind of been allover, um, and it ended up
turning into my full-time careerand something I love to do, um
(16:52):
same I always say yeah, I alwayssay um, and I do mean this like
I'll probably be liftingweights forever, like until I
die.
I don't obviously that's notgoing to look different as I
continue to age, but yeah, I'mgonna be doing some sort of
weightlifting until I die.
It's just my passion.
I love it, and part of thereasons I do love it is the
(17:14):
whole concept of redefiningstrong and, you know, finding my
own strong, because, you know,everyone has different journeys
and everyone starts at differentspots.
And for me, you know, there'ssome things that I really
excelled at very easily andthere's other things that took
me years and years and years tobuild.
Uh, so I just think that's cool.
I think that's a cool partabout fitness yes, um the next
(17:38):
question?
I don't remember yeah, I didn'tthink so um something.
Liz (17:43):
Oh, your numbers.
Nate (17:45):
I think we talked about that how I got into powerlifting
yeah, which you kind of justsaid yeah I kind of combined the
first two.
So, yeah, now I'll just talkabout my best powerlifting
numbers that I've ever hit um,585 squat, that was in a
competition 407 bench, that wasin the gym recently, and then
672 deadlift.
I've done that in the gym andon competition, um.
(18:07):
And my next goal is a meet innovember, uh, here in florida.
It's like the florida statechampionships for us apl and my
goal for that is to get as close.
I mean, it's the pr of thetotal, that's number one, but
then the main goal is to.
That's the main goal.
Secondary goal is to get asclose to 1700 as possible and
(18:28):
then tertiary goal would just beto win the weight class or the
meet, whatever is there on thatday.
And, yeah, I'm kind of reallylocking in and focusing on that.
For this year I focused a loton if you've been listening to
the podcast for a while, youknow that I've focused a lot on
like running and lifting lastyear, um, and I'm really kind of
(18:49):
like locking in just to lifting.
I'm still doing cardio, um, buta lot less running these days
for now, for the time being yesum how did fortis?
fortis appear yeah, sodisappeared.
Yeah, fortis not appear sevenyears ago.
Yeah, basically took a big riskwhen we first moved down here
(19:11):
and ended up paying off.
I was working for these peoplethat owned the gym before us and
it was called Husky MafiaHealth and Fitness and it was
more of like a functionaltraining functional fitness gym
Kind of did more like MetconsCrossFit-esque type workouts and
I was a coach for them andworked with them for a little
(19:34):
bit, kind of helped them buildup like a good following and I
built up my own like personaltraining clientele.
And then there was anopportunity to purchase the gym
or the majority share the gym.
So we did that.
And now to purchase the gym orthe majority of shares of the
gym, we did that and now we ownthe gym with our good friend
(19:54):
Joel Bretz.
We decided to rename it and cameup with the name Fortis.
My dad actually helped me comeup with that.
He speaks Latin kind of weirdbecause it's a dead language
language but he like can speakit right.
It knows it uh, very well.
And fortis in latin meansstrong and I knew I had the
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concept of redefining strong andI knew that I wanted to call it
fitness studio.
Uh, because that was kind ofwhat I wanted, the I don't know
how you say it, but like,basically, like I wanted the
kind of like aesthetic, but inword form I don't even know how
it is, but I wanted that to beknown, just when you're like
(20:35):
looking it up, okay, this is afitness studio.
It's not just a gym.
A little bit like cleaner,higher quality, more premium
experience is what I was goingfor with that name.
So, yeah, I actually came upwith the Fortis or sorry, with
the fitness studio first, andthen we came up with Fortis, and
then we have Fortis fitnessstudio.
Here we are, so that was 2018.
And we have been open for justover seven years now.
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It has been a wild rollercoaster journey of ups and downs
.
It's been a journey, yeah that'spretty much, I would say,
owning a business.
If you have any other friendsthat own businesses, that's
probably they'll tell yousomething similar.
But it's really really awesomeand really rewarding and I'm
super thankful to have peoplesupporting us, not only like our
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clients and members loyalmembers I mean we've had some
people that have been with usliterally since the beginning
and are still members, but somemembers loyal members I mean
we've had some people that havebeen literally since the
beginning and they're stillmembers, uh but also the support
of my wife, liz, and joel.
Um, they've been supersupportive in all of my uh, I'm
kind of like the idea person ofthe business kind of and yeah
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they're super supportive andjust kind of let me do my thing.
Liz (21:43):
Sometimes I keep you in check.
