Skylyn's College Fitness Journey: From Fads to Science-Based Success

Skylyn, a spirited young content creator, joins us to uncover the secrets of balancing health and fitness amidst the whirlwind of college life. Through laughter and real talk, she shares her evolution from following fleeting fitness fads to embracing a science-based approach, using her platform to mentor others. As we chat about artificial food colors like Red 40 and the buzz around new social media platforms such as Blue Sky and Lemon8, Skylyn offers a fresh perspective sure to inspire young adults navigating similar journeys.

Discover practical hacks for mastering the college dining scene without breaking the bank—or your health goals. We dig into the benefits of living at home during college, exploring how it can ease financial stress and open up dining choices you might not have considered. Skylyn and I swap tips on using campus resources like gyms and smoothie bars efficiently, and we share meal prep strategies that focus on simplicity and affordability. From the magic of rotisserie chicken to the creativity of yogurt bowls, you'll learn how to craft nutritious meals effortlessly.

For the night owls and gym enthusiasts among us, we've got you covered with tasty late-night snack ideas and strength training tips that maximize results while keeping things light. Tune in for a playful debate on candy bars and the joys of incorporating protein-packed foods into your routine. As we wrap up, remember to keep it simple—exercise, enjoy your vegetables, and don't sweat the small stuff. Follow Skylyn's journey on TikTok and Instagram under the username skyyconoboyy (with two 'y's), and stay tuned as she hints at future expansions to platforms like YouTube and Blue Sky.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
or red four listen, rob.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm trying to start the podcast here, fucking
canadian bastard.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Welcome to the podcasteverybody.
How much red 40 do you consumein a day?
That's the real question.
My answer as much as humanlypossible.
I like to get, and, and youknow, blue one and yellow five
and all that stuff, but mostlyred 40, right like that's.
That's green six and purple 40.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Wait, I think you're now, you're just making shit up
anyway.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Purple 39 anyway, we also have another.
We have our guest on tonight,someone I'm excited to talk to.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Skylin, how you doing hi, I'm doing very well.
I'm honestly nervous for this.
I appreciate that you guys evenconsidered to have me on.
I'm nowhere near as ofsignificance as you two, but
thank you so much.
I'm very excited for this.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I have no significance in anything.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's all fine.
No one should be worried aboutcoming on this podcast.
I brought Skylyn on becauseI've been watching her content
on like TikTok and Instagram andI like it because it's.
I feel like it's a good.
It's a good idea to bring heron because she does a lot of
stuff about being, you know,just younger, because, skylar,
you just turned like 18, rightSome shit?
Yeah, august, right, exactly.

(01:11):
So younger, tiktok, the averageage is like 12.
So I feel like we need to bringon someone who's you know a
little bit younger.
It's gone up.
Yeah, I know, man, I'm tellingyou, now the tiktok's gone,
what's gonna be the new young iftiktok's going away?
What's gonna be the new young?
Is it just gonna go toinstagram, or is there gonna be
a new one, you think?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
where's all the 12 year olds guys kicking off?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
oh yeah, I created a blue sky just because I was like
I don't know what this is.
Is it like twitter?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
it looked like twitter it's twitter by a bunch
of ex twitter people that I, Idon't know.
Musk fired them when he tookover or they just left because
musk is an idiot.
But okay well everyone.
It's like a it's like a bettertwitter oh, better twitter.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well, everybody listening, go follow me on
better twitter.
It's blue sky.
I'm the plant slant.
There too created that boom.
I was just like why not?
I don't even know what I'mdoing, but that's goes as usual
I just post like stupid stuff onthere or I think that's what
I'll need.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's where I rant I'll need to go make an account
for sure.
I've only heard of lemonade.
Everyone is never heard of that?
I don't know.
I think it's just gonna that'snot in canada.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of course tiktok doesn't like canada.
We kicked them out of thecountry.
Lemonade.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Why do we don't Lemonade?
Lemonade, that's your line.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
You're making stuff up.
Lemonade is TikTok's new app.
It's kind of like a PinterestInstagram.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay, but like so, because they're getting banned,
they're going to createsomething different and that's
they think that's going to bebetter.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's pretty much it .
They're like OK, you're banningus, We'll just do it again.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I know, wow, this solves so many problems, but
anywho, yeah, I brought you onjust because you know we do have
like younger listeners and evenfor you know, maybe people who
are older, who have kids thatare around this age or whatever,
like just kind of talk aboutyou know, the difficulties of
you know being that age and whatyou do, working with what you

(03:10):
have.
We always say that right.
So for the younger generation,so yes, so, skylar, give us a
little backstory.
You're in school now, college,whatever.
You know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah.
So I just started college.
This semester I am pursuing abachelor's in kinesiology or
exercise science.
I definitely want to go on todo some sort of allied
healthcare situation.
I'm not entirely sure what, butI have a ton of interest in
health fitness, all that goodstuff.
I got into the health andfitness space when I was 12.

(03:41):
So it's been a while.
I went through quite a fewphases with, you know, the
Alexis Ren, Chloe Ting, Daisy,Keach side to Flav City.
So there's a lot to divulge inthe health and fitness space on
social media, and so I startedposting content about a year ago
, pretty much just to kind ofspeak to my past self on things

(04:04):
I wish I knew you know, andnavigating that space, because
there is a lot of unhealthy andobsessive pathways that you can
go down and it's really yeah,what got you out of that what
you know, because you were goingdown that like that route, but
then, like what kind of you know, redirected you.
You know, I think I got to apoint where I just took a step

(04:27):
back and was like, is thisreally my life?
And I started analyzing thecontent that I was consuming and
realizing that they're really.
I've been doing this for somany years.
It hasn't got me the results Iwant, like whatsoever.
So then I started researchingmore into kind of the
science-based community.

(04:48):
That's how I found like TNF, uh, the plant slant, um, let's see
red jurors a lot of thosepeople.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I've never heard of them.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I know he's, but no, I'm just kidding.
No and I.
It was very refreshing, it wasa big.
I was like, wow, this is a muchI don't know.
I just started internalizing itand doing some independent
research and really educatingmyself as best as I can on what
actually is considered healthand what actually drives

(05:18):
hypertrophy, that type of stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
So Cause, yeah, I've seen you're definitely into like
the gym lifting weights, thatsort of stuff.
So cause, yeah, I've seenyou're definitely into like the
gym lifting?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
weights, that sort of stuff.
You know Right.
Um, so I mean I'm kind ofcurious what's that?
Go ahead?
Oh sorry, I was just saying notas much as I used to.
I used to be super.
Now I'm just three, four days aweek, that's all.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh no, that's so amazing program.
Yeah, exactly Three, four days.
People think you, you know,when you get into lifting
weights, you think you have togo crazy.
We've talked about many times,you know, even just a couple of
days away.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Three, four, that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, that's, you know, this that's awesome.
So you know it's what's kind ofnice.
You get into it no-transcript.

