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Brian Koppelman

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1310 total appearances

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Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

I found a trainer.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And I said, all right, I'll go to this trainer.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Because someone had said, this guy's not like the kind of people who try.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And I'd done it a couple times before.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

This guy's not one of those people who wants to prove to you how bad you need to train by...

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

making you so sore that you can't get out of bed for a week.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Instead, he went through like the functional movements with me, showed me what, and if a squat seemed too hard, he was like, dude, we'll squat in two months.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Don't worry about that.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

What can we do?

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Instead of focusing on, you can't squat, that means throw it.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

He was like, no, okay, let's build up to that.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Here, do you know what a box squat is?

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Here, do you know, sit in the chair and come up.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

Like, he was very reasonable and super smart about it.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And Michael, it's that habit thing.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

I did it.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

three weeks, and all of a sudden, and I have to say my part, poor David Levine, my best friend for my whole life, had been telling me to weight train for 30 years straight, and I wouldn't listen.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

And then suddenly I'm the biggest proselytizer for it.

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

But what happened was, you know, the low dose of GLP-1 started immediately changed my brain in that I understood

Two Percent with Michael Easter
Brian Koppelman: How a Hollywood Writer Got Fit at 60, Beat Anxiety & Outworked Resistance

That, oh, I wasn't morally weak.