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  1. “He can't be dead lifts and squats and any type of split squats. I mean, those will transfer to ordinary activities, everyday life activities. They'll improve your vertical jump, they'll improve your horizontal jumping ability and so on. But the thing is, is that you look at the guys who advocate those exercises, look at their track record. It doesn't exist. They never produce anybody. What I see in this industry is it's a very normal human nature to figure out where you are in a food chain. And these guys want to move up the food chain by saying something different. And I always use urine analogy of if you go to something different, it has to be an improvement or has to be more fun. And I use the analogy you give about wearing your underwear over your jeans. So I thought that's a good example.”

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  2. “Yes, there's so many exercises to recruit the glutes more effectively than that. And if it was that great... because success in Olympic lifting and high jump, long jump is glute strength dependent, and no one does that exercise because it's a moronic exercise. The thing, the load, if you're in any strong, the load, first of all, when does it ever happen that the load is on the anterior pelvis area in real life? Only if you dismount an obese sexual partner, right? That movement pattern where an overload never happens in life. So, I mean, unless you like to date obese women, but it's a non-functional pattern. And again, for cervical health, I'm not convinced it's the greatest thing for you, but because it's like cavities, the damage is done over time, people don't associate the problems.”

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  3. “So they don't make the link between the kettleball swing and their back problems. That's an exercise I really hate. One exercise I find overrated is the Planck. Another one I find utterly moronic is glute bridges.”

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  4. “This sum that I would remove for all cases. One, the goblet squat. That is such a moronic exercise. Basically you limit it by the strength of your rhomboids, your anterior deltoids, and the elbow flexors. So if you can do a goblet squat and overhold your legs, you've got a really, really weak legs. You should be in a wheelchair. So that's a moronic exercise. A lot of the kettlebell stuff, like the kettlebell swings. Ask any chiropractor, they'll tell you their business went up for disc injuries when they add across the box, opening up next door that did a lot of kettlebell swings. I think the kettlebell swings is very harmful to the destructure. But the thing is the way it arms you, it's like a dental cavity. It doesn't happen overnight. So you don't brush your teeth on a regular basis. One day you have the cavity, but people don't make, you know.”

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  5. “The biggest problem in the snatch usually is how to activate the external rotators of the shoulder and how to make the internal rotators loose. So I spend a lot of time on different flexibility exercises. Sometimes I teach them acuncture points that instantly correct the issue. I mean, you took that class in New York. So there are a lot of time savers. The biggest issue in the snatch is actually how good your rotator cuff is. And we spend an hour and a half on that. Obviously, it's hard to do by podcasts to demonstrate them, but we go through sequences. And I also show them how to identify why the bar is not going into what we call the slot, right? And then we also show them corrective exercises they could do on their own to strengthen those muscles so they can put the bar into the slot.”

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  6. “I think he could seriously teach somebody how to snatch in 20 minutes. And the technique would be perfect, but it's not what you see in cross-lit boxes by any means.”

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  7. “You'll do some other freak lift, then you'll teach clean jerk. So I teach how to get flexible for the clean jerk because a lot of people do the exercise, but they don't deserve to do it. So I show them about an hour and a half about to deserve to clinicure. And on Sundays, he teaches them how to squat. He teaches a bunch of different corrective lifts. They work their butts off with them. But the big, what the CrossFitters get out of it is actually how to do the lifts, but also how to teach them.”

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  8. “But we have to correct his English a bit, but it's a lot better now. But I've never seen a freak every day that it teaches, he does 95%, 200% of the world record as like the first demonstration. Then we break for lunch. Then I teach mobility for the Olympic lifts. And then Dimitri will say, for example, the first day will be Snatch. and he'll go all these progressions. So the cross fitter will know on Friday how to snatch properly and he says if you don't do PB no dinner for you so that's just work line so everybody has to do a PB then it makes it yeah the next day”

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  9. “It's about 6% Right now you waste 118 kilos and he's about six feet tall. So he's about 260. At six feet. I mean, you can see his pancreas make insulin when he has a We were in a restaurant in Montreal and a girl goes, sir, what would you like to drink? He goes, I want cock. So I said, in French, no, you want to call Coca-Cola. And of course, Paul Carter was there and he didn't want to be left out. So when the girl asked him, what would you like to drink? So he says, a direct cock.”

