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K-Pop Demons and Life Lessons
The Nerd Out and Workout Podcast team gathers for a mid-year check-in, discussing personal growth and the unexpected popularity of the K-pop Demon Hunter movie. We share the profound impact that books, movies, and characters have had on shaping our mindsets and approaches to life.
• Kevin discusses how "The 5AM Club" changed his approach to achieving goals through consistent small steps
• Cecilia shares wisdom from "When Things Fall Apart" about accepting life's disappointments and releasing attachment to outcomes
• Gabe reveals how Wolverine inspires his training philosophy and desire to help others
• The team excitedly breaks down the Netflix K-pop Demon Hunter movie and its catchy soundtrack
• Coach Austin announces the Silicon Valley Strength Society nonprofit to provide elite coaching to underserved youth
• The team celebrates the success of their youth speed camps and High Rocks training programs
• Discussion of online coaching best practices, including the importance of personalized programs and responsive communication
Join us for our next youth speed camp on July 26th where we'll be testing 40-yard dash times, 10-yard fly speed, and shuttle agility!
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What's up everyone. This is Coach Austin with your Nerd Out and Workout Podcast, where we nerd out workout, and podcast With Kevin Irap and Robagon.
Speaker 4:What's up, what's up.
Speaker 1:And we are joined by Coach Cecilia and Coach Gabe in today's episode. Coach Gabe's a returning member of the podcast, but Coach Cecilia's new. Hello.
Speaker 3:Very new, very new.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes. So we are here after a while like what? Two month hiatus, because we've been just doing things, but we're midway through 2025. I thought it was 2016. How are we doing, guys, ladies, this is a check-in, half year check-in.
Speaker 3:We'll start with you, kev 2025 has been okay. We've tried some new new things. We've been doing some new things and it's been pretty fun so far. I think uh been doing more audiobooks, you know, so nice, that's something like books what's that? That was me like two years ago. I was like what's books you know, I know what books are, but like, just like you know, like what's books, you know I know what books are, but like, just like you know, like the, you know serious books, you know like self-help, like stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know what I mean. So what's?
Speaker 3:the one main one you like. The main one I really like is the 5am club, if you. This was brought. I checked it out. Really good book Opened up my eyes to some things and just really cool, you know, and really kind of not changed my life or anything. But it's just kind of like gives you better perspective on things and just kind of wanting to do better and, you know, just doing better in life.
Speaker 3:So is it one of those where you have to wake up at 5 a your day going, you know. So it's really like. It's like broken down to steps. I don't want to give away the spoilers, you know, because you got to like just read it. No, give away the spoilers.
Speaker 4:Follow our Patreon Wow.
Speaker 2:No no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3:Yet, yet. But you know it's just, but in terms of like 2025, so far, like we've hit some goals and we're just trying to build more, and then goals are always changing, you know. Don't stop oh yeah, what about you, gabe? How's your 2025? So far, bro, it's cool, it's going.
Speaker 4:It's going Crossing things off my goal list too, yeah, what else? Got some more meets under my belt, yeah, been able to juggle life a little bit better. Good yeah, that's about it. How was the last meet you had? Wasn't it recent? It was recent. It was just last weekend. Oh yeah, it was all right. I had some pre-enturies leading up to the meet, so that's why I was like whatever. And then my second squat attempt I go and like even just under the bar, like lower back, like compress.
Speaker 4:Compress, and then I was like, alright, we're just gonna do this last one. So I did it Reacted and I called and then I just popped a little ibuprofen and then just like rolled out and then I was like let's just suck it out. So we completed the meet. Is that recommended? Would you recommend that to your clients? I've heard it so many times. Kobe did it at CNATS. Yeah, you did. God damn it happens.
Speaker 1:I mean. Well, on a positive note, did you hit a PR?
Speaker 4:Just for bench. I matched my PRs for squat and dead.
Speaker 1:And what's the?
Speaker 4:PR for your bench. Now it's 341.
Speaker 3:Gym.
Speaker 4:PR is 350.
Speaker 3:Me PR is 341.
Speaker 4:Damn, did that fly. No, no, I was like… but yeah, now it's just getting healthy this week and rehabbing and then Strongman comp in August.
Speaker 1:Beginning of August how many Strongman comps have you done?
Speaker 4:only one. That one was a not sanctioned one. This one, I'm trying to qualify for nationals in September but, I have to get first. So in Strongman the way it works is if it's four people, one to four people in your weight class, you have to get first. To go to nationals, more than four than the top two go to nationals. Where is this at In Maryland? Sorry nationals or the comp. I'm doing the comp, you're doing Maryland. Wow, maryland, dude, have you been there before?
Speaker 4:No, that's cool, but I have a friend that just moved out there, so I'm going to go visit him third second that weekend. Are they known for crab cakes? Is that?
Speaker 1:what it is.
Speaker 3:I don't know. I mean wedding crashers, you know. Oh my God, shut up Crab cakes and football.
Speaker 4:Maryland, sorry, I love that movie yeah, I was like wait what?
Speaker 3:But yeah, dude, that's cool, man, Maryland, dude, that's sick sick first year, last that's exciting yeah, all right, coach cecilia, I became a dog mom in 2025.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been a journey. She's driving me insane um she's a lot. I don't understand how people do it with kids, because this one's already a lot, um, but yeah, I think that's the main thing that happened in 2025 lots of, lots of things in the gym sprained my ankle, rehabbed it for two months. Now back to hitting legs. Finally, nice, um, spartan race was great. It was really fun, so I'm hoping to get another one in before the end of the year um so yeah how did you sprain your ankle?
Speaker 2:walking the dog. What kind of dog is this? It's a pit bull. She's big, she's seven months, she's six months and she's 47 pounds.
Speaker 3:Yo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so she's pretty big. We were walking and I literally I wasn't looking where I was walking and I fell into a pothole.
Speaker 1:Did your dog keep walking?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, she thought we were playing, I was crying. She thought we were playing I was crying. Yeah, no, I was, it was bad because I um actually tore a ligament. So, yeah, it was two months. I couldn't really do much and then started physical therapy about like a month in and then just rehabbing it slowly. Um, now it's, it's better, so I'm finally back to squatting. Feels good, but you tore it, tore it like yeah, tore it like a minor tear, but they were like, yeah, they did mri and everything.
Speaker 3:They were like, yeah, oh my gosh, that's some serious biz um but it's good now.
Speaker 1:So I'm glad to be back, yeah good.
Speaker 2:What made you want to be a dog, mom I was fostering already, like I was volunteering with the shelter in mopedas, just because I love animals and I love dogs. So I was fostering litters of like two to three puppies at a time and it's really tough. It's really hard, like when you have to let them go. It's, it's heartbreaking, um, cause you spend so much time with them and they give them to you when they're like four weeks old. So they're teeny, they're tiny, uh, but this one, nobody wanted to adopt her cause she's a little crazy, she's tiny. But this one, nobody wanted to adopt her because she's a little crazy. She's like very loud, she barks a lot, she's very reactive. She's that type of dog that needs a lot of attention, a lot of training. And so I gave the other one away. They went back to their families, they got adopted, but this one, no one wanted her. So I was like I'm going to keep her, yeah, nice.
Speaker 3:That's good. Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 2:No, she's awesome, what's? Your name Junie, juniper, juniper.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:She like made on Instagram like what should I name her and put like three different names. Yeah, people voted. It was none of those names?
