August 14, 2025 • 36 mins
The average American man carries 28% body fat—a level the American Council on Exercise considers obese. Add to that the sobering reality that heart disease has held the title of the nation’s #1 killer for decades, with cancer close behind, and you have to wonder: how can the richest nation in history be so unhealthy?
Here’s the kicker—at least one-third of heart disease deaths are preventable, and the #1 lifestyle link to certain cancers is something as avoidable as tobacco use. In other words, much of this suffering isn’t inevitable… it’s a choice.
But in a world overflowing with opinions about what it means to be “healthy,” what does God actually say? In this episode, Nick and Josh unpack the Bible’s perspective on health, explore the idea of stewardship over our bodies, and share practical steps for living it out.
Get ready for a conversation that doesn’t just challenge what you believe about health—but why you believe it.
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Here’s the kicker—at least one-third of heart disease deaths are preventable, and the #1 lifestyle link to certain cancers is something as avoidable as tobacco use. In other words, much of this suffering isn’t inevitable… it’s a choice.
But in a world overflowing with opinions about what it means to be “healthy,” what does God actually say? In this episode, Nick and Josh unpack the Bible’s perspective on health, explore the idea of stewardship over our bodies, and share practical steps for living it out.
Get ready for a conversation that doesn’t just challenge what you believe about health—but why you believe it.
Get expert fitness advice, free workout and nutrition guides, and more from Cody McBroom by clicking here.
Level up your life with IDLife nutrition by clicking here.
Apply to join Giant Killers here if you're a man that wants real accountability and training to become a leader.
Level up your greatest asset with us in Mindset Mastery. How you think will change everything in your life. Click here to learn more.
Level up your life with IDLife nutrition by clicking here.
Apply to join Giant Killers here if you're a man that wants real accountability and training to become a leader.
Level up your greatest asset with us in Mindset Mastery. How you think will change everything in your life. Click here to learn more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's impossible.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let me tell you what I believe.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's your weakness, it's not your technique. Don't think you know.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Impossible Life Podcast and yes, sitting on a winning lottery.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Second, an idea that is fully formed, fully understood.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
That sticks. This is the Impossible Life Podcast because Nick
and I are attempting to live impossible lives. What we
know is that nothing is impossible. So instead of using
impossible as an excuse to not try, we'll use the
pursuit of impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's
(00:41):
never been done before, that just means it's unexplored. If
they tell you it's too hard, it's just waiting to
be simplified. Impossible as a default label used by uncourageous
people unwilling to take a risk.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The real truth is this.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
The solution to any impossible task starts with this question,
If I had to, what would it take?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
What would it take?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm joined by a
man whose mental fitness makes marathon runners look lazy. That's right, friends,
the modern day philosophizer Joshua Krast He doesn't just think quickly.
He thinks with great endurance slowly, but.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I said quickly, I said quickly and with great Man.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I hope everyone's not tired of me. I'm not tired
of all.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, I you know, I heard nothing but good things
about the last time we had you on Truth. I
had people like that are friends of ours, like stopping
me in place and like, man, I really enjoyed that one.
And of course I told Garrett, nobody does that when
you're on bro, you know, so you just just want
to make sure I keep the feedback loop nice and tight.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, I'm actually really amped to have you on man
A because I just love you and I really enjoyed
doing these with you. But be because what we're covering today,
man is I'll just I'm just gonna launch it into
it and I'm just warning I'm very passionate about this
and I'm just giving the audience the heads up.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So really it's like, what does God actually say about
physical fitness?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And this is where we're gonna go down. So on
Monday's podcast, Garrett dropped a stat to me that I
hadn't heard that said that the average body fat of
males in America is twenty eight percent and women are
at forty percent, which is shocked me how high that was.
So I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna look
into this and I'll be honest. I had an event
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where I was out in a public setting and I
was looking at the state of people around me and realizing, like,
I don't look at women this way. I'm just gonna
be very upfront about that because I don't feel like
God's called me to women. God's called me to men.
When I look around and I see men who are
in very poor shape and they're not leading themselves well physically,
and they just kind of seem like very nice, soft
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guys that are just like, oh hey that it bothers
me man, because I'm like, God did not give us
a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a
sam mind.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
He made men to be strong.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I think about the scriptures where it says multiple times
be strong, act like a man. Like this is what
I say to myself when I'm doing a hard workout
and I can feel my weakness wanted to come out.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I literally repeat, I go be strong, act like a man.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Hey four, I says, I think it's pro twenty four
to seventeen to myself all the time. If you faint
the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So if you quit, yeah, it's so black and white
and so like. But so I have a strong sense
that God has and I know what it is to
be weak.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm not like throwing stones like, oh, you're such a loser.
I've been. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Garrett was the guy who was like you know, terminator
man from a young age and became a Navy seal.
I was the dude who was like, hey, you know,
I'm not as fat as like the average person my age.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So I guess I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And then you're like kind of any fat person in
your whole life, all right now, your whole life.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But Garrett's not even here. I'm getting it insult. No,
I'm just saying, like you're catching work like.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
You weren't like no, you know, but you you just
didn't work out and didn't, like.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
To quote to quote Pop's uncle back, man, you were soft.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can hear his voice, like that's what he would
say to me, like, man, when you came here, He's like,
there's soft and then there's California soft man, you were
soft and he like, he said it to me a
lot of times. So I've I've that was that was,
That's firmly in my head. But the point being, I've
I've awoken to this and I understand, like, not from
a sense of this is my personal preference, but truly
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I think God made men to be strong, and so
when I don't see men this it's and I'm not
just talking about physically strong. I'm talking about in so
many other ways, but you can see it physically all
over us. So I went and did this. After hearing
the twenty eight percent body fat, I went and did
the I looked into it and according to the American
Council on Exercise, essential fat is two to five percent
for men, For athletes it's six to thirteen percent. Fitness
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people like is fourteen to seventeen percent. Average is eighteen
to twenty four percent, and if you're over twenty five percent,
they say that you're obese. So average is basically obese, now,
which so I was reading this and I was just like, look,
we must clearly have no fear of being in a
situation as men where we're ever going to need physicality,
because if you ever thought that you had to defend
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your family or yourself, you would never allow yourself to
be that caught that off guard, right, So instead.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
You're saying that at this event, it was like all parents.
