[ { "start": 0.02, "end": 4.74, "text": "Yo gorillas, welcome to the second\nepisode of the Athlete Insider Podcast" }, { "start": 4.74, "end": 9.88, "text": "by GORNATION. My name is Phil and today\nwe have again a really really special" }, { "start": 9.88, "end": 15.0, "text": "guest. One of my favorite\nathletes from a person and also" }, { "start": 15.0, "end": 20.369, "text": "yeah like really really successful as an\ninfluencer, as a calisthenics" }, { "start": 20.369, "end": 26.13, "text": "teacher, I would say, like mentor whatever\nyou want to call it, you will say" }, { "start": 26.13, "end": 30.42, "text": "what you do, how you call it, but Eric\nwith over three hundred thousand" }, { "start": 30.42, "end": 36.75, "text": "followers across social medias, extremely\nsuccessful for me yeah really a role" }, { "start": 36.75, "end": 40.399, "text": "model but not only for me but for a lot\nof people in the french-speaking" }, { "start": 40.399, "end": 46.829, "text": "community. You're doing your videos\nmostly or only in French so yeah I'm" }, { "start": 46.829, "end": 51.71, "text": "really really happy to have you here\ntoday and to be able to interview you." }, { "start": 51.71, "end": 58.949, "text": "Well thank you, thanks a lot Phil. Hi and\nthanks a lot for this kind introduction" }, { "start": 58.949, "end": 64.17, "text": "I feel honored to be able to to speak\nwith you which I always like since we've" }, { "start": 64.17, "end": 68.64, "text": "been we've known each other for for a\nfew years now so yeah very very pleased" }, { "start": 68.64, "end": 74.25, "text": "to have this conversation with you today, thanks. Awesome, so you're on a birthday" }, { "start": 74.25, "end": 77.88, "text": "party and somebody approaches you and\nyou don't know this person and that" }, { "start": 77.88, "end": 82.25, "text": "person doesn't know calisthenics how do\nyou explain what you do and who you are?" }, { "start": 82.25, "end": 89.009, "text": "What I do and who I am. Well generally I\ntry not to say all of this to people I" }, { "start": 89.009, "end": 94.92, "text": "don't know but if I had to I guess I'd\nsay that I what I say generally is I'm" }, { "start": 94.92, "end": 100.68, "text": "doing videos on YouTube because that's\nan easy way to understand it and then" }, { "start": 100.68, "end": 105.09, "text": "they ask me well what about them and I\nsay yeah it's you know bodyweight" }, { "start": 105.09, "end": 113.13, "text": "training videos, how to use tutorials as\nwell as videos on nutrition and personal" }, { "start": 113.13, "end": 118.68, "text": "development in the global sense of it\nthat's generally the three main topics" }, { "start": 118.68, "end": 125.49, "text": "that I would think of when I have to\ndescribe my content, which is generally" }, { "start": 125.49, "end": 131.43, "text": "on YouTube. I also have Instagram and all\nof this but that's what I am mostly" }, { "start": 131.43, "end": 137.13, "text": "doing. A YouTuber, as someone would like to call it" }, { "start": 137.13, "end": 141.72, "text": "and yeah that's that's about it:\nBodyweight training, Calisthenics." }, { "start": 141.72, "end": 146.76, "text": "But Calisthenics is not really a word we\nuse in French we say Street Workout." }, { "start": 146.76, "end": 151.77, "text": "That's the French way to say, so I\ngenerally say Street Workout and when" }, { "start": 151.77, "end": 157.47, "text": "they start telling me about CrossFit I\nstop them, I stop them and I explain, you" }, { "start": 157.47, "end": 163.5, "text": "know the differences and it's more about\ngeneral bodyweight training, yeah. That's" }, { "start": 163.5, "end": 167.94, "text": "like a weird thing because in most\nSpanish countries, it's called Calistenia." }, { "start": 167.94, "end": 174.36, "text": "Without H and with \"a\" written\nat the end. And most of the world I" }, { "start": 174.36, "end": 178.68, "text": "would say like it's Calisthenics and\nFrench speaking countries it's mostly" }, { "start": 178.68, "end": 183.45, "text": "Street Workout, yeah.\nIt's a too bad because I like" }, { "start": 183.45, "end": 187.77, "text": "Calisthenics better to describe what I\nlike to do. Because for me Calisthenics" }, { "start": 187.77, "end": 193.65, "text": "is more about everything you can do with\nyour body moving it into space, whereas" }, { "start": 193.65, "end": 200.22, "text": "Street Workout is more like a sport with\nregulations, Federation's with rules when" }, { "start": 200.22, "end": 205.05, "text": "you want to compete in Street Workout.\nFor me there are Street Workout competitions" }, { "start": 205.05, "end": 210.54, "text": "and the World Champions but\nthere are no Calisthenics competitions" }, { "start": 210.54, "end": 217.68, "text": "per se well that's how I see it though\nbut it's difficult I'd rather use this" }, { "start": 217.68, "end": 225.42, "text": "word in French but it's not understood\nvery well generally. Okay, you're quite" }, { "start": 225.42, "end": 231.24, "text": "inspiring person not only like for me\nlike I said but for a lot of people and" }, { "start": 231.24, "end": 236.07, "text": "you're living the dream of a lot of\nadolescents, a lot of young" }, { "start": 236.07, "end": 243.15, "text": "people being a YouTuber, making a living\nfrom it and being able to make your" }, { "start": 243.15, "end": 248.94, "text": "passion to your job like, how do\nyou see this? How do you, what is your" }, { "start": 248.94, "end": 254.03, "text": "life like right now? What is my life\nlike right now? I'm not sure, it's very" }, { "start": 254.03, "end": 262.169, "text": "it's - well - good sides and\nworst sides, I guess, my life is" }, { "start": 262.169, "end": 266.17, "text": "pretty boring actually, it's very boring,\nyou know." }, { "start": 266.17, "end": 271.21, "text": "Depends how you see it, I can do what I\nwant whenever I want, I guess because I" }, { "start": 271.21, "end": 275.95, "text": "don't have a boss, I'm working from home\nwhich is pretty, you know, doesn't change" }, { "start": 275.95, "end": 280.54, "text": "too much for me regarding the current\nsituation, I'm always working at home" }, { "start": 280.54, "end": 289.9, "text": "anyways and I spend most of my time\nbetween working, my private life with my" }, { "start": 289.9, "end": 294.55, "text": "girlfriend and working out and basically\nthat's everything I do besides eating" }, { "start": 294.55, "end": 303.28, "text": "and sleeping. So it's a lot of\nwork, it's a lot of time spent in front" }, { "start": 303.28, "end": 307.84, "text": "of a computer. That's basically my day,\nso it's pretty similar to some other" }, { "start": 307.84, "end": 312.91, "text": "jobs where you spend most of your time\nsitting in front of a computer. I'm not" }, { "start": 312.91, "end": 318.58, "text": "spending all my days filming videos\nand talking to people, it's mostly" }, { "start": 318.58, "end": 324.64, "text": "you know, administrative stuff from what\nI see. I spend maybe, I don't know," }, { "start": 324.64, "end": 333.04, "text": "five percent of my job filming things so YouTuber is not exactly, from my" }, { "start": 333.04, "end": 339.88, "text": "point of view at least, the dream job but\nit can look like. But it's very nice and" }, { "start": 339.88, "end": 344.44, "text": "I'm doing it because I like it\nobviously but it's a lot of work" }, { "start": 344.44, "end": 348.13, "text": "and work includes a lot of things you\ndon't really like or you don't really" }, { "start": 348.13, "end": 353.59, "text": "want to do but that you still have to\nhave done even by yourself which is" }, { "start": 353.59, "end": 358.72, "text": "always yourself doing them at the\nbeginning maybe then you can have someone" }, { "start": 358.72, "end": 363.12, "text": "else helps you with that but yeah that's\nwhat I do, yes." }, { "start": 363.12, "end": 369.58, "text": "Okay but let's pretend there's somebody\na young person coming towards you" }, { "start": 369.58, "end": 376.27, "text": "on an event during training or something\nand asking you Eric how can I become" }, { "start": 376.27, "end": 382.48, "text": "also like an influencer or how can I go\nthis journey that you went and yeah." }, { "start": 