Daniel Ketchell

#WinForVin but also #WinForHank

since you started your account on aug 2021, you've tweeted 490,800 times. that's about 291 times per day, or roughly 18 tweets per hour (assuming you sleep for 8 hours), every day for almost five years. the reason why you don't see this america anymore is bc you don't go outside

Frank is fulfilling his promise to Arnold

Looks so good. Mine gets here this week!

That little smile…

Frank was inspirational.

Can’t wait!

How is it going? You are almost a month in.

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I want to share this morning’s newsletter, because I think a lot of people need to hear it. I want to talk to the women today. Men, don’t go anywhere. You’ll learn something. But this message is for the women because I want to answer one of the most common emails we receive — and it manages to give me hope, but also make me worry: “I want to know how I do it when I am a menopausal woman.” (You can insert peri or post here, also.) First, let me tell you why it gives me hope. Seeing so many women embracing the idea of fitness and resistance training is something I’ve fought for my whole life.  Watch this clip of me on Johnny Carson more than 40 years ago, when I had much more beautiful hair, trying to convince women to pick up weights: youtu.be/Y4OXujrjcRk?si… I’ve been fighting this fight for decades. For 40 years, the message has been the same: women should train. Women should be strong. Women are capable of incredible things when they step into the gym and stop listening to all the garbage about what they can’t do. It took the world 40 years to catch up with me. Maybe that makes me stubborn, or maybe it makes me right. I think it’s both. Now, let me tell you why it worries me. I talk about how deciding who you want to be a lot here. Your identity is important. I don’t want you to just train, I want you to become someone who trains, someone who is strong. So when you tell me that you are someone with menopause or perimenopause, I see you starting to define yourself as someone with limits, and that’s what I want to avoid. Before we start, I want to acknowledge something about us men: we are not exactly known for overthinking. We just do the thing, sometimes badly, and figure it out later. This is probably why we have shorter lifespans than women, so I’m not recommending it as a life strategy. But there is one benefit to not overthinking: you don’t give problems more power than they deserve. And that’s exactly what I’m seeing happen to millions of women right now. Everywhere I look, I see women describing themselves as “peri,” “meno,” or “post.” I see it in bios. I see it in introductions. I see it in the way women talk about themselves when they join the Pump Club. “I’m perimenopausal, so I probably can’t…” “I’m menopausal, so I’ll never be able to…” “I’m postmenopausal, so it’s too late for me to…” I need you to stop right there. Menopause is real. I am not dismissing it for a second. The hot flashes, the terrible sleep, the mood changes, the belly fat that shows up uninvited and refuses to leave — I’ve heard it all from thousands of women, and I believe every word of it. But here’s where I have a problem: When did a phase of your biology become your identity? When did a hormonal change become a life sentence? When did “this is harder now” turn into “this is impossible”? I’ll tell you when. It happened because an entire industry figured out they could make money off of your fear. They sold you special menopause workouts. Special menopause diets. Special menopause supplements.  And with every special product, they sent you the same message: “You are broken, and you need a special fix.” You are not broken. You don’t need a special fix. You need the same thing every single human being needs: a vision, a plan, consistency, and people who believe in you. That’s it. When I hear women say they can’t get strong because of menopause, I have to push back because I’ve been pushing back against these lies for longer than some of you have been alive. But I don’t want you to listen to me. I’m Arnold. Of course I’m going to tell you to train. That’s what I do. I want you to listen to women like you… 1/2

I’m pretty proud that as everyone you could possibly imagine tried to get @Schwarzenegger to sell NFTs 5 years ago, we said: “This is stupid. No.”

This is incredible. You are such a strong mom. Imagine how much you’ve inspired your kids.

I love the Olympics. Winter, summer, every single games, I tune in. I love it because we see how sports bring us together. I love it because we are reminded that sports are the ultimate equalizer. Look at weightlifting in the summer Olympics or downhill skiing now. The weights and the mountain don’t care what country you come from, how much money you have, or what religion you are. The weights and the mountain are the same for every single competitor. I love it, most of all, because the Olympics remind us of a core life lesson: greatness and heartbreak live right next door to each other. You can’t find greatness without a few meetings with heartbreak and failure. We saw this very clearly over the weekend. Like many of you, I’ve been following my friend Lindsey Vonn’s inspirational comeback. She’s 41, one knee is completely rebuilt, and now she went into the Olympics with a freshly-torn ACL. As storylines go, you can’t get any better. It is gutsy. It is brave. It is a little bit crazy. And it brings out all of the losers to do their naysaying. “Why would she do this?”  ”She must be missing something in her life.” “It’s irresponsible.” What these people don’t understand, because they’ve never tried anything great, because they’ve never pushed themselves to the absolute edges of their limits, because they’ll never know their real potential, is that there is no such thing as risk-free greatness. Yesterday, when her Olympic dreams ended in that horrible crash that left all of us praying for her in front of our televisions, the haters were out in full force. I don’t need to repeat it. Twitter has given losers enough of a platform; I won’t be amplifying them in this newsletter. (1/x)

I use this mostly for Mavs stuff, but i’d like to speak on this for a second. i’m a pastor first & would classify as an evangelical. two degrees in biblical studies & have dedicated my life to this both vocationally & personally. the bad bunny outrage was never about “family values” or “morality.” Having Kid Rock (lol) as an alternative was not about “family value” or “morality” either. this was about political idolatry, christian nationalism, & xenophobia. hiding racism behind the mask of family values is a tale as old as time. this isn’t about evangelical conviction. it’s about evangelical compromise. the compromise of an allegiance to a false doctrine & political identity over the gospel. if bad bunny isn’t your thing, ok. but kid rock & turning point does not represent the faith and religion i’ve dedicated my life to.

“And if I’m here today at Super Bowl LX it’s because I never, NEVER stopped believing in myself. And you should also believe in yourself, you’re worth more than you think.” - Bad Bunny

Did I understand a single word of it? I did not. Was it a vibe? It was.

None of these people actually believe anything they say.

@MattPiperJenks @Schwarzenegger @NjTank99 The technique improvement here.

Arnold’s Pump Club is the best exercise program I’ve ever been immersed in

Congrats!

Oh man, this got me.

Yes, like so many Christians who feel besieged by a wicked culture, I'm grateful to @TPUSA for platforming the God-fearing paragon who brought us hits like "Balls in Your Mouth," "Wax the Booty" and "Cadillac Pussy"