{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":30.419,"endTime":33.699,"body":"What's up, Everyone? happy Tuesday, Wecom back to another episode of each"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":33.778999999999996,"endTime":38.099000000000004,"body":"train Prosper today, Brian myself are going to talk more about choosing the"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":38.179,"endTime":42.498999999999995,"body":"right gym. This is something I find very very important to myself and it is"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":42.579,"endTime":46.739000000000004,"body":"an area that I think so many people kind of fall short in in comparison and"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":46.819,"endTime":52.339,"body":"really selecting the gym for more appropriate reasons for the reason. Sorry"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":52.498999999999995,"endTime":55.859,"body":"for the time that you spend there. 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Um. let's start with a really awesome exciting"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":64.44,"endTime":68.68,"body":"update, which is, I bought myself a functional trainer and"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":68.519,"endTime":69.519,"body":"Excellent?"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":69.16,"endTime":73.16,"body":"it's even more than a functional trainer because it also has a high and a"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":73.24000000000001,"endTime":77.47999999999999,"body":"low pulley, so it essentially has like a high pully, a low pully, And then"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":77.56,"endTime":80.75999999999999,"body":"it has the two arms on either side with the cable that kind of just runs up"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":80.84,"endTime":82.44,"body":"and down vertically. Um,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":83.64,"endTime":87.16,"body":"and this is awesome. 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Uh, I assume that that"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":187.72,"endTime":190.36,"body":"that that higher pulley is goingnna pull me out of the the cheests"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":190.68,"endTime":192.52,"body":"supported position, Uh, so I think"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":192.239,"endTime":193.239,"body":"Gota."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":192.6,"endTime":196.52,"body":"the single armed stuff would be definitely be a solution. Um, like even the"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":196.52,"endTime":199.72,"body":"cheests supported single and pulled down versus doing both arms at the same"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":199.88,"endTime":204.44,"body":"time. 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I've never felt for sixty five that"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":292.36,"endTime":297.32,"body":"heavy before And it's it's this moment in my training where now I have to"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":297.48,"endTime":301.96,"body":"decide kind of whether this is the second time that this deadlift issue has"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":302.04,"endTime":305.8,"body":"popped up for me. Do I need like a dead leftft deload every other week Like"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":305.88,"endTime":310.2,"body":"is that a solution? Do I need to take the r. D, l out of my training on"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":310.28,"endTime":313.88,"body":"Friday, so that I don't have two heavy hip hinges. Uh, maybe the Friday"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":314.12,"endTime":317.72,"body":"session becomes a hip extension. or maybe it just becomes a leg curl. Just"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":317.8,"endTime":322.76,"body":"take the entire Um hiphinge mechanism out of it so that I'm I'm fresher for"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":322.84,"endTime":327.32,"body":"the the dead lifts on Mondays. I don't exactly know what the answer is, but"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":327.4,"endTime":330.68,"body":"I did have an interesting discussion, Uh, Brandon De Cruise, and I, uh,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":330.68,"endTime":333.8,"body":"Branin has been on the podcast a number of times. He actually, um"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":334.84,"endTime":338.92,"body":"wrote me a really cool long response about connois, some thoughts he had on"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":339.0,"endTime":342.52,"body":"the in on the issue and his suggestion was actually to to potentially take"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":342.52,"endTime":346.04,"body":"a deadlift specific Deload, Which then we discussed further and I told him"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":346.12,"endTime":349.8,"body":"that I had done that the prior week and that it worked and whatever, And"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":349.88,"endTime":352.52,"body":"and his suggestion was, Yeah, Maybe you just do like, kind of a"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":352.6,"endTime":355.8,"body":"neurological week for deadlift where it's like you know half the way and"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":355.88,"endTime":359.16,"body":"you know reps are just for speed, so you're still greasing the groove of"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":359.16,"endTime":363.64,"body":"the. 