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Anthony Deal. Anthony Deal. You're awesome,

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dude. I've been looking up

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and reading on you. You're

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amazing. You were Maha before there was

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a Maha movement. You've been on the

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front lines of getting America in

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shape again. And you clear up

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a lot of misconceptions and the

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like. Can you give us

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just a quick aerial bio? I

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can do that. That will be

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quick. I'll do my best. Okay. So

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I grew up right here, Lancaster

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County, Pennsylvania, with good Amish cooking. Yeah.

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So I was the chubby kid.

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Ooh. So you grew up in an

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Amish family? No, not an Amish

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family, but Amish cooking. Amish cooking, yeah.

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Let's go. And so I

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went away to college, and instead of

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gaining the freshman 15, it was like

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the freshman 50. Oh, wow. Yeah, I

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bloomed up pretty big. And I can't

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tell you why. I just remember being in

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the dorm room with a bunch of my

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friends who were cutting weight for wrestling. I

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stepped on the scale. The last thing I

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had known, I was like, I'm about 220.

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I stepped on the scale. I was like,

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260. Dang. But this was a... is a

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bad two 60. Yeah. Right. Like I'd played

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sports, soccer and basketball, but I was pretty,

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you're pretty tall. Yeah. Six feet. Yeah. But

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so I should have been, but two 60

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is a lot. Two 60 is a lot.

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And so something snapped in my head and

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I said, this has to change. Yeah. I

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went to college at a private Christian school

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in Northern Wisconsin. So it

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was perpetually below zero. So

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I went to the gym the next morning and

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I said, I am going to run as

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many laps around this basketball court as I possibly

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can. And I made it six whole

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laps. And so I said,

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okay. That's when he cracked open the beer and

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ate some bacon. Well, it was a fundamentalist Baptist

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college. We did no beer. There you

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go. No, no, no. So I said,

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all right, cool. I'm going to add

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a lap every single day. That's

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good. And I knew nothing at the

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time of fitness or nutrition, but I

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knew just from the ether, like. Meat

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and veggies. That's good. Let's just do

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that. Now, at the time I

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was also traveling for the school on the

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weekends as part of kind of a

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ministry and drama team. So we worked with

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a lot of youth groups and it

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was like a recruiting function of the school.

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Yeah. So we're traveling around in churches

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and Christian schools and whatnot. So what do

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they do with college students when they

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come in? They feed them

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pasta and pizza and

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ice cream. So I said

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to myself, okay, I

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will. eat only

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meat and vegetables during

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the week. And then on the weekend, I will

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eat one plate of whatever is served to

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me. I'll eat ice cream, eat whatever. And then

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that's it. I'm just not going to get

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seconds. I'm going to go right back at it.

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So I did that and I ended up

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losing about 90 pounds in roughly six months. Wow.

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Now I went from chubby inactive kid to

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running literally every day of my life with no

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breaks. Right. Which actually is not wise. I

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wouldn't encourage you to do that. And I hurt

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my hip to the point where it was

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just painful to walk, kind of a grinding. And

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so I went to the doctor, got an

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MRI. He's like, hey, you're going to be fine,

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but you can't run for a while. I'm like, oh,

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man, I'm going to gain all this weight back.

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Right. So Buddy brought me into the weight room. going

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to start lifting with me. And how

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old are you around now? I'm about 19. Yeah, okay. I

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started lifting. I had never lifted before. And

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in my first year from 19 to 20.

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um i put on a bunch of weight

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good weight and i was repping over 300

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pounds on bench and i just realized like

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well that that inner chubby kid i was

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just always built to be strong so i

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kind of fell in love with the strength

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sport side of things and as i you

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know just fast forward a little bit

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to keep this story as short as possible

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um fell in love with lifting uh

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picked up the hobby of strong man started

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doing really well with that but what

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piqued my interest in metabolic health and health

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in general was My son,

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who is now 10, has autism. When

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he was diagnosed at two, my wife

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and I went down the rabbit hole

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of everything we could do to improve

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his health, improve his speech therapy, occupational

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therapy. One of the things that we

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did was pulled out all gluten and

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dairy, anything that was inflammatory. Now,

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initially, we just did this for Haddon,

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but that became very stressful in my

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life. So I just said, babe, listen,

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we're going to do this as a

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family. We're

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just going to eat things that have roots

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and a mother. That's the best piece of

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advice. Just eat real food. So does it

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have roots? Does it have a mother? And

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that was the only variable that

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changed at the time. And my strength

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and performance just went through the

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roof. Wow. And so that's many years

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ago now, but it's led to

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a mantra that I preach to my

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athletes and to all my coaches

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who work for me is, hey. If

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you are healthy at the cellular

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level, you're going to look and perform

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better. Right, right. Because back then

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in 2010 -ish era, 2012, all of

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that, if you were a strength athlete,

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it was eat everything in sight,

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get as strong as possible. We hadn't

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really connected the whole, hey, no,

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you should be metabolically healthy and that

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willingness. Was it Ronnie Coleman like

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on a diet of McDonald's? Didn't he

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just eat? Well, that's what

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I always saw on the TV. I'll

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tell you what, bodybuilding and strength are

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so different. They are, aren't they? They

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are. What is the difference? What's the

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key difference? Well, with bodybuilding, you're going

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to get strong. I mean, there's running

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strong. He squatted 800 pounds for a

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double. But that's not really

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that impressive in the powerlifting world. Right,

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right. So with bodybuilding, you are

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using food and weights like a hammer

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and a chisel to craft a

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physique. Wow. And so you don't, your

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aim isn't strength as an end.

