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  1. “But you know what? It's a big pleasure for me and I really appreciate your time and the ability to be reaching your audience. I think that what I want to be most grateful for is that people who have perceived notion of me will know more my human side. And I think that's a big factor in life. And I'm forever grateful for that opportunity, Tim.”

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  2. “Well, the pardoning words is thank you. I mean, it's a great honor for me to be in the same list of invitees as Schwarzenegger and Anthony Robbins. I mean, Bill's a big name.”

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  3. “Go ahead. And I've got a string sensei equivalent in German, Spanish, Russian, and French. So if you go strength sensee Deutsch, the German version and French sensei de la force a la forza in Spanish. So depending on your native tongue, the same information is there. And I've got about a dozen translations in different languages to my site. So the English is not your first language and you're more comfortable, let's say, with German or Dutch or French. The most popular articles get translated. And even in Russian. So it's picking up. I mean, my website this, I think it's 83,000 on Alexa for being in that new business for A year and a half, it's a pretty good score.”

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  4. “I'll talk for it for, let's say, 90 minutes so people will be able to watch that, and I'll give routines and recipes and tips and anticipate it to be a very successful site because there's a demand for it. And people are willing to pay a nominal fee, which is less than 20 bucks a month, to get top level information. Because Facebook is nice, I leave tips there and I leave links to my website, but it never allows for, and I got this advice from you, actually, for videos on me explaining something. The written word never really catches everything. And there's a lot to be learned from body language. And if I explain a technique, I can explain in writing, but you can tell better questions that people didn't understand at all. So most people are visual learners. So the membership site, which should be out within the next three months, will be up soon. And of course, we'll...”

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  5. “The best place to find my stuff is a strengthense dot com. And then if people want to attend seminars, there's an onglet called Calendar of Events. And it's probably the most simplistic way to, it's a world map and it's like arrows. So if you don't want to travel so much and let's say you live in Australia and you see them coming to Perth and click the Perth flag and then it'll tell you which seminars they are. But also there's different ways to searched on topic, what type of class you want. And my next project is I'm working on a membership only site. The reason is because of social media people ask these questions. I don't have really time on social media to explain them, but on the membership side, people will be able to say, I'll say, for example, this month and we're going to really go into detail on choosing the right set, choosing the right rep range, right?”

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  6. “I should have had more fun and I should have worked a lot less. And then actually when I read your book, I was always starting to evolve towards more free time and better organization. And you recommended to me in personal conversation more books, like the one by your friend. I think it's Edward Beruda. It's about simplifying your life. I forget the author. Anyway, I read the hymn. I decided to have less goals. And the more I evolve, it's again simplify, simplify, simplify, simplify. I tell that to some of my best students. I say, hey, go on vacation. It's not so hard with my non-British, non-American students, but Canadians, Americans, and British tend to way overwork.”

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  7. “You have to do the exercise in the book. So in the book, you'll say you'll give some theory always in a funny way. Then he'll say, you have 20 minutes, yes or no. If it's yes, well, do the exercise. You don't have 20 minutes. Don't keep on reading. And the people keep on reading never get the full essence of the book. If he asks you, do you have 20 minutes, yes or no, you don't have 20 minutes, put the book down next time you have 20 minutes, do the exercise. But that was a life-changing book for me. And after that, my Success at the international level skyrocketed when I applied those principles. But if I were to think back on my life,”

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  8. “Stop working so much. I used to work twenty hours a day, Tim. Plus, I would train an hour. So I thought that sleep was for whims. That's not true. I mean, you know, I think there's another book that I read in 91, which changed my outlook. It was called Life 101. It's an old box. Sometimes you'll find there's two authors, sometimes there's one author, but it was actually only one real author to the book. So eventually it was Peter McDowell. But he taught me to distinguish the difference between a fantasy and a goal. And I won't give you the punchline, but it has to do a lot with”

