The big things you do is weight training, strength training.
Now you can deadlift, if I'm not mistaken, up to 700 pounds.
Close, close.
640.
How much?
What is it?
699 or what?
640.
I only count in competition.
Oh, 640.
In the gym, yeah.
I've gotten 700 with the reverse bands, which makes it easier off the bottom, but I don't
count gym lifts.
You only count the competition.
It's good.
Because there aren't two or three witnesses, that's why.
We believe you brought those.
There has to be witnesses.
There's competition witnesses, so it's on video, it's on record.
So how would you say, give me some things that, some principles that you learned.
Just give me three principles.
Just give me two, because we need to move on to the next subject.
Give me two principles that you learned from weightlifting and fighting that you can carry
over into the spiritual realm that you feel like has helped you as a Christian.
You can't be wavering.
You can't have wavering thoughts when you approach a barbell or anything like that.
If you think you can't do it, just step away and come back when you're just committed to
that lift.
If you come into a deadlift or a squat and you think you're going to fail and you have
second doubt, you're doubting yourself, there's no point of even doing it.
That's good.
Another thing is you have to be consistent and stable.
I remember watching a sermon a really long time ago about, I think it was Pastor Anderson,
he talked about the characteristic of a Christian life is stability.
You can't be a stable weightlifter doing once a week, taking a week off, coming back
really hard, killing yourself.
You're killing yourself, and then you're not going to be able to come back.
Just like if you sat down and you read 30 chapters of a Bible in a day, I don't think
you're going to come back and read another 30 chapters.
It's not going to happen.
It's good.
Yeah.
If you're not, you've got to be realistic with this stuff.
You've got to be very realistic.
All right.
Give me a third one, because that was really good.
Give me a third principle.
Oh, man.
I didn't have time to think about the third one.
Oh, jeez.
How about gains?
Right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You know what?
I just got one.
When you first start training, you have goals in your head, right?
When I first started training, I'll let you know I only squatted 135 pounds.
I only bench pressed 95 pounds.
I only deadlifted 185 pounds.
In my head, I had a bunch of goals.
I was going to deadlift 405.
I was going to be very happy.
If I ever got 600, I'd quit lifting or whatever.
Right now, I'm deadlifting 640 pounds.
I've done things in the past that I thought were impossible.
I thought these things were impossible.
I've never reached these things.
But look at now.
With the help of God and everything, I'm here.
I'm doing things that I literally thought were impossible five, six years ago.
So basically what the Bible says, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that
we can ask or think.
Can you move a mountain, bro?
So he has the faith to move mountains, but he also has the muscle to move mountains as
well.
Well, good stuff, man.