Training Intensity and Hard Graft

the last thing I want to talk about is you know something I think you and I touched on last time we spoke also where we'll have clients who nail their diet they do everything we say and the results are still lackluster for where we think they should be and it always ends up where they're not training intensely enough and that seems to be something that happens more often than not nowadays where you know we know how to like kill ourselves and we're doing the last set we're crying and on the floor and you just don't see that as much. No especially in the younger generations They they just don know what hard graft is and they think they training hard but they giving up a few reps before they actually done And I don't know what it is, but all the time I'm like, man, you're wanting your body to adapt in a certain specific manner. You're going to have to put your brain into a state of fear to get it to actually change. a lot of a lot of the younger coaches don't have great exercise technique and so a lot of them are injured or in pain so we have to fix all that stuff and get their training to not look like garbage so then they can train hard and it's teaching them how to train hard so a lot of people are really surprised when they come over to my house and train or when they come to the OPC and train and they figure out how I how what I expect like wow this is uh this is next level compared to what I thought I was supposed to do. It's like, look, you can only get so far just lifting weights. At some point, you have to go to an evil, deep, dark place. If you want to build a championship physique, if you want to compete at a high level, you're going to have to go to a place that's probably fairly dangerous. So we've got to get you where you're conditioned enough and strong enough to lift like this without getting hurt. But then you also have to be able to push past the pain of, you know, you start working at a high lactate threshold. That's not fun, but it's going to be important if you're in a sport that demands that. Or even with bodybuilding, if you're not pushing it to one ugly rep, you're probably leaving a lot in the hole. And that's why I don't really – I know a lot of people on that concept of RPEs and RIRs and things like that. And I don't really believe in that because – unless you're a very high-level lifter because most people have never lifted hard enough to understand the difference between an RPE of 3 and RPE of 10. or rpe of 10 most people when they lift you'll say how many reps do you have left they'll say two they'll do another eight so if if that's their concept of reps and reserve they're never actually taking themselves to to rir so we we would rather people lift until one rep looks significantly different than the others and then you you finish your set on that rep yeah that like and also they they don't have the gym cultures like they used to did you ever go to metro flex in texas oh yeah Yeah, absolutely. Like if there's a gym, I mean, excusing the stupid coronavirus, but like, you know, if there's a gym that's dirty with equipment, that's old as shit, where everything's all over the place, that's the place you want to be. Like that's that's the culture that you want to be around, where people around you are also going to elevate. Because if you are the strongest person in the gym, it's time to find a new gym. Yeah, yeah. Or you become the mentor for that gym, but you also take a few sessions somewhere else where you're now not the strongest person or the most experienced. And I think I was spoiled being in Texas because there's such a big lifting culture. You've got all these corn-fed country boys. We don't have anything else to do except for lift weights and fight and drink. So you go into any gym in Texas, and there's at least a dozen dudes who can squat 550, 600 pounds. is a dozen dudes who can lift 405 or more a couple of guys who can bench 500 like that's common in any texas gym you go to and traveling all over the world i quickly realized that's not the case everywhere um like you go to a gym in australia and people think a 180 kilo squat's a big squat that's dude that's nothing like squatting 280 that's a good squat you're squatting 180 you're still kind of an intermediate lifter you're not really advanced yet you know so you know i think there's a big disconnect from people that they weren't raised in the type of gyms that I was raised in. So they don't have that competitive streak and they don't have a good concept of what being truly strong really is.