The Jordan Syatt Podcast

Fixing Back Pain, Why is One Arm Weaker Than The Other? Is it Binge-Eating if it Only Happens Once a Month? Must-Have Foods in the Syatt Household, and More...

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In this episode of The Jordan Syatt Mini-Podcast, I shoot the breeze and answer questions from listeners with my podcast producer, Tony, and we discuss:
- Fixing back pain

- Why is one arm weaker than the other?

- Is it binge-eating if it only happens once a month?

- Why all the most popular fitness influencers are so darn attractive and why you still shouldn't build your brand around your physique
- Alcohol and impulse control

- Must-have Foods in the Syatt Household

- Westside Barbell, My Bulging Disc, and Reverse Hypers for the Home Gym

- And more...

Listen to my episode where I discuss setting boundaries and understanding narcissism with Dr. Josh Smith Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-syatt-mini-podcast/id1348856817?i=1000658362036

Listen to my episode where I discuss the psychology of narcissism with Dr. Josh Smith HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-syatt-mini-podcast/id1348856817?i=1000655320157

Have a look at my Online Fitness Business Mentorship HERE: https://www.fitnessbusinessmentorship.com/

Listen to my podcast with Mike Vacanti where we talk all about how to be a Personal Trainer HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-become-a-personal-trainer/id1490499334

Listen to my episode about when I trained at Westside Barbell HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-syatt-mini-podcast/id1348856817?i=1000475435823

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Duration:: 1h 9m
Broadcast on:: 17 Nov 2024
Audio Format:: other

