 Do something that gives you instant gratification on days where it's just like well I didn't squat and maybe my deadlift kind of hurts like you know what I'm gonna finish the workout with some like high rep rows and I'm gonna do some triceps pull downs and just like stuff that makes my arms feel pumped like I got this right now I know the rest of stuff is kind of like a long-term deposit, but this is what I want. This is paid a right now You're listening to Barbell Logic brought to you by Barbell Logic Online Coaching where each week we take a systematic walk through strength training and the refining power of voluntary hardship Welcome to the Barbell Logic podcast. I'm Nikki Sims. I'm joined here with Andrew Jackson. Hello Matt Reynolds is not with us. So It's gonna be quiet. I might actually just have some silence It's a skill. It's a skill. His ability to talk endlessly is impressive. You should start a podcast. So Andrew and I were chatting again about training as we do and we came to talking about how or what we do to enjoy training when we're not motivated. Right, which is timely because I think both of us are in a phase of training where it's pretty anti-climactic. A little bit. Yeah, like what does that mean for you? I think it might mean different things for both of us, but what is that? Sure. Yeah, I mean for different reasons I think we're we might be feeling that but you know for me it usually means I'm alone in my garage listening to Radiohead and trying to convince myself that squatting sounds like a good idea now, but I mean that's actually true a hundred percent but the reason that I'm in that mode right now is I just finished up a three-month training block which was the tail end of really a six-month phase of programming where everything was going up while my body weight was going down and so everything sort of like peaked about a week week or two ago so now I'm kind of on the other side of that which I have found throughout my lifting career or just training career in general that you or that I notice after I peak whether it's for a competition or a training cycle there's this phase for the next you know anywhere from three to six weeks or maybe even longer sometimes where I It's it. I just don't have the same excitement kind of engine, you know built in because yeah, there's a yeah, there's a crash It's like you know the night after a big party or something or you know that you've got several weeks of Going into the gym maybe attempting a PR whether it's a rep PR or a One RM or three RM whatever which has this sort of like you know, yeah, you had Emotions fueling that yeah, exactly different emotions that don't feel it. They actually just kind of steal from it Right. Yeah, and and things that were easy for the last, you know, however long are now hard Yeah, like wait that you've hit for like triples and stuff you do for a single and you're like well, I'm gonna die now Right So that's kind of where I'm at I'm like right on the other end of that or right at the beginning of that lull and that dip New plateau. Why are you what are you feeling right now? For me? I've had this hip injury thing and on injury maybe just an overuse situation that We really try to play around with with variations and frequency and loading and honestly the only thing that makes it feel Butters not squatting So I haven't been squatting which I'm actually kind of okay with I don't really love it but like it it has created a little bit of a void in my training where you know, there's just a big lift that there isn't a big lift that day and You know, it's kind of just like you have like a little bit of an existential crisis of like well, what am I doing those for? And Then I actually just made the decision a couple days ago, but I hadn't really been training for a meet Like there's nothing really on the agenda, but since things are opening back up. It looks like a competition will be happening So it was kind of this weird phase of like well, I can't squat and for me if I'm You know when you squat you have like a different, you know, it feels like you can eat more You know, there's this big training stimulus that provides other great things in your life It's just like well when I can't squat like my butt gets smaller and I know it's vain, but it makes me sad Yeah, I'm doing all those other dumb shit to fill that Yeah, I mean that's interesting it does it has a ripple effect outside the gym too, right like the Energy level that you have changes the You don't feel as tired like you don't feel like you Stuff. Yeah, totally. So how far out is that meat now? Right now it's on the schedule for August 1st so a good amount of time to kind of switch gears mentally and Get back into the the desire to do really heavy things like right now. It's just been kind of like light and fun Well, I've had to make it fun because Things are different. That's I guess what we're gonna talk about today Oh I'm just curious on that note alone. Did you sit? Did you notice an immediate change? Just putting something on the calendar. Did that like well? Yeah, like on Wednesday I hadn't fully decided if I wanted to do it or not and then it was like on Wednesday night, I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do it and I haven't trained against them So I'm gonna train today right after we record this and I think it'll give me a little different kind of fire Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that would be one of the first things that I would list as a positive impact on training motivation is some sort of thing in the future that you're aiming at whether it's a programming block or a competition in particular helps. Yeah I've also found that that helps mitigate the crash a little bit if You are doing a competition and you have the next one