March 24, 2026 • 64 mins
Health and wellness aren’t just part of the equation—they are the foundation of everything.
In Episode 11, Russell Anderson and Jerry Freishtat explore how physical activity, clean eating, and disciplined habits impact every area of life—from mindset and confidence to relationships and financial success.
Jerry shares his philosophy of “extreme health,” explaining why most people have never truly experienced what it feels like to operate at their best—and how once you do, there’s no going back.
This episode dives into the power of daily commitment, the importance of building a strong foundation, and how small, consistent actions can create massive long-term results.
If you’re looking for a practical, no-excuses approach to improving your life, this conversation delivers.
Jerry Freishtat
CEO of Wealth Climber | Serial Entrepreneur | Investor | Advisory for Startup Entrepreneurs | Speaker | Author | Committed to innovation, growth, and making a positive impact on the world.
Russell Anderson
Founder, President ACS Creative; Marketing & Design (30+ years of growing brands; global and local)
Serial Entrepreneur, Forever Student of Business - and Life
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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Just like everybody else out there, this is not
something I've been able to domy whole life, right?
I'm like everybody else.
I mean, for years and years, I'dgo, you know, three, four
months, up, boom, I'd, you know,get out of it for a month.
So I I I remember there wereperiods in my life where six
months are a year, you know,didn't go to the gym, didn't
work out, you know.
What happened over time was Irealized that it everything good
(00:24):
for me, you know, evolved fromthat discipline.
And then I, you know, severalyears ago I heard this story.
Arnold Schwarzenegger told thisstory.
He's on the way to the gym,doesn't want to go.
It's like, you know, everythinghe's looking at is, you know,
all the signs on the way to thegym and everything else.
(00:45):
He he it was all in black andwhite.
You know, there was just nothingto it.
And he describes going to thegym as on the ride home,
everything's in color.
And that is the analogy, youknow, that I want to tell people
is you have to literally makeyourself go and deal with the
(01:09):
black and white part so you cansee the beautiful colors there.
SPEAKER_00 (01:28):
Welcome to Run with the Cheetahs, Your Guide to an
Extraordinary Life.
My name is Russell Anderson, andthis is the podcast that is the
companion podcast to thisfantastic book, Run with the
Cheetahs, Your Guide to anExtraordinary Life, written by
Mr.
Jerry Freistadt.
And the author is with us today,as he is all the time for these
(01:50):
conversations.
And I'm gonna go ahead and bringhim in right now just so he can
say hello.
Jerry, how are you doing today,my man?
SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Hey, everything's great over here, Russell.
Uh boy, we are gonna hit a topictoday that is, I'm gonna go
ahead and say it.
It's number one in my category.
Can't wait to talk about it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:09):
I know it is.
And uh so, ladies and gentlemen,today we are gonna be talking
about the benefits.
And I mean the almostunbelievable benefits that
physical activity and cleaneating can have on your
lifestyle.
Not just your health, but everyfacet of your being can benefit
(02:30):
from physical activity and cleaneating.
It can improve your mental, youremotional, your personal, your
professional, even yourfinancial.
And Jerry and I are not doctorsand we're not personal trainers,
we're not coaches, but we areboth advocates for healthy
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eating and healthy lifestyle.
And you're gonna hear two verydifferent perspectives today.
Uh, you may recall, if you'vewatched us before, Jerry's been
a physical guy all his life,quite the gym rat.
I, on the other hand, havestruggled most of my life to
find something of to find agroove.
And I will say I'm probably inthe best groove I've ever been
(03:13):
in right now, and have been foralmost a year.
And that's probably because I'vegot Jerry in my ear, and I'm
gonna suggest that you folksmight do the same thing.
Listen to what this guy has tosay about health and wellness.
So, Jerry, let's get it goingtoday, and then let's let's go
ahead and get started with whydoes this mean so much to you?
SPEAKER_01 (03:34):
You'll learn over time that all success in
anything you do is based in thefoundation.
Again, you know, getting back toan athlete that has to practice
the basics, you know, I considerhealth and wellness the
foundation of all success.
(03:55):
And we're gonna dig dig prettydeep into that.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:58):
Wow.
Well, yeah, I I agree with you.
I agree with you.
You've got a phrase that I love,and I we're gonna get started
with this today.
You say one hour to feel greatfor the other 23.
Tell us all about that.
SPEAKER_01 (04:15):
Right, right.
Well, this is this is inreference to the you know the
physical side of going to thegym.
You learn over time thatregimented disciplines, um, and
that saying that I've said manytimes, probably on this podcast,
is uh, you know, you got to bewilling to do what other people
are not willing to do, and yougot to be willing to do
consistently what other peopledo occasionally.
(04:36):
So that commitment to get to thegym, make it part of your life,
part of your regiment, and itand it's uh non-negotiable.
I mean, you literally got tosign a contract with yourself.
Just like everybody else outthere, this is not something
I've been able to do my wholelife, right?
I'm like everybody else.
I mean, for years and years, I'dgo, you know, three, four
(04:58):
months, up and I'd, you know,get out of it for a month.
So I I remember there wereperiods in my life where six
months or a year, you know,didn't go to the gym, didn't
work out, you know.
Um, but what happened whathappened over time was I
realized that it everything goodfor me, you know, evolved from
that discipline.
(05:19):
And um, and then I, you know,several years ago I heard this
story.
Arnold Schwarzenegger told thisstory.
He's on the way to the gym.
Doesn't want to go.
It's like, you know, everythinghe's looking at is, you know,
all the signs on the way to thegym and everything else.
He he it was all in black andwhite.
(05:39):
You know, there was just nothingto it.
And he describes going to thegym as on the ride home,
everything's in color.
And that is the analogy, youknow, that I I want to tell
people is you have to literallymake yourself go and deal with
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the black and white part so youcan see the beautiful colors in
the world.
SPEAKER_00 (06:05):
I've never heard that story.
SPEAKER_01 (06:06):
That's great.
Oh, yeah.
It's on uh YouTube, it'severywhere.
You got to hear him tell it.
I mean, obviously I abbreviatedit quite a bit, but uh, you
know, because he he talks abouthe was riding his bike to the
gym.
And uh, but anyways, uh so sothat that's it.
I mean, if if you can if you candiscipline yourself to do that,
make it a non-negotiable, youknow, we're gonna get into the
variances of you know when lifegets in the way and things,
(06:28):
things come up, but um, one wayor another, you know, you got to
do that.
Now, is there is there timeswhere it's impossible um to go
exactly the same time everysingle day?
Of course there is, but yougotta learn to adapt, you gotta
be flexible.
You know, sometimes if you ifyou can't make it to the gym,
just going outside for a briskwalk.
(06:49):
Uh sometimes when you'retraveling, I mean, I've been,
you know, I now when I travel, Imake sure they have a gym at the
hotel.
It's like the number onecriteria.
Is there a gym in the hotel?
If not, I don't stay there,right?
But I used to do go to places,no gym, you know, and and and
you'd miss a day or something.
So it's it's all a matter ofpriorities, importance, and
making that commitment becauseeverything else stems from that
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one hour.
SPEAKER_00 (07:14):
So, Jerry, let's just get this out of the way
here.
Tell us about your gym routinecurrently.
When do you go to the gym?
I know the answer to this, butwhen do you go to the gym?
SPEAKER_01 (07:24):
Well, again, just like I described a minute ago,
you have to have someflexibility in in your schedule
because life doesn't alwaysallow, you know, for it to be
100% regimented this time, thisand everything else.
So, but um, but I'm in I'm in aroutine now where I, you know, I
wake up at 5 a.m.
and uh, you know, by sixo'clock, generally I'm at the
(07:47):
gym.
And um, you know, and uh I don'twork out like I used to.
You know, I'm getting a littleolder.
I uh it's more of a maintenancegeneral fitness type thing.
You know, I'm not pounding, youknow, 300-pound Bren's presses
like I used to do.
Um, but I'm I'm gonna spend, youknow, um anywhere from 45
minutes to an hour every singleday.
And that's that's the foundationof getting the day launched.
SPEAKER_00 (08:10):
Fantastic.
Well, you said it earlier, butI'm just gonna repeat this
because you know, in ourpodcast, in our conversations,
we talk a lot about thedifferent qualities of success.
We talk about discipline, theimportance of discipline.
We talk about the importance ofpersistence.
But I believe you said itearlier.
I just want to repeat it.
You believe health and wellnessis the number one characteristic
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of true happiness and success.
Is that correct?
SPEAKER_01 (08:37):
I call it the number one characteristic because
everything else stems from that.
Yes.
Um, and I think we're gonna talkabout that in a little bit, but
you know, all the other aspectsof your life, um uh I guess the
best way to put it is when youget sick or you have a serious
issue, which you know, uh mostof us have at some point in our
lives, what else what elsematters?
(08:59):
Yes.
You know, you know, you're youryour Lamborghini in the garage
doesn't matter.
You know, your your you know uhthings that are materialistic
just go away.
I just want to feel good, I justwant to be healthy again.
So that's why you have to put anemphasis on it so you don't have
to people that are health healthand wellness um people that
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spend a lot of time in healthand wellness don't necessarily
worry as much about their healthas people that aren't.
So it frees you up, you know, toto to live a more upbeat, uh
healthy lifestyle.
You feel better all the time,and um it it ev even the basics
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of of of everything in life, youknow.
Um let's go back to when Itransitioned out of you know the
whole fast food uh arena and allthat arena.
Ever since I've been eatingclean and going to the gym
consistently, it's like amiracle drug, okay?
(10:03):
I don't get sick.
I I I literally have not beensick with a fever or or any
anything like that in 30 years.
Okay.
I don't get colds.
I used to get sinus headachesall the time.
Never get sinus headachesanymore.
All this is related to uh what Icall extreme health, you know,
of of diet, exercise,supplementation, getting your
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blood work done, knowingeverything there is, you know,
about your the biology of yourbody and acting on it.
And it is it's just been a big,big win, you know, for me.
And every single person I knowthat has done this will tell you
the exact same thing.
Yeah.
There's there's no exceptions.
SPEAKER_00 (10:44):
We're gonna come back to that term extreme health
a little bit later.
And I can't wait to revisit someof the different facets of that
term because there's some reallygreat insights to be gained
there.
Well, you know, let's just let'sget vain just for a minute, you
know, just get vain.
We all want to look good.
And it just seems to me that ahealthy lifestyle, both physical
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activity and clean eating, oneof the very top first benefits
is you look better.
You look who doesn't want tolook better?
SPEAKER_01 (11:16):
This is something that, you know, I try to express
to people, you know, every timeyou go to your doctor, you get
advice from friends, oh, you gotto get healthy, you got to lose
weight, you know.
They talk about your health allthe time.
And the problem with focusing onyour health, it's too hard to
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measure and takes too long tohave results.
I'm all about getting results,right?
So I focus on, and this is whatI tell every single person that
comes to me for advice aboutgetting fit and getting healthy.
Try to look good.
Okay.
If you look better, you're gonnabe healthier, period end.
Okay, but yeah, by the results,okay.
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And it doesn't take that long tosee some of those results.
So don't necessarily focus juston your health.
Your doctor's the last personyou want to listen to when it
comes to this stuff.
You you want you want to get inwith, you know, people in the
fitness world, people thatunderstand, you know, the the
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diet, the nutrition, you know,all aspects of it.
And you know, if you make thatcommitment in short order, like
60 days.
Now that may sound like a longtime to some people, but it
literally in 60 days, you canwalk by that mirror and it'll
catch your eye and you'll go,Whoa, that's a big difference.
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And and I'm gonna tell youanother thing, by the way you
look, yeah, nothing, nothingwill build your confidence than
when somebody comes up to youand says, Hey, what are you
doing?
You look like you lost someweight.
You look great.
Yeah.
Right.
No one's gonna come by and say,Oh, hey, you look pretty healthy
today, right?
Focus on how you look becauseit's an easy driver and
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motivator, you know, to keep yougoing and get those results.
SPEAKER_00 (13:07):
Well, I'm gonna go to the uh, I'm the people who
aren't doing anything for amoment, because I've been there
many, many, many times.
And I know you say 60 days tolook better, but I'll tell you
this.
If you're inactive and not doinganything, simply going out and
taking a walk, you will feelbetter.
You'll feel like you've donesomething for yourself.
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You'll feel like you've donesomething for your health,
something for your physicality.
So, I mean, the simple thingabout taking a walk is a
wonderful thing to do if you'renot living an active lifestyle.
It's that simple.
SPEAKER_01 (13:44):
It's that simple.
I mean, to get started forpeople, if you're someone want
to listen to this and you youbasically have never exercised
or you know, never went to thegym or anything like that, it is
what Russell's describing here.
You have to start.
Okay.
And and that just all comes downto not a goal, it comes down to
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a commitment.
And what is the, you know, whatam I trying to achieve in the
next 30 days, 60 days?
I don't want to, I I don't likepeople who, you know, need to
lose 60 pounds talking about,oh, I'm gonna take a year and
lose 60 pounds.
It's not gonna happen if that'swhat your focus is.
The focus needs to be on whatshort-term actions am I taking?
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What am I gonna do today?
What am I doing tomorrow?
And have I committed to it?
You gotta be committed.
You can't quit just because it'scold and raining outside that
I'm not, oh, I'm not going formy walk today.
Yeah, right.
You know, or you know, you hitthe snooze alarm, it's 10
minutes late.
Oh, I'm not gonna time to go tothe gym.
You know, if you get into thatmode, just forget it.
(14:50):
It ain't happening.
It is not happening.
It is a hundred percentcommitment.
And like Russell said a minuteago, for people just starting
out, literally making thatcommitment of just getting up,
let's just say 15 minutesearlier every day, going
outside.
I I just want you to walk to theend of the block and back.
I'm talking about a like aquarter mile, just a slow walk.