What's going on? Welcome back to the Jordan Sciatt mini podcast. Before we get into the episode, if you want to take a closer look at your health and if you want to get your blood work done and have a comprehensive blood work panel taken so you can get deep insight into what your health actually looks like, I highly recommend working with Merrick Health. I've partnered with them and I've been blown away with their service. Now, here's what I'll say. If you have an amazing doctor who is willing to take your blood work and analyze it with you and sit down with you and go over it with you in depth, I would encourage you to do that, especially if your insurance is going to cover it. But with myself personally and with many, many, many clients and inner circle members and friends and colleagues, I've realized that for whatever reason, our system often isn't conducive to getting comprehensive blood panels taken and having sit down conversations with qualified professionals. 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Get 10% off your first order. Merrickhealth.com/siet for 10% off your first order. I highly recommend it. With that said, let's get into the episode. Antonio, Antonio, Antonio. What's up, brother? Oh, no, buenos dias. All right, buenos dias, me amigo. What's your word of the day? So this is actually a word of the day suggestion from a listener. Oh, I love that. Okay. Estre nard. Estre nard? No, D. Estre nard. Okay. What's that? AR then is a clue that it's a verb. Oh, it means like to premiere something or to debut something. So when I move these first coming out, you know, like the premiere of the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I realized like not a word that I would have really thought about, but I've, you know, I've, I know the word, I've heard it, but I never really would have ever did the person who recommended it. Did the person recommended it say like, hey, do this exact word in Spanish or did they ask how would you say that in Spanish? No, so they just, they just gave me a couple words, which they say don't exist in English. So I'll, I'll give you the second one too. Okay. Which is so bad in Mesa. Mm hmm. And literally that means like on the table. I knew I recognized Mesa. I feel like from, from a Mexican restaurant, but so literally that means like over the table, I was kind of like, oh, is that like a way of saying tablecloth, which I think it might be. But I think what she was getting at is it's actually a term for when you hang out at the table after the meal was over. Mm hmm. That is the sovare Mesa. Like we're chilling. We're relaxing. We've eaten our food. I like that. Leaving. We're not going anywhere. We're just staying here in the over the table time and not on the table time. I like that a lot. That's very cool. Yeah. I like that getting some recommendations for that. Yeah. Thank you to Healthy Turn for the suggestion. Have I? What's your word? Well, I was thinking about Premiere. I don't know how to say that in Hebrew. I don't know how to say like Premiere. It's not like a, yeah, something I learned. If you had asked me like how do you say to like premiere a movie, I would have been like, I have no idea. Yeah, no clue. Did I, have I used nonsense before? Like it's bullshit. Shtuyot. Have I said that one before? I don't think so. I don't think so. So there's a funny phrase in Hebrew. It literally translates to, yeah, shtuyot. It doesn't, it's like as nonsense as bullshit. There's a phrase, it's literally translates to nonsense and tomato juice, shtuyot, it's bimitsu gvenyot. And it's just like a funny way of saying like, yeah, that's, that's absolute nonsense. Like don't say that. That's hard watch. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Shtuyot, nonsense. Very colorful, very fun. What do we got going on today, brother? Today is a Q&A. Q&A, let's go. You've been getting two questions? I've been getting a bunch of questions. So let's go. Thank you to everyone who's been asking Tony questions. If you want to ask a question, because I do Q&As a lot on my Instagram, but I get a lot of questions. And if you want me to answer something more in depth here on the podcast, shoot it to Tony. You have a much better chance of actually being answered here because Tony goes through one by one. And also, if you haven't left a review for the podcast yet, please do that. A lot of people have been doing it recently since I've been asking in the front or the beginning of the podcast rather than the end. So a huge thank you to everyone who's done that. If you've been listening for either you're new or you've been listening for a while, it helps a lot. And I've actually noticed big jumps in new people finding the podcast as more and more people do it. So please, please, please leave a five star review, a written review helps the most. But thank you to everyone who's done it. And if you haven't done it yet, please do it. Let's get into the Q&A, Tony. Oh, but, um, before we do that, you told me I had to take my Myers-Briggs test. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Do you want to do that? Did you already do it? Did you already take it? Oh, all right. All right. So let me try and remember, I think you are an I. Are you an INFP? Hold on. I have it written down here. Yes. Oh, wow. Did I get that fucking right on the first shot? Well, with some caveats, because when you guessed in a previous episode, you said INTP. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then in my mind from like high school psychology, I was like, I think I remember being like an INTJ. Okay. No, yeah. I'm actually completely split between INE like you're not an INTJ. Okay, you're split between INE. Okay. So you're like, yeah. And actually, we've spoken about that before. How like you like introvert, like you can be good on your own, but you also like being around other people, like introverted, extroverted. Okay. Yeah. So I did the, I did the one from Dr. Josh Smith. Josh Smith. Thank you. Yeah. It's like the abbreviated version, and it's in his Instagram. Yeah. Like, so it's not, you know, instead of being like, I don't know how many pages the main one is, like six pages, it's like two pages, you know, it's a little more digestible. But yeah, I got IE, I slash E NFP, which you guess the second time. So I think you get credit for that. Let's go. Let's go. All right. So like, I don't know if Josh is, does it tell you like what that means about yourself? Yeah. It's got this great write up that kind of explains the different ranges, like introvert versus extrovert, intuition versus sensing. So did it line up with what you, what you think about yourself and how you respond or how you react or like the way that you see the world did? Yeah. I do think so. And like, you know, I did end up reading a bunch of the other combos just to see how those would feel. And I do feel like the ones that for, for IE and E NFP do fit me very well. But several others also felt like they might fit me. So it's kind of like a more scope to me in that way where it's like, I can see truths and all of these things. I mean, we're complex creatures, right? Yeah, of course. But yeah, I thought it was, I thought it was pretty cool. I know you're not a J because you said you're like your INT, you thought your INT J, you're not a J because you're so go with the flow. And that's how I know there are other aspects of P and J, but you and I are actually similar because you and I are both P's. And so when, for example, my buddy Mike, he's a J. And so if I need to reschedule something with him, it's a little bit difficult. It's not not all the time. But like, if it's like, Hey, this is the time that we made this, it's like, but this is the time. It's like, and I love Mike. And we, he knows that like, but it's like, it's a little bit more difficult where with you, if I need to reschedule something, it's like, yeah, no problem. We'll figure it out. It's like, it's very go with the flow. It's like, it's, that's how I often, and it's a very bastardized version of what the difference between P and J. But J often is like, this is it. This is what we made it is what we're going to do. And P is much more like, Oh, yeah, we'll just, we'll figure it out. And that's how you and I both are. So that, that makes sense. One of the things that when I was reading the P versus J, kind of synopsis was like, P was a perceiving, right, is kind of open to possibilities. Almost, almost endlessly, almost to a fault. So like, picking a favorite something is really hard for me. Like, you know, people make fun of me. They're like, we're like going around like, Oh, what's your favorite this? What's your favorite that? And I'm like, well, I actually can see the merits of all of these things. And yeah, yeah. Whereas like, J judging is more like decisive. Like, I'm going to go with this and make a decision quickly and kind of stick to it. So yeah, for me, it was sort of like, Oh, this is part of why I tend to procrastinate and part of why I also, you know, am kind of open to a lot of possibilities. It's like a good thing, but it's also something I need to watch out for, right? Yes. Yeah. J's can be they're often the person, like, if you're in a group project, they're like, all