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Chris Duffin

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“I mean, that's where my testing grounds for developing all this stuff was through the years. And so this is, like I said, I started developing relationships with the best developmental kinesiologist in the US, the best arguably the best or most well-known physical therapist in the world, the best spine biomechanist in the world. I started doing continuing education with these clinical courses and learning this stuff and going, but how does it work in my world, right? And then I started lecturing with them and all this other stuff. The lab was like, where do we test this stuff, right? And so let me get to a point. There's three things. There's always three things.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can still do it. So don't take it as a like, oh, I can't go that direction. That's fine, but understand those things. And then also understand that Jiu Jitsu is additional load on the body. So, you have to, you can't just add it on top. You've got to taper back the other. You're going to have to make a, I'm sorry, you may not want to hear it. But you're not going to be able to do as much and add that here. It's a compromise because your total volume still has to be there. And there's not unfortunately not really a way to measure What the jujitsu volume is with this, so you've got to take a look at that. And that's where measuring heart rate variability or other stuff can be useful. So you can see what is happening from me from a sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system standpoint.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The goal, the perfect state is not having to use them. Reality is you're going to have to use them from time to time because the world's not perfect. Yeah. So your discovery is 100% on point.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But go figure out why it is and fix it. And then maybe next three, four months from now, they're going to get a little something else going on. Fix it, but understand the deeper root reason of why. So I believe I have the only company manufacturing and selling fascial soft tissue tools. And I'll tell you, I don't want you to use them.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Squatting doesn't make your hips tight. Squatting like shit makes your hips tight. And so, but there is no perfect world. We're always our training program isn't quite perfect. Our movement isn't necessarily perfect. Like, so you're going to have the needs for this stuff. But if you're always have to do some soft tissue work to loosen up the same one for that exercise to be able to get a joint and position, there is a problem, and I'm not saying don't do it, do it because I don't want you to have a joint. Like if I can't get my shoulders in a position, I can't do overhead presses because I'm going to compromise my spine position. And I'm going to end up with some other problems, right? So go ahead and clean that up so you can get in position.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, actually, I do. I did one recently. Quad Fallback with my mace loaded way out to the end, torsioning on both ends of the other. And like I do a lot of weird stuff.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But this affects all sports, all activities, and strength doesn't have to be that. I mean, I'm freaking a thousand pound squatter and deadlifter. If you watch any of my videos where I do like complete quad fallbacks, I don't stretch at all. I can usually get close to a full split, like if I want to.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or there's a deficit in the training program, and you're not recovering from, and 80% of the time that's the right answer, right? But yeah, that's where the gap is. And learning how to relax. And the way a lot of the exercises are taught and have been taught for a long time, which is why there's a big gap. And this is why both clinical rehab and all these other components are mixed in my philosophy and what I'm trying to do with Kabuki strength because I'm looking at holistic movement. I'm not looking at powerlifting. Base movements are what I want to load and be able to assess on.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With the mace at the proper length, with the right distribution, you cannot do the movement. You could not move force your way through it. The only way that you can accomplish that is by relaxing. And then now we can contract all the muscles related around that shoulder girdle all at once. We're working on, off, on, off, on, off with moving and contracting. And now, so what happens a lot of times as we, you know, this stiffness and tightness happens, if we're in poor positions, we start using stabilizer muscles to do the movement. And then that's where this stiffness comes from. So it means that in whatever training that you're doing, there's a deficit in the movement quality.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because the counter is speed to contraction. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, right? And so what a mace can do is use that, because this is, ties back into a developmental kinesiology, because a lot of like reset patterns are getting back into these basic movements, but it's as much about relaxation as it is contraction. Okay. So a mace, we have this weight on a big long lever. So if I grab a kettlebell, like, that's the same movement as a kettlebell halo. It is the same movement as a kettlebell. But here in the halo, I'm on the whole time.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this isn't a problem with the training. This is a problem with you. So, this actually really, really important. The first product I ever released. A loadable mace, a swinging mace. Because every powerlifter and body, well, not every, but most serious powerlifters and bodybuilders like shoulders mobility is pretty limited. Most of them really, really struggle with this. The problem is they've been taught to have tension all the time. And that's not good. So when we talk about the joint positions that we were talking about earlier and having those in the muscles and the right length and tension relationship athleticism is the speed to relaxation.