Speaker 3:None of those.
Speaker 1:Wait what you called it, though.
Speaker 2:Four names.
Speaker 1:Four names.
Speaker 2:I changed her name like five times. I put four names and I got hella votes. What were the names? Like Olive like. Pepper Piper, like weird shit.
Speaker 1:And which name won.
Speaker 4:I think, I think.
Speaker 2:Piper Sailor was one of them, but I think Olive was the favorite one, and then Piper, and then you DM'd me. You were like it's not going to be any of these.
Speaker 1:And then it, and then you dm'd me, you were like it's not gonna be any of these.
Speaker 2:Your vote doesn't count. This is a dictatorship. No, I just wanted more views. I was like, whatever, I'll just do a poll that's pretty sick I love that all of one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we're not doing that, thank you for that.
Speaker 3:But no, but that was the choices he gave us. His choices, yeah nah, it's juniper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's good. Yeah, do you do the dog sitting for it too, or no?
Speaker 2:do I do dog sitting?
Speaker 1:no, no, like when you're, when you're away oh, and she's right now.
Speaker 2:I have my brother at home, so he's home from college. He just graduated, so he'll kind of like watch her. But I try to go home every three hours or so because she's still little so she can't be alone a lot okay.
Speaker 1:Well, the reason I ask is because we have like a what a dog doggy daycare next to the gym.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I thought about that I have, but I'm scared because juni's a lot like she has. We're working with the trainer and everything. She's going to puppy class but she, she's a like pitbull, pitbull, like scary looking pitbull and like very aggressive. So I've had like, even in puppy class I've had some trainers be like hey, like we kind of don't want you to partake in class anymore. I'm like y'all like wait what yeah, well, because her bark is very loud and it's and it's very it's scary.
Speaker 2:Like it's scary, I get it, but at the same time it's like she's a puppy, she's a dog, she's learning, you know. And there's so many stereotypes around pit bulls that are crazy, but they're the most cuddly dogs ever.
Speaker 2:So I feel like I've had a lot of like people being skittish, um about her and I kind of don't want to put her in a daycare because I don't know what's going on. You know, I don't know if she's like getting bullied by other dogs and then she'll snap. You know that can happen what classes is from um I take them at the shelter. They're like puppy classes, like obedience classes um like training have you looked up other dog trainers? Yeah, no, I have.
Speaker 2:We changed like three have you tried bay area no canine no, I was looking into that steve kensler yeah, I was because basically they're telling me she needs to do a lot of, you know, malinois, like belgian malls, the ones that the canine actual like canine police, yeah, yeah. So they have recommended that she should do that type of training Because she needs more like…. Like jumping off the walls and stuff, because my homegirl specializes in that. Really Okay, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1:Because I also worked with… Dude, when I was a rookie trainer, like… yeah, yeah, yeah. Kensler was one of a… he was a trainer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really strong prey drive and like really strong, like bite. So they're saying like she should do bite work and stuff like that because it would help her with her natural Release, all that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's good, yeah, thank you, small world. Yeah, no that's good, very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:How are you guys feeling in the gym?
Speaker 3:I'm so all over the place.
Speaker 1:That's great. I have a baby due August, in the middle of August. Second, it's going to be a boy. We're thinking naming him Aiden Aiden Rain Nice.
Speaker 3:You going to have a pole. I love that You're going to have a pole.
Speaker 1:And we're going to be like. No Austin II, you're naming him Austin again. Yes, that's right, I should have a pole.
Speaker 2:Jalupa Batman.
Speaker 1:Someone's going to be Jalupa, batman, optimus Prime, megatron, that would be. What was it? Yeah, so that was like the biggest thing and everything leading up to it. Um, as far as, like the mid-year check-in, I'm always just thinking about the business, I'm thinking about you guys just making sure you guys are good, making sure the family's good. Um, not specifically in that order, just just like just everything in general. Uh, you know, we're coaching football again. Nice, jb football, or, shout out, mcdonald high school. Um, I am doing a lot, uh, launching the NFL flag league in the winter called hyper flag football. But another big thing I mean actually great point. Um, I launched a nonprofit, oh yeah, Silicon.
Speaker 1:Valley Strength Society we're going to serve. We're going to provide elite coaching to underserved youth in the east side of San Jose. How are we going to do that? We're going to start with flag football. We're going to start with doing sports leagues. We're going to start with hyper Flag Football because I know football, I love football. We're partnering with the 49ers Flag too, so they're going to help us promote. We're going to do some camps we're going to host. I'm still finding the location for the Winter League starting in 2026. I'm debating, we're trying to maybe look, we're looking at San Jose High, evergreen High, other parks, parks in Evergreen High, other parks, parks in San Jose. The city of San Jose Is more than willing To work with us To do like leagues In the parks, but People kind of want that football field.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah so we're gonna see.
Speaker 1:We're gonna see what we can do. But I'm kind of Freaking out Because registration's In August and I'm like Like we gotta Launch it soon. But yeah, no, that's what I've been working on and they're just getting ready for this kid Cool For the new baby.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's awesome, man, nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, kind of freaking out. Don't know if you guys are noticing it.
Speaker 3:No, not at all.
Speaker 1:There's a lot, a lot of things. Everything's fine.
Speaker 3:Everything's okay, it's fine.
Speaker 1:You know, what I've actually been doing to kind of cope with all this stuff is binge watching Netflix, nice, and I happened upon the K-pop Demon Hunter movie and I forced everyone here to research it for this episode because I wanted to talk about it, because I literally started with just me vegging out on a Sunday with this movie. I was like, oh, this is fun, I'm going to watch it. It's like one of those things you put on and I'm just going to go on my phone and scroll. But it was like, oh, I'm watching this whole thing. I really got really bought in. So Kevin watched it last night and then Gabe listened to the songs and Cecilia has no idea what I'm talking about. She thought it was like three different things. I thought you wanted me to watch three different episodes. No, this is like one movie.
Speaker 1:She's like what. So now we're here, so what did you think? The songs are catchy as hell.
Speaker 3:Correction on Austin though I watched it this morning, I watched it literally two hours ago.
Speaker 4:It's fresh.
Speaker 3:Fresh, very fresh, because I had to do my research. I didn't want to come in here and be like, oh yeah, it's great, you know, because honestly so, the animation's mid, the storyline's like like really mid too, but it is so good you gotta watch it like it's legitimately good, like who cares? You know, it's just fun, you know. And if you don't like fun, then where are you? Man like it's just fun, like it started this is spoilers if you haven't watched it.
Speaker 1:This is spoiler, so you can move on spoilers good guys win, bad guys lose.
Speaker 3:Did they lose? I don't know. But you know what I'm feeling free, that's a song.
Speaker 4:But yeah, I thought it was fun.
Speaker 3:it's a fun movie, you know, for the kids, for the family, and uh, you know, it's just uh dude. Netflix hits another one and that's pretty crazy. Actually, I don't even I don't think there was any marketing for this movie either. I just know it because this guy was like making content on it and I was like this is dude the content blew up.