right, this is what we're all doing. I'm going to do this. You do this. This is what we're doing. We need to meet at this time. And it's like, so J's will be very decisive and sort of like have everything figured out. Whereas P is, I was always the P in the group where it's like, yeah, tell me what to do. I'll do it. Like, I don't care. Like, tell me when to meet. I'll be there. It doesn't matter. And there are pros and cons to both, right? Like I think P's can often seem aloof. And as though they don't care, and J's can often seem like they're control freaks and like there's pros and cons to both of them. And it's funny because you could be any combination of these admirers' Briggs and doesn't matter. It's not like one combination is good and one combination is bad. There are good and bad people that fall into every category. And deeper philosophically, it's like, everyone is both a good and a bad person in some capacity. And I think that the line dividing good and evil goes through the heart of every man. It's a famous, still-gen, it's in quote. But either way, I actually, if people haven't listened to podcast episodes or did Josh Smith on it, we should put those in the show notes because he's an incredible psychologist. And he explains it much better than I could. And we spent a lot of time discussing these different things. If you've never taken your Myers-Briggs, I was really against it when I was younger. And after I did it, it was just, oh, this just helps me understand myself better. And it's rooted in science. It's not like, I know many people are like, it's a horoscope. It's not a horoscope. It's rooted in science. And I'm not hating on horoscopes if that's your thing. But it actually does help you understand yourself better. And also, my wife took it. And it's helped our communication. It's helped our expectations. It's really a wonderful tool. Yeah. Are you a STP? Yes. Yes. Yes, I am. Okay. I was looking at the chart. I was looking at the podcast with Josh. I don't remember if that was somewhere in my brain. But you just guessed it. But I was just thinking about, well, you told me P and then I was looking at the different ones. But I was actually pretty divided. The line between me and introverted extroverted for me was pretty close as well. I do very well on my own. But when I was younger, I was way more extroverted. I just loved being around people all the time. As I've gotten older, it's more of like, okay, I want to be by myself. And by myself, it's really with my family, though. It's not like just going to ask about that, though. How do you rate that? If you're hanging out with your wife and your kids, it's more anti-social. I'm really in my old man era, where it's like, I really understand why some people just don't like to leave the house and they just like to be here. I love being home. I really love it, which is crazy because my whole life, I was traveling and going and I didn't want to be home. I'm very content being home now and I've got everything here. So no, I could be filming in the same room as everybody there. It doesn't matter. I just like being home with my family. Yeah. What was the most surprising insight you got from doing the test? Like was there something you realized about yourself that was kind of an unexpected? There's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot. So I found out I was at ESTP. Then I went on YouTube and I started watching videos of ESTPs. So what does it mean to be an ESTP? And it told me, dude, so much about myself and actually it's helped me immensely because one common factor of ESTPs is they're very forgetful, very forgetful. And I've told the story on the podcast before of how when I was in college and it was like probably October, like late October of my freshman year and the teacher is like, all right, take it in the biology class. All right, take out your school project or take out the project that was going to be like a huge percentage of our grade. And I remember I looked at my buddy Kyle, I was like, what project? And he's like, are you serious? And like my whole life, I've been very, very forgetful and part of it could be maybe like it's because I wasn't a good listener, but I actually feel like I'm a very good listener. I know who's listening to a podcast with someone like I listened when I'm speaking with you. I'm listening very intently. Oh, yeah. I just I just forget. And there would be times where, for example, early on when my wife and I were dating, she'd be like, I told you this. And I'd be like, you never told me this, trust me, I would have remembered if you told me this. And now I'm at a point in my life where if someone tells me that like, this was a conversation that we had, I'm like, I believe you, I apologize, I must have forgotten. Because when I was younger, I would be like, I swear that you didn't tell me this. When now, I know myself to the point of being like, I bet they told me and I fucking forgot. And it's like, obviously, that could be a little bit dangerous to someone who's manipulative, but everyone who's close to me in my life, like they're not manipulating me, they're just being honest. There's no reason for them to lie about it. So it's helped me immensely to just be like, I'm really sorry, I forgot. And it's helped me because I can communicate, hey, just so you know, I might forget whatever you're telling me, I need you to remind me about it, it helps communication. It's so, so, so much. And Mike laughs because Mike will literally be talking to me, he'll be like, it doesn't matter, you're going to forget this in the next couple weeks anyway, like, and we'll joke about it. So it's just, I'm very forgetful in that way, which I know can be really annoying to people, but it's also helpful for me to communicate that with them. So their expectations are he might forget this. Yeah. So that's been one thing that was super, super, super helpful, like seeing common traits of ESTPs. Yeah, I might, I might do a little going down that rabbit hole myself. You should, man. It's really, and there are some funny skits on YouTube, like some like psychology students make these skits about each type. And they're actually really funny. They're very funny, they're, they're well put together. And they create scenarios that I guarantee you're going to relate to a lot. Yeah, that's, that's exactly how I respond to that scenario. It's, yeah, it was very insightful and helpful for me in my life, especially with family, friends, business partners, just being able to communicate better all around. Yeah. Very cool. Well, thanks for giving me the nudge to do that. I had a long day, man. You want to dive into this Q and A Q and A, let's go. So this one's from healthy turn who gave me those great word of the day suggestions. Hi, Tony. I'm a member of the inner circle and love the podcast. Let's go. Thank you so much for your support. My question for Jordan is business related. If you were starting out as a coach today, where would you begin? I feel like there's a lot of information out there, but it seems like only people who show their six pack get all the attention. Yes, that is very true. So what I'll actually, I'll start with answering the last part of the statement, which is it seems like only people with six packs get attention. What we have to remember is people with something very impressive about them will come to the top of your social media feed, because that's how social media is designed, especially since the tiktok tikization of social media in terms of the way that tiktok structured its algorithm is now how Instagram does it and how YouTube shorts does it. It used to be based on your number of followers, but now it's not based on your followers. It's based on how well that individual piece of content is doing, which is, I'm not going to get in that whole discussion, but basically it's less about how many followers you have and more about how that one piece of content is doing relative to others in the feed, which is why now you could see someone who doesn't have a big audience having things go absolutely insanely viral, which we see pretty frequently now. Anyway, someone with something impressive about them, one thing that can be very impressive is a physique is like they've got a six pack, they're jacked, they're super shredded, they're lean, they're very physically attractive, that immediately will get eyeballs. Just, I mean, think about it, if you see someone attractive on the street, man, woman doesn't matter, like your eyeballs go to them, like you just, wow, that person is attractive. I want to look, it's on social media. It's like, you don't have to worry about being a creep, because it's like, oh yeah, that person's really attractive, or they have something really impressive about them, I'm going to look at it. And the algorithm knows that, it can tell what you're spending time on, what you're zooming in on, what you're pausing, like what you're watching over and over and over and over again, it knows. And so if more people are doing that, then it's going to make that one piece of content go reach more people, because the longer your eyes are on the platform, the more money the platform makes, because of advertisements and blah, blah, blah, they