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I feel the best guy in the NFL
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in Major League Baseball is the most prepared.
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And and part of that is, like you said, I gotta shorten that gap.
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How fast can I get back to even if it's 90%?
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Yeah.
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I don't understand.
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I'm asking I get back
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to there because I can't afford, especially NFL, you know, you don't have enough shots, but
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even in baseball, like, you can't go through
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these loans.
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Yeah.
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I think a lot
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of that and the guys can't get all they start searching for things.
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And I think it's all about you stay in that preparation.
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You understand, this
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is what I do just when I when I do this, I'm at my best.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know, even if it's not that at a time, I'm not gonna have an opportunity to be my best,
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but I don't follow this.
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Welcome to full field.
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What's up, man?
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What's going on?
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Good to
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be here, bro.
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Alright.
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So today, we're joined with an exceptional guest.
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Dude, I'm so excited.
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I've talked about this one too, man.
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Yole Murphy is a former NFL athlete who made his mark with the Minnesota Viking in the Tampa
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Bay Buck And Ears.
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Go Bucks.
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You always transition from the grid iron to becoming a mentor and trainer.
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There is newest venture, Yohan Murphy performance.
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That has stated they are facility in Tampa Bay shaping the next generation of high performing
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athletes from high school stars to college standouts and professional game changers.
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Let's dive in the world of elite sports training and the journey of an NFL star to
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renowned coach.
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Yo.
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Sounds good to have you.
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I appreciate it,
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man.
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Appreciate it.
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Pumps, how are you doing today, man?
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I'm good.
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I'm good.
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I'm better now after that, after that little walk out that intro.
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I'm a be good first.
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It's fired up on that.
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Yeah.
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We're fired up, man.
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Well, welcome to full fuel.
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And, we got some questions here.
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Today.
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So we're gonna dig right ahead.
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Let's do it, man.
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Man, so what what I would love to know being a past athlete myself, obviously, not on the
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level of the guys you trade.
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I played college Lacrosse, but, man, can you can you share with us, bro?
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Like, a a pivotal moment that kinda shifted when you went from being an NFL athlete than to
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now training athletes.
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Right?
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Cause a little bit of a mindset shift.
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Now, you have to, but you also have the knowledge having been there, what it takes.
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So if you can, man, share with us like a a pivotal moment that kind of shaped that career
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for you.
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You know, the big reason that I'm doing it now is right before my second year at the Rams, I
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tore my quad and and, you know, I had another year on my contract, but, you know, it was such
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a devastating injury to me because I
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I was
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playing well.
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And I just couldn't even couldn't even flex my quad.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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They sent me off-site to a performance therapist who got me back.
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You know, everybody says I'm back to a 100%.
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I I never got back to where I was, but I was able to play, you know, and compete.
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Yeah.
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So I realized how much good I could do in this field, you know, for guys.
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So, you know, I just I I jumped in full force when I retired.
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I went out and shadowed the guy that had trained me and And really because, you know,
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what happens with a lot of athletes that come into training is they may not have really
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finished their career.
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So it's like in instead of being a 100% support, you guys can still be in competition
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with guys a little bit.
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You know?
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I've had that over the years because I like bringing athletes on former athletes on a
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coach.
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And I see that a lot, but I was done.
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You know what I mean?
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I played, you know, I had the opportunity to play in pro football 16 years in 3 different
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leagues.
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So when I finished, I just knew that my big thing was how I could help and support other
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athletes.
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It was easy for me to be that humble servant.
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And I get so much joy out of it, you know.
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Yes.
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So much for films.
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Staying involved in the game too.
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Right?
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Like the the world, you kind of built out for yourself.
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Yeah.
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Man, tell me a little bit about, you know, the training and so everything's always evolving.
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Yeah.
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Trishians always changing like the first it was, like, be, like, higher carbs, low fat.
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Now it's, like, maybe you should be more high fat, low carbs.
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How about in, like, the training world, man?
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What are some of the cool things you've seen from when you were a player that now exist that
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you didn't have that some of these guys are able to use.
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I mean, some of the machines you guys have
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That's right.
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For the next level, dude.
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It's it's just the tech you know, Boiler and I sat in a warehouse when I first started this,
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and I think this was what, 17 years ago.
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And, our goal, we had 2 misses.
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1 was to support the youth, like, give them a direction and and an understanding of of how to
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get there.
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You know, not I wanna get in the NFL blah.
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You know, it's okay, here are the steps you have to take to get to, you know, your next
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level of grid kid, and then just keep moving in that way.
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And then 2 was, you know, if an athlete only needs 8 reps, then how do we figure that out
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and only give them 8 reps?
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You know what I mean?
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And, you know, let them let them a a lot of that exertion, a lot of that, you know, beating
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up your body and and and and and and going through that, you know, that phase, that
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resistance, whatever it is should be on the field.
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You know?
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And so that was our thing.
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Nowadays, you can get that.
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You know, we do a ton of readiness, with our force plates when the guys get off the field.
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We all the GPS to understand load.
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So now that's changed.
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When I played, it was like, man, run as fast as you can,
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lift as
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much as you can.
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Keep moving it.
