Episode 48 - Reclaiming Body: Pick Up Your Brother

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Preston (00:05):
But yeah, everyone's going to get NAMS this weekend
in Anaheim.

Michael (00:12):
Oh man, I would love to go to that.
Have you ever been?
No.
Have you?

Preston (00:18):
Yeah.
I went twice.
Wow.
That'll be fun.

Michael (00:21):
A few years back.

Preston (00:23):
It's, it was really when I did go, cause it was
about, probably about 10 yearsago.
And it, I don't know if it wouldbe as cool or fun to go to
nowadays because the sort ofonline way things work and the
way products are just released.

(00:43):
Online now, it's not quite thesame.
Like, all right, we're going tothe ESP booth to see what's
going to be new for the ESP thisyear.
Like the vendors don't seem todo quite what they used to pre
cope, the COVID changedeverything.
It seems like.
To where a lot of vendors just,they couldn't go those next
couple years.
And it's like, Oh, we don't needto go spend a hundred thousand

(01:05):
dollars on this booth.
But it would be a fun thing togo to anyway, either way.
Yeah.

Michael (01:11):
Yeah.

Preston (01:13):
Especially being a music head like you, like all
the keyboards and everything.
It's just like in guitars, it'slike a music toy store.
Convention.
Exactly.
It's

Michael (01:24):
just, there's so much cool stuff that's come out
lately.

Preston (01:26):
All right.
Welcome to the Reclaiming Manpodcast.
Episode number 48.
48.
Preston Radomski here withMichael Beckwith, Z Mastermind,
as he has written down there.
We named him that because hedecided to get this mastermind

(01:48):
going in the first place.
So, how you doing, Michael?
Welcome to episode 48.
Let's, get this rolling.

Michael (01:54):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I will say, always try to startit off with a bit of a positive
attitude.
I'm like, oh, I'm good.
I'm great.
And We both came into this weeksaying, Hey, this has been a
tough month.
And so I want to be honest aboutthat.
And so, yeah, it's been a tough,tough week, tough couple of
weeks here for me, but I'mreally excited to dig into just

(02:15):
sharing a bit, being, beinghonest and vulnerable,
transparent with, with y'allabout the process and, the
kickoff to this year, which hasbeen a little bit slower than
perhaps ideal, but, lookingforward to.
Just checking in with you,Preston, about how we've been
doing when it comes toreclaiming body.
Let's get into it.

(02:37):
Yeah, so, so today we haddiscussed we're on reclaiming
body from a rotation perspectiveand I thought we'd check in on
some of our, at least from myperception anyway, still failing
forward in that I maybe haven'tbeen as, no, not maybe, I
haven't been as consistent asI've wanted to with.

(02:58):
With working out, I think a lotof the, the sickness pieces,
this month anyways, has been adetractor in my ability to do
it.
And I hate to use it as anexcuse, but at the same time,
there's definitely an impactwhere it's the same thing.
You just feel like this isn'tgoing to help me to go work out
right now when my energy isalready low from sickness, if

(03:22):
it's without the context ofbeing sick, then I'm like.
If I'm feeling low energyworking out, it's going to help
me gain more energy.
Right.
Yeah, totally.
But, the days have been long, soto speak, without having had
that piece in it, just tryingto, to fight through some of the
sickness.
But so I think we were justgoing to check in today briefly
and talk a little bit about thebeginning of the year and then,

(03:45):
what are the keys to.
Picking this back up and makingsure that, we're aligned.
Scott's sailing at the momentand when he comes back, I think
he's full steam ahead.
I think he, he worked out enoughfor the three of us.
The first couple of weeks, hewas doing like two or three
workouts a day, every

Preston (04:02):
day.
So he was doing two a day andthen he would, I think he was
doing three when he would havejujitsu class.
Cause like he'd have twoworkouts plus jujitsu.
And it's like, yeah, like,jujitsu class is a frickin
workout, like, whether you likeit or not, like, Rolling around
with a bunch of other men, it'slike, you're gonna get your
heart rate up, your musclesgoing, and

Michael (04:24):
Yeah, so if anything else, a little bit of a selfish
episode.
From, from my perspective,because I feel like whenever I
put stuff out there for theworld, and I was actually having
a conversation with my brother,my sister in law, nephews,
earlier this week and sharedabout things and realizing that
look, I'm saying this stuff.
And so if I'm saying it, I don'tjust want to be the person who

(04:45):
doesn't have the integrity andactually is doing these things.
And, for.
For lack of better words, I'musing this as a catalyst, this
episode as a catalyst to say,okay, line in the sand.
We're, we're not going back,we're not going to keep on,
slipping here or slide and letit turn into a slide.
It's, find some footing here andget back, to, to what the plan

(05:09):
is for, this year and beyond.
But how, how have things beengoing for you, man?

