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Luke Mathews

Luke Mathews

Retired Australian middle-distance runner

Sep 26, 2026

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11:42
Mm-hmm.
11:42
I remember going through a book called From Scrawny to Brawny, and I was that age of, like, I just wanted to be big.
11:49
I did that whole thing.
11:50
I was eating, I was ordering bottles of egg whites and literally chugging them, and I was eating so much food just trying to get bigger and bigger and bigger.
11:58
And I did, and I went through the whole process, and I enjoyed that, and my deadlifts were good, and my squats were very good.
12:06
And I think that helped in a certain way.
12:07
It helped me a lot of power into the sport longer term.

9 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
21:30
Why don't you just walk us through what exactly happened and I know it's, uh, been a while back, but what remains with you from that experience?

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