already planned out. Oh, that's a good idea Yeah, what I because what I've noticed a lot of times is I come off the platform and there's things that I wish I could have done different or better and so having that with a future state to aim at helps me kind of think about the Lowell as my opportunity to kind of plan and formulate all the regrets that you have Yeah, well, I mean it I think it's I think what it's really effectively doing is like channeling the regrets into action That's my theory. That's good like that. That seems like a good life lesson for us all So there's something kind of interesting here There's like the phases of not enjoying or being motivated about training and then there's just like You're in a great training block, but you just go into the gym one day and you're just like man I don't right. I don't like any of this like no. Thanks. So it's like we have long-term phases And then we just have short kind of phases. That's interesting, right? Yeah, and I think that In general, I've definitely shifted away. I think we talked a little bit about this on the last podcast we did that I Used to earlier in my training career Try to fire myself up going into training like motivation to train going into the session was a big Part of your pretty high training. Yeah, what was it? Yeah, and I think curiosity. What was what did that entail? it started first thing in the morning on Training day I would start to visualize What it was that I was gonna do that day? and I remember even like on LP it would be like over the weekend I'd be thinking about That five pounds that I was gonna add on Monday, and I'd be like constantly checking in with how my body feels like Do I think it's am I gonna be ready? Like how many how many deer diary entries would you make that day? Mental deer diary would be like I mean my brain gets into some pretty intense cycles Some people can relate to that. I think we can definitely relate to that So I mean I'd be spinning on that almost, you know kind of in the back of my mind all weekend and You know like waking up each morning wondering like okay, how much did I recover? Do I need to eat more? Wow? Yeah So yeah, it was pretty intense, but then the day of it'd be a lot of visualization throughout the day and Then that would sometimes cause like a physiological response of getting anxiety or adrenaline throughout the day but then the actual like physical preparation was usually Coffee on the drive like I'd either get it on the drive-in or like I'd park Away from the gym and walk to the gym and drink a coffee the drive-in There was a specific series of songs that I would listen to wow. This is some serious strategy Yeah, it was pretty well mapped out like I had this I had a Spotify playlist. It was called Jim and And it was you know the same like five songs I definitely don't have one of those Yeah And then like you know going into it. I'd had a pretty you know Repeted like a my warm-up routine was kind of the same. I tried to do every time and Really, it's been a long time set in the stage. Yeah, which ultimately Started to backfire because there would be these you you amp yourself up so much like that So many times and it works for a while, but it's not sustainable Yeah, you can't oh you can't make that amount of emotional deposit like every time you train Right, it's too much. Yeah, I think it's a good skill to have and to be able to go there But if you're training over a long period of time, it's You can't rely on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it also just left me, you know completely wiped out afterwards You know, so it's just hard to integrate that into the day. Mm-hmm. You can't talk to your family Like you have to go update it on Instagram and then There's nothing left after that. You just have to eat and go to bed Right, right But what one of the things that I think has helped is To have it be a little bit more first-grounded in and this is something I got I picked up from Atomic habits that book by James Clear When you're wanting to make when you want to ingrain something as a habit You know, it starts with an identity and then building a process around that identity And so the big shift there was and I mean I mostly had that already thinking of myself as a lifter but but what really helped I think standardized things or stabilized things was Focusing more on the process of training rather than the outcome of whatever weight it was that I was going to lift And the process of training can be really just simplified into going to the gym Doing an empty bar set, right? Sometimes it can be that diluted Right for sure. Yeah, I mean definitely showing up and that was something that I Found to be really useful when I was dealing with an injury. I had Really bad knee tendonitis for like five years. Oh man to the point where like walking up and downstairs was Like getting stabbed in the knee And so there were some days where I would have no idea how bad the pain was going to be So I couldn't hype myself up at all. I couldn't count on any amount of weight being on the bar and To your point like just showing up touching the bar became the process and Seeing what variant I could do could I pull from a block? You know what version of a squat could I do could I do any squat, you know, just trying to find Something that I could do on that day and do it the best I could became the process, right? And so it's hard to when you have to do stuff like that. It's rare that it's gonna always feel rewarding Right, so when you have to spend 45 minutes trying to just find what variation you can do. It's just like cool I've just spent 45 minutes and now I know that I can do a six inch high pin squat Yeah, it's not rewarding, but you still get to shift your mindset to well, I got to squat