Balancing Fitness and Life: Insights from Fitness Experts on Nutrition, Workouts, and Motivation

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Ever wondered how busy professionals juggle a hectic lifestyle while staying fit and healthy? Our latest episode promises to unlock the secrets behind maintaining a balanced lifestyle as we sit down with an inspiring panel of fitness aficionados. Joining me, Fiddy, as I sub for Mike Bono, are Jason, Byron, Shawn, JJ, Nicole, Jordan, and Josh, each bringing their unique fitness philosophies to the table. From full-body workouts to targeted muscle group exercises, discover how these experts integrate fitness into their daily lives, even amidst the chaos of parenting and work commitments.

Our guests also shed light on their diverse dietary habits, providing a refreshing take on nutrition. Experience Shawn’s approach to a balanced diet with a sprinkle of fast food indulgence and Byron’s reliance on his wife's meal planning for healthier meals. Nicole’s weight loss journey and Jordan’s disciplined bodybuilding regimen offer contrasting yet equally motivating perspectives on nutrition strategies. These personal stories underline the adaptability and individuality of maintaining a healthy diet while staying true to personal tastes and lifestyle demands.

Finally, we explore the evolving nature of fitness routines, especially as former athletes redefine their workouts post-competition. Listen as Jason and Byron share insights on transitioning from traditional lifting routines to newer methodologies like CrossFit. Nicole reveals her newfound passion for weightlifting, and Jordan explains shifting from football to bodybuilding. Whether you're inspired by fitness icons like Tom Brady or drawn to the stories of others like RFK Jr., our guests offer a well-rounded view of balancing nutrition, consistency, and injury prevention, all while finding motivation and setting

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home
Rants podcast.
This is your special guest,host Fitty, and today I'm
filling in for Mike Bono.
Today we bring you anoutstanding episode and it's
another roundtable, but a uniqueroundtable.
We have a lot of great gueststo talk about their journey here
within this roundtable, and itis all things fitness and health
related.
So anybody who's looking to getin a new year in 2025 this

(00:24):
episode is going to air injanuary.
We're going to help you alonggiving you some advice and
talking our stories in thefitness and health realm.
So we have a lot of greatguests here.
Uh, we're going to get throughall of them and I'm going to
have them introduce themselves,uh, right now.
So, jason, why don't you startfor us?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
uh, yeah, my name is jason Bickle, 47 years old.
I forget what the other thingswere in the intro.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Favorite snack, I think.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I stumped on favorite snack Shoot pretty much
anything.
I'm watching a football game alittle different, maybe just
some pretzels and good to go.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Okay, how about you Sean?

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Sean dad 51.
I guess we'll go with cookies,I guess.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
Okay, how about you, byron.
I'm Byron Mayers, I'm 27.
And I would say my favoritesnack I'm going to have to go
with Reese's Cups, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
JJ, jj, jj, phillips 42.
And my favorite snack isprobably about any type of
dessert cake, cookies, snickers,cheesecake, apple pie, you name
it.
I, um, that's what I like, okayhow about you, jordan?

Speaker 7 (01:40):
uh, big chicken wing guy here, buddy, any time,
anytime of the day Don't reallymatter.
You put a chicken wing in frontof my face.
It's going to get eight.
I'm also 26 years old.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, and then last but not, or sorry, not last but
not least yet, but uh, nicole.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
My name is Nicole Faith, I'm 36.
I'm the only girl on thepodcast tonight.
So for the women, um, and Iwould say a charcuterie plate,
like okay, and cheeses andpickles and all those things
okay, and then?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
uh, josh, how about you?

Speaker 8 (02:14):
josh, I'm 35 years old.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Favorite snack is going to be a chomped deer jerky
stick okay, well, for everybodythat don't know me, I'm 38
years old and my favorite snackis ice cream.
So, not a big snack person, butI will.
I will go in on some ice cream,as probably most people uh,
most people would.
So, everybody, we have a great,we have a great panel for you

(02:37):
to listen to today.
Um, all the guests are going togo in order give their answers.
We're're going to have Jason gofirst, and then Sean Byron, jj,
nicole, jordan and Josh, inthat sense.
So, uh, first question I wantto kind of start out with for
all the guests Um, and Jason,we'll start with you.
So how many days a week do youwork out and what type of
fitness plan are you currentlyon?

(02:57):
Jason, you're on mute too.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Getting there, okay, Well, I actually have a
10-month-old baby at home rightnow, so my fitness routine has
fallen apart completely forabout the last year.
If I can get three days inright now, that is fantastic and
it's pretty basic full bodytype stuff, everyday core
stretch, just really trying tohit the basics, given how

(03:25):
limited, uh, my time is at themoment, especially with the
holidays and all absolutely.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
How about you, sean?
I'm gonna try to get there fiveto six days a week, uh,
typically one body part uh perday and I'll mix in um a
secondary body part for maybeone lift at the end and about 20
minutes of cardio uh each day.
With that as much, as much aspossible.
I've got to do a better jobwith the cardio how about you,

(03:52):
byron?

Speaker 6 (03:53):
so it's actually funny.
I'm kind of gonna piggyback offof jason's answer.
Um, I have a recently a twomonth old on top of two other
kids, so it's been a little bitchaotic.
But I also try to shoot for atleast three days a week um full
body, um cardio, like hittraining, if I can okay, what

(04:13):
about you, jj?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
you always post your workouts online, so what do you
got?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
usually I go about four days a week and I do some
sort of split, usually like uh,one day I'll do like uh chest,
and another day I'll do likeshoulders and tris and I have
like a leg day, quad, like aquad specific leg day, and then
I'll have like a back and bodyday with some hamstrings and I
do cardio at the end of everyworkout and try to do a core

(04:42):
exercise at the end of everyworkout also okay, nicole, how
about you?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
um.
I typically go about five daysa week um focus on step counts
every day if I'm not in the gym,so about seven to ten k and
steps um daily and then I cyclethrough um depending on where
I'm at in my training differentmuscle groups, so one day's back

(05:10):
, one day's byes, one day'sshoulders, and just kind of
cycle through that and thenrepeat the following week and
just track where I'm at.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, jordan, how about you?

Speaker 7 (05:21):
Yeah, kind of piggybacking off everyone.
I guess Kind of run like afunky split.
I train about five days a weekright now.
Um, I, you know, I kind of callmy split is like a
specialization split.
I kind of pick, you know, one ofmy three body parts that are
lacking the most, um, which forme is my chest, my back and my
shoulders.
So I'll give each of those theirown day and in between, let's

(05:44):
say I do chest on Monday, thenext day I will do a total body
where I'm picking one exerciseper body group besides chest,
and then the next following daywould be the back day and then
same thing with the total bodywhere I'm hitting everything
besides my back just to kind oftouch everything up.
My legs have always been kindof my most dominant thing on my

(06:05):
body, so I've kind of pushedthat to the side not to join the
no leg day crowd, um, but itgets worked in on my total body
days, um, and then cardio wise,I follow a step count.
I'm a PE teacher so luckily I'mpretty active and especially at
elementary school I'm runningaround with the kids and stuff.
So I try to get about 10 K aday, which is fairly easy for me
.
I'm running around with thekids and stuff, so I try to get

(06:26):
about 10.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
K a day, which is fairly easy for me, so I don't
really do any extra cardio atthe gym.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
Okay, and Josh, round us out on this one.
I'm going to piggyback on thefirst two guys, or first two
people said about kids.
I just had my fourth babyactually, so I have a.
I have a four month old, myfourth child.
So I try to get it in when Ican fit it in.
Try to get it in when I can fitit in.
I try to get that at least 30minutes when I can and I try to
get about four days a week atminimum.
So, based on the typicalscience and as long as I'm
getting that four days a week,I'll at least maintain what I

(06:54):
got, if not get a little better.
Okay, I mix it up.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay, and we're going to kind of get into the whole
like life balance of everythingtoo.
I know a lot of people on hereare very busy with stuff, so
we're going to get into that alittle bit later on the show
because we definitely want tohear about that.
You know, for myself myworkouts are a little bit
different.
I go about four days a week.
What I've really honed in onbecause we'll talk about this

(07:21):
later in the show some injuriesand wear and tear over life.
I'm on two day full bodycircuits.
I do a lot of body weight stuffand stuff with bands and I do
two days cardio.
So I go my my circuit trainingone day, cardio abs next day,
usually two days off circuittraining and then my my cardio
and abs after that.