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  10. “Well, when you take a seminar, the first thing the way he does it is that I teach in morning some stuff and I'll tell you what he does. He shows up and he works out. He does one or two exercises in front of everybody, but this guy is amazing. I was in Montreal. It was the day after he landed from Moscow, so he was supposed to be jet lag. He slept in the van 20 minutes of the 40 minute ride. He didn't drink water, didn't drink coffee, didn't have breakfast. He shows up six warm-up sets. He takes 180 kilos with 396 pound. Power cleans it, and push presses twice.”

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  11. “And then he educates, but all the cross-fit attendees love him because he's got solutions to cross-fit problems. And the thing with Dimitri, I love lecturing with him because he will make sure that 100% of the students learn. They'll go to every single person. And I've been in this business 38 years. And some of the stuff is shown how to learn an exercise I've never seen. So the Soviet approach, they don't like to teach you by talking, they teach you by what in French we call it, so educational exercise. So you won't say put your hips forward and make you do an exercise to make your hips go forward. Or if you, so all corrections are done to a specific exercise which corrects the technical mistake. So there's very little talking. And a lot of it is about kinesthetic learning. I really like that.”

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  12. “Yeah, I'm doing another tour with him. We're going to Toronto Las Vegas in four places in Australia. But I teach with them, we split the days, but you'll say something. This is typical American crossfit bullshit.”

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  13. “Yeah, well, one of the first things Diet was taught was how to get out of trouble. So they say the bar, if you feel it goes like this, get rid of it by dumping it backwards or forward and you jump accordingly depending on the direction of the bar. Well, obviously someone didn't teach them that because you made a rookie mistake by dropping it improperly. So, you know, the Olympic lifts are complicated things. And to do Olympic lifts for repetitions is utterly stupid. So I don't believe in that. My colleague Klockoff is a bit less diplomatic than me, if you can believe that.”

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  14. “I think that it just has to do with education. The trainers over there are better educated. And the third thing I like about CrossFit is that they're big onto the paleo eating. So they're more conscious about the nutrition. You go to a planet fitness, there's chocolate milk, and pizza night on Friday, right? Like, what the fuck's the point? Why do you want to eat pro-inflammatory foods? So the way to make CrossFit better is actually, for example, there's an accident where a guy severed his spine.”

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  15. “There's no screening before people came in. So what they don't do is that they don't look at people's orthopedic issues. So if I were again Emperor of all galaxies and you wanted a CrossFit license, people should be screened or therapeutically. And then usually within eight to 12 weeks, you could strain out somebody. And then they can do CrossFit. But I find the best CrossFit boxes are all in Scandinavia. They tend to do a more intelligent approach to that. And then Dimitri and I have been all over the world teaching and he's been in a lot of CrossFit boxes. And I asked him the same question. He says, yeah, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, they tend to do a better job.”

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  16. “So the problem with most crossed boxes is they're trying to accomplish too many things. Like I said, simple is better. And those guys with the crosswith games, and I know for a fact they're trained by good strength coaches, but to comply with politics they say they do the WOD the workout of the day, which is complete bullshit because I've done consulting for those coaches on how to train for CrossFit Events. So for example, cloak off my co-lecturer in series, he does very well at Crosswit Games, but he certainly doesn't do the workout of the day to get there. So the intention is good. They use basic, simple result-producing exercise that I like. What I don't like is that”

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  17. “Okay, people think I'm anti-crossfit for some unjust reason, but I think CrossFit, I'll tell you what I like about it. One, the Orkhart. Do they work smart? Not so much. But they do work hard. So the intention is there, okay? So one of the is a very good Hungarian proverb. If you only got one ass, you can't sit on two horses.”

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  18. “In body composition you need to build lean tissue when you build lean tissue you're more insulin sensitive the more insulin sensitive they are the easier it is to burn fat blah blah blah blah blah so what I don't like is what I call enter training so they keep the people happy and busy but busy doesn't mean productive okay so I like people to have productive outcome One thing that I helped the industry tremendously actually is CrossFit.”

