Nobody's going to do it.

And there's never been a study on a bunch of guys that are six, six and above.

The gym ain't built for guys like that.

Yep.

The gym ain't, these studies aren't on people that have had obscenely high physical workload since they were 12 years old.

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We got a special guest today. We got my man Ben Bruno in the building. Thank you for coming through, my man.

Yo, yeah, thanks for having me.

Yes, sir. Let's dive into your story. You got a really interesting story. I think I read an article a long time ago about how you originally first started as a trainer take us all the way back to that point

I'll try to keep a long story pretty short I well to to start off I used to be a guy that played every sport grown up but never trained so I was like every coach is like probably least

favorite guy in that way. And I try to tell the young athletes now, I'm 36, our whole field

is pretty new. Like when I was in high school, almost nobody did training for sports. How old

are you? 32. Did you train in high school? No. It was pretty good. There was one trainer in my entire city and I did like two sessions with them but it was $20 an hour and I'm like I can't keep doing this. It's too much for me. Yeah, it was brand new. I played every sport under the sun. I started my first, I guess you could call it training, I was a ski racer and we did dry land training. And so what we did was, uh,

honestly pretty good in hindsight, but we didn't know what we were doing, but we used to do this,

uh, we only did three things. There was this one drill where we would go up on a staircase and

see who could jump the most stairs. And just like as many times as we could. And then we would do wall sits to basically failure. Like we would, it would be like 10, 15 minute wall sits. And then we jumped on the trampoline. And that was like the extent of my training. And then I also used to do a ton of pull-ups. I had a pull-up bar over my closet and I called it pay the toll. Every time

I got something out of the closet, I had to do one set of pull-ups. And, you know, side note, but to this day, legs and pull-ups are my best things in the gym. Like, there's something to that. Yeah. But that was the only training I did. I played a bunch of sports, then got to college and I had a bad back I've always had a bad back

but it culminated in having a back surgery when I was 19 and the surgery did nerve damage are we allowed

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