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Jerzy Gregorek

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  1. “Broke records in 1960 on a motorcycle 48 hours without stopping. So they were just getting gas from helicopters and he said that when he finished, he couldn't straight his fingers for one week. We're just gripping the handlebars like that. So, you know.”

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  2. “How would the progress happens? He's an off-road racer. His father was breaking records. So Billy Robertson, really fantastic driver, twenty broken bones and really tough. Tough. You cannot get really tougher. This is tough. This is Olympic weightlifting. This is off-road. Trucks, you know, like 10,000 pounds and going 140 miles per hour on uneven terrain. It's just amazing things. And he was also on the motorcycle very fast motorcycle, 160, 170 miles per hour. He was racing this stuff. It's just so. And so he was diverse in his possibilities. And I coach him for flexibility, power and, you know, getting ready for this competitions. So his father was Bahat.”

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  3. “Yeah, I think that I learned from weightlifting that constant search for making something actually difficult that would help you to get better and you search for it. So the progress is it can happen only if you're on the edge when actually it's something difficult. I told Carracer in LA about 20 years ago.”

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  4. “I came back to San Francisco, read the poem in the class, People started commenting. And it came to the woman and she said. I will never say I cannot to my children anymore. I will rephrase it, but I will not say I cannot I see now how Painful it could be. And how damaging it could be for my children. And I was sitting here and I was thinking really about. About myself and my time. And I saw myself that I watched TV. I read novels. And I don't have to do That actually I have time So you see that the poem helped her to go into the finally to her own world and accept that she was doing something that she could stop and she could do something else.”

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  5. “Without them, you would still have slaves the Holocaust and a world just for a man. Becoming a man like that is your only chance. Because there is no one else to force you. You expect too much from me? Do you really believe I can be a man like that? Who cannot So the poem focuses on great people in life, those who noted that something is wrong. They would not let it go they would keep doing even though whatever it was needed to change the situation. So there were two people, two lawyers in England who stopped the slavery. And I watched this documentary. They lost friends, they lost money, they lost almost everything. But they really achieved. Place where we have slavery anymore amazing right so there is something sometimes in us that we see from the moral point of view something is wrong and we go for it”

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  6. “You know Method, something is wrong about data, but I don't know what. I don't know how to grasp that whole situation, how to deal with it. It's the person that is struggling, the person works almost whole day, has children, has to make money and doesn't have time for exercise for 30 minutes to improve the life through it. I came Went to meditation, spend there two or three hours of meditating, wrote this poem. Let me read it to you. So the title is Who Cannot? Every night when I wake up, I walk to the kitchen, and every morning there is still food on my face. How can I stop myself? His coach fought for a moment and then told him Think about all those people who stopped themselves from owning and killing and having fun because they finally saw how others suffered.”

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  7. “So this woman tells me that he cannot find the time to exercise. I said, we cannot find 30 minutes to exercise. No. And she told me what she does. I said, okay, tell me. So she told me what she does. She has two jobs and she has children and she's single. And her life is really tough. And when she told me, I just, you know, I couldn't say anything. It's just like, it's really a person that struggles and a person that doesn't have time. Okay, but I'm not an easy to give up on things like this. You have to have time, especially when something is good and over time that brings goodness, you have to somehow find time for it. It has to be the way, but I didn't know what was the way, and I'm driving home from San Francisco.”

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  8. “All right, so I will tell you first the story about this poem. Every poem has a story. So every poem has the time. It's locked with suffering and coming out of suffering positively, right? And do something about it, even though it's extremely difficult. So I just look at people and they it's at least like you do something wrong. You know that you're doing something wrong and you keep doing something wrong and it cannot come out of that. So these are the situations usually that inspired me to write a poem. So this poem is about a woman, a nurse in San Francisco. So I teach the class, I'm in the class.”

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  9. “Or about change of the, you see that poem was about the journey and about becoming a good person. So the person that is this enlightened person, the good and kind person, when I send this poem to Poland. Anela, I loved it. And my mother thought that I got crazy. I lost my mind.”

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  10. “Would you want me to grab the first book? Yeah, grab the Let me read it and I will tell you the situation, it's just the first poem.”

