A vegan bodybuilding experiment: Joshua Knox at TEDxFremont
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0:06 - 0:10(Cheers) (Applause)
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0:12 - 0:13So as he said I am Josh.
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0:13 - 0:15I grew up in a family
of meat and potatoes. -
0:16 - 0:18I had a gourmet chef grandmother,
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0:18 - 0:21a deli daycare where
I would be dropped off everyday -
0:21 - 0:22eating amazing food.
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0:23 - 0:25So if you take a look
at my family background, -
0:26 - 0:27it's not really surprising.
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0:27 - 0:30So on my mom's side,
they grew up in Argentina, -
0:30 - 0:32this is the place where you have
a lot of dairy farmers -
0:32 - 0:33including my family.
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0:34 - 0:36You add to that my dad's
side of the family, -
0:37 - 0:38Fort Worth Texas born and raised,
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0:38 - 0:39myself as well.
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0:40 - 0:41This is a place where
you literally still have -
0:41 - 0:43cattle drives through the middle of town.
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0:44 - 0:46So you put those two together
and what do you get? -
0:46 - 0:48Not surprisingly,
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0:48 - 0:51pretty much every meal that
I ate was a giant pile of meat. -
0:51 - 0:54At one point in my life
I really would literally brag, -
0:54 - 0:57that I ate steak, every day,
for forty days. -
0:57 - 0:59And I thought that
it was an accomplishment. -
1:00 - 1:03So it all changed,
on a very fateful trip. -
1:03 - 1:04I like going up to lake Tahoe,
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1:04 - 1:06one of my favorite things to do.
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1:07 - 1:08This is a trip that normally
takes 4 or 5 hours, -
1:09 - 1:11We got stuck in a really bad snowstorm,
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1:12 - 1:13so about 10 hours,
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1:13 - 1:15into what should be a 4-5 hour trip.
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1:15 - 1:17We are all really stir crazy in the car,
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1:17 - 1:19and we are having lots
of crazy conversations. -
1:19 - 1:21At one point we were making animal noises
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1:21 - 1:23to keep ourselves entertained.
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1:23 - 1:24We got the car turned off,
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1:24 - 1:25everyone was basically
sleeping in their car. -
1:25 - 1:28and we got on the subject of nutrition.
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1:28 - 1:31So a very good friend of mine up in
the back of the audience, Brian Robin, -
1:31 - 1:33was really the man with a plan.
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1:33 - 1:35He started talking about
a plant-based diet, -
1:35 - 1:39and you had a car full of
extremely skeptical people, -
1:39 - 1:40myself included,
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1:40 - 1:43we had you know, four other people
in the car besides Brian, -
1:43 - 1:45we are peppering him with questions,
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1:45 - 1:47saying there's no way this is possible,
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1:47 - 1:49there's no way you can be healthy.
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1:49 - 1:50You know coming from my perspective,
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1:50 - 1:52you know all I really knew,
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1:52 - 1:55I learned a lot about cooking
from my grandmother -
1:55 - 1:56and I really enjoyed cooking,
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1:56 - 1:58I enjoyed cooking for my friends,
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1:58 - 2:01but the foundation of everything
that I would cook was really meat, -
2:01 - 2:03and so I may make a side dish,
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2:03 - 2:05but it's a side dish
it's a second thought. -
2:05 - 2:08So, you know after this long
conversation with Brian, -
2:08 - 2:12I think he did a very good job
of inspiring the rest of the group. -
2:12 - 2:15So those four others of us in the car,
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2:16 - 2:19all decided to go seven days,
no meat whatsoever. -
2:19 - 2:22So we were all a little bit of a
support group in each other, -
2:22 - 2:24challenging each other
to try seven days no meat. -
2:24 - 2:26I think if you were to ask
those who knew me at all, -
2:26 - 2:27they would say: "Josh,
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2:28 - 2:30going seven days,
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2:30 - 2:31with no meat?"
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2:31 - 2:34Not only no meat, but no
animal products whatsoever. -
2:34 - 2:37They'd have told you that
it's absolutely impossible. -
2:38 - 2:39And so after the seven days,
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2:39 - 2:40day eight,
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2:41 - 2:42the first thing I did
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2:42 - 2:44A - I ate a giant pile of pulled pork,
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2:44 - 2:47and then B - I sort of reflected,
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2:47 - 2:49it was actually very easy for me
to go seven days with no meat, -
2:49 - 2:51no animal products whatsoever.
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2:51 - 2:53And I took a look at
my own family history. -
2:53 - 2:57I have two grandfathers who
had quadruple heart bypasses, -
2:57 - 2:58not very surprising given
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2:58 - 3:00what I have been talking
about my family history. -
3:00 - 3:03I have a grandmother who
passed away from diabetes, -
3:03 - 3:04I have lots of cancer in my family.
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3:05 - 3:07And so all these things together,
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3:07 - 3:09really said well maybe
I can try thirty days, -
3:10 - 3:13and so thirty days quickly turned
into more than a year and a half, -
3:13 - 3:15on a purely plant based diet.