382.48, "end": 386.23, "text": "mm-hmm\nWell if you want to be an influencer I" }, { "start": 386.23, "end": 394.12, "text": "guess I hope well being an influencer\nfor the sake of it is not something I" }, { "start": 394.12, "end": 400.15, "text": "know because I kind of started with\nsharing things I liked with my friends" }, { "start": 400.15, "end": 405.219, "text": "and then it grew to something like\n- alright I like sharing things to my" }, { "start": 405.219, "end": 409.629, "text": "friends but I saw I actually like\nsharing things to people, so that's how" }, { "start": 409.629, "end": 415.629, "text": "it kind of blew. I didn't start\nfrom the idea of becoming an influencer" }, { "start": 415.629, "end": 421.059, "text": "or becoming a celebrity or being famous\nor something like that. The better way I" }, { "start": 421.06, "end": 425.409, "text": "think if you want to be an influencer\nstill, I think the better way is to" }, { "start": 425.409, "end": 433.38, "text": "actually create around and share things\naround what you as a person really like." }, { "start": 433.389, "end": 439.86, "text": "Not things that you think people will\nlike or that you think would be, you know," }, { "start": 439.87, "end": 446.86, "text": "funny or will get views, you know, to say as\nit is, if you really like something and" }, { "start": 446.86, "end": 451.509, "text": "especially if you really like something\nthat you believe nobody else really likes," }, { "start": 451.509, "end": 456.999, "text": "so nobody else is interested in - that's\nactually the best place to start because" }, { "start": 456.999, "end": 464.259, "text": "if you start videos about, you know, humor\nor comedy, everybody likes comedy" }, { "start": 464.259, "end": 470.139, "text": "comedy, everybody does comedy, so it's\nvery very hard to find someone which is" }, { "start": 470.139, "end": 476.139, "text": "gonna like what you do, but if you start\nwith something that you really like it's" }, { "start": 476.139, "end": 481.839, "text": "gonna show in what you do and then it's\ngonna be contagious and people who think" }, { "start": 481.839, "end": 486.759, "text": "and believe the way you do or are\ninterested in the same things as you are" }, { "start": 486.759, "end": 493.33, "text": "then they will connect with you in a\nbetter way and you yes you will start" }, { "start": 493.33, "end": 499.569, "text": "slow and small and you will not have -\nwell you should not, you should not be an" }, { "start": 499.569, "end": 504.879, "text": "overnight success. I think it's probably\nunhealthy when it really happens and" }, { "start": 504.879, "end": 509.709, "text": "it very rarely do happen. I mean it's\nlike winning the lottery. Nobody really," }, { "start": 509.709, "end": 516.31, "text": "somebody wins but nobody ever wins, you\nknow, so yeah that's how I see it. You" }, { "start": 516.31, "end": 522.88, "text": "really start very, start very slow,\nfocus on what you like, just do what you" }, { "start": 522.88, "end": 528.73, "text": "like and try to connect with people who\nlike the same things and eventually they" }, { "start": 528.73, "end": 534.48, "text": "will tell a friend and then you will\ninfluence all of them in the end I guess." }, { "start": 534.48, "end": 540.339, "text": "Okay that's like an a really interesting\npoint because when somebody asks" }, { "start": 540.339, "end": 544.99, "text": "me \"Who is Eric Flag?\"\nI often respond with \"He is like - of" }, { "start": 544.99, "end": 548.83, "text": "course a really good-looking guy, like a\nreally strong athlete, it's everything" }, { "start": 548.83, "end": 553.39, "text": "that you would wish for but like\nsomething that's really really special" }, { "start": 553.39, "end": 555.91, "text": "about you\nin my opinion is that you have a really" }, { "start": 555.91, "end": 560.26, "text": "deep relation to your followers and they\nare not followers but you really mastered" }, { "start": 560.26, "end": 565.72, "text": "the principle of making them\nto fans or as you said like they feel" }, { "start": 565.72, "end": 569.41, "text": "they feel like friends of you I guess\nbecause that's how you started it and" }, { "start": 569.41, "end": 573.73, "text": "that's something that you feel, I think.\nNow that's actually a good point, I" }, { "start": 573.73, "end": 577.3, "text": "didn't think of it this way it's\nactually telling you that I" }, { "start": 577.3, "end": 581.589, "text": "I actually really started sharing\ncontent only with my close friends. I was" }, { "start": 581.589, "end": 585.339, "text": "doing it on snapchat and I remember that\nwas the first thing because it's very easy." }, { "start": 585.339, "end": 589.779, "text": "You put out your phone, you take 12\nseconds videos and you share them and" }, { "start": 589.779, "end": 594.959, "text": "you can make them better. I was trying to\nmake my stories entertaining and I was a" }, { "start": 594.959, "end": 601.39, "text": "you know, I liked when friends told me oh\nyeah I liked the story, it was nice things" }, { "start": 601.39, "end": 612.459, "text": "like that but yeah I guess people\nsee me more as a friend than" }, { "start": 612.459, "end": 618.16, "text": "yeah well I don't know, I\ndon't know what to say yes, it's very" }, { "start": 618.16, "end": 623.08, "text": "important for me, my relationship with\npeople I like to consider it and to" }, { "start": 623.08, "end": 633.3, "text": "maintain it as horizontal as I believe\nit was always, I mean you're not" }, { "start": 633.3, "end": 637.63, "text": "superior to anyone just because you're\ndoing videos or anything anything like" }, { "start": 637.63, "end": 642.67, "text": "that and people know that and you should\ndefinitely treat everyone just like" }, { "start": 642.67, "end": 647.07, "text": "everyone is which is just someone like\nyou who likes watching videos and and" }, { "start": 647.07, "end": 656.1, "text": "and then you know that's that's how I\nsee it I guess. Okay and you justify it." }, { "start": 656.1, "end": 661.3, "text": "I'll just, I'll just bounce on something\nyou said because you said it twice so" }, { "start": 661.3, "end": 664.06, "text": "now I have to, you know, I have to say it" }, { "start": 664.06, "end": 669.25, "text": "you said twice that I am an athlete\nand it's funny because I definitely do" }, { "start": 669.25, "end": 675.01, "text": "not consider myself as an athlete\nbecause for me an athlete is more" }, { "start": 675.01, "end": 683.77, "text": "like someone who competes. So you never competed?\nActually not really, I'm not" }, { "start": 683.77, "end": 688.84, "text": "There are YouTube videos I guess. What?\nThere are YouTube videos of you" }, { "start": 688.84, "end": 697.14, "text": "competing though. Well yeah yeah friendly\nmatches let's call them, I don't know yeah" }, { "start": 697.14, "end": 703.24, "text": "I'd like to think of myself more as\nsomebody who likes sports than an" }, { "start": 703.24, "end": 708.94, "text": "athlete who is really all more about\nperformance because for me creating" }, { "start": 708.94, "end": 714.79, "text": "content is well above getting better in\nmy sports that's why I believe I'm not" }, { "start": 714.79, "end": 720.73, "text": "really an athlete which for me an athlete\nis maybe, sounds a little bit too" }, { "start": 720.73, "end": 725.53, "text": "professional to me but I guess it all\ndepends how you see it but I" }, { "start": 725.53, "end": 731.02, "text": "like sports and I like sharing content\nabout it and I guess saying this is" }, { "start": 731.02, "end": 737.43, "text": "also a way for me to protect myself\nagainst people who are way better than me" }, { "start": 737.43, "end": 744.51, "text": "at all of this and who would like\nto point this out like oh this guy is" }, { "start": 744.51, "end": 750.43, "text": "successful but I'm way better than him\nat the sports he does, so why is he more" }, { "start": 750.43, "end": 755.65, "text": "successful than me and it's this away\nbecause I am not competing against those" }, { "start": 755.65, "end": 761.41, "text": "people. I am creating content, I am NOT\ntrying to be world champion or something" }, { "start": 761.41, "end": 766.24, "text": "like that so for me that's a an\nimportant distinction in my mind" }, { "start": 766.24, "end": 772.63, "text": "at least. Okay but I still like, I still\nhave some questions how you achieved the one arm" }, { "start": 772.63, "end": 779.35, "text": "handstand, the planche, the hefesto. That's stuff that yeah that seems for me that you're" }, { "start": 779.35, "end": 786.7, "text": "an athlete but yeah we will come towards\nthis topic afterwards. Yeah I still" }, { "start": 786.7, "end": 792.25, "text": "love training and I love, I\nrespect all of those people who do" }, { "start": 792.25, "end": 797.59, "text": "all those moves which I'm trying to get\nbetter at as well because it's" }, { "start": 797.59, "end": 804.04, "text": "I like really like Street Workout, so yeah.