It wasn't people walking around. It was parents with children
who have allowed themselves to get to this state.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, it was parents. It was other dads my age
or maybe a little bit younger, maybe a little bit
older that had kids. I mean, I'll just be honest,
it was our first day of school. If any of
my neighbors listening to this and and you're not in
great shape, if you're offended, I would hope that you
would be willing to hear that. I'm not trying to
offend people, but if you need to be offended to
ask yourself whether you need to make a change, then
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offense can be a great thing.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think, if anything, you should thank the people that
love you enough to say, hey, you need to get
in better shape.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
People have talked to me about being on descending before,
and I usually say, yeah, I'm trying to condescend you
in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So that's a good come back.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, dad joke on there.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
There you go. Well we always got room for dad jokes.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Now I'm not trying now, I'm not trying to condescend anybody,
but I'm just I'm just saying that's what spired it,
and so coming so I started thinking, I was like, look,
we better hope we're right, Like, we better hope we're
right that we don't need to ever be in shape,
because I think what most people I was like, oh, yeah,
I know I need to lose a few pounds, or
they wait till they go to the doctor and then
the doctor says something, or they think like you know,
I don't know what they think. Maybe they just assume
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they're in better health. I mean, I know I was
lying to myself when I was walking around at like
twenty two percent body fat, talking about how I'm in
better shape than the average person my age, Like I
was actually right, but you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Know, without knowing it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But that's a pretty low standard to just be like,
well I'm better than average. That's not what I want
my life to be. So I would say, at the
very least, if you're walking around here, if you're listening
to this and you're like, I need to be in
better shape, just listen up, because we're going to get
into what God has to say about this. Because there's
lots of different people opinions on this, but I want
to really lay this out for you, man, because I
would say, at the very least, what you're sacrificing if
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you're not presenting yourself and you're ear out of shape,
you're sacrificing respect because people judge the book.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
By their cover.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We all say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
One hundred percent people judge a book by its cover.
So at the very least, you're sacrificing respect. But at
the very worst, you're letting down people around you that
that needs you. What if they need you to be strong,
What if they your kids need you to be physically energetic?
What if your wife needs you to be energetic And
you're constantly like, man, I'm so tired and you haven't
put together yet that it's your lifestyle and your diet.
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I mean the crazy thing to me is in America, man,
Like for me, I don't think this needs to be like, oh,
does God say we actually need to be fit? That's
I don't personally feel that way because I'm like, man,
I want to be great. I want to be everything
God's made me to be, and that takes a lot
of energy. And if I'm going to be energetic, I
need to be looking after, you know, all the things, rest, hydration,
the whole thing. To me that it's very it's very simple.
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But in our country, I think there's two things that
we are so woefully under educated about, and they're both
things that we absolutely every person needs. One is physical
fitness and the second one is money. I think that
the buy and large people do not have very good
philosophies on these things, nor do they have a strong
grasp of the principles and the things that actually matter.
So you look into our country in America, year after
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year after year, the number one killers, number one killer,
Josh heart disease, six hundred and ninety five thousand deaths.
I work with a client with my production company that
has products that work into these and I've seen some
of the research in some of the rural areas in
our country where people.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Are just dropping dead. It's it's it's awful, it's.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Awful, and one third of heart disease heart disease deaths
are completely preventable.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I was literally about to say, and this is all
according to the CDC. No, I love that you that
you look that up. This is all according to the CDC.
This is not Josh and myi's opinion. Number two killer
cancer six hundred and five thousand deaths a year.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And like, I looked into all.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
This stuff because I was like, man, what is going on.
Cancer is a mutation of the cells. We all we
all know someone who's gotten cancer. Some mutations are inherited,
but most are required. And here are the top factors
that impact whether or not you'll acquire a mutation. Tobacco use,
radiation AKAUV from the sun or other chemicals, diet, obesity,
physical inactivity.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And alcohol.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, you could make a strong case that we
should be in good physical shape and we don't even
need a discussion. And I think it's wild that we
have these things. And thank God for guys like RFK
and people who are bringing this to lights saying hey,
we need to look at what we're feeding, what we're
allowing in our schools, in our food system. But like,
let's say you're listening to me, say this, that's good
for you, nick whatever, Like you're you know, okay, something
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got your bug.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We don't really want to.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, maybe I'll just turn this episode off because
this is just Nick giving his opinions. Bear with us,
that's not what this is about.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's how I see this setup of these things like
this is what sparked the thought process after Garrett said that,
because I thought it was shocking. But here's something that
that is the is principled. We all have a worldview, right,
and Josh, you've spoken extensively, wrote a great book about
worldview called The Way to Live, which I'm always gonna
plug because think it's wonderful. It's one of my favorite
books I've ever read, and so I would say anybody
out there looking up on Amazon The Way to Live
(10:04):
by Josh Kraft, I'm always going to plug that, not
because Josh needs me to, but just because it's a
great book. And you'll understand what worldview means after you
read that. But worldview is basically just what's informing the
way you think about things, And what's the stats on
how many people have a biblical worldview?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Josh, ninety four percent of Christians don't. Right, So we
live in a country where sixty seven percent the last
time they look sixty seven percent of Americans identify as Christian.
So out of that sixty seven percent, the majority of
our country, ninety four percent of them don't actually have
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a biblical worldview. So only six percent of Christians.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Have a biblical worldview.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
So if you're listening to this podcast, I assume that
you don't. The average says that less than one out
of ten Christians that goes to church is going to
have a biblical worldview. And there's all kinds of stuff
behind that, and we can have that conversation another day,
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But that's that's the.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Stats, right, And the reason I bring this up is
because if you're listening to me talk about my thoughts
on being in shape and you disagree or you go like, Okay,
I kind of get it, but I don't. I'm not
quite at that extreme, or whatever whatever your thoughts are
on this. Here's here's how we need to be in
our lives. And this is principle. This is not nick speaking.
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We are not good at being our own gods because
we're not designed to be. We were not good at
making ourselves happy, we're not good at making ourselves healthy.
