Lift to the same standard or don’t compare your lifts? | Topic Thunder

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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Topics
Thunder host Solom Mike and I'm here surrounded

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by Miss Nurse Nano and the Game
Day Boys, and today Joe's got our

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question. Yeah. So over on
TikTok, one of my people ask me

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or basically have this hot take what
he said. You can lift however way

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you want, But the moment you
start comparing your strength to somebody else,

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everybody needs to add here to a
standard. I'm in, what are our

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thoughts on that? I'm so like, so like the argument you the argument

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you hear on and I see this
on TikTok all the time, is oh,

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it's my personal record, you know, it's so I can lift to

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whatever whatever standard I want. And
the counter argument is just like, okay,

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well yeah, that's that's fine.
But like, if you're gonna say

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you're as strong as me, you
you you need to be able to lift

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in the same way. I would
agree with that. I think I think

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you. I even had a like
conversation of this off air, where as

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long as you're just not comparing and
you're not claiming records and you're not claiming

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all this stuff because that is a
sport We can't just go to the park

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and I go ten for ten for
the free throw line and say I'm a

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better shooter than Ray Allen. Right, Like, that's just not cool.

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That doesn't work, Like that has
no logic and called a world record.

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Yeah yeah, right, but people
do do that. But if you want

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to smash weights, get hyped and
hit your deadlift, hitch your deadlift in

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the gym, and you're not comparing. You can compare in your own brain,

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but you're not publicly making weird statements. I don't give a fuck what

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you do. Like, have fun, enjoy that, create content. I

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also don't hate to take like lifting
for cloud like if I want to like,

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I think if you're extrinsically motivated that
way, you're not going to make

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it very far. But if you
like, we all like post because I

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want people to like watch. I
don't post for people not to watch.

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I don't put we haven't put hundreds
of thousands of dollars into our media kit

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for people not to listen. So
like, but we're intrinsically motivated because we

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want to build community. We want
to help people, right, so,

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and that's how we've done it for
ten years. I think you'll burn out

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otherwise. But yeah, it doesn't
bug me at all. I think I

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don't know, Like, yeah,
it's only ever gonna bug me when somebody

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is just like, oh, I'm
I'm stronger than you, and I see

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their their ass flying off the bench. You know, it's just like,

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oh, I bench pressed through fifteen? Do you really? Do you really

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bench press three fifteen if you're hip
thrusting it off your chest? I don't

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know what if he doesn't say I'm
stronger than you and just said, man,

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I'm still three fifteen today. Sure, yeah, and that's and that's

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cool, that's awesome. But yeah, it's the moment when people get all

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like up in arms about just like, oh, I'm so much stronger than

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you. And it's just like if
you're squatting, Like if you're half squatting

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and saying that you you, you
know, squat you know, fifty more

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pounds than me, that like that's
just not the same thing. Even being

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stronger. Yeah, there's a ton
of people. Yeah, even being stronger.

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I think it's kind of a weird
take, Like you bench press more

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than me, Nico is in the
barbe game way stronger than me. But

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I punked his ass and didn't even
blink. Yesterday when you got you in

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a headlock and you're crying, you're
you're eating your own knee, Can you

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go to the passapin? I would
like I would try to dat, you

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know, even farm like DAPT.
The moment I got to DAP moment puts

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in a freaking possum pin. I'm
like, okay, now we're just backshack.

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Ever, no, no, no, no, no no, you're

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gonna out squat me. You're gonna
out that, You're gonna fight me.

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I got real strength. I'm stronger
than him, and he's a way better

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powerlifter than me. I mean,
yeah, again that is kind of like

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you know what I mean, but
strength right, Like you're a good you're

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a better powerlifter. Yeah, yeah, it's just like I don't know,

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I don't think like I don't think
everybody has to lift to the exact same

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standard, is it? But yeah, if you're if you're gonna be that

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guy, you gotta you gotta at
least be able to like dunk your squats.

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Really that there's there's actually a good
handful of people, even people who

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don't even like lift will still be
like oh, like, I'm definitely stronger

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than this person. I'm like,
how can you compare when you don't even

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like there's a good amount of people
who do who'll be like I could do

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that, do it? Yeah,
exactly, they don't. They don't back

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it up. Why what do you
think? It's so cringe to me?

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I'm like, why why are we
comparing? Its? Just like do your

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own thing, bro, you know, like, I don't know, why

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do you care about someone who lifts
more on TikTok than you? Like,

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Oh, I don't. I'm saying
I'm not saying you're taking the opposite You're

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taking the opposite point. Like if
they do that, we still shouldn't care.

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Yeah, I just honestly, I
just think like that kind of like

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if you want that attention towards social
media, it's just like that is just

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like what are you trying to prove
a point? Like what what kind of

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audience? Like what do you want
audience to know or feel about you?

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I don't disagree with that either,
And I've always tried to take the high

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road and everything I do because obviously, like I was throwing out a big

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dead lists on the internet when a
lot of people weren't posting stuff. So

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I got that a lot, you
know, like comparison and saying they're stronger

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than me and whatever, and like
I've did it in front of officials,

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I did it on plates. I
know who I am. I know who

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I am, not um And I
would never snap back like because I just

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same idea, Like I just didn't
care, and I got I got I

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got it from lifter or lifters.
I didn't even get it from like internet

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folk, you know, I would
get it from lift or lifts and I

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was just like, well, yeah, I just don't really care. Cure.

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Yeah, I know what I'm capable
of. I don't know what I'm

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not capable of. Do you get
that you think it's worse? Here here's

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the hot take. Do you think
it's worse or better with men and women?

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I personally well in powerlifting. I
feel like men are very comparable and

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I feel like the men are obviously
more competitive because it's the gym, like

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you know, guys, testosterone,
all of those. Yeah, all the

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women like I feel like there's really
they're like so unproblematic and powerlifting the women's

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community is so much better than Yeah, I might agree, I might disagree

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where the competitiveness. I think a
lot of chicks are very competitive, but

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they look inside a lot better.
I don't think there is caddy in the

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sport. For sure, guys are
caddier in the sport, but uh,

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flame me all you want, I
do think outside out of it, chicks

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are probably caddier, a little more
competitive and weirder. I don't know,

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it's just because like there's you see
so much gama on social media between all

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the guys, Like there's always like
something new almost every single month, but

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all the top chicks are always hig
five in each other. Yeah, exactly,

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exactly due they were. They were
literally fist bumping each other. Are

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dope too, Yeah yeah, yeah, so they totally were. But I

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agree. Yeah, I don't know. I've personally never really even heard of

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like women causing problems and powerlifting.
I've probably only heard like one problem that

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was a couple of years ago when
that happened. Most are dudes. Yeah,

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the egos, the fragility, Yeah, it's definitely the egosity. Why

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is she looking at you when she
said that? I mean, like there's

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stuff that like Nico has gone into, but like it's just it's just random

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stuff like my fault. Yeah,
I mean, if you're in there,

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dude, you're I think I think
the final thing that I would say here

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is we all we all just just
lifting weights like it really, dude,

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were literally just lifting weights. Yeah, I'm close to that serious. Yeah,

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I mean I sort of agree with
the take that it's just like,

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yeah, you do need some kind
of standard of comparison, but like,

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at the same time, I don't
know, you don't need to be so

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but heard about it. It makes
more not that a context of a competition

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phrasing. All right, Nico,
where can people find you? You can

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find me on Instagram at Nico Floors
eighty three KG, and on YouTube at

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