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Just the commitment that youmake of doing that every single
day.
Give me 30 days.
Every single day for 30 days,you you you will be on the path
and start the trajectory ofwhere you need to be and where
you go because you will feelgood about yourself just from
the effort of of executing uhyou know any type of achievement
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like that.
SPEAKER_00 (15:39):
Jerry, I want to come in just a minute, I want to
talk about my experience withcommitment and workout.
But before that, you're gonnalove this.
I'm gonna read something to you.
I'm gonna pull the graphic up onthe screen for people who are
watching, but in case you're notseeing us on YouTube, I'm gonna
read this to you.
It starts with one walk, onehealthy meal, one workout.
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Do it again tomorrow.
Momentum is built one day at atime.
Right.
And then to, you know, I want totalk about this commitment
thing.
You know, what I have seen in mylife with my getting up and
working out, and by the way, I'mreally trying to hit that five
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o'clock in the morning thing.
I have found out that that isjust fan.
I mean, I've always struggled.
When am I gonna work out?
And by the way, people aredifferent, their lifestyles are
different, their days aredifferent.
No matter what time you drive bythe local gyms, you'll see the
cars, whether it's first thingin the morning, there's a
million cars out there, or inthe late in the afternoon,
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there's a million cars.
People have to find the timewithin their own day.
But here's something I'velearned the commitment is
actually more important than theworkout.
Because here's what happens.
Some days I'm a little sore.
I say, I don't know, I don'tthink I'm gonna, I don't know if
I'm gonna be able to do muchtoday.
But I get up and I come and Icome down, I have a home studio,
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and I come down and I startlooking at the stuff, and before
you know it, I'm like pickingsomething up, lifting some
stretching some stuff.
It the commitment is gotta benon-negotiable.
You get up, you go.
You don't feel like walking, youdon't feel like working out,
that's another decision.
But get up and like you say, yougotta show up.
(17:30):
You gotta show up.
And I'll tell you, I can't tellyou how many times I have gotten
up, not really felt bad today.
I might not might not be doingmuch today.
I come down here to the studio,and before you know it, I'm
doing great stuff, and I end upwith a great workout.
So commitment first, don'tdecide whether you're gonna work
out or not.
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Make the commitment to get upand go, and then you know, do
what feels right for you.
But nine times out of ten forme, I start stretching.
Next thing you know, I'm doing alittle aerobic thing, next thing
you know, I'm lifting someweight.
So commitment first, workoutwill follow.
Nine times out of ten.
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
Yeah.
And and also for people juststarting out, you know, it'd be
a good time to bring this up aswell.
You know, most people thathaven't been to a gym are super
intimidated about going to agym.
All right.
And especially, especially ifyou're a little overweight or,
you know, you don't know what todo, you don't, you know, don't
know how to use the equipment.
You don't, um, and you know, soI I recommend, you know, for
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people that are starting out,yeah.
I mean, do you want to go to ameathead powerlifting
bodybuilding gym and uh, youknow, and and and and be
overwhelmed by seeing all theseelite people and everything
else?
Probably not.
But you know, there's awonderful gym all across the
country called Planet Fitness.
And if you go into a PlanetFitness, it's everybody just
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like you.
I mean, it's the generalpopulation.
And uh, if you go to the frontdesk, um, they'll give you a
quick tour on how to use theequipment, show you everything.
And, you know, again, there'syou know, it's like anything.
You know, can't can can you lookstupid at the beginning?
You know, we all do.
And anything new that you startout with, you might be
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embarrassed, you might lookstupid, but that's the only way
you get ahead.
You've got you gotta take thatleap.
SPEAKER_00 (19:23):
Yeah, good stuff.
Good stuff.
Yep.
You've actually you've actuallymentioned that Jim to me several
times.
Maybe I'll take the hint, youknow what I mean?
SPEAKER_01 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean, again, it's like, you know, if you go,
there's no you'll you'll seeeverybody in Planet Fitness.
And matter of fact, they justscurry, they won't let P they
won't let like big bodybuilderguys in there.
They they they they yeah, theyhave something called a a uh I
think it's called like a lunkalarm or something.
Oh, exactly.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're not you're not allowed towear like a tank top in there.
(19:52):
Yeah, they they want they wantpeople being comfortable around
that gym.
So it's a great concept for ageneral population.
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (20:00):
Jerry, let me ask you this.
If someone told you they'd tradefive years of their life for a
massive career win, what wouldyou say to them?
SPEAKER_01 (20:11):
Well, I I'm I am a fan of you know segmented
obsessive behaviors and youknow, various achievements in
your life.
That's the only way you can winbig, like you're describing.
But um, I'd also say what'swrong with having it all?
Right?
A lot of people get in thismindset, I can only do this, or
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I can only do this, or only dothis.
And that really comes down tojust lack of commitment, lack of
organization, coordination, um,and um, you know, the level, you
know, the level of commitment inyour non-negotiables, you know,
what are your non-negotiables,you know, to to to live an
extraordinary life?
So let me give you an example.
(20:52):
When I was um in my in my firstcouple companies, um, you know,
I was, you know, building youknow entrepreneurship and I I
was working seven days a week, Imean, consistently.
I mean, you know, and and I meanit it was not uncommon to have
10, 12, 14 hour days here andthere, but I had four kids.
Right.
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So I was able to always carveout those niches of time, you
know, to be at my kids' eventsand go to their games.
And I coached some youth sportstoo.
Okay.
Wow.
So, so, you know, it's a matterof being able to work what you
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need to do.
Now, in order to do that, I wentto my office on Sunday mornings.
I did this for 20 years.
I went to my office on Sundaymornings at 6 a.m.
to 10 a.m.
every single Sunday because Ihad to get caught up on the all
my work and and keep everythinggoing and everything.
So there's there was a tradeoff, but I was willing to make
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that commitment.
Okay.
Now, are there Times where youjust can't get it done.
And I'll give you anotherexample.
When I was in the food business,COVID came along.
All right.
Our business, our businessovernight went up fourfold.
And I was working 14, 16 hourdays for three months straight.
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So what happened in those threemonths?
Was I able to prep my food?
No.
Okay.
Was I able to go to the gym?
No.
Okay.
For three months straight, I wasworking nonstop.
And it was a commitment that Imade because I knew that if I
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could build this company andkeep our service levels at the
highest level during thatperiod, this was the home run to
be able to sell ourorganization.
And I and we did pull that off.
Okay.
But the point I want to makeabout this is that the
foundation that was built beforethose three months started made
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it so when that time frame wasover, I fell right back into the
regular routine.
SPEAKER_00 (23:15):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (23:16):
So there, so there can be times, there can be
situations, there can becircumstances, there can be
personal circumstances, crises,all kinds of things can happen.
But the foundation that youbuild over time is something you
can always get back to.
So you know, to to, you know, alot a lot of these, you know,
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internet guys talk about, youknow, you can never miss a day.
You you can't eat one one thingoff your diet.
You know, I I don't I don'tsubscribe to that.
I'm a realist, right?
You know, and and the reality ofit is, is that what you do 90%
of the time is what matters.
SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
And so so those are two examples of, you know, where
you you can be all in, allcommitted to something, okay,
but you don't have to give upthe processes that it made you
successful in the first place.
SPEAKER_00 (24:10):
Well, uh well, those are great stories.
And I actually have severalsuccess stories of people in
different stages of their life,different ages, and how they
have succeeded.
But I think I'll sh I'll savethat for a little bit later on.
You actually have a conceptcalled the 1,000 hours.
(24:32):
Um and this is a and and and howit compounds.
And I'd really like for you totalk about the 1,000 hour
concept with us, please.
SPEAKER_01 (24:40):
Yeah, well, actually the chapter in my book is called
10,000 hours, right?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's 10,000hours.
A lot of people have heard thisbefore.
It takes 10,000 hours to becomean expert at something, right?
So for almost all of us, that'swhat we do for a living.
Okay.
We become an expert at, youknow, look for you, you're
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you're you're a marketing guru,right?
So you you you are an expert inin marketing and in advertising,
and you've you've spent morethan 10,000 hours working on
that, diligently, growing,educating, everything else.
But the problem comes in is thatthe vast majority of people,
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after that 10,000 hours they putin, they think they've made it.
And the real elite successfulpeople who live extraordinary
lives, they put 1,000 hours intosomething I call the focus four.
There's four other categoriesthat you must gain knowledge in
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and get educated in if you wantto be super successful in in
this world.
Okay.
Number one, sales andnegotiation.
Okay.
And you may be thinking, well,wait a second, you know, I own
uh you know the HVAC company.
Why do I need to be a good salesguy?
Well, the reason you need tounderstand sales and negotiation
is because you that's how youkeep from getting ripped off,
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right?
You need to know what that otherperson is trying to do, what
they're saying, and recognize asnake when you see them.
So that that's that's the firstone.
Finance and investing, you yougot to learn about money.
I mean, if you if you don'tlearn about money, I don't care
how much money you make, I mean,it's irrelevant if you don't
know what to do with it.
Yes.
(26:29):
Right.
Next one is relationships.
Okay.
Building relationships is thecore foundation of all growth in
life.
And the last one is what we'retalking about today is health
and wellness.
So you have to put in thatthousand hours.
Okay.
And um let's let's let's pull upthat picture real quick that of
(26:53):
okay.
Okay.
So great picture, by the way.
I and I can't wait to hear this.
I know where you're gonna go,but it's a great story.
Okay, all right.
So that picture on the left,okay, that's me.
I'm just I'm right around 50years old in that picture.
Okay.
That photo is me after 30 yearsof in the gym, working out,
(27:16):
busting my ass.
That's what I looked like,right?
Now, at the same time, I wasliving a lifestyle like the
majority of people.
Fast food, casual drinker.
I had no idea, you know, that Icould look like I look on the
other side of that picture.
(27:36):
So let's talk about the thousandhours related to the picture on
the right.
I, when I was, again, right, itwas right about the time where
you see that picture.
I started at a new gym.
And this gym was bodybuilders,power lifters.
Started noticing, you know, man,I'm I'm in here kicking my ass,
(27:56):
but I don't look anything likesome of these people.
So I started asking around,built some relationships.
Next thing we know, I startgetting educated.
Okay, this is the beginning ofmy thousand hours, right?
I learned about nutrition.
I learned about the right properworkouts of building muscle
mass.
I wasn't working out properly.
Okay.
(28:16):
I learned about supplementationthat your body needs, you know,
and over that from the pictureon the left to the picture on
the right, that's a seven-yearproject.
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
And that's another, it's anotherthing I want people to
understand that you things don'thappen like that.
Anything significant,substantial in life is happens
(28:40):
over a long period of time.
And you can imagine thecommitment that was involved
with all of that.
I mean, and and as I was goingthrough that process, eventually
I met my bodybuilding coach andwent into bodybuilding, you
know, and and and everything ledup to, you know, living a
complete, you know, healthylifestyle that I possess today.
(29:00):
So, you know, I just urge peopleto, you know, keep the education
and knowledge growth going inthose four areas because it, you
know, it without, if you'remissing one of them, you know,
you're gonna have a downfall insome area in your life
eventually.
(29:20):
So um, you know, keep keep theknowledge growing and um do it,
you know, it's allself-learning, by the way.
This is not uh, you know, goingback to school or anything like
that.
This is listening to podcasts,you know, it's reading, reading
a lot of, you know, um self-helpbooks, uh which Russell and I,
you know, we've probably read, Idon't know, what did you say in
the one podcast, a thousandself-help books?
(29:42):
I mean, you know, um, and andI'll also, you know, just throw
this out there, you know, theCEOs of the S P 500 companies
average reading a hundred booksa year.
Wow.
A hundred books a year.
Yeah.
So so what does that tell you?
You know, just do what the mostsuccessful elite people do.
But um, you know, if you want tobe, you know, super healthy and
(30:02):
live what we're gonna talk aboutin a little bit, you know, the
that extreme healthy lifestyle,you you got to learn something
about it.
You don't need to be a you don'tneed to be an expert.
Um, you don't need to, you know,uh be be what you are in your
10,000 hour venture, but youhave to gain some knowledge to
understand the basics of whereyou're going.
SPEAKER_00 (30:21):
Jerry, let's articulate those four areas one
more time.
SPEAKER_01 (30:25):
Uh the four areas are uh sales and negotiation,
finance and investing,relationships, and health and
wellness.
SPEAKER_00 (30:34):
Yeah, fantastic.
You know, for uh anybody thatwants to hear a little bit more
about that conversion from uhthe picture we held up, you
know, we have done two previouspodcasts that include some
amazing material aboutbodybuilding, working out.
One in one, Jerry tells thestory of uh going from where he
(30:55):
is on the left basically to whohe is on the right and winning
the Maryland State Championshipin bodybuilding for his age
group.
It's an amazing story.
It's a fantastic story.
And I forget which one of ourpodcasts that is, but I'll look
it up and put it in our notes soyou'll be able to see it.
And then the second one, the onethat followed that was where we
actually had Jerry'sbodybuilding coach come on with
(31:17):
us.
And uh, what an extraordinaryguy that was.
That was David Johnson was hisname.
Fantastic guy.
And so uh if you're into the ifyou're into the working out and
the bodybuilding thing and youwant to see how that kind of
progress happens or that kind oftransformation happens, you will
really enjoy those two previouspodcasts of ours.
(31:38):
So, Jerry, I I you know, I justwant to share I want to share
about three or four differentsuccess stories of people I
know.
And this is just because, again,you you know, you look
unbelievable.
I mean, you know, you're youknow, you're amazing, okay?
You're amazing looking.
But you know, I I want to talkabout people that we might think
are a little bit more normal,okay?
You know, I know you're normal,but uh yeah, I and I'll start
(32:02):
off with I have a grandson whoneeded to bulk up for baseball.