Speaker 1:So I was like, oh, I'm on to something, this has to be good, this has to be fucking good. No, I mean, they had one trailer that they released. That was it and it was like oh, this is interesting. I remember like maybe a few months ago I saw it. I'm like that's interesting, K-pop versus K-pop, girl group versus guy group, guy group's a demon Makes sense, yeah. So I was like oh, then it has a chokehold. I'd be fucking listening to these damn soundtracks. You're like I'm locked in, baby, I'm locked in.
Speaker 3:Like dude the songs. They're catchy, they're like little shoulder stuff. They're really good. What?
Speaker 4:did you listen to Free?
Speaker 1:Free. It's the only song that matters, though, to me. That's how it feels like. In my opinion, free is like the best song. Golden, it's really good. Huh, golden's like up there, golden's fine. Golden takes me to like mid 2010s.
Speaker 3:Definitely yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the vibes for sure, yeah.
Speaker 1:But you haven't listened to it no, can I? Play this song, Aaron, and not get sued on the podcast. I'm asking.
Speaker 3:We can just blur it out, yeah just. I can, if you play it, oh really, yeah, and just put some elevator music, oh yeah, okay, live reaction, I'll play it for you guys.
Speaker 4:Live reactions I'll play it for you guys. I remember playing just the songs, though A lot of them, like the melodies, are like similar To a lot of like famous songs. Oh yeah, for sure, really yeah yeah, similar to what To like famous songs.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:It has the same like cadence and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Dude, this takes you back to like 2010.
Speaker 3:This is like 2010 for sure. Which one's this one?
Speaker 1:This is like summer 2010. You're in like the beach.
Speaker 3:Like a beach club.
Speaker 2:This is some Calvin Harris shit, you know, what I mean.
Speaker 1:You're like oh my god, this is my time. They're like just vibing.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3:It's like, oh, Rihanna with Calvin Harris again. Yeah, let's do it, I'm down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure, dude they bumped this at a club recently Did they, everyone went crazy.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not bad.
Speaker 3:It's a K-pop song. Dude, it's a banger. It's a banger, it's good, it's a banger. It's good.
Speaker 1:It's like the third song in the movie. I'm like, bro, what is this?
Speaker 3:Why am I?
Speaker 2:Dude, I see what you mean with the melody. Yeah the build up, yeah the build up to the chorus here.
Speaker 1:Come on, and then the drums are coming. And it's like oh my God, god, the drop's coming. Oh my god, the arms are raised, you're pumping oh my god, korean EDC baby, give me another shot bitch. I love that dude, it gets you going. It's good man. You gotta watch the whole thing. That was like turning into a watch party. We're just live reactions to K-pop.
Speaker 3:Demon Hunters yeah, but it's definitely a banger For sure.
Speaker 1:Did you watch? So you haven't seen your Soul? Huh, I'll Be your Idol? I don't think so. So that one is like that one's fire, that one is like Dude. There's like dudes who are like I'm 100% straight, but they would take my soul.
Speaker 3:Dude.
Speaker 1:Like, like. So at the end of the movie, right or towards the climax of the movie, the Saja boys, who are like the demon, like they're basically their whole goal is to Is to sing and grab the souls of the audience so they can feed them to the Demon King. And so at this point of the movie, the Huntrix girls are like disbanded because they were able to like Spoilers. Spoilers, I said spoilers in the beginning.
Speaker 3:I'm just throwing it out there. Spoilers, big spoilers.
Speaker 1:So they come out with this number to basically finish everyone off and take all their souls. And it's funny because all these dudes who are watching it's like I'm not even gay, but they take my soul and it's like because it has that demon vibe.
Speaker 3:It's right here.
Speaker 1:Ooh, they got game game's already done, game's done oh my god right, game's like jamming to it dude that's nice, you know what?
Speaker 3:You know what? You know what this song like. What I took from this song, I was like this is what BTS was doing. Exactly when they first came out Exactly Taking our souls, you know.
Speaker 4:It's like a K-pop concert. Dude, it is. Ah, it's like a K-pop concert.
Speaker 3:Dude.
Speaker 1:It is, and it just keeps going, it just keeps giving.
Speaker 3:You're just like dude. This has to be peak, and then the peak gets higher.
Speaker 1:It gets higher. They just keep going and I'm like, bro, they always have like a rap beat.
Speaker 3:There's always part. You got the dudes that can sing, the dudes that can dance, and they got one or two guys that are like rapping, you know. Yeah, but it's like they hit all the facets, they hit everything you know, dude this part.
Speaker 1:It's like they just keep it just keeps going With the choir. I'm like bro, what?
Speaker 4:Yeah, all them souls are being taken.
Speaker 3:They're like we're just being taken right now, bro Bruh.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm like this is the villain song, Dude, it's so good. You literally just watched the whole thing.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny though, so like you enjoy the movie, right, yeah, but there's so much stigma around like musicals, you know what I mean. People are like, oh, you watch musicals, that's so lame, but like this is like great, you know.
Speaker 1:Dude, he gave Disney a run for its money. Disney used to be like this, right, yeah, like lion king, I mean, I think, more pixar, oh, pixar, disney, same thing, right, well, I mean, well, like like the, the animation we grew up with, right, like, uh, was, it was like what was the other one? Pocahontas, aladdin, aladdin yeah like the whole new world, like I'll sing that and people will jump in A whole new world. I could be her.
Speaker 3:Don't you dare close your eyes. I'm like yo, this is a new generation bro. No, but like it's just. It's cool, man, it's a good movie, it's fun. It's just fun. Just go and have fun.
Speaker 1:Well, because I have, because I know what you're talking about, because I got cousins like yeah, they've been, they've been watching, what was it they were talking about? Um, was it hamilton? What was another song? But it was like hamilton's. Like I don't watch that. Oh yeah, I got older cousins.
Speaker 3:I don't watch that, or like greatest showman. Yeah great, I don't watch it.
Speaker 1:It's so good though and I'm like dude, tell the good he's like man it's like dancing and music lame like okay, so yeah, but you watch high school Musical exactly.
Speaker 3:We're all in this together exactly, geez dude, pick a line but yeah, but that's Cecilia.
Speaker 1:Now that you saw it, I can see she's gonna watch it no, I will that little boy band thing it got
Speaker 3:to me dude, no like cause it's like yeah even though the idol's like that song's really good, I think their opening song is like even better.
Speaker 1:Have you seen Soda Pop?
Speaker 3:Soda Pop Dude that one.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna, no, no, no, I'm gonna make them believers now. No, no, no, don't, don't play Y'all.
Speaker 3:we gotta play Soda Pop. Keep some suspense, man.
Speaker 1:No, I'm going to seal the deal with. Cecilia Dude, it's a fire song and Gabe Nah, this is it. This is a wrap, you know what?
Speaker 3:Just to let everyone know, this man has this queued up already, Like this is. Yeah, yeah, we were not expecting to do this. No, I have all this and it's queued up already.
Speaker 1:It's blasted in my car as we leave. Dude, I thought this shit was corny as fuck, but I'm like why can't I stop watching, even? The guys are like yo hey yo.
Speaker 2:Stop.
Speaker 4:Are they good guys? No, they're the demons.
Speaker 3:Oh they're the demons, yeah.
Speaker 1:So this is their human form. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true, they have different personalities. There's like romance yeah, there's baby, there's abs, there's mystery, the hair, and then Jin's mystery with the hair.