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And so, you know, feeling like crap, you didn't know you weren't supposed to.
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You know
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what I'm saying?
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And so now that's what we've gotten to is I mean, our program for combine, 30 probably 35%
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of it is recovery.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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Nutrition, you know, and and and getting the guys back as close as we can to a 100% for the
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next day.
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Yeah.
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That's massive.
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I think, in terms of, you know, it's all like, the batting average, I go I go to baseball
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analogy real quick, because it's like, you're only as good as your, like, your next home run
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or whatever.
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Like, you have it.
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You gotta shorten that gap of strikeouts.
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That you have.
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And so we're looking at your facilities.
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I was walking around.
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You obviously have some, like, really cool hyperbaric chambers or hyperbaric chambers.
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You got the plunges back there.
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You got the red light honest, you know, your 35% is a recovery.
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What is that window specifically in season that you're like, you feel like shortening the gap
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on players to, like, bounce back because you're talking about in the old days, right, you're
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going to the next game and you're operating what, like, 30, 40% of what you were the game
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prior.
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What's that bounce back that you're looking at for as you prepare things on two sides?
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From a physical standpoint, but then also from a mental.
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You know, and I think the mental is, you know, I think you could say the mental first because
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I feel that so you know, also in that, we have these meditation goggles back there.
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We have all these things that guys can tap into for breathing,
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you
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know, breath work.
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Like, in the in the cold plunge, you know, it's it's it's it's you get into that situation
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where you don't wanna fight it.
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You know what
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I mean?
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You wanna go in there and really take it on.
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Just go in there and just just feel everything, but but, you know, not being a tense place
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while you're feeling it.
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Right.
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So in season, you know, we we have those guys, like, we give them protocols whether they fall
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them or not.
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Yeah.
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And it's it's every day, like, you know, before practice, you know, really focus on mobility
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activation and after practice, a cool down stretch, you know, shoes off, walking the
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field, coming backwards, walking, get a little stretching, then hop in those punches.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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I feel the best guy
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in the NFL in Major League Baseball is the most prepared.
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And and part of that is, like you said, I gotta shorten that gap.
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How fast can I get back to even if it's 90%?
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Yeah.
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You know
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what I'm saying?
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How fast can I get back to there?
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Because you can't afford, especially in the NFL, you know, you don't have enough shots, but
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even in baseball, like, you can't go through too many slums.
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Yeah.
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You know
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what I think a of that is mental.
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When guys can't hit the ball, they start searching for things.
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And I think it's all about you stay in that preparation.
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You understand
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this is what I do.
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It's what I when I do this, I'm at my best.
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You know, even if it's not that that time, I'm not gonna have an opportunity to be
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at my best.
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I will follow this.
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So we just try to give everybody You know, I was just out there, Julio Rodriguez.
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And next week, we meet with him and his agent to give him his in season plan.
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From nutrition.
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Our nutritionist goes and looks at the next twenty two stops they have and says, Okay.
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This is gonna be in the area of your hotel.
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So these are the places you're gonna go.
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Wow.
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That's deep.
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You know
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what I'm saying?
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Because it's
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like Yeah.
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I mean, guys know better than me, man.
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That that nutrition supports everything.
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You know?
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And and my brain function of hitting a 98 mile an hour ball that's moved around has gotta be
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on tilt to
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do that.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So so we really focus on that in season.
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Our our number one priority in season is is nutrition.
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Then it goes into now we're gonna go into mobility, you know, staying healthy.
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He he doesn't need a lot of what I do in in in season.
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Yeah.
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We'll go and do mobility and core work, you know, make sure he feels connected.
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But I just want his mind working good.
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Yeah.
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That's you.
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Yeah.
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I think a lot of it's also like what Matt talks about all the time is, like, getting your body
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as soon as you're done with that game or that work out to back into parasympathetic so that
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it could start healing.
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That's it.
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Bro, you're so heightened.
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I mean, the guys up there running full sprints on those treadmills.
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Then how do I, like, get back recovery mode as soon as possible shorten that window.
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Also, man, I wanna ask this because you you're the guy for this volume, right?
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Like, and this is something I preach all the time.
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I used to train with too much volume.
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Yeah.
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All the time.
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I was like, why am I always sore?
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Why am I developing these little knick knack injuries that just won't go away?
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Was just doing too much.
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Yeah.
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So it's like you can get more out of less.
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What would you say is, like, the biggest shift in, like, when you are training as an athlete
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to now as a trainer as as as this high performance coach, like, the volume shift.
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I know the recoveries dramatically technology has changed in the last 10 years, 5 years.
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But, like, volume wise, what do you think?
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I mean, is it less days, less reps?
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What do you what's like your approach
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I would say reps.
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And then I would say, you know, I'm not like a real traditional linear progression guy going
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from, you know, GPP to tempo, ISO strength, power You know what I mean?
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We take on guys where they are.
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You know what I'm saying?
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If we got a guy like JC Latham's out there and JC Wade in and 3 51 the other day, 66, like a
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monster.
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It's a big dude.
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Yeah.
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So it's like it's like, you know, I'm doing me.
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I mean, she's about 8 of me here.
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And so it's like, you gotta say, okay.
