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
Mitch wants a "Manly" Summer Body and is Powerlifting making Bart Fat?
A candid exploration of body image challenges in powerlifting, along with strategies for maintaining a healthy lifestyle while managing weight. Staff concerns about weight, training intensity, and emotional ties to eating habits highlighted.
• Jokes and light-hearted moments start the episode
• Spotlight on Rx Solutions as key sponsor
• Discussion about body image and feelings of weight gain
• Personal experiences shared regarding nutrition and overindulgence
• Strategies discussed for weight management in powerlifting competitions
• Emphasis on the importance of discipline in achieving personal fitness goals
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Welcome to Dad, bods and Dumbbells. My name is Mitch.
Speaker 2:Hey, and I'm Bart.
Speaker 1:Thanks so much for listening, liking, subscribing and sharing. We're so glad you're here to join us and we have a great show today. But before I'd like to thank our sponsors. Rx Solutions. If you are dealing with erectile dysfunction, boys, if you're dealing with giggle, we're all little children here Erectile ED hair loss weight issues, anything that you want to figure out, rx Solutions is the solution.
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Speaker 2:they are your solution link in the show notes, by the way. Um so hey, uh, real quick dad joke. Uh, this one's good. Oh, it's so good, buddy. Um, what did the duck say when it bought some chapstick? I don't know put it on my bill oh because he's the chap the bills.
Speaker 1:Chapped, yeah, got it, got it, that is that is a quintessential dad joke.
Speaker 2:Not never that funny it's okay.
Speaker 1:It's okay, hey, you'll get him next for a five-year-old. You'll get him next time, kiddo, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1:Well, the joke's not supposed to be that funny honestly, bart, there's something I need to talk to you about, oh my goodness Go deep, it's pretty personal.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to get defensive.
Speaker 2:Yes, you have ED? Oh no, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:No, you don't, you don't know. You've told me how you wake the morning with easy, massive, no pain. Above average pain, oh, not massive. All right, all that to say, bart, you know, I know you're using james de lacy's lift big, eat, big world, oh yeah, uh, to power, lift and to get that. And you look so strong, you do, and I'm very strong right now but uh, are you getting fat?
Speaker 2:that's the question I have so there's many layers of this. First of all, if you most people that see me be like, oh no, shut up, barton, just be quiet like I said, right like you look great fine, um, but no, I you know. It's interesting because in the mindset of a bodybuilder there's always this kind of like, negotiation of like how much body fat?
Speaker 1:do I want?
Speaker 2:to keep, or like gain when you're, when you're bulking, in the sense like trying to build muscle and then you're trying to cut it back and you never want to be too out of shape because that doesn't.
Speaker 2:That's not bodybuilder-esque blah blah. But in powerlifting, like I am, just like it's. I'm getting stronger, the weights you you know, like my form, my explosion, all these things are happening, everything's going well, but I'm not working out as much because he has to be really four days a week in the gym. It's like a bench focus day, a squat focus day, a deadlift focus day and then kind of an accessory upper body. So we'll do like dumbbell, chest, shoulder press, lap pull stuff like that and that's it. So there's three days where I'm like literally just not working out and I'm eating a lot, right, and I'm just getting a little fluffy, are you?
Speaker 1:meaning to eat a lot, or is it just like your drive to eat?
Speaker 2:I think I'm hungry first of all, and you know I've also gone through like a couple of big celebrations. My wife had a birthday.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday, val yeah happy birthday, Val.
Speaker 2:We had a lot of cake, my son and I probably had a lot of cake.
Speaker 1:What's your go-to cake?
Speaker 2:I mean anything really, but she had carrot cake, that was amazing.
Speaker 1:I know you can scoff at it, I don't like carrot cake, but from Central Market.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you something, it's the real character you know. So I just I, there's been a little bit a lot like like some excessive eating going on, a little bit, a little, maybe a little more sugar. But yeah, I've just uh, I've noticed that I'm uh, the scale is headed in the are your upward direction um, you know, it's interesting, I'm just bigger, I feel thicker, wider. You do look kind of jacked More of a power lifter, yeah, less of a bodybuilder, and I think that's part of the process, but I'm having some growing pains.
Speaker 1:Are you getting nervous? Are you a little worried?
Speaker 2:I actually texted James and I'm like so my weight's going up, I might put myself out of the category that I thought I was going to compete in.
Speaker 1:I was thinking like 220, I'm not 225, 226 right now.
Speaker 2:You know, I got to consider. You know, do I want to compete against Guys that are in like the 220 To 250?
Speaker 1:category, those are big. That goes up an extra 100, 150 pounds.
Speaker 2:So anyway, just more of like a neurotic thing that I yeah, I'm probably going through.
