Brian Koppelman
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You gotta, you must do resistance training.
Now, here's the thing.
I had a really, and I'm telling this because I know that someone out there listening has had the experience.
Because I was decent at sports, sometimes a gym teacher would like,
want to get me strong because they were like, well, that guy could play on, like, he'd be really good on certain teams if he was strong.
But a guy, this one gym teacher, put me on a universal gym and with weights at 12, but I have double jointed, I have shoulders that don't set up for that.
And I was in terrible pain, which I didn't, at the time, recognize as the difference between joint pain and muscle pain.
And I just hated weightlifting.
And I told myself I'd never lift and it wasn't for me.
And I just was in, I was in very, very bad joint pain, like horrible joint pain.
And so I was like, well, no, everyone gets different skills, right?
I'm lucky.
I know how to, I can hit topspin and I can throw a spiral and I can catch.
I'm good.
I don't care.
Cause there's benefits to it.
Like having my arms work the way they do show I can whip a ball.
Like, so it's really good, but it was,
But somehow, the way this doctor said it to me, I was like, all right, I'll try.
And I found a guy named Ben Foster through my son.