October 9, 2025 • 50 mins
Join Nick Best and his co-host for this week's episode as they discuss the essentials for staying young, getting stronger, and living longer. Nick shares detailed workout routines, effective training tips, and nutrition advice tailored for longevity. They also explore the power of mindset in achieving success, share behind-the-scenes stories from 'The Strongest Man in History,' and give an overview of upcoming events. Plus, hear Nick's thoughts on the latest Fantastic Four movie reboot and what it takes to hold yourself accountable. Don't miss out on these invaluable insights and real-world applications!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, Nick, we are live right on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We're back for another week. And oh yes, feeling a
lot better. How about you, it's good.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh yeah, I'm definitely feeling a lot better too, a
lot more clear headed and motivated and ready.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, same same, and you know, just keep playing along.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's it. Well before we get too far into it. Uh,
we actually have some new members that has joined the
community and we'd like to always read their names as
a little thank you to everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, thank you, Yolanda, thank you, Lauren Wang, Yanya yan Yan.
I hope I said that, right, Zane Shin, Sean Fox,
and uh, yeah, thank you all for joining. Really appreciating
glad you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We appreciate all of you guys for joining the patreon
and being a part of the being a member, you
know what I'm saying. You know, for those who joined
the patreon and those who listen to this after, you
guys actually get to be able to ask Nick questions.
You guys get to you know, do the comments, and
you get to see and have access to this first.
So that's the best part of that, you know, Right, yeah,
(01:21):
we did. We got a question in today.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
All right, I want to turn back the clock a bit.
How can I train to feel younger, get stronger and
live longer? All right? So basically, yeah, you want to
mix things up a little bit. Train about four days
a week, four days with way to break it down
(01:45):
to a four day split. You do legs one day,
then the next day you do your chest, then you
take a day off, then you do your back and
take it. Then the next day you go and you
do your shoulders. Okay, then you take the next day
after that. So you've trained four days with weights and
(02:08):
probably each muscle group. So like for when you do legs,
you want to do about five to six sets for quads,
and then you want to do and there's multiple exercises
to go back and forth to both, like deadlifts get
your quads in your hamstrings, but quad dominant stuff, squats,
(02:29):
leg press, lunges, drags, stuff like that where you put
take a tire, put a rope to a tire with
a handle and drag the tire backwards and then maybe
put it, you know, a bag on it and drag
it backwards to make it more challenging. That type of stuff.
You want to do about six sets of those. Then
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you want to do hamstring dominant things which will be
like deadlifts, stiff leg of deadlifts, back extensions on a
back extension machine or hyper extensions excuse me hyper extensions,
and if you can do glute hand raises. Glute hand
raises are also very good. Those will help. That'll be
(03:16):
like one day, and then do a little bit of
calf exercises, so maybe standing calves for like four sets
of twenty with a comfortable wait for you to just
finish the twenty on each time. That would be a day.
Then for chest, you do no more than six to
eight work sets on chest, so maybe two work sets
(03:38):
a bench, two work sets incline, one work set of dips,
and then one set of presses and flies so it's
a super set with dumbbells, and then another set of
incline presses and flies with dumbells. That'll be a good
start to that. Then back stuff you want to do
(03:59):
about six sets of six to eight sets of acts
between pull ups rows any type of row where it's
low row, barbell row, whatever, and then pull ups maybe
three sets of those three sets of rows, and then
some bandwork and stuff like that for your lats, and
then which you'll get some rear delt work in with
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that so you don't really have to worry about that
too much, and then a day off and then shoulders
and stuff like that. So like overhead pressing, you might
do four sets of four work sets overhead pressing and
then some side laterals. You can use cans, you can
use weights, you know whatever to do the side laterals
(04:42):
and then bend over ben over side laterals to work
your rear delts at the same time. And that's probably
enough work right there to just get work in to
train with As far as your longevity and stuff, because
the strong, the more muscle mass you have on your body,
(05:02):
the better you're going to do as you get older.
I mean, it's the real fountain of youth that's having
a lot of muscle mass on your body because that's
what falls off so quickly as we age. So the
more you have on your body and the more you
train it to stay on, the better you're going to do.
And then basically as far as feeling good, well, that's
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going to make you feel good too. Getting that at one,
it's going to make you mentally feel good because you've
got the training done. Two it's going to make you
feel good because you're getting stronger, and it will help
you live longer. As time goes your bones are going
to get stronger. They won't get as brittle. The ostereoporosis.
I hope I said that right will set in way later.
(05:50):
If at all your bone density goes up when you
lift weights. That helps with that. Proper nutrition is going
to help with that as well. Those are those are
big things that they're going to make a big difference.
And then take a day or two and just get
out and move, you know, go climb a few hills,
go for long walks, you know that stuff. Go out
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and be active. It doesn't have to be things that
kill you or run into the ground, but it just
needs to go out and be active. Go like I said,
go for walks, climb climb small small hills, small mountains,
that type of stuff, and just go out and be
in nature and have fun. And if you're in a
city or stuff like that, you can walk up hills,
you can walk downhills, or you can just walk around
blocks and stuff like that. There's things you can do.
(06:36):
There's always something you can do, so just find the
thing to do. If you live in a coastal area.
You can go out to the go out and walk
the beach. You know, walking through sand is a great
way to get in shape. Don't just walk on the
wet sand. Go out and try to spend some time
walking through the through the dry sand, because that's that's
(06:57):
where actually the challenge is. So if you can get
to where your walk a couple hundred yards at a
time through regular sand, that's going to do a lot
to make you get in better shape. That will help.
Those are things that will help, you know, just basic,
the most basic things will do the most amount of work.
And I don't know why people have to overcomplicate things,
(07:21):
but it's really not super complicated. It's just finding something
where you get enough work in to cause the adaptive
stress of the muscle to grow, you get enough rest in,
you get enough nutrition in to get it all to heal.
The training is just as important as the healing. So
(07:42):
that's kind of like my biggest point to whole thing.
Training and healing go hand in hand. You can't do
one without doing the other. It'll be counterproductive in the end.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Absolutely. And then you got to hit the trifecta here
where you know you're doing the training, you're doing recovery
and you're doing the work. But the thing is is
nutrition falls in that large category because guess what consistent eating?
You know what I'm saying, Like, what's the one thing
that you always noticed what a lot of people do.
I don't have time to eat eat. And it's the
(08:16):
craziest thing to hear, because people I don't have time
to do the most important thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You know, make time. It doesn't have to be real long.
Like today, we're just crazy at the range. Today. I'm
just busy running gun and stuff like that. I didn't
have time to meal prep today. So I have a
company where i'll get it's called a local Mocha. It's
two hamburger patties and two eggs and white rice. I
(08:47):
tell them to leave the gravy off because it's not
that good. And I just have an extra bottle of
chicken stock that I keep at work, and so I'll
get that combination, you know, get it all on the thing,
mix it all up, and then I'll put the chicken
broth on it to make it easy to eat. And
today I ate it in like five minutes. I hate
(09:09):
the whole thing. In like five minutes because I was
in a hurry. You still got time to get your
calories in and then in between. I had two protein
bars when I first got to work, and I had
two protein bars right when I left work. So is
it great nutrition? It's not perfect, no, but it's good
nutrition and you get the protein in. The protein's probably
going to be the most important thing you eat because
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that's what provides your body the material you need to
heal with. Your body needs carbohydrates for glucose storage and
things like that and using your muscles athletically. Your body
will drop weight faster if you cut those out because
it burns nothing but fat. But but when you go
(09:53):
back to eating carbs, youre gonna have a problem. So
try to eat as balanced as possible. You know, carbohydrates
forty percent protein and twenty percent fat. That's pretty much
the most balanced part. You can go forty protein thirty
thirty as well, but I like forty forty twenty for
(10:16):
me personal.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, so well, And that's that's the thing too, is
like you find a balance for works for you, because
that's the one thing too. People think that when you're
on a diet, and like I said, this is the
biggest part of longevity too. People think things have to
be very specific one way, and it's not true. You
can literally everything's custom for everybody who does something, you know,
(10:39):
because some things work for other people, some things don't.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Correct people don't realize, oh, I've read this people in
this research. I read this on this research. You're your
own research. Let me say that again. You are your
own research. Just because it works for this person might
not necessarily work the same way. It might work for
you a little bit, But might I be perfect for you.
(11:02):
So I want to teach you to use yourself. Give
you some guidelines and stuff like that, and then use
yourself as your own science science experiment as we as
we progress, because that you'll find. Okay, well, I did
this type of training cycle and I got pretty good
results out of it. I did this kind not as
not quite so much, and then I did this and
(11:24):
I got the best results from that. So come over
here and do the one you got the best results from.
When you get bored with it, go back to the
one you got some decent results from, and trade back
and forth so you don't get bored. You know. That's
kind of why I like the conj you get method
a little bit and going back and forth. The only
(11:45):
thing is is that that method that you came up with.
