On this episode with the Swede and Sin, we talk about Swede’s first exposure to weight training, body building, and eventually the creation of 5 th Set. It didn’t take long for the

conversation to shift more towards mindset, culture, impacts of media and social media, and how Swede and Sin both leverage their values while navigating through life

experiences. I really enjoyed this conversation. Hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed having it.

Thanks guys!

Swede

Top Strength Project 

Steve Tripp

0:00 Intro and Swede’s Origins

1:00 Hulk Hogan Weight Set

1:30 10 Sets of 10… of Everything

6:00 Swede Meet’s Jim Davis

9:15 Experimenting w Bench Shirts

9:50 “It’s Called Raw”

11:20 Miss Jordan

14:00 Finding Value in our Failures

19:50 “Being an Active Participant Rather Than a Victim”

21:30 Starts Coaching

24:00 The Battle w Brian Page

28:45 “Turns out I hate losing much more than I love winning…”

32:00 The type that responds to positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement

39:45 What got Sin started

45:00 Writing 5 th Set

45:45 Prison is the only place where you have legitimate control for experiments on

human beings”

46:20 Training through Covid

47:55 Assimilating back into society after “time away”

49:49 “What the FUCK is an iPod?!”

53:05 “You can draw a through line from that to everything good”

59:19 “a degree of difference over a lifetime is an entirely different end game”

1:03:00 Are you playing an active role in your life or are you a victim

1:04:24 Voluntary Suffering/ Mile Marker Goals

1:09:30 Short Term Goals/ Long Term Goals

1:13:50 “the universe always provided me with what I needed….. not what I want”

1:20:00 Developing Values

1:22:30 Repentance

1:25:30 the line between good an evil goes directly through the middle of every man’s

heart

1:30:00 Pride

1:34:25 Passion

1:40:35 The Coddling of the American Mind

1:44:00 Polarized Society

2:01:00 Closing