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the jurgen experience i am yeah i mean i'm someone who's worked my legs out forever like most of my life but i've never done these exercises and part of me is like how the did i not know about this how am i finding out about this from jamie and then from instagram i mean it's very simple it's very simple how this occurs so i wasn't taught it either and didn't get a scholarship to college painting walls during the day i have nothing i had no backup plan so i was like all right i'm not going to make it as a basketball player i'm just going to figure out how to bulletproof my knees so then i start really digging into the corners of the earth to find data you see what i mean right everything we're talking about right now in this podcast without question will be in the textbooks in 20 30 years wow but it takes a long time for textbooks to change you see what i mean so you're not going to find the stuff we're talking about in the main textbooks that people are going to schooling and learning so i find some pockets of information work really hard on it rejuvenate my knees managed to market myself and get a college basketball scholarship played two years at a junior college you know like in america we have these two-year juco a lot a lot of wild stories had an amazing coach there and kept healing my knees while playing so like i was improving as i was going through my first two years of college got a full ride d1 scholarship at age 23. wow so i went from mr 18 year old on my butt oh you know like people from my hometown by the time i was 23 getting a d1 scholarship it was like what the heck is going on so i actually had started training kids in the summer just because it was like this unbelievable thing that had happened but here's what i'm getting to i go to this division one school and
the strength coach who has his degrees from college and everything he's not going to let me do my drills the very things that got me the scholarship it's not a wild concept what did he say you're not allowed to do your knees over toe stuff here so the school gave me a scholarship full ride i'm gonna be you know living out my dream having a chance to play in march madness whatever now i mentioned i was 23. right so i get a call from the head coach before the season and he tells me nca has denied your eligibility they say you're like your clock is up none of us knew it's a very rare thing i've never heard of this happening of someone like fixing their knees and then later going to college so we did a whole appeal process but in the back of my mind i was like i don't want to now have to go two years trying to train behind the strength coach's back and look at the system so it's like it's not his fault he's just doing what he learned in the textbook right how the heck is the textbook gonna change you see what i mean did you have a conversation with him privately um anyone can relate if you've been in team sports and you bring something up to like the head strength coach or the head coach or something like that there's a lot of pressure like it's like you're risking getting in murky water having a bad reputation on the team so i never got past that that opening conversation with him of like you know i've been doing these things so did he see you doing it like how did this happen yeah i told him which exercise like these are the things i've been doing that are like that have me able to play because i couldn't play before so explain how the conversation takes place so i meet him he's going to be running my program right and i say okay
i need to add in these things like you've seen these knees over toes split squats right very uncommon exercise no no you're not gonna be doing that here so it's just a total stop so i'm not gonna be doing so he tells you can't do them no knees over toast does he say why no it's no knees over toes in his gym so i knew i was gonna have to be going you know just on my own time outside of school and classes and workouts to keep up my routines so when this whole thing went on with my eligibility getting denied um i was request i was the head coach thought i should get a lawyer i'd be able to fight it but i actually just withdrew from the thing and became a trainer so when he was saying this to you yep did you try to argue it did you try to say this is what's helped me this is what got me here exactly and what did he say he's overtones did you show him some of the literature did you show him some poliquin stuff no i never got that far but it was also for me being a new recruit college kid it was like that was a that was a an intimidating moment for me you know what i mean yeah i didn't have excellent communication skills i was a nobody you know yeah i was just a new request that sucks yeah but in his mind he's just enforcing what he believes you know and what he learned is the right thing to do exactly he's literally a professional exactly yeah so new data can come out and new data has even come out on full knee bend and your knee going over toes and stuff like that and how it actually leads to less pain and more athleticism but now from the moment that data comes out it's not like the textbooks magically all switch you know i mean the whole curriculum and textbooks and the tests and so even in my first couple years of college i would have to be guessing on tests like is the answer the actual answer that's up to date right now or is the answer
what the textbook thinks is the answer does that make sense yeah and it goes like that for diet and you see like new data is constantly coming out right yeah so that's why for me it's it's really nothing um i'm not even trying to be critical of that system there's so many cool aspects to college and stuff like that i just knew i had to create an alternative yeah so i just it was like a light bulb went off and i just went hard core as a trainer from that point i've you know now when did you start getting traction like when did people start paying attention and recognize like hey this guy is really on something making results in person so i had a gym for seven years and i became known as the knee guy where was your gym at clearwater florida it's like a beach town by tampa store in the city oh cool so getting results in person became known as like the knee guy and quite honestly friends telling me like you need to like go on social media and stuff like that so i hated social media at the time why this was only a few years ago i don't know what reasons could you come up with all of them exactly so yeah so but i did realize okay i'm gonna need to approach social media the same way i approach needs and try to become as competent as i can possibly be and be patient with it and be responsible and you know what i mean and so yeah i really liked gary vee because he had a positive vibe you know what i mean maybe too positive i'm just kidding i really like garyvee because it seemed like you could be yourself and do it and actually win on social media yeah and you're the same way you're just you and you're winning more than anyone that's you know another conversation thanks for everything you're doing you're the voice for us right now so i don't want to be i i understand i understand i can't even
imagine but there are examples you can just be you you can just try to help people you don't have to be perfect i can make as many mistakes sure progress but tomorrow i'm going to go out and i'm going to try to help people and the next day i'm going to go out i'm going to try to help people yeah and that's how i'm going to measure my life by how much i help people there's no ego if i made a mistake move on try to help people so i've just been doing that since and i did count up though for you know if someone wanted to be realistic about it if you're like me you're from a small town you have no special connections or anything i answered over 500 000 messages oh my god before before i hit like 100 000 followers oh my god so i'm at like so how do you have the time for that um do you give yourself like a a like an allocation i'm very organized i also have gone multiple years of my life without any entertainment sources whatsoever it's like this past year 2021 i did no tv no netflix no video games not a single sports game of any kind oh my god yeah so that sounds monastic well i can i don't consider myself a lucky person so i had to go okay i know how much this dragging this freaking sled works right and it gets your cardio in and you can put older people on it you can rehab on it but people aren't aware of it the way i am how do i get there okay i want to get lucky i want my post to do well i want people to know what i know yeah so i tried to put luck on my side and and literally work at it harder than anyone else was gonna work at putting you know uh the negatives out there here's this empowering positive thing i'm trying to get out went hard at it