(06:10):
So you know, I'm kind ofcurious, like give us a little
bit just like um with your dayto day, like how you work in,
you know, do your workouts youjust kind of work out when you
can Do, you have like a certainsplit you do just like you know.
Give me a little bit on thatsort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah for sure.
So I would say, okay, sorry.
So when school started I reallywas like I really don't know
how I'm going to fit in the gymand this, and that I really I
looked at it more of what can Ido throughout my day.
So I did invest in a walkingpad and that was a really great
investment, especially asstudents or whatever, having

(06:47):
some sort of stationary cardioequipment where you can just get
steps in or, if you have a bike, whatever your preferred cardio
is, doing that while you study,while you do some homework.
That has been a huge help ofjust staying active throughout
the day.
It's not even really cardio,even if it's just a light walk
type thing.
So I do that throughout the day.
I will wake up I don't know 15minutes earlier than I would

(07:10):
like, maybe just to start my dayoff with some movement.
And then currently I am doing afull body split only three
lifts a week, and I get thosedone in under an hour.
But I have also done the upperlower four days a week in terms
of lifting, that is and I keepit very simple I would say four
to six exercises done in lessthan an hour and then, if I have

(07:33):
time.
If I don't, I'll do some cardioat the gym, usually the stair
master or an incline walk.
And yeah, I would say thebiggest thing is just finding
little ways to add unintentionalmovement throughout my day.
So I drive to my campus atschool so unfortunately I can't
just walk around campus all thetime in between classes, but I

(07:53):
do things like parking a littlebit further to get some extra
steps in between classes.
Even if all I have is 10minutes, I will just go for even
a five minute walk and then usethe bathroom type thing.
So finding just little ways toadd into your day, I think, is a
huge help yeah, I love yourwhat you said about the, the
splits as well, that's, that'sgreat.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Where, uh, if you have four days a week up or
lower, so you know you do upperbody, lower body, you're giving
yourself time to rest.
Oh, you have three days a week,okay, so I just do a full body.
I'll do like Monday rest,tuesday rest.
Tuesday go work out, wednesdayrest, you know, give your body
time to rest in between.
And really, yeah, like whenyou're a student, you know you
work with what you have.
I love the idea of getting awalking pad.
That's, you know, fantastic, Imean.

(08:34):
And if you're younger, I'mtelling you we've talked about
it before the games the games,the VRs.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
That broke for me my walking pad, the.
The engine went out on it and Ihad a.
One of my clients actually sentme a vr headset.
Oh really, that's fine.
The batteries in thecontrollers leaked and destroyed
one of the controllers.
The batteries leaked, so I'vegot them.

(09:09):
I just can't use them.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's what I have this sentence, this sentence
though, the batteries leakedLike all the acid came out of
the battery.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, interesting, and corroded one of the.
I was able to clean up the onecontroller and it works fine,
but the other one had too muchcorrosion and broke.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Okay, my walking squealing.
I had a little issue where thebelt got caught under the motor.
So, yeah, but it still works.
I know I shouldn't be using it.
It's just the type of thing Ireally don't want to have to
make another payment like that.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
And that's the thing I really wanted to focus on this
episode is when you're what'sone is the what is one of the
biggest um uh hurdles.
When you're at this age, it'sfinances, right, like you know,
it's it's tough when you're like18.
Fuck listen, let me tell you, Iwas broke as shit when I was 18
.
I had had like no moneywhatsoever.

(10:05):
Uh, you know, I I think at thatage I might've been like yeah,
like food is food stamps, youknow all that sort of stuff.
I was working, you know, withwhat I had.
It was my parents like divorce,when I was like that age.
So like I was living with mydad but I was paying to rent to
like live with him Cause, likelike I, just we needed it at the
time, and so, like I wasworking part-time, going to

(10:27):
school.
That was tough.
So you know, I'd love to getfrom you just like what are some
of the things you do,especially in terms of, you know
, like food and nutrition, likehow do you find a way around?
You know the the hurdles offinance.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I will say I am very fortunate enough to have
parents who allow me to stayhome for college and that was
kind of my choice in doing andwhatnot and because they have
helped my sister a little bitwith paying for certain things,
they do still buy most of thefood that I.
Obviously, if I want proteinbars, things like that, I have
to pay for that and that comesout of my money.
I'm not going to say I can justput whatever I want on the

(11:07):
grocery list, but I am fortunateand blessed in that way.
So I would say, approaching it,however you are, you kind of
just have to assess where you'reat and work with that.
So if you only have access todining hall food when I toured
colleges they have really greatoptions these days for protein,
whole grains, vegetables, and sowhat if they're cooked in

(11:28):
canola oil like you'll, you'llbe fine, okay, don't have you
might not only just be fine.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's actually quite heart healthy for you, despite
what everyone on tiktok willtell you.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
It's totally fine I did see it, some girl saying
that she found out that thegrilled chicken she was getting
was cooked in safflower oil orsomething.
I remember that.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
So many omega sixes we got to throw it away.
I know, can I tell you the ideaof?
Just fucking throwing food awaybecause it's cooked in an oil
that you don't like or you thinkis bad, like talk about like
privilege.
I think that's like as high upon the privilege ladder as you
can get.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Insane Crazy.
There was privilege.
I think that's like as high upon the privilege ladder as you
can get insane crazy there was,um, there's something in there
that you you said you havespeaking of privilege.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
You have the privilege of having parents that
let you stay there yes, andthat's a nice trend that's being
reversed over time?
Is that, um, it used to be ifyou hit 18, you were out the
door?

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
And now we're starting to see more parents
that are letting their childrenactually stay, which means they
get to actually put moneytowards things like education or
savings and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, and I would say I'm very, very blessed to have
parents get that.
If I were having to pay foreverything on my own right now,
I would be in a lot of debt.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh yeah, you go into debt real fast.
But you were talking about,like, the dining hall.
So I'm kind of curious, like,how do you kind of like navigate
, you know that sort of thing,if that's what you have Cause
I'm sure a lot of people are inthat situation.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Gotcha.
Yeah, so I don't have a ton ofexperience with it.
It's just when I visitedcolleges I did see they have
really great options.
These days.
I think they've expanded more.
So I've seen on your platformsbuilding your plate, kind of
with the fist method, I believe.
So having a nice fist sizeprotein and fiber is really
great and then adding some wholegrains or whatever else you

(13:20):
want.
I think that is a really greatway to navigate dining hall type
situation.
Obviously, for pre-workoutcarbs they have, like cereal.
They have a lot of great stuffthere.
So I definitely think that itshouldn't be as complicated as
people make it seem.
Again, colleges have they allhave different situations, so I
can't speak for everyone.
I apologize for that, but outof the three that I did tour,

(13:46):
they seem to have some greatstuff going on, I would say, for
home life.
Yeah sorry, go ahead, go ahead.
No, you can go ahead, okay, goahead.
So yeah, I was sorry you know,sorry, you yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
So yeah, I I've got you know like.
So I attend osu and so you knowlike I was, you know, home, I
would go over there.
But man, I'll tell you they,they give you a lot of options
and usually they give you likenow they're putting up like the
calorie count on each thing,which is pretty helpful.
Is it perfectly accurate?
Who cares Whatever?
But you know you just look forlike a protein, carb and fat,

(14:18):
and usually you can.
There's multiple places that'lllet you build a for yourself.
Or let me tell you some ofthose smoothies.
They got smoothie places.
You get one of those.
You get fruit and juice inthere.
Boom, you take it with you.
You go to the gym.
That's usually.
A lot of colleges will have agym.
You go to it with that.

(14:38):
Just keep it simple.
Don't fret over it too much.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Right yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
I think a lot of people are starting to realize
how good beans are too.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yes, I know, and people always say this is what
they're digesting.
I'm like it's because you don'teat them.
So, just like a little bit, alittle bit, add some to your
diet.
Just a few Like literally I'mtalking a few Like a handful
Jeez.
Come on Slowly, over timeyou'll, it'll adjust most likely
.
Uh, but you were talking aboutlike home life.
So you know, I'm sure you're,like you know, short on time
with like studying, schoolwork.

