Welcome back to the Legendary Life Podcast. I'm your host Ted Rice and I've got A.J Roberts back for part two. A.J was so generous in sharing his time and his knowledge all about how to be more

successful, how to get your mindset right, how to think about

success for the long term, how to make it into a process, but we didn't even get to

talk about any training, nutrition, anything about what you're an expert in,

so thanks so much for doing this part too.

Oh, my pleasure.

So let's talk about it. You have a really interesting past in terms of athletics. You were a basketball player, you turned into a powerlifter, you held two world records, then you got into cross fit where are you now with your

training yes I actually did a bodybuilding show about a year ago and had fun doing that, you know, lost over a hundred pounds when I stepped

on stage from my powerlifting days. So I went through that whole transformation and then I was kind

of just moping around, training the train, so to speak, and I decided, okay, I gotta set another

goal, so I decided, you know, my strength had dropped quite significantly since the powerlifting

days, I hadn't trained heavy and probably three years and when I say heavy I mean

maximum weights.

1200 pound squat. So I obviously was a long way away from that and decided to

compete. I never have competed in so when I used to compete I used to compete. I never have competed in, so when I used to compete,

I used to compete in an equip Federation

meaning I could wear a belt and knee wraps

and squat suits and bench-press shirts and things like that.

And so I'd never competed without any of that stuff in what they call

raw competition. So I decided to do raw meat and I did that probably about two months ago now.

Fortunately I tore my hamstring in the deadlifts, which is the last you squat bench in

deadlifting competition and deadlifts are the last event and I tore my

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