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Time for the Winter Olympics! (Beijing 2022)

It is that time again! Our Olympic clocks were off since Tokyo was delayed because of covid. Here we are, fourteen years after the Beijing Summer olympics, for a much colder lineup of events. The Superbowl doesn’t excite us much, but the Olympics and World Cup are a different story. Chris pulls out his Olympic wardrobe, we bought Peacock for maximum coverage, and celebrated the opening ceremony. How? By enjoying the host nation’s food of course!

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Old School, Hardcore Training

Aleksandr Karelin is one of the greatest athletes of all time. He dominated the world of wrestling for a long time. Even though most people have either forgotten him, or never knew who he was, I often go back to his training videos for inspiration. Sure, a lot of us will YouTube the Rocky montages. I’m guilty of that as well. Karelin, however, brought a truly unique mixture of size, strength, flexibility and overall athleticism. It led to his dominance. We aren’t born with all of that. We develop it over time, through constant training. Old school, hardcore training.

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