Speaker 3:And then Junu's like the leader, it definitely feels like you're saying like 2010. Like the Justin Bieber age stuff, I got that feel it definitely feels like you're saying like 2010. Like the Justin Bieber age stuff Right, I got that feel.
Speaker 1:That's pretty much the gist of it on that one.
Speaker 3:You're hooked, you're done.
Speaker 2:I love it. You're done. I want to watch it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the story was pretty cool. Actually, the story was actually pretty good. Typical it was pretty good. Typical it was pretty good. Typical it was pretty good. Free is a…. I love that song.
Speaker 4:It sounds really good, he's like I have a Q-Dub, I'll let you watch it in all of its experience.
Speaker 1:But Free was more… Because that's when the…. Was it the male interest, the love interest? Of any type of K-drama thing that happens when they sing to each other. It's like, can you feel the love tonight moment, but with the two. But like I was watching it, I'm like, oh okay, this is like the love scene. And then it kept going and I'm like, why am I getting emotional? Right, that's so good, it's so good. But yeah, that was. Yeah, that was that. So now Cecilia's going to watch it. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know 4th of July. I got you 4th of July. He's like I got you brother.
Speaker 1:I'm like banging this.
Speaker 3:On America's birthday, I'm watching K-pop.
Speaker 1:On America's birthday.
Speaker 3:I'm watching K-pop.
Speaker 1:Did you watch Squid Games? Squid Games is out.
Speaker 4:I did. I passed it passed by when my brothers were watching it, so I saw a little glimpse here and there and I saw some spoilers on TikTok, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that one's. I'm not going to spoil anything. Yeah, I liked it. I really like how it ended. I know some people are like oh, that's lame, but you know, remember that this show was made by a Korean dude, so this doesn't have like the typical American, like structure in terms of you know, but, not yet, but we'll see. I mean, I'm not. I'm actually not too excited for that, to be honest. I'm excited, yeah, but yeah, I'm just excited.
Speaker 1:You know, you know. Yeah, all right, we're going to get to this portion of our show where we're going to have a question. Wait, k-pop Demon Apoc Demon.
Speaker 3:Hunters is done. Well, I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean, the next part is just me watching it and we're just like oh yeah, and I'm like dude, look at this part, look at this part, wait, wait, look at this Good, good, what was it?
Speaker 1:What was it? We're going to go into this question right here, which I actually, actually, you actually like this one. So which movie, song, book, game has shaped your mindset the most, and why We'll start with Kevin K-pop dream. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no, no no, no but, like you know, as I said at the top of our show, I was talking about these audiobooks I've been reading in like 5AM club, atomic habits and this other one called make your bed, about Navy SEAL and his experiences and how, you know, just making your bed, like, start your day off right and even if you have a bad day, you come home and your bed's made, it's ready for you. You know so, and I think that has changed my mentality in terms of, like, reaching my goals. It's like I am not going to lose a hundred pounds tomorrow. You know what I mean. So I'm going to do this one thing today, because when I do something else the next day, those two things are going to come together. And for the bigger picture, you know and that's where I'm trying to move forward, especially with this year, you know, with our goals is to take smaller steps, smaller goals too, because smaller goals will equal a big goal, you know.
Speaker 3:So these, these books have really kind of opened my mind a little bit to these type of thinking, and the crazy thing too is that it's easy for you to hear it from somebody else, like your parents, your uncles or your buddies like, oh, you just got to take it step by step. But it's like you're like oh, you, you have to say that you know cause you're, you're my family or you're my friend, like of course you're on my side. But when you hear it from like a different perspective or somebody else's perspective, it hits a little different, you know, and that's why I think books are great.
Speaker 1:No, it's good yeah, so, yeah, so that that's something that's really changed, but, yeah, for sure. So it's more so compared to before, how you were thinking before I was like oh dude, I ate a cheeseburger.
Speaker 3:I just ruined my life. You know what I mean? Oh dude, I freaking. What happened? I didn't walk today, I just threw away six months of work. It's like no. And also like these books also taught me to to be kinder to myself, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Beautiful.
Speaker 3:It's just kind of like, like you said, like I said, one little mistake isn't going to ruin your whole life, you know, or your progress. Is it like taking two steps forward, one step back? I always felt like that was so bad, but I mean, you take two steps back, one forward and then one back, and you keep two more steps. You're still kind of moving forward. You keep doing it. You're eventually going to get where you're going to go. So I think it's been helping me out a lot and, yeah, this has really changed my perspective on life a little bit. Consistency, consistency, I love it, and consistency isn't always doing it right the first time or the second time. It's about like, even if you mess up, you go back and you do it again, you know so out of those three books, or several books that you said, which one's like?
Speaker 1:the one that made the most impact the 5 am club.
Speaker 3:It's just because, uh, the way they, the, the, the way the information is given to you is not like you need to do a, b, c and d. It's more like told through a story and you see emotions of people and how they, you know how it changed their lives, you know. So. It's really nice to get that feeling, you know so yeah, five am club.
Speaker 3:I'm going to download that audio audio book, uh, free on Spotify. If you have Spotify, Damn really. Spotify has a ton of audio books that are free, so check it out, you know. But there's something I do want to try, though. I don't know if you've heard of this it's called the Hard 75.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I want to do like a Hard 15.
Speaker 3:Because that's a lot you know, but that might be something I might be trying soon. So just for fun and giggles and stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, be something. Uh, I might be trying soon, so just for just for fun and giggles and stuff. But oh, that's good, yeah. Yeah, I've heard a opposite program like soft 75 I've heard that too, yeah soft 75. It's not opposite, but like it's a just kind of like easier version. Okay, I got you, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I know it's like so for 75 days. Like you follow a diet plan, you work out twice and one of them has to be outside, and then you have to read 10 pages of a book or something, and no alcohol, I think it was no alcohol. And I think that was it right. Or am I missing something that sounds about right?
Speaker 4:I think that's it.
Speaker 3:yeah, oh, a gallon of water, a gallon of water a day Right yeah.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I was thinking of doing my own version like a little bit different. Like maybe instead of like reading 10 pages, I could read 10 pages or I could journal like five pages. Sorry, five pages is kind of a lot. Why write?
Speaker 2:big, so maybe you know.
Speaker 3:But you know, I was thinking like, because, you know, sometimes you know you can't. I mean, like you said, it's a challenge, right, so but but you know, we all make it our own and I think it'd be great, you know. So, good, good, hyper 75. Wow, hyper 75. I don't you gotta go to the hyper gym every day 75 days you're dropping fee every day for 75 days. But yeah for sure, yeah, so that's good books.
Speaker 1:When do you plan to start that?
Speaker 3:I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out some details, like probably Consistency Next week. Okay, whoa, we'll see. We'll see, though no, I'm excited. Yeah, that's cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:One of my, I think one of our cousins. He did it without Like hard 75. But he stuck with it. But yeah, I've heard great things about it. So good, that's good, Gabe, you got any…. What's the question? That's a great question.
Speaker 3:What book, tv show or movie… which movie?
Speaker 4:yeah, which movie, song, book, game has shaped your mindset the most and why. I don't really be watching stuff like that a lot.
Speaker 1:Well, anything, it could be like Star Wars, and you're like oh, I'm Luke Skywalker, I see myself as Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 4:Oh, Wolverine, yeah, that's right. That's like one of the biggest reasons why I had to train a lot Like that's why, I train a lot like one of the biggest reasons why I like I had to train a lot Like who asked me why. I train a lot. So when I first started at Hyper like what, 10 years ago now I was nicknamed Wolverine. That was like my nickname. When I came in I gave him Wolverine.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bub.
