What's going on everybody got Kyle and Jake here with late sports cards We are ripping 10 box Tuesdays 10 box definitive treacherous first off the line baseball mixer number 192 random team style Got Matt P. Did a randomizer Matt P with the Braves down to Namco with the Dodgers Alrighty guys. Good luck on this one. We'll go. We'll go in reverse order here Hey, let's see a nice Mariners hit here for you, sir. Yeah, they're not bad, dude We'll start with the prism draughts start with prism draughts like Celestine options for sure Mercin type heat that's me. You got like vicaro Yeah, let's see some Nats. I'm in on that you got a Brady in the the draft stuff Brady would go to the Nats There's a Andrew Abbott on the tiger strike Tiger strike got a silver of Matthew or Matt Rudick Blue wave is gonna be Kobe Kato Kobe Kato and This is gonna be Carlos Rodriguez on the Silverado Carlos Rodriguez And a Kai Bush know what to do when there's a Poisson just scream as loud as I can This is Okay, Dante Williams power surge Andrew Painter, I'll be on the purple the 23 cracked ice. Hey, what's up, Tyler? Now we doing how we doing say silver Benny Montgomery and Vinny Pascatino on the red choice Or the Royals on the red choice and this one will be auto Silverado Alex Benelos Alex Benelos I believe he was a Brewer's prospect at one point. I think he might be a Red Sock now Alex Benelos Laugh Red Sock, I know that cuz uh Caleb went to high school with that kid So I so I bought a couple of his cards in the 21 draft and then I was like, oh, yeah, trade the Red Sox Maybe that'll be better There's a silver Ryan Cusick. There's a red so Lamento Anthony so Lamento and this will be for the Brewer's on the auto. It's gonna be a silver South Raelic Nice one there. Just came up this year for the brew crew South Raelic. There's a Tyler McDonough. That'll be on the blue choice or blue scope. It's a 15 load numbered McDonough Gordon Graceffo got a blue Ryan Bliss Ryan Bliss and to 99 this one's gonna be auto of Quincy Hamilton Quincy Hamilton on the auto blue Brock Selvidge fireworks Yeah, I don't know if you want to go in here. We got a prospects. That's gonna be game arena You go for Toronto And this one's Kyle Manzardo on the silver Kyle Manzardo former race It'll be Max Ferguson red wave that one is numbered not numbered actually red wave Max Ferguson and Last one here is gonna be a Tiger Stripe auto Stephen Hayes are Out of the U Yeah, but the card is a the card is a blue J. He was traded Stephen Hayes are on the Tiger Stripe and a power surge that one's gonna be Bryce Miller Alrighty guys, that'll do it for the prison. We'll start with the we'll go to the update 22 update sapphire. Yeah, so we go by what's on the card. He was traded like early last year, so If it was a college or something or not named and we would go current but That's one of the few actually I think it's the only one that actually had a all these college cards though We'll go to like that was the only one that actually had a team designation on it Yeah, it's just a college. It will go to current team So we have a Max Scherzer and gold this one's gonna be Austin Nola number 250 gold sapphire there for the Padres Aaron's brother 50 got 3,000 hits hobby Or Miguel's I didn't get 3,000 hits. That's Miguel Cabrera and a Anderson Severino Feel like I got a Spencer shaking on that one with anger 3,000 hits hobby wrong Tiger wrong Tiger Hits hobby dude. He can barely hit half the time Yep. Yeah. Yeah, not hobby. There's a Matt Duffy that one's gonna be Kershaw on the all-time strikeouts leader and green to 99 another Matt Duffy Sorry green 75 green 75 Matt Duffy and Eduardo Rodriguez Raise you got a lot of legends Raise do you got a lot of legends? Kiddly Jansen LeMette There's a picture perfect Padres and Jordan Loplo Legend Ramiol Tapia There's a Eric Fetty and Freddie Freeman Fredward Everyone's having a good day. We got a hockey coming next and we're on to football for the rest of the night Peterson Francisco Morales rookie Franco and Rylan Bannon rookie Sapphire the MJ Melendez got a thousand career home runs nice show. Hey there on the Atonic Luke Williams and Martin Peretz There's a Mike Brasso Reload Dakota Hudson and Logan wet Some of these guys I wish were legends for sure That's gonna be a Kosuke Kato Rookie there blue jays Matt Beatty Garrett Richards and a rookie Cole say outs for the 20s and next we'll do 23 Bowman Chrome a choice No, I feel you Tyler.  You headed back from somewhere We got some right in between two holidays, so it could go either way I'm right 23 Bowman Chrome choice Do Bowman Chrome hobby next? Whoo headed to Vegas. There we go Nice nice hanging out for are you staying for for New Year's? Seems like a pretty good place to do New Year's There's a first base auto Kate Hunter. I'll be based out of there for the Reds Visit the grandparents nice very nice Hope you enjoy that not not the funnest with the Not the funnest being the airport at 430, but at least you get out early kind of got the whole day ahead of you Choice here this one is gonna be junior Franco to 150 their choice first exclusive for the D-backs Junior Franco so in their D-backs to 150 And this one's gonna be Luis Perales on the speckle first out of the 299 that'll go to the Red Sox Or it's socks on the speckle first right now. We'll do chrome hobby going with the Bowman With empty and definitive Oh, yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. That's not what I was hoping you were going Okay, do it comment I forgot I Forgot we got started. I forgot to take your bet today Dang it con man. There's a diverse got a William Burgoya Invicta on the insert there Castro Acuna that do con man knows we saw my ma'am Do con man. There's a came to the league Jackson holiday Melton yo, Andrew Vargas first Do you know about darts con man? So we've been that's what we've been hitting here heads up. That's what we've been hitting here There's a 499 gonna be Gerardo quintero first refractor auto for the Braves Gerardo quintero de los Santos rest of two yo not a thing Baby iconic and there's jaren Duran. I'll go to the Red Sox at 499 WBC card Mexico jaren Duran Jesus Galiz Nick Gonzalez Jordan Lawler to Jones process choreo Luciana. I'm on now. Let's see a big one Yeah, it's a fuchsia iconic judge. I'll be taught teased at 399 Teased are sorry 299 on the fuchsia film and Celestyn first The speckle of Spencer Jones Spencer Jones at 299 Very nice Tyler you go There's a first Brian Bettencourt Brian Bettencourt Rockies first woman There's a shimmer host way to Paula the Dodgers Mason Rudolph in line to start there's a first Rainer Arias any start last week. Yeah He gave two or some yards to friggin pickins Pickins been waiting for a QB There's a shimmer James Alton a nice one there should be to 100 shimmer rookie for the Dodgers all righty next up. We'll do 2020 Bowman jumbo uh-oh Quass on Quass on potential here is Anthony 2020 Bowman jumbo Anthony yeah, I wish I could find my old Pokemon cards, man. That's a decent ones Those are long gone. No, I'm sure In a different a different realm the shadow realm And with the Yu-Gi-Oh cards all gone No idea Hockey table nice That's on the front Kyle Lewis on the rookie favorites Elio Ramos So during the Rand first chrome red socks and vets. There's an auto. It's gonna be Ford Proctor base out of there for the race Raise on the base auto go race Royce Lewis there is CJ Abrams insert Giants legend for Proctor Yeah, most of the raised cards you see and they don't they don't end raise Joyce playing miniature golf fishing and spending time at the beach. There we go.  There's a part D. Yeah, it's Hans Krause own Lutz Mauricio in paper Homs About the same. I remember I remember at least a few of them went in a went in a garage sale that my mom My mom grabbed the cards and I was not I was not consenting to that Wanda Franco Tony Gonsolin. They were a Few of them lost that way in a garage sale. Yeah, still had some pretty good ones though Whoever whoever was in that alfay. What's garage sale 2000 probably like six you've got a good deal You got a good deal in some Pokemon cards paper paper Miko Horner, there's Drew waters George Valera There's a Dominguez first paper Volpe first paper Kromes J rod Tyler Freeman for a snowba Joe Ryan the ray Joe Ryan the ray no class on yet No class song yet Roger's rookie at a 50 dang rich you got a nice little a nice little find there There's a Steven Polini. That'll be numbered at 299 on the speckle first for the brakes Steven Polini Great bull. I don't think so. Maybe though Jeff McNeil is the guaranteed rate bull alive guys Kansas versus UNLV We got it on. I don't know if it's live, but there's an aqua cave over we used to 125 the Dodgers Yeah it's Eight four Jay Hawks can see nine and four UNLV rebels go Jay Hawks. I Don't know maybe How many left to last break it'll be on our schedule. It's not it's not scheduled last break won't be until 1130, so it's still got about two hours and 15 minutes. There's a link to the break schedule in the chat Yeah, you can check it out see what time the brakes are It's supposed to start 1130 to 10 bucks. There's a Wilfred ass to Dio to 75 first yellow paper Joe Montana patch out in case out of 10 same box. Ooh nice a Brock Purdy There we go. I like that. There he is last song Poisson first Chrome Robert Poisson It's a big day everybody. It's a big day everybody Keep it going here second half of 2020 the Poisson policy is not gonna like that reaction. I'll be honest with there There's a reds. There's CJ Abrams and Nolan Gorman. There's a Bobby wit first paper Chrome's gonna be gross shans I got you Joshua more paper paper vets For not being like Sam. Yes, sir. Oh man I thought about it for a second. I just I didn't want to go there And then when you get that level going parades, there's a co-patch Jake might Jake might be ready Get a nice song get a nice one going Nolan Jones more paper Yes, yes, it will Frank artifacts is right up after this one supposed to start at 35 so about 20 minutes When we got that one scheduled to start there's a first auto Ruben Cardenas for the race raise everywhere first base auto Ruben and Cardenas Casey Meyes, Dustin May and will Wilson. There's a Chrome Bobby wit nice first there. Hey, no problem Frank. I Should still do it and if we see another one, maybe Tyler you got a Jerry rice auto out of ten that's sick I'm a big fan of that And you know these four I was like a Lewis Vincent Davis Riding the last pack out of 2020. Oh, yeah, that wouldn't be bad boarded Nothing wrong with a little Jordan rookie It's a pipeline for the Dodgers and gyms and a side young Shane 93 on the top 100 miss call there miss call there Number one, there's a Jeremy Pena Josh young from Greyrod And that will do it for the 2020 bone Next we'll do 23 drafts do the Jumbo and then we'll do choice and then we got NT and we'll end it with a definitive Thank you, Winshew. Thank you.  