Lift to the same standard or don’t compare your lifts? | Topic Thunder

0:09 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Topics Thunder host Solom Mike and I'm here surrounded by Miss Nurse Nano and the Game Day Boys, and today Joe's got our question. Yeah. So over on TikTok, one of my people ask me or basically have this hot take what he said. You can lift however way you want, But the moment you start comparing your strength to somebody else, everybody needs to add here to a standard. I'm in, what are our thoughts on that? I'm so like, so like the argument you the argument you hear on and I see this on TikTok all the time, is oh, it's my personal record, you know, it's so I can lift to whatever whatever standard I want. And the counter argument is just like, okay, well yeah, that's that's fine. But like, if you're gonna say you're as strong as me, you you you need to be able to lift in the same way. I would agree with that. I think I think you. I even had a like conversation of this off air, where as long as you're just not comparing and you're not claiming records and you're not claiming all this stuff because that is a sport We can't just go to the park and I go ten for ten for the free throw line and say I'm a better shooter than Ray Allen. Right, Like, that's just not cool.

1:15 That doesn't work, Like that has no logic and called a world record. Yeah yeah, right, but people do do that. But if you want to smash weights, get hyped and hit your deadlift, hitch your deadlift in the gym, and you're not comparing. You can compare in your own brain, but you're not publicly making weird statements. I don't give a fuck what you do. Like, have fun, enjoy that, create content. I also don't hate to take like lifting for cloud like if I want to like, I think if you're extrinsically motivated that way, you're not going to make it very far. But if you like, we all like post because I want people to like watch. I don't post for people not to watch. I don't put we haven't put hundreds of thousands of dollars into our media kit for people not to listen. So like, but we're intrinsically motivated because we want to build community. We want to help people, right, so, and that's how we've done it for ten years. I think you'll burn out otherwise. But yeah, it doesn't bug me at all. I think I don't know, Like, yeah, it's only ever gonna bug me when somebody is just like, oh, I'm I'm stronger than you, and I see their their ass flying off the bench. You know, it's just like, oh, I bench pressed through fifteen? Do you really? Do you really bench press three fifteen if you're hip thrusting it off your chest? I don't know what if he doesn't say I'm stronger than you and just said, man, I'm still three fifteen today. Sure, yeah, and that's and that's cool, that's awesome. But yeah, it's the moment when people get all like up in arms about just like, oh, I'm so much stronger than you. And it's just like if you're squatting, Like if you're half squatting and saying that you you, you know, squat you know, fifty more pounds than me, that like that's just not the same thing. Even being

2:46 stronger. Yeah, there's a ton of people. Yeah, even being stronger. I think it's kind of a weird take, Like you bench press more than me, Nico is in the barbe game way stronger than me. But I punked his ass and didn't even blink. Yesterday when you got you in a headlock and you're crying, you're you're eating your own knee, Can you go to the passapin? I would like I would try to dat, you know, even farm like DAPT. The moment I got to DAP moment puts in a freaking possum pin. I'm like, okay, now we're just backshack. Ever, no, no, no, no, no no, you're gonna out squat me. You're gonna out that, You're gonna fight me. I got real strength. I'm stronger than him, and he's a way better powerlifter than me. I mean, yeah, again that is kind of like you know what I mean, but strength right, Like you're a good you're a better powerlifter. Yeah, yeah, it's just like I don't know, I don't think like I don't think everybody has to lift to the exact same standard, is it? But yeah, if you're if you're gonna be that guy, you gotta you gotta at least be able to like dunk your squats.

3:42 Really that there's there's actually a good handful of people, even people who don't even like lift will still be like oh, like, I'm definitely stronger than this person. I'm like, how can you compare when you don't even like there's a good amount of people who do who'll be like I could do that, do it? Yeah, exactly, they don't. They don't back it up. Why what do you think? It's so cringe to me? I'm like, why why are we comparing? Its? Just like do your own thing, bro, you know, like, I don't know, why do you care about someone who lifts more on TikTok than you? Like, Oh, I don't. I'm saying I'm not saying you're taking the opposite You're taking the opposite point. Like if they do that, we still shouldn't care. Yeah, I just honestly, I just think like that kind of like if you want that attention towards social media, it's just like that is just like what are you trying to prove a point? Like what what kind of audience? Like what do you want audience to know or feel about you?

4:30 I don't disagree with that either, And I've always tried to take the high road and everything I do because obviously, like I was throwing out a big dead lists on the internet when a lot of people weren't posting stuff. So I got that a lot, you know, like comparison and saying they're stronger than me and whatever, and like I've did it in front of officials, I did it on plates. I know who I am. I know who I am, not um And I would never snap back like because I just same idea, Like I just didn't care, and I got I got I got it from lifter or lifters. I didn't even get it from like internet folk, you know, I would get it from lift or lifts and I was just like, well, yeah, I just don't really care. Cure. Yeah, I know what I'm capable of. I don't know what I'm not capable of. Do you get that you think it's worse? Here here's the hot take. Do you think it's worse or better with men and women?

5:11 I personally well in powerlifting. I feel like men are very comparable and I feel like the men are obviously more competitive because it's the gym, like you know, guys, testosterone, all of those. Yeah, all the women like I feel like there's really they're like so unproblematic and powerlifting the women's community is so much better than Yeah, I might agree, I might disagree where the competitiveness. I think a lot of chicks are very competitive, but they look inside a lot better. I don't think there is caddy in the sport. For sure, guys are caddier in the sport, but uh, flame me all you want, I do think outside out of it, chicks are probably caddier, a little more competitive and weirder. I don't know, it's just because like there's you see so much gama on social media between all the guys, Like there's always like something new almost every single month, but all the top chicks are always hig five in each other. Yeah, exactly, exactly due they were. They were literally fist bumping each other. Are dope too, Yeah yeah, yeah, so they totally were. But I agree. Yeah, I don't know. I've personally never really even heard of like women causing problems and powerlifting. I've probably only heard like one problem that was a couple of years ago when that happened. Most are dudes. Yeah, the egos, the fragility, Yeah, it's definitely the egosity. Why is she looking at you when she said that? I mean, like there's stuff that like Nico has gone into, but like it's just it's just random stuff like my fault. Yeah, I mean, if you're in there, dude, you're I think I think the final thing that I would say here is we all we all just just lifting weights like it really, dude,

6:43 were literally just lifting weights. Yeah, I'm close to that serious. Yeah, I mean I sort of agree with the take that it's just like, yeah, you do need some kind of standard of comparison, but like, at the same time, I don't know, you don't need to be so but heard about it. It makes more not that a context of a competition phrasing. All right, Nico, where can people find you? You can find me on Instagram at Nico Floors eighty three KG, and on YouTube at Nico Flores, What's Got Nan Nano at two OS thirty one Ladies and Gentlemen, New episode every Wednesday and Friday. I'm Southern Mike. Where you want to find me three SB dot COO, and I am Joe Stannik on all social media platforms. Just type my name in and you can find me mostly on the Tiki Talks pretty much everywhere else. This has been fifty percent facts, where fifty is a number and a percentage is a word. Pack The facts is a Speaker Prime Podcast in association with iHeartMedia on the Obscure Celebrity Network.

7:35 I want to do the next one. Pretty good. That was pretty good.