May 21, 2024 • 43 mins
Kate and Emma are back! Sorry for our little break... Kate's computer was broken and it made podding impossible. In this week's episode, we catch yall up on our past few weeks. The topics of today's podcast include how to workout without weights and how to use cannabis with exercise. Enjoy!
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(01:52):
Is I hope you guys missed us. Maybe you didn't,
That is okay, but we are back potting And if
you didn't know why we took a little bit of break.
It was nothing too serious or deep. Besides the fact
that my computer was malfunctioning and I did not have
adequate time to get it fixed. I ran a marathon
out in California. Then I came back and they quoted
me on two weeks of like fixing the shit. So
I'm clearly an egirl in some ways, you know, like
(02:12):
having a TikTok running a meme page. But I know
nothing about technology, so I apologize for our absence. But
we are back. We're here to pod today. It's a
Monday night and I'm here with Emma. How are you
doing over their dog?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm doing good. I'm extremely tired today for whatever reason.
But yes, I was about to say that we definitely
joke about being egirls, but it's extremely difficult to pod
via a phone and also just like how you upload,
so you know, I hope you guys maybe enjoyed the break.
Hopefully you guys missed us and are now excited for
some more health and wellness content. I know some people
(02:45):
on Geneva have sent through some res for us to
touch on, so that's what we're gonna chatting about today.
But I'm good. I feel like I'll just kind of
get right into my main point of what I've been
up to. I've just been like really enjoying living a
very simple life. I think I'm like at this point
in my life where I feel very secures. My relationship
(03:07):
where it's at work and everything, and I just feel
so fulfilled that I don't think I've been like relying
on like social media to give me like that boost
and dopamine. And I've just been thinking a lot about
like my relationship with Instagram and like social media, and
I mean I still check in periodically, like I'll post
some stories, but I'm like at this point where i
feel like I'm fully living my life for myself and
(03:29):
not like thinking about like, oh I should post this
because i think like people will find this interesting and
like will interpret it as like me being cool or
like unique or like trendy. And so I've just been enjoying,
like really investing my time like in the moment, you know,
cooking doing things that's satisfy and fulfill me, like within
my relationships and friendships.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Been just enjoying joining the outdoors.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So it's finally summer out and my brother is going
to be living here the summer at my apartment for
his internship. So I'm just excited to like really bond
and connect with him. We've I'm like really close these
past two years, and I just really want to like
soak up every moment of that and I'm moving in
with my boyfriend at the end of the summer, which
is like a really exciting milestone.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Of my own personal relationship.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So I'm just trying to enjoy these last few months
of like you know, being in Manhattan. I'm going to
make the move over to Brooklyn, and yeah, I just
have felt like really happy and you know, just kind
of enjoying the monotony of like adult life. I kind
of think about my parents a lot where it's like
they're just doing like, you know, their regular errands like
on the weekends and you know, like cooking dinner and
(04:32):
just enjoying life and they're not really getting caught up
and like what's trending, what's not and all of that.
And I just have found a lot of comfort in
that for whatever reason. So, yeah, a lot has happened,
but also not a lot has happened. Been swimming a lot,
got a gym membership, so back into my lifting era.
I suppose that I'll probably like go down the drain
in a week or two when I like get sick
(04:54):
of it, But life has been good. I'll keep it
like that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
We love that. Yeah, I'm trying to remember what our
last update was I'm thinking it was before I ran
the marathon, so I guess I'll start there. On my end.
I ran the Big Suit of marathon. You probably heard
me yapping about it for many many months, if not years,
because I was technically supposed to it last year or whatever.
So I flew to California. I ran the race with Hoka.
There's a shakeout run before the race started at six am,
(05:19):
so I literally was done by like ten am California time.
There's no service on the course too, so I remember
when I finally got back to like the little like
check in area once I finished. Then I was starting
to get text from like my mom and my boyfriend.
I was like, oh okay, like people were checking in
on me. But it was a very weirdly like not isolating,
I would say, but it was just very different than
the New York City marathon, where you have the crowds
(05:39):
people cheering, you have friends and family you're going to
check into. You know, you have New York City runners
like I bumped into my friends at the race. This
was a race that was like just me by myself,
doing it for me, and I think that sense of
validation and personal achievement was really powerful for me, but
I guess it was very antiaclimatic in the sense that
there wasn't, you know, someone waiting to hug me at
(05:59):
the finish line. I suppose like I crossed the finish line,
I was just like, oh, like to quote Sabrina Brier,
who's a friend of mine is a TikToker, like that
little oh, Like I crossed the finish line, and it
felt like I was training and building for this like
fantastic moment, and it truly wasn't. And I want to
normalize that because I think marathon content on TikTok can
seem like super motivational and like if you're gonna be
the best day of your life, and like it definitely
(06:21):
can be. I think New York was the perfect kind
of equation of so many things happening for me, and
it turned out really well. But Big sur was just
kind of like I ran a marathon. It wasn't like
a life changing day. Not to say I wasn't grateful
I did it. I'm really proud of myself that I
committed to that training, but yeah, it was a challenging course,
kicking in the ass. If you have any more like
questions about Big Surrey. If you want to run it,
definitely do it. It's a beautiful course. It is really
(06:43):
really hard, and I feel like I couldn't have trained
better than I did for it, just because it was
so much hills, so much elevation. The course was slanted
the whole time if you've ever driven up Highway one
in California, so that was kind of fucking with me.
But after I did that, I did a little bit
of traveling. I was just trying to like a lot
of time off running, and then as soon as I
said that, I went on a run like a week
(07:04):
and a half after the marathon, just because I wanted
to like scratch that itch again. But I have a
really good plan with my PET now to work on
fixing the imbalances that I have in my running gate
that kind of led to this weird hip injury before
the marathon. I think you always can constantly be learning
about your body, and physical therapy is obviously expensive and
like there's certain barriers to entry there, but I do
(07:24):
think it has helped me a lot as an athlete,
as a runner, as a health wellness person, and it's
something that I've just like deeply deeply invested in, so
that has been fun for me. I'm back going to
workout classes and stuff like solid Core and Soul Cycle.
I might take an edible and go to Tracy Anderson
if you don't know, if that is just searched on TikTok,
it's like the wackiest, like dumb workout ever. But I
feel like for content, it could be quite interesting and
(07:45):
I would have to be very high in order to
take it. So you know, if I do that, and
then yeah, I've just been hanging with my man's that's
pretty much it. I feel like the social media girls
are up in my dms about that. You guys are
all positive. There's no like freaks out there, which is
very kind. But I've been keeping it what is it, it's
I've been keeping it seek private but not secret. Like
I'm very happy, and I've been doing some soft launches.
(08:06):
You know, all of his friends have been like continuously
taking photos and they're like, post is on your Instagram,
post on instagm. You can't see his face, like this
is a good soft launch, and I'm like, they're really
invested in our relationship, which is really cute and fun.
So yeah, I've been just hanging out. Honestly, I feel
like my content has been lacking because I've been spending
so much time like investing in my relationship and I
don't want to just like film around my boyfriend and whatever.
(08:26):
So if you've seen less of me on TikTok or
YouTube whatever, I'll get on my posting grind at some point.
But I'm just kind of living in the moment, as
Emma said. But I think that's all of my updates.
The podcast this week is going to be about exercise.