\nOkay, so your love to" }, { "start": 804.04, "end": 809.47, "text": "content producing and to street workout -\nI think you had some decisions to" }, { "start": 809.47, "end": 816.07, "text": "make in your life to get where you\nare today and something that I had" }, { "start": 816.07, "end": 821.95, "text": "present in my mind was the decision\nafter your studies, the decision even" }, { "start": 821.95, "end": 827.86, "text": "if you go the corporate way or\nthe self-employed way. Do you want to" }, { "start": 827.86, "end": 835.96, "text": "tell something about it? Um yeah I\ncompleted my studies in finance, it was" }, { "start": 835.96, "end": 843.16, "text": "maybe three and a half years ago now, yes\nsomething like that and right after that" }, { "start": 843.16, "end": 851.86, "text": "I decided to try my luck on YouTube when\nI was supposed to go apply in banks and" }, { "start": 851.86, "end": 857.83, "text": "big companies or things like that\nI guess I was lucky to get into all of" }, { "start": 857.83, "end": 862.21, "text": "this content creation things at the\nend of my studies because if I got into" }, { "start": 862.21, "end": 867.07, "text": "it at the middle or something I might\nhave stopped or you know I might have" }, { "start": 867.07, "end": 874.36, "text": "not gotten my diplomas which are\npretty nice as a parachute, which were at" }, { "start": 874.36, "end": 879.16, "text": "least in case it didn't work, you know,\nYouTube and all of this and also helps" }, { "start": 879.16, "end": 887.17, "text": "me convince my parents to help me by you\nknow giving me food and the bed to do" }, { "start": 887.17, "end": 894.28, "text": "my things while trying to make it\nwork and if it didn't work I" }, { "start": 894.28, "end": 900.48, "text": "actually had a back-up plan which was\ngetting a normal job which I didn't" }, { "start": 900.48, "end": 906.28, "text": "have to do because well because it\neventually worked and I did it" }, { "start": 906.28, "end": 911.77, "text": "because it sounded to me like but that\nwas what I wanted to do and that was the" }, { "start": 911.77, "end": 917.47, "text": "right time to try in between things you\nknow in between studying and getting a" }, { "start": 917.47, "end": 924.28, "text": "career having a two-year job I was like\nalright everything that I'm risking is" }, { "start": 924.28, "end": 930.34, "text": "mostly time since the situation and\nfinancial situation with my parents was" }, { "start": 930.34, "end": 934.66, "text": "alright I guess\nI'm just gonna give it a year see how it" }, { "start": 934.66, "end": 940.72, "text": "goes and well here is how it went.\nThat was, that was two and a half years" }, { "start": 940.72, "end": 948.25, "text": "ago now but I'm doing this but I started\ndoing it as my full-time job from the" }, { "start": 948.25, "end": 953.8, "text": "first day. For me it was really a job\nfrom the beginning which I had to, which" }, { "start": 953.8, "end": 959.05, "text": "I had to treat as job, I had to treat\nmyself as my own employee which had to" }, { "start": 959.05, "end": 965.17, "text": "go to work every day and all of this\nbecause if I would have considered it as" }, { "start": 965.17, "end": 970.089, "text": "a hobby just in between partying or\nstuff like that, that would have never" }, { "start": 970.089, "end": 976.029, "text": "worked and regarding my parents I felt\na lot of pressure to actually, you know," }, { "start": 976.029, "end": 982.089, "text": "deliver on what I told them to\nconvince them to support me so yeah" }, { "start": 982.089, "end": 989.74, "text": "well that's uh that's about it.\nAnd what since then was the most satisfying" }, { "start": 989.74, "end": 995.23, "text": "moment? Maybe, do you have like a key\nscene where you thought yeah that's" }, { "start": 995.23, "end": 1002.19, "text": "that's yeah why I did it.\nOh why I did it. Or just what did you" }, { "start": 1002.19, "end": 1007.25, "text": "want to say? Well what I wanted to say:\nOne key moment from those past" }, { "start": 1007.25, "end": 1012.949, "text": "two-and-a-half years was the time where\nI could move into my own place and" }, { "start": 1012.949, "end": 1020.88, "text": "support myself completely financially\nand regarding every aspect of" }, { "start": 1020.88, "end": 1028.47, "text": "it took me a while, it took me about\none and a half to two years in between" }, { "start": 1028.47, "end": 1032.669, "text": "at the beginning and after one and a\nhalf years I was able to support myself" }, { "start": 1032.669, "end": 1038.549, "text": "financially, then I started to look for a\nplace and eventually six months ago now" }, { "start": 1038.549, "end": 1045.079, "text": "I moved into my own apartment which for\nme was a symbol of - All right, now I am" }, { "start": 1045.079, "end": 1052.02, "text": "legitimate saying that I am a YouTuber\nbecause I always, I never wanted to say" }, { "start": 1052.02, "end": 1057.87, "text": "it because I never wanted to be the guy\nwho says yes I'm a YouTuber but I still" }, { "start": 1057.87, "end": 1062.1, "text": "live in my parents place, you know, so\nyou're not credible well I didn't feel" }, { "start": 1062.1, "end": 1066.6, "text": "credible when I was saying it so it kind\nof stuck afterwards but now I feel like" }, { "start": 1066.6, "end": 1072.09, "text": "right now I yes I am creating guns and\nthen people like: What? Are you" }, { "start": 1072.09, "end": 1078.54, "text": "living off of it? and I say yes I am now\nand I'm pretty proud to" }, { "start": 1078.54, "end": 1082.53, "text": "to back it up with you know living in my\nown place and paying my own bills and" }, { "start": 1082.53, "end": 1090.57, "text": "all of this so yeah that was a key\nmoment for me. Awesome yeah I can totally" }, { "start": 1090.57, "end": 1098.87, "text": "relate to this\nand yeah what was like the small Eric?" }, { "start": 1098.87, "end": 1103.919, "text": "I don't know, 10 year old, maybe 8 year old\nEric. What did you want to" }, { "start": 1103.919, "end": 1112.26, "text": "become as a child? Oh it's a fun\nquestion I haven't answered that any" }, { "start": 1112.26, "end": 1119.58, "text": "time. What did I want to do, I don't\nreally remember, I think I wanted" }, { "start": 1119.58, "end": 1125.22, "text": "to be a teacher at some point. A French\nteacher but then my mom had" }, { "start": 1125.22, "end": 1129.84, "text": "this theory that it was just because I\nwas in love with my French teacher at" }, { "start": 1129.84, "end": 1136.29, "text": "the time, you know, I'II actually don't\nreally know, I never really wanted" }, { "start": 1136.29, "end": 1141.419, "text": "I never really wanted to be a content\ncreator, I guess" }, { "start": 1141.419, "end": 1146.58, "text": "because it was not really a thing back at the time. Social media was" }, { "start": 1146.58, "end": 1152.73, "text": "not existing. I didn't know. I kind of\nfollowed this regular path. My older" }, { "start": 1152.73, "end": 1156.12, "text": "brother actually had the same path, he\ndid the same studies and everything, my" }, { "start": 1156.12, "end": 1161.309, "text": "parents also went to university. For me\nwas just like alright I have this stuff," }, { "start": 1161.309, "end": 1165.54, "text": "I'm kind of supposed to follow it. I'm\ngonna follow it because it's the best" }, { "start": 1165.54, "end": 1170.909, "text": "option. It's also the best option by\ndefault because I