REAL AF with Andy Frisella - Mark Bell On Struggle, Sling Shots, and Success, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO167

00:00:00.000 what is up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am the

00:00:11.640 motherfucking ceo guys if this is your first time welcome um our goal here is not only to be a top 0.52

00:00:19.840 notch entrepreneurial podcast but to teach the values of entrepreneurship and success no matter 0.98

00:00:26.600 if you own a business if you work inside of a business um or if you just don't know what the

00:00:30.840 fuck you're trying to do right now in life and you're trying to get better um we are here to teach 0.87

00:00:35.720 you we are here to help you uh you have to understand that being successful in life requires 1.00

00:00:43.120 a certain skill set and that's what we're here to teach you uh it's not about get rich quick in five 0.99

00:00:51.320 minutes uh be balling out like rick ross overnight this is about the real shit this is about the 0.98

00:00:57.120 grit this is about the hustle this is about what it actually takes uh as always i'm joined by my 0.98

00:01:03.640 co-host vaughn the pastor of disaster uh-oh what's up on i'm growing in badassery every moment i'm in

00:01:11.160 your presence i believe it yeah most people do yeah i know man it's just you should bottle it up

00:01:18.040 you know what that's a good idea is cologne i'll make a second form yeah what's that second form

00:01:24.620 number two a lot of you guys might be wondering who the third voice is tyler it's not tyler it's

00:01:31.400 obviously a much more manly man than tyler and tyler is not wearing his salmon shorts by the way so

00:01:37.540 the podcast could be a total sandwich trouble salmon oh salmon like it's a sandwich yeah like

00:01:42.160 making me hungry i do i would go for a sandwich right now yeah but we have a very special

00:01:47.900 guest here mark bell a lot of you guys in the fitness industry know him a lot of you guys have

00:01:52.140 seen him on uh gary's show you've seen him on now you just did lewis's show right um lewis howe yep 0.67

00:01:59.100 yeah so and he's he's uh bigger stronger faster yeah a fucking movie yeah i've seen that netflix 0.92

00:02:05.360 he's like five times he's he's he's big time in the fitness industry uh he's been there for a long 0.97

00:02:10.900 time been you know world champion power lifter uh the ceo of uh slingshot slingshot and uh super

00:02:20.540 training super training gym that's right um tell us a little bit about the history of how you got

00:02:28.540 into the industry and and basically how you got into the entrepreneurial side damn i know it's gonna be

00:02:36.960 yeah yeah you want some water because it's gonna just have one question what are you a thousand

00:02:41.300 years old yeah yeah right this is gonna be one question it's gonna seem like i'm a thousand years

00:02:46.100 old i'm 40 years old and uh live in live in davis california with my wife which is kind of near

00:02:51.580 sacramento um i started in the fitness industry um before it was the fitness industry i started

00:02:58.440 a long long time ago um i was about i was about 12 years old uh when i started kicking the weights

00:03:08.640 around seriously started officially at like 11 but i was just messing around with like a curl bar back

00:03:13.240 then dude that's how i started too yeah just a curl bar in our garage and i just was like you know

00:03:18.160 let me try to build up my arms my brothers tried to show me how to squat and stuff and i was too much 0.91

00:03:22.220 of a pussy to try to figure anything out i'm still that way hurt my back too much i was like i need that 1.00

00:03:26.780 pad my brother's like if i ever see you with that pad i will kill you i'll fucking kill you right 1.00

00:03:31.480 where you stand um basically the story kind of kicks off with uh i was throwing a football around 1.00

00:03:37.680 i was always playing not with myself necessarily but by myself and i was throwing a football up in

00:03:44.420 the air my brothers you know they they were bored with me and stuff like that because i was much

00:03:49.220 younger than them so they didn't want to hang out with me and so i'm just flipping a football up you

00:03:53.600 know to myself pretending i'm catching the game winning touchdown and all these things

00:03:57.420 and i did that all the time you could go back and watch you know old footage of my brother playing

00:04:02.580 football and you'll see me on the sidelines tossing the football to myself and uh i was just at a park

00:04:07.860 one day and i'm playing with the football and throwing it up in the air to myself and i hear someone

00:04:12.200 say yo bell throw me that football and it's my brother's my brother's friend who we called a dirt dog 1.00

00:04:18.520 because he was he smoked cigarettes all the time and he had the acid wash jeans he had the mullet

00:04:23.540 going and uh his name was joe garlup so he was literally joe dirt yeah he was he was original joe

00:04:31.500 dirt he had that tough guy kind of looked to him for some reason he had like pretty good biceps and

00:04:37.360 stuff at the time i don't even know if he worked out he was just that way but uh i knew better than 0.99

00:04:42.920 to throw him the ball because i knew he was an asshole my brother always hated him and we kind of hated 0.91

00:04:46.980 their family and they hated our family and stuff like that but i was like oh it would be cool to 0.98

00:04:50.920 toss the ball around with actually somebody else rather than me just hanging out by myself so i 0.98

00:04:55.200 throw him the ball he proceeds to catch it and then turn around and just kick it as far as he fucking 0.98

00:05:00.780 could and he he kicked it right into the fucking woods and i i searched for that ball for hours it 0.99

00:05:08.100 was my favorite football and i was never able to fucking find it and so from that day on you can cut to 0.99

00:05:13.300 like a rocky montage and i'm hitting it hard in the basement learning how to bench learning how to 0.96

00:05:17.580 squat learning how to deadlift because i'm like that has never happened to me again yeah yeah so

00:05:24.360 it was just more like it wasn't like i really wanted to even fight him at the time but i was just like

00:05:29.820 i just want to make sure i'm never in a position again where if i'm bigger and i'm stronger

00:05:33.900 it will more likely not happen that way you know so that's that kind of started my my lifting my

00:05:40.440 brothers um do i think a lot of people start lifting yeah like they get into uh uh they get

00:05:46.740 into they have some sort of negativity happen or even some sort of like we were just talking about

00:05:50.780 it out there like a bullying thing nohammed ali right someone stole his bike and i think lou ferrigno

00:05:55.860 got into lifting for the same reason yeah and uh and you know it's interesting that like i always say

00:06:03.000 you know negativity is highly underrated as a motivation yeah you know really strong yeah it can be

00:06:08.900 really powerful so i mean i just started kind of playing around with weights pretty much typically

00:06:13.160 the way anybody else would um but my brothers were older and so they were showing me like some power

00:06:18.220 lifting stuff and i was you know not really knowing what something was about or not really understanding

00:06:23.460 of what any of it would turn into and maybe fast forward like a year or two me and my brother

00:06:29.960 bench pressing in the basin my cousin steven is over my cousin steven at the time is probably like 16

00:06:35.060 i'm probably like 13 some somewhere in that range and uh my brother my two older brothers gave me the

00:06:42.620 nickname smelly because i hated to take showers as a kid so they were always picking on me and they 0.96

00:06:47.100 always had to fuck with me so my brother tells my cousin steven he says oh smelly can bench 185 0.99

00:06:54.040 and my cousin's like what he goes yeah smelly can bench 185 he's like there's no fucking way he can 0.99

00:07:00.240 bench 185 he's like he's like i can i can barely do that and he's you know older right and uh my 0.88

00:07:06.460 brother's like well we'll fucking show you and so we went down to the basement and we started working 0.96

00:07:10.200 out my brother was always very careful with me and he always had me do sets of 10 and things like that 0.94

00:07:14.960 and he always tried to have me utilize the best possible form i could and he was just very delicate

00:07:20.260 with like showing me like how to do it the right way and it was he was really adamant about that i

00:07:24.400 wasn't allowed to like max out and so we start adding weight and adding weight and adding weight

00:07:29.480 and i get to 185 pounds and drop it down to my chest and just boom just blast it up like it's 0.92

00:07:37.120 nothing and racket and my cousin's just standing there like what the fuck so then my cousin tries 0.94

00:07:41.820 it he he needs assistance to uh to get the weight up his legs are kicking everywhere but then we 0.95

00:07:47.820 proceeded to go from 185 to 195 to 205 and 220 and so on and we just kept going up in about 10 pound

00:07:55.720 increments all the way till i got to 240 pounds and i got up off the bench and my cousin was like

00:08:02.900 i don't know what the fuck that means but that's gonna turn into something yeah that's awesome and

00:08:07.560 i mean i remember that day like it's i remember it uh so accurately um just having just such a good

00:08:13.400 feeling about myself and so that's where it started that's where the flame uh was ignited and 0.78

00:08:18.700 you know i'm i'm still as as excited today to hit the gym as i was when i was that age i fucking love 0.87

00:08:25.920 it i really do yeah you still love the weight training because i know you're doing a lot of

00:08:29.780 conditioning now yeah i still love it you know on a daily basis it may not be uh it may not be like

00:08:37.520 i might not be like hyped up to get to the gym every day because i know the pain that's gonna happen

00:08:42.440 i've been on this kick of uh lifting it's like been 110 days in a row or something like that and

00:08:48.300 i'm starting to get really fucking sore yeah and i could probably use a break but it's it's more of a 0.87

00:08:53.720 thing from a mental standpoint of like just keep fucking pushing forward right you know just keep 0.92

00:08:58.460 putting one foot in front of the other and i've been able to do that in in all aspects of my life 0.53

00:09:03.480 because i've been able to find people that have been supportive uh luckily i was born with

00:09:10.080 awesome parents and they've been a huge whenever somebody tells me they've come from shitty

00:09:14.820 parents and they come from you know some real shitty beginnings i'm always amazed by that because

00:09:19.480 i don't have that experience right and uh i was too fragile as a kid i would have never made it

00:09:24.400 and uh without my wife andy uh i would have never made it either she she's been a really strong she's

00:09:30.640 given me like a backbone you know she's given me something really strong to lean on in certain

00:09:35.800 situations as you know in business you get people pulling you in all different directions

00:09:39.960 yeah you know who to trust and who to spend time with and who and who not to and she always is

00:09:45.580 stiff-arming the fuck out of those people yeah making sure those people don't get involved with

00:09:49.960 us unless they're legitimate right right yeah dude emily my wife does the same thing for me she's 1.00

00:09:54.940 runs the she runs the uh the bodyguard role yeah you know for real but one thing that's interesting

00:10:01.880 and i i think it's cool especially with you uh having a lot of success in entrepreneur space

00:10:08.100 um and you a lot of the guys i have in interview they're not lifters right so like this is cool

00:10:15.560 for me because we're both lifters and we're both around the same age and it's dude i could tell people

00:10:22.840 that don't lift don't understand this but it is literally the exact principles that you need to be

00:10:28.040 successful as an entrepreneur takes discipline it takes discipline it takes showing up every day

00:10:33.100 it takes intensity every day you know it takes you walking out of the gym every day exhausted

00:10:39.720 it takes you replenishing your mind and your energy just like you would need to replenish your body

00:10:46.000 parallels at 100 yeah everything and like so and the thing about power lifting and bodybuilding is that

00:10:52.820 the discipline that it takes is 24 hours a day and there's no other sport or activity whatever you

00:10:58.800 want to call it hobby that's like that and that's how entrepreneurship is it's a discipline that's

00:11:04.420 24 hours a day everything you do will eventually become part of you being an entrepreneur when you 0.91

00:11:10.300 see me out drinking a fucking beer there is business being done there you know what i mean you see me 0.97

00:11:15.220 drinking 20 beers there's a lot of business being done you know what i'm saying yeah but your whole life 0.98

00:11:20.600 it's it really seriously does parallel and anybody out there listening right now that's into fitness

00:11:26.620 can relate to this and one of my biggest frustrations with people in the fitness industry is that

00:11:32.440 they can have all this discipline in this area of fitness which i actually think is harder it's

00:11:39.060 harder for me than entrepreneurship my workouts will always be way harder than any business meeting i

00:11:44.240 ever go into yeah there's no question but then when it comes to like their other lot the rest of their 0.99

00:11:50.360 life it's like the rest of their life is a fucking shit show yeah and it's like bro how can you be 0.99

00:11:55.080 so disciplined with your diet your training your workouts your mental discipline to do all this 1.00

00:12:01.780 shit but you can't get your fucking regular life in order to earn a couple fucking dollars so that you 1.00

00:12:07.360 don't have to like be a fucking shit bum on your parents or whatever you know like dude you see these 1.00

00:12:12.380 super successful people in the fitness industry who you think are successful and you find out they're 1.00

00:12:17.220 living in the fucking basement on a couch they live with their parents it's like what the fuck are you 0.99

00:12:20.860 doing man do you think that that's because they're doing it for a different motivation 1.00

00:12:24.140 they're doing it just to look good whereas other people are doing it yeah to look good but also to

00:12:28.580 be as healthy as they possibly can i think sometimes that's the case sometimes people have kind of the

00:12:32.800 wrong uh intentions from the beginning uh for me in particular like i i was uh i was kind of fortunate

00:12:40.480 to have a weakness where i wasn't very smart in school like that and i wasn't either man that

00:12:44.860 ended up becoming a really uh well still to this day it's a huge strength of mine you know people say 0.97

00:12:50.260 uh you know don't put the cart before the horse well i always put the fucking cart before the 0.98

00:12:55.060 horse dude i'll lift that fucking thing myself and drag it you know what i mean like i i will figure 0.99

00:12:59.980 it out like i don't always make the right decision or the right choices but i will work really hard to 0.97

00:13:04.480 make those decisions correct dude i fucking 1000 relate to that i was a terrible student i had trouble 0.97

00:13:11.800 paying attention it wasn't because i wasn't smart it was because i just don't do good in that 0.96

00:13:17.260 situation this stuff sucks yeah and ignorance of dude i think the power of success a lot of it comes 0.88

00:13:23.660 down to to to being ignorant to how hard things are going to be and making a decision like we said 0.97

00:13:30.240 last podcast it's not about the commitments that you make it's about making the commitments that you

00:13:35.060 make the right ones you know what i mean and so many people want to like they they do want to have

00:13:40.360 an order to things and like you know that's so cool that you said that because i started texting you 0.98

00:13:45.020 and i was like i'm coming out there motherfucker and i don't even know like i don't even know you 0.93

00:13:48.120 right but why am i coming out here i don't know well i mean but some great things are going to 0.97

00:13:52.300 come of it exactly like exactly i don't know what's going to come of it but it's going to be

00:13:56.000 fucking fun yeah and i don't i also think that you know people that are listening to this people 0.77

00:14:00.980 are just getting started don't feel like you need stuff from people like i don't need anything 0.96

00:14:05.940 from you right come out here hang out hopefully you have time and hopefully you can hang out have a good

00:14:09.880 time but other than that i don't i don't need anything from you yeah i'm sustained yeah i'll

00:14:14.840 never forget this i i was uh i was in my gym and uh i've been fortunate enough to be friends with

00:14:20.520 john cena i had a stint at pro wrestling we use his uh his his music as the intro on the podcast oh so

00:14:26.740 good yeah he's got he's got a lot of great songs but you've been friends with john cena for for many

00:14:31.960 years my brothers and i got him actually into professional professional wrestling and so he's

00:14:36.340 somebody that's still uh in my life and he pops around whenever he can and and comes into super

00:14:41.180 training well the last time he was at super training he's he slept i i tease him and i say

00:14:47.680 that he slept in the parking lot but he's sleeping in this like multi-million dollar you know vehicle

00:14:52.080 or whatever the hell the thing is it's uh like a tour bus right yeah right has everything on it yeah

00:14:57.500 so i text them in the morning and i'm like oh you know it's when someone's from out of town it's kind

00:15:01.920 of nice to provide some amenities like you guys got us a hotel and like you don't always know where

00:15:06.500 you're going right it's nice for somebody to uh make it feel a little bit at home yeah yeah make

00:15:11.720 someone feel at home so i'm like you want me to bring you coffee like you need anything like i

00:15:15.540 can cook something here like just like whatever like i know he eats you know he eats healthy and

00:15:20.040 stuff and uh he like no dude i'm good and then we we texted back and forth a couple more times asked

00:15:25.980 him if he needed anything else and uh he just wrote sustained like i wrote i'm sustained and i was

00:15:32.140 like i'm never gonna fucking forget that that's a great way to live your life and what a what a 0.84

00:15:36.600 comfortable way to feel yeah like no i'm good yeah i don't need anything yeah you know if you want

00:15:41.420 something and someone's willing to like offer it or something that's that's how i feel too i feel

00:15:46.600 like that everywhere like everywhere i go and i almost feel like when people like i don't like people

00:15:51.860 doing extra shit for me because that makes me feel like almost like i don't want to put them out 0.87

00:15:56.680 so i'm so i'm always like just in my own world you know what i mean of like of of sustained like 0.96

00:16:03.260 it is a good feeling yeah and you know you shouldn't um i just think that when people are