(15:09):
So you know, give us a littlebit like what you do, uh, you
know, in that area.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
All right.
Well, I will say, withnutrition I have for a while now
, I typically prep ingredientsrather than meal prepping Cause
that don't know.
I tried that.
I ended up falling, it was justtoo much.
Work hours at a time is not mything, but prepping ingredients
so having, I will say I used toprep chicken or beef or whatever
.
Now I just get a nice plumprotisserie chicken from Costco.
It's five bucks and it laststhe entire week.

(15:43):
Great source of healthy fats,protein.
I think it's heavily underratedand I believe it's also one of
the few unprocessed type.
Yeah, technically it's notprocessed.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
So like processed meats are meats that are already
cooked when it gets to thestore, yeah, whatever Like I
mean even still like deli meats.
That's all protein.
It's fine.
Just try and make sure you getyour fiber.
You know you don't need to befreaking out too much.
Yes, they will slightlyincrease your risk for colon
cancer.
It's more about just balancingyour diet.
But yeah, like a rotisseriechicken, five bucks.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
They're making you buy it.
The fiber will decrease yourrisk of colon cancer, Right
exactly.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
But they're like making you buy.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, they want you to go all the way to the
store to do it.
That's why it's always in theback.
So, yeah, great preppingingredients is great.
So what else do you do stufffor, like your vegetables, your
grains, anything like that?

Speaker 3 (16:34):
sorry, yes, I will.
Uh, right now I'm on a hugesauteed onions and peppers kick,
so I'll chop all those and cookthem up for the week and I just
have containers on containersof that.
And then I would say forproduce I've really been leaning
to frozen Very convenient,lasts forever and also you don't

(16:55):
have to keep throwing thingsout when they rot and waste
money that way.
So I do love I just threw out awhole bag of lettuce.
I would say, if you have access, just a whole bag of lettuce.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I put it in the fucking man.
You put it in the little thingdown there, and then you're like
oh, this is ruined two dayslater.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
And then yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been staring clear
from produce recently because Ijust, I don't know Well fresh.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
So do you get the frozen and then do you cook it
and then leave it in the fridge,or do you just like heat it up
from the freezer when you wantit, when you want something to
eat from Costco you get so muchand it lasts forever.
I'll just microwave that andeat, as is that type of stuff.
They're also frozen.
Fruit is great too.
I really like frozen mangoes.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Do you do that for like smoothies, or are you
putting that?
You're like heating it up andputting it like over yogurt or
something.
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Sometimes I just leave it as is, and especially
if you mix it in Greek yogurt itkind of creates a frozen yogurt
type texture.
Especially if you mix it inGreek yogurt it kind of creates
a frozen yogurt type texture, Idon't get you people okay, why
do you bite?

Speaker 2 (18:09):
into frozen fruit.
I don't understand the bitinginto frozen fruit.
It's like biting into ice.
People are like, oh, justfreeze grapes.
They're like gummy bears.
No, they're fucking not, youliar.
They taste like frozen assgrapes and they're not good.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
That one I agree on.
I do not like frozen grapes.
It's like frozen mush.
It's still mushy.
I don't know.
I would say honestly, I kind oflike to suck on them like a
popsicle.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Frozen grapes.
Just like I mean hey, whateverworks, Like you do, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
So just heating it up from like the freezer.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
No, I feel like that'd be decent if you took the
grapes, blended them up, maybeadded a little extra fiber in
there, some psyllium husk orsomething, and then actually put
it in one of the popsicle molds.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh, like that?
No, here's the thing.
Well, it's more expensive, butNinja Creamy, I've been making
that recipe where you just throwa bunch of frozen grapes in
Ninja.
Creamy blend it up, make asorbet.
Delicious little honey.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Lime juice.
You need lime juice, yes,absolutely.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Or you can just throw it in a blender it's fine, food
processor, whatever Justfucking use something Blendy
with the blades.
You know those things.
So okay, so you do like yourchicken that you have already
cooked.
Boom, $5 for the whole week.
Bam, love that.
Then you know frozen.
Bam, love that, then you knowfrozen vegetables.
Get whatever the hell you want.
I would, I would say for me Ifind like broccoli holds up

(19:29):
really well.
Frozen peas are great, likefrozen technically out of
vegetable legume.
Fuck you stop, don't give methat shit.
Um, uh, corn is always good.
People give shit to corn likeoh, corn again, shut up, it's
great, it's vegetable awesome.
Um, I've been just honestlylike getting like the mix, the
corn peas, and usually likecarrots.
I don't love the carrots thatmuch.
Frozen carrots not a huge fan,it's fine, they can be in there.

(19:51):
And like green beans, which arealso fine.
Um, and then you know just likeheating that up with a meal, I
think I actually had that exactmeal, like rotisserie chicken
and then some fucking frozenvegetables.
What do you do for?
Like great well, not evengrains, but like starch, like
what do you do for that?

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Oh, I do really enjoy sourdough.
That can be expensive, but mydad's boss actually makes a
sourdough a lot.
I would say that's my favorite.
I'm not a huge rice fan.
Oh, potatoes, I love potatoes,mostly sweet potato.
Anything with the skin ondelicious.
I love Haley Cordova.
She always makes candied sweetpotatoes with sugar-free maple

(20:28):
syrup, some salt, maybe somecinnamon.
It's delicious, literally likedessert.
Honestly and I don't say thatlightly I'm a huge sweets fan,
but it's delicious are youmicrowaving this potato?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
you baking it?
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I'm wave.
I'm too easy for that.
Sometimes I'll air fry, butokay, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Listen, I'm telling you right out there, microwave
it for like I don't know, likefour or five minutes, depending
on the size of the potato.
Then you can throw in the ovenif you want, like a crispy skin
on a sweet potato, just like.
Preheat your oven to 400degrees, throw that motherfucker
in the microwave, uh, poke someholes in it so it doesn't go
kablooey, and then you know,usually I'll wrap it in like a
wet paper towel or somethinglike that, cook it for a few
minutes.
The inside's cooked becausemicrowave cooks from the inside

(21:08):
out, uh, oven cooks from theoutside in boom.
Marry them together, uh, and youcan honestly microwaves are
fine people no, the radiation'sgonna fucking brain worm my
brain or whatever, I don'tfucking know um anybody worried
about radiation.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Radiation is just energy, it's energy I know it's
in the microwave.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Don't stick your head in there, close it and and
start it.
You're good, problem solved.
So I love the idea of preppingthem.
I've definitely prepped a bunchof sweet potatoes.
You go to Walmart.
Walmart has a $5 bag of sweetpotatoes.
They're all a little bitsmaller.

(21:48):
You get a bunch of those.
You make them all at once, thenyou put them up in the oven or
air fryer.
It's going to be a little bitfaster, but even still, just
microwaves fine.
I like what you said about thesugar free maple syrup.
That's an interesting onebecause, yeah, sweet potatoes
are already kind of sweet.
So you add a little bit ofsweetness on top of that with
some of that regular maple syrup, honey, like a little bit of

(22:12):
regular maple syrup on theregoing to do, or some honey Like
fuck all who gives a shit.
It's fine, it makes it tastebetter and you're going to eat
it.
Therefore, it's a healthychoice.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's normal in Canada .

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, right, and everything in Canada is normal
except their Celsius.
Fuck that shit win.
But also I think I, you know, Ijust bought some pine nuts at
like Sam's club, like it was ahuge fucking bag of pine nuts, I
need it for a recipe.
And I was like, well, I guessall I can buy is this three
pound bag of pine nuts.
So I got that.
You know, throw some nuts on thesweet potato.

(22:42):
It gives a little bit of crunch, cause that's my thing with
sweet potato, like potatoes, youknow, it's just kind of like
one note in terms of texture.
So throw some like a fewwalnuts, some pine nuts,
whatever, doesn't matter.
Uh, add some more healthy fatsonto that.
And then, like you said, um,you know, frozen vegetables and
like costco rotisserie chicken.

