Welcome back to the Strong Life podcast, friends. It has been quite a while. I think I've been

MIA for two and possibly three weeks, which is not at all like me. I'm going to keep this

podcast raw and real. So I'm not going to throw in the intro or any of that stuff. I'm going to

break down lessons learned from my

play road trip that I took with my buddy Paul Collodi and was sponsored by play. Play is the

company that filmed all my Iron Roots videos and when you look up play, it's PL lae and they make equipment strength training equipment

uh flooring outfitting gyms and their website is play p lae dot us dot us amazing equipment um

my buddy kreg fitzgerald is down in Florida. They did the Florida football weight room.

When I was at the Under Armour facility some years ago, they did all the flooring there.

When I was at Lehigh, they did the flooring, special kind of flooring where we were on the top floor.

And we could drop weights and, you know, train hard and

it's like sound proofs and damage proofs the floor. Pretty impressive. So big thank you to play.

Shout out to them. Love those guys. So Paul and I hit the road Thursday evening. We did that because a snowstorm was coming Friday and we wanted to beat that snowstorm.

So Paul was coaching at his high school.

Paul and I do the New Jersey High School Strength Coach podcast together and also run the NHS SCA,

the National High School Strength Coaches Association.

So if you're a high school strength coach, that is the organization to become part of.

So we drove down Friday.

We met up about 45 minutes south of May because Paul lives northwest.

And we drove until a little bit after midnight, got to Virginia, and got some rest next day, boom, hit the road, and we drove into North Carolina.

And it was pretty cold down there, but I'm going to break down each coach we met up with.

So we got to North Carolina about five and a half hours later and we met up with Coach William Fly.

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