What inspired you to lift? What keeps you lifting now? | Topic Thunder

0:09 Open it up, Open it up. Yeah, come on, Why weren't where welcome to what's his name? Uh? You who's in the morning? Do do do? Do? Do? Don Are you talking about that? What that was supposed to be? That's what made DJ horn and you sounded like a goat just got kicked it down? Do do? What's that? So we're knocking on the door because I was at the front door. He's trying to be from New York the door. Welcome to me. There's no way Pop smokes one hundred and forty pounds, maybe like ninety when you're below one fifty to eight, doesn't matter, dude, No one gives a ship.

1:00 You're one hundred and forty pounds? Want sixty with my Nike tackle? Nike? He text nothing that heavy. It's not even the heavy dog I know, But what sixty with my Nike tackle? He had the link in there New York. I mean, I've been there. Have you even been there? Yo? You ever been to the Bronx? Nah, he's from Brooklyn. I've never really been to Brooklyn, but I've been a Bronx. You never been to Brooklyn? You're lying, not for real? But I'm also from Brooklyn. You're from Country Day. Look at the Country Day Academy. Everyone. This kid's on the fucking poster. He's on the pamphlet. Kids on the fucking pamphlet. All Right, dude, this is kind of a basic batch question, but it would be good for y'all to like go into it, and there's like a second step to us. So what inspired your first fitness journey? But what has changed or what evolved over time with it? M Because again we we about it. But a lot of people are like, I want to be Goku, but then all of a sudden they are a world record holding powerlifters, Like that ain't the same? What the fuck? Yeah that ain't the same? You know, I don't know or say like, yeah, my high school girlfriend broke my heart, so I want to get back at her. But then now you're on stage being sea bomb Like those aren't related, Like you're not getting back at her oiled up in your man thong. You know that's not getting back at a girlfriend.

2:22 I mean it could be. No, the old girlfriend sees you oiled up in a man thong, like, dang, I missed out on that if I was too hand bitch, No, you think women date you based on your weight. That's how I know you're missing. Nah, because I'm one forty eight. You couldn't get to two forty bro two on five six frame, it's crazy. Yeah, that's weight bodybuilding. Five to six is what you're claiming. Yeah, no, oh, oh, that's everyone. Ain't nobody on the planet four or the five eight motherfuckers are five to five and the five six motherfuckers five four or five three. People think I'm a short r J bro y'all swim show. In my head, RJ is four really? Oh I hell no, five four. I call him out that you we'll measure you. I'll measure you on the b he he racked high four five four five, rack four or five. Yeah, I don't go by racket you nerd. Back to the question of what got us indefend and then what evolved. I think it's being sports. Always you're around some type of gym. We're not doing like the weight room stuff, but we're doing like bands, like the crossf anything. I actually feel like weight room in baseball was more popular at least in my generation growing up than basketball was.

3:39 Probably yeah, because it's kind of a mark with wire ship and then shout out to Bart. Being Asian, we always watched like Bart and g O, and then it probably didn't come to fruition until when I was like, all right, I'm now a washball player. I need some type of like maybe you were washed because he didn't let work out. No, I just threw out my arm and like I had other passions. You didn't work out? No, maybe okay, go tell that to everyone else. I got Tommy John, maybe you ain't working out. Maybe, oh Kyle, you heard it, you ain't working out. Maybe ship anyway, you never know. And I was like, Okay, I need something to do, and I recalled back to like ten year old memories of like oh yeah, Barton g O, let's go see what they were doing. And then it started like okay, I'm just gonna do these workouts I dated because they posted all the Yeah. I mean that's how That's how I found Bart. It was just his vog channel and they're just throwing workouts on his blood channel. Eighty percent of Asians in the gym, you just watch Barn and that gets you in there, and then it probably changes after that because it's like, oh, you get actually decently strong, you can go somewhere and then you start falling like Russ and everyone else. And then from there it just goes up because now it's like, oh, I take it too serious and you want to go somewhere with it. So just regular gym shit, just regular bro shit. And then a YouTube turned in over it turns you into a power YouTube being Asian, and YouTube turned to a new power after because of bar Kwond. There are a lot of them. Yeah, I think my store is similar baseball. And then uh, I just wanted to find something I have, like an itch, I a itch to like move. Uh so that went Jim, and then I found Bart You would you do? Just