Having great relationships like man is not supposed to be
his own God. So when you come to something like
this or really anything in your life, rather than just
living by default and kind of going like, well, this
is my experience, here's what I think, and not really
questioning why you think that way, because you're probably just
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repeating things that you've inherited from the environments and experiences
you've been in.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You have to say, what does the Bible say about it?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And that's that's what I wanted to get us down
to here, is like, Okay, those stats are shocking. I
have strong feelings about it, But what's the Bible say
about it? Because Jesus never said like thou shalt you know,
be a certain body percent fat, or you must bench
press x pounds.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And that's why I wanted to bring you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
On, Josh, because I know that you you know, you
and I have talked about this privately at length, but like,
you know, for the people out there, what does the
Bible say about physical fitness?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Well, I think there's a lot of stats that everyone
hears and everyone can get into. You know, what's interesting is,
you know, my dad has this really interesting thought. He says,
people don't change until they hurt enough. They have to
learn enough, they want to receive enough, they're able to.
You know, the truth is, if you're listening to this,
like here's the truth. It doesn't have to be true,
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but it's true for most people. And that's if you're
listening to this and you're out of shape and you
don't take care of yourself and you don't value health,
you probably won't change that even if you have a
heart attack. I mean, that's that's that's just the reality.
There was a there's a book. There's a book out
called Same As Ever by a guy named Morgan Housel
who's an investor. But in this book he shares these
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like timeless principles of history. And one of the things
that he actually talks about in that book is one
of the leading He does his interview with one of
the leading cancer researchers in America, one of the leading
doctors that's research and cancer, and the doctor says to
him in the interview, he says, you know, it probably
would have been better. He goes, I've I would make
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more of an impact if I just could get people
to stop smoking, Like instead of worrying about treating cancer,
if we could just get people to stop smoking, cancer
rates in the world would rapidly decline. So these doctors
are starting to talk about how a lot of this
stuff his lifestyle choices and habits, and there's a lot
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of excuses for that. I mean, like the stats say
only three percent of Americans have a healthy lifestyle. You know,
the thing on and on, We could go, right. The
thing that's the most significant to me is that Christians
are one and a half times more likely to be
obese and non Christians. So like, if you're listening to
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this and you're a Christian, you have less of a
chance of being physically healthy than a person who's not
a Christian. And so a lot of that depends on
where you live. I mean, we live in the South,
and the South is known for how they eat. But
this is just generally the way people, like if you
think about it, Like in our church, right, we talk
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about God wants you to put him first with your time,
your talent, and your treasure, right, and talking about money
in church is really hard. It can be really hard.
But there's actually a fourth thing, and that's your temple,
and that's really difficult to talk about because pastors also
fit into these statistics. I mean, people that are like
leading churches, like a faith leader who is in bad
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health and they're morbidly obese or whatever, is not really
going to be interested in talking about this.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Stuff because it's it.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Would expose the hypocrisy that we all have, you know,
And so like, okay, so people go, oh, well, where
is this? Where is this in the Bible? Right, So
let's let's get onto that question. So in Romans chapter six,
first of all, in Romans chapter six, the Bible is
talking about serving Christ and Jesus being your Lord and
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all that stuff. But then Paul says this really interesting
thing in this pastor of scripture in Romans chapter six.
What he says is he says, Romans chapter six, verse
twelve through fourteen. I'll read it, don't let sin reign
in your mortal body.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So that you obey its desires.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Do not present, do not present the parts of your
body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves
to God as those who have been brought from death
to life, and present the parts of your body to
Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be
your master, because you're under the law, but under grace.
So there is this aspect to scripture of the physical body. Right.
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First Corinthians, chapter three, Paul says, don't you realize that
all of you together are the temple of God, and
that the spirit of God lives in you. God will
destroy anyone who destroys this temple, for God's temple is
holy and you're that temple. First Corinthians six. Don't you
realize that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
who lives in you and was given to you by God.
You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you
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with the high price, So glorify God you. So you
must honor God with your body. And so a lot
of people can debate, right Like to me, they can
debate with these verses, mean they can debate this perspective. Romans.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I thought it was like sexual morality.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
The last one is talks about sexual morality, talks about
all that different kind of stuff. Romans chapter six. If
you read the context of Romans chapter six, then what
you'll see is Paul is just generally talking about kind
of following Christ. So he talks about sin, the power
of sin over your life, and death doesn't have power
over you. And then he pretty much is saying, don't
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let sin control the way that you live, right, Right,
So if you look at the words that he's using,
he's talking about you're mortal like the body the way
that you live your life every day. So so okay,
if in the context of the verse of first Corinthian six,
and we just want to look at that one, right,
if you say, okay, well, that means that I can
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be fat. Right, that means that means that God doesn't
really care about what I do with my physical body.
The question you still have to answer is is that
honoring God with your body? Right?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Like?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Do you can? You can you believe and put yourself
in a position in your life and really have a
theology in your mind that says I am honoring God
with my physical body if I eat a whole bag
of Dorito's tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, let me let me ask you to break something
down here, because I want to make sure what when
you say honoring, what do you mean? Because like honoring
is not like in our circles and where you and
I roll, honor is used a lot. I can say
safely that before I came over here, the only people
I thought of in honor was like Japanese people because
of Samurais. That was like the only time I would.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Ever get in the military. We talk about honoring, yeah,
the military. Right, that's about it. So what do you
mean by that?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
So there's two definitions of honor. One is an Old
Testament definition. One's a New Testament definition. The Old Testament
definition of honor is to give weight to something. So
it's this word kavad. It means heavy, it means weighty.
So when you would honor God, there was like this
this weight, like you would value the word of God
in your life.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
The New Testament definition is a little more personal. It's
to treat someone or something as special and valuable. Right,
So we'll use those definitions in this context. So the
first thing is to give weight to what the Bible says.
So when God says your body is a temple and
it's given to you by God to use, is it
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giving weight to God understanding the significance of your physical
body if you don't treat it well, if you don't
if you don't have health. Romans chapter twelve, verse one
says present your body as a living sacrifice. And that
word in the Greek is this word soma And this
word soma means the combination of everything about you. So
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God's not just looking at your soul and your spirit, right,
He's looking at your physical body, what you do with
your physical body. So if you believe so, if a
person's listen and you believe pornography is a big deal,
you believe going to like a strip club's a big deal.
