Transforming Matt Damon's Fitness Journey | Jason Walsh x Dave Asprey

You know, I trained athletes for years, and that was really my background in strength conditioning. And it's easy to train the type of people that have that kind of discipline. The yes, sir, no, sir. It's way easier than training actors who you really have to. A little Untitled. Well, it's not, by the way, I don't think it's that. That's not the biggest, you know, step to get over. It's really to get them to buy in. Because everybody's trying to sell them something. Everybody's trying to convince them. People are trying to manipulate, take advantage all the time. These guys have a sixth sense about that, though. They can read that. So I think that's one of the superpowers that I kind of develop throughout the years. And I can root that into. I was a bartender for years and years, and I don't know, there's a certain amount of empathy and compassion and communication. When you have these types of things and you're backed with science and you have these tools in your tool belt and you're able to present this thing in a way, you know, look somebody in the eye and you tell them, I'm gonna get you as stronger than you've ever been. But you've gotta listen to me. You've gotta have that ability to read the room and talk to these people, convince them, get them to buy in a bit of a sales process, you could see it. Yeah, you could see it as a sales process. And I think that, that to me, that's where bartending for so long. And my grandmother was a bartender. She was 83 when she was bartending full time before she. That's cool. Amazing woman, right? Yeah, it's just, it's, it's, it's. It's a different process. It's a very, very complicated and. And convincing conversation that you have to have with these guys. Now when I get to this point, 20 years in, you know, my results and, and what I've accomplished really speak, you know, loudly as far as my reputation goes. So sometimes that's not the. The problem. But early on, I've got some great stories, you know, Matt Damon and people like that, that I had to, you know, one of the first times I've really had to convince someone that I had their best interest and I had the knowledge and I was going to, you know, do things differently than what they were used to. Because Matt had worked with a dozen different trainers, and every single trainer, he told me, he's like, look, this is what we're going to do. I got to get ready for this thing. I'm going to eat some broccoli, chicken. I'm going to get on that elliptical, which is a piece of shit, and, you know, it's worthless. And I'm going to get skinny, and I'm going to look good on film. And I had to have this conversation with him and convince him. I just said once I put him through a screening, and I realized where the deficiencies really were throughout the body. I picked the easiest deficiency, which is his shoulder. Something that had bothered him since he was in his 20s because he played baseball, threw the football. So he had a bum shoulder. And I decided to choose that path to convince him that I'm different from everybody else that's out here. I'm going to. You know, I'm going to. The pathology of this is gonna be way, way different than anything he's ever experienced. And once I was able to fix that shoulder, just because there was an imbalance, it was weak, you know, stabilizers weren't working, and so on and so forth, it was pretty easy, honestly. And, you know, went to the house and threw a, you know, football at him, and he caught it and he threw it back. I just did that just because I knew instinctually he's gonna want to throw it. And I looked at him, I was like, how's that shoulder feel? He's like, you son of a. You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.