want your eyes on that platform for as long as possible, and they're really fucking good at it. So when we see what's getting the most attention, you're absolutely right that it's when someone has something impressive about them. And so someone with a very impressive physique will have a much easier time getting attention on social media. It doesn't have to just be an impressive physique though, it could be something impressive about what they can do. So you see someone lifting an insane amount of weight. Okay, yep, that's going to get a lot more views, a lot more engagement. Like if they're insanely strong, or if they can do something that's just outrageously impressive, which is why we see people, I don't know about your feed, but you see people doing parkour, or example, like jumping from building to building, like just doing crazy, crazy shit, you're like, that will pop up in your feed, because people like that was absolutely insane. And so if you have something very impressive about you, you're more likely to get used in attention, and it could be physique, it could be a special skill, whatever it is. Keeping that in mind, it can be, it can be a real mind fuck, it's funny, because with my business partner, Mike, we run a mentorship for fitness coaches, for coaches who want to learn how to be a better coach and build their online business. It's called the online fitness business mentorship, we'll put a link to that in the show notes. But we were doing, we do a weekly Q&A in our group, and yesterday I was talking how it can be a real mind fuck for people who, if you're posting on social media, and you're post, you're only seeing how many likes your posts get, who know, maybe your posts got 22 likes, but then you go to your feed, and all the posts you're seeing are viral videos with hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of views, you're comparing your posts to the most viral posts on social media that day. It's a real, you're not seeing the post that didn't do well, you're only seeing your posts and all the posts that have done so well, they're showing up on everyone's feed. So you're now comparing yourself to the most viral of the most viral on social media, which is a completely warped perspective, because 99.8% of the posts on social media are not doing well. There's a very small, I think about how many millions of posts, tens of millions of posts are going out every day, right? And you're only seeing a very small percentage of them. So you have to keep that in mind that yes, these ones with someone who's super impressive has an impressive physique or impressive skill, whatever it is, are going really crazy. But the vast majority of posts are not going crazy, even for some people who might have an impressive physique or an impressive skill. It doesn't guarantee that they're going to do really well, but they do make it much more likely. So understanding you can't compare yourself to the most viral stuff you see on social media, because it's a skewed comparison. With that said, it does help to have a super impressive physique or have something really impressive about you. Keep in mind, I don't have an impressive physique. I don't have something impressive about me. What I do have that works really, really well is my ability to communicate and make complex topics a little bit more simple to understand, and I can do it in a little bit of a funny way. So what you could say is the impressive thing is my ability to communicate in a simple and enjoyable way. That is my unique skill. My other unique skill is to do that literally every day since 2011 is making content since July of 2011. So the combination of my skill plus my consistency that has allowed me to do this. So what I will say is this. I've been in this industry now 2011 online, but probably 2004, 2005, since I started doing this coaching people in person and coaching people in general, I've seen many people come and go. I've seen many physiques come and go. Having an impressive physique is a much easier way to garner trust and get attention in the industry. It is not a good long term strategy. And if you build your audience based on your physique, you are in a world of shit. I have seen many, many fitness professionals burn themselves out, leave the industry, develop eating disorders, start using performance enhancing drugs, severely hurt themselves. I've seen some people die because of their drug use, because they want to keep up with the Joneses and continue to prove that they have a great physique and they can lift insanely heavy weights and they can do all these amazing things. And it's never ending. You'll just never stop. You'll never stop trying to get better and better and better and better. And by better, I mean more impressive, have a more impressive physique and more impressive lift. You just keep going and going and going. And I don't think the average fitness consumer understands how much pressure the average fitness influencer puts themselves under in order to maintain this high level of physique and performance and this impressiveness, if you will. So you don't want to build your brand on your physique. Even if you have a very impressive it, you don't want to do it. You want to build your brand off of your knowledge and your communication, which granted I'm biased because that's what I do. But the nice part is I don't feel pressured to look or perform a certain way. All I have to do is show up exactly as I am and communicate. That's literally it. Now it's still difficult. I still have to come up with when craft ways to make engaging videos and come up with new analogies and visual representations. But I essentially look at my job as I'm a teacher. That's what a teacher does. A good teacher goes into school and tries to come up with a good lesson plan for the students so the students can learn and take home and progress. I look at my job as a teacher. I think if you want to be a really good coach, you should look at yourself as being a teacher. It's one of the great things about jujitsu is you don't call the person who's teaching that day your coach. You call them your professor. I really enjoy that mentality from the martial arts perspective. I also bring that over to a fitness coach perspective. You're not just a coach. You're a teacher. You're a teacher. You're teaching and you're educating. Time and time again, the people that I've found to do the best in the industry over the long term, not the short term, don't build their business based on their physique. They build it based on their knowledge and how they can communicate. It's much harder to do that way because many people will see you and they'll be like, I don't want to look like that person. That's not impressive. Slowly over time, people begin to trust you. They'll hear what you're saying. They'll like what you're saying. They'll see some clients' success stories. They'll try out what you're saying and it will actually work for them. It takes a much longer time to build trust. But that, in my opinion, is the right and best way to do it. Build it off of your knowledge and your communication not off of your physique. Now, if you can also have an impressive physique, impressive performance, in addition to that, amazing. That's even better. I think one person who does that really was Dr. Lane Norton, insanely strong power lifter and also very intelligent and you can communicate really well. It's the best of both worlds. A woman who exemplifies this is Danielle Webster. Danielle Webster, I have so much respect for because she's actually, and Lane is as well. Lane is a very attractive dude. Danielle is clearly a very attractive fitness professional. She's a very attractive individual. She doesn't show off her body and her post. She's not like, "Hey, look at my ass." She's very education-based. Clearly, when you watch her videos, obviously, you're in great shape. Some people, they really go out of their way to show off their body in an unnecessary way. She doesn't do that. I'm an educator first. I'm a professional first. Let me educate you. Then you can see as she's doing the exercise that clearly she practiced what she preaches and she's talking about. If you can have a combination of two, that's amazing. Impressive physique and the knowledge that increases your credibility. When I was a competitive power lifter, what increased my credibility was deadlifting 500-plus pounds, weighing 132 pounds. That increased my credibility because I could talk and communicate and show people, "By the way, I'm doing this." I think now what people look at for me is he has a healthy blood pressure and it used to be high. He lives a relatively balanced life and he enjoys himself with his family. He can drink alcohol and he doesn't have an insanely bodybuilding physique, but he's healthy and he's relatively lean and he's strong and he's mobile. I have a balanced image of what more balance and fitness looks like. I think that does help. Also, taking people along a journey with you can be helped. For example, I was very honest about where I started with my mobility stuff and granted it wasn't bad. It wasn't really bad, but for people to watch over the last 10 months, my mobility go from not impressive to holy