You believe where you are physically and who you're with
physically is a big deal, then I think logically you
have to extend that into things like health because if
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I'm a person who says, hey, yeah, like porn can
be a sin in your soul, but it's something that's
happening physically, it's something that's taking place, it's a physical pleasure.
It's all that stuff. It's everything mixed together. So is
food for people like people that have food addictions. I mean,
all these things are valid and real and they're tough
(20:06):
to navigate and all of that stuff. What this podcast
is about is not about how easy it is to overcome.
It's about the fact that you should be overcoming it. Like,
don't let yourself off the hook and go well, this
is just like this is just the life that I'm
supposed to live like if God, if God once your
body presents him as a living sacrifice. If God tells
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you that your body is a temple. You know, the
big question that people ask and what people say all
throughout the church world. I mean, this isn't a new thought,
is do you want to give God a broken down,
messed up, unhealthy temple? Right? If I was if I
was going to say, okay, Nick, you're my friend, and like,
I know you value what I say, and what I
say is like you should go be healthy, and then
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you don't go be healthy. It's like, well you don't
honor what I say. You don't value what I say
because you're friend it right, Right, So God tells us
to honor God all the way, like God tells us
to present everything about us as a living sacrifice. So
that's the first thing is good weight. But then it's
also to treat something as valuable. So when when we
I mean just fundamentally, when we live an unhealthy lifestyle
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in any way, if that's smoking, I mean there's a
lot of people I know, those lot of people, you know,
they seem to be physically fit, and they just they
they drink alcohol, like all the time, they're always drinking.
Are they vape or they do all kinds of other stuff,
or they'll do they'll do they'll smoke weed, they'll do
all kinds of you know, it's like, this is not
about fat people.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
This is about it's not about looks.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, this is about health. And so it's like, if
you drink to excess on a regular basis, you're not
honoring God with your body. You could say, I'm a Christian,
you know, Like it's the same, you know, And there's
so many people I've known, so many people, you know,
Nick that they negotiate themselves out of they negotiate themselves
into basically having an alcohol problem because they say, well,
(21:55):
the Bible's not against drinking, and you're right, the Bible's
not against drinking. Jesus drank wine and all of that.
Does that mean that there is there that it's a
good thing? Like Paul talks about this in the Book
of Romans. He says it's a sin to not do
what you know that you should do, right right, Yeah,
So does that mean it's a good thing for you
to go party, get hammered, go live a life and
(22:17):
do that kind of stuff? No, it doesn't mean that
that that's a good thing. It just means, oh, we're
probably not going to go to hell for it, right,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, and I but that is that is the thought
process is it's like, oh, like that people go like, oh,
it's not a heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Or Hell issue.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And I just I think that that whole thought process
is poisonous.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh it's because I don't it's awful. Yeah, I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Like, what's so interesting is when Jesus talks about all
his parables of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He talks about how.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You get rewarded for what you do on Earth over
and over and over again. When you look at the parables,
it is very much a case of, like you enter
into eternity, not like, oh, hey, you slid in and
everybody's like, you know, okay, great, you're here, that's all
that matters. There's very much a case of like steward
ship being rewarded. We don't understand and know, but like
that is a consistent theme. So I like that bothers
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me that people would say like, oh, it's not a
heaven or Hell issue.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
This was never meant to be.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Like it's back to worldviews. It's back to worldview for
people like if you it's like I knew people like
this in high school, Like how how much can I
do with my girlfriend before it's a sin? Like if
you're asking that question, you're not really understanding what it
means to really put God first in your life.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
And that's that's back to having a biblical worldview and saying, okay,
like what is the purpose of all this stuff God
asks out of me?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
And if a person lives their life like in general,
and they go, Okay, how close can I get to
the line before X would happen? How close can I
get to the line before my wife would leave me?
How close can I get to the line before my
kids would hate me? How close can I get to
the line before I have a heart attack? How close
can I get to the line before I go to hell?
I mean, it's a completely normal, mediocre, average approach to life, right.
(24:04):
And you know, I have a we Oh, I used
to have a friend. He's a decathlete. He's not really
my friend anymore. But one of the things I've I've
learned about decathlon, So like when you do a decathlon,
life is like a decathlon. Like there's all these different
aspects to life, and so someone could be listening to
this and they could be naturally like a lot more
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focused on emotional health or mental health. Like for me,
it's not hard for me to read books. It's not
a challenge for me to learn, it's not a challenge.
But physical stuff has always been difficult for me. Like
when Garrett Garrett's three years younger than me, and when
I can come home from college. He was home for
like a semester before he left to go to the Seals,
(24:47):
and uh, I was, you know, I just lived my life, man.
And at that time, I was like, you know, two
sixty two seventy didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Just like a big dude.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I'm six five whatever, I just look like a big guy.
And so Garrett Garrett was like, man, you need me
to train you like you need me to you need
you need a trainer, you need a physical trainer. I'm like, nah, dude,
I need a friend.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So he was nice that he didn't like force me
into the gym with him. I mean, but I have
a dad who's like super fit, right. Yeah. So I
think the reason why I say that is because physical
fitness for me has always been a little bit more
of a challenge than other types of health. But so
like all of us have Now I feel like there's
like this really interesting thing in human beings, Like all
of us have this natural pull towards discipline in some area, right, right,
(25:32):
like people are people can be very disciplined in their career,
but then not be disciplined at all physically or emotionally,
or mentally or spiritually. Right, Yeah, So it's learning about
life is a decathlon that there's all these different events.