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  9. “figured out what worked best for them. And it's correct to ask guys like me, you know, the so-called gurus of the senseis for advice, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision. I mean, I can make you make a more enlightened decision because I've made a lot of mistakes. I mean, the only guy I know who's never, never, never made a mistake in his life pumps gas in a gas station in British Columbia, in Colombia. He's my agent. Never made a mistake. He still makes eight bucks an hour. So you learn by making mistakes. And there's a saying, good judgment from experience, but experience comes from bad judgment. So I tell all my senders, I often tell stories of how I screwed up metals at the Olympics, but I didn't make that same mistake twice. And that's why, like in speech skating, it's probably the sport where I'm most successful in.”

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  10. “Remain pretty much injury free. And the thing is that, for example, Ed Cohn has a way to train. It's very different than what Kolkoff would do. But I respect Ed a lot. But I found over the years all these successful people.”

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  11. “The key to success in anything is know yourself first and then Kalkoff was telling his students that there's one thing that he keeps constant is his waiting prep. He's learned over the years not to mess with that. But he says the other 45 weeks or so left out of the year, he goes on a day-to-day basis. And he says, training is like food sometimes you eat more, sometimes you eat less, you have to eat when you're hungry. If you look at it, it's very simplistic way to explain training, but it's very true. So, you know, he explains why he only squats twice a week. A lot of guys in this field will squat nine times a week. But if you look at his longevity, it's really high.”

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  12. “I mean, population density because the I look at in my industry, but I take shooting lessons, right? I love to shoot. I think it's a great relaxation exercise. And I said to him, and my shooting instructor follows a lot the strength industry. And he said they had the same issues in the shooting industry with People wanting the attention of the consumer, right? And I think that”

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  13. “Quality sleep because there's no one year old kid crying some guy opening up this Tupperware with fucking microwave broccoli. So you can say I'm a snob. Yes, I am. But everyone over the years, even as early as 1982 when I was paying for my own flights, I've always flown business or first because the quality of your teaching will dictate the success or the quality of your coaching will dictate the success and that will pay way enough your first class tickets. I've had discussions with people about that. I still believe and also it's a mindset. You want to first class life. Fly first class.”

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  14. “For the food and can I take a shower, American-based airlines are useless. United, Delta, American fuck. You may fly with Air Bozwana. You probably get their service. I find with these airlines I named they actually believe in quality service. And for example, I think Air France is great. Like I landed from Dusseldorf in Paris, somebody was there to pick me up, put my name, drove me to the first class lounge. I didn't have to clear customs. They take your passport for you. They go do it for you. Lufthansa does the same thing. So the Swiss air. People say, well, you waste money traveling first class. I don't believe that because I give a much better seminar if I fly first class than a fly economy. I can one of my unique abilities is I can fall asleep in the shooting yard. I can sleep anywhere, anytime, but I need to sleep when I fly over. And when you fly first class, you're guaranteed.”

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  15. “In Manchester there was no way I could get steak and egg for breakfast, so my sister and I we bought sardines. So add sardines and Brazil nuts for breakfast the next day. So I don't negotiate on that for me. You have meat fish or seafood and some that I find for me has been one of the secrets of my success because when you teach, you got to pay attention. You got to remember what you got to say. You got to be enthusiastic. And if I were to eat would... Hotels typically give, I won't do so well. Even when I fly, if I go to Europe, I only fly Swiss air or Air France because if I land, I always have a connection and Air France has the best business or first-class lounge in the world. Second is Swiss Air. And when I fly west, if I go to Australia, I always fly with New Zealand because again the quality of the lounge is important to me.”

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  16. “It's really when you ask for steak in Italy, you might as well ask a question when the aquarium on top of your head, they're like, what steak? You eat meat for breakfast. So in Sweden, they have these ethnic shrimp that I like. They're very small shrimp. So I'll buy it out of the supermarket, keep it in my mini bar. So in the morning I may have shrimp and cashews for breakfast. So one thing that I don't negotiate on ever is breakfast. I have a maniac about breakfast. I don't want to eat croissant or prison eggs, as my friends would call them, for breakfast. And the salmon is always farm salmon. It tastes disgusting.”

