January 23, 2024 • 23 mins
There is nothing like being at strongman comp. The fun and the vibe are just right. Nick spent the day at Untamed Strength judging the Winter Warrior.
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You're listening to the best experience withthe sick Best. All right, this
(00:41):
is the best experience with your hostNick Best and the angry dad Nick the
Best. I wrote, Yeah,but before we get in today's episode,
I like to thank Barrell a PearlPremium Athletic. We're performance engineered with a
performance athletic fit, refined clothing foran athletic body type. Evolution Athletics,
part of Gear company owned by BrianShaw, four time World's Strongest Man and
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strongest man on Earth. We believein all athletes and supporting their journey towards
greatness. Ice up Industries get fiftydollars. It's fifty dollars off at checkout
with code best at checkout ice upIndustries dot com. Make sure you I
go check it out, use ourcodes, use our promo, use the
links because it really helps us outand we appreciate it. And they're they're
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great icebat and great ice path andthe cost of them, you know,
it's it's only like about twenty threehundred bucks for an ice bath that you
paid five thousands with the other ones. Exactly. It's the same ice You
could literally get two to these forthe price of one exactly exactly, and
their duty too. Like I said, there they are definitely heavy to do
(01:47):
a hot one hundred and four andthe other one they cold at like forty
five degrees exactly. You know thatit's funny because, like I said,
that's what we used to do whenwe were kids that didn't know we were
doing what was healthy. You knowthat's it. Well for those watching,
obviously you can tell us where we'retwins now, you know what I'm saying.
(02:07):
We got the same shirts on.We were just at the Winter Warrior.
We literally left the show, camestraight to the house to do the
podcast, and uh, what ahell of a show, What a hell
of a day. And uh,you know Jeannie, you know who put
it on. You know she knowswhat she's doing. She's got it downpacked.
So props to her for running avery smooth show, a very fun
(02:30):
show. Yeah exactly. And theprize that she gave out, yes,
you know they're the they lined upwith what the Winter Warrior is so big?
Yeah? Yeah, weapons? Youknow you know what happened, What
happens when you give adult kids weapons, You know what I'm saying. The
first thing you hear everyone started pointingthem at each other exactly cool, which
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it was cool. It was fun. It was a lot of fun.
And that video will be coming outsoon because as soon as they stitch it
together, I'll put it out andeveryone's gonna be able to watch it,
you know what I'm saying. Sowe had a lot of fun there.
Nick was refing, judging and runningaround. Uh you know, I think
he got more exercise today than anyoneelse lifting. It's possible I took more
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steps. It took more steps exactly, but I was like, it's that
cat was above average today, whichwas great. And plus it's just fun.
I mean when you go judge contestslike this, I like to judge
and then coach at the same timebecause I mean it's it's really neat.
You see somebody doing something wrong andthey can't quite finish the deadlifting like lockanes
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or put your hips through, youknow, get your shoulders back, that
type of stuff, and then yousee it click in their head and they
make the lift exactly. And we'redoing shows like this, you know,
it's definitely needed because guess what,there's a lot of guys that are like
there was a couple of first timethere's a couple of people that just you
know, like they're like, okay, I've done this before, but you
know what those cues are something youdon't do when you don't compete on it
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like a consistent basis. What's yourfirst time and you're just green and don't
know exactly. So it's it's prettycool. I mean, we had a
few guys like that today and Iwas like, hey, he'll put your
belt on. The guy was greatOlympic lefter, really good and his log
he was jerking his log and hehad the highest he had the best log
of the day, and it wasjust kind of neat. I'm like,
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you should try this. Put youbelt on, do this for that,
do this for the who's fel carAnd he's just like oh wow. And
I was like, yeah, it'syeah, makes that much of it.
It's a big difference, and yeah, no, there. But there's also
a reason why you're a professional.Also the reason why you're a pro and
also you know, it understands whyyou make a great coach and you and
you make a great influence because guesswhat all those little details you know it
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you know, Nick said a fewthings today that you could see light bulbs
hitting, Like, why didn't Ithink about that? And I'm like,
exactly, it's well, I mean, strawman is about being the most efficient
as you're doing it, lifting itthe heaviest, the fastest, because everything's
under time. It's not about youknow, well I can lift this with
no belt on. Okay, socan I. But if I can get
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through that event expend less energy andbeat you at the same time, why
wouldn't you do that? I mean, when you have a paycheck lining up
at the end of this to whereyou can take months off of months off
of work and train or not.That's the difference between professional an amateur.
And it's like the amateurs, ifthey want to get to that professional level,
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need to start doing those professional levelthings. Exactly. It's kind of
cool. No, it's definitely cool. It's definitely cool. And let's say,
we've already heard people saying that theycan't wait for next year's Winter Warriors,
so I know, you know whatI'm saying. That's a great day.
And like I said, it wasraining today, so luckily we had
it. We were in the untamedstrength and the Sacramento area and it was
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big enough for us to have thecontest in the show. Yeah, and
we're only in a small section ofit, so it's like, you know,
the people other people are still comingin, still coming in to train.