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd have had my daughter training before my son because she developed movement patterns that have better quality earlier. There's no age because it's going to be very dependent on the individual. There's no point in having adaptation if we don't have the right thing to adapt to yet.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because especially fighting sports, you're going to be challenged and thrown and other things happen to you. And the more resilient you can make your structures, the better you're going to be. Even a cyclist, mountain biking, why would they need it? Why would they need to do upper body training? Take a crash, your shoulder's gone. You're done. Your career is over unless you've done a little training. So there's value in all this stuff, but the resilience is like that's huge. And then we can overlay strength. Where we miss is this focus on strength when we haven't developed quality motor patterns first. So this is a huge thing with children because people want to know what's the appropriate training age.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do with these players with a huge level of skill. So once you reach a certain level of skill, adding strength is the only real forward path. So that's the basic simple answer to that.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've got a perfect example because this is why I sell so many Transformer bars into the Major League Baseball. So they get these people that come in, these athletes, that have been baseball their whole life. It is part of the culture. And so they're great athletes. They've got all this skill. The only thing they have to do is develop a little bit more resilience so that they don't have the injury. They can push their training a little bit more, that they can add a little bit more force output and be able to recover from it. So the only thing they've got to do is add some training, but there's no training culture there, so they don't have any experience, which is why they love the transformer bar, because they don't have to worry about teaching the technique we can actually set the bar on a setting that makes their squats perfect by queuing all the stuff with actually not having to coach it. Because when you're coaching a room full of athletes, it's really hard to teach the nuance of all this and not sure that all that. But that's all that they have to.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You need variety, yeah, yeah, because you will basically stagnate at some level, right? So you should always be kind of shifting a little bit. So three to four month blocks in general for an average, you know, just a gen pop fitness is pretty good where you're going to spend more time maybe in a higher rep range or lower rep range, a little bit more work on endurance capacity, or maybe some more time. Hey, I'm playing around with boxing or jujitsu or something like that. Bring that a little bit more to the front forefront for a while and bring the other out. But like mixing those variables up, but trying to keep the total load the same and always kind of like do we add a little more again, it doesn't have to be major and it shouldn't be major. You don't want these big jumps. You don't go, oh my God.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, everything I've done has always been kind of an annual training cycle And then again, this was like a five year training cycle, but we just kind of walked through the last year of each, and you can see how these concepts play out in reality.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So all of my recovery needs can now go into the more specific that I'm actually ramping the load up. So as I'm ramping the load, on the weight, I'm able to ramp it a lot faster because I'm tapering out the other stuff so I can still keep my total load Hi, but now get it very, very specific.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We can tailor it to an athlete, which is great when you got a seven foot plus tall baseball player or a basketball player. That's why we work with all these teams. Anyway, so it's like you're taking something and getting closer and closer to it. At the same time, we're looking at the quality. So like I needed to be able to really hold this torso position with the weight moving up here. Now unlike the deadlift, the ability to manage this TL position becomes much more challenging. So that was also why I was choosing the transformer bar because it actually challenges that more and those big forward positions. I was also working on my back strength tremendously to be able to hold and maintain position. So there was a lot of like I chose a bent over rows. So a bent over row is a mixed vector. So it's a forward to back. So it wouldn't have as much carrier, but it's also got some axial loading component in it as well. So we're working on that. And then as we get closer and closer to competition, I'm developing those strengths. But now I need to start tapering those out.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, what's interesting people think about the weight imposition to them like, oh, the bar's in front of me, the bar's behind me, which is not the case. The bar is above your midfoot. The load is above your midfoot. So we're actually manipulating the spine behind the bar. So we're causing spinal uprighting behind the bar getting in a more erect position, which is going to change the relationship of the hip angle. It's going to change our ability to maintain the spine. It's going to change how much the core comes in, how hard it is to maintain that sternum, to diaphragm relationship that we talked about. All this stuff starts changing.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But not all the time. So now we talk about quality. So, and if we specialize in the same thing too long, we stagnate because the body adapts to a certain point and just can't make progress. So we wanted to save the actual squatting in the pattern with the bar that I was doing for the very end. So starting a year out, I started doing work front squatting, like a squat, axial loaded pattern, and worked on maximizing that up. Then I started shifting to doing transformer bar squats. It's this bar I developed that actually manipulates spinal mechanics. So I started loading in these more forward positions and being able, again, so now I'm getting closer than a front squat, but not quite squatting. And then I would start adjusting that bar every training cycle to closer to a squat, closer to a squat till it finally was, right?”