So there's all these different events that you have to
you can't Like if you're the best runner, that's great,
You're not gonna win the decathlon. You've got to throw
(25:53):
the you gotta throw the javelin, you gotta do the
long jump, you gotta do whatever it is that the
decathlon is. So life is about scoring points in every area. Right, So,
like if you're listening to this, it's all this stuff
is true. Like you need to be healthier. You need
to understand if you're a Christian, you need to understand
(26:13):
that God, God cares about what you do with your
physical body. There's no way of getting around that. Your
body is a living sacrifice, the Bible says, so present
yourself as an acceptable sacrifice. Give God your best offering, right,
not because you're going to go to hell, but because
you honor God and you really value him. But also, like,
(26:34):
here's the thing, the interplay between us and God is
God has a great plan for our life. God doesn't
want you to die of a heart attack. God wants
you to be able to play with your kids your
whole life. God wants you to make a meaningful contribution
well into your hundreds or however old you're going to
live to so him ask God asking things out of us,
like God asking us to forgive, for instance, to not
(26:54):
even use a physical example. God asking us to forgive
isn't about oh, you should just forgive, because that's what
God says. He's asking us to forgive because he knows
forgiveness leads to our emotional health. And all of psychology
can tell you all of these.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Different kind of things.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
So it's the same with physical It's like, Okay, you're
telling me God that for thousands of years to worry
about the state of my body and to honor you
with it. And then there's all this data that says
when you don't do healthy things, here's what happens with
your body. So God, the plan of God for our
life is to help us avoid really really crappy stuff. Yeah,
(27:30):
like an in the eternal sense. It's like, yeah, God
wants to us to avoid hell, but also everything else
that's in scripture is about avoiding a really bad life.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, you know, I think so one of the things
to note those like obedience always precedes revelation with God.
It's not like he tells you, and so I think
that's where you can miss it. Like I hope that
people out there are going, okay, you know, if you
think about it and you talk about you're told to
deny the cravings of the flesh right g Latians five,
nineteen twenty, Like, consider that, you know, talks about what
to stay away from, right, And if you sow to
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the flesh, you'll not read from the spirit. Anytime you
have a craving for bad food, that's exactly what it is.
It's a craving like it comes on suddenly and you're like,
oh my gosh, dude, some salty chips or some ice cream.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I mean, that's what Roman is. Don't obey your body's desires, right,
So don't don't let sin rain. So you obey your
body's desires. So when you are allowing yourself to be
led by that appetite, you're not being led by the spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No. And here's what I would say, here's where the
obedience part is.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I hope that people out there are grasping, like, man,
maybe I've been thinking wrong about health. We're not saying
you have to look like Schwarzenegger, or you need to
everybody needs to go be a bodybuilder or whatever you
think a picture of health is. It's not we're saying
at all. You should one hundred percent have a minimum
standard though, of what you hold yourself accountable to. And
you know, I would highly recommend dexis scans. I think
they're great because you know exactly what your body composition is.
(28:57):
You'll find out your visceral fat. It will actually help
you live a health your life. But here's what you
miss if you think like all this stuff is nonsense,
And this is what I'll be honest. I don't I
love sports, but the people I love in sports are
all the mental monsters. Like I like Jordan, I like
Kobe in hockey, I like Sydney Crosby.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I like these guys who are cerebral.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I was never like a Shack guy or a Lebron
guy because to me, they were just massively physically gifted,
but not necessarily like cerebral giants. And I've always been
attracted more mentality, so I didn't value this.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
But what I've learned in.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
My own health journey, and I've transformed a lot in
the last three and a half to four years physically,
and I continue to put more effort into my physical health,
not because I have any ambitions of being you know,
I've really anything other than living a really long time
being energetic. But what you will find is physical is
the easiest to understand. Like Garrett said that in the teams,
(29:47):
they used to say, oh if you don't if you
don't learn, will beat you. That's how dogs learn. And
I think it's an amazing thing, Like you don't have
to be wise or smart or learned to understand pain,
and so we physical is the easiest place to learn.
And so what thing's gonna happen in your spiritual life,
in your emotional life, in your mental well being if
you can start to be the kind of person that
can be like man, God said to honor him with
(30:08):
my body. So I'm going to honor him. And this
is how I'm gonna get into that. And you start discovering. Man,
I got to track what I eat. I got to
be consistent in my disciplines. What's that you don't feel
like doing it? You got a bad night's sleep, and
really it's a tight scheduled day and you prioritize it anyways. Wow,
you're becoming a regardless person because guess what. Things are
gonna blow up in your life. And it's not gonna
be convenient to read the Bible. Something's gonna happen in
(30:30):
like that group that you said you're going to join
for church, Oh, man, it's really inconvenient. Or Sundays, I'm
so tired, my only day to sleep in. You're always
going to have an excuse or something that's gonna make
it seem logical to skip the things that you really
know are great and what I think people miss. And
it's one of those things you have to do it.
Like I said, you have to have obedience before revelation.
But if you can be obedient, you can start to
say okay God as an act of worship. I'm going
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to honestly, like I'm going to get myself. I promise
you God will honor you, He'll meet you in that
and you will find such a revelation of His goodness
because it applies to so many other areas.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's just speaking from experience.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Well, and it's uh, you know, I mean, and like
everybody says this kind of stuff, but it's like, don't
do it. Don't do it for even don't do it
for yourself, did for other people. Like the thing that's
the most sad to me about looking at all these
statistics is that nineteen percent of children in America obese. Man,
so like for me, I know this is like a
(31:26):
hard statement to say, but I think if a child
is obese, their parent is pretty much an abusive parent
because your kids eat what you decide, so you can
abuse your own body. Right, that's but you if you
develop then this is what people don't understand about their life. Like,
if you develop unhealthy things in your life, you pass
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this stuff down to your kids, and you train children
that know no better and they have no other opportunity.
You train them wrong, right, and so yeah, do it?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Do it?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Do it from an understanding, like here's the thing, and
here's how simple I think God makes it, Like God
knows all this stuff is gonna happen, right like you're
talking about obedience. God knows the cascade effects of bad
decisions and the cast gade effects of good decisions. You
don't have to understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
All you got to do is be obedient.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
And that's and that's to your point. Nick, It's like
if and this is all through scripture and this will
just sum it up, like ask yourself this question today.
Is God really first with my time? Is He first
with my talent? Is He first with my treasure? And
then is He first with my temple? Do I really
honor God with my physical body? And if not, go
back to the Decathlone thing my encouragement to you is
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just start to score points in that area, like you
can you can go to YouTube and do yoga and stretching,
or you can there's there's twenty minute hit workouts that
aren't that hard. You don't have to go join a
gym and hire a physical trainer and all that stuff,
although that would be healthy. But like read you know.
