Are top powerlifters ever at 100% when then compete?

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How often are professional powerlifters, which
is an a thing physical health.

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I feel like I'm always battling some
sort of strain or injury and discomfort.

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So it is unrealistic think that one
should be competing at one hundred percent all

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the time. Oh are you kidding? We're all hurt, but they're lying.

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Huh, they're all lying? Oh
my god, ask a. I

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won't name names A powerlift physical enough
physical no physical therapists who works with a

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bunch of powerlifters because they the ones
that are um working with powerlifters just know

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that they're also high level lifters because
well they need to invest in physical therapy.

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Good. But um, it's funny
when I heard from the physical therapist

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I've worked with that there are people
who are competing at these high level meets

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like Worlds or IP for whatever,
um, who are injured, but they'll

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talk about on social media as if
they're not. Yeah, a little bit

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of a little bit of gamemanship,
which I don't mind. Strategy, it's

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self convincing. Right, you can't
walk around all day and be like my

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ankle, my ankle, my ankle, because then you're gonna be a fucked

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well right, you got to push
through. There's a time in place obviously

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to fix it. And then I
think a big part of that too is

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the group is like split half and
half to me of people that like had

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played sports and know what being beat
up is and then people that they're like

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almost many hypochondriacts. It happens in
the gym all the time. All the

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time. People are asking me like, hey, Mike, what do you

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do with the slip disc. I
said, well, everyone has a slip

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disc. How do you know you
have one? He's like, my down,

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I have back pain. I'm like
okay, well, like do you

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have back pain or do you have
back discomfort? Or does something not feel

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normal because you just try to lift
four hundred pounds off the ground for the

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first yeah, right, like,
yes, you're going to have discomfort.

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They're finally challenging themselves at something and
they think that everything is wrong when they're

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uncomfortable. And I was telling I
mean I have some back pain right now

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or whatever. Oh, here we
go, I know right. Well,

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I was just talking about it,
like, oh, it's been bothering from

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more than two weeks. You just
want to get it checked to see what

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the issue is. Even what you
just said there is wise though, is

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it the I pain? And then
what is that pain scale on one to

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ten? And has it lasted two
to three weeks? How consistent is it?

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And yeah, if it's above like
a five to ten on the pain

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scale and it's been over two or
three weeks, it's not getting better.

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Let's try to look at it.
And it's beyond muscle soreness, yes,

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yeah, And if it's below a
five or even longer. If any of

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those factors don't make lifting, Yeah, I'm still I'm still lifting every time

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I get hurt or there's some pain
or discomfort them dealing with. And my

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coach has kind of taught me this
too. It's like, we are going

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to continue to train as specific as
we can without exacerbating it, but there

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can be some uncomfortability and we've got
to work through some sort of it.

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We're not looking for zero at all. It never happened. We will work

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through these movements and kind of like
part of it is training your brain to

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like go through these ranges of motion
and be like, oh, we are

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safe in this range. There is
some uncomfortability and that's okay. You don't

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want it to exceed maybe a pain
score of a four, you know,

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like you don't want to push it
too hard, but you do want to

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continue moving. Yep. I mentioned
the uncomfortability in my back and then one

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of the kids are like, oh, you might have a herniated disk.

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I'm like, why are you telling
me this? Yeah, what the do

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you know? Like, what the
fuck do you know? And like you

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he immediately some X rays don't even
pick it up right, And but he

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that's he immediately went to that like
extreme and even that's not that extreme,

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right, I think that. I
think in America year olds, fifty percent

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of people will have a disc out
of place pretty much. Anybody who goes

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in and gets like a comprehensive scan, like a big MR or whatever,

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you're gonna see all kind of shit
that's gonna show I didn't want to see,

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never felt, you know. Yeah, and if you know about it,

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then suddenly it's in your head and
I'm trying to work through it.

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No, that's good advice. That's
a good advice. I think that's the

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biggest thing. Is the other thing
too, with these two groups that I

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have in my head, And obviously
it's generalization, but like there's a huge

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difference between having pain, feeling discomfort
and having an injury. An injury is

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going to prevent you from doing something, and in a real injury, even

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your back, I wouldn't say it's
an injury. He means you probably do

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have to take time off. Yes, did do you have do you have

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a fracture? Do you have a
something strained? And everyone's saying, oh,

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I have a strain to this and
that strain. Things are have to

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be diagnosed. You don't just walk
around say you got the beatus. You

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got to be diagnosed with diabetes.
Yes, I had a I schedule an

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employment. She just meet the doctor
to see what mostly emotionally and mentally yeah,

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yeah, and then um, she
was asking me questions about the pain

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and she was like, UM,
how long? What does it feel like?

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Is is there an injury? And
I said, I don't know.

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I don't know what this is.
This might be an injury, but I

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didn't say yes. I could have
been like yeah, I'm definitely injured right

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now, but I don't mean yeah, I don't know that for sure.

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I don't. I don't think this
is a pain because I've been able to

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Um, it isn't affecting on a
daily basis. I still walks it like

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sleep fine. So they're just I
don't know, don't over exaggerate things.

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And the discomfort is honestly less than
if you're on the couch all day for

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a year. Your back's gonna hurt
more doing that, Like yeah, things

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just shoving steel into your traps,
lifting weight you've never lifted before, but

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once you will like feel these um
types of pains. They don't want to

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move the number one thing you probably
should do. They want to freeze.

