Charles Poliquin and Chi Energy

i'll tell you i'll tell you a couple of charles stories because the funny thing is like there a lot of the people that didn't know charles um talk a lot of shit about him but the people who knew him and saw the shit would be like i you know honestly if i hadn't seen this in my with my eyes i wouldn't have fucking believed did. So I remember one of the first biosegs that I was an assistant coach on. So this was back in probably 2000, maybe 2009. We were in Arizona. And so Charles was big in, in a muscle testing at that point, not the muscle testing. I teach you guys in, in program design, like not manual muscle testing, but muscle testing, like applied muscle testing, where you put something in the hand and then you test and see if it's you get strong or weak or whatever so it's kind of some hoodoo voodoo shit right and he at one point he brought his testing kit and he tested a girl and said oh you're um you're deficient in zinc right and we're like whatever this is i'm sitting in the back of the class with derek woodskim like that's crock of shit and so he pulls out a vial of zinc and puts it on the Chapman reflex point on her sternum. And he tells her to take her hands and do this with them in front of her chest. Now, okay. It sounds like this. They're really strong. If you internally rotate that, you have no fucking strength. A child could move your hands apart. She does like this and he takes his arm and he puts it underneath their arms and he lifts her off the table and he's just holding her. She's like this, his arms in here. he lifts her off the table no one could hold that position i don't care how fucking strong you are you could be the world's strongest man no way you could hold that position but for some reason he lifted her completely off the table and held her there for four you got three or four seconds and i said okay you need zinc and i was like what the fuck and uh yeah there was one time And I hate that I don't like telling the story much because I always sound like a fucking like one of those guys, a ghost whisperer type of weirdos. Right. So it was me and Charles Andre and the rest of class. And this is in Rhode Island. And Charles Charles is telling a story about how like he's since he was a child, he's been on the pursuit of learning how to harness chi energy. and we're like okay chi energy cool like you know qigong and fucking tai chi shit cool dragon ball z whatever and so he's talking about this and how he's been to different countries finding masters and uh you know it's charles telling a charles story and andre looks at us goes no it's true like he's he's actually learned how to do this you're like okay he's paying andre to just bullshit us so they were telling us they were telling us stories about how like somebody's doing pull-ups and, and they're like struggling and Charles touches them and puts Chi energy into them. All of a sudden they just keep wrapping it out. Right. They're telling us like fantastic stories like this. And we're all thinking they're full of shit. And so Charles goes here, I'll prove it to you. And he brings a guy out that couldn't have been more than maybe 175, 180 pounds. And he goes, all right, stand there and put your arm out. And he gets another guy about my size. this guy's like 225 pounds or so because i want you that i want you to grab his arm and pull it down so of course the guy's like this he's doing a side lateral and the other guy pulls his arm down no problem trust is okay so charles grabs the guy's other wrist and holds on to it he goes pull his arm down now and so the guy goes and he couldn't pull his arm down and charles goes hang from his arm so the guy is great and picks his legs he's hanging 225 pounds he's hanging from the guy's arm charles let's go and they both fall into the ground and i went that's it i'm done it's enough reality it was the weirdest thing i've ever seen and uh at that point i knew that charles said a lot of stuff that he was quite full of shit on but there was a lot of shit he knew that uh no one would ever fucking believe and he was spot on about it. And that sort of stuff is fascinating. It just makes you, like, you ever get bogged down in sort of, like, the stuff that we learn and just about, like, you know,

abs and squats and bicycle girls like realizing the the possibilities in this sort of stuff like it's something that i when i first moved out here i was like i'm gonna find some like really cool interesting people it's people doing tai chi with swords in the park here you know in in in you know us australia uk that would be a felony carrying a sword into victoria yeah here is you know it's your grandma doing this sort of stuff and i was like not never done it not not in the u.s because it's legal to carry a sword around in the us so at least in texas of course of course why am i not surprised yeah like you could you could literally have a katana and two six shooters on your waist walking down the street in texas no one can say a word for you that's that's men we could we could get another we could get another about gun laws in america if you If you ever want to do a round two about something non-fitness related, just say the word. I'll happily do it for hours about that. Oh, fuck yeah. My path has been taking down Joe Rogan. I've got to not do more than just training stuff eventually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. But I still think I'll move out here. I'm going to try and learn some new stuff. I've not really tipped the surface on it. But it's definitely, being in this part of the world, I'm definitely going to learn some of the weird sort of stuff you sort of get with here. Get more foot massages, find more Reiki, that sort of stuff. I thought it was cool, man.