Powerlifting

No.

yeah again and i i think it just really comes down to like what are you trying to accomplish in your training program and how much time can you commit to doing it because if your goal is just to get stronger uh be more you know have more vitality be more literally functional in your daily life but you've got limited time to do it like working on a perfect deadlift with somebody that can take years to perfect a a really perfect deadlift and then start progressing the weight like Powerlifters spend years getting really good just at the positioning and stuff and they still hurt themselves all the time.

So like, you know, if your goal is to get as much bang for your buck, I think there's no debate that like training in this style or at least getting away from this functional training kind of overarching theme is certainly important.

We could spend all day talking about that, but let's instead transition into kind of walking a little deeper through your journey, getting involved with fitness, maybe like the, you know, seven, eight, 10 years leading up to working with Brandon and then inevitably to opening up your own studio in Long Island.

Go work in construction.

Powerlifting's not for that.

So I think that a lot of people get into it for the wrong reasons.

You just have to love suffering to some degree, I think, to be a good powerlifter.

I could go back and find them.

I remember explicitly listing out.

I was like, Powerlifting was at that time super heavies.

Everyone tuned in to just watch the biggest guys with the biggest amount of weight.

And he has a bunch of other really, really good lifters that are under him now that work for kind of his company.

Um, but, uh, there's a guy that, uh, Marcos that just passed away and And he was, I mean, he ran, he was Mr. Powerlifting out there with the, the gyms and the meets that him and his, his, his buddy Emad, Emad would always fly me out, treated me really well.

And, um, a guy that had gyms out there too, was a guy named Scott Wasson who first brought me out to Australia.

I think I was in Australia in like 88 and he brought me out like, uh, 20 something years later.