(07:42):
So that's kind of what I'm onright now.
But I would definitely want togo to the next thing and we're
going to get into this too.
I'm really curious about thiswith you, with all of you guests
.
Talk to us about your food plan.
You know people don't realizehow important food is to your
health with eating healthy andeating healthy is different for
a lot of people.
But I would definitely want toget into this.
So kind of talk to me aboutwhat you use as a plan or not,

(08:05):
and you know how do you balanceyour diet with working out, and
I'm very curious to hear fromall the parents on here of young
children how they do this.
So, jason, can you kick us offon this one?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, when things are going well, I follow up.
I don't know if anyone knowswho Mike Dolce is.
He's pretty think it's popular,I'm not sure, but I follow his
a lot of his programs, um, andhe's all about just real food.
Uh, I forget his exact thing,but it's like if you can hunt it
, pick it, plant it, fish it,you can eat it.
If it's not in that category,you can't eat it.
And to me, as long as you cankeep the, the 95 of your meal in

(08:42):
that structure, that's prettyerror-free.
When I'm good, that's how I'mgoing.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I know you posted about that before.
I remember seeing your socialmedia about that.
What about you, Sean?
What do you do?

Speaker 5 (08:56):
I'm pretty routine.
Morning would be oatmeal with ascoop of protein, egg whites,
banana, post-workout would be aprotein shake.
Sometimes it's two scoops,depending on if I'm trying to
lean or if I'm trying to bulk.
A lot of yogurt, a lot ofcottage cheese.
As a family we eat a lot ofchicken, but I am a big fast
food guy, so don't let me foolyou if there's a lot of fast

(09:18):
food on the weekends.
But the majority of my mealssimilar to what Vic was saying,
probably 90% of the time I'meating pretty well, pretty clean
, but I do mix in some fast foodmore than I should.
But yeah, for the most partyogurt, egg whites.
You know all the staples.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, okay, byron, how?

Speaker 6 (09:37):
about you.
Honestly, I'm probably a hugeoutlier amongst everybody.
My diet is horrendous.
I don't know why.
I think partially because I'mstill young, so I'm taking
advantage of my metabolism.
I really don't follow a routine, but if I am trying to guide

(09:59):
myself or stay within certainguidelines, I'm with the first
two guys.
I try to go out for whole foods, so for me a lot of eggs.
I'm real big into red meat,fruits and vegetables.
But again, like you kind ofmentioned, it's a little bit
harder with little ones andhaving a family.
We're always on the go, soliterally I'm very fortunate my

(10:22):
wife is a little bit betterhealth conscious than me, so
she's making sure our dinnersare hitting all the food groups,
making sure that we have thoseveggies having the meat, decent
carbs are in there.
And again too, we're all human.
So weekends we kind of splurge.
I can probably pound a wholepint of ice cream, eat a dozen

(10:42):
of cookies, not saying that'sobviously the best, but you know
that's me on this one.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, no thanks for sharing that, JJ.
How about you?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, my diet pretty much sucks.
I mean pizza, cookies, donuts.
I mean work is real bad withdonuts.
They always bring in donuts allthe time.
Fast food, like I really don'teat healthy at all.
I mean, there was a time I didit for like six months and it

(11:15):
was awesome, but I was likestarving and um, I looked real
good but um, I was like angryall the time that happens?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
that definitely happens.
Uh, nicole, how about you?
You're always posting the mealsand stuff like that on
instagram for um, you know thatthe people that follow you, they
see that a lot.
So what is, uh, what's yourfood plan?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
you don't know me, I went through a weight loss
journey back in 2021 and lost 40pounds, and it all contributed
to diet changes and since then,what I've kept consistent to
maintain those changes.
Again, it all comes back todiet.
So if you really want to seethe intensity of your workouts,

(12:01):
if you're not following a dietplan or staying somewhat
consistent with it, it's likedriving your car with your foot
on the brake, you know.
You just don't make any stridesforward like you should.
So what I've kept consistent,what I did then.
The actual nutrition has changedslightly, based upon actual

(12:22):
calories themselves.
So back then I was in a caloriedeficit.
But what has stayed consistenthas been I ping my blood sugar
levels every two to three hours.
So I'm eating something everytwo to three hours.
So this way my body's notstarving and I'm not running on

(12:42):
low energy or low fuel, but thenI'm not overeating either when
I do go to eat, because I'venaturally pinged it every couple
of hours.
So that stayed consistentthroughout my whole entire
journey.
Hydration is really big, sohitting your water counts.
I follow a high protein diet.
It's a blend still of carbs andhealthy fats in there Carbs

(13:06):
mostly coming from fruits andvegetables, and then healthy
fats such as butters and yourdressings and your nuts, but
always high protein to preserveyour muscle and build lean
muscle as well.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
OK, no, thanks for sharing that, Jordan.
How about you?

Speaker 7 (13:22):
Yeah, like you know, I was being me.
I was a former college footballplayer.
Football ends, you look forsomething kind of turned
bodybuilder.
You know competed for a littlebit, um, so ever since I started
doing bodybuilding four yearsago, every day is kind of
groundhog day for me and I don'treally don't get sick of it.
Um, I guess that's just fromkind of being on a contest prep

(13:45):
where you're eating the samething every single day and it
gets a little bit bland and yourmacros change as you get closer
to a show.
But I mean, ever since, youknow, really competing and stuff
, I don't have a problem.
I don't want to sound like ajerk, but like I don't have a
problem eating the same foodsevery day.
You know, for me, if I want tomix it up, I'll switch my

(14:07):
protein source or my carb sourceslightly if I need something
different.
But I mean, my day looks like Iwake up, I have my shake and
then I'm eating eight ounces of,I say, flesh, some sort of
protein from an animal, everythree hours I guess.
So it kind of equals out tofive meals a day, one being a
shake, four meals being abouteight ounces of some sort of

(14:27):
protein source.
Um, and then, depending on whatyou're trying to do, you know
if I'm in a building phase, I'llup the carbs pretty heavy.
Um, if I'm trying to lean down,I will.
You know kind of time my carbsup around my training more and
and cut them out when I'm nottraining, you know around those
times.
So it fluctuates for me likeright, but you know, I'm okay

(14:48):
with groundhog day, I call it,I'm all right with that.
Okay, like I don't know if Iwant to have like a cheat meal,
I call it like more like arefeed, like I'd rather cook my
own burgers at home, then gosomewhere and get a burger.
It kind of sounds weird,especially during hunting season
.
If I can get a deer and makevenison burgers like that's a
cheat meal for me.