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're going to have some carryover, right? Obviously, because taking an untrained person that hasn't done it is still not going to do as good as somebody that's done non-specific work but done work. But yes, for the most part.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is important to understand, so I'm not just getting into nuance here. So, hey, squatting is going to make me jump further because it's legs. Well, squatting is an axial load vector. And jumping is a vector this way. So actually hip thrust would help with your, and this is proven in science, with your forward jumping ability. They're both working similar muscles, the glute extension, but they're working it in those different platforms. So it's really important to understand because people don't understand I'm building my work capacity by doing sled pushes. You're not developing your work capacity for squatting.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Entire body, just anything that taxes the spinal mechanics. I could tell you my beliefs. It studied, it is. We can just keep the discussion on that short like that. So we start looking at those different vectors that we're training in. So this is why.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“963, and this was pretty aggressive, working up to where my average loading the final if the final was nine hundred eighty five pounds, average load for eight to nine reps. And that's why I said, this is the intense part. That was why it was the day of was much easier. That week over week is pretty brutal. They not sound like, oh, you're just squatting. And now let's back it up. Let's look at quality development. So a year out from the squat obviously I've been working on developing axial load capacity. My capacity to withstand load from top to bottom. So I like thinking about things in movement vectors. So this vector is an axial loaded vector is the hardest to recover from. Are they both? They're both. Yep. So a horizontal, a front to back would be like a row or a press.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Instead of doing three sets of three at one week, I do two doubles or two triples, then two doubles to give me one more rep. That's it. And so we're doing that from one week to the next, and that's a cycle, training cycle. It might be five, six weeks, and then so on. The next one, and slowly bringing that average load up. So the last phases of the squat, for example, we took the average loading every week of my heavy sets. So once we developed all this stuff over the last year to get to this point, now it is taking and going, okay, my average load this week is eight reps at 955 pounds. And then the next week, let's get it to 957.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is math behind this. And so instead of just like, oh, well, let's start deadlifting twice a week. No. So we start and we take the one session that we've got and we split it part of it. Take part of it away and put it in the second half of the week. So the total volume is still the same. And then we start adding some volume, but I'm doing it off of blocks so that the actual load is accumulative load is less because I have less range of motion. And then we start building that closer to the ground, closer to the ground, and so on. And now we start getting to where I'm almost doing two sessions, full sessions a week. And then we start adding a little bit of load. And so at my level, this isn't talking about adding another set or another day a week. We're talking like in my squat, it might be one rep.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My deadlift, my thousand pound deadlift. We'll talk about the training cycles for both a thousand deadlift and squat. So backing up a year out from the deadlift, knowing I was training at the time, heavy deadlifts once a week. And usually it was two of those sessions a month were really heavy and the others weren't. And it's like, okay, how can we get this up to where I'm deadlifting twice a week? Because that's where I want to be to be able to accomplish this. I need to be loading about that much with frequency with a certain volume to be able to accomplish this goal. We're not going to go through all the math and stuff like that and how that's arrived.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It brings it down. And then, what does the person want to do when they come back? Make up for it. Now they have a huge spike above. Five weeks later, we're dealing with, oh, this elbow, this wrist, whatever's kind of bothering me. And now you're not performing as much. So these are some really fundamental pieces of training. And then now we can start overlaying the qualities that we're trying to develop, that we were talked about earlier. So now it's, let's talk about.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, as we do this, the acute loading, if it spikes more than ten, maybe 15% from what the chronic loading has been? That accounts for 80% of injuries out there. So it's not actually the movement quality or this misstep or the other. It usually happens about four or five, six weeks later. It's like, oh, this nagging, and then it gets worse. And then now you got to do some rehab, your training sessions aren't as good and so on. So now we're starting to look at this. Okay. It's like, I want to do the least amount of work where I can still progress. I want to be able to have spikes in my weekly demand that don't go above 10 to 15% of what I've been averaging for the last month. But every time I do a spike, my average goes up, right? Boom, boom, boom. And then that becomes very particular also when you do take plant time off. So a lot of people, training session, maybe they're doing a five-week block with a deload week, or you go on vacation for a week or any of those things that were a downward, what does that do to your average in chronic loading?”