Nate (21:45):
I was just going to say they're good at kind of bringing
me down to earth sometimes,which I need, because I'd be not
down to earth sometimes, I'd bejust in space.
Thanks, so yeah, and what wasthe question?
Just kind of like how itstarted.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So that's how to take some time.
But while we're working on likefully rebranding is just that
like kind of one unification offortis, we're all strong
together, redefining.
Strong together, um, and wereally want our brand, our
branding, our messaging, ourmarketing, everything to reflect
that um, because I think we cando a lot better at that.
So we're going to okay.
Liz (22:45):
Okay, and then the last question yeah, what is your
favorite part about training?
And then your favorite icecream flavor.
Nate (22:52):
So my favorite part about training is definitely just like
communicating with people, likejust like I don't know building
relationships, seeing people,like you said, like seeing
people go from point A to pointB, being alongside, and I
definitely like the I guess, fixit part of training that's like
three or four different thingsall in one well, that's just how
I am welcome to my brain.
(23:14):
But yeah, I definitely just like.
Like you know, people come tome with a problem and I like
coming up with a solution.
Sometimes it's really easy,other times it takes me a little
bit, uh, but pretty much everytime I can come up with some
sort of solution that works forthem.
I also just kind of pridemyself in being able to do that.
I feel like a lot of trainersthese days, and specifically
powerlifting coaches, are veryone dimensional and I think that
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that is unfortunately a bigweakness in long term success as
a trainer.
So if you're listening and youare thinking about getting into
personal training or coaching, Istrongly encourage you to try
and work with a lot of differentindividuals.
In the beginning, you're goingto have to work for free.
That's what I did in the verybeginning.
I worked for a lot of hours, alot of free hours, and just
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build up that experience,working with human beings,
working with different everydayissues.
You know like there's I meanthere's a lot of like
theoretical, like knowledge outthere, but then applying it to
the real world is much different.
Um, so that is, I guess, justone thing that I pride myself in
is being able to really kind ofwork with anyone, um, and try
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and you know, achieve theresults that they're looking for
.
Um, specifically, it's beenawesome to get in the sport of
powerlifting and coaching thesport I've been coaching now for
seven years and a lot of trialand error, and I would say my
favorite part of coachingpowerlifting which you didn't
ask but I'll tell you anyways is, of course you will uh, that is
going to be meat day.
I love making attemptselections, I love the rush of
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it.
I'm also pretty good at it andI, yeah, I just love like meat
day in all aspects as a coach ora lifter.
Big fan, big fan couldn't be mein an ideal situation lizard,
write all your programs andcommunicate with you all, and
then I would just show up onmeat day and make all the weight
calls yeah, I love it.
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Um, not to say I don't like theother stuff, I definitely do,
but uh, that's just like myfavorite part, because that was
the question.
Yes, my favorite ice creamwould be Ben Jerry's Cherry
Garcia, old man flavor.
Liz (25:16):
That's so gross.
Nate (25:17):
Not really yeah.
Liz (25:23):
I really want ice cream now .
Nate (25:27):
Okay, we need to focus up.
So that is us in a nutshell, orthe basics as far as really
quickly.
One last thing I did forgetabout.
Why do you like podcasting?
Because you enjoy it, otherwiseyou wouldn't be doing it, so
you must enjoy it a little bit.
When we first startedpodcasting together, this was a
(25:48):
little apprehensive.
We'll say this is after.
I was like talking to myselffor years.
So I'm like I mean, so, so whatdo you enjoy about it?
Liz (25:57):
I mean, really, the only reason I started doing it was
because you wanted me to do it.
Nate (26:03):
Yeah.
Liz (26:03):
And so I was just being nice, but I don wanted me to do
it, yeah, and so I was justbeing nice, but I don't know,
it's kind of fun talking andsharing stories and hanging out
and giving advice, and then Ithink, like I just think it's
cool too when people are likehey, I was listening to your
podcast and I really appreciatedthis, or I learned this, or I
liked this, and so I think it'sjust like another way of like
(26:26):
helping people and I thinkthat's cool and we get to just
hang out and talk on the couchand sit here and not be on video
anymore liz's anti-video.
Nate (26:39):
Um, yeah, that's cool, I think, honestly, my answer is
probably pretty similar.
Like I just enjoy uh talking toyou and getting to talk about
the stuff that we love, which isfitness, powerlifting, strength
, relationship stuff.
And yeah, it's just an awesomemedium that I think has grown in
popularity greatly, for a goodreason, because it's awesome and
(27:02):
people can be, you know,learning and growing in their
car, uh on their way to work,coming from work at the gym.
