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
The Official Pre-Powerlifting Competition Episode!!
Mitch and Bart count down the final days before their first-ever powerlifting competition, facing unexpected challenges and embracing their rookie status in a new sport.
• Bart discusses a rib injury that threatens his competition readiness, currently giving him a 70% chance of competing
• Mitch shares his anxiety about wearing a powerlifting singlet and making weight for his class
• Both hosts completed their final heavy training sessions, successfully hitting their first attempt numbers
• Detailed comparison of three Austin powerlifting gyms: Los Campianos, Lift ATX, and Kodiak Strength
• Discussion about proper warm-up strategies for competition day to avoid fatigue while ensuring readiness
• Reflections on the value of trying something new in middle age and not needing to be an expert
• Plans for transitioning to more varied training styles after the competition
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Speaker 2:My hair is coming back it's back with a vengeance with a vengeance, good lord, I'm so proud is awesome I'm so pumped so yeah, we are on the last week. We are days away we are literally three days power lifting competition.
Speaker 1:How are you feeling, bart?
Speaker 2:well, um, if you asked me that on saturday or sunday, I would have said like, because my final big lift day, I hit all my first attempt numbers. I sent you the videos.
Speaker 1:I was flying through. You looked strong.
Speaker 2:None of it looked hard. And then Monday I'm just rolling out before a client showed up and I had a little nagging lat. My lat felt tight on my right side, so I'm rolling on it and I'm kind of up in the rib and all of a sudden I hear this pop and I just immediately the intercostal muscles of the ribs just like tighten up and I'm like, oh, the one thing we said, just like just as long as you stay healthy, we'll be fine and and so I have shut down all movement um for the week.
Speaker 2:So so that was. That was monday, all monday. I like couldn't move, I was like oh my you know I could sleep, so that was a good thing. I could lay in bed and it didn't hurt.
Speaker 2:But like if my son ran up and like kind of bumped into me I'm like ah you know, uh, tuesday, so like monday, I was zero percent chance I would be able to compete if it was felt that bad. Yesterday it was like 50 for 50, 50, I mean I was still we were gonna work out and I canceled the workout was monday the workout and then um today I feel like I'm about 70 30 like, and then what I mean by that. I still I'm gonna compete it's three days away.
Speaker 2:But the progression of like, if, if the meat was today, like could I do it, could I go at full and I would say, I'd say I'm 70, 30 right now. So the goal is tomorrow I'm just going to run through all my lifts with, like you know, just 135 on the bar and just see how my body's like yeah, respond. See how my ribs are doing. It's very sensitive to the touch.
Speaker 2:Like if I touch back here it just feels it feels like I bruised it, kind of yeah it's just like, and it's right in between the ribs and it's like grumpy well, well, I mean I've—. So if you ask that, question I'm like—, but the caveat to that is I'm resting.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm cold plunging jacuzzi. I'm just doing everything I can to get my body, get the core area, just as relaxed and healthy as possible. So I feel overall ready.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's just my little nagging rib totally well, I, I mean I had, when I went and did mine first attempts, like you told me to do on saturday I was in phoenix, so I was working out with my buddy and uh, and I, after the deadlift man something in my middle back, I've just been nagging the whole time.
Speaker 2:I was like uh-oh this could be a problem this could be a problem.
Speaker 1:I had to get another power lifting belt. It should work the regulations, because my other one was not under regulations, but it should work fine. But there's just a lot of stuff that I'm a little nervous about. There's like all these little things that I'm like. Well, if my, if my t-shirt's too baggy underneath my singlet, you know cause I'm going to put a t-shirt on You're not just going to have the guns blazing.
Speaker 1:No, it's not guns, they're like fat, they're like fat rolls. So we have to put on these power lifting singlets, and they are not attractive. Uh, at least for me.
Speaker 2:Nobody, I don't see a lot of attractive people. I attractive people I mean like cause people first of all power lifters tend to be kind of blocky, you know like strong but not like in any way ripped.
Speaker 1:Just just strong. Hey, I'm talking to, I'm preaching to my choir.
Speaker 2:Like linebacker, strong yeah, and with linebacker.
Speaker 1:Strong means you're strong, but you also have folds, so my folds are put into this casing and it looks like we're trying to stuff, stuff, stuff all my all the sausage bits into a little casing. It's going to be great, all right, all right yeah.