00:16:08.500 trying to climb the ladder they're like oh it'd be cool like if uh if i did this with someone or if i

00:16:13.080 did that or if uh someone you know someone gave me money for this or that and i think you're just

00:16:19.240 better off saying rather than thinking in those terms how do i how do i work towards that how do i just

00:16:24.800 do it myself right you know be sustained like be be you're be in charge of yourself right be in

00:16:30.600 charge of of what it is you're trying to accomplish right yeah man i mean i get that all the time in

00:16:35.360 emails and two people they think that like they're like how do i connect with this person or what's it

00:16:41.760 going to take to get on your podcast or what's it going to take to come hang out or this or that 0.68

00:16:45.920 i mean like i'm just like show up fucking show up you can work out with us in the back every day 0.96

00:16:51.020 at fucking 4 30 we're not going to tell you to leave yeah you know who knows what'll come from 0.98

00:16:55.060 that you know what i mean like that's how i would look at it yeah it's just like it's uh i was talking 0.92

00:16:59.980 to um but not show up at your house no yeah that happens but don't do that yeah but i mean clarify

00:17:05.840 that yeah but but i mean it's it just takes a little bit of balls right like hey you know there 0.99

00:17:12.040 might be some assholes out there that tell you to get lost but what the fuck you do that 10 times 1.00

00:17:17.700 you're going to meet seven cool ass people right you know what i mean nothing's ever going to come 1.00

00:17:21.240 from from not having resistance and a struggle and to go back your point about lifting is lifting

00:17:26.840 represents that times a thousand you you can't get strong in one workout right actually actually

00:17:33.180 technically make yourself weaker every time you work out that's right you might bench press 315 pounds 0.96

00:17:37.680 during the course of your workout by the end of the workout you're distraught you're fucked up right 0.95

00:17:42.800 um but you should take all those principles that you know from training at the end of a training 0.79

00:17:48.940 session somebody might ask you a question you're like discombobulated you're like uh you can't even

00:17:55.360 really answer it that clearly because you trained your ass off your work day should be the same way 0.99

00:18:00.460 right you go home from work your hat should be all sideways your shit should be all messed up and you 0.99

00:18:04.500 should be like you should be ready to kind of like drop like fuck man like goddamn today was fun but 1.00

00:18:09.840 shit like put a lot of put a lot of effort into yeah and you feel like wiped out yeah and i think 0.99

00:18:15.520 you could take all the different lessons that you learn from your training and apply them into your 1.00

00:18:20.180 everyday life you're to get strong takes a minimum of 10 years 10 fucking years like what a terrible 0.97

00:18:27.720 thing to try to sell somebody yeah like right hey you want to come in and power lift i got a great 0.95

00:18:32.560 plan for you andy it's called the 10 year plan i'm gonna get you really strong and at the end of 10

00:18:36.740 years yeah you're gonna be like actually competitive in the sport and you'd be like 0.99

00:18:40.260 fuck man yeah 10 years of just kicking the shit out of myself that's what it's gonna take 0.97

00:18:45.120 i went to the uh on academy uh recently and was down there doing doing a workout and this kid comes in 1.00

00:18:52.560 he's like 17 years old he squatted 765 pounds for five reps holy fuck yeah and i was like what this 0.96

00:18:59.540 kid was a bowling ball man he was he was a big kid and beautiful squats too the form was fucking on 0.99

00:19:05.480 point and i was like god damn i'm like son of a bitch i'm like i think this is an outlier like i 1.00

00:19:10.320 always tell everybody take 10 years yeah and i'm just sitting there shaking my head and i'm like 0.99

00:19:14.020 my theory can't be wrong it can't be wrong so i'm watching him you know work up and go up and wait and

00:19:18.840 he's just he's just crushing these weights and i i go over to his dad and i tell his dad i say

00:19:23.280 this kid has one of the most beautiful squats i've ever seen his form is unbelievable a lot of times

00:19:29.100 these guys that are young and strong they're just young and strong right just like reckless yeah right 0.95

00:19:33.780 right this kid's form was spot on and so i i tell his dad and his dad goes well it fucking should be 0.96

00:19:39.660 started when he was seven there you go like my theory is correct yeah but i mean it's gonna take

00:19:45.760 a long time and what do you know about business when you've been doing it for three years no and 0.99

00:19:49.940 that's the parallel right that much the parallel again 10 years you know dude i in my fucking 0.98

00:19:56.440 and dude now with the internet technology and the ability to like yeah podcast and be accelerated

00:20:01.900 learning yeah totally and so like i don't i always say 10 years but that's in like my era of when i

00:20:09.580 started you know there wasn't internet there wasn't podcasts there wasn't social media no computers back

00:20:14.280 in our day no no and and and now you can't accelerate that but you can't you you still have to put in the

00:20:21.820 time man and like when you think about like why fitness and and entrepreneurship are so parallel

00:20:31.160 you know for that 10 years that you go in to train you know you're not every day thinking about

00:20:38.300 you know hey uh i'm gonna be fucking world champion power lifter right you you actually come in today 0.98

00:20:46.640 with this goal like hey i'm gonna fucking do this today right i'm gonna bench this today i'm gonna squat 0.97

00:20:50.720 this today and when i walk out i'm gonna feel that sense of pride that i did the best that i could 0.79

00:20:54.980 and and it's it's about today it's about winning today and linking those days together over time

00:21:02.820 and you fall in love real entrepreneurs they fall in love with the process with they fall just like

00:21:08.800 just like power lifting or bodybuilding right those guys who are excellent they're not necessarily

00:21:13.400 thinking for the show or the meet they're thinking about killing it today and it just happens to be 0.84

00:21:20.060 that every workout fucking matters to them that much and that's what ends up making them great 0.94

00:21:23.980 it can be overwhelming when you try to think about being great right you know i think everybody has 0.98

00:21:28.260 this mindset that they want to be great but then if you really try to break it down like what do you

00:21:33.780 mean great great and whose eyes right for me i got three people i need to be great to and that's it

00:21:39.360 it's my wife and my two kids if other people think i'm great then that's fucking cool yeah that's that

00:21:44.200 feels like a good pat on the back but uh the love i have inside inside my home you know the

00:21:49.000 um one of the greatest quotes i ever heard is uh you know if you want to have the greatest impact on

00:21:54.140 the world go home and love your family like yeah what a what a cool what a cool statement because

00:21:59.200 that's where it needs to start like why do i need to matter to you right that much right we don't know

00:22:03.600 each other that right right i need to matter to her i need to matter to my kids my son said something

00:22:08.100 crazy a couple weeks ago where it just like floored me it was it was pretty pretty over the top but

00:22:15.280 basically just uh we were talking and i think i was talking to him about maybe his cousins because

00:22:20.960 his cousins have uh hamish and uh lachlan these these kids are crazy they beat the hell out of each

00:22:26.100 other all the time so i can't that's their names yeah that's crazy we call we call the youngest one 0.95

00:22:30.600 we call him ham bone these two are like straight out of the wwe they beat the fuck out of each other 0.97

00:22:36.260 all the time and so we were talking about you know them being brothers and jake he only has his 0.82

00:22:41.120 sister quinn and he kind of said he wish he wish he had a brother or something like that so we were

00:22:45.840 talking and i was like oh yeah it's kind of cool because you know hamish he gets to look up to his

00:22:51.140 brother and and i and i got to look up to my brothers and then jake said yeah and i get to look

00:22:55.620 up to you i was just like whoa like you know i understand that i'm a dad and i have been for a long

00:23:01.220 time but what a goddamn uh wake-up call yeah like really understand like this guy's watching

00:23:07.480 everything i do and everything i say and i need to really pay attention to that a little bit more 0.97

00:23:13.660 yeah yeah man crazy you know uh we don't have any kids yet but i know like i've raised i've quote

00:23:22.720 unquote raised a lot of kids yeah within the time of the 18 years we've been in business right hundreds

00:23:30.080 and uh you know i i forget that sometimes like we talk about leadership and um you know like i just

00:23:38.480 talked about we when you got here i mean i was on the phone and i was on the phone with a guy who

00:23:43.720 recently left the company right and i was doing an exit interview and i like to do exit conversations

00:23:48.300 with people when they leave uh for a couple reasons one you know if they're leaving uh under some sort

00:23:56.200 of like disagreement which this happened to be that case i want to know i want them to get it

00:24:01.360 off their chest whatever they know going into it that's an exit interview yeah they already know that

00:24:05.340 they've been yeah right let go and and so and so i i want to hear their point of view because a and a

00:24:11.940 lot of ceos they get really upset with their employees they quit or have an issue like they're

00:24:17.120 right like dude i try to look at his learning experience like okay um what are the issues is it a

00:24:21.880 legitimate issue do i need to fix certain things and we had a really good conversation about uh

00:24:28.200 about some of the things that could potentially be better and i think that you know even as a and i

00:24:35.520 consider myself a pretty pretty good leader i think most of the time i'm doing a good job especially

00:24:39.940 leading example but he pointed out a couple cases of really small shit that that i hadn't forgot i even 0.78

00:24:47.180 fucking did right that meant a lot to him right you know what i mean and and were legitimate points 0.80

00:24:52.420 that he made you're trying to make people more productive you're not sitting here trying to make 0.97

00:24:55.800 people feel bad no you're not trying to knock people no no no but and if you say something that's

00:25:00.800 too harsh or too right over the top sometimes it comes off the wrong way and it could really be super

00:25:05.740 negative to dude exactly that person maybe a bunch of other people and if i have a downfall in my

00:25:10.200 leadership ability it is that it is that when i communicate it can be very direct like very direct

00:25:18.440 right and i feel and where i see it as very direct like hey i'm trying to fucking help you that's my 0.89

00:25:25.020 job because i'm not your friend i'm not your fucking buddy i'm your coach and your coach cares about your 0.99

00:25:29.740 performance because they want you to fucking be good right and that's how i look at it so when i see 0.97

00:25:34.480 somebody doing something i'm very fucking direct with them and and sometimes you know dudes just ain't 0.93

00:25:39.460 hearing that because they hear the emotion behind it right and they hear they hear it as you don't 0.98

00:25:44.120 like me or you're upset with me or you think i'm a piece of shit when in reality that's just how i 0.96

00:25:48.800 communicate so it's if i have a downfall in leadership it's definitely that a lot of things 0.97

00:25:53.320 can be misinterpreted through something a text message or something like that absolutely different

00:25:56.880 than a phone call absolutely and uh but you know my point to you know the you know those guys do look

00:26:04.280 up to me and sometimes i forget how much they do you know what i mean like i i forget how much

00:26:08.980 somebody's paying attention right and if they see you you know cut a corner or they see you do

00:26:14.560 something anything could be you like just not being on your diet anymore and gaining weight or like

00:26:19.340 not or saying something and not following through with it something even small you know and and uh

00:26:24.360 you're gonna be around them all the time a lot of guys in business miss they they may they don't

00:26:29.820 realize how close their employees are paying attention to right you know what i mean yeah i mean they're

00:26:35.700 watching everything so let me recap a little bit i want to draw out some of the things that you've

00:26:40.980 said uh daily discipline obviously uh you said i love the statement you made of not putting the cart

00:26:47.900 in front of the horse i always put the cart in front of the horse which i would the way that i

00:26:51.240 interpret that is you don't overthink things you act yeah and then you just kind of trust that

00:26:56.160 things are going to work out you do it and you figure it out yeah well we have uh you know an

00:27:00.320 interesting my wife and i have an interesting uh relationship um you know i i'm a dreamer and then

00:27:07.320 she's a doer she's someone that can handle a lot of tasks in one day she's very very smart and very

00:27:12.700 organized which is quite the opposite of myself so when you have somebody kind of dreaming of something

00:27:17.780 but then somebody else who can help with the follow-through and the execution of it uh that ends

00:27:22.640 up making such a huge difference and the belief factor too like dude you know uh the have someone 1.00

00:27:29.320 there who when you say something like it could be it could because you're going to say shit to your 0.99

00:27:33.720 spouse been that way right you're going to say some shit to your spouse how much belief there was in 0.99

00:27:38.240 the beginning well there's a lot now the good thing about accomplishing a few things is that you 0.98

00:27:42.220 the belief becomes stronger on what you can accomplish right you know and i like i know like i can say

00:27:47.800 anything to emily like hey i'm gonna fucking become an astronaut and she's gonna be googling astronaut 1.00

00:27:53.180 school here's where it starts it starts you know do you want me to book your ticket you know what i mean 0.69

00:27:58.080 and that's a good type of relationship to have man you know a lot of a lot of people don't have that

00:28:02.440 we get a lot of relationship questions for the podcast right about like how important it is to

00:28:07.340 have people in your life that support you not just your wife especially your wife your husband but not

00:28:12.860 just that like dude the people you surround yourself with who you communicate with dude you don't need

00:28:19.000 to have a trillion friends you don't need to have a thousand friends you're good have dude i got like

00:28:23.320 three friends i got a bunch of people that i fucking know right you know what i mean i got a lot of 0.83

00:28:27.940 people i care about but not that i would call and say hey here's what i'm thinking right you know

00:28:32.220 what i mean and and i only call people i know that that the trust the abilities that i have because

00:28:39.060 dude it takes so much energy to build something from scratch right that you can't afford to let

00:28:45.020 people enormous effort yeah yeah you can't afford to let people who don't have that opinion

00:28:49.080 of it's possible in your in your brain you just can't let it when we were uh we were just in in

00:28:56.200 malibu california on some vacation and that looked awesome by the way oh it's fucking fun yeah malibu 0.71

00:29:02.540 is beautiful how was the water was it cold or was it well they these guys went these guys were my

00:29:06.500 wife and uh kids oh man yeah they were swimming and everything in there i i'm not i'm not about to 0.95

00:29:12.520 get in the ocean yeah i'm not a risk taker when it comes back to keep my fucking feet planted on the 0.98

00:29:18.200 ground no like no skiing no skateboards when you guys were in tahoe and you were like on the boat 0.95

00:29:23.240 everybody else in the fucking water yeah yeah i'm like yeah i'm not doing any of that 0.98

00:29:26.140 terrified i don't swim i don't swim very well you're not jumping in if anybody sees a fin or 0.94

00:29:31.740 anything i'm good at drowning that's about that's probably probably about my i was wondering what 0.91

00:29:35.940 the fuck you were doing on the boat snapping everybody else is swimming yeah everybody's 0.96

00:29:39.000 always like there's always pictures of everybody else and you don't have any any pictures like 1.00

00:29:42.500 doing whatever it is they're doing but um you know people ask a lot of times how do you

00:29:48.360 how do you balance stuff you know and i i want to address that just a little bit because i think

00:29:52.820 and you you probably said something like this similar because you probably recognize as well is that

00:29:57.060 when people are are truly gifted and truly talented and you end up with somebody like an elon musk

00:30:03.260 or or the the uh owner of uh amazon right up with people like that those people are not going to

00:30:11.340 really have a lot of balance right at least at some point in their life they're going to be like

00:30:14.640 very unbalanced right um when i was uh you know a competitive power lifter my best numbers are

00:30:20.980 squatted 1080 benched 854 and deadlifted 766 i was unbalanced like that was my passion that's what i 0.99

00:30:28.820 lived for 24 hours a day unhealthy too you know 330 pounds you know i could lift like a motherfucker but 0.96

00:30:34.260 i wasn't balanced i was you know conditioning wise i had none of that or anything but the way that i've 0.81

00:30:40.540 been able to pull balance into my life is to be more inclusive rather than exclusive so when it

00:30:47.040 comes to family and business i usually just bring them together you know so like on this trip that we

00:30:52.740 went to uh malibu um i went a day early my family joined me the next day i got a couple things done

00:31:00.300 the day before met with lewis howe met with charles glass and a couple other people for youtube content

00:31:06.360 and just business stuff in general and then the next then a day or two later uh i met uh at bulletproof

00:31:13.860 coffee with my brother and and my wife and my kids um with the owner of quest nutrition and also the

00:31:21.140 owners of a startup company called keto cookie and just you know it's like they don't have to not be 0.98

00:31:27.760 part of that like like having my kids at a business meeting having them hanging around and like fucking 0.92

00:31:32.560 around would be inappropriate so my kids they they went with my brother somewhere but my point is is 0.93

00:31:37.940 that everything always seems so difficult or everything always seems so hard but it's really

00:31:42.840 not if you just break things down and try to slow yourself down for a second and just make some sense

00:31:47.940 of it and so that's what i'm always trying to do in these different things that we're we're working

00:31:53.280 on i really felt strongly that we need to come out here we need to see you and i'm in the middle of

00:31:59.040 opening up a new facility for the gym i walk into here and boom instantly i'm inspired i'm gonna be 0.92

