Stereotypes In The Fitness Industry - Zack Telander | Modern Wisdom Podcast 168

For a weightlifter, if they don't snatch and clean and jerk well, well, their identity is now missing. So they're going to snatch and clean and jerk well, and they're gonna do whatever it takes to do that. CrossFitters can get theirs in the gym in so many different ways. So in-

There's more, more places to hide as a CrossFitter.

Yeah. Yeah, but when you're taking your shirt off and you're wearing your hot pants, you can't hide, right? And so for them, it's like, "I'm gonna get my nutrition locked in. I'm not gonna go party on the weekends. I am going to get enough sleep." You know? There's the recovery aspect that I really do feel like CrossFitters work on really, really hard, compared to powerlifters or maybe, maybe weightlifters.

Talk to me about what your favorite pre-workout drink is. What's your pre-workout of choice?

Uh, I, I love caffeine, so like, um, you know, there's... Uh, do you know who Omar Issa is?

No.

He's a, he's a, he's kind of, he's a YouTuber. Um, he actually does have a lot of good knowledge around, um, fitness and, you know, strength and culture and stuff like that.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, his product is called Ouroboros or Ouroboros.

(laughs)

Um, and it's, it's really, like, clean. It's, there's only, like, five ingredients, you know? It's, like, caffeine, creatine, uh, beta-alanine, like, the five core ingredients to a pre-workout, and it's only 200 milligrams of caffeine. I usually try to take that a half hour before training. Um, and then I, I like to have a relatively kind of empty stomach before I take my pre-workout, so I, sometimes I will wake up, um, and, you know, I might have, like... I, I always drink, like, a, a green drink, uh, to get my greens in. And then I might just, like, take my pre-workout and go to the gym, like, without anything in my stomach. But if I'm gonna train a little bit later, like, say, (clears throat) like, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 PM, I'll have, uh, oats or, like, some sort of carb, and then I'll just chill for, like, two hours and then go. I will never really... Sometimes I guess I'll have, like, scrambled eggs too, 'cause, like, for me, it's really hard to get all of my protein in per day.

Mm-hmm.

So if I'm not eating protein for, you know, four of the hours of the day or five hours a day, and then I go to the gym and I come back, now I'm in this huge kind of hole where I have-

Yeah.

... to gain back all the protein.

It's the, it's the never-ending treadmill of trying to eat, uh, everyone that's listening that's got a diet that requires them to have high volumes of protein, and mine at the moment, my cals are, like, I think 210, two, 210 grams of protein per day.