You know, there's a lot ofpeople doing things there that day that
weren't there for the show. Butfor the good part, man, it
was the hell of a turnout.Yeah, if you're in northern California,
one Thame Strength is a good placeto go to trade strawman because there's I
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don't think there's anything they don't have. Yeah, they get the Yeah.
Yeah, the amount of equipment theygot was on point. Because the great
thing about it too, is likeeverything that every there, everyone was performing
on was equipment they've already trained withif they were from that gym, because
there was a lot of local peoplethere and they're like, oh, I
they're familiar with this equipment, youknow what I mean, Like Austin came
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from Vegas. That's kind of cool, So that'd be kind of neat.
He's gonna be good. There's there'sgonna be quite a few people that comes
out of there that came out ofthe show there. It'd be actually really
especially if they stick to it.That's the one thing, and the Reno
crew that came down some very goodlifters in there, and that's it.
Competitors coming from there. So it'syou know, it's kind of neat to
watch some of these guys improved inthe area exactly exactly. And then we
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also had Hawaiian barbecue for lunch.Barbecue is delicious. I don't care what
the moak says. I had abarbecue chicken, yeah exactly. I had
chicken. I had chicken katsu.And you know, I'm a huge Hawaiian
macaroni guy. You know there wasrice, Yeah exactly, I could have
eaten rice, but god damn it. Something about wayan mac just hits.
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Yeah. But I've been pretty disciplinedin my diet. Yeah. Well,
you know someone's trying to slim downif you I'm well, you look at
the cheeks, they're sinking in.He's getting that that that he's gonna hit
the Olympia stage here soon. No, not a chi chits. And the
only way I'm hitting that stage isto like handle a trophy or hand somebody
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a check in a suit or something, which I don't see happening anytime.
You know, we're throwing it outin the world. And guess what someone
might hear. Some from the OlympiaCompany might be listening to this podcast right
now. Oh, Nick wanted todo that. Why didn't we do that?
Yeah, you know, you know, And here's the other thing to
talking about the Wench Warrior. LasVegas is coming up. So in Las
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Vegas. Guess what Giants Live firsttime in Las Vegas, New Orleans Arena
and in September exactly, so youknow, we we we hope to see
everyone there. And you know theother thing too is like, you know,
we hope to be there, tobe able to support everybody and to
you know, have fun. Yeah, you get to see the guys and
see Colin and see Darren, allthe guys from Giants Live, and all
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the competitors as well. Exactly exactly. You know what I'm saying. And
if you want to see us there, mentioned in the mentioned in in the
mentioned in the comments, you knowwhat I'm saying, get a couple of
likes. Oh, I know we'regoing to be there. We're not saying
we're not going to be there,but we want people to let us know
if they want to see us.You know what I'm saying. That's what
it is. You know, I'mnot worried about me. I'm more worried
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about Nick. That's all I'm saying, because guess what, he's the main
attraction and I'm the side guy.Okay, See, didn't hesitate, didn't
hesit. It's cool and I meanit's it's neat. You go to things
like this and you feel totally inspiredat the end of the day. I
mean, big Josh like tore itup to them. Now come on,
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yeah, like it was not justchecked it so that that was he had
a great day. He didn't hewant he won the open. You want
the open, work on the frontcarry stuff like that. It was exactly
he gets his front carry and stuffdown, and he probably would have won
every event. Oh yeah, Iwould not be surprised to see him up
on the main national stage here soonenough. Oh yeah. That dead look
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was insane. Yea, So it'sgonna be good stuff exactly. And you
know it's the one thing too,is like that Josh, it happened to
uh, you know, attend yourseminar and everything you taught him, you
know exactly exactly, you know,and that I'm not I'm not saying that
you had an influence on his victorytoday. But he did do quite a
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bit of the techniques at your time. Oh yeah. His joke was that
it was it was like this closeto like there was one person who was
just like much faster what not,It all the same way. He was
like, I'm beating that time.I'm like, yeah, but you you
guys are doing hundreds of pounds different. I think he was running a seven
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yeah, it was one of thana seven hundred pound y know, yeah,
and it was it like eight pointsomething, eight point nine six.
His was like eight point ninety sixand the other kid. Yeah, so
but like once again, these aretwo different classes. And he just got
mad that he ran that fast andhe was like, I can run faster
than that seven hundred pounds and healmost did. Well, one was going
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out the door. Yeah, sohe had to put on the brakes then,
oh yeah, yeah, that's verytrue. Yeah he would have.
Yeah, he would have went througha glass door and looked like wildly coyote.
So it was it was cool.It was a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.It was like I said, and doing
stuff like this is it. It'salways tremendous because, like I said,
even right now, we're excited becausewe just did it. We're excited because
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we were just there and it's excitingto be there, especially like said,
supporting the local shows, supporting wherethe grassroots, where it actually starts,
you know what I'm saying. It'slike that. That's where I always feel
it's the most funnest because everyone isliterally shoulder and shoulder cheering everybody on which
you know, if you do strongman, guess what that that that that's
a normal thing. Not in everysport you see that, you know what
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I'm saying, a lot of sportsout there, it's me against you and
I don't talk to you and strawman, it's like no that. Yeah,
the guys are helping each other exactlyfrom walking with each other and encouraging
each other and stuff like that.Yeah, So it's neat the camaraderie it's
there all the way around us.Yeah. Really special because it's it's an
individual sport and you can't change whatthe other guy is going to do,
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and everybody wants to beat everybody ontheir best day exactly. I mean,
it doesn't do you good to beatsomebody when the herd exactly, not doing
wrong exactly. So when you beatthem at their best, then you know
you got it, you know,and and they each other. Yeah,
and it was like I said,it was tremendous. It was fun.