Instead of having two training sessions in the week one's
weight once heavy in one's speedwork, do it by weeks instead,
you know, have a heavy week, have a speed week,
have a mobility or a CNS week. Split it by
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three weeks. You're going to be surprised when you find
out how well that works exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And when it says CNS, that's central nervousness for a
lot of people there, like you. You know, it's something
that Nick's trained all the time too, because like you
have to shock your system for extreme load.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, if you're going to lift heavyweights, you want your
CNS to fire, and you have to train it that
way as well. So if you're going to lift really heavy,
go and train train something ungodly heavy at the beginning,
like a but a partial rep so like a black
Poles on the dead list, for instance, where you get
up into the for me, get up into eight nine
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thousand pounds range, my CNS is fried when I get
done with that, and then then I do the rest
of my workout exactly, So it trains your CNS to
go through it, and then your CNS gets used to
recovering from that. Then you get into a straw man
contest and the first events like crazy heavy, most of
the guys will struggle moving on from there. Well, now
(13:13):
your CNS is used to it and you're gonna be fine.
So it's just little things like that make a big
difference over time.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, no, they definitely do, you know. And that's one
of those things too, is like we get a lot
of questions of training, a lot of questions and nutrition,
a lot of questions on mindset. But the thing is
too is people need to understand, like, this is all
technique that you have developed.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh yeah, over forty plus years of doing this exactly.
And I've taken a little bit from I've learned from everywhere.
I mean, you're always trying to learn, and you can learn.
And you know how once you learn how your body works,
you look at something and go that will actually work
for me? This might not work too well. You learn
your body so you'll go, okay, well this will work.
(13:59):
That won't. So I'm going to bring this in and
I'm not going to do that part. Because you learn
how to read your body, and you know what's going
to work for it. So it's kind of neat how
you know you're going to progress when you learn how
your body works. You learn how your body, how the
different types of food affects your body, You learn how
different types of training cycles affect your body. Some guys
(14:20):
function very very well in high volume. Some guys do
like every week they can just do a ton of volume.
There are weights minimum to minimum heavy, but they benefit
from that. Some guys benefit from not doing too many
sets but doing super heavyweight. I did a lot of that,
but then I developed into a conjugate thing for strong man.
(14:43):
I just play out of nowhere because I never really
studied west Side until later, much much later, and turned
out I was doing a lot of those things. I
just had my timing different. So it's which is kind
of crazy, how minds think alike without even realize what
(15:05):
they're doing. So it's it's it's kind of neat, But
you're your own. You're you're always your own research. Write
your stuff down, or if you don't have time to
write it down, do like a verbal notes, Yeah, just
talking to something in cord, your voice, record your thoughts
(15:25):
on it, what you got right, what you got wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What anybody.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You know? It's it's it's not It's not super hard
to do. But just take your own notes so you
can go back on that. Go back on them and
look at them and use it as a tool. You
have so many tools that you're at your disposal that
people just don't use. So use them. They're there to
(15:50):
help you for a reason. Develop the good habit of
writing stuff down. Write down your food. And if you
don't have time to write down your food, either take
a picture of it or verbally say hey, I ate
this much, this, this much, that, this much, this, this
much that it'll record it all down and then move
on to the next. Thing is that you know that
(16:11):
doesn't take a lot of time. You don't have to
sit there and write it all down. The phone now
has the ability to do that for you, So just
do that. You can send a text message to yourself
that way exactly. It's funny how that works. Click in there,
click on click on the little mic, talk into the mic,
say everything that you just did into it, and send
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it to yourself as a text message.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You know, one of the things I just saw this
week someone actually spoke into their chat GBT every meal
that they had what they trained and then asked it
at the end of the day to put it into
a spreadsheet. And it was like, oh, all I had
to do was talk and it made a spreadsheet for me.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So how easy is that.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's a great way, there's a good thing to do.
I just understand though, that's a useful way to use GVT.
Yeah yeah, so you use that, But just remember chat
GBT is going to go out and pull information from
everywhere all the time. Doesn't mean it's good information is
pulling from very true. Got to remember that a lot
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of times. A lot of times it picks up things
that are really really good. But at the end of
the day, it's not always going to pick up the
good all the good stuff too, It's going to be
other stuff around. So just understand that when you're asking
it questions. Yes, yeah, And also remember somebody is getting
(17:39):
paid to make sure chat DBT works. So your own
personal experience, use it in ways that'll be useful to
you exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And document what you eat, document with your train, and
do it in the most easy way that works for you.
Because you're just like Nick said, it's a reference point.
I feel did I feel good that day I had?
Did I have a great training session? What am I
doing to put myself in a successful situation?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And at the end of the day, go back to
your notes, review your notes, and you're going to find
all your answers in those notes. Okay, this week, I
did like five sets of chex, five sets of this
muscle group. I don't feel like I got enough work in. Okay.
The next week I did six sets. Hmmm, feel a
(18:31):
little better, but it's not quite right. The next week
I did seven. I feel great, I feel stronger. All
these things are working better. That's that's that's it, and
it develops way out from there. There's so many different
directions you can go into. Yeah, but that's being your
own experiment. That's doing your own research on the thing
(18:53):
that's going to know how your body works better. Nobody
knows how your body feels better than you at the
end of the day. That I can give you reference points,
we can give you advice like how I went through
things or how somebody else went through things. But and
what we've seen work, and what we've seen that makes
people successful. But you're your own best diagnostics as far
(19:18):
as how you feel and how you're improving, You're always
going to be that way. Nobody's going to be able
to tell you better than you on what your body
is going through at any given point in time.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Exactly exactly, and you and you know, And here's the
thing too, is like you know, Nick and I we
both talk about you know, making time, making effort, but
only one person can hold themselves responsible or accountable for themselves.
You know what I'm saying, and that that that's the
hardest thing to do, but it's the main thing that
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we all need to pay attention to because we all slip,
we all fall.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We're not oh boy, not even close. But I do
the best we can and we do the best we can.
And that's all anybody can do is the best they can.
And if you're always trying to do the best you can,
eventually you're going to be pretty darn successful at whatever
it is you go after. It's just that simple. If
you're always trying to be the best at what you
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can do and give the best effort into everything that
you put that you put your mind to, you're going
to do that. You just got to understand, you can
be really, really really good at about three or four things.
You can be average at about ten things, and you
can be okay at about twenty things. Do you want
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to be good or do you want to be average?
Do you want to be good or do you want
to be great? And that's how you got to kind
of divide things up. You really do. And it's truly
that simple. And if you spend the amount of time
in that three to five or six task range, you're
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gonna end up pretty good at all all. You're gonna
end up world class at a lot of those things.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Really will exactly well, let's pivot a little bit. Okay,
Like I said, this was a fan question.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah question.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's how we do it though, And those who joined
the Patreon, we have a Patreon where you it's a
group chat. Add a new question and we'll pull it
out and you know what I'm saying, we'll discuss it
just like this in depth, because that's one of the
benefits about being a Patreon member. But what I want
to talk about is this weekend coming up, we are
(21:44):
going to be at the Olympia and Nick's got a
full schedule, you know what I'm saying, So let's just
discuss that right there.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Okay, So I'll be the Evolution booth where Brianshaw is
and stuff like that. Sign it yep yep from twelve
to one on Friday, and then for the rest of
the time I will be either judging or commentating for
(22:14):
America's Strongest Man and America's Strongest Veteran at the Olympia
at the Expo. So I will be there pretty much
long days doing the stuff and helping people and coaching
from the microphone as I'm talking about guys and their
efforts and stuff like that. So it's gonna be pretty cool.
I'm looking forward to this. It's gonna be a lot
of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So you guys are in the Olympia in the Las
Vegas area, make sure you come fine, now.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Come by, say hi wave if I can come over
and talk to you. I will pictures with you, I'll
do all that stuff. I love meeting people. I love, uh,
just people and stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You're very appreciative of the fans because you know we've
had this conversation numerous times. You know, Nick always says,
would it be here if it was for you guys,
And so he holds that near and dear it was
hard just see you guys don't because Nick sometimes gets
a little emotional and I.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Like, yeah, but yeah, so we're gonna be there doing
those things and judging and commentary and just.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Take walking around too.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, I know what I'm saying, Come up and say hi. Exactly.
If you come up and say hi and I don't
have time to talk to you, come find me again.
The only time I'm not going to have time to
talk to you for a couple of seconds or whatever
is if I'm in process and I have a place
where I have to be by a deadline time. If
I don't have to be anywhere by a certain time,
I will sit there and talk to people. It's just
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it's I love to do that, and I just understand
if I have to go because there's a time constraint
and I have to I have to be somewhere other
than that, I will sit in there and talk to you.
If it's if I got a free half an hour,
I will stand there and talk to you for as
much of that as possible.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know. The one part I love about going to
the Olympia is it's the meet and greets for me.