Speaker 2:Is that why your kids aren't coming? That's why my kids aren't coming, that's why I want no one to come, especially not my wife. A lot of people, I think, are coming. Dude that would be so horrible A lot. What are you going to do? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean these are things I think about, like a towel, just wrap yourself. I would just like a Terry cloth bathrobe. Well, I figured I'd put on my big boys run to shirt for brand. You know afterwards but, I don't know man.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to wear I think I'm going to wear like a, you know, like a dry, fit, tight, you know compression pants, like compression leggings, like you know black ones or something, because my, my suit's black, and then I got the knee pads over the knees and and then I got my squat shoes. I mean I, I don't know, I don't really care, I just, at some point you just look the part and nobody's like oh, I don't like the decision he made to wear that Like nobody cares.
Speaker 1:You're like, you're a gladiator in the arena doing, doing amazing stuff.
Speaker 2:It's like everyone's going like dude, that guy's badass. Like you're gonna get up there, you're gonna, you're gonna squat like 380 and the only thing people are gonna be thinking is not gonna be look at the rolls.
Speaker 1:They're gonna be like that dude's effing strong yeah, right and you're gonna like feel that, you're just a constant you're gonna be like the wind in your sails and you're just gonna be like go, go and like 315, 330 on bench, yeah, come on. No, I mean, when I was doing it in phoenix I felt very good. Actually I redid the bench press because I realized I miscalculated and I did 295 rather than 305 okay and so I did 295 well, and I had said hey, well, he's like, what am I looking for?
Speaker 1:if you have any trouble, I'll just say help, because I'll just say something and then I halfway through you know how I tell, like easy work or whatever I started going easy work and he helped me up with it oh crap, so I gotta redo that you're like don't you speak english? I didn't say help oh, and then he pulled it. I was like oh, no, so I redid it 305 and it felt even better yeah.
Speaker 2:So I was like, okay, I can do this. Well, that's a really important thing that I've noticed, and I try to warm up more because I've just noticed that my second set of heavy tends to be my like best one yeah you know it's like the first.
Speaker 2:So what I tried to do I talked to James about I'm like I need to get to the to. My first heavy set feels like the most explosive. Now I'm going to go up for the second set so I'll have more weight, so I want that set to be great, but I don't want to feel like my first set yeah is missing anything yeah, and I think that's the one thing I've learned is your your warm-up when we worked out together seems to be long.
Speaker 2:It's very long, yeah, because you're going to get so exhausted you gotta warm up 15 minutes for just like getting into your like heavy squats, right, you do the mobility, the foam rolling and then you're, you know you got like, you know, just you're doing the bar, and then 125, 185, 225, two, you know whatever yeah, and then you're at 300 where you start.
Speaker 1:We are not going to do that at the competition, right.
Speaker 2:Oh we will.
Speaker 1:No, I don't want to put much weight on.
Speaker 2:Well, you've got to warm. You don't want to? Yeah, but I don't want to progress.
Speaker 1:Anytime I've done that, I've always been weak at the first rep.
Speaker 2:I think you've got to figure out just doing one rep of like 225, one rep of like just so you're going to be going up to 350 to 400, kind of that range in your squat. I think doing that jump is fine For me. I need to make sure I'm getting deep enough.
Speaker 1:You're so exhausted? Yeah, you don't want to get tired. Yeah, that's the key.
Speaker 2:You don't want to over-warm up and get tired. You just yeah, that's the key. You don't want to over warm up and get tired, but at the same time, you don't want to under warm up and feel like you're not, because you might be ready to go and then all of a sudden, it's 10 more minutes, you're waiting, and then what are you doing? You're doing squats behind the thing like you keep your body warm like. How are you?
Speaker 2:yeah so a lot of that's going to be like and we don't know because we've never done it, so we got to figure out that timing. The good thing is it's not hundreds of people, so I think we'll have a much clearer idea, like when we're going next because there'll only be like a few other people in our flight yeah, that are going in before us.
Speaker 1:So well. The issue for me isn't those things anymore, it's weight. I gotta cut. I'm cutting right now okay, I'm cutting weight.
Speaker 2:I don't think you should I gotta get comfortable.
Speaker 1:Well, if I don't hit my weight class, what does that mean you?
Speaker 2:just go to the other weight class really just go up the weight class. I mean, you signed up for one, but they does. If you wait, if you weigh in above that weight class, they'll just put you in the higher one.
