Barriers to Physical Activity WVU Health and Wellness

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Episode Transcript

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And welcome to the WVU Community HealthForum presented by Camden Clark Hospital. Today
I have Scott Smith. He isthe coordinator, excuse me, the membership
coordinator over at WV Health and WellnessCenter. Scott, how are you doing
this morning? Pretty good yourself.I'm doing well. It's been getting a
little warmer the past few weeks andthings have been going a little bit better.

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I'm very exhausted right now just becauseeverything going on personally, just very
worn out. But hopefully I canget kind of back to where I've tried
to been, or I've been tryingto be for the last few months,
so for sure. But anyway,speaking of being worn out and being tired

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and everything, I know that Ihave a membership with you guys over at
the Health of Wantas Center. Isigned up, got everything ready to go,
went the first week and have notbeen back in since. It's gonna
say it's been a while since we'veseen you. It's been it's been a
while. Like I said, it'sthis barriers that I have had the last
since I've been in there has definitelypulling a position to where I cannot even

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get off the couch anymore, whichis not uncommon, you know what I
mean, it's a it's a problemthat most people you know in general face,
So there's a there's a lot ofbarriers that that individual's face when it
when it comes to you know,getting physically active in general, and especially
you know, even the next stepof joining a gym especially so UM,

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you know that's financial motivation, UM, just general stereotypes. I mean,
that's that's obviously an uphill battle ingeneral, UM, but it's obviously something
that's very important for all of usto do. You know, physical activity
is something that's definitely gonna um,you know, not only increase your quality
of life, but increase your quantityof life as well. So essentially that's

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uh, that's kind of my jobas a membership coordinator is to um convince
people as to why they should getphysically active and more importantly, why they
should get physically active in a safeand effective manner by joining someplace like medically
based self and Waanta Center. Yeah. Yeah, and I and just being
in there that one time and goingthrough the tour with UM. I can

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never remember the guy's name that hewas at the front counter, Joe Joe.
I went through with Joe, andhe kind of showed me everything you
guys have over there, and I'venever been over there before that, and
just seeing kind of everything that youguys offer and things you have, it's
it's incredible to know that that's thereand not many people like It's almost like
they didn't don't either know about itor they just continue to choose to go

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somewhere else. I don't know ifthat's an accurate statement when I make that
comment, but yeah, I meanif if you've been in the area for
a long time, I mean,I think a lot of people know of,
you know, what used to bethe Family Fitness Center, or even
longer ago than that, it wasthe Parkersburg Racketball Club, and so you
get a general idea or a generalthought in your head as to what it
is, you know, and soyou just think of it as that's that's

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that's the old racketball club, orthat's the old fitness center. But,
um, we've made a lot ofstrides over the last I guess four years
really um, but we've been apart of WW Medicine and Camen Clark as
officially a department since twenty fourteen,So since that time, we've really tried
to mold into the medical fitness model. So you know, essentially what the

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medical fitness model is, uh isyou know, to to shorten it up,
I guess is we try to focuson two different aspects. The preventative
aspect. So you know, ifyou're someone who is on the brink of
you know, having a major lifeevent, heart attack, stroke, you
know, UM developing, you know, type two diabetes, hypertension, things

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like that. UM, you know, we want to work with those individuals
to try to prevent something worse happeningand prevent you know, that that UM
progressing into something that could actually turninto a major life event. And on
the back end, UM, anyonewho has had a major life of it,
and you know, maybe they've alreadybeen diagnosed with type two diabetes,
or they've had a heart attack oryou know, something like that to where

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it's forced them to make a lifestylechange, then we want to work with
those individuals in a rehabilitative way.So but aside from that, even if
you don't fall into either of thosetwo categories, you're still able to join
the gym as just a member ofthe general public, you know, So
it doesn't have to be like,it's not a physical therapy setting, it's

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not a you know, doctor referralonly type thing. If you're just a
member of general public and you're listeningto this right now and you're interested in
joining a gym or becoming physically active, I would encourage you to stop buy
and check it out, because,like I said, a lot of things
have changed and changed for the better. So ye, and it's very very
clean. I will give that asmuch credit as where credit is due on

