Ep. 144 - When To Call It Quits?

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Another duo episode? Some say it’s because we’ve burned every bridge with every guest we’ve ever had on, but the truth is we just can’t get enough of each other. In this episode we discuss how mental fatigue can impact training, based on some interesting research on the topic, and how being distracted in certain ways can potentially help skill acquisition. After this brief research review, we dive into the main course, which is to discuss the following questions: when is it the right move to take your foot off the gas? How do you know when to be content with moving into a maintenance phase? Do people normally take their foot off the gas before they actually hit their peak? What type of mentality is needed to keep pushing and break plateaus as an advanced lifter? Join us as we discuss these challenging topics that eventually all serious advanced lifters struggle with.

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0:00.0	Eric, this is a monster episode.
0:02.7	This is the capstone to our shared existential midlife crisis we've been having.
0:08.6	Yeah, folks, which is sad because that means we're both dying in our 70s.
0:13.4	Actually, I'm not even, Omar might be like late 60s.
0:17.7	I'm not going to disclose your age to the audience.
0:20.7	Let's just say we are having existential crises a little earlier than most.
0:25.3	We're two men in our 30s, citing research about how you can still be at your peak in your 50s for like the last three duo episodes.
0:31.9	It makes you wonder what is going on in our personal lives.
0:36.6	But no, in all seriousness, uh yeah this is going to be the
0:39.9	the capstone of the existential crisis to our folks we're going to be talking about um the philosophy
0:47.0	underpinning well well when do you hit your peak and is it okay to cash out early when do you
0:53.0	bring your chips to the accountant and say,
0:55.8	thank you, sir, you can pay me out. And they say, actually, you've lost $2,000 today. You were in
1:01.1	the red and you go, yep, that's what happens when I gamble, but at least I enjoyed it. That's
1:05.5	kind of like the equivalent of cashing out in your 30s with an ACL tear. And that's okay. It happens.
1:11.2	But we're going to talk about the nuances and the thought processes and the different epochs, if you will, of a lifter's career.
1:18.9	And when it's totally reasonable to make certain choices that others may not make, why, and when you may be cashing out too early, or at least you should be aware
1:29.3	that you could just keep betting on red, baby.
1:33.0	Oh, we're going to keep hope alive here.
1:35.0	This isn't, you know, some sort of tenuous, blind faith we're trying to pedal to the iron
1:41.3	cult.
1:41.7	We really mean that when we say it.
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