March 26, 2025 • 11 mins
In this episode of The Intrepid Golden Podcast, I went completely off the cuff—no script, no plan, just raw thoughts on the things that matter most in training and life. I dive into injuries—how to handle them, how to come back stronger, and why they’re just part of the game. I break down the mindset of hard work and what separates those who show up from those who rise to the top. And to wrap it up, I talk about gym bags—what’s in mine, what should be in yours, and why the right gear matters.
This one’s as real as it gets—tune in, and if you like what you hear, don’t forget to share, like, and follow for more!
This one’s as real as it gets—tune in, and if you like what you hear, don’t forget to share, like, and follow for more!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey guys, Intrepid Golden Podcast, Episode five. We're gonna riff
on a couple of things. I was told to just riff,
just go off the cuff on a couple of things,
or just go off the cuff in general, don't follow
a script and just go. I think we're gonna give
(00:29):
this one to go see how it is. See if
you guys like it. If you like it, let me
know at the end and we'll go from there. So
the first thing I want to talk about is injury. Right,
we have a lot of people that get injured or
things hurt in the gym or whatever vice versa. Life
will hurt. Things will hurt in your life, whether you
(00:49):
know you're doing your job as a DPW worker or
working as a police officer. Your back's gonna hurt because
you're wearing a belt with a gun and things like that. Right,
if you're a doctor and you got to lift patients
and stuff, things are not going to feel the greatest.
So there's things that happen in our life that cause pain.
(01:10):
What I see when people coming to the gym is
their movement or lack thereof creates these injuries. Or we
reveal some pain over time, Like you get used to
holding your arm a certain way because when you were
fourteen years old and threw your arm out playing baseball,
(01:31):
you now have like, oh, I don't do that anymore
because it hurts. So when we ask you to snatch,
or we ask you to go full range of motion
on a shoulder press or push press or jerk or
something like that, that's if you don't know that's the
bar going over your head and we ask for that
full range of motion, you're gonna be like, oh, that
(01:52):
kind of hurts because you haven't used it and you
haven't done it. Same thing with like squatting, right, A
lot of people like, oh, squatting to my knees, it's
probably because you're doing it wrong. One and two, you
probably didn't go as deep or deep as you ever gone.
You're cutting it short. When you cut short squat, all
(02:14):
the pressure from the weight that you have on your
back or in your hands, or you're just your body
weight is going directly to your knees. So when we
think about our knees hurting during squats, it's usually because
we were not going deep enough or we haven't gone
deep enough. Right, we get that full stretch when we
drop our hip, crease, blow our knee, get our hips
(02:35):
nice and low. That actually takes the pressure off my
knees and puts it into my hip where it's meant
to be. Right, no injury there or no issue there
usually right, So that's injury all right. That's kind of
what I see, like things that aren't always the best.
Like recently, I just had somebody come in with flat feet.
(02:57):
Their knees kind of cave in when they squat, and
I'm like, it's because you have flat feet. They're like,
how'd you know. I'm like, well, I watched you squat
and your feet are flat. I could see it, right.
So I had him, you know, turn his feet out,
turn not to turn his feet out, but kind of
create an arch with his foot when he squatted, and
he's like, oh, that feels a lot better. Yep. That's
why you have a coach, that's why you come to
the gym, that's why we try to help you. So
(03:19):
we just started with everybody doing personal training in the
beginning of our classes, but that's mainly because we want
to avoid people hurting later on down the road when
they were like, oh, I don't know why this hurts, well,
this is because it hurts or this is the problem
with that, all right. So injury, it's usually something that
(03:41):
happened some other time, not necessarily in the gym. We
just don'tveil or unveil what injuries were or how they
happened or anything like that. So that's it for injury.