It's going to be about like how to do body
weight workouts. A few of you girlies have been asking
me about weed and working outs. We're going to talk
on that. But as always, I'm gonna call i'm a
(08:47):
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We are going to get into the main portion of
today's episode. As Kate mentioned, we're going to be talking
a lot about.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Exercise related things.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
First thing is not having any access to lifting weights,
And I think this is like a really great thing
to talk about in the sense of like optimizing and
making the most.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Of what you have.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I know, a lot of grillies, you know, or in
that time of their life where they're in college, maybe
they're going back home and just like living in different
environments where they may not have access to like a
gym all the time. And before I get into like
body weight movement and like the benefits and.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Like how to incorporate that or go about just.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Doing body weight, I definitely just want to touch on
like why lifting or any type of resistance training is
important in general, because body weight movements do you definitely
fall under this greater umbrella. So why lifting is important
is because with weight training, uh well, weight training is
the use of resistance to cause muscular contraction and this
then leads to increased strength and anaerobic endurance and then
(13:51):
just the general size of our skeletal muscles. And so
how this happens is that when we do do any
type of resistance training, whether you know that's using actual
weight or just our body weight, our muscle fibers go
through cellular change. And so we're doing microscopic damage when
we are lifting heavy things, and it's creating like really
(14:11):
small tears in our muscle fibers. And then as we
recover and let those muscles fully recover from the damage,
it results in stronger and bigger muscles, and really like
lifting makes you stronger, and that's definitely one of the
main reasons why people do focus on lifting weights for
their overall health. And it allows you to perform like
daily tasks, so you can basically end up relying on
(14:32):
yourself more, such as like carrying heavyer groceries and like
lifting your suitcase up when you're boarding an airplane. And
I think this can be very empowering, especially for women,
where we're often taught that like, oh, we should be
like weak and we should rely on men like look
the heavy things. And I think it's like really nice
when it's you can just fully rely on yourself that
it allows a lot more independence within your own your
(14:53):
own life, especially if you like live alone or if
you're older and maybe don't have as many people in
your life to assist you. But also too, like weight
training can then have other effects on other forms of exercise,
especially those that require speed and power. So think you know,
like running, cycling, swimming, anything that you do in the
gym can definitely have a huge impact on that.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
For example, with swimming.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
For me, I know that when I am really prioritizing
like lower body exercises and like lower body like lifting movements,
whether that's squats, lunges, et cetera, I have a much
more powerful kick off the wall and that allows me
to propel myself further and have like better underwater And
for anyone that swims knows the importance of like flip
turns and your underwaters. So that's just one example of
(15:38):
you know, even though swimming is a cardio based sport,
me lifting and building muscle does have great impacts on
my swimming capabilities. Another benefit of lifting is that it's
known to do some metabolism, since muscle is more metabolically
active than fat and post weight training, actually you can
see an increase in metabolic rate seventy two hours after
(16:00):
strength training versus cardio, where you usually see that metabolic
burn decrease relatively soon after you have completed your workout.
Another thing is that weight training will help lower the
risk of injury and falls. You're able to support your
body better. You have a better increased range of motion
and mobility, and increased strength around major joints. So think
(16:22):
about your hips and knees. Therefore, it's taking off less
load and pressure primarily on your lower back when you're
doing really any type of daily movements. And I know,
we kind of like live in the society where like
chronic back pain is almost like expected as an adult. Granted,
a lot of that has to do with the fact
that we're sitting all the time in desks and we're
not really engaging our core as much, and no one
(16:44):
is really like lifting as much because we live in
a society where we're not you know, walking thirty miles
carrying you know, bags of rice or whatever. Like you know,
I'm thinking about the you know, little house in the
prairie like kind of back in that day, you know,
they would have to wan lock wank long distances, you know,
carrying logs for wood, et cetera. And also to lifting.
(17:06):
The last thing is that it strengthens bones, which is
something that I have been paying a lot of close
attention to and that I feel like a lot of
podcasts have been talking to in terms of like longevity,
especially like woman, especially weight bearing exercises can put temporary
stress on your bones, sending a message to bone building
cells to take action and rebuild your bones and making
(17:26):
them stronger, and this increases bone density, which actually reduces
the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. So bone density and
like good bone density becomes more crucial as we age.
And as I mentioned, like modern society has gotten too
comfortable with like the sense of like not having to
like experience any like heavy bearing loads on their body,
(17:49):
and so we just have a limited we really have
a limited eliminated the need to carry heavy items in
our regular life. And that's why I think a lot
of people don't love the experience of like lifting weights,
because it's a very uncomfortable feeling when you're not used to,
you know, lifting heavy things all the time. But I
think like focusing more on the benefits on your overall
health can be a very motivating factor.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I think especially for women.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Just knowing that like we are at greater risk at
like of osteoporosis and sarcopenia. Knowing that you can really
reduce any of those potential risks just by you know,
lifting some dumbells doing some squats, I think is like
a really really great motivator. And so kind of getting
into like body weight exercise benefits, you know, body weight
movements are going to focus on your body's natural movements
(18:36):
and help train the movement patterns that we use in
everyday life. So think about a squat like that mimics
the movement that we do when we're getting up from
a chair. And I think a lot of people think
like body weight exercises, like don't do anything, Like you're
not using any weights, Like what's the purpose of it?
Like can I actually build muscle? You're still putting your
muscles under tension, which is still resulting in tissue damage,
(18:58):
which is still going to and stronger muscles. It just
may be a slower process and you're going to have
to get creative once you kind of have hit that plateau,
just because you are only putting as much tension as
much depending on how much you weigh. And so if
you're not really like gaining weight or anything, if you're
just maintaining your weight, like you're not really adding any
additional like load or tension onto your muscle fibers, and so,
(19:23):
like I said, at a certain point, body weight will
produce almost more of like an endurance exercise versus like
muscle building, as you're not able to progressively overload as
efficiently with your own body weight, but you can still
challenge your muscles through either increasing your reps, less rest
or variations. So think about going from a regular push
up to a spider Man push up. There's so many
(19:44):
variations of like different lunges and squats you can do
to really you know, make your body rethink and kind
of like do a different type of movement that is
almost like a surprise.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
To the muscles.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Body Weight exercises are going to help with core stability,
and this also ties back to like lifting in general.
When we lift, whether it's body weight or with weights,
the core is always engaged since it's being braced to
help reduce the risk of lower back pain or injury,
which is great. So you're kind of getting a core
workout while you know you're doing lower body movements, and
it'll still help increase mobility and flexibility, just like regular
(20:19):
weight training. And I think what's really great about body
weight training that everyone should you know, take in consideration,
especially if you're someone who does lift true weights, is
that you can really prioritize on form because you are
also then dealing with, you know, holding a fifty pound dumbell.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
So a few body weight exercises that you can do.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
These are things that I've incorporated in my own workout routine, squats, wall.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Sits, pushups.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
This is something that I've been doing a lot. I
want to be able to do as many push ups
as I want, so I've been trying to do ten
to twenty at the end of each of my workouts,
and I definitely have noticed, you know, just like general
strength through that. And it's also like very rewarding to
know that, like, oh, I was once only able to
do like two or three pushups, and now I can
(21:08):
do eight lunges, whether that's like a regular lunch or
reverse lunch, step ups, and glot bridges. So that is
just to name a few. And I think too, like
women naturally have less upper body strength than men. So
I again really encourage women to just like start trying
to do pull ups and start trying to do pull
push ups, just because it's really fulfilling and it's a
(21:31):
huge confidence boost knowing that, like you can do more
than once, because I think it's like always a running
joke that like woman can only do like one pull
up or like no pull ups at all, and it's like, no,
fuck you, Like I actually am strong and I can
do these things. I think one of the best benefits
about body weight exercises, and especially for girlies that are
in the stage like I said, where you may not
always have a gym all the time, is that it's
(21:53):
you don't need a gym, Like it's extremely affordable. You
can do it in the comforts of your own home.
You can do it in the backyard, and it can
still be social if you're like getting together with a
friend and you do it in the park. I know
people that live in like very urban spaces. I'm thinking
New York for example, Like people are always working out
like on the grass at Central Park or like at
Tompkins Square, kind of in the basketball courts, and so
(22:14):
it's like just meet up with a friend and do
something small. You don't have to do a lot, and
you don't have to kill your body. Like just doing
a few rounds of push ups is like a great
workout on its own, and then kind of getting into
like well I get bulky from like body weights or
just lifting. In general, I think women have this expectation
that they should be long and lean, meaning like they
(22:35):
have very little body fat and like very minimal muscle,
so kind of think like, you know, anyone that you
see in social media that's like a model essentially, And
so I think a lot of women stick to cardio
or stuff that is maybe more plates that again is
a little bit more like body weight focused just from
the fear of getting bulky. Getting bulky is a complete myth.
This has definitely been dunked numerous times. Nobody really accidentally
(22:58):
becomes a bodybuilder overnight. You know, muscle bulk is extremely
dependent on testosterone production, and women have far less testosterone
than men. And even if you're training extremely hard, like
you will still kind of continue to build muscles slower
than men. And if you are looking bulky, it's probably
because you're like and some sort of like insane calarie surplus,
(23:19):
which like again looking bulky, there's nothing wrong with that,
but I know everyone has different aestheticals if you want
to say that, and I think that's like.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Totally fine and valid.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But if you're fearful of lifting because you know you're
gonna like start looking like a man, or you might
have like I don't know, football shoulders, like you're fine,
you're not going to and you know, a lot of
it is going to be dependent on just like what
your general body shape is and how your bones and
your skeletal muscle you know is some people have wider ribs,
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some people don't. But definitely just get in the gym,
you know, do your body weight. I love body weight stuff.
