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Don't get injured. Shoulder injury, ruined chest injury, tear pack or bicep tear, bro. It happens all the time. The thing that discombobulates my mind is these videos of people that clearly are lifting more weight than they should. They get injured, then it's a whole real montage of Rocky of them going back and making a comeback just to lift the same weight.
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B
All right, guys, got Mr. Belmar, Nate back on the show. Good to be back. Been about eight months.
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A
It has.
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B
What's. What's changed since the last episode for you?
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A
A lot changed. I've actually been training less in terms of hypertrophy and fasting more. Walking more, basically. Yeah. Kind of split testing different methodologies, tactics and sequences to get lean. Specifically lean. Not putting on so much size without training. Because I feel like there's a law of diminishing returns. Like how many times you have to go to the gym to get the results that you want. Right. If you really think about it, most guys, at least just based on sheer observation, when I go to the gym, they go and they half asset, bro. They don't train till failure. Then they go chit chat, and then the next day they can go again and train. Why? Because they haven't really push themselves to failure. The idea is train so hard in a manner that you don't get injured, but you still hit that limit as to where you can rest the next few days, focus on your business, focus on relationships, go pick up a book, study. It's not always I can't go travel, I can't go on a vacation because there's no gym. So one thing is to say it, another thing is to try to apply it and see if there's results. So right now I'm on the skinnier side frame, but definitely looking lean and feeling good, bro.
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B
Yeah, you look way leaner than last time. You probably lost like 15 pounds.
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A
Yeah, well, the last time I saw you, that's when I did the fat experiment. I was like going from the fat to shreds the second time without that much training. So that's why I was in like, super.
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B
You're both. Yeah, you were like £200 back to plus, bro.
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A
Like 2:20, 2:20. No, but when I got. When I saw, you know, I was like 195.
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B
Okay. What are you.
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A
Right now I'm at 180, but I think ideal weight 190. But even then, bro, it's always a give and a take. I realized when I start training, more hypertrophy, eating more, more money, more Time in the gym and. And then you also start losing mobility. So it's a give and a take. So it's kind of like if I'm going to train more, build more muscle, I'm going to also have to stretch more to kind of like mitigate because I'm not going to do the whole gym, bro. I less can't go through a door. You know what I'm saying?
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B
Yeah. So you believe as a man flexibility is important?
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A
I believe it. And so do women believe it in bed. Yeah. Seriously, I'm being dead serious. I love it. Yeah.
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B
Yeah. Because some guys see it as gay or whatever, but I mean, I'm an athlete.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Like I want to be the best basketball player I can. And flexibility is important for not getting injured.
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A
Not getting injured and just like not being a bot, not being an NPC that's obsessed with bigorexia. It's never enough. I gotta get bigger and bigger and bigger. Max out on one stat and then not focus on the rest of things because it's not so flashy, it's not so cool. But let me tell you, I prefer being ripped, shredded, 7,080, doing the splits, being able to pick up my grandchildren, Having a holistic approach to life. Not obsessed with the location. And the blueprint's there, dude. The blueprints there. Big physique, a lot of hypertrophy. Not only does it steal mitochondrial density, but it also. The blueprint's there. You see bodybuilders, 50, 60. Is that a physique you want? I can tell you, bro, the rebound effect is there. And you can see it.
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B
You can see it. People are dropping dead at that age. If they're a bodybuilder, if they're lucky.
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A
And if, if they don't drop dead, then they have a terrible physique.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Cuz all the muscles deflate, start sagging. But if you had more of a tone body, it'd be easier to keep.
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B
Yeah, it's sad, dude. Those guys can't even scratch their own back.
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A
Can't pop a pimple, can't do anything, bro.
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B
It's crazy. It's like going 99 strength and runescape, but no attack, nothing else. You're just going to start missing, bro.
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A
It's, it's. It's like Bruce Lee says, focusing on the finger and not all the heavenly glory, bro. Heavenly glory is the full stats, the full capability of the human spectrum. But if you're only focused and obsessed with hypertrophy, building big muscles, that's not health, bro.
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B
Yeah, that's why they're in there five, six days a week too.
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A
And one thing is, if you're a bodybuilder, professional bodybuilding, you're trying to make a career out of it. But if we're being realistic, time is the most valuable asset, bro. So if you can learn how to start stacking things combined like, dude, when I train sun cycle, I'll be outside grounding, getting sun, listening to bands, while I'm listening to podcasts, while I'm listening to an audiobook. It's like trying to make the most of your time, bro. Yeah, and that's my whole thing, bro. It's like trying to like pursue the fitness endeavor, the, the fitness lifestyle with a different approach, bro.
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A
Like, think outside the box, bro.
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B
I mean, if everyone's doing it, it's usually a bad sign.
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A
If Everybody's doing it. 90% of people, 90% of results, average training, average results, on average training, on average results, bro.
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B
Absolutely. You had one video I saw about getting taller.
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C
Is that possible?
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B
When you're an adult?
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A
It is possible. Luke's actually taller than me. Last time I linked up with him because I didn't linked up. We took a few months off. He was side questing when we played. When we went to go watch the Argentina game against Colombia, I was taller than him, bro. For like half an inch. An inch. When we linked up, he was taller than me.