And I'm not talking about meet and greets for Nick,
I get to meet everyone that I like and I
and because of Nick, I get a little bit of
a little bit of a line cut there, which I enjoy,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah. So it's it's it's it's I feel very blessed.
I feel very fortunate to have been able to do
this with my career and I've just had. Getting to
do what I love to do is absolutely amazing. And
I couldn't. I couldn't be happier. I really couldn't. It's
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so much fun to come up and talk to people
and see what they're thinking and talk to them and
they can ask me a question or two, and you know,
I I like, hey, we'll give this a try, give
that a try, you know. And it's just fun. It
really is. It really is.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, I enjoy it quite a bit. Yeah, you know. So, uh,
you know, with the Olympia happening, you also have a
seminar coming up in Pittsburgh, so you know that'll be
coming in. Was it a Pittsburgh, Virginia? I believe you
know what I'm saying. It's going to be at the
close to the end of November. I believe too.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, it's November ninth I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh, at the beginning of November, I was completely off.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's okay. Towards the end of november's o s g Oh, yes,
it looks like I'm gonna go there and do some
commentary and some announcing. Ah if if Lynna, if you
see this. Yeah, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm just going to get the plane tickets because I
haven't got them yet and send you when I'm coming
in and I'll be there Thursday.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
So yes, all right, Sunday, so like an excuse me Monday.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, I just haven't had a chance to do it
and send it to you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, and i'd apps like that. So gez
on the book, uh Richmond Virginia for the strong Man
Seminar with was it John? Why did I forget his
last time? I was just watching a video of him too, Yes,
John Hack, Yeah, so exactly exactly. He just pulled some
serious weight.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So no, yeah, he's he's a strong, strong kid. He's
probably one of the best ever I've seen. So he's
done good exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
So that'll be a couple of trips that are coming
up this year. And then what else. Uh, well, let's
get into the movies here because you did watch a
new movie and uh, you know, we did.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We discussed really switching gears.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, really switching gears.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay, yeah, I mean I one thing I like to
do to just quiet my head and do the thing
and just escape for a couple hours during the week
is I like to watch a movie here and there.
And this week I watched The Fantastic Four.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The new one with Pedro Pascal.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yes, and that's kind of Pedro went from being everybody
wanted to see Pedro too. Now people are like, eh,
I'm kind of over this and you know, kind of
the things he said and done, and people are kind
of like shying away from it now.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah. Well, sometimes you're the guy. Sometimes you know, you're not.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, it happens. But I think people had the impression
that The Fantastic for was going to be another one
of those Marvel mess everything up movies. Yeah, and they
actually didn't do too bad. I was quite surprised. I
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wasn't real happy with who they picked to be Silver Surfer.
But she did a good enough job. Oh yeah, she
wasn't bad. She actually did a pretty good job as
a Silver Surfer. And then Galactus was pretty cool because
it's Galactus exactly. And the story wasn't bad. And you know,
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they Richard and Sue have Franklin and that was kind
of interesting. So that was kind of the premise of
the movie. Galacus wanted Franklin. They didn't want to give
up Franklin, so Gractus said he was going to consume
the earth. So and they were trying to find a
way to stop it. And it was it was. It
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wasn't bad. It really wasn't as bad as I thought
it was going to.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Be, because you know, I wasn't expecting to hear you
say that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, because you know, a lot with the Avengers, I
don't like what they did with a lot of the
you know, Captain Americas and stuff like that. But this
one wasn't half bad. It wasn't too horribly bad. They
didn't try to go crazy changing characters or changing They
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went a little weird on who they picked to be
some of the characters, but not too bad. So it
was actually, if you've never really if you don't know
much about the Fantastic before, you're gonna like the movie.
If you know a lot about the Fantastic Four, you
won't be throwing things at the screen. It'll be It'll
be okay.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, Like I said, I grew up heavy Marvel comic
books cards, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And I still have four long boxes of comic books.
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
It hurts when when they go so far off script, when.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
They destroy the stories. Yes, it's like the reason why
we're watching them. Yeah, they're destroying the stories of the characters. Yeah,
where you completely miscast a character so bad that it
literally destroys the movie or what the character actually was. Yeah,
that's a problem and I really wish people over at
Disney would like figure that out. Yeah. The reason why
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people are going to these movies is because they've read
the comic books. Yeah, way back in the day.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So you know, a big chunk of the fans are
going to be these purest and the.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Adults have gone over their comic books from when they
were kids with their kids. Yep, so their kids have
seen the old stories. Yes, No, maybe Marvel needs to
figure that.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Out big time.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
So the kids know the original words. Because the cool
thing about comic books is once it's printed out and
people collect them, you can't change the stories, eh, digital
e say, once a book is printed. It's printed. If
the book's twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty years old, kind
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of hard to change the storyline when you got it
sitting right in front of you. So you know that.
That's kind of a pretty cool thing, because like I
got Iron Man fifty five, which was the first first
appearance at Thanos. Yeah, Man one through ten, the original
from nineteen sixty eight, stuff like that. I have some
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really cool old stuff with really cool old stories and
a lot of the amazing Spider Man's and stuff like that,
And it's it's kind of neat when you see things
kind of stick to the way the old comics were
when you were younger.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So it's a.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Per wasn't a big Fantastic Four collector, but I knew
a lot of the basic premises is premise premises of it.
So yeah, I wasn't like totally disappointed seeing the movie,
So it was it's pretty cool. It wasn't bad.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It was I'll definitely give it a watch now.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It was a nice little escape. Yeah. Would I be
happier if they had somebody else in Pedro's character? Probably
it's spirally somebody a little taller and a little thinner too. Yeah,
but you know, it's not a perfect world, and he
didn't do a bad job playing Reid. Yeah, there's a
couple of times where it's like, you could have been
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a little stronger about things, but other than that, it
wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad because it was
pretty tough.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, he was mentally tough and mentally strong in his opinions,
but he.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Comes off very strong, very smart.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Stuff like that, but very decisive.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Sue definitely ends up looking like probably the strongest of
all the characters.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I will say that, well, you know she is. She
is supposed to be one of the strongest characters, but
she never alludes to it in any of the comic books.
But I want to say, she's not an Omega level,
but what was the level underneath it? But she's like
almost at that top tier in just her powers alone
because of the things that she can manipulate.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah. Yeah, and the thing was supposed to be like
really really strong and really really tough, and they made
him look pretty strong. So but they didn't make him
look like the guy that can fight at the Hulk.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, So that's that's how strong he has to be
because he has fought in the Hulk multiple times.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I mean, he doesn't win him.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Exactly, but he.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
He fight he's able to fight the Hulk for a while,
and then Rockman gets tired and Hulk smash. So uh, anyway, yeah,
that's uh my comic book.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Well, let's give this movie a one through five here.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Mmmm three point three, three.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Point four, that's not too bad. That's three point.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Stretching it, stretching it. But it's it's it's it's it's
not one of those things you're just gonna go, oh,
I gotta go see it. But if it's on, I'll
watch it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So it's it's entertaining, it's not.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It's a lot higher of a star rating than I thought.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It's not like some of the other stuff where I
see it and I start watching, I'm like, oh no,
you just shut it off and you're like done. You
don't even bother way watching the rest of it. So
we all run into those movies.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
So now we definitely all run into those you know,
you know, I want to talk a little bit shifting
on mindset because you know, we we talked definitely about
a lot of training and a lot of a lot
of nutrition and a lot of you know, accountability in
the first portion of this. But one of the things
that we always need to hammer home is and just
(34:25):
like you said, you needed to clear your mind, you
know what I'm saying. We've had a few things happen,
you know, you know, and it's like one of those
things that you you reflect, you think, but you know,
letting go of what of life stresses is probably one
of the hardest things any of us can do, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, that's true. You have to develop a way to
know that there's there's things you can change, and there's
things you can't change no matter how hard you try.
You just there's things that will not be changed. And
(35:06):
those things that you just can't change and can't you
just have to go okay and settle it in your head.
All right, I can't change this. It's like there's nothing
I can do about it, you know, So therefore I
have to understand that and just do the best I can.
(35:27):
That's it. You just put it to the side, Go okay.
But these things I can change. I can change when
I get up every day. I can change when I
go to sleep every day. I can change when I
eat every day. I can change what I eat every day.
I can change how I think about things. I can
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change how I educate myself. That's a big one. I
can change how I educate myself. You don't have to
necessarily be educated by a college to be smart. Don't
have to. I don't think Elon Musk went to college.
Some I checked. Dude's doing okay. He's doing all right
(36:09):
for himself. So might not be very well liked right now,
but at the end of the day, he wants to.
He's a smart man and he controls a lot of things.
There's things he can't control, and he doesn't try to
control them. He just accepts them, does the best he can,
and moves into the next thing. And that's what we
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need to do, is people and change the controls, control
the controllables, alter the controllables, make them fit you and
your goals in life. And it's going to be mindset
at the end of the day that will do that.