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  17. “typically frightened gold but So it could be. So this morning was chicken breasts. I rarely eat. Chicken is always a red meat, but showing something different today. And then I always have a nut whether it's walnut. I really like macadamia nuts, but I vary that so I don't div up intolerances. And in Colorado, you can get very good berries year-round. So sometimes berries, or I eat avocados. And then, like I said, the coffee. On the road, it's one of the reasons why I stay at the Marriott worldwide is it's the only place I'll serve steak and eggs.”

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  18. “And then on Sundays, I tend to reread the highlights of all the books I read. So that goes up to 95%. People always wonder, I kind of got a good memory. Well, there's some tricks to it. So repetition is important. And then after that, then I start my day at work. So I'll write, I'll coach or whatever I need to. On the road, oh, usually if I drive my daughter, as soon as I get back, I train. I've got a very good gym in my house. If I'm on the road, I wake up. Eat breakfast, I do some reading, it depends on the distance of the gym”

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  19. “And I'll say you're under arrest in 76 languages. The thing is that, and then after that, I read one hour specific to my job. And I like to read a lot of my colleagues' stuff. So one guy I really like is Josh Bryant. So he just wrote a really good book on interval training. So that's what I'm going to read tomorrow. I don't read much on the internet because I find there's too much bullshit. I use a Kindle a lot because it allows me to flip the pages faster. And what I like about the Kindle is I can actually highlight what I find interesting. And then at the end of my reading, I reread what I highlighted, which increases your retention by another 70%.”

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  20. “I was in Germany last month and I realized I'd lost a lot of my German. So I said, okay, I've got to catch up my German. Or sometimes what I do is I'll type in sentences on bing translate and I look at the German equivalent or the Swedish equivalent, whatever language I want to learn. Sentences I use all the time in my practice. So keep you back straight, go lower in a squad, blah, blah, blah. So I do that. And then I'm not page turners, but it's stuff I like to read or even when I'm overseas, I buy classic comic books like asterisks in, let's say, in Swedish or Lukey Luke in Swedish or whatever. And I read those because it's a fun way to learn a foreign language without really. Myself.”

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  21. “Specific to my job stuff. So I may read, let's say, a biography on Churchill or I may read a book like 59 seconds, they're more what you would call self-improven books. I read recently a book. I probably read a book a day. So I read, I'm a very good speed reader. So I read a book on resilience or this morning at breakfast I was reading a French book on German grammar because”

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  22. “Like my soul, black. Sometimes I put actually coconut oil in it if I need to get a bit more wired. Sometimes I use very, very heavy cream, like above 35%. It's funny because I was in London at the Marriott and there's a Polish waiter and I asked for coffee and the guy comes in with already what the British call double cream in it. And I go, oh, you know, I like my coffee like that. And the kid says, I read your post every day. Sometimes I cream, but probably 70% of the time I drink it black like my soul. But then I read, I like to read one hour on non”

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  23. “One of my assistant teachers, Carlos Castro, is from Columbia, and he brings me in organic coffee from Columbia, or I buy a one from Kona Island in Hawaii. So I really like the coffee beans to be of choice. So I drink a cup of coffee.”

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  24. “Well, for example, there has to be near freezing point. The reason why I do that is that it takes longer to warm up the water because it takes longer to warm up, then there's more time for the steam to diffuse through the coffee beans. Therefore, the coffee has more caffeine of all the antioxidants. So when you drink that coffee, if I make you a cup of coffee, Tim, today, you may fall asleep Valentine's Day. So people who've been in my house who drink my coffee, they start having convulsions in their faces after two sips. But I really like very cold coffee. And one thing that is high in pesticides is actually coffee. It's one of the most sprayed plants on the planet. So I get my beans either from the Dominican Republic. I've got a client who owns her own plantation. And when I go to DR, I stock up.”

