Unlocking the Secrets of Strength with Nick Best!

Join Nick Best and the Angry Dad as they dive into powerlifting tips, training strategies, and the importance of disciplined life choices. In this episode, they discuss the benefits of their Patreon community, Nick's personal training philosophies, and insights from his extensive career in strength sports. Get behind-the-scenes tips on staying focused, overcoming obstacles, and the mental aspects of competing at an elite level. Learn why methodical progress and holistic health choices matter. Perfect for anyone looking to improve their strength game and life overall!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is the best experience with your hosts, Nick Best
and the Angry Dad. You know, like I said, we're
gonna be going live for the majority of for basically
all of these podcast episodes, and then they'll just come
out later for those who are not part of the Patriots,
so they'll just basically get it the day after. And
for those who are tuned in, just by being part

(00:33):
of the Patreon, you can actually communicate it with us
through the comments in the video for those so we know,
those who get that link first comment, ask us questions
and guess what Nick will answer them. We'll go through them,
we'll discuss them, we'll even cover topics and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
There's also a.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Chat page in the Patreon where you guys can actually
request ask questions, request topics and stuff like that. So
you know, there's quite a bit to offer in the
Patreon for those who join. We really appreciate it and
all that good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, we got a lot of stuff we're getting ready
to do. We're kicking off the Patreon's got a page
where we can get some things like T shirts and
autograph pictures, stuff like that, stickers, all that stuff will
be coming and then we also, at some point down
the line, we'll be offering some some programming as well

(01:26):
as individual programming, but that will, like me, programming individually
for people will be a case by case basis and
it will be very sports specific for that person. Okay,
so there won't be very many of those. We're probably
only going to open five to start with, so the

(01:48):
first five will get in and after that we'll just
have a waiting list.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
But exactly, and on that waiting list to it'll always
be first come, first serve and for those who can
take you, I'm saying so.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, And eventually we'll increase that probably to ten, and
then we'll see how that goes on how my time goes,
because I don't want to over commit to people. I
want to give people, you know, I want to teach them.
I don't just want to like program you and stuff
like that. I want to teach you that way. I
want to teach you. Not to need me, but I

(02:21):
want to teach you. I want to teach you a
lot of the stuff I know. My philosophy is on things,
how I do things, and why I do things to
a certain degree and why it's been effective for me.
Over All these years and why I've been able to
last as long as I have and two different, two
different strength sports, and you know, like high school, she's

(02:46):
junior midget, high school and college football. So I made
it all all the way through all that as well,
on top of the powerlifting and on top of the
straw man, so.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You know, and that's exactly it, Like that you have
a wealth of knowledge that people can literally learn from.
You know what I'm saying, This is something that literally
needs to be put into a book.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
If your philosophy is your teachings, you know what I'm saying,
how long you've for the reasons you've lasted this long,
and the techniques and the lessons and just the skill
that you've honed over the years, because that's what a
lot of people want to know. Like, not very many
people have a long career like you have had, even
though you started late in the game.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
You know what I'm saying. Technically, yeah, technically.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I started parallating and competing in parallelating in nineteen eighty five, yep,
so that's and then I started playing football. Geez, probably
nineteen nineteen eighty maybe here we go back back back
that far, so maybe even yeah, probably nineteen eighty is

(03:52):
maybe seventy nine, so back back then. So it's been
doing it in a while. And I you learn a
lot of things in those years on how to heal
and how to keep your body together. And I learned
a lot of stuff from heavy duty. I learned a
lot of stuff later turned you know, conju get stuff

(04:16):
from like some of the West five philosophies, but the
philosophy is not necessarily there's some of the exercises, not
all the exercises, but some of the philosophies work very well.
They're just in my opinion, and you can take it
how you want. There there there are two. There's there's

(04:39):
too much. You gotta spread it out a little bit.
If instead of going like a heavy heavy day and
a light day or a speed day during that week,
it would be a heavy week and a speed week.
And then I add in a kind of like a
central never system week, because we want to train your

(05:04):
central nervous system to keep functioning even though you've blown
it out. So we'll do stuff like straight in where
you you go into something crazy like maybe like when
I was at my best, you know, eleven pounds block
poles for a set of ten and then go through
the whole rest of your workout after completely blowing out

(05:26):
your central nervous system. You learn how to function that
way and still get the most out of it. So
those are kind of differences between that and the west
side stuff that I do. But I didn't know about
the west side stuff till much later and then realize
I was doing a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, I's saying, James had talked to talk to you
about it, so he was saying that Nick's been doing
conjugate without knowing what conjugate was, and like say, for decades,
for decades, you know what I'm saying, But it lets
you know that, like you know, great minds think alike,
but also too, great minds pay their own path. And
that's exactly what you did with the style of training

(06:02):
you do, because like I said, I'm always with you
with it for a lot of the stuff that you're
doing and watching, and it's just like you know, like
it even influenced a lot of the way that I
train now, even for myself, because I do things a
specific way now because now, guess what it's doing things
for you to do things for me, And that's one
of those things that you know when you could pass
the knowledge on because like even at this point in
your career, that's the one thing that you know people

(06:26):
should be doing.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know what I'm saying. It is like, you know, for.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Those who are willing to listen, you know what I'm saying,
you can get valuable information. You know what I'm saying, Yeah,
for sure.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
So and then I learned a lot of stuff from
Ed Cohen, and I learned a lot of stuff from
Bull Stewart and mixed all that with the stuff from
heavy duty. You were you're not trying to do a
bazilion sets. You're trying to go one to maybe three,
but usually one or two super hard. Really just all
out sets and move on to the next lectis in