Some people work out listeningto podcasts.
Liz (27:13):
I don't know how you do that, um I worked out listening
to a book the other day that'syou're doing like the pump work
out yesterday?
Nate (27:20):
yeah, not like heavy lifting it was just like
accessories and cardio.
Just to clarify for the people.
Liz (27:24):
But still, I listened to a book while I was working out
Cool.
Book Book time I don't know,it's like listening to a podcast
, but a book.
Nate (27:34):
Yeah.
Liz (27:35):
I guess.
So yeah, exactly.
Nate (27:36):
So people listen to podcasts when they work out and
books, exactly.
But yeah, no, and I enjoy itand I really hope to
reinvigorate our podcast that wehave here.
We also really appreciate allthe listeners that we have.
We have usually around 150 orso per week, which is fantastic.
(27:57):
If you are listening to thepodcast, you've been listening
for a while.
You haven't left us a review.
Leave us a review.
We'd appreciate that.
That'll help grow the podcast.
If if you want to share withyour friends, that helps as well
.
So let's go ahead and get intoour topic of the day, which is
training with your significantother which is something we've
been doing for quite a while.
Liz (28:19):
We met training together.
Nate (28:20):
We did Sort of yeah, sort of.
So we've been training togetherfor quite a while.
We've been training in the,been training together for quite
a while.
We've been training in the samesport together for quite a
while.
Liz (28:30):
We've technically been training together for like 10
years now.
Nate (28:34):
That's crazy.
That is true, I didn't eventhink about that.
Liz (28:37):
Yeah.
Nate (28:37):
Weird.
Liz (28:38):
That is weird.
Nate (28:39):
You know what?
Here's some crazy stuff.
Liz (28:41):
Oh.
Nate (28:42):
When we first started training, I vividly remember, I
vividly remember I was likearound like a 365 squat or so.
Liz (28:48):
Yeah, that was like hard.
I can do that, you can do that.
Nate (28:51):
And I just benched that for two today, okay, on a
secondary day, so that's prettycool.
Yeah, 10 years, so yeah, sotraining together.
Let's first talk about some oflike the benefits of training
together.
Start off some positives.
What do you feel like are someof the benefits of training
together as a husband and wifeteam?
Liz (29:13):
also should be noted that me and lynn spend basically all
day, every day, together, so alittle unique situation yeah,
we're literally together like 247, unless, well, like other
than like the hour or two you goto work before I get up, and
yeah, sometimes it's also kindof funny how many questions we
get about that.
Nate (29:30):
Like not I guess how many, but it is a pretty frequent
question.
People are like, oh, like, doyou get tired of each other?
Like, oh, are you good?
Like like we're like in jail orsomething.
I'm like yeah, I'm good, I likemy wife and I like spending
time with her.
Liz (29:43):
So but yeah, we are, are basically together all the time.
Yeah, we work together, wetrain together, we live together
.
That's all the things.
Nate (29:52):
Did you say we live together?
Liz (29:54):
Yeah, obviously.
Nate (29:55):
Nice.
Liz (29:56):
I'm just saying, we do.
Nate (30:00):
Oh my gosh, Hence 24-7.
Okay.
Liz (30:03):
Anyways, I don't know what I'm supposed to be saying.
Nate (30:06):
What is like the benefits some of the benefits you think
that there are to trainingtogether?
Liz (30:15):
I mean, I feel like this very much depends on the couple,
I would say Because some peoplecan do this and some people
can't.
All right, as far assignificant others training
together.
I would say because some peoplecan do this and some people
can't All right as far assignificant others training
together because I've heard alot of stories, of ones that
can't train together.
(30:37):
I do know several, obviously Ido too, and I think it just kind
of depends on, like what yourgoals are.
If you have similar goals, whatyour lifestyle is is like like
how important training is to you, and I think for us it works
well because we have similar,like important, similar goals,
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so like we can kind of like pusheach other and like make sure
that we're like both workingtowards what we need to be
working towards, if that makessense.
Nate (31:06):
Yeah.
Liz (31:06):
Because we both are like very passionate about it.
Where you know, sometimes Imean this isn't really what you
asked, but where I'm going withthat is like sometimes, if you
have two people like with verydifferent passion levels of the
sport or of going to the gym ortraining, like you have one
person that's super into it,like really invested, like it's
their whole life, and the otherperson just like works out a
(31:28):
little because like it keepsthem healthier, like I feel like
they would have a harder time.
Uh, maybe training together,which there's nothing wrong with
that.