00:32:04.880 fired up for a long time after coming here like this fucking thank you very very cool what you built 0.97

00:32:10.200 and and i and i knew like i knew before i even really contacted you that i just something i wanted 0.96

00:32:16.500 to do i saw a couple videos saw a couple podcasts and stuff i'm like that would be really cool to meet

00:32:21.560 this guy i don't know why exactly but i'll figure it out yeah but the second i stepped foot in here i was

00:32:26.960 like boom that was it yeah i can i could go home yeah all i need to do is see the facility

00:32:31.440 like hanging out with you is a whole nother thing too it's awesome but just seeing the facility and

00:32:36.120 seeing everybody flying around their first form shirts i mean i probably ran into uh 40 or 50 people

00:32:41.920 everyone came right up introduced themselves you know i forgot everybody's name there's so many of

00:32:46.020 them coming at me uh but what a cool thing everyone everyone's wearing like the same shirt 0.99

00:32:50.620 yeah everyone's fucking on board there's people busting their ass in the warehouse 0.99

00:32:55.100 yeah really we're fortunate man we got a good crew here um the the you know we connected through 1.00

00:33:01.680 tony uh cinema yeah real world tactical so uh goddamn savage and a half right there well dude when he 0.62

00:33:08.340 when he he's like hey because i knew who you were i we just never connected right he's like hey man 0.98

00:33:13.320 uh i want you to connect with my boy mark bell and i'm like fuck yeah so i mean like that was what 0.87

00:33:18.800 we were talking about before the podcast right you know i love tony i love hanging out with tony 0.57

00:33:23.480 he's my kind of dude he's nuts right and if he said yeah exactly but uh you know when guys like

00:33:30.780 that you know recommend to meet somebody you have to say yes you know what i mean and it's going to

00:33:34.680 work out awesome right but um i like what you said about integrating the family and business and i feel

00:33:40.380 like if you look around and you really have eyes to see you can see that a lot of the movers and

00:33:44.580 shakers in every industry have done that i know you know now the greatest coach in college football

00:33:50.400 is probably considered uh nick saban but you know there were those two or three years where urban

00:33:55.280 meyer was just knocking out and i know that his his whole philosophy of running a program was we're

00:34:00.720 going to be a family and of course that's the way first form is you know the whole company is it's

00:34:06.000 it's a big family yeah for sure you spend that much time together that's you're going to

00:34:10.200 naturally develop those relationships the uh it's helped shape the manning family yeah um even

00:34:15.400 though the new orleans saints sucked they weren't very good but they had a very family oriented

00:34:19.920 organization and they would invite the families to practice i think like twice a week and so

00:34:25.740 peyton and his brother eli they were at every practice with their dad all the time right they got

00:34:30.720 to kind of witness that firsthand and see what it takes right now they're you know unbelievable yeah

00:34:36.200 see i have it that's interesting takes because i can't that i'm glad that you brought that up

00:34:40.580 because i you know when not having kids it's it's not an issue for me right so i've never been able

00:34:46.580 to like whenever we've addressed it i've always but it's important that your wife knows who you're

00:34:50.800 meeting with who are these people oh you could say oh you remember you met so and so yeah like her

00:34:55.560 meeting them is so much different than you just saying oh yeah i'm going to meet with this like

00:34:59.900 fitness chick because we're going to do something with her it's like that's she might be like well 0.97

00:35:03.340 wait a second right right right especially in the fitness industry right right yeah but like what i

00:35:08.920 always tell people especially when they're young and how it was for me and this is i think how it

00:35:13.340 was for you with power lifting you know balance can be looked at a bunch of different ways and the way

00:35:18.460 i always looked at balance was i'm gonna give everything i have for this the beginning part of my

00:35:25.000 life like the 19 years old to you know basically i don't know three years ago like where i had no

00:35:32.400 fucking life and and now and then i would live the rest of my life with with with whatever the 0.89

00:35:38.500 fuck i want to do right you know what i mean and that's worked well for me and i encourage like 0.99

00:35:42.940 younger people you know to if they're wanting to be successful entrepreneurs to really think about 0.97

00:35:48.740 what balance means to them because a lot most people we ask what balance means they look at it on

00:35:53.560 a daily scale they look at it as like okay i gotta go to work at eight i gotta be home at four i gotta

00:35:58.400 spend time with the family from this time this time and then i watch tv and that's my balance i 0.57

00:36:02.720 gotta have my tv time and that shit ain't gonna cut it right you know what i mean uh you you have to be 0.95

00:36:08.720 all in at some point to be great at something and when you have to you know when you're trying to cut it 0.99

00:36:15.840 up on a daily scale you've got all you're competing against people that don't fucking do that right and 0.88

00:36:21.780 so you know instead of if you're a young entrepreneur instead of trying to live by the list you know 0.95

00:36:27.820 get married have kids by the time you're 20 fucking two you know like how about this how about you 0.94

00:36:33.900 think about what you really want in your life and plan accordingly and and like gary says it's a lot 0.99

00:36:38.680 like punt your 20s i agree with that because that's what i did you know what i mean i didn't do shit in 0.90

00:36:43.480 my 20s and i did a little bit of shit for the last three or four years but basically it's still work 0.53

00:36:50.180 every day right but it's it's like you said it's more inclusive of a life right you know what i mean 0.90

00:36:56.120 like we like we live in a nice house now and like we got a pool so if we go do business people come

00:37:00.680 over and eat barbecue and shit like that right you know what i mean or like i'll have some of the guys 0.79

00:37:04.900 from the store over and we'll talk about this or that it you know while we're hanging out it's still

00:37:09.380 considered work but it we created a family atmosphere and culture in our company to where it doesn't feel

00:37:16.580 like it like it never really feels like work here to anybody i don't think it doesn't seem like it

00:37:21.780 yeah even though you're obsessed with it right exactly like nobody here is like you know there's

00:37:26.300 guys that get burnt out you know what i mean but um and there's times that are tough like there's times

00:37:31.200 a year that are a lot harder than other we gotta get a lot of shit done um but at the at the end of 0.72

00:37:36.960 the day you know most of the time it's like yeah we're doing this and that but it's still it's still

00:37:41.840 family atmosphere you know what i mean i want to circle back at something you were talking about

00:37:46.700 mark you were saying that it was actually an asset for you that you weren't super book smart and you

00:37:52.100 said the same thing so that you don't overthink things you don't go deep into it but there's a

00:37:56.040 lot of people that listen to us that i know are not are not like that they are they actually are

00:38:01.120 very smart they're three-dimensional thinkers so what would you tell them about how to get mentally

00:38:06.860 tough to where you're not overthinking things you're strategic you're thinking about things from

00:38:11.680 different angles but you're not just killing your action with overthinking anything like do you have

00:38:16.040 any practical tips either one of you guys to yeah a lot of people will have uh like analysis paralysis

00:38:21.200 and the same thing happens you see it with uh it's happened to myself with training like start to learn

00:38:26.780 so much or nutrition is a great example eggs are healthy eggs aren't healthy carbs are good carbs are

00:38:32.720 bad like what the fuck what do i do and then so you just don't follow any plan and then you just 0.99

00:38:36.840 self-destruct and you're not anywhere right you're three days in on something you're like fuck this 0.99

00:38:40.880 isn't working you switch it up right uh my main advice to people that are going to be uh strategic 0.98

00:38:48.400 um is just to kind of understand they're going to have to take they're going to have to take some

00:38:53.480 risks and they're going to have to do something uh depending on what they're shooting for like if

00:38:58.920 you want to be average you want to just kind of sit in the middle then maybe you don't ever really

00:39:02.900 need to take much of a risk but for myself even though even though i'm a dreamer there's never

00:39:11.520 really been a time where i put myself in a compromising position especially from like a

00:39:15.820 financial standpoint i mean the first order of slingshots we we put out like 25 grand or something

00:39:21.120 like that so and and when you don't have any money that's an enormous amount of money oh yeah you don't

00:39:26.000 have any dough yeah that's 25 000 times more than the money that you actually have yeah it's it that's a

00:39:31.700 lot of money when you don't have money but in the grand scheme of things you talk to any business

00:39:35.300 person or somebody's been doing some big business for a while 25 000 is not really much of anything

00:39:40.620 and so in terms of like uh just because i'm a dreamer doesn't mean that i'm still not calculating in

00:39:47.220 uh some of the risks um i guess a more accurate statement would be like i'm somebody who kind of

00:39:53.720 already taxes in a lot of the ups and downs like i already know i can't always ensure that everything

00:40:00.760 will be will get better but i can ensure that things will be bad sometimes like they for sure

00:40:07.240 will be bad there's gonna be bad days for me days where or even months where the slingshot sales are

00:40:12.700 lower than they were before so for me personally i know he said he's a numbers guy i don't look at any

00:40:18.580 of that because i don't want one thing to blow me one way or the other like i don't want to be like

00:40:22.280 a leaf in the wind and get swept away towards thinking one thing or the other i always just try to um

00:40:28.760 whatever i'm thinking whatever those gut feelings are i try my best to react off of those but also

00:40:35.620 not have those reactions be uh anything that could really cost me so those people that are cautious

00:40:42.660 and those people that are calculated i would just say that they need to just take that they need to

00:40:49.940 take that first step something that everyone needs to kind of look at like he was saying in the gym and

00:40:54.540 really resonated with me but he said in the gym like you know when you're first starting to work

00:40:59.980 out and you're first starting to like squat maybe somebody squats two plates well once they squat two

00:41:05.520 plates they might be thinking like oh man it'd be cool to squat three plates someday right but they're

00:41:09.340 not really thinking about squatting 800 pounds at that moment maybe that is like a lifetime goal or

00:41:14.340 whatever but in my opinion you have to be able to see what's in front of you the steps in front of you

00:41:20.080 and you also have to be able to see the horizon you also have to be able to see what's way out in

00:41:24.940 front of you like what's that you know what's at the top of the stairs as well as like what's directly

00:41:29.480 in front of you yeah i think a lot of people ask that too a lot of people are like well what am i

00:41:33.640 better am i better doing setting gigantic goals or data goals or day goals i think both yeah both

00:41:38.960 you break it down well also too you know in terms of uh in terms of goals like why not make some of

00:41:45.640 your goals like really easy so you can feel fucking awesome all day i saw a cool video on 0.83

00:41:49.980 that just last night it was uh this it was a retired uh admiral i believe and he's like

00:41:56.980 if you want to be successful in life start with making your bed he gave this really cool speech on

00:42:02.480 it i saw you put up a thing about a somebody wrote a book right making ours maybe somebody else put it

00:42:06.580 up i don't know i was uh i was on josh uh brolin's uh instagram is where i saw it yeah it's called make

00:42:11.540 the bed yeah and he gives this little speech about making the bed he's like look when you get up and

00:42:17.000 make the bed you you feel a sense of pride about the the the task that you accomplish and that's

00:42:24.260 going to make you want to go on and accomplish another task and then that task is going to make

00:42:28.400 you want to success breed success right and then and then he keeps going on and on and he's like 0.97

00:42:32.880 it was cool it was funny he goes and then some days they're just going to be shit but when you come 0.96

00:42:39.380 home your bed's going to be made you have some consistency in your life right and i just thought 0.92

00:42:44.820 it was such a good point like yeah and you know dude i'm i'm terrible making the bed so if i even

00:42:50.480 claim that i do right my wife listens and she'll make fun of me for lying but the point is i just

00:42:56.340 never thought of it like that like literally something that small yeah keep your goals really

00:43:00.060 small i mean it might sound like a it might not even sound like a goal like i'm gonna get my

00:43:05.140 haircut today yeah well that is that is something you accomplished because you had a bunch of other

00:43:10.080 stuff to do in that day and you got this other thing done right um i'm gonna work out today or

00:43:15.020 what about just like winning like an hour or winning a moment like we're gonna win lunch because we got a

00:43:21.980 steak salad right that's right and uh just these kind of small these small victories can really really

00:43:28.200 turn in turn into something much larger i think in nutrition that's super important too like dude

00:43:33.700 for me i'll for the longest time have had the hardest time going out to eat and being able to

00:43:40.840 order something like having the discipline to not order like a pizza right and now and like now even

00:43:47.920 to this day like if i go out to eat and i order something that's on my plan so to speak dude i feel 0.73

00:43:53.760 like i'm like fuck yeah that was a good i did good there yeah you know what i mean well and then you you 0.93

00:43:57.940 really start to feel uh just really incredible in a lot of ways because you're you're winning when 0.98

00:44:04.080 you're here you're in control you're winning with your diet you're winning at home and it just starts

00:44:10.060 to spread even more and more and you're like you know why why can't i be ripped and rich at the same

00:44:16.520 time why can't i be a meathead millionaire like you you can be yeah there's things you gotta you gotta

00:44:21.100 chip away at them over a long period of time um it it does take it does take a long time but when it

00:44:26.920 comes to your diet um or it comes to anything that you're doing you have to kind of break it down

00:44:32.340 into its smallest form so it's a little bit more digestible so you can understand it a little bit

00:44:37.060 better when it comes to any diet you're always one meal away from being back on your plan you know

00:44:42.780 you're always one meal away from being back out but it was just one meal away for me the keto style

00:44:48.180 diet works so great because i love to eat out yeah and eating out and trying to be calorie restricted

00:44:53.300 is really hard i'd probably be only be only able to eat like once or twice a day right with that

00:44:58.520 uh kind of restriction but not eating uh carbohydrates it's like you can go to almost

00:45:03.360 any restaurant in the in the country and get uh something that doesn't have carbs like a steak or

00:45:09.060 something right it's a matter of replacing the mashed potatoes with uh vegetables and things like

00:45:13.500 that pretty easy you get to eat butter bacon cheese i mean it's fucking awesome right right right

00:45:18.380 yeah dude i think uh you know it's important to acknowledge the small victories you know i think 0.55

00:45:25.440 people especially when you do have big goals because i preach huge goals a lot but it is important

00:45:33.100 you know on a day-by-day basis to see your victories you know that's that's part of the

00:45:37.040 planner that we just launched um that i was telling you about that we sold out of you know the powerless

00:45:42.260 planner basically it's just a list of five daily things that you need to win today

00:45:48.160 right you know for for you to count the day as a win and you know you go to the next day and if

00:45:52.880 you win your five days because i believe it would be a huge mistake for you to sit here and think

00:45:56.980 oh you know first form's not in this position so it's a failure it's a disappointment right exactly 0.98

00:46:02.140 like no no no it's this is this is an awesome victory and why not keep that fucking momentum 0.93

00:46:06.920 going to wherever you foresee it being right five years right and it takes you know when you're a 0.97

00:46:11.380 driven person it takes some it takes discipline to not feel disappointed because you always feel

00:46:17.540 behind yeah satisfied athletes suck is what i've always used to preach when i was a football coach

00:46:22.580 it's like you don't want but at the same time you do have to appreciate the stuff that you have you 0.76

00:46:27.660 really do yeah the people around you i struggle with that man like like it's not easy like with uh

00:46:32.900 with you're overstimulated with business wise yeah you know what i mean because like it actually

00:46:37.740 annoys me when people say oh congratulations on all your success i'm like success we haven't

00:46:42.100 fucking done anything and you get started like this is one tenth of what we're gonna do right you 0.90

00:46:46.440 know and but they don't realize that they're being polite you know what i mean but like it i have to 0.99

00:46:52.780 literally pull myself back and say okay dude you started at the back of that fucking retail store 0.98

00:46:58.240 sleeping on a mattress that had a piss stain that you didn't make right you know what i mean you know 0.97

00:47:03.820 pj had a really good uh on his uh instagram he had a really good distinction the other day between

00:47:08.700 satisfied and gratified right that that successful people are never satisfied but you can be gratified

00:47:15.020 at the end of the day you can say man i'm i'm i'm thankful that i reached this level today or i

00:47:20.820 advanced this much today and i i think that's a good distinction to make yeah you could still be a

00:47:25.180 little frustrated that you're maybe not as far along as you want to be right definitely definitely room

00:47:30.160 for that i think one of the things i see in in one of my favorite uh whoa who let the dogs out

00:47:35.760 well mailman's here yep mailman just died dog attacked him yeah i had a dog attack out uh

00:47:43.540 outside the studio guys yeah the uh one of the one of the people that i admire right now a lot is

00:47:49.880 is conor mcgregor yeah and i i just love the way that that guy's able to diffuse uh situation then

00:47:56.840 yeah like he's real brash and he's over the top and he's gonna be like cocky and everything but

00:48:01.020 he took that uh that loss that he had dude that was awesome to nate diaz wasn't it yeah he took

00:48:08.660 that loss like a real champion you know he was like he's humble he was the better man for today