(23:02):
Other stores have rotisseriechickens.
Like kroger around here theyhave their own rotisserie
chickens.
Uh, you know, doesn't it?
It doesn't matter, I like those, I like that.
You ever tried like the, therice pouches, like the grain.
They're not like amazing, butlike in a pinch, like 90 seconds
in the microwave.
You have rice.
And they also have like quinoablends.
If you go to aldi, aldi's gotuh like a tri-colored quinoa

(23:25):
blend and they threw some othershit in there or whatever.
Uh, you know, microwave it andyou could add a little bit of
oil to it or just seasoning.
However, like it's, it's allfine whatever works.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
You know those microwave pouches you get a good
soy sauce.
It's gonna cover up the badtaste anyway soy sauce is a good
one.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Plus, then you get your microplastics, and I'm
always falling fucking short ofmy rda of that.
You know what I'm saying?
There's no red, but themicroplastics kind of make up
for it.
Okay, and then you kind of justdo that for like you know what.
So is that your general lunchor dinner, like you know what
about, like breakfast, give me,give me a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
All right.
So I'm on a huge egg kickrecently.
Eggs are another underrated.
If you have access to a Costco,a Sam's club, some sort of
wholesale retailer or whatever,they typically have humongous
packs of eggs I will air fry.
I know that's weird.
You can air fry a ton of eggsfor the week.
Yeah, I know, Somebody actuallysent me a DM about that.

(24:23):
They were like you know, youcan air fry them and they're
super easy to peel that way.
I tried it out.
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh yeah, Air fry your eggs and bacon in the morning.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Well, wait, wait, I'm , I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I've left out here what the fuck are we doing?
The egg wait, we're throwingthe whole egg in there, just
like fucking bam from the fridge.
What's going on?
What's happening?

Speaker 3 (24:43):
it's crazy, I just it's like frying in a pan,
except in a convection oven youdo have to be careful not to put
the heat too high or they willexplode.
I have had that happen.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, that's what I feel like is going to happen, it
does.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Unless you're scrambling eggs for fried rice.
You shouldn't be having theheat that high when cooking eggs
anyway.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Okay, what temperature are we talking here?

Speaker 3 (25:02):
I was trying to see if I could get 275 is what I
found does not explode the eggsand I like a bit of a jammy
interior, not necessarily runny,but not dry either.
So I'll do about 12 to 13minutes and then from there I
just put them in a nice bath,peel them and that's it so it's
like hard boiled eggs, butthey're hard air fried I mean,

(25:24):
yes, yeah, I don't know how todescribe it they are are pretty
much hard boiled eggs.
That's what they.
Yeah, I just like the.
It was easier than having towatch the pot letting it boil,
forgetting to set a timer, allthat stuff.
But I have been on a huge eggkick.
So lots of eggs, inexpensive,delicious.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, that sounds made up, but I'll take your word
on that.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Well, I can Well, sorry, Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
So what do you have with the eggs?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Okay, okay, so you have eggs.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
I'm assuming you're not just eating eggs.
Yeah, it's fine.
We don't have time for thatright now, Rob.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Okay.
So what do you have with theseeggs?
Are you just eating the eggs?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
I'm assuming you have other things with weird and I
really like sweet and savory.
I've been doing sugar-freemaple syrup, salt and smoked
paprika and that is pretty muchmy protein and fats.
I just do like four or fiveeggs and then I'll typically
pair that with a fruit orwhatever I'm feeling for the
morning.
If I'm going to work out, I'lldo some more carbs, usually like
some cereal or something.

(26:24):
It just depends when I'm havingit.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
People are sleeping on smoked paprika.
That is the spice.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Smoked paprika does taste better.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
I will say smoked paprika tastes better than
regular paprika by quite a widemargin.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yes, Agreed, it is so good, Especially with like salt
.
They just balance each.
I don't know, that's all I need.
I know everybody likes to say,oh, you need to have garlic in
this and that.
Sometimes I don't know I get.
Okay.
If I'm going out to arestaurant, obviously I want my
food seasoned, but when I'm athome sometimes I just get ached
out by every flavor under thesun all the time.

(26:58):
I don't know, that's just me.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, I mean it's seasoning, it's just like
whatever you want.
If you're a carnivore, just dosalt and then eat it with
nothing else and be sad.
That's totally fine.
I like the hot mexican style,like there's like a hot mexican
blend chili powder, like a hotmexican chili powder at walmart.
That shit's good, that's.
It's like smoky and real spicy.
And I like my food like realspicy.
My wife can't handle fuckingspice, for shit.
Regular paprika, and she's likeI'm dying.

(27:21):
I'm like it's fucking.
It's bell pepper is basicallyall it is like.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Um, but yeah, just find likesome seasoning works for you,
and I like that.
You know, cereal fruit.
Find any fruit that works foryou.
Dried fruit is also great.
I bought like kroger startedselling like no sugar added
dried mango.
I've been eating a bunch ofthat like it's just mango, like
it's just it's literally justmango, with the water going.

(27:43):
Water's gone, that's all it is.
And so, like mango, supernutrient dense, I just have that
like I'll snack on it later atnight if I want something sweet,
I'll have it in the morning ifI'm, like you know, gonna go to
the gym or whatever it's, it'sawesome.
And then you could have it withfive air fried eggs or whatever
the hell you know you want toeat it with.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's totally fine yeah um yeah, let's just throw
everything in the air fryer.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Let's just try.
Apparently, we're just fuckingthrowing everything.
You know what I love, porridge.
Let me just throw that shit.
Everything in the air fryer.
Let's just throw everything.
Apparently, we're just fuckingthrowing everything.
You know what I love, porridge.
Let me just throw that shitright in the air fryer, I'm sure
it'll work out.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
I have seen people doing some weird shit with that.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
But then they remove the basket.
If you remove the basket,there's no air circulating.
I mean it is circulating butit's not getting under the food.
So I feel like fucking oven.
I mean, like maybe it's alittle bit better.
Anyway, it doesn't, it doesn'tmatter.
Like well, I don't just get thepoint of removing the basket.
But okay, so you know again.
For me, yeah, breakfast has tobe quick.

(28:40):
I talked about this in a recentvideo.
I've been loving like the Oikospro drinks.
They're like 23 grams ofprotein.
Chobani has some.
They're like 20 grams ofprotein.
It's just like drinkable yogurtand they just add fucking
stevia or whatever fuckingsweeteners to it and they're
like 100 to maybe like 150,possibly even 200 calories.
You get 20 grams of proteindairy.
You're good to go, as long asyou can handle that.
What do you normally do forlunch?

