October 5, 2025 • 39 mins
It's time for our monthly check in where we review our goals from last month and see what's coming up for the next.
Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why?
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(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:12) Juan's September 2025 Recap
(00:06:16) Kyrin's September 2025 Recap
(00:13:14) Support Overview
(00:15:59) Juan's October 2025 Goals
(00:24:17) Kyrin's October 2025 Goals
(00:33:39) Fitness
(00:38:45) V4V
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Welcome back Mere Mortalites. We have monthly goals today.
It is a chance for us to just get down and dirty on the goals at hand, the past month, the current month.
These ones are gonna be interesting because we've got Kyrin's new annual goals that have begun. Yeah. You wanna listen to the the full annual goals breakdown, go to the previous episode that we've done just recently. We kinda talked about that. But today we'll we'll reflect back on the month of September. We'll look into October and it is the October 5 as we're recording this as well. Very good. I'll do a little plug as well. Although I've had zero people jump into the, space just yet, but I created a stain. I think it's forward slash stand. I think that's my maybe what it is. Maybe it's standard cub forward slash me immortals. If
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you wanna do goal setting in amongst with me personally, just me,
and get some support on conversations directly. It was paid.
Go and have a play. But that's my plug. That's how we do it. Let's talk about the monthly goals.
Again, what we'd like to do is go into September goals and then we'll go into the next month goal, which is October, which we're into right now. I'll start those off. I have eight goals. So I continue the trend of having eight goals.
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I had first three was in the fitness category.
The first one there was to accomplish
150
kilometers of running. So much. Jesus Christ. Now I didn't do that, But I felt, I felt,
happy that I got pretty close, even though I had,
I think I, it was 10 off. Ten days off in the month. It was debilitating.
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Yes.
So like I really push hard towards the tail end to be like, it would be hilarious if I hit this, but I didn't. So I looked, that's okay. There was a lot of sickness and whatnot going around. So I didn't hit that, but I gave it a good red hot go. So I was happy with that one. Blood and guts training, just increased intensity, keep strength. That was good. I towards the tail end of the month, I stopped, not stopped doing it. I started I
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erred more into a little bit more volume training
and
I talked about it in the meme or the emotion just like getting sick with doing the AI style training that it was giving me. So I've gone a little bit more back to the usual things that I do, but it's still much it's I have I think in the month of September,
in the month of September, there was only
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two training sessions that were over sixty minutes gym wise. Everything else was thirty minutes or forty minutes. So I was kind of like happy with that to enable running, then again, I was sick. So counter pairing. Third one, recording the first in-depth body information.
I'm pretty sure I take that. I said, no. No. I've got my notes on there to actually do it. I was going to do, I'll tell you the topic. I want to talk about,
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the training differences in your thirties versus in your twenties. And specifically, I wanted to talk about
the like concept of not, not so much body dysmorphia, but the concept of getting,
being super specific, like big legs, muscle legs versus
what would happen if you go for performance slash endurance, kind of the classic trope of going from your twenties to your thirties. I wanted to do something like that. Sure. I just didn't, didn't do it. Didn't do it. You're more relaxed, didn't do it. Well, Pat, no, but it will continue. You will continue. But you, but you will do it? I will. I will. It's in the, it's in the next month, I guess. Over in the mind space, I wanted to decide the path of the current business opportunity. I did. It's been decided.
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So enough said there. But then of course, other business opportunities come up. So here we are.
Novi, I've completed the second content on projection paradox, which I did, which ended up not being called projection paradox. It was the trophies versus generators,
concept.
So I was glad to put that out. Again, give me some feedback at the Immune Model Arts. Again, is it something that,
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you know, you're enjoying those more
more effortful kind of productions? If not, why again, we'll change it up. We'll shift things up. We've talked about this off off air around what we wanted to do with the podcast or not. The last two, the monthly solo practice, completing my template, I created the start of the month to help review. Yep. I did do that.
And then I also in completing that when this is actually a waste time, I went, so I put a lot of effort on it. So what was it? It was it was funny. So I completing my monthly solo reflection. Okay. Now it started at the previous month in in that I could set up a template. And the idea was I was gonna combine
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basically every type of philosophy philosophy
out there. So like Hinduism,
Buddhism,
you know. Being gangs that Zen monk. Yeah. Like it was not it was more of our like reflective questions to review the month and being like, you know what this month, what gave you energy? What took away? What all sort of things. But in
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I either found myself being repetitive
with what I was answering or there wasn't actually as much variation as I imagined it to be. So
maybe it would be good if I was doing a lot of different things, but I'm in a stage of life where I'm not. Like I wake up, it's routine. I'm at work, routine,
no time with the kids, routine. Like, it doesn't really change. So it wasn't as
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important as I thought it was gonna be. So I did it, but I kind of reflecting on
it's gonna change the way I'm reflecting.
The last one, determine how family philosophy might be best consumed. So I absolutely did this, which was good. And also My suggestion, interpretive dance? Interpretive dance. Nope. It was not interpretive dance. And I did begin
drafting the family philosophy.
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Stay tuned. If you stay tuned all the way till the end, I will share what the family philosophy
looks like in its draft state. My partner has not
heard me talk through it, but it is, it's very like It's sensible, it's sensible.
That's not like, you're not crazy.
Like it's not a Clean the chandelier every day. The women must clean the chandelier every day. Yeah, like, you know, to me fine. But those are September girls. Most got done. Lots of other things, you know, beyond that as well. But,
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yeah, a couple of things that
got,
got sidetracked with sickness and whatnot and in October, we're gonna rectify that. So, I guess that was a September girls. Brilliant. Current. Nice. Yeah. How do you finish off the Allian goals? Jump, jump on to mine. Yeah. So the as one just hinted at, I start new ones in October, a. K. A. This month. So these last ones here are related to last year's goals and they are related one each to partner relationships, financial health, spirituality,
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travel, character, knowledge, skills.
You want to know what the long term of all of them is? Check out the next episode. I'm going to be talking about some little variations that one I have been doing to us
and speaking
or changing words into into action, I guess. So for my September goals, they were kind of like wrapping it up slash
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was honestly one or two of them are just random stuff like do remaining chores on work list. Okay. Like,
it's just a filler. Completely be honest. Yep. Which I didn't do that well.
I had this whole whole like clean up the backyard,
take the car in for a service, all that sort of stuff. I did. I did like half of it. I put honestly quite a few hours into cleaning up the yard and things like that. Okay.
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I didn't get through all of it. No way.
Honestly, almost all of these I ticked off,
get through as many of the remaining catch ups as possible. I did like five events with people, so that was great.
Spend two hours on the one on research. Yeah. Informed comparisons definitely did that.
Also got 20 tabs on my computer of other things to to check out.
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No porn for the whole month. Easy.
Get me and Morpheus up to date with the weekly updates. Yes. Although
as I've mentioned, Awan just before this
couple
ad one or two ads slipped in
ads because I was using a ads. Karan introducing ads into our show. Twitter not even me introducing
someone else. Yeah, someone else the machine.
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And yeah, if you're watching the video, some
touching cables is doing weird stuff. So we got to try and be careful not to touch the cables.
The one that I did not do,
I would say very well was
and I clicked just
clicked off ticked off start draft on a new affirmation sheet, which I
kinda have a old version here, but this is essentially very similar to what I've done.
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The affirmation in particular that
this was what I used to go.
Like read every morning?
Yeah.
And everything else in the back is kind of just like a motivation type thing. I don't really need it. But it's like, you know, maybe one day if I'm feeling a little bit down, reading something like this could could help me out. And it's just like
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quotes
from, you know, if by Rupert Kipling or,
the man in the arena speech by Roosevelt and stuff like that.
So did that to that I didn't do arrive to events early and say hi to people.
I don't think I really arrived early to things as well as I was perhaps intentionally planning. Now,
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if today was still in September, I could say, Yeah, I did that cause I unintentionally woke up an hour earlier due to daylight savings
because my phone was on Sydney time for some reason.
But the one I definitely didn't do was binge watch Andreas Antonopoulos. And the reason that. Yeah, the reason for this was so he's on Patreon
and
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I was vaguely aware.
Well, I was just like, oh, you know, I'll join this Patreon like I used to. And they used to be like just a tier system.