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Like all the"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":385.96,"endTime":389.24,"body":"pull down stuff, all the bench pressed stuff, my low bar back squats are"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":389.24,"endTime":392.92,"body":"even progressing, So it's really like an acute thing that's just affecting"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":393.24,"endTime":398.6,"body":"my dead lifts. and um, I just like, kind of need to take another chill week"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":398.76,"endTime":401.16,"body":"and come back and see what happens. I think. Do you have any thoughts on"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":400.9,"endTime":401.9,"body":"any of that"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":402.019,"endTime":405.859,"body":"I mean the initial thing that comes to my mind, and some of this is some you"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":405.859,"endTime":409.939,"body":"know. per, uh, subjective perception of my own. 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Not from a hypertrophy standpoint, That subjective kind"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":427.779,"endTime":430.339,"body":"of uh, soreness Stms you get from it, but we know they are right."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":429.9,"endTime":430.9,"body":"Mhm, Mhm,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":430.419,"endTime":433.939,"body":"Of course it's it's a heavy hit pitch. but I'm wondering. Like with that"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":434.019,"endTime":437.699,"body":"combination of like the the arti else, Ay else just fuck me up. you know,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":437.26,"endTime":438.26,"body":"Mhm,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":437.779,"endTime":440.979,"body":"like in, and I mean that in like a great way, you know, like I, I perform"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":441.139,"endTime":445.619,"body":"them, I, I get you. I get beat up from them and I think that just might be"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":445.699,"endTime":448.339,"body":"doing it. and one of the hampshs are one of those things like you When"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":448.339,"endTime":451.299,"body":"they're when they're like kind of sore like they will. You will just will not"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":451.079,"endTime":452.079,"body":"perform"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":451.5,"endTime":452.5,"body":"Yeah,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":451.939,"endTime":455.059,"body":"well. You know in in those hip piingnging movements when they're kind of like"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":455.219,"endTime":459.299,"body":"that. So initially that that was my thought, like maybe subbbing that, for"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":459.779,"endTime":462.659,"body":"you know, just a leg, uh curl type movement"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":462.3,"endTime":463.3,"body":"Mhm."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":462.899,"endTime":463.939,"body":"would be more beneficial."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":464.92,"endTime":468.84,"body":"Yeah, that's kind of my initial thought too, cause I've also been um,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":469.16,"endTime":473.8,"body":"compromised in in subsequent hip Hch sessions by going too heavy and so"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":474.2,"endTime":478.44,"body":"like. I'm okay if I do like an r d l, and a good morning or an adiol, and"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":478.44,"endTime":482.04,"body":"a stuffi, like a deadlift, Um. because I think the tension is just more"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":482.44,"endTime":486.6,"body":"more specific to the hams, strings and gluts, Uh. but the dead lift is kind"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":486.6,"endTime":490.04,"body":"of a new beast introducing into my program, so I don't know about having a"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":490.04,"endTime":494.6,"body":"dead left on Monday, and an r d l on Friday. Maybe it's dead left on"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":494.6,"endTime":497.88,"body":"Monday and then it's either like really light deadlifts like two twenty"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":498.04,"endTime":501.24,"body":"five speed raraps on Friday, or it's like you said, like a leg curl, or"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":501.32,"endTime":505.32,"body":"possibly like a hip extension or something like that, But I did also go"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":505.4,"endTime":508.76,"body":"heavier than I have all cycle on Friday with the ryl. I went to three sixty"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":508.92,"endTime":513.3199999999999,"body":"five, which was twenty pounds up from two two weeks prior. Um, and then did"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":513.4,"endTime":516.2,"body":"some back off sets at three fifteen. So it's not even like I was going like"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":516.28,"endTime":520.36,"body":"super light on the ry. hell like I kind of pushed it a little bit. Um, but"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":520.44,"endTime":523.8,"body":"anyway, I appreciate that Brandon jumped in and gave some input to. and uh,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":523.96,"endTime":528.6,"body":"he and I had a cool, uh, Interesting discussion about how a lot of people"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":528.8399999999999,"endTime":531.3199999999999,"body":"always are talking about Dloads needing to be"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":532.36,"endTime":535.72,"body":"uh across everything. Like you take a deald week. 