Blood & (T)Rain Episode 1: Colin Zastrow

Blood & (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Text “I don’t care how I get there, but I’m going to get there.” You’re the young aspiring lifter walking into a gym having no clue what you’re doing. You take a machine for a spin for a set of 20. You do Dumbell curls for 10 sets. You do the Stephen Amell “Arrow” workout from a 2014 issue of Muscle & Fitness and assume you’ll have that body in six weeks despite already making a habit of going to your breaking point in a Muay Thai gym on top of a noodle shop or in a high school swim team setting in the chilled waters of Wisconsin. You go harder than anyone in the gym, especially when your body is telling you that you shouldn’t. But then, you meet a mentor. You meet a high school coach with a default setting of investing in young men. Or you meet a sage of strength in an unlikely setting of [insert sanitized commercial chain gym here] and ask to be taught. You walk into a strongman gym and get taught how to Turkish getup by a Bellator middleweight. Or you start a podcast on YouTube and interview some of those that chose the path of strength before you. You start learning the why of programming through lessons of elders and the research of your own accord. Suddenly, you’re not that confused, skinny kid making up for his ignorance with pure fury anymore. Suddenly, you’re a mentor. Suddenly, it’s your turn to pass on the knowledge and to be kind. “To teach a man to be strong is to be kind.” The Blood & Rain Podcast Presents: The Blood & (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Colin Zastrow Enjoy.