You are listening to the Gritty Podcast where we talk about all things gritty. Life is not

easy. It never was and it never will be. A good life takes grit. Prioritize who you are

and who you want to be because life isn't fair and a little grit can make all the difference.

Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host Brian Call and I am joined by my brother

behind the camera, Gritty Bromine. How are you Brent? Well, thanks. Today's podcast is

going to be about health, fitness, wellness, it's going to be about developing a strong

body. A body that can handle that doesn't get injured. Basically building yourself up

to be a beast against injury. What brought this topic up is I have been hitting the gym

quite a bit since I am back from my long hunts and I have been doing various workouts

and posting them to Instagram. I did one the other day that had four rounds of pistols

which are one leg at squats. You squat on one leg, one leg straight out and you stand

up. All the way to the ground, all the way up. It was 28 pistols and it was four rounds.

So four times nearly 30. It's over 100 pistols that you do as part of this workout. Then

it was power cleans. It was like 15 cleans at 115 four rounds. So and you're doing it for

time but you're also doing it but I do it always but while trying to maintain the best

form that I can. Now people when they see me do that many one leg at squats or even a single

one leg at squat, they kind of freak out. Yeah. And most of them feel like I'm going to blow

my knee out or something. But that's like looking at a gymnast that does the iron cross on

a set of Olympic rings and you're like that dude's going to blow his shoulder out. It's

like well actually he built the stability to do that exercise and he's actually less likely

to hurt himself than the guy that sits at a computer all day and has a crappy shoulder.

And when he goes to hang his Christmas lights and he slips and he grabs onto the rain gutter,

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