And some people are very motivated to make money. Some
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people are very motivated to be healthy. Some people are
very motivated to be good parents. Some people are very motivated,
you know, to just find something to accel at. That's fine.
There's nothing wrong with any of those, but find them
and change the controllables in those things that will allow
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you to perform better at them. Always be improving as
the best you can. Doesn't have to be perfect, and
quit comparing yourself to other people unless you're actually in
a competition with them. Other than that, don't compare yourself
to your neighbor or your friend or whatever. It's being
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the best you that you want to be. You always
want to improve. Can Ben ever be as strong as me? Maybe?
But Ben can be the best Ben? Yep, you know.
Can I be as strong as Brian? Probably when Brian
(38:04):
was at his peak? Probably not. But I can be
the best Nick and I was able to beat him
at certain things. I was able to beat a whole
bunch of people at certain things. Well, I made the
best of what I was able to do, and I
over excelled as much as I could at those things.
And sometimes you out excel your talent. That's the goal.
(38:26):
When you can exceed your talent level through work and
smart that's which you need to achieve. That's the thing
to strive for. Exceed your talent level in anything that
is that you want to be. You want to be good,
you know, book smart, job smart, relationship smart, exceed your
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talent levels. That's it. The goal is to be the
best you you can be. And pretty soon when you're
the best you you can be, you start being a
whole lot better and a whole lot of other people
because people don't try to be better all the time.
And I don't know why, but if you're trying to
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be better at everything that you do, you're always going
to excel. It doesn't have to be all at once.
It's not going to happen all at once. Everything in
life is a slow, methodical gain. There's gonna be things
that pop up that you end up doing really good,
really fast, and then it's gonna be slow from there.
And that's okay. That's where you put the work in.
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That's where the grind comes in, and that in the
end will lead to your success.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It really will, absolutely you know what I'm saying. And
just like you said, it's controlling the controllables. You can't.
You can't. There's things you can't control and you gotta
let them go. And the things that can fix and
help and motivate you are the things that you can
literally tweak, fix a just move, you know, put in
(39:58):
a new perspective or whatever you want to call it.
And just like you said, those slow methodical gains start
with those things.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yep. There, Slow methodical games start there. And as long
as you're constantly improving or doing the absolute best you can,
you're always going to win. At the end of the day,
you're always going to win. You might not win the
victories that you want right away, but you will win.
And you start stacking and stacking and stacking and stacking
(40:29):
and stacking, stacking, and all of a sudden you went
from down here to up here. And if you keep
slowly stacking over time, you end up up here. That's
all it is. It's stacking the days. It's stacking the work.
It's stacking the rest. It's stacking the mental work. It's
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stacking the mental rest. You don't always And that's part
of the hardest thing about super highly motivated people is
they they have troubles too. You know what their trouble
is turning it off, turning it off, settling down, letting
theirself relax and enjoy enjoy it. They don't have to
(41:14):
enjoy it for a long time, but they need to
settle it down and enjoy what they accomplished and then
move on. They have to turn it off a little bit,
and they will do so much better in the end
if they just figure out a way to do that,
they really will. So Okay, yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
But there's that, you know what I'm saying. And uh,
you know, I think we covered that pretty well. But uh, okay,
you know something. You know the one thing I always
get the most questions and the most thoughts, and uh
you know, it's it's people love the strongest man in history.
So and uh but and we talked, we we've covered
it here there. But I definitely you gotta because there's
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so many opportunities and things that you guys done that
weren't covered in the show. Give me a memory of
a moment that you were just like oh that was crazy,
or like we shouldn't have did that, or like, wow,
that happened it wasn't on camera.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I think the funniest thing that happened that wasn't on
camera was when we trained at the y m c
A and Eddie dropped trow on top of the leg
press was trying to fight while Robert was doing the
leg press. That was absolutely hilarious. Yeah, that was that
was pretty funny. You know, Eddie throwing a snowball at
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me that just happened to be pissed. So there's just
guys being guys and funny, silly things that went on
that was pretty entertaining. The the dinner that I guess
Eddie and Robert had where the guy that made the
(43:09):
the battle acts, yeah, you know, I guess was pretty awkward,
pretty pretty outrageous. So I don't think that made it
on the show either, So that that one was pretty funny.
There's just a ton of things that happened on that
show that was absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Well that's one of those things we'll probably have to
have a much maybe a whole episode, a whole live
stream of just kind of go over those.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it was really a shame. I think.
Another one of the biggest things is when Eddie was
supposed to be there with his family and roast us all,
which was in him and his family just gang up
on the three of us, and it turned out to
be quite the opposite, where all of us were getting
up and just giving it to Eddie, which was hilarious
(44:01):
and sometimes Yeah, there was a line through the film
on all of it, and they couldn't use any of it,
and that was some of the most that was That
would be one of the funniest nights we we ever had,
like total overall quality of the whole entire night of
us all laughing. That was probably one of the funniest
(44:23):
nights that we all had.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
I wish you would release that kind of footage. That's
kind of stuff that we, you know, the fans, would
quite enjoy.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, he's trying to get me to smoke a cigar
the wrong way. That was pretty funny. Yeah, inhale it.
I'm like, I think you're.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Supposed to puff it in your mouth, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Exhale it. I don't think you're supposed to inhale it
because it will make you sick. You'll be totally fine.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I'm like, yeah, okay, Oh, you know a good friend
of ours he smokes cigars all the time, and I
decided to join in with him. And it was worse
than a hangover, all right.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I was pretty green.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Yeah, I was not. I am not a cigar person
any fat because I was like, I don't feel well.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
I typically don't like to poison myself. That much. Yeah,
I'll take a zero and things like that, is.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
That you know, I care, you know, where some of
us aren't as strong as.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
No we we've like, like I said, nobody, nobody's perfect, nobody,
very few, let me put it that way. So there's
there's always something and you just do the best you
can to mitigate what it was and get through it
and like, okay, well, won't be doing that again any
time ever or ever. Yeah, learn lesson learn. But you know,
(45:53):
John talks about a thing, you know, you know, always
find one thing during the day that you're never going
to do again, yeah, you know, and get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
And I definitely did that.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, that was the one purge thing I did for
that day. And you know that was something I learned
from John that I will be. The way he talked
about it is you know, you know, you end up
doing it not realizing it. And now it's one of
those things, Well, I'll consciously think about that. You know,
what's the one thing today that I don't want to
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do an that I won't do again because it didn't
help me move forwards on something today exactly. And it's
sometimes hard to think about that. But it's like anything.
When you keep your notes and you keep track of
the things, go back to it and find things that
work for you and keep doing them. Find things that
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don't work for you. It could be more than one thing.
Don't do that anymore. Get rid of it. That includes friends.
If you have friends that are helping you move forwards
and support you and your goal, keeping there and keeping close.
If you have friends in your life that are trying
to divert you and get you to do other things
that aren't good for your goals, make them acquaintances instead
(47:10):
of friends. Still be friendly to them, still talk to them,
still say hi, still keep up with them, But they
don't get to the inner circle yes anymore because they're
not their Their goals and their pattern and the things
that they're trying to accomplish are not what you're trying
to do exactly. And people that are not, people that
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are trying to do other things besides what you're doing,
might not necessarily care that you're trying to excel at something.
And those are the people that become acquaintances as well
and instead of friends exactly.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
And that's truth and that solid advice. You know what
I'm saying, Like you said, you know, every so every day,
and it doesn't have to be every day, but you
find that one thing you need to purge, the one
thing you need to let the whether whether you think
about it or not, because like a lot of people
don't ever really question when they need to purge, because
you just kind of think things need to be a
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certain way at all times. Right, I was like, no, no,
what makes you happy? Keep doing that, things that make
you sad, things that upset you, things that make you mad.
Guess what, you don't have to do them.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Nope, Nope, that's it, and we just move on to
the next thing.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Exactly, Man, Nick, I think we kind of hit full
circle on today's episode.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Here coming back, circling back, circling back, circling back anyway. Yeah, so,
I mean, at the end of the day, you know
what's going on in your body, So write it down,
take notes, take advice from everybody, try some new things,
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learn what works, learn what doesn't work. With your food,
with your sleep, with your training, and with your learning,
and you're gonna be a lot You will be far
better off a year from now, far better off a
year from now. And these things aren't things that are
gonna happen overnight. They take time. But a year from
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now you're gonna be better, Five years from now, even better.