We're gonna go on to something else. Let's talk about
working hard, all right. A lot of people think they
(04:01):
work hard. I think you could work harder, and I
try to tell you that. You know, you can put
a little bit more weight on, you could run a
little faster. It is not going to kill you. Where
we want to fail is inside the gym, right, those
are the places we want to fail. I do not
want to fail when something is on the line that's
more important than the gym. I need to push myself
(04:25):
in the gym so when I'm outside of the gym,
I can excel, Right, I can take care of my family.
I could save a life if I need to in
my job. Things like that, Like, I need to push
myself inside the gym, or say outside the gym and
running and things like that so that I feel better, right,
and I'm able to fail at those situations so I
(04:46):
don't fail when I go outside of the gym into
my job or or just being an everyday dad, like
you never know when your kid's going to be in
distress and you've got to help them out. You know,
you never know ever, you know. So those are the
things like work hard in the gym, kill yourself in there.
Put it all you got into the gym. I see,
(05:09):
like you know, there's some days where you're not going
to be able to do it. But when you're in there, man,
you should give it your role, give everything you got
to that workout that day. If it's not a lot,
it's not a lot. If you put more strength or
more more effort into the strength portion and less effort
into the conditioning, that works too. Go at it. It's fine, right,
(05:33):
Just think about what kind of what do you need
more in the day If you can't put the effort
into both, and just give that more effort into the conditioning,
if you're like lacking on that, like me I put
I would put more effort into the conditioning right now
because my strength is through the roof. I I can
do whatever. It's not a big deal. So my effort
right now is conditioning and losing body weight. That's what
(05:56):
I'm trying to do, trying to drop it down right,
to get faster running and be a better athlete and
better dad and a better police officer and all of that,
all that fun stuff. All right, hard work, you gotta
work hard, put it in, do it right. The next
thing we're gonna talk about is your gym bag. All right.
(06:16):
I think this kind of goes into all the stuff
we just talked about, So like injury, you have injury, right,
we did hard work, and then your jim bag, your
gym bag. I like to say, like, you need a belt, right,
there should be tape in there. There should be shoes.
(06:36):
You know, you have running shoes, you have this kind
of shoe, should have weightlifting shoes. You'd have to have
a belt, all those things that you would need for
an everyday occurrence inside the gym. You might in your
gym bag have some other things like advil or something
that makes you feel better sometimes, you know, some band
aids if you get cut or something like that. Jim
(06:58):
bags should have a lot of fucked stuff in there,
a lot of stuff, right, you never know what you're
gonna need. I would like to like, especially if you're
a weightlifter and competing, you could have like an extra belt,
another pair of shoelaces. You never know when your shoelace
is gonna break. I think that happened to Ali recently.
She broke a shoelace. She's like, Oh, what the fuck
to do? Right? Those those things happen in life, right,
(07:19):
So if you can bring shoelaces, extra shoelaces in your
gym bag's random stuff that you don't know that you
necessarily know that you need to have always good. Right,
the next thing with your gym bag, just maybe a
change of clothes. Maybe have any socks, you know, maybe
(07:43):
socks feel different. I don't know. Just think about think
about getting outside the box. You could have a snack
in your gym bag. You never know, you never know
if you want to, like, oh, if I'm feeling dizzy,
I feel like this, maybe like a little bit of
sugar or something like that. I don't know. There's things
you can have in your gym bag, or if you
don't have a gym bag, get a gym bag. Like
there's things you could do put in there that could
(08:05):
help you be a better athlete that you can work
hard and you could help avoid injury. Like putting on
a belt helps your back stay tight. Make sure abs
kind of pop when you think about a belt. If
you need help with that, I'll help you learn how
to wear a belt. Those things like I have a gym,
I don't really have a gym bag. I have a
gym bag when I travel. I have a gym, and
(08:27):
all my stuff is inside the gym, you know, Maid,
It's like you see my shoes somewhere and then Nie
leaves another place, some tape somewhere else. All right, those things,
if you carry them in your gym bag, it's always
in your car. Bring it with you, I would say,
when it's cold out, try to turn the heat on
so that your shoes aren't frozen when you try to
put them on. But a gym bag is a great
(08:49):
thing to have, and it helps avoid injury or it
helps with injury to keep training. And that's another thing
I forgot to say. If we're injured, we can continue
to train with a lot of things that we have. Right,
if we have an injury, we or you know, if
we rip our hand, we could tape it up and
we could still train. If we have like a little
back issue, it's not feeling the greatest. We can use
(09:11):
a belt to help keep our back tight. Right. These
things are not like crutches, but they help. And you know,
if our wrist hurts a little bit, I could tape
it up all right, make things feel better so that
I can still continue to train. And that's the number
one thing. So if I continue to train, my consistency
is there and I'm ready to go all the time.
