September 9, 2025 • 13 mins
Welcome to the "You’re Not Gonna Make It" podcast, where I discuss topics that make you feel like humanity’s not gonna make it.
This episode: Sweat addiction.
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Kevin Tejada:
Here we are at episode 55 and the topic is cardio bunnies, (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: which I thought only referred to women who only use the treadmill at the gym, (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: but apparently it applies to anyone who prefers cardio and never does anything (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: in terms of resistance training. (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: So there's that. I was going to say the topic is sweat addiction, (00:44):
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Kevin Tejada: but I think cardio bunnies is more amusing. So there we go. (00:49):
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Kevin Tejada: That's pretty much what I said. It's those people, mostly women, (00:53):
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Kevin Tejada: but it can be anyone, who goes to the gym, just spends all their time on the (00:57):
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Kevin Tejada: ellipticals, the treadmills, stair climbers, (01:01):
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Speaker2: Then they leave. (01:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's not just their cardio day or whatever. That's just what they do. (01:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if they're runners or something like that, trying to build endurance, (01:09):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever it is, that can be okay. (01:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Steady state cardio is pretty nice. But the issue is most of these people, (01:18):
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Kevin Tejada: as most people do, they have the goal of actually losing weight. (01:22):
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Kevin Tejada: That's why they're spending so much damn time. (01:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Sweating. I got to tell you, there's some problems with this plan. (01:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I'm going to group in people who are addicted to sweat into this group of cardio bunnies. (01:34):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm talking not only just the people who spend all their gym time on the treadmill, (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: but the people who come into the gym, do a group fitness class that's a bunch (01:45):
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Kevin Tejada: of clown shit, and then leave, and that's it. (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: To me, these people are the same. They think that sweating will lose you weight. (01:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Got some bad news for you, (01:57):
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Speaker2: Buddy. (01:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Sweating is how your body cools itself off. That's pretty much the only purpose. (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Do you know how you actually lose weight? Most people don't know this, (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: but you don't lose weight through sweating a bunch. (02:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Otherwise, people who go to the sauna all the time would be thin and lean as hell. (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: The way you actually lose weight, well, process-wise is by having your body be at a caloric deficit. (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: But the actual way that your body loses the extra mass is through your breath. (02:22):
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Kevin Tejada: It comes out as carbon dioxide as you breathe. (02:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Point is the extra air comes, or the extra weight comes off via air, not through liquid. (02:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Which means if you sweat your ass off, that just means you're gonna need to drink more water. (02:39):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not gonna lose a bunch of more weight doing that. But that's what a lot (02:44):
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Kevin Tejada: of people think You go exercise, you sweat You lose weight that way, (02:48):
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Kevin Tejada: that's it Now cardio is good And sweating is good for your cardiovascular health (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: So your heart likes that stuff (03:00):
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Speaker1: It likes being challenged reasonably. (03:03):
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Kevin Tejada: And doing that stuff can burn you some calories. Although I will say cardio, (03:07):
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Kevin Tejada: cardio does not burn as many calories as you think it does. (03:11):
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Kevin Tejada: If you work really, really hard in a session, you might lose a couple hundred (03:15):
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Kevin Tejada: calories. If you run a marathon, obviously you're going to burn a shit ton of calories too. (03:18):
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Kevin Tejada: But in the average cardio session, honestly, it's a couple hundred at most, (03:23):
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Kevin Tejada: which means a donut could wipe that out. (03:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're thinking about weight loss, maybe just don't have the donut and (03:31):
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Kevin Tejada: you can accomplish the same math Do cardio but do it for your heart and your (03:34):
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Kevin Tejada: lungs Not to brute force the weight loss process. (03:39):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not gonna work and the issue with The people who only want to sweat by (03:43):
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Kevin Tejada: doing a bunch of cardio or doing these group fitness classes We're doing all (03:48):
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Kevin Tejada: this stupid shit jumping around Is that if there's no resistance in your training whatsoever ever. (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, over time, if you add in cardio and change nothing else, (03:58):
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Kevin Tejada: obviously the added activity will slowly, you'll burn calories, (04:01):
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Kevin Tejada: you'll slowly lose weight over time. (04:05):