He was a high school player, heneeded he needed to put on some
weight, he needed to put on someweight and and get strong.
And uh I I got him into a gym,and uh we told the guy where we
needed to go, and we we werehoping we could do it in like
(32:24):
three months or so.
And the guy says, Well, no, youyou can't do that, you know.
But but but come on in, let'slet's get it going.
Well, I want to just say it ittook about it took a little bit
over a year, right?
But the difference in this youngman in this year has been
unbelievable.
And he's now six feet, 185pounds, built just looks
(32:46):
fantastic because not only didhe buy into the program, you
know, I I don't even know if Ihad this kind of commitment when
I was his age.
He goes to the gym almost everyday and at different times,
depending on what he's got.
So I'm just really proud of him.
I love the stories of normalpeople that can make this
(33:07):
commitment and do wonderfulthings.
I I want to I want to read yousomething.
I'm not gonna use this person'sname because they didn't ask him
permission for it, but um, thisis this is a young woman.
I'd say that she and her husbandare probably in their mid-40s or
so, and they both wereoverweight.
They both were overweight, andthey obviously it was something
(33:28):
that bothered them, and theydecided to both get into a
program.
And they both lost a tremendousamount of weight.
They both, and I'm sure it was aI'm sure it was a diet situation
as well as some working out andall that.
Um, they looked amazing.
The pictures of the before andafter, and again, it might have
taken a year.
I wasn't following them closely,but it took a while.
(33:49):
They both lost a lot of weight.
They look amazing.
Well, the husband couldn't stickwith it.
He he's he's kind of gone offthe reservation, you know, and
he's I'm not he hasn't gottenback where he was, but he's put
on some weight.
The woman, though, she reallyfound this groove.
She identified with this grooveand she looks amazing.
And here's something she wrotethe other day, and I saw it.
(34:12):
If you're feeling stuck in yourhealth right now, I want you to
hear this.
You are not lazy, you are notbroken, and you are definitely
not the only one struggling.
For years, I thought I justneeded more willpower.
What I actually needed was theright structure, support from
(34:34):
people who understood, and aplan that addressed my health on
a metabolic level.
That's what changed everythingfor me.
If you've been feelingfrustrated with your health or
your weight, I promise there isa way forward.
SPEAKER_01 (34:52):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (34:54):
Truth.
SPEAKER_01 (34:55):
Yeah, absolutely.
Hey, and and a good point tobring up here on this
conversation is you know,there's a difference.
You know, I I talked about, youknow, looking good is a is the
easiest motivation to keep tokeep your keep you going.
Um, but there's a big differencebetween looking good and being
(35:16):
healthy, right?
So you you can be perfectlyhealthy, okay, without looking
like a bodybuilder, right?
So you know, I I just want tomake that perfectly clear for
people out there that you know,just a basic clean diet.
And by the way, what you don'tdo is more important than what
you do do.
(35:37):
And and we're gonna talk aboutthat in a second under extreme
health.
But you know, I'm just I'm justsaying, so you know, you know,
if if you're not somebody um whowho who is striving to like
really look good and and youknow and make that commitment,
because that's a whole differentlevel of commitment than being
healthy.
Um, you know, so just just youknow, eating a clean, healthy
(35:59):
diet, get in your 20 minutes,you know, five days a week of of
some type of resistancetraining, cardio, whatever it
might be, mix it up, you know,you can be perfectly healthy
doing that.
SPEAKER_00 (36:09):
Jerry, you have a phrase called fueling the
Ferrari, which I love.
And you know, but before I cutyou loose on that, we all, most
of us uh know Jim Rohn.
And you know, Jim Rohn has ananalogy or a story that I've
loved forever.
And it basically is says, look,if you turned 16 years old and
(36:31):
were given the car of yourdreams, and at that point you
were told, look, this is theonly car you're gonna ever have,
this one car, don't you know howyou would take care of that car?
I mean, you would make sure thatoil is changed.
You would be taking care,because it's gonna be your only
car for as long as you live.
(36:53):
Well, you know, that's theanalogy of our bodies.
You know, we've got to take careof our bodies.
You know, the Bible says yourbody is the temple, you know.
I mean, you gotta take care ofthis body.
It's the only body we got, andthis is where we live.
We live in this body.
SPEAKER_01 (37:09):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (37:10):
Fuel the fuel the Ferrari for me, Jerry.
SPEAKER_01 (37:13):
You know, it's it's a line out of my book.
It basically says a Ferraridoesn't run on 87 octave, right?
So, you know, and of course, theanalogy there is that, you know,
if you want to be elite, youwant to be a peak performer um
in all aspects of your life, youknow, you have to fuel yourself
properly.
Uh and and when I say fuelyourself properly, you know, you
(37:34):
you need to, you know, feed thefeed the muscles with, you know,
uh the exercise and theresistance training, and you
need to fuel the body and andthe mind with the proper
nutrition.
I mean, it it's it's it's it'sas simple as that.
Um if you don't, um, you know,if you try to put in, you know,
87 octane in a Lamborghini orFerrari, you know, things are
(37:55):
going to sputter around prettybad, and it's not gonna get not
going to perform.
And you're the you are the exactsame way.
SPEAKER_00 (38:02):
Jerry, it's time to talk a little bit about extreme
health.
And let me let me just say thisabout that term.
I remember the first time Iheard you talk about this.
And basically what you aregetting ready to tell us is that
most people, the great majorityof people, don't really know
what healthy living even feelslike.
SPEAKER_01 (38:23):
That is correct.
It this falls into that categorythat we talk about a lot of what
you don't, you don't know whatyou don't know.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Okay.
And until you experience aeating a hundred percent clean,
where every calorie going inyour body is something your body
(38:43):
needs, wants, and benefits from,until you can, you know, get do
hard workouts for an hour a day.
Okay, now I'm not suggestingthat people should go out and
and and and and you know try todo this overnight.
Okay, this is a lengthy periodof time.
But once you achieve that levelof extreme health, I call it the
(39:07):
greatest drug ever.
Because it doesn't wear off, itstays with you 24-7, you sleep
great, you feel great, yourconfidence goes up.
I'm telling you right now, yourmarriage is gonna be fantastic,
your other relationships aregonna be great, and you know
what else that I can guaranteeyou is gonna happen to you?
(39:30):
Your finances are gonna go up.
SPEAKER_00 (39:32):
And I know I know what you're I know that's true.
I know that's true.
SPEAKER_01 (39:35):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (39:36):
What's so amazing about this, again, because I
know we've talked about it, yousaid that once you went that
road, and it was a tough road.
It it and as you say, mostpeople don't, most people don't
go there.
But once you go to that extremehealthy eating lifestyle, once
(40:00):
you feel it, once you feel itand see it, then you know what
it's all about.
But until you do that, you haveno idea how good that can feel.
SPEAKER_01 (40:10):
Yeah, and and and it really the greatest impact of it
is is that if you stop doing it,you you crave it.
Wow.
Right?
So, so you know, if if you ifyou you know fall off the wagon
or whatever, and you know, youzip into McDonald's or whatever,
you know, you you you're gonnafeel like crap from eating that
(40:30):
food.
Yeah, because your body, yourbody has gotten used to the
proper nutrition and the fuelthat you need.
Um, so it's um, you know, it'shard to do, very hard to do.
You're not gonna do it byyourself.
You know, I I've always said,you know, your doctor's not
gonna help you out with this.
Um you you're you you need thebest source to give this a shot
(40:54):
if you're interested in becomingthis level of extreme health is
a real good quality bodybuildingcoach.
They understand the biology ofthe body, they understand, you
know, how to develop lean musclemass, you know, through workouts
and nutrition.
And um, you know, if you'rewilling to make the commitment,
um, the those are the peoplethat can get you there.
(41:16):
Um but you know, reading, youknow, reading books and studying
and trying to do it on your ownwithout a support system, I
mean, this is this is hard.
I mean, it it's like that notnot the workouts.
The workouts for some peoplewhen you're starting out is
gonna be really hard.
But you know, eventually theworkouts become the easy part.
It's the diet that's verydifficult.
And um, you know, I'm just gonnathrow this out there also, you
(41:38):
know, for for people, you know,if you're not gonna go into the
extreme health thing, you know,I I would say what I said
earlier about it's what youeliminate and certain things I I
I don't eat at all.
Zero.
I'm not gonna have it the restof my life.
I don't eat fried foods.
I do not consume liquid sugars.
(42:00):
Okay.
Um I mean, literally zero liquidsugars.
And by the way, that's one ofthe detriments to our youth
today.
You know, all the energy drinks,you know, it's sucking down, you
know, a regular Coke.
If I showed you how much sugaris in a regular 16-ounce Coke,
and if I could just pile it upfor you, you you you you
wouldn't believe how bad thatis.
I mean, it it the these aredeath sentences.
(42:23):
They're they're literally deathsentences.
Um and the reason we do it isbecause it's not gonna kill me
now, but 30 years from now, youare gonna have a miserable
existence if you continue toconsume and eat these things
that are just not, our bodiesare not designed to uptake,
digest, um, and and be healthy.
(42:45):
Um and it and it affects yourmind as well.
And by the way, we didn't talkabout we didn't talk about
alcohol, we didn't talk aboutalcohol.
Yeah, uh, you know, again, thatwas um one of the things, you
know, I I was a casual weekenddrinker like everybody else, you
know, just a beer here andthere, whatever, you know.
And when I when I went into thishealthy eating thing, zero
(43:05):
alcohol.
The difference was unbelievable.
Wow.
My energy level just wentthrough the roof.
Wake up at 5 a.m.
every day, you know, can't waitto go to the gym.
I mean, your whole perspectiveof life changes when you when
you do this stuff.
And it it affects everythingpositively.
SPEAKER_00 (43:24):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, Jerry is having his
impact on me.
You know, we went to aconference together a couple of
months ago, and I've told thisstory in another podcast, but it
was uh Jerry was eating great,and I was like, I thought I was
doing pretty good, but you know,it turns out, you know, the
cheese in my omelet was likedripping out, and I could see
him just I could just see himlike shaking his head.
No, you can't do that.
(43:46):
And then I got some onion soupthat had a big thing of cheese
stacked on top of it, and he wasjust like, no.
So I mean, it's I'm working onit, but it there's a long way to
go.
There's a long way to go.
So many things I want to say.
I want to talk about fuel in thefirst.
Ferrari just a little bit more.
And I don't I want to talk aboutthings other than food and and
and your physical.
(44:06):
Fueling the Ferrari has a lot todo with all the other things
that are inputting your head.
And that means uh what are youreading?
You know, who are you around?
Who are you listening to?
Who's in your ear?
What are you watching watchingon social?
You know, if you're if you've doif you're doing your scrolling,
(44:28):
which by the way, you know,Jerry and I both scroll.
We're we're both social guystoo, but I'll bet you that our
scroll might be different thanyour scroll.
I mean, I'm trying to followpeople that have some pretty
good stuff to say.
And every once in a while, whenI find myself following
something that, well, this isthis isn't good for me, or you
know, I don't need this crap.
(44:48):
You know, I I delete it, I getaway from it.
So, you know, we're not sayingcut out your social, you know,
do what you need to do, butlet's let's make sure that we
got good stuff coming into ourheads.
What you're listening to, whoyou're who you're listening to,
and what you're reading.
All of this is real, realimportant for fueling the
Ferrari.
(45:08):
Wouldn't you agree?
SPEAKER_01 (45:09):
Yeah, I mean, excellent point.
You know, obviously your diet'snot just what you eat, it's what
you what you feed your ears andyour mind and what you listen to
and so forth.
Um, and and you know, it it'sanother one of those, you know,
counterintuitive backwardthings.
And I'm glad you brought this upbecause you're not going to
execute anything we just talkedabout without taking care of the
(45:32):
mind first.
SPEAKER_00 (45:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (45:33):
Right.
What what you've what you whatyou know, you getting the
knowledge, getting theeducation, getting around the
right people, the right coaches.
You you have to create a certainmindset in order to be able to
endure, you know, the pain andsuffering that's required, you
know, to get through the youknow, a year.
It's a year-long process, by theway.
(45:54):
You know, I'm I'm not gonna messaround and you know, tell you,
oh, just do this for 30 days,then it'll be a piece of cake.
No, it's not.
You you you're gonna you'regonna do this for a week and you
go, oh my God, I'm not doingthis.
And then after a few days, yousay, you know, I gotta do, gotta
try it again.
You know, you fall off thewagon, you fall off the wagon.
It's all about getting up,coming back to where eventually
(46:16):
you feel so good from from fromthe effort and what you what
you've learned and and and andhow you feel that you will stick
with it.
And you know, every person Iknow has gone through the same
path.
I mean, this took me 15, 20years, 15 to 20 years where I
was working on not eating fastfood, cutting out, you know,
(46:39):
cutting down on drinking, youknow, all this stuff.
But eventually, when it stuck,greatest thing that ever
happened to me.
SPEAKER_00 (46:47):
And I think you've already answered this, but
because we wrote it down in ournotes, I'm gonna ask it.
Making health non-negotiable foryou has freed you up to go after
bigger things in life, business,family, and purpose.
Isn't that correct?
SPEAKER_01 (47:04):
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, if you feel great andyou're confident, you know, you
know, one thing, you know, I'lljust give you another example.
You know, show me a fit man or afit woman walking into a room.
There's an attract, immediateattraction by every single
person that there's a level ofconfidence there because anybody
(47:25):
who's looking to buildrelationships with other people
are are looking for somebody whothey know is willing to put in
the work, right?
And and anybody that is you knowsuper fit, looks good, and and
and has that aura about them issomebody that has one notch
ahead of the people that don't.
(47:46):
So it, you know, the it createsa um it creates a instant
connection in buildingrelationships if you if you're
fit and healthy.
SPEAKER_00 (47:56):
And I'm just gonna throw in one more tip.