Speaker 1:I mean, the truth is probably too like. When you have a big meal or you like eat something crappy, you feel the way like you feel like you're my. I always feel like my boobs have changed and my gut has changed. And the reality is, it's pretty well the same. It just, you know, exemplifies what you probably look like anyway yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm, I'm trying, I'm really I'm embracing it because you know I, everything is going so well, my body's feeling very strong, so, but at the same time I'm also like I I'm in this new space of like I'm lifting to be a power lifter stronger, like having a little bit of a extra size and just like you know, a friend of mine said, like you know, the, if you have a little extra, like you know, just lubrication, like if you think of fat, is like you know, it really helps your joints be strong.
Speaker 2:Like you don't if you're. That's why it's like people that are like 8% body fat, it's really hard to lift heavy, Cause you can you just have very like a kind of like brittle um tendons and like you just don't have a lot of of like um subcutaneous fat to help kind of move, move the body and be strong. So it's just a. It's a. Yeah, it is what it is. It's probably a stupid neurotic thing that. I'm experiencing but it's kind of funny at the same time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I'm just like hmm. I feel so fat. You're acting like a chick. You're like. I just feel so fat. It's like Bart, you look good buddy.
Speaker 2:But there'll be times where I'll feel a little fat and then I'll look in the mirror and be like dude, what are? And then I'll look in the mirror and be like dude, what are you doing? You're looking good, buddy, you look fine, you look great Calm down.
Speaker 1:I wish I had your body, for a lot of reasons. I wish I had your bench press. Mike Dude, give me a break, man. So.
Speaker 2:Mitch and I benched together over at Los Caballanos. Shout out to Los Caballanos, South Boston.
Speaker 1:Even though you pay them right. They don't give you any discounts. They don't no free shout outs. They don't hook me up yet.
Speaker 2:They're not hooking me up yet they are sharing my posts from time to time. That's cool, but Mitch just went in there.
Speaker 1:We learned that you turn your head to the right when you bench, which was odd. You caught up.
Speaker 2:But we fixed a few of the things. We got the leg drive going, we got your shoulders and hands in better position Yep yep. And very smooth bench. You know pumping out 225, 245 pretty easily.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think at one point you were up to 265 for reps, which is awesome With the hold. Yeah, with the pause I'm going to have to learn.
Speaker 1:I mean I can't wait to do more with you there, because it's like it really is kind of going to be. It's like a relearning process, I think, for how to work out a little bit, been a little grittier in the days just to get it done, you know farm boy style.
Speaker 1:So it'll be cool to try to get the technique and then, like you said, like with the technique comes better weight, you'll be able to bench more, you'll be able to squat more, deadlift more. So I'm looking forward to that. I also talked to Phil DeRue. I went to lunch with him. The other day he was in town and he said, cause you know it's power lifting too. He's like well, first it's the first time I met him he's like bro, you're bigger, I thought you'd be like thanks, buddy, it's coming from him.
Speaker 2:It means good, I was like dang.
Speaker 1:Thanks bud. I was like getting blushy. I was like all right, well, I'm powerlifting.
Speaker 2:Go on, phil, go on, I'm learning.
Speaker 1:We're doing a powerlifting. I was talking about you, bart, but I was thinking about cutting to 198.
Speaker 2:Put yourself in a different category.
Speaker 1:Put myself in a full different category and that means I'll have to lose 30 more pounds probably. I mean, when it's all said and done Now, what will the effect be on my my numbers, Right? So I would really love a strategy. I mean, cause one 98, cause that's the next weight class, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:One 98 would put me at a lot of my goals, like my revenge body that I want this summer, right, my bikini body, those types of things. So I'm wondering what would it take part, I'm on semi-glutide, um, you know my hunger's light it's less. So we got that going for us. What is a guy like me got to do to get a girl like you, or to teach me what to do, to get to one 95, one 98, um, but maintain some muscle mass I can?
Speaker 1:lose some poundage, I'm okay with that, but I know that's not necessarily the strategy. I should probably just focus on taking the weight I have and just pushing harder and harder and harder. But I really want to get down to weight class.
Speaker 2:No, I mean, you know, losing weight is tough, and here's the thing that's important. It's like doing a wrestling match or a boxing, where it's like you have, there's a weigh-in and it's either 24 hours or two days before the actual meat. So if you get down to 198, two days before you do your weigh-in, and then you can carve up and eat a bunch of food Get back up to like 206, 208, something like that.
Speaker 2:So that could possibly be a factor. I don't know if that's something. That's something that James was asking me, because I was talking about kind of being under 220. And he's like well, you know, if you're doing the weigh-in, yeah, you just cut weight, cut water, you know, sweat a bunch of stuff out, come out, weigh it, come in at 219 and then carve up the night before or whatever, and get ready for the show.