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Kevin Tejada: But the thing is, if there's no resistance as well, you'll also slowly lose (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle strength over time too. (04:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Actually, you'll probably lose that faster because if you're only doing cardio, (04:13):
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Kevin Tejada: you're not training your muscles at all. (04:16):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're not building, you're only slowly tearing down, then that'll happen faster. (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Whoops the people who fall for this most as (04:24):
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Speaker1: I mentioned before (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: It's gonna be women the cardio bunnies themselves and this is of course due (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: to marketing yet again the fitness industry they tell women hey weights are (04:34):
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Kevin Tejada: for men you don't want to be a fucking man do you get on the treadmill do this (04:39):
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Kevin Tejada: class do a you know get on the fucking soul cycle (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: that's for women that's correct don't mind the fact that doing resistance training (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: will make you look exactly how you want to look, get on that fucking exercise bike, (04:52):
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Speaker1: Sweat your ass off. (04:57):
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Speaker2: Literally. (04:58):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not building muscle on that ass. And also beginners, they, they fall for this too. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They're just starting out. Oftentimes if they're not under the brainwashing (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: that bodybuilding is king, they might be tempted to take another route because (05:10):
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Kevin Tejada: they're kind of intimidated with exercise. (05:16):
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Kevin Tejada: So they do stuff that requires no weights whatsoever but they're not sure about (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: what to do by themselves you put them out in a mat they're like I don't know (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: so if they're not going to touch weights they don't know what to do by themselves (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: then a machine would help (05:31):
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Speaker2: And what fits those criteria? (05:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Treadmill, stair climber, (05:35):
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Speaker2: Whatever it is. (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: And guess what? I was one of these people. I lost 100 pounds overall. (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And the absolute beginning of my journey was walking, which I found out quickly was not enough. (05:42):
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Kevin Tejada: But after that, the first thing I did was use an elliptical. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Because we had an elliptical in our home for some reason. (05:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Even though the apartment was not that big. I don't know why we had that. (05:55):
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Kevin Tejada: But I was very thankful we had it because I used that to start me off. (05:58):
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Kevin Tejada: And I did lose some weight with that slowly because I brute (06:02):
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Kevin Tejada: forced my way into it but nowadays I know weight (06:05):
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Kevin Tejada: control is accomplished in much more (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: effective ways but I was a beginner and I fell for (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: it now let's play devil's advocate cardio is the best workout for fat loss and (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: health nothing else is necessary I wouldn't I wouldn't say that I will say though (06:19):
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Kevin Tejada: if overall you live a pretty healthy lifestyle let's say you live in I don't (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: know Japan or something let's go back to Japan but they eat pretty well over (06:28):
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Kevin Tejada: there, eat pretty decent. (06:32):
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Kevin Tejada: They bike over there, they walk. And you know what? They live long, (06:34):
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Speaker2: They live a long time. (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So this one is not way off the mark, but I will say if you ignore resistance (06:39):
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Kevin Tejada: training, you're going to have a lot of risk later on in terms of being brittle, (06:43):
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Kevin Tejada: not being able to support yourself, being a walker, wheelchair, maybe. (06:48):
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Kevin Tejada: So by all means, do you want to add in cardio and walking and stuff like that? (06:53):
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Kevin Tejada: That will help your health quite a bit. But for weight loss, (06:57):
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Kevin Tejada: it's more about calorie control. (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Next devil, lifting weights makes women bulky. Cardio keeps you lean. (07:04):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm tired of hearing this because I've heard this in real life plenty of times. (07:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Lifting weights cannot make women bulky unless they take steroids. (07:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Women do not have enough fucking testosterone to become bulky. (07:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Depends what your definition of bulky is, I suppose. (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: But most women that are inspirational to other women are pretty much what would (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: be the realistic expectation of the bulkiness to expect with resistance training and lifting. (07:31):
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Kevin Tejada: As in, everyone's fine with it. (07:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's probably the exact body type and physique that women want. (07:42):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, you're not going to get, like you can't accidentally get bulky. (07:46):
