The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
The hosts Mitch and Bart discuss fitness, fatherhood, and guy stuff to help men live a great life, have fun, laugh, and get a little more fit in this weekly Podcast.
The Dad Bods and Dumbbells Podcast
Our First Spat, Soccer Chaos, and Fitness Tips
Ever had a spat with your best friend that turned into a heartwarming laugh? That's where Mitch and I, Bart, start our latest episode of Dab Bods and Dumbbells, as we recount our first playful argument, showcasing the resilience of our friendship. We also bring exciting news about our YouTube channel launch, where you can catch engaging exercise tutorials and revisit previous podcast content. The episode takes a personal turn when I share my son's recent soccer tournament adventures, from his impressive on-field performance to navigating the comedic chaos of parenting under the unpredictable calls of referees and the logistics of a two-day sports event. And just when you think you've heard it all, we sprinkle in a classic dad joke to keep the mood light and fun.
Shifting gears, we explore the fascinating world of youth sports, where every small moment can contribute to personal growth and future success. Through my own experiences and anecdotes, I highlight how both victories and setbacks in sports can shape young athletes. We delve into the technical side of athletic performance, discussing the importance of technique, core strength, and stability, especially for young talents like my son who aim to improve their sprinting speed. We touch upon the limitations of certain training methods for children, emphasizing patience and gradual progression. With a mix of insights, humor, and real-life stories, this episode promises an entertaining and thoughtful look at the dynamics of youth sports and fitness.
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Welcome to Dab Bods and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm Bart.
Speaker 1:Thanks so much for listening, liking, subscribing and sharing. We love you guys.
Speaker 2:God you just missed it. Mitch and I just had our first spat right before this episode. We really did. We are at each other's necks right now. Oh man, we had our first fight. He almost choked me out. If he could have reached across the table he would have.
Speaker 1:The across the table they would have. The only thing that makes it difficult to get in a fight with bart is he's twice my size and could, but you're twice my strength.
Speaker 2:You've got that, but you got guy's strength. I don't know you got your strength you got that, uh swagger oh, that doesn't quit, you know. See, now, this is how he fights me.
Speaker 1:This is why this is why it's good to do things with people that you love and that you respect, because even if you disagree or even if you screw up, you're still friends.
Speaker 2:I love you, buddy, I love you too, brother.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Hey Mitch, look at me. I'm sorry too.
Speaker 1:Aw Okay, thanks, buddy Okay.
Speaker 2:Hey, we did want to say that we kicked off a YouTube channel and not only are some of the interviews that we did 4K on there helped Really well done, thanks to Sam and Iron Neck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, Sam.
Speaker 2:But also I'm going to start posting videos of some of the exercises that we talk about. So, like pullovers and things like that that you might have heard about in other episodes, we're going to start having content on there. You can go find those exercises explained in a video. So, episodes, we're going to start having content on there. You can go find those exercises explained in a video. So, anyway, just more opportunities to give you guys value. So if you're looking for that type of stuff, you can find us on.
Speaker 1:YouTube. I noticed you posted the reel of you doing side planks from our ski episode.
Speaker 2:Thanks for doing that.
Speaker 1:I've been doing side planks and wall sits to get ready for the ski season.
Speaker 2:Man. That was a good episode. We got a lot of people watched that one and clearly shared it because that one had an uptick in views.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:Hey, let's keep that going we like to add value, so I'm glad that was a good one.
Speaker 1:So let me tell you a dad joke. Let's get this thing rolling.
Speaker 2:Let's go.
Speaker 1:How do you follow Will Smith in the snow?
Speaker 2:How do you follow Will Smith in the snow?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:You follow the fresh Prince.
Speaker 1:Good, all right, all right. So that was the best one. So, absolutely, yeah, that's pretty good, that was good, that's pretty good, and I didn't say it fresh Prince. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, cause it, cause it comes out. You know know. Joke is you think it's going this way and it comes around the side and it hits you in the face. I loved it, good one.
Speaker 1:Thanks for letting me share. Oh man, that was awesome so we are in deep parent mode right now. I don't know how to process this. Last weekend. My son is in a stars select league.
Speaker 2:He's a badass.
