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Welcome to Table Talk.

Michael Brinson, welcome to the podcast.

I've kind of killed the whole introduction thing because people can just read the description,

but in short, you've been a coach for well over a decade, collegiate level, high school level,

military as well. And as I was, I never like to use the term of research because research is different than me looking you up.

Right.

Right.

So it's, but as I was looking you up and I was watching other podcasts and so forth, it was a little frustrating to me because you've been powerlifting for like 10 years and you're a meathead. but nobody's acknowledging the fact that you're a meathead and that you do this powerlifting thing. So I'm jumping off with that, right? Because the coaching thing is the coaching thing. Right. But that usually stems from the meathead inside of the person, you know, from their soul. Right. It's like your soul ends up moving to your head, right?

And it can be a problem later because then you're in your head too much, but back in there.

So with, and you played ball as well.

Right.

So the question that I always have is with the meathead side, right, then the athletic side.

It's like a balance, right?

And for the ones that are just pure power lifters, powerlifting was always the first priority.

I'm going to guess that wasn't the case that you started training for football. For football.

Right.

And what, I'm always curious in this this and this is kind of like a little

bit of a side topic with just your athletic development because you do work

with younger kids now with the athletic development of so much of those

attributes are developed before were even teenagers so I'm always curious as to

what somebody who played at a high level,

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