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  19. “In the sense that they don't have goals for strength. So they should have shorter goals to comply to. Because whether it's a deadlift or you look at one of my top students, her name is Kelly Martinovich. She's out of Perth, Australia. You go to her gym and be really impressed with the quality of physics of people that work in Opel mines or dental assistants, whatever all the female she trains are in great shape. And it could be like 70 years old. But one of my students, Jess and Sidney, she has a lady that's over 80, and this woman is deadlifting, you know, some pretty big weights, a good form, and there's no excuses. So I find that where women lack the most is guidance to how to get strong or being soul and the ability to get strong. Because”

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  20. “I was in the biggest mistake is not wanting to get strong. Getting strong doesn't make you a bad person. from the outside, if I were to criticize the industry or give a fair evaluation, there's not enough time spent on overload with women.”

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  21. “What I call the growth mindset. In a sense that she would come after workout, you know, can I do this? What can I do? So I find that my best athletes, nothing that I see, and it's hard to measure or hard to explain. Reg Park talked about equality intangible is that it's the attitude while they're doing a set. One of my all-time favorites was a girl named Karen Percy. She won a bronze at the Olympics in two silvers at the world and a bronze, something like that. be friendly with her teammates in between sets, but when she picked up the bar she was in some other galaxy. You could tell by her eyes that she was just doing the set, but there was nothing you could have let off a hand grenade beside her. She wouldn't have even jumped. I look at all the guys I've coached or ladies I've coached won Olympic medals. They all have that.”

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  22. “When you move up and down, it's way too slow. Your lower back is weak. And then with this other girl, with Vicki said, you need to do more slow strength. Your power is very good, but you need more slow strength, which I rarely have to say that, but in your case, yes. That's the one that's a mangoose on PCP. So the point was that People who are winners always have a growth mindset. And I remember in 88, my first day with Nashville ski team, and I said after one workout, I pointed out to one girl and I said, you know, she'll be a really good one day. And they all looked at me like, what the hell do you know about alpine skiing? They said, she won't make it more than one year. She was 15 at the time, which is very young to make national team. And in 1994, she was in 93 she was a world champion.”

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  23. “Almost every day, I think you still have to keep your finger in the pie because with the three girls I coach, I'm really applying my neurotransmitter theory. And all of them, but here again, what about mindset? We're in Cuba. Each one of my girls won the gold medal and very definite wins. But the interesting thing, Tim, is that they, as soon as they get off the mat, within two minutes, they were sitting beside me asking me to evaluate what I thought they did right or wrong and what could I infer from their fighting into their strength training program design. So there was, for example, Yanovioskova, and I said, you know what, your wrists are way too weak. I said, so we're going to work on your wrists. And then Elen Merulis, I said your lower back is too weak. She goes, I say that.”

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  24. “And what makes me react to him is when I see somebody who live up today's first world champion in jihitsu or Nopekmel is in kayak or the other day I was in Stuttgart and some Dutch student brought the equivalent, the Dutch edition of men's health or men's fitness and they were talking about one of my Dutch students who trained an automatic medalist in Rain's and the guy gave me credit for that which was nice to see in a foreign language. My name gets out there. But my ultimate goal is to have one of my students beat my record of Olympians and world record holders. I mean next year we have the Olympics in Rio and I'm training girls in wrestling and I've never had Olympic medalists in wrestling. So there would be 18 sports. I found that you even though I teach on Strength training”

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  25. “I think the whole purpose beyond what I do is based on a Japanese concept, you're only a good teacher if you leave a student that's better than yours. So I always try to make somebody better than me, you know. And I've had many students over the years and I got a few out there now that I could say I'm starting to get happy with. But one thing where people are successful and you're never happy. That's what this signal says between the eagles, right? The eagle won't fix new goals every year.”

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  26. “Well, it's always, how can I make this better or how can I make the teaching more effective? I realized over the years that you have to simplify more and more and more and more. One thing I've learned in those 54 years on Earth is that as Einstein said, there's genius and simplicity.”