You know, I some people can justdo this on their own.
Some people do need a coach tokind of get them through.
Some people just need a buddysystem.
You know, I think I hadmentioned uh one time before
that uh I know a kid that's inin college right now, and last
year was his first year, and itwas a pretty normal year.
(48:18):
But this year, his second year,he got some new roommates.
Two of the three new roommateswork out every day.
And he got caught in with them,and now he's working out feeling
great, looking great.
It's been a been a completechange for him.
So sometimes you just need someother people.
Find a friend, find aneighborhood friend or something
to to work out with if you needthat.
(48:40):
That might be part of thesolution for some of the people
listening.
SPEAKER_01 (48:44):
Yeah, I mean, and and all all the everything we're
talking about, um the chapter inthe book, um Embrace the Battle.
SPEAKER_00 (48:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (48:51):
I mean, you know, life is full of battles.
I mean, you know, they come andgo, and you know, so some are
short-term, midterm, long-term,whatever it might be.
But if you're healthy and fit,your ability to embrace the
battle gets a lot easier.
Absolutely.
It doesn't matter.
(49:11):
So um, you know, again, I Ican't emphasize enough, you
know, I'm I'm big on humannature, and uh, and most of what
society has taught you and theway you grew up and what you
have learned does not align withwhat human nature says about how
we're supposed to take care ofour minds and our body.
SPEAKER_00 (49:30):
Two things I want to get in here.
Number one, if we go back tothat picture of you for a minute
on the left, 30 years of workingout, but without the benefits of
diet information or notknowledge.
Well, you know, for all thepeople that are watching us that
are already working out, like alot of what we've been talking
(49:50):
about is for people who aren't.
But, you know, there's a lot ofpeople that are probably already
working out.
But what they need to know isthat there's probably another
level or two beyond where theyare if they get the right
education.
Uh it kind of leads towards thatextreme health thing.
So, I mean, I know there'sprobably people that are going
(50:10):
to the gym all the time, butthey're not as healthy as they
could be.
Right.
And they can they can pursuethat, they can pursue the next
level.
There are multiple levels tothis healthy thing leading up to
the extreme health.
And then for the people whoaren't currently being active,
you know, I say take make takethat walk.
(50:32):
Take that first walk, take thatfirst step, make that first
commitment to do something.
unknown (50:38):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (50:38):
And then do it again tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01 (50:40):
Yep, absolutely.
And, you know, and anotheranother thing I'll throw out
there, you know, when you'resaying people that want to get
up to the to move up the ladderto the next level, you know, I
mentioned about you know gettingup, you know, a bodybuilding
coach, um, you know, so you canlearn all about the the proper
nutrition and and the proper wayto work out, the proper way to
build muscle mass.
(51:01):
But another another thing thatis becoming super popular to
these days is people have whatare called HRT doctors, the
hormone replacement therapydoctors.
Yes.
Okay, these guys are not youryou know general practitioner,
right?
They they're they're gonna dolike I get my labs done every
three months, and I submit it tomy HRT doctor, and he reviews my
(51:22):
labs and makes sure that everyaspect of my makeup, my
biological makeup, is correct inline, and if it's not, we
supplement for it until itbecomes the way it's supposed to
be.
And again, this is just like thenext level of, you know, a lot
of this has to do with lifeextension, living longer.
There's certain supplementsthat, you know, can can help
(51:45):
help um you know extend yourlife and and make you super
healthy.
Um and and the other the otherum reason to do that is because
if you do have an issue, I mean,these guys are gonna find it.
Yeah and they're gonna find itearly.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, you know, formen my age, you know, getting
your PSA done every threemonths, yeah, you know, prostate
(52:06):
cancer is a huge issue with uh,you know, people over 60, you
know, they catch all this stuff.
So again, you know, and thenpeople say, oh, well, I can't
afford that.
It's so expensive.
Look, let me tell you something.
There's nothing, nothing moreimportant than your health.
And you just don't go out, youknow, one night a week to dinner
(52:28):
and you can afford to have anHRT doctor.
Okay, what's more, what's moreimportant?
Matter of fact, if you have anHRT doctor, you're not gonna
want to go out and eat.
So it'll get it'll go all inline together for you.
SPEAKER_00 (52:38):
Jerry, we might want to get one of these guys on one
of our one of our episodes.
SPEAKER_01 (52:44):
I got a few of them.
SPEAKER_00 (52:45):
People might get a kick out of hearing some of that
because that's that's fairlycutting edge, fairly new uh new
expertise, is it not?
SPEAKER_01 (52:54):
Yeah, yeah.
There's a whole world coming ofpeptide technology, and and I
mean, the these guys are on thecutting edge of you know of
health.
I mean, most of the um most ofyour elite athletes all work
with HRT doctors.
Um and it's just if you want toget to that top tier of health,
of making sure, you know, again,you have, like we said, you
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know, you got to do theworkouts, you gotta have the
diet, but this is the next levelwhere you make sure that, you
know, your your body isfunctioning, you know, at the
proper levels.
SPEAKER_00 (53:25):
Yeah.
So Jerry, if you could, if youcould address your 25-year-old
self, what would you say to thatguy?
SPEAKER_01 (53:36):
Well, it's like anything else, it's it's
knowledge, experience, andcommitment.
Um you know, when you're 25, youknow, all of us, I you know,
everybody watching this would,you know, says, oh man, if I'd
only known what I know now whenI was 25, right?
(53:58):
You know, and and and that thatgoes across a myriad of of
things, you know, just you know,whether it's you know,
relationships or you know,business or career, you know,
and and things things thingsthat you've done.
But you know, I'm not I'm not abig proponent of going back and
and looking at what I didn't door what I wish I would have
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known or anything like that.
I know what I got now, and Iknow what I can do today, and I
know what I can do tomorrow.
Okay, so I'm glad I had my25-year-old self because all the
mistakes I made, all the stupidshit that I did, is how I
learned to be who I am today.
Yeah.
Right.
So don't go back and beatyourself up about who that guy
(54:42):
was.
Love it, love it, right?
Okay.
Use it for fuel, use it forenergy, right?
Yes.
And let's just focus on todayforward.
And again, you know, I I youknow, we people always talk
about age and everything else,you know, and and you know, I'm
66 years old now, but I'mtelling you, because of how I
live my lifestyle, I wake upevery day, can't wait to get
(55:06):
going.
I'm just getting started.
I mean, I'm thinking, you know,I I a day doesn't go, I'm gonna
live to 100, right?
I want to be 90 and walk aroundDisney with my grandkids, you
know.
You know, I can't guaranteethat's gonna happen, by the way.
But, you know, if you think thatway, you know, it propels your
lifestyle, your activity, andeverything that you do.
SPEAKER_00 (55:27):
Jerry, I've got a short list here of some
potential actionable steps thatpeople could take that I think
both you and I would love to seepeople commit to.
I'm just gonna read throughthese.
If you have any comments youwant to make on them, I'd love
to hear it.
Number one would be commit toone focused hour a day for your
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physical activity, your health.
One hour a day, commit an hour.
Number two, audio here.
SPEAKER_01 (55:56):
Let's just stop on that one right there.
Okay, okay, okay.
Look, uh if you're starting out,you don't need an hour.
Right?
It's it it it's it's it's onthat it's that's too big.
It's too big, right?
Okay.
I want 10 minutes.
I want 10 minutes of justwalking outside, walking down
the street and back.
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And again, this is for peoplejust starting that have never
exercised.
And the other, and I wantanother 10 minutes of knowledge
and education about health andwellness.
And by the way, it's all, allright on here.
Okay, there's no excuse.
You can do it anywhere, anytime,any place.
And and Russell said thisearlier about you know what he
does in the morning.
(56:38):
I spend 15 to 30 minutes everysingle morning listening to
podcasts of my mentors, gettingeducated on new stuff, and it
just completely sets the tonefor the day.
Matter of fact, I do that rightbefore I go to the gym.
Sometimes I'll listen to apodcast or something on the way
to the gym.
Set these micro goals.
(56:58):
You're looking for, um, wetalked about this in other
podcasts, micro wins.
Yes, yes.
Micro wins come from very shortmeasured actions.
So let's just get 10 minutes ofexercise, 10 minutes of
self-education, and make acommitment.
I'm doing this every single dayfor seven days.
Here's when I'm doing it.
(57:20):
And you do not break thatcontract with yourself.
You, you know, when you when youcut a deal with somebody, like
if you if you in work or youhave a business and you write a
contract with somebody, youdon't back out of it.
Why would you back out on acontract you make with yourself?
That's the most important oneyou make.
So that that that commitment iswhere it all starts.
SPEAKER_00 (57:43):
Love it.
Love it.
Now, the next one is called anaudit diet.
I'm not sure I like the name forthat, but it basically says swap
one of your low octane items forsomething better.
Now, that could be any actionyou have, or it could be a food
item since we talked about foodhere recently.
But you know, you should be ableto look at what you eat and do
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during the course of the day andsay, okay, I'm gonna delete this
today, or I'm gonna remove thisone.
We're gonna skip it today, andwe're gonna add in something
good.
SPEAKER_01 (58:13):
Like I said before, what you don't do is just as
important as what you do do.
And um, and uh I I don't know ifI'm a fan of making a one-day
commitment, but let's just say,you know, you're a regular Coke
drinker, right?
You drink you drink Coke or youknow, or any any sugar drink,
Starbucks drinks, you know,whatever it might be.
Let's get let's go one weekwithout those.
(58:34):
Let's go one week without asingle liquid sugar drink.
I I can guarantee you you'regonna feel pretty damn good
after a week.
Just just from that.
Wow.
Just from that.
SPEAKER_00 (58:46):
Wow.
Well, that's good.
And then uh, you know, the theother ones here are simply make
health non-negotiable.
I mean, I think we we've we'vecovered that pretty much.
I mean, we obviously we're bothadvocating for people to push a
little harder for their health,their well-being.
SPEAKER_01 (59:02):
It comes down to this, and just because I have I
have been around, you know, somany super successful wealthy
people.
I've been around super, youknow, successful like athletes,
you know, um entertainers.
I mean, I can't tell you, youknow, how miserable somebody's
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people are because they don'thave their health and wellness
in check.
Okay.
And again, I I mean, I I was Iwas actually at an event
recently, and there was a guy onthe on the stage who was a
billionaire, a billionaire.
And this guy was so obese, heneeded help walking up there and
getting off the stage.
(59:47):
Do you think he would tradeabout half of that or maybe all
of that money to have his healthback?
You know, that that's why it'sso important that you start now,
because if you're if you're inyour 30s, 40s, or 50s and you
continue that bad lifestyle, um,unhealthy lifestyle, once you
(01:00:13):
get into your 60s, it is abrutal change to make.
Yeah.
I mean, i the older you are, theharder it is to change it.
So set that tone early.
Build that bass, and then as youget older, you'll feel like a
million bucks.
SPEAKER_00 (01:00:30):
Jerry, I think we've been beating the drum pretty
good here today on gettinghealthy.
And it's important.
It's important.
We've given plenty of examples.
And I know, uh, I know for me,it's good to have you in my ear,
because I mean, I know I'mworking on my stuff too.
You know, you're uh you're agreat role model, and I hope
that people benefit uh from whatall you've had to say.
By the way, ladies andgentlemen, I see if you know
(01:00:53):
someone that needs a littlepush, if you have someone in
your universe that you know isnot living as healthy as they
need to be, why don't you sharethis with them?
Send this over to them, let themuh let them listen to it and see
if it can't get them off the offthe dime and get going.
Uh, if you haven't alreadybought and read this book,
highly recommended.
(01:01:13):
This is there is great stuff inhere.
You don't need to read it fromstart to finish.
You can pick it up and startanywhere.
I look at it literally every acouple times a week, I pick this
thing up and get some sort ofgem out of it.
Jerry, you did a fantastic jobwith this.
And am I correct in saying thatyou might have another one
coming?
SPEAKER_01 (01:01:33):
We're working on it.
We're in the initial stages.
SPEAKER_00 (01:01:36):
Very, very good.
Well, uh, do you have anything,Jerry, you'd like to close with
today?
SPEAKER_01 (01:01:41):
Yeah, I think that um, you know, one thing I want
to leave people with uh aboutthis topic is um I was talking
with somebody at an event, thisis just a few weeks ago, um,
about um, you know, the highachievers, you know, always need
to know what's next, right?
So like when when when you youknow hit that home run, or you
(01:02:04):
know, for me, the biggest onefor me was it took me 10 years
to bench 300 pounds.
And after I benched 300, it waslike, oh shit, what now?
Right.
So you get these big letdowns ifyou're someone who's going
through these cyclical achievingevents in your life and when
that ends.
So I've learned to always havesomething else lined up.
(01:02:25):
And this guy said to me, hegoes, you know, what about
having something that doesn'tend?
And I said, Well, what are youtalking about?
And he and he literally said, hegoes, working on yourself, your
health, your wellness, andconstant education and
improvement never ends.
(01:02:47):
You take that to the grave.
SPEAKER_00 (01:02:48):
Jerry, I want to thank you so much for everything
you've shared today.
Fabulous stuff.
And again, I know youpersonally, I know how healthy
you are, and I know what a bigdeal it is, and you're
extraordinary in that in thatfashion.
I I wish more of us, includingmyself, could move closer
towards where you are.
I know I'm gonna keep trying toget there.
(01:03:08):
And ladies and gentlemen, again,if you know someone that might
benefit from this messaging onhealth and wellness, please
share the video with them, sharethe podcast with them, let them
hear this.
Maybe they'll uh get somethinggoing in their life.
I want to thank everybody forpaying attention to us today,
for joining us, watching us.
You know, we do theseconversations every couple of
(01:03:29):
weeks, and uh, you know, we'rejust trying to have
conversations that help you getwhere you're going and figuring
out where you want to be and howto get there.