5:13 google? Yeah? YouTube? Back then they were like like you look up lifting. Who's gonna pop up first? Bart Omar you he who should not be named? Just get a name? Whoever? Bark Bell? And like, uh who else was in back then? I can't even remember. It's probably it yeah within like that circle, I mean that's Husman, I guess yeah, tuning how dare depends the year. But like back then, like that got all of us, probably in our twenties, we're all gonna name up the same six to like ten people that was ingrained us back then and you guys are too ugly to follow Guzman, so he followed me and Bart they had just like food too much, honest honestly, Yeah, yeah, that would just chatter. So it was like all the other they're a little more relatable. Musman's always good, Ben Big. That was just kind of like, you know something else. I mean, I tried cutting, Like when I first started going into fitness, I tried cutting, Yeah, and I did not I yeah, cut I cut to first of all, because I was like one sixty's to everyone. Yeah. Yeah, because you think you think you're gonna look like that being you're like, oh I lost some weight. I was like I'm trying to get a six bag and then I was like, nah, this ain't fun. Yeah. And I found powerlifting early YouTube impressions. Yeah, it was the pioneers of YouTube, and that's why I get you into it. And again, having the athlete background, you're never I don't want to say never, but if you're a real athlete, you're always gonna want to be active in some type of way. Yeah.

6:33 I do think it's weird to be inspired to like step on stage. It's like bodybuilding training is just as hard, if not hard, but like what you see or what like inspires those folks, like that final the final product of like someone hitting a really hard deadlift, like for you know, like that's just so different than being on stage. Yeah, you know, like a different type of competition. Yeah, And and even bodybuilders, very few I've talked to or watched interviews or any of their done interviews are like, yeah, I can't wait to like step on stage. It's more like the gruel and prep and like they've probably been doing it for such like a long time, even the beginners though, I think, yeah, like maybe some of the girls because it is like depending like bikini is a little bit more of a beauty pageant. You have a certain walk and like freestyle type stuff like bodybuilders, I feel like, yeah, they want to get shredded, but people don't want to. Like stepping on stage isn't like cool.

7:28 Yeah, I don't think a lot of people think it's that cool, Like it's not the number one goal. Yeah, that's like that's like the end destination to show what your work and then but then't even them they'll do like photo shoots afterwards in the gym or somewhere else, Like that's all like for the history of it. But I don't know that many people that are like, yeah, I want to like shave tan and stand in a speedo. That just sounds so weird. Yeah, And even if you're bill for it and like bodybuilding, I think very few like that's that's not the driver. I mean, like, I lifted in high school and then kind of sporadically after that. But I was going through some stuff when I was moving my office around at home and I found a like cardiac profile thing I had done when I was twenty five, done by a hospital. I was one hundred and fifty four pounds, fourteen and a half percent body fat, and I looked like shit, I mean really, I mean I was, you know, I was. I was lifting on my own and I wasn't like at home, yeah, and it wasn't going to a gym or anything like that.

8:33 I don't think I really got inspired until my late thirties after that, And not that I didn't lift, but I just didn't have the consistency. And then and then I got exposed to power lifting really by watching him. The first my first experience with power listening was watching a meet. And I think I've talked about this before just how encouraging everybody was and how you know, how positive andronment was. Little did I know that the behind the scenes of powerlifting is not always so positive. Yeah, I think that's anywhere though. You can the business, you know, yeah, eating the business side of things, you get shitters. But that was you know, it was forty when that happened, So yeah, yeah, a little different path.