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  11. “I connected first time a poem to that problem. And start writing poems. It took me about four years to write this first book of poetry food for your soul. And he had different poems, different situations. Some of them, all of them, they have really one purpose. All of them, they talk to the person. They try to connect to that place in a person to come out of the situation positively. So, to come out to solve the problem and become positive and constructive. So every poem has this movement inside. I can read you now a poem, give you the story”

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  12. “Over and over, and one day because I thought the poetry something else, you know, it's not really, it shouldn't have any purpose. You write the poem because you are moved by something or disturbed by something and you make the poem. It's like Barishnikov said, you know, I dance and my dance supposed to disturb and not really make entertainment. It's an art form. And it's when you create art. You're disturbed by something. When I watch people suffering because of the inability of controlling themselves, That emotional intelligence was now kicking in. The attitude would not change. thought if they suffer Poetry, that they deserve poetry. Poetry is not something more than that. The first time I link poetry Something that to something like simple weightless or something, yeah, right, because poets are supposed to be not purpose.”

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  13. “That's a poem. And I wrote the first poem, a reverb. So I've written that poem. And then, you know, like, okay. And I didn't write another one for a while, but then I went to German and then ended up in US, right? When I came to US. I began reading more poems. And the poems, the first book of poetry became bad, my life, the past life. And then about 15 years ago, when I was dealing with people and I was watching people. When they wanted to lose weight and how that is difficult. And how people suffer because they cannot and how people, even though they want to control themselves, even they won't really badly change, there are forces inside that causes the choosing the wrong things. they are unable actually to succeed in it. And I so does suffering here in this room.”

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  14. “And it was funny whatever was on that page coming it was in a verse. I couldn't write anything differently. It was regarding.”

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  15. “And she said, You know what, you have a gift that you do something with these people and they feel better. So she said, let me open the clinic here and then you will be teaching. And I will be your assistant. I said, no, no, I'm going to US. I'm not staying in Sweden. So when she heard that, she said. But if you go, you have to write. They look at her as a right as a yeah, you need to write because you have something to pass on. And they said, Well, I've never written anything. So she said, well, just go home and write. Yeah. I said, okay. So went home”

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  16. “They were just like loving people. I've never seen before, as I said. When you see a person that love you unconditionally, it's something completely different. It's like you see God, you know. So I brushed off some of it. And then when I went to Sweden, I started helping people a lot, the solidarity people, they suffered a lot. They waited sometimes for their wives and children and they escaped there and then they were hunger strikes and all of it was happening. I had this way of talking to people and helping them emotionally, helping, uplifting them, solving in the Had a little bit changing their attitude so their life could be a little bit better. And there was the psychologist, Vandasai, who noticed that.”

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  17. “Never come out, be here, you'll stay here. So my ghostbumps come, you know, and then he said, all right, it was just lucky day. And I said, all right, thanks, thanks. Bye-bye. And we go. So this is the wait litter. And about two months after, I was out. I was in Sweden and then in Sweden, because of my involvement now, I'm coming back to poetry because involvement with solidarity people mostly vague and Jersey and then others that they had this People that Different.”

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  18. “I had to go. And my friend told me I was called to the police department and I was waiting for to go in Schetin. And this guy comes in and there is a lot of people. And this guy comes here. I know him. And he was a weightlifter. I said, what are you doing here? So we didn't see each other for about four or five years. He is the lieutenant there. And I don't know. And I am on the other side now, right? So he's asking me what I was there for. And I told him, so he let me check it out. So he went, came back. And he said, Well, you were assigned to me. You should go Never come back. And I said laughing and said, Jersey never come back. You would never come out of this building.”

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  19. “Still find a way why they are that way, that they have some kind of ulterior motives or something. Because I've never seen it. I've never seen a person that way. I spent three years underground. And in 84, the government had really enough with Jersey and his sermons that they were so inspiring people and so much helping people to survive all of it, what was happening and to be uplifted. That they captured him and tortured and threw his body into the IC And after that, the pollen really mourned a lot. And then I was very, very difficult for me too. And I left Poland in 85 in March After the situations in the police department and so on, you had to”

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  20. “So they ask us to sign allegiance to the school back. So I didn't sign. And about other 80 didn't. About 300 something sign went back to the school they wanted to form. So that time, after that, I was underground. So I took the position of looking after other AT in IT and our place of meetings was the church. And the church in Jolybus and the priest that came to help us during the strike. His name was Jerzy Popiewsko. I have a poem there written. About that too, and he was the priest that the country loved him, loved for his words, for his love And it was the first time that Isaiah the Goosebumps now, the first time that I was. Faced with unconditional love. I've never seen it in my life. And I was, you know, 27 and I saw people that they had it. And I was looking at that.”