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  25. “Okay, like today. So I wake up early, tend to wake up at 4. Why do I wake up at four? Well, nobody's going to bother me. So I got two hours to myself. So if that week I have my daughter, I can do whatever I want to do for two hours before I wake her up, make her breakfast and drive to school. wake up with a ravishing appetite so every day I start when I'm at home with some type of wild meat some type of nuts and sometimes berries or avocados so I eat that then I make coffee and I'm quite fanatical about the way I make coffee”

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  26. “Yeah, all it is, it's like a condom that you put on a bench that has a half moon. Spine roller inside of it. And if you go to my website and you search under Bamboo Bench, there's a video that I shot in Stuttgart explaining how to use it. But for what it costs or what you have to invest, it's a great investment on the health and strength of your shoulders.”

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  27. “Actually, it was a gift, so I'm not sure what the price was, but it can't be that high. It's called the bamboo bench. I featured it on my website. All it is, it's a sliced foam roller inside a leather condom with velcro straps, and you put it over a regular bench. And it has this half moon shape where your spine rests. So when you do pressing movements, you can drop the elbows much further than with a regular bench. So it allows for a more free skepler movement. And it allows for a greater range of motion when you lift, but it allows you for pain-free upper body pressing.”

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  28. “That's another French movie with Gianvanau, which is a great movie about a guy that tries to retire from the mafia and they don't let him. If you like, actually, that's a great movie.”

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  29. “You know, I really like national geographic, the documentaries they have. I really like learning about animal life. My daughter and I share that stuff. I really like to learn about ecosystems. So I like the S3 channel. I'm not a big movie TV watcher. If I'm going to watch something, it's usually a movie that I rent. When I'm overseas and I'm sick and tired of teaching, I'll go watch a movie to take my mind off. I find it's a good eloquent Tarantino movies. I mean, I like usually action-based stuff.”

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  30. “You know what? As far as movies, I tend to have laser focus all day. So for me, a good movie involves 60 people getting killed in a gruesome way in their first 30 minutes. Like something like John Wick. I mean, I watch movies to distract me. So if you ask me movies, I like the last samurai, like Gladiator. I like movies where they hero has to struggle and overcome difficulty. But there's a movie called The Mitation Game, which has none of these descriptions. And I really liked it. I'm a big movie buff, but for me, movies is to take my mind away from what I do every day. You know, obviously I run high on dopamine and acetylcholine. So action movies are far better choice for me than sleepless in Seattle. But I, uh...”

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  31. “Predicted a lot of things that the Americans did not listen to, for example, he predicted the Iron Curtain. He told Roosevelt that he was getting screwed at Yalta by Stalin. Roosevelt conceived of way too many things to the Russians. And we've had many problems since then, but he was a visionary. And he took a lot of decisions that were unpopular at the time because they required balls. And he later found through history to have been right in the first place. So I think that if you want to study success, you should study Churchill.”

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  32. “Actually, Winston Churchill. Well, this guy had balls. I mean he stood up to Itler, he rallied the United Kingdom, he refused to surrender. Nobel Prize winner in literature. Very few people know that. He was named Britain, most valuable Britain in 2002. It one contributed to the defeat of the Nazi Empire. I think that his attitude and his, he applied a lot of success principles too, like napping and so on.”

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  33. “Multiple factors, I think this ground depletion, the type of fertilizers we use, but also the stress of the toxic load from the environment. So if you're, let's say, putting a shampoo that has a lot of estrogenic properties, you'll need to toxic those molecules and those molecules in hepatic detoxification processes almost always use zinc as one of the co-factors to detoxify those xenoestrogens.”

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  34. “first-time clients, you'll be surprised I use about 180 milligrams a day for about six months. And if you ask Mark Houston or Esther Bloom, anybody who does clinical nutrition on a regular basis, they will agree with that value because the thing is that in the late 70s, you could change a guy's testosterone fairly rapidly with only 30 milligrams of supplements a day. But I don't see that anymore. The doses you need are about six times greater in last 30 years.”