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Training hard for three years, five years. That's going to be really good. But what we find is a lot of people train really hard for nine months, have to slow back for a month, get back into it, then miss another week because and so on. They're always like this little nagging, that little nagging. And so it's pretty clear in the research we're looking at when we're stair stepping this stuff. We're looking at acute and chronic loading. So some fancy words for average and like what's happening right now. So this given week would be our acute chronic would be what is our average loading, let's say, over the last six months. So the more that we can move the chronic loading up, the more work we're getting done on as a whole over time, we're going to get stronger. The way that we build the capacity to do that is having spikes in acute loading.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was specifically written for somebody with 20 years of experience that's already built the capacities to be at that level. So it's all about building that work capacity. So how much work can you give in a given time? So now we want to look at some research as it relates to injuries because injuries are going to be a big driver over time of what holds you back. So when we talk consistency,”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, so let's talk about some training principles as a whole. And this will, I think this will break down what you're won. The more work that we can fit into a given time, the more progress we're going to make. But that doesn't mean doing the max amount of work possible at any given time. So we know that we're always to accomplish more. We're always going to have more. And there's a certain ceiling that you're going to hit that you're not going to be able to add more. So you want to start and get the most amount of results that you can with the least amount of work because you're going to have to do it again like this stair step over and over year, decade, so on. So when people, this is a big miss, people got, they look at a Chico program from Russia or so on and they go, I'm going to follow this.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Week cycle for conditioning and ramping up over three weeks periods time, then dropping back down again and ramping up and being slightly offset by like a week or two from your strength peaks so that you've actually tapered the week prior in your conditioning work to your strength work, right? But that way we're not hitting conditioning hard all the time, which is a common misstep that people make is going, well, I need conditioning. So they just hammer that at a base level over the top instead of cycling that.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yep, and definitely more metabolic conditioning focus than the strength aspect of it. And conditioning is an interesting thing too. So that quality, in my opinion, can be developed a lot faster, but kind of peaks much faster as well. So where strength we can continue to add and add and add over time. So it's for me, like for conditioning with any strength athlete, I don't like to spend as much time on that. So I'll cycle the conditioning work for our strength athletes and then taper that off leading into meat. So the more metabolic work, the means the more capacity in strength training that you can accomplish, which is the goal, and recover from. But then as we lead to a competition, we want to spend more time on recovering from that. So we have to pull things out so we'd pull out less. So typical approach would be like taking a six.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So strong man itself is going to be for very large frames of individuals. If you're not well over six foot and a large person, you're probably not going to perform well. Very few people sub six foot have ever done well at Strongman just because it's leverage based, right? Olympic lifting. We see consistently in Europe the history tells us a high level of hip and back issues because of the depth that that hip socket has to go in to be able to complete that lift. And so you're going to see issues with populations that don't have the ability to do that. So we've talked a little bit.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's some things with Strongman that is straight like each one of these is very also focused on different genetic dispositions. So actually, if you look at the history of sports, you'll find that there are a lot of times based on different populations. And that sounds like it's very unPC, but like Highland Games, they've got deeper hip sockets that are shallow. So you're going to see a lot of short hip hinge movements like the caber toss and things like that. Muay Thai wrestling. They've got a completely different hip joint.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“qualities and then shifting that around. So it's just going to be a little different based on what the output is and what the desired. So powerlifting is actually, power is the wrong word. There's actually no power in it. It's just strength of force. Olympic lifting would actually be a better powerlifting because that is more explosive development. There's strongman is again now we're getting a little bit more athletic it's equipment based on the implements and stuff that are used, how fast you can move your feet and run mixed with more endurance but still very strength focused”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every one of those as far as the athletic disciplines are different qualities. So we want to think about things as terms of qualities. So there's strength, there's power, there's endurance, there's the ability to be coordinated and athletic. There's all these things and they're different qualities. So your training as it relates to that is how you cycle in the development of those qualities. What we want to think about is there's a lot of different frames of thought, some very classical, maybe not classical Russian approach because there's a lot of different approach from the Eastern bloc, but one of the ones is developing all the qualities at once, you know, focusing on building those more of a periodization effect would be focusing on one quality at a time or one quality while maintaining other.