Ten years from now, you're gonna be untouchable. You're gonna
excel at whatever it is that you've decided you wanted
to be good at. And you will get there. You
will get there. It just takes time. So put the time,
put the work in. You're gonna get there. And as oh,
you know, and I think that's probably a pretty good
way to end the show. So go out, be great,
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do good things for people, and train hard, train smart,
and be the best you can be. That's all you
can ever do is go out and be the best
you can be. Go out and have a great day,
and thank you everybody, thanks for watching this.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
And we'll see you guys next Wednesday at seven pm.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Physically mentally is debatable, but physically we'll see you. Oh
you got to try to throw little humorous where I can.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
You're listening to the best experience would make best
All right, Nick, we are live right on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We're back for another week. And oh yes, feeling a
lot better. How about you, it's good.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh yeah, I'm definitely feeling a lot better too, a
lot more clear headed and motivated and ready.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, same same, and you know, just keep playing along.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That's it. Well before we get too far into it. Uh,
we actually have some new members that has joined the
community and we'd like to always read their names as
a little thank you to everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, thank you, Yolanda, thank you, Lauren Wang, Yanya yan Yan.
I hope I said that, right, Zane Shin, Sean Fox,
and uh, yeah, thank you all for joining. Really appreciating
glad you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We appreciate all of you guys for joining the patreon
and being a part of the being a member, you
know what I'm saying. You know, for those who joined
the patreon and those who listen to this after, you
guys actually get to be able to ask Nick questions.
You guys get to you know, do the comments, and
you get to see and have access to this first.
So that's the best part of that, you know, Right, yeah,
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we did. We got a question in today.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
All right, I want to turn back the clock a bit.
How can I train to feel younger, get stronger and
live longer? All right? So basically, yeah, you want to
mix things up a little bit. Train about four days
a week, four days with way to break it down
(01:45):
to a four day split. You do legs one day,
then the next day you do your chest, then you
take a day off, then you do your back and
take it. Then the next day you go and you
do your shoulders. Okay, then you take the next day
after that. So you've trained four days with weights and
(02:08):
probably each muscle group. So like for when you do legs,
you want to do about five to six sets for quads,
and then you want to do and there's multiple exercises
to go back and forth to both, like deadlifts get
your quads in your hamstrings, but quad dominant stuff, squats,
(02:29):
leg press, lunges, drags, stuff like that where you put
take a tire, put a rope to a tire with
a handle and drag the tire backwards and then maybe
put it, you know, a bag on it and drag
it backwards to make it more challenging. That type of stuff.
You want to do about six sets of those. Then
(02:51):
you want to do hamstring dominant things which will be
like deadlifts, stiff leg of deadlifts, back extensions on a
back extension machine or hyper extensions excuse me hyper extensions,
and if you can do glute hand raises. Glute hand
raises are also very good. Those will help. That'll be
(03:16):
like one day, and then do a little bit of
calf exercises, so maybe standing calves for like four sets
of twenty with a comfortable wait for you to just
finish the twenty on each time. That would be a day.
Then for chest, you do no more than six to
eight work sets on chest, so maybe two work sets
(03:38):
a bench, two work sets incline, one work set of dips,
and then one set of presses and flies so it's
a super set with dumbbells, and then another set of
incline presses and flies with dumbells. That'll be a good
start to that. Then back stuff you want to do
(03:59):
about six sets of six to eight sets of acts
between pull ups rows any type of row where it's
low row, barbell row, whatever, and then pull ups maybe
three sets of those three sets of rows, and then
some bandwork and stuff like that for your lats, and
then which you'll get some rear delt work in with
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that so you don't really have to worry about that
too much, and then a day off and then shoulders
and stuff like that. So like overhead pressing, you might
do four sets of four work sets overhead pressing and
then some side laterals. You can use cans, you can
use weights, you know whatever to do the side laterals
(04:42):
and then bend over ben over side laterals to work
your rear delts at the same time. And that's probably
enough work right there to just get work in to
train with As far as your longevity and stuff, because
the strong, the more muscle mass you have on your body,
(05:02):
the better you're going to do as you get older.
I mean, it's the real fountain of youth that's having
a lot of muscle mass on your body because that's
what falls off so quickly as we age. So the
more you have on your body and the more you
train it to stay on, the better you're going to do.
And then basically as far as feeling good, well, that's
(05:27):
going to make you feel good too. Getting that at one,
it's going to make you mentally feel good because you've
got the training done. Two it's going to make you
feel good because you're getting stronger, and it will help
you live longer. As time goes your bones are going
to get stronger. They won't get as brittle. The ostereoporosis.
I hope I said that right will set in way later.
(05:50):
If at all your bone density goes up when you
lift weights. That helps with that. Proper nutrition is going
to help with that as well. Those are those are
big things that they're going to make a big difference.
And then take a day or two and just get
out and move, you know, go climb a few hills,
go for long walks, you know that stuff. Go out
(06:13):
and be active. It doesn't have to be things that
kill you or run into the ground, but it just
needs to go out and be active. Go like I said,
go for walks, climb climb small small hills, small mountains,
that type of stuff, and just go out and be
in nature and have fun. And if you're in a
city or stuff like that, you can walk up hills,
you can walk downhills, or you can just walk around
blocks and stuff like that. There's things you can do.
(06:36):
There's always something you can do, so just find the
thing to do. If you live in a coastal area.
You can go out to the go out and walk
the beach. You know, walking through sand is a great
way to get in shape. Don't just walk on the
wet sand. Go out and try to spend some time
walking through the through the dry sand, because that's that's
(06:57):
where actually the challenge is. So if you can get
to where your walk a couple hundred yards at a
time through regular sand, that's going to do a lot
to make you get in better shape. That will help.
Those are things that will help, you know, just basic,
the most basic things will do the most amount of work.
And I don't know why people have to overcomplicate things,
(07:21):
but it's really not super complicated. It's just finding something
where you get enough work in to cause the adaptive
stress of the muscle to grow, you get enough rest in,
you get enough nutrition in to get it all to heal.
The training is just as important as the healing. So
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that's kind of like my biggest point to whole thing.
Training and healing go hand in hand. You can't do
one without doing the other. It'll be counterproductive in the end.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Absolutely. And then you got to hit the trifecta here
where you know you're doing the training, you're doing recovery
and you're doing the work. But the thing is is
nutrition falls in that large category because guess what consistent eating?
You know what I'm saying, Like, what's the one thing
that you always noticed what a lot of people do.
I don't have time to eat eat. And it's the
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craziest thing to hear, because people I don't have time
to do the most important thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You know, make time. It doesn't have to be real long.
Like today, we're just crazy at the range. Today. I'm
just busy running gun and stuff like that. I didn't
have time to meal prep today. So I have a
company where i'll get it's called a local Mocha. It's
two hamburger patties and two eggs and white rice. I
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tell them to leave the gravy off because it's not
that good. And I just have an extra bottle of
chicken stock that I keep at work, and so I'll
get that combination, you know, get it all on the thing,
mix it all up, and then I'll put the chicken
broth on it to make it easy to eat. And
today I ate it in like five minutes. I hate
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the whole thing. In like five minutes because I was
in a hurry. You still got time to get your
calories in and then in between. I had two protein
bars when I first got to work, and I had
two protein bars right when I left work. So is
it great nutrition? It's not perfect, no, but it's good
nutrition and you get the protein in. The protein's probably
going to be the most important thing you eat because
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that's what provides your body the material you need to
heal with. Your body needs carbohydrates for glucose storage and
things like that and using your muscles athletically. Your body
will drop weight faster if you cut those out because
it burns nothing but fat. But but when you go
(09:53):
back to eating carbs, youre gonna have a problem. So
try to eat as balanced as possible. You know, carbohydrates
forty percent protein and twenty percent fat. That's pretty much
the most balanced part. You can go forty protein thirty
thirty as well, but I like forty forty twenty for
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me personal.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, so well, And that's that's the thing too, is
like you find a balance for works for you, because
that's the one thing too. People think that when you're
on a diet, and like I said, this is the
biggest part of longevity too. People think things have to
be very specific one way, and it's not true. You
can literally everything's custom for everybody who does something, you know,
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because some things work for other people, some things don't.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Correct people don't realize, oh, I've read this people in
this research. I read this on this research. You're your
own research. Let me say that again. You are your
own research. Just because it works for this person might
not necessarily work the same way. It might work for
you a little bit, But might I be perfect for you.
(11:02):
So I want to teach you to use yourself. Give
you some guidelines and stuff like that, and then use
yourself as your own science science experiment as we as
we progress, because that you'll find. Okay, well, I did
this type of training cycle and I got pretty good
results out of it. I did this kind not as
not quite so much, and then I did this and
(11:24):
I got the best results from that. So come over
here and do the one you got the best results from.
When you get bored with it, go back to the
one you got some decent results from, and trade back
and forth so you don't get bored. You know. That's
kind of why I like the conj you get method
a little bit and going back and forth. The only
(11:45):
thing is is that that method that you came up with.