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  35. “Zinc is underestimated. You will find, for example, when I worked a lot with hockey players, guys were trying to add, let's say, by the time they came to see me, they usually were in their 30s that usually two kids, but they're always trying for a third or fourth child. And they became fertile after about four months of zinc use. So fertility is either associated with zinc status. But if you look at the research, zinc status is one of the best predictors of quote unquote maleness. So the more androgenic you want to be, the more zinc you need. But to detoxify foreign estrogens, the enzymes that do that are also zinc-based, so it works in multiple patterns. Zinc is known as the great organizer in human tissues. So you can't organize. chemistry properly if you don't have enough zinc”

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  36. “Omega avail From Designs for Health. So where you have added D3, K1, and K2, when you add D3, K1, K2, the cardiovascular benefits of that fish oil go exponentially. Number three, it depends where you live around the world, but if you certainly live in the UK, Ireland, or Australia, you are zinc deficient. Again, I prefer to use multiple forms of zinc, chelate, like glycinate, or rotate, blah, blah, blah. And so broad-based zinc intake. In testosterone levels,”

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  37. “The second most important supplement, in my opinion, for the average person would be a good fish oil and it should vary the fish oil. But when they have fish oil, I prefer the brands like the Omega Vale from Designs for AL, which has...”

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  38. “I think the best magnesium out there is magnesium 308, if I were to pick one. But I prefer different chelates. So I use glycinate, I use orotate. If you look at the physiology behind it, and there's a lot of good research that you easily find, is that every form of magnesium tends to go to a specific tissue. So for example, magnesium glycinate as a preference for liver and muscle tissue. Magnesium oritate tends to work more on a vascular system. Magnesium 3 and 8 is more of a gABA inducer, therefore it improves sleep. So personally, I take two grams of magnesium-308 at the last meal before going to bed, and I use various forms of chelates like magnesium glycerophosphate from gamma mag. I use that. I use magnesium lysinate, glycinate. And it's good to vary your forms because as the research shows, it tends to go to different tissues.”

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  39. “I think the most underrated supplement You have a perfect diet, which is rare, is magnesium, even with a perfect diet, you can't get enough magnesium. I don't care what you say. I've measured people's red blood cell magnesium for years. If there's one thing I constantly see low, is that one? And when you consistently improve it, you see changes all across blood work, right? How much magnesium? I think males should take four grams a day, females 2.4. The second one”

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  40. “Right, that's right, because the thing is that this is a reality, whether it's animal or human evidence, the changing sexual partners increases testosterone. But it's not for everybody. But the point is that, yes, that question I'll answer truthfully.”

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  41. “I'm not up to date on literature. I mean, you know more about this topic than I do, but that's one thing that I've seen some papers on, but I didn't really expand on it. But I think reducing stress and the quality of sleep. Quality of sleep is underrated for Testosterone. So you need to do what you need to do. So one of the things I recommend to you is to sleep in a bad cave. So the room you sleep in should be as dark as possible. It's one of the things I talk a lot about seminars. I can add powerful executive seminar. One of the topics is the importance of sleep and regeneration. But I think it's the most underrated one. It's not a question I can answer in five minutes, but sleep, meat. Cold baths and decreasing stress are the four most bang for your buck.”

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  42. “Some people won't be happy with the answers. Change sexual partners. But, I mean, for testosterone, Actually, the best thing to increase testosterone is to lower cortisol because the same raw material that makes testosterone cortisol is called nanolinol. And then under conditions of stress, your body is wired to preferentially go towards the cortisol pathway. So anything that lowers cortisol. Will increase testosterone. So, for example, diminishing the amount of radiation exposure excel phones, computer use of fucking Facebook, that would be one of the. So that high zinc. high protein containing foods meat. There's a lot of research that backs up meat consumption for improving testosterone. Eating more meat, more red meat. But of course, the quality of the meat makes a big difference.”

