<p>Joey Thurman: Aurora, Illinois. And I'm about to interview George Hood, 63 years young. Former military, DEA and 13 time world record holder. He held a plank for eight hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds. Yes, eight hours. I'm not quite sure I can do that for a few. He's going to take me through the paces. Let's go, George.</p> <p>            Let's go back a little bit. You were in the Armed Forces and thank you for your service. And you've been DEA. Is that where you feel like this competitive internal drive came from and the motivation? Where would you really say that came from?</p> <p>George Hood: Yeah, I was a former Marine officer. I was commissioned out of college and it was important to me. It gave me something to do. Growing up, nothing was good enough in my household for my father or anybody else. So I had to go prove it to myself that I was worthy and could do this stuff. And then getting into law enforcement, it goes with the job. I mean, that'll keep you alive.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: You're very humble, but it's, it's nice to drive and compete within yourself. That keeps you healthy, right?</p> <p>George Hood: Yes. And at the end of the day, that's what it comes down to is that people always ask me, "Well, how was your competition?" Well, there's no competition. I'm competing with myself literally with a plank and more of it's pushups or whatever, or cycling. You have to get that down first before you think about competing with anybody else.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Right. You have to have a strong mind for that, right?</p> <p>George Hood: Absolutely. There's a huge cognitive component that it's incorporated into the work that I do now. When you're going that long, you have to have it up here to be able to compete. Most people don't have that because that's a learned skill.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Yeah. And when you're doing that, what's going through your mind? Just kind of zone out, you can't focus on the pain, right? Because it's got to hurt.</p> <p>George Hood: Yes. It's excruciating the more you get into it. But you ride the wave, you have times where you got to turn the music up and that'll chase demons away and get you back into the groove. If everybody's enjoying it, there's got to be a crowd there because you got to feed off of the energy that those people generate.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Yeah. That's great. And you're holding it the entire time?</p> <p>George Hood: Yeah.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: You probably get this question all the time, but what if you have to go to the bathroom?</p> <p>George Hood: You'll figure it out. I was asked that question to tell the truth and I gave it up and I told him. But I'm hooked up, you can just go.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Really?</p> <p>George Hood: Yeah, figured that out on my own.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: And now you're working with people. I like that you say working with people and you're not training. What do you mean by working with people?</p> <p>George Hood: They liked being able to do things that I do to an extreme that other people can't do. And I'll share some of that today. It's just simple drills that when they accomplish that, it's a huge confidence builder. And we can't save the world, it's one life at a time.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: One life at a time?</p> <p>George Hood: Yeah.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: That's great. One life at a time, George Hood is going to take me through the paces today. You think I can handle it?</p> <p>George Hood: Absolutely.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Absolutely.</p> <p>George Hood: You'll certainly give it your best shot.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: He's got enough confidence for me.</p> <p>George Hood: Let's go 30 seconds a piece.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Man, I could really feel that. Especially the toes in, the toes out. What's the premise behind that?</p> <p>George Hood: Well, when you move the feet, you're actually turning the muscles in the upper thigh, your quads, and there's three big heads in there that are affected by that movement. And you can actually see it yourself and prove it just by looking at your legs and feeling the movements by moving your feet.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Your tans better them mine. George Hood, lead by doing, I liked that man.</p> <p>George Hood: Lead by doing.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Lead by doing.</p> <p>George Hood: You have to. And people try to make it so complicated sometimes. Two words for them, "Just do."</p> <p>Joey Thurman: "Just do."</p> <p>George Hood: "Just do."</p> <p>Joey Thurman: George Hood in his hood. I'm sure you got that one before.</p> <p>George Hood: Yes.</p> <p>Joey Thurman: Appreciate it.</p> <p>George Hood: All right, brother.</p>