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  21. “So we started strike and then after 10 days of negotiations with the government, the government decided to take us down and they drove tanks into the academy, took us by force and changed the name of the school, and then they would ask everybody to sign allegiance to the school back. I have some poems about that. So I can read if you want. So that, and then you could go back. So 400. And of course, the whole country and fire departments were on strike as well. So it's just everywhere.”

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  22. “Well, you know, the whole point for me was not really, you know, I said, okay, we have to go to solidarity people and talk about. So I went and I talk in physics to teachers. And we discussed it. And then, you know, you couldn't imagine strike in fire protection academy because it's just It's impossible almost yeah, but also it's possible. So we discussed that and then as the things were progressing we started aligning ourselves with the students strike in Poland under the same time. It's just mess everywhere, you know, just 81 just before the Ruselsky attack the whole Poland and it was the time when everything went underground.”

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  23. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the engines color the water, let's say, spray and catch people later with that colors and so on. Everything solidarte was looking for powers, more power and government as well. So here government thought about doing that.”

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  24. “I said, What are you talking about? So he said, you know, I was at the meeting with solidarity and they said that they're going to make the school paramilitary only. And said, so what does that mean? He said, well, it means that they want to use fire protection, the whole industry, to fight the demonstrations. And demonstrations were at that time really high. So a lot of people were on streets in Warsaw could be half a million people demonstrating against whatever regime was at the time. So I said, okay, so what could we do? And then...”

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  25. “So that there was the union that was formed in 1980 and it was the first free movement in Poland and was allowed to be legal. So when Solidarti was formed very fast, there were 11 million people in solidarity. So the whole movement was to free Poland from Russia from communism really. So I was in the fourth year now working on my masters and somebody came because I was the leader of the whole school and there were 400 firemen students as well firemen inside. So every year about 100. Somebody came to me and said Are working on changing the law for the school.”

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  26. “Right, and in my fourth year, just before finishing the school and working on my master's. It was 81, and that was the time when solidarity and the government were really fighting.”

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  27. “Well, you know, that happened to me in solidarity. And I was mostly in science in Poland. And when I was in Warsaw, I started fire protection engineering. Fire protection.”

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  28. “Is pleasurable, even though you lift 300 pounds, but you are ready for it, you are aligned with it, you have some reserves. So you do something like a gymnast would do flips or whatever it is and loves it. Yeah, so the same way you should train the happy body.”

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  29. “You are passing the time, you're becoming more, your anxiety is increasing and you stop liking it and you want to finish. So that's a really terrible brain. So when it happens to you, you slow down. You become slower and you start enjoying the movement every breath, every tension, every movement, you lowering, you reaching for something, you love it, you enjoy it. Once you get it, once you get to the pleasure, you want to repeat the pleasure and repeat the pleasure and repeat the pleasure. That's how training is supposed to be. All anaerobic athletes are that way. They love this training. They are not exhaustive training. It's not, you know, like a marathon runner that you run and exhaust yourself. No, in a power training, everything.”

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  30. “Tenious as well. So when you are just really before really hitting, you hold the body is really tough, yeah, tight. And then it happens and then release happens. It's in a split of the second, but in that split of the second, it happens. So when you do, let's say jerk in weightlifting, you hold the breath. You inhale, tight the body, you go down, you throw the body, you relax completely the body system, you go under, you block, you stand up. So every repetition in the happy body is created that way. Also, it is created to deliver the joy, the pleasure of doing it. And you have to really get it that way. So when you speed up a little bit,”

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  31. “The whole thing is designed to be mindful and meditation happens as well. So sometimes people leave the gym and their space out. They know what happened, what really happened, they meditated for 40 minutes or 30, 40 minutes while doing the program. It's amazing because you do the program at the same time, the other things happen. So the breathing pattern now, why the breathing is that we hold the breath. It's pranayama breathing the same as pranayama breathing, holding the breath and then releasing for the calming down the heart. So when you inhale, you also like in weightlifting. When you inhale, you tense the body and then you lift and you hold the breath. We don't even know that we hold the breath in.”