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And so there's these two audiences that are extremely"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2819.32,"endTime":2823.08,"body":"dicootomous And this is what we see in in the Paragon group as well. Is we"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2823.16,"endTime":2827.48,"body":"have some people that I have to speak to them as if like, I'm trying to"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2827.56,"endTime":2831.0,"body":"pull them back like hey, you know, rest days are really important and like,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2831.16,"endTime":2834.12,"body":"Ooh, I don't know. You are resting about ten seconds between back squat"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2834.36,"endTime":2838.04,"body":"raraps. Like I can't really say that. 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And maybe"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2855.88,"endTime":2859.48,"body":"it works both ways. Like you could be the person that that you know always"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2859.64,"endTime":2862.68,"body":"has excuses and doesn't train. You know they're not committed to the"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2862.76,"endTime":2865.96,"body":"process. Maybe it's because they're at the wrong gym. Maybe that person's"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2866.28,"endTime":2869.88,"body":"experiences improved drastically by going to the good gym, but by the same"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2870.12,"endTime":2873.56,"body":"token, maybe it's not like. maybe they go to the good gym and they're just"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2873.64,"endTime":2876.2,"body":"like. Oh, these guys are all like really hard core like. it's even more"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2876.2,"endTime":2879.0,"body":"intimidating than going to like twenty four hour fitness or whatever. Like."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2879.08,"endTime":2881.8,"body":"I think I'll just hang out in my corner over here and keep doing what I'm"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2881.96,"endTime":2885.4,"body":"doing. Um, whereas, if you pluck that person out of like a gold, z a"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2885.4,"endTime":2890.28,"body":"twenty fire fitness, that is like the the hash tag No rest days person. And"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2891.08,"endTime":2893.88,"body":"and they're already like intrinsically motivated Like you don't need to"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2893.88,"endTime":2897.16,"body":"push them at all. They push themselves hard enough right then you take them"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2897.24,"endTime":2901.32,"body":"to a gym like that and they get more stimulus to fatiguetio out of their"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2901.48,"endTime":2904.76,"body":"movements. They start networking and talking with people that knock some"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2905.16,"endTime":2909.08,"body":"ents into their head, and suddenly their experience improves drastically"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2909.24,"endTime":2912.84,"body":"too, so, Um, it's it's interesting. I think it's very individual and it may"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2913.0,"endTime":2915.96,"body":"fit into like that two factor audience that that I mentioned."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":2916.579,"endTime":2920.099,"body":"one thing you said that I really really like that. I think some up well is"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":2920.179,"endTime":2921.779,"body":"the intrinsically motivated,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2921.66,"endTime":2922.66,"body":"Mhm."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":2922.099,"endTime":2924.259,"body":"but I think that's a beautiful way to capture it."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2925.32,"endTime":2929.4,"body":"Yeah, so I don't know, like I. I honestly think that just if you haven't"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2929.72,"endTime":2933.64,"body":"experienced one of these more like kind of independently owned body"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2933.72,"endTime":2936.84,"body":"building style gyms like you really should, and I think you even put it at"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2936.92,"endTime":2938.6,"body":"sixty to seventy five a month, I think"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2939.64,"endTime":2943.56,"body":"forty to sixty would probably be more with icy. Uh, like I, I joined the"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2943.72,"endTime":2947.8,"body":"gym in San Diego for fifty bucks a month, and then the one in Uh, Fort"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2947.96,"endTime":2952.52,"body":"Collins, that I went to with Nuas was, Um, was, I believe, also like,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2952.6,"endTime":2956.6,"body":"thirty five to forty five a month, too, so, um, super cheap. And they have"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2956.76,"endTime":2960.2,"body":"like the best equipment right so then like you have your your goals and"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2960.28,"endTime":2965.32,"body":"your twenty fours. And I remember even at twenty four ten years