9:16 I do think a lot of people Obviously we have a young crowd here and powerlifting is cool because like YouTube and social media. But I think generally speaking, people don't really find the gym until their thirties consistently, maybe even forties, just because you are invincible in your twenties. So if you're getting drunk every weekend, eating bullshit, you couel see like a lot of people still look good and they still like generally feel good because they don't know how bad it feels. Then they reach the thirties and you're still drinking and eating like that, you're not gonna feel good. Like even me, you know, I just had a donut, like I'll I swear to God, I'll feel that tomorrow. I'll burp it later today. You make that you make that face dude, I'm a well oiled machine. Bro, then you ain't feel a donut. No, you will, you will, you will. Well, all I eat is meat, and then you're down. You're down right now. So yeah, no, in general, Bro, I'm telling you, if you were eating I eat, I've you didn't hear, Bro.

10:01 I tracked my food from age twenty to twenty five, everything that went in my mouth and didn't have a beer. Like I know what it feels to feel good because I've done it so long. I know what it feels to feel bad. It's different if you eat McDonald's all day, you're not going to know. True. Even if you eat McDonald's like semi regularly, you're not gonna know. We offer this man food on Friday. He said, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's different. Yeah, it's different now because you just don't know. And then obviously yeah, I got into it. Similar story to everyone just playing sports my whole life. I mean, I was thinking about it. I've lifted, Like, first time I bench press was in seventh grade with the program, with the plan, with the strength coach. You know, do you remember the first time you bench pressed? I think I was in high school. I think it was I think high school is normal for that's probably seventhih grade, four year. They said it was like pe class. Yeah, I probably because everybody else was doing a plate and they're like, yo, you need to try a plate mine. Yeah ninety ass ah. I think I ran up like one thirty.

10:56 Oh, no, one sixty or something like that. Best match in high school. Yeah, that's pretty good. I refused the bench my high school, my highest school out bench. Ogi. No, I was like, I bench to seventy five. I was like one ninety pounds, damn. And as a senior, No, this is my first time I tried to. But no, I'm not saying the first time I ever benched. It was two seventy five. Oh, I was saying high school. Afterg got folded, I never touched a bench till I was twenty one. That's why your best and he had scared. He's got he's got internal defense. With any playing horizontal, you would talking about the other episode driving around the fucking place, that's him. Yeah, around the bench around. I never was deadless. Every day, I said, I just did it. I don't raise it like baseball. All you did was shoulders, Yeah, shoulders like legs. I don't know. I'm telling you the nineties baseball because all the guys I grew up with some decent baseball players, although our high school team was never that great, Like we had some guys playing some minor and my uh high school basketball coach played in minor league baseball, so it's around you a good amount A lot of those guys lifted, lifted. I think that was that era. Meyer was more like resistance training and explosive. Yeah, yeah, there was a weird functional we did, like space what we were functional. Yeah, when I started coaching, it was kind of that era. Probably you being in high school and was a bunch of pussy shit, such of misinformation. For sure. You're taking an athletic fifteen year old kid an athletic one, and you're gonna have them do ladder drills all day.

12:16 That's not getting them better. That little fuck's so good at ladder drills. That makes no sense. There's one hundred and ten pound baseball player whose footwork is fine, and now he goes to baseball, there's a bunch of footwork and catching. Then you have him going to a gym and he's gonna do a bunch of footwork on a ladder drill. Why buzzer. Now, that's why it doesn't make sense. Yeah, thank you. No. All that shit in that era was when I came up in strength and conditioning, when I was coaching a bunch of kids and college athletes, pro athletes, that's what was going on. It was a bunch of weird hand eye coordination shit with a bunch of kids. That's the same idea as a lader drill. That's all they were doing. You know, Like Nike came out with the whole line and they're like opening gyms at the time. They shut down soon after, but they're doing like an affiliate system kind of like CrossFit from like two thousand and seven to twenty fifteen, and it was so much trash when they had like the games the lateral direction. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Those fun though. Yeah, sure it's fun, and yeah you want to have some fun, but like, what are you doing in a baseball field the exact same thing. We did a lot of rotational weight throwing a lot of medicine balls. Yeah, medicine balls are fine. Yeah, medicine balls. Yeah, we could tell. You can talk club away, dude, you need to go bench press obviously does only fans Matt just go og I O G. I. Well, if I say, OK, you have these people be like That's why I just said O G I because you even said it spelled it weird. I said, oh yeah, I didn't know I know your last name until I got your paperwork. I swear

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