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Yeah, it's kind of a disincentive
when you when you have pain. It's

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like that's why you use use pain
for you know, training, I don't

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know, psychological psyops kind of stuff
where you you don't want somebody to think

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about something or you want them to
do overgular thing you're using, you know,

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pain, water boarding, Yeah,
or water boarding. Yes, wasn't

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really going to go to waterboarding on
a Friday morning, but that's fine.

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You're talking about getting information out of
people. Yeah, water boarding. Okay,

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well you can just ask me took
a dark turn. Well, speaking

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of dark turns, throw out one
more thing though, like how often are

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top competitors um one hundred percent mentally
going into a meet competitors more likely?

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Yeah, yeah, I think so, because if you're at the actual top,

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I think there's some that are just
physically gifted and just rise up there.

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But most people have grind pretty good, like even Russ. You know,

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everyone looks at as like the golden
Boy, like Russ is genetically very

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gifted, but he's done this longer
than most people at the top two years

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and he's been training his whole life, so he's been through the ups and

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downs. And even Abby's starting to
get there. She's still on the edge

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of new right like four or five
years and she's pushing to the top.

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Yeah where even last week I heard
you talk about like being frustrated with how

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the weights are moving and stuff.
But she's used to that by now,

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so she knows that Friday is going
to be better, Monday might be good,

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and it's going to go that way. So I think it gets worse

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when you're at the top because you're
more eyes on you. I'm no longer

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the underdog because now like I kind
of stepped out into maybe some light after

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last year's Nationals, Like more people
know about me. But I don't like

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that because if it's pressure on me, expectation when things aren't going well,

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it's like for me, I used
to be like, oh, it's okay,

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whatever, doesn't really matter, no
one's expecting anything of me. But

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now people are, and so it
almost um, even though I don't want

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to think of it this way,
like it makes me feel worse about it.

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Um, like I'm going to fail
what people are expecting to point people

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when things aren't going well and it's
not just about me anymore. It's about

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me doing this for others in the
community and people who do believe in me.

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So it expands into that. You
know what, what do they say,

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pressures of privilege? Yeah, um, so it almost hurts more when

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things aren't good. Yeah, but
it really does. That doesn't mean like

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your mentals are worse. That just
means that there's more on the line.

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It feels like. But I think
I think you know, the more that

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comes with that, it'll divide the
power comes shut up, Uncle Ben,

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be like when they Yeah, but
because if you be gone, those those

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people that still time Mike, those
people that come to that road, they'll

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quit, they'll fall off, or
they'll perform worse. You've already proven that

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you're here and you've performed better.
Like you said, I'm still I'm still

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early on you are you are?
It's still time for me. But people

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break on the way up. I
think, you know, if it's an

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act, if you're actually the elite, yeah, yeah, maybe so.

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Yeah, I've never I've never dealt
with an elite athlete in any sport.

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Not that doesn't mean that they're fucking
rocks, solid contents. They don't don't

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constantly question. It's the issue of
can you perform after you've questioned on the

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day. On the day they do
it, because if if, if do

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it. Yeah, we're not talking
about them, right, that's true.

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Yeah, they're not top anymore.
Not that they don't have elite or negative

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days, negative mindset, negative talk. That's all one hundred percent there,

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But it's maybe even actually more there. It's it's about resilience, and it's

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how they react to it. They
react to it by working harder, where

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other people react to it by it. It's really cliche, but I've learned

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now firsthand. Not just like because
people say, um, when you quit,

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that's when you lose, but that's
really like how it feels because you've

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been hanging out with the champion off. No, it's because I've wanted to

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quit so many times, like I
and then I want to cry. I

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mean I do cry. I cry
about it, and I want to complain

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and everything. But then then you
show up tomorrow and then I show it

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when and I literally tell myself,
I don't have an option, Like you're

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gonna do it anyway. You're either
elite or you're insane. Yeah, it

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doesn't Yeah, It doesn't matter how
I feel about it right now. I

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could I could hate doing this,
but I know I'm gonna I'm going to

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put in the work regardless on the
days that I need to. Um.

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So, yeah, you really do
lose when is that? It's a it's

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a long game because people will quit
along the way. You just the out,

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I'll last him, me last man
standing. Yeah, and even not

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the elite. You know, going
back to the question, wrap it up,

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you're gonna feel a little beat up
going into a meat. Something's not

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gonna feel a hundred percent. You're
RASD, you're back, you're hammy,

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you're adduct or something. How you
Yeah, yeah, something's gonna up.

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It is. And then again going
to that extreme if you if you're five

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to six, seven, eight out
of ten out of pain for two or

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three weeks, yeah, maybe that's
when we don't compete or go to a

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PT or something. And I think
too that, um, this is purely

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anecdotal, but the number of people
that I have seen and I felt this

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myself, where you had a great
training cycle and you go into the ask

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meat and you just don't even know
why, but it's it's it seems relatively

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common. It's like you didn't face
adversity during the during the training cycle.

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Over Overly confidently confident going into the
meat, not even necessarily with a tempt

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selection, just like overly confident on
the whole day. Is performance focused or

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locked in? I mean that's also
another thing that keeps you elite, elite

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and not right. If you're up
ten one in a baseball game, you

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start slacking off, throwing seventy miles
per hour, about to get rocked quick,

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for sure, but the elite guys
are still throwing daggers. Yeah.

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Training psychology, it's a very interesting
topic. Yeah, it's very new too.

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