179: Why I Always Go Back to Strength Training

**Nick Bare** (0:06)
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today's episode is titled, Why I Will Always Go Back to Strength Training. Always. I am, and I've said it before, I am a gym rat, I am a meathead at heart, at my core. It is in my blood, it is in my DNA. I remember growing up as I'm thinking about my bloodline and my DNA. My dad was a wrestler when he was in high school. And when I was young, I remember watching my dad come home from work. It'd be 5, 6, maybe 7 p.m. If I can remember loosely. And I could hear him from a mile away because his windows were down, his music was blaring, it was hard rock. And he'd pull into our driveway and he'd step out and he was wearing wrestling shoes. He was wearing short shorts, a stringer tank top tucked in. And in his hand, he had his duffel bag and his lifting belt. And he had a mullet and a mustache. And after work, he would go to the gym, he would train and then come home. And I watched my dad come home after a long day, after leaving the gym with a pump and his veins popping out, his muscles full. My dad growing up to me was a superhero. You know, I'd watch him every morning in our kitchen as my brother and I were eating breakfast, doing his pushups on the kitchen floor. We never said anything. It was just, this is what dad does every morning. He gets after it, he puts in the work. And he had a great physique. He still has a great physique for being 63 years old.
Strength training, when I say it's part of my DNA, it's in my core, it's within the bare bloodline. I mean it. I believe it.
I want to pose a thesis, an opinion, a statement.
If you want to be better at anything physical, marathons, high rocks, weekend basketball, or even just playing with your kids, strength has to come first. As Mark Bell says, strength is never a weakness, and weakness is never a strength. Dang, that hits. And another thesis or opinion is that if you could only do one type of training for the rest of your life, it should be strength training. Why? The benefits far outweigh the benefits of excessive cardiovascular conditioning. To include the fact that one, muscle loss or sarcopenia is one of the biggest predictors of aging decline and has risk associated with injury, decreased lifespan and health span and performance. The difference between health span and lifespan. Lifespan is the amount of years that you live. Now, if you live to 100, that's great. But if your health span, the last 40 years or garbage, man, that 100 years is kind of a subjective goal. If you had strong health up until you were 60, and then from 61 to 100, you had limited health span, that's a long 40 years. That's tough. Strength training improves bone density and joint integrity, and there's plentiful hormonal benefits from strength training, building muscle. It improves testosterone, growth hormone, insulin sensitivity.
Strength training is foundational. And in my honest opinion, I might be biased, but I believe there's a lot of science that backs us up, a lot of data, a lot of research, studies, practical application. If we had to choose one type of training to do for our entire life, it should and would be strength training, resistance training, being in the gym, moving weight, lifting hard.
So we'll get in today why I will always go back to strength training, why I do always go back to strength training, no matter what prep I'm in or season or what my goal is, I always go back to strength training. We just launched our strength collection. I have the products in front of me right now. The strength collection, which I'll get into deeper into this episode, it's a three product system, pre, pump, and post. So the way that I use the strength collection, the way that I recommend using the strength collection is by stacking pre and pump about 30 minutes prior to your workout. You get increased energy, tunnel vision focus, muscular endurance, blood flow, contraction, better muscle pumps, which if you are into strength training or bodybuilding, you know the pump is king. And then the way that I like to use post is sipping on it during my workout. But you can also consume one serving after your workout. Post is essential amino acids, branched chain amino acids, carnitine, altartrate, and cherry pure. It is excellent for muscle protein synthesis, stimulating MPS, helping to repair the broken down muscle fibers from your strength training, from the workout itself. You know, while you're working out and lifting weights, you are creating these micro tears within your muscle. And then after the workout, through proper recovery and rest and nutrition and supplementation, that's how you actually repair and rebuild muscle tissue. So the strength collection is now officially live on our website, bpnsupps.com, a three product system, pre, pump and post.