Psychological stress I feel like is the killer that nobody wants to talk about because like managing it it requires you to actually do like a lot of internal work and people don't like that idea

Just like they don't like external work and even us as

athletes will like we'll go to the gym three hours a day but it's like oh journaling

and therapy and yeah you know like but man that's the stuff that works and it's been a real game

changer for me and psychological stress has been tied to basically a dose response,

increase in the risk of mortality from all causes,

from cardiovascular disease, and from cancer. Back on the podcast for a second time, Lane Norton.

Thanks for having me, man.

What's going on?

Just doing my thing and got nationals in two days, which is why I'm here and excited for that, but life's good. Just lifting lifting heavy doing science and putting out social media

contents pretty much my life. Let's talk about nationals. Yeah sure.

What are you going on? What are you shooting for? How are you feeling feeling where's it at? Yeah so it's

here in Austin and at St. Edward University and I so for those who aren first, got into powerlifting

career, I was a bodybuilder first, got into powerlifting,

and won two national open titles in 2014, 2015, went to Worlds in 2015, the IPF, got a silver medal

overall there in the 93 kilo class, set a World Squad record at the time time which was 668 pounds and was kind of eyeballing like trying to be a world champion and then I went through a bunch of injuries like we're talking multiple

herniated discs, multiple bulge discs in both my lumbar and cervical spine.

Tourn muscles in my hips, partially torn a doctor, partially torn peck, like it just, it, it, it seemed like every time, I just kept having failures to launch, every time I tried to come back it was like something else. And just a few years ago I really got dug deep into like the evidence-based pain management and it was a complete game changer for me and got some really good people in

corner in terms of a good evidence-based physical therapist and my coach is Zach Robinson.

And we just kept moving the puzzle pieces around

to figure out what I could tolerate

and what I could work with.

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