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Phil Learney

Sep 25, 2026

31:00
when you think about it now?
31:00
Yeah.
31:01
And outside of that, it was, you know, nobody had really adopted that.
31:04
It was a US thing.
31:06
So outside of that it was, "Right, well, do I move to the US?" But then I'm, I'm at a massive disadvantage because I haven't grown up playing football or basketball or whatever it might be.
31:15
And it was this thing of that's who I wanted to deal with.
31:18
So I had this massive gap of knowledge, and I had my degree, I had my on-the-floor knowledge, which I'd acquired over many, many years, but I'd always ask questions.

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54:31
For me, it'll be straight to the bathroom, shower, brush my teeth.
9:57
It's protein another time." Or, "Take this supplement at this much," and then someone else will say, "Never take that supplement." I mean, just out of interest, why is it that you say you don't have a supplements company? [laughs] What, what's, what's your thoughts on that?
10:09
See, it's the same reason why for years I insisted on not calling myself a personal trainer, 'cause it, it's just so bad.
10:15
I mean, the supplement industry is an absolute train wreck.
10:19
It genuinely is, you know, for multiples of reasons, and we can get into some of them.
10:23
I was a consultant for one of the big sports nutrition brands for a long time, and sports nutrition's, in the grand scheme, relatively simple, because we've got a handful of ingredients, probably not even a handful, to be honest, that we know work.
10:35
They do what they're meant to do.
10:36
They work very well in the, the areas that we would utilize them, caffeine, creatine, beta-alanine, arginine or anything of that nitrous sort, pocket, sodium bicarb.
14:10
Yeah.

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