We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

So last year I got this email out of the blue from a guy named Todd Moore.

He said, hey Brett, fans of the website, we'd love for you to come down to Austin.

We're doing this weekend of just man skills.

We're going to shoot guns, butcher animals, do optical course races, repel, do jujitsu, and

I was like, yeah, I'm there.

No questions asked.

I was down there.

Anyways, this event was called Vanguard, wrote about on the site if you haven't already

checked it out.

Let's put on by a group of a gym called Atomic Athlete.

Atomic Athlete is interesting.

It's a gym that does something like CrossFit, but it's not CrossFit.

Their goal is overall strength and conditioning.

In fact, a lot of individuals who are going into special forces in the military use Atomic

Athlete and their programming to get ready for the vigorous training that goes on there.

Anyways, today I have the owners of the gym on the podcast, Jake Synes and Todd Moore.

We're going to discuss fitness, strength, conditioning, the psychology of being strong and fit

in the mental toughness aspect of it.

We're also going to discuss Vanguard and what goes on there and their goals with it.

The interesting podcast with a lot of great takeaways.

Without further ado, Jake Synes, Todd Moore, Atomic Athlete.

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