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We're gonna be our big nuggets.
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You know what I mean?
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What are we gonna get here?
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Like, guy can, you know, he was doing 2 board presses for threes with £550.
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So it's like Yeah.
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We're not folks on Endurance.
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You know what I mean?
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Just jump into that space.
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You know, instead of saying, and that's how I feel we control the volume is just get them
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what they need.
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Right
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off the bat.
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We do reconditioning and we'll do a ton of ISO and tempo just to address some joint tendon
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ligament issues.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And then we get into whatever they need the program is about them.
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So that cuts down on a lot of stuff when you're not just saying you have to go through these
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steps.
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You know what I mean?
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If they
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if they're strong in something, let's really spend time and what their weekend.
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Yeah.
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And it it can't be a one size fits all with someone like that versus, you know, like a DB
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who's maybe not even £200 or at 200.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, they have to have a different programming.
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Exactly.
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It just makes sense.
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I get a question on that because there's something that always, like, comes through that
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I look at, like, 16 years playing football.
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Like, at a professional level, number 1, that's insane.
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Like, that and it's really in saying.
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It's a way above average.
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And so now you're working with all these professional athletes.
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Right?
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So, like, you have a broad spectrum of, like, who has that factor, right, because there's an
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it factor associated with everything.
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So then somebody that has a longevity of 16 years, you had the it factor.
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Like, somehow you were able to maybe likely play through a lot of injuries during that time
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frame, but then you also mitigate a lot because probably your level of intelligence in IQ.
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What you you can even name a few players, but, like, how do you address the it factor?
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Because there's one thing you said that you know, sometimes you, like, trigger the
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weaknesses, but then also when do you find that, like, man, they have a strength, that's a
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double down on that.
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Do you do you kind of toy with that a little fit.
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And specifically how, like, how you trained 16 years.
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Like, dude, I was powerful in this area.
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Let's double down.
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Like, you know what I mean?
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And I feel like the best athlete, you know, the talking about the Vikings, the Randy Mosses,
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the Chris Carter's, you know, when I was here at the Derek Brooks, I would say Seth, but Sab
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never worked out.
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You know, Tory Holt, Isaac Bruce, those guys only wanna train their weaknesses.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, they don't, like, it's like, you know, you watch film as a football there and you
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don't study somebody for their strengths.
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You know what I mean?
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Just like, let's find out what they do bad.
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Yeah.
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And so that's what I do.
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I don't once I get guys.
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I ask them what their strengths or weaknesses are.
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And then after all of our testing, I find out what they truly are and then tell them, and
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then we stay in that space.
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Okay.
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And and the best guys, they take it on.
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You know what I mean?
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The guys that aren't, they really get pissed off.
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Like, I I've had fast guys, all they wanna do is run.
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You know what I mean?
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I'm like, why?
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You know
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what I mean?
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Like, let's let's get let's get stable, more efficient.
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Let's get you stronger here.
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Or, you know what I mean?
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And and so when I was playing, I'd tell everybody I would've sacrificed 16 years for 7
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years in the NFL because a lot of my years were trying to get there.
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However, when I got to this, decide I wanna do this, I wouldn't sacrifice any of it because in
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those 16 years, I had 9 different strength coaches.
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You know?
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And so I found out what worked for me.
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And so now I'm very, like, I said, I'm very humble in how I do it because I know there's a
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lot of different ways.
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And guys, some guys did great with just on being on machines.
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You know, some guys were better freeway.
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Some guys just need to run because they were so dense.
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Like, the muscle was so dense.
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Like, it was like, why gonna keep trying to stack weight on
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it.
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Right.
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You know
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what I'm saying?
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So it it helped me understand what I needed.
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And so when I was playing in the CFO or in NFL Europe, I I was my own strength coach.
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You know what I mean?
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Because I was like, man, I'd gone through all these guys.
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Here's what works for me.
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And that's why I was just telling those guys that you gotta you have to have a system and a
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process that you do every day, you know, that works for you.
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Yeah.
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You know, and that that's what helped me is I just I just really became very system driven.
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And it just helped me kinda plug through things.
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You know?
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That's awesome.
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If you look and I'll we'll have our, production team do a, do a scan of the room before we
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leave.
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There's some big names
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there, bro.
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There's some names that obviously like, you've created a pedigree, man.
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It's like, very good.
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It's it's awesome.
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So and that's why we're here.
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If you could highlight just highlight a few, maybe pick 1 or 2 that you're like, that guy,
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that that guy was it.
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And then it maybe highlight some of the things that you were, like, maybe some of the
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weaknesses that they bought into early on that made them great.
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Man, you didn't get me cussed out.
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The raw truth, baby.
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Here we go.
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You know, like, I would say here here's a guy that I just trained at the very end of his
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career, Derek Jeter.
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So Jeter came in He trained with my partner, when we came together.
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So he trained with him for a bunch of years, and that's a guy that I trained with, and in my
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career, met Jeter there.
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And he came when I opened my first facility, I the guy came and joined us.
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Jeter was special because I this is no knock on him.
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He's he's he's not the best athlete, but he made sure that he could do the best at his
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position.
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Like, all the things he did were to support him playing short stop
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Yeah.