But I think for us, like, itallows us to kind of like push
each other, because we do havelike the shared goals and so
we're able to, like, you know,make sure that we're we're
training like to the best of ourabilities.
(31:49):
Obviously, we also are our owncoaches, so that's, I would say,
another benefit, because wecoach each other and train
together, um, for the most part,yeah, so we have like a lot of
real-time feedback yes, you cankind of like see it.
You can make like on-the-spotadjustments if needed.
Um and plus, you just kind oflike have that person that's
like always in your cornercheering for you, no matter what
(32:11):
yeah, yeah, no, I would agree.
Nate (32:15):
I think, yeah, I think I get what you're saying.
Like I think it definitelydepends on, I guess, each
couple's like situation.
Yeah, um, I think I thinkpeople can have like different,
be at different spots, differentlike training levels and things
still train together, butthere's definitely a difference
between training.
I'm not saying training levels.
Liz (32:34):
You could have one person really strong and one person
just starting out.
But I'm saying I don't know.
Nate (32:40):
No, what I was going to say is it's definitely different
because we're both at a fairlyelite level in the sport of
powerlifting, or fairly highlevel, whatever term you want to
use.
We've been doing it for a whileand we have a lot of time
invested to it, a lot of moneyinvested into it and a lot of
muscle invested into it, andwe're both trying to really push
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our bodies to the limits tofind what we can lift.
So that is kind of the basis ofus training together.
So that is a good way to maybeput that.
And that is a differentconnection than, like, if you
are training with yoursignificant other and you should
not expect that, I guess, is mypoint.
You're training with yoursignificant other and they're
just not into that type offitness.
But that doesn't mean you can'ttrain together.
(33:24):
It's just it's going to be adifferent like experience than
like what we're doing.
So, like you know, if someonemight be into like we'll just
call it lifestyle training andnot pushing the weight, they
might not even moving up inweights.
They're just kind of using thesame weights.
They want to maintain, theywant to, you know, do a little
cardio and then you come in thegym and you're pushing your body
to the limits.
That's two totally differentthings.
(33:45):
Uh, it's not to say you can'ttrain together, but you, like
both, would need to have, Iwould say, like metered or like
correct expectations for whatthe other person is doing and
like respect for what the otherperson is doing, so like, if you
know, again, using my example,if somebody's like pushing their
body to the limits, whateverstrength sport you may be doing,
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and the other person is kind oflike training for life, I mean
the training for life personneeds to respect that the other
individual is getting after it.
And then in the off, you know,on the other side like that
person needs to respect that.
they're just in there trying tolike stay healthy, stay fit,
Because those are two totallydifferent things.
Liz (34:24):
Well and I think with that too, it comes the amount of time
that you invest in the gym too.
Typically someone who's more ofjust a lifestyle trying to be
healthy and all of that they'regoing to go to the gym for maybe
45 minutes or an hour, whereassomeone who is deeply invested
into powerlifting like what weare you're going to be spending
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usually two plus hours liketraining.
Yeah, so I mean not necessarily,but like for most people, like
by the time you like, warm up,get ready, like I would say,
maybe an hour and a half, twohours, maybe two and a half,
just depending on, like theworkout, how much you talk, how
much you rest, um, but you mightbe spending a little longer
(35:07):
than someone who's more justlike lifestyle training yeah and
so I think that can differ alittle bit as far as like
training together that can makethings kind of wonky yeah, if
you don't like understand thatbecause that's like a comment.
I know I've heard from a lot ofpeople like oh, they spend so
long in the gym and so you knowif you're not interested in that
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, then that's harder.
Nate (35:32):
So, yeah, all right.
So I guess, since you knowtraining together can definitely
be, I guess, more of like apersonal choice, we'll just talk
about like us training together.
Yeah, because kind of like Lizsaid, like it just kind of
depends on the individualwhether you guys are going to
train together or not yeah, Ijust feel like some people like
I've met a lot of couples thatlike can train together and like
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do, but usually I have not theydon't train each other.
Liz (36:00):
They can like work out, like in the same space.
More than often they don't workout together.
Nate (36:08):
I was just going to say, like I would say, if I had to
guess a percentage, I would saylike 90% of couples do not work
out together.
Like that I, at least in myexperience like I feel like most
people do not.
I feel like there's some thatdo.
Liz (36:23):
Yeah.
Nate (36:23):
And then like right, the second we happen to know like a
few yeah.
But I would say, over the yearsI would say most people don't,
and I do think that probablystems from just different like
styles of training, differentinterests, things like that.