Right. So what else what would you do like during the rest of your training session to still make it feel like meaningful? Well, I actually picked up that that's I think a useful idea from you I think you phrased it as like To add something that's immediately rewarding. Yeah, give it give do something that gives you instant gratification Instant gratification. That's the word I was looking for. Yeah. Yeah, like on days worse It's like well, I didn't squat and maybe my deadlifts kind of hurts like you know what I'm gonna finish the workout with some like high rep rows and I'm gonna do some Like triceps pull downs and just like stuff that makes my arms feel pumped Right, like I got this right now I know the rest of stuff is kind of like a long-term deposit, but this is what I want This is paid a right now, right? Yeah, I mean we tend to sort of talk about the difference We don't sort of we talk about the difference between training and exercise and exercise tends to be for that immediate gratification Yeah, we you know definitely want training to be the core of our Process, but when you are in love when you're in one of these little periods or something's not or the body's not feeling good Yeah, getting a little pump and channeling the inner Swartz and agar Is I think very helpful to get a little bit of endorphin Going and and just something. Yeah, something right then and you know, maybe I find during those times I like hate all of my lifting music like all of my 300 long gym playlists just like this is no, thank you. No, thank you for any of this Sometimes I'll just listen to stuff I've never I never listened to or like just pop around until I'm just like oh finally this makes me feel not dead inside Do you have any good examples of like what goes on the non-standard playlist Well, just like yesterday so earlier this week, I think it was earlier this week when my clients have worked with for a long time He's really awesome. He freaking squatted a 20 pound 5 rep max of 495 like he had a 20 pound PR he squatted 495 for five and he like loves tool and I remembered watching that video and it was just like really awesome to watch and I was just like it was just such a great Check-in because it was just like so emotional and you know tools ranging in the background was like, you know what? I'm gonna listen to tool So I was like my whole training session, which is not something I usually listen to but I think I tried like Global funk the global funk playlist on Spotify is really fun. I Tried that too, but I like had some emotions. So I like I think that's why I connected the tool Interesting. Yeah tools usually on my normal playing list I think mine is like techno music like I would never normally just put in like dance techno, but a lot of times I'll notice like if I'm just wanting to Add energy like a positive kind of upbeat energy. I'll put in these like dance songs and yeah So it seems like a good thing to do is just like try something a little bit different Like you have to just like explore different ways to make you feel like oh, I'm having fun right now Or oh, I'm feeling some sort of emotion that I want to feel while I'm here in the gym Yeah, so what I find interesting is that idea. I think you brought it up just from your own experience But it was also in that atomic habits book He talks about bringing Reward into the present like what you're talking about there like bundling something that feels good with something that you need to do and also bringing like a The opposite of a reward like a cost into the present as well So for example like having a training partner that you commit to Showing up or doing a workout with like if you bail on the workout Now you're kind of a jerk So like yeah, do you really want to be the training partner that bails? Yeah, so like setting up some pain that will happen if you don't do what it is that you're wanting to do Is kind of another way you can trick yourself into yeah, I mean, yeah same thing I know I hate to send I hate to send Matt like I didn't do my workout today. So I just never do that Yeah, that accountability is That's yeah, that's right. Mm-hmm. That's a big one is having a well And I think you know to maybe spend a minute on the value of having a coach. Yeah seems like we talk about logic we certainly believe in that and I think the combination of having accountability and also somebody who's been through that those lulls and can kind of help you see through to the other side or you know Or remind you that you've been through those lulls because like yeah, we've been lifting for like ten years now like I Haven't had amazing lifting for ten years Like right there's been a lot of these peaks and valleys. So it's just like I remember I remember now like it's gonna be fine You're okay. It's gonna be fine How many of your sessions would you say are Punching the clock just sort of like you showing up and you're you're kind of looking for ways to motivate yourself Lots of them just so many of them. Yeah, like you say most oh gosh I mean like there's punching the clock and it's like kind of just a drag and then there's much in clock And it's still like my fun thing to do during the day, right? Oh, man. I don't know Like I don't have no idea. Do you have like a percentage? No, I would say most are in the category of Punching the clock, but it's still the thing that feels good in the day like that Kind of helps ground my day. I look forward to doing it. I may not have a ton of excitement But it's a good thing in the day. I would say that's probably Somewhere around 60 70% I don't know. I'm guessing like two-thirds and then the half of that last third is probably the Really not fun days the radio had days the radio And then the the last you know, this the smaller half there was also the just