Instead of having two training sessions in the week one's
weight once heavy in one's speedwork, do it by weeks instead,
you know, have a heavy week, have a speed week,
have a mobility or a CNS week. Split it by
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three weeks. You're going to be surprised when you find
out how well that works exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And when it says CNS, that's central nervousness for a
lot of people there, like you. You know, it's something
that Nick's trained all the time too, because like you
have to shock your system for extreme load.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, if you're going to lift heavyweights, you want your
CNS to fire, and you have to train it that
way as well. So if you're going to lift really heavy,
go and train train something ungodly heavy at the beginning,
like a but a partial rep so like a black
Poles on the dead list, for instance, where you get
up into the for me, get up into eight nine
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thousand pounds range, my CNS is fried when I get
done with that, and then then I do the rest
of my workout exactly, So it trains your CNS to
go through it, and then your CNS gets used to
recovering from that. Then you get into a straw man
contest and the first events like crazy heavy, most of
the guys will struggle moving on from there. Well, now
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your CNS is used to it and you're gonna be fine.
So it's just little things like that make a big
difference over time.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, no, they definitely do, you know. And that's one
of those things too, is like we get a lot
of questions of training, a lot of questions and nutrition,
a lot of questions on mindset. But the thing is
too is people need to understand, like, this is all
technique that you have developed.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh yeah, over forty plus years of doing this exactly.
And I've taken a little bit from I've learned from everywhere.
I mean, you're always trying to learn, and you can learn.
And you know how once you learn how your body works,
you look at something and go that will actually work
for me? This might not work too well. You learn
your body so you'll go, okay, well this will work.
(13:59):
That won't. So I'm going to bring this in and
I'm not going to do that part. Because you learn
how to read your body, and you know what's going
to work for it. So it's kind of neat how
you know you're going to progress when you learn how
your body works. You learn how your body, how the
different types of food affects your body, You learn how
different types of training cycles affect your body. Some guys
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function very very well in high volume. Some guys do
like every week they can just do a ton of volume.
There are weights minimum to minimum heavy, but they benefit
from that. Some guys benefit from not doing too many
sets but doing super heavyweight. I did a lot of that,
but then I developed into a conjugate thing for strong man.
(14:43):
I just play out of nowhere because I never really
studied west Side until later, much much later, and turned
out I was doing a lot of those things. I
just had my timing different. So it's which is kind
of crazy, how minds think alike without even realize what
(15:05):
they're doing. So it's it's it's kind of neat, But
you're your own. You're you're always your own research. Write
your stuff down, or if you don't have time to
write it down, do like a verbal notes, Yeah, just
talking to something in cord, your voice, record your thoughts
(15:25):
on it, what you got right, what you got wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What anybody.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You know? It's it's it's not It's not super hard
to do. But just take your own notes so you
can go back on that. Go back on them and
look at them and use it as a tool. You
have so many tools that you're at your disposal that
people just don't use. So use them. They're there to
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help you for a reason. Develop the good habit of
writing stuff down. Write down your food. And if you
don't have time to write down your food, either take
a picture of it or verbally say hey, I ate
this much, this, this much, that, this much, this, this
much that it'll record it all down and then move
on to the next. Thing is that you know that
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doesn't take a lot of time. You don't have to
sit there and write it all down. The phone now
has the ability to do that for you, So just
do that. You can send a text message to yourself
that way exactly. It's funny how that works. Click in there,
click on click on the little mic, talk into the mic,
say everything that you just did into it, and send
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it to yourself as a text message.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You know, one of the things I just saw this
week someone actually spoke into their chat GBT every meal
that they had what they trained and then asked it
at the end of the day to put it into
a spreadsheet. And it was like, oh, all I had
to do was talk and it made a spreadsheet for me.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So how easy is that.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There's a great way, there's a good thing to do.
I just understand though, that's a useful way to use GVT.
Yeah yeah, so you use that, But just remember chat
GBT is going to go out and pull information from
everywhere all the time. Doesn't mean it's good information is
pulling from very true. Got to remember that a lot
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of times. A lot of times it picks up things
that are really really good. But at the end of
the day, it's not always going to pick up the
good all the good stuff too, It's going to be
other stuff around. So just understand that when you're asking
it questions. Yes, yeah, And also remember somebody is getting
(17:39):
paid to make sure chat DBT works. So your own
personal experience, use it in ways that'll be useful to
you exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And document what you eat, document with your train, and
do it in the most easy way that works for you.
Because you're just like Nick said, it's a reference point.
I feel did I feel good that day I had?
Did I have a great training session? What am I
doing to put myself in a successful situation?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And at the end of the day, go back to
your notes, review your notes, and you're going to find
all your answers in those notes. Okay, this week, I
did like five sets of chex, five sets of this
muscle group. I don't feel like I got enough work in. Okay.
The next week I did six sets. Hmmm, feel a
(18:31):
little better, but it's not quite right. The next week
I did seven. I feel great, I feel stronger. All
these things are working better. That's that's that's it, and
it develops way out from there. There's so many different
directions you can go into. Yeah, but that's being your
own experiment. That's doing your own research on the thing
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that's going to know how your body works better. Nobody
knows how your body feels better than you at the
end of the day. That I can give you reference points,
we can give you advice like how I went through
things or how somebody else went through things. But and
what we've seen work, and what we've seen that makes
people successful. But you're your own best diagnostics as far
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as how you feel and how you're improving, You're always
going to be that way. Nobody's going to be able
to tell you better than you on what your body
is going through at any given point in time.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Exactly exactly, and you and you know, And here's the
thing too, is like you know, Nick and I we
both talk about you know, making time, making effort, but
only one person can hold themselves responsible or accountable for themselves.
You know what I'm saying, and that that that's the
hardest thing to do, but it's the main thing that
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we all need to pay attention to because we all slip,
we all fall.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
We're not oh boy, not even close. But I do
the best we can and we do the best we can.
And that's all anybody can do is the best they can.
And if you're always trying to do the best you can,
eventually you're going to be pretty darn successful at whatever
it is you go after. It's just that simple. If
you're always trying to be the best at what you
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can do and give the best effort into everything that
you put that you put your mind to, you're going
to do that. You just got to understand, you can
be really, really really good at about three or four things.
You can be average at about ten things, and you
can be okay at about twenty things. Do you want
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to be good or do you want to be average?
Do you want to be good or do you want
to be great? And that's how you got to kind
of divide things up. You really do. And it's truly
that simple. And if you spend the amount of time
in that three to five or six task range, you're
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gonna end up pretty good at all all. You're gonna
end up world class at a lot of those things.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Really will exactly well, let's pivot a little bit. Okay,
Like I said, this was a fan question.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah question.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's how we do it though, And those who joined
the Patreon, we have a Patreon where you it's a
group chat. Add a new question and we'll pull it
out and you know what I'm saying, we'll discuss it
just like this in depth, because that's one of the
benefits about being a Patreon member. But what I want
to talk about is this weekend coming up, we are
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going to be at the Olympia and Nick's got a
full schedule, you know what I'm saying, So let's just
discuss that right there.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Okay, So I'll be the Evolution booth where Brianshaw is
and stuff like that. Sign it yep yep from twelve
to one on Friday, and then for the rest of
the time I will be either judging or commentating for
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America's Strongest Man and America's Strongest Veteran at the Olympia
at the Expo. So I will be there pretty much
long days doing the stuff and helping people and coaching
from the microphone as I'm talking about guys and their
efforts and stuff like that. So it's gonna be pretty cool.
I'm looking forward to this. It's gonna be a lot
of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So you guys are in the Olympia in the Las
Vegas area, make sure you come fine, now.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Come by, say hi wave if I can come over
and talk to you. I will pictures with you, I'll
do all that stuff. I love meeting people. I love, uh,
just people and stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You're very appreciative of the fans because you know we've
had this conversation numerous times. You know, Nick always says,
would it be here if it was for you guys,
And so he holds that near and dear it was
hard just see you guys don't because Nick sometimes gets
a little emotional and I.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Like, yeah, but yeah, so we're gonna be there doing
those things and judging and commentary and just.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Take walking around too.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, I know what I'm saying, Come up and say hi. Exactly.
If you come up and say hi and I don't
have time to talk to you, come find me again.
The only time I'm not going to have time to
talk to you for a couple of seconds or whatever
is if I'm in process and I have a place
where I have to be by a deadline time. If
I don't have to be anywhere by a certain time,
I will sit there and talk to people. It's just
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it's I love to do that, and I just understand
if I have to go because there's a time constraint
and I have to I have to be somewhere other
than that, I will sit in there and talk to you.
If it's if I got a free half an hour,
I will stand there and talk to you for as
much of that as possible.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You know. The one part I love about going to
the Olympia is it's the meet and greets for me.
And I'm not talking about meet and greets for Nick,
I get to meet everyone that I like and I
and because of Nick, I get a little bit of
a little bit of a line cut there, which I enjoy,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah. So it's it's it's it's I feel very blessed.