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  27. “And the next day I sold one of my university papers to two different federations, and each paid me, one paid me $600, and the other one paid me $1,200 for the same chapter. It was a chapter on training for vertical jump and volleyball. So the return on investment was immediate. But I'm a big believer. If you want more money, give more away. And we, for example, why the Navy Seal Foundation? Those guys take care that we can live the way we want to live, but our government doesn't support them very well once they've used them, right? So I leave clear instructions that I want them to, the money to be used for reap. A lot of guys get injuries and no one takes care of them, right? But it doesn't matter if you give to doctors without borders or whatever else. I mean, the thing is that if you leave this plant without making it better than when you were born,”

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  28. “So, you know, if you're not willing to give it away, you won't attract it. I know that sounds a bit okay, but it's very true. And my father taught me that a long time ago, he had the same practice. But I remember university having zero money. I mean, I was so poor the furniture was painted on the walls. I donated $150. I had 50 bucks left in my account after homeless people's shelter.”

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  29. “At the end of the day to see what have you done. And I religiously donate 10% of what I make to different causes. So for example, on the weekend adopted another tiger this afternoon, we rang up and making a donation to the Navy SEAL Foundation. So it's really important that one of the principles in life, if you want to be successful, is to give what you want. So if you give away money, you'll receive money.”

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  30. “Ask your three questions. And, you know, I always ask her, and I've been imagining she's a toddler she could speak, is one is, what have you done today to help someone? And then she'll say whatever. And then the second question is always, what has someone done nice for you today or to help you out? And then the third question is always, what did you learn? And then, you know, so one time we went to visit a lady while we're in London who's an expert on mammals. She wrote a book on mammals that my daughter read when she was five or six years old. And so I booked a brain picking fee with a lady. She was kind of puzzled why I wanted to do that. And I asked my daughter, you'd ask her whatever you want about animals. And then the lady was surprised how much my daughter knew about things. Now smart the questions were. But, you know, a life not examined is not a life worth living. So I think it's really important that you”

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  31. “Well, give you an example. My daughter loves martial arts. And the last two summers, we went to Sweden and Stockholm, and she trained with this sensei in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. And so she trained three times a day, twice in jiu-jitsu, once in lifting. But in between, we would do things like visit biking museums. We would do some type of touristic learning experience, right? And we'd go off, visit the islands off Stockholm for one day, whatever that is. I think that, you know, when I'm raising her, I try to make your visit as many countries as possible every year so that she doesn't, you know, 80% of 15-year-old Americans can't put the US on a world map. That's a big issue. So, you know, by going here, there every day...”

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  32. “Actually, Arnold Schwarzenegger is probably the most inspiring man you could listen to. I was very fortunate to be invited by Tony Doherty to teach at the Arnold Classic last March in Australia. And on Sunday morning, there was a small group of us who were invited to listen to Arnold Schwarzenegger. And coming out of that lecture, I don't think in my life I've ever been that fired up. What I like about Schwarzenegger is very honest. And the thing he talked the most about was actually his mistakes. And it takes balls to do that. And all you learn from them and so on. But the one thing is one of my favorite books, I tell them how students, because it gets you organized and makes you focused. Success rules are universal.”

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  33. “One activity per day that will change the rest of your life. So, for example, doing a Because you're a very popular author. I mean, Schwarzenegger, who's another one of my heroes, was on your podcast recently”

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  34. “It's very similar actually to four hour work week and a lot of points. I mean, success rules are success rules, right? But when I read your book and I tell my students to buy your book, what I learned from you was I worked way too hard and had no fun in my life. So after reading your book and J. Papassan and Gary Keller recommended first thing you should plan in the year is your vacation. So after reading both of these books, I mean, when I'm at home, I work two and a half to four hours max. I take the month of July off. I take the first two weeks of August off. I don't work the month of December until about end of January. And a week a month, I take off, okay? I've never done that in my life until the last four years. But what I learned with the one thing is that you have to pick”

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  35. “I give that one often. I don't want to really like to give is the one thing. I'm actually lecturing with one of the authors in Texas in November. So if you want to join up, just go look at the powerful executive.com. There will be a page with authorisation. But J Papasan wrote the one thing with Gary Keller.”