(15:08):
I'll have six of those, noproblem.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
So burgers, a cheat meal for you.

Speaker 7 (15:13):
Yeah, I mean I'll put out like I don't really have a
sweet craving, I have a savorycraving.
Like I'm the type of guy wheresome people go eat tons of ice
cream cookies.
I'd rather put six doublecheeseburgers in front of my
face and I'll go okay, give melike the salty stuff.

(15:33):
Like that's cool.
If I really want to go crazy,that's what I'll do okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
And how about you, josh?

Speaker 8 (15:40):
I just actually my last question, so I'm gonna go
with a bang on this one.
So I have I have a lot ofpatients that I see.
Obviously I'm not sure if youguys are aware, but I'm a doctor
, I have a practice in SouthCarolina, a practice in
Pittsburgh and the way we kindof gauge that efficacy and see
how diets are working, whetherit's good or it's bad.
I like to run lab work, so Ilike to see, okay, how is this
diet working?
You carnivore diet or herbivorediet, a vegan diet?

(16:06):
Doesn't matter what you want totry, because there's so much
proof of science on to back upevery single diet plan you want
to do.
So I never try to sway a personone way or another.
Whatever you want to do mustsupport that, and then we'll
kind of gauge that efficacyagain and how that works for you
, by checking all your levels,obviously, and then the hard
work works.
So you got to work.
No matter what you do, nomatter what your diet is.
I try to keep it simple forpeople, because america, in life

(16:27):
, it's complex, so I try to makeit simple and simplify where
people can actually digest itand understand what it's going
to be going forward how we can,how we can see results faster,
quicker, without making them tooover complicated.
So I always tell people, in asimplified matter, like a gaz,
smaller, more frequent meals,where you're constantly grazing,
you're just constantly burningand churning, you're working

(16:48):
food down an elementary canaland just keeping that basal
metabolic temperature picked up,you're working it.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
If the good Lord made it, you can eat it okay, that's
probably the best answer thatI've ever heard the good lord
makes it, you can eat.
And it goes back to like jordansaying flesh meals and jason's
saying hunt it, pick it, kill itand all that.
You know all that stuff.
So, uh, you know.
Thanks for, uh, thanks for forreally giving that uh insight on

(17:16):
that so greatly, greatlyappreciated thank you guys, take
care, have a good show, godbless thanks, josh, thanks for
hopping on, uh, so, um, we'regonna go to the next one here.
Um, you know most, if not all,of you are former high school or
college athletes.
Um, how have your workoutschanged since your athletic days
ended?

(17:36):
And, jason, before you answer,I just want to point this out.
So, dr josh hymes, that wasjust on, uh, he's a great guy.
He's a former, um pro boxer.
So, uh, he, he is awesome inthe medical field.
Um, if people want to followhim, you can find him on
instagram.
It's dr josh hymes.
Uh, j-o-s-h-h-i-m-e-s.
So definitely give him a follow.

(17:57):
Um, he likes to come on, eventhough with the kids sometimes
he has to jump off.
So, but, you know, going backto this, you know about being a
former athlete and you know,have your workouts change and
we're all at different ages andstages.
So, jason, can you kind of givesome insight on this?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I don't know if they really changed a lot over the
years, other than just cyclingthrough different ideas and
styles, but keep coming back tothe same bread and butter.
I think, like when you're youngI don't know, I'm 47, so a lot
of the information came out oflike men's health magazines and
all that stuff in the 90s andthey were all pretty much arm
day, chest day, back day, allthat kind of thing, and that was
what we all did, and then youjust try different things over

(18:35):
the years, but I think it alwayskeeps coming back to basic good
lifting, chest day kind ofstuff, back day kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
And yeah, it just kind of keeps rotating through
that in and out of life.
Okay, how about you sean?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
yeah, um, similar what jason was saying, being the
oldest guy in the group, uh,when I was lifting some time ago
.
Uh, it's pretty similar to whatI'm doing now.
I do see a big difference inwhat my players are doing now,
what the athletes are doingtoday compared to when I was an
athlete More explosive movements, more flexibility, mobility,
that type of thing.
Like similar to what Jason wassaying when I was younger,

(19:10):
playing and like now, you knowit's chest day, it's back day,
our players don't really gothrough that.
So I see a bigger change fromour players and what they do
compared to what I did back whenI played back in the late 80s,
early 90s.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, no.
Thanks for sharing that.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
How about you, byron?
Yeah, that's kind of when Ifirst started in high school I
think you know kind of like whatSean was saying, we didn't
really have a traditionalstrength conditioning program
where we're doing thoseexplosive movements, the full
body stuff.
Ours was more of a bodybuildingtemplate, so we were kind of
just real big meatheads in thataspect.

(19:48):
Wasn't until I got to collegewhere I was introduced to those
explosive movement, you knowtemplates, super setting stuff
to kind of all mesh together.
But then once I got out of, uh,college, I graduated, I dabbled
with crossfit for a little bit.
Um, I drank that kool-aid forabout two and a half years and

(20:09):
then, um, honestly kind oflearning from there, um, I liked
some of the philosophy that ithad.
So I still kind of use a lot ofthat methodology that CrossFit
offered to kind of support mytraining and my lifestyle right
now.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
OK, no thanks.
Thanks for sharing that, JJ.
How about you?

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, it's probably pretty much like similar to high
school, like more, I guess,bodybuilding wise, like squat,
bench, deadlift and throw inother exercises in between those
things, pull up and stuff likethat.
So it really hasn't changed toomuch for me, but I just I'm
actually I'm a lot stronger thanI was when I was younger.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Well, that's a good thing, so how about you, Nicole?

Speaker 4 (20:55):
I played collegiate volleyball and when I was
playing the sport I couldn'tstand lifting like I hated it.
Like this is not for women.
I don't want to look bulky.
Um, now, switching gears,getting out of the sport which I
still watch but don't playanymore I actually found a love

(21:15):
and passion for lifting um,especially after losing the
weight, now that I've broughtthe muscle layer closer to the
skin, being able to scalp thatand just really see the whole
structure and just chisel atyour anatomy.
I love lifting weights.
I think it's a matter of you'vegot to find what you're

(21:36):
passionate about and then you'llcontinue to show up for it.
It doesn't really matter toomuch what you're passionate
about and then you'll continueto show up for it.
It doesn't really matter toomuch what you're physically
doing, just do something.
Showing up five minutes a dayis better than not showing up at
all, and whatever works foryour schedule, whatever you're
passionate about, you'llcontinue to show up for.
So personally, through myjourney, that's what I found to

(22:00):
be what I continue to want to do.
So for the other women outthere, I think, just find what
intrigues you, what you can showup for whether that's cycling,
aerobics, whatever it might be,and just continue to do it,
because it's better than doingnothing at all.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Absolutely Jordan, jordan.
How about you?

Speaker 7 (22:19):
yeah, um, I mean, I really like what Nicole said
there.
I'd be in college footballplayer, um, you know, I kind of
I'm on the younger side, I guess, and I was, um, exposed to the
more explosive movements,explosive workouts, mobility, um
, working your muscles really inthe stretch position and then
exploding from there, which was,you know, all of my football,

(22:43):
you know lifts pretty much inhigh school and then into
college and then getting intobodybuilding.
I know it did change for me alot.
You know you're looking at itfrom a different perspective.
You know you're trying toaccomplish two different things
with those.
So really trying to do certainexercises, certain workouts with
certain rep schemes, the moreput on muscle size rather than
just focusing on pure brutestrength and explosiveness.

