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The Salutations, everybody, it is Maddie here today.

Welcome to episode 266 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast. We hope you're

all doing absolutely fantastic today. I'm joined by the man whose Black Rock Saw Challenge

we did not quite anticipate in 2025. We'll talk a lot about that. Lord Cognito,

how are you doing today, good sir? Doing? Good sir. Doing good, doing better.

This was the debut, the return to the gym. I was cleared this week. So I'm very happy, man.

Very happy man, but I'm very tired, man, because two to three weeks of no gym, you realize

how out of shape you again. Yeah. So I wasn't worried about, I think I was, in my mind, I'm vain. So I'm worried about muscle mass. Oh, I'm going to lose all the strength and that, da, that wasn't too bad. It's just basically the cardio and just how tired I was after. My body was like, yo, you haven't done this in a while. Yeah. And I was like, damn, I'm exhausted.

You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, just kind of getting back. It's been, you know, two days straight. And then I'll probably after this, I'll try to get sneak a leg day in. So you don't slowly work in my way back in, you know what I'm saying? How many days are we doing now that we're back in the gym? Is it? Are we started slow?

Yeah,

I'm going to do four days,

but I'm doing each one body part.

Then, are we doing now that we're back in the gym? Are we starting slow? Yeah, start slow. I'm going to do four days, but I'm doing each one body part and give myself three days, you know, for the weekend and stuff like that. And, you know, just kind of easy. And even when I'm going, I'm not going like a hundred percent super hard. Like, I'm just like, and it actually brings a lot more machines with this just to get my motion, my control.

Yeah, I'm not. I'm not a machine shamer. I know a lot of people are. They're like, few weeks to the way you grow and gain. I'm like, yeah, it's true. But like, dude, if you're trying to learn form, nothing better. Exactly. Just remember the form. Just remember and, again, controlling a little lot of weight just to make sure my technique and everything is good but it felt good to be back right definitely definitely did what's going on with you man

oh let's see here i was telling you my wife's going to be gone for five days so i'm gonna i think i actually

might be bored i think i actually might find a way to be bored i'm never bored but like you know

she keeps my life exciting but i literally made a whole plan of like things I'm going to do while she's got. Like, I don't do this in my life ever, bro. I'm just like, I hang out of my wife all the time. So I'm just like, dude, the house is going to be silent. I'm just here with my two beautiful dogs. and you know, I don't know. Like, I'm not one of those dudes. Like I see dudes who are like, yeah, my wife's going away.

Let's go.

Party time.

Yeah. two beautiful dogs and you know i don't know like i'm not one of those dudes like i see dudes

are like yeah my wife's going away let's go party time yeah i'm like man she's going away's your best

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