ago. Uh, it"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2965.56,"endTime":2970.2,"body":"being thirty five bucks a month or something like that, so I'm guessing"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2970.36,"endTime":2974.2,"body":"those ones are also in that same like kind of thirty to fifty range. And"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2974.36,"endTime":2978.52,"body":"yeah, maybe like Planet Fitness and Crunch, and like some of those, uh,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2979.48,"endTime":2983.24,"body":"lower level commercial gyms are like you know, ten, twelve, fourteen bucks"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2983.32,"endTime":2988.12,"body":"a month or whatever it is. But like Planet Fitness is like the bottom of"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2988.12,"endTime":2990.92,"body":"the barrel. They literally they. you're You're talking about your client."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2991.08,"endTime":2993.72,"body":"But the dumbbells only go to seventy five. I didn't even know they went"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2993.88,"endTime":2997.56,"body":"that high and they really don't have barbellls like you. It's only Smith"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":2997.72,"endTime":3001.08,"body":"machines. You can't actually use a bar bell in there and then they have the"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3001.16,"endTime":3006.04,"body":"lug alarm right where where, if you, if you drop weights or if you if you"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3006.28,"endTime":3010.04,"body":"grunt or make noise or work too hard, then they kick you out of the gym. I"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3010.04,"endTime":3013.8,"body":"think literally, work too hard is one of the the qualifiers. So"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3014.019,"endTime":3018.419,"body":"Yeah, yeah, if you're there, please let'sketch you somewhere else. I will"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3018.579,"endTime":3021.059,"body":"personally look up gyems near you and"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3020.62,"endTime":3021.62,"body":"yeah,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3021.059,"endTime":3022.899,"body":"I'll do that myself. If you you"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3022.54,"endTime":3023.54,"body":"yeah,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3023.139,"endTime":3027.939,"body":"training there. The last thing for me. So I am in this. You know, this pickle"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3028.259,"endTime":3029.699,"body":"around picking a gym. There are"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3029.26,"endTime":3030.26,"body":"Mhm,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3029.859,"endTime":3034.899,"body":"two here nearby. Um, I've been to both of them now. I'm I just started my"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3034.899,"endTime":3038.339,"body":"week pass at the At the farther away one, which is about like a twelve minute"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3038.499,"endTime":3041.459,"body":"drive. It's called Muscle factory. It's over in uh tempy,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3042.819,"endTime":3046.019,"body":"and then the other one is Independence Gym here in Scotsle, which is"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3046.099,"endTime":3049.699,"body":"literally like a ten minute walk. So ten minute walk. Vers is like a ten"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3049.779,"endTime":3055.699,"body":"minute drive. The hard thing is the further away.  gym has an Atlantis"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3055.939,"endTime":3060.579,"body":"pendulum. It has the Cybeec Squat press, which I've B, you know, used to hate"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3060.739,"endTime":3064.099,"body":"for years, and then learned how to use it, and it's now one of my favorites."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3064.659,"endTime":3070.179,"body":"Um, they have the arsenal hack squa, which is just like. It's so so good, and"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3070.659,"endTime":3075.059,"body":"those like M I and I' like coming. Am I really going to like drive to a gym"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3075.619,"endTime":3080.659,"body":"for those three machines, and the hard answer is like, I kind of think I am,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3080.679,"endTime":3081.679,"body":"Um,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3083.379,"endTime":3086.739,"body":"cost wise, I mean there. I. I don't even remember there. One was sixty five."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3086.899,"endTime":3090.499,"body":"The other was like thirty plusa activation fee. I don't even know what it is"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3090.579,"endTime":3094.899,"body":"like. That's cost is in a is in a the factor for me and I learned that when"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3095.059,"endTime":3098.499,"body":"the when the gyms closed in Mexico, when we were there, and then they had"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3098.819,"endTime":3102.659,"body":"underground gym and I was like, How much would I really pay to go to the gym"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3102.819,"endTime":3105.139,"body":"And I was like I don't really want to answer it, because it would really come"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3105.219,"endTime":3108.259,"body":"down to like. How much money do I have and what else am I going to do with my"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3108.259,"endTime":3114.019,"body":"day type of thing? So man, I do not know. I. I. I want to go to the local gym"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3114.179,"endTime":3117.459,"body":"or the closer ones so I can walk 'cause that's like fantastic. I'll hit my"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3117.539,"endTime":3121.939,"body":"step count pretty much just from walking to the gym. You know, moving around"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3122.099,"endTime":3125.539,"body":"the gym while there and walking home like my steps are basically done for the"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3125.619,"endTime":3129.059,"body":"day and that gets me back. You know, forty minutes of my day or so E."