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B
Damn.
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A
He'd been doing a few stretches. Everything like, dang it. He's like, yeah. And I didn't want to admit it, but he. We put. We were side to side and we asked some ladies and he was an inch taller and he's been doing some stretches because now it's. People think it's like, oh, it's crazy. I'm like, is it crazy or is it the other side of the spectrum? Because one side of the spectrum is compression. You look at your parents, are they the same height they were when they were kids or in their teens or twenties? No. The blueprint's there. People are starting to hunch over. The. The spine's starting to compress. So if you're not doing anything to mitigate that, you just succumb to the subjective laws of entropy. Right. Being a man and degrading, degrading, degrading. And then you're only amplifying it with a bad lifestyle, sedentary lifestyle. So yeah, you can get taller by decompressing the spine by doing certain exercises.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But it's very hard to do that if you're always doing machine. Always hypertrophy. No. You look like a golden gram hanging.
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B
Off a pull up bar.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Is that a good one?
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A
I think that's great. So it's a progressive overload for that. Because I have a lot of Guys, snobs, they think they know it all. It's kind of like, bro, why are you gonna hang from a bar with your hands instead? Because I tell people hang with hooks, right? You grab a wrist, metal hook. Because the idea here is full decompression of the spine. The idea here is not to work on your grip strength. Because even if, hypothetically speaking, you had fantastic grip strength and you could isolate the strength only in the hands in like some magical way, being able to like let your spine loose while you're holding the bar with strength, it's very hard. I've tried it. I think it's more for grip strength. I think the smart idea here is full decompression of spine means completely letting go. So what I like doing is wrapping hooks around the bar, focusing on my. And just as I let the air go get into stretch. The problem is some people, if they don't have a strong spine or an agile spine, just the decompression itself hurts. So you kind of have to. It's like a progressive overload. I would probably start hanging first with my hands, then the hooks. And then the last variation is adding ankle weights. So I'll hang with the hooks 5, 10 minutes. Ankle weights 5 to 10 pounds on each decompression. So I'm breathing mobility. And that really helps, bro.
- [10:00]
C
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B
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A
I'M. I'm telling you, the way you train affects the way you look in terms of your aesthetics. If I train abdominals a certain way, if I only do compression exercise a certain way, I'll have a. I'll have a boxy torso based on the epigenetic program that I subjected my body to over months and months and months done. Like, it's, it's. It's. It's there. So it's like, what are you going to do now that you have the information to head yourself? You can start stretching. You can start decompressing from the spine. Because one thing is to. To talk about it. Oh, it's great. Or debate whether it works or not. And everything is for you to try it a couple months, see the results. But decompression as it comes. It goes, bro.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Like I said, Luke is taller than me right now.
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B
Crazy.
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A
And I'm kind of pissed off, so I'm going to do a little more stretching.
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C
Got to outgrow.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Do you think your physique's attainable at home workouts? You don't have a gym membership. Do you think that's attainable?
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A
100%. 100%. Because the first time I got shredded, I was in Puerto Rico. I was in the garage by myself with the mosquitoes. You know why?
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B
Why?
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A
Because I studied, bro. I did. I realized that my body, my mind couldn't be subjected to a location for my fitness. Right. I had the resources to go to the gym, but I'm like, no, I want to do it here. I want to. Because it was a mental thing, bro. Like being in the garage, putting in the reps, Putting when it's hot outside, middle of Puerto Rico. Good luck. Do that, bro. I want to see you middle of June, July, working out. It's hard, but it's super achievable, bro, because it's not a big physique. It's a toned, lean physique, heavily focused on mobility, heavily focused on longevity, and heavily focused on just practicality, bro. And you can definitely achieve it. My suggestion would be maybe get two weights, 15 pounds, 20 pounds, and then maybe some bands, and then you've got yourself a pretty good setup. I think there's nothing new under the sun. I think there's cycles and they repeat themselves. So if there's going to be another lockdown or shutdown. The first time that happened, a lot of people's fitness tanked.
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B
Yeah.
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A
The second time it happens Will you be ready or will it happen again.
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B
To you at that point, it's on you if it happens again.
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A
100.
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B
Yeah, I agree.
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A
It was a mental thing, bro. Like I legit wanted to work out in the garage, like with nothing. Because I'm like, I need to do this, bro. It's a lot easier. It's like, okay, I'm gonna go to the gym. You force yourself, you get there and you put in the work. People are looking at you, you kind of. But when nobody's looking at you, when you're training in the shadows, bro, that's where real grit's made, bro. Like 100.
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B
Yep. It's just you.
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A
It's just you, bro. It's just you. Like, who's gonna push you to that next rep? In the next rep and chips in the sweat equity bank.
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B
Were you doing cardio too or no?
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A
Zero cardio, bro.
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B
Wow.