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  43. “No, they should use it the way the Olympic lifters do it. So a slightly wider and shoulder width, elbows up as high as you can, and actually the elbows in. That locks the bar right in front of your throat. If you find the exercise comfortable in the front squat, you're not doing it correctly. You should feel some restriction in the neck when you front squat properly. Of course, after a few weeks, you won't feel the wear wet t-shirt. It's uncomfortable for the first five minutes. Then after you get used to it, so people will tolerate the stress of not breathing properly within a few workouts. But for example, in sports, in a lot of sports, I've developed formulas where if I know your front squad, let's say you're inclined press and your power snatch, I can tell how fast you can speed skate or how fast you can push a bobsleigh or whatever.”

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  44. “The front squat. And this I have a lot of statistical data on that because It is impossible to cheat on the front squad. But I'm talking as to the grass front squat, meaning you leave a stain in the carpet in the bottom position. In my opinion, for athletic purposes, all squats should be done that way. The overhead squat is a screening exercise, so it's very good to assess just with an empty bar, even a broomstick, the potential for lower extremity injuries. But as far as the training exercise, you're going to be limited by your shoulder girl strength. So I think that you could do it as a What I call a change of pace workout, but I wouldn't use it as a training exercise, that's for sure.”

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  45. “Because my good friend Ed Cohn had total hip replacement. So the fact that you restrict the range of motion doesn't allow the pyreformists, for example, in all the irrotators of the hip to gain optimal range. So if you are, again, it goes back to the goal, do you want to compete in powerlifting and you want to be world champion? Well, you got a much higher squad or lower bar squat. But if you're looking at squatting with a lot of carryover to a lot of different activities, I would say the high bar squat, if you're going to pick one, is your best and investment.”

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  46. “All F pros and cons. In regarding to the deadlift, they're both good. I would say, okay, the question is, what is the goal you want to move a lot of weight for short distance so you can win a priority in competition? Well, most world recorders do it in the sumo because you got to better mechanics. But for training purposes, I think you should change both. For powerlifting, the goal is, can I displace to ice amount of weight? For a given range of motion. So the low bar squat will allow you to do that. Now, if you think about long-term health, You look at high bar squats. The reason why I say that is that you look at the incidence of hip replacement and power lifters versus weightlifters, it's much greater in power lifters.”

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  47. “Never MM answers quite because You need meat to get strong. I mean, I eat my vegetables to the animals I eat. I mean, they did the vegetable eating for me. So to be serious, I've never seen a world-class strength athlete that was only on a plant-based that I've seen octo lacto-vegetarians. I've seen one. you could call a vegetarian but you still had egg products and dairy products but a vegan super strong athlete never seen it”

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  48. “No two ways about it, so what I don't like about the Kettle Well Swing is that the way it displaces away from the disc, in squatting. Or snatches or clean jerk, the bar always stays close to the center of gravity.”

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  49. “There's no safe way to do the kettlebell swing. An exercise called a lumberjack. We see a lower post, but in the lumberjack, the bars move vertically, not into a swing process. So people say, well, you recommend the lumberjack, yeah, but the lumberjack is a different load pattern for the power snatch. If you look at Klokoff and I were talking about this when they asked us about the cataball string, the goal in weightlifting is to lift the most weight in the most vertical way. The best way to lift a lot of weight is to actually keep the weight in a straight line. The more horizontal displacements there is to the bar, there's more wasted effort and less weight is lifted. So, you know, that has been studied in biomechanics for years.”

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  50. “A lot of the new stuff is like wearing your underwear over your jeans. It's no improvement and it's the only thing that's fun for people watching you because they make fun of you wearing your underwear over your jeans. Like I said, there's nothing new since 1896 in my opinion, so there's better ways to do the stuff from 1896, but the concepts were there a long time ago.”

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