What did you find the most beneficial to help get to that first lead level?

Mindset. I was stuck at a thousand pounds for a year.

I hit my first thousand pounds squad 2019.

And then I stayed around that level until a little less than two years ago.

For four years, I didn't even pee on my squat.

I always tell everyone, if you're going to be a successful multi-ply lifter,

you need to be good with pain, you need to be good to handling pressure from the gear itself.

It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

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All right, we're back with another episode to help with it. I'm like, here we got. I always screw up the beginning. It becomes part of the whole thing. Now it's part of the show. And with John Rupo, co-owns Evolve Fitness, single-ply squat, 1075, multiply squat, 12-01, lifted, and 30 sanctioned meetsed meets chairman of somewhere all this is just kind

of rudimentary i just really don't give a shit i'll talk about training and kind of go from there

but before we jump on is there anything i forgot that's like important no it sounds about right that's

sponsored f8 yeah yeah yeah you've been lifting for a while and you're strong.

Yes.

That kind of covers the whole basis of what I wanted to cover with that.

Yeah.

The injury thing, though, because we had this scheduled, then we had to push it back because you got hurt.

And one thing I wanted to throw out there is when I was messing around, trying to figure out which strength sport has the most injuries,

right? So, strong man obviously leads the board. And it was, I think strong man was six, or 4.5 to

six for every thousand hours, right? Bodybuilding was 2.4 to 1 for every thousand hours power lifting was 2 to 4.2 for every

thousand hours but here's the thing that most people miss because they'll say hey lifting

weights is going to you're going to get hurt you know all the kind of crap that goes along with

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