Thank you guys. All right guys. We'll do the Open draft jumbo necks. Good luck. Keep it going. There's a put some food on There he is. There he is You missed it, man. Sorry, Anthony. You're not very good one for you today. You missed it Has 89 seer sealed case. I mean bad That ain't bad rich 122 What are you playing with like? Yeah, what it's a tie floated 99 on the first green green for the reds that might be why the First Jonah Cox that might be why the servers are full.  Yeah, you got the cardinals in this one Cardinals see me get you chase Davis out of draft and then looking for some vets mostly in definitive and Nt. There's a Spencer Nemitz to 125 on the Aqua Lunar Crater Drew Jones Clifford and Taylor Grant Taylor Yeah, I remember those days for sure. Ooh, there's an orange It's gonna be orange paper of Camilo. Yes. Nice one there for the Stroh's at 25 Prospect Camilo on the orange paper Matt Corbath on the light blue. I don't like it Paul Skeens First Hudapool and Joe Whitman. It's like we'll send a box with the Reds there that tie Floyd did have a little bit of a Demolish these boxes. Let me tape it back That's what a tie Floyd had a little bit of a mark on it that corner was dented a bit. So Send a box there. We'll see you Tyler. We go Alrighty, all right. Keep it going here Hey, have a good one sir. Have a good one. Hope you have a safe flight out there to Vegas tomorrow My man here. We got a blue auto that one's gonna be Landon Maraudis to 150 there on the first blue for the blue J's nice Maraudis First Riley and Seth Keener. I've tried the gun before actually it was not a good decision Tried the gun a couple years ago. So it was had some age to it There's a white Langford insert first Drew Gilbert and first Max Anderson It did have a little age to a nice little 50 year vintage Basket or a baseball. It's a yellow manual bonilla on the yellow lunar crater for the blue J's Jackson holiday Castro and Matt Shaw refractor first Some cardboard ninja stars out of Conceco Not against it. We probably get enough of them Rofan, there's Bergoia and first refractor Rocco Forte. I don't believe Otto's yet, Mitchell I don't believe any Cardinals Otto's yet Bomeister there's an auto. It's gonna be base Otto Garrett Forrester for the Pirates Pirates on the base James Wood refractor Brooks Lee and the Zanzanatello Refractor not yet. Not yet Mitchell unfortunately We'll keep it going here and see we can get you one sir. Say Bowman glass type Pete First Zach Thornton and TJ Walton Phillies and got some really good a NT and definitive hits though So that's probably your best bet either way haven't gotten there yet for some Pujols or Really nice They Kate Denton there first speckle Yeah, Goldschmidt Ozzie Smith having Salta Bon refractor Hopefully you can see some Cardinals there She saw she saw a match the gathering set on Antique Roadshow and brought in to work to injure Vargas the 499 that's interesting Light blue how you Lee and a Nolan McLean on the lunar glow a first Jacob Wilson Yeah, I guess you probably saw how much they value it for and she said I have one Geez, so she was going hard purple on the back It is Max Anderson to 250 first base out of their Tigers Max Anderson Rainer Arias first Owen and Marcus Brown The flying Lotus it's been banned It's been banned all righty guys Let's do a choice now and we'll finish with two NT's in a definitive Good luck. Good luck Probably a few years ago to me. I would imagine right probably back when they were first coming out Good start. This is gonna be a blue wave first for the Mariners gonna be Cole Emerson Someone was asking nice one there Mariners Get a mag on that that was for Derek you go Derek nice one there on the Cole Emerson First pick in the draft for the Mariners that'll be to 150 Nice one there shortstop prospect We go Derek right behind it's a 150. We have a Nolan McLean Choice first the back is gonna be a refractor of Nolan McLean right back to the Mets And the choice to 150 and the refractor to 499 all righty guys three more boxes We'll start with the NT's got two NT first off the line, and we've got a definitive Good luck. Good luck guys See what we got here geez six-finger deal for the magic the gathering set Nothing wrong with that. That is the thickest one. I've seen I believe so far Goodness gracious This one doesn't look how much stickers on this side Jake So much they left what so much they had left Goodness gracious. That's because there's a treasure chest right on the top. Oh boy. Is it really? Yeah. Whoo. Oh boy That's gonna be a random That's fire. Good luck everybody. We got a treasure chest up front. That is number two 99 I believe it's gonna be all a relics. Oh Man, that is a lot of names that is gonna be Jackson Holiday Cole Young Jacob Barry Jordan Lawler Justin Crawford Drew Jones Mason when Laja Green South Freiland Jay Dom Marcella Meyer Evan Carter Jayce Young Gavin Cross Zach Vinge at the Met Diego Cartaya Brooks Lee Owen White AJ Smith Schauver Novi Marte Jack Leiter to Mar Johnson Tyler Soderstrom same as Avalla Dalton Rushing James Wood Drew Gilbert Pete Crow Louise on a jalicunia Kyle Harrison and Ethan solace. Oh my god 24 patches there. So we need to write down I guess mark down sorry 32 actually Is that one for every team? 32 I wish it was and it's not. I do not believe so it's only 30 teams. So Someone's got to double up here. So Royals Reds Marys Dbecks Marlins a lot going on here Dbecks Nationals We'll figure this one out the end. That's gonna be a random. Um, I Believe everyone's gonna be involved probably just about 78 and 99. All right, so I need like to have like a 78 out of 99 Yes, right? No Yeah, we'll figure this one out at the end. We'll do a random Yeah, I don't think anybody's gonna have 17 in this one. Okay. I Don't believe so I don't believe so. So yeah, we'll figure that out in a second. We'll do a random at the end Yeah, yeah So we'll do that in just a second here guys keep on moving Got a tris speaker number to three. Yeah, don't worry about it right now Bat relic. I want you to get behind so Three of three there on the bat relic tris speaker first off the line This one is Luke Appling to 25 there for the brace On the retro materials jumbo jersey What's up shady? Yeah, that was quite a card there Luke Appling to 25 We've got Marcello Meyer number to 49 on the red white and blue for Boston Hey, Sam. You just missed it. I know Sam. Come here. You gotta do a random for us. I don't want to Sam You couldn't work on this right? I don't want to you got time for this, right Marcello Meyer there There is a nine. It's gonna be Brennan Davis on the three color patch their cups Come on Sam Sam come on man Davis to nine on the three color patch help us out here Hank Davis that was another three color patch to 99 for Pittsburgh Hank Davis We've got Zach V that one's gonna be number to 99 another RPA there Rockies this time Rockies this time Zach V got a Brooks Lee for the twins number to 99 Brooks Lee three color patch Tell around it I don't work Brooks lead in 99 Santa say a random team and on the back. We have an RP to 99 drew Jones. Nice one there with the DJ cut out or the D-backs Jones to 99 Do another NT Good luck here guys They taped in this way the other way. Come on guys Demption on the top. All right. Good luck here guys box, too This one's gonna be a Jackson Cheerio nice one there rookie signature jumbo material booklet There we go, uh brewers With the Jackson Cheerio booklet auto. I don't work. Yeah, I saw that shady. It wasn't gonna go well either way, so oh good, I Don't think it's uh, I don't think it's gonna matter too much Jackson Cheerio Booklet makes me not want to watch it. That's for sure How you leave that'll be number to three on the red white blue to color patch Phillies Yeah, it makes me it makes me not too excited for the game. That's that's for sure It's gonna be interesting. How you leave At a jumbo rookie jersey to 49 that one's Gavin Williams for the Brewers or sorry the Guardians Guardians Gavin Williams Which one is treasure Jersey numbers? It's gonna be Ricky Henderson number to 35 Pretty sick one there first of these I've seen Treasure Jersey numbers I'd rather it's a 49. It's gonna be Bat Relic of Whitey Ford Whitey Ford there on the Bat Relic Yankees