Speaker 1:They're not gonna disqualify. You're not gonna get disqualified. They have a lot of rules, man.
Speaker 2:They do that. This is something that creates anxiety for both of us there are a lot of rules because they are, you know, all powerlifting organizations are, you know, geared to like I don't know what, the ipf or whatever. The?
Speaker 2:like the international powerlifting federation and so their rules are all continued on. Like if you get to the next level, they have to make sure that you're like going that way. It's interesting. Um, some of the powerlifting federations in america have been too tight. I talked to a guy that ran the uh, the lift atx powerlifting show and he said they've backed off on some of the regulations around drug testing because the I, the ipf or whatever international was was. Was was saying you guys are too strict. We don't want to be that strict.
Speaker 1:So what does that mean? I don't know, at least I won't get popped for my Sudafed I took yesterday.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just saying so. I think in America they're more strict on keeping those rules really really locked in, but internationally they're a little more loose.
Speaker 1:You know what I thought was cool and this is the first time I felt this in a long time where I went into. I went into a foreign gym. Yeah, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, I knew exactly how and I wasn't thinking about the people around me like I've been watched. But when I pushed, when I pulled 455 on my first attempt, a lot of people were watching but I felt pretty good and I dropped it. I was like easy work and I put everything back. I racked everything.
Speaker 2:It was pretty great yeah it was a good feeling, yeah for the first time I'm like, oh, okay, you're like maybe I'm a big fish maybe, maybe I am a spectator.
Speaker 2:Spectacle to be whole you are, um, so 500 is the goal. Yes, I was thinking about is like one of the things I think would be cool to do here is you and I have worked out at los campianos, yeah, at uh, kodiak strength and at lift atx. Yeah, all three are kind of like, would qualify as like power lifting gyms, like they're obviously like bodybuilding gyms and, yeah, and influencer gyms and all that kind of stuff too, but but they, as a power lifter, you could go to all three of those and power lift pretty successfully. They've got all the equipment. They've got the, you know the, the plates that you would use in a show and the racks and all that. So give me your, your like tiered one, two, three in terms of like, where, if you were training and you lived right by one of those gyms, which one would you want to train at, if no other logistical problems were involved?
Speaker 1:Well, I think Lowe's is probably number one.
Speaker 1:Lowe's Compianos. I think they have the widest variety of powerlifting stations of the group. I remember at Lift ATX it's just a little bit I mean, it just seemed a little bit harder to get the things you wanted. Um, I didn't love their squat racks. I know that that's the power lifting rack, but I like I like a solid rack where I can do all three things. You know bench that's what I did at LA. Fitness was bench, um, squat and deadlift all one spot. So for for me, I think Lowe's is number one.
Speaker 1:I love the environment, I love the equipment's. New music is great. People seem pretty cool like you're around there and you like you've kind of seem like a cool guy in the group. So I like all those things. Staff doesn't include it and they have showers and all those extra things that allow you to do things that I wish they had was a sauna would be nice, or cold plunge I would. I would probably go lift ATX too, but that's just because of I love the environment. Lift ATX is so badass, like it's just the coolest. I have recommended that for anybody that, hey, I have buddies that come into town for work or whatever and like, hey, I want to get a lift in. Where should I go? Go lift ATX 100% of the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's such an experience. Yeah, it's an awesome experience For anyone who's a real lifter and like would love that type of vibe, as long as you're not like intimidated by that, like I don't I their shirts off? Yeah, women don't take their shirts off there but like you, like it's very influencer, vibe heavy, yeah, a lot, a lot of a lot of professional videoographers there, but yeah, it doesn't come across.
Speaker 1:Pretend, yeah, it doesn't come across douchey so I would say lift atx and then kodiak strength. Here's what I would say about kodiak. It is it's a smaller gym, but it seems like it's. It was designed around the love for power lifting, so, like the owners are power lifters, so if that's something I want to pursue, I may go there instead, just because it seems like that's what they're geared towards. Right, if I wanted to stay in power lifting everybody's cool, it's clean. It just doesn't have that many like that's what they're geared towards right.
Speaker 1:If I wanted to stay in powerlifting. Everybody's cool, it's clean. It just doesn't have that many like. It's smaller yeah so you come in and you're like I wish a lot of that stuff was in the other room.
Speaker 2:That was bigger yeah because it just it makes you feel like everything's tight and kind of closed in um I think the challenge is there's not enough people to that are into powerlifting to base a gym around powerlifting To justify that yeah.