I just went for the smallest, cheapest tier, which is I think was in around like the 5 US a month or something like that. Yeah. It's all supported. Yeah. Went to go do that. That one sold out. Okay. All right. Well, sold out. Yeah. Well, it's like this is. Like this.
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Yeah. So I'm like, oh, okay, well go through all the others. And
the cheapest one was the highest tier one, which was like,
is $8 a month or something. I'm like, I'm not doing this. What the fuck? Get out of here. Andreas Antonopoulos.
Now just a zipple, just Bitcoin a month. If you could send me a Bitcoin. Yeah, that would cover.
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So I didn't do that, but I was kind of scratching my head because I'm like, I thought I saw a way where you can join, where you can actually choose your amount, which is actually very value for value. Patreon.
You're getting in my good books now.
And I only figured that out right at the end where it's like, oh, okay,
just for some reason,
the
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the filtering system of how you get access to it
can vary. And I'd found, like, the wrong path. Yeah. I got what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then I just found, like, oh, if I just click join here, it allows me to join and I can choose how much I want. Right. Which I
chose to do and I chose to actually spend more than the the bottom one. So just a little hint for Andreas if you have a list. Okay. Did you go to $6? Good. Now I went to I went to like what was it? It was like 20 or 30. Okay. Australian, so much more. Much more. Wow. So
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Andreas, that's what you get for for being cool and Patreon as well. So, yeah, decent month for me. I feel like I got a fair chunk done. Good. Yeah. Yeah. And again, when we reflect back in the goals, I think you need to be
super, super cognizant that if you go back
thirty years ago, when we were doing monthly goals, there was a lot of habit building, which now just exists. Like we don't talk about how often we go to the gym or how often we're like training or how often we do in the running, right? Again, we do talk about, I guess I'm talking volume and you're saying spend two hours and like refining
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the
research into one hand, like one arm handstands, but it's like the whole art of learning concept where the more you master something, the more you just like focusing on smaller circles
and you'll hear some goals either we won't even describe the goals about say fitness or something else, because we've just been doing it for such a long time that if you, if you were, you know,
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kind of newish have gone to the gym, you might be saying how I'm gonna go to the gym five times a week. But for us, there's like, there's no point for us calling out. I'm gonna go gym six times a week or five times a week and run this amount of times and then stretch or whatever, because it just, it's part of like daily habits. So part of it's to do the
this is just an extra thing to get you started. So
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the spending two hours on one handstand research,
actually did way more than that. And this was just the kind of prompt to be like, all right, get into it. And once I am actually into it and doing it, it's like, Oh, okay. Yeah, exactly. It's fun. Like, I'm joined to doing this. I want to go deeper into it. You know, like I said, I've got 20 tabs on my computer that I want to get through. So
that's going to bleed into the next month as well. And yeah, we'll talk about we'll talk about it, I think in the next episode to obviously stay tuned if you're listening to this live because in the in when we talk about like the tweaking of goals and tweaking event, I think I'm going to tweak the way I do
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goals moving forward. Okay. And I'll address
why that, that, that is. You'll see my tweak in this October.
You don't, you don't see it in mine, but I think in the, honestly, maybe November,
December period, then you'll see the tweak, but need to figure out exactly how it tweaks. Yep. So we generally just have like a call out to the supporters in the monthly goals. Just wrap upping on the month. Thank you, everyone, for supporting.
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We do see the streams and boost coming in. Very much appreciated comments as well. There's been a
bit of a I stopped the book reviews and then there's just like way more book reviews comments for some reason. You know, I don't know why that happens, but,
yeah, very much appreciated. I yeah, the book reviews, I'm not sure I said it elsewhere, but just to reiterate, I'm taking a break from that for a little bit.
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How long that'll be? I don't know. Couple of months period at the very least, but I'm
finding like, goddamn, I've it does save a lot of time. I spent a lot more time on it than I thought I was. I was like, Oh, it's maybe like
three hours a week. So it would be like an hour of recording. Sure. But the prep
and I guess what you would call
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the reading, making sure I was reading enough to To satisfy that was a bit more extra finish. The book was was like, oh, damn, I'm actually spending like tons of time. Yeah. If I was to be. So I am still reading. Just not. Yeah, just not creating it.
I was going to say, I think right now
because I'm doing the Anthony Horowitz, like, book series, and it's pretty easy because a lot of these books I've kind of read before and I'm just pulling out one philosophy to do the book review on. I can produce
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the video and the audio
and the recording of both of them come doing both at the same time for like, do basically like two in a row and then I'm setting this up. It would probably take me an hour and a half to do
both recording,
fully edited, scheduled,
but not creating the merriest clips and stuff like that. That obviously comes afterwards. So I'm like, I'm happy. That's like a good, good amount of time. And and again, I think we've talked about this a lot. It's that so I say with book reviews in something like what we do here, I like doing book reviews. Oh, the Anthony Horowitz, I'm doing them because it's what I'm reading, and I kind of enjoy just talking about it. But when it comes to just the other general books,
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I'm already taking notes. I already like, write down like, what's the interesting bits in the book and whatnot. So I kind of do the book highlights
on my own
anyways. So it's just a little bit extra delta to just record it. So I'm like, I'm fine.
But again, if, if I saw comments as I'm gonna be like, I don't know, but can you like go into really hardcore into like this and whatnot? I think I'd just be like Analyze the writing style. Yeah. Like I'm not, we're not like, we don't do that. We're not that part of that book reviews. But again, that's if you don't see Karen for a while, go back and reflect on, say, hundreds of books that he's done in the past. Right? There's a lot. There's plenty in there. In fact, I really saw,
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YouTube tell us that the book reviews channel hit fifteen thousand
hours watched. Yeah. I was like, cool. Again, that's a little like a little mark. I don't even know what that like honestly, what that actually means. Yeah. Comparison title is literally no idea, but,
yeah. Good to see. Okay. Octavio goals. Let's do it. So I got,
actually,
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was wrong. I had seven goals last time. I have seven goals this time. I just didn't update my order numbers. I go one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight. Okay. So one, mathematics, not strong. Maybe that's gonna be the next goal.
Fat. So first three, once again in the body space and these all map up to an annual goal. Volume, here we come. 160
kilometers of running. Now you might be wondering like shit one, that's like Couldn't even do one fifty. You couldn't even do one fifty. You got on one sixty.
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Fuck, yes, I am. As I said to Karen, I'm on I was 34 kilometers in, 34 kilometers of running in four days. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I've started this month really strong, really, really strong. That's
I'm I'm currently it looks like I'll be averaging around 40 kilometers per week
for the whole month. So I will hit that 160 kilometre target. That's a lot. A good swing. And the reason it is a lot is because on the Saturdays, I'm just doing like really long runs. So I did 50 kilometers yesterday. I was actually supposed to do 18 kilometers. So Yeah. It's like gonna be like eighteen, nineteen, 20 kilometre type Saturdays.
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So
that's gonna be a big brunt of the running and we'll see what I can do throughout the rest of the month.
Second one, I wanna record the first in-depth body information. As I said, I'll get, I've got all the notes for it. I've just gotta record it. And again,
I'm I'm I'm gonna give that a good red hot go probably all the way till the end of the year and creating these more like a little bit more time intensive
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notes ideas again.
Because part of it is,
it is interesting to me to do so.
And so I'm in return, I'm like, I wonder if it'll be more interesting to people to listen. But again, if I see as much uptake
as
maybe some other random stuff and it's better my time invested into interviews, well then I'll just do that, right? So we'll see.
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This one's a cool one. And again,
in fact, I'll challenge some people out here. I'm gonna challenge out. Hopefully, I'm gonna clip this or something like that. And how you hear all this, like, hierarchy of training people or hybrid training people? I get it. I absolutely get it. There's and I'm not saying I'm the best in the world at this. Right? Definitely not. I know personally some personally. So in on social media, they're like, obviously do much better this, but
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I will
someone come and comment on this. Who out there is doing 106 kilometer plus running,
right, running in a month?
And
this other goal, I'll be hitting six times body weight ratio at three rep mat at three reps with all my main lifts. So bench, deadlift, and squat combined. If if if you know someone out there who is doing that in a month, I'm talking 160 kilometer running and doing
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so for me, I'm ninety kilos. That's 540
combined of the total. Add three reps. Yeah. Come to come talk to me. If you're doing that, I dare someone to find that because I honestly,
and I've been on the socials for a long time and I've seen some, like, some really strong people like Alex Vlada.