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Kevin Tejada: I wish people would get the fuck off of that, but I don't think it's going to (07:51):
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Kevin Tejada: happen anytime soon. As for cardio, keeping you lean. (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, you can have a small part, but that's going to be mostly your food intake (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: that's going to control your body fat percentage. (08:02):
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Kevin Tejada: More cardio equals faster weight loss. Lifting is only for bodybuilders. (08:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Wow. That's basically what I just said at the beginning. (08:09):
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Kevin Tejada: More cardio, faster weight loss. (08:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Technically, if you're doing everything you need to, let's say you're at a caloric (08:14):
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Kevin Tejada: deficit, whatever, like you're doing well with your weight loss and then you (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: literally just add cardio. (08:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, it'll speed it up. Not by much, but it will speed it up. Sure. (08:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Lifting is only for bodybuilders though. That's fucking stupid. (08:31):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know what to tell you. I see there are people who lift like five pound (08:34):
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Kevin Tejada: dumbbells. They're not bodybuilders. That's lifting too so that's wrong right (08:37):
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Speaker2: On his face. (08:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Why lift weights if you just want a smaller (08:42):
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Speaker2: Body because how. (08:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Big and small your body is determined by the food that you're eating lifting (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: weights determines the shape well the form and function of your body (08:51):
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Kevin Tejada: not necessarily bigger if you're eating a lot and you start lifting you're probably (08:56):
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Kevin Tejada: gonna look big but for a smaller body you eat fewer calories you're gonna get (09:01):
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Kevin Tejada: smaller anyway the weights are not gonna (09:05):
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Kevin Tejada: make you bigger if you're at a big caloric deficit that's not how mass works (09:08):
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Kevin Tejada: anyway let's get into some numbers as I mentioned before I use a robot I use AI to help gather some (09:13):
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Kevin Tejada: stats and research when I do these things and I ignore about half of it because (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not relevant or dumb for this one I don't know why they pulled out half (09:24):
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Kevin Tejada: the stats here about fucking heart attacks I don't know if it's gonna be relevant (09:29):
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Kevin Tejada: so I'm gonna skip that shit (09:34):
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Kevin Tejada: The stats actually suck ass this week. The relevant ones don't even have numbers attached to them. (09:36):
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Kevin Tejada: So whoops, maybe no numbers. Yeah, I'm going to disregard this shit this episode. Sorry. (09:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Everything is kind of like a restatement of what I've been saying. (09:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Because I don't even check the stats until I get to them. (09:50):
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Kevin Tejada: So oftentimes I kind of mention that already based on what I already know. (09:53):
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Kevin Tejada: But yeah, essentially cardio is decent, but don't expect it to be your weight loss magic ticket. (09:58):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of people do this and go hardcore with that and expect the sweat to be (10:04):
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Kevin Tejada: the weight loss. But here is the thing. (10:07):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't have to sweat to lose weight. You don't have to sweat to exercise. (10:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if it's pretty challenging, you probably will, but you don't need to. (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: If you finish a workout and you don't sweat whatsoever, I mean, (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, at that point, maybe consider making it a little bit more challenging. (10:22):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you don't sweat at all, it doesn't mean you didn't accomplish something. (10:25):
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Kevin Tejada: It doesn't mean that it wasn't effective for you. (10:29):
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Kevin Tejada: You do not need to sweat your soul out to accomplish exercise or weight loss (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not what cardio needs to needs to be. (10:37):
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Kevin Tejada: It doesn't need to be A torture session where you sweat Until you love yourself again (10:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Sweat and cardio have their place but they don't necessarily have to go hand (10:46):
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Kevin Tejada: in hand and they Definitely don't have to go hand in hand with weight loss (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Oftentimes this can all be very separate because you can walk all day (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: not sweat and has a good cardio you can (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: lift not sweat and it's great exercise you can (11:02):
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Kevin Tejada: not do cardio and not sweat just do something totally resistance (11:05):
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Kevin Tejada: training and help a bit more towards your weight loss because the extra muscle (11:09):
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Kevin Tejada: require your body to burn more calories at rest so they don't they don't have (11:13):
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Kevin Tejada: to be connected really this is the sweating the cardio the weight loss all this (11:18):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff everyone thinks that they are all intrinsically tied together they need (11:21):
