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"You Lift?" The Question That Changed My Life
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- I was walking in the hallway and he was like he's like, "Boy, you lift?" And I was like, "No." He's like, "You should." He's like, "You got the genes." And I was like, "I don't know how."
- He was like I was like, "I don't know how." And he was like "Stay after school, I'll show you." And so he worked out with me every day for like 9 months.
- And so he and I would train together 2 hours every day.
- So we used to do uh I don't knows.
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0:00When you first started lifting, what was it? Like, you start trying to lift heavy? Lifting first sport, did someone steal your bike? >> I had >> What happened, bro? >> I had a teacher big black guy Mr. Givens. I was walking in the hallway and he was like he's like, "Boy, you lift?" And I was like, "No." He's like, "You should." He's like, "You got the genes." And I was like, "I don't know how."
0:26>> a little swole back then even? >> Yeah, I looked like it. He was like I was like, "I don't know how." And he was like "Stay after school, I'll show you." And so he worked out with me every day for like 9 months. And so he and I would train together 2 hours every day. >> You probably got jacked, too, I bet. Very quickly, right? Nice. Yeah, the arms especially. >> Yeah, I was 15. Yeah. >> Monster. Very cool. >> Yeah, I had already been training for like a year and a year and change.
0:53So it's funny though cuz he used he didn't have like the real names for exercises. So we used to do uh I don't knows. >> Oh. Like a shrug, yeah, yeah. >> And then he had we had tree >> Yeah. >> And so he just told me and uh we did uh sit-ups and he had like crazy abs and I really wanted abs. And so uh >> It's a good way to teach somebody though. Like I don't How do you do the I don't know? >> And so he would he would be like, "What's the capital of Zimbabwe?" And I'd be like and he'd be like and he'd just ask like and I'd just be sitting there, you know, I'm like 15 years
1:22>> Right, right. >> And then um we did uh he called them Givens ups. So it was like a mechanical drop set for abs. Still to this day the most sore I've been on abs. >> Kills you. >> Yeah, so you would um you know the the ab thing where you can you can hold behind your head? >> Mhm. >> So what we do is first when you first start with him, he starts you flat and then every like 4 weeks he'd bump it 1 degree >> Oh man. >> until we do is we do um 10 to 20 straight up like this like butt off holding the thing. So you're like straight up and then um and then we would do uh uh uh like your legs would be straight.
2:00>> Yeah, yeah, like legs >> go up and down? >> Yep. >> And then you bend your knees and roll your knees to your chest. And so you do like 10 10 10 at that incline and we do like three sets. And dude, like I couldn't like laugh. If you like this video and you're a business owner who wants to break through your current revenue ceiling, I distilled every lesson from scaling 10 businesses past 10 million and three businesses past 100 million into a completely free scaling roadmap that I've used to go from zero to one, zero to 10, and zero to 100 plus. And so you can click here and you can check it out.
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