So for us it's definitely beena kind of like journey, been a
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kind of like journey and we'vehad like a lot of different like
phases, I guess, of liketraining each other, and I think
now is definitely kind of likethe result of sticking it out
and a lot of years of I don'tknow, communication.
Hard work, hard work workingtogether, not quitting.
Liz (37:06):
It was rough.
Nate (37:07):
Yeah, in the beginning it was rough.
Liz (37:09):
It was rough.
Nate (37:10):
If you've never heard those stories, I don't even
remember why.
Liz (37:12):
Though, it just did not work out well.
Nate (37:15):
Yeah, I know.
Liz (37:16):
Because that was more.
You were coaching me was reallythe rough part.
Well, when we were doingCrossFit, that was rough too,
but just because I hated what wewere doing and I was not good
at it and I didn't like dying,and it was just terrible.
Nate (37:30):
Liz had a panic attack one time during a CrossFit workout.
Yeah, I couldn't breathe.
Yeah.
Liz (37:36):
And it created not great things.
Anyways, it was a lot ofrunning and squatting.
I still remember that it wasterrible.
Nate (37:43):
I don't even remember that day.
Liz (37:53):
I know, don't remember that it was terrible.
I don't even remember that day,I know I do.
It was traumatic.
Um, I remember your face, Iremember that, um.
But I feel like what was roughwas more the part when, like you
started coaching me because Idid, I had a couple like online
coaches when I first got intopowerlifting, because we didn't
really know, you didn't reallyknow what we were doing with
powerlifting, like yeah that wassomething new to us.
I mean obviously like the basicsof squat, bench and deadlift
and how to get stronger yeah,but we were trying to learn like
the actual sport yeah, so I dida couple different coaches, or
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I did like an online, like atraining app for one of them,
the hybrid and then I did getlike a one-on-one online coach,
um, for a while I don't rememberhow long- Neither one of those
worked out very good for me.
I don't know if it was.
I don't exactly know why.
(38:35):
I would be curious now to goback and look at what I was
doing.
I don't even remember what Iwas doing, but I'd be curious,
now, with more knowledge, to goback and look at what I was
doing and see if I could figureout why it it?
Nate (38:47):
didn't work.
I can tell you why is because,like 100 back in the day, you
did not fully like understand,like sport, and like the ups and
downs of sport well, so likethis mentally yeah and then I
think, like you just had a veryhigh standard of like this needs
to be happening here and thisshould be happening, because
that's what it says on the sheetbut not as high of an
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understanding of like real lifeand then like how to like change
or like adapt to that.
Because, like every time, likeI would like come in and like
peak you for the meat orwhatever stuff like that, that's
all I would do is just like tryand work around whatever things
you had going on and then makesure you're feeling good on that
actual day.
So I think that's probably whythose didn't those first two
(39:31):
didn't really work.
Liz (39:32):
Yeah, I don't know, but then you started coaching me and
we fought a lot about youcoaching me.
You would get like mad aboutthings if I didn't like them,
and I would get mad that youwould say things and it was just
a whole situation yeah so then,finally, like this would be
like we'd fight like whiletraining, we'd fight about it at
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home, like it was like a wholething at home, like so then we
finally turned it into.
Like there was like coach nateand husband nate, because we had
to like differentiate the two,and so then it literally it had
to be like clear like who wastalking, because there was like
some weird fine line that likewe didn't really know how to I
(40:15):
don't know how to like cross theline.
Nate (40:17):
I don't know like I couldn't seem to find the
correct balance of likecommunicating and then like as a
coach versus a husband.
Yeah, and liz couldn't likefind the balance of like it was
like getting offended versuslike I was just trying to like
help me yeah, it was a roughtime yeah, it was a situation um
(40:37):
I think, uh, weaker souls wouldhave given up, but luckily,
luckily, uh, we are both reallystubborn hard-headed individuals
and basically I would say wehave now come to the point where
we've created a diamond andthat is our current training
relationship.
So a lot of pressure and then Idon't know how, but diamonds
(41:00):
come out of pressure somehow.
According to the internet, and.
I would say now is like thediamond portion of training.
So that's been like almost adecade, so that's cool, uh.
So just to let you know, youknow, uh, no big deal, but just
buckle up.
Yeah, it took a little while,and I think so you know.
On that note, I think that noteveryone does need to train
(41:21):
together.
I think that's something tonote, like I don't necessarily
like recommend it per se, like Imaybe I do.
It just depends on thesituation.
Um depends on your relationship, depends on your goals, like
liz said earlier, um and maybethat's just something to note
too is like you don't need to.