I feel very fortunate to have been able to do
this with my career and I've just had. Getting to
do what I love to do is absolutely amazing. And
I couldn't. I couldn't be happier. I really couldn't. It's
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so much fun to come up and talk to people
and see what they're thinking and talk to them and
they can ask me a question or two, and you know,
I I like, hey, we'll give this a try, give
that a try, you know. And it's just fun. It
really is. It really is.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, I enjoy it quite a bit. Yeah, you know. So, uh,
you know, with the Olympia happening, you also have a
seminar coming up in Pittsburgh, so you know that'll be
coming in. Was it a Pittsburgh, Virginia? I believe you
know what I'm saying. It's going to be at the
close to the end of November. I believe too.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, it's November ninth I believe.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Oh, at the beginning of November, I was completely off.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's okay. Towards the end of november's o s g Oh, yes,
it looks like I'm gonna go there and do some
commentary and some announcing. Ah if if Lynna, if you
see this. Yeah, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm just going to get the plane tickets because I
haven't got them yet and send you when I'm coming
in and I'll be there Thursday.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
So yes, all right, Sunday, so like an excuse me Monday.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, I just haven't had a chance to do it
and send it to you.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, and i'd apps like that. So gez
on the book, uh Richmond Virginia for the strong Man
Seminar with was it John? Why did I forget his
last time? I was just watching a video of him too, Yes,
John Hack, Yeah, so exactly exactly. He just pulled some
serious weight.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So no, yeah, he's he's a strong, strong kid. He's
probably one of the best ever I've seen. So he's
done good exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
So that'll be a couple of trips that are coming
up this year. And then what else. Uh, well, let's
get into the movies here because you did watch a
new movie and uh, you know, we did.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
We discussed really switching gears.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, really switching gears.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay, yeah, I mean I one thing I like to
do to just quiet my head and do the thing
and just escape for a couple hours during the week
is I like to watch a movie here and there.
And this week I watched The Fantastic Four.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The new one with Pedro Pascal.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yes, and that's kind of Pedro went from being everybody
wanted to see Pedro too. Now people are like, eh,
I'm kind of over this and you know, kind of
the things he said and done, and people are kind
of like shying away from it now.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah. Well, sometimes you're the guy. Sometimes you know, you're not.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, it happens. But I think people had the impression
that The Fantastic for was going to be another one
of those Marvel mess everything up movies. Yeah, and they
actually didn't do too bad. I was quite surprised. I
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wasn't real happy with who they picked to be Silver Surfer.
But she did a good enough job. Oh yeah, she
wasn't bad. She actually did a pretty good job as
a Silver Surfer. And then Galactus was pretty cool because
it's Galactus exactly. And the story wasn't bad. And you know,
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they Richard and Sue have Franklin and that was kind
of interesting. So that was kind of the premise of
the movie. Galacus wanted Franklin. They didn't want to give
up Franklin, so Gractus said he was going to consume
the earth. So and they were trying to find a
way to stop it. And it was it was. It
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wasn't bad. It really wasn't as bad as I thought
it was going to.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Be, because you know, I wasn't expecting to hear you
say that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, because you know, a lot with the Avengers, I
don't like what they did with a lot of the
you know, Captain Americas and stuff like that. But this
one wasn't half bad. It wasn't too horribly bad. They
didn't try to go crazy changing characters or changing They
(29:01):
went a little weird on who they picked to be
some of the characters, but not too bad. So it
was actually, if you've never really if you don't know
much about the Fantastic before, you're gonna like the movie.
If you know a lot about the Fantastic Four, you
won't be throwing things at the screen. It'll be It'll
be okay.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, Like I said, I grew up heavy Marvel comic
books cards, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And I still have four long boxes of comic books.
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
It hurts when when they go so far off script, when.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
They destroy the stories. Yes, it's like the reason why
we're watching them. Yeah, they're destroying the stories of the characters. Yeah,
where you completely miscast a character so bad that it
literally destroys the movie or what the character actually was. Yeah,
that's a problem and I really wish people over at
Disney would like figure that out. Yeah. The reason why
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people are going to these movies is because they've read
the comic books. Yeah, way back in the day.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
So you know, a big chunk of the fans are
going to be these purest and the.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Adults have gone over their comic books from when they
were kids with their kids. Yep, so their kids have
seen the old stories. Yes, No, maybe Marvel needs to
figure that.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Out big time.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
So the kids know the original words. Because the cool
thing about comic books is once it's printed out and
people collect them, you can't change the stories, eh, digital
e say, once a book is printed. It's printed. If
the book's twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty years old, kind
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of hard to change the storyline when you got it
sitting right in front of you. So you know that.
That's kind of a pretty cool thing, because like I
got Iron Man fifty five, which was the first first
appearance at Thanos. Yeah, Man one through ten, the original
from nineteen sixty eight, stuff like that. I have some
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really cool old stuff with really cool old stories and
a lot of the amazing Spider Man's and stuff like that,
And it's it's kind of neat when you see things
kind of stick to the way the old comics were
when you were younger.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So it's a.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Per wasn't a big Fantastic Four collector, but I knew
a lot of the basic premises is premise premises of it.
So yeah, I wasn't like totally disappointed seeing the movie,
So it was it's pretty cool. It wasn't bad.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
It was I'll definitely give it a watch now.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
It was a nice little escape. Yeah. Would I be
happier if they had somebody else in Pedro's character? Probably
it's spirally somebody a little taller and a little thinner too. Yeah,
but you know, it's not a perfect world, and he
didn't do a bad job playing Reid. Yeah, there's a
couple of times where it's like, you could have been
(32:02):
a little stronger about things, but other than that, it
wasn't too bad. It wasn't too bad because it was
pretty tough.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, he was mentally tough and mentally strong in his opinions,
but he.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Comes off very strong, very smart.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Stuff like that, but very decisive.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Sue definitely ends up looking like probably the strongest of
all the characters.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I will say that, well, you know she is. She
is supposed to be one of the strongest characters, but
she never alludes to it in any of the comic books.
But I want to say, she's not an Omega level,
but what was the level underneath it? But she's like
almost at that top tier in just her powers alone
because of the things that she can manipulate.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah. Yeah, and the thing was supposed to be like
really really strong and really really tough, and they made
him look pretty strong. So but they didn't make him
look like the guy that can fight at the Hulk.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, So that's that's how strong he has to be
because he has fought in the Hulk multiple times.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I mean, he doesn't win him.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Exactly, but he.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
He fight he's able to fight the Hulk for a while,
and then Rockman gets tired and Hulk smash. So uh, anyway, yeah,
that's uh my comic book.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Well, let's give this movie a one through five here.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Mmmm three point three, three.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Point four, that's not too bad. That's three point.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Stretching it, stretching it. But it's it's it's it's it's
not one of those things you're just gonna go, oh,
I gotta go see it. But if it's on, I'll
watch it.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So it's it's entertaining, it's not.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It's a lot higher of a star rating than I thought.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
It's not like some of the other stuff where I
see it and I start watching, I'm like, oh no,
you just shut it off and you're like done. You
don't even bother way watching the rest of it. So
we all run into those movies.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
So now we definitely all run into those you know,
you know, I want to talk a little bit shifting
on mindset because you know, we we talked definitely about
a lot of training and a lot of a lot
of nutrition and a lot of you know, accountability in
the first portion of this. But one of the things
that we always need to hammer home is and just
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like you said, you needed to clear your mind, you
know what I'm saying. We've had a few things happen,
you know, you know, and it's like one of those
things that you you reflect, you think, but you know,
letting go of what of life stresses is probably one
of the hardest things any of us can do, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, that's true. You have to develop a way to
know that there's there's things you can change, and there's
things you can't change no matter how hard you try.
You just there's things that will not be changed. And
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those things that you just can't change and can't you
just have to go okay and settle it in your head.
All right, I can't change this. It's like there's nothing
I can do about it, you know, So therefore I
have to understand that and just do the best I can.
(35:27):
That's it. You just put it to the side, Go okay.
But these things I can change. I can change when
I get up every day. I can change when I
go to sleep every day. I can change when I
eat every day. I can change what I eat every day.
I can change how I think about things. I can
(35:48):
change how I educate myself. That's a big one. I
can change how I educate myself. You don't have to
necessarily be educated by a college to be smart. Don't
have to. I don't think Elon Musk went to college.
Some I checked. Dude's doing okay. He's doing all right
(36:09):
for himself. So might not be very well liked right now,
but at the end of the day, he wants to.
He's a smart man and he controls a lot of things.
There's things he can't control, and he doesn't try to
control them. He just accepts them, does the best he can,
and moves into the next thing. And that's what we
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need to do, is people and change the controls, control
the controllables, alter the controllables, make them fit you and
your goals in life. And it's going to be mindset
at the end of the day that will do that.
And some people are very motivated to make money. Some
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people are very motivated to be healthy. Some people are
very motivated to be good parents. Some people are very motivated,
you know, to just find something to accel at. That's fine.