(23:05):
And I've came to love theseworkouts much more than football
workouts.
But I really like what Nicolesaid there.
I think even when I used topersonal train people, you got
to find what works for you andsometimes, with today and all
the science behind stuff, youget caught up like looking for
what's the best split I can do,what's the best exercise I can

(23:25):
do, and you're always likesearching for this pot of gold
that doesn't really existbecause each person's a little
bit different.
And what she said aboutmotivation like you got to find
what you like to do.
And if you're a body splitperson, where you like to go in
and hammer a chest day, hammerback day, hammer an arm day, go
do that because you will show upevery single time.

(23:46):
Um, if you're doing somethingyou're not sure of and you're
like man, they say this works,but I don't necessarily love it.
You know, at this stage in yourlife you're, you know you're
probably not going to show upconsistently.
Um, so that's my take.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
And for everybody that doesn'tknow, actually Jordan and Byron
played for me when I was anassistant coach at the college
level and it's, you know, greatto see them, you know, now as
adults and married and Jordansoon to be married and you know
dads and stuff.
So you know it's great to seewho they were as these young
people and then now see them asadults and doing all these great

(24:20):
things and then, you know,still being involved in the in
the fitness realm.
You know for myself, you know Ihave degenerative arthritis in
my back, I have arthritis in myhands, I have busted up fingers,
and you know all the perks ofplaying college football.
So my workouts have really hadto change.
I, you know I can't squatanymore, so I do a lot of, you

(24:41):
know, body weight squats, I dosumo squats.
I can't barbell squat anymore,can't hang clean.
You know I just can't do powermovements, Can't run no more,
just my back flares up and mylegs bother me.
So again, it's like what Nicolesaid, though you got to find
what works for you and that'sgoing to be a lot of trial and
error too, depending on.
You know your body and whatyou've.
You know you've dealt with.
And if you can go bang outheavyweights and you can squat

(25:01):
and you can bench and you can doall these great things and
later on in life, that's great.
But I'm sure at some pointyou're going to hit a wall on
that.
So all I would just tell peopleis be careful, because what you
don't want to do is get hurt forthe long run and then you
really can't.
You know, go do stuff.
So, whatever your jam isworking out wise, just embrace
it.
And if that your workout isgoing chopping down trees and

(25:22):
doing yard work and cuttinggrass and all that stuff, just
love that too, because that's aheck of a workout um itself.
And for anybody doesn't do yardwork, go do yard work.
It's a, it's a pretty goodworkout.
I think anybody who, uh, whoowns a house can attest to uh,
attest to that.
So, um, one of the next thingsI want to talk about um with you
guys is we know what type ofgym do you train in?

(25:44):
Um, whether that's, uh, youknow, name brand one, or you
know, um that's everybody willknow, or a small gym, uh, where
you're at, or if, do you have agym at home.
So, um, I I know talking tomost of you where you all train
out from before, but why don'tyou go ahead and tell the guests
, jason, or tell the otherguests and stuff?

Speaker 2 (26:01):
for most of my adult life it was titan's gym in
menner.
That's like one of those bigold meathead grungy gyms.
It has every piece of equipmentyou can think of.
It's one of those.
I mean the square footage.
It's a huge gym.
I don't even, I couldn't, can'teven guess that square footage,
but it's, it's loaded equipment, loaded with serious lifters.
I think my strength is prettygood, but in that gym I'm like

(26:26):
mid-level.
It's that kind of place whereyou got to compete.
It's cool, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
How about you Sean?

Speaker 5 (26:34):
I'll do a little bit at school with the football guys
.
If it's empty, I'll sneak upthere on a day like a Sunday
that we have the whole place tomyself, but for the most part
playing a fitness.
It's convenient, close aseverything I need at this stage
of the game.
So, yep, I can get in, get out,works for me.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Absolutely, byron, I would say the last couple of
years I was again training atCrossFit.
So A couple of years I wasagain training at CrossFit.
So if I was on the road I wasfinding different CrossFit gyms
to just drop in train at.
But now I am a teacher so I'vebeen training at my school
facilities, basically anywhere Ican get my hands on maybe a
couple of dumbbells on a pull-upbar, and I'll make the most out

(27:13):
of it.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Absolutely, jj.
Well, I started out at PlanetFitness and then I left there,
went to like a Meathead slash.
They had like more normalpeople too Jim, onyx and Niles
and then Planet Fitness over inAustintown got like free weights

(27:35):
and deadlift platforms and allthat stuff squat racks.
So I went back to Planet.
So I'm currently training atPlanet Fitness again and for.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
For anybody that doesn't know, check out like
online at the austintown uhplanet fitness that that gym got
it going on.
I will.
I will tell you that from thestuff uh jj posts and ain't like
the one in in willowick, that'sfor sure.
It ain't like the one in meadow, I mean it's just like I'm like
what is this gym?
and I messaged jj and he's likeman, it's planet.
Like I'm like what is this gym?
And I messaged JJ and he's likeman, it's Planet Fitness.
Bro, I'm like what.
I'm like, when did they getplatforms for deadlifting and

(28:05):
stuff?
He's like it's Austintown.
I'm like well, austintown gotit going on, I guess.
How about you, nicole?

Speaker 4 (28:12):
For me.
I work out at Lifetime Fitnesshere in Columbus.
It's more of like a fitnessclub.
A big part of my journey andwhat's kept me going is the
environment.
I think it really plays a hugerole and benefit on where you
surround yourself with.

(28:32):
So when I started working outthere, majority of the people
were, you know, better withtheir health and their fitness
than I was.
So it elevated me to want tobecome and aspire to be them.
So I think that helped reallydrive my fitness journey and it
keeps me motivated to like notfalter.

(28:54):
So I do want to encouragepeople.
You know where you surroundyourself.
What community you're a part ofplays a big deal on really
where you'll go with this thing.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Absolutely.
How about you, Jordan?

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yeah, I kind of like how some of you gave, like where
you started out, at whereyou're at.
So I'm going to do that realquick.
Like when I first startedworking out, we had a
unbelievable basement gym.
My dad put it like put ittogether.
We had a full dumbbell rackthat went up the 60s.
We had a super nice machine, auniversal that was like the
smoothest universal ever a benchpress.

(29:32):
So starting out there was likein the home gym was real cool.
I'm talking real young and whatNicole just said about being
around people who are, you know,maybe a little step up from you
.
My brother, who's older than me, could bench press 205 pounds
when he was 12 years old.
So like I was never close tothat but I always had to chase

(29:52):
that and you know my dad beingthe alpha male, he is like
pushing us every day to do thatalways inspired me to be better.
Um, and then going from there,let's fast forward to bethany.
Whenever I went to bethanycollege I used to go out and
train out in wintersville atrocky road gym.
I don't know if anyone knowsabout that gym in studentville.
That's a hardcore powerliftingbodybuilding gym.