It's just kind of like it hasworked out well for us.
Liz (41:41):
Uh, after all these years of kind of going back and forth,
I mean, there's also a goodchunk of time where we didn't
train together, like when.
I was teaching.
You trained in the morning atlike 5 am and I came in and
trained at night afterwards, solike there was a good chunk of
time where we weren't trainingtogether.
Nate (41:58):
Yeah.
Liz (41:58):
And then, even when I was done teaching for a while, you
would still train in the morning, and then I would train in the
afternoon by myself, but, and Iwould train in the afternoon by
myself, but then that ended upnot working.
So then we just trainedtogether.
Nate (42:07):
Yeah.
Liz (42:09):
So I mean, there was a chunk of time where we weren't
training together.
So, like also, like for somepeople, like their schedules
just might not like, align, likeeven if they have similar goals
, similar, you know, styles oftraining, similar, whatever, but
like you have differentschedules, you just work out
separately.
It is what it is and there'snothing wrong with that.
Nate (42:28):
No, that's what I was trying to say.
It doesn't matter.
Liz (42:33):
You can still be supportive of your significant other and
their desire to train or theirgoals for training or what
they're trying to do withoutactually having to train with
them.
And I think that does getglossed over sometimes is people
are not super supportive oftheir significant other, and
what?
Nate (42:49):
they're trying to do um but then they, like, expect
support for what they're doingyeah, so just don't do that just
kind of throw that out there.
Liz (42:59):
you know, just because like you don't want to do, it
doesn't mean you don't need tobe supportive Like you're
running, for example.
Nate (43:06):
Yeah.
Liz (43:06):
Never, would I ever go run a 15K.
Yeah, that's a great exampleactually In my entire life,
would I go run a 15K?
At least I don't think so, butI didn't care that you chose to
run.
I drove you to the race.
I picked you up.
I'm going to support you inlike, however, I can.
Nate (43:31):
But I am not doing this type of training and that's okay
.
Yeah, um, yeah, no, I thinkthat's a really good point,
because I think that's the thingthat a lot of people I think
they're just interested likehuman nature and like themselves
, which is fine, but also, likeyou, should have a vested
interest in your significantother and what they're doing.
You know, like I don't.
I think that's one thing thatis just so strange to me.
It's like you definitely shouldbe like interested, like when
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you, you know if, like pro tip,if your significant other signs
up for a powerlifting meet, goto it or at least do the best
effort humanly possible to bethere Like I get.
There's maybe certainextenuating circumstances maybe,
but like like it takes a lot oftime, it takes a lot of guts,
takes, like you know, somegumption to get up there and
(44:14):
lift weights in front of a lotof people.
They're going to definitely beglad if you're there, even if
they're like, oh, they do.
Liz (44:20):
And honestly, this goes to like I know we're saying
significant other, but thiscould also just apply to like a
really important friend in yourlife too.
Just significant other, butthis could also just apply to
like a really important friendin your life too.
Just so you know.
Yeah, that's a great point,like you might, maybe you don't
have a significant other but youhave like a really good best
friend that you are like, yeah,super close with.
If they sign up for somethinglike this, like go support them,
like again.
Nate (44:41):
I understand we're talking about significant others, but
I'm just gonna throw that outthere like I don't know no, I
think supporting your friendsand significant others and
family is super important,because if you would want that
same support, then you need todeliver that same support to
them.
You know you don't want to dounto others as you want it to be
done unto you, whatever that is.
Liz (45:01):
Sure.
Nate (45:03):
But I mean that's like a really good point, because I
think, like we say that, and Ithink it's like a really good
point because I think, like wesay that, I think it's like oh
yeah, yeah, but it's likeespecially with, like I feel
like relationships specifically,I feel like people just get
very complacent in theirrelationships and they're just
like, oh yeah, that's just whatthey're doing, but it's like, no
, like you should be there, besupportive, uh, be encouraging.
You know, on the bad days,maybe, be there to listen.
(45:23):
That's something that I had tolearn.
I was really bad at that in thebeginning, uh, but then I just
you always had to try and fixeverything yeah, then I just got
better and now I don't do that.
um, crazy.
Now I'm like it's like thescene from lord of the rings.
I told this to liz the otherday when something like this
happened.
But it's like, uh, the there'sa scene where gimley's like, uh,
(45:44):
let her be that, let her be.
That's what I have to tellmyself With me, yeah, yeah,
because sometimes they just needsome space, and that's a pro
tip for all of you out there.
Sometimes people just need alittle bit of space, because if
they want a shoulder to cry ontype situation, they'll probably
come find you.