00:48:14.000 yeah i tried to do a couple things and i and it didn't really work and um had i stayed at this

00:48:19.640 body weight a little bit longer i think i would have done better but he didn't discredit him and he

00:48:23.760 didn't say i would have beat him no dude he's like i think i could have done better yeah but he's

00:48:27.600 he's got a very uh like stoic mindset yeah where he's not letting anything uh pull him in the wrong

00:48:33.800 direction and he's talked himself into this mayweather fight yeah he's gonna win yeah like 0.80

00:48:38.440 it's in his fucking brain that he's gonna win yeah he knows it for sure yeah and the momentum is 0.95

00:48:44.780 mounting and a lot of people are now like he might win yeah well now the advantage and all that momentum 1.00

00:48:50.360 and all that energy inside that building on that night is going to be on conor mcgregor's side it is 0.70

00:48:55.560 with every punch and every whether he lands one or not the crowd's gonna go fucking crazy yeah that's 0.97

00:49:00.300 gonna play into mayweather's strategy yeah and who the fuck knows what can happen then dude i think 0.95

00:49:05.100 that's the best thing about that fight is nobody fucking knows what he knows yeah and everybody's 0.96

00:49:09.340 all the guys picking mcgregor uh uh mayweather yeah they're they're you know they're like oh yeah 0.84

00:49:15.520 you know greatest boxer ever yeah and it's like dude look man there's at least enough doubt in this

00:49:21.600 fight that you can't say for sure who's gonna win there's just no way and mcgregor is the one

00:49:26.760 who has planted the seed you know and and mayweather mayweather can't go through throughout his whole

00:49:31.780 career unscathed yeah they talk about him being the greatest boxer of all time well you can't be the

00:49:35.920 greatest of all time until there's been a really really harsh struggle yeah really a lot of as we

00:49:41.660 talked about throughout the whole podcast a lot of resistance yeah and he really hasn't had much 0.98

00:49:45.920 right you know ali had to lose to people that he had to come back and beat yeah shit like that 0.87

00:49:50.860 ali beat yeah the greatest boxer of all time isn't record and it's not it's not money made right it's

00:49:56.500 it's how you overcome adversity it's the story it's the legacy and mike tyson unfortunately probably

00:50:01.500 the most talented most explosive one of the most athletic and most self-destructive people of our time

00:50:07.160 super self-destructive and then i love mike tyson i love mike tyson too but he's not going to get the

00:50:13.140 credit as being one of the all-time greats he never really avenged a loss you know like he once

00:50:19.080 he lost to buster douglas which is the biggest upset in boxing history it's kind of over it was it was

00:50:24.120 kind of over and then you kind of forget about how dominant he was but like yeah who would is he

00:50:27.900 dominant against he dominated so well there wasn't enough resistance right there for for you to view

00:50:33.400 him as like uh being great meanwhile ali had to beat like joe frazier you know ali got his jaw broken in

00:50:39.980 the first round against joe frazier still finished the fight even though he lost i mean all kinds of

00:50:44.620 crazy shit like that yeah the the cool thing about ali and foreman too is they both they both fought

00:50:49.800 like fighters from different eras yeah and did well you know what i mean they kind of like bridged the 0.95

00:50:54.860 gap you know what i mean uh but dude i'm pumped for that fight yeah it should be it should be pretty

00:51:00.440 cool who do you think's gonna win who man i honestly i don't know i don't know i'm hoping mcgregor

00:51:07.400 wins yeah like i love mcgregor too and like for the same reason that you said i i i think because

00:51:13.300 i'm big on like i think humility and and and cockiness both have their place in life i don't

00:51:20.820 like a lot of people shit on cockiness like it's like it's the wrong thing i believe that in 0.57

00:51:26.700 preparation you should be humble in competition you should be cocky and you know i think i just love 0.98

00:51:34.000 everything that he is like you know like i'm not afraid to say he's the greatest no he's not afraid

00:51:38.840 to just but you look at all that for years you look at anybody who's like great entertainer which

00:51:43.420 is what he is he's an entertainer you know he's is he an athlete yes but he is an entertainer which 0.66

00:51:49.400 is why he fucking earns the money that he makes he's figured out how to make money yes and you look 0.96

00:51:54.540 at the rock the rock on it he's playfully cocky a lot and then he's humble you know what i mean 0.97

00:52:02.060 like it's a good dynamic it's a cool dynamic balance yeah and i just i don't know man i i really hope

00:52:08.200 that he wins i to ask me who i think is going to win logically i i really don't know i would say

00:52:14.140 the fight is probably going to go a lot like mayweather's fights right he's going to move around

00:52:19.320 connor's going to have a hard time hitting him i do think if connor hits him though he's going to do

00:52:24.360 a lot of damage yeah he might be and and on any day in a fight that's the good thing about a fight

00:52:28.560 dude you know it's like any given sunday any given fight it only takes one hit so i i don't i mean i

00:52:35.760 definitely do not count him out i want him to win i want to one of my friends uh george lockhart does a

00:52:40.740 lot of the diet and stuff for a lot of the ufc fighters and he's been working uh with mcgregor and i was

00:52:46.500 on the phone with him and we podcasted with him uh while he was working directly with him uh when

00:52:51.840 they're out in ireland and he just said like he's like man he's like i've worked with him before he's

00:52:58.040 like this is different he's like he's he always trains really hard he's always one of the hardest

00:53:02.380 workers i've ever worked with but he's like he's on another level right now for this fight and i was

00:53:06.640 like fuck man that's cool so he's got everybody in his corner yeah you know feeling the same way that 0.99

00:53:12.540 he does when he's talking he's not like talking out his ass like he really he really feels like 0.99

00:53:16.720 he has a great chance to win the fight and he's convinced himself of it i i really think if that's 0.65

00:53:21.180 true like i admire that mindset dude it's a necessary mindset to do big things right i mean if you're 0.57

00:53:27.340 gonna do big things i mean he's got half the world saying he's fucking crazy right now right half the 0.91

00:53:32.940 world 50 maybe even more maybe 70 saying dude there's no chance there's no fucking chance and that's 0.88

00:53:39.900 such that's such a big obstacle for people who want to start a business because they'll come out 0.66

00:53:45.700 or they want to be good inside of a company you know they'll come out and say you know they're

00:53:50.340 a warehouse guy and say one day i want to be vice president of the company people like dude you just 0.98

00:53:54.860 sweep the fucking floors and that's the kind of shit they hear and and dude developing the ability 0.97

00:54:00.220 to believe your own path is such a huge deal of success and i think if he really does believe that 0.99

00:54:06.860 he'll probably fucking win you know what i mean yeah i you very rarely see somebody who is that 0.80

00:54:12.700 has that much conviction in their plan in their in their mission that that just doesn't that doesn't 0.97

00:54:18.960 happen you know i'm a big believer in the law of attraction like uh and that when you put thoughts

00:54:23.680 out there and focus on them yeah that back to you they do and uh you know if he's really if he's

00:54:31.960 really believes it from his heart it's gonna be hard to beat him i always think you know the fight

00:54:36.160 you know i saw that quote that you have on your uh table out there and i i've been a firm believer

00:54:40.360 of that for many years that the fight is against yourself yeah you know so here's conor mcgregor

00:54:45.380 talking himself into uh pulling off this insane upset against what's viewed as the greatest boxer

00:54:51.720 of all time many of us talk ourselves out of stuff every single day it's really easy for you to come in

00:54:57.920 here uh on a certain day on a monday and you have a meeting everyone's all fired up yeah this is what

00:55:02.400 we're gonna fucking do and then all the follow through that happens and all the struggle and all 0.90

00:55:07.160 the resistance that happens from trying to put some of those plans in place they hit you in the 0.97

00:55:12.240 face and you're like uh and then it starts to be very easy to talk yourself out of some of those

00:55:16.340 things something as simple as uh waking up at 5 a.m what's the what's the who cares about what time

00:55:24.740 you wake up like time is made up right like we we made it up so that we can fucking get up a certain 0.89

00:55:30.200 time and be in sync with the sun or whatever it really doesn't matter that much but what does it 0.65

00:55:34.760 show you it shows you a form of discipline it gives you a form i said i was going to do this now i'm doing

00:55:39.900 this i said that i was going to set out to do that now i'm i'm going to eat better it's very easy to 0.98

00:55:46.660 talk yourself out of stuff though you might you might uh be watching tv and maybe you're fucking eating 0.98

00:55:52.200 some ben and jerry's and you're like you know what this is the last fucking thing this is it i'm throwing 0.99

00:55:57.980 this away and then tomorrow i start my plan well the next day pops up something your buddy texts you 0.81

00:56:04.500 and he wants to go grab breakfast he wants to go grab all you can eat pancakes and there you are 0.89

00:56:08.760 eating motherfucking pancakes right you know it's so easy to talk yourself things things just always 0.89

00:56:14.620 seem like they're so difficult and they're really just they're not that hard um but the you know the 0.99

00:56:20.840 uh sexiness of uh of not of not doing the stuff you're supposed to do is uh more attractive a lot

00:56:27.540 of times than doing what you're supposed to do but each and every day we're faced with these corners

00:56:33.600 everybody's faced with these corners and i think successful people go they go around those corners

00:56:39.260 they continually go around those corners and they make squares and rectangles and

00:56:43.780 people that fall short are making circles that's right going in circles there's dude there is no 0.68

00:56:50.660 fucking doubt that is the biggest difference between people who are successful at anything

00:56:55.880 they set out to do and people who who never can do it it's it's doing circles versus squares 0.98

00:57:01.600 yeah you know what i mean we have a lot of people uh that we're friends with um that we that we hear

00:57:07.340 talk about stuff all the time and my wife and i will talk about it later and we're just like man i'm just

00:57:12.140 really disappointed because i know that they're not going to do that like i wish they did right i

00:57:17.340 wish they did do that i wish they went through with that but then you're like they they've been 0.99

00:57:22.120 saying a lot of that stuff for a long time they probably aren't going to do it you're like fuck 0.90

00:57:25.820 yeah and you know dude the thing about you want to see them like oh enjoy some of the stuff no 0.87

00:57:29.720 question no question but the the biggest thing about the circles and the squares that you're talking

00:57:34.760 about and you did a video on instagram that i loved talking about that where you're actually

00:57:39.340 walking around yeah yeah it's the fucking truth the success i always dude i give a similar talk 0.91

00:57:44.840 the success is always found in the corners it's not found in the middle that's where everybody is 0.94

00:57:50.240 it's at the corners and when you cut the corners you're cutting on success and that that the the i 0.99

00:57:56.300 think the thing to note here for people listening is that that is a fucking habit that's a habit of 0.90

00:58:02.100 yours if you're doing the circles and your workouts and your business you're doing them everywhere else 0.96

00:58:07.000 you know it's a very contagious habit you know what i mean and that's why you that's why you see

00:58:12.560 people who are you know crazy jeff bezos who owns fucking amazon yeah basically the richest dude on 0.99

00:58:20.000 the earth right now dude that motherfucker don't cut corners look at his business look at his physique 0.99

00:58:24.760 the guy's fucking ripped he's in good shape yeah you know i'm saying like he used to be like when 1.00

00:58:30.620 they were when business was bad he was like a skinny little nerd yeah now business is good and he's 0.99

00:58:34.900 fucking jacked he's getting into doing stuff in space now yeah he's not what the fuck but he ain't 0.98

00:58:39.640 cut no fucking corners i guarantee you that and you find that with every successful person i mean dude 0.99

00:58:44.800 if you follow the rock on on instagram motherfuckers up at four o'clock in the morning doing cardio then 0.99

00:58:49.920 he's lifting weights at three in the afternoon every day with a schedule that's 10 times harder 0.99

00:58:54.520 than any of ours and if you were to ask him if he can do a better job he'd say fuck yeah yeah exactly 0.92

00:58:59.280 there's always more you can do dude tim grover talks about that that's the sign have you read that book 0.92

00:59:03.760 relentless by tim grover dude you must read fucking amazing book and he's an amazing dude he's michael 0.94

00:59:09.980 jordan's performance coach oh i've definitely heard of yeah yeah um kobe bryant duane wade a ton of big

00:59:17.020 athletes right so but he's mainly like i'm not i mean he's a physical coach too but his main thing is

00:59:22.260 like mental coaching right and dude he has this uh this term for people who are like obsessive fucking 0.94

00:59:29.920 uh basically obsessive obsessed with success and he calls it a cleaner and how you know as a cleaner

00:59:37.180 is that you always feel like there's more to do right like no matter what you achieve you always

00:59:41.480 feel like could have done better and he said that's the no he said cleaners he said if someone thinks

00:59:47.340 they're a cleaner they're not a cleaner because it's the guy who thinks that he always has more

00:59:52.520 to do and can always do better than is the true cleaner and i found that interesting because

00:59:56.620 him and i were talking and we were talking i was talking about myself and i'm like i don't know

01:00:00.920 man like i read your book and i'm like man i don't know if i would fit into that cleaner he goes that

01:00:04.840 means you're a cleaner that means you're in yeah right and he explained why and i'm like man that

01:00:08.820 actually makes pretty good sense yeah you know i still don't feel like i'm a cleaner even after he

01:00:12.680 told me that i'm like i don't know you know but the thing of it is is that the the circle the

01:00:19.600 cutting the corners man it's real easy to get that's a slippery slope you know it's real easy to cut a

01:00:24.820 corner in one area of your life and then all of a sudden you're doing it everywhere right and it's

01:00:30.320 it's it's also contagious the other way if you make a commitment to to put in the actual attention

01:00:37.700 to detail in the corner that makes success at work eventually you're going to start looking at your

01:00:42.480 physical self and then when you or vice versa and eventually it all kind of melds together you know 0.99

01:00:47.400 that's why people who have their shit together have their shit together because they're not cutting 0.98

01:00:51.900 the fucking corners off anywhere i had a friend of mine uh came into the gym a while back and i was 0.99

01:00:57.160 working on him with uh for for uh some squats and stuff like that and i haven't known him for that 0.96

01:01:04.200 long but as i'm communicating with him i've noticed like he won't look me in the eye and he's real shy

01:01:08.280 and timid and like even when he like does a lift he's like he's pretty like timid and i'm like oh you

01:01:13.880 know okay that's just like personality whatever you know everybody's everybody's different some people 0.69

01:01:18.040 like get real fired up before they do a lift i like to make a big a big fucking scene of it just 0.90

01:01:22.340 because that fits me well and i feel good that way yeah everybody's a little different when it comes 0.73

01:01:27.520 to some of those things but as we got talking a little bit later in the day he mentions to me

01:01:33.320 about his son playing baseball he's like my son you know he's like 13 playing baseball and he's like 0.99

01:01:38.100 he's like it's a mean thing to say about your son he's like but my son's kind of a pussy 1.00

01:01:42.100 you know like he's just real timid he's up there barely holding the bat he'll barely swing at the ball 0.99

01:01:47.420 and i'm just thinking like bro yeah he's yeah he's an exact replica i didn't i didn't say that

01:01:54.240 but i was kind of thinking that in my head and i said hey you know what i said it's really hard to

01:01:58.120 think back to when you were younger the way that you really were right so you got a war like everyone 0.91

01:02:03.640 has a warped image of the way that they were yeah and for you or i to sit here like we're sitting

01:02:09.080 pretty in a lot of ways right we have things really fucking good we have a really enjoyable life

01:02:14.140 and we have a lot of fucking fun every day it's kind of easy for us to look back and be like i 0.86

01:02:18.860 don't get it why don't why aren't you fucking savage yeah well a lot of us didn't start out 0.95

01:02:23.040 that way a lot of us started out very timid like for myself i was i was crippled by the fact that i 0.98

01:02:28.440 wasn't quote-unquote smart that like damaged me forever i couldn't i i quote-unquote couldn't

01:02:34.680 i didn't think i could do a lot of things i didn't think a lot of things were available

01:02:38.440 dude i didn't think i could have a regular job i had teachers straight up tell me 0.96

01:02:42.240 you're not that fucking smart yeah dude i had a teacher tell me i was on like a third grade 0.97

01:02:46.200 reading level and stuff i mean it was dude when i took my act i had i had a teacher tell me that 1.00

01:02:51.340 if i got an 18 i should be fucking thrilled i fucking went out the night so i'm like fuck it 0.97

01:02:56.860 i don't care about the act i'm you know because i told him i wanted to go to like duke or something 0.99

01:03:01.700 and he goes i didn't know where the fuck i want to go i just thought duke was cool and he goes 0.91

01:03:05.800 he goes yeah he goes uh andy i'll never forget his words he goes andy duke's for like the cream 0.94

01:03:10.940 of the crop he's like out there yeah and he's like you you need to like think about if you get