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A
Only walking zone one, zone two training. I don't do cardio. I'll push. I'll like force myself to do hit training in terms of like sprints here and there. But that's about it, bro. And the main reason was I realized, hey, if I can tap into zone two, zone one training zone one throughout the whole day and zone two as the main focus of my cardio while I'm in a fasted state. Game changer, bro. And then when I did training, like body weight training, band training, Creatine hmb. The hero stack I sent you, bro. Build creatine hmb. HMB is a metabolite of leucine. Leucine helps with muscle protein synthesis. So combining creatine hmb. Right. If you. It's because it also tailors to a specific training style that you do. If you're not metabolically flexible, which means you could tap into the substrate of fat in carbohydrates just as well. Right. And you're basically a car burner. And then you start trying to this new routine. I'm going to start fasting and training. You most likely will self cannibal.
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A
Which means your body's gonna use the. The glucose in the muscles as the main energy. So it's kind of like there has to be an adaptation phase in the. In the. In. You're almost tailoring or prompting the body to tap into the fat as the main substrate of energy based on the training. Because if I woke up in the morning and I've tried it, bro, I tried many things like waking up five, six, and doing crazy cardio, doing sprint, and I'm like, dude, I'm hungry. I just want to go eat. And then it's kind of like, how much can I get away with it instead of getting caught in the hamster wheel? I see people micro meals throughout the day. Tons of cardio, tons of running in their physiques are like, mid, bro.
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B
Yeah, Marathon runners look super unhealthy.
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A
They are unhealthy, bro. The statistics on the percentage of people that claim to be runners, I think it's 50 right now in terms of people being injured. So we're talking about higher percentage than the NFL, higher percentage to the NBA, dang. Which, what does it tell you means propaganda. That's taken a pretty, pretty sharp turn and it's affected the whole populace because who came up with running being like, a good idea? Who just do it.
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B
That's crazy. I did not even connect those dots.
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A
That's where it all stems from, bro. It stems from. And then it's kind of like making. It's not only the running, bro. It's the running with the. The closed encapsulated shoes that you don't get the full splay of the toes right. There's no. In terms of the kinetic chain, like, if you have soft shoes, right, and you're stepping on it 24, 7. I can't tell you the amount of people that are going to suffer from chronic, not only illnesses, but chronic foot health in the next 20, 15, 20 years. 15, 20 years? Not even 15, 20 years. Like now, dude. Like now people are 5060 years old, having foot problems. So think about it. You have foot problems and then you're trying to do cardio to lose weight. Somewhere along the line you're going to get injured.
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B
Yep. When I was a distance runner, I was injured all the time, literally at least once a month.
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A
But think about back in the day. Like, if I'm going to tell you, bro, we're going to go run X Y xyz amount of miles, four miles. You what would be first reaction? Okay, what are we going to go hunt? What are we going to go catch? What are we eating? Oh, no, no, no. We're going to do it for fun. You're like, fuck that. No, I need to conserve my energy, bro. Like, if you want to go traverse 20 miles, it's better to do it walking at a faster pace, easier in your joints, easier your health, and easier to burn fat, bro. I think the problem is, is a mental thing. People think that, oh, if I'm walking and I'm not exerting or feeling any sort of pain, I'm not putting in the work, hence I'm not going to get the results. And then I'm here just walking shredded, bro.
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B
Programming dialed. No. They really push running as one of the healthiest things you could do.
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A
And you have all the fat ladies with their spandex just like tight polyester running, and it's just a matter of time before they get injured. The stats are there. It's 50.
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B
Damn, that's nuts. Yeah, it's hard to be walking, man. It really is.
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A
Walking is the best, bro.
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B
You walk 8 to 12k steps a day, you feel good that day.
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A
You know what? I've been doing also a lot of training while I'm walking. So, like shoulder mobility drills. I'll grab my shirt, I'll grab bands, and I'll do stretches. And it's kind of like ideally 10k steps, bro. And what people don't realize is you can get a lot done while you're walking. Like, you can listen, you can have conversations, you can be on a business call, you can get more done. And it also clears your mind. Like, you walking in nature is completely different than you walk in an EMF treadmill looking at the news while wearing a mask.
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B
I don't use treadmills.
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A
Treadmills are boded.
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B
Yeah, it's just not a pleasant experience at all.
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A
No, it's like not getting anywhere.
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B
Your brother, though, he recommended. What's her name?
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A
Julio.
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B
Julio.
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A
Well, Julio. Julio. Any form of exercise would help, Julio. But I feel like Julio needs to stop talking less, stop eating less and start fasting more. Yeah. And start studying more.
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B
Yeah. I'm a big on. I just did my first three day fast.
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A
Congrats.
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B
Felt amazing.
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A
Do you feel like it kind of fluctuated? Like it felt good, then bad, then good?
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B
Yeah. First day was tough because your body just naturally wants to eat or whatever. Second day, easy. Third day, somewhere in the middle, I'd say yeah. Yeah.
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A
It's honestly amazing, bro. Like, fasting is probably one of the, the biggest hacks people can tap into. And it's free, but it's like working your way toward the fast. People want to go from one side of the spectrum to the other side of the spectrum. Being completely unhealthy, hyper palatable foods, disgusting behavior. I want to be healthy completely. I'm going to fast. I'm going to do a dry fast for two days. Are you stupid? Your body's going to have an adverse reaction. I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus. But there's a lot of fitness influencers that nowhere try doing a fast. Ended up in the hospital.
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B
Damn.