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  32. “So the mindfulness is 100% on what you do. You're not thinking about your dentist appointment during this time or you are not listening to the music or something. After a while, you can because you are so aligned with it, right? But it's better not to, of course So,”

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  33. “After a while, of course, the data becomes so organic that you don't need navigation if you're on the ocean and you want to go from one island to another one because it's organic, you know, where you are. So when you have the system that is that way and you do that system every day, right, then it creates this capability of knowing that you push too much, that you are sore, where or when you are sore, how to eliminate and so on. So coming back to the one repetition. So you are reaching and then you are lowering the weight is number five. And number six, you are exhaling, releasing the tension. So six things you do in every repetition, right? But everyone in single and separate.”

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  34. “And be better and measure everything so you know you're getting better. That happy body system is created to deliver to you the messages every place and every time that you are getting better and it's measurable and it's imaginable. So you can imagine everything and you can keep the data.”

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  35. “Then you flex certain parts of the body for stability. And then the third is the lift. Always you are lifting. The fourth is coming the stretch. And in the stretch is the stretch you are reaching for something. You're reaching for more each time. The program also is designed to be progressive, to deliver progress and not just do exercises and be mindless and do every time the same thing and not get better over time. You're supposed to be better. Like you dance tango and every year you are a better dancer. But you can dance tango without getting better. So you have to somehow be open to that.”

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  36. “Mindful and meditative. The whole program is designed to be meditation. And not only that, you are getting flexible, not only that you're getting strong, but also you stress release, you meditate and you calm down. How is it designed so you now you have one exercise and you have one repetition so you that I introduce singularity of the brain It means you do one thing at a time. That's how mantra is. You don't two, you don't want. So in the happy body, when you do, let's say press or you do the exercise you describe, you lay on the back and you are reaching. Yes? So first is inhale and you focus on inhale. Inhale becomes everything, becomes just one thing that you do.”

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  37. “Then you can do Olympic weightlifting and everything will be easy for you, any skills. People cannot get Olympic weightlisting skills because they are not flexible. You cannot ask somebody who is not flexible to enter the flexibility points that he cannot simply. So now you have the whole program and the program deals with any possible joint that needs to be flexible and the program deals with also the strength that is needed, right? The coordination that is needed. Every exercise now has six different beats. So the system is also...”

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  38. “So, you know, again, we just stop on where we were going. But there are 18 exercises in the system that about six exercises are in a sequence. They have three sequences. The program works that you go from one to another exercise in a sequence of six. First sequence is the easiest one. So vertically the program is designed to make you more flexible. So when you go to sequence two, it requires more flexibility. And sequence three is the final. So when you see the final squat in the third sequence, the exercise number five, power tower. So that is the most difficult exercise in that whole 18 exercises everything is created and designed to be able actually to do that. That's the one when you actually do it perfectly. You have capability to be Olympic weightlifter. You can go and do Olympic weightlifting. And if you have”

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  39. “Well, I have yoga teachers here, and they really become flexible and they go to teacher and they are a lot of better before.”

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  40. “Attack records when you have a little bit of reserve, even though there are your records. So increments should have reserves and the progress should be set up that way. So you don't burn yourself out and you wait for the adaptation.”

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  41. “Years to make a national champion. And if I have less time, I will never make one. So I see the same way. When I see somebody, I see the spread of two or three years I know where it's going. And I have the time, not that I have the time. The body needs the time to actually get better. Because I follow what the body is adaptation is. So let's say you lift 200 pounds and another one is 201, right? And I watch how it is. The lift should be, it should not use all the powers that you have when you break records. You should have some reserves, like 1% or two. If you break that way, the body has the capability to adapt and the whole training becomes fun. It's fun to...”

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  42. “So there is about 29 degrees between the calves and the fisher, the femur. So about 29 degrees. Fantastic. So when you look at the real weightlifters that they go very deep, they will have 20 degrees, 21, 22, and usually people will have when they start 50, 55, 60. by degree you become better. And we talk about before you remember the winning and a small increment. So I like to take people inch by inch or even half an inch because we become happy when we get better. And when I coach young athletes and they, let's say, I spread everything for two, three years. It was this Russian coach who said, I need 10.”