Speaker 2:We'll go get pizzas, but yeah, I mean so my answer to your question is a eat a little bit less, still okay. Eat more protein. So the food that you're eating, the minimal amount of food you're eating is is enough to sustain your muscle mass and continue to strength train four days a week okay, can I still run?
Speaker 1:sure are you okay with me putting 30 miles a weekend?
Speaker 2:Um, how many hours of cardio is that to get 30 miles?
Speaker 1:30 miles is like an hour a day seven days a week five.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:I should pull back.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the thing it's a lot, I mean it's a lot of calories, which is good. You're burning calories. It's a lot of calories, which is good. You're burning calories and then you're working out, which is more calories, and you know somebody else doing that would just be dropping weight like nobody's business, and so the fact that you're kind of plateaued.
Speaker 1:It's kind of wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it tells me a couple of things. A, you're just your body's really stressed. And you have like a high cortisol level right now, and so it's making it hard for you to like that high cortisol. Uh, cortisone in your body makes you kind of hold fat does it really?
Speaker 1:and stress does that muscle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, how do I get rid of the stress? Uh, do less I also have shingles do less I didn't tell you that I don't want to know anything about that do less.
Speaker 2:So everyone's like what, what more can I do to recover? Do less, okay. It's not about doing more, it's about doing less. Sleeping longer, I think, is the only thing you should do more of. Um, but I think I think what's probably going on is like you're just you're doing so much cardiovascular exercise and weight training that your body's just really like that's a big stress on your system and that may turn into just like unknowingly, just overeating.
Speaker 2:But even though I know I overeat still even on semi-glutide yeah, yeah, it's wild so, so you're, you're like or it's not good calories for sure, your willpower to eat food is more powerful than the.
Speaker 1:Semaglutide.
Speaker 2:Semaglutide is to stop you from caring about food, because the goal of semaglutide is to make you just not hungry.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You don't eat that much, your overall calorie count drops under what you burn more than you eat. So, you end up just kind of losing weight and that usually works for the first several months, but then you know I have clients that are on it.
Speaker 1:That kind of plateau out to a certain weight.
Speaker 2:And and then it becomes a little bit more. You have to be more conscientious. Again you can't just rely on while I'm taking this drug and therefore I'm kind of good there.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That's because that the first 30 pounds you were good, right, and now you're plateaued. Now you're plateaued, so you have to be more mindful of um, better sleep. What little bit less stress on your body. I mean you've already got stressful. You know multiple jobs that you're doing. Uh, I mean this guy is busy, busy, so that's cool, but you got to factor all those things in because your body's too stressed out, too catabolic, you know, then you don't have a lot of. You know you're not releasing the right hormones when you're in your sleep, which is like testosterone and growth hormone and all those things.
Speaker 2:It just makes it harder to kind of achieve the, the quote revenge body you're looking for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good, I like that. I can do that. I mean, it's just, I just need someone to tell me. I think ultimately, you know, the goal is to eat more protein, weight lift like train. Uh, if I just, if I just am diligent enough, it's, it's easy, right, like I'm not thinking about food right now, I'm not going. Man, I'd love some of that, those string cheeses that are sitting in that fridge right now, like I don't. So a lot of it does I. I've always been a stress eater too. So, like, when I'm dealing with stress, even when I'm not hungry, it's almost like a it's almost a habitual thing, you know. So maybe I should just switch to smoking.
Speaker 2:Perfect, yeah, yeah, done.
Speaker 1:I would be actually smart, right.
Speaker 2:I mean, I would never tell you to do that.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing I mean you're already using Zin, so I mean you're good.
Speaker 1:It's not about the nicotine, it's the motion of smoking. I get that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the fact that it really stops you from being hungry when you're smoking Does it really. And your breath tastes terrible, so your wife won't want to kiss you.
Speaker 1:Your kids won't want to be around you. They don't get a real reverse vibe. Oh, my goodness, you won't be invited out to dinner with your wife and kids. My stress levels will be higher, gain weight. This is a reverse habit. This is causing reverse.
Speaker 2:I have a couple of clients and you've met one of them, or two of them maybe, but that they work out too much. I think a lot of times we work out because it's an overcompensation for we overeat. If I work out every day, then I can eat a little bit more and I still lose weight Our body always like we're our. Our like instinct to put on weight for survival is way stronger than your like instinct to know exactly how much to exercise and eat to be like losing weight.
Speaker 1:Like it's not able to. We have no ability to like we.
Speaker 2:That's why counting calories and all those apps are out there is because it's it's really hard to guesstimate. Yeah, you know, okay, I've worked out this much, now I'm gonna eat this much, and that plus that equals, you know, a deficit. Every day for seven days I'm gonna lose a pound of fat. Very few people can actually like feel that out and do it well, and actually lose weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you have to really be more locked in on. Okay, you know, maybe your, maybe your goal is, I'm going to work out, I'm going to do when I, on strength days, I'm only going to run a 20 minute or two miles. Right, come back, hit the, hit the weights and then, on the uh, on two of the like no workout days you're gonna run, you know an hour and get, get 10 miles in or whatever. Whatever that equates to six miles.