(30:14):
We're in the garage.
It's freaking cold in there inthe winter.
Um, so I trained there for awhile and then currently out
here in Pittsburgh.
I live in the South Hills.
I train at a 24-7 gym calledBell Vernon Fitness 24-7.
Little local gym, so shout outto them.
They do a good job here andit's a mixture of meatheads and

(30:34):
other, you know, meatheads andpeople just going there for
their everyday fitness.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Absolutely.
I used to see Jordan, though,at the Steubenville Planet
Fitness way back in the dayduring COVID I did.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
You know what that was?
Michaela, my fiancee that was.
She had the black pass at thetime.
I don't even know if they stilldo that where you go free.
I had no idea about the area.
There's this little gym by myhouse, in the garage, and I went
and checked that out and I waslike, okay this is the
environment I need to be inright now.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
You know, uh, I I work out of planet fitness.
I've done uh that for a longtime now and you know what I I
can't beat the black cardbecause when I, when I have to
travel for events or work orweddings or whatever I've, I've
worked out at Planet Fitnesses.
And uh White Marsh, maryland,uh Hagerstown, maryland, erie um

(31:26):
Wicklet or Willowick Manor,I've been to Hermitage, I've
been to Boardman, I've been toone in Mishawakwa um Indiana,
I've been the one in uh Michigan, up by Ann Arbor, so I've been
the one in Pittsburgh as well,in Steubenville, so I've kind of

(31:46):
been all over it.
I mean, that's what fits me thebest, just because you know
also being on the move and stuff.
So you know, but, yeah, youdefinitely got to find your gym
and you got to rock what's bestfor you.
So the next thing I want to askand Jason, we'll start with you
on this um, you know, what isthe one aspect of fitness and
working out?
Do you think most people oftenoverlook or overshadow that you

(32:10):
think is the most important tohealth?

Speaker 2 (32:13):
I think the goal touched on it right in the
beginning.
Talking about nutrition, uh, ifyour nutrition is not in line,
I mean, that's a lot of my adultlife was kind of in that I
thought I could outwork, uh, abelow average diet.
You know bad diet and it's justreally not.
It might work for you a littlebit, especially when you're
young, but the older you get isit's not going to fly and you're
going to not not only uhappearance but the way you feel,

(32:34):
you know, the way your jointsfeel, the way your body just
operates.
If you're not enough water, ifyou're not eating the right
foods, if all that's not linedup, you're going to be spinning
your wheels.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Gotcha.
How about you, Sean?
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, I would agree, Nutrition probably number one.
I see it for myself personallyand with our players.
They can lift and lift, andlift, but if they're not eating
the proper things they're notfor.
And I think the second thing issomething that and Jason, I
don't know if everybody on hereknows, Jason is on my staff,
he's my defensive coordinatorand so we, we coach together and

(33:05):
so one of the things that wereally work on with our guys too
is mind muscle connection.
I think that's something thatwe really try to work hard with
our guys.
Younger is something I didn'tunderstand as a younger guy.
I didn't try to really develop,or really start to develop a
little bit later on.
But getting that mind muscleconnection and make sure you're
you're feeling it in the rightspots and really connecting with
what it is that you're tryingto accomplish absolutely, byron.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
How about you?
You know you're one of the oneof the younger guys here, um,
you know, and and former collegeathlete, and you know, current
coach, um, as well.
What would you say to this?

Speaker 6 (33:38):
I would say the biggest thing people overlook is
consistency.
I feel like no matter whatphase of life that you're doing
your fitness journey is, a lotof people oversee it, especially
if you're new to it.
You think it's going to happenright away.
When people hit that plateauthey're just kind of get

(33:59):
defeated.
They don't see the big pictureand things.
I know my two fellow coaches.
They probably know they have acouple guys that might be
inconsistent and you're justlike man, if this guy would just
fully devote their time theywould skyrocket.
And um, that consistent goeswith everything you know, uh,
your nutrition, your weighttraining.
It makes a big impact.

(34:19):
But also it's a double-edgedsword.
So the more that you areconsistently you know eating
terrible or not doing anythingyou see that impact that way.
So it can go either way Okay.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
How about you JJ?

Speaker 3 (34:34):
I'm thinking like mind-muscle connection, like
just making sure you're hittingthe right, the right areas,
you're trying to work and justum, just not like a lot of
people like ego lifting or justpulling the weight around or not
doing yourself any good.
So my muscle connection is big.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Absolutely.
How about you, Nicole?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Um, I have a blend of kind of everything that
everybody said so far, above all, nutrition.
That's the key contributor toreally your success internally
and externally how you feel, howyou sleep, your biofeedback,
your bowel movements, all of it.
Abs are made in the kitchen.

(35:15):
So, above all, nutrition isnumber one.
So, above all, nutrition isnumber one.
Number two is really beingintentional.
What I've seen be the gamechanger is it's not really how
much weight you can lift, it'show you lift it.
How are you gripping it Really?
If you put a lot of intensityinto your actual grip strength

(35:37):
and move the weight, you'regoing to get a better lift.
It doesn't have to beover-the-top top weight and you
don't have to PR every time.
So, again, being intentionalwith it.
And then three, your mindset.
Um, your mind controls it alland how you speak to yourself
really matters.
Like, for example, we're goinginto the holidays, so your

(35:59):
holiday doesn't have to turninto a hall a month.
You can have a day.
Um, you don't have to slice allthe tires and let one day turn
into a whole entire month.
So I think those are like themain three.
Again, nutrition, beintentional and give yourself
positivity.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Absolutely.
What about a hall a year A?

Speaker 4 (36:23):
hall a year Of course .

Speaker 5 (36:27):
I mean I've been there, I've been there.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
You've got to pull yourself out eventually,
absolutely.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
And you know.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Jordan you you know another, another young guy on
here, and you know former,former college player and you
know current coach as well andstuff.
So what, what would you sayabout this?

Speaker 7 (36:44):
She, nicole, just hit everything pretty much on the
head, but one that no one'smentioned and, as a coach myself
, I bet the other coaches willagree how about injury
prevention?
You know, I think we don't takeinto account, no matter what
age you're at, whether you'replaying a sport or not, um, the
injury prevention of it.
If you are lifting weightsproperly, correctly, you are

(37:06):
gonna prevent yourself frominjuries.
When you age, you are gonnafeel better.
When you age, you're gonna beable to squat down and pick that
up.
You're gonna be able to bendover and get that.
When you're playing ball, whenyou're playing football, I mean,
I used to think whenever Ilooked at high school, our main
goal was to get you know big andstrong to prevent ourselves
from injuries.
You wanted that thick neck toprevent you from taking hits.

(37:27):
You know, you wanted to havethe big, thick legs.
You wanted to have those thingsjust to protect yourself.
Um.
So I think injury preventionand overall, um quality of
health from lifting weights issomething that needs to be.
The kids need to look at and goman.
I'm doing this for a reason,because some of them I remember
even me.
I don't think it reallyresonated with me that I wanted

(37:49):
to be in shape and look acertain way until maybe my
sophomore, junior year of highschool.
Before that you didn't realizewhy you were doing it and then
it kind of resonates with youyou're looking a certain way,
but then also you know I'm doingthis to make myself a better
football player.
I'm doing this to preventmyself from injuries.
I can't be on the field if I'minjured.
And that was always a big thingfor me is I always just felt

(38:11):
better when I was liftingquality weights and the right
way absolutely.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I think the one thing um for me and I'll kind of go a
little bit different track herebut first thing I would say is
you got to drink water.
Right, you got to drink water.
You got to drink a lot of waterto keep yourself regulated.
Second thing is flexibility.
You got to stretch Like I thinkthat is the key to injury
prevention, to, you know, beinghealthy later on in life, like

(38:36):
stretching.
You got to stretch before youwork out.
Some people like to stretchafter.
That's fine, but you got tostretch, you got to do total
body stretching.
I mean back legs, hamstrings,calves, upper body, neck,
everything.
I think if you stretch, youknow that definitely helps with
the longevity.
So on the next one here, uh,kind of give everybody's take
here, cause I'm always curiouson this cause.