The last thing I'll say before we end today is
if you don't know how to get started, don't know
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where to get started. Before you even start taking this journey,
read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear because he
talks about making small changes. So don't jump off this
podcast and go, Okay, I gotta go run. I gotta
go run five k today, like go like just do
take a walk, like take a walk round. Yeah, so
start scoring points and watch what happens in your life
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when you start to score points. And this is true
for every aspect of our life. But it's easiest. It's
not easiest, I would say it's the most true. It's
the most clear. When we start to do this physically.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, I completely agree. And just because we do like
to be practical. We've had him on the podcast, Cody McBroom,
who's been a huge blessing to me. He has just
made this so simple for me as I continue to
like build muscle and burn fat and I mean by
seventies on the podcast, he can make something that's complex
sounds simple. I'm gonna link to his tailored coaching method.
(33:58):
He has a podcast, he has a webs they have.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
A ton of start.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's a great I mean, like, honestly, if you have
no clue what to do, or even if you think
you know what to do, go check out Cody, follow him,
follow his stuff. Like we don't get anything for it.
It's just I know how great Cody is. I trust him,
I love him, He's a brother, and so I'll put
all his stuff in the show notes. If the very
least you did was just go read some of the
free resources that he has on his website, you'd be
infinitely better.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So I'm gonna link to that.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
But guys, you know, I feel like if Garrett's here,
this would be a lot harsher. You and I are
actually inviting people into fitness, Like come on, guys, like.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The Lord, this is the dude is under the Lord.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Garrett would probably be a little bit harsher or maybe not,
who knows, But but I hope you guys are seeing
because you know, the underlying thing that that Josh said
and we'll end here is are you putting God first
in every area?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Is the question that you should ask.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
And like we talked about biblical worldview, don't just say
well this is the way it is, really do the
work to mine what's in the Bible and confront those things.
One of the best places you could ever be. Is
is a hump to walk humbly with your God. It says,
what does he require of you?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
A man?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
To love justice? Sorry, to do justice, love mercy and
walk home with your God? Is what it says in Micah,
And that is really it is like walking homely with God?
Is you admitting I don't know what's best for my life?
I actually will not be in a I'm not capable
to lead myself. Well, so, Lord, I need to know
what you say. And when you have that attitude, God
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meets you where you're at. He's a better communicator than
we are listeners. He's given us his words, He's given
us the body of Christ. And if you will have
that attitude and everything you do, you will see God's
plans unfolding your life. And when God's orders in your life,
there is a flow, there's an abundance, and there is
a favor.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
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Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
your co host, Nick Surface, and I'm joined by a
man whose mental fitness makes marathon runners look lazy. That's right, friends,
the modern day philosophizer Joshua Krast He doesn't just think quickly.
He thinks with great endurance slowly, but.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I said quickly, I said quickly and with great Man.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I hope everyone's not tired of me. I'm not tired
of all.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, I you know, I heard nothing but good things
about the last time we had you on Truth. I
had people like that are friends of ours, like stopping
me in place and like, man, I really enjoyed that one.
And of course I told Garrett, nobody does that when
you're on bro, you know, so you just just want
to make sure I keep the feedback loop nice and tight.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, I'm actually really amped to have you on man
A because I just love you and I really enjoyed
doing these with you. But be because what we're covering today,
man is I'll just I'm just gonna launch it into
it and I'm just warning I'm very passionate about this
and I'm just giving the audience the heads up.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So really it's like, what does God actually say about
physical fitness?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And this is where we're gonna go down. So on
Monday's podcast, Garrett dropped a stat to me that I
hadn't heard that said that the average body fat of
males in America is twenty eight percent and women are
at forty percent, which is shocked me how high that was.
So I was like, all right, well, I'm gonna look
into this and I'll be honest. I had an event
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where I was out in a public setting and I
was looking at the state of people around me and realizing, like,
I don't look at women this way. I'm just gonna
be very upfront about that because I don't feel like
God's called me to women. God's called me to men.
When I look around and I see men who are
in very poor shape and they're not leading themselves well physically,
and they just kind of seem like very nice, soft
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guys that are just like, oh hey that it bothers
me man, because I'm like, God did not give us
a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a
sam mind.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
He made men to be strong.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I think about the scriptures where it says multiple times
be strong, act like a man. Like this is what
I say to myself when I'm doing a hard workout
and I can feel my weakness wanted to come out.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I literally repeat, I go be strong, act like a man.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Hey four, I says, I think it's pro twenty four
to seventeen to myself all the time. If you faint
the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So if you quit, yeah, it's so black and white
and so like. But so I have a strong sense
that God has and I know what it is to
be weak.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm not like throwing stones like, oh, you're such a loser.
I've been. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Garrett was the guy who was like you know, terminator
man from a young age and became a Navy seal.
I was the dude who was like, hey, you know,
I'm not as fat as like the average person my age.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So I guess I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And then you're like kind of any fat person in
your whole life, all right now, your whole life.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But Garrett's not even here. I'm getting it insult. No,
I'm just saying, like you're catching work like.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
You weren't like no, you know, but you you just
didn't work out and didn't, like.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
To quote to quote Pop's uncle back, man, you were soft.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can hear his voice, like that's what he would
say to me, like, man, when you came here, He's like,
there's soft and then there's California soft man, you were
soft and he like, he said it to me a
lot of times. So I've I've that was that was,
That's firmly in my head. But the point being, I've
I've awoken to this and I understand, like, not from
a sense of this is my personal preference, but truly
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I think God made men to be strong, and so
when I don't see men this it's and I'm not
just talking about physically strong. I'm talking about in so
many other ways, but you can see it physically all
over us. So I went and did this. After hearing
the twenty eight percent body fat, I went and did
the I looked into it and according to the American
Council on Exercise, essential fat is two to five percent
for men, For athletes it's six to thirteen percent. Fitness
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people like is fourteen to seventeen percent. Average is eighteen
to twenty four percent, and if you're over twenty five percent,
they say that you're obese. So average is basically obese, now,
which so I was reading this and I was just like, look,
we must clearly have no fear of being in a
situation as men where we're ever going to need physicality,
because if you ever thought that you had to defend
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your family or yourself, you would never allow yourself to
be that caught that off guard, right, So instead.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
You're saying that at this event, it was like all parents.