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A
You have to. It's. It's because it's hormetic stress, bro. So if you have a stressful lifestyle, you're already dialed in with debt, you don't have a job, stress is piling up, you're unhealthy, and then you're trying to go from. Once you're adding more hermetic stress, bro. You think you're. Just because your will is there or the, the inspiration to change doesn't mean that your body's not going to have some sort of adverse reaction. Just as someone who's addicted to cocaine is going to have an adverse reaction if he cuts cold turkey.
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B
Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. I started with a 24 hour. I made sure that was good. Then I went to 72.
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A
Fire.
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B
Yeah. What's the longest you've done?
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A
Four and a half days.
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B
Damn. That's like over 100 hours.
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A
Yeah. I was like training. I was doing push ups and I'm like, no, I need to go eat.
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C
Yeah. I will say yeah.
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B
I tried playing basketball on it and hard. I felt a lot weaker.
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A
You'll feel weaker, which is actually a strategy I've been doing. Becoming weaker for recompense.
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B
How does that work?
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A
It was just kind of like a concept I had. I was like, if you don't train for certain periods, like a certain amount of time, you'll lose strength naturally. But then I also realized, like, people get injured because in their mind, the only threshold to keep upping or to keep elevating is more and more weight. But we're not ants, bro. Right. Like you're human beings. So there's going to be a certain extent to where age catches up and the level your max lifting catches up and that's it. And if you keep pushing it, you're going to get injured. But what if you stopped training a little bit, started losing strength, reducing carbohydrates and then start lifting and when you come back, you can't lift the same amount. It becomes hard. Right. So if you're. Let's say the max you could bench was £50 on each side. You're carved up all four pack. You're like, okay, I'm going to dial it in. I'm going to start walking more. Switch up my training style. Naughty as much. Lose a little bit of strength, Pick it up. You'll do £40. £30 is hard. Boom. Perfect start. Become metabolically flexible. Start reintroducing carbohydrates. You'll hit 50 again, bro. You'll in it and it's like you're working your way up. So instead of like being capped and keep pushing, pushing, pushing, potentially get injured is get capped. Switch training style, become weaker, and then work your way up again. And that's something I've been doing, bro.
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B
Smart.
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A
Yeah. I mean, it's just switching it up, bro.
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B
Yeah. That probably also helps you avoid burnout, too.
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A
Burnout and getting injured.
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B
Yeah. A lot of people are.
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A
That's the name of the game, bros don't get injured. Shoulder injury, ruined chest injury, tear pack or bicep tear, bro. It happens all the time. The. The thing that discombobulates my mind is these videos of people that clearly are lifting more weight than they should. They get injured, then it's a whole real montage of Rocky of them going back and making a comeback just to lift the same weight.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Like, bro, that got you in the place where you're at. Why are you gonna go do the same thing? That's not inspirational. That's stupid.
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B
Yeah. I think people need.
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A
At least to me.
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B
No, it is. People need to stop obsessing over their PRs.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And start taking this stuff serious, I think.
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A
Well, I'm telling you, bro, I go to the gym, I see a man, he's 50, 60, bro. Walking on a cane because he's clearly in pain with a belt, the strap belt. Lifting more weight than me, bro. And I'm looking at him like, bro, like, you should not be lifting that. You should be stretching. You should be like doing mobility drills, doing a lot of stuff. It's kind of like some people are just sticking the head, bro.
- [24:25]
B
Damn. Sucks to see that, man.
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A
Well, it sucks to see that because you're 50, 60, bro. And you know that if they keep doing that, in five years, it's going to catch up. And it's not like we're talking about just being conscientious of the potential risk. And then if all your habits are bad, right, if you're clean, not bulk, if you're bulking, it's dirty bulk, and you're eating unhealthy food and then you're trying to max weight, weight, weight. In your 20s, you're fine, you can pull it off. But in your 30s, your 40s, you're gonna get an injury, bro.
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B
Yeah, I'm not a fan of bulking, man. I used to drink those muscle mass or whatever, those weight gainers. You remember those?
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A
Muscle mass? Yeah, the knock skaters.
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B
Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Disgusting.
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A
Super bad. And just, you know, we don't want the. The things that took like a crazy toll my stomach and made me tired and I couldn't believe it. Because of the glycemic index, which bodybuilders recommend, recommend Maltodextrose. Have you heard of that? So it's. They suggest it's put on weight, but super carb heavy, bro. Like, I was doing that to put. To do the bulk, to test it out. I think I did it for two weeks and I bought supply for like a year, year and a half. I ended up throwing it all because I'm like, this is terrible for, for me. So it's kind of like, it's a give and a take. But for me, pursuing health, pursuing fitness from a different paradigm is honestly been a huge blessing. Broke is like being able to touch my toes, bro. Being able to do splits, being able to express my body and not feel tightness, pain. It far exceeds the volume of mass, of muscle mass.
- [26:03]
B
Yeah.
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A
Like, I can tell you those guys aren't unhealthy, bro. There are. You can see in the texture of the skin, you can see in the pigmentation of the skin. You can see that in their stomach. It looks like it's about to blow up.
- [26:14]
B
I could see that, man. Speaking of skin, you believe lotion's a scam?