(07:00):
some cases one all outset and then move on to
the next exercise. Like when I go and do deadlift
for reps, it's one set of twenty to twenty five
reps the five hundred when I'm when I when I
was on the money, So it's a it's all out,
there's nothing left when you get done, and then you
move on to the next exercise, and then you group

(07:21):
your exercises to work and compliment the events that you're
doing or the deadlift or whatever it is that you're
training for. You find, you know, assistant exercises to benefit
all of those things, and you train things in very
different ways than you would as if you're a bodybuilder.
You know, bodybuilders are you know, slow control contractions, you're

(07:43):
squeezing the muscle, You're you're you're you're trying to cause
hat trip hypertrophy. I don't want to. You're going to
get bigger anyway, You're going to have hypertrophy. I'm sorry,
it's just going to happen. Is it going to be
to where you look like a bodybuilder? Maybe maybe not.
But what you are going to get is stronger and
faster and be able to handle tonnage and be able

(08:06):
to walk away from it in one piece. You know,
a lot of people will comment how I do like
isolros and stuff like that, Oh you're using a chest
supported row, and you're, yeah, I'm using a chest supported
row because it's safer, you know, and I'm yet still
working speed with super heavy weights. That way, when I

(08:27):
rip a sandbag off the ground, or I rip a
stone off the ground or I pick up keg up
off the ground. I'm used to picking it up fast
and just haul and tail with it because you get
paid by winning by going faster than other people in
straw man, So you got to be ridiculously strong and
pretty quick. So it doesn't matter if you can pick
up a three hundred pound keg and you know, carry

(08:50):
it someplace and go pick up another one and carry
it back. If everybody finishes before you do, yep, goal
to finish before everyone else. So it's it's a couple
of those little things that make a big difference. And
then when you're coaching people, like if I'm going to
coach somebody and to go to a contest, I'm coaching
one unless they're best friends, you know that type of thing.

(09:13):
I like in their their training together, they're doing everything together.
Unless they're best friends I coach, I'm going to coach
one person. I mean, if they're best friends and their
best friends and they train together, they train together, so
I can train both of them at the same time
not not have to worry about it, but I'm going
to go. The thing is a lot of these trainers
coaches that show up to coach them don't know how

(09:33):
to compete because they didn't compete. So there's the little
things that make massive differences at an elite level. You know,
something as simple as putting liquid chalk on your stomach
and then putting your shirt on, and then putting chocolate
over your shirt when you go to do the log
will keep the log from slipping down your chest. If
they don't allow, you know, spraytack or anything else, it'll

(09:56):
make a massive, massive difference. And you know, you end
up being able to clean clean the log and then
just press it right overhead. You know, some of the
guys they're working with a guy that's he could pretty
much if he can clean it, he's going to press it.
And he had a little small problem cleaning one of
his attempts and went in the back and did exactly that,

(10:18):
and he was able to clean it and press it
like it was nothing when he got it up to
his shoulders. So it's little things like that that make
a massive difference. Anybody can program, you know, anybody can
you know, here here's all the lists of these things
that take which is kind of stupid because I mean,
you abuse anything, you're going to really shorten greatly. Shorten

(10:40):
your career. So I mean, that's not what a sign
of a good coach. It's not. It's getting people to
do it as healthy as possible, most efficiently as possible,
and then knowing at the competition how to adjust and
work the events to be successful at them. You know,
you get guys like with these taxi problems people have

(11:02):
been having all the time, and they'll bring two different
types of tacky or now sometimes three, bring seven or eight,
not one or two, Bring like seven or eight any
weather that shows up. You're gonna be able to stick
to the stone. And then the other thing you got
to realize is a lot of these guys put a
boatload a tacky on then they go out to do

(11:24):
it and they turn the stone into a like a
slippery grease ball. You know, they've put so much the
tacky that doesn't work on. They go out and you start,
everybody's just slipping and sliding on the thing. Well, you
can do one or two options. Go put good taki
on and go do the lighter stone and get a
rep in, and then go pie the greased one and

(11:47):
go to the heavier one and put good tachy on
it again. Take your time and get one and beat
everybody that just messed up the grease stone. It's just
simple stuff, but it's it's things that really need to
be looked at. And even if they come out and
they like do stuff, or they'll spray a stone or

(12:07):
they'll clean it or whatever, you get to mess with
it before you go, So make sure it's right, make
sure you're sticking to the stone before you go. Make
sure they have it right. Ye. No, wait a minute,
you just spray this and now this is slippery. You
need to fix this before we start. Ye. You need
to fix this, you know, and take your time and

(12:31):
just to throw away for him to fix it.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Don't be don't be rushed, don't feel pressure, don't feel pressure.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Just haven't fix it, because that's that's the difference between
you scoring you know, fourteen points and you scoring three
or getting a zero, and that's that's a big deal.
That's a really really big deal. So it's little things
like that will make a very big difference piled up
over at events and that'll be the difference between first

(13:00):
and fourth place. It's just that it's just like that,
and then you know, making sure you have your head
right when you're going into things, but you're not so
keyed up and like nervous and excited that you can't
function efficiently. The goal when you get out there to

(13:20):
compete is to function. You want to go out there
and get after it like there is no holding back.
But you want to How did my football coach play with?
Controlled reckless abandon? Is what my old football coach used
to say. You play with controlled reckless abandon. It's the
same thing in straw men. You go out there with

(13:42):
controlled reckless abandon. You need to go out there and
let it fly, but it has to be controlled. And
you know, getting super excited because you know everything's on
the line on the last event, and you start kind
of like you gotta stay calm, You gotta stay focused
and stay focused on what you got to do, and
you envision in your head before you go three or