shit, really impressive. That shows them that I'm not just talking to talk, I'm also walking the walk. I'm doing it at the same time. You can take people on a journey with you at the exact same time and they'll enjoy that and they'll trust you more because you're actually showing them you can be consistent. You're learning, you're walking the walk as well. I think it's the best of all the worlds right there. That was a long tangent in terms of the physique side of things, but what I'll also say is I think the best thing you can start with is learning and studying and reading books. I have an entire podcast. It's called The How to Become a Personal Trainer Podcast. I do with my buddy Mike. It's 100% free. It's just like this. We put new podcasts out every, I think they go out every Tuesday. I would start at the beginning of those and just if you want to listen, we talk about everything training and coaching related. We have many book recommendations in there. If you can, coach people in person, whether it's coaching people in your home gym, their home gym, local parks, start coaching people. It's the best way you can start actually getting better as a coach. Yeah. What a great comprehensive answer. Do you have any questions on that or anything you want to add to that? No, I mean, when you first started talking about physique and social media and virality, I was sort of going to go back to like, but you putting in the time, becoming a power lifter, getting your deadlift up, doing all those things, prepared you to then do that later. Then you came back and talked about that too. I think, yeah, like I said, I think you really covered the bases. Let's go. Let's go. This one is from DinkRink. Hi, Tony. I had a question for Jordan. I love his content and I had a question in regards to a situation I found myself in. I aim to eat really well and do pretty good most of the time. However, I've noticed that every two to three months, approximately, I will find myself in a big binge episode. It's usually started by some trip or party and will often continue for a day or so before I go back to normal eating. I saw that the definition of a binge eating disorder implies that this is happening at least once a week and mine is less than once a month. But I do have some of the same symptoms, it seems. For example, eating some of it in secret, feeling out of control, eating things that I don't even like, but just eating them because they're available, et cetera. My question to you is, should I be concerned about this if it's happening only every two to three months, or is this the kind of thing that just happens to people sometimes? Thanks in advance and apologies for the length. That's a great question. Thank you for the support and thank you for being open and honest and I really appreciate it. I think many people relate to this. If we're just to be technical first, when you're looking at if someone has binge eating disorder, obviously to be diagnosed, I have to say, you go to a doctor. That's the person who's going to be able to diagnose you. It's on type of a specialist in this. With that being said, usually what they'll do is they're sort of like a checklist. If you hit a sufficient number of these things, then it will count as like, okay, well, you technically have binge eating disorder. I think there are pros and cons to that, but that's generally how they do it as of right now, or it's like, okay, so you hit this, you hit this, you don't hit this, you don't hit this, you don't hit this, you do hit this, you do hit this. Okay, cool. You've got it because you hit this many checks on the box. I would say if this is only happening once every couple months, my gut tells me it's not a binge eating disorder. That doesn't mean there aren't issues that need to be addressed. I think there are, but I would be much more concerned if this was happening several times within a month, at least. One thing I do wonder, and I don't know if this was said, Tony, did he say it happens in anything related to relation to alcohol by chance? Was it? It's a good question. When did he say that it's triggered by an event, did he say? Yeah, it's usually started by some trip or party, and it will often continue for a day or so before I go back to normal eating. Yeah, so I might be wrong. I'm going to assume the trip or party includes alcohol, in which case this is super common when someone has alcohol, super super common. Everyone knows alcohol isn't good for you. Everyone also knows that I enjoy drinking alcohol a couple times a week. I enjoy it. I'm not going to say it's not drinking unless you've got a real fucking problem with it. Or if you just don't want it in your life anymore, that's totally fine as well. But alcohol, it's actually really interesting. There's a study done where they had college students, one group of college students playing beer pong with water and another group of college students playing beer pong with alcohol, beer. The group with water, they couldn't continue to drink the water that they were playing. They filled them up so much. But beer actually can desensitize you a little bit. You can keep drinking even if you're full because the sensation is blunted and you can eat even if you're full. Your sensations are blunted. It can make you eat more. Never mind the impulsiveness that comes with it and the lack of impulse control. The desensitization combined with the impulsive behavior is like, "Yeah, you're going to fucking eat more for so many reasons." And then oftentimes I'd imagine if it continues throughout the next day, there might be some of that, "Oh man, I really screwed up yesterday, whatever. I'm just going to keep eating junk today because I already ate a bunch last night and I'll just get back on Monday." That's what in my mind is playing out here and I've seen this many, many, many times. I wouldn't say that anywhere remotely a binge eating issue as much as it is like you're having a bunch to drink. You're in a relaxed environment scenario. You've been relatively good with your nutrition for the last month, two months, three months, and you're just sort of having a free-for-all. Again, I'm not saying that's healthy and I'm not saying that there aren't things we can work on, but I am saying, especially if it's triggered by a party or going out and alcohol is involved, it's not your relationship with food, it's the alcohol. That's what's causing that. Now, let's just say that alcohol is not involved. Let's say you go out for a party or a trip and that happens. I would imagine that it's like, I look at it sort of like a vacation. You go on vacation and your life should dramatically change on vacation. If you're on vacation and you're answering work emails like crazy, then you're not on vacation. If you're on vacation and you're answering work emails, people are getting it mad. Can you get the fuck off your phone? Can you stop working? We're on vacation. When you're on vacation, your behavior is not even expected. It should. It should change on vacation. I don't just relegate that to work behavior. I often find that relegated to many aspects, including nutrition and exercise. Now, when I'm on vacation, I like to exercise because it makes me feel good, but when I'm on vacation, I also end up eating more. I'm on vacation. Not in my normal habitual environment. When I'm home, not on vacation, 99% of the year, I'm pretty good with my nutrition. I'm pretty dialed. I have dessert here and there and sometimes I eat more than I should, but I'm very dialed when I'm at home and food quality and portions are really good. When I'm on vacation, it's like, yeah, I'm going to have the ice cream. Even I'm not hungry. I'm having ice cream. I'm on vacation. It's a week, whatever it is. I think there could be something related to this mindset of I'm not in my normal environment. This is a mini vacation, a mini break from my normal activity. I'm just going to enjoy myself. The thing that really catches my notice out of everything that was said was doing it in secret. That's the one thing where I'm like, that I want to address and that needs to be addressed. I will say that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad relationship with food. It could be someone. Think about this. How many times when you start dating someone, you go on the first couple of dates, you don't eat as much as you would have liked to otherwise. For any number of reasons, it's like, I don't know. I don't want to get bloated. I don't want them to think I'm like a slob. I just want to be able to talk without having to worry about food. There are many reasons why someone might not eat as much in public and they will eat more when they're in private. I do want to address that. It's not just like you eat in private all of a sudden you have a binge eating or eating disorder issue. If this is something where you're out and you won't eat anything, and then when you go back to your apartment or your home or hotel, you binge uncontrollably, that I would say is more of an issue. But if it's more just like you get back and you're in private and you're home and you're just like, yeah, now I'm all like, I had some drinks. I really want to eat more and it's not to do as much with embarrassment. I'm