(29:03):
What do you do for that?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
I have to say I haven't had the drinkable Greek
yogurts, but I do love, love,love Greek yogurt.
I would have to say I am anoikos girl.
I don't really like chobanizero.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think it's a bit too sour, why it has the best
texture, but it's very pricey, Ithink but fuck me, yeah, like
seven, eight dollars a fuckingcontainer and when, like the
store brand is half the price,it doesn't taste twice as good.
It tastes like 20 better butit's twice the price.
I can't, I'm not doing that.
I'm not doing that kroger brandor walmart whatever math ain't

(29:38):
mathin bullshit.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
The the kroger simple truth brand.
It's kind of their own oikostriple zero.
I think it's a dollar cheapertoo yeah, okay so I know what
you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
No, no that one isn't technically yogurt.
Okay, it is a dollar cheapertoo, yeah, okay, so I know what
you're talking about.
No, no, no, that one isn'ttechnically yogurt.
Okay, it is a cultured dairyblend because legally they can't
call it yogurt.
I looked at it cause I was likewhy is this called a cultured
dairy blend and they can't callit yogurt?
Because they do use milk butthey also add like protein to it
, like, oh, I don't rememberwhat the fuck they do, but like,

(30:14):
whatever they do, they can'tlegally call it yogurt, but it
still has, like you know, theprobiotics and shit in there,
and it's like they have onesthat are 60 calories and like I
forget how much protein are inthose 12 grams of protein 15,
something ridiculous.
So, yeah, if you like the taste, try.
Buy one small one.
See if you like the taste.
If you don't, then you're notgoing to eat it, but they're
like less than a dollar, so it'sworth trying if you have a
kroger yeah, yeah, agreed, yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I wouldn't say they're as good as oikos triple
zero in terms of taste, but forthe price it'll, it'll get you
through for sure exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Oh, and the dessert one sorry, I was gonna say for
the dessert one, you for dessertyogurt.
You need to get the uh lightand fit.
Uh, what the fuck it flips?
No, they're not flips to.
Chobani makes flips light andflits version.
You need to get the Light andFit.
What are the fucking flips?
No, they're not flips.
Chobani makes flips, light andFits version of Chobani flips.
I don't remember what they callit, but they got a little.
They got like two littlepouches in there.
You got yogurt and then you gotyour little crumbly pieces,

(31:01):
then like the key lime andbrownie and some other shit.
I don't remember what it is,but they're all fucking bangers.
They're all fucking bangers,they're so good.
They're like 100 calories andlike 110, 112, 120 calories and
then like 12 grams of protein.
So it's like protein bar level,where you get like a gram of
protein per 10 calories andthey're so good.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, I tried the brownie one.
It was delicious.
I have the key lime one in myfridge right now waiting to try
that that excites me.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, key lime one is the best one, brownie is good,
key waiting to try that thatexcites me.
Yay, key lime one's the bestone brownie's good key lime's
one breath.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Okay, oh, really key lime.
So good, I fucking love keylime.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm sitting behind me .
I got some fucking bear billlike fucking key lime bars right
here.
Joe, the key key lime is thefucking tits.
All right, I'm telling youright now, lemon tarts and key
lime are like my favoriteflavors, like I need it's sweet
and and and and I need it'ssweet and sour.
I need to.
Fucking sweet and sour is sogood.
Like you put it together, souris fucking underrated.

(31:57):
I'm telling you this like thesour is not enough foods.
And I get it because like sour,like in nature, when you taste
something that's like sour, thatusually means it's like off,
it's bad, right, you know so.
Like we've kind of grown thisaversion to it.
But if you institute itcorrectly into a food, it just
brings it to the next levelbecause other foods don't have
that layer of flavor.
It's about layering yourflavors.

(32:18):
How are you all doing?

Speaker 3 (32:18):
I love how passionate you are.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I lick sour in my food.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
I was just going to say the key lime, yoplait is my
shit when I was younger.
But you know what I think?
Yoplait even has come out witha protein version.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
I've yet to try that.
Yeah, oh, no, don't try it.
Don't try it, don't you?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Garbage, garbage.
Texture is off.
It's like.
It's like they were like okay,we've got a good version, what
do we do to it?
And they're like someone tasteslike it's just got this kind of
gritty, just weird texture.
Do not do, do not fall forfucking yoplait's bullshit.

(32:55):
And they're like proteinyogurts.
I've seen that shit in theclearance section a bunch and
you know me, I always buyclearance.
I ain't buying that shit onclearance because I ain't paying
for it.
It's not working.
Yeah, I lit.
They came to me and they werelike we want to do a deal,
collab, cola.
I'd be like fuck you, I ain'tdoing that shit.
I'm like light and fit is thebest.
And then like, yeah, like Foyeris really good, just more
expensive.
And you know, whatever yogurtWe've been talking too much

(33:15):
about yogurt, yogurt, that'syogurt, it's good.
Find whatever fucking yogurtyou like.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
But yeah, what are you what?
You just have yogurt.
You're sitting there with justa big bowl with your fucking
frozen grapes sucking on them orsome weird shit.
What's going on?
Just kind of jazzing it up.
I also like to have a fruitwith it sometimes if I want some
carbs post-workout.
Whatever it is.
I just like to make yogurtbowls.
They can be so pretty and itjust makes it.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I don't know, it makes it taste better oh, yogurt
bowls are fucking are fantasticyeah, because you got your
protein base and then you throwsome shit on there my top, my
top on a yogurt bowl for sure.
Dates, dates are so good, likefucking nature's candy man.
Like you know, you get a littlebit of fiber.
You're getting people like, oh,it's full of sugar.
Fuck you, it's full of sugar.
I don't give a.

(34:19):
You don't have any idea howlittle I care about the sugar
and dates and I get for somepeople.
You know, if you have likeinsulin resistance or whatever,
like totally, I'm not saying ifyou're allergic, whatever, but
like fuck you.
If you come to me and be likedon't eat dates because of sugar
, I truly could not care anyless if I tried.
Um, so you know, dates arefantastic.

(34:40):
Any sort of like frozen fruit.
Uh, you know, for I see me, Iheat, I heat like frozen fruit
up in the microwave for like 30seconds a minute and then throw
that on the yogurt bowl.
But like, if you want to eat itfrozen because you're weird,
that's totally fine.
Um, what else is?
Oh, like seeds, you know, likeyou got like your hemp hearts
and like your chia seeds orwhatever.
Man, what the hell's up yo rob?
Yeah, like the chia seeds likeI, you, I know you're supposed
to soak them and that's better,but like is it?

(35:03):
Like?
People keep saying, like, ifyou eat chia seeds, it's going
to cause like, are you chiaseeds that aren't soaked?
It's going to cause like ablockage and you're totally
fucked.
What's up?

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I've never even Googled this that I assume
that's just because it's allgoing to they're.
They're probably like under,under hydrated.
Yeah, because it's going toabsorb the water from inside.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, like everything on, google is telling me it's
fine to eat the chia seeds rawand then you don't have to soak
them.
But, like you know, maybe it'smore.
The nutrients are more likebioavailable or some shit if you
soak them or whatever.
But yeah, also stay likehydrated or you can grind them
too.
Like whatever fucking, itdoesn't matter.
Yes, chia seeds, any sort ofseed hemp Can.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I just say to the listeners right now Liam, you
all know by now Liam quit hisjob and so we're recording at
like 10 in the morning for me,noon for Liam.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Look how much more energy he has, yeah listen, I'm
telling you fucking late atnight I went.
You know working nights thatshit fucking kills you.
Don't do it, it's not worth itanyway.
So shit fucking kills you don'tdo it.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's not worth it anyway.
Um so yeah, uh, yogurt bowls.
What, sorry?
I was just saying I don't knowhow you did your job like
overnight, with all the content.
You, it's beautifully editedeverything oh man, listen.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Making, making videos and like, have you know my
daughter who's screaming?
She just woke up from nap.
Right now I hear like oh yeah,there she is.
She hears me talking here, yeahuh, listen, if you want to bring
her in here, I'll just sit onmy lap, it'll be fine.
It's fine, it's all fine.
Um, yeah, yogurt bowls for likelunch.
I'm usually like I just ate asandwich, like that's, that was
kind of my lunch and likesandwiches are just so easy

(36:39):
because, like I usually keepbread, I either put it in the
fridge or the freezer becauseotherwise it goes bad, like I,
like I, I can't get through afucking whole loaf.
Okay, so put in the fridge orfreezer, last a little bit
longer, and then you know somelunch meats tuna, like canned
tuna, like that shit's cheap.
I'm telling you, if you're in,if you're like broken in college
, tuna is super helpful becauseit's, like you know, less than a

(37:02):
dollar can great source ofprotein.
You can add some mayo, throw iton a sandwich.
Um, man, I'll tell you thematthew mcconaughey sandwich
with like peas.
I actually really like that.
Putting like peas into the tuna, that's actually a really good
call.
It goes really well with thatand it adds more, you know,
protein and fiber yeah you canalso throw it in the air fryer
with your eggs.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
What the fuck are you ?