(09:32):
That's what it's all about, right, staying consistent, keep coming
to the gym. Don't just like take off because I'm injured.
I take off because you know, life happens or something.
But I don't want to, like, I want to keep
that momentum going right, even if I come, like I say,
like Kerry Roverson pay perfect example of someone that just
(09:52):
keeps coming right. She had a stroke, she could barely
like walking as hard, things like that, but she's there, right,
She's consistent. She come every Saturday. She hasn't been there
a little bit, but she comes Saturday. So she keeps
coming right, keeps that motivation going, keeps getting better, Like
we keep working. We try to find out new ways
for her to work through whatever we're doing. We don't
(10:15):
modify the workout because we know she's coming. We just
do the workout and then we kind of adjusted for
her and we kind of come up with new things.
I think you guys have seen me doing all kinds
of crazy stuff. But it's awesome that she keeps coming,
keeps training, keeps pushing it. That's hard work, right, It's
really hard for her. So that's what it's all about.
(10:37):
That's what we're trying to do right every day. Consistency,
hard work, avoid the injuries, and if you have injuries,
work through them or work around them so we can
keep training and stay consistent. We're at like ten minutes,
and that was a lot of talking for me. If
you know me, I don't talk that much. I just
kind of grunt. All right, So this is episode five.
(10:58):
Let me know if you like it. I don't even know.
I'm not gonna listen to it or anything like that.
I don't know what I talked about other than hard work, injuries,
and a gym bag. All right, until next time, have
a great one. Bye,
Hey guys, Intrepid Golden Podcast, Episode five. We're gonna riff
on a couple of things. I was told to just riff,
just go off the cuff on a couple of things,
or just go off the cuff in general, don't follow
a script and just go. I think we're gonna give
(00:29):
this one to go see how it is. See if
you guys like it. If you like it, let me
know at the end and we'll go from there. So
the first thing I want to talk about is injury. Right,
we have a lot of people that get injured or
things hurt in the gym or whatever vice versa. Life
will hurt. Things will hurt in your life, whether you
(00:49):
know you're doing your job as a DPW worker or
working as a police officer. Your back's gonna hurt because
you're wearing a belt with a gun and things like that. Right,
if you're a doctor and you got to lift patients
and stuff, things are not going to feel the greatest.
So there's things that happen in our life that cause pain.
(01:10):
What I see when people coming to the gym is
their movement or lack thereof creates these injuries. Or we
reveal some pain over time, Like you get used to
holding your arm a certain way because when you were
fourteen years old and threw your arm out playing baseball,
(01:31):
you now have like, oh, I don't do that anymore
because it hurts. So when we ask you to snatch,
or we ask you to go full range of motion
on a shoulder press or push press or jerk or
something like that, that's if you don't know that's the
bar going over your head and we ask for that
full range of motion, you're gonna be like, oh, that
(01:52):
kind of hurts because you haven't used it and you
haven't done it. Same thing with like squatting, right, A
lot of people like, oh, squatting to my knees, it's
probably because you're doing it wrong. One and two, you
probably didn't go as deep or deep as you ever gone.