(38:57):
We all live busy lives.
So are you a workout person inthe morning or in the afternoon
or the evening, when you can?
I know there's a lot of parentson here and you have to try to
fit it in, but in the best waypossible.
If in the perfect scenario, areyou early morning, are you
afternoon, are you evening?
Jason?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
100% evening.
I'm too damn hurt to do it inthe morning, okay.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
How about you Sean?

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Early morning I try to get their 5.30s to go.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Okay, how about you, byron?

Speaker 6 (39:31):
If I had to pick early morning, I like to just
get in, set the tone for the dayand then have the rest to spend
with the wife and the kids.
Okay, jj, yeah, definitelyearly morning.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
You know, get it done before for the day and then
have the rest to spend with thewife and the kids.
Okay, jj, yeah, definitelyearly morning.
You know, get it done beforework so you have the rest of the
day after work to do with thekids and what the wife wants you
to do.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
And all that early morning is usually about three
o'clock for me yeah, I'll say ifnobody, ever, if nobody don't
follow jj on social media.
My man's in the gym at like 313 in the morning and i'm'm like
and I get up at like four four,30,.
My man's already getting aworkout and I'm looking at my
phone like, wow, those dudesalready doing deadlifts.
It's like three, 27.
How, how are you doing thisright now?

(40:10):
But hey, you know, kudos tothat.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
So nobody's there to fight with you for equipment
either.
It's great.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
You know what that's?
That's great.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
For me.
I like to get my bearings firstthing in the morning I am not
the morning person workout andthen I like to get through some
of my work for the day and thengo into the gym and lift some
weights after what I just had todeal with.
So usually it's about likethree o'clock for me, after the
lunch rush, but before peopleget off work rush.

(40:42):
I'm like that.
That gap there it's like asplit spot okay how about you?

Speaker 7 (40:47):
jordan?
Some of you are savages, jj,listen, were you morning?
Were you morning workout people?
I respect you.
There's nothing but respectthere.
From lifting in college at 5 am,I just like I don't have the
the desire to get up that earlyand do that anymore.

(41:08):
I'm like nicole, I like to getup, I like to have my coffee.
In a perfect world I'd havebreakfast, then go to the gym.
Um, being, you know, a teacher,I like to go after a long day
with the kiddos.
I like to go to the gym rightafter de-stress and get it going
.
Um, during football I'mprobably on the bickle train

(41:28):
here.
Um, right, I'll go afterpractice at seven o'clock, which
is, you know, psycho after along day.
But I'll go after practice from7, 8, 30, get home at 9, do it
all again.
So football season can exceptto grind, and you guys know that
.
But it'd probably be morebeneficial for me to do in the
morning.
Um, I just I can't do it withlow food, man, I gotta have

(41:50):
enough.
I gotta have enough food in meto get after it.
You're a savage JJ.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
You know I'm a, I'm a , I'm a morning guy.
I usually get between aboutfour and four, 30 every day.
And then I I got my routine inthe morning.
So I hit the gym about six, 15to about seven, 20.
Usually then I come back andleave.
I don't have to leave for work,usually till eight, 15.
So I have a little bit moretime for myself in there.
So one of the next ones it'sjust a yes or no for everybody.

(42:18):
Do you listen to music when youwork out?
So, jason, yes.
Okay, sean, when you work out.
So, jason, yes, okay Sean.
Yes, all right, byron, yeah, Ido, okay JJ.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
Yep, okay, nicole, if you don't something's wrong
with you.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Right, jordan, I'll be there sometimes.
Okay, I listen to no music atthe gym.
It's like a pet peeve of mine,I don't listen to music at all.
I'm just in there in my mindsetdoing my sets.
Between my break I'm thinkingabout what the other stuff I
have to do, so no, musicdistracts me from you walk
around talking to people, walkaround talking to people.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
I don't even talk to people.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
I put my hood up like this I don't think I've ever
talked to one person at the gym,and I've been going to the gym
for like three years, so I thinkI just get like one of these,
so um yeah, I.
I just, you know, planet fitnessgot their mix going on.
So that's about all the musicfor me, but I get in and I get
out.
I want no distractions, I justwant to focus on on what I'm
doing with that.
So, um, one of the next thingsI want to talk to you about here

(43:24):
is we're finishing up some ofthe topics here, um, but what is
the one food, the one food youcan name, and it can be anything
that more people should eat.
Jason, thank you.
Okay, sean, what do you think?
Eggs?

Speaker 6 (43:39):
okay, byron and it sucks to go in.
Third, they took took both ofmy answers.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
That's all right.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
You can say it, I'll go with eggs, but it's
definitely between those two.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Okay, jj Chicken.
Okay.
How about you, nicole?

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Definitely the protein.
You know any of the sorts thateverybody just said meatless or
meat option.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Okay, jordan, a quality red meat, preferably
deer okay, I would say um, more,uh, more fruit.
Definitely eat fruit.
Apples apples are great.
Apples just give you enough, um, caffeine and like a sugar that
the uh, that a cup of coffeewould.
So apples are great in the.
I throw some peanut butter onthere too.
So, um, you know, one of theone of the other things I want

(44:30):
to see what your guys take is onthis is what it's your, what's
your go-to cardio.
If you had to pick, like whatyour go-to cardio mostly
consists of, um, you know whatwould you say, jason?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
I used to love trail running Metro parks over here,
miles and miles in there.
That's a good time.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Okay, how about?

Speaker 5 (44:48):
you Sean Just treadmill at an incline at about
3.5 miles per hour.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Okay, how about you, byron?
So I think that's one of thereasons why I got into CrossFit
was because I wasn't doingcardio.
So learning how to you knowstructure doing cardio, so
learning how to you knowstructure my workouts to make it
, you know, more impactful umhitting those zone two area um
so big thing for me is I likeusing the jump rope, so getting
like double unders in um hittinglike dumbbell snatches with

(45:18):
that, um different rep schemes,so a little bit of a mosh posh
okay, how about you jj umtreadmill on the incline and
also hitting the heavy bag for?

Speaker 1 (45:32):
sure, how about you, nicole?

Speaker 4 (45:34):
honestly, just steps.
I mean just getting your stepcount at least 10 000 a day.
It's going to help in a low um,low endurance fashion, but also
help with longevity of life,cardiovascular health.
You know, fighting off disease,anybody can do it.
So I would say you know that'sa part of cardio as well, in a

(45:58):
roundabout way.
So hit your step count okay,for sure.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
What would you say?
Jordan?