Speaker 3 (37:22):
talking about, about hi oakley, the wraps the high
fiber wraps are really good, ohthe high fiber wraps yeah,
extreme anything with high fiberextreme wellness.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Extreme wellness is the best uh brand.
I've tried a bunch of differentones.
Like walmart's version is okay,but like extreme wellness is
the best.
Like high fiber one.
You get the big ones, they'retougher to find like, but the
larger ones and those have like16 grams of fiber per per wrap
or whatever.
Um, so they're like that wrapsand but I'm telling you like
prepping wrap.

(37:57):
Oh well, my, my wife just leftthe room.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Oakley doesn't like wraps.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I think you need to be in here as well.
Sorry, no-transcript.

(38:35):
Yeah, I guess you have to dosomething about that.
I would say for like the, butfor like lunches, like you were
talking about, kind of like youknow your portion, so you can
still do, can still do like whatis it we used to be?
We used to have like the foodpyramid.
We got rid of that a while ago,so now it's like kind of my
plate and they show you how youhave just different portions.
So, like for lunch, if againyou can just do it, where you
get like a protein that could bethe rotisserie chicken or

(38:57):
whatever your veggie, um, sometype of grain potatoes you prep
those again like and and I thinkI want to bring up is like you
know still finding the takeoutsand stuff like that.
Do you have like a takeout thatyou typically go to like you
know a fast food type situation?

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I will say my favorite fast food is kava,
mostly for their pita chips.
It is delicious.
Oh, and the braised lamb it'sdelicious.
That's my go to.
I know a lot of people preferChipotle.
I honestly don't think you cancompare them.
They're like different cuisinesin my mind.

(39:37):
What is this?
What is this?
You're talking about grains andall the toppings and whatnot.
They have a delicious,delicious braised lamb as an
option and they do have theirnutritional menu online and they
have it's really decent proteinand whatnot.
They also have some chickenoptions, some meatballs.
They do have the rices and alot of toppings I typically just

(40:03):
go for, like the corn.
That's my favorite.
The pickled onions aredelicious, but if you go there,
you cannot go without gettingthe pita chips, not the side
pita, the pita chips.
They are delicious.
I've never had anything likethem.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
It's interesting.
You say that because we have aMediterranean chipotle but it's
called Brassica.
I think it's just like a localthing.
But it's just like that whereyou have, like you know you got
your meat section, like they'deither do lentils and rice or
you can do like a pita wrap sortof situation, and then you do
falafel and they have like steakand chicken and whatever.
So, yeah, like any type of likeChipotle type thing.

(40:39):
We also have BB Bop here, whichis local and it's like Asian.
I've talked about that invideos.
Anything where you're just like,okay, build your plate, like
that's such a great.
Just it gets people interestedbecause you get to choose the
things you like.
It's like Subway, but betterCause.
You know, eat fresh, like howfresh are we talking?
What's your definition of freshSubway?
That's what I would like toknow, anyway.

(41:00):
But any type of like restaurantthat has like that kind of
selection is just a.
You know it's a great optionand generally they're a little
bit.
You know they're.
They're relatively, I feel,like similar price now to like
you know your McDonald's andwhatnot.
It used to be McDonald's wassuper cheap.
Now, like those like placesthey're just as much as like a
Chipotle or whatever you know.
It's crazy.
Yeah, what's up with that.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
What the heck I will say on a budget.
It's mostly like half the priceand they're not as good as a
Cabo or Chipotle, but they do itpretty well.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
What other budget things?
Because you're working withinyour means In college.
Do you have any other budgetthings that you've found?
You're like, oh, this helps meout, this is a little bit
cheaper.
This is whatever.
Anything you got on that.
This is a little bit cheaper.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
This is you know, whatever Anything you got.
On that, uh, I will say, if youhave anybody in your life with
a wholesale retail like Costco,sam's club, lidl that just
opened up near me, they haveobviously you have to buy in
bulk, but that, I would say,saves you a lot of unintentional
money.
Uh, rather than buying, say,chicken breasts every week, that
is like ten dollars a poundthese days.

(42:05):
A rotisserie chicken, that's abig one, I would say.
I know a lot of people love tobuy egg whites in the carton.
To me those are just reallycostly.
I think just going with eggs ifyou get them out of Costco,
whatever, you can get a hugepack of 60 plus eggs, whatever
for a decent price.
If you want to separate theyolks, whatever.
But people need to stop hearingfats, in my opinion, in this

(42:27):
space.
Trying to think, I honestlydon't typically gravitate
towards protein bars and stuff.
I know that they can bedelicious like a Quest Hero, but
unfortunately if you factorthat into your daily expenses I
think that can be prettyexpensive.
So maybe just having those asmore of like a little special

(42:48):
treat here and there, ratherthan oh, I have to have a
protein bar post-workout everyday type thing, I will say
Fairlife protein shakes aredelicious, very, very costly.
Costco does have a 30 count.
So every time you go home forbreak or whatever, ask your
parents if they can get you acase and maybe make it last a
couple months.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I have not seen this.
Wait, a 30 count of Fair Life.
You're making that shit up,uh-uh.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Oh, is it?
Maybe it's 18.
Is it 18?
How many is it?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
My Sam's Club has 12 and that's it.
It's 12 Fair Lifes and they're$22.
And I always get three of them,so I'm buying 36 of those I got
to.
Otherwise it's $3.50 each atKroger.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Yeah, I know, and the 42-gram ones are pushing five.
It's crazy.
Yeah, they don't even, it'sprobably 18.
I think it's an 42.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Okay, maybe it's 18.
But yeah, oh, buying in bulk,absolutely the way to go.
Um, we talked about like.
Um, you're talking aboutchicken.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah, like if you're, if you're in uh, if you're in
college or something and buyingin bulk, you can put a flyer up
in the hallway and see if anyother students want to go in
with you, if it's something thatuh has an expiration date on it
.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
That's true.
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Sorry, I mean into rolls overlike fresh produce.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Oh, absolutely the frozen like if you have like a
freezer, it's great.
Um, so yeah, like frozenchicken is great.
I know a lot of people don'tcall it, they're like living in
dorms and stuff like that.
So like, um, you know, the canstuff definitely super helpful.
Like I talked about tuna,that's a great one.
They even sell like salmon in acan and like hey, I'm not going
to lie to you and be like it'ssome great, like fucking five
star, you know thing, but it'sdecent.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
They have pouch salmon too.
Those are delicious in myopinion.
I've had them several times.
And also, if people are worriedabout mercury, they can always
go for canned chicken.
I know it sounds disgusting.
Honestly, it kind of is if youdon't cook it, but I've even
just microwaved it before andput on some raised no sugar out
of barbecue sauce in a pinch.
It great protein, okay, andit's not the best, but it'll get

(44:54):
the job.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Chicken is sad canned chicken is very sad, like I've
done things before, like if youadd like eggs and other things.
You like air fry and stuff.
I made those like sort of ketothings, like it's fine, but like
you don't really have to worrytoo much about the mercury.
And like tuna and stuff likethat because it is good source
of selenium and that's kind ofthe main problem is mercury.
Methyl mercury binds toselenium in your body and so,

(45:15):
you know, because it's a goodsource of selenium itself, you
don't have to worry too much.
Um, but yeah, like tuna, all thefrozen things, like frozen
vegetables, frozen like uh, notfrozen, sorry canned cans, like
corn.
We talked about the ricepouches.
Those are fantastic.
If you're in college and allyou have is like a fucking
microwave, you know.
You know some type of rice orgrain pouches are phenomenal.