You're cutting it short. When you cut short squat, all
(02:14):
the pressure from the weight that you have on your
back or in your hands, or you're just your body
weight is going directly to your knees. So when we
think about our knees hurting during squats, it's usually because
we were not going deep enough or we haven't gone
deep enough. Right, we get that full stretch when we
drop our hip, crease, blow our knee, get our hips
(02:35):
nice and low. That actually takes the pressure off my
knees and puts it into my hip where it's meant
to be. Right, no injury there or no issue there
usually right, So that's injury all right. That's kind of
what I see, like things that aren't always the best.
Like recently, I just had somebody come in with flat feet.
(02:57):
Their knees kind of cave in when they squat, and
I'm like, it's because you have flat feet. They're like,
how'd you know. I'm like, well, I watched you squat
and your feet are flat. I could see it, right.
So I had him, you know, turn his feet out,
turn not to turn his feet out, but kind of
create an arch with his foot when he squatted, and
he's like, oh, that feels a lot better. Yep. That's
why you have a coach, that's why you come to
the gym, that's why we try to help you. So
(03:19):
we just started with everybody doing personal training in the
beginning of our classes, but that's mainly because we want
to avoid people hurting later on down the road when
they were like, oh, I don't know why this hurts, well,
this is because it hurts or this is the problem
with that, all right. So injury, it's usually something that
(03:41):
happened some other time, not necessarily in the gym. We
just don'tveil or unveil what injuries were or how they
happened or anything like that. So that's it for injury.
We're gonna go on to something else. Let's talk about
working hard, all right. A lot of people think they
(04:01):
work hard. I think you could work harder, and I
try to tell you that. You know, you can put
a little bit more weight on, you could run a
little faster. It is not going to kill you. Where
we want to fail is inside the gym, right, those
are the places we want to fail. I do not
want to fail when something is on the line that's
more important than the gym. I need to push myself
(04:25):
in the gym so when I'm outside of the gym,
I can excel, Right, I can take care of my family.
I could save a life if I need to in
my job. Things like that, Like, I need to push
myself inside the gym, or say outside the gym and
running and things like that so that I feel better, right,
and I'm able to fail at those situations so I
(04:46):
don't fail when I go outside of the gym into
my job or or just being an everyday dad, like
you never know when your kid's going to be in
distress and you've got to help them out. You know,
you never know ever, you know. So those are the
things like work hard in the gym, kill yourself in there.
Put it all you got into the gym. I see,
(05:09):
like you know, there's some days where you're not going
to be able to do it. But when you're in there, man,
you should give it your role, give everything you got
to that workout that day. If it's not a lot,
it's not a lot. If you put more strength or
more more effort into the strength portion and less effort
into the conditioning, that works too. Go at it. It's fine, right,
(05:33):
Just think about what kind of what do you need
more in the day If you can't put the effort
into both, and just give that more effort into the conditioning,
if you're like lacking on that, like me I put
I would put more effort into the conditioning right now
because my strength is through the roof. I I can
do whatever. It's not a big deal. So my effort
right now is conditioning and losing body weight. That's what
(05:56):
I'm trying to do, trying to drop it down right,
to get faster running and be a better athlete and
better dad and a better police officer and all of that,
all that fun stuff. All right, hard work, you gotta
work hard, put it in, do it right. The next
thing we're gonna talk about is your gym bag. All right.
(06:16):
I think this kind of goes into all the stuff
we just talked about, So like injury, you have injury, right,
we did hard work, and then your jim bag, your
gym bag. I like to say, like, you need a belt, right,
there should be tape in there. There should be shoes.
(06:36):
You know, you have running shoes, you have this kind
of shoe, should have weightlifting shoes. You'd have to have
a belt, all those things that you would need for
an everyday occurrence inside the gym. You might in your
gym bag have some other things like advil or something
that makes you feel better sometimes, you know, some band
aids if you get cut or something like that. Jim
(06:58):
bags should have a lot of fucked stuff in there,
a lot of stuff, right, you never know what you're
gonna need. I would like to like, especially if you're
a weightlifter and competing, you could have like an extra belt,
another pair of shoelaces. You never know when your shoelace
is gonna break. I think that happened to Ali recently.