Yeah, there's too much of it nowadays man. It's like if you don't make it to a good bowl game half your team It's just not gonna play There is a nine. It's gonna be Davidson De La Santos on the RPA The D-backs Two out of nine De La Santos Yeah, like half the QB's in the in the whole country are going in different teams There's the 25 this one's gonna be dual Jersey out of Tyler Gentry Tyler Gentry there for the Royals to 35 or sorry 25. Yeah, I agree a shady not gonna be the greatest bowl games for sure some of them Another one of 25 this time. We got a no ma no more Garcia power on the definitive ink To 25 oh no mock for the Red Sox This one is the 25. It's gonna be a Jordan Lawler one out of 25 there on the choice RPA. That's going to the D-backs Yeah, that's fair to Jace. That's fair to 25 at Jordan Lawler and that's it got Evan Carter number to 99 with a sick patch got a R Three color patch there for the Rangers 15 out of 99 nice Evan Carter My RPA for the Rangers and last one here guys just definitive Good luck. Good luck. Then we'll figure out that Figure out the treasure chest booklet do a random at the end here. It's pretty thick one. Good luck First up we have a Bryce Harper number 33 color patch Game used for the Phillies So three color patch. I love those blue jerseys They're fire and this one is the 25 It's gonna be Chris Bryant on the protectors at the plate relic Nice little KB there for the Rockies KB game use protector Piece of Velcro there Tectors out the plate. This is gonna be patch auto to 25 Byron Buxton That'll be for the 20s on the three color patch Some of those light blue 20s jerseys 25 This one is gonna be number to 50 gonna be a Tristan Kassus rookie out of Red Sox Exactly shady exactly. We did what we're supposed to do man. We beat everybody that was in front of us It's one there nice Kassus for the Red Sox This one is gonna be Johnny bench on the one of five bat relic auto nice one there Reds Little throwback there one of five That relic Johnny bench This one's gonna be one Soto number to 25 on the on-card auto nice one there Padres The newest Yankee one Soto mmm Don't love that Nice big on-card Soto there for the Padres to 25 This one is gonna be gold frame auto. That's number to 30 nice one there is Yachty Molina There we go Mitchell you go Mitchell with the Yachty Mitchell man eight out of 30 on the gold frame There we go nice one there legend of the Cardinals got him Alina eight out of 30 on the back We have a dual auto. It's gonna be for the Cubbies Ryan Sandberg and Andre Dawson number 235 there's took Nice one there for the Cubbies Sandberg and Andre Dawson Throwback there all righty guys. Give me a few minutes here. I gotta figure out uh This treasure chest what we're gonna do here. We'll do a random Gotta figure out who's in the random here first. Give me just a few minutes guys We'll do that and then we'll be on to hockey All right, so let me see here. Let me see nice to know you All right, give me a minute here. Let me See what we're working with It's not strive. It's not all 32 unfortunate that make it a little easier. It is not all 32 teams I'm gonna go through and Think delete some off here first see what See who we got Baltimore's on here Philly Seattle D-backs Miami St. Louis. I know nobody has a majority here. It's like almost one per There's a couple teams with an extra a couple guys though Lewis, Arizona Washington Yankees Boston Texas Detroit Kansas Dang it. Come on strive gotta be better Actually, Palo has to be better. Come on. Oh, sorry about that strive. We got the win though. Go magic Got the win Dodgers Yeah, I'm just putting them all in guys. I'm gonna do a random with everything. I don't think there's any chance of somebody having Majority here Texas Atlanta Cincinnati, Texas Atlanta Cincinnati, Texas Pittsburgh To fires kind of two chances Yes, every every player on the second one spot and there's 32. There'll be 32 once I run the random Every spot will get its own chance here. So, yeah However many D-backs there are there'll be as many in the random same with like the Nationals and whatever else Couple teams not in here guys. There's a couple of combos and it's 32 total So there's got to be a couple teams not in here make sure we're rushing his Dodgers, right? Just says LA I think it's Dodgers though Houston Chicago St. Fran San Diego Hope so 33 all right Orioles Phillies Seattle D-backs Miami, St. Louis D-backs Washington, Milwaukee Red Sox Yankees Rangers Tigers Royals Rockies Mets Dodgers Dodgers Twins Rangers Braves Reds Texas Pittsburgh Yeah, all righty guys, so we're gonna do a random here And do a random here all 32 teams in on this one top spot. We'll get the treasure chest Pop spot will get the treasure chest They lost 27 a row. Oh my goodness. That is crazy. All right guys. Good luck on this one Good luck on this one. Let me roll two dice. I'm gonna see me times. We'll go Gonna go 12 times the maximum number 12 times on this one All right, good luck here guys ahead Orioles down to the Padres in this one I put as many as many times as the team was listed. So I got Padres here twice I got Dodgers a few times all 32 on the card are listed here. We will go 12 times. Good luck guys for the treasure chest Good luck everybody. Here we go one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Eleven and twelve the Yankees the Yankees will take home the treasure chest 32 relic booklet Righty there guys that will do it for the break do a quick hit recap here Each take the auto. There's patches from yeah, that's right Carlos Rodriguez, Benelus, South Freilich, Hamilton, Hazar, Matt Duffy There's Nola, Kate Hunter, Betancourt, Quintero, Horales the 299, Got Franco, Bassado Proctor, Cardenas It's a 299, Polini, Forrester, McLean the 499, 250 max Anderson, 150 McLean, Atlanta, Maraudis Right guys, we'll do hockey next. Give me just a few minutes here. I'm a little bit behind now, but that's alright. Gavin Williams There's Marcello Whitey Ford had Appling. There's Triss speaker. How you Lee? Jackson Shurio. That's gonna be a Evan Carter Drew Jones Brooks Lee And you know I like the magic man. I'm in on the magic. There's Henry Davis, Zach Vee Garcia Para, Jordan Lawler, Gentry, Davis and De Los Santos. I'll take them any day Randy whatever How you doing today also Randy? How's things going? There's a Casas, Duel Otto Dawson, there's Liatty Molina, Juan Soto, Byron Buxton and Johnny Bench And blue 2-1-5 to get Cole Emerson on the blue way first Otto there For the Mariners. Alrighty guys that will do it. That will do it. Again Yankees got the 32 32 patch booklet. Alrighty guys, we'll get a hockey going here in just a moment. Let me get some names typed in


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And so, yeah, I just, my birthday was today, right? So I was thinking about, you know, how old I am or whatever, and when I started working out. And I was thinking of all the things that I learned from lifting weights or the value, I should say, the things that I got of most value from lifting weights. Yes. Well, that's what it is. The value I got from lifting weights, really the top values had nothing to do with the fitness, the mobility, the strength, the muscle, the health benefits, the physical health benefits. Although those are great. So I'm not saying that I don't appreciate those. I love those. But the lessons I got from it, the value I got from it, really had almost nothing to do with my physical body. Oh, I would agree with that. But I would also say that it takes a good five plus years before that kicks in. Totally. Right. The life lessons and the connections that you start to make with other things other than the way you look and feel and how strong you are. That takes a long time. It's very similar to like how we talk about nutrition with people, right? Like once you start to connect the dots with the way you feed your body, changes the way your hair feels, your skin feels, your energy, your mood, your sleep, when you start, it takes a lot of consistency of applying discipline towards that for you to start to notice how much it bleeds into other aspects of your life. So probably when I was 17 to 25, what all the lessons we're going to talk about, I'm not sure if I had made the connections yet then. Now as an almost 40 year old looking back, I can list all kinds of things now that I know like, wow, that really, I wasn't as aware of them as I was going through them as I am now. And that's something that I had a conversation recently with my sister-in-law because she knows what I do for a living or at least what I used to do for a living, which, you know, training people, trying to describe that to somebody. Like typically the thought is like, well, you're just manipulating their way. You're trying to get them to lose weight or lose body fat or it's very surface sort of goals. And, you know, to try and explain all these other values and lessons and all these other things attached to it, it took me a while to figure out. Well, you said something interesting. You said, I wasn't really aware of the stuff that I was learning. I think this is what makes fitness so powerful because it's like, I used to love training. There are certain demographics I love to train, right? I love training people in advanced age. I love their wisdom. I like to learn from them. It was really fun. But I also love to train kids. Now, the reason why I love to train kids wasn't because I love the actual session.  