It wasn't people walking around. It was parents with children
who have allowed themselves to get to this state.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, it was parents. It was other dads my age
or maybe a little bit younger, maybe a little bit
older that had kids. I mean, I'll just be honest,
it was our first day of school. If any of
my neighbors listening to this and and you're not in
great shape, if you're offended, I would hope that you
would be willing to hear that. I'm not trying to
offend people, but if you need to be offended to
ask yourself whether you need to make a change, then
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offense can be a great thing.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think, if anything, you should thank the people that
love you enough to say, hey, you need to get
in better shape.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
People have talked to me about being on descending before,
and I usually say, yeah, I'm trying to condescend you
in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So that's a good come back.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, dad joke on there.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
There you go. Well we always got room for dad jokes.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Now I'm not trying now, I'm not trying to condescend anybody,
but I'm just I'm just saying that's what spired it,
and so coming so I started thinking, I was like, look,
we better hope we're right, Like, we better hope we're
right that we don't need to ever be in shape,
because I think what most people I was like, oh, yeah,
I know I need to lose a few pounds, or
they wait till they go to the doctor and then
the doctor says something, or they think like you know,
I don't know what they think. Maybe they just assume
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they're in better health. I mean, I know I was
lying to myself when I was walking around at like
twenty two percent body fat, talking about how I'm in
better shape than the average person my age, Like I
was actually right, but you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Know, without knowing it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But that's a pretty low standard to just be like,
well I'm better than average. That's not what I want
my life to be. So I would say, at the
very least, if you're walking around here, if you're listening
to this and you're like, I need to be in
better shape, just listen up, because we're going to get
into what God has to say about this. Because there's
lots of different people opinions on this, but I want
to really lay this out for you, man, because I
would say, at the very least, what you're sacrificing if
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you're not presenting yourself and you're ear out of shape,
you're sacrificing respect because people judge the book.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
By their cover.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
We all say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
One hundred percent people judge a book by its cover.
So at the very least, you're sacrificing respect. But at
the very worst, you're letting down people around you that
that needs you. What if they need you to be strong,
What if they your kids need you to be physically energetic?
What if your wife needs you to be energetic And
you're constantly like, man, I'm so tired and you haven't
put together yet that it's your lifestyle and your diet.
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I mean the crazy thing to me is in America, man,
Like for me, I don't think this needs to be like, oh,
does God say we actually need to be fit? That's
I don't personally feel that way because I'm like, man,
I want to be great. I want to be everything
God's made me to be, and that takes a lot
of energy. And if I'm going to be energetic, I
need to be looking after, you know, all the things, rest, hydration,
the whole thing. To me that it's very it's very simple.
(07:57):
But in our country, I think there's two things that
we are so woefully under educated about, and they're both
things that we absolutely every person needs. One is physical
fitness and the second one is money. I think that
the buy and large people do not have very good
philosophies on these things, nor do they have a strong
grasp of the principles and the things that actually matter.
So you look into our country in America, year after
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year after year, the number one killers, number one killer,
Josh heart disease, six hundred and ninety five thousand deaths.
I work with a client with my production company that
has products that work into these and I've seen some
of the research in some of the rural areas in
our country where people.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Are just dropping dead. It's it's it's awful, it's.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Awful, and one third of heart disease heart disease deaths
are completely preventable.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I was literally about to say, and this is all
according to the CDC. No, I love that you that
you look that up. This is all according to the CDC.
This is not Josh and myi's opinion. Number two killer
cancer six hundred and five thousand deaths a year.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And like, I looked into all.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
This stuff because I was like, man, what is going on.
Cancer is a mutation of the cells. We all we
all know someone who's gotten cancer. Some mutations are inherited,
but most are required. And here are the top factors
that impact whether or not you'll acquire a mutation. Tobacco use,
radiation AKAUV from the sun or other chemicals, diet, obesity,
physical inactivity.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And alcohol.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean, you could make a strong case that we
should be in good physical shape and we don't even
need a discussion. And I think it's wild that we
have these things. And thank God for guys like RFK
and people who are bringing this to lights saying hey,
we need to look at what we're feeding, what we're
allowing in our schools, in our food system. But like,
let's say you're listening to me, say this, that's good
for you, nick whatever, Like you're you know, okay, something
(09:35):
got your bug.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We don't really want to.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, maybe I'll just turn this episode off because
this is just Nick giving his opinions. Bear with us,
that's not what this is about.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
That.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's how I see this setup of these things like
this is what sparked the thought process after Garrett said that,
because I thought it was shocking. But here's something that
that is the is principled. We all have a worldview, right,
and Josh, you've spoken extensively, wrote a great book about
worldview called The Way to Live, which I'm always gonna
plug because think it's wonderful. It's one of my favorite
books I've ever read, and so I would say anybody
out there looking up on Amazon The Way to Live
(10:04):
by Josh Kraft, I'm always going to plug that, not
because Josh needs me to, but just because it's a
great book. And you'll understand what worldview means after you
read that. But worldview is basically just what's informing the
way you think about things, And what's the stats on
how many people have a biblical worldview?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Josh, ninety four percent of Christians don't. Right, So we
live in a country where sixty seven percent the last
time they look sixty seven percent of Americans identify as Christian.
So out of that sixty seven percent, the majority of
our country, ninety four percent of them don't actually have
(10:38):
a biblical worldview. So only six percent of Christians.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Have a biblical worldview.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
So if you're listening to this podcast, I assume that
you don't. The average says that less than one out
of ten Christians that goes to church is going to
have a biblical worldview. And there's all kinds of stuff
behind that, and we can have that conversation another day,
you know.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But that's that's the.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Stats, right, And the reason I bring this up is
because if you're listening to me talk about my thoughts
on being in shape and you disagree or you go like, Okay,
I kind of get it, but I don't. I'm not
quite at that extreme, or whatever whatever your thoughts are
on this. Here's here's how we need to be in
our lives. And this is principle. This is not nick speaking.
(11:23):
We are not good at being our own gods because
we're not designed to be. We were not good at
making ourselves happy, we're not good at making ourselves healthy.