He's like the original, the original guy who was like the most functional like hybrid training. He's super strong. He's super strong dead lifter. Okay, Benj and good at squatting like him. I don't know if he runs as much, but he'd be like one person I know could definitely do that. I'm sure there's loads of others. There might There's not many.
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There's not many. So yeah. You wanna compare? There'll be not many of those.
I had three reps as well. That's, Yeah. Yeah. I hit a I hit two zero five kilo deadlift or two reps and it felt okay. Felt okay. So I was like, I could do three reps of that.
Bench, it'll be easy. It'll be a squat. Squad will be the thing that like gets me to go to those numbers. So I'm going, plus someone mentioned as well, actually send me a message. I didn't say who it was. But they sent me a message on my socials. It was like, enough running,
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more heavyweights.
I was like, okay, you're getting both. You're getting both at this fucking mess. Both. What would what would you be trying to do squats at? Like what way?
190?
So like and then make it up on the bench. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So So that's weirdly enough, even though that that's going to be the hardest one, the 190 squat, like that's a hard deadlift. We find the bench very easy. Get to the numbers, but it's a deadlift that'll be the big challenge as well. So like, yeah, sorry, the squat. Yeah, because it's like 140.
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Yeah. They have 200 deadlift,
150 bends. That's three fifty. So to get to five forty, it's 190. Yeah. And that's, that's the like.
That'll be the hard one.
The next two were in the mind. Or lose some weight. Or lose some. Dude,
I I I eat less, eat more. I'm I run a heap of volume. I get sick. I have not fluctuated from 90. Like, I just stayed at 90 no matter what. I'm like, what's going on?
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Yeah. Next one, create another highest signal fun piece of content this month. Not. Oh, no. I do know what I want to do before it. It's I want to do something along AI.
So
partly my experience using Replit, and using that for a while. So we're going to dad and showing him some of the stuff and we talked about it, using it in my training and some of the pros and cons about it. Some of the stuff like, you know, the Ray Ban, the new Ray Ban glasses, meta glasses with the Yeah, yeah. The band and stuff like that. Oh, no, I don't have the band. You know, Nuance, if if you haven't seen the brand new ones, there's the original Ray Ban
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glasses. There's version two. And the version two,
is same glasses,
but it now has a neural band in it so that it's, it does augmented reality
and you can answer and do things, but it's connected to your risks and and going through. So very expensive. Yeah. Some $190
these glasses. I I think The US, right? Sure. But there's a few things where I go it'll be a fun conversation piece to have, I think. Those are things I'd like to try out. Like go to the store and Exactly. Exactly. So there's there's some interesting things hopefully that'll come out from there. Did you ever try the Apple Vision Pro? No. I never did, which I wanted to kind of give it a go. Yeah. Apparently that's that's rather impressive. Yeah. Okay.
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I haven't. I haven't. Yep. Yep. If you have, tell me. The next one, looking for the best ways to automate and make things efficient in the three interviews I've got this month. In fact, two next week and then another one the following week after that. So what I mean by that is just
not so much as a prep because that ends up being a little bit more manual in trying to just understand what I'm going to talk about, but just
creating them, converting them, scheduling them, just trying to automate that as much as possible. So it doesn't time sink into my, my everyday life.
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In the last two,
five minute portal workdays to horizon see and let the mind wander. So, it's very easy for me to, you can't really see it obviously right now, but to me to step away from my work out the door and just stare at the horizon is very easy. Very, very easy. So I want to just do that, but like everywhere like that, at least for five minutes to do that.
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I've been finding myself going for walks at lunchtime
anyways. I was like, I'm doing that even more so to just
half an hour and go for a walk. And so it's even easier, But letting the mind wander, I think is a hard challenge. So I'll make sure I do that consecutively in October.
And then sharpen the family philosophy. Share with the family for review and conversations. And again, I'll I'll share it very quickly the draft at the end of this.
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Actually, I'll I'll share it now. I'll share it now. I'll share it now, but, I will call out. This needs,
validation with my,
my significant others. But as I so far, just to give you some some flavor what it's looking like, the Greenhouse or Master family,
Northstar. Now, I don't know if I want to like put it up like a wall or something like that. We'll see. Yeah, that should be. Alright. But, the North North, so, this is the concept because there's lots of other little details, but like the the top level and this will go into the next conversation we're talking about like changing like
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wordings and stuff like that. It's basically,
brave and thought,
strong in body
is in love,
and obsessed in life.
This is the four things now I've got like, little examples and whatnot on the each one to go through. I was gonna be like,
is that all set? Like, does that capture everything that I'm really thinking about? And if it does, it might change slightly what the, you know, I usually do my annual goal with mind, body and soul. So like, you know, do I change mine with brave and thought, strong, but I like thought body love and obsession. Yep. I think obsessions are an interesting one to bring up. Yeah. Yeah. But, it's like fierce and loves. Fierce and love obsessed in life. Yeah. I want to hear more of that. But yeah. Yeah. So those are. Wait until the partner has. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. It needs to be validated. These
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are the October goals on my side.
I'm keen. I'm keen for them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds sounds real. All right. Let's, let's go to your October goals. Yeah. So the biggest change is I got double of doing
16 now I'm putting
linking up with my
yearly goal of putting in more effort just in general and more focus.
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I'm doing more. So
let me just go through this quick, create a fun online profile with Prenna. So that's my brother.
Just want to create like a dating thing.
Part of the reason I haven't used them is because I dislike them. So if I can make it fun,
as in like,
stupid photos or,
you know, voice messages, whatever.
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If he I know if I do it with him, it'll be fun. So that's that's the whole point of that. Spend one afternoon doing some approaches. Actually did that yesterday. And like I said before,
already have gone out this morning and done another couple. So I think he has met the girl of his dreams yesterday. So
who knows? Who knows?
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The statistically unlikely, but who knows?
Do a repeat barbecue to connect deeper with friends. So this is trying to. Yep.
And I was even thinking like, do I want to do a barbecue or just order pizzas? But whatever.
Well, I plan on organizing friends around and it might actually be in November from what I can tell. November. Just for the availability of people. Yep. Prep an interesting topic before going out to the world. So essentially just like the day to day routine.
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So for example, my last interesting topic when I went to the gym
on Friday was I found a drone yesterday in the park. And
like, it's not that interesting, but it shows it's almost like, well, what the fuck? Why did you find a drone in the park? And so just having something
to say other than how's your week? Oh, yeah, it was good. Just just let's try and try and break that as quickly as possible.
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Begin a fundamental list of my principles for investing. So
I've already started this on my phone, but essentially,
a lot more people have been actually asking me questions related to this, just in general of like investing or psychology and psychology of investing. And yeah, for myself, especially, it's like, you know what? I think it would be smart to
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write this down and have it kind of a bit more concrete than just the jumble that is in my head at the moment.
Keep your eye on the boil whilst experimenting with shape shapes a L2
layer two of Ethereum,
especially like NFT and art.
Focused.
I almost dropped the ball the other day. I,
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I, the classic like fat finger didn't put enough zeros in.
Thankfully, I didn't have enough in the account thankfully. Okay,
so I have I am working on
sharpening up some of the wallet systems
and things. So because when you play with it a lot,
then it that's when you mess up. Yeah,
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you become that you start doing just like, it's more like naturally just I click here, I click here and then you're Oh, yeah. What is it like? System one system two, it's at the moment, it's very intentional.
I'm just doing like a particular thing, but when I'm doing
ten,
twenty particular things
day in, day out, that's like, okay,
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it's not particular anymore. It's
broad.
Adjust points and do rehab of minor twinges. So this is for fitness. So I'll actually talk about some of those at the end and
you can see it on your chapter images if you've if watching our podcast app and rehab and the minor twinges just got this groin
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twinge at the moment. I'm doing squats improperly.
Yep.
Ballet
ballet research prep and extra practice. So I start a ballet course
for eight weeks
starting
not this next Thursday, but the Thursday after, I believe. And yeah, I just want to
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come into it like
having practice a little bit extra because I haven't done any for
two or three months now. So
create a morning habit of reading the goal and motivation sheet. That was what we kind of referenced just before,
which I do, and it takes me twenty seconds to read, but it's good kind of like start of the focus of the day.
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Ask friends and family for deeper feedback.