Yeah, you know, it wasraining outside and it got cold, but
guess what we were inside, soit was even better. It wasn't super
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cool, it was it wouldn't snowif it was cold, but for California,
it was quite chilly. You knowwhat I'm saying. That's what that's
what we're getting. You know whatI'm saying, that's what I think.
I'm from Vegas. Oh yeah,well, you know you're either extremely hot
or extremely cold there. That's there'sthere's no comfortable middle for you. Very
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true. You know there's days Nick'straining in under sixty three weather in his
garage or over one hundred degree weather. You know what I'm saying. I'm
just saying. You know, youknow it's so hot that like you gotta
to wait for the implements to cooloff outside because they're roasting. You know
what I'm saying, don't touch hotplates. We have to put it like
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during the summer, we'll have totake a bucket of ice and water and
drop towels in it and put itover the handles like the farmers walk and
some of the other stuff to coolthem off. And by the time we
get it cooled off, I remembers, like Archie can worry about the street
being by the time you get back, the streets dry, the implements already
starting to get warm again. Yougot to go exactly. Yeah, it's
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kind of cool, exactly, Butthat's what I'm saying. That's what I'm
saying. You know what I'm saying. California. It's a little it's a
little bit more controlled. We youknow, we have internal ac you know
what I'm saying. It's usually sixtyfive seventy five. That's where I like
it. Not too bad, exactly, not too bad. I like to
sleep like that too. But yeah, we did it. We had a
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great day. It was a funday, had a great day of training.
There a great day of training,yeah, exactly. That was a
soliday and training eighteen five was fivehundred eighteen. Yeah, so yeah,
yeah, it felt good. Thenumber was eighteen. That hit my number.
Next next week the number goes upa little bit. So well,
and here's the thing too, islike, you know, when we were
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training, people were like Nick,do two more? Do do this?
And he's like, no, Ihave a program. This wasn't the number.
This is my number. This ismy program. The same thing with
the squats, you know what I'msaying, Like, was you squatted up
seven on a single? You knowwhat I'm saying. He's like, no,
I could. I had more inme, But why am I going
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to beat myself up if I'm youknow, you're doing the program. You
know that that's something that you alwayssee people like, you know, I
don't know how manytimes we were inthe gym and we hear people talking about,
well, I'm not supposed to dothis. Yeah, you're in a
program, followed down program. It'swritten for a reason. Yeah, it's
written for a reason. And Imean, dude, unless it's a week
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where you're supposed to be testing oryou're in the competition, you train hard,
you get up in there pretty good, but you never lay the hammer
all the way down. Yeah,all the way down. You get close,
but not quite, not till it'stime exactly exactly. And that's one
of those things too, is likelike I like I said, you know
when you're young, you can getaway with it. And when I mean
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young, there's a lot of hundredtwenty year olds that you know, they're
they're just starting. No, there'sa lot of people in their twenties.
I still consider that they were goingin. But you know, like I
said, we hear it all thetime. I hear it all the time.
You know, people like, youknow, I'm not supposed to PR
today, but guess what I'm goingTraining for a PR every time you go
out is not good. There's adifference between training for a PR and doing
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a heavy single. There's a difference. There's a massive difference. And it's
not about going to one hundred percentile, but you get up into the high
nineties, it's okay. You justyou push to the edge, but you
don't go over. And a heavysingle that's meant to freeze for training,
that takes you four or five secondsto do and is a training single is
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good because you've when you do atraining single, you still do work sets
up to it, and you're stilldoing you know, five reps and then
three reps and the single. We'rein a competition, you're doing you know,
four reps and then single single single, single and single, and then
you're warm and you go hit yourcompetition weights. Whereas training's training, you
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hit you know, three or four, hit fours, threes, threes,
threes, threes, threes, andthen you hit your five, your three,
and you're one. I mean,it's kind of how you do it.
You save it. One is trainingand the other one you're saving yourself
to hit your heavy less. That'sthe difference between the two. I don't
think people seem to get that.No, no, they don't. You
know, everyone wants the glory ofthe PR every time. But you know,
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like I said, to advance andto get better, you know that
there's a reason why there's a problem. Well, and that's the thing.