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And to get doubles and singles.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And and and I respected him so much because that's all he cared about.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like, it wasn't like okay.
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Let's Jeter, let's let's really focus on, 60 art sprints.
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He's like, no.
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I'm good.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, I'm mean, I'm I'm being a smart ass, but that's what he felt.
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He was like, look, if it's not for me getting from second to third and covering that hole or
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it's not me beating out, you know, and throw it first.
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Yeah.
00:16:48
I don't care about it.
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You know?
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And and as far as preparation and, you know, we all know Jeter enjoyed his nightlife.
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You know what I'm saying?
00:16:56
That, but he would work out Monday through Friday at 6 AM and only go out on Friday night
00:17:05
Saturday night.
00:17:05
Just he he'd work out that early just so he wouldn't do anything.
00:17:09
You know what I'm saying?
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And and He was just a pro.
00:17:13
You know what I'm saying?
00:17:14
And and and, like, younger guys that I had, Devanti Smith is like that.
00:17:17
He's young in it.
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Just been with me for, what, 3 years now
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Yeah.
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And is locked in.
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You know what I mean?
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Everything from Smitty, Darius Leonard.
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They start at 5:30 in the morning, you know, and it's and it and, you know, locked in from
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the time they start, they'll probably leave around 8 o'clock with those guys, I challenge a
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lot.
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Like, Jeter put his own challenges in front of him.
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Yeah.
00:17:43
You know?
00:17:43
But those guys throughout the workout challenge him,
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you know, to hit a certain percentage or things that they did real they couldn't do really well
00:17:51
at force them into thinking about that and fighting to get You know?
00:17:55
And and it it ends up bringing everything up, you know, because they're so competitive with
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themselves.
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It changes the whole energy of the workout.
00:18:05
Yeah.
00:18:06
You know what I'm saying?
00:18:06
Yeah.
00:18:06
No.
00:18:07
It makes sense.
00:18:07
It makes complete sense.
00:18:08
Yeah.
00:18:09
And, I mean, those guys are students of the game too.
00:18:11
Right?
00:18:11
Yep.
00:18:11
They put in a lot of work on the back end of, like, Like you said, Gina was methodical with
00:18:16
how he did stuff.
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Andy was just the best.
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I I love that.
00:18:19
The best at his position, not trying to be like, well, what if I gotta play this?
00:18:22
He didn't you don't have to play outfield.
00:18:23
You don't have to play.
00:18:25
Right?
00:18:25
Like, so just be the best at what you do.
00:18:27
I love that, man.
00:18:29
So, do you train just collegiate and pro, or do you do high school?
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You train with high school players at all?
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Yeah.
00:18:35
Yeah.
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So I I probably have, probably about 10 one on one clients there.
00:18:40
Okay.
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High school in that high school age.
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What do you think is like the biggest, I guess, like, difference or gap maybe between, like, a
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high school athlete and then the next level up.
00:18:50
Right?
00:18:50
Like, what are you what are you changing?
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Is it maybe that volume kind of conversation again or, you know, It's like the
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Yeah.
00:18:56
I I think just like you said, volume, so the maturity of the person and athlete, then things
00:19:02
change the complexity of the work.
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You know, I know nowadays with Instagram, you know, everybody wants to do what they see.
00:19:08
And you're not ready for it.
00:19:10
You know what I'm saying?
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Like, you
00:19:11
know, yeah.
00:19:12
You know, when you're a when you were in 1st grade, you had 1st grade math, you know, 2nd
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grade.
00:19:17
So it's like, you know, don't rush it.
00:19:20
I just talked to a kid last night.
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I was with he and his dad, and we were over there doing recovery.
00:19:24
Yeah.
00:19:24
And, he was worried because he was training with me.
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He wasn't training with the school yet.
00:19:30
And he's like, am I going to am I going to be weaker than the guys when I hit back?
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Yeah.
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And, you know, I said, I have no idea.
00:19:38
I don't know these guys However, you're going to have the correct development and growth that
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you need in the end.
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You know, I think these guys Not I think, but because of social media, they have access to
00:19:51
everybody around the country.
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You know, he's telling me a fifteen year old kid, got an offer to US and signed.
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And I'm like, but he can't go until he's listening.
00:20:00
Yeah.
00:20:01
Who cares?
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You
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know what?
00:20:02
But but I I I understand that everything is rushed.
00:20:05
And so they wanna rush the training.
00:20:07
Yeah.
00:20:08
And and and just lift weights.
00:20:10
And and so what we focus on is just and I don't wanna anything special.
00:20:13
I think I think a lot of people do is just specific strength for his age.
00:20:17
So that group.
00:20:18
You know what I mean?
00:20:19
Like, like, you know
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what I mean?
00:20:20
He's not he's not mature So as an athlete, so or even in fitness.
00:20:25
So we just wherever he is, and then we'll keep, you know, elevating up.
00:20:29
Yeah.
00:20:30
One thing I think is big about that too, because I was, like, we saw Roman Willie's will
00:20:34
send back there and we're just talking to him for a minute.