If you're a trainer and you've ever trained somebody under the age of 15 or 16, you know how challenging it is. It's challenging because they don't have very good stability. They get bored. It's not fun. You know, it's so, it can be very challenging. But the reason why I enjoyed it so much wasn't because of the watching their body change or see them getting stronger. That would definitely happen. But rather, I would, because it was always the parents that was hiring me, right? They didn't do it themselves. Their parents would hire me. Their parents would come to me after a couple months and they would remark on things like, you know, John is, he's doing better in school or, you know, Susie's more confident. Like she talks more at the dinner table. And I started to realize that they were, this was a result of the growth process that happens when you work out. Fitness is one of the best, easiest ways to enter into personal growth. And the reason why it's one of the easiest ways to enter into it is because you oftentimes don't enter it thinking personal growth. Like if I, if someone came to hire me as a trainer and I said to them, oh, you know, and they were like, you know, how much do you charge or what? I'm like, well, you know, I charged this much. And what we're going to do is we're going to work on life growth and personal growth. They're going to be like, I'm going to the next train. I just want to lose 10 pounds, right? So because it's so unassuming and people often enter in not realizing the lessons they're going to get, they're more open to them. They're not aware. And they just start to happen because you're working out. In fact, we all started working out at it because of vanity. I did not think to myself, I'm lifting weights for personal growth. I think most people, I mean, there's, there's a small percentage maybe out there that are, that are getting into it for health and better and mental. But most people, what drives you, what gets you off the couch to show up to a gym and get a membership is normally you're not feeling good about yourself. Well, it's usually due to a crisis or, you know, something where intervention is necessary. Like I need to like take control of my health or doctor told you something, some circumstance like that where it draws you back in. But typically, you know, like if you're young and this is something that you're driven towards, it's usually like surface. Well, I mean, okay. And of all, we, all of us combined to train thousands of people and by proxy more because we've had trainers work for us and manage gyms. What percentage of people would you say higher trainers or even just work out in gyms, just cause they don't want to change how they look? Yeah. How high a majority? Most, right? 90% plus probably? It's like vanity. Well, I would say a good portion of our, our careers towards the back half was spent on selling clients on these ideas. Totally. Right? Like once we started or once I started to piece this together as a trainer, like how much all these other things about working out affected my life. I knew that that was the secret like, Oh, this, I just got to get this client to feel that, see that or no notice that because once they make that connection, it's what's going to keep them going to eventually reach the reason why they showed up here. They showed up here because they want to lose some crazy amount of weight or they want to look like a cover of a magazine or whatever it is, which is a pretty big goal. But if I can get them to connect the dots to all these other aspects that it's going to improve their life and stop focusing so much on the end goal, even though they're hiring me for that, I know I want to get them there. I got to sell them on the idea of all these other things because they can start to see that immediately. Yes. And it's a process, right? It's not like you tell them that on day one, but as you're training them, this is kind of what you're coaching. You know, when you think of like personal growth methods, they tend to be polarizing. So for example, if you say to, you know, if somebody, you tell them, Hey, try this religion or the spiritual practice or read this book by this motivational person or whatever, very polarizing. Sometimes they'll be like, yeah, I want to do that. And other times like, no, I don't want to, I don't want to do that. Personal growth is tough. I don't really feel like doing that or I don't believe in that or maybe a political reason. Fitness spans across everybody. I had everybody working out my gym. I had Republicans, Democrats, I had, you know, Christians and Jewish people and people who were atheists, I had people and all of them were there usually because they want to change how they look, but not realizing that if they stick to it long enough and they're sincere with it, that they're embarking on a personal growth journey. And you know, that's what a fitness does. That's what lifting weights does. In fact, statistically, you can actually look this up. Statistically speaking, people who work out as part of their life, they have higher life satisfaction. This is a fact. They can handle challenges better. They actually do studies on this and people who work out regularly when they have life challenges that we're all going to have, whether it's a death in the family or illness or you lose your job or whatever, they tend to handle those challenges better. They tend to see challenges as valuable more often than people who don't work out and especially don't lift weights and will make the argument why later in the episode, they're more resilient to change. Again, you can look this all up. They tend to also be more successful in all categories. In fact, in business, when you look at people who make a certain amount, a disproportionate percentage of them exercise on a regular basis. It's part of their routine and you think, they're so busy, how can they have to? They've made it a part of their team because they've seen so much value and it actually contributes to them being more successful in business. It creates these disciplines. You learn that how these disciplines can apply in multiple directions. It's a part of the success formula is to be able to understand how to apply these disciplines in a direction that's going to make it where you want to go. The first lesson I can remember, I'm thinking way back because I was real young, but the first lesson I think I learned from weights, not realizing I'm learning this lesson, but the first lesson was that I changed my relationship to pain and struggle. Now, this is easy for me to remember because I saw this on my clients. When I would get a new client and we would do an exercise and I did not take new clients to high intensity. It's inappropriate. They're deconditioned. We're training at moderate intensity. We're doing 10 reps of something that I know if I push them, they could do 20 reps, but always. Rep number seven and eight, the burn would kick in and you could see the look in their face. The relationship with pain was different. It was like, oh my God, I can't do this. Or they'd get sore and they'd call me and be like, yes, is this normal? I'm hurt. Totally. I think I injured myself. This doesn't right. And it's because the relationship to pain is different. The relationship to pain is bad. All bad. Oh no, I'm doing this. It's burning. I can't handle the burn. Oh no, I can't handle the pain of this shoulder press or the squat. I need to stop. I actually, sometimes I would have clients actually throw dumbbells on the floor like they'd be, I tell them two more reps and they drop them like, I can't do anymore. And it wasn't because it hurt them more than it hurt me. When I do an exercise at high intensity, I feel the same pain somebody else does. The difference is I have a different relationship with pain. And I remember learning that when I was a kid, cause I'd work out and I had that feeling of doing squats and being like, I have to rack. I can't do anymore. But you know, because I wanted to change my body and early on it was all about how I looked. I kind of changed my relationship to that pain and I was able to go through it and be okay with it and get to the point where now the pain of exercise is something I enjoy. You create an entirely different association with it. You know that what you're doing is beneficial towards your growth and towards you gaining more muscle. So therefore now I look at it different because this pain is, you know, and I can get through this pain. It's temporary. I think this is where the sound bites like no pain, no gain come from because of the truth that's behind that. And what it is is that you're stretching your capacity, right? If you always work within your capacity at all time, the body's not going to be forced to adapt and grow and change. So sure, maybe you're exercising, but you're not necessarily training the body. And I think that's where the lesson lies is knowing that is stretching your capacity and the carryover I see that that's we're in life. If you're always in your comfort zone, right? Totally. I remember being stuck in this in a job. I stuck in a job four years longer than I should have been because I was comfortable because it was easy. I made good money. I had 401k. I had benefits. I liked what I did. Why should I leave? You know, even though everything inside of me was telling me like you need to move on and you move on from this, but moving on from it met struggle, met possible pain, met difficulty, met challenge, met maybe failure, all those things are going through my brain. But the truth is that was one of the best decisions I ever made my life was to take that chance, embrace the pain. That's where the adaptation and growth came from. It does. And life is about struggle.  