How important is nutrition in powerlifting? | Topic Thunder

0:08 Yeah, get y'all with the yo yo. Welcome back to topic. Thunder Ah got him my debut. Yeah, some power one oh six hip hop radio. He's been waiting. We need to get all those. Yeah, they have all the corny ones, like the horn, the Jamaican horn, a couple of shitty laughs the nineties. Those would be good or just like any snippets like we could do that easily. Yeah, you get like Kanye saying some crazy ship and just put him on rip. You know, we got turntables in the back. See you guys just mixing our voices. I saw by a quick Sandi. I sawd them right before we opened the gym.

0:52 I should have brought him in here, but we didn't have the gym yet. Cop love that ky buzzing down fresh mixes every morning. Didn't plug it into that things from eight thirty twelve to two cows, fresh mixing every day. Ain't no one working out. We got like we had a club now we had a club room is just like maure in the front. Yeah, that's what our whole stupid gym is. Already You ready for the question of the day. Did It's probably gonna start with the young kids, so incorporating a healthy lifestyle extends well beyond the working out right. Nutrition is the hardest part. It's a big part of if you actually want to see results in whatever you do. So you just want to like feel good, look better, Like that's the right. Most people go to the gym for that, and then as you mature, hopefully it you know, goes into extending and a functionality or whatever. But who knows what role does nutrition play with y'all? Because powerlifting in particular, I feel like a lot of people get into it because and people say this over and over day to watch fucking Goku or they wanted a body build, but they love food too much that the intricate the intertwining of like foodies and powerlifting is a super interesting thing that we've never really touched on. Yeah, it's the power of even be fat can eat right, Like Yeah, obviously just weigh classes, and as we're getting more competitive, more people pay attention to that, even the casuals because obviously the higher level lifters have to. But a lot of folks find this sport because they just like food so much, and then they find a way to make it work or they'll intertwine it a little bit until you get really good and then and then you kind of got to lock in and not. But even still there's kind of that foody background. How about y'all, Like you

2:23 all are pretty competitive and you guys are very into it. Does it say like, damn, I'm not gonna eat donuts for six months? Like does it play that much of a role or not. It just I just want to feel better. I think I want to feel like a kind of like an athlete, kind of how you used to do it. But back in the days, yeah, I mean I was locked the fucking yeah bit like I went I went five years, no drinks back in my food for five years straight. I don't do that. Yeah, like every meal, Like I went crazy because the top was like closer. Yeah. So not to say like I was a top powerlifter, but like I think on my second meet, I was top twenty in the year in the world. All Feds god, you know, Like and obviously the pool was small. There's only three thousand people powerlifting and now there's one hundred thousand people powerlifting, so and the FEDS were different, but we did have a website that would show that, and like my squad was top twenty. I think my total was top twenty five. I mean it's important for sure. I think I took it more when I needed to grow when I was like one ten, twig and then I went one seventy five and now you're one forty shit one ten.

3:28 Yeah, if I saw you, then holy it's like Dylan Daling one ten, No way, what is he? I think twenty five it's basically the same. Shit. It's crazy dog, I want to get bigger. And I think he like one two yeah, yeah, say once he five at least five. But like, I think I took it more serious when I there was the goal of like, oh I need to change my body once you kind of sit in it as a powerlift, you like, as long as you get protein and everything else. But even knowing that, I feels like yah, like back of the day, like yeah would slam protein shakes and ship but their actual knowledge on nutrition was so bad and they would just chug beers. We talked about a separate podcast where like having beers in the Yeah, like workouts was like kind of normal because it was kind of like a blue collar just got off work like hangout session strong. Yeah, kind of like that was kind of like the culture and it still is in some parts, but very common to you know, kind of like you would go and play golf, like power of the thing was more like golf than it was bodybuilding back in the day. Yeah, and well Highland Games for sure is golf with throwing things. Literally, yeah it has been yeah yeah strong Man. Yeah, strong Man. I just feel like probably still is.

4:42 Obviously the Brian Shaw isn't doing that, but any mid level guy is, and and then the top guys and strong men probably were back in the day. Strongman is the new It's funniest because it is the newest sport out of them all, you know. In the eighties, like it literally it wasn't such thing. It was just like a have you guys watched those the seventies and eighties strong man where you should? It's literally like not Arnold but Frankel Colombo bodybuilder. Yeah, offensive lineman from the Chicago Bears. Another lineman just a big fuck like a bouncer. You know. It's like just random dudes and then they just make them go do random shit. It was kind of like early days MMA, like a WWE wrestler, Yeah, exactly, shit like that. Yeah, you just grab big fuck, say all right, which big fuck is the biggest of fucks? I like that. Yeah, No, it was cool. It was almost cooler than now because no one was specialized. And that's why like early UFC Pride, early MMA at school is like, all right, we have one hundred and eighty pound like karate, we have one hundred and ninety pounds jiu jitsu, and we have a two hundred and twenty pound boxer who would actually whoop ass. Yeah, and you find out who's the biggest ass whooper yeah, yeah, and you're never gonna replicate that, right, yeah, because everyone's like not as specialized anymore, and then we already know, like it's obviously more dangerous as well, But it was kind of fun because now, yeah, I feel like on any level, like even the intermediate powerlift for body, they're strong man knows about nutrition is locked in at least somewhat, Like you even said, like