I mean, it's great to hitprs, great, it's it's a great
thing to do, but never puttingit down. But you're not always going
to hit them. And if everythingyou function about is hitting a PR every
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time you train, you're gonna bepretty disappointed. Well, you know,
but it's good work. It's yeah, it's solid work, solid work,
good work. Not everything has tobe, you know, better than the
last time. But if you slowly, methodically get better over time, you
never go backwards. Then you'll continuallymove forwards and you continue to grow when
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everybody instead of doing this, yeah, you know, throughout your training,
it's just this exactly, and itjust keeps moving and it keeps moving,
and all of a sudden it getsto you pass the peak the peaks and
valleys of the person doing this andyou never look back. And that's the
goal in the end, and that'sreal training. You know what I'm saying,
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patience and man me tell right now, you gotta have patience to do
this because you know that man nephewwas with us today at the at the
show and he was like, I'mjust going to pick this up. I'm
like, no, you're not.You're like you got to build up to
this like this. You just can'tmagically like be this strong already. All
but what he's stable to the floor. Yeah, it's well there's yeah,
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you're not just going to pick thatup. But you can pick that up.
You will be able to pick thatup in time. But you have
to do the things necessary to getyou there. And you got to put
the work in and the long workin to read the benefits and the rewards.
And that's how it works. Youknow what I'm saying, he was
just like so pumped up because hewas like, oh, he wanted to
do it next year. I'm like, well, guess what and fast up
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brings fast down. That's it.We want to go. We want that,
Like I said, that steady climb, that steady. Well, the
other thing is is you also wantthe muscle. The muscle is going to
recover the muscle. And people don'tseem to get this about training. The
experts that can't beat me with theinternet keyboard warriors to or haven't haven't done
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some of the things that I've done, or Ed's done, or just Brian
or any any of the other greatguys doing this and all of them.
Is they don't get that. Yeah, must everybody's so concerned about the body
of the portion of it where muscleheals in two days and you got to
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get back to training it and stufflike that. Now you need to heal
when the connected tissues healed. Letme say that again, you need to
train again when the connected tissues healed. And why does the connective tissue take
so long to heal after you've hada surgery or an injury or whatever.
There's not good blood flow to it, so it heals slower. Now why
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people can't figure this out, Idon't know, but it just heals slower
than muscle does. Therefore, yourtraining should be when that muscle's healed,
not takes two to three times longerfor the connected tissue to heal. The
muscle. Muscle will not atrophy tillthe tenth day. So as long as
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you get that between six and eightday timeframe in there, you're good.
You're good, and you're going totrain. You're gonna get stronger. You're
gonna train, you're gonna get stronger. You gotta train, you're gonna get
stronger, and it'll be a littlebit slower process. But if the muscle
gets stronger so much faster than theconnected tissue. When you start getting up
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into that international elite level and themuscle is stronger than the connected tissue,
that's where you start running into injurieswhere you pop things off the bones.
Ye, muscle belly tears, musclebarly tears where you just pop the tendon
off and then they're sewing it onmuscle belly, it's gonna heal. And
that's guys who tether musclebillies. They'reconnected tissues stronger than muscle. That's impressive,
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guys that pull it off the bone. The muscles stronger the connected tissue,
and that's where you run into yourissues getting too strong too fast there
it is, it's the difference.You know what I'm saying that this is
a million dollar information here as youguys need to and it's not talked about
very much. Yeah, which Idon't understand you. But everybody wants to
sell quick. Everybody wants to sellfast. Everybody wants to sell this and
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it's muscle, that's what That's whatit is. It's muscle maturity, and
it's patience, and it's understanding.You can work things to make them go
a little bit faster, but inthe end, the getting there super fast
is going to get you out ofthere super fast, exactly. And that's
what we never you know, likeI said, we don't. We never
want to see when somebody jumped tothe top and then all of a sudden
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there's like exactly you know what I'msaying, But also too like say,
this is information that Nick always shareswith a lot of his elite people that
are coming up. You know whatI'm saying, Like, hey, understand,
and you know, so people getit, so people don't. It's
you know, I've been talking aboutthis for a while now, yeah,
you know, tell people who listen, and it's it's just you go through
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enough stuff, you go through enoughinjuries you start thinking about, well,
why is this heal at this speed? Why is this here at this speed?
And you start learning the difference andwe're like, okay, well if
this heels, if it takes tenantsyou know, two to three times longer
to heal than a muscle, terrorgoes, why is that? And it's
because you start thinking it's the bloodflow, it's this the body reacts.
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And if you want to help yourtenons and ligaments, you can take things
like recovery that Brian sells with undefinednutrition that's hydrolonic acid in it, and
then you can also take collagen andstuff like that so that that will also
help those repair. And I don'tthink a lot of people you know,
really explore that avenue or not foreither exactly. So wow, you know,
(22:25):
we covered quite a bit and wehad a great week. It was
you know what it is. Wedrink a lot of effee. You know,
they cups and cup you know coffeeis very over read. Co sponsorship.
Yeah yeah, yeah, send usa sponsorship. We're drinking a lot
of coffee. Were drinking a lotof your coffee. So guess what.
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the best experience what they can best.