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  43. “Compensate. And then you start rounding your back, your spine that can lead to any problems with secure leg and also this spine. So once the ankles flexibility are there, then you move the anisa forward and your hips are moving clockwise and that gives you this beautiful arch of the spine if the spine is capable of it. If not, so what we notice today with you. So you have ankles flexibility, you have your hips, and then the spine is straight instead of being like a bowl. Right. So now our next thing is about to focus on sternum, focus on arching the spine so you have a really nice bow. And that bow is needed because your arms should be straight up and down. And if the body ends up vertical, then there is no pressure at all on your shoulder.”

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  44. “Want to make sure we get to happy body and then we're going to get You talk about Your coaching and how your body improved. And when you came, you had some pains, you had flexibility situation problems. So I had to work with you to bring you right into the perfect posture. Perfect posture means you have the bar above your head and you can go down and up vertically without any compromises on your joints. So where the compromises are coming from, so the flexibility that is needed is needed in your ankles, in your hips, and in your whole spine. Combination synergy of these three is needed to really make that movement the right way. So if the flexibility of the ankle is not right, so the knees are going backward and then your hips are going clockwise.”

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  45. “I said, wow. And then so the father said, you know, before that, it was only about, it's time to go to bed or it's time for dinner. And that's for 25 years. We didn't have any talk. Today, the boy is in the college. The boy reads books. The boy writes. And he also, I work with his mind with poetry. So every time when he comes, he resides one poem. And then I analyze the poem to see if he's getting, if his logic works. Now we have third time already with the book. And his intelligence, his way of capturing the meaning of the intelligence. So much within one year he's almost like kind of a normal person to talk, to have fun, to enjoy, you know, interact and so on. So now we are talking about a girlfriend.”

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  46. “And I didn't know how to relate to it. So, what does it mean? I said, oh, because he was always sleeping. And today, when we drove, he noticed a car. I said, really? Okay, so I asked Ajan, what was the car? Oh, I don't know. So I asked him, okay, next week, see the car and tell me what car it was. So he came back. Did you see a car? Yes. What was it? Prius. Okay. So next week, I ask him about the car and who was the driver. How old was the driver? Driving license. And he started really remembering more and more, more, more, more things, right? And his energy was better and he started talking about one year after, the father said, we had conversion. First time in our life.”

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  47. “And every inch when he gets, I started from six inches, we have special dinner. So it's really special something. He loves it. You know, it's like this celebration. So we need to celebrate and every interest of celebration. And he jumped on 11 inches about two months ago. So now he's working on 12 inches. There are some changes on the way. Interesting, you know, like one day after half a year when I train him, his father said. He spoke to me in the car.”

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  48. “So I said, okay, so the brain has certain situations that when we load it up, he's open to progress and progress is going to be fast. So I ask father to come and watch it. So now it's one year and a half. The boy presses 144 pounds So I'm bringing him almost to the, and he is about 160 pounds. So I'm bringing him almost to the place where normal people are. He's quoting 160 pounds. So he couldn't really jump on he couldn't detach himself from the floor at all, even one inch jump. So now he jumps on 11 inches.”

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  49. “Whether he came here, he barely waged. He didn't have energy to look at you for more than 30 seconds. He's never read a book. He's never watched a movie because he didn't have energy. Fell asleep right away. And so no energy at all. So when I went with him to the gym and I asked him to press 15 pounds bar, he couldn't lift that bar off the rack. I just wanted to just simply bench press. 15 pounds bar. He couldn't lift off the rack 15 pounds. And he's 25 year old. Yeah, much of a man. So he's very weak, very weak. So I took the bar away and put three pounds. So I told the father to go away for a walk and I work with him in the And so I did, he lifted three pounds. So I loaded up six. He lifted. So I loaded up 10. He lifted, brought back 15 pounds. He lifted. So loaded up for 18 pounds and he pressed it.”

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  50. “I trained the cerebral policy boy and he jumps on three inches back and forth. And when he lands back, He cannot bounce off the floor. So I teach him that bounce. And he has slow brain and that brain is not really not letting him to bounce off the floor right away. So if he is off a little bit, he will stop that. So I said, bust that. And again, all right. And that boy said, baste it. So we have this fun.”

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