- [26:17]
A
Lotion is a huge scam. I mean, it's, it's everything. It's like 1% lotion, 2% lotion, and then just tons of ingredients, chemicals, and stuff that I think is intentionally designed for that. It's like one business gives access to another business, which gives access to another business. And it's kind of like everybody grabs your money. So it's kind of like the dentist, the. The makeup industry. Like, there's a. There's a correlation between the makeup industry and the sunglass industry and the sun and propaganda and it being bad for you. And be careful. Be careful if you have makeup on, being in the sun with the toxic chemicals or if you like, bro, Lotions are bought it. Perfumes, colognes are botted, bro. Fragrances are bought it.
- [27:07]
B
Like sunscreen.
- [27:09]
A
Sunscreen is bought it. And I see people, bro, and it. Sometimes I don't know if I should stop and tell people, like, bro, you shouldn't be wearing sunscreen. Like that sunscreen is bad for you. Or just to let him be like, seriously.
- [27:19]
B
I struggle with that too, actually. Yeah. Or lotion. Yeah, yeah. Deodorant.
- [27:23]
A
Deodorant. Deodorant. Like, you can get natural, good deodorant, but it's. For example, the deodorant I use, I don't even remember the brand, but I came across it because I went to some biohacking center, and one of the clients that goes to center make soap. And that's kind of what I do, bro, just invest in small little businesses that I know that their livelihood depends on good quality. Yeah, McDonald's doesn't give a crap, bro.
- [27:47]
B
Hell no. Fast food, none of them, bro.
- [27:50]
A
They stock went up. They already cashed out their chips. They're good to go. Right? So I think it's that beauty of, like, networking connections. That's why when I travel, bro, I don't like traveling too, too much and different locations for small periods of time. Because, for example, if I'm going to be in an area, I want to know the farmers. Like, if there's local farmers, if I can get raw milk, like, all that for me, exceeds in terms of health. Just traveling and traveling and traveling and traveling. Because the more you travel, the more you realize there's food deserts everywhere, bro. Like, doesn't matter the resources you have. You can have bitcoin, you can have cash, you can have mean coin, you can have whatever you want. You can't get. You can't get healthy water. You can't get healthy food because it's not there, dude.
- [28:32]
B
Even in Vegas, which is like a major city, it's hard to get raw milk and stuff.
- [28:35]
A
Yeah.
- [28:35]
B
You know, and I'm in the desert, so the fruit's not the best there. And yeah, city of 2 million people.
- [28:41]
A
What are you mainly eating when you're in Vegas? What do you usually do?
- [28:45]
B
Grass fed steak that I get from the Amish or something like that.
- [28:49]
A
Cool.
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B
You know, if I eat out, I use seed oil. Scallop, make sure there's no seed oils. But it's tough, dude. There's not many restaurants out in Vegas, which is huge, that don't use seed oils.
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A
I mean, I'm telling you, bro, if they serve seed oils, you gotta bounce.
- [29:03]
B
And most restaurants do, and most restaurants do.
- [29:05]
A
And a lot of times I bounce, bro.
- [29:07]
B
You'll actually leave?
- [29:08]
A
I'll leave a hundred percent. One hundred percent. When I'm in Malaysia, Hong Kong and all those places. It's seed oil galore, bro. They use it over there everywhere, bro. I can't. I can't believe it, dude.
- [29:18]
B
That's surprising. I thought it was a us thing.
- [29:20]
A
No, it's everywhere, bro. I mean, India as well, bro. That's why you have tons of diabetes and unhealthy people in India. Because like the combination of seed oils plus a carb centric diet is this.
- [29:29]
B
Bro, when I eat India curry, I feel like for like the rest of the day.
- [29:32]
A
Yeah.
- [29:32]
B
Like literally I can't move.
- [29:34]
A
And here's the thing, like, people like, are seed oils bad for you? They not bad for you. I'm like, dude, just go off of them. Just go off of them for five, six, seven, eight months, then bring them back into a picture and let me know how your body feels. I do it, bro. I legit split test.
- [29:47]
B
I can't believe that's a debate. Like, that one's so obvious.
- [29:50]
A
And the best part is when people tell me like, bro, seed oils are good for you. I look at their profile, they look like they're the super unhealthy, bro. I'm like, why would I even listen to you, bro? You look like you're falling apart. Yeah, heart healthy. Heart healthy my ass, bro. It's called propaganda.
- [30:03]
B
They said churros was heart healthy.
- [30:05]
A
Yeah, I mean, and they also said that smoking cigarettes was healthy as well, bro.
- [30:08]
B
Yeah, they say a lot.
- [30:10]
A
I mean, Edward Bernay, bro. Like there's, there's correlations between that propaganda, Kellogg's American Breakfast, like, supply, demand, create the demand.
- [30:21]
B
Well, the cigarette companies have moved over to food.
- [30:24]
A
Yeah.
- [30:24]
B
Because they know that ship is sinking finally, you know?
- [30:27]
A
Yeah.
- [30:27]
B
And now food is getting challenged. They just banned food dyes, thankfully. But they're not gonna. The government won't be able to Move fast enough on those bands.
- [30:36]
A
I mean, it's hard, bro, because you're banning whole ecosystems, whole products, whole companies, everything. But the fact that they're doing it, bro, kind of brings hope.