My brother has been doing that exclusively. My boyfriend also
has like body weight only workout days. So you know,
you can definitely incorporate it. It's not like you can
only do that. But I think anything that challenges your
muscles is definitely a huge benefit for your overall health.
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And I definitely encourage all girlies to get into it.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, and I also think too, it will promote promote longevity.
Like if you are killing yourself going to like max
weight in the gym every day, you might like not
feel like you're burning yourself out. Because my experience lifting,
at least, I don't feel super super exhausted the moment
after I lift, so I'm like, Okay, let's go do
another hard thing tomorrow. But I think over time it
can really add up on you. So bodyweight stuff is
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very important. I love doing that stuff as a runner,
like specifically before my runs is a little bit of
like a warm up, doing single leg lunges, hit bridges,
a lot of like mobility stuff, So I think it's
good for all the girlies to do. Now, my section
of the pod for today is going to be about
weed and working out, and you might think, how do
those things go together? Whenever I smoke a joint, I
feel like I'm going to go to sleep, So true, bestie,
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like totally happens to the best of us. I love
taking medical and just like watching goofy videos. But there's
a little bit of interesting science kind of coming about
coming out that I have been I'm not gonna say
in the forefront of but I've definitely been talking about
it on social media, kind of like in this bubble
we're in where people are talking about consuming weed in
conjunction with working out. Now, specifically for me, it's related
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to running, but there's a lot of people that lift,
there's a lot of people that do other stuff, and
they're thinking about ways that we can sort of destigmatize
this plant and see its properties as good. A few
of you guys have asked me this on my personal
Instagram and then a few in Geneva, so I thought
we should just tackle this thing now. Why would you
combine the two. As I said earlier, some people, I
think associate stoners with like laying on the couch, going
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to bed, all that stuff, which can definitely be true.
But there is new research in science talking about the
end ofcannabinoid system, which I will get into now, and
this thought that THHC and the cannabinoid properties in the
plant marijuana can actually activate the nabinoid system and can
provide a lot of benefits when it comes to exercise performance, recovery,
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also when it comes to things like chronic pain. And
I'm gonna speak anecdotally mostly in this section, just because
generally with weed, there's not a lot of good studies
on this thing. A little bit of a history lesson.
Back when Reagan was president of this country, there's a
little bit of what is known as the War on Drugs.
They kind of did a crackdown on a lot of
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drugs that were typically used by different communities. A lot
of the way that they were cracking down on these
drugs was very racist, and there's a lot of history
and different documentaries you can read on that. But my
point of bringing that up is that I think the
legacy of the War on drugs Era lives on today
and a lot of people have unconscious bias or maybe
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stigma around things like marijuana. And there's different drugs and
different classifications of drugs. Cocaine is different than weed, and
weed is different than psilocybin, but we all sort of
think that all drugs are the same, and I think
because of these government policies, we really haven't had opportunity
to do adequate research on potential benefits in therapy settings
for these drugs. I think if we've talked about this before,
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about how psilocybin, which is a psychedelic mushroom has been
used to help people with anarexia, with PTSD, with schizophrenic
well not with SCHIZPHNYA that would actually awful for people,
but with bipolar. Sorry. So there's different drugs that actually
can be helpful and used in assisted settings. Now when
it comes to weed, in marijuana, people are using this
recreationally when they are talking about the benefits with working out.
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But from my perspective, I would love to see a
lot of studies on the clinical end of like take
ten people do a double blind placebo study, have them
run in the treadmill for ten minutes, you know, have
some of them consume an edible, some of them not,
and see if there are any benefits in terms of output,
because right now it's like all anecdotal when you do
see people like myself talking on social media and so
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I understand why people like don't entirely trust it, yes,
because we do not have like developed science on it. Also,
when we do research drugs in the country, government typically
does not use the highest quality, best sourced drug available.
They use really shitty quality strains of weed and different
drugs when they are doing tests on it. So it's
like a chicken in the egg like before. We need
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like in order to get these better clinical studies, we
would probably have to have a federal legalization of marijuana,
but that's probably not going to happen because our government
doesn't want that to happen. Whatever. I think in the
next twenty years, we'll probably look back on this period
and be like, why were we classifying weed as something
like equivalent to a cocaine, you know in this country.
But right now that's kind of where the drug sits.
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It is getting declassified as we talk. You want to
look more into that government policy, you totally can, but
back to working out, like, why would you use weed
when you're working out? Here are some of the anecdotal
benefits that I have noticed, the main one being focused.
People talk about getting in the zone when you're working out,
and I think in our society where we have endless
distractions and we all have like laundry lists of shit
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we can do, when you do have that dedicated time
to let's say, go on the thirty minute run or
go to the gym, I find myself, once again, this
is anecdotal. My head is making lists, my head is
thinking about what I need to do after I get home.
What am I going to make for dinner? Very few
of us have a intentionally like a very focused mind
body connection when we're working out. I feel like a
lot of people are thinking about other stuff versus like
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I feel my quad muscle moving, or I feel this working,
or I can hear my breath or I can feel
my heart rate. We are so detached from mind and
body because we are in such like a hustle hustle
capitalist country that I think for me, when I have
used weed, it kind of creates this blinder effect where
I'm not focused on the people that I'm running by
on the streets of Manhattan. You know, I'm not thinking
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about like what I have to do when I get home,
what my email in box looks like. I am just
truly in that moment, because obviously your inhibitions when you
are consuming cannabis go down, so you are very much
in this like cerebral state where you're just kind of
blowing through the movement. It's helped me a lot with anxiety.
I really think that it has been a powerful plan
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medicine for me. Obviously other people have different experiences with weed,
but for me at least, it has allowed me to
just be in the zone and be really like joyful, playful.
It's helped me a lot not overthink when working out.
I initially got into taking edibles before running when I
had a stress fracture and I was scared to death
of re injuring myself. I thought like, make sure this
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step is like looking like this, and make sure my
need doesn't come over my toe, and make sure my
hips are in the right placement, make sure my my
ribs are in this right placement, right Like I was
going to physical therapy to retrain basically how to run
and walk, so when I was cleared to run, I
was anxious as hell about reinjuring myself, and as soon
as I took an edible and did that, I was
just like in the zone, not worried about that injury.
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And there's some studies that obviously drugs do change your
brain a little bit. So the logic is that it
is changing your neural pathways of like what you are
saying to yourself, and then in real time when you're
working out, you are like doing that action to retrain yourself.
Once again anecdotal, but I feel like there's this like
mind body connection when I use weed when I work out. Now,
from a recovery perspective, when you are working out, you're
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obviously tearing apart muscle fiber, which is not bad, that's good,
but you do need to spend time recovery. And I
think a lot of us are very go go go.
As I said before, we don't sit down after we
work out. Our heart rates may be elevated or something
like that. There's inflammation in the body, and there's research that,
once again is very anecdotal at the time, but there's
a theory that the cannabinoid strains that are in THHD
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can actually activate this system in your body called the
endiccannabinoid system. This is something that is responsive of like
flight or fight. It's responsive for healing muscle fibers, whatever.
And so the logic that is kind of tied with
weed at least is that weed can help you recover
quicker because it is telling your body to slow down.
There's a lot of work being done with cannabis with
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people with PTSD chronic pain. A lot of elderly people
are getting edibles actually because of how much pain they're in,
like with arthritis or other ailments that come with old age.
So that's another reason that it's kind of tied in this.
Like at athlete category, CBD also has incredible anti inflammatory
properties when it comes to things like muscle repair. So
there's a lot of CBD lotions and oils and muscle
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rubs that I love using, like as a daily practice
was working out and so more on the endiccannabinoid system.
There's a book called Runners High by Josiah Hess who
sort of got me into this as well. Basically the
not the TDL art, but just kind of a little
summary of this book. He's focusing on how weed and
running go together. He was doing a piece and he
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noticed that he was at this like crazy ultra marathon
trail race in the middle of fuck nowhere, and he
noticed all these vaate pens and he was like, what
are all these trail runners who are extremely elite fit
trail runners they're all taking edibles or they're hitting a
vap pen while they're going on these like fifty mile races.
And the answer was yes. But because of the stigma
of the drug, a lot of these runners did not
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want to talk until they were retired or they wanted
to talk off the record. So the book has all
these stories with athletes how the plant has helped, how
they use it with working out. So I definitely recommend that.
