robbie is a national athlete and we're going to talk with him all about his journey when it started how we got here and so going can tell us about your athletic theory i would begin that how you got to where you are today i think journey started really young my dad put me in basically every sport you can think of i played football baseball basketball hockey wrestling you name it pretty but i decided football was my calling so after my junior year i just stuck to show the football so now when let's go back to when you were playing with all those other teams when you were younger you were playing in ok and so we want to make sure that we cover let's see so then you got to high school you said and you went there and you played football but i think for sports i'm flattered and all for sports but football is obviously the biggest one so i ended up getting a scholarship to lucky me versity where i took it was a full ride and lot came in the pennsylvania yeah so you go with the scholarship you go out there play football and then what happens then i ended up getting hurt and i came home for a few years and i decided to work and then luckily one day i got a call from kane university who's just a local college around the d c school and they asked me if i want to play football and said also needs doing manual labor so i decided to go play football kane and i had been practicing or training in the meantime while you were working or had just given up the football dream or what was going on like a men's league notepad so you just to play i mean i love playing football so i did that and then of course always just left there but never really like training training for like football i was just basically power lifting and ice at a time but then once i decided that i was going to play football again then i starting on the cardio training everything started really got that answer from my coach coach guy there was we usually have end of the meeting so it's like kind of the go over well we think for the next season what we should do what we shouldn't do you kind of has it with everybody and then i was a captain as a sophomore so i kind of talked to me more about like for the next year and he really just said you know i think we're going to put you to defense and this is the best right fit for you of course at first i really wasn't for it because i mean i play quarterback my whole life yeah i want to stay there and as after you know you never want your job to be like taken from me i'd rather have a you know i was going to camp and then have the person be me out rather than him just take it like it's given to him so he didn't really give me a game i've been like couple championships for fall you and i was like when i was younger we would always lose so it's good to finally win well congratulations and that's a good feeling but nice change or yeah so now you finish cain and then what happen d well my senior year i ended up getting hurt so i tore my finger in my tendon my fingers i didn't really know exactly like this obviously any injury seems kind of like look away from you plus being at a d school most professionals like they're ready but patchy because it's like a lower competition level so we had our scene my senior meeting with my coach and i was like you know what do you think i should do if you think i can play the next level and he said it's go tough but i believe you have all the tools as long as you work hard enough to get there so i decided to take that semester off to school and basically just train for the n f l regional combine and pro day to get my shot it yeah but i mean it's taken really got my foot into the door to be honest so people noticed it there and yeah i was a standout at the regional combine in minnesota that was where i ended up getting interviewed by a couple websites and then i was kind of resigned my stock started to rise i got agent afterwards which is really big in this industry because you know it's like complicity and you know it's kind of like just selling you know the chains so i was really good and then as i got my agent and he started talking to teens are the proteins in my pro day which is kind of like the combine but it's more like on your own your own training facility and more comfortable and it's more like like individual the giants the redskins the bears and they're all very interested and you go with back and you did go to practice with some of them are meet with some of them are things like my junior year of kane going my senior i worked out with the bears in the red whole front office got fired so with the new coaching staff coming in they get to pick their own guys now and i didn't really have any and so it kind of went like i was still training at home but it was kind of stagnant for a good couple months and i was when i was like i don't know if it's going to happen you know because i want it all processed i'm getting older and age in this business is everything because every year there's new people coming out and luckily one day i got a call to go up to montreal's and i ended up signing with them and playing for them  you expected is it's similar to the n f l because it's a different football league it's the c f l right yeah it's basically the n f l can and it's completely different like it's football but there's an actual guy the field is like twenty yards rare yeah amazing well let's get into some of the details then about like physically physically what have you done to stay in shape and be at your top performance in football explain to us like exercise what you do how often your diet if it's strict special foods all my diet kind of like various i can really like how do you clean but i like anything i want this i need to gain weight i guess from my position my problem it's not everything for you know your cardio and stuff and then in the afternoon do the lifting so i would do that five times a week and then we would it would even technically be six because we'd have a just like a straight cardio day on saturday how many hours do you work  growing and that's like six times of wow yeah it's like a lot of dedication you know and usually wednesdays and wednesdays are kind of like our region and so we'll do like they put us through yoga cold tub hot  that mentally what kind of mental mind said you need to be persistent with a very to be a professional athlete your mindset really has to do that all the time because i mean just the grueling thing you put your body