You're going to encounter struggle and pain. And really it's about your relationship with it rather than not having it all, right? Not having any pain.  You could numb yourself in life.  And that would suck, right? You have to experience pain. You have to experience struggle. Now, how was, how was it going to affect you? Are you going to crumble? Are you going to cry? Are you going to run? Or are you going to stand tall and weather the storm? And lifting weights is hard. If you do it right, it's hard. And so you learn to change that relationship. The next one, this one, again, this is an early lesson that I learned, which is to embrace failure as part of the process. Because here's the deal.  You're just not good. You're not good for a long time. Yeah, it's so much easier to avoid that feeling. You know, and I think that's one of the things that deters a lot of people from it is like, they know that this is going to be hard. This is something that I might not be that great at initially, just like any other pursuit, any other skill that you're trying to learn, you're not going to be great at it right off the gates. And you're lucky, maybe if you, if you're somewhat decent at it, well, this is also why I think people get stuck with modalities, right? Or exercises that they love, right? Because they, they don't want to fail. They don't go do an exercise.   They've never done before. So I'm going to keep sticking with these movements that I've been doing forever and I'm good at, but not realizing that the most change, the most benefits will come from going after something that they probably will fail at. Totally. I mean, I remember doing, you know, early exercises, compound lifts, and I'd get that. Remember the shaky feeling that you're trying to lift or so unfamiliar? Yeah, it feels unstable or it just doesn't feel right or and I'm trying to squat. I'm not getting it. I'm not getting it. Or I got to drop the weight because it's not working.  One is to be like, I'm never doing that again. I'm done. I'm gone. And the other one is like, I'm going to keep trying. And then you start to learn like, oh, this is, this is just part of the process. I'm always going to experience this because if I stop, then, you know, at this point, you're saying my body's not going to change, right? So I have to embrace failure. Is failure part of any growth process? 100% There is. In fact, we were talking about this yesterday on the drive from truckie, you know, Justin and I were talking about the business and we were talking about how oftentimes, you know, we're working hard on one thing and we think it's going to look like this and then something else happens that we didn't realize. And the only way that would have happened is had we pushed through and focused on this other thing. Otherwise, if we never took a chance, if we never, you know, attempted and failed, we would have never learned what the real answer was. This is why people in business who go out and try, tend to outperform people who plan and plan and plan all the time. Well, that's the old paralysis by analysis, right? I think that's what you learned from this is that instead of, you know, sitting there and analyzing your idea is one of the best things you can do is get moving towards that because the worst thing that could absolutely happen is failure from it. And who cares? Because now you know that that's not the answer anymore. And the quicker you can get to that, the quicker you can get to the right answer. And so I think that's what that lesson taught me is I quickly learned that, oh, wow, instead of me sitting around and arguing or debating why that's a good idea or a bad idea, I'm going to put that shit into play and accept that, hey, I may fail at it, but so what? Now I know. Now I know for sure. It's no longer a debate. It's no longer an argument. We've applied that in this business. How many times have we thought to your point, like, hey, this is a great idea. Let's go this direction and then we fail at it. But now we know we know that that's not the right way. It's the iterative approach. I mean, whoever gets it right the very first time, I would love to see statistics on that with the business, with an idea you have, a pursuit. But I mean, how often does that happen? That just is like a bolt of lightning hitting you. So it's way better to just get yourself out there, work on your ideas, and it will reveal itself if you keep working hard. Right. And you're working out what an easy way to learn that. And again, it's unassuming. You don't realize you're learning that just because you want to change your body when you get in shape, but you end up learning that through the process. This next one took me a long time. This is probably of all the ones that we listed. And we have 10. This is probably the one that took me the longest to really figure out, which is to learn to care for myself like someone I care about. Now the reason why this took so long was because for a long time I worked out because I didn't like myself. And as a result, I treated myself like someone I didn't like and care about, right? So I over-trained, take too many supplements, did crazy things with diet. And now here's the irony of all that, is my physique and my body didn't progress as fast or as well as it could because I wasn't treating myself appropriately. Eventually, and this took me a long time to figure out, that I need to treat myself like someone I care about. And then my training became more appropriate. My diet became more appropriate. I was able to in more intelligent way scale back my training when I needed to or increase it when I needed to. And then the progress started happening. But through the pursuit of trying to change my body, I started to figure this out. Like, oh, I got to take care of myself like someone I actually care about. Do you remember when in your life that happened? Was there a pivotal moment like in your training where that really like, because I can't remember. I'm trying to remember when I made that stitch. Obviously, I've admitted that I was driven by insecurities originally into the gym. But at some point, I made that switch to taking care of my body first versus worried about what other people think how I look. I just can't pinpoint when that switch happened. Can you? Yeah, I have a specific moment I've talked about before. This is when my health took a turn for the negative. This was in my, I want to say I was 30. And I thought I had an autoimmune issue. My gut health went terrible. I lost lots of weight. And the only way to fix myself was to start to focus on my health. And through that, I started to, and so no more aesthetics. I didn't focus on anything other than my health. And then I started to, through that, take care of myself, listen to my body, that kind of stuff. And then the side effect of that was I looked amazing. I remember at the end of a year of that focus, I looked at myself in the mirror and I was like, oh my gosh, I look better than I ever have. This is crazy. The side effect of me actually taking care of myself like someone I care about is the thing that I was always chasing in the first place. This actually took me a while to get to that point. I sort of carried that mentality, like a lot of athletes I know that they just are never good enough. Like I just was always punishing myself that I could do better. And that wasn't, you know, the performance I wanted out there. I'm not putting up, putting in enough work. And so it was just always this like high demand. And I was just criticizing myself constantly. And it wasn't until later on where I started pursuing workouts with a completely different mindset where it was enjoyable. I started to show up. I had more energy. And then all of a sudden I just got even better muscular gains and I got previous to that. Yeah, totally. Because if you train yourself in a way that's not like someone that you care about, you tend to overdo it.    I think I'm going to go to the gym and work on mobility today instead of beating myself up or I'm not, you know, I'm not feeling so good. My gut health is not so good rather than like force feeding myself more protein because no, I need the gains. I'll say, Oh, you know what, maybe I need to back off a little bit and increase my maybe my vegetable intake or maybe I need to fast for a second to let things heal. And of course, the side effect of that is you end up looking better as a result. But yeah, that one took me a long time. I'd say the longest out of all of these. The next one, this one's a great life lesson, great life lesson. And you learn this again through years of working out, which is to learn to focus on what you can change and ignore what you can't, right? So if you think of your body and think of the things you're working on, eventually, especially if you're visually focused, vanity or aesthetic focused, at some point, you start to realize like, I'm not going to get 21 inch arms or I'm not going to get shoulders that are this wide or I'm not going to get this waist that is this small. My genetics won't allow it. I don't have the structure. I don't have the frame. And you either are going to quit and say screw it. I'm not going to do this anymore because I can't, you know, do these things I can't do or you accept it and say, well, okay, but I'm still going, I'm still moving forward. I'm still just going to focus on the things that I can focus on and keep, you know, moving forward. I don't have enough abs for a 12 pack. Well, what comes to mind when I think of that too is