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Your aim is muscle size. Right. Strength

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will be a byproduct. With strength

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sports, strength is the aim. Right. You

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will get some size as a

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byproduct, but you're not using the weights

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artistically to chisel that position. Proportioning

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and like a sculpture. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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With strength sports, do you want

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a squat, bench, deadlift, overhead press? Yeah.

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as much screw the calves i'm

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wearing jeans you didn't even see no

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no you look pretty pretty chisel

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i have to tell the story i

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have to tell the story because

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my wife she's i mean she knows

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a little bit of the fitness

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world but she's not like in it

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like and one of the most

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humbling moments of my life when i

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was competing in strongman i I

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finally cleaned and pressed a 200 -pound

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dumbbell with one hand over my head.

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Dude, that's crazy. And I get

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the video and I text it to

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my wife. And literally her reply

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is, but why do your calves look

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so small? But that's what wives

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are supposed to do. They're God's sandpaper.

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They just sanctify us. Did

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you get into the

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heyday, the golden day of

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the bodybuilding? Arnold

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and Lou Ferrigno and

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Colombo. So these guys,

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the 70s. pumping,

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pumping iron air out. I mean, I

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watched all that stuff. Yeah, they

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were, they were, I mean, they put

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it on the map, it seems.

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Of course. And then, and then it's

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right around the same time. I

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think the Soviet weightlifting world, was it

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Vasily Alexiev? That's right. Was he

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the first guy to lift over 500?

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Yeah, it's, yeah, you're going back

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in. Yeah, yeah, but that's, I just

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want to, yeah, when I was

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a kid, I was, I was. enamored

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they were like real life like

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titans yeah they were they were well

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and then strongman kind of came

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out of that there's a lot of

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history and legend with strongman like

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stone lifting goes back for millennia yeah

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especially in scandinavia regions yeah you

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know one of the thing the the

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iconic um who's a fell

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stone is a 409 pound stone

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that you can still go over and

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lift to this day and you

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walk you carry it around a sheep

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pen oh my and one of

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the strongman competitions right there yeah that's

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right and the idea is if

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you can make a full revolution around

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that thing you are labeled full

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sterker full strength uh but that was

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a big deal because if you

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could do that that earned you the

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best wages and the best positions

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on the ships yeah so there was

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an advantage to being strong historically

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when you look at um strength and

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competition for typically it's it's typically

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it's limited to men and really what

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it is it's a way to

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gamify preparation for war i mean yeah

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all the rowing the javelin yeah

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wrestling all of that it's gamifying war

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right and so strong man has

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its roots in building

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hardy men for life on the

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seas. And then the games came

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out of it. When Strongman started in

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the United States, there wasn't really a

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methodology for how to train for it.

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What you would do is essentially just

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find, it was a bunch of guys

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finding the strongest, biggest guy they knew.

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Coming together at a parking lot being like,

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hey, we have this axle from this old

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vehicle. Let's see if we can pick it

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up and put it over our heads. Hey,

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I have this old engine block. Let's see

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who can pick it up and run with

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it the farthest. So let's see who could

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pull the bus. That's right. That's right. And

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so the original Strongman, I think the first

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World's Strongest Man aired in like 1979. Yeah.

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And you have people. You

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know, former NFL players. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. Anybody who's a

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strength trainer. Yeah, I knew this guy.

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He's a six foot nine. He's a

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mechanic down here at the shop. I

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saw him press a transmission once. Get

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him out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So

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it kind of evolved from there. But

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then the weightlifters sort of took over,

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didn't you? I mean, the real strength

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trainers. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. So when

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you say took over, I just mean

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like the methodology and how to get

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strong. even

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in my era. So when I started

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strongman, it was a couple of

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years before Instagram was a thing. When

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I started as a middleweight strongman,

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if you could clean and press a

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240 pound log my

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size. You're doing really well.

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Yeah. Yeah. Now, if you're a

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middleweight and you can't overhead press

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pounds, why are you here? Why

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Yeah. Yeah. Right. Back then,

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if you could deadlift pounds, that

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is a strong dude. Now that is

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amateur chump weight. Wow. Yeah. And

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why? Well, because with social media, now

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we have the dissemination of all

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this training methodology. You have 19 -year -olds

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deadlifting 1 pounds. Yeah. It's of.

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Yeah. Yeah. Even 15 years ago. But

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now we have such wide dissemination

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of knowledge and training that people can

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progress much further, much faster. So

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So the just continues to climb. Thanks

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