Luke's Background and Career Journey

you know i mean it's like it's just i'm just being me you know um in an industry where everybody tries to be somebody else um or they're trying to stick to a certain guideline of what they should and shouldn't say or shouldn't shouldn't do i just i'm just myself man and i you got to realize too i got into this industry at a time where it wasn't cool to be a personal trainer right you you tell your parents you're going to be a personal trainer and they want to disown you and say, where have we failed this person? But who could have thought that at some point this is going to be an actual legit career which you can actually have people go, oh, you're a pro-striker. That's actually pretty cool. So it's been a long road for me, but I tried a lot of stuff before getting into this. And at one point I was a computer programmer. I started programming computers when I was a kid because I loved computers and technology. And that was at a time where not that many people had a computer in the house. and we just happened to have one. And then I went to college to become a computer programmer and realized I don't want to do this anymore because I'm the only bodybuilder in my entire class. And no one's going to understand me and this is not going to fare well. So I decided to go to my other passion, which was some form of something in this industry. And, you know, it was going to be, I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon, but, you know, that wasn't really going to happen because I kind of screwed around a little bit in college and, you know, that's really expensive. And then I was going to be a physical therapist. And then I just I kind of just got fed up with school because some of the stuff we were learning. I knew this isn't really how things work. So I just decided to stop college and travel everywhere and learn from who's the best at each thing. And I just did mentorships and spent my college money on that stuff. But it's you know, I come from an old school personal training background where we just we're just very blunt with our clients. and told them how it was. And so I just kind of carry that through and people seem to either really love it or really hate it. But I'm not going to change the way I am. 100%. I think that you get, even you listen to podcasts and stuff like that and you listen to people talk. We could sit here and talk about mTOR pathways or female physiology. It just makes us try to look smarter when actually just maybe the message is it's kind of like that analogy of the iceberg. We just need to relay the tip of the iceberg rather than giving them all the stuff underneath and something that in my coaching now over the last and while i've started to try and use that a lot more than trying to just over complicate a message and just needs to be that little small thing and that's definitely something that i picked up from you and so a little bit of an insight into you would be fantastic you're kind of your journey i know you touched on a little bit there but your journey working under charles and stuff like that and and the creation of of muscle merits health yeah man i mean look i come from a very small Texas town where there's not a whole lot to do there. It's basically football fucking and fighting. Right. So, you know, we, we, you, when you don't have that much to do, you find other shit to do. And I started training when I was very young for American football. I thought I was going to go to college be a football player which I almost did And I shattered my ankle I thought I was going to be in the NFL and all that Okay none of that worked so I had to find other shit But you know in Texas we start we are basically we start doing things like working cattle building fence and baling hay So you get like this country strong, and then you layer on top of that actual real weight training. And I was lucky enough in my high school to have coaches that actually knew how to train. They were ex-collegiate athletes, ex-powerlifters. So I had a really good early start to that. Plus, when we got the Internet, that opened up the world to people like Charles Poliquin, Charles Staley, Paul Cech, all of these guys back in the day who were the only people really giving really good advice on how to how to train, how to lift, how to, you know, how to get big, how to get strong and all that. So studying all these guys over a long time, doing their courses at a time where you basically you couldn't do an online test. They would send you a binder and a VHS tape. You'd watch the VHS tape. You take your test. You would fax it back to them and then they send your certification. That's how long ago this was. So it was it was wildly different than it is now when you can just go online and do everything and and do Zoom calls and consults and shit like that. I think it's fantastic the way we have it now. And so, you know, I had this,