The Nick Burns Show · Episode #009

20 Advil a Day for 16 Years. Gone in Five Weeks.

Name: 20 Advil a Day for 16 Years. Gone in Five Weeks.
Uploaded: 2026-07-28T06:00:17-07:00
Duration: 40 min 12 s

With Gareth Young, SVP of US Operations at EnerCorp · July 28, 2026 · 40 min

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Gareth Young is Senior Vice President of US Operations at EnerCorp, a technology company that does flowback, and a 13-year veteran of the business. He left high school at 138 pounds, the hard gainer reading Muscle & Fitness behind a health food store counter.

A car wreck in his early 20s left him with herniated discs in his neck. Every surgeon wanted to fuse it. Instead he flew to Tijuana for a stem cell procedure, spent five weeks where nothing improved, and then, at week five, everything turned.

Nick and Gareth also get into "you either have discipline or you'll get disciplined", raising daughters with a healthy body image, the cinnamon-roll workout math, and how EnerCorp built a culture where the shop guys win dead-hang contests.

Chapters

0:00 Cold open
0:30 Meet Gareth Young: 13 years at EnerCorp
1:37 A technology company that does flowback
2:40 The culture you could feel at Midland One
4:03 The 138-pound hard gainer
5:03 The car wreck that changed how he trains
6:01 What the skinny kid didn't know about nutrition
7:55 Protein first: "Dad, where's the protein?"
9:15 Building a fit household
10:12 Discipline or get disciplined
10:42 Boundaries, not bans: sweets and snacks
11:52 Body image, social media, and faith
13:28 Every kid is built different
15:04 The cinnamon roll workout math
16:43 Bad habits, not bad genetics
17:25 Strong enough to pick up his kids
18:19 I stopped flinching when my daughter runs at me
19:15 Why EnerCorp invests in its people
20:44 Dead hangs and how the wellness program started
21:49 Three six-month rounds, ten people at a time
23:24 Ten advocates change a whole culture
24:48 The 4am system, and losing it for three months
26:32 Nick's own three-month mental battle
27:32 Doing hard things grows discipline
28:34 Three herniated discs, four Advil five times a day
29:41 A band-aid at the end of every day
32:07 20 pounds of muscle, still living injured
32:45 Fire down the arm, then Tijuana
34:31 Five weeks of nothing, then week five
35:38 Looking up for the first time in 16 years
36:02 Easing back into the gym
36:49 Quick fixes vs broken systems
38:08 Kickstarts only work with a system
39:41 Wrap-up: round two coming

Topics: Guest Stories, Energy Executives, Training, Mindset & Discipline

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