Episode 54 - Reclaiming Body: Energy Conversion

In Episode 54, Michael and Preston revisit the importance of changing your state, how using energy to generate energy, while counterintuitive, is one of the keys to reclaiming your body.

Episode Transcript

Preston (00:07):
Alright happy Friday, happy Monday, happy Wednesday to
you all.
And welcome to episode 54 of theReclaiming Man podcast.
This week you got me, Preston D.
The, Southern Canuck Radomskiand Michael the Mastermind

(00:29):
Beckwith.
We're doing a polo podcast andI'm in my car getting cut off by
people trying to get on thefreeway right now because
they're in a rush on a Friday toget I don't know, wherever the
heck they might be going.
Hopefully they're goingsomewhere to get their body in
good shape because, I believeMichael this week's episode is

(00:51):
going to be on, reclaiming body.
Hopefully we're on that kind ofround table topic of the week.
I'm definitely in the throes ofreclaiming my body big time
right now.
Probably 75 hard again.

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Doesn't necessarily have to beabout that topic, but just the
idea of When your body is in tiptop shape How good you feel and
I'm on day 12 of 75 hard and I'mextremely sore and tired today.

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I did, basically I'm doing anactive recovery day today.
I did a yoga workout thismorning and just like an easy.
Walk this afternoon and It'sinteresting doing this program

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again, going a little, quite abit harder than I did the last
time around and just waking uptoday and just having that gut
feeling of like, I got to takeit easy today.
My body was just talking to meit's just like, Hey bud, we know
you want to go hard and, work ongetting that.

(02:20):
Two pack into a six pack at somepoint, but we need some rest.
We need a breather here And justhow important it is to listen to
your body when it's talking toyou it's like Sometimes we don't
do that We just push through andwe're designed to do that as
human beings to push throughhard things and we should and

(02:46):
that's not a bad thing to pushthrough and not listen to your
body sometimes when you're whenyou know, You're in the throes
of basically a marathon,, younormally don't go out of the
gate and sprint.
You're taking your time,listening to your body, because
you're trying to complete thething.
That's where I'm at today with arecovery day.

(03:07):
But even just in general, thelast two weeks, not quite, but
coming up on two weeks, Workingout again.
I've been really lacking thelast month.
As sore as I am, I feel so muchbetter every day, even though

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there's some mornings where Iget out of bed and I'm ready to
go.
Like I, I'm ready to go do myworkout in the garage.
And then there's some mornings,like even this morning, like I
just woke up and I felt like Icould sleep for another two
hours, maybe even three.
And I had a great sleep lastnight, but I could just use some
more rest.
And I was groggy, but about 10minutes in to my little yoga

(03:59):
guy, the blood gets flown andit's like, Hey man, I feel
great.
Now at the end of the day, I'mtired again because I worked all
day at FedEx and as the day goeson you burn all that energy and
ready for rest again.

(04:20):
But I've always heard you,Michael mentioned the phrase, or
you just talk about, you got touse energy to make more energy
or maybe you can relay that.
But it just makes so much sense.
When you're tired, you'll gowork out and then you're
energized.
You feel great.

(04:41):
It's just good to be back,moving the muscles, moving the
blood, pumping the heart, doingall the things.

Michael (04:51):
I feel like also I've been making some good progress
with this in my past coupleweeks here despite some
challenging circumstances, sohappy to talk through a little
bit of some recent successesinstead of Some of the, the
alternative.
So episode 54 just covering someof the stuff that you just

(05:12):
mentioned there one of the firstthings that you talked about was
people cutting you off.
And I'm thinking you said in arush on a Friday.
And I was thinking, how often isthat, that the case where we're
in a rush to get to the weekendand, or just in a rush in
general.
And.
Is that characterizing my lifeor not?

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And so just thought about thatwhen it comes to my body too am
I in a rush, so to speak, tryingto Move things at, paces that I
shouldn't.
And so just was, I thought thatI had as you, mentioned that,
and just getting your body inshape.
It's just Such a incrementalprocess that requires the same

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thing everything else we talkabout commitment, consistency,
discipline And a lot of thatstarts in your mind So it's a
good transition this weekend toreclaiming body and talking
about some of the things thatwe're doing you mentioned just
being in the throes of 75 hardagain and can relate to that
from last year when I was doingit and then Thinking about this

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year and what I've tried tostack on to that You list.
While I'm not doing two workoutsa day, I have replaced most of
those elements with what I feellike are more sustainable, what
I hope is sustainable long term,balance when it comes to

(06:34):
building my life building myStrategy when it comes to my
body.
Just to quickly jump into onething.
Just laying on my desk, thepyramid of mastery.
I told you guys, I think in aprevious episode here, I was
going through some Tony Robbinsmaterials from his Unleash the
Power Within conference.
Super great and recommended ifyou have the chance to do it,

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but he has this pyramid, sevenareas of his, of constant growth
for an extraordinary life iswhat he calls it.
And the bottom of that pyramidis the physical body.
And with good reason, right?
If we're not strong enough to,to get through the day in a
productive manner and to bemaking progress towards all of

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our goals we will definitely bemoving a lot slower towards
those goals if at all whensickness comes or when an injury
happens or whatever it may be.
So we've talked quite a bitabout it in the past and, I've
talked a little bit about mymismanagement of rest and sleep,

(07:37):
but I think that's a really bigcomponent of taking care of the
body.
And lately, I would say I'vebeen getting more sleep, going
to bed earlier.
It's meant that I've sacrificedsome time from studying and
reading.
Still reading just not as muchas I used to and I would say
less for pleasure still more forstudy and growth, education So I

(08:02):
do think that the rest and sleepcomponent is important Even if
you're just doing that yoga andmeditation and stuff like that.
You mentioned an active recoveryso to speak Today I got a
massage.
It's another example.
It's you know, taking care ofyour body and To some extent,
you know that really doesdepending on the type of massage
if it's deep tissue you're gonnaget That release in a very
similar manner to if you workout, which is good But all that

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to say i'm like I think aboutWhat is the way to minimize my
time commitment to the body formaximum?
output and outcomes and justthinking about the slight edge
and some of those incrementalone percent better types of
methodologies or mindsets thatwe've talked about in the past

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compound growth I am convincedthat just doing whatever we are
doing consistently every day isgoing to be really beneficial.
And the example that I'll givefrom most recent experiences, I
called it the the walk by fivefor pull ups.