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that. I appreciate. I amtalking like it is super super clean.
Like what was it. I thinkit was Brandy that was over there.
You could see her constantly going andcleaning everything every but he was constantly making
sure everything was clean. Everybody thatgoes there, if they use something,
they make sure to wipe everything down. And that's where I think that kind
of sets everything apart, like everybodyelse from you guys, right, is

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the fact that it is clean andit's not like dirty Dungey like a normal
typical gym you would think. Yeah. I mean, that's one of the
components of medical medically based fitness isthe safety and cleanliness aspect. So in
order to be considered a medically basedfitness facility. You know, cleanliness has
to be one of the highest prioritieson our lists, so we do a
lot of things to make sure thatnot only is it safe and appear or

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sorry, not only is it cleanand appear to be clean, that we're
doing the stuff that you really can'tsee as well. You know, like
we installed an eye wave of airpurification system, so we're constantly filtering the
air. We use a backpack foggingmachine, so we go around and use
that after clothes generally because it kindof you know, sends out a fog
and generally members aren't too psyched aboutseeing that done when when we're open.

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But it essentially what it does isit disinfects things, um, you know,
it kills mold, kills um,you know, bacteria, germs,
viruses, things like that, andit continues to do so for an additional
I believe twenty four hours. That'scool. I've never I've never heard of
a backpack fogger, Like it's likeGhostbusters. That's actually really really cool because
I know the eye wave thing.I used to sell um stuff like that

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year, like a year or soago, and those things are nifty little
little devices like the UV and disinventall those are those are wonderful, But
a backpack fogger, that's the thingthat kind of piques my interest of what
how that works and its and it'ssell and it like in the sense of
everything how that would work. Butapparently it seems to work because it's it's

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pretty freaking clean in that building.I give you guys a hundred percent credit
for that. We also have acleaning company that comes in each night and
they do a deep clean on thelocker rooms and you know, all the
things that we're unable to get tothroughout the day. So you know,
a aside from visibly being clean,um, you know, we try to
do the stuff that uh like aboveand beyond so that way, you know,
we try to try to keep asclose or to it closely resemble a

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clinically clinical a clinical environment such asa doctor's office as we can. But
at the same time we're still thegym, you know what I mean,
So, um, there's gonna bepeople sweating and things like yeah, and
you can that's something you can't avoidover there, right, Um. But
backtracking just a little bit, backto like kind of like the physical bearers
and everything how um I mentioned everythingearlier, kind of briefly go into detail

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kind of what is your what arethe most typical and most common bearers that
you run into just for you personally, like what people usually tell you.
Yeah, So my job essentially isUM. You know, I both go
out and into doctor's offices and tryto get them to refer their patients,
and then I also welcome individuals intothe facility when they're stopping by for either

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a tour or where they're they're interestedin joining UM. And I hear you
know a lot of different things thatpeople say, you know, whether it
be that they don't have enough timeto work out, you know, they
it's just inconvenient to exercise in general. You know, the i'd say the
most common one, which is somethingthat you experience yourself, lack of motivation.
You know, majority of people honestlyjust don't enjoy exercise. But I

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think that comes from also not understandingwhat you're supposed to do. So,
you know, lack of education onor I guess, lack of information as
to what you're supposed to do andthe proper types of exercise to do for
you would often you know, makeyou not want to do it, I
guess. You know, so ifyou're not informed as to exactly what you're

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supposed to be doing, it's kindof hard to get you know, excited
about doing it. Right. Alot of people get bored with exercise because
they used to do the wrong typesof exercise, you know, such as
like nobody likes to run. Well, some people do, but most people
don't like to just run on atreadmill. You know, that's the same
thing you do every single day.I could see where that get boring.
You know, a lot of peoplearen't confident with their ability to be physically

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active because they've been sedentary for aperiod of time, and they're not confident
that they can even you know,get active because they're afraid that they would
suffer an injury, or maybe theyhave just suffered an injury and they don't
want to make it worse. Right, and then you know, the main
well, I guess not the mainone, but one of the common ones
that I see with older people isa lack of encouragement or support system,

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you know, because they've had youknow, maybe they live alone, their
friends are older, you know,their kids are out of the house,
things like that, and so theydon't have any kind of support system to
encourage them to go to exercise.So kind of going off of just everything
that you just said and kind oftaking a little bit of my personal experience
into everything, what would be say, if you've got like a like a