(45:36):
You know, just trying, yeah, Ithink bulk is great if, if you
can do it, but if not, like it'seven still like local stores
will have those sort of likecanned and you know pouch
options.
So I'm good with that.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Okay, so I think we did that.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Oh, okay, yeah, desserts, what are you doing?
What are you doing for, likeyou know, the sweet treat sort
of thing?
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (45:55):
there.
Okay, I do have a Ninja Creamy.
I got it as a Christmas gift.
I don't think I could spend myown money on that, but I will
say it's absolutely worth it ifyou can.
Um, I love to make ninjacreamies or another yogurt bowl
for the night.
I do really love Greek yogurt,so sometimes I will have it two,
three times a day.
Definitely something sweet,though, and then I really love

(46:19):
having like some littlechocolate chips or something.
I do really enjoy the Lily'sbrand.
They are higher fiber but verycostly.
I believe Kroger has come outwith their own version of Lily's
I think Not entirely sure Ihaven't tried it yet and I think
Walmart has that too.
So I love to just have sweetsbasically.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
What I've learned from this so far is that if
you're prepping for college oranything, instead of buying a
hot plate for your dorm room,get an air fryer, a microwave
and a Ninja Creamy.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
A Ninja Creamy is worth it if you can get it.
Sam's Club.
I got mine for like $150,because otherwise yeah, I mean
they are expensive.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah, I have seen some very inexpensive I guess
dupes.
I think there's a Tasty and adash.
I don't know how well they work, but they're 20 to 40 bucks and
the reviews it's like a fourstar.
Some people say it has asimilar concept, so I guess if
you want to try that out beforeinvesting, that could be an

(47:17):
interesting one.
I think it's a little smallertoo, so it might fit in a dorm
better.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Yeah, I have seen that.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Definitely protein.
Ice cream is a big one.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
You know, it's actually kind of good.
Like a lot of times I will havelike kind of an overnight oats,
but as a dessert situation I'llmake it like an Oreo overnight
oats.
You could add like a little bitof like light cream cheese and
oats and like some kind ofsweetened yogurt, and then top
that shit with Oreos.
You know, later at night yougot some Oreos, you crumble them
up and you got, uh, you know,something a little bit more
filling, but you still get likethat oreo flavor.

(47:46):
It's really good.
Um, so, yes, I would definitelysay, you know, find, find the,
the sweet treat.
You know, if you can, and it'stotally fine, at the same time,
though, to have like, fucking,uh, twix, which is the best
candy bar.
Don't fucking at me with thatbullshit and come out with other
stuff.
Twix, it's got the caramel,it's got the cookie crunch, it's
got got the chocolate, notSnickers.
Snickers is fine, listen, Ilove peanuts.
But no, no, no, no, no, no,twix, they've got it figured out

(48:10):
and they keep trying to doother ones like peanut butter
Twix.
No, don't give me that shit,give me classic Twix.
It's the best candy bar.
Okay, so I think that was kindof the main thing, I heard you
me with some Reese's, reese's isgood, but it doesn't have that
crunch of a Twix.
That cookie crunch is so goodand addicting.

(48:31):
I love Reese's, Reese's,whatever.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yeah, what's nice is the Reese's big cups that have
the smaller Reese's in them,because that gives you a little
crunch.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
It gives you a little like those are again and they
do like oh, take Fives arereally good.
See, take five.
Now that is good.
Wait, am I thinking?
I'm thinking, is that the onepretzels take five have like
pretzels and pieces in it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one'sgood.
That's good because it's gotagain.
It's got that crunch.
You need those things whereit's like fucking, who picks out
like a three musketeers, likeit's a fine candy bar but

(49:03):
there's no crunch in it.
It's just all one note.
I mean I guess they have alittle bit of chocolate, but
it's basically all one note.
It's sad.
I, I, no, thank you.
Maybe somebody with no teeth?
No fine, if you have no teeth,then milky way and and three
musketeers, I get to understandwhy you like that.
If you have those fucking pearlywhites in your mouth, though, I

(49:25):
twix, twix is better.
I thank you, oakley, for thecarrot, this half chewed carrot.
I appreciate this very much, umokay, so before we go, we're
already close to like an hourhere.
Yes, hi, you want to come uphere.
So, like, give because you,because you said you, you
started like lifting weights orstarted getting into like
exercise, fitness when you werefor years ago.
Um, you know, kind of give ussome of like your, the biggest

(49:48):
mistakes you made that youlearned.
I think these are good things,especially for people who are
younger.
They're like, oh, I'm makingthat mistake right now.
So give us like a few of thethings you're like oh, I
probably shouldn't have donethat or I could have done that
differently.
Like a few of the top ones thatcome to mind gotcha.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
So I would say the number one thing is learning how
to maximize your time in thegym.
Training intensity is reallyimportant.
You really don't need to bedoing 20 plus working sets in a
workout.
Quite frankly, at least half ofthat is just fluff.
So I would say, as a beginner,try first of all like start
researching and looking uptraining intensity and how

(50:22):
training to failure or close tofailure most of the time but as
a beginner, learning to eventrain to failure what that means
, because a lot of time peoplethink that they are training
intensely but really they havefive, six reps in the tank.
That honestly took me a coupleof months of practicing and
trying to implement until Icould confidently say I train

(50:43):
hard, I train to failure typething, and obviously training to
failure that's.
It does accumulate a lot offatigue, whatever.
But once you understand whatfailure is, then from there you
can assess and learn how tovolume is a whole nother
situation.
I get a lot of questions abouthow much volume.
I would say just once you learnto train intensely, start on a

(51:03):
lower end and see whereprogression hits your goal with
lifting and stuff.
If you want to build muscleshould be progressive overload.
So meaning if you can do a, forexample, a hundred pounds for
five reps one day, and that'syou know, whatever RAR you have
judged, or to failure, and thenthe next week or whatever, you
have a hundred pounds for sixreps, or you could go up to 105

(51:26):
pounds for five reps.
You still get the same reps.
Whatever that is, you just wantto be aiming to progress.
It's not going to happen everysingle session.
Maybe if you're earlier in yourlifting career it might.
But aiming for that and seeingwhere that occurs is going to be
a good gauge on how to allocateyour volume, because I have

(51:46):
never gone into a fitnessprogram or anything, so I'm not
a personal trainer, but I have,I guess, formulated my own
splits and everything over theyears of just experimenting.
So FAFI fuck around, find out.
Oh wait.
Fafo fuck around, find out.

