Transitioning from Poliquin to Muscle Nerds

And then in 2013, Charles left the company and they brought me in to kind of take over his position teaching bio-sig and as a head lecturer for the PICP program. That went on for a couple of years as I kept getting more educated and kept getting mentored by other people like James LaBelle. I started seeing some things that I didn't like, like some of the stuff we're teaching. I'm like, this isn't really actually factually correct. I don't really agree with this stuff and that created a bit of strife between myself and some of the people in the company And so eventually actually tomorrow september 11th four years ago. I Was let go and I left and at this time um, my my Fiance which we're getting married in february So after four years and we were she had she had quit both of her jobs and sold her car to fly over to america to be with me. And so now I didn't have a job. She didn't have a job. We're like, Oh, what the fuck are we going to do? We didn't have a game plan. It's like, well, well, I don't have to teach anymore. So we've got a little bit of money. I guess we can just go back to New Zealand and go back to Australia. And I can hang out there for both of those places for a few months. And when I, when I announced that I was leaving Pauliken group, we were inundated with all of these people that wanted to work with us, but they didn't want to work with us if we were working with Pauliken group. So we had a guy, a friend of mine in Kuwait, he texted me, he goes, hey, would you like to come teach your kind of your theories and your things around this in Kuwait? And I went, okay, cool. So we did a small seminar in Dubai, didn't want to Kuwait and that paid for us to get, you know, home to New Zealand. We hung out there with Zoe's family for a few months. Another guy called me, said, you want to put on a seminar? I said, yeah. So then we just started putting on seminars and I I started putting together all the content and all the information that I had amassed over 20 years. I've been training since I was 8. I'm 41 now, so it's 30 years of under-the-bar experience, competition experience, plus now getting into the actual research-based type of stuff, right? Actually pulling out textbooks and learning from people like Brian Walsh, Mike T. Nelson, learning biochemistry and cell physiology, and then saying, okay, if I go in the gym and I do this, I know this is what's going to happen, but I want to know why. And I've always been a why guy. Why, if I do five sets of five, why does that differ from doing, say, three sets of 15? So I started unraveling all this, and then I started falling in love with the biochemistry and really with the sports nutrition aspect of it. And I just went full steam into that. So over the last four years, just teaching myself as much about biochem as I can. And now I've kind of done things backwards. I've taught myself a lot of the stuff I need to know, and now I'm going back to school so i'm now getting a graduate diploma in sports nutrition and then going on to a master's of research nutrition so whereas the difference between what i do and what most people do is most people go to college and we learn all this theory but they've never really trained so they go out of college and they have no idea how to apply what they've learned in college well i went and did the bro science thing and i lifted weights and powerlifting and all that and then I now I filled in the blanks with the actual the actual formal education yeah I think that's exactly what happened to me with when I went to university is that I started I opened a gym while I was two years into my degree and then after being two years into business it became impossible to finish a degree because now I knew exactly what I wanted to do and it no longer what I was doing there applied whereas you've done it exactly the opposite way right you've done all the hard yards you've done all the experience and now you're applying the theory to your previous experience which is a great way to do it because there's context to everything you read um and yeah eventually well then you'll know i guess whatever you're reading if it has context for whatever you want to do next which is i guess why you can be so passionate about something studying later in life um i had a follow question though so um now you know we just went before i before i asked this question