You're listening to the best experience withthe sick Best. All right, this
(00:41):
is the best experience with your hostNick Best and the angry dad Nick the
Best. I wrote, Yeah,but before we get in today's episode,
I like to thank Barrell a PearlPremium Athletic. We're performance engineered with a
performance athletic fit, refined clothing foran athletic body type. Evolution Athletics,
part of Gear company owned by BrianShaw, four time World's Strongest Man and
(01:03):
strongest man on Earth. We believein all athletes and supporting their journey towards
greatness. Ice up Industries get fiftydollars. It's fifty dollars off at checkout
with code best at checkout ice upIndustries dot com. Make sure you I
go check it out, use ourcodes, use our promo, use the
links because it really helps us outand we appreciate it. And they're they're
(01:25):
great icebat and great ice path andthe cost of them, you know,
it's it's only like about twenty threehundred bucks for an ice bath that you
paid five thousands with the other ones. Exactly. It's the same ice You
could literally get two to these forthe price of one exactly exactly, and
their duty too. Like I said, there they are definitely heavy to do
(01:47):
a hot one hundred and four andthe other one they cold at like forty
five degrees exactly. You know thatit's funny because, like I said,
that's what we used to do whenwe were kids that didn't know we were
doing what was healthy. You knowthat's it. Well for those watching,
obviously you can tell us where we'retwins now, you know what I'm saying.
(02:07):
We got the same shirts on.We were just at the Winter Warrior.
We literally left the show, camestraight to the house to do the
podcast, and uh, what ahell of a show, What a hell
of a day. And uh,you know Jeannie, you know who put
it on. You know she knowswhat she's doing. She's got it downpacked.
So props to her for running avery smooth show, a very fun
(02:30):
show. Yeah exactly. And theprize that she gave out, yes,
you know they're the they lined upwith what the Winter Warrior is so big?
Yeah? Yeah, weapons? Youknow you know what happened, What
happens when you give adult kids weapons, You know what I'm saying. The
first thing you hear everyone started pointingthem at each other exactly cool, which
(02:53):
it was cool. It was fun. It was a lot of fun.
And that video will be coming outsoon because as soon as they stitch it
together, I'll put it out andeveryone's gonna be able to watch it,
you know what I'm saying. Sowe had a lot of fun there.
Nick was refing, judging and runningaround. Uh you know, I think
he got more exercise today than anyoneelse lifting. It's possible I took more
(03:15):
steps. It took more steps exactly, but I was like, it's that
cat was above average today, whichwas great. And plus it's just fun.
I mean when you go judge contestslike this, I like to judge
and then coach at the same timebecause I mean it's it's really neat.
You see somebody doing something wrong andthey can't quite finish the deadlifting like lockanes
(03:35):
or put your hips through, youknow, get your shoulders back, that
type of stuff, and then yousee it click in their head and they
make the lift exactly. And we'redoing shows like this, you know,
it's definitely needed because guess what,there's a lot of guys that are like
there was a couple of first timethere's a couple of people that just you
know, like they're like, okay, I've done this before, but you
know what those cues are something youdon't do when you don't compete on it
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like a consistent basis. What's yourfirst time and you're just green and don't
know exactly. So it's it's prettycool. I mean, we had a
few guys like that today and Iwas like, hey, he'll put your
belt on. The guy was greatOlympic lefter, really good and his log
he was jerking his log and hehad the highest he had the best log
of the day, and it wasjust kind of neat. I'm like,
(04:19):
you should try this. Put youbelt on, do this for that,
do this for the who's fel carAnd he's just like oh wow. And
I was like, yeah, it'syeah, makes that much of it.
It's a big difference, and yeah, no, there. But there's also
a reason why you're a professional.Also the reason why you're a pro and
also you know, it understands whyyou make a great coach and you and
you make a great influence because guesswhat all those little details you know it
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you know, Nick said a fewthings today that you could see light bulbs
hitting, Like, why didn't Ithink about that? And I'm like,
exactly, it's well, I mean, strawman is about being the most efficient
as you're doing it, lifting itthe heaviest, the fastest, because everything's
under time. It's not about youknow, well I can lift this with
no belt on. Okay, socan I. But if I can get
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through that event expend less energy andbeat you at the same time, why
wouldn't you do that? I mean, when you have a paycheck lining up
at the end of this to whereyou can take months off of months off
of work and train or not.That's the difference between professional an amateur.
And it's like the amateurs, ifthey want to get to that professional level,
(05:26):
need to start doing those professional levelthings. Exactly. It's kind of
cool. No, it's definitely cool. It's definitely cool. And let's say,
we've already heard people saying that theycan't wait for next year's Winter Warriors,
so I know, you know whatI'm saying. That's a great day.
And like I said, it wasraining today, so luckily we had
it. We were in the untamedstrength and the Sacramento area and it was
(05:47):
big enough for us to have thecontest in the show. Yeah, and
we're only in a small section ofit, so it's like, you know,
the people other people are still comingin, still coming in to train.
You know, there's a lot ofpeople doing things there that day that
weren't there for the show. Butfor the good part, man, it
was the hell of a turnout.Yeah, if you're in northern California,
one Thame Strength is a good placeto go to trade strawman because there's I
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don't think there's anything they don't have. Yeah, they get the Yeah.