Speaker 4:And he's like the one superhero that's short too, so I'm like fuck. When my hair naturally goes out, I look like Wolverine and like everything. So then like when I train, I'm like, yeah, I want to be like Wolverine.
Speaker 1:Dude, I fucking love it.
Speaker 4:That's also one of the main things that.
Speaker 1:Dude, you know your name's still saved on my contact Gabe the Wolverine, that's pretty dope.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, and I dressed up as Wolverine, oh nice. And then the worker's like no, you're the Calvary.
Speaker 1:I'm like oh, the Calvary, the Calvary. Yo, that's sick. What was wait? What was your version of the Wolverine?
Speaker 4:White wife beater jeans, shoes and the cloths. Oh yeah, that's Calvary For sure.
Speaker 1:You should definitely do that, like Wolverine 75 you know what Dude you should be?
Speaker 3:Wear the Wolverine Yellow costume, but painted. Have you seen those? Just paint yourself. Paint myself Like people have jeans on, but it's actually just paint, oh, and they walk around Like it's like a prank, sort of.
Speaker 1:Like naked, like body paint.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, they're wearing, like you know, underwear, but like they paint over it Sometimes, so like they look like they're like real pants, but they're really pink. So you just paint your body like the wolverine costume and people will be like whoa, that dude's ripped and they're like wait a second, that dude's naked. That'd be pretty sick dude, that's hella good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have you. So you watch all the wolverine, uh-oh no.
Speaker 4:See, but you're comic, You're true to comics, yeah, so yeah, so there's that, yeah, wolverine.
Speaker 1:What about the mindset? What's the mindset of it, of Wolverine?
Speaker 4:Oh well, I don't even. It's like I want to just be able to help out in any situation.
Speaker 1:That's sick.
Speaker 4:I think I told I think I told this story one time like my friend's car got stuck one time and it was like in a little ditch and then I was trying to like lift it up, they started laughing at me. But then I went and then he like gunned it and I was able to get him out.
Speaker 2:So you lifted a car out of a ditch, so I wouldn't be able to do situation like that did you grab it by the bumper?
Speaker 1:yeah, like the bumper.
Speaker 4:So I was in the bumper and I kind of like went under and then like deadlifted it a little bit and then it went out.
Speaker 1:That's actually wild. That should be a like. Dude deadlifted a car out of a ditch.
Speaker 4:So I'll be like, oh, where's Gabby? At Like I'm right here, Then help them out, or whatever it is that's sick. My grandma needs help opening the jar. Got you yeah?
Speaker 3:yeah, strongest Wolverine Is there a car competition type thing too.
Speaker 1:Like do you have to lift the?
Speaker 4:car. Yeah, the last comp I did was a car deadlift.
Speaker 1:What does that equate to when you're like lifting it weight-wise?
Speaker 4:It depends. Every car is different, of course. That's the thing with Strongman. It's going to be different at every meet you go to, Like they can tell you the car's going to weigh what.
Speaker 1:that's just how strongman goes so it could be heavier or lighter, it could be heavier or lighter.
Speaker 3:It can be either or they're like yo jimmy couldn't get his mom's car, so he just got this one.
Speaker 4:That's wild, but I know at untamed strength when you lift it off the ground or if it's at the top I forgot which one. It's 600 pounds at one point, wow part, and you just have to leverage it a little. Different too. It doesn't feel like 600 pounds Because I can deadlift 600 pounds, and it does not feel like that.
Speaker 1:It's 600 for the leverage. And you still get to use your belt.
Speaker 4:Belt straps. It depends where you're at. The one I did, he didn't allow any deadlift straps, so everyone was slipping when we went. Usually they'll let you use straps and stuff.
Speaker 3:That's insane. That's pretty wild.
Speaker 4:Gabe the Wolverine.
Speaker 1:Gabe the Wolverine Still Wolverine Lifting cars, that's awesome.
Speaker 3:Opening jars. Oh, I used to tell you Sick.
Speaker 2:Well, mine is not as cool. You know what it doesn't have to be as cool.
Speaker 1:It's you, it's you.
Speaker 2:It's whatever this woman? She's a Buddhist monk. She's awesome. She became a monk later in her life. She had a whole family, husband and everything and then her husband cheated on her. She was like fuck you, I'm going to leave. She went to Tibet and then became a monk, or nun, sorry, and yeah, it's a great book. It's really about a lot of like the Buddhist spirituality and like philosophy. A lot of it is just about mindfulness and like learning that you're not your thoughts.
Speaker 2:And you know, just to understand how you're speaking to yourself every day, and I found that really helpful. To be honest, I read it for the first time like maybe 10 years ago, but I keep going back to it because I think every time you read it, it's one of those books that it gives you something else, depending on what you need in the moment.
Speaker 2:Um, so yeah, there's a lot of wisdom as far as, like learning how to talk to yourself differently, learning to like listen and observe your own thoughts and your own chatter and yeah, negative self-talk, um, but a lot of it too, is about how, like, as humans, like psychology wise, we tend to get really attached to certain outcomes or things that we want for ourselves, and then we, when we don't get that, like that's when depression hits or anxiety hits, and it just more teaches you how to be okay with, like, things falling apart and things not going your way and learning that sometimes things not going your way is the way, like it's the best thing that can happen for you. So a lot of reframing, a lot of like shifting perspective, um, but it's really good because it's kind of told like a story. So it's not. It doesn't feel too much like self-helpy, like, oh, do this, this, this and this. It's more like yeah, more like a tale, um. So yeah, I like that one.
Speaker 1:That one's a good one so they tell it as a story yeah, kind of the story of her life.
Speaker 2:It with examples from her own like story and how she got cheated on and a bunch of different things happen and like super sad stuff.
Speaker 2:But like how, yeah, like at the end of the day, it teaches you you're not owed anything Right and like I think all of us whether it's the gym or whatever we have certain goals and like we hold on to those so much and whether you get that goal or not, like that's not owed to you. Like I feel like there's so much of an identity in whether, like that's the strength goal that you reach, or like the physique that you get, or like maybe I don't know, financial goals, money making, a certain amount of money, and then it's like when you realize that no one owes that to you, you're not owed, that that's not even yours, like that's just something that's in your brain that you're reaching for. Like I think it teaches you to let go of that a little bit, that attachment, and it just turns more into okay, like if I get it, I get it, if I don't, I'll be good. Like yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I found it really helpful that's a really good yeah mindset of that yeah what is the biggest lesson you got from that book? Is it that?
Speaker 2:um, I think no, learning to be okay with things falling apart, because I I think the main, the idea of the book, is like pick this book up when you feel like you're in deep shit, like you are struggling, like you set goals for yourself. You didn't reach any of those, like you. Or or maybe you had a goal, you got what you wanted and then everything fell apart and it fell through and like you thought that you had it, you thought that you peaked, and then something happened and then you are back to like square one and it teaches you that, yeah, just pick yourself back up again and that goal was just the goal. It was like one thing there's so many more things you can go after. You can go after the same thing again, but it's like don't identify too much with the things that you're reaching for and just like enjoy the journey. I think is the main thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Dude, that's a great book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's good, it's good, it's very. If you're not used to like more philosophy or like spiritual books, it can be a little like intimidating to read, but it's so short. It's so short too. It's like this big um, but it's really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, wow yeah, it's called when things fall, when things fall apart, yeah I like that yeah dude, that's such a… no, that's… Especially now, it's like… I like how you touched on like you're not owed anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Because we get so tied up on… yeah, Because, especially when you're… Like, if it's a goal that you're working towards and you have been working towards for so long, you almost't have it. Well, it was never yours in the first place. Like chill, like that's the main.