She broke a shoelace. She's like, Oh, what the fuck
to do? Right? Those those things happen in life, right,
(07:19):
So if you can bring shoelaces, extra shoelaces in your
gym bag's random stuff that you don't know that you
necessarily know that you need to have always good. Right,
the next thing with your gym bag, just maybe a
change of clothes. Maybe have any socks, you know, maybe
(07:43):
socks feel different. I don't know. Just think about think
about getting outside the box. You could have a snack
in your gym bag. You never know, you never know
if you want to, like, oh, if I'm feeling dizzy,
I feel like this, maybe like a little bit of
sugar or something like that. I don't know. There's things
you can have in your gym bag, or if you
don't have a gym bag, get a gym bag. Like
there's things you could do put in there that could
(08:05):
help you be a better athlete that you can work
hard and you could help avoid injury. Like putting on
a belt helps your back stay tight. Make sure abs
kind of pop when you think about a belt. If
you need help with that, I'll help you learn how
to wear a belt. Those things like I have a gym,
I don't really have a gym bag. I have a
gym bag when I travel. I have a gym, and
(08:27):
all my stuff is inside the gym, you know, Maid,
It's like you see my shoes somewhere and then Nie
leaves another place, some tape somewhere else. All right, those things,
if you carry them in your gym bag, it's always
in your car. Bring it with you, I would say,
when it's cold out, try to turn the heat on
so that your shoes aren't frozen when you try to
put them on. But a gym bag is a great
(08:49):
thing to have, and it helps avoid injury or it
helps with injury to keep training. And that's another thing
I forgot to say. If we're injured, we can continue
to train with a lot of things that we have. Right,
if we have an injury, we or you know, if
we rip our hand, we could tape it up and
we could still train. If we have like a little
back issue, it's not feeling the greatest. We can use
(09:11):
a belt to help keep our back tight. Right. These
things are not like crutches, but they help. And you know,
if our wrist hurts a little bit, I could tape
it up all right, make things feel better so that
I can still continue to train. And that's the number
one thing. So if I continue to train, my consistency
is there and I'm ready to go all the time.
(09:32):
That's what it's all about, right, staying consistent, keep coming
to the gym. Don't just like take off because I'm injured.
I take off because you know, life happens or something.
But I don't want to, like, I want to keep
that momentum going right, even if I come, like I say,
like Kerry Roverson pay perfect example of someone that just
(09:52):
keeps coming right. She had a stroke, she could barely
like walking as hard, things like that, but she's there, right,
She's consistent. She come every Saturday. She hasn't been there
a little bit, but she comes Saturday. So she keeps
coming right, keeps that motivation going, keeps getting better, Like
we keep working. We try to find out new ways
for her to work through whatever we're doing. We don't
(10:15):
modify the workout because we know she's coming. We just
do the workout and then we kind of adjusted for
her and we kind of come up with new things.
I think you guys have seen me doing all kinds
of crazy stuff. But it's awesome that she keeps coming,
keeps training, keeps pushing it. That's hard work, right, It's
really hard for her. So that's what it's all about.
(10:37):
That's what we're trying to do right every day. Consistency,
hard work, avoid the injuries, and if you have injuries,
work through them or work around them so we can
keep training and stay consistent. We're at like ten minutes,
and that was a lot of talking for me. If
you know me, I don't talk that much. I just
kind of grunt. All right, So this is episode five.
(10:58):
Let me know if you like it. I don't even know.
I'm not gonna listen to it or anything like that.
I don't know what I talked about other than hard work, injuries,
and a gym bag. All right, until next time, have
a great one. Bye,
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.