But if you've ever heard the word runners high, sort
of what it means is this, there's this logic that
if you do zone two cardio, and that's dependent on
every person, but if you do, if you're running for
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thirty minutes in a zone two place, you can reach
something which is called the runners high. I've had it before,
and it's just this very like joyful, playful feeling of
like you are in the zone, you kind of forget
about everything else and you are just running and really
being present in that moment. It sounds super vague and bullshitty.
It kind of is like, it's really hard to define
what the runner's high is. But that is a phenomenon
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that is separate, separate of weed. That is just something
that you can do even if you don't take edibles,
that you can get into the runners high, as they say.
But the logic that Josiah has talks in the book
is that weed can activate endocannabinoid system faster. Take a
shot of something. Every time I say endocannabinoid, it's a
hard word to say, but the logic is that we'd
basically if you take an edible before you're activating that
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system and you can get into that zone quicker when
you run. Anecdotally, that's something that I definitely feel. I
take an edible before I run, and I feel like
by the time that I'm out the door, I'm ready
to just lock in and have that movement. It has
made movements so much more enjoyable for me, and I
have obviously talked about it publicly in my social media.
When I first started using cannabis, which is like a
very recent thing for me, like the past few years,
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obviously of like smoke joint in college, but I never
thought it was like something I wanted to consume regularly
or like purchase on my own. Really basically, when I
started using weed, I just noticed that my runs were
so much more enjoyable. It was this very peaceful place
I should talk about on my social media and a
lot of it for me, like why I want to
talk about it versus shy away from it is that one,
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I think it's really important to disclose what you use,
you know, if it's like I'm taking vodkashots or this
or that. I guess some influencers like don't talk about
like everything they do, But for me, it's really important
because I think that it can be something that can
get people that say I fucking hate running, I will
never run. It can get these people to lace up
their shoes and get out the door, and I think
that's a beautiful thing. As someone who exists in the
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running space, to encourage more people to get into the sport,
I think that running has been far too inaccessible and
elitist for a very long time. A lot of people
quote don't feel like runners unless you've run certain marathons.
You hit certain times and prs and all that bullshit.
So for me, I think we'd is something that can
bring people into the sport that maybe thought that running
has to be this hard, evil, punishing thing. For me,
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running is this very joyful, playful, fun thing, and I
think cannabis has been a big part of that for me.
So if and once again, I'm not trying to push
this on anyone, like you have your own experience with
we'd whatever, but a lot of people have been curious
about it. So here's kind of a what to know
section of I think if you are thinking of specifically
incorporating it into your life, my first disclaimer is like,
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I'm not your doctor. My second disclaimer is that I
don't know you. Emphasis on the I don't know you, okay.
Strains There's a lot of different strains of weed, and
there's different you know, strains within hybrids and indica. There's
different terpene profile that can help activate different things as well.
Dosage is going to be highly variable. What is your height,
what is your weight? What's your metabolism? Like did you
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eat before you work out? How much did you eat?
Like what time of day is it in your routine?
Form of weed, how you want to ingest it. You
know tolerance of weed as well. So I can't really
give you a hard fast rule of like how much
weed to take before your run to feel good, because
I don't know you, and I don't know your experience
with the plant. But I really encourage you to be
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experimental and curious with it. Obviously be safe with it.
I think general rule of thumb is to start low
and slow, meaning that you do not want to just
take a ten milligram gummy and go run twenty miles
like that's going to be a shit show. You want
to take a very low dosage, and you want to
make sure that you're giving your body like enough time
to adapt to it before you head out the door.
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Some things that I have noticed as I've experimented is
that edibles, which are my favorite form of consumption, at
least as an athlete, they are going to take a
while to hit it to settle in. So my kind
of warning routine, as it looks right now, is I
eat oatmeal and I drink coffee. After that I'll take
an edible like probably right is done right. As I'm
done with breakfast, I give myself about thirty minutes into
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an hour to sort of do my journaling, maybe answer
some emails, put on my active where do my dynamic
warm up? And I hope by the time that I'm
maybe like ten to fifteen minutes into my run, the
edible hits. Now there's been a few times where are
the edible hits? When I'm doing my warm up and
then I walk outside my door and I'm a little
bit like goofy, like who are these people right outside
my door? And what am I doing? And it you know,
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I'm dilly dialing a little bit and I'm dicking around.
So ideally, for me, I would say, you want the
edible to hit like when you're in the movement, because
the first ten minutes of your run, I feel like
you could probably get there. But then the next let's
say twenty minutes, thirty minutes, whatever are going to be
more of that mental challenge. And so for me, when
the edible hits, I'm like, Okay, I'm good, I'm in
the zone. I've warmed up, I feel there, and now
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I'm just kind of in this flow state. I typically
take like five to ten milligrams before a run, but
that is all depending on like your metabolism, body weight,
et cetera, and how far and hard you're going with
your workout. I have a pretty high tolerance these days
as a little bit of a pothead. Also, I'm six
feet tall and I'm like a little bit bigger of
a build, So I think that's another factor that like
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maybe people don't know on social media. Some brands that
I have enjoyed. Off Field is a really new brand
that's pretty cool. You can buy their stuff on their
website because it uses Delta nine, which, if you don't know,
is chemically similar to THHC. It's just something that is
hemp derived. So it can be sold across all fifty
states in the US because, like wead is not legal.
They make these beverages that have five milligrams of weed
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and they also have other things like electrolytes in the product,
and they also have CBB to help with recovery, so
you can drink one of those before you run. You know,
it's not taboo like you're smoking a joint. You're gonna
smell like weed before a workout class, you know. Another
brand I like is Rose de Lights. They are the
edible brand that I enjoy. And then Camino is one
that's like a pretty popular brand that I've started taking
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just because I like find them all around New York.
But different methods for different folks. You know, bait pens
can be fun. I don't really like my vate pens are, okay.
I just have kind of had a point with them
where I feel like I'm a little bit of a
toddler walking around with like some little thing that I'm
like hitting constantly throughout the day, So I don't really
love it. Another thing to know is that your heart
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rate is going to increase with weed. So if you're
running or just any sort of workout, take note of that.
And I don't think it's dangerous obviously, Like I think
you just need to take account of your body and
take that as data. So let's say you have a
risk based watch or some sort of heart rate monitor.
If it is let's say, ten points higher than what
it typically is because you consume an edible, that's probably
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the reason why. But I think once you do it
more and more over time, you could compare your runs
to each other and then know that, like you're not
doing too much, if that makes sense. Another question that
I get all the time on social media, because I
don't know, maybe it is confusing that I'm like sponsored
by Hokah. I feel like it's pretty that I'm not
a professional athlete, but I do get occasional DMS that
are like, how dare you use this substance and promoted
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to young kids and the doping laws say you can't
take weed and you're using it whatever, So I get
that DM every now. Now just that of funny. But
the question that is in that DM is is we'd
a performance enhancing drug for athletes, and professional athletes are
going to be the one in this category that I
don't think. Maybe some of this U mascarlis are professional athletes,
Like hats off to you if you are, but they
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potentially could face legal issues with doping laws. Doping laws
are something that happened with when it comes to performance
and training for professional athletes. They're on contract. There's certain
drugs that are different from brand, from sport to country,
et cetera. So that's something that you have to pay
attention to at professional level. Doping laws I think I
think will change as we'd changes classification of drugs in
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the US, so as it gets off the schedule of
being classified as like a hard drug with severe penalties
against taking it. I think that'll change what the USDA
or not USDN, thinking like global organizations say about weed.
So I think that will come with time. But I
do think that federal legalization the US would change a lot.
As I mentioned earlier, you know, we government would produce
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more studies on weeds, so we could actually talk about
it more openly. Journalists could write about it, people like
me on TikTok could post about it without TikTok banning
it because I'm saying weed or something like if you
watch my content, I pretty much have to say like
I'm going on a gummy run. Or there's that one
creator I think her name is Natalie, who makes like
gardening videos. Like all of us have to talk about
it in such like a weird way because it is
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just like so taboo to talk about weed. Yet there's
never any sort of question when someone is taking a
shot of alcohol on TikTok, but like weed, it's like
you're putting this like crazy, wacky camp. And I think
that the taboos and all of those things will change,
and then I think that will trickle over to effect
how people can use it when it does come to athletics.
You know, players in the NBA and the NFL are
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obviously coming on the record saying like, noo a joint
before I play, and I play at this like high level.
They're they're busting those myths that like if you're if
you consume pot, you're just gonna like lay on the couch,
Like you could be a very high performance individual and
can still consume cannabis. So that's kind of the information
that I have on weed. Definitely DM me if you
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have any questions. Once again, I'm probably not gonna be
able to answer, like how much should I take when
I'm doing X activity, But if you have any questions
about products or literature or any other like social media
accounts to follow on it, I definitely have some recommendation.