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Kevin Tejada: to exist at the same time to be possible. (11:25):
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Kevin Tejada: No, that's not the case. (11:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So here's my recommendation for you. (11:31):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're a cardio bunny, I'd recommend maybe you do one of your workouts for the week. (11:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe that can just be cardio only. Maybe half of that workout can be cardio only. (11:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe you can do a bit of cardio at the end, at the beginning. (11:44):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm saying is have it be a part of your exercise, not the only thing you do for exercise. (11:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Unless you're one of those people who's like, I don't give a shit about muscle, (11:53):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever. I'm just going to walk a bunch. (11:56):
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Kevin Tejada: That's fair as well, I guess. you might be (11:58):
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Speaker1: Acquiring a walker in the (12:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Future but you know walk until then if you (12:04):
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Kevin Tejada: want but don't panic if you don't sweat all right (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: we're getting resistance training in your exercise you really want that sweat (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: for funsies you can do that but don't make it the only thing you do for exercise (12:13):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not going to be as helpful as you think it is think about balance right (12:18):
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Kevin Tejada: for me right now i do two days of resistance training and then one day of cardio. (12:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes it's swimming, sometimes it's elliptical, sometimes jogging, whatever it is. (12:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, whatever your cardio is, reduce that a bit. If it's all you do, (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: if it's all you do, reduce it a bit, then add some resistance training and then (12:38):
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Kevin Tejada: you're pretty much good. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Just go for that. And also if your cardio sucks ass and you hate it because (12:42):
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Kevin Tejada: you feel like dying afterwards, maybe change it. (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't have to want to die after cardio have some balance in your life please (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: otherwise you're not gonna make it oh (12:53):
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Speaker2: My god he. (12:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Said the thing let me know how often you do cardio i do once a week maybe it (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: should be a bit more but i just do one big batch or one big session and then (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: just be done with it it should probably be more frequent but whatever i got (13:06):
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Kevin Tejada: i got time for that so anyway (13:10):
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Speaker2: Drop down the comments. (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I'll see you (13:13):
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Kevin Tejada: which I thought only referred to women who only use the treadmill at the gym, (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: but apparently it applies to anyone who prefers cardio and never does anything (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: in terms of resistance training. (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: So there's that. I was going to say the topic is sweat addiction, (00:44):
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Kevin Tejada: but I think cardio bunnies is more amusing. So there we go. (00:49):
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Kevin Tejada: That's pretty much what I said. It's those people, mostly women, (00:53):
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Kevin Tejada: but it can be anyone, who goes to the gym, just spends all their time on the (00:57):
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Kevin Tejada: ellipticals, the treadmills, stair climbers, (01:01):
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Speaker2: Then they leave. (01:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's not just their cardio day or whatever. That's just what they do. (01:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if they're runners or something like that, trying to build endurance, (01:09):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever it is, that can be okay. (01:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Steady state cardio is pretty nice. But the issue is most of these people, (01:18):
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Kevin Tejada: as most people do, they have the goal of actually losing weight. (01:22):
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Kevin Tejada: That's why they're spending so much damn time. (01:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Sweating. I got to tell you, there's some problems with this plan. (01:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I'm going to group in people who are addicted to sweat into this group of cardio bunnies. (01:34):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm talking not only just the people who spend all their gym time on the treadmill, (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: but the people who come into the gym, do a group fitness class that's a bunch (01:45):
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Kevin Tejada: of clown shit, and then leave, and that's it. (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: To me, these people are the same. They think that sweating will lose you weight. (01:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Got some bad news for you, (01:57):
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Speaker2: Buddy. (01:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Sweating is how your body cools itself off. That's pretty much the only purpose. (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Do you know how you actually lose weight? Most people don't know this, (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: but you don't lose weight through sweating a bunch. (02:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Otherwise, people who go to the sauna all the time would be thin and lean as hell. (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: The way you actually lose weight, well, process-wise is by having your body be at a caloric deficit. (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: But the actual way that your body loses the extra mass is through your breath. (02:22):