- [30:42]
B
It's a good step, It's a good hope, but you still have to be your own decider.
- [30:47]
A
What I've realized as well, bro, is it boils down to us, the consumers. If you don't go and spend money to buy a Big Mac and everybody does that, they. They're out of business.
- [30:59]
B
Yeah, that's true. We got to vote with our dollars.
- [31:01]
A
Boat with your dollars, bro.
- [31:03]
B
I used to eat chipotle all the time, but they use rice bran oil, you know. Yeah, my man got about. Why is that needed?
- [31:11]
A
I think it's. It's also profitable, bro. Like seed oils, they can re. Cook it. Re cook it, recook it.
- [31:16]
B
True.
- [31:17]
A
It's cheaper. Yeah, yeah. It's a business for most people, bro. And also it's lack of awareness for a lot of people as well, because a lot of people don't know.
- [31:27]
B
So how do you eat healthy when you're traveling? Because you travel all the time, it's hard. You're a nomad, right?
- [31:31]
A
It's. Yes. So when it comes to traveling, my suggestion is like a month to four months in a location. Because the whole like five days here, 15 days here. Unless you're going to be shooting content or have like. It's hard, dude.
- [31:44]
B
Yeah. You spent like a month in Miami, right?
- [31:46]
A
Yeah.
- [31:47]
B
Because then you have time to develop your connections.
- [31:49]
A
Well, develop connection, get work done. Because if you're always like going back and forth, people don't realize that also traveling takes a huge toll on you.
- [31:55]
B
Yeah.
- [31:56]
A
The emf, EMF exposure. Just the traveling itself, like it takes a toll on the body. And you're going from one side of the planet to another. So it's. It's kind of like grass always looks green on the other side. You see people traveling all the time, like, oh, bro, I want to be like that. But when you're actually traveling, you know, it's like I need to kind of stay in a place and like lock in.
- [32:13]
B
Dude, I got a system, man. When I travel, I order class, glass, water, the hotel, nice, it's there when I land. I find seed oil free restaurants. But it does take time, man. I'm not gonna lie.
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A
Yeah.
- [32:23]
B
Plan everything out. Yeah, it's not easy.
- [32:25]
A
I think just carrying snacks for a couple days is always a good plan. So like cacao bars, you can do organic grass fed beef jerky pistachios, Brazil nuts. I feel like having a little bit, but with you is always good. Cuz. Yeah, the first two days, if it's a new location, you don't know it. There's a high likelihood that you most likely won't find anything. But that's one of the benefits of being in in the States, bro. It's there, there's more options, it's more expensive in terms of fiat.
- [32:53]
B
Yeah.
- [32:54]
A
But there's a lot of more options in terms of healthier food.
- [32:56]
B
Absolutely. Are you eating any carbs these days or.
- [32:58]
A
I am, I. I am. I'm going pretty hard on the carbs, to be honest. Yeah. Because I've been walking a lot and it's kind of like an omad approach with the carbohydrates or maybe like two meals in a shorter time frame. But I definitely notice a difference in terms of satiation. Bring back the carbs, I start getting hungrier, hungry. Which is a good idea if you want a clean bulk, but it's not a good idea if you're trying to lose weight or become automatically flexible. But I've been doing a lot of gnocchis. The potatoes. Yeah, Just white potatoes, sometimes sweet, a little rice. But overall, in my opinion, people could live without carbohydrates.
- [33:35]
B
I could see that for sure.
- [33:36]
A
I love. Gnocchi's are amazing.
- [33:38]
B
How do you ensure the quality on those? You.
- [33:41]
A
You don't. You kind of have to ask, to be honest. But if it's casido like or it's like homemade, there's a spot here in Miami. I'll send it to you later, please. Yeah, it's a good spot. They got gnocchi with me.
- [33:52]
B
It's good, it's good, it's good.
- [33:56]
A
But no, I'm definitely carb cycling. But for carbohydrates, bro. If you live in a carb centric paradigm in terms of your body, in terms of the. The utensil. Not utensil, the. The vessel that we're given. And you only give it carbohydrates, bro. There's no way you can develop an elite physique just based off of lifestyle. You're going to have to do a lot of training, a lot of compensating, because whenever you cut the food, your body is still expecting carbohydrates as the main source of energy. You've kind of never prompted fat as a potential option. And sometimes it's not our fault. Like you're born into planet Earth and you have unresponsible parents giving you cookies, giving you ice cream. Oh, look how cute he looks. Look at the face. Give him another ice cream. You think the kid's gonna grab another green bean, another piece of white chicken, if you give him the sugar? No. You've literally programmed them and you don't know it.
- [34:54]
B
Yep. There's a new study that came out. If you don't give your kids sugar the first thousand days of life, they end up living way longer.
- [35:00]
A
That's amazing. Yeah, that's very cool.
- [35:02]
B
His parents giving their four year old, like, sugar.
- [35:04]
A
That and the iPad.
- [35:06]
B
IPad? Yeah, that. That could be equally as bad, honestly. And yeah, fries their attention span.
- [35:11]
A
Fries your attention. Sprint. You have the blue light that permeates through the eyeballs. Because what people don't realize is different light spectrums permeates the body in different lengths. So what's, what's behind the eyes?