(14:05):
four times what each thing's gonna look like as you're
picking up something and flying down and dropping it and
walking over to the next event as quick as you can,
and then just bouncing and going up to the next
and the next and the next. You're gonna be fine.
You're gonna be fine. I'll focus on focus on each
individual piece of that that you've got to go through

(14:25):
and you'll get through it, and you'll get through it quick,
smooth as fast, very fast, smooth as fast. You know
you watch youo for do things. When he picks up
a yoke, he's smooth, he's real smooth the yoke. That's
why he's so fast. He's quick and he's smooth, makes
a big difference. But he's not right.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, and that's Sae too. He's very methodical. And just
like you're saying, get you got to have a certain
amount of control. You gotta have a certain amount of push.
You got to have a certain amount of willingness to
just lay it on the line when it's ready to
lay it all on the line. That's one of those
things too that you know, you see because people do
go all out, but sometimes they go too far, you know.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Big time. There's a lot of people that do that, like,
and you don't want to go too far. What you
want to do is go right up to the edge.
You want to run the nice edge, yeah, you know,
and just air on the side of just air on
the side of not quite going over the edge, air

(15:30):
on the safe side, just just a little bit and
at the end of the day that's gonna make that'll
make the difference. You know, if you if you lose
a quarter of a second, that's fine. You know, maybe
gaining a second in a quarter, and yet if you
mess it up, you're gonna lose four or five seconds
isn't worth it. So it's it's finding that balancing line

(15:54):
and knowing what you're going after as you're going and
having your head right and rehearsing it in your head,
visual what you're about to do, and going in with
an attitude like I'm doing this and I'm going to
do this with focus. I'm gonna go with control, reckless
abandon I'm not gonna lose my mind. I'm gonna focus
like a laser beam instead of a shotgun. You'll see

(16:16):
a lot of people come into things and they get
so fired up and so excited and everything else. It's
like a shotgun blast going off and it goes, energy
goes everywhere. We want to control it to be like
almost like a laser beam, or to be like a
fifty cow going off, just strong, as hard and going
straight as fast as you can go. You know, you know,

(16:39):
all that energy is going into one focal point. That's
that's how you want to get your head before you
go do these events. Whether it's the yoke, it's the
dead lift, whatever you want. You don't want your energy
going all out of place. You want to go in
directly into what you're about to do, and that's it.
That's the only place your energy goes. Your thoughts, You
clear your mind, You don't think, you just that's another thing.

(17:01):
Don't think. Execute, Execute what you did in training, Execute
your practice, Execute the game changes that you have to
come up with. You have to be able to adjust
things on the fly. When you do sports like strong
man or pretty much any sport football guy. How many
offensive line and then come in with a blitz and

(17:23):
you got to adjust to that blitz? How many times
does that happen every freaking game? So it's being able
to just on the fly and still being able to
put all your force going in one direction. And how
you do that by not panicking and focusing on what
you're doing.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
It's almost like a style of meditation. You know what
I'm saying, You're just you know, you put yourself in
that position, that mindset, almost that float, that flow state
that you know all athletes talk about but was strong man.
It's like a whole other aspect because you know what
I'm saying, it's you and only you.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, powers too. I mean you still about the squat bar.
It's on your back, you know, and you got to
focus on what you're doing, and you got to get
to where you gotta give me and then you explode
out of the hole. You know, you control it on
the way down and then explode out of the hole.
You don't want to waste a whole bunch of energy,

(18:17):
you know. You know a lot of guys who go
down like super fast. There's people that can get away
with that. I'm not one of them, but there are
people give that. I've always been one where I kind
of think about it like loading a spring. I go
down nice and control, nice and easy. Just keep tightening
it up, tighten it up, get in there, and then
as soon as I get where I got to be,
just explode out of the hole. You know. And yet

(18:40):
put the brakes on towards the top, so you don't
lose your balance at the top of the squad. So
it's it's just playing with controlled, reckless band that that
that makes a big, big difference.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh yeah, And you know, going through just that that
that whole time. You know what I'm saying, It's it's
letting you know like how much it actually takes to
push yourself to that level, you know what I'm saying.
And that's the thing too, is like one of the
aspects that you even see too, is like you know,
with the Strongest Man on Earth, Tom, you know, basically yeah,
I don't remember exactly what it was, but I remember

(19:15):
us kind of talking about we maybe blew a blood
vessel and in his in his bicep or his triceps
on because the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Is black and blue exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
And with it being black and blue, it's like, you know,
do you keep pushing forward knowing that you have an
injury or it doesn't hurt, it's only changing color, what
you know, and you know, you know, it's one of
those things that you know, do you keep pushing forward
to keep going? Cause I know how many times you said,
you know, like when you're at World, when you're at
World's Strongest Man and you've competed and you've hurt yourself,

(19:51):
you need to still go out there.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You know what I'm saying. It's it's one of those
things you know, it still cubmits you in there.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
It's a super Bowl. You got to go out and
just let it fly. I mean, it's you never know
when you're gonna get back there again. You know. It's
the same thing with the TV show. When we did that,
I skipped Worlds that year. I skipped trying to qualify.
I skipped everything. I just focused on trying to have
my body prepared for that show and the events that
were coming up the next week. And you know, it

(20:21):
was worth it to me because that's always there. Now,
everybody will be able to watch that. You know, I'll
be ninety years old and people still be able to
watch it. You know, it's it's never going to change.
So it's kind of one of those things where if
you get a chance to go to Worlds, you go
to Worlds. I've seen guys like get a small injury
or oh this has kind of bothering me, and you