is for, because what stands out the most is the two real dominant types of clients, right? You either have the really overweight person who wants to lose weight, or you have the really skinny person that wants to put on muscle and they both struggle with different things. And part of this lesson I feel like is not only accepting who you are and your body type and your genetics, but then also learning to look at the strengths of that one, right? So if I have a client who struggles with putting muscle, like myself, right, an ectomorph, have a hard time putting muscle on, but one of the benefits of that body type is leaning out is really easy. So when I get to a place, if I actually add a little bit of muscle, it's really easy for me to shred body fat and have this look. The reverse is true for the person who has a hard time losing weight. Well, that person typically builds muscle really well. So it's also, I think part of this process is learning to look at your strength. It's not, it's accepting what you can't, you can't change and looking at the things that you're good at and try to be great with that or use that to your advantage. So often we look at ourselves and we, oh, I'm too tall, I'm too short, I'm too fat, I'm too wide, I'm not this, I'm not that. We're focused on all the things that we're not versus, hey, there's also the other side of the coin to that. There's the reasons that make, for every reason that you have that gives you a disadvantage, there's something that it gives you an advantage to or it just kind of reframes that. Yeah, I look at it as wasted energy. I mean, it's what can I control versus what's out of my control? And why not just focus on the things that I can control? And therefore that's going to then take over and, you know, and apply in positive directions.  Yeah, I remember there's one client in particular that stands out to me. He worked out in my facility with another trainer. He had lost his leg in a car accident years prior, and went through a period of depression and gained a lot of weight. And eventually, he came in and hired a trainer in my facility, and this was his motto.  I'm not going to be able to walk like I could before, but eventually accepted it. And now I'm going to focus on the stuff I can change. Well, this guy ended up losing 80 pounds in a wheelchair and modified all kinds of exercises and did all kinds of stuff. He became one of the more motivated, inspiring people in my gym. In fact, when he would come in, I used to love him coming in when there were other clients in the gym. So the energy in the room would improve because he had this kind of energy. He had this focus with himself. So great example of what we're talking about. The next one, this one's a big one, which is that perfect doesn't exist. It's connected to the previous one, right? There is no perfect. In fact, if you're focused on perfect, it's like trying to quench your thirst with seawater.  This right here, if you don't learn this through fitness, because fitness can go two different directions, it can go in a very positive direction, which is what we're talking about, or it can start to turn negative. If you don't learn this lesson that perfect doesn't exist, you start to move in the direction of extreme dieting, plastic surgery, anabolic steroids, things that are very unhealthy for your body. In this pursuit of something that is unachievable, you can never get. It's a very dark place. I've seen lots of fitness, especially fitness professionals, stuck in this place, and it can be very destructive. Well, there's two people that come to mind right away from me.  Even though they look amazing to 99% of the population, they're more insecure about their body than the 600-pound obese person. The more fit they get, the more obsessed they become with looking more perfect, and it's like this endless, bottomless pit. That's one. The other one is the person who's really overweight who thinks that they need to lose all this weight so they'll be happy. They think that it's because they're so overweight is why they're so unhappy with themselves, and they think that losing the weight is going to do that. You have to have the self-acceptance, the forgiveness, the love for yourself first before that happens. Otherwise, what ends up happening to this client, and I've had this, where they lose their 50, their 100 pounds, and they don't ensure they have an initial like, I did it. They're excited about that, but a real quick hard crash after that because they didn't really deal with any of the other issues. They still are unhappy with themselves. They have the formula backwards. What happens is they think losing weight or getting fit makes me happy, and they don't realize that they actually have the formula flipped. It's this way. It's happy. If I get happy, then I'll lose weight, and then I'll get fit, and it'll work. Otherwise, they may lose the weight, but that'll come right back, because it didn't solve all of their deep problems. That chasing perfect is a trap. It is a complete trap. It doesn't exist. Everything's changing all the time, and if you get into fitness because you want to look perfect, and you stay in that phase, and you stay trying to chase perfect, very, very dark, very dark. Again, I've seen it, all of us have in our space many, many times.  This is also what it's taught me to go and look at other aspects of the health sphere more. Again, I was driven by aesthetics originally and changing my body, the vanity thing you talked about, but later on, did I start to piece together the importance of mobility and mental health, and relationship health, and spiritual health. A lot of times, this lesson here alone has taught me to let go of the look sometimes and put a lot of energy and effort into other parts of this health sphere and actually double down on that.  I like to challenge myself in those different areas and really push and focus on different parts of my overall health. Well, this is an interesting one because you're going to get a lot of gurus and you're going to get a lot of self-improvement people out there that are really going to drive home that message of trying to achieve perfection. You're going to get that in athletics, you're going to get that in all kinds of directions where this becomes an obsession to become great.  The sad part is if you look at all these documentaries and you see these ESPNs, 30 for 30s, some of the greatest athletes in the world and look at the dysfunction, look at all of the relationships they have, look at the other aspects of life that you have to consider when you laser in and you chase that dragon. In fact, I learn a lot of these lessons through training myself and also training clients because teaching is a part of learning. When you're teaching other people, this kind of stuff, sometimes it's easier to do it to see it in someone else than it is in yourself. That's really what helped me a lot with this one because you'd see your client get trapped in that body obsession phase and you're their trainer and you're not in their body, right? So you're not suffering from the same insecurities about them or whatever. And so you tell them, you talk to them about them, you reflect about maybe I should listen to my own words. The next one, this one I remember distinctly learning this one and that is to be humble. And here's why you should learn how to be humble when you're lifting weight. There's always someone stronger than you and there's always someone more knowledgeable. And this is not a bad thing. This is a great thing. I remember learning this because I started working out at the YMCA and in the Y, this was tiny gym. It was really small. It was like the size of this room, right? And I remember besides the power, there was this older group of power lifters that worked out. Besides them, there were a lot of kids that worked out there, a lot of teenagers. And within a certain period of time, I became the strong dude in the gym. Like I was deadlifting and bench pressing and you know, oh, Sal's coming in. You know, I'm a young kid, but I feel like I'm the king of the castle. I'm the super strong dude. And then I got my membership at 24 fitness, which was a bigger, more mainstream gym. And I remember going in there and seeing people warming up with my heaviest weights. And I immediately was humbled. That same thing happened when I stepped into my first gold gym or powerhouse gym where you're, you know, you think you're so awesome. And then you go in there and you realize that I remember seeing a female strength athlete squatting more than I could. And I remember, you know, it was very, it was humbling, right? Cause you think you're, you're supposed to be the strongest, the stronger I'm a guy or whatever. And it's humbling, but this is a good thing. Because when you're humbled, it keeps you learning and growing. You know, I think one of the worst things that could ever happen is you, you actually are the best ever anywhere, in which case you kind of lose that, that, that drive. So when I, I think of a humbling experience, like for the gym and what it taught me, I think of like going to the gym some days and getting buried under a weight, I think I should be able to move, right? Like there's nothing more frustrating sometimes than, you know, knowing that I could squat 400 pounds and then, Hey, it's been a while, maybe I've been inconsistent. So I throw three 15 on there and I get buried by three 15. And that is just so humbling. And it, and what it speaks to or tells me is like, Hey, I, it wasn't in the cards either. I didn't put the, the work in and the discipline to be at that level right now. And that just to me translates into real life. Like I think about that with sometimes you show up to work and a job you could normally crush, you fail at and you don't, you don't do well at.  