What podcasts say about Sam Sulek
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What Sam Sulek has said on podcasts
32 statements · 21 positive · 6 negative · 2 mixed · 3 neutral
Gradually increasing training demands makes harder effort feel normal.
“I'm always just trying to creep up. Like, what can I do a little better? Like, what can I do a little bit harder? And like, the more you do that, going harder becomes more normal.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 2:18
Maximum effort should become seamless through practice.
“So you're going as hard as you can, but you want that going as hard as you can to just be seamless. Like, it's just what you do.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 3:22
Training harder is a broadly useful fitness strategy.
“Like, this is the most simple thing anybody could ever say, but just go harder.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 8:38
Sam prioritizes very hard training over maximally optimized training.
“I'd rather train super hard than super smart.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 9:36
Practical hard training offers more benefit than merely studying training.
“there's more to gain from just going into the gym and going harder than sitting at home reading a book about training is how I feel about it.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 10:29
Sam’s simple eating routine suits his goals but is not universally optimal.
“I'm not going to say it's specifically the best for someone else, but for me, this makes sense.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 13:52
Chris Hemsworth’s children are likely more valuable to him than material possessions.
“when I look at a guy like that or hear what they say, I mean, he'd probably trade any material thing that he's gotten or whatever for that. Like, he knows that that's the most valuable thing he's got.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 24:13
Delaying children indefinitely risks losing time because readiness may not arrive.
“when are you going to be ready, man? You know, like time's kind of ticking.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 25:23
Greater training effort produces greater progress.
“the harder I go, the more progress I'll make.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 34:44
Maintaining routines during a slump improves later feelings about the period.
“if by the time you get out of it, you still kept up your normal routine of things, maybe it wasn't at like 100%, but you were still going through your motions, you're gonna feel way better about it.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 40:16
Hard training, eating, hydration, and sleep can reinforce continued training progress.
“And then over time that just keeps moving forward.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 45:07
Skipped workouts and poor habits can reinforce subsequent negative habits.
“But each one probably feeds into that next negative step”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 46:54
Beginners should start with any amount of training rather than remain inactive.
“Are you at 0 gym days per week. Well, guess what? 1 is more than 0.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 49:36
New exercisers should ease into training rather than immediately pursue maximal intensity.
“But yeah, just easing into it because that whole You know, if right now my bar is like, well, I want to get to the point where I can just go 100% all the time without fail.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 50:04
People should not dismiss small initial steps toward fitness.
“it's like you can't, you can't be above the small steps”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 51:27
Watching successful practitioners can inspire action and skill development.
“the best example to get good at anything, or not even just get good, but get like inspired to do anything, is just to watch people who have done it.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 52:57
Seeing someone achieve a goal makes that goal feel attainable and motivating.
“seeing someone do what you want to do, I think is probably the most motivating thing you can because now not only are you seeing somebody do it, but you're just getting it proven in your own head. Like, this is totally doable.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 54:05
1990s and early-2000s bodybuilding had WWE-like character-driven prestige.
“the '90s, early 2000s, like it was, it was to the same prestige as like the WWE. Like these guys were, they were characters”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:01:11
Social media has changed the hype surrounding bodybuilding competitions.
“with the social media side of things, somehow that's changed the hype that just gets built up behind it.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:04:53
Creators perform best when their content reflects activities they would do anyway.
“the guys who end up doing the best are the ones where what they're doing is just what they would be doing anyway.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:11:33
Forced relatability and follower-focused content are unlike authentic creation.
“they're trying to force this relatability. They're trying to do something for the sake of this endpoint of like, oh, I want to get this many followers”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:13:42
Sam’s bodybuilding approach does not aim for maximum optimization through many coaches.
“the point almost isn't to try to push the envelope to the absolute maximum with, like, 10 different coaches.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:17:28
An Olympia debut would require becoming good enough to win a professional show.
“if somehow it turned where I'm like, okay, you know what, now we're, we're switching gears, we're going to aim for an Olympia debut. So that'd mean I'd have to get big enough to win a pro show.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:18:23
Entering a less competitive bodybuilding show can make qualification easier.
“you could do a bodybuilding show that is somewhere that not a lot of people will be.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:18:50
Sam’s peptide company planned to shift toward doctor-prescribed telehealth services October 1.
“they're just changing the nature of it to more of like an actual telehealth, like doctor prescribed thing October 1st.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:26:51
Sam reports GHK-Cu improved his skin appearance.
“I can definitely tell my skin's looking a little better from that one.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:27:47
Teenage TikTok users are overhyping peptide products and ordering them casually.
“it just gets overhyped because now, I mean, you get all the TikTok kids and literally kids, these guys are teenagers and they're on a TikTok Live hyping up like, oh, you get 10 vials of so-and-so that they're just ordering.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:28:28
Peptides have legitimate uses but are substantially overhyped.
“it is just this thing that has legitimate use case, but it is so overhyped and just like dramaticized because of just everything involved with it.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:28:53
Retatrutide is viewed as modifying a normal human process without substantial negative effects.
“it is just taking an intervention of what you'd call a normal human process without that much of a, in terms of like a negative effect.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:30:20
FDA approval may cause uninformed consumers to outsource their judgment.
“as soon as that, what you'd call the uninformed majority hears FDA green light, oh, now you've outsourced your thinking”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:36:03
Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.
What others have said about Sam Sulek
2 statements · 2 neutral
Sam’s bodybuilding approach does not aim for maximum optimization through many coaches.
“the point almost isn't to try to push the envelope to the absolute maximum with, like, 10 different coaches.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:17:28
An Olympia debut would require becoming good enough to win a professional show.
“if somehow it turned where I'm like, okay, you know what, now we're, we're switching gears, we're going to aim for an Olympia debut. So that'd mean I'd have to get big enough to win a pro show.”
Open the episode · How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157Listen at 1:18:23
Statements are attributed to the speaker as said on the episode and reflect their view at the time, not PodLume's. They are not advice.