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I made my best friend sit through a Lord of the Rings analogy. Then I asked him what it was like to watch me almost die.

In 2023, a common cold turned into a hospital admission. Six days later I was on life support, and everybody was telling John I was going to die.

If you've seen Lord of the Rings, you'll remember when Gondor lights the beacons to call for aid. Rohan sees them and answers.

John is the Rohan to my Gondor.

John Flagg is a licensed athletic trainer, an elite powerlifter with a 904 pound squat, creator of the ClinicalAthlete Powerlifting Certification, managing director of the Honey Badger Project, and as of this year a published author with Human Kinetics. He's also been my co-host, my coach, my boss, my business partner and, for the last decade, my best friend.

We talk about:

• How a distance runner ends up squatting 904 lbs
• The $10,000 pay cut he got a week before closing on his first house
• The night he snapped a mop in half in an empty clinic
• Why "it depends" isn't good enough as a clinician, and the decision tree he wants you running instead
• The 2 words that get you instant buy-in from a lifter when you treat them
• The 4 triggers to check when a lifter's training starts to hurt
• What it was like on his end when my wife texted him "he's yellow"
• The 3 books you need to read to improve your communication skills as a clinician
• And the question his mom texted him last week about the year he failed out of school

If you're the one everybody leans on and you've never once let somebody carry you, this one's for you.

Go find your people before you need them, my friend.

Follow John: @john.rebuild_stronger - https://www.instagram.com/john.rebuild_stronger/

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