You personally as an athlete, or do you want to take your career, but also in that process,

what do you hope happens to the sport of powerlifting with the way that you're building your

personal and professional branding career as well.

Powerlifting is still behind like bodybuilding.

Shit, I feel like now the run stuff is kicked off so it's behind that now for sure.

I just want it to be in a space to where it's big enough to where like

Nike under armor like these different companies look at it it's like you know that's a

viable thing to go at we want to get to that point. Why do you think it hasn't reached that attraction yet?

When you look at powerlifter, sometimes, like you said earlier,

the notion is that they're fat, you know, they're out of shape and you know they don't train with a

certain type of energy. I think that kind of holds us back sometimes and people don't

realize that. When you have that subculture within the power of the community, you put up a barrier for people to come in,

and I just want to keep shattering those barriers and making sure that it's as easily accessible as possible. This episode is a long time coming.

We have Russell Orhi, six national titles, two world championships, currently peaking for IPF worlds in Lithuania in five weeks?

Yeah, basically, yeah.

Five weeks represent Team USA and BPN athlete world-class powerlifter

Russ what's up that was a solid ass intro bro appreciate appreciate it, yeah. I appreciate it, yeah.

Yeah, how's it going, man?

Good, dude.

How have you been?

I've been good, man.

I mean, ever since like the retreat, I feel like because we had the BPN retreat with

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