 Ladies and gentlemen, some of my homerice, yeah, Michael a bodybuilder Pro bodybuilder bodybuilder Alberto Nunez. No, dude, chill out. We're all 24-7. We're going beast mode There's something called Bleacher Report, which you were shared on your I think I read Ranger. Yeah, it's Bleacher Report, and then there's one other one That writes really good articles browsers browsers and Playboy have great articles But there's a different one. I can't think of it comment below because you guys are gonna say Mike you're native It's this one, but they do awesome articles kind of like what would I tell myself? These are professional athletes. What would I tell myself as a rookie in the league or what would I tell 12-year-old? Little Omar. Yeah, so I want to ask you guys and then maybe I'll touch on myself We've all been training almost a decade. Maybe a little over a decade. We've all studied this Pretty through and through as much as we can continued learning obviously, but we're all somewhat advanced in this fitness game Mr. Alberto Nunez, what would you tell your younger self and what would you fix maybe in your training your early days? See, this is why I think sports are great and it sucks it They're not prioritized as much as they use in regards to like development. You learn so many lessons through sports Yeah, you know like for example like how you're really slow and a bad athlete You're gonna have to figure a different way to be effective find your strengths and work with that and That's that's probably the one thing that if I go back to this bodybuilding thing Like I want it to be a freaking mass monster at some point Yeah, and I went through these bulking phases because the way it works if you get to 200 on stage or 180 And if you get to 220 if you're willing to work hard enough to get to 220 Which just means like eat a shit ton right you're gonna compete at 200 and I'm like I'm gonna keep pushing it and pushing Chasing down Ronnie Coleman. Basically And it's like it's like Ronnie you're going down over my style. You're going down I was basically like a six foot two guy trying to be a center in basketball. Yeah. Yeah, that's right So like yeah, I think play to your strengths like find out what you're good at and Try to get better at that and I think this goes for anything else in life Yeah, yeah, like don't try to be something that you're not you're going to suck at it So I think that's probably if I could go back It's like all right, dude. You're small you're frail But there's other things that perhaps you can do to make you an effective bodybuilder and effective strength athlete And finally it took me about a whole decade to learn that one And like now that's just how I do it when it comes to not just like my my training But when it comes other things in life, yeah, I suck at it Yeah, dude, I'll leave it up to someone. I'll outsource that shit Like let's someone else I'll hire someone to fix the car because I'm bad at fixing things I'll talk about stuff like that here all the time about you know my my opinion on true confidence one I think honestly confidence would solve world peace not everyone's ever gonna have confidence We can't solve world peace but true confidence is is knowing who you are knowing who you are not and you and I off-camera a couple days We've chatted a lot, but talked a lot about self-awareness and those kind of play a role in Obviously growing as a human being we can spend all this time in the gym Spend all this time drinking whey protein But if you're not focusing on improving all aspects of your life You're not really living or you're not really living that grind is everyone else You guys want to hide grind and hustle wake up at 5 a.m. And drink egg yolks raw and go do push-ups I'm suffering to the ground within about three days rather than trying to be a better person and mastering your craft 360 Omar is off. What would you tell young eyebrows? Thank you young Michael farp. I would say my best advice would be lifting weight is not about lifting weight And what I mean by that mr.. Miyagi Wax on whack on like a lot like water and what I mean is that the life lessons you learn when it comes to lifting applied far Beyond lifting if you pay attention I actually think that training is one of the most objective ways to get better improve to yourself that if you're disciplined enough Focus enough you can make progress Pick any other disciplined people want to become really good at so I love music But becoming let's say an exceptional jazz musician takes beyond 10,000 hours. There's no real shortcut You can have that intuitive skill you can have that ear rhythm whatever but it requires so many hours Training no matter who you are if you put in effort a few times per week for several months for one year You will notice you can objectively quantify what you're doing I actually think training in ways compared to other disciplines is far easier to make progress on and so once you see all those mechanisms of developing the habits Learning that motivation wanes, right? It's not something that's always there It's more having the discipline that you instill within yourself that keeps you on that path all those kind of life Qualities that I think good lifters inherently low I know will spread into other aspects of your life And so I've become more regimented more focused all those things because I kind of have Not at all ADD, but as you know, I'm a I'm a hyped up person. I got a lot of different goals I'm always kind of on and I think training has calm me down has allowed me to focus on different things and become better at Them so I'd say the best lesson that I could take away from lifting when I said lifting isn't about lifting is That you have to take a look at that a long game We all probably got into it for the same thing we wanted to like look better Feel better and those