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parent or somebody that needs or shouldbe doing that physical like that physical activity
or being able like doing the workoutto strengthen their bodies, say they've had
um hard problems being able to keepbalance, or their say that just their
balances off in general, it's justwe'll just start there or um, what

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would be what would be the wayto kind of bring up that top of
getting them to join or what wouldbe the way that you could go around
and not necessarily like make them angrywith saying like, hey, we're worried
about your health, go join Whatwould be the tactful way to say,
hey, I know a place,come go join it. Well, the
first step, I guess is toexplain to them that you know, um,

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you're your balance. If they're havingbalance issues, that's only going to
get worse, you know, Imean, there's there's with without doing something
to to prevent that. It's justgoing to continually get worse. So you
know, if someone is you know, reasonably independent now and they're able to
do things for themselves, if they'restarting to lose balance, then they're going

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to become less and less confident todo the things that they're already doing.
So it's going to be you know, a faster decline into being essentially you
know, in assisted living or somethinglike that. So, um, you
know, in order to combat that, you need to build um, lean
muscle mass. You know, Imean, it doesn't matter how old you

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are, you're never too old tobuild muscle. Um. But if you
don't actively fight to stop that muscleloss, then you're going to continually lose
it, and lose it at afaster rate and the more sedentary you become.
So UM, the first step wouldbe you know, to um,
show them the value of of lifein general, you know what I mean,
like, what what do you haveto live where you have kids,

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grandkids, whatever it may be.Um, what do you want to stick
around with or stick around for?And um, you know, why is
it important to maintain your independence?Um? But once once that's demonstrated,
and then you can encourage them toyou know, give it a try,
you know what I mean, juststop in, take a look around.

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Um A lot of people, youknow, have stereotypes in their head of
what a gym is. And Ithink that you could speak from personal experience
that our facility is not a typicalgym absolutely. So it's definitely not a
place that you know, you're goingto experience I guess judgment per se.
Uh, You're definitely not gonna youknow, have to deal with like the

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young bodybuilding crowd or anything like that. Um, So it is definitely an
inclusive atmosphere, and especially for anolder individual, they may also find that
they can find uh some companionship,you know, like find a place to
belong, whether it be group fitnessclasses, whether it be you know,
just the regular people that you seeevery day and finding a friend or or

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a companion to work out with possibly, but just getting that initial motivation to
come into the facility and you know, explaining to them the benefits as to
why it's important to start now.Good. Yeah, because I just take
it from personal experience, Like personallike stuff that's happening in my life right
now is like as my parents getolder or my girlfriend's parents get older,

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it's kind of where you're trying towatch them, make sure they're still healthy
and making sure that they continue tobe as healthy as they possibly can for
their two grandkids and then now they'rethe third and fourth one that are on
the way at some point right sohere soon it's I want to make sure
that they are alive for that aslong as they possibly can. Absolutely,
and the start is to just givea shot. Yeah, for sure,

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give a shot. And then butat the same time, you mentioned the
classes and you mentioned all those youhave. You guys do the assessments and
stuff like that too. I knowwe've probably talked about that before, but
touch on the assessment and how thatgoes about and how that ties into kind
of convincing somebody to come to yourguys's facility in a way. Yeah,

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so you know, back to thebarrier part as far as not knowing what
you're supposed to do or what whateach machine does, you know how things
work, so on and so forth. One of the other components of medically
based fitness is qualification of staff.So our staff is the most highly qualified
fitness staff in the area in thatwe require a four year degree and exercise

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physiology for all floor staff, oranother four year degree in an exercise related
field comparable to exercise physiology. Soum, you know, everyone that that
works on the floor, you know, has the background, the education certifications
to you know, help people andto assess each individual properly so as not

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to further injure them in any way. But if you join the facility,
it's already included with membership that youare you're able to do a fitness assessment
and an exercise prescription four times peryear, So it's not just something where
when you join, you know,we do an assessment, give you an
exercise plan, and then it's upto you to figure out the rest of

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the year. You know, we'llcan will be as involved with you as
you would like us to be.So essentially with the assessment, you would
schedule that appointment. You know,ideally on the day that you join,
you'd go ahead and schedule the appointmentfor say the next day, the next
week, whatever it may be.One of our exercise specialists would take you