Speaker 3:Thing. That's pretty wild.
Speaker 1:Yeah, damn. Okay, yeah, deep, cecilia. I like that, I love it.
Speaker 3:You need to read that book, dude. Yeah, every bad guy from like like they're mine you know like not yours, yeah you know, that's pretty wild, that's a great damn. I'm gonna read that book, for sure when things fall apart.
Speaker 1:That's a.
Speaker 4:I should read that. No, I like that a lot too, because I know, especially when I was in college and I did track a lot of times, I'd have the goal and I wouldn't reach it and I would kick myself in the butt like crazy. And then, as I got older, I had to just realize like eh On to the next whatever.
Speaker 3:On to the next. It's like not that deep?
Speaker 4:It's not that deep.
Speaker 3:It's not that deep.
Speaker 4:Oh my god.
Speaker 1:Yes, I like that Dang. You got me thinking now, cool, anything else from it, or?
Speaker 3:no, that's all. That was a really good thank you.
Speaker 1:I was like nah you got me interested as for me, the book. We're all going books. What was it? It's like book movie game you going book, you picking book. There's one book that I really like, that really got me understanding things. It's called the Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. You guys know who Simon Sinek is.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:So he writes Damn, he wrote another book. It's escaping my brain because of course when I try to think about it it's gone. But he does a lot of talks like to companies and leadership. And oh, he wrote another book called Leaders Eat Last. So there's like these two books that I like. So there's Leaders Eat Last and Infinite Game, but Infinite Game is the Infinity Game is the one that I always relate to.
Speaker 1:It kind of opened my eyes when I do things as far as business, as far as competition, because I'm a competitive dude. If I'm into something I want to be really great at it and if someone's competing against me I'm not going to try to destroy them, but if they're elevating, I want to elevate. Because that's just how I am with the football business family. Like I'm just that type of mindset. But with him, with with the infinite game, he goes into detail about how it's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about who can keep playing the game and who can just keep outlasting one another. That's pretty much how it is. And then when you get into that mindset, you kind of to Cecilia's point of like it's not that deep, it's like sure, you lost this one or you won that one, but where are you going to be in the next month? Where are you going to be in the next year? Five years? And the whole goal is constantly getting better so you can continue to play the game Because at the end of the day, it's whoever's left standing and doing and doing the thing that they like doing. That leaves you, that lets you be at the very top. So that's where I'm at, that's how I think.
Speaker 1:I mean, the other book was Leaders Eat Last, and that was that was for me, and that's kind of like a. It's kind of like a double-edged sword for me, because I'm always like for me, in my perspective, the leaders, if I judge a leader on how they treat their team, their subordinates, right as far as like falling in line for food alright, guys, you go eat first, like literally like go eat first, go eat first, I'll eat later, type of thing. But I've seen scenarios where, like the CEO or the, the head honcho is supposed to like, oh, I'm, I'm gonna eat first, and it's like, oh, he's kind of a dick, but like, not so much of like an assumption, but more of like, like just kind of those little mannerisms. I was like, oh, that's how they are type of thing and I took that to heart.
Speaker 1:And the author of the book Leaders Eat Last. He saw that from the military right Like you got to have like the lower ranks eat first and then all these leaders like they got to make sure that everyone else is fed, so then later they eat last. And that's how. That's kind of how I carry myself. I gotta make sure everyone's taken care of first before myself, which kind of contradicts some self-care stuff. But as far as like, when you're trying to lead an organization, you kind of have to have that buy-in, especially if you're trying to like make decisions or people are gonna like be like like trust in, like be like like trusting you and stuff. So yeah, that those two books kind of really shaped how I act and feel. That's cool. But you let me know you guys actually work for me.
Speaker 3:All right. Next topic how is Austin as a boss?
Speaker 4:Well, no, that's good, I know right.
Speaker 3:But yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense though, you know, because some people aren't fully locked in or they're just here for a paycheck, but there are some people that have to be locked in To really build a culture.
Speaker 1:What culture starts from the top Top Fall in line.
Speaker 3:Hard to build. Yeah, fall in line bro.
Speaker 1:But that is where. Wait what?
Speaker 4:Fall in line.
Speaker 1:Gabe Fall in line gave wow, wow, wow, um, but, yeah, but, yeah, uh, but what was it as speaking of? Speaking of which are the things that we were working on? Um, how did you like I know we talked about it, cecily, but how did you like running the speed camp that we did for the kids? It?
Speaker 2:was so much fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mainly because, Mainly because I love kids, so any opportunity for me to work with kids like I'll have fun. Um, I don't have a huge background in conditioning, so I was very hesitant going into it, um, but it ended up being very fun. The kids had a great time. Um, I think I did better than what I was expecting and I yeah, I was asking them at the end if they liked it. They were like yeah, um, it was fun, though, because they are all over the place like as much as I love them I got the little ones right, so like what fifth grade or something?
Speaker 2:you got like the four to six year olds, yeah, yeah, six to seven year olds yeah, super young, and so I kept giving them drills to do and I was like, okay, let's play tag. And then when I would say go, they would disperse like complete, like no recollection of what the drill was, they just heard. They would just hear tag and they would just like disperse 10 different directions. You're like, oh shit, I gotta catch up. But yeah, after kind of like regrouping and understanding that I needed to really drill it into them, you know what the instructions were? Um no, we did good, it was a great time.
Speaker 2:But the first two minutes were like okay, oh shit, they're going no, you did a, you did a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1:For those uh who don't know, we've been starting to uh free speed camps, uh in san jose for youth athletes. It's's kind of our way of building our community as we're launching our youth speed and performance program at Hyper. But we did this first camp. We didn't know what to expect. Right, I invited you know, cecilia, to help Kobe. Chris Were you there? No, you were. I was teaching High Rocks. Gabe was locking in high rocks, like that. That's another thing we're gonna talk about. But, um, it was great because we had, we didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 1:We, I, I thought on the registration, we would have like a lot of 17 year olds to like 15 year olds and then a lot of 10 year olds and then like a little bit of you know, six year olds, seven year olds, but then when we came out to the park it was a lot of seven year olds, a lot of 10 year olds, a lot of a lot of 12, 13 year olds and then maybe one or two 18 year olds, yeah, or 17 year olds, no one or two 15 year olds who were like pretty big. So the way we broke it down, I broke down like from 10 up. We broke down, we broke them up into separate groups and we rotated them.
Speaker 1:I was teaching you know me, gabe and Chris were teaching that group and then I put all the little ones with Coach Cecilia, all these little kids like five to seven, and I took the ones who could tell like, oh, they've been playing basketball, they're pretty movement able already. So I was like, okay, you're going to be playing with the big kids, but all these little kids who had no idea what they were doing, like we gave them to Coach Cecilia. So with the older kids we were rotating them every like eight minutes, but Coach Cecilia, I had the kids stay with her the whole time. So every time I said rotate, and I looked at Cecilia and I just gave a thumbs up like you good or what, and she's like no, we're good. And so I just wanted to give you a shout out because you did a phenomenal job with them.