So we thank you so much forpaying attention, and we'll see
you in the next episode.
Thank you, Jerry.
Thank you so much.
Talk to you soon.
SPEAKER_01 (01:03:44):
Yep, thanks.
Just like everybody else out there, this is not
something I've been able to domy whole life, right?
I'm like everybody else.
I mean, for years and years, I'dgo, you know, three, four
months, up, boom, I'd, you know,get out of it for a month.
So I I I remember there wereperiods in my life where six
months are a year, you know,didn't go to the gym, didn't
work out, you know.
What happened over time was Irealized that it everything good
(00:24):
for me, you know, evolved fromthat discipline.
And then I, you know, severalyears ago I heard this story.
Arnold Schwarzenegger told thisstory.
He's on the way to the gym,doesn't want to go.
It's like, you know, everythinghe's looking at is, you know,
all the signs on the way to thegym and everything else.
(00:45):
He he it was all in black andwhite.
You know, there was just nothingto it.
And he describes going to thegym as on the ride home,
everything's in color.
And that is the analogy, youknow, that I want to tell people
is you have to literally makeyourself go and deal with the
(01:09):
black and white part so you cansee the beautiful colors there.
SPEAKER_00 (01:28):
Welcome to Run with the Cheetahs, Your Guide to an
Extraordinary Life.
My name is Russell Anderson, andthis is the podcast that is the
companion podcast to thisfantastic book, Run with the
Cheetahs, Your Guide to anExtraordinary Life, written by
Mr.
Jerry Freistadt.
And the author is with us today,as he is all the time for these
(01:50):
conversations.
And I'm gonna go ahead and bringhim in right now just so he can
say hello.
Jerry, how are you doing today,my man?
SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Hey, everything's great over here, Russell.
Uh boy, we are gonna hit a topictoday that is, I'm gonna go
ahead and say it.
It's number one in my category.
Can't wait to talk about it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:09):
I know it is.
And uh so, ladies and gentlemen,today we are gonna be talking
about the benefits.
And I mean the almostunbelievable benefits that
physical activity and cleaneating can have on your
lifestyle.
Not just your health, but everyfacet of your being can benefit
(02:30):
from physical activity and cleaneating.
It can improve your mental, youremotional, your personal, your
professional, even yourfinancial.
And Jerry and I are not doctorsand we're not personal trainers,
we're not coaches, but we areboth advocates for healthy
(02:50):
eating and healthy lifestyle.
And you're gonna hear two verydifferent perspectives today.
Uh, you may recall, if you'vewatched us before, Jerry's been
a physical guy all his life,quite the gym rat.
I, on the other hand, havestruggled most of my life to
find something of to find agroove.
And I will say I'm probably inthe best groove I've ever been
(03:13):
in right now, and have been foralmost a year.
And that's probably because I'vegot Jerry in my ear, and I'm
gonna suggest that you folksmight do the same thing.
Listen to what this guy has tosay about health and wellness.
So, Jerry, let's get it goingtoday, and then let's let's go
ahead and get started with whydoes this mean so much to you?
SPEAKER_01 (03:34):
You'll learn over time that all success in
anything you do is based in thefoundation.
Again, you know, getting back toan athlete that has to practice
the basics, you know, I considerhealth and wellness the
foundation of all success.
(03:55):
And we're gonna dig dig prettydeep into that.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (03:58):
Wow.
Well, yeah, I I agree with you.
I agree with you.
You've got a phrase that I love,and I we're gonna get started
with this today.
You say one hour to feel greatfor the other 23.
Tell us all about that.
SPEAKER_01 (04:15):
Right, right.
Well, this is this is inreference to the you know the
physical side of going to thegym.
You learn over time thatregimented disciplines, um, and
that saying that I've said manytimes, probably on this podcast,
is uh, you know, you got to bewilling to do what other people
are not willing to do, and yougot to be willing to do
consistently what other peopledo occasionally.
(04:36):
So that commitment to get to thegym, make it part of your life,
part of your regiment, and itand it's uh non-negotiable.
I mean, you literally got tosign a contract with yourself.
Just like everybody else outthere, this is not something
I've been able to do my wholelife, right?
I'm like everybody else.
I mean, for years and years, I'dgo, you know, three, four
(04:58):
months, up and I'd, you know,get out of it for a month.
So I I remember there wereperiods in my life where six
months or a year, you know,didn't go to the gym, didn't
work out, you know.
Um, but what happened whathappened over time was I
realized that it everything goodfor me, you know, evolved from
that discipline.
(05:19):
And um, and then I, you know,several years ago I heard this
story.
Arnold Schwarzenegger told thisstory.
He's on the way to the gym.
Doesn't want to go.
It's like, you know, everythinghe's looking at is, you know,
all the signs on the way to thegym and everything else.
He he it was all in black andwhite.
(05:39):
You know, there was just nothingto it.
And he describes going to thegym as on the ride home,
everything's in color.
And that is the analogy, youknow, that I I want to tell
people is you have to literallymake yourself go and deal with
(06:00):
the black and white part so youcan see the beautiful colors in
the world.
SPEAKER_00 (06:05):
I've never heard that story.
SPEAKER_01 (06:06):
That's great.
Oh, yeah.
It's on uh YouTube, it'severywhere.
You got to hear him tell it.
I mean, obviously I abbreviatedit quite a bit, but uh, you
know, because he he talks abouthe was riding his bike to the
gym.
And uh, but anyways, uh so sothat that's it.
I mean, if if you can if you candiscipline yourself to do that,
make it a non-negotiable, youknow, we're gonna get into the
variances of you know when lifegets in the way and things,
(06:28):
things come up, but um, one wayor another, you know, you got to
do that.
Now, is there is there timeswhere it's impossible um to go
exactly the same time everysingle day?
Of course there is, but yougotta learn to adapt, you gotta
be flexible.
You know, sometimes if you ifyou can't make it to the gym,
just going outside for a briskwalk.
(06:49):
Uh sometimes when you'retraveling, I mean, I've been,
you know, I now when I travel, Imake sure they have a gym at the
hotel.
It's like the number onecriteria.
Is there a gym in the hotel?
If not, I don't stay there,right?
But I used to do go to places,no gym, you know, and and and
you'd miss a day or something.
So it's it's all a matter ofpriorities, importance, and
making that commitment becauseeverything else stems from that
(07:13):
one hour.
SPEAKER_00 (07:14):
So, Jerry, let's just get this out of the way
here.
Tell us about your gym routinecurrently.
When do you go to the gym?
I know the answer to this, butwhen do you go to the gym?
SPEAKER_01 (07:24):
Well, again, just like I described a minute ago,
you have to have someflexibility in in your schedule
because life doesn't alwaysallow, you know, for it to be
100% regimented this time, thisand everything else.
So, but um, but I'm in I'm in aroutine now where I, you know, I
wake up at 5 a.m.
and uh, you know, by sixo'clock, generally I'm at the
(07:47):
gym.
And um, you know, and uh I don'twork out like I used to.
You know, I'm getting a littleolder.
I uh it's more of a maintenancegeneral fitness type thing.
You know, I'm not pounding, youknow, 300-pound Bren's presses
like I used to do.
Um, but I'm I'm gonna spend, youknow, um anywhere from 45
minutes to an hour every singleday.
And that's that's the foundationof getting the day launched.
SPEAKER_00 (08:10):
Fantastic.
Well, you said it earlier, butI'm just gonna repeat this
because you know, in ourpodcast, in our conversations,
we talk a lot about thedifferent qualities of success.
We talk about discipline, theimportance of discipline.
We talk about the importance ofpersistence.
But I believe you said itearlier.
I just want to repeat it.
You believe health and wellnessis the number one characteristic
(08:34):
of true happiness and success.
Is that correct?
SPEAKER_01 (08:37):
I call it the number one characteristic because
everything else stems from that.
Yes.
Um, and I think we're gonna talkabout that in a little bit, but
you know, all the other aspectsof your life, um uh I guess the
best way to put it is when youget sick or you have a serious
issue, which you know, uh mostof us have at some point in our
lives, what else what elsematters?
(08:59):
Yes.
You know, you know, you're youryour Lamborghini in the garage
doesn't matter.
You know, your your you know uhthings that are materialistic
just go away.
I just want to feel good, I justwant to be healthy again.
So that's why you have to put anemphasis on it so you don't have
to people that are health healthand wellness um people that
(09:22):
spend a lot of time in healthand wellness don't necessarily
worry as much about their healthas people that aren't.
So it frees you up, you know, toto to live a more upbeat, uh
healthy lifestyle.
You feel better all the time,and um it it ev even the basics
(09:42):
of of of everything in life, youknow.
Um let's go back to when Itransitioned out of you know the
whole fast food uh arena and allthat arena.
Ever since I've been eatingclean and going to the gym
consistently, it's like amiracle drug, okay?
(10:03):
I don't get sick.
I I I literally have not beensick with a fever or or any
anything like that in 30 years.
Okay.
I don't get colds.
I used to get sinus headachesall the time.
Never get sinus headachesanymore.
All this is related to uh what Icall extreme health, you know,
of of diet, exercise,supplementation, getting your
(10:27):
blood work done, knowingeverything there is, you know,
about your the biology of yourbody and acting on it.
And it is it's just been a big,big win, you know, for me.
And every single person I knowthat has done this will tell you
the exact same thing.
Yeah.
There's there's no exceptions.
SPEAKER_00 (10:44):
We're gonna come back to that term extreme health
a little bit later.
And I can't wait to revisit someof the different facets of that
term because there's some reallygreat insights to be gained
there.
Well, you know, let's just let'sget vain just for a minute, you
know, just get vain.
We all want to look good.
And it just seems to me that ahealthy lifestyle, both physical
(11:07):
activity and clean eating, oneof the very top first benefits
is you look better.
You look who doesn't want tolook better?
SPEAKER_01 (11:16):
This is something that, you know, I try to express
to people, you know, every timeyou go to your doctor, you get
advice from friends, oh, you gotto get healthy, you got to lose
weight, you know.
They talk about your health allthe time.
And the problem with focusing onyour health, it's too hard to
(11:37):
measure and takes too long tohave results.
I'm all about getting results,right?
So I focus on, and this is whatI tell every single person that
comes to me for advice aboutgetting fit and getting healthy.
Try to look good.
Okay.
If you look better, you're gonnabe healthier, period end.
Okay, but yeah, by the results,okay.
(11:58):
And it doesn't take that long tosee some of those results.
So don't necessarily focus juston your health.
Your doctor's the last personyou want to listen to when it
comes to this stuff.
You you want you want to get inwith, you know, people in the
fitness world, people thatunderstand, you know, the the
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diet, the nutrition, you know,all aspects of it.
And you know, if you make thatcommitment in short order, like
60 days.
Now that may sound like a longtime to some people, but it
literally in 60 days, you canwalk by that mirror and it'll
catch your eye and you'll go,Whoa, that's a big difference.
(12:41):
And and I'm gonna tell youanother thing, by the way you
look, yeah, nothing, nothingwill build your confidence than
when somebody comes up to youand says, Hey, what are you
doing?
You look like you lost someweight.
You look great.
Yeah.
Right.
No one's gonna come by and say,Oh, hey, you look pretty healthy
today, right?
Focus on how you look becauseit's an easy driver and
(13:04):
motivator, you know, to keep yougoing and get those results.
SPEAKER_00 (13:07):
Well, I'm gonna go to the uh, I'm the people who
aren't doing anything for amoment, because I've been there
many, many, many times.
And I know you say 60 days tolook better, but I'll tell you
this.
If you're inactive and not doinganything, simply going out and
taking a walk, you will feelbetter.
You'll feel like you've donesomething for yourself.
(13:30):
You'll feel like you've donesomething for your health,
something for your physicality.
So, I mean, the simple thingabout taking a walk is a
wonderful thing to do if you'renot living an active lifestyle.
It's that simple.
SPEAKER_01 (13:44):
It's that simple.
I mean, to get started forpeople, if you're someone want
to listen to this and you youbasically have never exercised
or you know, never went to thegym or anything like that, it is
what Russell's describing here.
You have to start.
Okay.
And and that just all comes downto not a goal, it comes down to
(14:06):
a commitment.
And what is the, you know, whatam I trying to achieve in the
next 30 days, 60 days?
I don't want to, I I don't likepeople who, you know, need to
lose 60 pounds talking about,oh, I'm gonna take a year and
lose 60 pounds.
It's not gonna happen if that'swhat your focus is.
The focus needs to be on whatshort-term actions am I taking?
(14:30):
What am I gonna do today?
What am I doing tomorrow?
And have I committed to it?
You gotta be committed.
You can't quit just because it'scold and raining outside that
I'm not, oh, I'm not going formy walk today.
Yeah, right.
You know, or you know, you hitthe snooze alarm, it's 10
minutes late.
Oh, I'm not gonna time to go tothe gym.
You know, if you get into thatmode, just forget it.
(14:50):
It ain't happening.
It is not happening.
It is a hundred percentcommitment.
And like Russell said a minuteago, for people just starting
out, literally making thatcommitment of just getting up,
let's just say 15 minutesearlier every day, going
outside.
I I just want you to walk to theend of the block and back.
I'm talking about a like aquarter mile, just a slow walk.
(15:15):
Just the commitment that youmake of doing that every single
day.
Give me 30 days.
Every single day for 30 days,you you you will be on the path
and start the trajectory ofwhere you need to be and where
you go because you will feelgood about yourself just from
the effort of of executing uhyou know any type of achievement
(15:38):
like that.
SPEAKER_00 (15:39):
Jerry, I want to come in just a minute, I want to
talk about my experience withcommitment and workout.
But before that, you're gonnalove this.
I'm gonna read something to you.