like awesome Blow the doors out have a really good time Dance party days And I and I think that number seems to be shrinking as I have trained longer Not to be well, so actually this interesting topic about it though like When I first started training those those blowout days were what kind of kept me coming back, right? You get to see your numbers go up every single time right you get in the The thing that we created the process for was the instant gratification at the beginning, right? And that is the hook. Yeah, it was one of the things I think psychologically that makes that first three to six months so addictive is you see the bar you see the weight going up you see the changes in your body you see You know your skill improving Every session and then you can usually stretch that out to every week. Yeah, so you still kind of get that hit At least once a week like all right. I can look forward to Friday, you know and then maybe it's once a month and Then at some point you start expanding your PR Grid yeah, right you're like truce day PRs PRs at Fraction of a body weight yeah So like you start playing kind of mental games like that and then what I found more recently is that The training is less about that reward like those are nice but I try to bring my attention more to the process of getting better if that makes sense and less about Like the weight on the bar going up totally you can be kind of present to the process Instead of like to attach to the outcome. Yeah, always like I've got that meat coming up like Everything this every single rep that I do in this training session is gonna decide whether or not my meat is successful Like yeah, that is exhausting and that's gonna make your emotional response to your to your meat more volatile so even when you are training for something I think you do still have to like give yourself a little bit of a break or something I Think that works for me when I'm like training far away from a meat I'm curious how you balance that like is there a balance in your mind between that kind of Embracing the process letting go of the outcome Versus you need to perform on it on meat day like you have certain numbers that you want to hit on a specific day Mm-hmm Do you is do you have any way of balancing that or is it still about the process? It's still largely about the process, but I think I think I just try and make reps even more and more perfect and I almost will imagine The weight that I want to pull I'm gonna be pulling that like every time I train, you know So when I go in and deadlift 330 for reps or whatever I'm gonna be like I start imagining 440 So I start to associate in that way the work that I'm doing now with the with how I want to perform Not in the sense of like if you miss you're a failure if you if you screw this up You're gonna have a bad me, but it's just like trying to make it like more specific to what I'm gonna be doing Yeah, like preparing myself to feel how I want to feel for meat day Right. Yeah. Yeah, that totally makes sense that One of the most transformative Experiences for me from a training perspective was after I did my first competition it was weightlifting competition and having that experience of only three attempts for each lift and kind of that the difference that meant the difference mentally in being on the platform The pressure of needing to hit the rep or you or you potentially bomb out Versus training where you can take as many shots as you want and Then carrying that back to training. I think it's kind of similar to what you're talking about like I remember After I did that competition then I started to think about all of my heavy attempts as being What being being like trying to recreate that feeling of being on the platform or like having it be as important in terms of like miss versus make Kind of visualizing that sense of pressure instead of it just being like I'll just take a shot at this all tries Whatever. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You have to add that in. Yeah. Yeah It made training more meaningful even if the weight wasn't a PR attempt Mm-hmm Because I knew that and I guess this kind of connects back to that mastery and focusing on the process aspect of thing that I knew That I needed to make Even the unexciting or the not exciting attempts as Important as the big exciting ones. Okay, that's cool. So much training the brain Man something interesting. I just thought of I've noticed Like if I have a bad batch of training And if I'm also like going through periods where I'm trying to make like a body composition change Which I don't do like really significant changes, but it's like or if I'm not trying to make a change And I have somehow gotten a little fluffier It's like if I'm fluffier than I want to be and if my training is going badly That really sucks. Yeah, and so something that I've noticed is like I like to have a a lot of a lot more control over like My eating and my recovery and how I feel I look or how I just feel in my body So that when I do go through these little slumps, it's not like everything is a total disaster Okay, interesting. So focusing maybe on the things that you can Control more. Yeah, and like like how you eat and the the body that lifting gives you like I think that brings us all like a lot of joy if you do it, right? You know, if you have some control over it But I know and I've worked with lots of clients who are just like They're trying to gain weight and then they and then like maybe they get hurt So let's like cool cool. Now I've added all this weight and then I can't do my lifting It's like that's kind of depressing because you have that body outside of the gym too And you're just like crap. I wanted this body so that I could lift and now I can't lift Yeah, definitely lived that one