Preston (05:13):
Yeah, they've been just not consistent at all.
Although I will say my pull upgame, I'm like getting like
really good at pull ups.
I don't know why I've beenworking.
My wife started like working onher pull ups.
Cause she, she can't do one yet,but she wants to be able to do
one.
Yeah.
Do you have

Michael (05:32):
resistance bands?

Preston (05:34):
She has a resistance band, yes.
But she's been doing all theseother different kinds of
exercises where like, she uses achair and like holds herself up
and lowers herself down.
And she's following this programthat's like.
Two to four different ones thatyou do every day and then it for
a week and then you start overAnd so our pull up bar we have

(05:57):
it set up in one of our bedroomsjust there all the time So I was
like, well I just every time Iwalk by it like I try and crank
out five and I'm doing the oneI've started doing the ones
Where like I'm just dead hangingand like slowly like pulling
myself up at like with no legmomentum and stuff like that
Yeah.
And I'm, I'm getting like reallygood with them.

(06:17):
I'm trying to do them now whereI'm trying to do one with
Bravanna on my back and sheweighs like 50 pounds, I think.
And it's like I can almost getmy chin up over it, but it's
like, I feel like I'm just like,it's so

Michael (06:33):
hard, dude, I'm gonna have to let you know what my
findings are on that.
Because I was like, I couldthrow a rucksack on and try some
with 45 pounds.
Oh,

Preston (06:42):
yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the game.

Because I found this, https: otter. (06:44):
undefined
ai Oh, I'm spacing on what itwas called.
It's this, former Navy SEAL.
I forget what it's calledoffhand.
And, he's got a YouTube channeland everything too.
And he was, I think I might'vesent the video to you and Scott
and everybody.
And it's what it was, right?

(07:06):
No, no, no, no, no.
But it's his.
Combat ready workout that Ithink he used to do while he was
in the service, because you knowwhat you have to do sort of on a
daily basis to load up Humveesand do all these things.
It's like this workout basicallyencapsulates all of those things
and it's It's like when you it'slike a hundred push ups where

(07:29):
you just got to do them all theway down and everything and and
the And the pull ups are it'slike I forget what the exact
amount is but it got us boththinking like doing these
exercises because they're Theymake you like really strong.
I mean you'll look good, butit's not about like bulking
yourself out It's just aboutbeing like physically Capable

(07:51):
and strong to do stuff.
And

Michael (07:53):
that's my goal.
I don't think I'm ever going tobe, I mean, this isn't a
negative limiting belief oranything like that.
Preface it that way, but I don'tthink I'm ever going to be a
huge, hypertrophy type of dude,like at my let, or Rogan.
Right.
But my, my hope is I'm more of asleeper where I've got some
crazy strength, but I look likeI'm pretty lean and

Preston (08:15):
well, I think too, you have to really consider like
you're.
Your body type, the way youmetabolize stuff.
It's like, there's no, in myopinion, there's no point in
you, you could eat like anabsolute fuck ton of protein

Michael (08:26):
every day, eating 100 to 150 grams that I will say
I've been pretty consistent at.
Right.
So there's things that have beengoing really well this year so
far, but my, my physicalexercise because of the sickness
has been a little bit less thanideal.
But, but yeah, I've been eating.
I think it's hard to say whatit'll be like.
Yeah.
For sure, because I haven't beenlifting as much as I wanted to,
but I thought, lifting slashrucking combined with the ideal

(08:51):
or optimal amount of proteinintake will hopefully allow me
to put on some weight.
And again, I put on like fourpounds, which isn't really
enough to say, like I'veactually put on a weight.
And then as soon as I was sick,I was right back down to 149
pounds.
I was like, oh, gosh.
Right.
But,

Preston (09:08):
when we have access to.
Every crazy health benefit togrow yourself, but think about,
The Spartans back in like theRoman days or like if everything
falls apart.
It's like there's peep There'smen that are them.
What is that the mountain guyfrom Game of Thrones that actor?

(09:29):
You know who I'm talking about?
I don't know his name, but like,he's called the Mountain.
Like this, it's just like thisman who's like basically a tree.
Like he's massive.
Yeah.
And it's like, like you and Icould never get that big.
He would have been like that2000 years ago.
Like, and people would have beenlike, Oh, he's a God.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, and so.
Yeah, just like, just get, getas absolutely strong as you can

(09:52):
be.
Don't worry about bulking outbecause it's like, that's just
your body type.
Like mine's kind of the same.
I'm a bit more kind of stout andstocky than you are.
I'm a little overweight rightnow, but it's like.

Michael (10:01):
Hapford Bjornsson is his name.
Oh, is that his name?
Hapford Julius Bjornsson.
Yeah.

