I got a special guest that squatted, I don't know, would you squat a thousand pounds or some ridiculous amount of weight?

A thousand and one.

Thousand pounds, Chris Duffin, this guy is a beast. But I want to get into, how do you become a beast?

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I got a special guest that squatted, I don't know, would you squat a thousand pounds

or some ridiculous amount of weight? Eh, a thousand and one.

Thousand pounds, Chris Duffin, this guy is a beast.

But I want to get into, how do you become a beast right like how does that happen everybody

certainly certainly myself as a young person I remember thinking man I want to be able to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger but

and you quickly find out you can't get there like like how did you do it?

It's a bit of a long story, but I started training in 1988 and I had a really troubled childhood.

And so it was, at the time, you know, a counterbalance to my very academic nerdy side and just became just a foundation of me kind of moving through some of the very difficult

upbringing which actually I will talk about at some point but that covering my best-selling

autobiography the Eagle and the Dragon I got into competitive lifting in 2000 and I knew that I wanted to push myself like I

had these very high-level goals and I knew that to accomplish that I needed three things and that was, you know, the right, the right equipment, the right methodology, and the right environment.

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