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through. We'll do resting heart rate, blood pressure, We'll do a body
composition analysis to figure out your percentageof body fat to muscle mass, they'll
figure your BMI, figure your basalmetabolic rate, which is essentially how many
calories your body consumes when it's ina resting state, you know, just
to maintain normal bodily functions. Andthen after that we'll do a strength test,

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a cardiovascular fitness test, and aflexibility test. Once we get through
that, we have a pretty goodidea as to what your fitness level is.
We'll take into account your previous healthhistory. So if you have,
you know, say like a sportsrelated injury, or you have just like
a bad knee or you know,sore hip, whatever it may be,
let us know at that time.And then when we go to structure your

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twelve weeks exercise program, we understandwhat we either need to avoid or what
we need to address. And thenone of those individuals will work with you
for up to three sessions individually,just you and them, one on one.
That way, they'll you know,go through each exercise, show you
the different settings on each machine soyou're comfortable using it, give you an

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opportunity to ask questions, and thenthey'll lay out the whole plan as far
as weight sets, reps, durationof exercise tempo. You know, breathing
all that good stuff, and thenafter that you're essentially on your own to
complete the workouts for the twelve weeks, but you're never completely on your own,
and that we're always fully staffed,so there's always someone on the floor.

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So say you're, you know,five six weeks in you have a
question about something, all you gottado is just stop one of the floor
staff and they're more than happy tohelp ye. But every twelve weeks you
can repeat that whole process, andeverybody's very approachable down there, Brittany,
Jeff m Louis, even whenever yousee him going in and out of some
of the the what was it thespeedbag room or whatever that was in the

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on the bottom level multipurpose room.Yep. Yeah, he's been in there
a couple of times when I firstwent down there, and you can stop
any of them, they'll ask anyquestion, they'll talk to you. It's
it's it's a really good environment tobe in, and I did not know
that. In let me backtrack alittle bit. What I should have done
when I first went there was Iprobably should have done the assessment, and

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I thought my head, I waslike, I don't need to do that.
I don't need to do that Ishould have, which is common,
which is yeah, I mean youprobably you guys probably hear That'll get that
a lot where they say, oh, I don't need to do that,
or I don't need to sketch anythinglike that. So I feel like they
don't want to inconvenience them, right, And I just what we're here for,
right, And I think what Ineed to do, and I need

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I actually need to get a planset up for myself to actually I wouldn't
necessarily stay force, but at thesame time train my brain into adding that
in to my daily or however theplan works out, doing it into that
schedule and making it fit and makingit work out. So I think that's
gonna be the next step when Iactually, when I do get back in

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there, because I told Louie thatI was going to be there on Tuesdays
and yesterday was an absolute mess,so I didn't go yesterday, but I
am definitely going Saturday this week.I'm gonna make sure of it, mark
it down. I will make sureI'm in there Saturday to go in and
I will tell them say hey,on Monday, let Scott know that I'm
gonna do to do this as aphysical assessment thing to make sure that I
have a plan, and I'll followup on that for sure. I'm gonna

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have to. Like it's that willprobably if I see it on paper and
say this is what you gotta do. Okay, now we're good. Now
I have That kind of brings meto another thing that so once you've overcome
whatever barrier it is, that thatgets you into the facility to start working
out. Once you've done that,then um, you know, the second
barrier that you have to overcome isbeing consistent, because you know, you're

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not going to accomplish anything any ofyour goals without being consistent. So it
doesn't matter what your goal is,if it's to build muscle, lose weight,
just general health and wellness, youknow, managing some sort of you
know, mobility issue, whatever itis. You know, let us know
during the assessment and then we canstructure the program accordingly. But when you
when it comes to you working outon your own, say you only could

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do let's say two days a week, then make sure that on those two
days a week you have them setwhether it's Tuesday, Thursday, you know,
Friday, Saturday, whatever those twodays are, make sure that you
consistently come in and do those thingson those days, because consistency is key
and you got to stick with itfor you know, I would say a
solid twelve weeks before you would beable to say, you know, all

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this doesn't work for me, oryou know this gyms aren't right for me,
or whatever it may be. Anyonewho says that is someone who has
not been consistent and really stuck withit so they could see the results that
they've been putting the work toward.Yeah, and I think a lot of
also on top of like lack ofmotivation that I've that we've said that I've
been going through, I think italso has a deal with a little bit