(20:43):
know they're like, well and they pull out. It's like,
but you've never even competed in the World's Strongest Man.
Yet you're qualified. You're here, you got on a plane.
It came. If you don't go do the contest, history
will not show you as the World's Strongest Man competitor.
You're a strong man competitor, but not a World Strongest

(21:03):
Man competitor. It's the same for you show the Strongest
Man on Earth, the Road Classic, the Arnold, it's the
same thing. You know, it's game day. You go and
do it period as best you can. You don't want
to get hurt any worse, you know, so get with
your doctor and figure that out. But if you're there
and you're you got to soret bicep that may be

(21:25):
partially torn and you can't hurt it any worse. History
is going to show you're a World's Strongest Man competitor. Yep.
It's always going to be there. It's never going anywhere.
Just like no matter what, for the rest of Evan
Singleton's life, no matter what, he will be the strongest
man on Earth in twenty twenty five. No one's ever

(21:45):
going to be able to take that away from him.
And that's the biggest thing about when you win something.
Just like Eddie Hall will always be the twenty seventeen
World Strongest Man, No Brian Shaw will always be a
four time World Strongest Man and the strongest man on Earth.
There's and they are a Classics strong man champion. There's

(22:08):
once you get it and nobody can ever take it away.
So if you have an opportunity to get there and
show that you were a world strongest man, only thirty
guys get to do that a year. I think it's
down to twenty five. Now, Yeah, that's it, that's it.
I'm a whole entire planet. Out of the eight billion
people that are walking around, twenty five get earn the

(22:29):
right to go in there and do that. You're always
if you have an opportunity to be part of history,
you always take that.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Always, always take this always. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
See, And like I said, I've heard you say numerous
times because you've had conversations with people and they let
it slip through the fingers and it's like, oh, you
know what I'm saying. It's like, you know, that's the
name of the game. And also too, that comes with
the experience that you have because you know, you know,
well that.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
One And the craziest thing is that was and Magnets
for Magnus And yeah, and he was talking to Misha
Kukleev because he heard his he heard his arm pretty
bad going. Uh. I think we were in China, and
he heard his arm pretty bad and he was going
to withdraw because he made it to the finals. Yeah,

(23:20):
he made it through the qualifying heat, but his arm
is really messed up. And Magnus walks over to him.
He goes, you want that to say world strongest man finalist,
You'll be in the top ten in the world, no
matter what. If you don't do that, you won't be
in the top ten. Yep, and me should listened. And
he went in. He did the best he could. He
didn't get hurt any worse, but he went in and
did the best he could and made the finals that year,

(23:41):
which is pretty cool. It will always show him the
world's strongest man finalists for that year. That that's history.
It's never going to.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Change set in stone. You know, Yeah, you know, And
like I said, that's a lot of knowledge that that that.
You know, I said, it's a new generation. It's a
young young but a new batch of young kids that
are coming. I say, kids, you know what I'm saying.
I'm older than that, but Nick's older than me.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
But I mean, can I buy you I didn't get
a pumpy from my game a pick a ball.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, for those who know you you'll watch that video.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
That was pretty cool. Yeah, people like guys in his thirties.
I'm like, no, dude, not oh yeah yeah, over twenty
five years. So yeah, so there's that. That's it.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, but yeah that was good times, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's one of those things who was like, even even
right now, we're still being part of a lot of
things going on, so that's always fun.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Uh was it with Richmond Virginia in November?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Is November Seminar, So that's something for everyone to keep
an eye out or I'm gonna faction. Yeah, I'm actually
in the Patreon too. I'm gonna create like a calendar
list of events that you'll be at, so at least
you know people have updates and stuff like that about like, hey,
you will be here with this is where you know
you can be seeing autographs, pictures, all that good stuff
because you know that you know, and then also to

(25:18):
you in September, Man, I was going through my calendar.
Unfortunately I'm going on vacation that week of Chad's show. Yeah,
so I'm not gonna be able to get I was
really looking forward to going too, because I was like
hanging out with Chad Tray and all them, especially for
that Shram show.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah, that's gonna be pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
But you will, you will be there and that I
think that's the weekend of the twentieth of September.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yep. It is, yeah, yep, So I'll be there. It's
gonna be pretty cool and stuff like that. That's gonna
be fun. And I'll be commentating, so I'll be the announcer,
so I'll be sitting there reading out the guys' names
and talking about him and encouraging him, letting you guys
know kind of the pluses and negatives to this event.

(26:02):
One of them is gonna be a boat pulls freaking cool.
That is gonna be cool.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
List early.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
That's all right, it'll be good. So uh yeah, it's uh,
it's it's gonna be It's gonna be a good the
next few months here. It really is. I'm pretty excited
about everything, and yet I, you know, still make time
to do the little things that are important, to make
time for the people that are important in your life.

(26:34):
You know, Ben's one of my best friends. And not
only do we do this, we still call them bouncings
off each other and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
And exactly.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
And I still have my quiet time where I still
try to meditate and get my head set right and
do the things necessary to keep moving forwards and to
keep being better and keep improving myself. And that's things
I want to inspire people to do. All the way around.
I just want people to be the best you you
can be. Don't be the best me, be the best you,

(27:07):
because being the best me is I mean, there's only
one me, there's only one you. Be the best to you,
and you're gonna have something that you're better than me at,
and that's that's great. Be the best you. That's the
whole goal in life is just be the best you
can absolutely be and take care of your loved ones

(27:28):
and take care of the people that are important to you,
and you know, be kind to people. You know, there's
so much in this world that is just brutal and mean,
and you know, be the good person about it. You know,
don't let people hurt you or your loved ones, but
always be the don't get walked over, but be the

(27:52):
higher road. Take the higher road, you know, and be
the best to you. Success. Success is the best form
of revenge you can ever have. On anybody is to
enjoy your life and live your life to the fullest,
and that success will say all it needs to say.