- [35:24]
B
The brain.
- [35:25]
A
The brain. And the blue light affects the brain. That's crazy, right? And then you have the 5G that you're holding. You're an electric being. You're made up of water. Water potentiates with 5G, bro. People that live close to 5G towers, if they have a pool or something, there's usually. Those are people that tend to call before because those are ones that are noticing like effects from the towers.
- [35:45]
B
Damn. So water amplifies it.
- [35:47]
A
I think water amplifies everything. Wow.
- [35:49]
B
It is a conductor. So that makes sense. Holy crap. No, there's some concerning stuff with the 5G towers. People that live close to those.
- [35:55]
A
Yeah.
- [35:56]
B
Lot of health issues.
- [35:57]
A
I'm telling you, bro. Like living out in nature. You feel the. Just the healing properties of being out in nature, bro. Yeah, Grounding stuff like that. And it's kind of like. Yeah. If you live in a modern city, you kind of have to find ways to hedge yourself. So instead of like partying, getting drunk and late in the weekend, go out in nature, go for a hike. And that's your hedge for the, the chaotic week that you got in, in the zoo. The cement zoo.
- [36:18]
B
You still practicing semen retention?
- [36:20]
A
Yeah, as much as I can.
- [36:21]
B
Really?
- [36:22]
A
Yeah, I think it's, it's, it's crucial. And it's crucial not only for life force, bro. It's crucial for discipline, bro. It's crucial for realizing that don't just pursue pleasure, because a lot of people just pursue for pleasure, bro. Or coping mechanism or trying to escape or, or, oh, I can't potentially find a person. That's why you have the whole incel culture. And it's all potentiated. It's all potentially through the Internet. It's all potentiated through propaganda. It's all potentiated through. Yeah, just the devices and the phones and everything, bro. Like, think about it, like back in the day, you went to go watch what would you do?
- [37:02]
B
Magazine.
- [37:04]
A
Back in the day, Magazines. Before even had magazines, bro. It would be almost impossible. Oh yeah, but before that was magazines or the television and very hard now, bro, you have four year old kids, five year old kids with a phone. Whip it out, bro. It's insane.
- [37:19]
B
So easy to access.
- [37:20]
A
It's so easy to access and it's so bad for the brain. And if you give that at a young age to kids, bro, you're completely desensitizing them, doling them to. Yeah, to sex, bro.
- [37:34]
B
It's everywhere, dude. It's on every social media app. I see half naked girls every day.
- [37:38]
A
I'm telling you. I open ig, bro, and I'll see a half naked lady with her legs spread wide open and. And I look and I'm like, am I following this girl? Did I follow her by accident? No, just pops up. It just. Does it just pop up or is it intentional? Does it just pop up? Because the Algos wasn't like that before, bro. Yeah, you know what the problem is? I'm 32, bro, so maybe I can handle a little distraction. Be like, okay, I probably shouldn't indulge in this girl's clickbait for onlyfans, but if you're 15 12, you don't know any better. That image just took you on loop de loop. Oh, yeah. You just want to adapt. You got to be careful, bro.
- [38:25]
B
Yep. Yeah, that's concerning, man. Super concerning. When I was a kid, Instagram didn't even exist.
- [38:32]
A
And even Instagram, bro, Like the Algos, how it changed. Like, it's soft, bro.
- [38:36]
B
Like easily. Twitter's full on.
- [38:38]
A
Full on, bro. It's disgusting, dude.
- [38:39]
B
Yeah, it's nuts.
- [38:41]
A
I literally did fitness and it's just guys going at each other, railing each other.
- [38:45]
B
Oh my God.
- [38:46]
A
I'm not even kidding, bro. It's disgusting, dude.
- [38:48]
B
That's crazy, dude. You still taking naps? I saw you made a video on that Siestas, bro.
- [38:53]
A
You know, like when I'm more on a ketogenic, less carbohydrate diet, I realized I don't sleep as much, bro. Two, three hours, four hours, five hours. And I'm good. And I don't need siestas. More carb centric diet train more. I need more sleep for sure. And I'll take a siesta. Usually sweet spot, 16 to 18 minutes.
- [39:12]
B
That's it?
- [39:13]
A
Yeah. If I overdo it, bro, like 1925, I'm like, I need to do an hour because I'm already getting into deeper sleep.
- [39:19]
B
Damn.
- [39:20]
A
That's. That's why in Japan, bro. It's optimization, bro. Like, the companies have the power in app stations give an object in the. In the hand of the person when the object falls off. Usually in that time span, 12 to 20 minutes, falling into deep sleep, wake them up, feel recharged.
- [39:36]
B
That's cool.
- [39:37]
A
Yeah. Sometimes what I'll do is I invested in a espresso machine. So I'll do like a quick espresso nap. I'll do like an aloe mask or something to hydrate my face, wake up, rejuvenate. It feels like I'm in another day.
- [39:50]
B
Wait, you can nap off a shot? Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
- [39:53]
A
That would be hard. Definitely not. Johnny Walker shot a coffee shot.
- [39:57]
B
Oh, got it.