Speaker 2:So what they had to do is they have the powerlifting stuff in the front and then the back is a bigger space and that has all the stuff that you would as a trainer, you would train clients with like cables and pull-downs and all this stuff, like all the normal leg press and all that kind of stuff. But what it does is it kind of makes the focus weird. It's like, yeah, you've got this powerlifting area.
Speaker 1:You walk into it, yeah, but then you're like the bigger space and the better lit space. And the focus is almost it is 24 hours yeah.
Speaker 2:I think we should hold judgment a little bit, until we go there when it's busy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That was the one. That was like two in the afternoon.
Speaker 2:There was no one there, nobody there, and it was just like and I walked in and the owners were being like chewed out by one of their trainers. It were. That's what I that was my like. The read on it was like there was some trainer lady who was like chewing out the owners about how disrespected she felt and I stood there and the two owners are sitting there like listening to her. Clearly she wants their full attention but now they have a guest and they're just like.
Speaker 2:it's awkward and the trainer never, like, just looks over and like, acknowledges me. So at one point the husband stays locked in with her and the wife kind of comes over to talk to me at one point. The husband stays locked in with her and the wife kind of comes over to talk to me. Not does not acknowledge the awkwardness of that moment. So I'm like okay, I want to free, I want a week pass and that happened while we were there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when I came in and I didn't see any of that, you were you were in the back, I think a foam rolling, foam rolling, right yeah.
Speaker 2:So anyway, back, I think uh, foam rolling, foam rolling, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway, that was like a one of those awkward, but it was like you know smaller.
Speaker 2:That's one of the problems with like small gyms. It's like the mom and pop feel yeah, and even like when we got signed up, it took them over 24 hours to send me a text or an email yeah to like. Let me know how like and then I haven't heard anything since. I'm just thinking as a as a business owner. Like you get a lead. A lead is everything. Like a hot lead. This human person is a free week. I never had to put a card down. I got a free smoothie, which was excellent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the thing. Yeah, I didn't pay any.
Speaker 2:But there was no buying. You've got to get somebody even just slightly bought a day. We just need a card on file. We're not gonna charge you in a week but we'll reach out back out. And then the reach back out is like, hey, what we wanna do we'd love for you to do another a month. Here's what you're gonna get 30 minute consultation from our powerlifting specialists. So you know whatever like sell me on the next step. I've heard nothing. And this is one of the problems is so often why, uh, small mama pop gyms like might get a good start, might get some good momentum, but oftentimes and I'm not saying they're going to fail, I'm just saying like these are opportunities.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think that's. That's the hardest part. Right, there's a level of hominess to it. I want them to succeed because I want to work out there Honestly.
Speaker 1:I wanted that to be the place. I think it's it. They just got to get through the growing pains of. Probably they work there full time because this is their baby, right, they're trying to make it work and I don't know all the details of it, but, yeah, a little bit of aggressive return. They were pretty good with me because I signed up for the free week. They texted me right away. They don't know what my goals are. They don't know why I joined. They don't know anything. If powerlifting, they'd be like hey, we got Gods of Iron, july the 7th. Why don't we get you signed up for that?
Speaker 2:Let's get you trained, for I got a discount code, yeah, so sign up this week, yeah, I think that would be very for a guy like you who, like this is your living.
Speaker 1:How do you go from being I love gym and this is? I think this is probably the key piece right, I love, I love working out, I'm a power lifting champion, all that stuff so I should have a gym a home gym might as well as a part of our lifestyle. But then how do you combine that with business? And I think the hardest part about gyms are I've signed up for three free trials so that I could work out for one day with a buddy in a different city. I went to crunch today this morning with Aaron Harris and I was like sign up for a free trial and so we'll see.
Speaker 2:Crunch will text you 500 times.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, it's already. It's already too much.
Speaker 2:You're already like it's unbelievable that that's the and that's the. That's the example of the opposite effect you want to have when you're too, when you're overly communicative as a company, a it's not a person, it's just an automatic text or it's an ai type like created text or email, and it just, it just is. It doesn't work it doesn't work.
Speaker 1:So I think I think kodiak actually has a really good opportunity. Yeah, because they have that hometown mom and pop feel I want to support them. It's 60 bucks a month no, no contract, that's pretty inexpensive. When you're talking about a powerlifting gym, yeah, um, but how would you rank all of them?