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Is I hope you guys missed us. Maybe you didn't,
That is okay, but we are back potting And if
you didn't know why we took a little bit of break.
It was nothing too serious or deep. Besides the fact
that my computer was malfunctioning and I did not have
adequate time to get it fixed. I ran a marathon
out in California. Then I came back and they quoted
me on two weeks of like fixing the shit. So
I'm clearly an egirl in some ways, you know, like
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having a TikTok running a meme page. But I know
nothing about technology, so I apologize for our absence. But
we are back. We're here to pod today. It's a
Monday night and I'm here with Emma. How are you
doing over their dog?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm doing good. I'm extremely tired today for whatever reason.
But yes, I was about to say that we definitely
joke about being egirls, but it's extremely difficult to pod
via a phone and also just like how you upload,
so you know, I hope you guys maybe enjoyed the break.
Hopefully you guys missed us and are now excited for
some more health and wellness content. I know some people
(02:45):
on Geneva have sent through some res for us to
touch on, so that's what we're gonna chatting about today.
But I'm good. I feel like I'll just kind of
get right into my main point of what I've been
up to. I've just been like really enjoying living a
very simple life. I think I'm like at this point
in my life where I feel very secures. My relationship
(03:07):
where it's at work and everything, and I just feel
so fulfilled that I don't think I've been like relying
on like social media to give me like that boost
and dopamine. And I've just been thinking a lot about
like my relationship with Instagram and like social media, and
I mean I still check in periodically, like I'll post
some stories, but I'm like at this point where i
feel like I'm fully living my life for myself and
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not like thinking about like, oh I should post this
because i think like people will find this interesting and
like will interpret it as like me being cool or
like unique or like trendy. And so I've just been enjoying,
like really investing my time like in the moment, you know,
cooking doing things that's satisfy and fulfill me, like within
my relationships and friendships.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Been just enjoying joining the outdoors.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So it's finally summer out and my brother is going
to be living here the summer at my apartment for
his internship. So I'm just excited to like really bond
and connect with him. We've I'm like really close these
past two years, and I just really want to like
soak up every moment of that and I'm moving in
with my boyfriend at the end of the summer, which
is like a really exciting milestone.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Of my own personal relationship.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So I'm just trying to enjoy these last few months
of like you know, being in Manhattan. I'm going to
make the move over to Brooklyn, and yeah, I just
have felt like really happy and you know, just kind
of enjoying the monotony of like adult life. I kind
of think about my parents a lot where it's like
they're just doing like, you know, their regular errands like
on the weekends and you know, like cooking dinner and
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just enjoying life and they're not really getting caught up
and like what's trending, what's not and all of that.
And I just have found a lot of comfort in
that for whatever reason. So, yeah, a lot has happened,
but also not a lot has happened. Been swimming a lot,
got a gym membership, so back into my lifting era.
I suppose that I'll probably like go down the drain
in a week or two when I like get sick
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of it, But life has been good. I'll keep it
like that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
We love that. Yeah, I'm trying to remember what our
last update was I'm thinking it was before I ran
the marathon, so I guess I'll start there. On my end.
I ran the Big Suit of marathon. You probably heard
me yapping about it for many many months, if not years,
because I was technically supposed to it last year or whatever.
So I flew to California. I ran the race with Hoka.
There's a shakeout run before the race started at six am,
(05:19):
so I literally was done by like ten am California time.
There's no service on the course too, so I remember
when I finally got back to like the little like
check in area once I finished. Then I was starting
to get text from like my mom and my boyfriend.
I was like, oh okay, like people were checking in
on me. But it was a very weirdly like not isolating,
I would say, but it was just very different than
the New York City marathon, where you have the crowds
(05:39):
people cheering, you have friends and family you're going to
check into. You know, you have New York City runners
like I bumped into my friends at the race. This
was a race that was like just me by myself,
doing it for me, and I think that sense of
validation and personal achievement was really powerful for me, but
I guess it was very antiaclimatic in the sense that
there wasn't, you know, someone waiting to hug me at
(05:59):
the finish line. I suppose like I crossed the finish line,
I was just like, oh, like to quote Sabrina Brier,
who's a friend of mine is a TikToker, like that
little oh, Like I crossed the finish line, and it
felt like I was training and building for this like
fantastic moment, and it truly wasn't. And I want to
normalize that because I think marathon content on TikTok can
seem like super motivational and like if you're gonna be
the best day of your life, and like it definitely
(06:21):
can be. I think New York was the perfect kind
of equation of so many things happening for me, and
it turned out really well. But Big sur was just
kind of like I ran a marathon. It wasn't like
a life changing day. Not to say I wasn't grateful
I did it. I'm really proud of myself that I
committed to that training, but yeah, it was a challenging course,
kicking in the ass. If you have any more like
questions about Big Surrey. If you want to run it,
definitely do it. It's a beautiful course. It is really
(06:43):
really hard, and I feel like I couldn't have trained
better than I did for it, just because it was
so much hills, so much elevation. The course was slanted
the whole time if you've ever driven up Highway one
in California, so that was kind of fucking with me.
But after I did that, I did a little bit
of traveling. I was just trying to like a lot
of time off running, and then as soon as I
said that, I went on a run like a week
(07:04):
and a half after the marathon, just because I wanted
to like scratch that itch again. But I have a
really good plan with my PET now to work on
fixing the imbalances that I have in my running gate
that kind of led to this weird hip injury before
the marathon. I think you always can constantly be learning
about your body, and physical therapy is obviously expensive and
like there's certain barriers to entry there, but I do
(07:24):
think it has helped me a lot as an athlete,
as a runner, as a health wellness person, and it's
something that I've just like deeply deeply invested in, so
that has been fun for me. I'm back going to
workout classes and stuff like solid Core and Soul Cycle.
I might take an edible and go to Tracy Anderson
if you don't know, if that is just searched on TikTok,
it's like the wackiest, like dumb workout ever. But I
feel like for content, it could be quite interesting and
(07:45):
I would have to be very high in order to
take it. So you know, if I do that, and
then yeah, I've just been hanging with my man's that's
pretty much it. I feel like the social media girls
are up in my dms about that. You guys are
all positive. There's no like freaks out there, which is
very kind. But I've been keeping it what is it, it's
I've been keeping it seek private but not secret. Like
I'm very happy, and I've been doing some soft launches.
(08:06):
You know, all of his friends have been like continuously
taking photos and they're like, post is on your Instagram,
post on instagm. You can't see his face, like this
is a good soft launch, and I'm like, they're really
invested in our relationship, which is really cute and fun.
So yeah, I've been just hanging out. Honestly, I feel
like my content has been lacking because I've been spending
so much time like investing in my relationship and I
don't want to just like film around my boyfriend and whatever.
(08:26):
So if you've seen less of me on TikTok or
YouTube whatever, I'll get on my posting grind at some point.
But I'm just kind of living in the moment, as
Emma said. But I think that's all of my updates.
The podcast this week is going to be about exercise.
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We are going to get into the main portion of
today's episode. As Kate mentioned, we're going to be talking
a lot about.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Exercise related things.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
First thing is not having any access to lifting weights,
And I think this is like a really great thing
to talk about in the sense of like optimizing and
making the most.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Of what you have.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I know, a lot of grillies, you know, or in
that time of their life where they're in college, maybe
they're going back home and just like living in different
environments where they may not have access to like a
gym all the time. And before I get into like
body weight movement and like the benefits and.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Like how to incorporate that or go about just.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Doing body weight, I definitely just want to touch on
like why lifting or any type of resistance training is
important in general, because body weight movements do you definitely
fall under this greater umbrella. So why lifting is important
is because with weight training, uh well, weight training is
the use of resistance to cause muscular contraction and this
then leads to increased strength and anaerobic endurance and then
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just the general size of our skeletal muscles. And so
how this happens is that when we do do any
type of resistance training, whether you know that's using actual
weight or just our body weight, our muscle fibers go
through cellular change. And so we're doing microscopic damage when
we are lifting heavy things, and it's creating like really
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small tears in our muscle fibers. And then as we
recover and let those muscles fully recover from the damage,
it results in stronger and bigger muscles, and really like
lifting makes you stronger, and that's definitely one of the
main reasons why people do focus on lifting weights for
their overall health. And it allows you to perform like
daily tasks, so you can basically end up relying on
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yourself more, such as like carrying heavyer groceries and like
lifting your suitcase up when you're boarding an airplane. And
I think this can be very empowering, especially for women,
where we're often taught that like, oh, we should be
like weak and we should rely on men like look
the heavy things. And I think it's like really nice
when it's you can just fully rely on yourself that
it allows a lot more independence within your own your
(14:53):
own life, especially if you like live alone or if
you're older and maybe don't have as many people in
your life to assist you. But also too, like weight
training can then have other effects on other forms of exercise,
especially those that require speed and power. So think you know,
like running, cycling, swimming, anything that you do in the
gym can definitely have a huge impact on that.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
For example, with swimming.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
For me, I know that when I am really prioritizing
like lower body exercises and like lower body like lifting movements,
whether that's squats, lunges, et cetera, I have a much
more powerful kick off the wall and that allows me
to propel myself further and have like better underwater And
for anyone that swims knows the importance of like flip
turns and your underwaters. So that's just one example of
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you know, even though swimming is a cardio based sport,
me lifting and building muscle does have great impacts on
my swimming capabilities. Another benefit of lifting is that it's
known to do some metabolism, since muscle is more metabolically
active than fat and post weight training, actually you can
see an increase in metabolic rate seventy two hours after
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strength training versus cardio, where you usually see that metabolic
burn decrease relatively soon after you have completed your workout.