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3:15 - 3:17And so I didn't go into it lightly,
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3:17 - 3:19when I took a look at my own situation,
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3:19 - 3:21I spent 10 or 12 years
really bulding my body. -
3:22 - 3:24I really enjoyed physical fitness,
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3:24 - 3:25I really enjoyed bodybuilding,
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3:26 - 3:28and I had a major concern
that I would waste away, -
3:28 - 3:30I would be skinny and sickly,
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3:30 - 3:33and all this work that I put in
would just completely disappear. -
3:34 - 3:36So after more than
two and a half years now, -
3:36 - 3:39of doing not only plant-based
but then maybe mostly vegeterian, -
3:40 - 3:41totally a non issue.
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3:41 - 3:44I actually found that not only
was I able to continue -
3:44 - 3:46increasing my strength
and my performance, -
3:46 - 3:49but also saw massive gains
in endurance as well. -
3:50 - 3:52So the other big concern,
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3:52 - 3:54one of my favorite things to do is to eat.
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3:54 - 3:57It's one of my favorite ways
to interact socially. -
3:57 - 3:59And so I was concerned that you know,
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3:59 - 4:01this is going to be a very
difficult thing for me to do. -
4:01 - 4:04It's going be a battle, day and
day out resisting things. -
4:05 - 4:07So for me it was much less
about what I was giving up -
4:07 - 4:10and much more about what
I was actually coming to learn. -
4:11 - 4:14So rather than feeling
I got missing out on foods, -
4:14 - 4:15I really felt,
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4:15 - 4:16that I was opening my mind
to so many different things -
4:16 - 4:18that I would have never put on my plate.
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4:18 - 4:21I haven't been focused still
on that giant pile of meat. -
4:21 - 4:22The results,
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4:22 - 4:25you know unfortunately
I didn't get younger or taller -
4:25 - 4:26as a result of this experiment.
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4:26 - 4:29I did precipitously drop my cholesterol,
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4:29 - 4:31and this is a level that
maybe some people, -
4:31 - 4:33wouldn't say that was extremely dangerous,
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4:33 - 4:34but pretty high level cholesterol,
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4:34 - 4:36that cholesterol drop
happened extremely quickly -
4:36 - 4:38as did the weight drop.
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4:38 - 4:40I didn't think I had 35 pounds to lose.
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4:40 - 4:43But I lost 35 pounds, I dropped
my cholesterol precipitously, -
4:43 - 4:45noticed massive improvements in:
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4:45 - 4:48my performance, my ability to function
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4:48 - 4:50in my work and in my job.
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4:50 - 4:52Some mental improvements,
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4:52 - 4:54as well as physical improvements.
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4:54 - 4:57And so I think this all really
started with my friend Brian -
4:57 - 4:59and a lot of literature that I read,
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4:59 - 5:01and my own family history inspiring me,
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5:01 - 5:04to take about, you know, 30 days
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5:04 - 5:05to make this change.
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5:05 - 5:07And hopefully, my inspiration,
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5:07 - 5:08these things that inspired me,
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5:08 - 5:10can also be an inspiration for you,
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5:10 - 5:12to believe that this is
possible for you as well. -
5:12 - 5:13Thank you.
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5:13 - 5:14(Applause)
- Title:
- A vegan bodybuilding experiment: Joshua Knox at TEDxFremont
- Description:
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www.tedxfremont.com A fateful blizzard on a drive to Tahoe led to a conversation about food and nutrition, which inspired bodybuilder Joshua Knox, a Google employee, to go vegan for a week. One week turned into a 1.5 year lifestyle experiment with bodybuilding and diet.
- Video Language:
- English
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- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDxTalks
- Duration:
- 05:15
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Ivana Korom
Hello. I'm returning the transcript to the reviewer for some improvement. Can you make sure there are no HTML codes in the lines, and that no line is longer than 42 characters? in the new editor, you can see the character length of each subtitle, as well as its reading speed (characters/second). For languages based on the Latin alphabet, the maximum subtitle length is 84 characters (subtitles over 42 characters need to be broken into two lines). The maximum reading speed should not be over 21 characters per second. You can access the new editor by clicking "Beta: Save and open in new editor" after opening the task in the old interface. To learn more about line length, line breaking and reading speed, watch this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvNQoD32Qqo
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Tulio Leao
Transcription is OK but needs to be improved both in recognition of words and subtitle structure. Notice that each line of subtitle shouldn't be longer than 42 characters, as stated and very well explained in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvNQoD32Qqo. It is also not a rule, but I would rather not have those tiny 1 or 0.5 sec moments without a subtitle. What I mean is that if the speaker didn't make a noticeable pause, don't pause the subtitles, they often can be extended (both the actual or the next one) to avoid giving the feeling of flashing subtitles. This rarely gives the reader a feeling that it is out of sync and give people who have a harder time keeping up with subtitles more time to read. Now for the transcription itself I do get that it is hard to understand which word was said even after replaying the video several times, but many can be guessed by context. I strongly encourage you to review what you transcribed, because sometimes it may appear that you heard correctly, but when you read the sentence makes no sense. I also would recommend using the compare revisions tool on Amara to see the changes I made. Contact me if you have any doubts.
Best Regards,
Tulio