This is just in terms of ways I can improve
or for help or things like that. So just broad general
press to meet up with friends living in Newstead for a tour. So I know a couple of people living in Newstead. I just like I'd love to see like their apartments,
roughly how much it costs,
what their benefits for living in the area.
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No guarantees that when you know, when I say friends, they're kind of acquaintances, so there's no guarantees they'll actually let me in their house. But I've got to ask. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.
Clarify with Brendan dates and potential events. So that's just for. At least Asia. Going to Asia for
indeterminate
period of time.
Our last ones here, which are related to character and knowledge skills,
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no masturbation for the whole month doing no nut November and we're not. So we've done the product over probably continued in November. What would you call it? Orgasm,
obstacles
and
and. Obsolete orgasm.
Yeah. Obsolete
orgasm October.
I'm starting to lean down a bit, so I'm going to do a total of 90 ks calories
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with 4,650
grams of protein. So that's. Yeah, that was an interesting way to split it out into the month. 2,900
calories per day, 150
grams of protein per day is what that is. I initially wrote down because I just in my head was,
I don't know, doing things quick.
Total of 30 calories
or 31 calories,
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31,000
calories for the month. And I'm like, wait, that's a thousand per day. That's probably a bit too late.
Whoopsie.
Don't do that.
And then finally now binge watch Andreas Antonopoulos.
So there's just the skills and then
I've said prune all unnecessary
subscriptions and most for most people that would be like
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you've got Netflix, you've got Disney plus, you've got whatever. For me, I don't actually have any
that I'm aware of other than our YouTube joint YouTube one.
That's the only kind of subscription I have.
By that I mean
YouTube
in particular, like videos or podcasts where
it's we're subscribed to this person or following this person. And I just want to
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there's certainly some people and I've already started this going like, no, you're not helpful to me. Like, yep. I can't recommend this enough people do it. Absolutely do this. I still continue
not as dill indently, but I still have the goal or the action of every time I go on a social media platform, I need to get rid of, like I need to remove someone that I've subscribed to or like be following. And again, it makes you think, but also at the same time, like it's a good thing to call out and being like, Yeah, I followed or watch something that you did seven years, six years ago. But like
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it's like it's just noise more than anything. It's like, Yeah, get rid of that. Get rid of noise. Very good. And yeah. So that's that's my goal for the month. So a lot more,
but it's also,
yeah, I've kind of got the motivation to do more. Yeah. For sure. So whenever how long this will last to where it's so much like this and look, I think all of this is very easily doable as well. So,
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well, a lot of those that you've just talked about, some of them like you've already done. Yeah. Some of them like, yeah, like, not easy, but like you sort of there's certain actions you take and you're gonna get it done. There's not like the the calorie one, for example,
is
the reason I put it out like that is because, it's not like 2,900
every day. It's some days I'll go a little bit more. One days already. One thing as well, you know, people listening to this, if again, they might be like, wait a minute, Karen, where's the language training?
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Where's the language training? Yeah, that's, that's, that's fallen off. Yeah, I think, I think it was in there for like four or five years consistently
or pretty consistently
of either Spanish or German
or Portuguese. And
yeah, just
not helping serving me at the moment.
What was I doing?
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Yesterday, I spoke to a Spanish girl and
I used my Spanish and it was fine. You
complimented me on it. I'm like, oh, thanks. You know, it's I can still converse in it pretty
easily.
There's still some thinking. It's not as natural as it was before, but. Yeah, but it's always like. Yeah.
But when people say they lose it,
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I mean, I've had kind of a couple years off and
I don't feel like I've lost it as much as people say. But yeah, no, actually, I kind of agree because now like,
on a lesser scale, but I haven't done
any French training for a while and I'm only new
basic French. And I could still You have basic French? Yeah. Like I haven't actually gone away. Like I could still go and read,
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like a kid's book in French or, like, understand
road signs and food and stuff like that. That hasn't gone away at all. So, you know, people say that they lose it, I guess, just shit.
That's not you. Nothing else. Nothing else to say.
Okay, so last bit here is just our fitness. I've got kind of my fitness challenge,
which is the. Yep. The points. The kind of point system I created
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a while ago.
It would be too hard to bring up on the screen and in person, but I can tell you just a couple of the changes I made. So major ones were
used to have, like, deadlifts for
four sets
of eight reps at 115
kilos.
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And I'm just getting rid of that and the squat
points. And because I'm just
I'm just going to hurt myself. And I've already started hurting myself. So I'm telling you right now, like even me, I'm telling you this right now. I'm not doing above like
five reps on a squats or deadlift, like probably ever again. Honestly, because
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apart from maybe some of the Like just the heaviest fuck ones. Well, well, yeah, this is the thing. You feel that's the thing. Really heavy ones.
I feel way more in control. It's not as overly taxing.
But to do
relatively higher reps than dead lives in the squats, Like there's not that much more
gains that I'm getting in like, yes, you could get the
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muscular breakdown for hypertrophy
levels, I guess, but I'm not, that's not what I'm optimizing for. And you could do that with much safer positions.
So I'm like, yeah, going above five reps on
heavy. Well, going above five reps on those some of the main lifts, I'm like,
not needed. Like, I don't see the need for that at all unless there's a particular optimized reason you're doing for it. Sure. But you can get the benefits out of so many other things. Okay. Yeah, interesting. So for me in general,
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I will be doing more higher rep
endurance type stuff,
in
the handstands
or
there's some things which are
lower reps, like trying to get this really strict muscle up, you know, get three of them 112 and then three
overhead press
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for like three reps at certain certain
60
sixty five
sixty two and a half was which for me is like that was such a struggle. I didn't get any of those when I was last trying it. We'll see if my shoulders are stronger than three years ago. Naturally. Maybe I would hope so. But I don't think I think all of this is just that particular movement. So unless you're doing that.
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So for the leg ones, I've switched it to a single leg variation. So,
Romanian deadlifts, single of RDLs and then
what was the other one? Bulgarian split squads
at half the weight essentially. So,
yeah,
I got rid of,
I had
do air squats at about at 100 for like ages ago. And I, I remember I just did it. It didn't require any training to do or anything. So I've
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kind of gotten rid of that. So I've taken points away. I'm actually negative points
this year so far.
So I've gotten rid of that. And I'm, I I put like jump squats in, but even that, if that's too easy, I'll maybe change that to like, I don't know, burpees or something like leg related where it's, it's harder. Something that forces me to kind of train for it a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, actually, no, no, no. Just being like, oh, I'll just go do it and I'll just do it. I was just kind of like
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you have to
upskill yourself, up effort yourself in some way. Yeah.
Everything else largely remains the same other than
just one or two things where it's like I actually added some much harder things. So
trying to get a,
what was it, a slow muscle up at some point would be really cool.
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Trying to do a ninety ninety
instant push up, which is essentially like normally a handstand push up. You just go down, you touch your head. But this one's you go down into like a bent arm.
Oh, yeah. Gotcha. Yeah.
Planche type position and then you push up from that. Back up. If I ever get that holy shit my shoulders will be just rock hard steel but
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we'll see that very stretch goal that's that's something for like three three years time. Okay. If I can get that.
So yeah this month just working on the
well, this these next couple of months is the ballet,
which isn't in any of this, but just trying to get stronger legs, hip flexors
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in general.
And then those
jump squats
and then the two single leg weighted variations.
So that's that's my legs.
Lots,
lots of legs coming in Q4.
And then then we'll move on to pull. But I'm kind of like doing
like I'm going to look at
prep, you know, the focus be on legs, but I'll also be working on some pull
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and
running
just to kind of like
have that in the bank so that when I switch over next month into, sorry, next
quarter. Start of next year, then it's just like, all right, I've already been practicing
high pull ups. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And really go into like that next phase. Yeah. No, no, no.
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Good. Just wanna check if there's any comments. You already went over your fitness, so I think I think we'll be good for that. We will. Yeah. Yeah. And there's no comments in there. I don't I don't see any other than other than Pat saying hi. So hi, Pat. Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you, everyone, for joining. Yeah. Stay tuned. We will be doing our next
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Welcome back Mere Mortalites. We have monthly goals today.
It is a chance for us to just get down and dirty on the goals at hand, the past month, the current month.