not worried about that. But if it's more you're doing it out of like, hey, I'm not going to eat in front of them because I'm about to go crazy and I'm really embarrassed about how uncontrollably I'm going to be stuffing my face right now. That is something that I would consider speaking with a professional about because that is not a healthy behavior. Yeah, even just the sense of guilt around that is sort of like, all right, what's going on there if the behavior itself isn't cool. So they actually had another question because I somehow missed that one a long time ago. So let's do it to get them to. So hi, I had a question for the site podcast. I recently noticed that my right tricep is significantly weaker than my left when doing unilateral work. How do I correct for this? Should I start working just my right side for a while to let it catch up to my left? That feels weird uneven, but you would know best. Great question. You should not single your arm out and just work on that. The reality is, we are not symmetrical beings. I mean, think about this. Imagine if you had to write in the same way, like, if you're a righty, imagine if you're like, well, my left hand doesn't write as well as my right hand writes. It's like, you wouldn't then all of a sudden, like, well, I need to make sure my left hand will write equally as good as my right hand. That would be insane. I would argue not impossible, but almost impossible. It's maybe it is impossible to actually be equally good on both hands. I don't know if it's impossible, but it's very unbelievably difficult and not worth the extra time to do that. We're not symmetrical. There's a common misconception is belief that we often place on ourselves. Like, both everything is supposed to be equal on both sides. Often people have a longer leg, a longer limb, sometimes like, one eye has better eyesight than another eye. If we go into your body, your organs are not symmetrically placed. You got this on this side, this on that side. Like, we're not symmetrical beings. And think about this, if you could have both arms be equally strong, mobile, have everything, then you would see baseball pitchers switching arms that they're pitching with based on what side the batter is going to. But then that would never end because then the batter would just switch, which side the batter is batting from the on the plate. It's like, it's just you're not going to have equal on both sides. It's normal to have not equal on both sides. And actually, it's really cool if you want to look at this from a picturesque perspective, go look at a bodybuilding show and really freeze frame some of the best bodybuilders in the world. And you'll notice one side will be a little bit bigger than another side. Sometimes their ab muscles are different, and that's more based on genetics than anything else. But nothing is equal. You're not going to have both sides be the same. And that's okay. That's how it works. My right arm is stronger than my left arm. That's how it works. And it's okay. You just keep training both. Yeah, I mean, I think if you're doing like a progressive overload, right? Eventually, you're going to hit a point where you're going to start stalling. It's going to be harder to get more weight up. I think that that will kind of level out a little bit more on its own. Yeah. One thing that I like to do is I like to start with the non-dominant hand first, especially if I'm doing like a rep range, like I'm doing five to eight reps. I like to let the non-dominant hand determine that limit and that way the dominant that way I'm always kind of training symmetrically. I don't know how valuable that is in your eyes, but it would be more reps with the dominant hand because I can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have no problem with doing more reps with the dominant hand. If I'm doing unilateral exercise, tricep press down and the rep ranges, I don't know, eight to 12. I'm going to use the same weight, but my left hand might only get eight and my right hand might get 10. I don't see that. That messes with me. I don't care. It doesn't matter. I worked both muscles to the extent that they could. There are no negative practical implications other than potentially if you were a control freak in your head and that would destroy your day because I'm uneven on both sides. That's fine. Then just do it equal on both sides. But I do like doing the non-dominant first from the perspective of your most fresh. If you do your dominant side first, you're inherently fatiguing yourself a little bit before you do your non-dominant side, which is going to make it even more difficult. So start with your non-dominant first when you're the most fresh and then you'll be a little bit more fatigued with the dominant side. So you're more likely to be even. But again, I just don't care. It's very clear to me that we're not symmetrical. We're not going to have everything be the same on both sides. And that's okay. It's not going to make a difference in how you look or how you perform functionally in everyday life. I mean, it's why if you're going to arm wrestle someone, all right, well, let's do a right hand, right hand arm wrestle. Because you know one side is stronger than the other side. And like that's just how it is. It's okay. It's it's okay. Awesome. This one is from Amanda Holder. Hi, Tony. I love the mini podcast. I have some questions I'd love to hear you and Jordan discuss on the podcast. Sometimes on Instagram, Jordan shares some food products that he and Nini love because of high fiber or protein, like all brand butts. A recent example is the life way farmers cheese like one. What are the must have food products in the side house? And two, what stores do they find them at? I can't find the farmers cheese to save my life. And I need the cheese. It's a great question. The farmers, she's my wife, she's obsessed with it. She's been having it on toast bagels and then just slathers it on. And then she loves it. What's the difference between farmers cheese and non-farmers cheese? It's it's basically it's like it's very similar to cottage cheese actually. Okay. It's very similar to cottage cheese. It's not as I'm trying to figure out the right words. It's similar to cottage cheese but with more of like a thick consistency. So it's more easily spreadable, I would say. And like if you put cottage cheese on a bagel, which I've done many times and it's delicious, but if you turn the bagel over, it's all falling off. Farmers cheese will stay on the bagel. So it's like a cross between cream cheese and cottage cheese. Yes. So it has the taste and consistency of cottage cheese but the spreadability of closer to cream cheese. Is this going to be your first big food sponsorship? Like you're just you're just doing the commercial right now. No, no, no, no. Do you know what I want is is catered fit to sponsor me. Is that meal company? Did I tell you about that last week, I think? Yeah, we were talking about bro. The one that you really like. Yeah. Yeah catered bro. It's it's amazing. And we were like we've been having them every day since our daughter was born sometimes twice a day. They're so good. They're just so good. I really want them to sponsor me. Yeah, they're yeah. And again, it's a it's still a pre-made meal but relative to other pre-made meals that we've had out of this world. So anyway, farmers cheese. So I would say must haves is we always have Greek yogurt. We always have Greek or we've got a fuck ton of Greek yogurt. We've got the oikos triple zero or like the the high protein oikos. I like the triple berry one. My wife likes the vanilla one. My daughter loves those. She loves the Greek yogurt. So we've got Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, farmers cheese, which is just all dairy and high protein right there. We've always got fruit. Like we've always got a lot of apples, like a huge drawer full of apples. I'll have one or two apples a day. Cherries if it's cherry season, bro. Cherries are just the best. Cherries, watermelon. Like if it's a good time for watermelon bananas. So we've just always got that in the house. Always. We've got we always have bagged salads in the house. We always have so like I really like the Asian salad. I like the wonton crisps. They're just they're so good. They're just so good. My wife like chips in your salad. Bro, are you serious? Yeah, exactly. I mean, oh you like I mean that's essentially what a crouton is where it's like oh you want bread? Yeah, we'll just put bread. So I like it's it's prepackaged though. It's and it's in a relatively small amount. So the portion control is there. But the wonton crisps are my favorite. And then we've got we very frequently have rotisserie chicken. I love rotisserie chicken. I know it's not everyone's thing. I love I had like half a rotisserie chicken yesterday. It's just it's so good. And they're like relatively inexpensive. And they're just they're delicious. Yeah, so. So where do you acquire all of these wonderful staples? She was asking like, I don't know where to get some of this stuff. I mean, all of the things I've mentioned aside from the farmers, she's are pretty easy to find. I mean, we get, you know, who's got really good rotisserie chicken