Speaker 2:Um, dang you must think I'm fast, but anyway, and, but and then. But have like, have rest time and days built in. You don't want to just be like every day you're pounding your body.
Speaker 1:Sounds lame. I know Sounds lame. That's not Goggins. That's the mature approach. That's the smart approach.
Speaker 2:Remember, at the end of Goggins' first book where he spends like two years stretching because his body's just like turned into a big knot and his psoas is completely locked up and he can't even walk. Yeah, so some of that's probably more related to his childhood trauma and how that manifested in his body.
Speaker 1:Or the fact that he's beat his body up for years, but it's also that right.
Speaker 2:So, first of all, you're not Goggins, what I know, and you're not LeBron, but you're Mitch, but you're Mitch and that's good enough.
Speaker 1:Okay, you, son of a bitch, how dare you? You don't know me, son.
Speaker 2:Oh, he just slapped me folks, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1:Oh man, it's so great.
Speaker 2:Domestic violence across the podcast table here. So you know, and so this goes into the conversation I want to have about you know, getting getting that summer bod.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Call it a revenge bod.
Speaker 1:Call it whatever you want, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Um, I can feel my wife cringing every time Um just imagine it's for her.
Speaker 1:Let's the revenge body is. Let's do revenge bodies for our spouses.
Speaker 2:Here's what I found. My wife loves me whether I have a pot belly or a six-pack. You've never had a freaking pot belly, you, son of a bitch. She's never loved me more because I had a six-pack. In fact, going through my potty building show and being like at 8% body fat was not helpful for our relationship.
Speaker 1:Really, oh, you're angry. I was a grump, did she like how it felt?
Speaker 2:she wanted to run away from me.
Speaker 2:I was such a such a bad human being. At the time I think I didn't realize it because I was so obsessed about, like, getting getting ready for the show. But yeah, that's a different conversation. But my point is, is um, get in shape for you. Yeah, you know, I mean I some of the podcast stuff or some of the like instagram, like motivation is, is crap, but a lot of the stuff they say you know, it's like a man who has the discipline to get their body to look strong, lean and and healthy is is. It's just a, it's a statement of who you are in this, in this time in your life, and it's easy. It's easier to do that when you're 20 because you have all, every, all the things are working for you. You're you're going to bed at night, growth hormones being released in your pituitary gland, you've got plenty of testosterone.
Speaker 2:You're like your body just kind of built to grow at that in that point in your life. But as you get to your 40s your body is, you know, I mean 40 year olds. In villages in africa are grandparents, you know, and they look like grandparents, like I. Lived in africa for two years in a village like 45 year old. They look worn down by the sun, by endless days of work, by the fact that they have kids, who have kids, and and they're, you know, like so, in order to counteract the grandparent body yeah that, like for most of the existence of the human race until, like, modern science came around, was 45 to 60 and then you're dead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like we, we want to still feel like we're 20 or 30 or 40 or look it. Then we have to be very, very disciplined and that's different for everybody. Some people really lean into like, you know, cardio and eating a lot, very little food, and then they look like, you know, runners and they go vegan and all this stuff and other people like work out really heavy and they eat a lot of protein and they get the you know they. You know they get on trt and all the things you know everyone's got their way. But but the discipline of getting your body to where it, where, where you know somebody looks at me like dude, that guy looks awesome. I wonder how he did it like that. That is a representation of your ability to control yourself, to be somebody who can lead others, and I think that's important.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 2:So I think that's a to me, that's a better mind frame to have. It's like I want to be, because, if you think about, let's go back to the old times Kings were 40, 50 years old. Yeah, that's where your strength, your ability to like, perform well in combat and your wisdom, kind of we're all together, we're like at their pinnacle right 40 to 50. So, like this is this is our time as as as men, to be kind of kings of art, Not in like a machismo or thing like I dominate, but like this is where you're smart, you've had life experience, you've learned how to make money, you've probably had kids. All those things are happening. Like be the best version of yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good, I love it. Revenge bodies let's do it. Well, you're already there.
Speaker 2:Be a king of your own. Be a king.
Speaker 1:That's better. I want to be a king of my own. I want to be a king of iron, a god of iron, a god of iron. Well, thanks for listening to Dad, bods and Dumbbells, bart, thanks so much, man, yeah.
Speaker 2:I hope this was helpful, guys. We went on a bit of a deep dive into men's health, so hopefully it was helpful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hopefully it was helpful. Thanks for liking and subscribing. You guys have a great day. Thanks for listening.