was not especially" }, { "start": 1170.909, "end": 1177.72, "text": "passionate by finance or business so\nsomething like that. I remember very very" }, { "start": 1177.72, "end": 1184.29, "text": "young, I'm not sure if it's really known\nabout myself, but I did my first videos" }, { "start": 1184.29, "end": 1189.36, "text": "maybe 12 years ago or something because\nthere was this thing on dailymotion" }, { "start": 1189.36, "end": 1195.82, "text": "at the time, YouTuber were a little bit. Big\nvery big YouTubers" }, { "start": 1195.82, "end": 1201.1, "text": "in French now, Norman, Cipriani some\nvery big YouTubers with over ten" }, { "start": 1201.1, "end": 1204.879, "text": "millions followers now they were just\nstarting their videos back at the time" }, { "start": 1204.879, "end": 1209.109, "text": "and I was watching them and they had\nthis very small success you know" }, { "start": 1209.109, "end": 1213.249, "text": "but still something to be noticed and I\nwas like wow I want to do some" }, { "start": 1213.249, "end": 1218.109, "text": "funny videos as well and it sounds fun\nand we actually did two with my best" }, { "start": 1218.109, "end": 1227.559, "text": "friend and then we gave up but they are\nstill I think on dailymotion, very very old. I was a teenager and" }, { "start": 1227.559, "end": 1232.419, "text": "that's how it started.\nThen I kind of through it" }, { "start": 1232.419, "end": 1239.019, "text": "at the back of my head, waited for maybe\nten years before daring to try again and" }, { "start": 1239.019, "end": 1248.289, "text": "then , that was it but yeah, it's funny because I uh I had" }, { "start": 1248.289, "end": 1253.119, "text": "this idea a very long time ago but\nthen it was very easy to make" }, { "start": 1253.119, "end": 1258.759, "text": "myself believe in and it's still hard\ntoday to make myself believe" }, { "start": 1258.759, "end": 1265.239, "text": "that I am that I can do this that I\nam, you know, this imposed syndrome or" }, { "start": 1265.239, "end": 1270.159, "text": "I don't know how to say in English\nthough this feeling that you" }, { "start": 1270.159, "end": 1275.379, "text": "feel like: Who are you to talk about\nthis? Who are you to do this? Why you? Why" }, { "start": 1275.379, "end": 1280.69, "text": "he? Why people should believe you?\nThat's what I was always thinking and I" }, { "start": 1280.69, "end": 1285.129, "text": "was like, well I'm not funny, I'm\nnot muscular, why should I even start" }, { "start": 1285.129, "end": 1292.809, "text": "thinking about telling people how to do\nit? Thinking that people will care or" }, { "start": 1292.809, "end": 1299.409, "text": "something that was hard to fight\nagainst that but uh I guess it's the" }, { "start": 1299.409, "end": 1305.259, "text": "same feeling for everyone. And do you still have it today sometimes?" }, { "start": 1305.259, "end": 1310.419, "text": "Yeah of course, yeah it's always, I\nguess with the years and with the" }, { "start": 1310.419, "end": 1315.34, "text": "experience you grow into\nself-confidence about what you do." }, { "start": 1315.34, "end": 1321.099, "text": "Of course you get more\nexternal validation as well if that" }, { "start": 1321.099, "end": 1326.409, "text": "helps but uh but yeah it's still it's\nstill harder for me sometimes when I" }, { "start": 1326.409, "end": 1329.59, "text": "think about it, to feel like yeah alright\nwhy" }, { "start": 1329.59, "end": 1337.0, "text": "why me? why?, well you know but\nthat's also why it's easier to" }, { "start": 1337.0, "end": 1341.32, "text": "to stick with what you know\nand what you do and what you know about" }, { "start": 1341.32, "end": 1348.61, "text": "and it's harder sometimes to expand to\nmaybe different content things that" }, { "start": 1348.61, "end": 1353.169, "text": "people are not used to see you do and\nthat's why sometimes YouTuber kind of" }, { "start": 1353.169, "end": 1359.35, "text": "burnout or kind of don't like what they\ndo anymore because they fail yeah they" }, { "start": 1359.35, "end": 1364.36, "text": "would like to try something but they don't feel like it's gonna be successful or people" }, { "start": 1364.36, "end": 1370.57, "text": "are gonna like or people are gonna care or\nyeah, I think it grows, you know" }, { "start": 1370.57, "end": 1376.6, "text": "it shrinks all the time but it's always\nthere. Okay yeah but that's great to hear" }, { "start": 1376.6, "end": 1380.83, "text": "because it's another example you\ndon't yeah like you don't need to be" }, { "start": 1380.83, "end": 1387.22, "text": "perfect to start because like even big\nnames like yours they still have" }, { "start": 1387.22, "end": 1393.1, "text": "these doubts but they still\nexecute and in my time and in" }, { "start": 1393.1, "end": 1397.09, "text": "business now I just saw that everybody\nlike everybody has some doubts everybody" }, { "start": 1397.09, "end": 1402.07, "text": "has some problems etc but these who\nexecute nevertheless and who don't like" }, { "start": 1402.07, "end": 1407.26, "text": "you just overcome that fear or that\nproblem these unnecessary thoughts, these" }, { "start": 1407.26, "end": 1413.14, "text": "are the ones who really reap the rewards\nand get the attention. And" }, { "start": 1413.14, "end": 1418.149, "text": "especially regarding content\ncreation and things like that" }, { "start": 1418.149, "end": 1424.39, "text": "because I get asked questions sometimes\nabout - oh that's a DM on Instagram I get" }, { "start": 1424.39, "end": 1430.48, "text": "a lot from generally younger\npeople who are training and interested" }, { "start": 1430.48, "end": 1435.279, "text": "in Calisthenics and all of this and they\ntell me things like: Eric you" }, { "start": 1435.279, "end": 1441.52, "text": "know what, I want to start my Instagram\naccount and become an influencer but I'm" }, { "start": 1441.52, "end": 1447.909, "text": "gonna wait to have the planche or the\nfrontlever or something impressive" }, { "start": 1447.909, "end": 1455.049, "text": "before I start and then when I see that\nI answer them and I answer start right" }, { "start": 1455.049, "end": 1461.72, "text": "now because what people want to see is\nhow you actually got to the things" }, { "start": 1461.72, "end": 1467.93, "text": "you believe you need before starting I\nmuch would much rather see someone start" }, { "start": 1467.93, "end": 1474.77, "text": "very slow and you know get stuck on\nthe tucked planche like we all have been" }, { "start": 1474.77, "end": 1480.05, "text": "get stuck for a long time and then see how we\nactually manage to progress from this" }, { "start": 1480.05, "end": 1484.97, "text": "and to see the before and after you know\npeople love transformations but that's" }, { "start": 1484.97, "end": 1490.04, "text": "why it's it's very popular kind of\nvideos on YouTube for example but you" }, { "start": 1490.04, "end": 1494.63, "text": "know about performances all about\nstatics or things like that" }, { "start": 1494.63, "end": 1500.95, "text": "people love to see the journey. The\ndestination is actually what people" }, { "start": 1500.95, "end": 1508.01, "text": "think is the more interesting to see\nbut no we like to see" }, { "start": 1508.01, "end": 1512.78, "text": "how it's been done so that's why I say\nto those people just start" }, { "start": 1512.78, "end": 1518.99, "text": "just do it, don't overthink. Should you do\neight or nine push-ups every day? Just do" }, { "start": 1518.99, "end": 1521.09, "text": "your push-ups.