Speaker 1:I think the parents liked it, the kids liked it.
Speaker 1:They liked it yeah so we're doing another one July 26th, saturday, and that one is going to be we're going to be testing the 40 time. We're going to be testing how fast the kids are. I think we're going to do a 10 fly speed, where it shows how fast they actually are, like miles per hour, and then the shuttle agility speed. So agility test too, we're going to have all that. But we have a whole soccer field now. The first one at Baquesto Park, that was fun. This one is going to be on turf on Watson Park, the whole soccer field. So, yeah, we're really excited about that. And then, another thing we've been doing that I want to shout out, coach Gabe on was like the High Rocks training club program that we've been launching at Hyper, and, gabe, you've been doing a phenomenal job with leading it. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 4:Good, it's fun. The people are awesome. I mean, they're crazy enough to sign up for High Rocks, so like, when they show up, it's all game and they're like yeah, so it's fun, it's fun, and then I'll do the classes with them every now and then, so that's really fun too. And are you, jesus Christ? What's high?
Speaker 1:rocks, so high rocks, pure cardio. It's pure cardio. It's functional workouts Paired with cardio. It's it's eight functional movements. Right, am I tripping? I think so. It's like eight functional movements Paired with You're teaching it.
Speaker 3:You're the one who's teaching it too, man? Yeah sure, no. But To be straight up, high rocks is like Eight functional movements. You're the one who's teaching it too, man? He's like yeah sure.
Speaker 1:No, but to be straight up, high Rocks is like eight functional movements and then there's run in between. You're running under duress and it's basically a fitness relay. The founders are from Europe, from Germany. One of them was really big in sporting events and so he saw an opportunity in the fitness racing space. I feel like it's just to be straight up, I know, even though we're a high rock training club, it's CrossFit, but packaged differently.
Speaker 1:They took out all the barbell movements. They found out what participants could really pick up on, like the sled push, the farmer carries, like things that a person off the street could just be like. I could do this. Yeah, figure out simple movements, um, and they package it into a fitness race event. They put into arenas and they did a really great job marketing it. Because now it's like blowing up um to the point where we we didn't really change some of the programming of our conditioning classes and we just relabeled it. Irox conditioning we just change some of the programming of our conditioning classes and we just relabeled it. High Rocks Conditioning we just added some of the movements and then people started signing up for it. Yeah, there's, it's. I mean, I've been in this industry for almost two decades. It's like this was kind of a no-brainer for me, because it's like, well, there's people who we did our latest Half Rocks event. That went really fucking well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was nice, nice, and it's basically the race split in half. But on top of Strongman you're going to do the High Rocks Wild man, do a Spartan race with me too.
Speaker 4:I'm down Please.
Speaker 1:Damn, what's the Spartan race coming up?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I think there's one NorCal like Sacramento Dude we're.
Speaker 4:I think there's one NorCal like Sacramento we were supposed to do Monterey and the Shrew with her ankle? Yeah, oh no but I think, yeah, they like Sacramento yeah, sacramento they didn't get rid of the pool, the mud pool, they brought it back oh really yeah, cause Justin the run that he did recently. They had to go under the mud water.
Speaker 2:What about the?
Speaker 1:parasites. They just said okay we're good.
Speaker 4:Next one, let's get it. No manure, yeah, no manure. But yeah, Wait so they just dig a hole and then put water in it. It's like so it's a pool of mud, but like mud water, and then you go, like under this bridge, and then you go under another bridge and then another one.
Speaker 3:But like just a hole in the ground. No, it's like a big pool. It's no tarp, no tarp, no tarp.
Speaker 4:You can feel it in your feet. Well did you?
Speaker 3:hear the last. Was it Spartan?
Speaker 4:Race when they got sued. Yeah, yeah, yeah, someone got like a parasite in their room. Yeah, that's pretty wild.
Speaker 3:That's almost like you all wouldn't like.
Speaker 1:Well, because it was a cow ranch and there was cow manure. And mixed with water. Yeah, oh, so it. And they even warned him. No, just do it, just make it happen and then there you go. Damn, yeah, that's wild so then I was like, oh, they took out all the water events when we did it, which, by the way, I couldn't even lift my arms for like two months, like it was messed up. But yeah, no, the Sacramento one, I've done that one, that one's fun, uh, with the water one though.
Speaker 3:I mean everyone's like kind of like ooh air sights, you know just hold your breath.
Speaker 4:You're good, you're fine, you can't see under there, you're fine you can't see, it's okay, you're good, you can't even see, are you doing the sprint or the super?
Speaker 2:no, I don't know, I'm just, I haven't even planned it, I'm just saying whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1:I haven't even planned it, I'm just saying whatever, whatever's Gabe, you are Wolverine, you're going from Strongman, which is one energy system like the total opposite of a high rock.
Speaker 4:I was supposed to do SF Half Marathon next week, oh yeah, but I'm pulling out just because of what happened here. But I am doing the Disney Half in February next year. I mean, yeah, disney Half. Have you done a Disney half, not a Disney half? I've done a half, but not a Disney half.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you did a Disney half, didn't you? The Avenger, the Avenger, when I was living out in LA. Yeah, we went to medieval times after. Damn right, we did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like one of the nights looked like Nickelback, so we just Nickelback, nickel Nick go back, nick, go back. I can't see your name Chad something something yeah, he looked exactly like him but then he was like the black and white knight yeah and I guess that story of that knight he actually was, I think.
Speaker 1:I don't know if he won, but he was close to winning. You know how, like if you ever watched 8 at Middle Evil Times, right, like your knight either makes it to the end or not, but he actually kept making it, so you just keep hearing us in bag. Yeah, the first you'll run through the park within the first three miles two miles, no, one mile and then after it's like outside.
Speaker 1:And it's like, oh, and when we did it was a hella windy, oh, like it was so windy like the legs you felt your legs like getting knocked. And it's like, oh, and when we did it, it was like hella windy, like it was so windy like the legs. You felt your legs like getting knocked. And it's like, oh shit, do people dress up? Oh yeah, I dressed up, as Captain America Regretted it my late, but people dress up.
Speaker 4:It's fun. Like every, I'm a disposable warrior. I'm gonna runosed Wolverine.
Speaker 1:I'm going to run in the jeans. Wait what You're going to run in jeans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a chafing.
Speaker 1:Wait, you're going to run as the Calvary, yeah.
Speaker 4:No, I'm playing, I don't know.
Speaker 3:All right, I was going to say you should probably just paint your legs.
Speaker 4:You should just paint your legs.
Speaker 1:Paint your legs, dude, he's belted dude we have a man in a mankini jogging around.
Speaker 3:That looks like Wolverine. That would be sick actually.
Speaker 1:Sir, there are children. No, it's a good experience. I mean the Xbox, I mean it's Disney. Right, you go for the experience. True true, I hope to God it's not windy, but I mean February should be fine I think. But man you're doing, strong man, high Rocks, High Rocks, anaheim. Is that what you're looking at?
Speaker 4:High Rocks, chicago, chicago, anaheim being Mexico. Wait what it's going to be at the end of the year. I'm going to Mexico. Oh, that's going to be fun.
