The biggest takeaway I personally had from this podcast was L.S. McLean, I don't know, maybe a top-level IPF world competitor champion of champions.

Just confirming for me what I already knew.

The damn plates of Fortis are heavy, and Eric, I know I hit 375 on the bench.

Let's face it, it basically was 405 I mean

what they're like each plate is at least five pounds heavier so he we both agreed

Ellis and myself one or two pounds see multiply that yeah by six and so that's what an extra

six to 12 pounds so 375 plus six to 12 pounds is 405. You get what I'm saying. Yeah, I think it's more

like 380, but if you round up the nearest 405, round it up, right? It's 405. We build it up.

On that note, thank you. 315 rounded up to the nearest 405 is also 405. So, welcome to the Iron

culture where your two hosts can both bench 405.

Oh man. Eric, let me just say that, you know, I appreciate that we decided to sit back

and let in quotations the athletes talk. So it seems like there's a high prevalence of top

level competitors having prior athletic histories. We didn't want to outshine them.

That's not the function of the

host. Sure, we have all the charisma too. So it's like, wow, this is overpowering. So we let them talk.

We had two world champions on, Taylor Atwood and Alice McLean, and they had a lot of insight. And

you know, probably genuinely for me, the biggest takeaway or the thing that I appreciate that

they both said and one echoed the other

was essentially that yeah sure there's the physical component that kind of that selection process

I did athletics I have that you know a base the kinesthetic sense of awareness I have the practice

all those things skill acquisition cool cool cool a lot of people talk about that genetics cool

whatever bro but when they dove into the mental aspect of being let's say a game

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