Preston (10:09):
Yeah.
Of course.
He's like some kind of, I don'tknow, like inherited or
something, whatever.
But, point being, it's likegetting back to the, yeah, I've
definitely not really beenhitting.
Stuff hard in the new yeareither.

Michael (10:23):
Yeah, and I think it was interesting as I was just as
we've been having thisconversation At first I was kind
of coming into it with almost alittle bit of like not a
negative attitude but just I wasreally disappointed in myself
and Just for it for some reasonI was like a little bit of a
pity party for getting sick AndI'm just like, oh, I'm trying to
be so healthy.
Why am I getting sick?

(10:43):
You know, and yeah kind of beatmyself up about it for a little
bit, but then in the course ofthis conversation realizing
there's like a lot of otherthings I'm still doing that are
really good for my body.
It's just hard because you, Istart to have the expectation as
I've been stacking these habitsover the past few years that,
You know, the progress, youalways want it to be up and to

(11:06):
the right, so to speak.
And there's a lot of times whereyou have to take that bit of a
step back and, regain somesupport and regain your footing
and keep on going.
So I think that's probably whatmy, my key takeaways at the
beginning of this year is thatit's not a failure of a, of a
resolution.
I didn't like make this newyear's resolution.

(11:28):
And even when we were, Scott andI were talking about like, Oh,
we're going to kick off 75 hardagain.
I remind myself, like, likeI've, I put the asterisks next
to that.
I'm doing that like everyquarter pretty much for the rest
of my life.
I don't have any intention ofstopping it of some sort of
iteration of a, of a 75 daychallenge.
And by not hitting it 100percent of the time, it doesn't

(11:49):
mean that I'm failing at it.
It just means that I need torefocus and recenter myself and
get back into the routine.
And, Sickness is one of thosethings that pulls you out of it
invariably.

Preston (12:03):
Yeah, so if you're listening, and you have, maybe
didn't make a New Year'sresolution, or you did Or maybe
you started before New Year'sand now you've been kind of
slacking off.
It's like, Hey man, we're, we'renot perfect, but we're calling
ourselves out and we're callingyou out and let's finish January
strong and just get back on thathorse tomorrow.

(12:26):
And you know, 15 minutes, itdoesn't have to be a whole hour.
I mean, get an hour in it.
That's exactly right.

Michael (12:33):
And, and I think that's so easy for us to look at the
standard or look at what we'vedone in the past and call it the
standard.
And it doesn't have to be thatway at all.
To your point, just like pickingpull ups and saying, Hey, I'm
going to get better at pull upform.
And it's doesn't have to besomething that's 75 hard

(12:54):
aggressive.
It can be something that is muchmore of the focus on the 1
percent incremental improvement.
And I sometimes get away fromthat because when you have like
the big.
I guess sort of those big, likeaha moments where you feel like
it's an epiphany or as they callit, maybe a quantum leap, that's

(13:14):
happened after a long time.
And so it's sometimes hard toremind myself, like that's not
the standard making a quantumleap every day is, is really not
the realistic expectation by anymeans.
And, so just, I don't know, Ithink that's to your point.
If we have folks who arelistening and have had a setback

(13:37):
and in whatever way.
Physically, mentally, the dietor work or whatever it is, it
doesn't mean that we're failing.
Right.
That just means that we'remaking progress, perhaps a
little bit slower.
And as long as we take the timeto reflect on it and hold each
other accountable towards movingforward, as opposed to letting

(13:57):
ourselves wallow in that.
lower level of energy that comesfrom sickness, I think, I think
we're in a good spot.
Do you have a chance to I agree.
Yeah, did you have a chance tolisten to any of that, Tony
Robbins live event today?
Or were you pretty packed withwork?

Preston (14:13):
Oh, yeah, no, I didn't get a chance at all.
We've been, I mean, it's So, togive you an example of our FedEx
volume this week Our, ourheaviest inbound day during
Christmas was like 39, 000pieces, which, we're a little
station, which is not like, likea, my old station would get like
50, 000 inbound packages.

(14:34):
That seems like a lot, yeah.
Yeah, and then this week, like,we've been getting like 4, 000.
45, 000, 4, 000, 4, 500.
Like we've been getting morethan peak because we just had
days where we weren't deliveringstuff last week, but we weren't,
like the whole country wasn'tsnowed in.