- [39:58]
A
So express. So I'll do like an espresso, I'll do an americano, I'll drink it, and then I'll go take the NAP. So by 15 minutes, 16 minutes, not only am I waking up from deep sleep, but I already had the caffeine also kicking in. So it's kind of like, boom, I'm ready to go. Cold water, ice, and a brand new day.
- [40:16]
B
Still sleeping on the futon?
- [40:17]
A
Yeah, on the floor. 100. And I've been sleeping here on. In the hotels on the beds and stuff, and I already start noticing a little tightness on the back.
- [40:25]
B
Damn.
- [40:27]
A
I mean, a soft bed. Just kind of like, think about modern man, bro. Like, we're always like, hunched. Hunched over, bro. Hunched over, Hunched over. And then most guys want big chest and they don't train back. So it's kind of push, push, push. Always pushing exercise. Hunched over. And then when you go to sleep, soft bed that. It's almost like a cast.
- [40:45]
B
Yep.
- [40:46]
A
That goes compounding, bro. I'm telling you, I had a pretty bad knot on my. On my back. And I'm like, it's. It's this. I need to start doing more mobility drills. I need to. Doing more. Yeah. Spine drills, more mobility. And then sleeping on hard surfaces and working on the knot. So going against the angle of a wall and just really working on the knot. And then two, three months later, completely gone.
- [41:09]
B
I need to start doing some stuff like that because I got a pernuvo scan, full body MRI. Had arthritis already in my back.
- [41:14]
A
Dang.
- [41:14]
B
At 28. Crazy, man.
- [41:16]
A
Dang.
- [41:17]
B
Yeah. I got to start sleeping on the floor or something.
- [41:20]
A
I think Japanese futon is a lot easier than the floor because it's a little cushioning. But I'm telling you, start doing that in the next thing. That's super hacked. It's hot and cold showers, fluctuation, and then, like, foam roller. If you asked me, like, if I could only have three things to train with, it would be foam roller, it would be bands, and it would be hooks.
- [41:44]
B
Damn. Foam roller. Is that important?
- [41:46]
A
Super important. It's spine health, spine mobility. You can do a lot of stuff cracking your back. I've noticed a massive difference just in my own back health, like the knots. But it's not just going back and forth in a monotonous motion, like doing drills, like, actually getting in there. And it hurts, dude.
- [42:02]
B
And.
- [42:03]
A
But past the pain is a good outcome.
- [42:08]
B
I love that.
- [42:09]
A
It's a really good outcome. And yeah, and it's everybody, bro. I'm telling you. I start doing soft bed, long periods of time, start eating gluten, start eating seed oils, stop moving less, start doing a lot of push. It comes right back.
- [42:24]
B
Where are you going next, man? What's after Miami for you?
- [42:26]
A
I think I'm gonna maybe go to Japan, but I think there might be a natural disaster. June, July. So maybe after that.
- [42:34]
B
Oh, there's a hurricane going there?
- [42:36]
A
Yeah.
- [42:36]
B
Damn.
- [42:37]
A
Which is kind of fascinating. Not only the pyramids that are close to Japan in terms of below the water, but how. How big is Japan? Such a small country. Such a small country. What are the statistics of natural disasters? The percentage are high for Japan. I think it's like 4 to 6%.
- [43:03]
B
They get tsunamis there, right?
- [43:05]
A
Well, it's just. It boggles my mind that such a small part of the map gets hit with such a high percentage of natural disasters of the whole world. We're talking about the whole world. A lot of stuff occurs there. Why is that?
- [43:20]
B
That is interesting.
- [43:21]
A
It's super interesting.
- [43:21]
B
And they know a lot over there.
- [43:23]
A
There's a lot.
- [43:24]
B
Longest, right?
- [43:25]
A
There's a lot of history in Japan, bro. Yeah, a lot of history. It's crazy, bro. Japan is a very. Like, there's countries, but when you travel, like, you can feel the energy. You can feel the. The. The atmosphere. For example, Bali, bro. Super dark, if you ask me. You can feel the witchcraft.
- [43:42]
B
Really? A lot of witchcraft there.
- [43:44]
A
Yeah, dude. People don't even talk about it. It's like paradise. Everything is like, no, bro. You go in there, you feel it real quick, dude. And that's why countries like. What do you call this country?
- [43:53]
B
Dubai.
- [43:54]
A
Not Dubai. Small country. They always get wrecked with natural disasters.
- [44:04]
B
Haiti, Haiti.
- [44:05]
A
Black magic, bro. A lot of stuff there as well. Like. Like it's palpable in the air, bro.
- [44:11]
B
I've heard that with Haiti. A lot of dark magic there. Black magic.
- [44:15]
A
Yeah.
- [44:15]
B
Damn. That's good to know about Bali, though, because I was thinking about going there, bro.
- [44:19]
A
It's like shrines. Every couple of houses. Shrine, couple houses. Shrine. Perfect. Shrines to whom? What deity?
- [44:25]
B
Crazy. Well, where can people learn from you? Do you still have the community going up?
- [44:30]
A
I still have the community, guys. Mr. Belmar on all social medias and then the community anime shreds. And then for those who want to take their physique to the next level, I do have my own supplement line, the Hero Stack. Go check it out.
- [44:42]
B
Let's get it. Check them out, guys. See you next time. Peace.