Another thing is that weight training will help lower the
risk of injury and falls. You're able to support your
body better. You have a better increased range of motion
and mobility, and increased strength around major joints. So think
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about your hips and knees. Therefore, it's taking off less
load and pressure primarily on your lower back when you're
doing really any type of daily movements. And I know,
we kind of like live in the society where like
chronic back pain is almost like expected as an adult. Granted,
a lot of that has to do with the fact
that we're sitting all the time in desks and we're
not really engaging our core as much, and no one
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is really like lifting as much because we live in
a society where we're not you know, walking thirty miles
carrying you know, bags of rice or whatever. Like you know,
I'm thinking about the you know, little house in the
prairie like kind of back in that day, you know,
they would have to wan lock wank long distances, you know,
carrying logs for wood, et cetera. And also to lifting.
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The last thing is that it strengthens bones, which is
something that I have been paying a lot of close
attention to and that I feel like a lot of
podcasts have been talking to in terms of like longevity,
especially like woman, especially weight bearing exercises can put temporary
stress on your bones, sending a message to bone building
cells to take action and rebuild your bones and making
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them stronger, and this increases bone density, which actually reduces
the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. So bone density and
like good bone density becomes more crucial as we age.
And as I mentioned, like modern society has gotten too
comfortable with like the sense of like not having to
like experience any like heavy bearing loads on their body,
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and so we just have a limited we really have
a limited eliminated the need to carry heavy items in
our regular life. And that's why I think a lot
of people don't love the experience of like lifting weights,
because it's a very uncomfortable feeling when you're not used to,
you know, lifting heavy things all the time. But I
think like focusing more on the benefits on your overall
health can be a very motivating factor.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I think especially for women.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Just knowing that like we are at greater risk at
like of osteoporosis and sarcopenia. Knowing that you can really
reduce any of those potential risks just by you know,
lifting some dumbells doing some squats, I think is like
a really really great motivator. And so kind of getting
into like body weight exercise benefits, you know, body weight
movements are going to focus on your body's natural movements
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and help train the movement patterns that we use in
everyday life. So think about a squat like that mimics
the movement that we do when we're getting up from
a chair. And I think a lot of people think
like body weight exercises, like don't do anything, Like you're
not using any weights, Like what's the purpose of it?
Like can I actually build muscle? You're still putting your
muscles under tension, which is still resulting in tissue damage,
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which is still going to and stronger muscles. It just
may be a slower process and you're going to have
to get creative once you kind of have hit that plateau,
just because you are only putting as much tension as
much depending on how much you weigh. And so if
you're not really like gaining weight or anything, if you're
just maintaining your weight, like you're not really adding any
additional like load or tension onto your muscle fibers, and so,
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like I said, at a certain point, body weight will
produce almost more of like an endurance exercise versus like
muscle building, as you're not able to progressively overload as
efficiently with your own body weight, but you can still
challenge your muscles through either increasing your reps, less rest
or variations. So think about going from a regular push
up to a spider Man push up. There's so many
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variations of like different lunges and squats you can do
to really you know, make your body rethink and kind
of like do a different type of movement that is
almost like a surprise.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
To the muscles.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Body Weight exercises are going to help with core stability,
and this also ties back to like lifting in general.
When we lift, whether it's body weight or with weights,
the core is always engaged since it's being braced to
help reduce the risk of lower back pain or injury,
which is great. So you're kind of getting a core
workout while you know you're doing lower body movements, and
it'll still help increase mobility and flexibility, just like regular
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weight training. And I think what's really great about body
weight training that everyone should you know, take in consideration,
especially if you're someone who does lift true weights, is
that you can really prioritize on form because you are
also then dealing with, you know, holding a fifty pound dumbell.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
So a few body weight exercises that you can do.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
These are things that I've incorporated in my own workout routine, squats, wall.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Sits, pushups.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
This is something that I've been doing a lot. I
want to be able to do as many push ups
as I want, so I've been trying to do ten
to twenty at the end of each of my workouts,
and I definitely have noticed, you know, just like general
strength through that. And it's also like very rewarding to
know that, like, oh, I was once only able to
do like two or three pushups, and now I can
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do eight lunges, whether that's like a regular lunch or
reverse lunch, step ups, and glot bridges. So that is
just to name a few. And I think too, like
women naturally have less upper body strength than men. So
I again really encourage women to just like start trying
to do pull ups and start trying to do pull
push ups, just because it's really fulfilling and it's a
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huge confidence boost knowing that, like you can do more
than once, because I think it's like always a running
joke that like woman can only do like one pull
up or like no pull ups at all, and it's like, no,
fuck you, Like I actually am strong and I can
do these things. I think one of the best benefits
about body weight exercises, and especially for girlies that are
in the stage like I said, where you may not
always have a gym all the time, is that it's
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you don't need a gym, Like it's extremely affordable. You
can do it in the comforts of your own home.
You can do it in the backyard, and it can
still be social if you're like getting together with a
friend and you do it in the park. I know
people that live in like very urban spaces. I'm thinking
New York for example, Like people are always working out
like on the grass at Central Park or like at
Tompkins Square, kind of in the basketball courts, and so
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it's like just meet up with a friend and do
something small. You don't have to do a lot, and
you don't have to kill your body. Like just doing
a few rounds of push ups is like a great
workout on its own, and then kind of getting into
like well I get bulky from like body weights or
just lifting. In general, I think women have this expectation
that they should be long and lean, meaning like they
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have very little body fat and like very minimal muscle,
so kind of think like, you know, anyone that you
see in social media that's like a model essentially, And
so I think a lot of women stick to cardio
or stuff that is maybe more plates that again is
a little bit more like body weight focused just from
the fear of getting bulky. Getting bulky is a complete myth.
This has definitely been dunked numerous times. Nobody really accidentally
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becomes a bodybuilder overnight. You know, muscle bulk is extremely
dependent on testosterone production, and women have far less testosterone
than men. And even if you're training extremely hard, like
you will still kind of continue to build muscles slower
than men. And if you are looking bulky, it's probably
because you're like and some sort of like insane calarie surplus,
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which like again looking bulky, there's nothing wrong with that,
but I know everyone has different aestheticals if you want
to say that, and I think that's like.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Totally fine and valid.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But if you're fearful of lifting because you know you're
gonna like start looking like a man, or you might
have like I don't know, football shoulders, like you're fine,
you're not going to and you know, a lot of
it is going to be dependent on just like what
your general body shape is and how your bones and
your skeletal muscle you know is some people have wider ribs,
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some people don't. But definitely just get in the gym,
you know, do your body weight. I love body weight stuff.
My brother has been doing that exclusively. My boyfriend also
has like body weight only workout days. So you know,
you can definitely incorporate it. It's not like you can
only do that. But I think anything that challenges your
muscles is definitely a huge benefit for your overall health.
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And I definitely encourage all girlies to get into it.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, and I also think too, it will promote promote longevity.