Speaker 7 (46:04):
yeah, going off the steps.
I don't do a whole lot ofcardio besides get my steps in.
But, um, someone said get onthe trails.
Uh, I live on a on in westnewton, a little small little
town that we have the trail thatgoes from pittsburgh all the
way to cumberland, maryland.
Um, so being having that trailright, I mean I like going
outdoors and getting my stepsand and getting out, and that's

(46:25):
my favorite way of gettinggetting my cardio in absolutely
for myself if I had to picksomething in the gym.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
I love the stair master.
Um, I'll do about the uh tajmahal, 69 um stories.
I'll do that in about 16minutes, usually at about like a
seven to like nine.
Um, I guess, um, everyone wouldsay that the frequency on it,
or the, the, the, the hardnessof it, um, if I'm picking

(46:52):
outside, you know I'm going forwalks, I'll walk outside as much
as I can, unless it's rainingor, you know, it's really,
really bad with the snow.
But, um, you know, I got like,uh, these Rocky Balboa boots
from like Rocky IV when he wasrunning through Russia.
So if I have to get out in thesnow and, you know, truck
through the neighborhood in them, I will.
But as long as it ain't rainingor terrible snow or below 20,

(47:14):
I'll go walk.
I walked, you know, for 30minutes this morning.
It was, you know, 35 degrees.
So as long as I can get that in, you know, I'm good with it.
So, one of the next go.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
And you know I'm good with it.
So you're on the step mill withno music.
So you're a psycho.
Well, thank you, I get on it.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
You know what?
I just watch the TVs with novolume and I'm just imagining
what they're saying, you know,because Planet Fitness got no
volume on nothing.
You know Sean can back me up onthat.
So you know you're just doingit.
I'm just on it walking, youknow, doing my 69, 69 stories of
it, and it's just just no music, just nothing, my hood up, not

(47:55):
paying attention to anybody.
So, um, one of the next things Iwant to talk about is we see a
lot of people in the, in the,the sports realm, in the realm,
in the political realm, whateverit may be, that are really big
into fitness.
So who would you say is likeone person out of all, of that
famous person, whoever you wantit to be, whether it's Arnold

(48:16):
Schwarzenegger or whoever it is,who's that one person that
really impressed you orimpresses you still with their
level of dedication to workingout?
So this probably give you aminute to probably think about
here.
So I'm going to answer it.
There's two people.
For me, one was Tom Brady.
For what he was able to do forsuch a long period of time,

(48:38):
especially getting in the likefrom weightlifting and the
resistance bands and footwork,movement and things like that
and playing at such a high levelfor so long?
Uh, based off of his workouts,I think was was incredible.
And the second person isbecause, also, the guy's like 71
years old and he's was jackedon.
Um, I think it was like venicebeach working out at gold's gym.

(48:59):
Um, even though he's a littlebit out there with his thoughts,
is rfk jr.
Uh, that dude is is definitelyin like tremendous shape and
like looking up what hisworkouts are and what he can do
in his 70s still is prettyimpressive.
So just two people to kind ofstand out to me on that.
But, jason, what about you?

Speaker 2 (49:18):
I said, everyone really stands out now.
Everyone's like there's so manypeople really in great, great
shape stands out now, everyone'slike there's so many people
really in great, great shape.
But when I was a young guy, thevery first pick, very first
person I ever saw that made mewant to work out was, uh, bruce
smith.
On the cover of sportsillustrated he was just standing
there kind of flexing, his armswere huge.
And then the inside you can seehe was wearing shorts and his
quads were just massive and Iwas like, holy crap, I want to,

(49:40):
I'd like to look like that oneday.
That's kind of the thing thatmade me get after it when I was
eighth grade, whatever it was.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Okay, how about you, coach Dodd?
Who do you think you know isthat person that stands out to
you now as like a model offitness?
And you know you admired, orstill admire, Jason Bickle.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Kind of like you said with like Tom Brady.
So any athlete that can havethose types of careers, those
longer careers than peopleexpect and longer than average,
the Jerry Rice's, the work ethic, the things that they do as
they get older, that that hasalways impressed me.
And then, actor wise I don'tknow who the guy is whoever

(50:18):
plays a reacher, oh yeah, but myGod, that guy's just massive
that is a, that is a big dude.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
He just kind of came out of nowhere.
And I was watching that showand I was like holy crap, that
dude's just massive that is abig dude, actually funny thing
about him and I forget his namein real life.
Um, for anybody who's everwatched the show reacher, the
guy is a super badass in thatand he is.
He's great.
But he actually is a singer aswell, and you can find him on

(50:48):
YouTube.
He actually sings a song calledMojito about the drink Mojitos.
It is actually hilarious.
So I encourage everyone to lookup that guy from Reacher Sing
the song Mojito.
It is like the funniest,funniest thing ever.
So thanks, coach Dodd, forsaying that, because it actually
made me think of the songMojito by him.
So how about you, byron?

Speaker 6 (51:11):
So I'm going to kind of piggyback off you the actor.
His name is like Allen, likeRichardson or Richardson or
something like that.
But he played in a show wayback when called Blue Mountain
State and he was like this big,big, dumb middle linebacker and
he loved mojitos.
That was his go-to drink.
So I'm glad to see he's stillcarrying that on.

(51:32):
But my actual answer I wouldsay, uh, one guy that kind of
you know really inspired me.
Um, I hung out with like a lotof like bodybuilders growing up
so they kind of put me on RonnieColeman.
Ronnie just enjoying the legdays.
I really embraced that.
Just his little quotes, hewould say while he was in the

(51:54):
gym.
He really showed that if you'regrinding it can still be fun.
If you really enjoy it, youhave that passion.
So he was one of my go-tos.
And then my spirit animal ifI'm given a second one is my man
ocho cinco, my man, I don'tknow how he's, you know, like
one of the one percent.
That's a freak athlete but eatsmcdonald's and smokes cigars.

(52:17):
Obviously he's an outlier toall of this, but I don't know.
It's just impressive to me.
Not not saying that I agreewith his methods by any means,
but I don't know.
It's just impressive to me notnot saying that I agree with his
methods by any means, but Idon't know.
I mean, it's differentabsolutely.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
How about you jj uh?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
lightweight baby ronnie.
Ronnie coleman, I mean he's thegoat.
And then we got sylvestersalone.
I mean growing up watching therocky movies and seeing the
training montages.
I mean how could you not wantto go work out?
And then have Dwayne the RockJohnson.
I mean we all know he'sprobably on the juice, but I
mean at his age to look likethat.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
I mean, it's great.
You know I watched and probablyeveryone's seen it.
I watched Pain and Gain theother day and nobody can't tell
me that him and mark walberg andanthony mackie weren't on
steroids in that, because thosedudes were freakishly big in
that they were like way biggerthan even what they are now.
I mean, like their triceps wentinto their or their uh or sorry

(53:20):
, their traps went into theirneck and their biceps were just
bulging.
Those guys were on the juicefor that.
I I will say that, but it's agreat movie and it was really
awesome.
So, um, nicole, what about you?

Speaker 4 (53:32):
all right, boys, mark it down, because you've said
all guys so far.
Dr gabrielle lion, she is abeast.
She also wrote the book ForeverStrong, where she talks about
aging.
Well, she's a mom and just puresolid muscle.
She talks through her book whyprotein is so important as we

(53:56):
age, how we lose muscle withevery year from the moment we
hit 30, and why eating proteinis so essential and why lifting
and how to lift is so importanttoo.
So mark it down, dr gabriellelyon, forever strong.
Look into it and then tell mewhat you think absolutely.