is target. Really? Bro, that's awesome. They're they're my favorite one target has like like and we go there are all like the different grocery stores. But like I like targets rotisserie chicken the best. I need to pick up like a 12 pack of socks and yeah, I relate to that more than you could. I really like fresh socks. So I guarantee there's been one time where I went and got socks sandwiches or chicken. Nice. But let's see. So obviously the tortillas, the mission low carb tortillas, good amount of protein, super good fiber. Like we love those all brand buds for sure. We like to have halo top ice cream, which if you go back to 2016, you'll probably see a YouTube video of me just shitting on halo top ice cream. My opinion has changed since then. In large part because they've improved their product so much since then. Do you think they saw your video and like, and they're like, we need to make one and we're like kind of sad for a while. And they were like, we got to make this better for sure. I think that video probably had like 54 views on it. Like but like I was walking around New York City. I think it was like two in the morning and I was just like, you know, I was just like, this shit sucks dude. And I, and to be fair, I do agree with part of what I said still, but also at that point in time, the low calorie ice creams were really bad. Like, I don't know if you had them back then. They were really bad. They were so bad. There was one that's called like Arctic chill and then halo top and there's they weren't good. And now these ice creams are listen, it's not like Ben and Jerry's obviously like come on. Ben and Jerry's is so much. It's just come on. It's just not that good. But it's actually really good. They're low calorie. They're and they're delicious. It's like, okay, great. Like this is a wonderful and you can have a big amount of it for relatively small amount of calories. Like this is wonderful. So we I really like the cookies and cream. The cookies and cream and the chocolate chip cookie dough halo top. We'll usually have those in the freezer for dessert. They're just amazing. What else do we have here? We've always got less or evil popcorn. I don't know if you've had that. It's it's just popcorn, but it's like the brand name is lesser evil, which I don't really like the brand name, but whatever. It's really good popcorn. We've always got coffee. We've always got Oh, we've got Diet Coke on hand. Like if you want to have a Diet Coke, we have that in the fridge. I'm trying to think is there anything else that we like always I mean, that's really like we've always got salmon. Like we have salmon three to five nights a week usually. Like fresh salmon cucks or do you do like my wife? Well, I do really love locks, but no, I don't have that as often. I mean, it's insanely expensive. And it's also like I just don't want to have like I can't justify having that all the time. And they're also I should mention like it is a smoked meat and like the the smoked meats on a consistent basis is not something I'm comfortable having on a regular basis from the cancer perspective. That is something where from a carcinogen, like that is one thing where I'm like, yeah, I don't want to have that. I would I would love to have it every day. I love locks. I love like smoked salmon. It's ridiculous. I'm Jewish. Come on. It's like what we it's like we love that. We love that. But smoked meats is just as of right now, based on the current research, not something I want to have multiple more like four or five, six times a week. I just so that's that. I probably have salmon or smoked salmon a couple times a month. Once every other week, like on a Sunday or something, we're sitting down, we'll get at the grocery store and I'll we'll like finish the package and so have like two times a month or so. But my wife will make this amazing salmon recipe in the air fryer, which she has my wife has numerous recipe guides. By the time this is out, it will be released. She just made a brand new recipe guide. She's doing a oh, you know, I probably should have fucking mentioned this. She just made an entire recipe guide is it's high protein high fiber low calorie and volume one. And we're going to make this a series of volumes by the time this is out. So if you're listening, it's released in the inner circle, but she has a big ass salad recipe guide. She has a mini cut recipe guide that she made like for all the recipes that she makes when I'm in a fat loss phase. And then she's now starting a new series of high protein high fiber low calorie that is now released. Her brand new one is on the inner circle. If you want to join the link is in the show notes and get all of her recipe guides. Once you join, you get access to everything, including her recipe guides. But yet she makes this amazing air fryer salmon that we have multiple times a week. And then we just get them at various grocery stores, whether it's Central Market or HEB or Target or Tom Thumb. These are all ones that are very local in Texas. The farmers cheese in particular, is there is it? Do you find it? And it's all over restore? Okay, at least here, at least near us. I when I posted about it, I got a fair amount of messages from people saying, I can't find it at my store, or they used to have it, but now they don't. So I know that it's not going to be as easy for people to find it. But I would recommend like Googling like, where can I buy farmers cheese near me? And I, I would be shocked if you can't find it somewhere within a 30 minute radius. And that might be too far, respect, I get it. But I would imagine that there's somewhere near you relatively close to you that has it. Yeah, we need to partner with a farm that does farmers cheese and just set up an online retail drop ship operation. Give it a take on these front door. I can't help but wonder if that's just like branding. I don't even know farmers actually make it. It's probably just like, it's just like, if that's like the ultimate health haler, like that branding just made you think, Oh, farmers are making this and then they're putting it up. We don't make cottage cheese in a cottage. Right. Yeah, that's the equivalent. I love that. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe farmers do make it, but that's just what they call it. Yeah. Have you ever gotten American cheese in Canada? You're good with that. You're very good at that. I did have one, one more question for you before we wrap up. How's your back doing? Thanks for asking, man. It's, it's getting better. I really hope by the time this is released, it's fully better. I really, really hope. Did I tell you I got a physical therapist? Yeah. Yeah. We spoke about that in the last podcast. So she came twice and she was fantastic. Now she's on vacation for two weeks. She's actually in Portugal. Yeah, she's in Portugal with her husband. So she, I'm doing some drills on my own. Oh, dude, I got, I'm so excited. I can't, I'm, I'm glad you brought this up. So it's doing better. It's, um, I would say the most difficult times in the mornings, uh, when I do my morning walk with the family, I, as when I really feel it, then I come back and I do some stretching. And from then on after I do the stretching, like, boom, I'm good. But, uh, I can, I mean, mobility is great. It's really just like it's, uh, there's a, an ache that happens in the first 30 to 45 minutes after waking up and going on that walk that is, it's really painful. But at this point, like, I mean, I can still do basically everything, which is wonderful. So it's healing. It's improving. I think I probably have another four to six weeks or so. I'm not doing jiu-jitsu and I'm not doing boxing in the meantime. I'm like, I'm trying to take the time away to let it fully heal, which is very difficult for me. But I'm taking the time off because the pain, I jumped in a boxing too quickly before, and I reheard it. And I was like, okay, like the pain was enough for me to be like, yeah, the pain was enough. I'm like, all right, this is not worth it. But I'm doing, I'm so excited because ever since I trained at West Side of Warville in 2011, 2011 or 2012, one of those, I've always wanted a reverse hyper. Yeah. I've always wanted a reverse hyper. And it's been, like, when I say, I don't say this word lightly, I don't think I've ever said this on the podcast before, it's been a dream of mine to have a reverse hyper. It's going to be like having Louie in my gym, you know, Louie Simmons, like it's going to be like, he treated me like a son and just like having a reverse hyper, one of the many pieces of equipment that he patented that he invented, it's just like, it's going to be like having him in my gym. And so I didn't get one for a number of reasons. One, because most reverse hypers are really big, like really, really, really big, they take up a huge amount of space. And they are, they're also super expensive. And I was planning on getting one when we moved to our new house, because our gym would have more space. And I would be like, I'd be willing to take up that on a space with a bigger, more expensive one. Then my back got injured. And it's literally the reason Louie invented the reverse hyper is with bulging disks. Like this, that's why he invented