6:12 I'm not like Dane, I was like, but I get my protein, yeah, because like everyone's doing that. There's always like nah, not everyone, not even people don't even people don't even track their protein. I don't know if they track it, but they have the knowledge to do it. They know that they need protein and they know they need about a gram per body. Wait, sure the execution has more to do with if you're successful or not. Yeah, yeah, well that's why not everyone's jacked. But people are on a program which wasn't a thing. People are. We're always watching the craziest h shut of my boy. Train Wrecks is the biggest like podcast on live streaming. Who had me on multiple years ago and his coach was talking about Windler's five three one and this guy works in tech marketing way lateral Wendler's five three one was like, I mean, we've had dinner with Wendler, Like Jim knows Wendler like that. That's very niche, a niche.

6:59 He's a west side lifter throwback, Yeah, he's a west side lifter. Like it's so different, and so for that to be mainstay knowledge, I guess My point is the core knowledge of anyone in our space is way elevated then back then, yeah, and way elevated even to the norm pop. You know, I dare say the knowledge is up, but the intensity and the effort is down. Yeah maybe maybe, but back then there's fucks around too, you know, I think there's around. But we were in the strongest gym on the planet, the most popular gym on the planet, and we had and half the team was still pieces of shit that didn't work out hard, didn't eat, didn't you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, we had, you know, five guys that are squad one thousand pounds and two or three guys that are all time world record holders, and a lot of guys you know, everyone's dead lifting six hundred seven hundred pounds, and yeah, always a side that trained with us or around us that didn't do shit. Yeah, it's always like that.

7:54 I think it's always like that. So everything's somewhat normally distributed, even in an environment that's supposed to be elevated. You know. Yeah, they still had the guts to show up to the like hardcore gyms or whatever. Now everyone's been into like a warehouse crossing nostalgym. But back then, I mean, I have stories. I've probably told them podcasts the gym, but maybe you guys didn't know where super training was in this building. And I would drive around the block contemplating. I obviously have anxiety issues too, but I would drive around the block multiple times to see if I'm even gonna go step foot in there. I can remember hearing that for like six months, not on just the first day, the first day for sure, but multiple times I didn't see enough cars They're like, well I don't want to go in yet. I would circle, you know. And I have that instance a lot of times in my life. How you know gas was cheap, That's how you know I got mental issues. Mental issues are beyond gas price.

8:48 I had a four cylinder at the time where I ain't driving around no block about yeah, five dollar gall on the park up in the park now off driving around though it was forciately it was the GTI no matter. So I had that, And before I stepped foot in the building, I had a five hundred pounds squad and a five fifty dead looks damn okay, right, and you're still still scared. Yeah, let alone. Some fucks would just walk right in. Some ship heads, no, even in our day, they would walk right in, not even think about it. Pull three fifteen, go chuck beers, be fat, never show up whatever, you know what I mean? Yeah, I think's right. The Bell curve is always, It's always, It's just different it's always there different environment that is supposed to be elevated. We had a guy in here before you, somebody that I still it's still on Facebook. I know what he's doing whatever.

9:43 He moved to UH to Chicago, and he was like, he looked like he was in pretty good shape, but he was not strong, like at all. It was astonishing how not strong he was. For somebody who had his you know, as much lean muscle as this guy. He just said, it's like, what the hell, He's a lot stronger now and he's like he's a physique competitor and ship whatever he found out he found he's like, I can't live. I gotta go long sports. I gotta go on and looks because I can't get there on strength. Yeah, but it was I don't know, there were a lot of there were a lot of folks who just didn't who just were not that strong. I was never, you know, even closer to being in the mid level of strength in that group.

10:31 But I was also old, and so I said fuck it a lot. But it was always astonishing when someone who was looked like they could possibly have been strong where they were at least big and there's nothing you know, like I can't bench press two plates. Like now we're in the look smaller small yeah, yeah but even still Yeah, it's coin flip. It's all Bill Kirvey, that's true, all right, all right? Instagram, Matt unders oh gi plug all of them? You have six? I literally got two. I got two. What's the difference between the two of them? On post videos vlogs? Another one branding branding, branding, branding. I was just hoping that like one of them was like mostly you know, half naked shots and other wars. One is, yeah, but booty naked shots.

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