\nDon't even count them at the" }, { "start": 1521.09, "end": 1525.11, "text": "beginning if you don't want to it's not\nimportant enough to keep you from" }, { "start": 1525.11, "end": 1531.73, "text": "starting right now and that's\na very important thing to try to" }, { "start": 1531.73, "end": 1535.01, "text": "understand at the beginning but it's\nvery difficult at the beginning. Because" }, { "start": 1535.01, "end": 1544.1, "text": "we feel like we should be better to talk\nabout it. Like something, videos that a" }, { "start": 1544.1, "end": 1548.69, "text": "lot of people like on your YouTube\nchannel are about experiments like" }, { "start": 1548.69, "end": 1556.33, "text": "about habits, life changes, like the\nminimalism video or the Wim Hof method etc" }, { "start": 1556.33, "end": 1563.33, "text": "and that's also combining with your with\nyour input to personal development, not" }, { "start": 1563.33, "end": 1567.74, "text": "only Calisthenics, so Street Workout but\nalso like personal development. What were" }, { "start": 1567.74, "end": 1573.26, "text": "the habits or what are the habits that\nyou do still and that you stick to and" }, { "start": 1573.26, "end": 1582.61, "text": "that you still like? Mmm regarding a\ncontent creation point of view in all my" }, { "start": 1582.61, "end": 1587.69, "text": "experiments well every experiment I did\non YouTube I never consider those" }, { "start": 1587.69, "end": 1594.62, "text": "experiments as entertainment videos\nbecause I was not doing them for them" }, { "start": 1594.62, "end": 1597.44, "text": "to be success.\nI was first doing them because I was" }, { "start": 1597.44, "end": 1601.82, "text": "interested in actually doing the\nexperiment for myself and then the" }, { "start": 1601.82, "end": 1607.49, "text": "content creation around it made it even\nmore motivating for me and nice but I" }, { "start": 1607.49, "end": 1613.22, "text": "kept something from every\nexperiment I did. I actually did one" }, { "start": 1613.22, "end": 1619.34, "text": "month vegan that was the first\nexperiment I did and I went out of it" }, { "start": 1619.34, "end": 1624.47, "text": "staying vegetarian because I felt like\nthat was better for me and I am still" }, { "start": 1624.47, "end": 1629.57, "text": "I'm still not eating meat today and I'm\nnever really talking about it because I" }, { "start": 1629.57, "end": 1635.59, "text": "feel like it's a very personal opinion, I\ndon't feel like I have to talk about it." }, { "start": 1635.59, "end": 1641.12, "text": "It's funny but I even have to say\nthat but yeah. The Wim Hof method I'm" }, { "start": 1641.12, "end": 1646.07, "text": "still taking cold showers every day\nbecause I really do believe it's" }, { "start": 1646.07, "end": 1653.9, "text": "it's nice to me, it's nice in my head, it\nkeeps me, it trains my discomfort" }, { "start": 1653.9, "end": 1662.5, "text": "muscle, it trains the habit to actually\nenjoy things that are uncomfortable but" }, { "start": 1662.5, "end": 1668.33, "text": "there's a lot of uncomfortable things we\nneed to do in life and if we train" }, { "start": 1668.33, "end": 1677.15, "text": "ourselves to disconnect emotionally from\nit like actually pouring freezing water" }, { "start": 1677.15, "end": 1682.37, "text": "on yourself. You are doing it, you are\nactually, you know, nothing and you don't" }, { "start": 1682.37, "end": 1686.93, "text": "have to do it, nobody will know if you're\ntaking hot showers, nobody forces you" }, { "start": 1686.93, "end": 1692.18, "text": "to invest, you know, there are probably some\nhealth benefits but for me it's just bonus." }, { "start": 1692.18, "end": 1697.73, "text": "The psychological aspect of it is much\nstronger which you actually decide that" }, { "start": 1697.73, "end": 1702.97, "text": "you are doing this to yourself just\nbecause you gonna go out of it" }, { "start": 1702.97, "end": 1709.58, "text": "better and well also it helps starting\nthe day, feeling all warm afterwards and" }, { "start": 1709.58, "end": 1715.61, "text": "all of this and this I'm still\ndoing. The Minimalism thing I still try to" }, { "start": 1715.61, "end": 1722.21, "text": "apply to what I do because that's the\nway I think about things. I don't think" }, { "start": 1722.21, "end": 1731.59, "text": "more is always better definitely not\nand that's just things I yeah I'm mostly" }, { "start": 1731.59, "end": 1736.39, "text": "doing this experiments, I should, you know,\nselfishly just for myself and I was" }, { "start": 1736.39, "end": 1742.81, "text": "doing it then for myself. That's why I'm\nnot jumping on every experiment that" }, { "start": 1742.81, "end": 1748.09, "text": "would be very popular on YouTube but\nI believe sometimes are kind of silly" }, { "start": 1748.09, "end": 1756.55, "text": "but yeah I'm just documenting those\nthings and not trying to say that this" }, { "start": 1756.55, "end": 1763.06, "text": "way of living is better than any other\nway. I'm just sharing what I'm" }, { "start": 1763.06, "end": 1767.74, "text": "trying to experiment for myself and\nwhat I keep and what I do not enter, yeah." }, { "start": 1767.74, "end": 1775.45, "text": "Yeah they're very very nice experiments\nI think for me. Nice I can just recommend" }, { "start": 1775.45, "end": 1780.01, "text": "them.\nDo you have English subtitles or on some" }, { "start": 1780.01, "end": 1785.47, "text": "of those videos? Some of my videos I have\nEnglish sometimes maybe even German but" }, { "start": 1785.47, "end": 1791.35, "text": "I would need to find someone to help me with those titles" }, { "start": 1791.35, "end": 1800.32, "text": "because English is very requested and it\nhelps for the discoverability of videos" }, { "start": 1800.32, "end": 1807.13, "text": "as well so sometimes. Maybe like some of\nyour French fans are listening to this" }, { "start": 1807.13, "end": 1812.56, "text": "and somebody's like really yeah\nreally interested in English and really" }, { "start": 1812.56, "end": 1819.01, "text": "well in it and will contact you for the\nsubtitles. Now that would be nice, I would" }, { "start": 1819.01, "end": 1827.2, "text": "pay you know, just that you know.\nPerfect, let's come to your calisthenics" }, { "start": 1827.2, "end": 1833.08, "text": "moves - yeah how did you become such a\ngreat athlete? No I'm just joking, I'm" }, { "start": 1833.08, "end": 1844.42, "text": "saying this to provoke you but like still\nI'm thinking I'm always impressed how" }, { "start": 1844.42, "end": 1851.05, "text": "somebody with your height with your\nweight does a hefesto, that's" }, { "start": 1851.05, "end": 1855.88, "text": "something that I admire and also\nlike your hand balancing skills, your" }, { "start": 1855.88, "end": 1860.74, "text": "straddle planche stuff like that, I\nreally think that it's great and" }, { "start": 1860.74, "end": 1864.1, "text": "also like\nThe question that I have: What do" }, { "start": 1864.1, "end": 1869.08, "text": "you see as your signature moves? What's\nyour favorite calisthenics move? Well" }, { "start": 1869.08, "end": 1875.62, "text": "it's a pretty obvious one I guess. My\nname is Eric Flag, well the name I chose" }, { "start": 1875.62, "end": 1881.53, "text": "from myself publicly. Eric Flag, the flag,\nthe human flag is the first actual" }, { "start": 1881.53, "end": 1888.73, "text": "calisthenics move that I\ntaught myself because before that" }, { "start": 1888.73, "end": 1894.22, "text": "I was weightlifting in the gym for\na few years and in between my transition" }, { "start": 1894.22, "end": 1901.33, "text": "between weightlifting and calisthenics,\nthat's the flag, that kind of drew me" }, { "start": 1901.33, "end": 1910.84, "text": "from one side to the other one - to the dark side of the bodyweight force, you know, yeah, that was" }, { "start": 1910.84, "end": 1920.47, "text": "the first one. I got it six or seven months,\nI remember and then and I got very" }, { "start": 1920.47, "end": 1926.32, "text": "into the handstands, I love handstands a\nlot. Those are my probably my, I guess" }, { "start": 1926.32, "end": 1931.44, "text": "handstand is my favorite move\nbecause it because it's nice it's not" }, { "start": 1931.6, "end": 1939.13, "text": "that tiring once you get to know it a lot, so you can do it a" }, { "start": 1939.13, "end": 1943.36, "text": "lot, all the time, every time and you're\nnever done with it, you know, unless" }, { "start": 1943.36, "end": 1948.1, "text": "you're some Cirque du Soleil Acrobat\nwhich can do stuff on one hand for" }, { "start": 1948.1, "end": 1953.95, "text": "half an hour, but then you have a long a long\nlong long time ahead of you to to train" }, { "start": 1953.95, "end": 1959.26, "text": "this, so I think hand standing is what I\nprefer but you know Eric Flag and all" }, { "start": 1959.26, "end": 1964.57, "text": "of this so, yeah. I like the human flag as well. And how did you learn the human" }, { "start": 