(28:13):
You don't have to do anything to get to get
even with anyone or anything else. Just live your life
and be successful and that'll carry everything through everywhere that
you that'll say far more than your words could ever say.
Your actions will always your actions at the end of
the day, will always speak more than your words and

(28:33):
things that you say, you know, and that's so, you know,
be a person of action. You know, have good.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Actions, follow through what you say, fall through.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
With what you follow through with what you say, and
be a man of your word. But it's the actions
that actually speak louder than the words do.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
So yeah, so we got that, oh yeah, oh yeah,
you know.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
And even with that too, it's like, you know, say,
you've had so many things going on in life right now.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
You're getting pulled in every direction, and yet you still wonderful. Yeah,
it's you know.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
And that's the thing too, is like you're still maintaining
your nutrition, you're still maintaining your your training, and like
I said, it's a cornerstone of who you are. And
that's the thing too, is a lot of people don't
understand what that cornerstone is in their life. You know
what I'm saying, something that they can lean on themselves,
that is there for them. You know, everyone has different hobbies,
everyone has different nations, but you know what I'm saying,

(29:33):
it's like just understanding just the core foundation of believing
yourself and doing what you want with your life.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
M Yeah, And you know if if you want more
from your life, it's not someone else's fault, but you're
not doing something. If your life is bad, change it.
It's not it's not gonna be something that's instant and overnight.
It's not just going to happen like that it can.

(30:02):
But those people are the one in the one in
like two hundred million. You know, it's very rare. But
the slow, methodical changes that lead you to a better
place over time, those those anyone can do, and those
are could be the ones that last and get you
to where you need to be. So if your life's

(30:22):
not going well, sit down and think of how you
can make it better. If you're you don't have a
good job and you're living in a bad place, Okay, cool,
what are you willing to sacrifice? Two do better. Are
you willing to sacrifice free time so that you can

(30:44):
go to a job, work enough to keep a roof
over your head, and then go study at like a trade.
Go learn how to weld. You don't have anybody can
weld men women anyone can. Well, it's a very needed
skill right now, you know, go learn how to welk.

(31:06):
Go learn how to be a plumber. The trades. Now
you can go, you know, be an apprentice. There's things
that you can do, and it's going to require some sacrifice.
Me getting big and strong didn't happen overnight. I didn't
even get like a lot of the claim or anything
else for it until I was about thirty five years

(31:29):
into it. Let that sink in. I mean, I'd already
done a whole bunch of things. I've already done World
Strongest Man, and I've already like several times at that point,
I'd already won Master's, World Strongest Man, World power Lessing Champion.
But all the things finally started paying off at like
thirty five years in. But it was what I love

(31:51):
to do, and it was good habits and good things.
And you know what, now I get to do what
I love every single day. You can do that too.
Anyone else can do that. Anybody can do that, and
exactly find something you like to do, find something you
love to do, and try to figure out a way
to make a living at it. And if you're in

(32:14):
a bad situation, figure out a good way out of it.
What are you willing to sacrifice? Because the easy road
is doing something you know, the easy road and in
the end really isn't going to be that rewarding. To
be quite honest with you, it's it's not. I mean,
you get people out there that they'll find quick get

(32:35):
rich quick, get rich quick schemes and stuff like that,
that somebody messes somebody over, then there's all the bad
karma from that. There's all kinds of things. But if
you go and work one job and then go learn
another one, that's going to pay you a lot more
money when you get out of it. You spend five

(32:57):
years of your life through that, just five you're the
whole entire rest of your life. The other sixty years
of your life will be a thousand times better, and that,
at the end of the day is what matters. You
can better take care of your loved ones, You can
better take care of your wife, your kids, you know,

(33:18):
just everybody, and take better care of yourself and then
you'll have a much better self image of yourself and
you'll have earned it. Nobody gave it to you. You
got it. And there's nothing to stop anybody from doing
these things. Nothing like literally nothing. It's just the sacrifice

(33:40):
of doing one job and then spending a little bit
of your time doing that. So okay, So maybe you
don't go out with your friends that much for five years.
If they're still your friends, they're still going to be
your friends, yep, even after that, because that's what friends are.
If you have to see them all the time or
they won't talk to you, that's not a friend. That's
an acquaintance, yep. That is relying on you for how

(34:03):
they fit. Friend friends you cannot a friend. I got
friends Orsam Kenny Ajo. I don't talk to him nearly
as much as I should and Anthony back. These guys
I've known thirty forty years, and I can call them
on the phone at any given time and it's like
I just talked to them yesterday, the same feeling, the

(34:25):
same everything. When I talk to those guys are friends.
If I need them, they call they'll be there same.
If they need me, alls they have to do is
call I'll drop what I'm doing go help them. Ben
can call me and say hey, I need this. I'm
going to be there in like two seconds, exactly right.
But if I need to go do something to be

(34:47):
successful at something and I'm too busy to talk to
them for a while, they don't get upset. They don't
turn their back on me because all of a sudden,
I'm busy trying to better myself and it's not the
direction they're going in. They don't do that.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
That's what a friend is, you know.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
It's that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
It's good stuff, and it is good stuff. Sacrificing your
time to better yourself from a bad situation, and we'll
make all the difference in your life. And if you're
your single parent, you're going through that. I mean. I
was a single parent with my son Dylan for six
years and I started working in the beer business. I