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of um like lack of uh oh, what's the word I'm looking for,
lack of confidence, not necessarily myself, but like or it's the fear of
I wouldn't even say it's judgment atthat point. It's more along the lines
of so when I left the servicein twenty fifteen, I don't know if
it's like a genetic thing or it'slike a thing that like I've just kind

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of it just started to happen butI have that tendency to like overly excessively
sweat in a way, so likeit could be in here, it could
be seventy degrees in here, Icould be a shorts and a T shirt
and it's out of nowhere. It'sjust like, man, it's hot in
here, right, And that's getit get progress its progressively worse. As
like if I work out or Ido like sports or anything like that,

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I have to wear like two differentshirts at one point just to make sure
that I don't sweat through one ofthem. Then you start thinking about it
makes you sweat more. Yes,it's like what would that be? It's
not self confidence, but it's morelike um self awarenes self awareness or something
like that. And I think that'skind of where I struggle as well,
because with sports and like like softballand everything, I've gotten kind of over

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that with them because I've known everybody, and I know everybody that I've ever
played with, so it doesn't reallybother me that they see that kind of
thing. But then going into acompletely different like setting where you don't know
you probably will never know everybody thatcomes in there on a regular basis,
because it could be different people everyday. Sure, the only people that
you would see consistently would be likeyourself, Brittany, Jeff Louis or whatever.

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And that's kind of what I knowa lot of people can also struggle
with as well, is like beingaround people they don't know and having certain
issues like I do myself and notbeing necessarily being shy or being kind of
off put by the fact that theydon't want people to see them in that
kind of way. And that's kindof what bothers me sometimes. What I'd

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recommend, I mean, you know, for someone like that, because I'm
the same way. Honestly, I'mlike a hyper excessive sweater and I'll be
the first one to start sweating whenwe start working out, playing basketball,
whatever it may be. And then, you know, I've always been the
same way as far as being selfconscious about it and whatnot. But um,
you know, we have a lockerroom, So I would recommend bringing

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a couple of shirts, you know, thirty stuff in a locker. You
know, once you start sweating inthe first one, you know, run
in there, switch out, grabbingout, you know. But the main
thing is is that you know,as much as you're in your head as
far as people looking and watching you, they're not doing that even to a

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fraction of the percentage that you havebuilt up in your head. You know.
In general, you know, mostpeople that are there at the facility,
whether it be hours or any othergym, you know, they don't
care what anybody looks like. Ifanything, you get more recognition for the
fact that you're, you know,making the effort to come in and work

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out, so you know, youyou immediately get a certain amount of act
based off the fact that you're here, whereas everyone else is not. You
know, so regardless of what youlook like, regardless of you know,
how overweight you think you are,regardless of your appearance. Uh, you
know, it really doesn't matter.For the most part, no one,
no one is judging you in thatway. And for the you know,

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small percentage of the people that arejudgmental, Uh, those are generally the
people that you wouldn't care with theiropinion is anyways, right? So,
um, I think that most people, aside from yourself, uh, you
know, they have some sort ofissue, whether it be a personal confidence
issue, a m you know,appearance thing. You know, maybe it's
just they're they're afraid of looking stupid, you know, because they don't they

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don't know how to use certain things, and then they've never been to a
gym to work out, so theydon't want to use something wrong and get
made fun of. Um. Youknow, we try to eliminate that,
especially with the assessment and the exerciseprescription, but um, in general,
nobody is really looking. You know. Most people are focused on what they're
doing. You know, maybe theygot forty five minutes to work out.

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They're going to bang it out andget to work. So the thing that
I would tell people is to tryto get that out of your head because
you're worrying about it far more thananyone else. Is yeah, yep,
you're psyching yourself up in your head. And I am again saying it and
doing it is too copletely different thingsLike I could sit here and say all
day long that I'm psyching myself upor I'm over exaggerating about it, But

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it's saying it but then doing itand getting yourself back down to normal thinking
and just doing it at that point, right, And I think that's kind
of where I mean. Granted,I've made a lot of strides in my
life, but that's still kind oflike that that little corner of my life
that still needs a little bit offixing. And I think now with kind
of seeing seeing where I went wronginitially in the first go around, Like

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the first time I showed up there, Granted, I was all in all,
I'm all for it, I'm allone hundred percent for what you guys
do. I greatly appreciate what youguys do for the area and what you
guys stand for. And I thinkthat what I did was I should have
went to you guys as the professionalsand the people that do this stuff and
I've learned this stuff. I shouldhave said, hey, this is what