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But just make sure you're filling the cup as you're going through it, pouring it all out. So that's the part to figure out, right?”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All these things. Your opportunity for you to turn into that, it is your workout, it is your practice. Because if you don't, you'll get soft. And who knows what's coming and you're not going to be ready for it. And it's going to run right over the top of you because you're going to Week, you're going to be soft”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In fear, as well as excitement. And that is your signal that this is your opportunity for that personal growth to challenge yourself. This is your going for a run or working out in the heat. It's those things. It is your opportunity to go maybe it even fails. Maybe it even fails. But by turning into that, you're going to learn so much and it's going to make you so much better. And it's the path that you should take when you have this stuff rolling around in there. And I don't, it could just be a hard conversation with your partner or your boss. It could be taking on a project that your boss is thrown out to the team and you're like, oh, I'm going to hide in the back. I don't want that one. I was like, maybe you do. Maybe it's going back to school. Maybe it's making that career move that you always wanted, but you're just afraid of.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what life's made of. And so, this is your opportunity. You feel that. So, right now, you got this, when you think about it, you got this little thing twisting up in your gut, right? It's like, it's a mixture of anxiety.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it won't be. It won't be less happiness. Because we talk about this cup and where you choose to pour it and what you choose to do with it. And when you look back on things, the things that are going to give you the most joy, the most proud, the things that are going to stand out in your life that you really remember. Are going to be those days. And those years you struggle, you're going to look back on 10 years later and go, fuck, those were the glory days. Those were the glory days. It won't feel like it at the time”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This isn't something to make money. This is a way for you to live the life and be able to share the values that you have with the world. And that's what it is. And if you don't have that, which is going to give you joy, then Recon, walk away. This is not some way to make some money and be known.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is short term. That is not going to keep you going. If you're going to go that approach, it needs to be because this is your North Star. There's going to be so much hard work. There's going to be years of just pushing through where your quest not only is everybody around you questioning you and your family's questioning you, you're questioning yourself going, man, I don't know if I can pull this off. You're going to be stressed. You're going to be pulled to the max. If somebody comes up to me and says, should I start a business? I'm going to say no. And oh, you're supposed to motivate me. If you need me to motivate you, this is the wrong damn approach for you. This is going to be hard. This is going to be harder than you expect, even with me telling you this. So it better down.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sense of joy. So this is the point I want to drive home right now, right now. Because when I say I learn the Burning the Bridges works because. That's how I had to succeed when I was earlier. The bridges weren't burnt. They didn't exist. There was no couch to go home to. There was no, there was no fallback plan. In it forced me and gave me the confidence to know that I can pull it off But I don't encourage people because there's so much out there of this hustle porn and other stuff going just grind, just go after it, get in and start your like, you'll get there. And it's all about the output to make money, to be somebody, to do this. And I'll tell you what, that is some short-term motivation right there. I feel like dropping a few swear words, but.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a platform built enough that those first few years I did have an income. I was able to make enough from the business until it grew so fast that I needed so much more needed to come in, the living in the apartment piece and doing all that. There was actually a couple years into that process, maybe like two years.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the burning the bridges mentality is not necessarily, you know, the best. There was some temperament in that, though, because I was not slow to make the shift for a long time because I'd been thinking about doing it. But I was thinking about doing it in a healthcare perspective. I'm going to go back to school to be a surgeon or a physical therapist or a Cairo because that's where like all my research and stuff was in this human movement and rehab and recovery. This is the mentors that I've been developing were the best in the world in these things, in these disciplines. Those were my friends But I wasn't able to compromise my family's certain quality of life. I wanted to keep this. It was slow and hard for me to make that transition, but I didn't do it until...”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's a great way of actually finding your real values and how you want to live, honestly, to chase having absolutely perfect squat technique, but chase putting every freaking thing that you've got in it, which most people would say, those are opposite. Those are diametrically opposed. I wanted A better home life. I wanted to do more in the world through my work.”
2021-08-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #207 – Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Strength · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source