01:03:17.500 like an 18 maybe getting into like a state school or something that's where you that's where you 0.98

01:03:21.360 belong and i'm like all right well fuck it i don't care dude you know what i scored on act 0.99

01:03:25.940 a fucking 30 yeah and they thought because my grades were bad that i wasn't fucking intelligent 0.99

01:03:31.780 right and it turns out that their classes were too fucking boring and not challenging right so i 0.99

01:03:37.700 didn't give a shit you know what i mean so but the point is is like dude people i've had people 0.99

01:03:42.820 straight up tell me to my face yeah like dude you're not fucking smart you're not capable of 0.98

01:03:47.820 this and when you're a kid that's why would you why would you doubt it right you know what i mean 0.99

01:03:52.340 right and so my point is though if you're listening to this and you're trying to get yourself head in

01:03:57.300 the right direction and you think it's overwhelming or you you want to figure out a way to be rich or

01:04:03.080 whatever it is just take it one step at a time start working on something every single day maybe

01:04:09.640 maybe you set aside 20 minutes maybe the only thing that you do right now maybe the only action

01:04:14.500 that you take maybe all you do is read for 20 minutes or watch youtube for 20 like if you don't

01:04:19.180 like to read like i'm not a big reader then i'll watch youtube videos i watch all kinds of different

01:04:24.440 stuff to try to learn uh things that are kind of outside my comfort zone i've done all kinds of

01:04:30.060 things that have that haven't been comfortable for me i i own a my wife and i own a publication

01:04:36.000 called power magazine and i'm the editor of power magazine a guy that finishes high school on a third

01:04:41.740 grade reading level you know so you got to be you know kind of willing to do some things that are 0.95

01:04:46.840 outside your comfort zone i made a fucking rap video how long it doesn't get any more uncomfortable 0.98

01:04:51.380 than that you guys ever seen that but you got to see it if you never have it's just me having fun it's 0.98

01:04:56.240 just me like not being scared to kind of make some of those jumps and my point is i haven't always been

01:05:03.080 that way i became a savage or became a meathead millionaire through the process of fighting a

01:05:11.120 lot of resistance every single day and recognizing at some point having this clarity of oh my god i'm

01:05:18.500 like swinging punches at everybody else but it's like fight club you know yeah i should be swinging

01:05:25.280 punches at myself yeah i need to straighten myself the fuck out yeah i need to get myself heading in 0.78

01:05:29.900 the right direction so don't feel overwhelmed there's nothing to feel overwhelmed about there's 0.74

01:05:34.580 no rush there's no rush to be successful there's no rush for your your product to sell uh 200 percent

01:05:41.180 more like it'll just it'll just keep happening right as long as you created a great culture keep a

01:05:45.860 great positive mindset continue to work every you're gonna art the work's already going to be done you

01:05:49.960 already know that's going to happen all those other things are going to fall into place so let me

01:05:54.180 something you said there i think should be noted is you know you spoke about the adversity right like

01:06:02.440 um um and and and how things you're doing things that are uncomfortable and i think when you when

01:06:10.360 you teach yourself to make a habit out of doing things that are uncomfortable and you tell me what

01:06:15.440 you think but because i do i do the same thing you you start to realize that there's nothing to be

01:06:19.780 afraid of right and it's just it's another parallel to the gym huge right like like the more times you

01:06:26.480 go in like the resistance that you face it gets lighter it gets easier yeah it gets easier to move

01:06:31.620 and when you when you start to do things that are outside your comfort zone and they're there you find

01:06:40.280 out that not only is there nothing to be afraid of it's you actually enjoy it yeah you know and a lot

01:06:46.320 of things that you're most afraid of are going to be the things that provide amazing experiences that

01:06:50.820 you'll remember forever and but i definitely think the most valuable thing there is you know once you

01:06:55.500 make a habit of doing things that aren't necessarily comfortable you lose the fear of doing things and i

01:07:02.980 think the fear of doing things is what ultimately keeps people in the same spot yeah and there's nothing

01:07:08.660 more scary than not moving forward to me i agree so that's what that's more frustrating yeah that drives me

01:07:14.560 insane that's what drives me and to try to stay in your comfort zone all the time you're you're not

01:07:19.980 going to really get a lot of great results out of it a small example of it is like i do a video

01:07:26.040 every week called hustle mania follows me around of some of the different things that i do

01:07:31.180 and it just gives you some perspective on on the business side of things and view wise that's not

01:07:39.460 going to have the same amount of views as if i bench 500 pounds for a few reps but the whole point

01:07:44.220 is is that we're trying something different we're showcasing something totally different and we're

01:07:48.280 getting out to a new audience right if we just keep doing the same thing we might pick up some new

01:07:53.540 people here and there but it's not going to have the same impact as trying something different right

01:07:57.560 the pain of change is seems greater uh than than the pain of staying the same but staying the same is the

01:08:05.380 worse because if you're not getting better you're getting worse right technically kind of going

01:08:09.480 backwards yeah dude it's like it's like uh when people boil uh boil frog and and boiling water you

01:08:15.900 put the frog in there and regular water and don't won't jump out and you slowly turn the heat up until

01:08:21.420 it's boiling it won't jump out of the water and that's what that's what staying the same is like 0.70

01:08:25.160 right how do you know all this do we do weird shit here in the midwest you gotta you gotta test 0.91

01:08:30.060 certain things a certain way yeah i gotta peter calling me um so i have one final question for

01:08:36.580 you guys but do you want to take a second just to no i want to i want to i want to ask how how he got

01:08:41.680 slingshot going because i'm interested to hear about that so like for a guy who doesn't consider

01:08:46.520 himself smart um you know you came up with a pretty badass invention that's really affected an entire

01:08:53.400 industry in a really good way so tell tell people um first of all what the slingshot is

01:09:00.120 because a lot of people aren't actors and then also uh let's talk about how you know how did because

01:09:07.440 you didn't own a business before that right that's that was just okay i'm going to do this create this

01:09:11.340 invention yeah so let's talk about that because a lot of people want to they're like oh i have this

01:09:16.040 idea right but they don't know how to do it you know what i mean i'll tell you you know uh just before

01:09:21.360 i dive into some of the beginning stages of that the hardest thing of all this has been um being

01:09:28.320 somebody who has uh some creativity and being somebody who is an inventor of three united states

01:09:34.660 patents um inventing something and owning a business are not related to each other right it's not like

01:09:42.260 they it's not like invent this thing and all of a sudden millions of dollars come yeah it's not like

01:09:46.100 they really don't have any correlation at all exactly um although you know being the

01:09:51.080 inventor of the product i might have some insight on how to market it maybe differently than somebody

01:09:55.580 else but that's about it right uh i'm not going to know how to like manage a warehouse or or have um

01:10:02.300 employees or i don't know anything any of that so all this was very foreign to me the slingshot started

01:10:08.720 out uh by me getting injured in the gym uh multiple times i tore my pec three times the slingshot is a

01:10:16.520 supportive upper body device i created to allow me to get like through and around a lot of these

01:10:22.060 injuries that i was facing every time i tried to increase my bench strength i'd end up just tweaking

01:10:27.980 my pec i must have tweaked it 15 different times i did the same and had about three tears yeah i was

01:10:34.060 like what is going on so then i started learning more about the body i started learning more about 0.89

01:10:38.160 okay like dude this is kind of dumb like you're working the front of your body a lot you're not working 0.87

01:10:43.120 the back of your body you're not ever stretching and the muscles in the front are getting tight and 0.96

01:10:47.840 they're pulling you forward and this and that so i worked on a bunch of different things at the time

01:10:51.640 i was trying to do anything and everything i possibly could to get stronger and to figure out what was

01:10:56.380 standing in my way of getting better and so i was in the gym one day by myself and i threw on a bench

01:11:03.820 shirt well a bench shirt is a power lifting device that allows you to handle a lot more weight than

01:11:09.540 you can normally bench press originally the bench shirt was designed with similar intentions to a

01:11:14.180 slingshot where it's supposed to simply be supportive enough to get you out of pain but then over the

01:11:19.980 years as competition got greater they made these bench shirts insane they made them really tight and

01:11:24.820 really crazy and they allow you to lift 100 pounds 200 pounds over your best so i'm wearing this big

01:11:31.360 bench shirt in the gym one day and i i just uh i'm just coming off a torn pec and i was like oh let me

01:11:38.680 just let me just try like 135 you know even though i shouldn't be touching anything because i i have

01:11:44.340 it wasn't a full pec tear but i'm injured you know and so i try 135 while wearing this like large bench

01:11:50.720 shirt and i was like i was like man that worked i was actually able to do it and i didn't experience

01:11:55.840 any pain and so i just kind of sat there for a little bit and i was kind of looking at this bench 0.98

01:12:01.300 shirt i'm like well this thing's fucking ugly and no one in the ass too yeah no one in their right 0.99

01:12:06.220 mind would ever buy one of these to like just work out right i'm like how do i create something 0.99

01:12:10.980 where you that you could just like work out and it's a little bit more casual that looks a lot

01:12:15.080 cooler that is uh easy to put on and comfortable like the bench shirt's really uncomfortable takes

01:12:21.360 multiple people to get them on you can't even really normally train in a full range of motion

01:12:26.420 unless you have like 110 of your max yeah you guys have to realize it's like put a straight jacket 0.96

01:12:32.440 yeah put on your your fucking little brother's shirt but it's made out of like super stretchy 0.95

01:12:37.860 material that like has the ability to make you not be able to move unless you're under tensions 0.99

01:12:43.900 yeah in some cases it would be made out of uh uh denim some some cases be made out of like what

01:12:50.320 your jeans are made out of it'd be really just a super powerful material and i knew that that wasn't

01:12:55.200 going to be the ticket and then plus those things were very expensive and just unattractive looking and

01:13:00.160 x y and z and so i started playing around with a bunch of different ideas on things that i thought

01:13:05.820 would work really well and i was putting my shirt on one day and as i was putting my shirt on i put

01:13:11.200 uh the shirt over both arms before i put the shirt over over my head and i was just kind of sitting

01:13:17.820 there and i was shoving my elbows back with this shirt uh kind of crossing over my chest and i was

01:13:23.680 like i was like oh shit i'm like that would that would be it something that supports your elbows 0.81

01:13:29.020 and i started thinking like where do you spot somebody when they do like incline dumbbell bench 0.70

01:13:32.960 boom right on the elbows and then i started thinking about it more and i'm like that really

01:13:37.580 makes a lot of sense because the only thing that really travels anywhere when you're bench pressing

01:13:41.340 is your elbows everything else is just kind of sitting there right so i started playing around a

01:13:46.040 bunch of different ideas all of them were pretty terrible i was uh i i bought like really tight

01:13:51.880 under armor shirts and tried to put them just over my arms and see what that would do

01:13:55.620 none of that was really resulting in in anything i kicked the idea around to some different companies

01:14:02.500 um that were popular at the time in uh in power lifting and in the fitness space and

01:14:07.800 they're like it sounds like a horrible idea we don't know what you're talking about so

01:14:11.300 that happened several times i'm talking about talking yourself out of something

01:14:15.780 that negativity talked me right out of of like moving forward i was like ah you know what like

01:14:21.720 that's like the third person in a row that told me that's a fucking bad idea well maybe like maybe 0.92

01:14:27.920 it's a shit idea you know then i have this conversation with my with my dad and my dad 0.98

01:14:33.400 my dad's amazing i think every time he talks there should be like a little bit of music should hit 0.97

01:14:38.400 behind him because everything he says like this epic speech solid goal yeah and he's like hey he's like

01:14:43.800 you know did you know that this guy tried to do this this many times and uh heinz ketchup it's got the 57

01:14:49.860 on it it's like because because they're 57 thing uh uh the model t ford it's that it's t it's from

01:14:56.140 the the alphabet they had a b c d all the way to t and then the model t is famous forever right

01:15:02.980 the ford company and everything so he's giving me like some positive reinforcement i'm like oh man i

01:15:07.840 just don't what am i gonna do like make it myself i'm like i don't know like that's making

01:15:12.420 how am i gonna how am i gonna make something myself i don't i don't uh have a business or to

01:15:17.080 understand any of that i don't know what any of that means let me fast forward about a year this

01:15:22.820 idea just kind of dying and just kind of sitting around a little bit and i still was thinking about

01:15:27.600 it constantly but i i just didn't know what to really do with it and uh my oldest brother mike

01:15:33.860 uh who some of you may have seen in bigger stronger faster he passed away he was bipolar

01:15:38.900 drug addicted kind of the whole nine yards very similar story to many of the people listening to

01:15:44.360 this that probably have a relative or friend who's gone through something similar anyway when he died 0.99

01:15:50.280 that made an impact on me like you know what dude like who gives a fuck what people like don't be so 0.82

01:15:56.700 tied up with what people think or other or or concerns that even i have myself just go try it like just 0.99

01:16:03.000 what's the worst thing that can happen just go do it you know my brother's fucking dead he loved he 0.96

01:16:08.060 loved working out he loved training he's the one who showed me uh how to work out and i'm like i kind 0.99

01:16:13.200 of like i owe it to him to figure this fucking thing out and i my goal and my mission is to make 0.97

01:16:20.160 the world a better place to lift and i better fucking get going right now i went to sleep that 0.95

01:16:25.500 night and it was maybe a night or day or two had passed since he died and uh it was craziest dream i 0.93

01:16:35.300 don't believe in like uh in aliens and like weird shit or anything or ghosts or anything like that 0.94

01:16:40.740 um but i swear it felt like somebody was right in my fucking ear and it just said think and i woke up 0.97

01:16:50.040 with chills i was like i didn't i felt sick i don't know what the fuck was going i was just terrified 0.98

01:16:55.380 but it made me think and then so i started from that day on i was like i need to fucking figure this 0.90

01:17:01.780 thing out myself i need to get going on this project right away and so that was just kind of

01:17:07.600 start of it i started playing around with different materials um i uh had a wrist wrap that i that i

01:17:14.220 held together in the middle um my or my dad was holding it together in the middle and i wrapped it

01:17:18.940 around both arms we like rigged up this piece of shit looking thing and i go to pull my arms back and 0.96

01:17:24.280 my dad's standing in front of me and the the velcro pops off of it and hits him in the face 0.97

01:17:28.980 he's like well shit that ain't gonna work and i was like no you know what though that was the feel 0.89

01:17:34.720 that was that's the way it should be that's that's the way it needs to be and so need a velcro spotter 0.98

01:17:40.880 yeah yeah yeah you need someone to kind of protect you when you're wearing a damn thing right so once i

01:17:46.700 once i kind of had the overall concept down now it's a matter of like getting material so i was like 0.58

01:17:52.120 okay if it's made out of like a wrist wrap or knee wrap that would be the consistency i'm looking for

01:17:56.380 and i played around with a few different things and i found a material that i really liked

01:18:01.620 and i was like just like sewn together you know two knee wraps sewn together and then yeah i think

01:18:09.800 that would work really well so i met with my wife's friend my wife's a swimmer and uh she swam for the

01:18:15.360 university of kansas and and still swims today in a master's program and one of her swim friends uh made

01:18:21.040 swimsuits for a lot of a lot of their friends uh out of like this lycra material and my wife was like 1.00

01:18:27.240 i think that she would maybe be able to sew this thing together for you and so i met her out of

01:18:31.980 starbucks rate like uh within 50 to 75 feet of that starbucks was a fitness 19 gym and so when i met her

01:18:41.000 um i met her at starbucks one day told her the design told her what i was looking for she's like

01:18:46.260 yeah i can do that i was like it's got to be strong you know so she's like i'll just use strong thread

01:18:50.780 it shouldn't be a problem so met her like the next week she had a couple uh prototypes done 0.89

01:18:56.500 i walked in that fitness 19 the way i walk into every single gym like i own the goddamn place 0.99

01:19:02.160 because that's the way you get through the front door without ever paying because i'm a cheap bastard 0.97

01:19:06.180 i'm never gonna pay just stroll in be like hey is bob here like pretend that you you know someone 0.90

01:19:10.920 there i can walk right to the bench and uh throw the slingshot on and try to bench 135 with it

01:19:17.120 i just started repping it out like it was nothing and i got up off the bench and just head to toe 0.96

01:19:22.420 uh goosebumps i'm like this is fucking it i'm like this is gonna be this is gonna be a fucking big idea 0.95

01:19:29.680 so i went back to my wife's friend and said hey i need you to make like a handful of these because i 0.98

01:19:34.620 gotta test this shit out in the gym and there was a matter of like finding manufacturing and stuff 0.95

01:19:39.180 from there and it took you know a little trial and error uh the first batch that we had sucked and 0.99