Speaker 1:He's amazing. He's nine years old. He's got a better kick than I did in my varsity soccer team. Like he is and I'm not just saying this, he's been I've been told by many parents, many coaches he's just hardcore, he's a hard worker, he's tough, he's brave, he's courageous, he kicks the ball well. He knows. He has a great iq for soccer. So we go into the soccer tournament. This year our team has been like 16 of 2. We beat every team by at least 5 points. Like it is a lot. It's been awesome. I never see him lose and so we go in this tournament. It's in pflugerville, the worst place in the world. Sorry, pflugerville, it's an hour from my house. It sucked.
Speaker 2:We had a game at 9 am and then we had a game at it's true, and a game at 9 am, and then we had a game at city, it's true, and a game at 7 pm oh so you haven't you have that long a time to figure out what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1:Oh, am I gonna go to this or not, or am I gonna go home and come back? No, we stayed. It was the worst. It was alright. We spent time with friends, it was cool. Anyway, all that to say, my son comes out, scores a couple goals in the first game. We crush that team. We go into the 7 pm game in the dark, under the lights, expecting to dominate, and they get immediately within the first six, 10 seconds. It was like uh-oh, this team is superior. Like kicks. Everybody was quicker, everybody had better foot work, everybody. Now, we stayed on them. They got a couple quick two goals. A couple of them could have been called back. They had a penalty kick even.
Speaker 2:Might have been some offsides going on.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's true.
Speaker 2:Nine ten-year-old kids, lots of offside going.
Speaker 1:Objectively the ref stunk and he was calling everything for them. My son got tackled, almost broke his wrist and they called a foul against him.
Speaker 2:I even went out on the field. Did you rush the field? I?
Speaker 1:would have. I went out on the field and I had to like hey, are you good, buddy? He's like yeah, I got it, dad don't worry and I hugged him and I said you got this, bro. You show them what you're made of. Score is a freaking goal. Bam yeah, shows them what they still lost. So we go into sunday. It's a two-day tournament. We go into Sunday with we got to start talking goal differential tie breaks.
Speaker 1:To get to the finals, to get to the finals Because only bracket A, bracket B, the top, and both go meet together in the finals. So my son, in the third game we're not going to go. We weren't expecting to go to the finals. I was like please, lord, don't let them win. My son scores a goal at the last few minutes of the game. Turns out it was the. It was exactly how many goals they needed to be able to beat the goal differential and be number two, or be number one on our bracket and go to the finals, right.
Speaker 1:So huge moment huge moment, screaming everybody's excited.
Speaker 2:And your son scored the goal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my son did's awesome and so so you got this absolute yeah he's pumped and I'm like crap, I gotta stay for the 6 30 pm game like a good dad.
Speaker 2:Just like man, I gotta stay wild wings.
Speaker 1:This season has been so long, bro, so we get to the buffalo wild wings, and so we're on a high. Hey, we're awesome, we dominate, we're number one, we go to the finals. Guess who we face?
Speaker 1:the best team, this best, the superior team we lost to oh really the same team because we, the way the bracket worked, we'd seen them earlier. We come in. It's like, uh-oh, I think we could do this. We got know what they want. They score a goal within the first one minute. Oh geez, they get a penalty within the first five minutes. Stupid call, ref sucks. It's like teenage kid. I start yelling garbage. Yell at him All that stuff. Second penalty they tackled him in the box, whatever it was. I mean they were taking, they were flopping.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But he was calling everything. They got three penalty kicks in the first half and they already scored. They got three penalty kicks in the first half and that, and they already scored a couple of goals. I think they were up six. Nothing by the half. And I'm sitting there, broken because we come from this high of the highs and our kids they're crying on the field as they're playing, like this is horrible. We've never felt this feeling before and, of course, all the parents are upset. It's pretty quiet, stacy is with me and it's just like man, I just want this to be over. This is horrible. Is there any way we can just throw in the towel Right? And I said, hey, this is probably the best thing for them to experience defeat.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not only defeat like epic defeat, and so they play out the second half. My son scores a goal. The only guy to score on them is my son. In the last two games they finish the game. They're all like on the bench, distraught. Their coach is talking to them. They walk over and we all cheer them on like, hey guys, great work, great work. Hey, proud of you guys working hard. They never gave up. They worked hard the entire time, even though they're in mid-tiers. As they're playing right, they get their medals in second place. And I get in the car and I say, buddy, I'm so proud of how you persevered, you worked hard. Even though you lost, you did everything you needed to possible. Sometimes you don't always win. It was probably the best lesson, even though I wanted to end it at half. It's probably the best lesson that I could ever give my son who's in soccer. Probably the coolest thing, probably the coolest like clearly, dad moment that I could find. They got second, so they're losers. Yeah, they got a medal though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that was kind of cool but you know, I think, you know, I think that's the always the. You know, the bigger moments are the ones that they deal with something like disappointment, failure, all that kind of stuff, and you watch how they deal with it. Do they fall apart, do they start blaming everybody else? How do they own it? How do they take that responsibility? And then the next season or the next time there's that opportunity, how are they different for that? And I think that's you know.