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I need to do or this iswhat I need tell me how to do
it right. And then that's whatI should have done from the get go,
because and being us as guys,and being us as just human beings
in general, we kind of liketo be able to be independent, be
self reliant and do things on ourown. Yeah, like yourself, I
mean, you you were in theservice. That's there's a you know,
a excessive amount of exercise and ptthat's involved with that. So you know

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you come out of it thinking likewhy know exercise? You know, what
I mean I do. I didPT every day, you know, I
did you know X y Z,push up, set up, you know,
the whole deal. But I thinkwhat you find is that, especially
as you get older, you knowthat calistenic type workout. For one,
it's not fun and I'm sure youdon't have fond memories of it. Nope.

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So just because you know how todo those things doesn't necessarily make you
eager to do them right right,And I think you'll find that there's there
are other ways to work out thatI wouldn't necessarily say are fun, but
far more enjoyable than those. Andum, you know, it's okay to
ask questions, you know, it'sokay to get help, but you know,

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just a lot of people with thoseuh you know, just get out
of the service, you know,or just uh you know, played a
sport whatever, maybe like softball fortheir whole lives or whatever. Maybe UM
there used to be an active Thatdoesn't necessarily mean that you're qualified to um
exercise in the way that's going tohelp you increase your quality of life and

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quantity of life, right, youknow. So there's a different outlook to
take to take on and there's alot of other other things that go into
you know, being healthy. Ye, so yep, the military definitely does
not. They They're they're good withlike trying to get you to get to
up to standard, sure, butmore along the lines of the the actual

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like workout in the Calisenic wise typestuff. It didn't really do a whole
lot for like building muscle or doinglike necessarily improving you. It's more along
the line to keep you where youwere at and then you have to do
extra on the side, right,But most of the time and stuff was
just more harm on your body thananything. Yeah, it's constantly running on
like really concrete hard pavement all thetime. Mental toughness to their building.

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So I mean, you know what, mental toughness is not something I mean
something you definitely have to have tobe once you make the decision to get
physically active and make you know,once you make the decision to start exercising
to change whether it's to lose weight, you know, manage your health condition,
whatever it may be. You know, you have to be mentally tough
to stay consistent. But exercise isnot about breaking you mentally, you know,

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it's about you know, it's aboutbuilding confidence for the most part.
So definitely a different outlook for sure. Yeah, it's definitely a conditioning thing,
not necessarily trying to like break youdown to build you back up.
It's just more along the lines ofbeing consistent, being kind of just retraining
your brain to think in a differentway than what you're normally used to thinking.
And and again that goes right backto where I talked about having the

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lack of confidence, lack of motivation, whatever. It's that consistent. I'm
trying to change my brain back towhere I haven't done any sort of like
gym workouts in good Lord, gettingout in twenty and fifteen, that's almost
ten years ago. It's border it'sgetting pushing ten years ago and not being
involved with the gym for that wholetime frame tis fine, it's crazy.

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And then the thing that I graduatedin twenty twelve and that has been already
ten years, right, it getsjust that's that's for a different that,
right, there's a different topic there. But being kind of how you said
being um, I wouldn't I can'tremember the word that you use, but
it was being kind of um justnot going to the gym, not doing

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anything active kind of keeping yourself kindof just sent Yeah sedentary, Yeah,
that was it. And I thinkoutside of working and doing kind of like
my sporting thing, I definitely havebeen very sedentary side of that. Yeah,
and not going to say, hey, I got to motivate myself to
go to the gym, I gottado this, I gotta do that,
and then coming up with random excusesto not have to go. And and

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again you can, I can sitthere and say until on blue in the
face, but going is actually whenyou prove that wrong, actually change it.
Let's say you like are you know, have a job where you work
with your hands. You know,you do physical labor in some form of
fashion. You know, that doesnot mean that you wouldn't benefit from still
coming to join the Health and wella center because you're doing the same repetitive

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movements day after day generally. Andyet although that does build strength, and
that does increase your lean muscle mass, your burning calories. You know,
that's great to be active, butif if you don't supplement that and do
a whole you know, whole bodyapproach as far as like stretching, you
know, like cardio. You know, maybe you're constantly doing upper body movements.
So you you know, you gotto build up your legs without that