I'm gonna pull the graphic up onthe screen for people who are
watching, but in case you're notseeing us on YouTube, I'm gonna
read this to you.
It starts with one walk, onehealthy meal, one workout.
(16:04):
Do it again tomorrow.
Momentum is built one day at atime.
Right.
And then to, you know, I want totalk about this commitment
thing.
You know, what I have seen in mylife with my getting up and
working out, and by the way, I'mreally trying to hit that five
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o'clock in the morning thing.
I have found out that that isjust fan.
I mean, I've always struggled.
When am I gonna work out?
And by the way, people aredifferent, their lifestyles are
different, their days aredifferent.
No matter what time you drive bythe local gyms, you'll see the
cars, whether it's first thingin the morning, there's a
million cars out there, or inthe late in the afternoon,
(16:45):
there's a million cars.
People have to find the timewithin their own day.
But here's something I'velearned the commitment is
actually more important than theworkout.
Because here's what happens.
Some days I'm a little sore.
I say, I don't know, I don'tthink I'm gonna, I don't know if
I'm gonna be able to do muchtoday.
But I get up and I come and Icome down, I have a home studio,
(17:10):
and I come down and I startlooking at the stuff, and before
you know it, I'm like pickingsomething up, lifting some
stretching some stuff.
It the commitment is gotta benon-negotiable.
You get up, you go.
You don't feel like walking, youdon't feel like working out,
that's another decision.
But get up and like you say, yougotta show up.
(17:30):
You gotta show up.
And I'll tell you, I can't tellyou how many times I have gotten
up, not really felt bad today.
I might not might not be doingmuch today.
I come down here to the studio,and before you know it, I'm
doing great stuff, and I end upwith a great workout.
So commitment first, don'tdecide whether you're gonna work
out or not.
(17:51):
Make the commitment to get upand go, and then you know, do
what feels right for you.
But nine times out of ten forme, I start stretching.
Next thing you know, I'm doing alittle aerobic thing, next thing
you know, I'm lifting someweight.
So commitment first, workoutwill follow.
Nine times out of ten.
SPEAKER_01 (18:09):
Yeah.
And and also for people juststarting out, you know, it'd be
a good time to bring this up aswell.
You know, most people thathaven't been to a gym are super
intimidated about going to agym.
All right.
And especially, especially ifyou're a little overweight or,
you know, you don't know what todo, you don't, you know, don't
know how to use the equipment.
You don't, um, and you know, soI I recommend, you know, for
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people that are starting out,yeah.
I mean, do you want to go to ameathead powerlifting
bodybuilding gym and uh, youknow, and and and and be
overwhelmed by seeing all theseelite people and everything
else?
Probably not.
But you know, there's awonderful gym all across the
country called Planet Fitness.
And if you go into a PlanetFitness, it's everybody just
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like you.
I mean, it's the generalpopulation.
And uh, if you go to the frontdesk, um, they'll give you a
quick tour on how to use theequipment, show you everything.
And, you know, again, there'syou know, it's like anything.
You know, can't can can you lookstupid at the beginning?
You know, we all do.
And anything new that you startout with, you might be
(19:17):
embarrassed, you might lookstupid, but that's the only way
you get ahead.
You've got you gotta take thatleap.
SPEAKER_00 (19:23):
Yeah, good stuff.
Good stuff.
Yep.
You've actually you've actuallymentioned that Jim to me several
times.
Maybe I'll take the hint, youknow what I mean?
SPEAKER_01 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean, again, it's like, you know, if you go,
there's no you'll you'll seeeverybody in Planet Fitness.
And matter of fact, they justscurry, they won't let P they
won't let like big bodybuilderguys in there.
They they they they yeah, theyhave something called a a uh I
think it's called like a lunkalarm or something.
Oh, exactly.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're not you're not allowed towear like a tank top in there.
(19:52):
Yeah, they they want they wantpeople being comfortable around
that gym.
So it's a great concept for ageneral population.
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (20:00):
Jerry, let me ask you this.
If someone told you they'd tradefive years of their life for a
massive career win, what wouldyou say to them?
SPEAKER_01 (20:11):
Well, I I'm I am a fan of you know segmented
obsessive behaviors and youknow, various achievements in
your life.
That's the only way you can winbig, like you're describing.
But um, I'd also say what'swrong with having it all?
Right?
A lot of people get in thismindset, I can only do this, or
(20:32):
I can only do this, or only dothis.
And that really comes down tojust lack of commitment, lack of
organization, coordination, um,and um, you know, the level, you
know, the level of commitment inyour non-negotiables, you know,
what are your non-negotiables,you know, to to to live an
extraordinary life?
So let me give you an example.
(20:52):
When I was um in my in my firstcouple companies, um, you know,
I was, you know, building youknow entrepreneurship and I I
was working seven days a week, Imean, consistently.
I mean, you know, and and I meanit it was not uncommon to have
10, 12, 14 hour days here andthere, but I had four kids.
Right.
(21:13):
So I was able to always carveout those niches of time, you
know, to be at my kids' eventsand go to their games.
And I coached some youth sportstoo.
Okay.
Wow.
So, so, you know, it's a matterof being able to work what you
(21:34):
need to do.
Now, in order to do that, I wentto my office on Sunday mornings.
I did this for 20 years.
I went to my office on Sundaymornings at 6 a.m.
to 10 a.m.
every single Sunday because Ihad to get caught up on the all
my work and and keep everythinggoing and everything.
So there's there was a tradeoff, but I was willing to make
(21:57):
that commitment.
Okay.
Now, are there Times where youjust can't get it done.
And I'll give you anotherexample.
When I was in the food business,COVID came along.
All right.
Our business, our businessovernight went up fourfold.
And I was working 14, 16 hourdays for three months straight.
(22:25):
So what happened in those threemonths?
Was I able to prep my food?
No.
Okay.
Was I able to go to the gym?
No.
Okay.
For three months straight, I wasworking nonstop.
And it was a commitment that Imade because I knew that if I
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could build this company andkeep our service levels at the
highest level during thatperiod, this was the home run to
be able to sell ourorganization.
And I and we did pull that off.
Okay.
But the point I want to makeabout this is that the
foundation that was built beforethose three months started made
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it so when that time frame wasover, I fell right back into the
regular routine.
SPEAKER_00 (23:15):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (23:16):
So there, so there can be times, there can be
situations, there can becircumstances, there can be
personal circumstances, crises,all kinds of things can happen.
But the foundation that youbuild over time is something you
can always get back to.
So you know, to to, you know, alot a lot of these, you know,
(23:36):
internet guys talk about, youknow, you can never miss a day.
You you can't eat one one thingoff your diet.
You know, I I don't I don'tsubscribe to that.
I'm a realist, right?
You know, and and the reality ofit is, is that what you do 90%
of the time is what matters.
SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
And so so those are two examples of, you know, where
you you can be all in, allcommitted to something, okay,
but you don't have to give upthe processes that it made you
successful in the first place.
SPEAKER_00 (24:10):
Well, uh well, those are great stories.
And I actually have severalsuccess stories of people in
different stages of their life,different ages, and how they
have succeeded.
But I think I'll sh I'll savethat for a little bit later on.
You actually have a conceptcalled the 1,000 hours.
(24:32):
Um and this is a and and and howit compounds.
And I'd really like for you totalk about the 1,000 hour
concept with us, please.
SPEAKER_01 (24:40):
Yeah, well, actually the chapter in my book is called
10,000 hours, right?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's 10,000hours.
A lot of people have heard thisbefore.
It takes 10,000 hours to becomean expert at something, right?
So for almost all of us, that'swhat we do for a living.
Okay.
We become an expert at, youknow, look for you, you're
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you're you're a marketing guru,right?
So you you you are an expert inin marketing and in advertising,
and you've you've spent morethan 10,000 hours working on
that, diligently, growing,educating, everything else.
But the problem comes in is thatthe vast majority of people,
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after that 10,000 hours they putin, they think they've made it.
And the real elite successfulpeople who live extraordinary
lives, they put 1,000 hours intosomething I call the focus four.
There's four other categoriesthat you must gain knowledge in
(25:46):
and get educated in if you wantto be super successful in in
this world.
Okay.
Number one, sales andnegotiation.
Okay.
And you may be thinking, well,wait a second, you know, I own
uh you know the HVAC company.
Why do I need to be a good salesguy?
Well, the reason you need tounderstand sales and negotiation
is because you that's how youkeep from getting ripped off,
(26:09):
right?
You need to know what that otherperson is trying to do, what
they're saying, and recognize asnake when you see them.
So that that's that's the firstone.
Finance and investing, you yougot to learn about money.
I mean, if you if you don'tlearn about money, I don't care
how much money you make, I mean,it's irrelevant if you don't
know what to do with it.
Yes.
(26:29):
Right.
Next one is relationships.
Okay.
Building relationships is thecore foundation of all growth in
life.
And the last one is what we'retalking about today is health
and wellness.
So you have to put in thatthousand hours.
Okay.
And um let's let's let's pull upthat picture real quick that of
(26:53):
okay.
Okay.
So great picture, by the way.
I and I can't wait to hear this.
I know where you're gonna go,but it's a great story.
Okay, all right.
So that picture on the left,okay, that's me.
I'm just I'm right around 50years old in that picture.
Okay.
That photo is me after 30 yearsof in the gym, working out,
(27:16):
busting my ass.
That's what I looked like,right?
Now, at the same time, I wasliving a lifestyle like the
majority of people.
Fast food, casual drinker.
I had no idea, you know, that Icould look like I look on the
other side of that picture.
(27:36):
So let's talk about the thousandhours related to the picture on
the right.
I, when I was, again, right, itwas right about the time where
you see that picture.
I started at a new gym.
And this gym was bodybuilders,power lifters.
Started noticing, you know, man,I'm I'm in here kicking my ass,
(27:56):
but I don't look anything likesome of these people.
So I started asking around,built some relationships.
Next thing we know, I startgetting educated.
Okay, this is the beginning ofmy thousand hours, right?
I learned about nutrition.
I learned about the right properworkouts of building muscle
mass.
I wasn't working out properly.
Okay.
(28:16):
I learned about supplementationthat your body needs, you know,
and over that from the pictureon the left to the picture on
the right, that's a seven-yearproject.
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
And that's another, it's anotherthing I want people to
understand that you things don'thappen like that.
Anything significant,substantial in life is happens
(28:40):
over a long period of time.
And you can imagine thecommitment that was involved
with all of that.
I mean, and and as I was goingthrough that process, eventually
I met my bodybuilding coach andwent into bodybuilding, you
know, and and and everything ledup to, you know, living a
complete, you know, healthylifestyle that I possess today.
(29:00):
So, you know, I just urge peopleto, you know, keep the education
and knowledge growth going inthose four areas because it, you
know, it without, if you'remissing one of them, you know,
you're gonna have a downfall insome area in your life
eventually.
(29:20):
So um, you know, keep keep theknowledge growing and um do it,
you know, it's allself-learning, by the way.
This is not uh, you know, goingback to school or anything like
that.
This is listening to podcasts,you know, it's reading, reading
a lot of, you know, um self-helpbooks, uh which Russell and I,
you know, we've probably read, Idon't know, what did you say in
the one podcast, a thousandself-help books?
(29:42):
I mean, you know, um, and andI'll also, you know, just throw
this out there, you know, theCEOs of the S P 500 companies
average reading a hundred booksa year.
Wow.
A hundred books a year.
Yeah.
So so what does that tell you?
You know, just do what the mostsuccessful elite people do.
But um, you know, if you want tobe, you know, super healthy and
(30:02):
live what we're gonna talk aboutin a little bit, you know, the
that extreme healthy lifestyle,you you got to learn something
about it.
You don't need to be a you don'tneed to be an expert.
Um, you don't need to, you know,uh be be what you are in your
10,000 hour venture, but youhave to gain some knowledge to
understand the basics of whereyou're going.
SPEAKER_00 (30:21):
Jerry, let's articulate those four areas one
more time.
SPEAKER_01 (30:25):
Uh the four areas are uh sales and negotiation,
finance and investing,relationships, and health and
wellness.
SPEAKER_00 (30:34):
Yeah, fantastic.
You know, for uh anybody thatwants to hear a little bit more
about that conversion from uhthe picture we held up, you
know, we have done two previouspodcasts that include some
amazing material aboutbodybuilding, working out.
One in one, Jerry tells thestory of uh going from where he
(30:55):
is on the left basically to whohe is on the right and winning
the Maryland State Championshipin bodybuilding for his age
group.
It's an amazing story.
It's a fantastic story.
And I forget which one of ourpodcasts that is, but I'll look
it up and put it in our notes soyou'll be able to see it.
And then the second one, the onethat followed that was where we
actually had Jerry'sbodybuilding coach come on with
(31:17):
us.
And uh, what an extraordinaryguy that was.
That was David Johnson was hisname.
Fantastic guy.
And so uh if you're into the ifyou're into the working out and
the bodybuilding thing and youwant to see how that kind of
progress happens or that kind oftransformation happens, you will
really enjoy those two previouspodcasts of ours.
(31:38):
So, Jerry, I I you know, I justwant to share I want to share
about three or four differentsuccess stories of people I
know.
And this is just because, again,you you know, you look
unbelievable.
I mean, you know, you're youknow, you're amazing, okay?
You're amazing looking.
But you know, I I want to talkabout people that we might think
are a little bit more normal,okay?
You know, I know you're normal,but uh yeah, I and I'll start
(32:02):
off with I have a grandson whoneeded to bulk up for baseball.
He was a high school player, heneeded he needed to put on some
weight, he needed to put on someweight and and get strong.
And uh I I got him into a gym,and uh we told the guy where we
needed to go, and we we werehoping we could do it in like
(32:24):
three months or so.
And the guy says, Well, no, youyou can't do that, you know.
But but but come on in, let'slet's get it going.