00:20:36
But, like, watching the Michigan Wolverine's play this year is that, like, from a freshman
00:20:41
to a senior, his confidence grew And he just, yeah, I mean, he performed, I mean, it's
00:20:46
amazing slot receiver.
00:20:48
Like, he's unreal.
00:20:48
I think he's gonna be phenomenal in the NFL.
00:20:50
Just the way he approaches the game.
00:20:52
Got really a team attitude, but that, like, confidence factor that he played the long game.
00:20:58
Like, it's
00:20:58
all that long game of, like, buying into the process.
00:20:58
We talk about,
00:21:01
like, the buy in of, like, you gotta buy into the process.
00:21:04
If you create the long game, you're playing 16 years of football.
00:21:08
If you try to shorten that gap, You might be playing 1 or 2, at the end of the day.
00:21:12
You're speeding the process up.
00:21:14
I'll I'll shoot that back to you.
00:21:15
Do you think that really is it?
00:21:17
You have more longevity if you play this long game, buy into the process of what it takes
00:21:22
versus trying to inundate yourself with, like, what somebody else is doing.
00:21:28
If I could just focus on what Joe Murphy's telling me, I'm gonna have a lot more longevity
00:21:32
in my career.
00:21:33
Yeah.
00:21:33
I I feel like it it it's just like you said, people get so caught up in where somebody else
00:21:40
is or, you know, I should be there.
00:21:42
Something like instead of just like saying, like, he said it's like, okay, you know, just
00:21:47
this is where I'm at now.
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I mean, if Roman would have come out when he had the opportunity to even last year, he
00:21:54
wouldn't be in the situation he is now.
00:21:55
You know
00:21:56
what I'm saying?
00:21:56
Go Blue Bay.
00:21:58
I wonder why he brought,
00:22:00
you know,
00:22:01
but because he waited, you know, and and and NFL teams look at guys who are on championship
00:22:08
teams.
00:22:08
You know what I'm saying?
00:22:08
Especially seniors, leaders.
00:22:08
So, you know, if
00:22:12
if you're a part of that, they know they have a guy that is it's not like Michigan had not on
00:22:19
the field, but all the other things they had a ton of distractions, a ton of things that hit
00:22:23
them and they just kept pushing through it.
00:22:25
And you get a guy that's part of that, you know, that raises your stock.
00:22:28
You know?
00:22:29
Yeah.
00:22:29
Yeah.
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100%.
00:22:30
Set of standard.
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Yeah.
00:22:32
Yeah.
00:22:32
Do you have, like, a specific just a little bit of a shift here, but I was just curious.
00:22:36
Do you have, like, a specific assessment protocol you use, like, to assess movements
00:22:39
just thinking about, like, you know, we work with more, like, ex athletes and what we call
00:22:44
like alphabet.
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It
00:22:45
ain't funny, bro?
00:22:47
Those are the guys who who need our help, but why are you looking Yeah.
00:22:49
Why are you looking to go?
00:22:50
I'm right there with you, bro.
00:22:51
I actually, I don't consider myself an ex athlete.
00:22:54
I'm gonna ask.
00:22:54
You are an athlete.
00:22:55
You see this guy on the on the course that's out there.
00:22:58
But, you know, a lot of times, you gotta take what they're doing and just totally break it
00:23:01
down reverse engineer it to the fundamentals of, like, dude, you don't even know how to,
00:23:04
like, properly step with your foot.
00:23:06
Foot does not your arch isn't working or like your ankle doesn't flex.
00:23:10
So now you're gonna try to do like sprints.
00:23:12
Bad idea.
00:23:13
How how much of that, like, I guess, like, what system do you use for the segment of that and
00:23:17
how much do you break it down for these guys?
00:23:18
I mean, you go super fine tune, I'm guessing.
00:23:21
Yeah.
00:23:21
It's so we do the very last assessment as coaches.
00:23:26
So we do with my physical therapist.
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She does a movement and strength assessment.
00:23:30
Oh, cool.
00:23:31
And then we have another guy that comes in.
00:23:34
Name's Jordan Shallow.
00:23:36
It's called Musseldoc on Instagram.
00:23:39
He comes in.
00:23:40
He's got a company called Prescript.
00:23:42
One of the best guys for movement quality assessment.
00:23:46
So he'll come in and he does his assessment, then I have a doctor, doctor O'Neil, who's an
00:23:51
orthopedic doctor.
00:23:52
He He's actually a team doc for the Bluejay years ago, and he does a biomechanics and then
00:23:58
an orthopedic assessment.
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And then we'll do The performance assessment is, we do a speed gate, 51020.
00:24:07
Okay.
00:24:07
And then we do, what are my force plates?
00:24:11
And we
00:24:12
do Nordboard.
00:24:12
So we do all of those things to gather.
00:24:12
So for them, on the it's not that board.
00:24:18
We have another board.
00:24:19
We'll put every player on it, go through all their strengths and weaknesses, asymmetries,
00:24:23
all that, and then build the program.
00:24:25
So every player has their own individual program.
00:24:28
Cool.
00:24:29
And then, we'll shift again right after they get back.
00:24:33
So players leave for senior bowl Sunday.
00:24:35
West today.
00:24:37
When they get back from that, we ship for a final phase right before a combine.