(35:28):
went from merchandiser to salesman to company trainer to supervisor
within a very short time, like three years. And then
I was a supervisor for one company for ten years
and at the other one for four, so it's and

(35:49):
I went out and worked my tail off and I
did that, and I sacrificed, and I still trained, I
still got things i'd done I needed to. I still
spend time with Dyan, but I sacrificed hanging out with
a lot of my friends and a lot of other people,
and it paid off. So it's something that everyone can do.
You just have to be determined enough to do it,

(36:11):
and you have to want to do it bad enough
that that's the thing. Look at the person in the mirror,
because that person in the mirror is the only person
that can save you. That person in the mirror can
either be the cause of all your problems or the
savior of all your problems. It's that simple. You don't

(36:34):
have to rely on anyone else to do that. It's
just deciding what you want to be and doing doing
that at the end of the day, because in this
day and age, everybody has the ability to do anything.
You just gotta want to go do it, that's all.

(36:57):
And if you start a little behind somebody else, who cares.
Who cares where you're starting? You know, My first bench
press was ninety five pounds. My best bench press ever
was six thirty five. Didn't matter where I started, matter
where I got to. My best best person of competition
was five sixty seven. So doesn't matter where you started,

(37:18):
it matters where you go. It doesn't matter if it
takes you twenty years to get there, because once you
get there, you get to stay there. So you don't
want to be there anymore till you decide you want
to do something else, and then it's up to you.
You get to pick and choose what you want to do.
And that's pretty cool, and that's the freedom that it brings.

(37:40):
And that's the big thing, that's having the freedom to
enjoy your life. I'm not interested in being a millionaire,
and if I get to be a millionaire, great. I'm
interested in being able to do what I want to
do in life and go to the places I want
to go and hang out with the people I want
to hang out with, like that guy, and enjoy life.

(38:05):
You know, if my kids are healthy, and they are,
my kids are well educated, and they are, they're both
being very sick. They're both enjoying their lives and being successful.
You know, when you have kids, you raise you know,
you raise them. You should raise better people than.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
You were, and you have because your kids are great,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
And Cali helped a lot with that too, so and
so do Rain. So I mean it's but it starts
with you, and you're the role model for them. And
do you want them to be that way or do
you want them to be better than you? If you
want them to be better with you, and you should,

(38:52):
then you sacrifice for them and you teach them. Doesn't
mean you cater to every whim they need. They cry,
oh they don't have this stereo. Well guess what exactly
the difference between enabling and teaching and discipline. So, I mean,

(39:13):
you don't want to be such a disciplinarian that, you know,
you make them feel bad about themselves. But they have
they have to have steady and gentle discipline. They have
to have boundaries. Yeah, and you set those boundaries and
they go past the boundaries. They learn repercussions. That's how
when they get become adults and they disobey the law,

(39:36):
that's how they don't get arrested.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yes, functional kids of society, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
You know, just ask Tyreek Hill here. Let me drive
one hundred miles an hour through a construction zone next
to the stadium and then get pulled over and have
an attitude problem with the police.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah, like wrong, that's his parents' fault.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
If he had, if his father was actually a good
father to him, he would know he was out of line. Yep,
he would know that's unacceptable. And his mother the same way.
That's bad parenting. That just the kid was a star
and they didn't keep him grounded. I can tell you
whose parents. I can tell you I know some very

(40:25):
good parents whose kids don't do that. Frank Mayor, Frankie,
Jenny Mayor, Bella's outstanding. Cage is outstanding, Ronan's outstanding. They're
great kids, they really are, and that's a credit to them,
you know. So it's you know, it's it's it's the
boundaries that you set from. It's the love that you

(40:46):
give him.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
And as they grow up, they'll make the right decisions.
They might make some steaks and that's the thing. You like, Okay,
well we did this that way. That didn't work, And
this is why I tell you, so let's let's not
do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Okay, that's it.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
That's your mulligan. But love and you know, and They're
not a burden. They're the best thing you can ever do,
exactly because you know, their success is your success.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
That's it, big time, big time. You know, I got
I have four kids, and you know, Nick's met all
my kids. Uh, and you know, like my oldest is
living his life, doing his thing, and you know it's uh,
you know, he calls me at least twice a month
just to check on, check in on me, you know what.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
He's making sure that I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
And I'm like, no, he's doing good himself, you know
what I'm saying. And you know, all my kids, almost
all my kids are in college and they're you know,
they're all just living their lives doing everything. My youngest
ones getting ready to start football this year, so his
first game is going to be this Friday, so we're
gonna be I'm gonna be out there Friday watching his
first game first for his JV team. So you know

(42:02):
exactly exactly, you know, and it's gonna be great too
because just like you said, it's all you know, like
I knew how I was growing up, and now that
all my kids have grown, it's like they are ten
times better people than I ever was. And that's exactly
just like you said, that's exactly what you want.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I know. I couldn't be more proud of mine. You know,
does often in this thing twenty forty about the house.
He's engaged to be married. That's it.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
And for those who were in the Las Vegas area,
Dylan did he start, didn't really get his real estate
business going?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Yeah, real estate business, yep, that's it.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
We need to set have him send us or send
me his information and I'll put it in the show notes.
For for those who were living and wanting to buy
in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yes by or saw in Vegas exactly. And then just
just started women's lacrosse h d one you wont at
in Clarksville, Tennessee. She had her first week of practice
and stuff like that and classes and everything else. I

(43:10):
talked to her today and she's so excited. It was
so cute, it really was. And she's just like, I'm sorry,
I haven't been calling you that much. Like go, honey house.
I played college football, Honey, I understand how this you.
I know what's going on. You know, I'm gonna call you.
You call me and we'll just we'll get a couple
of minutes here and there and we'll talk. I understand