These ones are gonna be interesting because we've got Kyrin's new annual goals that have begun. Yeah. You wanna listen to the the full annual goals breakdown, go to the previous episode that we've done just recently. We kinda talked about that. But today we'll we'll reflect back on the month of September. We'll look into October and it is the October 5 as we're recording this as well. Very good. I'll do a little plug as well. Although I've had zero people jump into the, space just yet, but I created a stain. I think it's forward slash stand. I think that's my maybe what it is. Maybe it's standard cub forward slash me immortals. If
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you wanna do goal setting in amongst with me personally, just me,
and get some support on conversations directly. It was paid.
Go and have a play. But that's my plug. That's how we do it. Let's talk about the monthly goals.
Again, what we'd like to do is go into September goals and then we'll go into the next month goal, which is October, which we're into right now. I'll start those off. I have eight goals. So I continue the trend of having eight goals.
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I had first three was in the fitness category.
The first one there was to accomplish
150
kilometers of running. So much. Jesus Christ. Now I didn't do that, But I felt, I felt,
happy that I got pretty close, even though I had,
I think I, it was 10 off. Ten days off in the month. It was debilitating.
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Yes.
So like I really push hard towards the tail end to be like, it would be hilarious if I hit this, but I didn't. So I looked, that's okay. There was a lot of sickness and whatnot going around. So I didn't hit that, but I gave it a good red hot go. So I was happy with that one. Blood and guts training, just increased intensity, keep strength. That was good. I towards the tail end of the month, I stopped, not stopped doing it. I started I
(02:04):
erred more into a little bit more volume training
and
I talked about it in the meme or the emotion just like getting sick with doing the AI style training that it was giving me. So I've gone a little bit more back to the usual things that I do, but it's still much it's I have I think in the month of September,
in the month of September, there was only
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two training sessions that were over sixty minutes gym wise. Everything else was thirty minutes or forty minutes. So I was kind of like happy with that to enable running, then again, I was sick. So counter pairing. Third one, recording the first in-depth body information.
I'm pretty sure I take that. I said, no. No. I've got my notes on there to actually do it. I was going to do, I'll tell you the topic. I want to talk about,
(02:49):
the training differences in your thirties versus in your twenties. And specifically, I wanted to talk about
the like concept of not, not so much body dysmorphia, but the concept of getting,
being super specific, like big legs, muscle legs versus
what would happen if you go for performance slash endurance, kind of the classic trope of going from your twenties to your thirties. I wanted to do something like that. Sure. I just didn't, didn't do it. Didn't do it. You're more relaxed, didn't do it. Well, Pat, no, but it will continue. You will continue. But you, but you will do it? I will. I will. It's in the, it's in the next month, I guess. Over in the mind space, I wanted to decide the path of the current business opportunity. I did. It's been decided.
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So enough said there. But then of course, other business opportunities come up. So here we are.
Novi, I've completed the second content on projection paradox, which I did, which ended up not being called projection paradox. It was the trophies versus generators,
concept.
So I was glad to put that out. Again, give me some feedback at the Immune Model Arts. Again, is it something that,
(03:51):
you know, you're enjoying those more
more effortful kind of productions? If not, why again, we'll change it up. We'll shift things up. We've talked about this off off air around what we wanted to do with the podcast or not. The last two, the monthly solo practice, completing my template, I created the start of the month to help review. Yep. I did do that.
And then I also in completing that when this is actually a waste time, I went, so I put a lot of effort on it. So what was it? It was it was funny. So I completing my monthly solo reflection. Okay. Now it started at the previous month in in that I could set up a template. And the idea was I was gonna combine
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basically every type of philosophy philosophy
out there. So like Hinduism,
Buddhism,
you know. Being gangs that Zen monk. Yeah. Like it was not it was more of our like reflective questions to review the month and being like, you know what this month, what gave you energy? What took away? What all sort of things. But in
(04:51):
I either found myself being repetitive
with what I was answering or there wasn't actually as much variation as I imagined it to be. So
maybe it would be good if I was doing a lot of different things, but I'm in a stage of life where I'm not. Like I wake up, it's routine. I'm at work, routine,
no time with the kids, routine. Like, it doesn't really change. So it wasn't as
(05:15):
important as I thought it was gonna be. So I did it, but I kind of reflecting on
it's gonna change the way I'm reflecting.
The last one, determine how family philosophy might be best consumed. So I absolutely did this, which was good. And also My suggestion, interpretive dance? Interpretive dance. Nope. It was not interpretive dance. And I did begin
drafting the family philosophy.
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Stay tuned. If you stay tuned all the way till the end, I will share what the family philosophy
looks like in its draft state. My partner has not
heard me talk through it, but it is, it's very like It's sensible, it's sensible.
That's not like, you're not crazy.
Like it's not a Clean the chandelier every day. The women must clean the chandelier every day. Yeah, like, you know, to me fine. But those are September girls. Most got done. Lots of other things, you know, beyond that as well. But,
(06:03):
yeah, a couple of things that
got,
got sidetracked with sickness and whatnot and in October, we're gonna rectify that. So, I guess that was a September girls. Brilliant. Current. Nice. Yeah. How do you finish off the Allian goals? Jump, jump on to mine. Yeah. So the as one just hinted at, I start new ones in October, a. K. A. This month. So these last ones here are related to last year's goals and they are related one each to partner relationships, financial health, spirituality,
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travel, character, knowledge, skills.
You want to know what the long term of all of them is? Check out the next episode. I'm going to be talking about some little variations that one I have been doing to us
and speaking
or changing words into into action, I guess. So for my September goals, they were kind of like wrapping it up slash
(06:53):
was honestly one or two of them are just random stuff like do remaining chores on work list. Okay. Like,
it's just a filler. Completely be honest. Yep. Which I didn't do that well.
I had this whole whole like clean up the backyard,
take the car in for a service, all that sort of stuff. I did. I did like half of it. I put honestly quite a few hours into cleaning up the yard and things like that. Okay.
(07:16):
I didn't get through all of it. No way.
Honestly, almost all of these I ticked off,
get through as many of the remaining catch ups as possible. I did like five events with people, so that was great.
Spend two hours on the one on research. Yeah. Informed comparisons definitely did that.
Also got 20 tabs on my computer of other things to to check out.
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No porn for the whole month. Easy.
Get me and Morpheus up to date with the weekly updates. Yes. Although
as I've mentioned, Awan just before this
couple
ad one or two ads slipped in
ads because I was using a ads. Karan introducing ads into our show. Twitter not even me introducing
someone else. Yeah, someone else the machine.
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And yeah, if you're watching the video, some
touching cables is doing weird stuff. So we got to try and be careful not to touch the cables.
The one that I did not do,
I would say very well was
and I clicked just
clicked off ticked off start draft on a new affirmation sheet, which I
kinda have a old version here, but this is essentially very similar to what I've done.
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The affirmation in particular that
this was what I used to go.
Like read every morning?
Yeah.
And everything else in the back is kind of just like a motivation type thing. I don't really need it. But it's like, you know, maybe one day if I'm feeling a little bit down, reading something like this could could help me out. And it's just like
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quotes
from, you know, if by Rupert Kipling or,
the man in the arena speech by Roosevelt and stuff like that.
So did that to that I didn't do arrive to events early and say hi to people.
I don't think I really arrived early to things as well as I was perhaps intentionally planning. Now,
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if today was still in September, I could say, Yeah, I did that cause I unintentionally woke up an hour earlier due to daylight savings
because my phone was on Sydney time for some reason.
But the one I definitely didn't do was binge watch Andreas Antonopoulos. And the reason that. Yeah, the reason for this was so he's on Patreon
and
(09:31):
I was vaguely aware.
Well, I was just like, oh, you know, I'll join this Patreon like I used to. And they used to be like just a tier system.
I just went for the smallest, cheapest tier, which is I think was in around like the 5 US a month or something like that. Yeah. It's all supported. Yeah. Went to go do that. That one sold out. Okay. All right. Well, sold out. Yeah. Well, it's like this is. Like this.
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Yeah. So I'm like, oh, okay, well go through all the others. And
the cheapest one was the highest tier one, which was like,
is $8 a month or something. I'm like, I'm not doing this. What the fuck? Get out of here. Andreas Antonopoulos.
Now just a zipple, just Bitcoin a month. If you could send me a Bitcoin. Yeah, that would cover.
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So I didn't do that, but I was kind of scratching my head because I'm like, I thought I saw a way where you can join, where you can actually choose your amount, which is actually very value for value. Patreon.