Speaker 2:I mean there's always those things that you're trying to instill in your kid. I mean, I look back at my childhood. I can't remember like if I learned what I needed to learn from failure, from like losing a basketball game yeah or whatever, but I mean I don't remember any moment like that going up in new sports.
Speaker 2:It was pretty, I think I think it's different, like we want to like imagine that like these moments are that like profound, but they're probably just like little tiny specks of like you know, like personality dust, that that like add a slight bit of like extra something that, like allows something in the future to be possible, and I think that's always the way we have to understand it.
Speaker 1:It's easy to be positive and happy when you're winning, when you're scoring goals, when you're getting assists, but when you're faced with adversity that's why I love sports and that's why I love team sports is because it's not just you. Yeah, you can cause things, but it's a team thing and I think, with kids, they need to be in something like that so they can feel failure, they can feel adversity, they can persevere, because it does translate.
Speaker 1:I mean that's why I love sports is because it does translate to real life. It's not all rainbows and butterflies and, yeah, we're not earning a hundred million dollar contracts always but the fact that they could experience that at 10, nine and 10. And because of how he played, he got asked to play in next Saturday's tournament in San Antonio with the grade up.
Speaker 2:So you're putting them on a bus and sending it to San Antonio. I'm going to have to spend the entire weekend again in San Antonio.
Speaker 1:Hopefully they're not good so.
Speaker 2:I can?
Speaker 1:we can enjoy only three games rather than the fourth final.
Speaker 2:So once upon a time I was on a select soccer team.
Speaker 1:Really For like one year, I imagine.
Speaker 2:And we went to the Bay Area. I was in Davis, california, which is north of California. We went to the Bay Area for this tournament and we won and we had a three-hour. I remember this the most. We had a three-hour rest before the next game and the coach said okay, everyone, let's go to McDonald's, he's like, but don't order any milk or dairy. I was like why? He's like it won't digest in time for the game. You'll get a side ache. I'm like oh, that's important, is that?
Speaker 1:true.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's true. True, but he was like he was a core member. I remember he was a very like like he had played like high level soccer. So like everything he said, we like, like we hung on every word.
Speaker 1:Right, and so this guy was like you know, here you eat McDonald's go for it, but don't drink milk or have a shake.
Speaker 2:How old was I? Probably 13.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, so that's a pretty big deal. Yeah, being a select 13 soccer yeah.
Speaker 2:I was the like. I wasn't the goal, I was the like. Second string goalie.
Speaker 1:So I played like fullback second string goalie. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Because I was tall, but anyway, that was a cool. It was a cool, but I just remember that like specifically, that's You've got three hours.
Speaker 1:You never not enough time.
Speaker 2:Don't drink dairy You're going to have a sight. I love that, but I thought like that's a great little piece of information that that guy shared with us that, like somebody else would never have thought of.