still are things that we want to do Yeah, but it extends far beyond that. We're the type of people like I if there's no camera on I'd still be lifting Ten years from now. I'll still be lifting in some capacity. I'm here to stay I'm not kind of that quick in it to win it and then piece the fuck out like I like, you know get some six pack abs Get my Tinder profile lit like have a great summer. Then I'm like, you know what I have that Surface level of fulfillment. I'm after that emotional as Bruce Lee says content. I like it. I like it I guess for myself On a fitness level a purely fitness level it would be just to enjoy the process a little more and also Pick one goal at a time. I spent my spell my wheels for years from probably 18 to about 25 even Cutting dieting wanting to get strong, but now I want to be too fat doing this not not getting two links I don't want to lose my strength and I even struggle with that still mentally So just picking a goal, especially when you're younger just eat food and train your face off for three or four years You're gonna have your best physique and your best gains in your 30s Maybe even 40s if you do it that way anyways, which leads me to I guess more of my life lesson of Something I learned from sports Perto and I relate well on sports Omar and I relate well on everything else besides sports That my high school basketball coach taught me Dean Stark shout out We talked a lot about sacrificing for the unknown When you play sports much like lifting you want to go to the playoffs You want to win the championship you want to do all this. There's so many factors you cannot control Doesn't mean that each practice every day each game every day leading up to that that you can't give it your all So you have to sacrifice you have to wake up a little bit earlier You have to get a couple more jump shots in you have to be a better teammate You have to do these little things on the way up To hit this goal that may or may not happen It may not even be possible it may not even be possible for us to win a championship But if you don't do these things just in case to build that up then you absolutely have no chance So that's kind of the patience of the game and I knew that in basketball for some reason But couldn't translate it to lifting which relates to what your point was once you get it in lifting And as you grow as an adult which I hit 23 24 25 I start to figure out life a little bit more You understand that that's begins to translate elsewhere That if you work hard and do the correct things morally and try to be a good person that hopefully in the long run Maybe you don't become the president You won't become billionaire, but you live a fulfilled life because you ended up doing this It's something at least you're flipping but not for the burgers Yeah, you're just bossing I don't want to lose those burgers We set three fries That you begin to I lost my train of thought because now I'm fat and I'm thinking about chicken nuggets. I'm so sorry, buddy You're saying about chasing that unknown and that at some point no matter what if you have those qualities You'll at least be able to accomplish something you might not be the president Yes, yeah, you may not actually hit these goals You may not be a billionaire even though that's people like I'm gonna work or nobody driver for all right Well, maybe that won't happen, but you will end up having the respect of humans You'll have respect of your peers You'll be surrounded by good people and you'll also find fulfillment and happiness along the way because You did the right thing because you worked hard because you had patience along the way This is the Zen couch right here. It's a great example Like exactly what you said we all started training for like these different reasons Things we thought we wanted and look where we ended up. Yeah, it was not the goal Yeah, we basically ended up in a similar world a similar place And I know it was completely unrelated and I think also that's why we get along as friends business everything else Because we believe in the long run of just doing the right thing, you know We also had conversations off-camera of you weren't there at lunch. You were doing sorry sleeping But just doing things for the right reason, you know, whether it's Not selling you guys horseshit fat burners just to make a buck because we don't believe in it Rather just put out free content or or coaching or whatever might be to give you money Selling out a long time 100% but then that's that that's not that sacrifice The sacrifice is not the quick buck sacrifices 10 years from now. We'll feel good about ourselves Hopefully we'll also be billionaires in 10 years But if that doesn't happen at least we can turn back and say Burdo So this exact same thing at lunch 10 years ago You feel comfortable with what your peers think of you feel comfortable about what your loved ones think about you Yeah, and you feel good about yourself. That's 100% It feels good whenever people come up and they say like all man like you help me out with form or whatever all those different Training goals. Yeah, it feels really good. Yeah, and we gain nothing from it Besides the fact that we're doing what we love and sharing it with you guys sharing our experiences We went on a journey here Mike. Hopefully you guys enjoyed that journey thumbs up Follow the whole like the video in the description. What do you think? How many likes you think we do? Okay, so I want 1500 likes. I think I was thinking 25 2500 likes 2500 likes and we'll give away five free programs to some people in the comment section I was gonna I was gonna one up you. I don't know if you'll like this 2500 I say 3500 and we're gonna get Omar and myself in Colorado Yeah, that's a boy. Sure. All right 3500 likes and we're visiting Burdo Five free programs in the land of Colorado. Appreciate you guys