Speaker 2:So I would definitely start actually with for powerlifting, yeah, lift ATX, because they have that entire out like powerlifting room that's just for squats, deadlifts, bent and they're. They have like 20 of those like the actual powerlifting racks which, as somebody who powerlifts, you have to be able to. You have to practice with those. You got to know what they feel like. You got to, you got to know what levels to put the arms at. So you know like, and so I think the functionality of having that and having that specific space there's no mirrors in there, it's just rock and roll or rap playing hard you got the access to the outsides. You can kind of like get out in the sun a little bit and like take a break, um, but like if I was, if I lived a block from there, that's where I would do my my heavy lifting would be there yeah, um, second would be los comianos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the thing about los comianos they do have like several racks and they've got a couple of like dead lifting platforms, but it's more like the, the secondary function of that gym. It's really a bodybuilder influencer gym with one of the powerlifting setups where you can bench, squat, and just that one space. It's a nice one and they've got the really nice plates that go with it. But as far as you show up in there and somebody's already using it or the three racks are already taken, you're kind of screwed. So that would be my second. And then third would be Kodiak, with the acceptance, like if they really had a great culture, and then like, and there was like, oh, I'm there with all the power lifters, yeah, and there was like a vibe.
Speaker 2:I think I could be more sold on Kodiak because you know that's part of it. Like it's like you know, same thing with bodybuilding. Like you know you go to a gym where, like everyone's bodybuilding, it's like you're asking questions, you're picking up ideas from other lifters, other people that are like having the same goal as you. You know, I think the opportunity with something like kodiak would be like hey, this is run by power lifters. They should be in the mix, like hey, just checking in How's things going, what are you working towards today? What's your big lift? You're working at Just engaging with people. That was the other disappointing thing. It's like we came in there, we were using all their power lifting equipment and I don't know if the owners just left or what, but there was this. There was like nobody came to check in on us. There was just such an opportunity to like engage in a dialogue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially since she remembered us having coming to the powerlifting show when she did, like the ladies of iron or whatever, that we just stopped by. And so, anyway, just so, that that's my, that's my take on it.
Speaker 1:All that to say I I enjoy working out with you so and my take on it, all that to say I, I enjoy working out with you so, and it seems like los is where you go a lot, so I'll probably sign up for los, but I really like the idea of kodiak. It's close to my house, it seems. I want to support the local like. It seems like more people like me, middle-aged um los looks a lot more like 20s influencers, so I don't know. I'm kind of up in the air right now trying to figure out exactly what I want to do. I love working out of my house, but it's just not the same.
Speaker 1:You know, the environment has been such an integral part of me building strength yeah but it would be cool if they would want to coach me to be bigger I gotta see how this, I gotta see how the competition goes yeah if it goes banging and I love every bit of it it's like all right, I'm all in, let's go but I need the secondary stuff I can't just do three days a week the same stuff it's just too much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's boring. No, I, I this is, and this is a big part of I don't want to think beyond the show, but I'm already thinking like what, how am I going to transition back into more of like a uh, not a bodybuilding workout, but something that's like a little more like total body and not like so focused on the big lifts? Um, you know, and so I haven't done, incline pressing in in months, and you know I mean there's just's rear side delts, rear delts like all the body building, yeah, just the.
Speaker 2:You know the fun stuff to do. So I'm kind of thinking about how I'm going to do that. Obviously I want to get to the show without an injury. Yes, that's the.
Speaker 1:You know like I want to hit my thousand pound goal, but I also want to walk out without an injury it'll be cool to to see where we end up and then be able to take the next episode and talk about where we started, because that one episode we talked about.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm kind of here, I'm kind of here, I'm surprised I could. I'm as strong as I am on deadlift, because I never did it, so it'll be really interesting to see, uh, what the changes are and the differences are, so that we already hit our new year's resolution. I I can't believe you convinced me to do this, honestly you dragged your, dragged your feet for a few months.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what. You know what did it was, you, were, you were.
Speaker 1:There was one episode you were so annoyed with me and I could tell you were pissed off at me. And I was like, just cause I was asking questions, Like I sent it to you and it's like dude, just help me out, man, Like I'm trying. Finally, my wife was like what's your plan? Like you, you say you're going to do this, but you're not doing anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was like oh, I should probably start doing it. And that's when I started lifting like that and hindsight I'm glad I did it the way I did it. I'm glad I started doing it because I would have been screwed going into weight to bench press and be like I can do three, 50 and then fail fail because I don't know the terms or how to do it. I'm bro lifting that way, so I I think that's really cool because I think I'm a lot stronger than I ever was which is weird to say because it's we haven't ever maxed out.