1964.57, "end": 1970.96, "text": "flag? You did Fitness before? Yes I\ndid some, I did fitness but you know" }, { "start": 1970.96, "end": 1974.95, "text": "fitness doesn't really,\ngeneral weightlifting doesn't really" }, { "start": 1974.95, "end": 1980.89, "text": "prepare you for all of those straight\narm bodyweight exercises so that was" }, { "start": 1980.89, "end": 1984.31, "text": "something very hard for me because you\nknow most people that are very strong" }, { "start": 1984.31, "end": 1990.58, "text": "most weightlifting guys that are very\nstrong they can generally do pretty" }, { "start": 1990.58, "end": 1994.3, "text": "well at the human flag because it's if\nyou're very strong you can do" }, { "start": 1994.3, "end": 1997.45, "text": "well at that\nbut it's difficult to do well and keep" }, { "start": 1997.45, "end": 2000.81, "text": "your arms straight because you really\nwant to bend them because it's easier." }, { "start": 2000.81, "end": 2006.51, "text": "So I struggled a little bit with that\nand yeah I was very," }, { "start": 2006.51, "end": 2013.32, "text": "I'm a very progression type of guy, you\nknow, I like having my 10 progressions to" }, { "start": 2013.32, "end": 2017.76, "text": "get to the human flag, so I really you\nknow decomposed the thing, doing tuckeds" }, { "start": 2017.76, "end": 2023.22, "text": "doing jumps to negatives, a lot of\nnegatives, that's how I got my human" }, { "start": 2023.22, "end": 2029.28, "text": "flag. Straddled you know one leg, all of\nthis, that I saw on YouTube videos I guess" }, { "start": 2029.28, "end": 2036.42, "text": "and that's very effective and I also,\nsince I was lifting weights for six" }, { "start": 2036.42, "end": 2042.48, "text": "years I had some strength because\nat the end I was really into, even as I" }, { "start": 2042.48, "end": 2046.58, "text": "was weightlifting I really loved those\nmoves so this really helped you with" }, { "start": 2046.58, "end": 2052.65, "text": "calisthenics and strength moves because\nit's just, brute strength in a" }, { "start": 2052.65, "end": 2058.83, "text": "chin-ups and dips really helps\neverywhere, so I also almost had the" }, { "start": 2058.83, "end": 2064.71, "text": "backlever the first time I tried and\nthat was, I had a straddle, you know" }, { "start": 2064.71, "end": 2069.87, "text": "banana straddled backlever,\nthis is really horrible to look at but" }, { "start": 2069.87, "end": 2073.86, "text": "it's somewhere to start and\nthen I was pretty proud and it keeps" }, { "start": 2073.86, "end": 2079.53, "text": "you motivated to have some\nmoves you can show your friends at the" }, { "start": 2079.53, "end": 2084.51, "text": "beginning it's pretty nice and the frontlever\nwas a horrible journey for me" }, { "start": 2084.51, "end": 2091.92, "text": "as well as the straddle planche which\nwas very hard. I'm really not the frontlever" }, { "start": 2091.92, "end": 2096.24, "text": "type of guy. I do have, I actually\nhave my best frontlever today because I" }, { "start": 2096.24, "end": 2103.29, "text": "really restarted to train it lately but\nit's always been so hard for me if I" }, { "start": 2103.29, "end": 2107.52, "text": "stop doing it for two and a half\nweeks I lose everything and this is" }, { "start": 2107.52, "end": 2115.47, "text": "pretty frustrating so well yeah and the\nplanche took me one and a half" }, { "start": 2115.47, "end": 2119.72, "text": "years or something like that to have the\nstraddle planche and I am right now" }, { "start": 2119.72, "end": 2126.78, "text": "working on my full planche as well\nyeah because yeah because I'd like to" }, { "start": 2126.78, "end": 2129.3, "text": "have a full planche before I die. I will\nalways" }, { "start": 2129.3, "end": 2133.2, "text": "said that, firstly I said that to\nmyself then I said it in a couple of" }, { "start": 2133.2, "end": 2138.27, "text": "videos so I feel like I have to get it\nas well you know and I like the" }, { "start": 2138.27, "end": 2144.39, "text": "fact that you know to go back to what I\nsaid earlier about being an athlete and" }, { "start": 2144.39, "end": 2149.88, "text": "all that uh yeah I want to have the full\nplanche firstly because I will be able" }, { "start": 2149.88, "end": 2154.8, "text": "to do a video about it and show my\nprogression and the road to full planche" }, { "start": 2154.8, "end": 2160.38, "text": "kind of thing and secondly as an\nathlete to be able to call myself an" }, { "start": 2160.38, "end": 2165.27, "text": "athlete who can do a full planche and\nall of those. Because it's very" }, { "start": 2165.27, "end": 2171.39, "text": "impressive I mean I'm living on\nInstagram where everybody I follow can" }, { "start": 2171.39, "end": 2177.27, "text": "do full planche and things so I kind of\nI kind of forget sometimes how difficult" }, { "start": 2177.27, "end": 2182.1, "text": "it actually is to hold those\nthings because everything I consume" }, { "start": 2182.1, "end": 2186.63, "text": "most of what I'm consume, motivating\ncontent, is about people doing those" }, { "start": 2186.63, "end": 2190.44, "text": "incredible things, doing all of those\nplanche push-ups in a row, doing" }, { "start": 2190.44, "end": 2195.21, "text": "incredible freestyle things which\nI definitely suck at because I never did" }, { "start": 2195.21, "end": 2201.66, "text": "freestyle and yeah don't\nforget that even if you can, you know" }, { "start": 2201.66, "end": 2210.12, "text": "doing the muscle up will impress\nalmost the entire planet. So sometimes we" }, { "start": 2210.12, "end": 2215.28, "text": "actually forget about this and we feel\nlike yeah it's too bad, I can only do" }, { "start": 2215.28, "end": 2221.94, "text": "the human flag, is very bad, I am not an\nathlete, I'm, I just suck just yeah." }, { "start": 2221.94, "end": 2226.17, "text": "These are the two sides of\nthe coin I guess of social media and" }, { "start": 2226.17, "end": 2230.52, "text": "what we do with calisthenics because on\nthe one hand I see that people have" }, { "start": 2230.52, "end": 2234.48, "text": "really really high standards. For them it\ndoesn't seem impossible to do the" }, { "start": 2234.48, "end": 2239.85, "text": "planche like it does for a lot of normal\npeople who never saw like somebody" }, { "start": 2239.85, "end": 2245.1, "text": "doing it but or just gymnasts or\nsomething but on the other hand it gets" }, { "start": 2245.1, "end": 2251.34, "text": "normal, it gets like the appreciation is\nnot there anymore even though it's a" }, { "start": 2251.34, "end": 2258.24, "text": "move that only a few percentage like a\nfew percentage of 1% is like a really" }, { "start": 2258.24, "end": 2263.19, "text": "really minimum part of the population\nwould will ever be able to do" }, { "start": 2263.19, "end": 2270.03, "text": "that's the danger and that yeah also the\nreason why yeah people advanced. At the" }, { "start": 2270.03, "end": 2276.03, "text": "same time, it's exactly why so many\npeople can do things like that is" }, { "start": 2276.03, "end": 2280.44, "text": "because they saw it on Instagram so they\nknow it's possible so somebody is able" }, { "start": 2280.44, "end": 2284.91, "text": "to actually kind of teach them how to do\nit. So that's the beauty of it without" }, { "start": 2284.91, "end": 2288.24, "text": "Instagram I think I feel like without\nsocial media" }, { "start": 2288.24, "end": 2294.69, "text": "I feel like calisthenics and Street workout\nwould be so unknown. Really" }, { "start": 2294.69, "end": 2302.25, "text": "unknown as a sport and I think we have\nmuch more to thank social media than we" }, { "start": 2302.25, "end": 2309.21, "text": "have to despise it regarding this\nsport at least. That's true, like something" }, { "start": 2309.21, "end": 2313.859, "text": "that I see a lot, a lot of people are\njust working out at home and not calling" }, { "start": 2313.859, "end": 2317.369, "text": "it Calisthenics or Street workout but\njust doing bodyweight training in front" }, { "start": 2317.369, "end": 2324.39, "text": "of the TV, PC, whatever, just in\ntheir living room and these are a lot of" }, { "start": 2324.39, "end": 2327.93, "text": "people who are not touched by social\nmedia or not inspired by social media" }, { "start": 2327.93, "end": 2332.099, "text": "for these and they just work out for\nthemselves they have like low standards" }, { "start": 2332.099, "end": 2339.18, "text": "if you can do like 20, 30 push-ups that's\nalready good yeah of course it is like" }, { "start": 2339.18, "end": 2346.079, "text": "it's not bad but it's a totally\ndifferent standard then we have. 