early on put Basically 80 pounds on At my heaviest almost 85 pounds actually And that's right when I was also going through the the knee stuff And so here I was like looking you said going down the stairs hurt, huh? Oh, yeah All 200 and what pound I got up to 285 pounds. Wow And you're what now? 240 and super jacked. Yeah And like if you got hurt now would be like it would suck But then you just like There's anything wrong with that. No, I needed I enjoyed going through that phase as well. Yeah, it's good to do it. Yeah I hear what you're saying Uh, one of the things that came up for me when I was thinking about that was What, you know, how do you deal with When that, you know, there's like an external outside the gym stress or You know, like people a lot of times will all see clients Work blows up or yeah, the last this year happens And training gets pretty low on the list of priorities, you know, what Do you have any strategies or ways of keeping training in the in the I like Refused to let training drop in priorities. Yeah, I'm like stubborn about it. And maybe this is like Hell, maybe it's a personality flaw. Like maybe I could have a much better life if I like But like yeah, I went through like some breakups and some moves and I like I really just decided that like training is going to be mine. Like No one is going to mess with that like I'm I'm like really protective of it So it's like I'm not going to let some dude mess with my training that I hate when I let that happen I'm not going to let some Other person mess with my training. Like that's not okay Like that is going to be mine because if I let someone else influence my training, I just get really pissed So I just kind of make that decision of like, you know what you're not going to ruin my day in the gym Like this is my time right and During that time if there are like fluctuations in performance Do you do you just like Let go of that and it goes back to hey, I showed up. I started warming up and we'll just I'll take it how it comes. Yeah, you kind of just have to be like, yeah, I had Yes, I'm not going to let them steal my training, but I'm also going to be like, yeah, there's some emotional weight on the bar There's emotional weight on the bar today Maybe not sleeping so well like Things are still tough Squat was 225 plus emo 60 so really that was a 285 Yeah, the 285 squat and then I did all my deadlifts to Bon Iver and that's okay. It was still mine But like I just don't want I don't want it to be totally taken off the agenda for me So that's how you manage it. What about for a client? Like what what do you do when a client starts talking about or like their compliance starts dipping Man, it's tough. I try and find The one I try and find the things that they like doing in the gym and I try and yeah Hear for the things that they don't like doing the gym Like if I had someone to unbox watch or something be like, how do you really feel about those box squats? Should we not do that for a little while or like are you just should we just take the rdl The arty's rdls out for a minute like how about that? Yeah And kind of I like to feel for the things that they do like doing So yeah, I try and listen for that and then I think it's good to Not let them just disappear You know, you kind of have to be like hey Are you gonna train today? Like there has to be Someone it's helpful when someone else cares about your training Like we know we have to be personally responsible for it, but it is really nice when someone else cares how you're doing with your training For sure when you can't seem to care about it because it's it's nice to have that kind of relationship Yeah, I'm very similar, you know personally for my training I The big thing for me is that I don't make it a choice I hear a lot of people Talk about how there's that moment on their way home from work or you know There's some Thing in their day where there's a fork on the road where they are either going to train or they're not And they really struggle with yeah, you know if I just Go home and have a beer if I get home and have a beer I'm just it's just not going to happen and for me I'm more kind of like I think what you've described and again, maybe that's a personality flaw, but Because I will I have sacrificed a lot of things By making that not a choice Yeah, but I felt I feel like that's been Valuable for training in the long run. Um, like I just do not relate to that Decision mindset of it being like, oh, am I going to train today or not? It's just it's like it's on the calendar Like taking a shower or eating breakfast like it's not like it's so funny I was talking to my sister about this just earlier today about like Wanting to go exercise and it's just like I was giving her this advice And then I was like, maybe I should use that advice for things that I hate doing like And like just the other things that I'm horrible at doing regularly Yeah, I certainly I'm not going to pretend like it is a Like a better than anybody else kind of a thing because yes, that comes at the price of many other things Deprioritized for my clients. I'm also the same that I'll start with like Eliminate the thing that is causing resistance or minimize the resistance. So Maybe they've hit a stretch where you know grinding on Heavy fives is just not feeling good. So let's try triples or doubles or Maybe back down a little bit because I would rather them train than not. Yeah, for sure always Or maybe instead of three lifts a day. We need to go to two Or I found one client worked way better on one lift a day So, you know playing with the program structure so that it fits like if you can keep a client coming back With just one lift a day. I feel like whenever I do that the client's just like, yeah, this isn't worth it anymore Well, so for