(43:32):
how as you are, plus all your friends and all
the things that you're doing.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
So I get it.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
It's okay. I know you love me, and you know
we're not Yeah, we're not going anywhere. He reach out
and you just call me back when you came or
I'll call you back when I can.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
So if I'm traveling or doing something, I mean, could
be more part of them. I really couldn't.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Oh yeah, very well.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
You know, let's let's shift gears a little bit. You
know what I'm saying, before we before I start making
you get you start crying. You say, you do get emotional.
I know, but exactly exactly. But let's switch a little
bit into you know, Nick eats uh basically the vertical
diet style, just a slight tweak. And you know a

(44:20):
lot of people always ask and it'll always be a
question is like that, Like they're like, what do you
eat to fuel you? You know what I'm saying, and
just get give them the basic rundown because you know
you you live a very simple life with a very
simple bat Because when I stay with you, you know
what I'm saying. We we we don't eat exactly the same,
but I don't mind eating the way you do.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, it's it's it's pretty simple. I I I've cut
from three pounds of red meat today to two pounds
of red meat. And then I'll throw another optional protein
in there, whether it's pound of chicken or a pound
of salmon, or you know, tuna fish or whatever, like
a couple of cans of tuna fish, or some cottage cheese,

(45:02):
non fact cotta cheese, that type of stuff. And then
it's all white rice for my carbohydrates. Sometimes there's some
potatoes thrown in there because you can have those too,
but it's mostly white rice. Chicken stock. Put that in
there to help with digestion and stuff like that. And
then a few of the vegetables thrown in, like bell
peppers and carrots and a little bit of spinach, stuff

(45:23):
like that. Good eggs probably eight eggs a day, which
isn't too much. It's not a lot, but it's not
a little. Yeah, probably about eight eggs a day, which
the yolks have a lot of benefits to you. They
help a lot of stuff in your brain because your

(45:44):
brain's mostly cholesterol.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
So don't you hit that. Cholesterol is not bad, No,
it is not bad.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
It also drives all your hormones in your body. So
you have cholesterol that's too low, those won't work right. Yes,
so you want to be eating some you don't want
four hundred, but you you you don't want to avoid

(46:13):
it like the plague. You just don't want to, you know,
overdo it, that's all, you know. A little moderation goes
a long way, so and then a busy, active lifestyle
stuff like that keeps that number down naturally anyway. Yeah,
so I'll have a little bit of sweet tune there,
but not very often. You know. We'll go when Bank

(46:34):
comes town, we'll go film some videos and that's when
I'll get the majority of like dessert.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
E don't the hot spots, you know what I'm saying.
The Vegas life.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, kind of like the the Cheesell tacos stuff like
that was a made exactly. Would that be something I
eat all the time? No, but every once while. Men,
they're delicious. It's a nice cheat thing to maybe eat
like once a month or something. But that's not something
I'm gonna go there and eat all the time. Exactly,

(47:09):
but you know, picking decent restaurants, go get a decent
meal in like going to hibachi girls and stuff like
that where they make the rice and they mix eggs
in with the rice and stuff, and you know, steak
and chicken and if you like the shrimp and stuff,
throw that into you know, stuff like eating good solid food.
I try to eat as little processed food as possible.

(47:31):
I don't eat a lot of chips. I don't eat
a lot of other stuff. I really don't. I stick
to a very basic diet. I mean, I spice it
up with pepper, you know, with you know, like cayenne pepper,
stuff like that, and seasoning like flavors, stuff like that.

(47:52):
But you know, it's not bland food. It's just and
I'll make it a little different every day. Like one day,
I'll use taco, next day I'll use as you sauce.
The next day I'll throw like non fat cats cheese
and with it to make it creamy tasting stuff like that.
There's so many different variations that you can do, and
yet you still eat food that's like really solidly good

(48:14):
for you. It's not processed. Body assimulates it way way
better and you feel better, you know, way better.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
And what he's talking about people is whole food.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
People have a misconception of what whole food means. There's
like I got to shop at whole foods to store.
There's like no whole foods are single ingreedy items.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
And with those single and greedy.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Items, we're talking about beef, chicken rice, you know what
I'm saying. You know, like if it has a laundry
list of ingredients to make it, then unfortunately that's a
whole food. And then you know, you can also combine
whole together. Yeah, exactly, you know, like you know, and
it you know, there there's a lot of work. There's

(48:58):
a lot of paperwork on you know, like you know,
like when we're talking about is the closest thing that
how Nick eats is the stanand for dein style of
the vertical dick. And yeah, and one of the things too,
I find by eating in that vertical dick. It's definitely
helped me with a lot of issues that I've always
had because a lot of people have bloating, they don't
feel good. You know what I'm saying, It's all due

(49:19):
to like, yes, you know what I'm saying, And it's
all to do to poor digestion because you're jamming yourself
full of food that doesn't burn well.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Yeah exactly. And I mean there's things that you do
to gain weight when you want to gain weight, there's
things that you do to lose weight, like losing weights.
It's pretty simple. Just eat a little bit less and
keep doing all the things that you're doing. Now you're
gonna lose weight. It's not rocket science. Just cut cut down,
Like start by cutting down one hundred colors a day,
than two hundred dollars a day, then maybe three, and