it, how he invented it. And I started just googling reverse hypers. And I came across a relatively new West side barbell reverse hyper called the scout. And again, not sponsored. I will promote West side barbell stuff until the day I die, just because of how loyal I'm to Louie. But it's called the scout, it's scout reverse hyper. It is a foldable reverse hyper. It is, it's like 86 pounds. So it's not, it's not light, but it's also not heavy. Like these like hundreds and hundreds of pounds or thousands of pounds reverse hypers, but it's like 86 pounds. It's foldable. And I saw it. And at first, I was like, it looks like a folding chair. It looks like a super heavy duty folding chair. Yeah. Yes. And so I, I immediately text Tom Barry and Tom started his internship at West side. The same day that I started my internship at West side. Now, as a brief, I don't know if I spoke about this, Tom, he was a professor at university in Ireland when he got his internship with Louie and Tom quit his job and sold all of his belongings and flew to Columbus, Ohio, from Waterford, Ireland to intern with Louie Simmons. Like, and if we, if you want to put the West side episode in the show notes, if you want to listen to that, like it'll blow your fucking mind. It's just an amazing story. Tom shows up and Tom didn't have enough money to get a car, so he got a bike. And I don't mean a motorcycle. I mean a bicycle. He got a bicycle in Columbus, Ohio. And he was riding his bicycle on the highway to get to West side barbell to completely change his entire life. Quit his job, sold all the stuff, got a bicycle. And he was staying in like the shittiest, shittiest, shittiest, like motel hotel you could ever imagine. And I didn't know that. I just met him. This is his first day. We see him like riding his bike up to the gym. This is my first day as well. And he was like, who the fuck is that? And I don't know if you've ever spoken to someone like straight off the boat from Ireland. Obviously, it depends where in Ireland. But sometimes Irish and Scottish accents are more difficult to understand their English than it's wild. How difficult, depending on how strong their accent is, like Scottish accents, Irish accents. Usually like someone from Dublin, not a problem. But like, Tom is from Waterford, and I've been to Waterford. And the first two weeks, it was like listing as someone speak another language. I was like, I can't fucking understand a word this guy is saying. And Louie didn't give a shit. He's just super blunt. And for the first two weeks, Tom would say something and Louie would be like, Jordan, what did Tom say? He said, no clue what was coming out of his mouth. It was absolutely hilarious. But so Tom, the reason I tell this whole story is because Tom is now the owner of West side barbell. When Tom's the owner, wow. So Tom, when I left, Louie literally was like, I want you to go back to school. I want you to teach what I've taught you. Tom stayed at West side. And Tom, when I say Tom didn't miss a day with Louie in like 10 years, I mean, Tom didn't miss a day. Like he was Louie's most loyal, helpful. I don't think employees even the right word, just like part of his family. Tom stayed in Columbus, Ohio and didn't go back to Ireland and became the most loyal part of West side and Louie left West side to Tom. Wow. And so Tom is just one of the most amazing men that I know. And we've remained incredibly close friends over the years. Tom's funny because he's this like, big Irish dude. And I remember a couple of years after I left, he's texting me and he goes, Jordan, he won't believe it. I'm marrying a Jewish girl. He fucking, he met a Jewish girl in Columbus, Ohio. And now they have a beautiful family. And the last time I was there, I went out to get pizza with them and I met their beautiful son. And Tom is just, he's so funny, but like he married a sweet Jewish girl. And so, it was so funny. So anyway, long around about ways, I'm seeing this West side barbell scout hyper. And I text Tom, I was like, Hey man, I'm thinking about getting the scout. Like, do you actually think it's worth it? And he immediately replies and he sends me a picture of West side. And they changed facilities, they have a new facility now. And he takes a picture of the reverse hypers that they use. He's like, we exclusively use the scout right now. And they have two scout hypers, which like, if you have a huge facility like West side or any gym, you'd imagine they would use a regular reverse hyper because they're like, you have the space for it. And the bigger ones are just more sturdy, more stable, whatever. He's like, we use these, they're basically like, they're super easy to move. They're easy to relocate. They're very high efficient high quality. He's like, these are the ones we exclusively use immediately sent me a picture of them and they're loaded and ready to go at all times. And I was like, cool, I'm buying one right now. And it was like about 400 bucks. And so I'm getting it for my gym. And so I'm so excited because I can have a piece of Louis here in the gym with me. And I'm like, this is what Louis broke his back twice, lifting, and like the reverse hyper is how he fixed his back. Now, I'm not saying this is the one size fits all. But in addition to all of the other rehab I'm doing and everything else, the reverse hyper is going to be a major part of my rehab. And hopefully eventually towards my optimization of sports performance, even after and through progressive overloading, it's just one of the best pieces of equipment you can ever have. And again, I am highly biased. I will promote anything and everything Louis until the day I die, the guy treated me better than I could ever imagine. So anytime I talk about West side, just know it's coming from a huge place of love and bias for Louis Simmons and West side barbell. But I'm very excited for this piece of equipment. And I'm probably going to try and use it literally every single day, not in like a super intense way, but just get on the reverse hyper. There wasn't a single day that went by when I saw Louis that he wasn't using the reverse hyper every day he was on it. He was doing it. So I'm very excited to have it. That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that story. That's so cool. You had talked about Tom before, I had no idea that he had kind of grown into the into the organization like that. That's really yeah. And a lot of the people at the organization were really upset that Tom got it because like Tom wasn't the best lifter there that Jim has produced some of the greatest lifters the world has ever seen. And a lot of them who had been there for longer than Tom since like the 80s and 90s were like, I should be the one to inherit it. But Louis knew Tom was the most loyal and Tom was the one who would be able to extend West side's legacy. And Louis knew when Louis Louis would always say when I die, West side dies. Because the West side, Louis West side has died. It will never be the same West side. But Louis knew there was an opportunity for the West side name to carry on and to help improve like outside of just simply powerlifting. And that's what Tom is doing. He's really focusing on sports performance. He's working with Don Tae Leon and some really amazing and Matt Brown like some amazing mixed martial arts UFC fighters, jujitsu competitors. So Tom is using the name and the brand to extend it to just outside of powerlifting out, which is really cool. Very cool. So two quick ideas. One is easy and one is hard. Okay. Easy one. When you get your reverse hyper, you and Mitch should do like a video boxing, do some training with it. Like that would be cool. Just that's a good idea. Putting it into action in your space. Because it's a piece of equipment. I think a lot of people don't have access to or don't really know about. So I think that would be a really cool video too. I know now is probably not a good time, but you and Mitch should make it out to the West side location sometime and train there and hang out with Tom. And that would be a really, really cool video. As a fan of you and of West side, I would love to see that. Just like a vlog. Not like anything in particular. Just do a vlog. Tell stories, train, tour the facility. I think that's a really good idea. Mitch is coming over today. I know he'll do it. I'm going to bring that up to Mitch today. That's a really good idea. I like that a lot. I'm doing that. That's an amazing idea. I'm so excited to have the in-person podcast. I'm so excited. I'm excited for you to come down and we can hang out. It's going to be so fun. I'm really, really excited about that. That's the thing I'm most excited about in business. I haven't been from a content creation perspective. I haven't been this excited about something in a really long time. So I'm excited to bring you down and get this going. But that's a great idea and I'm going to bring that up to Mitch today. Awesome. Awesome. Well, thank you for everyone listening. Again, please leave a five-star review. Written reviews are the absolute best if you can do that. Thank you to everyone who's already done it. It means the world to me. I read every single review. 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