Speaker 1:So with with the soccer thing, I think this works into what we were talking about before we got on. My son is a little bit slow off the ball. He's he can run for days but he when you're talking about sprinting to something or he misses a tackle and he keeps going. He's always just a foot behind. And I noticed that he can run as hard as he possibly can but he just can't match the speed of the next guy. And I looked at his technique and I ran track in high school and there's a certain technique you have to follow to be fast and he's moving his whole upper body back and forth, his head back and forth and all those things that you think would help momentum you and it actually slows you down. And so we started watching YouTube clips on how to be faster and what the technique is to take it. And I'd love to hear your take on the intensity versus technique, because he's putting a lot of intensity out there but because his technique's bad, he actually doesn't look good. It's a noisy technique.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, but here's the thing it's very typical of young kids because they don't have the stability or the core strength to keep them Like if you think about a world-class sprinter yeah right, usain, bolt right like you. Just I mean, he has his like. The reason why they're so muscular as sprinters is because, like why you would think, well, why is their upper body muscular?
Speaker 2:they're not using their upper body, but their, their, ability to have so much stability and power and drive. Everything is pristine in terms of how they move. So kids, especially until they hit puberty, unless they're really light and therefore their strength to body weight ratio is really positive, beneficial to them, they're gonna put a lot of energy into running but they don't necessarily have the efficiency. So some of it's practice, some of it's okay, if you know, looking at some like core stability stuff like just like planks and side planks and things like that uh, would would be somewhat helpful like box jumps, like jump, anything like.
Speaker 2:I think, I think broad, broad jumps can help just with some of the power and some of that acceleration deceleration in the knee and stuff like that. But uh, I think a lot of it is just, you know, patience with their their like.
Speaker 1:just they're gonna get it it Right. What about those? Uh band you we used to do when we did camp gladiator. You'd hold the band and the person would be like running ahead of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the problem is, is the kids are so light at this age that like, like once they can go out in that band and the band has bring such a force back and they're just so's it's you gotta be. I mean, you could do a little bit of that. Um, I think you'd even be better off doing more like high knees, butt kicks yeah, that's exactly what I've been putting it on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the big power skips.
Speaker 2:Yeah, things like that, karaoke, that type of thing just doing more footwork and balance and stuff that like requires him to be more body aware.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's good um I speaking of, uh, just fitness and and sport in the way of that. I did want to bring up a topic, uh, you know, I think, as people are trying to figure out how to exercise and get stronger and kind of optimize all that kind of stuff, one of the things that I've, you know, you, you see a lot of in people going on YouTube or wherever to find out like what, the perfect technique is.
Speaker 2:How do I build my chest? Do I need to do the perfect technique? Is it full range of motion? Do I need to pause? Or you have all this like eccentric uh control and and blah, blah, blah. Is it dumbbells instead of barbells, or do I need the perfect machine?
Speaker 2:And I think sometimes what happens is we're like chasing the wrong thing. Yeah, right, yes, technique's important. I will never say it's not, but we oftentimes will intellectually decide oh, techniques more important than intensity. And that is not true. Like you need a high level of intensity in the work you do, which means pushing yourself into the burn, close to failure not necessarily past failure where you're, like you know the bars on your chest right, but like you need to get your muscles out of their comfort zone so that they will adapt and grow. Um, and you can do that by staying in like an 8 to 12 rep range and not be very, like, worried about injury.
Speaker 2:Um, because it's you know where you need to worry about injuries when you're doing like one to five reps, like heavy, heavy weight, like really like loading, and you need to have a lot of technique and stuff like that. But but for people that are trying to get stronger like remember that it is your intensity that is going to, in the end of the day, determine um, if your body is going to respond. You can't like have the perfect technique. Do it real slow and steady, like and just do like eight reps, even though you had 12 in the tank and you didn't. You know, and well, I'm doing the perfect form, so that's going to adapt and make my body adapt like it's still. You still need to push yourself like there is no cheat code for just working hard yeah, yeah and putting your input.
Speaker 1:Well, I think that's a hundred percent right, and I think what happens is a lot of people get caught up in this type of workout and like, oh, I'm going to do this new workout and this new app and they don't actually do any of it. Or they do one week or two, two times a week or whatever, and it's so complicated, it's so frustrating and they actually don't even do any of it, right or or.
Speaker 2:They're doing so many things to back, to back, to back, because they want to burn calories yep aka f45 orange theory. You fill in the blank of yeah, you know franchise barry's boot camp, whatever. Like you know that that. Imagine you were going to do bench and I told you okay, before you bench you got to do 50 mountain climbers, 25 jumping jacks 20 squat jumps.