(49:51):
by the time you get to three and four one
hundred calories a day that you've cut down, you should
be dropping significance amounts of weight. And then you'll hit it.
Then you'll hit a play and then you ride the
plateau out.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
That's it, And yeah, go ahead, Oh no, I'll say.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
It's like when we had left The Strongest Man on Earth,
I had told you that I was going to drop
down myself because I'm on my weight loss journey, you know,
due to health issues, I really need to come down
in the weight and I usually love to stay in
the three hundred pounds range. And when I mean, say
three hundred plus.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
I'm not the biggest guy, but I'm a pretty tall guy.
But like, yeah, and when I had talked to Nick
last Yeah, when I had talked to Nick, I was
down to three seventeen at world. So this is about
two almost two weeks now. I was down three seventeen
when I saw you. Now when I waived myself yesterday

(50:48):
three eleven, so I was telling you I was wanting
to get down about ten more pounds, you know what
I'm saying. So like it's slowly getting there, but just
like you said, it's bringing down the calories, continuing what
you do, you know what I'm saying. And also too,
it's like it doesn't have to happen overnight, even though
we all want it to.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah, and then there's reasonable expectations when it comes to
that as well. At first you're gonna lose weight pretty quick.
It's going to come off pretty quick, and then you
can like slam right into a wall. The thing is
is when you slam it into that wall, four pounds
a month is plenty, because twelve months ago by that's

(51:25):
forty eight pounds that's a lot yep. And if it
took you a long time to get that big, losing
weight at a at a slower rate is a good thing.
Your body will adapt to it, Your skin and dive
to it. Things adapt to it a little bit better,
and it ends up being a lot less taxing on
your body. Fast, super fast weight loss over short periods

(51:47):
of time cause a lot of problems too. You know internally,
it'll it can cause heart problems. There's a lot of
stuff it can do if you're pushing that hard and
losing weight that fast, because it's going to be traumatic
experience for your body. But slow and methodical, you know,
three to four pounds a month, once you've had an
initial good thirty forty pounds weight loss, you know, even

(52:10):
two pounds a month, you're gonna be twenty four pounds lighter.
You do that three years in a row, you could
be seventy two pounds lighter. That's a whole different person
right there. Yes, it's the slow and methodical stuff. It's
building things over time. When we get in a rush
and we try to build too fast or shrink too fast,
you're always gonna there's always gonna be consequences to pay,

(52:32):
and there's always problems that come with that. So but
if you do it slowly, methodically, you have almost no problems.
It's just nice and easy, and you pay attention to
things and you live discipline, and you do those same
things every day with the same enthusiasm is you did
the first day, you did it, and as long as
you keep doing that, you're gonna be successful. It's but

(52:55):
when you go, oh, doing this again, going in with
a good attitude, yeah, just get up and have a
good attitude when you get after it. You don't have
to be bouncing off the walls. Yay, no, No. A
good attitude is just you come in with a positive
mindset and you're like, okay, here's what I'm doing to do,
and just go about yourself. It's just not it's just

(53:18):
not being you know, down on the dumps and upset
about it all the time. So that's all. You don't
have to be like yay, yeah, no the highs and
low you know this is not good.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Yeah, that is not.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Much time is what's good. So just smooth, smooth as
fast there it is, smooth out of control, and then
you build a little bit of the time it's the
same with same with anything and strength gains. If you
put one hundred pounds on your total IMpower thing a year,
one hundred pounds on your total ear so say your
total in nine hundred pounds. If you put one hundred

(53:59):
pounds on your toe year for ten years, that's a
thousand pounds. That's a lot. That gets you up to
a nineteen hundred pound total. That's world class. That's that's
world class. You do that two or three more years,
you're elite, world class, and you're probably world champion at
that point.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
That's it. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
And it's just slow and methodical over time, doing the
same things and being disciplined about it, and being disciplined
about your eating, being disciplined about what you put in
your body, you know, and how you spend your time
and stuff like that. And sacrificing things doesn't mean it's
not a good thing because the sacrifice leads to I mean,

(54:45):
I've got to travel the whole entire planet because of this.
That's not a sacrifice to me. I still got to
spend a lot of time with my kids. I still
got to do a lot of things. That's not sacrificing.
You know, I just decided it was more important to
be doing the things I need to do to get

(55:05):
me to be able to travel the world and compete
and strong man and do those things than it was
to be out in a bar drinking, or be out
in a club, be in a VIP area, yeah, and
dropping watching fools drop, you know, twenty thirty forty thousand
dollars on bottle service and a VIP table. Yeah. When

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that's that's stuff you could put it into a house
or just your life to make your life easier, your
kid's life easier, stuff like that. Instead of looking like
a big shot, you're going to be a big shot anyway.
That's the thing. Don't worry about it. If you're doing
what you're supposed to do, you don't have to worry

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about the impression that you give off. It will just
be there and it'll get the attention it deserves. It
just takes a little while. Then once you get it,
you'll always have it. That I like. Yeah, and that's
kind of the thing about life. I mean, it's it's
a good life, but always try to improve, always try

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to move forwards. You know you're gonna have things. That's
such a back. It's life. It is doesn't mean you
stop as it does. This mean you recalibrate where you
are and then you find your new best to you
and you can chart continually every day try to be
better than that for the next day. That's it. It's
just about being the best to you at the end

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of the day.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
And with everyone listening, thank you guys for tuning in.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I appreciate it. Nick, take us out of here.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Well, it's always please like sharing, subscribe, you know, check
out the Patreon, check out the stuff we got coming.
And I appreciate you and love you and can't thank
you enough for your support. And it's always trained hard,
train smart, and be the best you can be. And Ben,
thank you for doing this. I love you to death. Brother.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I love you too, brother.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
That's why we do this because we have a good
time and we have a lot of fun. Oh yeah,
all right, we'll see you guys on the next one.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
Yeah, where we'll talk about Russia.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
You're listening to the best experience what they best