Transition from Powerlifting to Health-First Coaching

and so that's I got to a point where you know I was a at the time a fairly accomplished powerlifter very strong but I could barely walk up the stairs without being out of breath and then I started I went and worked at Pollock and group for a while being one of the lead instructors and at some point I just had this epiphany that man maybe we've got things all wrong. Like strength is just one tool in the box. And I started getting into more of the body weight movement stuff and actually getting my cardiovascular respiratory system into shape. And I started thinking about being more well-rounded. And I think too, like I'm 42 now, you get to a certain point where maybe you're in your late thirties. Some people go out and they buy a Corvette. They have a midlife crisis. My midlife crisis was getting my blood pressure in check because I had stage two hypertension getting my triglycerides and check they were sitting at 400 and they should be under 99 like I had all of these kind of uh coming to Jesus talks with myself about what was important for the second half of my life and for me it was putting my health first and then putting my performance secondary which is something I hadn't done up to that point and so when I left Paulick and group started muscle nerds my wife and I decided that every do would be on the foundation of health first and performance secondary. So, you know, you obviously got, I think you said when we were on the course, you got your squat was over 300 kilos and you got pretty strong, you know, competitive in that respect. But your markers, your BP and, you know, resting heart rate, triglycerides and things like that, your bloods weren't great. You know, do you think if you went back and did it again and did it with your current kind of approach that prioritizes health and building a good aerobic base and things like this, that you could still get that strong or stronger? Or do you think it was a necessary evil having to kind of train in that way to get there?