Well, I want to just say it ittook about it took a little bit
over a year, right?
But the difference in this youngman in this year has been
unbelievable.
And he's now six feet, 185pounds, built just looks
(32:46):
fantastic because not only didhe buy into the program, you
know, I I don't even know if Ihad this kind of commitment when
I was his age.
He goes to the gym almost everyday and at different times,
depending on what he's got.
So I'm just really proud of him.
I love the stories of normalpeople that can make this
(33:07):
commitment and do wonderfulthings.
I I want to I want to read yousomething.
I'm not gonna use this person'sname because they didn't ask him
permission for it, but um, thisis this is a young woman.
I'd say that she and her husbandare probably in their mid-40s or
so, and they both wereoverweight.
They both were overweight, andthey obviously it was something
(33:28):
that bothered them, and theydecided to both get into a
program.
And they both lost a tremendousamount of weight.
They both, and I'm sure it was aI'm sure it was a diet situation
as well as some working out andall that.
Um, they looked amazing.
The pictures of the before andafter, and again, it might have
taken a year.
I wasn't following them closely,but it took a while.
(33:49):
They both lost a lot of weight.
They look amazing.
Well, the husband couldn't stickwith it.
He he's he's kind of gone offthe reservation, you know, and
he's I'm not he hasn't gottenback where he was, but he's put
on some weight.
The woman, though, she reallyfound this groove.
She identified with this grooveand she looks amazing.
And here's something she wrotethe other day, and I saw it.
(34:12):
If you're feeling stuck in yourhealth right now, I want you to
hear this.
You are not lazy, you are notbroken, and you are definitely
not the only one struggling.
For years, I thought I justneeded more willpower.
What I actually needed was theright structure, support from
(34:34):
people who understood, and aplan that addressed my health on
a metabolic level.
That's what changed everythingfor me.
If you've been feelingfrustrated with your health or
your weight, I promise there isa way forward.
SPEAKER_01 (34:52):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (34:54):
Truth.
SPEAKER_01 (34:55):
Yeah, absolutely.
Hey, and and a good point tobring up here on this
conversation is you know,there's a difference.
You know, I I talked about, youknow, looking good is a is the
easiest motivation to keep tokeep your keep you going.
Um, but there's a big differencebetween looking good and being
(35:16):
healthy, right?
So you you can be perfectlyhealthy, okay, without looking
like a bodybuilder, right?
So you know, I I just want tomake that perfectly clear for
people out there that you know,just a basic clean diet.
And by the way, what you don'tdo is more important than what
you do do.
(35:37):
And and we're gonna talk aboutthat in a second under extreme
health.
But you know, I'm just I'm justsaying, so you know, you know,
if if you're not somebody um whowho who is striving to like
really look good and and youknow and make that commitment,
because that's a whole differentlevel of commitment than being
healthy.
Um, you know, so just just youknow, eating a clean, healthy
(35:59):
diet, get in your 20 minutes,you know, five days a week of of
some type of resistancetraining, cardio, whatever it
might be, mix it up, you know,you can be perfectly healthy
doing that.
SPEAKER_00 (36:09):
Jerry, you have a phrase called fueling the
Ferrari, which I love.
And you know, but before I cutyou loose on that, we all, most
of us uh know Jim Rohn.
And you know, Jim Rohn has ananalogy or a story that I've
loved forever.
And it basically is says, look,if you turned 16 years old and
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were given the car of yourdreams, and at that point you
were told, look, this is theonly car you're gonna ever have,
this one car, don't you know howyou would take care of that car?
I mean, you would make sure thatoil is changed.
You would be taking care,because it's gonna be your only
car for as long as you live.
(36:53):
Well, you know, that's theanalogy of our bodies.
You know, we've got to take careof our bodies.
You know, the Bible says yourbody is the temple, you know.
I mean, you gotta take care ofthis body.
It's the only body we got, andthis is where we live.
We live in this body.
SPEAKER_01 (37:09):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (37:10):
Fuel the fuel the Ferrari for me, Jerry.
SPEAKER_01 (37:13):
You know, it's it's a line out of my book.
It basically says a Ferraridoesn't run on 87 octave, right?
So, you know, and of course, theanalogy there is that, you know,
if you want to be elite, youwant to be a peak performer um
in all aspects of your life, youknow, you have to fuel yourself
properly.
Uh and and when I say fuelyourself properly, you know, you
(37:34):
you need to, you know, feed thefeed the muscles with, you know,
uh the exercise and theresistance training, and you
need to fuel the body and andthe mind with the proper
nutrition.
I mean, it it's it's it's it'sas simple as that.
Um if you don't, um, you know,if you try to put in, you know,
87 octane in a Lamborghini orFerrari, you know, things are
(37:55):
going to sputter around prettybad, and it's not gonna get not
going to perform.
And you're the you are the exactsame way.
SPEAKER_00 (38:02):
Jerry, it's time to talk a little bit about extreme
health.
And let me let me just say thisabout that term.
I remember the first time Iheard you talk about this.
And basically what you aregetting ready to tell us is that
most people, the great majorityof people, don't really know
what healthy living even feelslike.
SPEAKER_01 (38:23):
That is correct.
It this falls into that categorythat we talk about a lot of what
you don't, you don't know whatyou don't know.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Okay.
And until you experience aeating a hundred percent clean,
where every calorie going inyour body is something your body
(38:43):
needs, wants, and benefits from,until you can, you know, get do
hard workouts for an hour a day.
Okay, now I'm not suggestingthat people should go out and
and and and and you know try todo this overnight.
Okay, this is a lengthy periodof time.
But once you achieve that levelof extreme health, I call it the
(39:07):
greatest drug ever.
Because it doesn't wear off, itstays with you 24-7, you sleep
great, you feel great, yourconfidence goes up.
I'm telling you right now, yourmarriage is gonna be fantastic,
your other relationships aregonna be great, and you know
what else that I can guaranteeyou is gonna happen to you?
(39:30):
Your finances are gonna go up.
SPEAKER_00 (39:32):
And I know I know what you're I know that's true.
I know that's true.
SPEAKER_01 (39:35):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (39:36):
What's so amazing about this, again, because I
know we've talked about it, yousaid that once you went that
road, and it was a tough road.
It it and as you say, mostpeople don't, most people don't
go there.
But once you go to that extremehealthy eating lifestyle, once
(40:00):
you feel it, once you feel itand see it, then you know what
it's all about.
But until you do that, you haveno idea how good that can feel.
SPEAKER_01 (40:10):
Yeah, and and and it really the greatest impact of it
is is that if you stop doing it,you you crave it.
Wow.
Right?
So, so you know, if if you ifyou you know fall off the wagon
or whatever, and you know, youzip into McDonald's or whatever,
you know, you you you're gonnafeel like crap from eating that
(40:30):
food.
Yeah, because your body, yourbody has gotten used to the
proper nutrition and the fuelthat you need.
Um, so it's um, you know, it'shard to do, very hard to do.
You're not gonna do it byyourself.
You know, I I've always said,you know, your doctor's not
gonna help you out with this.
Um you you're you you need thebest source to give this a shot
(40:54):
if you're interested in becomingthis level of extreme health is
a real good quality bodybuildingcoach.
They understand the biology ofthe body, they understand, you
know, how to develop lean musclemass, you know, through workouts
and nutrition.
And um, you know, if you'rewilling to make the commitment,
um, the those are the peoplethat can get you there.
(41:16):
Um but you know, reading, youknow, reading books and studying
and trying to do it on your ownwithout a support system, I
mean, this is this is hard.
I mean, it it's like that notnot the workouts.
The workouts for some peoplewhen you're starting out is
gonna be really hard.
But you know, eventually theworkouts become the easy part.
It's the diet that's verydifficult.
And um, you know, I'm just gonnathrow this out there also, you
(41:38):
know, for for people, you know,if you're not gonna go into the
extreme health thing, you know,I I would say what I said
earlier about it's what youeliminate and certain things I I
I don't eat at all.
Zero.
I'm not gonna have it the restof my life.
I don't eat fried foods.
I do not consume liquid sugars.
(42:00):
Okay.
Um I mean, literally zero liquidsugars.
And by the way, that's one ofthe detriments to our youth
today.
You know, all the energy drinks,you know, it's sucking down, you
know, a regular Coke.
If I showed you how much sugaris in a regular 16-ounce Coke,
and if I could just pile it upfor you, you you you you
wouldn't believe how bad thatis.
I mean, it it the these aredeath sentences.
(42:23):
They're they're literally deathsentences.
Um and the reason we do it isbecause it's not gonna kill me
now, but 30 years from now, youare gonna have a miserable
existence if you continue toconsume and eat these things
that are just not, our bodiesare not designed to uptake,
digest, um, and and be healthy.
(42:45):
Um and it and it affects yourmind as well.
And by the way, we didn't talkabout we didn't talk about
alcohol, we didn't talk aboutalcohol.
Yeah, uh, you know, again, thatwas um one of the things, you
know, I I was a casual weekenddrinker like everybody else, you
know, just a beer here andthere, whatever, you know.
And when I when I went into thishealthy eating thing, zero
(43:05):
alcohol.
The difference was unbelievable.
Wow.
My energy level just wentthrough the roof.
Wake up at 5 a.m.
every day, you know, can't waitto go to the gym.
I mean, your whole perspectiveof life changes when you when
you do this stuff.
And it it affects everythingpositively.
SPEAKER_00 (43:24):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, Jerry is having his
impact on me.
You know, we went to aconference together a couple of
months ago, and I've told thisstory in another podcast, but it
was uh Jerry was eating great,and I was like, I thought I was
doing pretty good, but you know,it turns out, you know, the
cheese in my omelet was likedripping out, and I could see
him just I could just see himlike shaking his head.
No, you can't do that.
(43:46):
And then I got some onion soupthat had a big thing of cheese
stacked on top of it, and he wasjust like, no.
So I mean, it's I'm working onit, but it there's a long way to
go.
There's a long way to go.
So many things I want to say.
I want to talk about fuel in thefirst.
Ferrari just a little bit more.
And I don't I want to talk aboutthings other than food and and
and your physical.
(44:06):
Fueling the Ferrari has a lot todo with all the other things
that are inputting your head.
And that means uh what are youreading?
You know, who are you around?
Who are you listening to?
Who's in your ear?
What are you watching watchingon social?
You know, if you're if you've doif you're doing your scrolling,
(44:28):
which by the way, you know,Jerry and I both scroll.
We're we're both social guystoo, but I'll bet you that our
scroll might be different thanyour scroll.
I mean, I'm trying to followpeople that have some pretty
good stuff to say.
And every once in a while, whenI find myself following
something that, well, this isthis isn't good for me, or you
know, I don't need this crap.
(44:48):
You know, I I delete it, I getaway from it.
So, you know, we're not sayingcut out your social, you know,
do what you need to do, butlet's let's make sure that we
got good stuff coming into ourheads.
What you're listening to, whoyou're who you're listening to,
and what you're reading.
All of this is real, realimportant for fueling the
Ferrari.
(45:08):
Wouldn't you agree?
SPEAKER_01 (45:09):
Yeah, I mean, excellent point.
You know, obviously your diet'snot just what you eat, it's what
you what you feed your ears andyour mind and what you listen to
and so forth.
Um, and and you know, it it'sanother one of those, you know,
counterintuitive backwardthings.
And I'm glad you brought this upbecause you're not going to
execute anything we just talkedabout without taking care of the
(45:32):
mind first.
SPEAKER_00 (45:32):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (45:33):
Right.
What what you've what you whatyou know, you getting the
knowledge, getting theeducation, getting around the
right people, the right coaches.
You you have to create a certainmindset in order to be able to
endure, you know, the pain andsuffering that's required, you
know, to get through the youknow, a year.
It's a year-long process, by theway.
(45:54):
You know, I'm I'm not gonna messaround and you know, tell you,
oh, just do this for 30 days,then it'll be a piece of cake.
No, it's not.
You you you're gonna you'regonna do this for a week and you
go, oh my God, I'm not doingthis.
And then after a few days, yousay, you know, I gotta do, gotta
try it again.
You know, you fall off thewagon, you fall off the wagon.
It's all about getting up,coming back to where eventually
(46:16):
you feel so good from from fromthe effort and what you what
you've learned and and and andhow you feel that you will stick
with it.
And you know, every person Iknow has gone through the same
path.
I mean, this took me 15, 20years, 15 to 20 years where I
was working on not eating fastfood, cutting out, you know,
(46:39):
cutting down on drinking, youknow, all this stuff.
But eventually, when it stuck,greatest thing that ever
happened to me.
SPEAKER_00 (46:47):
And I think you've already answered this, but
because we wrote it down in ournotes, I'm gonna ask it.
Making health non-negotiable foryou has freed you up to go after
bigger things in life, business,family, and purpose.
Isn't that correct?
SPEAKER_01 (47:04):
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, if you feel great andyou're confident, you know, you
know, one thing, you know, I'lljust give you another example.
You know, show me a fit man or afit woman walking into a room.
There's an attract, immediateattraction by every single
person that there's a level ofconfidence there because anybody
(47:25):
who's looking to buildrelationships with other people
are are looking for somebody whothey know is willing to put in
the work, right?
And and anybody that is you knowsuper fit, looks good, and and
and has that aura about them issomebody that has one notch
ahead of the people that don't.
(47:46):
So it, you know, the it createsa um it creates a instant
connection in buildingrelationships if you if you're
fit and healthy.
SPEAKER_00 (47:56):
And I'm just gonna throw in one more tip.
You know, I some people can justdo this on their own.
Some people do need a coach tokind of get them through.
Some people just need a buddysystem.
You know, I think I hadmentioned uh one time before
that uh I know a kid that's inin college right now, and last
year was his first year, and itwas a pretty normal year.
(48:18):
But this year, his second year,he got some new roommates.