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  36. “Anything from increasing your odds to getting picked up when you hitchhike to whatever, it's a very funny guy. And he's written a lot of very good books. He's the one who wrote queercology. He's a magician besides being a PhD in psychology. And you can see his magic tricks on YouTube. He's a pretty interesting guy. So that's probably the best self help book, but I tell people if you really want to change, read that book.”

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  37. “Well, all it does is it encourage you to be delusional. What works is a plan with an action step. You want to get lean, you need a plan. If you've failed to plan, you plan to fail. And in the book, what he does, he answered a challenge from his friend Sophie. Sophie said, I'm busy. I want to help myself, but I want stuff that is science-based and I want to not take a lot of time. So he says, so I can give you an answer under one minute. She goes, that's right. So that's why the book is called 59 seconds. And in the book, it'll go over anything from building relationships to goal setting, any destroys a lot of myths about goal setting and these bullshit studies that were never actually done, but he does everything. So you would love it. And he'll talk about...”

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  38. “Timmy, you got to read that book. I would say it's one of those best books you could ever read because what he does, he takes a critical look at the self-help industry. And one of the tests he makes you do, he describes 10 self-help techniques that are repeated over and over. In the self-help literature, and he asks you to identify which ones work, I won't tell you the answer, but 100%. The test because I identified the ones that don't work and the ones that do work. So, for example, one of the common ones that you read in every book, imagine the body that you want, blah, blah, blah.”

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  39. “So you cook your meat in olive oil and butter, you put butter on your vegetables and so on, and you take coconut oil. And that would help you get more sensitive. The thing too is decreasing cortisol. Cortisol is a great enemy when we're talking about developing insulin resistance. How do you decrease cortisol? Well, you manage your stress. How do you manage your stress? Well, you get effective work habits. You eliminate distractions. When you're at work, turn off your email. Only answer your email right before lunch and right before you leave work. I mean, there's a lot of ways to manage your stress. One of books I really like and I recommend to all my students is 59 seconds from Richard Wiseman.”

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  40. “I think that the biggest mistake is to do steady state cardio. You want to get fatter, go right ahead. The second biggest mistake is to use the low fat approach. So some people will restrict their carboid rates, but they restrict their fats too. So that's a big mistake. If you're going to go high protein, low carb, you need to have high fat.”

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  41. “One of the things that increases anabolism is to be insulin sensitive. What makes you insulin sensitive, losing body fat? I mean, Nick Mitchell sent me some pictures yesterday of this. Journalist that he's training, and this guy looked at a human foig. And in nine weeks, the guys got abs, right? I mean, he was considering calling his book Auto Paul Chateurd, but no kidding. But the thing is, is that he took this guy who looks horrendous, and it's all documented, so there's no Photoshop and bullshit. And he took him from a, I would estimate a 23% body fat to a 9% body fat in nine weeks. What did he do? He restricted his carbs, but now that he's lean, he's jacked up his carbs. So you got to deserve your carbs. If you don't deserve it, don't have them. You just get fatter.”

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  42. “You have to deserve your cards, and I'll repeat myself on that. To deserve that many carbs post exercise, you need to be sub 10 body fat. And the quickest way to know if you have sub 10 body fat as a male is can I see the linear album in your abs? In other words, can I see all ab rows? One ab row doesn't count. You got to see them all. So in other words, you have to have penis skin on your abs. If you could pitch an inch, you certainly don't deserve carbohydrates. So, you know, if you could see visibly your abs, then that's when you deserve it. Until then, I think you should stick to either way or essential amino acids and more branch chains and some glutamine because you don't deserve it.”

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  43. “I mean, I make no money telling you this, but my favorite brand is Tierra's Way, T-I-E-R-A, Apostrophe S weight. You can find it at All Foods, but on Amazon, they'll split you across to ship it to you within 24 hours. That's where... That's where I get mine. And I find personally to be more in a bulk in cow's way. That's my personal preference. But I use for my amino acids, one of my students out of Germany makes amino acid slash electrolyte complex. And I use that. I mean, it's something I never ran out. I come back from a trip. I put two canisters. I don't want to forget it.”