(14:54):
Like there was tons of peopleacross the country that were
still shipping stuff toTennessee and we just couldn't
go out and deliver it.
So it's just been.
Catch up.
I think today we finally kindof, I think are totally caught
up, with all the stuff lastweek.
But I mean, yeah, it's out here,like all the back roads, like
we're just.
Because it snowed for two daysand then it kind of rained and

(15:17):
like all the snow pack stuffjust became like Skating rinks
and it was fun.
I mean, it really was quite fun.
But

Michael (15:27):
yeah, yeah I didn't mean to take a tangent too much,
but I was just thinking about Imean, I'm going to go back and
listen to day one just becausework has been crazy.
And I signed up for like, I justpaid some money so I could get
access to the recordings atleast, as opposed to, if it's
free, if you do the free versionof it, you don't get the access
to the recordings or some ofthose other things.

(15:48):
But, it goes on like today,tomorrow and Saturday.
And I just was thinking aboutlike what his approach is to
energy and how importantchanging our energy is like, or
changing our physiology is whenwe're making commitments.
And, so, so that's where I feellike in the context of our

(16:11):
podcasts or as, as we walk awayfrom this one recording, I, I'm
just trying to remind myself howimportant it is, for the
commitment to stick, we have toactually change.
Our physiology, we have tochange our language, like how
we're talking about what we do,and we, we touched on it a
little bit with just like, oh,it doesn't necessarily equate to
failure, right?

(16:32):
It's changing the languageinstead of calling yourself a
failure for missing, in my case,50 percent of the first 25 days
of the year here, it's lookingat, okay, but I, but I was still
successful for 50 percent of thedays.
Yeah.
And, um.
And of those that I missed on myworkout, I was still successful
in other ways.
And so just kind of re reframingwhere it's at.

(16:56):
And it's not like a cop out byany means.
It's just changing the languagethat I'm using to talk about it.
So I don't emotionally get intothat or mentally get into that
spot where I'm starting to spinand kind of spiral downwards
instead of put my foot down.
And.
Pick myself back up again andmove forward.
So, definitely would encourage,I know it's, at this juncture,

(17:19):
no one who's going to hear this,being released is going to have
had the experience to, or hadthe time to register and sign up
for the, the Tony Robbins event,but, just.
Good, good plug for the stuffthat he has, because I think
he's been doing this for thepast couple of years where he'll
do like a free event at thebeginning of the year.

Preston (17:38):
Yeah, I remember his from

Michael (17:40):
last year.
Yeah, did you go with any ofthat?
I don't know, that was the end.
No, but

Preston (17:44):
I remember you doing that one.
Well, you did a few of

Michael (17:47):
these this past year.
I did two of them, yeah.
The first one was Unshakeable,and then the second one I did
was Unleash the Power Within,and they're just both really
highly recommended because Idon't think there's anybody out
there who, number one, has beendoing it as long as Tony
Robbins, and, number two, haslike just impacted as many
people and has a lot of truththat he preaches, so, Definitely

(18:11):
encourage people to, to take alook into his stuff too.
He was on Ed, my let last week,and even just listening to that,
if you don't go to hisconference, it's probably in a,
everything that he's going tospeak over the course of three
days compressed down into anhour.
But, he'll say, he'll say thatthe key, one of the keys to

(18:31):
making lasting changes, likejust full immersion, for a
concentrated period of time andthen spaced repetition.
So not just doing it just once.
so you don't get thatmountaintop experience and then
just come crashing back down.
It's like putting those a coupletypes of experiences like that
in, in the year.
So he's got a couple other onesthat I'm going to look into,

(18:53):
this year, because I'lldefinitely listen to this one.
But anyway, just kind of a, anencouragement to our listeners
to, to check out the Ed Milet,Tony Robbins, interview that
happened, I guess, you know,second week of January here.
And, I don't know, Preston, whatelse you got as far as, the, the
check in for this week?

Preston (19:16):
Yeah, that's about all I got.
Just know that we're, we'rekicking ass along our little
journey, and we're not alwaysshowing up 100 percent for
ourselves, but, I guess youcould say we are We're just
regular human beings to just tryto be better, go back to that 1

(19:41):
percent every day.
Yeah.

Michael (19:44):
Sometimes I find myself trying to be 100 percent better.
And then unsurprisingly, don'tmeet those expectations.
So yes, yeah.
just Kind of bringing myselfback down to earth is important
sometimes even if it's hard toto feel like take a couple steps
back, but Looking forward tohaving Scott back.

(20:05):
Hopefully next week here on thepodcast and like I mentioned
have a couple of interviews thatwe should be Scheduling here for
month of February and March andso look forward to those
Otherwise that that should be itfor this week.
Sounds good to me, buddy.
I don't

Preston (20:25):
know Well Thank you for listening to, episode 48 of the
Reclaiming Man Podcast.
We will, we'll see you here nextMonday.
Have a great week, everybody.
Stellar We should do a, shouldwe do a, intro really quick to

(20:47):
put, put on the front?
Mm-Hmm.
All right.
All right.