01:19:45.280 uh for some reason had some crazy smell to it because of the dye that they used and so my wife 0.95

01:19:52.000 and i tried to we tried to wash them at home and get some of that dye out and it actually ended up 0.73

01:19:57.180 breaking our fucking washer which is the last thing we were we were already broke and we had the 0.99

01:20:02.380 possibility of losing our house at the time and um so it was a big investment to eat to try to get the 0.98

01:20:08.340 damn thing going but that's kind of how the product um came to be and then i ended up having

01:20:15.020 some fortune which i'm sure uh you had a little stroke of a fortune here there along the way that 0.97

01:20:20.000 were kind of pivot points for you and and this was really something that was awesome uh i had two

01:20:26.520 friends that were going to throw in a little bit of money and one friend backed out um then my dad

01:20:31.840 stepped in he's like yeah i you know i'll try to help so my dad was going to throw in a little bit

01:20:36.400 of money for this first order and then i had another friend on the hook for it too and like

01:20:41.640 last minute he backed out and so we thought that we would get you know get the money out uh to the

01:20:47.740 manufacturer we thought that we just had to give them like half the money then they would send the

01:20:52.220 product and we give them the other half we had like a misunderstanding uh they wanted half and then

01:20:56.660 before they shipped them they wanted the other half we're just learning the ropes we didn't know what

01:21:01.080 right right so uh now we're on the hook we need the money within a couple days because uh these

01:21:09.320 people manufactured this product for us they're waiting for the other half of their money and i

01:21:14.880 start to think of my friends and as i was mentioning earlier like i don't really like to ask people for

01:21:19.720 stuff so this was a huge deal to ask somebody for something but i had a really good friend his name

01:21:24.960 is john hennigan he used to be a professional wrestler used to be on wwe now he's working on

01:21:30.000 uh directing and writing some of his own uh feature films and stuff like that and so

01:21:34.680 you know i call him up and uh he he and i became pretty good friends while i was in ovw which is a

01:21:41.700 professional wrestling uh training ground for the wwe and i was telling him i was like hey man i was

01:21:48.640 like remember that idea i was telling you about that product that i had i was telling you about that

01:21:52.160 slingshot thing remember all that and he goes yeah yeah he's like he's like how's that going i said well

01:21:56.520 i said i made him uh i said the problem is i was like i was like i need some money and he's like

01:22:02.740 he's like what do you need and i was like well kind of a lot he's like just he's like just tell me i

01:22:07.780 don't care what is it i was like 25 grand and he's like he'll be at your front door front door 1.00

01:22:13.640 tomorrow morning he overnighted a check for fucking 25 grand oh shit just that one shot of fucking 0.99

01:22:20.640 generosity yeah i mean launched our family into something that's been super beneficial and amazing 0.99

01:22:26.940 for us uh forever yeah and you know i'm still thankful to him to this very day you know and i

01:22:33.320 remember when i had the conversation with him i was like dude i'm gonna pay you back and like

01:22:36.920 like i can because i was so i was so into the product i thought for sure that these things were

01:22:41.580 gonna like yeah fly off the shelves like hotcakes and that we were gonna make all our money back

01:22:46.260 like right away and i was like i'll pay you back in like six months he's like you know what i i kind

01:22:51.540 of have a feeling that it's gonna take you you know longer than six months just to pay it back and

01:22:55.300 we ended up paying him back uh we did end up selling all the product that we ordered my prediction was

01:23:00.680 that we'd be able to do it in a year and it took us about 14 months so we're able to fly through a

01:23:05.420 product that people at the time didn't even know existed didn't know existed and didn't know they

01:23:09.980 needed right so when i look back on it now i'm like man i was really you're creating a market

01:23:14.240 yeah that's a that's a lot different than launching a product for a market that exists

01:23:18.580 yeah protein powder oh yeah i'm familiar exactly oh this one tastes better than that one i'm gonna 0.97

01:23:22.880 buy that right but the first guy that created protein powder right had his fucking work cut out 0.80

01:23:27.400 for him right you know you're creating a you're creating an entire market which involves education 0.98

01:23:35.000 process it doesn't involve just selling some shit yeah so you know when you take 14 months 0.75

01:23:40.700 you're listening to this realize that how extremely fast that is for what they had to do 0.97

01:23:46.920 yeah i think it was about andy it's about 5 000 right 4 000 slingshots something like that 0.97

01:23:51.520 yeah about 5 000 slingshots yeah something like that fuck now you see them everywhere yeah dude i 0.84

01:23:56.180 can't even see i mean i don't know how many of you guys have sold but like dude it is it's changed 0.94

01:24:00.840 the way people train we've sold about half a million of them yeah yeah somewhere in that range

01:24:05.160 that's so it's safe to say this was overnight success right yeah absolutely yeah yeah i mean

01:24:10.140 all you have to do like to invent a product and to be wealthy is just tear your pec a couple times 0.93

01:24:13.840 yeah no shit put 600 pounds in the bar and i'm sure that'll be uh i've torn mine a couple times bro 0.56

01:24:19.360 that ain't no joke and then i mean pretty much from there it's just a matter of like creating products 0.93

01:24:24.520 around the brand and then like i didn't know so is that what you're doing now are you doing uh like

01:24:28.860 line extension products so you have the slingshot slingshot product and then what else are you

01:24:33.800 working on yeah we so we're working on uh other variations of slingshot we're working on a uh

01:24:39.720 we call it slingshot sport which is more designed for push-ups like specifically to help people that

01:24:44.760 really struggle with push-ups yeah to hit a little bit more of that general fitness crowd that's a

01:24:50.080 great idea yeah the slingshot itself works great for dips and it works great for push-ups uh but we

01:24:55.780 wanted to create something that still sometimes a slingshot when it comes to something like a push-up

01:25:01.620 uh i still see some women there's a huge huge market for that exists in the crossfit world too 1.00

01:25:07.720 you know people who are who are having to scale their workouts because they can't do push-ups

01:25:11.720 right right yeah that's a great idea so we made we made a bunch of offshoot products like that that

01:25:16.840 are more of like a sport line the things are a little bit more passive when i originally made the

01:25:21.760 slingshot i didn't really realize that i didn't have an understanding you were kind of mentioning earlier

01:25:27.160 like you don't understand sometimes when someone's lazy sometimes i don't have a comprehension of 0.99

01:25:31.460 what strong what strong or weak is because i'm around some nasty motherfuckers all day crazy 1.00

01:25:36.680 that's right yeah so like i i kind of lost my right perception of right oh you oh you benched four 0.99

01:25:42.060 plates i mean shit yeah that's cute you know right exactly pat on the back right where you go to any 0.99

01:25:46.640 other gym the dude who's benching four plates is the strongest motherfucker in there yeah people are 0.99

01:25:50.060 all excited yeah and so for me i didn't really realize that that first slingshot that we made was 0.92

01:25:54.800 going to be a little bit too strong for a lot of people yeah the assistance that you gave that it

01:25:58.940 gave you uh was almost ended up being like a too stiff of a of a resistance for them to keep their

01:26:05.560 form on the way down so i had to go back and and and make one that was uh more flexible right right

01:26:11.480 and that's that's when i made the like reactive slingshot and then we were also having an audience

01:26:16.080 chiming in you probably get this all the time i would be cool if you made this and yeah if it makes

01:26:20.040 sense sometimes you do right yeah it's always good to listen to your customers but sometimes you got to

01:26:24.400 know what to not listen to customers always wrong right that's the saying right and then so we had

01:26:30.640 a lot of stronger power lifters like oh man make a double ply version so then we made a mad dog one

01:26:35.140 and that pays homage to my oldest brother mike who passed away and then we made uh another one named

01:26:40.640 after my brother chris who's still alive um called the full bore slingshot so now we have four different

01:26:45.800 types of slingshots and now now we're adding a fifth edition to that we make uh knee sleeves we make a

01:26:52.500 product called the hip circle and hip circle is basically just uh just what it sounds like it's

01:26:57.280 a circle yeah it goes up over your knees and i've been really proud of that product because it's just

01:27:02.000 something that's so simple yeah and see that everywhere too man yeah i know a lot of people

01:27:06.260 have been using like bands and stuff for years but i feel that we created a better product a little

01:27:10.660 stronger we have some variations of that product coming out and i think it was about a year ago

01:27:15.900 maybe two years ago now uh and speaking to rogue fitness they're one of our vendors and

01:27:21.440 i said hey you know that hip circle man that thing sells really really well on the site i was like oh

01:27:27.140 that's cool because again i'm not a numbers guy so i'm unaware of like what sells where i don't know

01:27:31.500 what's going on i'm just paying attention to yeah making cool shit pretty much and uh i was like oh 0.56

01:27:38.340 that's cool he's like no no like it's selling really really well i was like all right cool

01:27:42.420 guys like no no it's it's it's uh number one selling product that we have i was like oh

01:27:47.940 like you mean like out of slingshot stuff that's that's cool they're like no no it's the number 0.65

01:27:52.400 one selling thing we have on the entire fucking site and i was like oh okay that's awesome yeah i 0.98

01:28:00.060 was like that's that's pretty fuck dude i think i'll take that pat on the back you know what i mean 0.96

01:28:03.920 dude i the products that you guys have put out have revolutionized the way people train too which is 0.97

01:28:09.140 really cool yeah you know i i mean the business side is cool but it's always i think personally

01:28:16.560 way cooler to see the difference you're making you know thank you i appreciate it yeah you know

01:28:20.160 what i'm saying like and i think if more people i think something that you're saying there is

01:28:25.000 extremely valuable you know you're you're making a joke about not being a numbers guy and that's such

01:28:31.180 a huge advantage that people don't realize because a lot of people they don't focus on the customer they

01:28:39.400 don't focus on the difference they can make like for us in our industry which you're familiar with 0.93

01:28:44.560 most people are trying to make the cheapest shit and sell it for the most expensive price 0.74

01:28:48.740 yeah and they're doing it for themselves they don't have the customer's best interests in mind 0.99

01:28:52.880 and we take the opposite effect we make the best shit and we price it where it should be 0.94

01:28:56.920 and if you can afford to buy it you can if you can't i understand but i'm not going to go to 0.97

01:29:01.420 sleep at night knowing that we make shitty stuff right and the point of it is is like

01:29:05.360 the reward of seeing people go out and lose 70 80 90 pounds or gain 30 pounds so many people tell

01:29:14.660 me they lost you know all kinds of weight and that's that's the best feeling exactly well and i was

01:29:19.520 going to transition into uh something that i want to talk about next even though this is going to be a

01:29:24.820 longer podcast i think it's all valuable shit we're gonna go for four hours yeah be one of those 0.84

01:29:29.380 joe rogan styles that's right but dude uh you've recently made a huge transformation yourself yeah 0.76

01:29:35.560 um you know where'd you start where are you now and how'd you do it and what made you do it my wife 0.64

01:29:42.160 told me that uh she's gonna leave me unless i lost a lot of weight she said i wasn't looking so

01:29:46.260 handsome anymore so nothing like that actually she she doesn't mind when i had a little extra fluff i 0.80

01:29:51.800 think maybe she maybe she preferred it i don't know maybe she's a chubby chaser uh but basically 0.92

01:29:56.580 uh you know a lot of the stuff i did was was uh purposeful it was for a reason like i i was big and

01:30:04.500 heavy uh for power lifting and to be able to handle the amount now sometimes sometimes we justify things

01:30:10.840 and we go a little too deep into stuff you know so for me that was definitely the case uh i took way

01:30:16.220 too much uh peds i uh gained way too much weight uh i was just kind of excessive with everything but

01:30:22.760 i was trying to just i was trying to do the best that i possibly could so to me it made sense right

01:30:27.500 i made it all make sense right um i fell years ago with a 1085 squat which some of you guys may

01:30:35.440 have seen that video before took a pretty nasty tumble and then for about three months i was pretty

01:30:41.520 fucked up um my ankle was all jacked up both knees were all jacked up um i'm just too stubborn to like 0.97

01:30:50.280 even fucking go to the doctor i'm like you know what doctor's gonna tell me that i'm screwed up 0.99

01:30:55.280 yeah and i already know i'm screwed up yeah you know so i'm not only that when you're in that 0.99

01:30:59.280 situation you tell you you're fat he's gonna tell you you're unhealthy he's gonna tell you you're 0.99

01:31:03.420 right you need to quit using your peds right or you're gonna fucking die tomorrow right you know 1.00

01:31:07.880 yeah and so i'm just like ah fuck all that i'm just gonna see how i see how every day goes right 1.00

01:31:13.820 you know i'm a day-to-day person so it fits with my mentality so i just kind of see how i was doing 0.97

01:31:18.800 day-to-day uh i remember there was one uh case where i was uh so jacked up that i went from our

01:31:25.920 recliner to our couch because i couldn't go upstairs to our bedroom um and our couch has like a fold-out

01:31:32.600 bed so my wife she did a you know she got the bed ready for me or whatever it took me it took me 45 1.00

01:31:37.520 minutes to go from our uh our recliner to our uh pull-out couch which is probably it's like a

01:31:46.660 workout itself it's probably like uh it's probably not much further than the distance of this room

01:31:51.540 took me forever to try to get up out of the thing and trying to figure out how to kind of crawl into

01:31:56.980 the bed and and then like you know getting up so you were really fucking hurt i was really jacked up 0.95

01:32:02.040 legs were really really swollen and stuff and so that gave me time to kind of like reflect and kind of

01:32:07.420 look and say all right you know what dude like maybe maybe you didn't reach every single thing

01:32:13.960 you wanted to do but i i did set out to squat a thousand pounds i did set out to bench 800 pounds

01:32:19.380 that's fucking insane i did set out to deadlift 800 pounds but i never did deadlift 800 pounds so 0.98

01:32:24.680 that's kind of like the one thing that i didn't get a chance to do those numbers by the way are equipped 0.94

01:32:29.280 that's with power lifting equipment on that assist you in a lift just so uh people aren't so confused

01:32:34.860 by the numbers but still insane yeah and it was and it was a lot of fun i'm like i did all the

01:32:40.260 things i wanted to do i got out of power lifting what i what i wanted to get out of it and i feel

01:32:45.180 good about it i know enough about it to teach it to other people and stuff like that and so

01:32:48.980 i was like i just need to fucking move on yeah and so at that point i started to lose weight 0.90

01:32:53.500 got in better shape now just like any other retired athlete you can't really stay retired and so 0.91

01:33:00.020 about a year or two goes by maybe about two years goes by i'm pretty good shape and stuff but i'm

01:33:05.780 starting to get a little bit bigger again i go to bench press and i bench 535 in the gym just on a

01:33:11.540 whim like out of nowhere like most weight i was handling in most workouts was between 400 pounds

01:33:17.540 and 450 now i bench nearly 100 pounds more than that out of nowhere and smoke it and uh i was like oh

01:33:23.620 man you know what like you got the bug again yeah i always wanted to bench 600 pounds raw i'm like 0.67

01:33:28.100 fuck i was like i should i should you know i should try give that a give that a try so i talked to my 0.98

01:33:33.420 wife about it she's like i don't think so we talk about a little bit more and i was like i'd really 0.98

01:33:37.780 love to just try to i feel that i'm that strong i feel like i can do it you know so i go to make a

01:33:43.200 comeback i bench 578 i go to bench 600 pounds and there goes peck again and so that wasn't enough for

01:33:52.700 me to leave it alone 100 so i go back at it one more time and she's like hey this really it's kind

01:33:57.980 of like rocky and adrian going back and forth right she's like this really needs to be like the last

01:34:02.840 time i'm like all right you know so i start preparing for a competition i go up to bodybuilding.com

01:34:08.400 and did some content for them it's the strongest i've ever been and i got 505 on the bar and i'm just

01:34:15.520 flying around with it now i should have known better because like it's not the normal bench i use not the

01:34:21.300 normal bar i use and they got like they don't have a competition style stuff there at all it's

01:34:26.740 just regular these benches are thinner and stuff and it was definitely a recipe for disaster right

01:34:31.440 it wasn't anything right but you're out there you're there you're in the moment and your

01:34:35.220 adrenaline's kind of going yeah shit's going good it's like if you guys uh if you guys had a

01:34:39.520 sponsorship deal with uh like hussein bolt right you're not gonna get hussein bolt to come here and 0.98

01:34:43.800 run 100 right no matter how much fucking money you pay him right he does that for gold medals and that's 0.80

01:34:47.960 right right he does it on the day of competition and and for myself i should have treated myself a 0.88

01:34:53.600 little bit more like professional athlete i shouldn't probably done that but i went to do 0.52

01:34:57.100 505 and uh i'm blasting it up just rep after rep like a goddamn machine is feeling so good and i go to 0.96