Liz (46:04):
I mean, maybe it depends on the person, but also, you like
know the person, yeah.
Nate (46:13):
But I'm gonna go say uh, go out on a limb and say that
most people just might want alittle bit of space.
Yeah, like that probablyhappens more often than the
other thing, yeah, so, so, yeah,so, you know, that's just
another example of likesomething that I had to learn
over the years.
Um, something else, somethingthat's interesting to me and
Liz's training relationship aswe uh, continue to train
together and get strongertogether is that, uh, we both
(46:36):
kind of train differently withdifferent like energy, and what
I mean by that is like Liz is avery like, by nature, pretty
like calm lifter.
She gets kind of hyped for likecertain lifts like squat, um
and deadlift, but by natureshe's pretty calm and serious.
Liz (46:55):
Even my like hyped is more like not even focused anywhere
near.
Nate (46:59):
Yeah, it's a different kind of mine is more like a
crazy person yeah, um sometimesyeah, yeah, sometimes I'll be
talking to myself sometimescuing myself, yeah, you know, um
, and anyways, what I was gonnasay is I have now, I think right
(47:20):
now I have like a good balance,and I think so does liz.
Liz has learned like somecertain moves, like slapping her
legs and things like this, tokind of get her real hyped and
ready to go and focused I thinkis a good term and I have
learned the value of being calmand collected on most training
days and then like reallyramping up for like a single or
a top set.
I also learned that I cannot becalm and collected every day.
(47:41):
There was a phase of mytraining it was like when I was
coming back from my injury, kindof like last year, where I was
trying to be like calm every day, including like, and I just I I
kept telling Liz I'm like Ijust don't feel like I can get
into like that last gear.
And then we finally, you know,discussed it and we're just like
(48:02):
yeah, maybe you just need to bea little bit more hyped when
you lift, and that's what I donow and it's much more
controlled than I used to be.
I used to get like hype forevery set, every lift, whatever,
and that does not work becauseyou I mean that and that's just
a, that's a blanket statementLike that will not work, because
you only have a certain amountof adrenaline in your system and
if you're just constantly goingthrough it, you're not going to
like that's not how it works,letting it replenish.
(48:23):
But I have found now this likekind of balanced sense of like
energy where I can, you know,hit most of my warmups.
Then when I'm at my top set ormy top single for the day, I'll
get, I'll get pretty hyped.
Uh, it's probably go from likezero to a hundred.
I try to save a hundred formeat day, but zero to 80%, we'll
call it and, um, I just thinkthat's cool because, like I said
(48:44):
, that's kind of evolved forboth of us as we've trained
longer and longer together wherewe've kind of like taken some
of each other's like whatevermannerisms or whatever you want
to call it and applied it to ourown lifting and gotten better
from it it has gotten betteryeah, exactly, toby, toby agrees
, um, yeah, and I think, uh, Ithink the biggest thing with
(49:10):
training like so kind ofwrapping, wrapping this up,
thank you, toby, wrapping thisup.
I think the biggest thing withtraining with your significant
other if that's something youare wanting to do is number one.
I would just focus oncommunication.
That's like, of course, thenumber one thing in like, uh,
relationships in general iscommunicating, but I think in
(49:33):
the gym it's a good opportunityto like build your communication
skills.
I actually think that, like us,training together has helped
our communication skills in likeour whole marriage.
You know what, what I mean,like outside the gym, probably
yeah.
Otherwise I don't think Lizwould talk to me at all.
So really I think it's a.
Liz (49:51):
Just talk to him about training, that's it.
Nate (49:53):
Yeah, Well, yeah no no.
I'm saying, oh my gosh.
I'm saying like, because we'vetalked about that, then we'll
talk more about other stuff too.
Versus naturally you versusnaturally you would not really
want to be talking aboutanything at all is more what I
was saying.
But yeah, that's kind of.
I think that like trainingtogether and communicating
(50:15):
together in the gym has likeoverflowed into our relationship
outside the gym.
Probably you haven't thoughtabout that until this second.
Liz (50:24):
Nope, sure haven't.
Nate (50:26):
But think about it.
I mean, mean, it makes senseyeah, um, but yeah, I think that
could be a great way to kind ofbuild a good communication
bedrock, so to speak, becauseyou're both trying to achieve
something, whatever it's.
You know the same goal or adifferent goal, and there's
going to be days when you havebad days and there's going to be
(50:46):
days when you have good days,and communication is key for all
of those days.
Also, something to note offLiz's initial point if you don't
really understand what's goingon, like when the other person's
training, ask them.
