 What's up guys? I'm Mike. Another video, some thoughts. Connor and I were on a drive down here to LA and so some things popped up, if you know what I'm saying, and we just want to talk about little things. We want to talk about maybe coaching, maybe talent versus not talent, maybe powerlifting coaches versus other sports coaches, maybe how to find a good coach. Some ideas like that before we hop into the video, be sure to subscribe. Smash that thumbs up button because we're dropping videos Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. Find me on Twitch, stream it five times a week. Link in the description. Let's hop into the video. And all you guys have been asking for it, the meat recap video, how I did in the meat, the vlog, it's all coming this Saturday. So a couple days, turn on notifications so you can catch that. I think it's most common in the majority of bodybuilding, powerlifting, competitive levels or the casual levels for a new beginner, a new lifter, maybe even an intermediate or someone that wants to turn pro or turn to a world record holder to ask the biggest or strongest guy in the gym or the biggest and strongest guy on Instagram or the biggest and strongest guy that they know for coaching. And I guess, you know, when you think of it just black and white, that makes some sense. That guy's where I want to be. How can I get there? Now, I think there's a couple issues with this mentality or this thought. Sure it may happen and you may learn something. I think that you can learn something from anybody that competes in your sport or does even something slightly like you want to do. You know, I make content on the internet, YouTube, Instagram, podcast, Twitch, those kind of things. So I look to other people of that nature and pick up something even if they have nothing to do with fitness or nothing to do with video games or nothing to do with the lifestyle podcast that I have. And I will still pick up something, you know, maybe from Barbara Walters and her interview style or how she speaks to the camera, how she speaks to other people. Maybe I'll pick up something from Chris Weber, who's an announcer on TNT and you can pick up little pieces and always learn. But the issue with going to the biggest baddest dude in whatever sport you want to get to is that there's a likely chance that that person, I don't want to use the term easier, but maybe had an easier route to get to where they're going. And what I mean by that is to be the absolute best in anything you do. And this goes for everything from painting, guitar, powerlifting, basketball, soccer, we got the World Cup going on. All those things is you need the genetics. You need hard work and you're going to need to do it for a very long time. That's just a recipe for greatness. If you have, you know, nine out of 10, 10 out of 10 with those three things, you'll probably be the best that ever lived, right? If you have a couple of those things, you know, if you have five out of 10 genetics, 10 out of 10 work ethic and 10 out of 10 longevity, maybe you'll get pretty good. I made a tweet a long time ago and I've talked about this with multiple friends and people that hard work does not outdo talent. And the common saying to tell every little buckaroo and every eighth grade basketball or every person that's first deadlifting is if you work hard, you can beat anybody. You know, what's the actual saying? Hard, hard work beats talent that doesn't work hard. And I honestly disagree. There's tons of people that get by purely on God gifted talent. Whether you believe in God or not, genetics, whatever you want to call it, but they get by basically on how they're made mentally or physically and they just get, they're just better than us. Some of them are just better than us. There's certain things that lifters could do that no much, no matter how many drugs I take, no much how hard I work, no, no matter how long I've done this thing, they're going to be better than me. As long as that they continue at least trying. Again, if you have the work ethic, the genetics and the longevity, you're going to be the best. And if you have two out of the three, you could be pretty good. But if you have the genetics, you could be very good. I've heard stories from professional athletes in the NBA, NFL, different people that I know in my community or that coaches have worked with that. Certain guys are, they're literally all-star level at the best leagues in the world and they're lazy as shit. Meaning that genetics just got up there. They had genetics and longevity. Like I said, two out of three and you can still get there. Again, going to the guy that, that's so good at bench pressing. Well, maybe that guy is just naturally so good at bench pressing, right? The guy that just benched 500 pounds in two years of training because his insertions, because of the muscle fiber type, because he has a natural good stroke on the bench probably didn't go through the same rough patches or troubleshooting or programming or nutrition or speed bumps that someone who really struggles in the bench with had to go through to bench 315 or 405 or 5495 or whatever it might be. And so that's why often, and you can look, you can compare this to many other sports across the board from soccer to basketball to powerlifting itself, some of the best coaches may not be the best lifters. And some of the best lifters probably aren't the best coaches. Not to say that you can't be a good lifter and a good coach. I think in powerlifting specifically where you only really have to train 3-4 or 5 days a week, you can spend a lot of different time mentally and physically learning how to coach and be a good coach in programming and nutrition and communication and things of that nature. Or in other sports, it's probably even more difficult where you're playing basketball, working out and conditioning, you know, three times a day. When are you going to even focus on coaching other people, right? And that's been proven with Michael Jordan having a flop as a coach, Larry Burby and a flop as a coach. Field Jackson arguably being the best coach of all time. Hard to say. Or John Wooden in college. Field Jackson did play in the NBA. He was a very good basketball player, obviously elite, but he wasn't the best basketball player and he wasn't the best in the NBA. Same with John Wooden, right? And it's not like he was the best NBA player to ever live. He's just arguably one of the best coaches. And again, we can scale this through the NFL. We can scale this through probably other sports that I'm not as competent in. I don't know track and field coaches and I don't know that many soccer coaches. I know Madonna failed hard as Argentine manager and he's arguably the best soccer player of all time. So these things, because those people had the path, maybe the path is wider for them, right? And they can fit down that path better with their genetics and they get there easier. They haven't had to overcome the obstacles and learn from the mistakes or adjust on failure as much as some of the lesser talented people that may, those that can't do teach, right? Because they've had to struggle through and learn every little thing that they can to get to where they are. So I'm not saying that a very good basketball player or one of the best lifters in the world can't be a very good coach. I'm just saying that because you're the best lifter or because you're the best basketball player does not mean that you are a good coach at all. There's a lot of factors that go into being a good coach, especially in something like lifting, right? You need, you need just straight knowledge of the sport and then lifting that's kind of programming and technique. Plus you need the kind of emotional empathy to communicate and understand your clients themselves, patients, things of that nature. And then you need a huge toolbox and this goes for every sport, powerlifting, the basketball, the football, you need a huge toolbox of skills, programming methods, communication methods, let alone the actual technique of the sport to be able to adjust slowly for multiple people over a broad spectrum of time in multiple instances. We're not all little snowflakes, a lot of sets, reps, programs work for a lot of people, but how to communicate those things and if something's going wrong, how to adjust those things is what it takes to be a great coach in my opinion. Hopefully you guys enjoy this type of video. Be sure to give it a thumbs up. Again, five new videos a week here. We're on Twitch five days a week. And also Mama's Boys podcast every Tuesday and Friday iTunes Spotify anywhere you want to go. Appreciate you guys selling Mike. I'm not here.