Speaker 2:And then I'm going to put 100 275 pounds on your chest and you're going to do eight reps like, even though we didn't do any chest work between the mountain climbers, a little bit of shoulder stability. But then you know squats and, like your, your system is so fatigued you get down on the bench you have no capacity. So, even though you're tired in the night, you might burn out at an exercise, like pushups or burpees or whatever. Your muscles aren't actually close to failure, you're just systemically tired. And that fatigue makes you feel like you're close to failure, like, oh, I couldn't do anymore, I was wiped out. Yeah, yeah, but you weren't really strength training because your body was so wiped out it didn't have the capacity to push yourself far enough where you're going to elicit the strength increase.
Speaker 1:Well, I think a lot of it. You've taught me this is the rest portion is so important between your reps, between your sets. So here's one thing that's helped me, and this is because we talk all the time and we talk about working out all that stuff is. One thing I've been good at is consistently running, um, and I've gotten faster and I've gotten better at it, which is great over the last couple months. But I've decided it's like, oh, I want to do a weightlifting program too. That's important.
Speaker 1:My body responds really well to heavy weights Like this is something I should prioritize. But I'd be like, oh, but I'm tired from my run, let me get cleaned up. I'll do it in the evening, and I fricking never do it. It happens every time. And so I just started to go. You know what? I'm just going to do something. I get done with my run, I'm all sweaty, I'm going to go into our home gym and I'm just going to lift whatever I want as many times as I want, and so that's my mental mentality. So I do a lot of like dumbbell, bench press, a lot of flies, a lot of like you know, triceps, stuff that I want.
Speaker 2:Show muscles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, show muscles, Just because it's like we get so caught up in all of the things that have to happen for it to be perfect and I have done some of your leg workouts and they kill me for a full week.
Speaker 1:It's the worst. So all that to say is I think that sometimes we get totally from an average athlete perspective, we get so caught up in making sure all these things are perfect before we just go out and go for a run or go out and lift some weights Because, oh, I didn't finish my sets the way I should have it's like, just do what you can 10 minutes of weightlifting is better than no minutes of weightlifting.
Speaker 1:And so for me I've kind of gone that perspective of I just want to, like, this morning I get done with a four-mile mile run. It's the fastest four mile run I've done in two, three years and so I go right into the gym and I my son's has to get lunch ready. I'm running late already but I try to do. I do incline dumbbell presses and then I go into. What else did I? Oh, I did dumbbell flies, like I just want a quick pump. It's like get as much as I can. And sure enough, I walk in to the bedroom to get changed for work and guess what my wife says like damn, you look good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then boinky, boinky, boinky. Oh stop, oh sorry.
Speaker 1:Stop that.
Speaker 2:It's so bad oh yeah, no, but that's awesome, I mean, you know, getting something done. Now I would, I would challenge you to flip it once in a while and do your workout first and then go for a four-mile run and just maybe once a week, just walk into that gym fresh without having done the run and, just you know, maybe hit some of those specific lifts that you want to just like really be good at and then go for the run.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then maybe just 20 minutes. Wake up 20 minutes. Wake up, nice, 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:Hit a little chest, Hit a little don't. Probably don't do legs, but hit some back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just in back and then and then boom, take off on the run. Your legs are fresh. Your body your body probably feels even more awake from all the.
Speaker 1:All right, hey man, it's been a great episode. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:You know it started out with a little fire under our belly, though we had just gotten over our little little tip our little spats, a little lover's quarrel, but we got through it and we are going to get through this for it. I think we're better.
Speaker 1:I feel like I don't know I'm still kind of a little pissed but it's OK, it's all right.
Speaker 2:We'll hug it out.
Speaker 1:That's what it's all about though.
Speaker 2:That's what it's all about, dad bods and dumbbells.
Speaker 1:Thank you guys for listening. Make sure you like, subscribe and share and give feedback. We'd love to hear topics that you want to hear from us. Thank you, guys for listening.
Speaker 2:Love you, peace out.
Speaker 1:That's funny.