Two of the three new roommateswork out every day.
And he got caught in with them,and now he's working out feeling
great, looking great.
It's been a been a completechange for him.
So sometimes you just need someother people.
Find a friend, find aneighborhood friend or something
to to work out with if you needthat.
(48:40):
That might be part of thesolution for some of the people
listening.
SPEAKER_01 (48:44):
Yeah, I mean, and and all all the everything we're
talking about, um the chapter inthe book, um Embrace the Battle.
SPEAKER_00 (48:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (48:51):
I mean, you know, life is full of battles.
I mean, you know, they come andgo, and you know, so some are
short-term, midterm, long-term,whatever it might be.
But if you're healthy and fit,your ability to embrace the
battle gets a lot easier.
Absolutely.
It doesn't matter.
(49:11):
So um, you know, again, I Ican't emphasize enough, you
know, I'm I'm big on humannature, and uh, and most of what
society has taught you and theway you grew up and what you
have learned does not align withwhat human nature says about how
we're supposed to take care ofour minds and our body.
SPEAKER_00 (49:30):
Two things I want to get in here.
Number one, if we go back tothat picture of you for a minute
on the left, 30 years of workingout, but without the benefits of
diet information or notknowledge.
Well, you know, for all thepeople that are watching us that
are already working out, like alot of what we've been talking
(49:50):
about is for people who aren't.
But, you know, there's a lot ofpeople that are probably already
working out.
But what they need to know isthat there's probably another
level or two beyond where theyare if they get the right
education.
Uh it kind of leads towards thatextreme health thing.
So, I mean, I know there'sprobably people that are going
(50:10):
to the gym all the time, butthey're not as healthy as they
could be.
Right.
And they can they can pursuethat, they can pursue the next
level.
There are multiple levels tothis healthy thing leading up to
the extreme health.
And then for the people whoaren't currently being active,
you know, I say take make takethat walk.
(50:32):
Take that first walk, take thatfirst step, make that first
commitment to do something.
unknown (50:38):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (50:38):
And then do it again tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01 (50:40):
Yep, absolutely.
And, you know, and anotheranother thing I'll throw out
there, you know, when you'resaying people that want to get
up to the to move up the ladderto the next level, you know, I
mentioned about you know gettingup, you know, a bodybuilding
coach, um, you know, so you canlearn all about the the proper
nutrition and and the proper wayto work out, the proper way to
build muscle mass.
(51:01):
But another another thing thatis becoming super popular to
these days is people have whatare called HRT doctors, the
hormone replacement therapydoctors.
Yes.
Okay, these guys are not youryou know general practitioner,
right?
They they're they're gonna dolike I get my labs done every
three months, and I submit it tomy HRT doctor, and he reviews my
(51:22):
labs and makes sure that everyaspect of my makeup, my
biological makeup, is correct inline, and if it's not, we
supplement for it until itbecomes the way it's supposed to
be.
And again, this is just like thenext level of, you know, a lot
of this has to do with lifeextension, living longer.
There's certain supplementsthat, you know, can can help
(51:45):
help um you know extend yourlife and and make you super
healthy.
Um and and the other the otherum reason to do that is because
if you do have an issue, I mean,these guys are gonna find it.
Yeah and they're gonna find itearly.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, you know, formen my age, you know, getting
your PSA done every threemonths, yeah, you know, prostate
(52:06):
cancer is a huge issue with uh,you know, people over 60, you
know, they catch all this stuff.
So again, you know, and thenpeople say, oh, well, I can't
afford that.
It's so expensive.
Look, let me tell you something.
There's nothing, nothing moreimportant than your health.
And you just don't go out, youknow, one night a week to dinner
(52:28):
and you can afford to have anHRT doctor.
Okay, what's more, what's moreimportant?
Matter of fact, if you have anHRT doctor, you're not gonna
want to go out and eat.
So it'll get it'll go all inline together for you.
SPEAKER_00 (52:38):
Jerry, we might want to get one of these guys on one
of our one of our episodes.
SPEAKER_01 (52:44):
I got a few of them.
SPEAKER_00 (52:45):
People might get a kick out of hearing some of that
because that's that's fairlycutting edge, fairly new uh new
expertise, is it not?
SPEAKER_01 (52:54):
Yeah, yeah.
There's a whole world coming ofpeptide technology, and and I
mean, the these guys are on thecutting edge of you know of
health.
I mean, most of the um most ofyour elite athletes all work
with HRT doctors.
Um and it's just if you want toget to that top tier of health,
of making sure, you know, again,you have, like we said, you
(53:16):
know, you got to do theworkouts, you gotta have the
diet, but this is the next levelwhere you make sure that, you
know, your your body isfunctioning, you know, at the
proper levels.
SPEAKER_00 (53:25):
Yeah.
So Jerry, if you could, if youcould address your 25-year-old
self, what would you say to thatguy?
SPEAKER_01 (53:36):
Well, it's like anything else, it's it's
knowledge, experience, andcommitment.
Um you know, when you're 25, youknow, all of us, I you know,
everybody watching this would,you know, says, oh man, if I'd
only known what I know now whenI was 25, right?
(53:58):
You know, and and and that thatgoes across a myriad of of
things, you know, just you know,whether it's you know,
relationships or you know,business or career, you know,
and and things things thingsthat you've done.
But you know, I'm not I'm not abig proponent of going back and
and looking at what I didn't door what I wish I would have
(54:21):
known or anything like that.
I know what I got now, and Iknow what I can do today, and I
know what I can do tomorrow.
Okay, so I'm glad I had my25-year-old self because all the
mistakes I made, all the stupidshit that I did, is how I
learned to be who I am today.
Yeah.
Right.
So don't go back and beatyourself up about who that guy
(54:42):
was.
Love it, love it, right?
Okay.
Use it for fuel, use it forenergy, right?
Yes.
And let's just focus on todayforward.
And again, you know, I I youknow, we people always talk
about age and everything else,you know, and and you know, I'm
66 years old now, but I'mtelling you, because of how I
live my lifestyle, I wake upevery day, can't wait to get
(55:06):
going.
I'm just getting started.
I mean, I'm thinking, you know,I I a day doesn't go, I'm gonna
live to 100, right?
I want to be 90 and walk aroundDisney with my grandkids, you
know.
You know, I can't guaranteethat's gonna happen, by the way.
But, you know, if you think thatway, you know, it propels your
lifestyle, your activity, andeverything that you do.
SPEAKER_00 (55:27):
Jerry, I've got a short list here of some
potential actionable steps thatpeople could take that I think
both you and I would love to seepeople commit to.
I'm just gonna read throughthese.
If you have any comments youwant to make on them, I'd love
to hear it.
Number one would be commit toone focused hour a day for your
(55:48):
physical activity, your health.
One hour a day, commit an hour.
Number two, audio here.
SPEAKER_01 (55:56):
Let's just stop on that one right there.
Okay, okay, okay.
Look, uh if you're starting out,you don't need an hour.
Right?
It's it it it's it's it's onthat it's that's too big.
It's too big, right?
Okay.
I want 10 minutes.
I want 10 minutes of justwalking outside, walking down
the street and back.
(56:17):
And again, this is for peoplejust starting that have never
exercised.
And the other, and I wantanother 10 minutes of knowledge
and education about health andwellness.
And by the way, it's all, allright on here.
Okay, there's no excuse.
You can do it anywhere, anytime,any place.
And and Russell said thisearlier about you know what he
does in the morning.
(56:38):
I spend 15 to 30 minutes everysingle morning listening to
podcasts of my mentors, gettingeducated on new stuff, and it
just completely sets the tonefor the day.
Matter of fact, I do that rightbefore I go to the gym.
Sometimes I'll listen to apodcast or something on the way
to the gym.
Set these micro goals.
(56:58):
You're looking for, um, wetalked about this in other
podcasts, micro wins.
Yes, yes.
Micro wins come from very shortmeasured actions.
So let's just get 10 minutes ofexercise, 10 minutes of
self-education, and make acommitment.
I'm doing this every single dayfor seven days.
Here's when I'm doing it.
(57:20):
And you do not break thatcontract with yourself.
You, you know, when you when youcut a deal with somebody, like
if you if you in work or youhave a business and you write a
contract with somebody, youdon't back out of it.
Why would you back out on acontract you make with yourself?
That's the most important oneyou make.
So that that that commitment iswhere it all starts.
SPEAKER_00 (57:43):
Love it.
Love it.
Now, the next one is called anaudit diet.
I'm not sure I like the name forthat, but it basically says swap
one of your low octane items forsomething better.
Now, that could be any actionyou have, or it could be a food
item since we talked about foodhere recently.
But you know, you should be ableto look at what you eat and do
(58:04):
during the course of the day andsay, okay, I'm gonna delete this
today, or I'm gonna remove thisone.
We're gonna skip it today, andwe're gonna add in something
good.
SPEAKER_01 (58:13):
Like I said before, what you don't do is just as
important as what you do do.
And um, and uh I I don't know ifI'm a fan of making a one-day
commitment, but let's just say,you know, you're a regular Coke
drinker, right?
You drink you drink Coke or youknow, or any any sugar drink,
Starbucks drinks, you know,whatever it might be.
Let's get let's go one weekwithout those.
(58:34):
Let's go one week without asingle liquid sugar drink.
I I can guarantee you you'regonna feel pretty damn good
after a week.
Just just from that.
Wow.
Just from that.
SPEAKER_00 (58:46):
Wow.
Well, that's good.
And then uh, you know, the theother ones here are simply make
health non-negotiable.
I mean, I think we we've we'vecovered that pretty much.
I mean, we obviously we're bothadvocating for people to push a
little harder for their health,their well-being.
SPEAKER_01 (59:02):
It comes down to this, and just because I have I
have been around, you know, somany super successful wealthy
people.
I've been around super, youknow, successful like athletes,
you know, um entertainers.
I mean, I can't tell you, youknow, how miserable somebody's
(59:26):
people are because they don'thave their health and wellness
in check.
Okay.
And again, I I mean, I I was Iwas actually at an event
recently, and there was a guy onthe on the stage who was a
billionaire, a billionaire.
And this guy was so obese, heneeded help walking up there and
getting off the stage.
(59:47):
Do you think he would tradeabout half of that or maybe all
of that money to have his healthback?
You know, that that's why it'sso important that you start now,
because if you're if you're inyour 30s, 40s, or 50s and you
continue that bad lifestyle, um,unhealthy lifestyle, once you
(01:00:13):
get into your 60s, it is abrutal change to make.
Yeah.
I mean, i the older you are, theharder it is to change it.
So set that tone early.
Build that bass, and then as youget older, you'll feel like a
million bucks.
SPEAKER_00 (01:00:30):
Jerry, I think we've been beating the drum pretty
good here today on gettinghealthy.
And it's important.
It's important.
We've given plenty of examples.
And I know, uh, I know for me,it's good to have you in my ear,
because I mean, I know I'mworking on my stuff too.
You know, you're uh you're agreat role model, and I hope
that people benefit uh from whatall you've had to say.
By the way, ladies andgentlemen, I see if you know
(01:00:53):
someone that needs a littlepush, if you have someone in
your universe that you know isnot living as healthy as they
need to be, why don't you sharethis with them?
Send this over to them, let themuh let them listen to it and see
if it can't get them off the offthe dime and get going.
Uh, if you haven't alreadybought and read this book,
highly recommended.
(01:01:13):
This is there is great stuff inhere.
You don't need to read it fromstart to finish.
You can pick it up and startanywhere.
I look at it literally every acouple times a week, I pick this
thing up and get some sort ofgem out of it.
Jerry, you did a fantastic jobwith this.
And am I correct in saying thatyou might have another one
coming?
SPEAKER_01 (01:01:33):
We're working on it.
We're in the initial stages.
SPEAKER_00 (01:01:36):
Very, very good.
Well, uh, do you have anything,Jerry, you'd like to close with
today?
SPEAKER_01 (01:01:41):
Yeah, I think that um, you know, one thing I want
to leave people with uh aboutthis topic is um I was talking
with somebody at an event, thisis just a few weeks ago, um,
about um, you know, the highachievers, you know, always need
to know what's next, right?
So like when when when you youknow hit that home run, or you
(01:02:04):
know, for me, the biggest onefor me was it took me 10 years
to bench 300 pounds.
And after I benched 300, it waslike, oh shit, what now?
Right.
So you get these big letdowns ifyou're someone who's going
through these cyclical achievingevents in your life and when
that ends.
So I've learned to always havesomething else lined up.
(01:02:25):
And this guy said to me, hegoes, you know, what about
having something that doesn'tend?
And I said, Well, what are youtalking about?
And he and he literally said, hegoes, working on yourself, your
health, your wellness, andconstant education and
improvement never ends.
(01:02:47):
You take that to the grave.
SPEAKER_00 (01:02:48):
Jerry, I want to thank you so much for everything
you've shared today.
Fabulous stuff.
And again, I know youpersonally, I know how healthy
you are, and I know what a bigdeal it is, and you're
extraordinary in that in thatfashion.
I I wish more of us, includingmyself, could move closer
towards where you are.
I know I'm gonna keep trying toget there.
(01:03:08):
And ladies and gentlemen, again,if you know someone that might
benefit from this messaging onhealth and wellness, please
share the video with them, sharethe podcast with them, let them
hear this.
Maybe they'll uh get somethinggoing in their life.
I want to thank everybody forpaying attention to us today,
for joining us, watching us.
You know, we do theseconversations every couple of
(01:03:29):
weeks, and uh, you know, we'rejust trying to have
conversations that help you getwhere you're going and figuring
out where you want to be and howto get there.
So we thank you so much forpaying attention, and we'll see
you in the next episode.
Thank you, Jerry.
Thank you so much.
Talk to you soon.
SPEAKER_01 (01:03:44):
Yep, thanks.
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