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muscular balance or we're sorry. Bydoing that, you build a muscular imbalance,
and so you're more susceptible to injury. You know, you're more susceptible
to having a bad back, youknow too early. You're more susceptible to
having neck injuries or pulled muscles orhernias. So, um, you know,
by still supplementing whatever the job isthat you do with um exercise you

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know, in a in a gymfacility or a fitness facility, UM,
you're you're taking a more holistic approachto it. So therefore you're, um,
you know, preventing those injuries andyou're able to you know, keep
at that job for longer without youknow, retiring early due to a back
injury or whatever. So it doesn'tmatter what your profession is, what you

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do for a living, UM,you know what you're physical activity outside of
the gym R. Unless you're somebodywho works out on their own at their
house all the time, you couldstill benefit from joining the gym. Absolutely.
But anyway, we've we've gone wayinto this and we've gotten really deep
into this whole thing. Um,there will be definitely another podcast. I

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guarantee we'll have Scott out here totalk again. I know Scott's been biting
at the chumpet at the bid wantingto get back in here to talk and
do everything. Um, we'll givehim days. Counting the days, we'll
give a shout out to Louisan andhis wonderful haircut. I still, I
still give him props on that haircut. Man only had a visual aspect and
we could all see it. Iknow. I wish this was like a
YouTube thing where you can like alsohave the podcast, but it's on YouTube

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as well and you can show picturesof everything. Would be great. I've
given him compliments on his haircut becausegranted I've seen my dad. We'll take
my dad for example. He justgets it normally cut, straight cut,
and how I get mine is justthe same way. Every time, I
applaud him for actually doing his haircutand actually having it done the way he

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has because it looks slick, Igive him credit. He's a man of
a thousand haircuts. Never seen someonethat has different so many different hairstyles across
the lifetime. But it fits himthough. If it's his personality though,
and I think it fits his personalityin a way. He's a suaven dapper
individual. Yes, yes he is. He is very suaven DApp I give
him a lot of credit for that. But Scott, is there anything else

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you want to cover real fast?Yeah? I would just say that if
you're interested at all in checking outthe health and run a center, I
encourage you to stop by. Youdon't have to make an appointment if you
want to stop by and take atour of the facility. We're at twenty
eight h four Burt Street in Parkersburg, right behind Michaels in the Park shopping
Center. Also, if you wantto check us out on the online,

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we can take a virtual tour.Just google camd Clark Helfan Wellness Center is
the easiest way to find it.Also, if you join this month in
the month of June, your initiationfee would match the day of the month
you join, So typically there's anywherefrom a sixty to one hundred and five
dollars initiation fee you pay that's aone time fee along with your first month.

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But if you join in June,that amount would match the day of
the month, so the max youwould pay would be it was there thirty
days in June. I think so, so there would be a max of
thirty dollars, which is still halfoff you know of the initiation fee.
So but the earlier you come inand join, the better off you are.
And also if you go check outthe website, we do offer a

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seven day free trial if you've neverbeen, so check that out and again
give me a call three or fourtwo four two four two six three eight
if you have any additional questions,let mean more and happy to help you
out. Yeah. Absolutely, everybodythat's listening, give Scott a call,
go check him out. Down atthe Health and Wellness Center, great to
work with. The process is supereasy if you do decide to sign up,
the tour is really good. Everybodydown there is very welcoming, very

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approachable. Everybody knows what they're doing. Everybody's very very intelligent with what they
push down there, what they dodown there. It is amazing. It's
a great facility to go to,So I implore everybody that's listening to go
at least check them out, seeif that's something right for you, and
if it is, definitely sign upand Scott can walk you through that entire
process and get everything done. ButScott, I appreciate you coming out here

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today. Thanks having it. Itwas good having you back in here after
that long lapse of you not beingin here since the last one counting the
day. Still next time exactly.But if there's nothing else we got.
That was Scott Smith. He isthe membership coordinator over at WWU Cameron Clark
Health and Wellness Center. If anythingelse, we're gonna gonna sign her off
here. And that was the WWUCommunity Health Forum presented by WWU Camden Clark,

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the hospital with the health and WellnessCenter. I greatly appreciate you,
Scott, I appreciate everybody that's downthere, and I'll see you guys in
the next episode.