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Kevin Tejada: It comes out as carbon dioxide as you breathe. (02:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Point is the extra air comes, or the extra weight comes off via air, not through liquid. (02:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Which means if you sweat your ass off, that just means you're gonna need to drink more water. (02:39):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not gonna lose a bunch of more weight doing that. But that's what a lot (02:44):
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Kevin Tejada: of people think You go exercise, you sweat You lose weight that way, (02:48):
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Kevin Tejada: that's it Now cardio is good And sweating is good for your cardiovascular health (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: So your heart likes that stuff (03:00):
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Speaker1: It likes being challenged reasonably. (03:03):
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Kevin Tejada: And doing that stuff can burn you some calories. Although I will say cardio, (03:07):
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Kevin Tejada: cardio does not burn as many calories as you think it does. (03:11):
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Kevin Tejada: If you work really, really hard in a session, you might lose a couple hundred (03:15):
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Kevin Tejada: calories. If you run a marathon, obviously you're going to burn a shit ton of calories too. (03:18):
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Kevin Tejada: But in the average cardio session, honestly, it's a couple hundred at most, (03:23):
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Kevin Tejada: which means a donut could wipe that out. (03:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're thinking about weight loss, maybe just don't have the donut and (03:31):
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Kevin Tejada: you can accomplish the same math Do cardio but do it for your heart and your (03:34):
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Kevin Tejada: lungs Not to brute force the weight loss process. (03:39):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not gonna work and the issue with The people who only want to sweat by (03:43):
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Kevin Tejada: doing a bunch of cardio or doing these group fitness classes We're doing all (03:48):
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Kevin Tejada: this stupid shit jumping around Is that if there's no resistance in your training whatsoever ever. (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, over time, if you add in cardio and change nothing else, (03:58):
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Kevin Tejada: obviously the added activity will slowly, you'll burn calories, (04:01):
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Kevin Tejada: you'll slowly lose weight over time. (04:05):
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Kevin Tejada: But the thing is, if there's no resistance as well, you'll also slowly lose (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: muscle strength over time too. (04:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Actually, you'll probably lose that faster because if you're only doing cardio, (04:13):
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Kevin Tejada: you're not training your muscles at all. (04:16):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're not building, you're only slowly tearing down, then that'll happen faster. (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Whoops the people who fall for this most as (04:24):
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Speaker1: I mentioned before (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: It's gonna be women the cardio bunnies themselves and this is of course due (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: to marketing yet again the fitness industry they tell women hey weights are (04:34):
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Kevin Tejada: for men you don't want to be a fucking man do you get on the treadmill do this (04:39):
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Kevin Tejada: class do a you know get on the fucking soul cycle (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: that's for women that's correct don't mind the fact that doing resistance training (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: will make you look exactly how you want to look, get on that fucking exercise bike, (04:52):
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Speaker1: Sweat your ass off. (04:57):
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Speaker2: Literally. (04:58):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not building muscle on that ass. And also beginners, they, they fall for this too. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They're just starting out. Oftentimes if they're not under the brainwashing (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: that bodybuilding is king, they might be tempted to take another route because (05:10):
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Kevin Tejada: they're kind of intimidated with exercise. (05:16):
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Kevin Tejada: So they do stuff that requires no weights whatsoever but they're not sure about (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: what to do by themselves you put them out in a mat they're like I don't know (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: so if they're not going to touch weights they don't know what to do by themselves (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: then a machine would help (05:31):
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Speaker2: And what fits those criteria? (05:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Treadmill, stair climber, (05:35):
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Speaker2: Whatever it is. (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: And guess what? I was one of these people. I lost 100 pounds overall. (05:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And the absolute beginning of my journey was walking, which I found out quickly was not enough. (05:42):
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Kevin Tejada: But after that, the first thing I did was use an elliptical. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Because we had an elliptical in our home for some reason. (05:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Even though the apartment was not that big. I don't know why we had that. (05:55):
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Kevin Tejada: But I was very thankful we had it because I used that to start me off. (05:58):
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Kevin Tejada: And I did lose some weight with that slowly because I brute (06:02):