Everybody's against me. It's like, well, why, how did I get here? Why am I so much weaker than what I was before? And I know, I know. And when I deep down and I think about it, it's like, well, you know, when I was hitting 400, I was also dialed in. I was consistent. I was doing all these things. And I thought and are expected that I should be able to at least get close to that. And I get buried under and I get humbled. And that to me, that was the lesson for that. And I think about all the stuff in my life that, you know, I thought I'd crush it and I didn't.  I didn't do that. I should have done these things. This is a constant lesson from weights, especially like when I started identifying that I'm strong in a certain lift. And that's something that, you know, I've had great numbers that I've put up. And then I focus on something else.  And all of a sudden, I can only do like 100 pounds less than I did before. And like, how did that happen?  But why am I not, you haven't been putting the work in? Totally. Or how about this one? Like, you know, if you stay with it long enough, you're going to get older. That's a great thing. There's nothing wrong with getting older. It's a blessing. But as you get older, you get humbled because I didn't warm up before. And then I go do it today.  I got away with that in my 20s. And a little bit of my 30s. Now I'm not getting away with that anymore. So you get humbled because you're getting older, meaning you're not going to be able to get away with the stuff you did before. So you like keep learning this lesson. You by the way, if you stay with fitness or weight training or resistance training your entire life, this is a lesson that keeps giving you will always learn to be humbled. It's never not, it's never going to stop with this particular one. Now this next one, this is a really good one. And I can, I'm thinking of one story in particular for me where this really hit home. So this one is about consistency and how consistency is the key to success. I remember years ago as a young trainer, I had this gentleman that I trained and he was a self-made millionaire. He was a high school dropout as a kid, grew up a single mom, you know, I obviously knew his story because he was my client. And he was extremely successful by the time I was training him.  And so he kind of, you know, there's a few things he said that were really impactful. But then he finished and he said this, he goes, look, here's the deal. He goes, if you tell me what I need to do to develop a nice body, you're going to give me a set of exercises. They're only going to be effective if I do them all the time. I have to be consistent. He said the real key to financial success, Sal, is to just be consistent. Just work hard, save your money, don't go into debt and build, you know, multiple streams of revenue. He told me and just be consistent. It's no different than working out. You just got to do it every single day. He says, in fact, somebody who's consistent is going to be more successful over time than somebody who's got better strategies who's inconsistent. Now, from a fitness standpoint, this is also true. A consistent person exercising with a okay workout is going to get in better shape over time than somebody who follows the best workout inconsistently. Consistency is everything. This speaks back to, you know, the mentality. When I would go to work out, before that, I would always, you know, have to crush that workout. I would have to apply as much intensity and I'd have to max out on these lifts. And you get to a point where you just, it just seems like something, it's not going to happen today. So therefore, it's better for me not to go to the gym. I can really just put that sort of effort and muster that in my workout. But, you know, it took a while to transition over to find out that even if I just, if I just, if I'm there and I'm going through these movements and I'm just taking my time and I'm doing way less weight, you know, this is still building something that I'm progressing towards. So nothing speaks to this to me more than my experience with competing. Because when I first got into this, I mean, if you 16 year old me would be like high five in the 32 year old me who got into competing like, Oh, this was my dream, like to look like that. Right. It was a young kid getting in like, I wanted to look like the physique that I built in my 30s for competing the, and the real biggest difference of all the things. There's lots of different variables that changed from, you know, 20 year old Adam to 32 year old Adam. But the biggest one that made the difference in that physique was just purely consistency. Never in my life had I been that consistent with my diet and my training. I mean, just we're talking about years, years of not missing, not missing a meal, not missing a workout, just pure. And the result of that was this physique that I never thought I could achieve because I had been kind of trying it for the, you know, 10, 12 years before that. And yeah, I ran, you know, some times of training really, really well. I mean, there's times for sure I trained very consistently for a year. But then the diet was kind of up and down, you know, or maybe I had the diet really, really good, but then the training never once had I ever put that consistency into training and dieting and just kept going and kept going and kept going. And that's what built that physique for me.  Like most people, what is the, Lane says it all the time, what the definition of success in business is the battle of attrition. Right. That's really what it is. Can you keep going while it's hard and you're losing and you're not seeing results and where most people give up and quit? Can you persevere beyond that?  And when you learn that what will separate you from everybody else is being able to push beyond that point, that's where all the success resides. Totally. In fact, you were talking about diet, you know, working with clients in their diet. Like one of the biggest keys was just getting them to be consistent on the weekend. Like everybody was okay Monday through Friday. As soon as they were consistent seven days a week, then all the results started happening. And, you know, again, life lesson, right? What about relationships? You know, studies show that people who are consistently, say good morning, consistently spend a little bit of time at night talking to each other, consistently show a little bit of appreciation are far more successful than the people who do the occasional grand gestures, right? The occasional vacation or the occasional bouquet of flowers, but they're not as consistent on a day-to-day basis. That makes the biggest difference in everything and everything that you do. Speaking of everything, the next one is very important and that is learning that the journey is far more important than the result. The journey is far more important than the goal. It's all about the journey. Now you learn this lesson through lifting weights because eventually you fail enough times. What ends up happening is you typically will have a goal and you say, okay, I want to, you know, I'll make one up. I want to bench press 200 pounds. That's my goal. I want to bench press 200. And you work hard and you think about it and you're driving towards it and you're driving towards it. And then you achieve it.  Literally the day after, you're left feeling like, now what? What do I, okay, I did that. I lost every, all my motivation. I lost all my drive. What do I do now? Athletes will feel this after competing. They'll work themselves up to this championship or this particular achievement. They'll get to it and then they'll be more inconsistent. They'll be more just worse with their training and practice than they ever have before because they accomplished this massive goal. So what you end up learning over time is goals are great to help direct you, but it's really about the journey. If I enjoy it, if you enjoy the journey, you're not just going to get to your destination. You'll get to beyond. You'll always keep moving forward. Well, it's also the only way that you'll be able to see all the other things that it does for you.  And all you do is focus on the goal. You'll miss out on all the things that it's doing for your life everywhere else. You won't make the connection. So you first have to recognize that the journey is everything, that that's where the real goal is at. That then allows you to start to make those connections. If you don't first accept that and realize that you'll miss out that, oh, wow, it improves my skin. Oh, it improves my hair. Oh, it improves my relationship. Oh, I'm a better. I'm better at work. Oh, I sleep better. Oh, my libido is better. You won't see all those things if all you're focused on is the goal.  