me, it's the it's usually the Home gym is huge obviously because it's You you don't have the logistics of getting to and from the gym I don't think that works for somebody who's Who's gonna drive 30 minutes on each side. Yeah, that doesn't work. But if you got a home gym And especially if you're able well, especially right now people are a lot of people are working from home So they're able to like I had one client Post a video last week. He still had his head set on like Like he was in the middle of a conference call Stopped didn't change, you know, hashtag team jeans Hashtag team microphone microphone. I don't know headset team headset And busted out his One lift back at it So I don't know we went in and and his compliance goes up like before that he was on a three Three-day split and his compliance was struggling. So yeah, okay So you you really look for that Resistance factor. Yeah, which I think we we also do when we're having those tough times ourself is just like What's making me really hate this training session? What's making me really hate this training block? What's making me maybe not hate it, but it's just like, you know You where you've searched for motivation before you're not finding So find the thing that's like the one little thing that might be holding you back from that So that you can you may not be motivated, but you can still enjoy your time Right and maybe that is just like the last time in the gym You know, I'll go to I'll enjoy this time if I only have to be in there for bench press like, okay Right and and I think you had talked about having the relationship with your client that where you can like have that conversation is really important um because sometimes it's I mean, you never know what it is like Maybe they hate the box box squats or like I had one one client who he kept skipping his deadlifts And we I finally called him out on like what is going on? He's like, well my daughter train snaps Oh my goodness at the same time that I was doing deadlifts and So, I don't know. I mean, it's maybe that sounds silly, but you know, it's just you have to make that conversation your life Yeah And then it's like, oh, okay. Well, we can let's do Floating deadlifts and now all of a sudden he's doing polls again You know, you never know it could be something really simple that you just find a little alternative And I I've also noticed this with clients more over time that you know, some Will defer to what is written in the program As if it's handed down on the stone tablets, you know, like this is Don't go here, Andrew Well, I'm not saying just like make up your own thing but like Establish the relationship with your coach that you can you know, bring stuff up that and at least give You know, create the space for a conversation No, I I totally I would rather some client. I would rather a client just be like Hey, I don't like these. What what can we do? Like what are what I hate this about it? Please help like that would be much better than just not or have the conversation versus versus just leaving Like I've had some people that just assumed that well, this is all that I'm ever going to do right But there's a lot of options out there. I just we need to know It's not working. Yeah And then you know, this is one of the things with med programming that I find to be important is that you know as long as The weight is going up on the on you know week over week and the bar speed Looks okay I'm going to keep going as long as that copy and paste vibe. It's just like Okay, here it is again But if it's working It's working. It's working. It's great. Yeah, but behind the scenes the lifters like You know, and I've been there right like oh my god. We're just going to keep doing it And it keeps happening, but Anyways point being there like having the conversation If it's driving you crazy, yeah Better better than just disappearing. Yes. No ghosting Okay, so one thing you can do is Within the training session pick something that gives you instant gratification Something that gives you like a pump or something that You know carries over well to a lift that you really enjoy doing Something that's really easy to set up like if it takes forever to set up in your gym You're probably not going to want to do that That's like set a timer You know I am going to be in the gym for one hour and I will get as much done as I possibly can I like that one. Yeah stuff like that. Um, what's what's the other stuff that we talked about? Uh, we also talked about bringing the focus to the process You know focus on Making the movement More perfect or yeah improved letting go of the outcome You know letting go of what the weight is today or maybe tomorrow and And focus on the process to include You know, like you said making the process as small of a step as possible Get into the process about showing up Warming up and then go from there do it in your jeans. Whatever Right Or George the pod or with your headset on Yeah, those are the big ones Have a coach. Yeah can help you Hold yourself accountable Help you through those times Set targets and goals out in the future. That was another good one Have a meet in mind that you can help bring To your mental game in the present. Yeah, it gets you something a little excited about Sweet and then listen to rando music. Yes Spice up your playlist With either tool or techno Or whatever's not on your current playlist. Yeah, just something Not radiohead or bond either Those are kind of nice to listen to when you're putting weights away though Yes, or sometimes if you just want to be emo for a day, that's okay Sometimes you cry and squat at the same time That has actually happened Tearduct incontinence All right. Well, thank you for listening to barbell logic and who knows you might hear from us again Sayonara