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Kevin Tejada: forced my way into it but nowadays I know weight (06:05):
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Kevin Tejada: control is accomplished in much more (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: effective ways but I was a beginner and I fell for (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: it now let's play devil's advocate cardio is the best workout for fat loss and (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: health nothing else is necessary I wouldn't I wouldn't say that I will say though (06:19):
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Kevin Tejada: if overall you live a pretty healthy lifestyle let's say you live in I don't (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: know Japan or something let's go back to Japan but they eat pretty well over (06:28):
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Kevin Tejada: there, eat pretty decent. (06:32):
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Kevin Tejada: They bike over there, they walk. And you know what? They live long, (06:34):
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Speaker2: They live a long time. (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So this one is not way off the mark, but I will say if you ignore resistance (06:39):
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Kevin Tejada: training, you're going to have a lot of risk later on in terms of being brittle, (06:43):
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Kevin Tejada: not being able to support yourself, being a walker, wheelchair, maybe. (06:48):
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Kevin Tejada: So by all means, do you want to add in cardio and walking and stuff like that? (06:53):
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Kevin Tejada: That will help your health quite a bit. But for weight loss, (06:57):
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Kevin Tejada: it's more about calorie control. (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Next devil, lifting weights makes women bulky. Cardio keeps you lean. (07:04):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm tired of hearing this because I've heard this in real life plenty of times. (07:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Lifting weights cannot make women bulky unless they take steroids. (07:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Women do not have enough fucking testosterone to become bulky. (07:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Depends what your definition of bulky is, I suppose. (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: But most women that are inspirational to other women are pretty much what would (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: be the realistic expectation of the bulkiness to expect with resistance training and lifting. (07:31):
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Kevin Tejada: As in, everyone's fine with it. (07:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's probably the exact body type and physique that women want. (07:42):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, you're not going to get, like you can't accidentally get bulky. (07:46):
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Kevin Tejada: I wish people would get the fuck off of that, but I don't think it's going to (07:51):
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Kevin Tejada: happen anytime soon. As for cardio, keeping you lean. (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, you can have a small part, but that's going to be mostly your food intake (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: that's going to control your body fat percentage. (08:02):
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Kevin Tejada: More cardio equals faster weight loss. Lifting is only for bodybuilders. (08:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Wow. That's basically what I just said at the beginning. (08:09):
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Kevin Tejada: More cardio, faster weight loss. (08:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Technically, if you're doing everything you need to, let's say you're at a caloric (08:14):
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Kevin Tejada: deficit, whatever, like you're doing well with your weight loss and then you (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: literally just add cardio. (08:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, it'll speed it up. Not by much, but it will speed it up. Sure. (08:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Lifting is only for bodybuilders though. That's fucking stupid. (08:31):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know what to tell you. I see there are people who lift like five pound (08:34):
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Kevin Tejada: dumbbells. They're not bodybuilders. That's lifting too so that's wrong right (08:37):
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Speaker2: On his face. (08:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Why lift weights if you just want a smaller (08:42):
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Speaker2: Body because how. (08:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Big and small your body is determined by the food that you're eating lifting (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: weights determines the shape well the form and function of your body (08:51):
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Kevin Tejada: not necessarily bigger if you're eating a lot and you start lifting you're probably (08:56):
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Kevin Tejada: gonna look big but for a smaller body you eat fewer calories you're gonna get (09:01):
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Kevin Tejada: smaller anyway the weights are not gonna (09:05):
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Kevin Tejada: make you bigger if you're at a big caloric deficit that's not how mass works (09:08):
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Kevin Tejada: anyway let's get into some numbers as I mentioned before I use a robot I use AI to help gather some (09:13):
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Kevin Tejada: stats and research when I do these things and I ignore about half of it because (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not relevant or dumb for this one I don't know why they pulled out half (09:24):
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Kevin Tejada: the stats here about fucking heart attacks I don't know if it's gonna be relevant (09:29):
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Kevin Tejada: so I'm gonna skip that shit (09:34):
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Kevin Tejada: The stats actually suck ass this week. The relevant ones don't even have numbers attached to them. (09:36):