Speaker 1:Did we not release the Dallas ones yet, or no? Did I give you the Dallas?
Speaker 4:ones. I'm like, oh, I'm not doing that one. Okay, yeah, so sugar.
Speaker 1:No, because some people were asking already. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Do you think it's possible to do it without training for it? It depends, I mean anything's possible. That's how they design it.
Speaker 2:Let me rephrase it.
Speaker 1:Because they want High Rocks to be like the new marathon triathlon.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:People can get off and do it Like get off the couch, or some people can train and be elite.
Speaker 4:Okay, yeah, because like the last half, I didn't really train for it Like you can. I think you can kind of not train and do it. You could die. You're going to finish with 100 wall balls yeah, 100.
Speaker 1:100 legs After running.
Speaker 4:And then lunges.
Speaker 1:The way to and the burpee raw. I'm giving myself like, yeah, you're a train until I do my first one. That's cool, but I plan to we're gonna. I definitely want to host another Half Rocks, because that was really good, but I want to host a big one at a local high school, probably in 26 okay, 2026 spring but yeah, maybe a local high school like somewhere around here. Like McDonald High School or San. Jose High or.
Speaker 3:Say you should do Independence, bro, indo Go bring it back. Yo go to A-Villa and then bring back some hot Cheetos and then go over to B-Villa. Wow.
Speaker 1:We went to Independence together. Indo-mob baby Wow, indobob God. No, their fields are really messed up.
Speaker 1:No we went to play a football game there and they almost canceled the game. The referees almost canceled the game because the field was it had divots Like not just little divots, like as big as this carpet, Wow, like black it would have turf and then it would just black, black dust, yeah, and I'm like dude. So then the AD came out with a garbage like fuck Bin Bin, come on Austin. And then he had like all these black pellets, rubber pellets, and he just poured it over the patches and he's like, yeah, we can play now. And I'm like yo.
Speaker 1:What I was like what how are you going to call a game? I wasn't coaching, I was watching. I came to support Evergreen because I was taking a break, but I watched and I was on the sideline and, yeah, I was watching them play the game and some of the kids were like one of the kids like busted his ankle on it on the field, like broke broke his ankle.
Speaker 3:And I don't know if it was like the field fault or like, so not independent. That's the way I'm feeling. I think they just don't win as much.
Speaker 1:Not like the heydays when you were there wow, you know, well, that was a different coaching staff and whoa, that was. That was a long time ago. Don't even remind me of that. Um, well, that was fun, that was fun. Um, I have a question with you guys. What is your? I know we've been talking about online training here and there I've been of him and Han at it. What is?
Speaker 3:What Him and Han, him and Han, him and Han about it.
Speaker 1:I know that I talked about like eventually I want to jump into that online training space. I just have like a mental block on it. You know, what I mean, but just online training, as far as just getting people into it or just doing it For you. Gabe, I know you do it a lot. What is your best practice in online coaching? What do you mean, like, what's the best way to online coach someone? Because there's different ways. People always do online coaching, but what is it? You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:They're like their buddy in their pocket that's going to help them out. I think that's the biggest thing, just like making sure they're heard, because, like, I've heard a lot of stories where, like, yeah, I got this online coaching, message them, they never hit me back up. Or like they hit me like at the end of the week and that's it. But like I try my best, I go have them as my. Like you know, you can pin messages. I try to get back to them as fast as I can.
Speaker 4:And just make sure that I can like help them wherever they need.
Speaker 1:What are the three things they like? If someone is interested in online coaching, just in general, what are three? Because I know you do it well, that's why I was like I'm interested as in like coaching or being a client being a client to an online coach like. What are the three things they should actually look for?
Speaker 4:The person That'll matter the most. I mean, that's like a new relationship you're making with a person. Two, I guess that's the main thing, the relationship you have with a person. I mean, yeah, they can have like their resume what they have. So, of course, if you want something geared more like I want to be like a bodybuilder, of course check out them, See if they live that lifestyle too, If they're To go with them and do that. I can't think of a third one.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, that's what…? Because, like everyone's… Everyone in their moment right now is like jumping into online. One of my biggest things is like online coaches who became online coaches without actually training someone in person, because I feel like you just miss so much in just development as a coach. But, yeah, I mean one of the top things like do you like the person? Yeah, but what were the stories? You?
Speaker 4:But, yeah, I mean one of the top things like do you like the?
Speaker 1:person. Yeah, but what were the stories you said you heard?
Speaker 4:Like because I feel like that's common too Like someone would hit up an online coach and then… and like they'll sign up and do everything and then they'll get like a cookie cutter, like programming which is the exact same thing as someone else, but they have different goals. And then it's like, dude, this is the exact same thing I saw that person have, or something. Or like, hey, I need help with this. No response Five days later. Oh, my bad. So this and this and this and this, something like that I've seen that a lot too.
Speaker 2:There's a particular coach that I know that I'm not going to talk about, but in the bodybuilding community, I think right now there's a lot of these coaches online right now that give the same exact templates to everyone, same exact protocols to everyone, and that's not only unethical, it's very dangerous too, because you're playing with someone's health. Um, so I think that's something to look out for too. Is client testimonials? Um, I think those are.
Speaker 2:Those are helpful, like true, real client testimonials, you know not like chat gpt no but just you know, um the stories of clients, past clients that have actually gone through working with specific coach and um seeing if they had results how they liked it. I think that's that's something helpful. Versus like those like photo galleries of like transformations like before after. I think people are drawn to that immediately, but a lot of that is fake. A lot of Versus like those like photo galleries of like transformations like before after. I think people are drawn to that immediately, but a lot of that is fake. A lot of that is just templates given to different people Same thing. So just talking to past clients I think is number one thing that I would do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like the cookie cutters are like the volume, volume, volume type exercise Very low calories too, it's just like… Like 900.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:For a week, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, you'll lose weight if you just don't eat. Damn, all right, no, that's good. That's good. That's good Because I want to start this journey of really honing in on our online offerings and I want to know what you guys have seen and experienced. So then, when we do finally launch it because I'm working on it myself, I'm just kind of testing stuff. I'm like reaching out to old clients. I'm like, hey, you're going to do online training and when we do launch it, I want to make sure that we're all like on the same page and understanding what we all feel it should be, because I believe we could launch something that's really good, especially with the coaching staff we have. But, with that being said, that's pretty much our episode today, guys. That is it. I mean, how do you guys feel? Thank you guys for coming out, of course. So you're going to watch K-pop? Oh yeah, I'm going to watch it. I.
Speaker 4:So you're gonna watch K-pop? Oh yeah, I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go home and watch it. You're gonna watch it on.
Speaker 4:America's birthday. On America's birthday, I was on the way right now. Well good luck on the Strongman Games. Yeah, strongman Games, right? Oh no, this was just a Strongman event.
Speaker 1:A Strongman event.
Speaker 4:And then if I qualify, then yeah, done deal. When when.
Speaker 1:No we actually got another episode lined up next week. We'll figure that out. We got to get around before my kid gets burned. Oh yeah, yeah, but anyways, this is Coach Austin with our Nerd Out and Workout podcast, where we nerd out, work out, and podcast with Kevin Arab Arabagon, coach Gabe and Coach Cecilia, and we will see you guys.
