Welcome everyone to the RP Strength podcast.

I am Nick Shaw and joined by Dr. Mike.

What's up, man?

Not much, Nick.

How are you doing?

I'm doing very well.

Hey, I wanted to start off today.

So I was listening to your YouTube video yesterday that came out.

I don't know when you filmed it, of course.

It was about why sort of high-level athletes don't train very well. And you alluded to this a little

bit, but I was driving home from the gym and I kept thinking about this point. And I was like,

you'll really appreciate this because I'm going to combine yesterday's YouTube video along

with Thomas Sol. Okay.

So in one of Thomas Soul's books, I think economic facts and fallacies, perhaps.

It might have been a different one.

Classic.

But he gives the example of like politicians and how they're short-sighted.

And because of the way elections work, like if you know your buses are going to break down, you don't want to spend that money to fix the buses because you're not going to be reelected, right? Like if you're out of office. So you'd be much better off from your personal standpoint to leave a legacy where like you go and do something very good for people. And you'd, let's say, take that $50,000 instead of fixing buses, you'd spend it on,

I don't know, like a giant party or something like that.

Yeah, yeah, or anything else.

And so the part that how this relates into training people is like, I think this is probably

the most apt in like the NFL, for example, because they will straight up fire coaches

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