00:24:41
This was like a team effort.
00:24:42
You got a lot of specialists and areas.
00:24:44
Yep.
00:24:44
That's fantastic.
00:24:45
And, you know, it's so hard.
00:24:47
I think if you
00:24:48
like, if I try to do everything, I'm not
00:24:48
gonna be Yeah.
00:24:53
Same quality everywhere.
00:24:54
You know?
00:24:55
So I really focus on, honestly, once we get all that information, focus on pushing them,
00:25:02
supporting them, pulling them, whatever they need, you know, to to finish it off.
00:25:06
Yeah.
00:25:06
I mean, that's, like, goes right back to dirtier as the power, like, specializing.
00:25:09
Yep.
00:25:10
Right?
00:25:10
Yep.
00:25:10
So if he was trying to play all these different positions, be a pitcher, be a hitter, all this
00:25:14
stuff, he'd probably be decent at all of them, pretty good at all of them, but would he be
00:25:17
great at all?
00:25:18
So that's difficult.
00:25:19
Right?
00:25:19
So, yeah, it's hard to be orthopedic surgeon physical trader, personal trader, physical
00:25:24
therapy.
00:25:24
It's hard
00:25:25
to be
00:25:25
all that.
00:25:25
Yeah.
00:25:25
It's almost impossible if you ask me, but that's cool, man.
00:25:28
I love that.
00:25:28
Oh, yeah.
00:25:29
Sure.
00:25:29
Name of
00:25:29
the show is full fueled.
00:25:30
I always ask this question, from people, and I love the responses we get because it's always
00:25:34
super, cool and, you know, personal to them.
00:25:36
When we talk about living full fueled or living a life that's full fueled, we have 6 pillars
00:25:40
that we we like to optimize in our philosophy.
00:25:43
It's, fuel, movement, sleep, mind, work, and spirit.
00:25:48
So when you have those 6 things working for you, you're gonna be living fully fueled.
00:25:52
Yeah.
00:25:52
So I wanna ask you, man, what does that look like for you?
00:25:55
In your personal, what does that like for you and your coaching?
00:25:59
What does it mean to be full fueled to you, Murphy?
00:26:01
Put a lot of pressure on me.
00:26:02
He said everybody's cool.
00:26:04
And I gotta come as a crazy answer.
00:26:06
No, man.
00:26:06
It's No.
00:26:07
I'm just making it.
00:26:09
You know, personally, everything's about my family.
00:26:11
You know what I'm saying?
00:26:12
Like, like, as long as they're good, you know, I'm good.
00:26:15
I I mean, that that's just it's it's it's real easy for me.
00:26:19
I got a son that's 4, a dollar that's 7.
00:26:22
So you know, my wife, my family, you know, being full fueled.
00:26:27
And I feel like what you guys are saying to that mind and spirit That's what that's why
00:26:32
that's so strong, you know, with the line of spirit.
00:26:34
Work is about, I guess, everybody else too.
00:26:36
You know, I push really hard to get the JC Lathans, the Roman Wilson, Terry on Arnold,
00:26:42
the, you know, DJ Brown's, all the guys that we get in here, but then I commit to them that
00:26:48
they're gonna get everything they need So as long as these guys go and perform to their
00:26:54
utmost of their ability, I'll have a guy that'll come in and say he wants he's gonna run
00:26:57
a 4 3, but he can't fly to playing and run a 4 threes.
00:27:01
So, you know, your number's a 4 6.
00:27:03
Let's get a 4 6.
00:27:04
You know?
00:27:04
And so, yeah.
00:27:05
So as long as we can hit those numbers, realistic numbers.
00:27:09
You know, my my business is full.
00:27:11
And when we do what we're supposed to do for these guys, we're in a good place, profit wise.
00:27:15
You know?
00:27:15
So I
00:27:16
don't know if that's how it's supposed to be answered, but
00:27:18
it's just your personal response, brother.
00:27:20
I thought it was fantastic.
00:27:21
So I love the family answer because we're the same man with family guys and, you know, I got
00:27:24
kids.
00:27:25
He's gonna kids.
00:27:25
So Yeah.
00:27:26
If you don't if
00:27:26
you have kids and it's not about them and it's I I I can't I can't get down with you.
00:27:31
You know what I mean?
00:27:32
Because it's it's so special every time.
00:27:34
Yeah.
00:27:34
They do one thing different.
00:27:36
You know
00:27:36
what I'm saying?
00:27:37
It's like, you know, the world has changed, you know.
00:27:40
It's amazing, man.
00:27:41
I love, that component of really.
00:27:44
I mean, you set a standard.
00:27:46
Obviously, you set a standard, of this, like, excellence piece, but if you don't set that
00:27:51
standard at home.
00:27:52
Yeah.
00:27:53
And you don't set that.
00:27:54
Like, I was talking with a guy the other day, and not to go off topic of stealing your,
00:27:58
stealing your full field question.
00:28:00
But it was one of those things where, like, you set the standard with athletes.
00:28:05
Right?
00:28:05
And you have all these athletes performing at a really high level, but then you lose the focus
00:28:10
of what that standard was, like, at home, you lost the standard.
00:28:14
Man.