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3129.459,"endTime":3130.739,"body":"Comparatively, but"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3131.859,"endTime":3134.899,"body":"they don't have a haxwat. They do have a hack squat. but it's like a super"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3135.139,"endTime":3138.899,"body":"old um, pre Corp one where I know I'm not going to be able to hit full depth"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3139.059,"endTime":3143.219,"body":"type on the leg presses are god awful like it. It just opens the bigger"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3143.299,"endTime":3146.099,"body":"questions, like who the fuck was designing these like presses and the"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3146.179,"endTime":3151.699,"body":"nineties and Shi like that like it's outrageous. Um, and of course there's no"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3151.719,"endTime":3152.719,"body":"pendulum. So leg"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3152.22,"endTime":3153.22,"body":"Mhm,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3152.819,"endTime":3156.659,"body":"day I'll have to get a little more creative and not use any of the niceties"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3156.899,"endTime":3161.779,"body":"of the twenty first century for training legs. but I have to drive every day."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3161.4,"endTime":3165.56,"body":"So I have a proposal. Why not just buy two memberships and do leg day at"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3165.56,"endTime":3167.64,"body":"the far one and upper body day's close on"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3167.539,"endTime":3169.379,"body":"I thought about that too. I mean,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3168.84,"endTime":3171.72,"body":"absolutely. for like thirty five extra dollars or whatever it is?"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3172.099,"endTime":3176.499,"body":"Yeah, I think I think it would maybe be like. but yeahcause, the one. Yeah,"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3176.739,"endTime":3180.019,"body":"it wouldn't be much more money. I could just like literally do that too."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3180.6,"endTime":3184.04,"body":"That's what I would do. Man, and I think you should totally take advantage"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3184.12,"endTime":3187.4,"body":"of having like the Arsenal Hack and the Atlanta Pendulum, And and really"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3187.64,"endTime":3191.32,"body":"get the good quality work incause in in your travels and stuff. You're"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3191.48,"endTime":3194.84,"body":"probably not going to be in places that have that high level of equipment"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3195.02,"endTime":3196.02,"body":"everywhere that you go."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3196.739,"endTime":3200.419,"body":"Yeah, that might. so why not both? That might be the. Uh. The solution."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3200.199,"endTime":3201.199,"body":"There,"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3200.9,"endTime":3201.9,"body":"Yep, cool."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3202.419,"endTime":3204.099,"body":"cool anything else on this one? Brian?"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3204.68,"endTime":3209.48,"body":"no man. Cs. Just texted me, so uh, I'm getting excited for. Uh. For next"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3209.64,"endTime":3212.76,"body":"week I asked him if there were any topics that he wanted us to discuss and"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3212.84,"endTime":3215.4,"body":"he said No, it's your audience. whatever you want. So so you and"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3215.159,"endTime":3216.159,"body":"perfect."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3215.48,"endTime":3218.44,"body":"I are going to have to uh, get together and come up with some cool"},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3218.34,"endTime":3219.34,"body":"questions."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3219.379,"endTime":3221.219,"body":"Yup, trying not to sound too dumb."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3221.96,"endTime":3224.44,"body":"exactly. Let's not talk about bioemchanics."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3225.459,"endTime":3228.019,"body":"Like Give it really basicque."},{"speaker":"[bryan_boorstein]","startTime":3227.0,"endTime":3228.76,"body":"We'll just paraphrase what he says."},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3229.299,"endTime":3232.819,"body":"Yeah, all right, So as always, guys thangg you for listening, Brian and I"},{"speaker":"[aaron_straker]","startTime":3232.879,"endTime":3233.879,"body":"will talk to you next week."}]}