(52:06):
Oh wait.
F-a-f-f-a-f-o fuck around, findout.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Whatever that is whatever that acronym is.
Yeah, that's like that, exactlylike you're saying
experimentify what works for you.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
I guess if you yes, correct, yeah, and you don't
need 10 exercises.
You don't need to hit the thelats from five different angles,
like you don't need to over.
You don't need to hit the latsfrom five different angles, like
you don't need toovercomplicate it.
I think sticking to mostlycompounds will be a good thing
to do and yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah, I mean right, especially when you start off
like, yeah, talking aboutfailure, you'll pretty much grow
muscle at the beginning doingpretty much anything.
But as you start to get into ita little bit more, try to push
yourself a little bit, figureout like, okay, that's, that's
the last rep I could possibly do, it, like, and this is really
if you're like, I really want totry and build some muscle,
especially like younger guys,like when I was 18 or whatever.
You know, you're like man, Ireally I want to get the gym, I

(52:56):
want to build some musclebecause obviously that's going
to get me all the girls wetalked about that last week.
You get the muscles every girlwants you.
That's how automatically itworks.
So, not at all, but um, you just, you know, being able to push
yourself?
No, not at all, but being ableto just kind of push yourself
and find out where you know thisis the most I can do.
So you know you don't have togo crazy every day, uh, at every

(53:17):
.
You know every set, but justpushing yourself somewhat hard,
uh, and then giving yourselftime to rest, like you said, uh,
having you said working outthree days a week, so you work
out Monday you give yourself arest, come back Wednesday, come
back Friday, whatever it is, andworking into the time that you
have.
I like that.
So exercise Anything else.
Just on the nutrition side,that you learned that you were

(53:38):
making a mistake at thebeginning and something that
you're like, oh man, doing thisis way easier and a lot better.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
It works out a lot better yeah, I would definitely
say do not neglect fats.
It's really easy when you startlearning about protein and
stuff to choose only chickenbreast, egg whites, everything
like that.
Do not neglect fats.
Make sure you're getting insome healthy fat sources.
I know it is more caloricallydense, but it it plays a big
role in like hormones and stuff.
So that was a big one and youreally don't need to be eating

(54:08):
two times your body weight ingrams of protein per day.
That was something that forsome reason, I got sucked down
in the beginning.
But, yeah, I would say aimingaround a gram per pound or 0.8
grams per pound is decent.
And the thing with water toonot everybody needs a gallon a
day.
I know, with classes and stuff,having to pee in a three-hour
lecture is really reallydifficult when you don't want to

(54:30):
miss any information.
So you don't need a gallon aday, but it is important to stay
hydrated.
So I think finding a healthybalance with that and that is
good.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
So really just the basics basically as Oakley's
knocking over carrots and she'sgot look, look, who has a
protein bar, this one, bearbell.
See, even she likes Bearbell.
Yeah, this one will you know,she's got balance.
She's eating carrots.
She's got a nice little ultraprocessed protein bar right here

(55:02):
.
This is what she wanted.
It's about like say, tell thepeople, Oakley, get into the oh
shoot, Okay, get into the camera, that camera, get into the
microphone right here.
Tell them people, it's aboutbalance.
Now you say it Oakley, okay,she's feeling a little shy.
It's her first time on apodcast, you know.
So she's, yeah, it's exactlyjust like that, oakley, mine too

(55:29):
.
Just like that.
There we go.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Balance, yeah, balance okay, now she's gonna
hold the microphone.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Perfect, thank you.
Yeah, yeah, awesome, uh.
Is there anything you wanted toget to before we uh get off
here skyline, anything youwanted to tell the people?
What do you want to tell theyoung people?
What do you want to tell?
What are you gonna be like?
Hey, youngins out there, I'mone of you and I learned learned
.
This is what you need to hear.
Yes, as Oakley is playing withthe microphone Exactly.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Oakley turns the mic away from you so we can barely
hear you.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
OK, what I would say is that really assess your
priorities and realize thathealth and fitness should be a
lifestyle.
It should be for the rest ofyour life.
So if four to eight years, youhave to put a little more energy
into school or whatever it maybe, that is okay.
I know we all want to be in thegym as much as possible,
whatever, but just meet yourselfwhere you're at.
It is perfectly okay, and youcan still make incredible

(56:17):
progress with less.
So maybe, rather than trying todo the most, just do what you
can each day, and that shouldget you pretty far.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
You had me at lower the bar.
You already had us at lower thebar.
We love that here.
We love to put the bar on, welove to put the bar on the floor
, and then we like to walk overit.
Right, oakley, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
And then apparently Oakley likes to put the
microphone on the floor.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
She's well, she likes to put everything on the floor
after she throws it around alittle bit, uh, but I think with
with all that said rob you got,you got anything else, you got
anything else well, did you wantto announce a mentorship?

Speaker 3 (56:54):
oh, sorry, oh well listen we don't really know what
we don't really know what we'redoing.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Okay, but like we were talking to rob and I were
talking about starting like thismentorship you were doing it
with.
Oh, I forgot her name already.
Shoot, what's her name?
Sagey, sagey, that's what it is.
Listen, I got a lot of.
I got a.
Clearly, I have a lot of thingsgoing on right now with Sagey,
but Skylin I've been watchingher content for a while and it's

(57:20):
very just like down to earthand and basic and you know, like
something that, listen, shut up, rob.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
I'm doing what I can For those listening who can't
see it.
Liam is fighting with Oakley.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Over the mic.
This is my microphone.
Yeah, you eat your carrot, butit's very just, you know, like
anybody can look at it and go,okay, that makes sense, that's
something I can institute intomy diet or, you know, a workout
or whatever it is.
So, yeah, I was definitelyinterested in trying to work
with Skyland and see if we canyou know, if I can help her in
any way grow and reach morepeople with her realistic

(57:54):
approach, as opposed to 99% ofthe nonsense you get on social
media, but apparently won't begetting any more of that from
TikTok because that's going away, right, oakley?

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate you.
Even considering me, that meansso much oh, listen, hey, you
got great content.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Just keep to the basics.
And you know, like you're notgonna, you, listen, listen.
If you're not telling peoplethat you're gonna be able to
grow your butt three sizes intwo weeks and get abs by
tomorrow, you're probably notgonna get like a ton of views.
But that's just how it works.
You know what I'm saying.
You, you know.
You just try and keep it basicand help the people that you can
, because that's, you know, I'drather help like three.

(58:32):
I'd rather help three peoplereally than, like you know, lie
to a bunch of people.
Shut up, rob, shut up, I'mworking with what I got here.
She wants to move themicrophone.
Uh, rather, we'll help like afew individual people, actually
help them.
Then, you know, I do a bunch ofpeople to shred and then, you
know, make a whole bunch ofmoney.
Yeah, that's, I'd rather dothat.
Yeah, yeah, that's mymicrophone.

(58:54):
Thank you, yes, anything else?
Guys, we got anything else, Ithink.
I think Oakley says we're donehere.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
She's pushing the microwave According to way,
according to oakley.
We're done yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
So don't be your worst.
Keep it basic.
You know, work with what yougot.
Exercise when you can eat yourfruits and vegetables, all the
normal shit.
Don't worry about all the otherstuff.
That means very little got it.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Yeah, we got it okay good, and don't forget to tell
us where people can find you yes, exactly oh okay, I mean, um,
you really don't have to like Ifeel bad, I feel bad well, you
don't have to feel bad aboutanything.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Tell people where to find you.
This is where you find me ontiktok, until it gets banned on
january 19th, you can find methere and you can find me on
insta on all the things this iswhere you can find me on my
future blue sky exactly.
I wonder where I create it myuser on.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
I'll be doing that tonight.
Uh, you can find me at skyconoboy, but with two y's both
times, so s-k-y-y and thenc-o-n-o-b-o-y-y, on both tiktok
and instagram.
I will be downloading blue skyasap.
I did not know that that wasthe thing.
But yeah, that's pretty much it.
Maybe one day I'll get intoyoutube.
That would be really cool.

(01:00:06):
As for now, it's just the two,or the one I guessed the one,
just the sad voice.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
I guess it's just the one.
Yes, the one that's going awayyeah, yeah, the one that's right
, exactly, okay.
Well, uh, oakley's about to gohit lats, she's got her protein
bar.
Um, everybody, don't be yourworst.
Do it work with what you can,okay, bye.