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Yeah that's like for\nme I always name it for myself: Always" }, { "start": 2372.78, "end": 2378.42, "text": "be happy with what I have but\nnever be satisfied, so I always" }, { "start": 2378.42, "end": 2382.23, "text": "want to be happy that I can do I don't\nknow a handstand push-up or like a" }, { "start": 2382.23, "end": 2386.13, "text": "handstand hold, let's say that, I want to\nbe happy with it even though there are" }, { "start": 2386.13, "end": 2390.15, "text": "people doing it on one hand and doing\npush-ups at the same time and reading a" }, { "start": 2390.15, "end": 2396.41, "text": "book on the other hand that's what you\nsee on social media" }, { "start": 2396.51, "end": 2403.15, "text": "but I still want to never stop\ndeveloping and I never want to stop" }, { "start": 2403.15, "end": 2407.65, "text": "growing and going after these high\nstandards so that's what's" }, { "start": 2407.65, "end": 2412.93, "text": "what's really important\nMm-hmm yeah I agree with you, it's something we" }, { "start": 2412.93, "end": 2422.02, "text": "need to - yeah address it within\nyourself just what well yeah just" }, { "start": 2422.02, "end": 2427.39, "text": "try to keep a balance in between\nwhat you really like and joy want to do" }, { "start": 2427.39, "end": 2432.13, "text": "and what you feel like you should be\nable or what other people are actually able" }, { "start": 2432.13, "end": 2440.44, "text": "to do. Okay well if somebody\napproaches you and tells you: Yeah I want" }, { "start": 2440.44, "end": 2444.64, "text": "to make progress in calisthenics and you\njust have like I don't know five" }, { "start": 2444.64, "end": 2451.42, "text": "sentences, two or three minutes to\nexplain him, what do you say? They want to" }, { "start": 2451.42, "end": 2457.21, "text": "progress in calisthenics. For a\nbeginner I think I would tell them to" }, { "start": 2457.21, "end": 2463.78, "text": "get a program - anywhere -\nsome kind of program from a source that" }, { "start": 2463.78, "end": 2468.67, "text": "you feel like is reputable, credible,\nanything. Could be your friend, could be" }, { "start": 2468.67, "end": 2474.19, "text": "on the internet, on some dark forum, could\nbe something you buy, it could be a book," }, { "start": 2474.19, "end": 2479.17, "text": "could be anything but find a program and\ndon't jump all the time from one program" }, { "start": 2479.17, "end": 2483.91, "text": "to the other one and do the actual\nprogram. Yeah you need to find it, to" }, { "start": 2483.91, "end": 2488.47, "text": "buy it, to anything but you need to do it\nas well eventually. And when you start" }, { "start": 2488.47, "end": 2492.849, "text": "doing it keep track of what you're doing\nyou know because if you want to progress" }, { "start": 2492.849, "end": 2497.38, "text": "you need to actually progress and if you\nwant to know if you progress you need to" }, { "start": 2497.38, "end": 2502.69, "text": "measure just enough so that you know if\nyou actually moving into the right" }, { "start": 2502.69, "end": 2507.369, "text": "direction. 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Some things should\ngo up and that's when you know you're" }, { "start": 2594.92, "end": 2600.35, "text": "gonna progress and that's what\nI would tell him but first I would say" }, { "start": 2600.35, "end": 2605.15, "text": "him you know it's gonna take five\nminutes, not 5 sentences, so stay with me. I'll" }, { "start": 2605.15, "end": 2612.08, "text": "explain it to you and here we go.\nYeah I think it's too late I think he already" }, { "start": 2612.08, "end": 2618.73, "text": "walked so.\nWhat is the hardest move you've learned so far?" }, { "start": 2618.73, "end": 2625.43, "text": "Hardest move. I think it's the hefesto\ndefinitely. 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I was like a few seconds I\nwas really shocked because you" }, { "start": 2717.239, "end": 2723.869, "text": "started with I'm like 1, 1 and then I\nthought like what the f* maybe he" }, { "start": 2723.869, "end": 2730.799, "text": "gained so much weight now - 100 - over 100\nNo but like for your height and" }, { "start": 2730.799, "end": 2735.419, "text": "weight like the Hefesto I guess it's\na different thing than for somebody else." }, { "start": 2735.419, "end": 2740.999, "text": "It's not an excuse because you showed\nthat it's possible but still the" }, { "start": 2740.999, "end": 2745.89, "text": "pressure on your wrists and also on your\nbiceps et cetera is like a different thing." }, { "start": 2745.89, "end": 2750.709, "text": "Yeah, it's horrible for the biceps as well yeah\nIt's very painful, it's painful" }, { "start": 2750.709, "end": 2755.16, "text": "but yeah it's not an excuse\nyou can find on Instagram you can find a" }, { "start": 2755.16, "end": 2761.039, "text": "lot of very tall and heavy dudes doing\neven full planches and Maltese I guess" }, { "start": 2761.039, "end": 2763.829, "text": "we need to know that if you're looking\nat gymnasts" }, { "start": 2763.829, "end": 2768.39, "text": "well no gymnast always pretty pretty\npretty pretty short actually it's kind" }, { "start": 2768.39, "end": 2774.119, "text": "of a requirement to be at an elite elite\nlevel I guess but everybody can" }, { "start": 2774.119, "end": 2778.409, "text": "learn all those cool moves they want to\ndo, people want to do the human flag," }, { "start": 2778.409, "end": 2782.009, "text": "want to do the muscle up, want to maybe\nthe frontlever, of those I think" }, { "start": 2782.009, "end": 2786.869, "text": "are pretty accessible to pretty much\nanyone which is not too overweight of" }, { "start": 2786.869, "end": 2793.019, "text": "course yeah. 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It's a long way and" }, { "start": 2994.65, "end": 3000.41, "text": "and it's very overwhelming at the\nbeginning but it's definitely doable" }, { "start": 3000.41, "end": 3006.92, "text": "it's very nice just reading the labels\nbehind what you buy you would be very" }, { "start": 3006.92, "end": 3014.09, "text": "surprised to see sometimes what's\ninside, what's not inside and you" }, { "start": 3014.09, "end": 3019.82, "text": "don't need to study books for two years\nto actually do better choices which can" }, { "start": 3019.82, "end": 3023.8, "text": "start right when you're doing your\ngrocery shoppings and things like that" }, { "start": 3023.8, "end": 3029.84, "text": "everybody knows what to do, eat more\nvegetables, eat less processed food ,we" }, { "start": 3029.84, "end": 3033.55, "text": "don't want to do that because processed\nfoods and all of this tastes so good and" }, { "start": 3033.55, "end": 3037.91, "text": "you know that, we kind of all know what\nwe should be doing but if you want to" }, { "start": 3037.91, "end": 3042.31, "text": "get very precise and you have very\nprecise goals then you should get more" }, { "start": 3042.31, "end": 3050.38, "text": "knowledgeable about all of this I think. Ok nice that's interesting like" }, { "start": 3050.38, "end": 3056.36, "text": "yeah it's such a small thing to do but\nit's, it will have a big effect" }, { "start": 3056.36, "end": 3062.09, "text": "that's true. Like on the one\nhand knowing what these, all these yeah" }, { "start": 3062.09, "end": 3068.72, "text": "like words mean, I don't know if\nyou buy like sausage or something really" }, { "start": 3068.72, "end": 3073.73, "text": "the processed stuff, what's in\nthere to understand what these words" }, { "start": 3073.73, "end": 3080.09, "text": "mean and then also looking at the\nnutrition, at the food and checking" }, { "start": 3080.09, "end": 3086.87, "text": "what's in there, that's actual. It\nhelps it's something what I like about" }, { "start": 3086.87, "end": 3093.8, "text": "this and what I like about