through every day biggest thing for me or my mind is like after injury because you know you figure you're working out all that time to get ready for the season and you're in the best shape your life and as soon as the injury happens it's like it's the restart everything so yeah that's  surgery then you have to go through the healing process and get him past it you can't work out great so you just sitting there and the muscles are just getting smaller everything so i have to restart all over again and i had to do that a lot of times and it's very easy to crawl in a and really got my thing in a bad spot because like right in the middle of my senior season so right through the end like i got surgery in the middle of the season waited two weeks and then played with the club on so it was like healing through but i still wasn't able to like grab anything a union or anything so then usually right after the season is like when you start training right everybody starting out of h s i coming the go to your combine training your pro day training and i want to expose the left for a little bit and i just decided to disregard what the doctor said this is you know this is not one chance i got to go for it luckily it worked out you know i mean we were talking about you talked about your finger you talked about injuries injuries a lot even and stuff and just injuries in your past let's let's go through because there's people listening there's there's one of the athletes out there who are going to watch the show when they're going to say wow that much it happened to him and he still got here so let's talk about it i mean when you were younger you had a very serious yeah so i had a i was in casts and i had surgery that twice and then i was in the hip cast up to my hips and my ankle so i can even walk i was in a wheelchair so that was really rough you can't do anything but you got through that and you  going and then you did something to your shoulder collar something my sophomore year i broke my shoulder oh can i at least snap it so i had three screws and there holding that in place and doctor said probably it would be it would feel good but i wouldn't can even do i missed a whole season for that and usually you know i was going to start varsity so when it comes to college and stuff in high school you know you want to start as early as you can get the film and i'll get your name out stats and everything because you want to get the full ride and i kind of missed that so then i started late my junior likely had a good high school career to get me a scholarship but it's just always the setbacks always seem to always happen to me at the wrong time and then you went off to walk even on the scholarship and you got hurt again and then i broke my kneecap broke and he kept in practice before the game i ended up playing the game we've aust but he played the game with a broken knee cap yeah that's dedication and my coach said that there was nothing around zero even better i couldn't even serve whatever and then i tore this i guess mid season i my senior year and then actually when they first came i came back with a club i ended up breaking my pinky in the covered it all on my end so now you've got to where you got and then that's great and so so now what position do you play and how physical it sounds now i play linebacker and it's it's very challenging especially now at this because i mean the guys i play with that college you know they were smaller guys and now i'm going against everybody i played the one n f l like he's a big guy so i mean they have are so i mean i think i might seen him on shows like oh he's six four as hard as i can almost every play so my question is like you see these big guys like what are they you know kind of thing you know like i always say i have to see that guys yeah the linemen need everything literally everything you can think of you would have to do the work go through the everybody knows there's now you just talking about you have to hit you have to hit hard that's your job and that brings us to kind of concussions big thing and football everybody's talking about it a lot of people have it they got decide what happens to yeah i mean they've had some serious long term effects on people and it's given men brain damage after football careers and because i like getting a bell around i guess it's kind of weird that sometimes you're basing your two little blurry and yeah they're really becoming big with concussions but i think it's like also i downside too because now in the n f l you see everybody it's like you can't hit head to head but like when you're playing defense in my position like too many rules in some cases we know what we signed up for but i think also for the use and it's coming up i think you know you see even in the pros now they're not tackling how you're supposed to everybody is leading with your head i feel like the actual real ways of tackling again so you don't use your head i mean i see people getting the guy on the steelers he's paralyzed and self you can see that with his head yeah and it's scary so you've got to be safe as well and they teach you how just it was different than every other quarterback you know he wouldn't fly he would look for the hit and that's kind of like how i was so i was a huge deal fan useful your journey has been a twenty year challenge and we talked about it a little bit before i'm sure you want to give up you've talked about how it's easy to want to give up give advice to somebody because we're going to wrap this up soon what would you say to somebody who's out there and recovering from an injury want to give up what they're doing i'm what i  and you're going to have those tough times and i always say you know i remember why you started i guess not you have to get over the hurdles and i've wanted to quit plenty of times but i also i always wanted to prove to people that i was sad like you know you couldn't do it like it was even like the little school teachers like back when i was in third grade like i'll never forget like you know they always say even when you write in your book like oh what do you want to do when you grow up and you know you say football player and i was like i'll both put something realistic like this people in the n f l it's realistic i mean if you want to tell me what i can do you want to be a teacher that's that's yours i want to be a football player so i mean i always think about and a lot of people say you know when