Speaker 1:We've talked about that too, but I'm excited. It'll be interesting to see what happens. Next episode you get to find out all the, all the things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so we're uh. Yeah, next week we'll sit down, go over the results, what happened, great stories of how, uh, you know how I pooped my pants while lifting too heavy your singlet went up your crotch dude, it rides pretty good.
Speaker 1:I think I'm gonna have to wear it around the house to get it worn in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean james was talking about, you should do one workout where you wear it and I'm just like I'm not gonna a, I'm not gonna do that, but uh, it's probably a good idea at least to wear it a little bit, just like I might do it, uh, tomorrow and just do it at my house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I mean again.
Speaker 2:It's not like like a g-string, I mean, it's like shorts. It basically like you put your legs in.
Speaker 1:It's like shorts, up all the way up to a tank top like, yeah, but don't you just feel like my torso is really long?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So mine rides up my ass real good, oh, geez, I don't know I've only put it on once. Me too, and I looked amazing. Oh, I know you did so. I just took a picture and then that was it. Nice.
Speaker 2:No, who knows, We'll just see how it goes. We're first timers. We've got to accept the fact that we're not experts at this. This is one of the parts of this getting out of our comfort zone, doing something we've never done before at 40, at 50 for me and just enjoying the ride of you know what. I'm an expert in this world, in this space, but in the powerlifting space I'm a rookie. Just embrace that and not need to be the smartest guy in the. In the powerlifting space, I'm a rookie and like, just embrace that and not need to be the smartest guy in the room or the the most seasoned powerlifter in the room when we're not we're just first timers.
Speaker 1:First time, we're probably gonna make mistakes. Yeah, absolutely, I love that and this is that is a good exercise. That's why it's not easy and that's why not everybody does it, and it's a good exercise in doing something changing changing things around well, I mean, it's like running a marathon for the first time, like you're never.
Speaker 2:You're never gonna like do it perfectly the first time you know you just based on, like, how you eat how you like, hydrate, like, because you don't know what to expect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you just don't know.
Speaker 2:You don't know how your body's gonna react. You don't know what it feels like to hit the wall at 18 or 19 miles in.
Speaker 1:I'm just throwing out, man, it makes me. It makes me want to run a marathon. Oh man, you should do it right after the show.
Speaker 2:That'd be kind of cool so I I love um goggins in his first book was talking about how he did he went when that first time he ran 100 miles. He had to run 100 laps I think, yeah, in san diego, and then that night, before he like what he worked out with a bunch of like the uh, guys who just did like a bunch of squats and I'm like what a terrible idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah but I thought like how fun would that be to, like you know, do like a parallel show and then the next day we're like I'm gonna go run a marathon.
Speaker 1:It's sunday, I can see if there's a marathon locally I'm gonna pass on that.
Speaker 2:See if there's a marathon locally. I'm going to pass on that.
Speaker 1:There might actually be a trail marathon that day. I'll find out, anyway. Well, it's been awesome.
Speaker 2:Man, I'm excited about this Dude this has been several months in the making. We've probably lost a few people because we've been so into this stuff. We've probably gained a lot of people just because of our passion and our willingness to try something hard.
Speaker 1:I love it. Yeah Well, it's been a fun journey, man, I'm excited to see what happens.
Speaker 2:Those of you listening that really have enjoyed the powerlifting conversations and this and that thank you for listening. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us. We'll tell you how it goes next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're excited. Tell people you can look at the results online. So if you want to follow along, what's the name of the place? Again, it's game day, barbell, yeah, so you can go on splash, mountain powerlifting you can go on to splash mountain and they update the results so you can actually check it out.
Speaker 2:So thanks so much, guys, for listening, liking, subscribing oh wait, if you want to come, if you live in austin, you want to pop by? No it's at, it's in pflugerville at game day, barbell. The lift starts around 1230 and should be done by three.
Speaker 1:You do not want to come, it's fine.
Speaker 2:Come see Mitch in a singlet Nothing would be more fun for everybody.
Speaker 1:No flash photography please.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, all right guys.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening. We love you.