Or if you're the person like,tell them, you know, share
what's going on.
Hey, I'm about to hit this PR.
I've never done this weight,this weight before.
(51:06):
If, like, they're not in thepower of thing, they'll be more
invested.
You know, I think sometimes,like a lot of people, they just
like expect it.
It's like well, I'm doing this,so they should know.
It's like, how would they know,like, if they, if you have a
significant other that's notinto powerlifting or maybe not
into insert whatever you'redoing, like they're not gonna
know just off, rip what thatmeans to you.
But if you share, it takes onesentence like hey, uh, before
(51:30):
I've only been pressed 203 andnow I'm about to go hit 209.
You want to watch this, likethey're probably gonna say yes
yeah um.
So that's, you know, an easy wayto kind of communicate and,
hopefully, grow together.
Grow stronger together.
Hey, grow stronger together.
Liz (51:45):
Oh.
Nate (51:45):
Nice, Crazy, All right, so yeah.
So I think that kind of wrapsit up for our first episode of
the Fortis After Hours podcast.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed that.
A little bit of areintroduction from myself and
Liz.
Liz (52:05):
Obviously, we'll continue to talk on future episodes about
we're going to talk in apodcast, really.
Nate (52:08):
Okay, our past, present and future is what I was gonna
say.
Um, and hopefully you guysenjoyed us talking about like
training together and I thinkthe biggest like key takeaway at
least my key takeaway, myadvice, is I'm just gonna go
with be supportive, beencouraging.
Uh, you know, deliver positiveenergy into your significant
(52:32):
other or training partner.
Like Liz said, it doesn't evenneed to be your significant
other, but I do think that iskind of different.
Uh, so, you know, deliver somepositive energy and
encouragement towards their way.
That's always going to be aplus, is never going to be a
negative and it will probablyalways be received well, you got
a key takeaway for everybody um, I don't know, I mean, that's
(52:57):
pretty good yeah I feel likelike I guess my thing would be
if it's like something that'simportant to you, like as a
couple, so like both of you.
Liz (53:07):
If it's important that there might be some growing
pains, so like if it isimportant to like train together
, like if that's something that,like whatever, is something
that you value, or you bothvalue that you might have to be
a little patient to like workthrough some of the growing
pains to get to where it'sactually like good training
(53:28):
together Because, like, at firstit might not be.
But that doesn't mean like ifthe first like I don't know, a
couple of weeks or a couple ofmonths are kind of like weird
and just like you don't, it'snot going great.
If it is something that isextremely important, like
communicate, like you said, andlike talk about it and see like
what you can do, and then justkind of be patient and like
(53:49):
allow the training relationshipto grow as your relationship
grows that was good veryinsightful of you.
Nate (53:57):
I like that.
I agree with all that um sosmart yeah, no, I would agree
with all that.
And yeah, I just think trainingwith your significant other can
be a really special bond thatyou guys can grow, uh, so if you
don't already do that, talk tothem about it.
See they'd be interested.
Um, if you have already triedit, talk to them about it again.
I'm telling you, it's a funtime.
And if you've decided as a teamthat you're like, nah, we're
(54:21):
not doing that, then valid, staytuned for the next episode.
Uh, yeah, and also valid,that's totally fine.
Like Liz said, schedules andsometimes, just like you know
personalities, like maybe youlove doing everything else
together, but that's not for you, so that is cool too, and
that's no problem.
I think that's another thing.
That's just what we're talkingabout, because that's something
(54:41):
that we have done now for, likeLiz pointed out, 10 years, I
didn't even think about thatCrazy.
Now for, like this point out,10 years, I didn't think about
that crazy.
Yeah, um, right, but that mightnot be important to other
people and other people'srelationships.
Yeah, um.
So, if it's not, I'll leave youwith this.
If it's not, find something thatyou could do with your
significant other that you bothenjoy doing.
Um, that's some good advice forlong-term success, I think, in
(55:03):
a, in a marriage or relationship, and, and even if you, uh,
don't fully enjoy it as much asthe other person, if you at
least enjoy it a little bit,then you never know, you might
find yourself, like me, sevenyears deep into a sport that I
didn't really too much careabout as much as Liz in the
beginning and I really enjoy itnow.
(55:24):
Um, and honestly, I didn'treally enjoy it now.
Look at that and honestly, Ididn't really enjoy it until
recently.
So there's that weird yeah takestime takes time and patience.
All right, that wraps up thefirst episode of the fortis
after hours podcast.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed thisepisode.
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