Like if you are killing yourself going to like max
weight in the gym every day, you might like not
feel like you're burning yourself out. Because my experience lifting,
at least, I don't feel super super exhausted the moment
after I lift, so I'm like, Okay, let's go do
another hard thing tomorrow. But I think over time it
can really add up on you. So bodyweight stuff is
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very important. I love doing that stuff as a runner,
like specifically before my runs is a little bit of
like a warm up, doing single leg lunges, hit bridges,
a lot of like mobility stuff, So I think it's
good for all the girlies to do. Now, my section
of the pod for today is going to be about
weed and working out, and you might think, how do
those things go together? Whenever I smoke a joint, I
feel like I'm going to go to sleep, So true, bestie,
(24:59):
like totally happens to the best of us. I love
taking medical and just like watching goofy videos. But there's
a little bit of interesting science kind of coming about
coming out that I have been I'm not gonna say
in the forefront of but I've definitely been talking about
it on social media, kind of like in this bubble
we're in where people are talking about consuming weed in
conjunction with working out. Now, specifically for me, it's related
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to running, but there's a lot of people that lift,
there's a lot of people that do other stuff, and
they're thinking about ways that we can sort of destigmatize
this plant and see its properties as good. A few
of you guys have asked me this on my personal
Instagram and then a few in Geneva, so I thought
we should just tackle this thing now. Why would you
combine the two. As I said earlier, some people, I
think associate stoners with like laying on the couch, going
(25:43):
to bed, all that stuff, which can definitely be true.
But there is new research in science talking about the
end ofcannabinoid system, which I will get into now, and
this thought that THHC and the cannabinoid properties in the
plant marijuana can actually activate the nabinoid system and can
provide a lot of benefits when it comes to exercise performance, recovery,
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also when it comes to things like chronic pain. And
I'm gonna speak anecdotally mostly in this section, just because
generally with weed, there's not a lot of good studies
on this thing. A little bit of a history lesson.
Back when Reagan was president of this country, there's a
little bit of what is known as the War on Drugs.
They kind of did a crackdown on a lot of
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drugs that were typically used by different communities. A lot
of the way that they were cracking down on these
drugs was very racist, and there's a lot of history
and different documentaries you can read on that. But my
point of bringing that up is that I think the
legacy of the War on drugs Era lives on today
and a lot of people have unconscious bias or maybe
(26:47):
stigma around things like marijuana. And there's different drugs and
different classifications of drugs. Cocaine is different than weed, and
weed is different than psilocybin, but we all sort of
think that all drugs are the same, and I think
because of these government policies, we really haven't had opportunity
to do adequate research on potential benefits in therapy settings
for these drugs. I think if we've talked about this before,
(27:09):
about how psilocybin, which is a psychedelic mushroom has been
used to help people with anarexia, with PTSD, with schizophrenic
well not with SCHIZPHNYA that would actually awful for people,
but with bipolar. Sorry. So there's different drugs that actually
can be helpful and used in assisted settings. Now when
it comes to weed, in marijuana, people are using this
recreationally when they are talking about the benefits with working out.
(27:32):
But from my perspective, I would love to see a
lot of studies on the clinical end of like take
ten people do a double blind placebo study, have them
run in the treadmill for ten minutes, you know, have
some of them consume an edible, some of them not,
and see if there are any benefits in terms of output,
because right now it's like all anecdotal when you do
see people like myself talking on social media and so
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I understand why people like don't entirely trust it, yes,
because we do not have like developed science on it. Also,
when we do research drugs in the country, government typically
does not use the highest quality, best sourced drug available.
They use really shitty quality strains of weed and different
drugs when they are doing tests on it. So it's
like a chicken in the egg like before. We need
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like in order to get these better clinical studies, we
would probably have to have a federal legalization of marijuana,
but that's probably not going to happen because our government
doesn't want that to happen. Whatever. I think in the
next twenty years, we'll probably look back on this period
and be like, why were we classifying weed as something
like equivalent to a cocaine, you know in this country.
But right now that's kind of where the drug sits.
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It is getting declassified as we talk. You want to
look more into that government policy, you totally can, but
back to working out, like, why would you use weed
when you're working out? Here are some of the anecdotal
benefits that I have noticed, the main one being focused.
People talk about getting in the zone when you're working out,
and I think in our society where we have endless
distractions and we all have like laundry lists of shit
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we can do, when you do have that dedicated time
to let's say, go on the thirty minute run or
go to the gym, I find myself, once again, this
is anecdotal. My head is making lists, my head is
thinking about what I need to do after I get home.
What am I going to make for dinner? Very few
of us have a intentionally like a very focused mind
body connection when we're working out. I feel like a
lot of people are thinking about other stuff versus like
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I feel my quad muscle moving, or I feel this working,
or I can hear my breath or I can feel
my heart rate. We are so detached from mind and
body because we are in such like a hustle hustle
capitalist country that I think for me, when I have
used weed, it kind of creates this blinder effect where
I'm not focused on the people that I'm running by
on the streets of Manhattan. You know, I'm not thinking
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about like what I have to do when I get home,
what my email in box looks like. I am just
truly in that moment, because obviously your inhibitions when you
are consuming cannabis go down, so you are very much
in this like cerebral state where you're just kind of
blowing through the movement. It's helped me a lot with anxiety.
I really think that it has been a powerful plan
(30:00):
medicine for me. Obviously other people have different experiences with weed,
but for me at least, it has allowed me to
just be in the zone and be really like joyful, playful.
It's helped me a lot not overthink when working out.
I initially got into taking edibles before running when I
had a stress fracture and I was scared to death
of re injuring myself. I thought like, make sure this
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step is like looking like this, and make sure my
need doesn't come over my toe, and make sure my
hips are in the right placement, make sure my my
ribs are in this right placement, right Like I was
going to physical therapy to retrain basically how to run
and walk, so when I was cleared to run, I
was anxious as hell about reinjuring myself, and as soon
as I took an edible and did that, I was
just like in the zone, not worried about that injury.
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And there's some studies that obviously drugs do change your
brain a little bit. So the logic is that it
is changing your neural pathways of like what you are
saying to yourself, and then in real time when you're
working out, you are like doing that action to retrain yourself.
Once again anecdotal, but I feel like there's this like
mind body connection when I use weed when I work out. Now,
from a recovery perspective, when you are working out, you're
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obviously tearing apart muscle fiber, which is not bad, that's good,
but you do need to spend time recovery. And I
think a lot of us are very go go go.
As I said before, we don't sit down after we
work out. Our heart rates may be elevated or something
like that. There's inflammation in the body, and there's research that,
once again is very anecdotal at the time, but there's
a theory that the cannabinoid strains that are in THHD
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can actually activate this system in your body called the
endiccannabinoid system. This is something that is responsive of like
flight or fight. It's responsive for healing muscle fibers, whatever.
And so the logic that is kind of tied with
weed at least is that weed can help you recover
quicker because it is telling your body to slow down.
There's a lot of work being done with cannabis with
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people with PTSD chronic pain. A lot of elderly people
are getting edibles actually because of how much pain they're in,
like with arthritis or other ailments that come with old age.
So that's another reason that it's kind of tied in this.
Like at athlete category, CBD also has incredible anti inflammatory
properties when it comes to things like muscle repair. So
there's a lot of CBD lotions and oils and muscle
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rubs that I love using, like as a daily practice
was working out and so more on the endiccannabinoid system.
There's a book called Runners High by Josiah Hess who
sort of got me into this as well. Basically the
not the TDL art, but just kind of a little
summary of this book. He's focusing on how weed and
running go together. He was doing a piece and he
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noticed that he was at this like crazy ultra marathon
trail race in the middle of fuck nowhere, and he
noticed all these vaate pens and he was like, what
are all these trail runners who are extremely elite fit
trail runners they're all taking edibles or they're hitting a
vap pen while they're going on these like fifty mile races.
And the answer was yes. But because of the stigma
of the drug, a lot of these runners did not
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want to talk until they were retired or they wanted
to talk off the record. So the book has all
these stories with athletes how the plant has helped, how
they use it with working out. So I definitely recommend that.
But if you've ever heard the word runners high, sort
of what it means is this, there's this logic that
if you do zone two cardio, and that's dependent on
every person, but if you do, if you're running for
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thirty minutes in a zone two place, you can reach
something which is called the runners high. I've had it before,
and it's just this very like joyful, playful feeling of
like you are in the zone, you kind of forget
about everything else and you are just running and really
being present in that moment. It sounds super vague and bullshitty.
It kind of is like, it's really hard to define
what the runner's high is. But that is a phenomenon
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that is separate, separate of weed. That is just something
that you can do even if you don't take edibles,
that you can get into the runners high, as they say.