maybe\noptimizing your grocery shopping is," }, { "start": 3093.8, "end": 3095.96, "text": "that it's something you can do once and\nfor all" }, { "start": 3095.96, "end": 3100.64, "text": "because once you have good shopping and\ngrocery shopping habits you're just" }, { "start": 3100.64, "end": 3104.599, "text": "gonna keep them you're gonna go into\nautomatic mode and you just need to" }, { "start": 3104.599, "end": 3109.97, "text": "change this one time this thing that\nyou're doing every week and then you can" }, { "start": 3109.97, "end": 3115.25, "text": "get compounded interests on this for the\nrest of your life and it's probably the" }, { "start": 3115.25, "end": 3121.19, "text": "same way to think about exercising\nregularly. Once you get the habit to do" }, { "start": 3121.19, "end": 3125.99, "text": "it it's actually more painful to you not\nto exercise many days to actually" }, { "start": 3125.99, "end": 3131.78, "text": "exercise so yeah it's all about habit\nbuilding and all of this which" }, { "start": 3131.78, "end": 3135.71, "text": "are very interesting topics and there\nare a lot of good books about it which" }, { "start": 3135.71, "end": 3143.69, "text": "I'm sure people will be able\nto find because habits yeah foundation" }, { "start": 3143.69, "end": 3147.64, "text": "of a lot of good and bad things so yeah\nthat's true" }, { "start": 3147.64, "end": 3154.28, "text": "Nice thanks for the inside there. I have\nsome quick questions. We're coming to" }, { "start": 3154.28, "end": 3161.15, "text": "an end of the interview and\nyeah you are allowed to respond" }, { "start": 3161.15, "end": 3170.27, "text": "quickly. I have short questions: Pizza or\nBurger? Pizza. Dog or Cats? Like are you a" }, { "start": 3170.27, "end": 3173.93, "text": "dog person or a cat person? Okay I guess\nI'm more of a cat person." }, { "start": 3173.93, "end": 3180.56, "text": "A cat person okay. Your favorite\nlocation for holidays? Favorite location for holiday." }, { "start": 3180.56, "end": 3185.99, "text": "I like the beach, no matter where it is.\nOkay. You also live at the beach or no" }, { "start": 3185.99, "end": 3192.32, "text": "you lived at the beach, now. No, well\nwe have some lakes here." }, { "start": 3192.32, "end": 3199.28, "text": "We have a lake close to here so. Yeah\nokay like a Lake also has a" }, { "start": 3199.28, "end": 3207.71, "text": "beach were.. yeah okay um What would\nyou work as if social media just" }, { "start": 3207.71, "end": 3213.38, "text": "disappeared?\nProbably some marketing consultant I" }, { "start": 3213.38, "end": 3221.73, "text": "guess something like that. I haven't really\nthought about that. For newspaper etc if social" }, { "start": 3221.73, "end": 3228.54, "text": "media disappears what do you want you to\nconsult as a marketing. Oh well if all of" }, { "start": 3228.54, "end": 3233.73, "text": "marketing did well I don't know in some\nkind of cooperation I guess you know I" }, { "start": 3233.73, "end": 3238.26, "text": "feel like I know how I understand how to\nsell things as well" }, { "start": 3238.26, "end": 3242.37, "text": "you know human psychology so I guess I\nwould dig into that and offer my" }, { "start": 3242.37, "end": 3247.26, "text": "services. I don't really like to think\nthat I would get employed but I'd like" }, { "start": 3247.26, "end": 3255.45, "text": "to consult if that's even a thing I don't\nknow. Is there a calisthenics athlete" }, { "start": 3255.45, "end": 3263.7, "text": "because of whom you started? Because of\nwhom I started. Maybe not a" }, { "start": 3263.7, "end": 3270.27, "text": "special name but I remember watching\nChris Herias' videos probably at the" }, { "start": 3270.27, "end": 3275.34, "text": "beginning on his YouTube channel I\nreally like what Daniels Laizans is" }, { "start": 3275.34, "end": 3280.71, "text": "doing on the content creation side of\nthings because he's a monster otherwise" }, { "start": 3280.71, "end": 3288.45, "text": "he's a real athlete if you ask me so\nthat's about it but I started before" }, { "start": 3288.45, "end": 3292.86, "text": "knowing about Laizans but Chris\nHeria I think yeah. Okay and do" }, { "start": 3292.86, "end": 3300.57, "text": "you have a favorite calisthenics athlete\nright now? Mmm it's a difficult" }, { "start": 3300.57, "end": 3304.11, "text": "question. Well I liked Calisthenic\nMovement which you probably know because" }, { "start": 3304.11, "end": 3307.98, "text": "they're German YouTubers. I like them because they are YouTubers you know because I" }, { "start": 3307.98, "end": 3311.73, "text": "like their content which is very\nmethodical and very thought out and" }, { "start": 3311.73, "end": 3317.4, "text": "that's probably, those guys I like to\ntalk to and I know Laizans as well" }, { "start": 3317.4, "end": 3321.96, "text": "because he's creating content and I love\nhis style of editing as well so, Okay," }, { "start": 3321.96, "end": 3330.75, "text": "Probably those. Okay, your favorite book?\nFavorite book. Be obsessed or be average" }, { "start": 3330.75, "end": 3337.5, "text": "from Grant Cardone because now people\nare asking me very regularly what kind" }, { "start": 3337.5, "end": 3341.34, "text": "of book you like and all this. I always\ntell this one because that's the one who" }, { "start": 3341.34, "end": 3346.8, "text": "actually made me like TICK all right\nI can try to do this and this is" }, { "start": 3346.8, "end": 3350.85, "text": "like creating content and all of this\nbut the one I" }, { "start": 3350.85, "end": 3356.42, "text": "I would like to recommend even though\nit's more like a business selling book" }, { "start": 3356.42, "end": 3367.23, "text": "it's nice I liked it. Ok and\ndynamics or statics? Statics. Definitely for me. Even well" }, { "start": 3367.23, "end": 3373.26, "text": "I'd like, I like to think I will go into\ndynamics some some time but uh statics" }, { "start": 3373.26, "end": 3379.05, "text": "for now for sure. Ok perfect\nthen we're coming to an end. I really" }, { "start": 3379.05, "end": 3384.09, "text": "have to say thank you to you for the\npossibility, for sharing a lot of stuff" }, { "start": 3384.09, "end": 3388.41, "text": "out of your life that\nyeah that's sometimes difficult to get I" }, { "start": 3388.41, "end": 3394.11, "text": "mean you do YouTube but it's difficult\nto see, to get it in 2 to 15 seconds" }, { "start": 3394.11, "end": 3399.45, "text": "videos on Instagram or yeah also on\nYouTube to talk about some stuff so I'm" }, { "start": 3399.45, "end": 3406.62, "text": "really really happy that you did it and\nyeah just before I want to let you end" }, { "start": 3406.62, "end": 3412.56, "text": "the episode I want to ask you as a\nlistener to write in the comments how" }, { "start": 3412.56, "end": 3418.02, "text": "you liked this episode, if you have\nsomething that you liked a lot, if" }, { "start": 3418.02, "end": 3421.98, "text": "there is something that we can\nimprove, it helps a lot and" }, { "start": 3421.98, "end": 3427.23, "text": "also if you comment who you want to be\ninterviewed next or if you have like" }, { "start": 3427.23, "end": 3434.37, "text": "other questions for Eric maybe for a\npart 2, will see but yeah drop this in" }, { "start": 3434.37, "end": 3439.35, "text": "the comments that helps a lot so yeah.\nThanks everybody for listening, thanks" }, { "start": 3439.35, "end": 3445.62, "text": "for growing calisthenics together and\nEric you have the last words. Well thank" }, { "start": 3445.62, "end": 3449.85, "text": "you very much for the opportunity you\ngave me to actually speak with you and it" }, { "start": 3449.85, "end": 3454.29, "text": "was very nice. Thank you very much, it was a very very nice conversation and it's" }, { "start": 3454.29, "end": 3459.6, "text": "good to have those kind of formats when\nwe can talk more freely than just you" }, { "start": 3459.6, "end": 3464.85, "text": "know creating content on Instagram which\nis not the same. I like this kind of" }, { "start": 3464.85, "end": 3469.56, "text": "content more actually. I like speaking about interesting things" }, { "start": 3469.56, "end": 3488.199, "text": "with interesting people such as you so\nyeah it's been nice thank you. Thank you" } ]