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Kevin Tejada: So whoops, maybe no numbers. Yeah, I'm going to disregard this shit this episode. Sorry. (09:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Everything is kind of like a restatement of what I've been saying. (09:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Because I don't even check the stats until I get to them. (09:50):
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Kevin Tejada: So oftentimes I kind of mention that already based on what I already know. (09:53):
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Kevin Tejada: But yeah, essentially cardio is decent, but don't expect it to be your weight loss magic ticket. (09:58):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of people do this and go hardcore with that and expect the sweat to be (10:04):
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Kevin Tejada: the weight loss. But here is the thing. (10:07):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't have to sweat to lose weight. You don't have to sweat to exercise. (10:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if it's pretty challenging, you probably will, but you don't need to. (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: If you finish a workout and you don't sweat whatsoever, I mean, (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, at that point, maybe consider making it a little bit more challenging. (10:22):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you don't sweat at all, it doesn't mean you didn't accomplish something. (10:25):
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Kevin Tejada: It doesn't mean that it wasn't effective for you. (10:29):
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Kevin Tejada: You do not need to sweat your soul out to accomplish exercise or weight loss (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not what cardio needs to needs to be. (10:37):
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Kevin Tejada: It doesn't need to be A torture session where you sweat Until you love yourself again (10:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Sweat and cardio have their place but they don't necessarily have to go hand (10:46):
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Kevin Tejada: in hand and they Definitely don't have to go hand in hand with weight loss (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Oftentimes this can all be very separate because you can walk all day (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: not sweat and has a good cardio you can (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: lift not sweat and it's great exercise you can (11:02):
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Kevin Tejada: not do cardio and not sweat just do something totally resistance (11:05):
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Kevin Tejada: training and help a bit more towards your weight loss because the extra muscle (11:09):
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Kevin Tejada: require your body to burn more calories at rest so they don't they don't have (11:13):
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Kevin Tejada: to be connected really this is the sweating the cardio the weight loss all this (11:18):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff everyone thinks that they are all intrinsically tied together they need (11:21):
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Kevin Tejada: to exist at the same time to be possible. (11:25):
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Kevin Tejada: No, that's not the case. (11:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So here's my recommendation for you. (11:31):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're a cardio bunny, I'd recommend maybe you do one of your workouts for the week. (11:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe that can just be cardio only. Maybe half of that workout can be cardio only. (11:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe you can do a bit of cardio at the end, at the beginning. (11:44):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm saying is have it be a part of your exercise, not the only thing you do for exercise. (11:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Unless you're one of those people who's like, I don't give a shit about muscle, (11:53):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever. I'm just going to walk a bunch. (11:56):
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Kevin Tejada: That's fair as well, I guess. you might be (11:58):
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Speaker1: Acquiring a walker in the (12:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Future but you know walk until then if you (12:04):
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Kevin Tejada: want but don't panic if you don't sweat all right (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: we're getting resistance training in your exercise you really want that sweat (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: for funsies you can do that but don't make it the only thing you do for exercise (12:13):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not going to be as helpful as you think it is think about balance right (12:18):
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Kevin Tejada: for me right now i do two days of resistance training and then one day of cardio. (12:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes it's swimming, sometimes it's elliptical, sometimes jogging, whatever it is. (12:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, whatever your cardio is, reduce that a bit. If it's all you do, (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: if it's all you do, reduce it a bit, then add some resistance training and then (12:38):
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Kevin Tejada: you're pretty much good. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Just go for that. And also if your cardio sucks ass and you hate it because (12:42):
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Kevin Tejada: you feel like dying afterwards, maybe change it. (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't have to want to die after cardio have some balance in your life please (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: otherwise you're not gonna make it oh (12:53):
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Speaker2: My god he. (12:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Said the thing let me know how often you do cardio i do once a week maybe it (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: should be a bit more but i just do one big batch or one big session and then (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: just be done with it it should probably be more frequent but whatever i got (13:06):
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Kevin Tejada: i got time for that so anyway (13:10):
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Speaker2: Drop down the comments. (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I'll see you (13:13):
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