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And so anywhere from a minimumof five pull ups to upwards of
40 or 50 pull ups a day I'vebeen doing since.
I got that pull up bar.
So that is one thing I would sayhas been encouraging because
every time I do it, to yourpoint Preston, it's something
that generates energy.
It creates energy even though ittakes energy.

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And that's something that Ithink is so important when
mentally we're going throughsomething challenging to go do
something physically that we canquickly do, execute, complete,
it, It rewards us mentally withmore energy.
It rewards us physically with asense of more energy and our

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blood is moving through our bodymore quickly and we're getting
more oxygen to our brain.
And then yeah, it's justcombining that with the
hydration and it gets us in sucha good spot.
But as always, Trying to keepthis relatively quick and
succinct, so I don't have toomuch additionally that I'd like
to share this week, but yeah,let me know what you're

(10:13):
thinking.

Preston (10:13):
You were talking about creating energy and have that
reward system to yourself.
That's one of the things I'mloving about.
Changing my mindset on thisprogram this time around is that
so much of doing the two 45minute workouts every day, the

(10:35):
picture like, all those thingswhen you have those as your
commitments that you have to doevery day.
The other cool thing about,while creating like managing
your time correctly while doingthose is, fabulous.
Obviously getting stronger andhealthier while doing those

(10:57):
things is also fabulous, but,Doing what you are supposed to
do, what you said you're goingto do.
It's like you, you're teachingyour body that you can count on
yourself.
You're teaching your mind, yourbeing that you can count on
yourself.
Hey I, if I said I'm going to dothis, I'm going to do this.

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I'll give you a quick example.
I went to this meetup onTuesday.
It was this thing in Nashvillefor a bunch of, Broadway
musicians.
It's like a hangout that we,that they do once a month and
I'm starting to get on boardwith all that.
And I went there and I'm in mycar and I don't know any of

(11:44):
these.
I know one person like in reallife and I know I'm friends with
a few of them on Facebook.
I don't, never really metanybody.
There's over 2000 people in thisgroup.
I don't know how many are goingto show up tonight.
Obviously not all 2000 of them.
And it's like I'm sitting in thecar and I'm nervous.
I don't, I'm not great at thosekinds of situations yet.

(12:07):
Like just going and minglingwith strangers and connecting
and networking, so to speak.
But as I was sitting in my car,it's like you have to do this.
Like you told yourself you weregoing to do it.
And all of me wanted to just belike, ah, just go home.
What, like who are you reallygoing to meet?
What's the big deal?
You can just get gigs otherways.

(12:28):
But I went in, it was reallycool, lots of neat people in
there that I met Obviouslydidn't meet everybody.
There's not enough time and Imean there probably is enough
time but it's like for my firstkind of one It was still like a
lot of nerves and anxiety aboutit all But like just doing it

(12:50):
was like that's Building trustwith myself that like hey, you
said you'd do it.
You did it next time we come toone of these You've already done
it like we'll be fine We'regoing to get through all this
kind of stuff.
And I know that it's notnecessarily totally related to
like the reclaiming bodyconcept, but it is also

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definitely linked in someaspect.
The rest, dude, yeah, I feel somuch better today having like an
active rest day.
I do notice when I'm on thisprogram too, like not drinking
and working out.
There's some nights where I needlike seven, eight hours of rest,
but there's other nights wherewhen I get sick because I'm

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like, just so Kind of firing.
It's like that amount of restreally rejuvenates me and gets
me going as well Still fall backon those ums every once in a
while eh, so the other nicething I was gonna say is I was
doing my arm workout thismorning and Starting to notice a

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little bit of a little bit of avein in the bicep there as I'm
doing the curls, baby That's youknow, I'm losing some of that
inflammation and kind of extrafat on the arms and stuff and
building the muscles upunderneath.
It's, rewarding.
Okay, progress has happened.
This is getting good.
We're moving in the rightdirection.

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So get out there.
Even if you just go for a 45minute walk, that's huge.
So many people just don't evendo that.
You don't got to go do a twohour weight session at the gym
and become Arnold Schwarzeneggeror whoever your bodybuilder that

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you think of is.
It's just get your bodyfunctioning.
Help more healthily.
Healthily?
Is that even a word?
Our bodies are designed to beout working and Using and being
used.
They're not meant to just sitaround and do nothing Although
that does feel nice every oncein a while don't get me wrong a

(14:58):
couple IPAs on the couchwatching football that's not my
favorite thing to do watchfootball, but that's a good
thing That's a fun thing to dobut we also need to be out there
moving our bodies stretching ourbodies strengthening our bodies
because that's What they craveto do and when you haven't done
that in a while It's it hurts todo that physically hurts, you

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know I'm still two weeks intothis and when I do a leg day,
it's like I'm a freaking messfor two days Maybe, I don't
know, maybe leg days always messyou up.
I've never done it consistentlyenough to build up super leg
strength but that's where I'mat, Michael.
So yeah, it was good talk, bud.
Reclaim your body folks.

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You'll love yourself for it.