Yeah, the amount of equipment theygot was on point. Because the great
thing about it too, is likeeverything that every there, everyone was performing
on was equipment they've already trained withif they were from that gym, because
there was a lot of local peoplethere and they're like, oh, I
they're familiar with this equipment, youknow what I mean, Like Austin came
(06:30):
from Vegas. That's kind of cool, So that'd be kind of neat.
He's gonna be good. There's there'sgonna be quite a few people that comes
out of there that came out ofthe show there. It'd be actually really
especially if they stick to it.That's the one thing, and the Reno
crew that came down some very goodlifters in there, and that's it.
Competitors coming from there. So it'syou know, it's kind of neat to
watch some of these guys improved inthe area exactly exactly. And then we
(06:54):
also had Hawaiian barbecue for lunch.Barbecue is delicious. I don't care what
the moak says. I had abarbecue chicken, yeah exactly. I had
chicken. I had chicken katsu.And you know, I'm a huge Hawaiian
macaroni guy. You know there wasrice, Yeah exactly, I could have
eaten rice, but god damn it. Something about wayan mac just hits.
(07:16):
Yeah. But I've been pretty disciplinedin my diet. Yeah. Well,
you know someone's trying to slim downif you I'm well, you look at
the cheeks, they're sinking in.He's getting that that that he's gonna hit
the Olympia stage here soon. No, not a chi chits. And the
only way I'm hitting that stage isto like handle a trophy or hand somebody
(07:39):
a check in a suit or something, which I don't see happening anytime.
You know, we're throwing it outin the world. And guess what someone
might hear. Some from the OlympiaCompany might be listening to this podcast right
now. Oh, Nick wanted todo that. Why didn't we do that?
Yeah, you know, you know, And here's the other thing to
talking about the Wench Warrior. LasVegas is coming up. So in Las
(08:01):
Vegas. Guess what Giants Live firsttime in Las Vegas, New Orleans Arena
and in September exactly, so youknow, we we we hope to see
everyone there. And you know theother thing too is like, you know,
we hope to be there, tobe able to support everybody and to
you know, have fun. Yeah, you get to see the guys and
see Colin and see Darren, allthe guys from Giants Live, and all
(08:22):
the competitors as well. Exactly exactly. You know what I'm saying. And
if you want to see us there, mentioned in the mentioned in in the
mentioned in the comments, you knowwhat I'm saying, get a couple of
likes. Oh, I know we'regoing to be there. We're not saying
we're not going to be there,but we want people to let us know
if they want to see us.You know what I'm saying. That's what
it is. You know, I'mnot worried about me. I'm more worried
(08:43):
about Nick. That's all I'm saying, because guess what, he's the main
attraction and I'm the side guy.Okay, See, didn't hesitate, didn't
hesit. It's cool and I meanit's it's neat. You go to things
like this and you feel totally inspiredat the end of the day. I
mean, big Josh like tore itup to them. Now come on,
(09:05):
yeah, like it was not justchecked it so that that was he had
a great day. He didn't hewant he won the open. You want
the open, work on the frontcarry stuff like that. It was exactly
he gets his front carry and stuffdown, and he probably would have won
every event. Oh yeah, Iwould not be surprised to see him up
on the main national stage here soonenough. Oh yeah. That dead look
(09:28):
was insane. Yea, So it'sgonna be good stuff exactly. And you
know it's the one thing too,is like that Josh, it happened to
uh, you know, attend yourseminar and everything you taught him, you
know exactly exactly, you know,and that I'm not I'm not saying that
you had an influence on his victorytoday. But he did do quite a
(09:50):
bit of the techniques at your time. Oh yeah. His joke was that
it was it was like this closeto like there was one person who was
just like much faster what not,It all the same way. He was
like, I'm beating that time.I'm like, yeah, but you you
guys are doing hundreds of pounds different. I think he was running a seven
(10:11):
yeah, it was one of thana seven hundred pound y know, yeah,
and it was it like eight pointsomething, eight point nine six.
His was like eight point ninety sixand the other kid. Yeah, so
but like once again, these aretwo different classes. And he just got
mad that he ran that fast andhe was like, I can run faster
than that seven hundred pounds and healmost did. Well, one was going
(10:33):
out the door. Yeah, sohe had to put on the brakes then,
oh yeah, yeah, that's verytrue. Yeah he would have.
Yeah, he would have went througha glass door and looked like wildly coyote.
So it was it was cool.It was a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.It was like I said, and doing
stuff like this is it. It'salways tremendous because, like I said,
even right now, we're excited becausewe just did it. We're excited because
(10:56):
we were just there and it's excitingto be there, especially like said,
supporting the local shows, supporting wherethe grassroots, where it actually starts,
you know what I'm saying. It'slike that. That's where I always feel
it's the most funnest because everyone isliterally shoulder and shoulder cheering everybody on which
you know, if you do strongman, guess what that that that that's
a normal thing. Not in everysport you see that, you know what
(11:16):
I'm saying, a lot of sportsout there, it's me against you and
I don't talk to you and strawman, it's like no that. Yeah,
the guys are helping each other exactlyfrom walking with each other and encouraging
each other and stuff like that.Yeah, So it's neat the camaraderie it's
there all the way around us.Yeah. Really special because it's it's an
individual sport and you can't change whatthe other guy is going to do,
(11:39):
and everybody wants to beat everybody ontheir best day exactly. I mean,
it doesn't do you good to beatsomebody when the herd exactly, not doing
wrong exactly. So when you beatthem at their best, then you know
you got it, you know,and and they each other. Yeah,
and it was like I said,it was tremendous. It was fun.
