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Isn't it funny how we all start off with a plan or conception of what our life and career will look like?

But oftentimes we are forced, or maybe we choose, to pivot into something entirely different.

Well this is a podcast where we sit down with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs to hear how they handle these unexpected events.

I'm your host Andrew East, I'm an engineer, turned professional athlete, turned entrepreneur, and I'm super excited to bring you these stories in order to help you move closer to your dreams no matter what they look like.

Well do we have a treat for you all today? Today we sit down with five time CrossFit athlete, father of Maximus the Golden Retriever, and the man who has a master's in strength and conditioning, Mr. Noah Olsen.

Now I really enjoyed this conversation with Noah, he is extremely humble, and he is highly accomplished, and he has some awesome things that he's going to tell you all today.

If you want to follow Noah and his insane training regimen and his awesome family, including his dog, you can find him on most platforms at in Olsen, that's in OHLSEN, that's on Twitter and Instagram, and he also has an amazing YouTube channel that's definitely worth checking out.

If you go to the YouTube search bar and type in Noah Olsen, he'll be right there at the top. Everybody, I'm excited to bring you Noah Olsen.

Everybody I am sitting here with what I think will be a good friend of mine in the future, Noah Olsen, your legend of my book Noah, thank you for joining us on the show.

Oh man, my pleasure, not legend status yet, but I'm working towards it, thank you, I'm excited to be here chatting with you.

I'm glad to have you on. So in doing the research for this interview, I came across something that said, when you were in the midst of trying to put on weight, you would drink milk, like it, I'm not just about a milk all the time, and I got to try the gallon challenge twice, I don't know if you've ever done that, but it ended awful both times.

Yeah, so I can't imagine.

So, so that are you talking about trying to drink a gallon of milk in an hour, right? That's the challenge.

That's the gallon challenge with milk, and I know that's not exactly what you're doing, but I still can't imagine the stomach.

Well, I kind of put a little twist on that, and I just expanded it out, and I said, I'm going to do a gallon of milk a day every day for, I don't know, I didn't really have a timeframe, but I was like, I'm just going to go for it and just try to get extra calories in that way.

And it was relatively short lived, but I think I think in that timeframe, it was probably pretty helpful to pack on the pounds.

Because how many calories is a gallon of milk? It's kind of a nuance.

That's a good question. I wish I could ask you a couple hundred for sure. Yeah, definitely.

But you put on, you put on like 30 or 40 pounds in a short amount of time, right?

Yeah, man, it's been about, my weight has kind of gone up and down in the last few years, just for different reasons in trying to figure out what the best competitive weight was for me.

But when I started doing CrossFit about eight years ago, I was 155. Right now I'm sitting at like 190. I've gotten up to 200. So yeah, it's been a hefty amount of weight gain since my CrossFit journey began.

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