You're getting in my good books now.
And I only figured that out right at the end where it's like, oh, okay,
just for some reason,
the
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the filtering system of how you get access to it
can vary. And I'd found, like, the wrong path. Yeah. I got what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then I just found, like, oh, if I just click join here, it allows me to join and I can choose how much I want. Right. Which I
chose to do and I chose to actually spend more than the the bottom one. So just a little hint for Andreas if you have a list. Okay. Did you go to $6? Good. Now I went to I went to like what was it? It was like 20 or 30. Okay. Australian, so much more. Much more. Wow. So
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Andreas, that's what you get for for being cool and Patreon as well. So, yeah, decent month for me. I feel like I got a fair chunk done. Good. Yeah. Yeah. And again, when we reflect back in the goals, I think you need to be
super, super cognizant that if you go back
thirty years ago, when we were doing monthly goals, there was a lot of habit building, which now just exists. Like we don't talk about how often we go to the gym or how often we're like training or how often we do in the running, right? Again, we do talk about, I guess I'm talking volume and you're saying spend two hours and like refining
(11:42):
the
research into one hand, like one arm handstands, but it's like the whole art of learning concept where the more you master something, the more you just like focusing on smaller circles
and you'll hear some goals either we won't even describe the goals about say fitness or something else, because we've just been doing it for such a long time that if you, if you were, you know,
(12:02):
kind of newish have gone to the gym, you might be saying how I'm gonna go to the gym five times a week. But for us, there's like, there's no point for us calling out. I'm gonna go gym six times a week or five times a week and run this amount of times and then stretch or whatever, because it just, it's part of like daily habits. So part of it's to do the
this is just an extra thing to get you started. So
(12:23):
the spending two hours on one handstand research,
actually did way more than that. And this was just the kind of prompt to be like, all right, get into it. And once I am actually into it and doing it, it's like, Oh, okay. Yeah, exactly. It's fun. Like, I'm joined to doing this. I want to go deeper into it. You know, like I said, I've got 20 tabs on my computer that I want to get through. So
that's going to bleed into the next month as well. And yeah, we'll talk about we'll talk about it, I think in the next episode to obviously stay tuned if you're listening to this live because in the in when we talk about like the tweaking of goals and tweaking event, I think I'm going to tweak the way I do
(12:58):
goals moving forward. Okay. And I'll address
why that, that, that is. You'll see my tweak in this October.
You don't, you don't see it in mine, but I think in the, honestly, maybe November,
December period, then you'll see the tweak, but need to figure out exactly how it tweaks. Yep. So we generally just have like a call out to the supporters in the monthly goals. Just wrap upping on the month. Thank you, everyone, for supporting.
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We do see the streams and boost coming in. Very much appreciated comments as well. There's been a
bit of a I stopped the book reviews and then there's just like way more book reviews comments for some reason. You know, I don't know why that happens, but,
yeah, very much appreciated. I yeah, the book reviews, I'm not sure I said it elsewhere, but just to reiterate, I'm taking a break from that for a little bit.
(13:45):
How long that'll be? I don't know. Couple of months period at the very least, but I'm
finding like, goddamn, I've it does save a lot of time. I spent a lot more time on it than I thought I was. I was like, Oh, it's maybe like
three hours a week. So it would be like an hour of recording. Sure. But the prep
and I guess what you would call
(14:07):
the reading, making sure I was reading enough to To satisfy that was a bit more extra finish. The book was was like, oh, damn, I'm actually spending like tons of time. Yeah. If I was to be. So I am still reading. Just not. Yeah, just not creating it.
I was going to say, I think right now
because I'm doing the Anthony Horowitz, like, book series, and it's pretty easy because a lot of these books I've kind of read before and I'm just pulling out one philosophy to do the book review on. I can produce
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the video and the audio
and the recording of both of them come doing both at the same time for like, do basically like two in a row and then I'm setting this up. It would probably take me an hour and a half to do
both recording,
fully edited, scheduled,
but not creating the merriest clips and stuff like that. That obviously comes afterwards. So I'm like, I'm happy. That's like a good, good amount of time. And and again, I think we've talked about this a lot. It's that so I say with book reviews in something like what we do here, I like doing book reviews. Oh, the Anthony Horowitz, I'm doing them because it's what I'm reading, and I kind of enjoy just talking about it. But when it comes to just the other general books,
(15:09):
I'm already taking notes. I already like, write down like, what's the interesting bits in the book and whatnot. So I kind of do the book highlights
on my own
anyways. So it's just a little bit extra delta to just record it. So I'm like, I'm fine.
But again, if, if I saw comments as I'm gonna be like, I don't know, but can you like go into really hardcore into like this and whatnot? I think I'd just be like Analyze the writing style. Yeah. Like I'm not, we're not like, we don't do that. We're not that part of that book reviews. But again, that's if you don't see Karen for a while, go back and reflect on, say, hundreds of books that he's done in the past. Right? There's a lot. There's plenty in there. In fact, I really saw,
(15:42):
YouTube tell us that the book reviews channel hit fifteen thousand
hours watched. Yeah. I was like, cool. Again, that's a little like a little mark. I don't even know what that like honestly, what that actually means. Yeah. Comparison title is literally no idea, but,
yeah. Good to see. Okay. Octavio goals. Let's do it. So I got,
actually,
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was wrong. I had seven goals last time. I have seven goals this time. I just didn't update my order numbers. I go one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight. Okay. So one, mathematics, not strong. Maybe that's gonna be the next goal.
Fat. So first three, once again in the body space and these all map up to an annual goal. Volume, here we come. 160
kilometers of running. Now you might be wondering like shit one, that's like Couldn't even do one fifty. You couldn't even do one fifty. You got on one sixty.
(16:29):
Fuck, yes, I am. As I said to Karen, I'm on I was 34 kilometers in, 34 kilometers of running in four days. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I've started this month really strong, really, really strong. That's
I'm I'm currently it looks like I'll be averaging around 40 kilometers per week
for the whole month. So I will hit that 160 kilometre target. That's a lot. A good swing. And the reason it is a lot is because on the Saturdays, I'm just doing like really long runs. So I did 50 kilometers yesterday. I was actually supposed to do 18 kilometers. So Yeah. It's like gonna be like eighteen, nineteen, 20 kilometre type Saturdays.
(17:02):
So
that's gonna be a big brunt of the running and we'll see what I can do throughout the rest of the month.
Second one, I wanna record the first in-depth body information. As I said, I'll get, I've got all the notes for it. I've just gotta record it. And again,
I'm I'm I'm gonna give that a good red hot go probably all the way till the end of the year and creating these more like a little bit more time intensive
(17:23):
notes ideas again.
Because part of it is,
it is interesting to me to do so.
And so I'm in return, I'm like, I wonder if it'll be more interesting to people to listen. But again, if I see as much uptake
as
maybe some other random stuff and it's better my time invested into interviews, well then I'll just do that, right? So we'll see.
(17:46):
This one's a cool one. And again,
in fact, I'll challenge some people out here. I'm gonna challenge out. Hopefully, I'm gonna clip this or something like that. And how you hear all this, like, hierarchy of training people or hybrid training people? I get it. I absolutely get it. There's and I'm not saying I'm the best in the world at this. Right? Definitely not. I know personally some personally. So in on social media, they're like, obviously do much better this, but
(18:10):
I will
someone come and comment on this. Who out there is doing 106 kilometer plus running,
right, running in a month?
And
this other goal, I'll be hitting six times body weight ratio at three rep mat at three reps with all my main lifts. So bench, deadlift, and squat combined. If if if you know someone out there who is doing that in a month, I'm talking 160 kilometer running and doing
(18:33):
so for me, I'm ninety kilos. That's 540
combined of the total. Add three reps. Yeah. Come to come talk to me. If you're doing that, I dare someone to find that because I honestly,
and I've been on the socials for a long time and I've seen some, like, some really strong people like Alex Vlada.
He's like the original, the original guy who was like the most functional like hybrid training. He's super strong. He's super strong dead lifter. Okay, Benj and good at squatting like him. I don't know if he runs as much, but he'd be like one person I know could definitely do that. I'm sure there's loads of others. There might There's not many.
(19:06):
There's not many. So yeah. You wanna compare? There'll be not many of those.