Yeah, you know, it wasraining outside and it got cold, but
guess what we were inside, soit was even better. It wasn't super
(12:01):
cool, it was it wouldn't snowif it was cold, but for California,
it was quite chilly. You knowwhat I'm saying. That's what that's
what we're getting. You know whatI'm saying, that's what I think.
I'm from Vegas. Oh yeah,well, you know you're either extremely hot
or extremely cold there. That's there'sthere's no comfortable middle for you. Very
(12:24):
true. You know there's days Nick'straining in under sixty three weather in his
garage or over one hundred degree weather. You know what I'm saying. I'm
just saying. You know, youknow it's so hot that like you gotta
to wait for the implements to cooloff outside because they're roasting. You know
what I'm saying, don't touch hotplates. We have to put it like
(12:46):
during the summer, we'll have totake a bucket of ice and water and
drop towels in it and put itover the handles like the farmers walk and
some of the other stuff to coolthem off. And by the time we
get it cooled off, I remembers, like Archie can worry about the street
being by the time you get back, the streets dry, the implements already
starting to get warm again. Yougot to go exactly. Yeah, it's
(13:07):
kind of cool, exactly, Butthat's what I'm saying. That's what I'm
saying. You know what I'm saying. California. It's a little it's a
little bit more controlled. We youknow, we have internal ac you know
what I'm saying. It's usually sixtyfive seventy five. That's where I like
it. Not too bad, exactly, not too bad. I like to
sleep like that too. But yeah, we did it. We had a
(13:31):
great day. It was a funday, had a great day of training.
There a great day of training,yeah, exactly. That was a
soliday and training eighteen five was fivehundred eighteen. Yeah, so yeah,
yeah, it felt good. Thenumber was eighteen. That hit my number.
Next next week the number goes upa little bit. So well,
and here's the thing too, islike, you know, when we were
(13:52):
training, people were like Nick,do two more? Do do this?
And he's like, no, Ihave a program. This wasn't the number.
This is my number. This ismy program. The same thing with
the squats, you know what I'msaying, Like, was you squatted up
seven on a single? You knowwhat I'm saying. He's like, no,
I could. I had more inme, But why am I going
(14:13):
to beat myself up if I'm youknow, you're doing the program. You
know that that's something that you alwayssee people like, you know, I
don't know how manytimes we were inthe gym and we hear people talking about,
well, I'm not supposed to dothis. Yeah, you're in a
program, followed down program. It'swritten for a reason. Yeah, it's
written for a reason. And Imean, dude, unless it's a week
(14:35):
where you're supposed to be testing oryou're in the competition, you train hard,
you get up in there pretty good, but you never lay the hammer
all the way down. Yeah,all the way down. You get close,
but not quite, not till it'stime exactly exactly. And that's one
of those things too, is likelike I like I said, you know
when you're young, you can getaway with it. And when I mean
(14:56):
young, there's a lot of hundredtwenty year olds that you know, they're
they're just starting. No, there'sa lot of people in their twenties.
I still consider that they were goingin. But you know, like I
said, we hear it all thetime. I hear it all the time.
You know, people like, youknow, I'm not supposed to PR
today, but guess what I'm goingTraining for a PR every time you go
out is not good. There's adifference between training for a PR and doing
(15:18):
a heavy single. There's a difference. There's a massive difference. And it's
not about going to one hundred percentile, but you get up into the high
nineties, it's okay. You justyou push to the edge, but you
don't go over. And a heavysingle that's meant to freeze for training,
that takes you four or five secondsto do and is a training single is
(15:41):
good because you've when you do atraining single, you still do work sets
up to it, and you're stilldoing you know, five reps and then
three reps and the single. We'rein a competition, you're doing you know,
four reps and then single single single, single and single, and then
you're warm and you go hit yourcompetition weights. Whereas training's training, you
(16:03):
hit you know, three or four, hit fours, threes, threes,
threes, threes, threes, andthen you hit your five, your three,
and you're one. I mean,it's kind of how you do it.
You save it. One is trainingand the other one you're saving yourself
to hit your heavy less. That'sthe difference between the two. I don't
think people seem to get that.No, no, they don't. You
know, everyone wants the glory ofthe PR every time. But you know,
(16:27):
like I said, to advance andto get better, you know that
there's a reason why there's a problem. Well, and that's the thing.