Speaker 7 (54:16):
Thank you for that, what about you?
jordan yeah, even though I'mprobably one of the youngest
ones on here, I grew up like aneighties kid just from my dad's
traveling things down my, downmy throat to watch.
But I'm so thankful for it.
I mean, I grew up watchingRocky every day, every single
day, just taking the VHS out,rewinding it, restarting it,

(54:39):
fast forwarding to the fight,fast forwarding to the training
montages, all that stuff.
Like that was my childhood.
I still get goosebumps when Iwatch it.
I love it to death.
So saloon um was a hugemotivating factor from even when
I was real, real young and wehad the basement gym and then
eventually, you know my dad makeme watch pumping iron and

(55:01):
seeing arnold back in the day.
I think that's kind of like.
Not only you know, just himbeing jacked with's kind of like
.
Not only you know just himbeing jacked with his kind of
outlook on training and how itwas more like he loved the
lifestyle of it back then and itwas a simple life.
You know it was.
Go to the gym, get a greatexercise.
You know you're going to feelgreat after.
Go get some sun on the beach,eat some good food, wake up the

(55:28):
next day and do it Like I'm I'ma pretty simple man and I'm
seeing him live that lifestylekind of motivated me to live
that similar lifestyle and how.
That's kind of all I need inthis life.
But those two guys, especiallybeing the action superstars,
they were very, very motivatingfrom a young age.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Absolutely no.
Thank you all for sharing that,and I was thinking this, and
nobody said it, and when CoachDodd was on in the summer, he
talked about his personalitybeing a little bit type A, and
I'm like that too, coach.
Believe me, my wife says it allthe time about me, but you want
to talk about a type A personwho is, like, super disciplined
in what they do, though, too.
If you look at his dailyschedule, it is mark walberg, um

(56:07):
, and what he gets up at 2 30 inthe morning.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
So jj, you got some competition there.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Oh, man, you know, to go, uh, hit the gym.
So if no one's ever seen whatmark walberg does in a day with
his workouts as well, I wouldhighly encourage um looking that
up.
So, as we get to the end of theepisode here, there's one thing
I want to ask all of you um,you know, definitely give as
long as you want or as short asyou want.
Uh, with this, and as thisepisode airs in 2025 and people
were starting the new year offwith new goals and new

(56:32):
aspirations, uh, in their healthand fitness journey is what
advice, um, would you givesomeone who wants to get healthy
?
Um, you know, and it can beanything food, or, you know,
working out, whatever it may be.
So, um, and it can be anythingfood or working out, whatever it
may be.
So I'll start with this.
Let everybody think about it.
It's just find your niche andwhat fits you best.
Just make sure you'reincorporating drinking water,

(56:56):
getting enough sleep andstretching, but find whatever it
is that works for you and justrock it out and be in it to win
it for yourself, because nobodyis going to outwork you like
what you think you can do foryourself.
So that's the best advice I cangive.
So, jason, how about you?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Find something you really like to do.
Don't think you have to jamyour goals into one particular
avenue.
It doesn't have to be all inthe weight room.
There are a lot of people thatare in fantastic shape but all
they do is yoga or power walkand that kind of thing.
You know, resistance trainingis great, but there's a lot of
different ways to haveresistance training.
It doesn't all have to be onthe bench or anything.

(57:34):
So find the avenue that worksfor you and just stay moving.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Absolutely.
Thanks for sharing that.
How about you, Sean?

Speaker 5 (57:41):
I right the biggest thing is we just start, just
begin something and then justdon't stop.
And if you mean switchingthings up so if you want to go
from yoga to power lifting thendo that until you find your
niche.
I think there's a lot of peoplethat sit back because they're
afraid, because they don't knowwhat to do.
They don't know where to start,they don't know how to begin,
they don't know what avenues totake.
Just start and learn it as yougo.

(58:03):
Don what avenues to take.
Just start and learn it as yougo.
Don't wait and try to figure itout or sit back and wait to
become an expert.
Just get the journey beginningand then just take it from there
.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (58:13):
How about you, byron?
I would say my biggest piece ofadvice is have a plan.
I think a lot of people try totake a lot of things in.
I would find a plan and makesure it's just dialed in.
You know set goals.
I'm a big goal oriented person.
So you know, on Monday you haveto hit X, y and Z, and I'm kind

(58:35):
of like my wife a little bit.
You know pen and paper, sophysically marking off your goal
, showing yourself that reward.
You know getting that positivereinforcement there and just
keep doing it day in and day out.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Absolutely.
How about you JJ?

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Just showing up is the first step of getting there.
Just showing up doing what youneed to do and just holding
yourself accountable, basicallyLike like if you, if you're
doing it for other reasons otherpeople, other things like you
have to be wanting're doing itfor other reasons, other people,
other things like you have tobe wanting to do it for yourself
, or you'll never, it'll neverlast.
So just you know, show up, justdo the work and um, work hard,

(59:13):
find out what works for youabsolutely.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
How about you, nicole ?

Speaker 4 (59:17):
I think it's all a matter of consistency.
We can be consistent, for youknow either the good or the bad
and obviously you know trying tobe consistent for the positive.
I do recommend you know, figureout how much time you can
commit and be realistic withthat.

(59:38):
Like, if you can only show upfor three days, three days is
better than zero.
So start at that, because youcan always build and then get it
in the schedule.
So what you get scheduled onyour calendar gets prioritized.
Pencil it, you know, just likeyou.
Pencil a function or a date orsomething.
Get your workouts in yourschedule.

(59:58):
Get rid of the mentality ofbeing perfect, because nobody is
.
It's better to make progressthan to work on this perfection
train because it's not realistic, it will never happen.
So it's better to show up anddo something than nothing at all

(01:00:19):
.
That's going to move the needle.
Drop the comparison.
The only person that you shouldbe comparing yourself is to you
.
How are you now versus what youwere a week ago, a month ago, a
year ago?
And then give it time.
You know Rome wasn't made in aday.
It takes a lot of time.

(01:00:40):
You know, in order to really bewhere I'm at now took several
years and I still don't see thefull picture right away.
So I'm still chiseling.
You won't see the full pictureright away, so give yourself
time and don't give up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
All right.
No, thank you for that Allright.
Jordan, you got to follow allof that up, right now Jordan,
you got to follow everythingeverybody just said yeah, why
don't I just hang it up now?

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
um, I mean, everyone said such good things there.
Um, you know I like what coachsaid about you know you just got
to start.
You know, start somewhere.
Um, it's going to take time foryou to figure out what you like
to do.
Once you figure out what youlike to do, set some
achievements for yourself, somesmall goals, find what motivates

(01:01:32):
you and then go after it.
That's the main thing, becauseif you find what motivates you,
you're going to be disciplinedwith it.
You're going to want to do it.
You got to want to do it.
But originally, when you start,you just got to get in and put
the time in and check that boxoff, kind of what JJ said.
Like, just get in there andshow up, show up, find what
works for you.

(01:01:52):
You don't have to dobodybuilding training.
You've got to be a powerlifter.
You can do whatever motivatesyou.
Um, it's going to make youhealthier.
Find it, do it, um, and you're.
You'll see success over time.
You will.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Absolutely.
Those are all great points toend the show on.
So thank you for everybody thattuned in to listen to the show
and thank you to all of ourguests Jason, sean, jj Byron,
jordan, nicole and Josh, who wason earlier.
I hope everybody found this tobe very informing.
You heard from people who liveall types of different

(01:02:26):
lifestyles, whether you're aspouse, a parent, a dog parent,
whatever it may be busy withwork and life comes in the way,
but you got to find reasons towant to get healthy and you got
to find that within yourself,and I think everybody made great
points of that.
So this is going to do it forthis week's episode of the Ride
Home Rants podcast.
As always, if you like the show, be a friend and tell a friend,

(01:02:47):
and if you didn't tell themanyways, because I bet they like
it just because you did it.
This is Fitty signing off andwe will see you next week.