I had three reps as well. That's, Yeah. Yeah. I hit a I hit two zero five kilo deadlift or two reps and it felt okay. Felt okay. So I was like, I could do three reps of that.
Bench, it'll be easy. It'll be a squat. Squad will be the thing that like gets me to go to those numbers. So I'm going, plus someone mentioned as well, actually send me a message. I didn't say who it was. But they sent me a message on my socials. It was like, enough running,
(19:33):
more heavyweights.
I was like, okay, you're getting both. You're getting both at this fucking mess. Both. What would what would you be trying to do squats at? Like what way?
190?
So like and then make it up on the bench. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So So that's weirdly enough, even though that that's going to be the hardest one, the 190 squat, like that's a hard deadlift. We find the bench very easy. Get to the numbers, but it's a deadlift that'll be the big challenge as well. So like, yeah, sorry, the squat. Yeah, because it's like 140.
(20:03):
Yeah. They have 200 deadlift,
150 bends. That's three fifty. So to get to five forty, it's 190. Yeah. And that's, that's the like.
That'll be the hard one.
The next two were in the mind. Or lose some weight. Or lose some. Dude,
I I I eat less, eat more. I'm I run a heap of volume. I get sick. I have not fluctuated from 90. Like, I just stayed at 90 no matter what. I'm like, what's going on?
(20:28):
Yeah. Next one, create another highest signal fun piece of content this month. Not. Oh, no. I do know what I want to do before it. It's I want to do something along AI.
So
partly my experience using Replit, and using that for a while. So we're going to dad and showing him some of the stuff and we talked about it, using it in my training and some of the pros and cons about it. Some of the stuff like, you know, the Ray Ban, the new Ray Ban glasses, meta glasses with the Yeah, yeah. The band and stuff like that. Oh, no, I don't have the band. You know, Nuance, if if you haven't seen the brand new ones, there's the original Ray Ban
(20:59):
glasses. There's version two. And the version two,
is same glasses,
but it now has a neural band in it so that it's, it does augmented reality
and you can answer and do things, but it's connected to your risks and and going through. So very expensive. Yeah. Some $190
these glasses. I I think The US, right? Sure. But there's a few things where I go it'll be a fun conversation piece to have, I think. Those are things I'd like to try out. Like go to the store and Exactly. Exactly. So there's there's some interesting things hopefully that'll come out from there. Did you ever try the Apple Vision Pro? No. I never did, which I wanted to kind of give it a go. Yeah. Apparently that's that's rather impressive. Yeah. Okay.
(21:38):
I haven't. I haven't. Yep. Yep. If you have, tell me. The next one, looking for the best ways to automate and make things efficient in the three interviews I've got this month. In fact, two next week and then another one the following week after that. So what I mean by that is just
not so much as a prep because that ends up being a little bit more manual in trying to just understand what I'm going to talk about, but just
creating them, converting them, scheduling them, just trying to automate that as much as possible. So it doesn't time sink into my, my everyday life.
(22:07):
In the last two,
five minute portal workdays to horizon see and let the mind wander. So, it's very easy for me to, you can't really see it obviously right now, but to me to step away from my work out the door and just stare at the horizon is very easy. Very, very easy. So I want to just do that, but like everywhere like that, at least for five minutes to do that.
(22:28):
I've been finding myself going for walks at lunchtime
anyways. I was like, I'm doing that even more so to just
half an hour and go for a walk. And so it's even easier, But letting the mind wander, I think is a hard challenge. So I'll make sure I do that consecutively in October.
And then sharpen the family philosophy. Share with the family for review and conversations. And again, I'll I'll share it very quickly the draft at the end of this.
(22:54):
Actually, I'll I'll share it now. I'll share it now. I'll share it now, but, I will call out. This needs,
validation with my,
my significant others. But as I so far, just to give you some some flavor what it's looking like, the Greenhouse or Master family,
Northstar. Now, I don't know if I want to like put it up like a wall or something like that. We'll see. Yeah, that should be. Alright. But, the North North, so, this is the concept because there's lots of other little details, but like the the top level and this will go into the next conversation we're talking about like changing like
(23:23):
wordings and stuff like that. It's basically,
brave and thought,
strong in body
is in love,
and obsessed in life.
This is the four things now I've got like, little examples and whatnot on the each one to go through. I was gonna be like,
is that all set? Like, does that capture everything that I'm really thinking about? And if it does, it might change slightly what the, you know, I usually do my annual goal with mind, body and soul. So like, you know, do I change mine with brave and thought, strong, but I like thought body love and obsession. Yep. I think obsessions are an interesting one to bring up. Yeah. Yeah. But, it's like fierce and loves. Fierce and love obsessed in life. Yeah. I want to hear more of that. But yeah. Yeah. So those are. Wait until the partner has. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. It needs to be validated. These
(24:11):
are the October goals on my side.
I'm keen. I'm keen for them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds sounds real. All right. Let's, let's go to your October goals. Yeah. So the biggest change is I got double of doing
16 now I'm putting
linking up with my
yearly goal of putting in more effort just in general and more focus.
(24:31):
I'm doing more. So
let me just go through this quick, create a fun online profile with Prenna. So that's my brother.
Just want to create like a dating thing.
Part of the reason I haven't used them is because I dislike them. So if I can make it fun,
as in like,
stupid photos or,
you know, voice messages, whatever.
(24:52):
If he I know if I do it with him, it'll be fun. So that's that's the whole point of that. Spend one afternoon doing some approaches. Actually did that yesterday. And like I said before,
already have gone out this morning and done another couple. So I think he has met the girl of his dreams yesterday. So
who knows? Who knows?
(25:14):
The statistically unlikely, but who knows?
Do a repeat barbecue to connect deeper with friends. So this is trying to. Yep.
And I was even thinking like, do I want to do a barbecue or just order pizzas? But whatever.
Well, I plan on organizing friends around and it might actually be in November from what I can tell. November. Just for the availability of people. Yep. Prep an interesting topic before going out to the world. So essentially just like the day to day routine.
(25:43):
So for example, my last interesting topic when I went to the gym
on Friday was I found a drone yesterday in the park. And
like, it's not that interesting, but it shows it's almost like, well, what the fuck? Why did you find a drone in the park? And so just having something
to say other than how's your week? Oh, yeah, it was good. Just just let's try and try and break that as quickly as possible.
(26:09):
Begin a fundamental list of my principles for investing. So
I've already started this on my phone, but essentially,
a lot more people have been actually asking me questions related to this, just in general of like investing or psychology and psychology of investing. And yeah, for myself, especially, it's like, you know what? I think it would be smart to
(26:31):
write this down and have it kind of a bit more concrete than just the jumble that is in my head at the moment.
Keep your eye on the boil whilst experimenting with shape shapes a L2
layer two of Ethereum,
especially like NFT and art.
Focused.
I almost dropped the ball the other day. I,
(26:54):
I, the classic like fat finger didn't put enough zeros in.
Thankfully, I didn't have enough in the account thankfully. Okay,
so I have I am working on
sharpening up some of the wallet systems
and things. So because when you play with it a lot,
then it that's when you mess up. Yeah,
(27:15):
you become that you start doing just like, it's more like naturally just I click here, I click here and then you're Oh, yeah. What is it like? System one system two, it's at the moment, it's very intentional.
I'm just doing like a particular thing, but when I'm doing
ten,
twenty particular things
day in, day out, that's like, okay,
(27:35):
it's not particular anymore. It's
broad.
Adjust points and do rehab of minor twinges. So this is for fitness. So I'll actually talk about some of those at the end and
you can see it on your chapter images if you've if watching our podcast app and rehab and the minor twinges just got this groin
(27:56):
twinge at the moment. I'm doing squats improperly.
Yep.
Ballet
ballet research prep and extra practice. So I start a ballet course
for eight weeks
starting
not this next Thursday, but the Thursday after, I believe. And yeah, I just want to
(28:17):
come into it like
having practice a little bit extra because I haven't done any for
two or three months now. So
create a morning habit of reading the goal and motivation sheet. That was what we kind of referenced just before,
which I do, and it takes me twenty seconds to read, but it's good kind of like start of the focus of the day.
(28:39):
Ask friends and family for deeper feedback.
This is just in terms of ways I can improve
or for help or things like that. So just broad general
press to meet up with friends living in Newstead for a tour. So I know a couple of people living in Newstead. I just like I'd love to see like their apartments,
roughly how much it costs,
what their benefits for living in the area.