I mean, it's great to hitprs, great, it's it's a great
thing to do, but never puttingit down. But you're not always going
to hit them. And if everythingyou function about is hitting a PR every
(16:48):
time you train, you're gonna bepretty disappointed. Well, you know,
but it's good work. It's yeah, it's solid work, solid work,
good work. Not everything has tobe, you know, better than the
last time. But if you slowly, methodically get better over time, you
never go backwards. Then you'll continuallymove forwards and you continue to grow when
(17:11):
everybody instead of doing this, yeah, you know, throughout your training,
it's just this exactly, and itjust keeps moving and it keeps moving,
and all of a sudden it getsto you pass the peak the peaks and
valleys of the person doing this andyou never look back. And that's the
goal in the end, and that'sreal training. You know what I'm saying,
(17:33):
patience and man me tell right now, you gotta have patience to do
this because you know that man nephewwas with us today at the at the
show and he was like, I'mjust going to pick this up. I'm
like, no, you're not.You're like you got to build up to
this like this. You just can'tmagically like be this strong already. All
but what he's stable to the floor. Yeah, it's well there's yeah,
(17:57):
you're not just going to pick thatup. But you can pick that up.
You will be able to pick thatup in time. But you have
to do the things necessary to getyou there. And you got to put
the work in and the long workin to read the benefits and the rewards.
And that's how it works. Youknow what I'm saying, he was
just like so pumped up because hewas like, oh, he wanted to
do it next year. I'm like, well, guess what and fast up
(18:18):
brings fast down. That's it.We want to go. We want that,
Like I said, that steady climb, that steady. Well, the
other thing is is you also wantthe muscle. The muscle is going to
recover the muscle. And people don'tseem to get this about training. The
experts that can't beat me with theinternet keyboard warriors to or haven't haven't done
(18:42):
some of the things that I've done, or Ed's done, or just Brian
or any any of the other greatguys doing this and all of them.
Is they don't get that. Yeah, must everybody's so concerned about the body
of the portion of it where muscleheals in two days and you got to
(19:02):
get back to training it and stufflike that. Now you need to heal
when the connected tissues healed. Letme say that again, you need to
train again when the connected tissues healed. And why does the connective tissue take
so long to heal after you've hada surgery or an injury or whatever.
There's not good blood flow to it, so it heals slower. Now why
(19:25):
people can't figure this out, Idon't know, but it just heals slower
than muscle does. Therefore, yourtraining should be when that muscle's healed,
not takes two to three times longerfor the connected tissue to heal. The
muscle. Muscle will not atrophy tillthe tenth day. So as long as
(19:47):
you get that between six and eightday timeframe in there, you're good.
You're good, and you're going totrain. You're gonna get stronger. You're
gonna train, you're gonna get stronger. You gotta train, you're gonna get
stronger, and it'll be a littlebit slower process. But if the muscle
gets stronger so much faster than theconnected tissue. When you start getting up
(20:10):
into that international elite level and themuscle is stronger than the connected tissue,
that's where you start running into injurieswhere you pop things off the bones.
Ye, muscle belly tears, musclebarly tears where you just pop the tendon
off and then they're sewing it onmuscle belly, it's gonna heal. And
that's guys who tether musclebillies. They'reconnected tissues stronger than muscle. That's impressive,
(20:33):
guys that pull it off the bone. The muscles stronger the connected tissue,
and that's where you run into yourissues getting too strong too fast there
it is, it's the difference.You know what I'm saying that this is
a million dollar information here as youguys need to and it's not talked about
very much. Yeah, which Idon't understand you. But everybody wants to
sell quick. Everybody wants to sellfast. Everybody wants to sell this and
(20:56):
it's muscle, that's what That's whatit is. It's muscle maturity, and
it's patience, and it's understanding.You can work things to make them go
a little bit faster, but inthe end, the getting there super fast
is going to get you out ofthere super fast, exactly. And that's
what we never you know, likeI said, we don't. We never
want to see when somebody jumped tothe top and then all of a sudden
(21:18):
there's like exactly you know what I'msaying, But also too like say,
this is information that Nick always shareswith a lot of his elite people that
are coming up. You know whatI'm saying, Like, hey, understand,
and you know, so people getit, so people don't. It's
you know, I've been talking aboutthis for a while now, yeah,
you know, tell people who listen, and it's it's just you go through
(21:38):
enough stuff, you go through enoughinjuries you start thinking about, well,
why is this heal at this speed? Why is this here at this speed?
And you start learning the difference andwe're like, okay, well if
this heels, if it takes tenantsyou know, two to three times longer
to heal than a muscle, terrorgoes, why is that? And it's
because you start thinking it's the bloodflow, it's this the body reacts.
(22:00):
And if you want to help yourtenons and ligaments, you can take things
like recovery that Brian sells with undefinednutrition that's hydrolonic acid in it, and
then you can also take collagen andstuff like that so that that will also
help those repair. And I don'tthink a lot of people you know,
really explore that avenue or not foreither exactly. So wow, you know,
(22:25):
we covered quite a bit and wehad a great week. It was
you know what it is. Wedrink a lot of effee. You know,
they cups and cup you know coffeeis very over read. Co sponsorship.
Yeah yeah, yeah, send usa sponsorship. We're drinking a lot
of coffee. Were drinking a lotof your coffee. So guess what.
(22:48):
You know what I'm saying, We'llput you on the podcast. Okay.
Anyway, I hope you guys likethis, Please like, share and subscribe.
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