But the logic that Josiah has talks in the book
is that weed can activate endocannabinoid system faster. Take a
shot of something. Every time I say endocannabinoid, it's a
hard word to say, but the logic is that we'd
basically if you take an edible before you're activating that
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system and you can get into that zone quicker when
you run. Anecdotally, that's something that I definitely feel. I
take an edible before I run, and I feel like
by the time that I'm out the door, I'm ready
to just lock in and have that movement. It has
made movements so much more enjoyable for me, and I
have obviously talked about it publicly in my social media.
When I first started using cannabis, which is like a
very recent thing for me, like the past few years,
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obviously of like smoke joint in college, but I never
thought it was like something I wanted to consume regularly
or like purchase on my own. Really basically, when I
started using weed, I just noticed that my runs were
so much more enjoyable. It was this very peaceful place
I should talk about on my social media and a
lot of it for me, like why I want to
talk about it versus shy away from it is that one,
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I think it's really important to disclose what you use,
you know, if it's like I'm taking vodkashots or this
or that. I guess some influencers like don't talk about
like everything they do, But for me, it's really important
because I think that it can be something that can
get people that say I fucking hate running, I will
never run. It can get these people to lace up
their shoes and get out the door, and I think
that's a beautiful thing. As someone who exists in the
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running space, to encourage more people to get into the sport,
I think that running has been far too inaccessible and
elitist for a very long time. A lot of people
quote don't feel like runners unless you've run certain marathons.
You hit certain times and prs and all that bullshit.
So for me, I think we'd is something that can
bring people into the sport that maybe thought that running
has to be this hard, evil, punishing thing. For me,
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running is this very joyful, playful, fun thing, and I
think cannabis has been a big part of that for me.
So if and once again, I'm not trying to push
this on anyone, like you have your own experience with
we'd whatever, but a lot of people have been curious
about it. So here's kind of a what to know
section of I think if you are thinking of specifically
incorporating it into your life, my first disclaimer is like,
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I'm not your doctor. My second disclaimer is that I
don't know you. Emphasis on the I don't know you, okay.
Strains There's a lot of different strains of weed, and
there's different you know, strains within hybrids and indica. There's
different terpene profile that can help activate different things as well.
Dosage is going to be highly variable. What is your height,
what is your weight? What's your metabolism? Like did you
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eat before you work out? How much did you eat?
Like what time of day is it in your routine?
Form of weed, how you want to ingest it. You
know tolerance of weed as well. So I can't really
give you a hard fast rule of like how much
weed to take before your run to feel good, because
I don't know you, and I don't know your experience
with the plant. But I really encourage you to be
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experimental and curious with it. Obviously be safe with it.
I think general rule of thumb is to start low
and slow, meaning that you do not want to just
take a ten milligram gummy and go run twenty miles
like that's going to be a shit show. You want
to take a very low dosage, and you want to
make sure that you're giving your body like enough time
to adapt to it before you head out the door.
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Some things that I have noticed as I've experimented is
that edibles, which are my favorite form of consumption, at
least as an athlete, they are going to take a
while to hit it to settle in. So my kind
of warning routine, as it looks right now, is I
eat oatmeal and I drink coffee. After that I'll take
an edible like probably right is done right. As I'm
done with breakfast, I give myself about thirty minutes into
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an hour to sort of do my journaling, maybe answer
some emails, put on my active where do my dynamic
warm up? And I hope by the time that I'm
maybe like ten to fifteen minutes into my run, the
edible hits. Now there's been a few times where are
the edible hits? When I'm doing my warm up and
then I walk outside my door and I'm a little
bit like goofy, like who are these people right outside
my door? And what am I doing? And it you know,
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I'm dilly dialing a little bit and I'm dicking around.
So ideally, for me, I would say, you want the
edible to hit like when you're in the movement, because
the first ten minutes of your run, I feel like
you could probably get there. But then the next let's
say twenty minutes, thirty minutes, whatever are going to be
more of that mental challenge. And so for me, when
the edible hits, I'm like, Okay, I'm good, I'm in
the zone. I've warmed up, I feel there, and now
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I'm just kind of in this flow state. I typically
take like five to ten milligrams before a run, but
that is all depending on like your metabolism, body weight,
et cetera, and how far and hard you're going with
your workout. I have a pretty high tolerance these days
as a little bit of a pothead. Also, I'm six
feet tall and I'm like a little bit bigger of
a build, So I think that's another factor that like
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maybe people don't know on social media. Some brands that
I have enjoyed. Off Field is a really new brand
that's pretty cool. You can buy their stuff on their
website because it uses Delta nine, which, if you don't know,
is chemically similar to THHC. It's just something that is
hemp derived. So it can be sold across all fifty
states in the US because, like wead is not legal.
They make these beverages that have five milligrams of weed
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and they also have other things like electrolytes in the product,
and they also have CBB to help with recovery, so
you can drink one of those before you run. You know,
it's not taboo like you're smoking a joint. You're gonna
smell like weed before a workout class, you know. Another
brand I like is Rose de Lights. They are the
edible brand that I enjoy. And then Camino is one
that's like a pretty popular brand that I've started taking
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just because I like find them all around New York.
But different methods for different folks. You know, bait pens
can be fun. I don't really like my vate pens are, okay.
I just have kind of had a point with them
where I feel like I'm a little bit of a
toddler walking around with like some little thing that I'm
like hitting constantly throughout the day, So I don't really
love it. Another thing to know is that your heart
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rate is going to increase with weed. So if you're
running or just any sort of workout, take note of that.
And I don't think it's dangerous obviously, Like I think
you just need to take account of your body and
take that as data. So let's say you have a
risk based watch or some sort of heart rate monitor.
If it is let's say, ten points higher than what
it typically is because you consume an edible, that's probably
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the reason why. But I think once you do it
more and more over time, you could compare your runs
to each other and then know that, like you're not
doing too much, if that makes sense. Another question that
I get all the time on social media, because I
don't know, maybe it is confusing that I'm like sponsored
by Hokah. I feel like it's pretty that I'm not
a professional athlete, but I do get occasional DMS that
are like, how dare you use this substance and promoted
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to young kids and the doping laws say you can't
take weed and you're using it whatever, So I get
that DM every now. Now just that of funny. But
the question that is in that DM is is we'd
a performance enhancing drug for athletes, and professional athletes are
going to be the one in this category that I
don't think. Maybe some of this U mascarlis are professional athletes,
Like hats off to you if you are, but they
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potentially could face legal issues with doping laws. Doping laws
are something that happened with when it comes to performance
and training for professional athletes. They're on contract. There's certain
drugs that are different from brand, from sport to country,
et cetera. So that's something that you have to pay
attention to at professional level. Doping laws I think I
think will change as we'd changes classification of drugs in
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the US, so as it gets off the schedule of
being classified as like a hard drug with severe penalties
against taking it. I think that'll change what the USDA
or not USDN, thinking like global organizations say about weed.
So I think that will come with time. But I
do think that federal legalization the US would change a lot.
As I mentioned earlier, you know, we government would produce
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more studies on weeds, so we could actually talk about
it more openly. Journalists could write about it, people like
me on TikTok could post about it without TikTok banning
it because I'm saying weed or something like if you
watch my content, I pretty much have to say like
I'm going on a gummy run. Or there's that one
creator I think her name is Natalie, who makes like
gardening videos. Like all of us have to talk about
it in such like a weird way because it is
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just like so taboo to talk about weed. Yet there's
never any sort of question when someone is taking a
shot of alcohol on TikTok, but like weed, it's like
you're putting this like crazy, wacky camp. And I think
that the taboos and all of those things will change,
and then I think that will trickle over to effect
how people can use it when it does come to athletics.
You know, players in the NBA and the NFL are
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obviously coming on the record saying like, noo a joint
before I play, and I play at this like high level.
They're they're busting those myths that like if you're if
you consume pot, you're just gonna like lay on the couch,
Like you could be a very high performance individual and
can still consume cannabis. So that's kind of the information
that I have on weed. Definitely DM me if you
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have any questions. Once again, I'm probably not gonna be
able to answer, like how much should I take when
I'm doing X activity, But if you have any questions
about products or literature or any other like social media
accounts to follow on it, I definitely have some recommendation.
So yeah, that's this episode of seamusk Gurlies. It's a
Monday night in Money Make in Manhattan, and we did it, Gurlies.
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I'm having Budgie curry and that's what I'm getting into.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
What about you I'm about to go picnic with my man,
so hopefully we'll get that done before the sun sets.
And we'll talk to you girlies next week. Thanks for
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