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  44. “200 grams of a carboid blend right after exercise went about 50 grams of high quality protein. A lot of people are intolerant to weigh and they don't even know. Every essential amino acid blends. So if you're a 200 pound man, I developed a product for ATP Lab Lechan. It's called Pentacar. It has cyclodextrins, some dextrose, and three forms of non-GMO maltodextrin. I give that to people with about 50 grams of essential aminos in most cases. If they can handle the whey protein, I give them the whey protein because it's way cheaper. Or sometimes I give them whey because they're not intolerant to goat whey, but they may be intolerant to cow's way.”

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  45. “In my opinion, is you've got to suppress cortisol immediately after exercise. Of course, people say, well, I'm a big medicine 17 sports. That's my data. So I've tried not to do it. And I've gone away from it. I've tried different ways. But I really believe you've got to bring that cortisol down. The best way to do that is to make yourself more insulin sensitive. You go through steps to make yourself insulin sensitive, but somebody who trains really hard, let's say you weighs 200 pounds. I really like to have...”

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  46. “I am a really, really big believer, Tim, in immediate recovery. That's from personal experience. But over the years is Cortisol used to be considered the enemy. Now in the last four years we figured out that the more cortisol you make during training, the greater training response. So people used to take cortisol blockers before training. That's stupid. It leads to no gains. But I think that the effect of the cortisol is transitory. So you induce the message, then you got to get rid of the message. So what's that guy? Charlie Sheen, I don't pay women to have sex. I pay them to leave after sex. So cortisols like that. It's like the prostitute, you got to get rid of the prostitute. So you got to get rid of the court is off. So I know my analogies have been up there, but people like graphic stuff. So they remember far better. So you want to get rid of cortisol.”

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  47. “I love learning languages, but you should learn things you're passionate about. So, you know, I think that you can learn a lot of grammar on explaining somebody how to squat, right? Like you learn directions and whatever. I've used that as a tool for learning languages. But the point is that when people say, oh, I've invented this, I say bullshit. It was invented in Egypt 1923 or 1908 by Bob Peebles or whatever it is. What's new is combinations. or applications, but like FadGrip dumbbells is not new. I mean, that's 1896. So what I did for the FADG dumbbells is I made them revolve so the easier on their joints. So I designed them for Watson, gym equipment. They calibrated their nuclear attack resistant, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All I did is ameliorations.”

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  48. “So making sure it was p set. But that's a way to warm up where you go over the set. I mean, and that's the one thing. Paul Carter figured it out by himself, but There's such a thing as universal intelligence. There's nothing new really. So I could find in 73 and that's all the research I did on it, but maybe somebody figured out in 1908 by himself. In my house here, I got everything that's ever been waiting on weight training since 1896, multiple languages. Like, for example, Frederic de La's Anatomy Books got them in 15 different languages. I find it's a good way.”

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  49. “Coming soon And then Squadron Kilos professed a five. So I've accomplished my goal. I know what the range of motion is, which allows me to have great mechanics. And then I... warmed up psychologically and physiologically speaking to handle the weight. Some people do what they call over warm up. So if they want to train at 100, they'll do a set, let's say 95, then they go to 110 to activate the nervous system, but they only do one rep. So they don't really go to failure. They just tell about, hey, 100 kilos going to feel lighter. Paul Carter is a big advocate of this, but the first time I read it was from a power lifting coach in 1973. I mean, that's when the article was published, but it was from Finland. And they have a name in it in Finnish, which has about 96 letters, but it means prooception set.”

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  50. “Yeah, you concentrate on lifting the weight, actively contracting the calf. So the weight should be enough to stretch you. If it's heavy enough to stretch you, you won't be able to to reactivate the power in the muscle. So I will make my ankles flexible. Then I would take the bar, and depending on which muscles are tight, let's say if it's squad or hamstrings or whatever, I would do the same principle, get into a position where I basically do PNF stretching, right? And then doodles exercise. Then I'm mobile for the range of motion. If the goal is 100 kilos for five sets of five, then the first warm upset would be the bar, just the bar, four reps, then I would go to 60 kilos, which is 60%. So my body knows what the range of motion is. Then I put 60 kilos, which is 60%. I would only do about three reps. Then I would go to 75 kilos. I would do two reps. I go to 85 kilos, do one rep, 9 kilos, do one rep. 95 kilos do one rep. So all those weights just tell me the weight is going to be...”

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