00:28:14
You lost the standard.
00:28:15
Like, the standard is actually set.
00:28:17
And it's actually one of the things that I think is most important to me.
00:28:20
We're not doing all this production.
00:28:22
We're not pushing all this out to set a standard for somebody else.
00:28:26
I'm looking at this internally.
00:28:27
Because I got 3 girls at home.
00:28:30
And when they choose somebody, I wanna make sure that standard sets super high for
00:28:34
them.
00:28:35
That's it.
00:28:35
You know?
00:28:36
No.
00:28:36
For sure.
00:28:37
I set that bar.
00:28:37
I set that bar early on.
00:28:39
So Right.
00:28:39
It's one of those things where it's like, that's that's the main focus of that full field
00:28:44
lifestyle of living beyond limits is that, like, I wanna be, I wanna make sure I'm that
00:28:48
model.
00:28:49
Oh, you're right.
00:28:49
So
00:28:49
and I know you're that model, bro.
00:28:51
I got to.
00:28:52
Good.
00:28:52
Yeah.
00:28:52
Yeah.
00:28:53
Thank you so much for coming down the show today, brother.
00:28:55
I appreciate it.
00:28:55
We had Yo.
00:28:57
Murphy.
00:28:57
We got him locked out.
00:28:58
He's actually going through combine training right now.
00:29:02
They got a ton of, ton of guys and high level guys from all over the nation.
00:29:07
You got Michigan, Alabama.
00:29:08
You probably can name a, like, Kansas state.
00:29:12
Clemson
00:29:12
Yeah.
00:29:13
That you're training right now that are just, you're getting them ready for the combine.
00:29:17
The combine's when?
00:29:18
February 20 7th is the 1st day.
00:29:20
I mean,
00:29:20
1st day.
00:29:21
So you're programming them off for February 27th, getting them geared up.
00:29:24
Is there, when is your end date with them?
00:29:27
So that depends.
00:29:28
Like, someone will come back after the combine.
00:29:30
So they all perform the 1st day they're running is, I think, February 29th.
00:29:36
So, you know, I think it's d line first and then it goes through.
00:29:41
And then they'll have their pro day.
00:29:42
So some will come back with us and just stay stay in shape tuned up.
00:29:47
Someone go back to their schools, just start getting ready there.
00:29:49
So Gotcha.
00:29:50
Everybody should be out of here probably the middle March.
00:29:53
Middle of March.
00:29:54
Now you you attend the combine.
00:29:56
Right?
00:29:56
You go up there.
00:29:56
You're evaluating too at the same time.
00:29:58
Well, I just go there So what we'll do is the combine process, you go there and you have 3
00:30:04
days of meetings with scouts.
00:30:05
So, like, or teams or whatever, you'll You have a lanyard.
00:30:09
They'll put on your chest and on the back of the lanyard, it'll say room 308 at 8 o'clock,
00:30:14
room, three ten.
00:30:15
So you walk in those rooms, and it could be Jerry Jones.
00:30:19
It could be Bill Bell.
00:30:20
Oh, Bill Bell is on a team right now, but it could be, you know, George, you know, bulls
00:30:25
whatever, you know, interview you, right?
00:30:27
You have
00:30:27
all that stuff, medical.
00:30:28
Oh, so the coaches like Andy Reid will be there.
00:30:31
You
00:30:32
know, Campbell will be there all the day.
00:30:33
Okay.
00:30:34
Cool.
00:30:34
So that's a nerve racking thing.
00:30:36
Just imagine if you go you gotta go to Indianapolis.
00:30:40
You go there for 3 days.
00:30:42
You get prodded pulled.
00:30:43
You get they probably have about 40 MRI machines in the building, and they just throw
00:30:50
guys in them.
00:30:51
You have to meet with these guys.
00:30:53
They grab you at any time.
00:30:55
And then so what we do, I set up a suite over there, everybody, all the big places will be
00:31:01
there.
00:31:01
He set up a suite.
00:31:03
I'll take the players and Noble has this really cool lounge where that you can run and lift in
00:31:08
there.
00:31:08
I'll take the players and we'll do just a bunch of starts, push outs, all that stuff just to
00:31:12
keep their central nervous system firing.
00:31:15
They'll come back.
00:31:15
My therapist is there, so they'll do work on them.
00:31:17
Our PT We'll get them food.
00:31:19
I take my nutritionists there.
00:31:22
Because I just give them shit food.
00:31:23
Like, they'll give you a grilled option, but then they'll be, like, you know, chicken wings
00:31:30
and pasta.
00:31:31
And they just have it it's crazy.
00:31:34
And then we'll just keep them sharp all the way up until then.
00:31:38
Yeah.
00:31:38
And then give them something that, you know, feels kinda like home where they get
00:31:42
comfortable at.
00:31:43
And then, then they'll run the 3rd day, and then they're gonna try to lift them after, but
00:31:49
a lot of my guys just don't bend there.
00:31:50
Okay.
00:31:51
And
00:31:51
then they'll take off, and then I'll stay there until our last guy goes on Sunday, and then I
00:31:55
fly back Monday.
00:31:56
Oh, cool.
00:31:58
One question that popped up that I was thinking about.