There's nothing wrong with any of those, but find them
and change the controllables in those things that will allow
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you to perform better at them. Always be improving as
the best you can. Doesn't have to be perfect, and
quit comparing yourself to other people unless you're actually in
a competition with them. Other than that, don't compare yourself
to your neighbor or your friend or whatever. It's being
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the best you that you want to be. You always
want to improve. Can Ben ever be as strong as me? Maybe?
But Ben can be the best Ben? Yep, you know.
Can I be as strong as Brian? Probably when Brian
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was at his peak? Probably not. But I can be
the best Nick and I was able to beat him
at certain things. I was able to beat a whole
bunch of people at certain things. Well, I made the
best of what I was able to do, and I
over excelled as much as I could at those things.
And sometimes you out excel your talent. That's the goal.
(38:26):
When you can exceed your talent level through work and
smart that's which you need to achieve. That's the thing
to strive for. Exceed your talent level in anything that
is that you want to be. You want to be good,
you know, book smart, job smart, relationship smart, exceed your
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talent levels. That's it. The goal is to be the
best you you can be. And pretty soon when you're
the best you you can be, you start being a
whole lot better and a whole lot of other people
because people don't try to be better all the time.
And I don't know why, but if you're trying to
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be better at everything that you do, you're always going
to excel. It doesn't have to be all at once.
It's not going to happen all at once. Everything in
life is a slow, methodical gain. There's gonna be things
that pop up that you end up doing really good,
really fast, and then it's gonna be slow from there.
And that's okay. That's where you put the work in.
(39:30):
That's where the grind comes in, and that in the
end will lead to your success.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It really will, absolutely you know what I'm saying. And
just like you said, it's controlling the controllables. You can't.
You can't. There's things you can't control and you gotta
let them go. And the things that can fix and
help and motivate you are the things that you can
literally tweak, fix a just move, you know, put in
(39:58):
a new perspective or whatever you want to call it.
And just like you said, those slow methodical gains start
with those things.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Yep. There, Slow methodical games start there. And as long
as you're constantly improving or doing the absolute best you can,
you're always going to win. At the end of the day,
you're always going to win. You might not win the
victories that you want right away, but you will win.
And you start stacking and stacking and stacking and stacking
(40:29):
and stacking, stacking, and all of a sudden you went
from down here to up here. And if you keep
slowly stacking over time, you end up up here. That's
all it is. It's stacking the days. It's stacking the work.
It's stacking the rest. It's stacking the mental work. It's
(40:50):
stacking the mental rest. You don't always And that's part
of the hardest thing about super highly motivated people is
they they have troubles too. You know what their trouble
is turning it off, turning it off, settling down, letting
theirself relax and enjoy enjoy it. They don't have to
(41:14):
enjoy it for a long time, but they need to
settle it down and enjoy what they accomplished and then
move on. They have to turn it off a little bit,
and they will do so much better in the end
if they just figure out a way to do that,
they really will. So Okay, yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
But there's that, you know what I'm saying. And uh,
you know, I think we covered that pretty well. But uh, okay,
you know something. You know the one thing I always
get the most questions and the most thoughts, and uh
you know, it's it's people love the strongest man in history.
So and uh but and we talked, we we've covered
it here there. But I definitely you gotta because there's
(41:56):
so many opportunities and things that you guys done that
weren't covered in the show. Give me a memory of
a moment that you were just like oh that was crazy,
or like we shouldn't have did that, or like, wow,
that happened it wasn't on camera.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I think the funniest thing that happened that wasn't on
camera was when we trained at the y m c
A and Eddie dropped trow on top of the leg
press was trying to fight while Robert was doing the
leg press. That was absolutely hilarious. Yeah, that was that
was pretty funny. You know, Eddie throwing a snowball at
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me that just happened to be pissed. So there's just
guys being guys and funny, silly things that went on
that was pretty entertaining. The the dinner that I guess
Eddie and Robert had where the guy that made the
(43:09):
the battle acts, yeah, you know, I guess was pretty awkward,
pretty pretty outrageous. So I don't think that made it
on the show either, So that that one was pretty funny.
There's just a ton of things that happened on that
show that was absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Well that's one of those things we'll probably have to
have a much maybe a whole episode, a whole live
stream of just kind of go over those.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it was really a shame. I think.
Another one of the biggest things is when Eddie was
supposed to be there with his family and roast us all,
which was in him and his family just gang up
on the three of us, and it turned out to
be quite the opposite, where all of us were getting
up and just giving it to Eddie, which was hilarious
(44:01):
and sometimes Yeah, there was a line through the film
on all of it, and they couldn't use any of it,
and that was some of the most that was That
would be one of the funniest nights we we ever had,
like total overall quality of the whole entire night of
us all laughing. That was probably one of the funniest
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nights that we all had.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
I wish you would release that kind of footage. That's
kind of stuff that we, you know, the fans, would
quite enjoy.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, he's trying to get me to smoke a cigar
the wrong way. That was pretty funny. Yeah, inhale it.
I'm like, I think you're.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Supposed to puff it in your mouth, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
Exhale it. I don't think you're supposed to inhale it
because it will make you sick. You'll be totally fine.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I'm like, yeah, okay, Oh, you know a good friend
of ours he smokes cigars all the time, and I
decided to join in with him. And it was worse
than a hangover, all right.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I was pretty green.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Yeah, I was not. I am not a cigar person
any fat because I was like, I don't feel well.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
I typically don't like to poison myself. That much. Yeah,
I'll take a zero and things like that, is.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
That you know, I care, you know, where some of
us aren't as strong as.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
No we we've like, like I said, nobody, nobody's perfect, nobody,
very few, let me put it that way. So there's
there's always something and you just do the best you
can to mitigate what it was and get through it
and like, okay, well, won't be doing that again any
time ever or ever. Yeah, learn lesson learn. But you know,
(45:53):
John talks about a thing, you know, you know, always
find one thing during the day that you're never going
to do again, yeah, you know, and get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
And I definitely did that.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, that was the one purge thing I did for
that day. And you know that was something I learned
from John that I will be. The way he talked
about it is you know, you know, you end up
doing it not realizing it. And now it's one of
those things, Well, I'll consciously think about that. You know,
what's the one thing today that I don't want to
(46:25):
do an that I won't do again because it didn't
help me move forwards on something today exactly. And it's
sometimes hard to think about that. But it's like anything.
When you keep your notes and you keep track of
the things, go back to it and find things that
work for you and keep doing them. Find things that
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don't work for you. It could be more than one thing.
Don't do that anymore. Get rid of it. That includes friends.
If you have friends that are helping you move forwards
and support you and your goal, keeping there and keeping close.
If you have friends in your life that are trying
to divert you and get you to do other things
that aren't good for your goals, make them acquaintances instead
(47:10):
of friends. Still be friendly to them, still talk to them,
still say hi, still keep up with them, But they
don't get to the inner circle yes anymore because they're
not their Their goals and their pattern and the things
that they're trying to accomplish are not what you're trying
to do exactly. And people that are not, people that
(47:31):
are trying to do other things besides what you're doing,
might not necessarily care that you're trying to excel at something.
And those are the people that become acquaintances as well
and instead of friends exactly.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
And that's truth and that solid advice. You know what
I'm saying, Like you said, you know, every so every day,
and it doesn't have to be every day, but you
find that one thing you need to purge, the one
thing you need to let the whether whether you think
about it or not, because like a lot of people
don't ever really question when they need to purge, because
you just kind of think things need to be a
(48:07):
certain way at all times. Right, I was like, no, no,
what makes you happy? Keep doing that, things that make
you sad, things that upset you, things that make you mad.
Guess what, you don't have to do them.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Nope, Nope, that's it, and we just move on to
the next thing.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Exactly, Man, Nick, I think we kind of hit full
circle on today's episode.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Here coming back, circling back, circling back, circling back anyway. Yeah, so,
I mean, at the end of the day, you know
what's going on in your body, So write it down,
take notes, take advice from everybody, try some new things,
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learn what works, learn what doesn't work. With your food,
with your sleep, with your training, and with your learning,
and you're gonna be a lot You will be far
better off a year from now, far better off a
year from now. And these things aren't things that are
gonna happen overnight. They take time. But a year from
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now you're gonna be better, Five years from now, even better.
Ten years from now, you're gonna be untouchable. You're gonna
excel at whatever it is that you've decided you wanted
to be good at. And you will get there. You
will get there. It just takes time. So put the time,
put the work in. You're gonna get there. And as oh,
you know, and I think that's probably a pretty good
way to end the show. So go out, be great,
(49:35):
do good things for people, and train hard, train smart,
and be the best you can be. That's all you
can ever do is go out and be the best
you can be. Go out and have a great day,
and thank you everybody, thanks for watching this.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
And we'll see you guys next Wednesday at seven pm.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Physically mentally is debatable, but physically we'll see you. Oh
you got to try to throw little humorous where I can.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
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