01:35:05.180 blast it up on like the fifth rep and just i feel and i was like fuck so tore my pec again so then i go 0.96

01:35:13.340 back into training again and i'm like i gotta still see like where i'm at because it wasn't

01:35:17.720 really a crazy like pec tear it wasn't something that was going to keep me out for months went back

01:35:21.900 into training and then my elbow started bothered me my elbow just started saying you know what 0.98

01:35:26.680 you're you need to retire motherfucker like you're done yeah and um i i kept trying to resist it 0.99

01:35:33.220 i got into a training session one day where i was doing uh 485 for uh like three or four sets of 0.99

01:35:40.160 five reps or so and my pain level was a nine and i'm like this this is the definition of being 0.98

01:35:48.680 fucking stupid right here this does not make any sense i'm compromising my own life and my own health 0.99

01:35:55.240 like who knows what could happen right like my arm could my tricep could blow out and the weight could 1.00

01:35:59.260 land right in my fucking face right you'd be dead and there's nothing any like you can't spot that that 0.99

01:36:03.460 fast you know what i mean so like this is just this is not this is this is not a good way of doing 0.99

01:36:09.220 right and and i was pissed yeah i was fucking pissed when i went and worked out i was mad because 0.95

01:36:14.680 i was in so much pain kind of like you know older person they get arthritis and these different things 0.91

01:36:18.840 and they kind of become grumpy because they're in pain i was in tremendous amounts of pain i wasn't

01:36:23.680 uh fun to be around the gym that's for sure and i was like this is not why i do this stuff i do this

01:36:28.800 stuff because i want to have fun right and now i'm miserable right so what i share with people a lot

01:36:34.840 of times is like be careful what you wish for you want to be great well being great can be maddening 0.95

01:36:39.980 and it could turn you into a fucking psychopath sometimes so dude you got to be a little dude 0.94

01:36:43.720 look i told you i told you when we were in the warehouse when i was telling you that story yeah 1.00

01:36:49.620 i mean dude i definitely have my fucking psychopath moment sometimes it costs me that's my biggest 0.88

01:36:55.200 weakness as a person yeah you know what i mean i totally get it so passionate about it yeah so from 0.89

01:37:00.820 that point that was really it and i was like you know i need to make a change and so from the time

01:37:06.380 i was uh in high school i've played around with ketogenic style diets basically just a high fat diet

01:37:11.960 uh low carbs um moderate amounts of protein for me i i probably take a little bit more protein

01:37:18.240 than most because uh most of the people that are talk about the ketogenic diet they're usually

01:37:23.100 pretty uh skinny they don't usually look like a whole lot a lot of times it's coming from doctors

01:37:27.120 they're generally not athletes yeah they're generally not athletes anyway uh i use that

01:37:32.640 style of diet to drop about 60 pounds and then uh you know more recently you've seen a lot of my

01:37:37.960 instagram i'm helping a lot of people lose weight um i'm trying to have an impact on people's on

01:37:43.940 people's day like let's get you to eat a little bit better you don't have to necessarily necessarily

01:37:48.600 do the diet that i do but there's some easy steps that you can take towards uh getting in better

01:37:54.400 shape number one is and i think this is the easiest thing to incorporate i'll just give you

01:37:59.800 a couple things to incorporate number one is like just start to drink more water dude you know

01:38:05.020 just drink more water um this is going to be you know some people might not understand this part of

01:38:11.220 it but if you are exercising then add some salt you know add some salt to your diet there's more and

01:38:16.600 more evidence that salt will actually help you lose weight not only will help you help you lose

01:38:20.900 water weight which sounds opposite of what it does but it can also help burn fat there's a lot of

01:38:26.160 information coming out about that right now so add some water add some salt get to bed you know it's

01:38:32.400 not about not about how cool you are about when you wake up it's about getting to bed early that's 0.61

01:38:37.280 my biggest fucking entrepreneur wake up at five dude it's like well that's cool if you do and that's 0.99

01:38:42.520 your style whatever it doesn't matter you got to get your ass to bed so that you can get the rest 0.99

01:38:46.680 that you need doesn't matter how much you sleep matters how much you get done while you're awake 0.97

01:38:49.560 right 100 100 i think a lot of people in terms of their health though they should start be at least

01:38:56.460 thinking about bed at 9 p.m every fucking night and if if that's something where you're like way off 0.94

01:39:03.560 you're going to bed 11 or 12 i just think that our body is i don't know i can't tell you about when 0.97

01:39:08.980 we're designed to wake up i don't really know probably when the sun comes up right but i do know

01:39:13.520 that for me it's helped me health-wise helped me so many different ways so were you having apnea and

01:39:18.660 shit when you were oh yeah terrible i was too getting the bed between nine and ten has helped 0.99

01:39:23.660 me a lot my wife likes to go to bed earlier than i yeah than i like to she does a lot more shit in 1.00

01:39:28.360 one day than i do so she's tired when when time comes but just getting to bed a little bit earlier

01:39:34.800 i think will help a lot of people um and then the last thing and probably the easiest thing is

01:39:39.760 is go for a walk i can throw in some walking try to walk i mean dude i don't walk it once a day for

01:39:46.560 10 minutes and that's such a good point like everybody and you know both of us do different

01:39:51.380 versions of hit cardio and things that are intense and hard and i think people who are overweight and

01:39:56.220 have have um you know a lot of progress to make they see that as like an intimidating thing like we we 0.90

01:40:03.540 post those videos because like dude that shit's hard and we're like proud of it right right and 0.56

01:40:06.820 we're like look how hard we're working it's sort of like an ego thing it might scare off other people 0.94

01:40:10.160 exactly and like dude you don't have to do it that way like you guys know i've lost 70 pounds 0.98

01:40:15.180 and fuck i've lost almost all of it walking like i didn't go out and fucking yeah running i'm not 0.97

01:40:21.800 fucking running like people like dude you're drenched in sweat are you running those hills i'm like 1.00

01:40:25.300 fuck no i'm not running i'm walking motherfucker yeah you know that's a great that's a great uh note 1.00

01:40:31.120 though for a lot of people that are heavier yeah don't run you should like don't fucking run 0.99

01:40:35.880 hurt yourself and then you'll be that much further behind you'll be too upset right walk

01:40:40.160 and if you can lose some weight and you can get enough momentum to where you think you can run

01:40:43.560 then yeah and if that's what you want to do you don't have to do it to lose weight right you know

01:40:47.760 walking will take the weight off you just do it consistently yeah you do something interesting too

01:40:52.120 about that you do and we talked about this a little bit through text but this is really cool and 0.99

01:40:57.200 i always had this idea and this is a little bit off the topic of entrepreneurship but fuck it you're 0.87

01:41:02.240 here we'll talk about it so when i was back when i had only uh one store and chris and i were basically

01:41:08.900 living in the store yeah this is after we were actually living in the store we were basically

01:41:12.760 living there at this point i had an exercise bike and i always felt like doing like 20 minutes

01:41:21.520 three times a day will be much more effective than doing 60 minutes at once right because of the

01:41:26.960 disruption that it had on your metabolism and you do something similar and and you you do multiple

01:41:34.140 walks throughout the day right and is that why you started doing that is that thinking or yeah there's

01:41:39.540 just you know like i i'm uh i can't keep up with all the different information that comes out all the

01:41:45.540 time but i used to but i have friends that do you know and i have friends that are up on the latest

01:41:50.160 whatever yeah and stan efforting is the one who turned me on to it and he he basically just said

01:41:55.380 they're starting to see that uh walking you know several times a day broken up into at least about

01:42:02.900 10 minutes uh has a significant impact on your a1c which is i could be saying that wrong i'm not a

01:42:09.260 technical person basically your ability to uh deal with carbohydrates and blood sugar in your in your

01:42:15.160 system and stuff like that and so he's like i think it'd be great it'd be great for you to start to

01:42:19.480 do that because when you get heavier uh it's one of the first things that gets messed up and so i was

01:42:24.920 like all right well let me uh let me start implementing it i started to implement it uh i

01:42:29.500 feel like i've lost weight i feel like in some weird crazy way it's helped the conditioning a

01:42:34.060 little bit even though it doesn't sound like it would be much when you get walking i mean sometimes

01:42:38.740 i walk kind of lazy i'll be sometimes pretty slow but you get a brisk walk going uh it can be really

01:42:44.880 great for you and i think that a lot of people in fitness they lose side of the conditioning side of

01:42:49.740 things yeah you don't really understand i know you've been around it most people don't really

01:42:54.680 comprehend how in shape a high level bodybuilder is when they're when they when they train yeah

01:43:01.500 they're hard to keep up with yeah well no i mean like on on but oh yeah yeah but conditioning wise

01:43:06.960 yeah yeah no on a conditioning workout but like i'm just saying like even just getting like the amount

01:43:11.900 of stuff that some of those guys can get done uh in the gym like when it comes to say and doing 12 sets

01:43:18.040 of back oh yeah they can go through that shit like a savage you know a lot of the guys that aren't 0.97

01:43:22.400 smart enough that aren't smart enough to understand how they can accumulate more muscle mass by being 0.99

01:43:27.580 in better shape are are kind of the more bodybuilders that aren't winning you know those are the guys that

01:43:32.840 aren't that aren't collecting trophies at the end of the day because the the faster that you can

01:43:38.800 recover from one set to the next is also the same ability that it takes to recover from one workout to

01:43:43.900 the next right and so by incorporating any forms of duration or any forms of conditioning even

01:43:50.240 something like a 10 minute walk can start to assist your body and being able to recover all the things

01:43:56.020 that you always do for yourself will always impact you a lot more than things you have done to yourself

01:44:01.300 right so yeah you can go get a massage and work out the king side of your legs but you'd be better 0.60

01:44:05.040 off getting on the bike and doing 20 minutes right right right that kind of stuff yeah and dude and i mean

01:44:09.780 if you go look at pictures of of you when you were big and pictures of you now i mean you look like a

01:44:14.380 fucking savage now dude yeah you look awesome man thank you yeah i've been inspiring i've been really 0.89

01:44:18.980 working hard at it and uh you know the next the next thing i'm i'm working on is uh really diving 0.97

01:44:24.760 into the keto diet even a little bit harder because i did the keto diet for a while and then for some

01:44:29.800 photo shoots just to kind of look a little fuller i brought some carbohydrates back in i'm not a person

01:44:35.020 that believes carbohydrates are bad by any means they have their function and they uh they are the

01:44:39.960 the uh most functional um uh energy source that we have there's no question i mean there's too much

01:44:45.920 evidence pointing towards that uh but the keto style diet um for me has helped me just in a lot of

01:44:52.740 ways maybe i have some adhd or something some shit like that and i feel like i'm a little bit more

01:44:57.560 creative i feel like i work a little bit better i feel like i'm just like a little bit sharper so do you 0.99

01:45:02.280 feel do you feel like when you do the the keto do you you're not like pissing on sticks and shit to

01:45:08.980 like no so i don't or do you just kind of avoid carbs so because i'm i'm writing a book called the

01:45:14.320 war on carbs i'm gonna dive into doing some of that stuff right uh just so i have a little bit better

01:45:19.240 knowledge base of it i don't want to speak poorly about things that i've never tried right so i'm

01:45:24.020 gonna at least experiment with some of that but i don't count calories i don't pee on sticks i don't

01:45:29.860 prick my finger right um i don't do any of that i i and i just you know i'll stick butter in my coffee

01:45:36.920 and coconut oil and these different things and i i cook stuff in some oil um some different things

01:45:42.980 like that but the thing that i love the most about the ketogenic diet is how flexible it can be with

01:45:49.700 your lifestyle i'm no longer like a slave to food right like these six meals a day and this bodybuilding

01:45:55.640 style thing they're fighting more and more is bullshit anyway yeah it's just it's such a pain 0.98

01:46:00.940 in the ass to try to keep up with that amount of protein and that amount of food throughout the day 0.99

01:46:05.260 and so for me it's like i eat three or four times a day i have a protein shake once or twice a day 0.99

01:46:12.000 and then i'm i'm i'm done that's that's that's kind of all i needed and of course i um you know i go off

01:46:19.460 the diet yeah just like anybody else i'll eat throw down some pizza and stuff how often you do that

01:46:23.840 um it just kind of depends on like where i'm at like right now i'm kind of in a mode of like

01:46:29.500 let me get through about three weeks of being pretty strict once those three or four weeks are up then

01:46:35.220 i'll probably you know uh start to mix in more cheat meals and things like that but but like life

01:46:40.060 happens you know don't don't allow don't allow your life and what's going on in other people's lives 0.98

01:46:47.080 to overrun uh your goals but at the same time someone's birthday have a fucking piece of cake 0.96

01:46:52.600 right exactly you know what i mean like um if it's meaningful to you like if if that if the company

01:46:58.640 you have or whatever is meaningful dude it's about creating sustainability right and and your ability

01:47:03.720 to adhere to a program over the long haul you know like for me my i started like to january 1st 2016

01:47:10.520 i was 330 pounds like 331 nice yeah and now i'm like mid 260s that's big yeah

01:47:16.940 i need to be like in where you are like we about 240 yeah about 245 yeah i need to be in the 40 to 50

01:47:23.340 range right but um but i mean i've been able to stay in the 60s for a year right which is a victory

01:47:31.080 for me because usually dude like i'm all in or all the fuck off yeah you know and like i've i've created 0.98

01:47:36.960 a sustainable lifestyle now that allows me to maintain and i know that if i just grind my ass off 0.77

01:47:43.100 to get to 245 right i can live how i'm living now at 245 with you get what i'm saying yeah yeah so i've

01:47:50.240 got a good lifestyle now i now i just need to dedicate myself for another right 10 or 12 weeks

01:47:54.780 and just get down to that that next level and stay there but you know um i think you know when as you

01:48:01.360 uh as as you become more successful and you earn more money than you know going going out to eat

01:48:09.080 and having a steak that costs 100 bucks and these different things uh it's it's not as hard it's

01:48:15.300 not as doesn't have as a big of a impact on your on your wallet and so going out and drinking and

01:48:21.160 uh enjoying some really great food it can happen real easy yeah yeah it can happen and you see it a

01:48:26.940 lot you know people they get they get like happy and uh and wealthy and fat and yeah it's uh it's

01:48:32.520 totally understandable because but you're not but you're not fucking happy but what a cool thing 0.97

01:48:36.960 to be like i'm not gonna be like those other i don't need that fucking piece like when i when i 0.99

01:48:41.840 sit down at you know to eat and stuff and i watch other people kind of engorging themselves and food 0.96

01:48:47.000 and stuff i'm like i that's fine for them but i'm so happy that i'm not falling into that pit you're

01:48:53.640 in control right dude i take a lot of pride this is a weird thing to talk about too but it kind of goes

01:48:58.820 along with what you're saying you know i'm 38 and i look around at other dudes that are 38 and they're 0.76

01:49:05.000 fucking like they look like to me like they look like they're fucking 50 yeah and i'm like bro like 0.94

01:49:11.720 i'll see somebody i haven't seen in 15 years i'm like bro what happened to you and they're like i don't 0.99

01:49:17.400 say that but i'm thinking right right and i can tell they're not happy because dude the first thing

01:49:21.980 they start doing is like justifying themselves they're like because i you know i'm in pretty good 0.97

01:49:26.160 shape right now yeah and they're they're like fuck dude you look great and i'm always like thank you 0.98

01:49:29.800 thank you they're like yeah you know i got these kids you can't say anything back to them right 0.99

01:49:33.440 and they're starting to like justify themselves i'm like bro you know if you're that unhappy

01:49:37.720 let's fucking do something yeah you know what i mean changes right and that aging that way you look 0.93

01:49:43.700 the way you feel you you you don't understand how much reversal process that can have yeah on on the 0.99

01:49:50.400 way that just eating right i've had people uh right on my instagram they're like you look 25 years

01:49:56.120 younger i don't know how old they thought i looked before but well see i recently i didn't really

01:50:00.240 follow you until you were in shape and so like when i went and saw pictures of you before when 0.92

01:50:05.020 you were i was like fuck you don't even look like the same dude yeah you know legitimately you don't 0.95

01:50:09.440 even look like the same person i mean i could tell in the face but yeah barely and it's amazing dude 0.97

01:50:14.580 you know and it's inspiring and i just think it's really cool to be able to be fluid and transition

01:50:20.420 because you see so many guys get stuck in a certain area like bodybuilding or powerlifting or crossfit

01:50:25.780 and they never transition from into something new right you know what i mean it's cool it's

01:50:31.080 reinventing yourself yeah and for me i just kind of think why not just why not be strong in all areas

01:50:36.820 yeah you know it's again i i'm i'm not going to try to talk people into doing something so radically