And it starts with understanding that the journey is where all the great stuff is at. That will allow you to see those. Totally. Look, think of it this way. You have two different people. One guy wants to walk 10,000 miles. That's his goal. I'm going to walk 10,000 miles. The other guy says, I love walking every single day. I just love it. Over time, who's going to walk farther? Right? They're both hit 10,000 miles. The guy's driven to do it. But once he hits it, he's done. The other guy just loves walking every single day. You love the journey. Oh, man, the distances you'll go with your progress, it's everything. Now, the journey and everything, this has to do with work, with your marriage, with your kids, with life, with your friendships. It's about the journey. The journey is where you learn and gain all the time. Well, once you get in that mentality, the consistency has no friction. There's nothing that really prevents you from being drawn back to it. And I think that when you place it in a different mindset, that becomes like most of the issue is, how can I keep doing this in order to get to my goal? Well, why not just love doing it? Totally. Well, this reminds me of the lesson that I've learned of this too, is that looking for money in business, like trying to chase money versus looking for a passion or something that you would do for no money. Totally. Like that's the lesson that I learned from this, is when your whole life, if you're chasing after a dollar amount or reaching a certain financial pinnacle, you miss out on the journey process. And what you find out, even when you get the money, you're unhappy. So the same thing goes for this. I feel like those two are something that taught me. Totally. Now the next one, this one, you have to learn if you're going to be consistent, and this is going to be healthy for you, which is healthy self-criticism. So there's a couple of things I want to touch on with this. Now, one is that a lot of people think self-criticism is all negative. So you get this kind of backlash. You never criticize yourself. You're perfect. Never say that anything needs to change. And I think that's the reaction to people who are on the other end of the spectrum, which is, I'm never good enough. I'm terrible. I'm ugly.  Somewhere in the middle is where you want to be, which is healthy self-criticism. So to use this from a fitness perspective, I can look in the mirror, and I learned this eventually over time, I can look in the mirror and objectively say, you know what? I can tell, I haven't been treating my body very well. I can tell that I need to work on my posture a little bit. So I think I'm going to focus on that. Okay. Now I'm not identifying with it, right?  Oh my God, that's so ugly.  And I'm also not saying nothing to see here. Everything's perfect. Everything's great. It's healthy self-criticism. And you need that in order to continue to grow. This is what self-awareness is. You have to be able to look at yourself and from a healthy standpoint say, these are some things that can work on. It doesn't make me a bad person. It doesn't mean I'm not deserving of affection, love, and care, and respect, but these are definitely things that can improve upon. It can be as easy as starting with what you do the most, just going through an inventory and really observing yourself, looking at your days, looking at your weeks, looking at your months. What have you been spending the most of your time towards? And what can you just shift a little bit that will steer you in a more healthy goal? Yeah. This reminds me too of, I think I was lucky that when I got into competing that I had a good relationship with exercise and nutrition going into it, because I had the ability to look at myself in the mirror and say things like, oh, my shoulders are underdeveloped compared to my chest and it not being an insecurity of that. This is what I'm going to be judged. And then me going back to the drawing board and saying, this is how I build those to look this certain way, not driven by an insecurity because I could objectively look at it and say, okay, they're not as proportionate as my arms or my chest or my back is. So let me develop it. I think there is definitely a healthy place.  I looked the most amazing I've ever looked in my life. People are complimenting me. I feel awesome, but then I can't even squat past 90 degrees because I had terrible hip and ankle mobility. So being able to look at that and go like, okay, sure, I can present my physique and it looks cool. But then I'm really lacking in these other parts of the health sphere, right?  And I think there's nothing wrong with that. I think if it comes from the right place, it's a very healthy thing for you to do. Exactly. And then finally, the last lesson I learned from one of the last lessons I learned from lifting weights was balance. Now I learned this because I pushed too hard and I don't get what I want, right? So I want to develop my body. I want to build my physique. I'm going to keep pushing, keep pushing. And I started to slide backwards. I started to over train and started to get injured. And eventually I was faced with the reality that maybe I'm overdoing it. Let me see what happens if I balance myself out. Let me see what happens if I focus on my sleep a little bit. Is that going to make my body change? Is this going to give me, you know, more of what I want? And the answer was yes. Balance actually led to better results. I remember one time in particular I learned this. I was like, you know, when I was younger, I didn't want to burn any extra calories, right? I'm an ectomorph. So, you know, naturally skinny. So I remember thinking, I'm going to lift weights and then sit as much as possible because I understood very basically calories in versus calories out. Don't move.  So I'm not going to do anything. And I remember I had this trainer that worked for me who, you know, he's very developed and he said he was an ectomorph, but he liked to do some cardio here and there. And he had an incredible physique and he said, well, you know, want to do some cardio with me? I said, no, man, I can't burn any extra calories. He goes, well, if it makes you healthier, then maybe you'll build a little bit more muscles like a light bulb went off, but maybe he's right. And so I didn't, I didn't overdo it. I just did a little bit and I could remember my cardiovascular shape was so terrible, but I started doing it and then my body got healthier and it started to improve. I started to balance out my health a little bit. Now, is this a lesson for life? You better believe it. People who lack balance in life are terribly unhappy. You know, whether it's only focusing on work or only focusing on leisure or own being hyper focused on building your physique and not having any friends or friendships or anything like that. Like balance is very important for health. And again, if you don't have balance when you lift weights, you're not going to develop your body the way you want. This is one of the hardest ones, right? Because it to be successful at anything in life or in the gym takes what we listed before, consistency, discipline, pushing through failure. And that a lot of times seems like just like myopically focus on this and nothing else and just drive this home and that's it. That's it. But then what ends up happening a lot of times when you do that, you lose sight of all kinds of other things in your life. And so there is this, I think this is like a constant dance that you're playing. Like these things in order to achieve great things, it takes a lot of sacrifice, a lot of discipline, a lot of consistency, but in order to maintain it for a long period of time, it takes balance. So knowing how to weave in and out of that, that is something that it's taken me a very long time to figure that out. I feel like barely am I getting that now and almost 40 years old of learning how to, you know, hey, say it's okay for me to be very, very focused on this goal and maybe making some other sacrifices in other parts of my life because I have something I'm focusing on. But then recognizing, hey, when I achieve that goal, I'm not married to this idea or this thing, be able to move out of it and then focus on other parts of my life. It's a constant dance that I feel like I'm always doing. I mean, getting yourself towards a rigid plan and program is definitely some place to start and that's something that's going to provide sort of the framework and sort of the bone structure of, you know, where you need to go. But at the same time, there's just so many variables that come your way because of life. And, you know, especially if you'd look at like something like nutrition, where you're really dialed in and you're really pursuing all these healthy foods and consistency is there and, you know, this is at the utmost importance to you. But then birthdays happen and then you're going out with your friends and, you know, this becomes a compromise of do I really need to, you know, not partake because this is going to, you know, be something that's going to deter me. You just realize that there needs to be flexibility and there needs to be that in all these different directions. Totally. And again, these are all, again, if you stick with it long enough and you're consistent long enough, these are the lessons you learn through lifting weights and their valuable life lessons. Look, thank you for watching and listening to Mind Pump. If you want more information on how to develop your body or train particular areas of your body or burn body fat or nutrition or even for personal trainers, go to mindpumpfree.com, download our library of guides with a lot of free guides on there that you can learn from. You can also find all of us on Instagram. You can find Justin at Mind Pump, Justin, me at Mind Pump Salon, Adam at Mind Pump, Adam. You can look at, you can speculate on what's going to happen in the future and how it's going to suck. No, no, no, don't do that. Just literally take the energy. It's just energy and just shift it about three feet over here and start looking at how you can make this work for you. It's just