00:32:00
So like, I mean, you're pretty detailed as far as, like, all the programming piece.
00:32:05
But we were talking about, like, the big psychological and mental component to it.
00:32:09
And you were saying that so, like, they're grabbing you and pulling you in a room and
00:32:13
they're questioning you.
00:32:14
So they're waiting for kinda like to catch you.
00:32:17
And then they wanna get your characteristic.
00:32:19
They wanna get your foot.
00:32:20
Is that something you're doing here too where you're you're kinda like pulling them in?
00:32:23
Your questioning so that you can trigger them?
00:32:26
So I don't do it, but I bring there's a guy named Mark Dominic.
00:32:29
He used to be the general manager for the bucks years ago.
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Okay.
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So he'll come in and I pay him to come and he'll do interviews with the guys.
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And he'll he he's been in personnel for, like, 27 years and knows all teams.
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Yeah.
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So he'll find out what teams are thinking.
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He'll basically take them through a mock.
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We have one guy, who's he's a good guy, but his school, whatever happened there, they're kinda
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slamming him.
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You know?
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So what Mark did was basically attacked on the things the school said.
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And then he lashed out back and Mark's like, you just lost.
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You know what I mean?
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And and they'll take you in and say, yeah.
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I got, like, one of those, planet this hard
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stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And, and, you know, what they do is if they ask you the question, they know the answer.
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Right?
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So you can't lie.
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Like, you know, we had a guy a few years ago.
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Personnel guy told me that, there's a receiver that came out Oklahoma State and he said they
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really liked him.
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He's high on their board, but they knew that he was an alcoholic.
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They said that they had done.
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So these teams will hire investigators, and some teams will spend from 75 to 200
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investigating players.
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Yeah.
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And he said they met with a a a a guy that was a bartender to bar and a guy would always come
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in and he'd get vodka and something in a cough cup, just whatever.
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But he said they went and they asked the guy, hey, man, you you drink a lot.
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And he's like, no, not really.
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You know, a party after That's it.
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He's like, oh, okay.
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Because we heard that, you know, you drink every night.
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And he's like, no.
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And they they started laughing and the co or the scout said he, you know, the coach was
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laughing with him.
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He let him get all the way to the door.
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And then he said, hey, man, Henry says, hi, and it was the bartender.
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Here.
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And he said he just froze, you know, and and and just the scout guy played with France named
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Paul said, if they ask you the question, he told me to tell the guy.
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They ask you question they know the answer.
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Yeah.
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So just, you know, just dive on your shoulder to paint on.
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Yeah.
00:34:24
Yeah.
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They're making a big investment in you.
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Like, they're making a large financial investment.
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They know the truth.
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That's it.
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And and and that's all they want.
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You know, now they they beat guys up over weed.
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Half these guys smoke anyway.
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The the the scout are asking them.
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So Yeah.
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That's
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It's more about just understanding your character.
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You know what I mean?
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You're you're a chances are, yeah, chances are when you did this, you were nineteen years old,
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everybody, you know, is a male.
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We're not even developed in, so we did some things that we don't know why we did it.
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You know what I mean?
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So It's just about being honest and and just standing on it.
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You
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know?
00:34:57
And, you know, Derek Brooks comes in and he he with 2 of our guys, Edwin Cooper and Shane Lee,
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and that's what he did to him.
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You know, he asked him something crazy about a girl and then went right into asking them
00:35:10
football stuff.
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Yeah.
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And then Ed with shit.
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You know what I mean?
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And that's
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the thing
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is they'll do, though.
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Rattle you a little bit.
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Yeah.
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And then ask you different questions.
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You know?
00:35:18
So it's it's a tough time for him, but I always tell him that, you know, that old saying, you
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know, pressure is a privilege.
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Like, You're there because
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of
00:35:26
who you are.
00:35:27
So
00:35:27
embrace that.
00:35:28
You know?
00:35:28
Yeah.
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What I appreciate about you is, like, I even said it before I gave him this.
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I was like, y'all has this, like, swagger a lot
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of telling you that.
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But it it that's what they're looking for is, like, to keep, dude, when you're on the field,
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if you're a safety, you're a linebacker, like, you're gonna get rattled.
00:35:43
You coming back from it?
00:35:44
Like, how
00:35:44
you're gonna come back the next time?
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That's what we're worried about.
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Yeah.
00:35:47
Yeah.
00:35:47
No.
00:35:47
For sure.
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A guy that a guy that says he's never had the shit knocked out of him or you know, never
00:35:53
missed attack.
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Like, you don't want that guy.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because you want a guy that's definitely got it knocked out of him.
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A lot time, but he's back in.
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He's back in.
00:36:01
I mean, because if you play hard
00:36:03
Yeah.
00:36:03
It's like in basketball.
00:36:04
If you're a center and you haven't been dunked on, you're not you're not doing your job.
00:36:09
So you're not getting in there.
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That's it.
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So cool, man.
00:36:12
So that's what we got Yo.
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Thank you so much, bro, man.
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It's such a great episode.
00:36:16
Yeah.
00:36:17
Yeah.
00:36:17
Thank you for coming out full field.
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They'll be on limits, baby.