01:50:44.380 different from what they're currently doing but everyone can go for a walk yeah you know everyone can

01:50:49.880 start to eat a little bit better whatever that means for you don't have to like not eat carbs but

01:50:53.500 the ketogenic style diet to me is the only diet that corrects really bad habits and i've kind of

01:51:00.740 referred to it before as the fat guy diet because with heavier with heavier dudes man like people 0.75

01:51:06.420 don't understand people don't understand what it's like to be so fucking reckless with your food like 0.95

01:51:11.440 yeah i can i can knock out a box of oreos or just fucking kill tons of ben and jerry you know i mean 0.98

01:51:17.220 like a lot of people don't i eat a whole fucking a lot of times in the fitness industry it's skinny 0.98

01:51:21.280 people preaching to more skinny people yeah it's like well or genetically gifted people yeah 0.98

01:51:26.240 pretending like they've never really built this shit yeah right or or you see it all the time with 0.99

01:51:30.380 the with the females uh a lot of times on instagram they'll post a picture that maybe isn't their best 0.99

01:51:35.880 picture and like oh i don't mind being a little overweight and you're like you're in great shape

01:51:39.920 that's like an embarrassment to people that are struggling out there like dude they have real life

01:51:44.640 it's like hurtful it's like hurtful like people it's like oh you're 150 as opposed to 140 or whatever 0.99

01:51:51.020 the weight is you're like that's not a big deal right fuck dude i that shit drives me crazy because 0.99

01:51:56.520 it's really just like i want to be transparent it's really discouraging to people who are who have an 0.98

01:52:02.220 issue for real you know what i mean and myself and my family like there's been a lot of obesity so i

01:52:06.880 look at that i'm like man like that person's never been truly like fat so they don't really get it

01:52:12.820 dude i would listen to someone in nutrition a million percent more who has been extremely

01:52:18.580 overweight and built something right out of it versus someone who looks the same way at 16 as

01:52:26.100 they do at 26 36 yeah because they're a genetically gifted there is a such thing as genetically gifted

01:52:31.860 physiques oh yeah for sure you know what i mean and it it's just crazy to me how many people use like 0.97

01:52:38.660 their genetically gifted physique to then act like they know everything so they can fucking take 0.93

01:52:43.840 money from people and they show people how to make abs and all the fuck out of here you've had abs 0.99

01:52:48.080 since you were fucking four dude right but i haven't seen had asthma once my whole life i got like fat 0.98

01:52:53.600 dude abs and i'm like look at this shit i'm fucking ripped you get a little shadow going yeah that's 0.99

01:52:57.640 right i stand in the light the right way and i'm like fuck you look pretty good today i'd probably do 1.00

01:53:01.500 you if i had six beers you know i'm saying like dude it's it's a it's a it's just a fucked up 0.99

01:53:07.560 industry man yeah so and i always respect you know you keeping it real and the realness that 0.91

01:53:12.220 you do because it's the truth just trying to give people something that's sustainable you know here's

01:53:17.580 the you know the thing about keto that's what i was going to say when i said i agree with that i had

01:53:21.360 i do agree that keto is a sustainable it's a it's the long it fixes bad habits like you said

01:53:26.160 the issue with keto that people have is whenever they do it and it's not a lifetime lifestyle right

01:53:32.540 because it doesn't teach people how to eat the other way right so like a lot of people will lose 50

01:53:37.140 pounds on keto right and then they go back to eating the way they ate before and they eat like 0.94

01:53:41.580 a fucking animal and they haven't gained any habits and then what happens they blow up right so you 0.97

01:53:46.260 have to be conscious that if you're going to go down a path of you know a lifestyle you got to think of 0.99

01:53:52.020 it as a lifestyle right you know what i mean i recommend some intermittent fasting for people like 0.94

01:53:55.900 dude that shit works there's you know when you when you were when you were younger and you were 0.95

01:54:00.480 you know sleeping in the back of the supplement store right you were hungry like maybe not 0.99

01:54:06.040 physically hungry but you were hungry to get better you were hungry to to do more and there's

01:54:12.500 something magical about being hungry like there's not really magic to the ketogenic style diet there's

01:54:17.240 not really magic to intermittent fasting but there is a lot of magic there's endless amounts of magic

01:54:24.180 and discipline oh if you can discipline yourself where you're like you know what i'm not going to eat

01:54:27.960 till fucking 4 p.m meanwhile you see everybody else eating all day long yeah and by by 1 p.m you're 0.96

01:54:34.380 fucking struggling yeah you're like wow i'm actually really fucking hungry yeah but you're 0.99

01:54:38.840 not going to die right you know you're not going to you're not going to die you're probably going 0.99

01:54:42.240 to be able to meet your goals a little bit faster than than you normally would so i just think you

01:54:46.800 know anybody listening to this that struggles with their weight give a ketogenic style diet a chance

01:54:51.680 try it out for like a month and don't count your calories don't really worry too much about any of

01:54:56.660 that don't over and gorge yourself either don't get overly wrapped up in the details the other

01:55:01.080 thing about keto so much micro stuff because i do because i do like a modified keto diet as well

01:55:06.020 like i don't i don't go straight keto like i'll fucking rotate my carbs keto and ice cream he 0.98

01:55:10.680 calls yeah right right i do keto for my first five meals my sixth meal is not but uh i'll do like a 0.56

01:55:17.080 rotation like i'll do three days low carb one day traditional type diet you know i don't go crazy

01:55:22.100 but something that's fitting yeah right what you can do and um and like do what i do is i do like

01:55:27.880 monday tuesday wednesday low carb wednesday night i have a carb meal one meal and it was not like

01:55:33.860 shit meal it's just meal carbs right like i what i like to do is breakfast burritos oh yeah sounds so

01:55:39.220 good right so then then thursday friday saturday i go back to low carb and then sunday i have a full 0.95

01:55:45.480 carb day right with a cheap meal and dude it allows me to like chill on sundays and hang out and just 0.94

01:55:51.740 have a day of hanging out with emily or whoever i'm hanging out with eat normal fucking food right and 0.92

01:55:57.740 and dude i lost 70 pounds that way you know what i mean it's about finding a sustainability that you 0.91

01:56:02.400 can live with um and if you didn't make any progress then maybe you would chop something out exactly i

01:56:07.400 mean you'd be like right now i'm to the point now where it's not that same thing is i'm not seeing

01:56:11.540 the same results so i've got to make an adjustment yeah you know kick it up a notch right i'm gonna have

01:56:15.540 to that sunday is gonna have to i'm gonna have to cut one less beer no it's gonna be i'm gonna have to

01:56:20.180 cut out the beer that's the problem because sunday in uh in business you know i have some friends that

01:56:24.580 kind of have just started a business you know or some friends that even had had a business for a 0.92

01:56:30.080 little bit and i i kind of think to myself like oh shit like you're just getting started right now 0.96

01:56:36.100 and sometimes when you when you lose a bunch of weight you think oh things will get easier 0.96

01:56:40.380 but well they don't really get easier they get like harder but you develop discipline you develop

01:56:45.500 discipline to make it easier right um even even train even like lifting you know if you if you

01:56:51.420 develop the ability to start squat like 500 pounds yeah um it just take your workouts just

01:56:56.920 take longer yeah they're not shorter they're longer because somebody else might have been able to get

01:57:01.520 in and do three sets of 10 with 135 well you got to do three sets of 10 with 405 so it takes you that

01:57:06.380 much longer to warm up to it right odds are your muscles are tight you got to stretch and prepare and

01:57:10.960 all these other things need 10 pre-workouts right before you start your workout like you need to be all

01:57:15.700 fired up for it yeah and so things you know they have a tendency to to to get a little bit more 0.98

01:57:21.660 difficult but that's when you really just buckle down you know you put your fucking chin strap on and 0.95

01:57:26.720 get and get ready yeah get ready for what's next and take a lot of pride in knocking down those hurdles 0.97

01:57:32.040 those things that are in your way dude in the discipline building you know what i'm saying like

01:57:35.640 dude i i do the same thing and that's the the planner like i'll show it to you once we get off off

01:57:40.840 the show but it's designed so that people it's really what it's designed to do is for people to

01:57:46.460 develop their discipline right and dude make the things that are hard today 30 days from now they're

01:57:52.020 a habit right you know what i mean because people always say to me so they're second nature exactly 0.96

01:57:56.180 and so people say to me all the time about business they're like fuck i don't know how you do all the 0.99

01:58:00.640 shit that you do and i'm like thinking like in my head i'm like fuck i really don't do that much 0.99

01:58:05.020 shit right and you know but they see what i do get to sit in here and fuck around for two hours yeah 1.00

01:58:09.460 exactly but they see what i do from the outside and and they see it as really hard but because i've 0.99

01:58:14.140 been doing it for so long i equate it to like getting in a cold swimming pool like if you just 0.79

01:58:18.520 jump right in yeah it's fucking sucks yeah but if you ease your way in you know and then eventually 0.89

01:58:23.580 you don't even notice it's cold it's just what it is and i think that's the same way with dieting 0.98

01:58:27.980 or fitness or business if you once you're conditioned to it you've built that discipline it's just what it

01:58:34.020 is you know i agree yeah i think you know sometimes like even even when it comes to

01:58:39.220 uh lifting you know some of the most talented people i've seen in lifting

01:58:43.160 they won't always realize what they just did was spectacular right we had a kid come in the gym and

01:58:49.860 he uh squatted 750 or 725 in a pair of knee sleeves for two reps weighing under 200 pounds and

01:58:57.740 holy shit he got done with it and he just kind of looked at us like why are you guys amazed almost 0.85

01:59:02.500 like we're like that's like world record weight like what the fuck's going on yeah uh we had another 0.98

01:59:08.260 guy come in the gym this is a few years ago and it's the first time anybody's ever uh it's kind of

01:59:12.700 like a like a bigfoot or loch ness monsters first time anybody ever caught him on on camera a guy by

01:59:18.800 the name of eric spoto who eventually ended up breaking the all-time bench press record and i'm warming up

01:59:24.000 with the guy and once you start to see somebody have some weight on the bar then you get an idea

01:59:28.040 you know where they are strength wise even though it's just a warm-up so this guy had 315 on he's

01:59:34.100 just chucking around like it's zero and then he did 405 like the same way and i'm like i have not seen

01:59:40.420 that before yeah i was like this this mutant is not from the league of mutants that i already know

01:59:46.460 yeah this is a different type of dude right here yeah and so i was like dude like what do you

01:59:51.900 what do you bet i mean you got a bench over 600 pounds he's like oh yeah well over 600 and i was

01:59:56.900 like 700 he's like yeah i think i'm like in that range i'm like do you know the record is 710 0.93

02:00:01.540 the all-time like that's the most weight anybody's ever bench pressed on the fucking planet 0.86

02:00:05.820 he's like yeah yeah someone someone was kind of telling me about that i was like well you should 0.86

02:00:09.940 go break that fucking record yeah and then on that day he benched uh 635 for two reps it's 0.99

02:00:16.040 unbelievable but like my point is that he's been working so hard for so many years he accumulated 0.99

02:00:21.100 all this muscle mass and all this strength and it was just normal to him right he's like oh this is

02:00:25.360 just me right it's like oh you don't recognize that having 20 inch forearms is on is like yeah but

02:00:29.500 dude not normal that's how fucking success happens dude people fall in love with the day-to-day work 0.92

02:00:35.000 right like dude you know when people say you got to love the process or love the work or love the 0.98

02:00:39.780 grind or whatever the fucking word is you got to not notice that it's work dude it's just what it is 0.93

02:00:44.380 and it's every day and eventually you get to a point you're like oh i'm fucking worth 10 million 0.98

02:00:51.000 dollars i didn't even fucking realize it you know what i mean or i'm worth 100 million or 0.98

02:00:55.260 whatever the fucking number is or you know what fuck i can bench press 500 pounds right you know 0.98

02:01:01.320 what i mean or whatever it is it's just it's concentrating on winning the day and dude fitness 0.99

02:01:06.080 and business are literally the exact same principles uh to be successful you can you can practice every day

02:01:13.920 by hitting the gym right exactly business you you may not always get a chance to really practice that

02:01:19.080 that way yeah because you might not even have a business yet right but you can practice a lot of

02:01:23.540 the same principles that you need for business in the gym every single day well yeah exactly and

02:01:27.360 but even if you don't like you like let's say there's no you know business gym i mean you could

02:01:33.420 still do work every day that contributes to those skills yeah you can watch youtube videos about your

02:01:38.620 subject you can listen to podcasts you can read it's all about making that day count you know in that area

02:01:45.180 the internet has more than just porn oh yeah it's like a lot of news that's news to a lot of people

02:01:49.280 dude i said i always tell that joke whenever i'm speaking and sometimes it goes over great 0.99

02:01:54.700 dude i would get i said it at 10x nobody fucking laughed there's 10 000 people in the fucking room 0.99

02:02:00.660 it was like everybody's looking at each other i know every one of the motherfuckers looks at porn 1.00

02:02:04.260 it's like look you guys whack off just as much as i do everybody's fucking that's what i was thinking 0.99

02:02:08.500 i'm like i'm like i had to go like save myself i'm like it's okay to laugh and then like the guy in the 0.99

02:02:14.040 front's like i'm like the one pervert in the crowd i'm like all right i'll move on pervert in 0.52

02:02:18.820 the crowd laughs way too hard like a joke but that's the guy i'll drink a beer with later that's

02:02:22.200 right well dude tell people where they can find you at and where can they uh tell them about your

02:02:27.900 podcast and your social and um social security number yeah yeah the last thing i'll close out

02:02:34.220 with is uh you know i think people just it would really help a lot of people if they viewed things

02:02:39.400 from a different perspective wait wait i'm gonna ask for your social and then we're gonna close out

02:02:43.720 okay good fucking up the show i'm messing it up all right so and you need to make the announcement 0.98

02:02:47.840 i will i'll let you make the announcement okay because you're the announcement nerd all right

02:02:51.660 all right i can do that so well i'll just i'll just get this in real quick all right i just think

02:02:55.380 in general i think if you just start to replace the word uh work with opportunity that you'll end up

02:03:01.220 in the position that you're talking about yeah that's a great point just stop thinking about it

02:03:05.540 being like oh man it's gonna be so hard to lose weight i love that it's gonna be so hard to make

02:03:09.400 money it's gonna be so hard to you know don't don't look at stuff as like there's a big mountain 0.96

02:03:14.660 or giant uh set of uh stairs in front of you just think about getting your foot on that fucking first 0.99

02:03:20.300 step yeah um you can find me at howmuchabench.net that's where we have all our products we've got 0.96

02:03:25.800 slingshot we've got knee sleeves we got everything you possibly imagine some of the strongest stuff

02:03:30.800 on the market check it out at howmuchabench.net and then also you can find me on instagram and twitter

02:03:37.300 it's at mark smelly bell and then my youtube is super training 06 and that's pretty much it

02:03:44.940 you have a podcast right i have a podcast called mark bell's power cast cool check that out it's

02:03:50.000 on itunes we have it also on youtube as well yeah most of these guys are obviously listening

02:03:54.360 to podcasts so you guys need to check out his podcast it's really cool very entertaining thank

02:03:58.520 you yeah um we're gonna have you on there soon yeah i can't wait i'm excited to come to the gym

02:04:03.020 and train too yeah you'll learn some shit you'll love it i've been lifting my whole life but i've never 0.80

02:04:06.800 really learned with you never really lifted until you've been to super training there you go so 0.93

02:04:12.060 i've never lifted before that's right you don't even lift bro vaughn what's the announcement that

02:04:17.860 you wanted to make he's been talking about this we've been having this review contest you send in

02:04:23.360 a review you get what do you get like 48 hours with andy frisella or how's that work if it were up to

02:04:29.400 you that's what they would get yeah in the bahamas yeah exactly so uh no you get uh 20 to 30

02:04:35.840 minute skype with andy we're going to give out five if you uh if you send in the review but as of

02:04:41.460 today you guys are going to be hearing this on uh tuesday the 22nd of august we're in the future

02:04:47.220 2017 and as of today it's too late so wow too bad for you but we are going to be announcing the winners

02:04:55.160 on tuesday august 29th 2017 so make sure you listen to all of the podcasts coming up i'm so confused

02:05:03.780 cool dude thanks so much for coming out making the trip out here thank you thoroughly enjoy this is i

02:05:09.580 hope everybody enjoys listening to this podcast as much as i enjoyed the conversation so i can't wait

02:05:14.040 to slide down that fucking arch tonight man this would be great yep yep me too all right bro thanks a lot 0.94

02:05:19.740 thank you can't wait to be on the podcast thanks guys see you 0.97

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Mark Bell On Struggle, Sling Shots, and Success, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO167

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