(29:02):
No guarantees that when you know, when I say friends, they're kind of acquaintances, so there's no guarantees they'll actually let me in their house. But I've got to ask. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see.
Clarify with Brendan dates and potential events. So that's just for. At least Asia. Going to Asia for
indeterminate
period of time.
Our last ones here, which are related to character and knowledge skills,
(29:26):
no masturbation for the whole month doing no nut November and we're not. So we've done the product over probably continued in November. What would you call it? Orgasm,
obstacles
and
and. Obsolete orgasm.
Yeah. Obsolete
orgasm October.
I'm starting to lean down a bit, so I'm going to do a total of 90 ks calories
(29:49):
with 4,650
grams of protein. So that's. Yeah, that was an interesting way to split it out into the month. 2,900
calories per day, 150
grams of protein per day is what that is. I initially wrote down because I just in my head was,
I don't know, doing things quick.
Total of 30 calories
or 31 calories,
(30:10):
31,000
calories for the month. And I'm like, wait, that's a thousand per day. That's probably a bit too late.
Whoopsie.
Don't do that.
And then finally now binge watch Andreas Antonopoulos.
So there's just the skills and then
I've said prune all unnecessary
subscriptions and most for most people that would be like
(30:32):
you've got Netflix, you've got Disney plus, you've got whatever. For me, I don't actually have any
that I'm aware of other than our YouTube joint YouTube one.
That's the only kind of subscription I have.
By that I mean
YouTube
in particular, like videos or podcasts where
it's we're subscribed to this person or following this person. And I just want to
(30:56):
there's certainly some people and I've already started this going like, no, you're not helpful to me. Like, yep. I can't recommend this enough people do it. Absolutely do this. I still continue
not as dill indently, but I still have the goal or the action of every time I go on a social media platform, I need to get rid of, like I need to remove someone that I've subscribed to or like be following. And again, it makes you think, but also at the same time, like it's a good thing to call out and being like, Yeah, I followed or watch something that you did seven years, six years ago. But like
(31:26):
it's like it's just noise more than anything. It's like, Yeah, get rid of that. Get rid of noise. Very good. And yeah. So that's that's my goal for the month. So a lot more,
but it's also,
yeah, I've kind of got the motivation to do more. Yeah. For sure. So whenever how long this will last to where it's so much like this and look, I think all of this is very easily doable as well. So,
(31:51):
well, a lot of those that you've just talked about, some of them like you've already done. Yeah. Some of them like, yeah, like, not easy, but like you sort of there's certain actions you take and you're gonna get it done. There's not like the the calorie one, for example,
is
the reason I put it out like that is because, it's not like 2,900
every day. It's some days I'll go a little bit more. One days already. One thing as well, you know, people listening to this, if again, they might be like, wait a minute, Karen, where's the language training?
(32:19):
Where's the language training? Yeah, that's, that's, that's fallen off. Yeah, I think, I think it was in there for like four or five years consistently
or pretty consistently
of either Spanish or German
or Portuguese. And
yeah, just
not helping serving me at the moment.
What was I doing?
(32:40):
Yesterday, I spoke to a Spanish girl and
I used my Spanish and it was fine. You
complimented me on it. I'm like, oh, thanks. You know, it's I can still converse in it pretty
easily.
There's still some thinking. It's not as natural as it was before, but. Yeah, but it's always like. Yeah.
But when people say they lose it,
(33:01):
I mean, I've had kind of a couple years off and
I don't feel like I've lost it as much as people say. But yeah, no, actually, I kind of agree because now like,
on a lesser scale, but I haven't done
any French training for a while and I'm only new
basic French. And I could still You have basic French? Yeah. Like I haven't actually gone away. Like I could still go and read,
(33:25):
like a kid's book in French or, like, understand
road signs and food and stuff like that. That hasn't gone away at all. So, you know, people say that they lose it, I guess, just shit.
That's not you. Nothing else. Nothing else to say.
Okay, so last bit here is just our fitness. I've got kind of my fitness challenge,
which is the. Yep. The points. The kind of point system I created
(33:49):
a while ago.
It would be too hard to bring up on the screen and in person, but I can tell you just a couple of the changes I made. So major ones were
used to have, like, deadlifts for
four sets
of eight reps at 115
kilos.
(34:09):
And I'm just getting rid of that and the squat
points. And because I'm just
I'm just going to hurt myself. And I've already started hurting myself. So I'm telling you right now, like even me, I'm telling you this right now. I'm not doing above like
five reps on a squats or deadlift, like probably ever again. Honestly, because
(34:30):
apart from maybe some of the Like just the heaviest fuck ones. Well, well, yeah, this is the thing. You feel that's the thing. Really heavy ones.
I feel way more in control. It's not as overly taxing.
But to do
relatively higher reps than dead lives in the squats, Like there's not that much more
gains that I'm getting in like, yes, you could get the
(34:51):
muscular breakdown for hypertrophy
levels, I guess, but I'm not, that's not what I'm optimizing for. And you could do that with much safer positions.
So I'm like, yeah, going above five reps on
heavy. Well, going above five reps on those some of the main lifts, I'm like,
not needed. Like, I don't see the need for that at all unless there's a particular optimized reason you're doing for it. Sure. But you can get the benefits out of so many other things. Okay. Yeah, interesting. So for me in general,
(35:17):
I will be doing more higher rep
endurance type stuff,
in
the handstands
or
there's some things which are
lower reps, like trying to get this really strict muscle up, you know, get three of them 112 and then three
overhead press
(35:37):
for like three reps at certain certain
60
sixty five
sixty two and a half was which for me is like that was such a struggle. I didn't get any of those when I was last trying it. We'll see if my shoulders are stronger than three years ago. Naturally. Maybe I would hope so. But I don't think I think all of this is just that particular movement. So unless you're doing that.
(36:03):
So for the leg ones, I've switched it to a single leg variation. So,
Romanian deadlifts, single of RDLs and then
what was the other one? Bulgarian split squads
at half the weight essentially. So,
yeah,
I got rid of,
I had
do air squats at about at 100 for like ages ago. And I, I remember I just did it. It didn't require any training to do or anything. So I've
(36:31):
kind of gotten rid of that. So I've taken points away. I'm actually negative points
this year so far.
So I've gotten rid of that. And I'm, I I put like jump squats in, but even that, if that's too easy, I'll maybe change that to like, I don't know, burpees or something like leg related where it's, it's harder. Something that forces me to kind of train for it a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, actually, no, no, no. Just being like, oh, I'll just go do it and I'll just do it. I was just kind of like
(36:57):
you have to
upskill yourself, up effort yourself in some way. Yeah.
Everything else largely remains the same other than
just one or two things where it's like I actually added some much harder things. So
trying to get a,
what was it, a slow muscle up at some point would be really cool.
(37:17):
Trying to do a ninety ninety
instant push up, which is essentially like normally a handstand push up. You just go down, you touch your head. But this one's you go down into like a bent arm.
Oh, yeah. Gotcha. Yeah.
Planche type position and then you push up from that. Back up. If I ever get that holy shit my shoulders will be just rock hard steel but
(37:39):
we'll see that very stretch goal that's that's something for like three three years time. Okay. If I can get that.
So yeah this month just working on the
well, this these next couple of months is the ballet,
which isn't in any of this, but just trying to get stronger legs, hip flexors
(38:00):
in general.
And then those
jump squats
and then the two single leg weighted variations.
So that's that's my legs.
Lots,
lots of legs coming in Q4.
And then then we'll move on to pull. But I'm kind of like doing
like I'm going to look at
prep, you know, the focus be on legs, but I'll also be working on some pull
(38:24):
and
running
just to kind of like
have that in the bank so that when I switch over next month into, sorry, next
quarter. Start of next year, then it's just like, all right, I've already been practicing
high pull ups. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And really go into like that next phase. Yeah. No, no, no.
(38:44):
Good. Just wanna check if there's any comments. You already went over your fitness, so I think I think we'll be good for that. We will. Yeah. Yeah. And there's no comments in there. I don't I don't see any other than other than Pat saying hi. So hi, Pat. Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you, everyone, for joining. Yeah. Stay tuned. We will be doing our next
episode very shortly. Correct. Correct. Correct. And again, yep, from a monthly perspective. And if you wanna support us,
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