Having great relationships like man is not supposed to be
his own God. So when you come to something like
this or really anything in your life, rather than just
living by default and kind of going like, well, this
is my experience, here's what I think, and not really
questioning why you think that way, because you're probably just
(11:45):
repeating things that you've inherited from the environments and experiences
you've been in.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You have to say, what does the Bible say about it?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And that's that's what I wanted to get us down
to here, is like, Okay, those stats are shocking. I
have strong feelings about it, But what's the Bible say
about it? Because Jesus never said like thou shalt you know,
be a certain body percent fat, or you must bench
press x pounds.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
And that's why I wanted to bring you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
On, Josh, because I know that you you know, you
and I have talked about this privately at length, but like,
you know, for the people out there, what does the
Bible say about physical fitness?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Well, I think there's a lot of stats that everyone
hears and everyone can get into. You know, what's interesting is,
you know, my dad has this really interesting thought. He says,
people don't change until they hurt enough. They have to
learn enough, they want to receive enough, they're able to.
You know, the truth is, if you're listening to this,
like here's the truth. It doesn't have to be true,
(12:37):
but it's true for most people. And that's if you're
listening to this and you're out of shape and you
don't take care of yourself and you don't value health,
you probably won't change that even if you have a
heart attack. I mean, that's that's that's just the reality.
There was a there's a book. There's a book out
called Same As Ever by a guy named Morgan Housel
who's an investor. But in this book he shares these
(12:59):
like timeless principles of history. And one of the things
that he actually talks about in that book is one
of the leading He does his interview with one of
the leading cancer researchers in America, one of the leading
doctors that's research and cancer, and the doctor says to
him in the interview, he says, you know, it probably
would have been better. He goes, I've I would make
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more of an impact if I just could get people
to stop smoking, Like instead of worrying about treating cancer,
if we could just get people to stop smoking, cancer
rates in the world would rapidly decline. So these doctors
are starting to talk about how a lot of this
stuff his lifestyle choices and habits, and there's a lot
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of excuses for that. I mean, like the stats say
only three percent of Americans have a healthy lifestyle. You know,
the thing on and on, We could go, right. The
thing that's the most significant to me is that Christians
are one and a half times more likely to be
obese and non Christians. So like, if you're listening to
(14:03):
this and you're a Christian, you have less of a
chance of being physically healthy than a person who's not
a Christian. And so a lot of that depends on
where you live. I mean, we live in the South,
and the South is known for how they eat. But
this is just generally the way people, like if you
think about it, Like in our church, right, we talk
(14:26):
about God wants you to put him first with your time,
your talent, and your treasure, right, and talking about money
in church is really hard. It can be really hard.
But there's actually a fourth thing, and that's your temple,
and that's really difficult to talk about because pastors also
fit into these statistics. I mean, people that are like
leading churches, like a faith leader who is in bad
(14:48):
health and they're morbidly obese or whatever, is not really
going to be interested in talking about this.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Stuff because it's it.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Would expose the hypocrisy that we all have, you know,
And so like, okay, so people go, oh, well, where
is this? Where is this in the Bible? Right, So
let's let's get onto that question. So in Romans chapter six,
first of all, in Romans chapter six, the Bible is
talking about serving Christ and Jesus being your Lord and
(15:19):
all that stuff. But then Paul says this really interesting
thing in this pastor of scripture in Romans chapter six.
What he says is he says, Romans chapter six, verse
twelve through fourteen. I'll read it, don't let sin reign
in your mortal body.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So that you obey its desires.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Do not present, do not present the parts of your
body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves
to God as those who have been brought from death
to life, and present the parts of your body to
Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be
your master, because you're under the law, but under grace.
So there is this aspect to scripture of the physical body. Right.
(16:00):
First Corinthians, chapter three, Paul says, don't you realize that
all of you together are the temple of God, and
that the spirit of God lives in you. God will
destroy anyone who destroys this temple, for God's temple is
holy and you're that temple. First Corinthians six. Don't you
realize that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
who lives in you and was given to you by God.
You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you
(16:21):
with the high price, So glorify God you. So you
must honor God with your body. And so a lot
of people can debate, right Like to me, they can
debate with these verses, mean they can debate this perspective. Romans.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I thought it was like sexual morality.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
The last one is talks about sexual morality, talks about
all that different kind of stuff. Romans chapter six. If
you read the context of Romans chapter six, then what
you'll see is Paul is just generally talking about kind
of following Christ. So he talks about sin, the power
of sin over your life, and death doesn't have power
over you. And then he pretty much is saying, don't
(17:02):
let sin control the way that you live, right, Right,
So if you look at the words that he's using,
he's talking about you're mortal like the body the way
that you live your life every day. So so okay,
if in the context of the verse of first Corinthian six,
and we just want to look at that one, right,
if you say, okay, well, that means that I can
(17:24):
be fat. Right, that means that means that God doesn't
really care about what I do with my physical body.
The question you still have to answer is is that
honoring God with your body? Right?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Like?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Do you can? You can you believe and put yourself
in a position in your life and really have a
theology in your mind that says I am honoring God
with my physical body if I eat a whole bag
of Dorito's tonight.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, let me let me ask you to break something
down here, because I want to make sure what when
you say honoring, what do you mean? Because like honoring
is not like in our circles and where you and
I roll, honor is used a lot. I can say
safely that before I came over here, the only people
I thought of in honor was like Japanese people because
of Samurais. That was like the only time I would.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Ever get in the military. We talk about honoring, yeah,
the military. Right, that's about it. So what do you
mean by that?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
So there's two definitions of honor. One is an Old
Testament definition. One's a New Testament definition. The Old Testament
definition of honor is to give weight to something. So
it's this word kavad. It means heavy, it means weighty.
So when you would honor God, there was like this
this weight, like you would value the word of God
in your life.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Right.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
The New Testament definition is a little more personal. It's
to treat someone or something as special and valuable. Right,
So we'll use those definitions in this context. So the
first thing is to give weight to what the Bible says.
So when God says your body is a temple and
it's given to you by God to use, is it
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giving weight to God understanding the significance of your physical
body if you don't treat it well, if you don't
if you don't have health. Romans chapter twelve, verse one
says present your body as a living sacrifice. And that
word in the Greek is this word soma And this
word soma means the combination of everything about you. So
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God's not just looking at your soul and your spirit, right,
He's looking at your physical body, what you do with
your physical body. So if you believe so, if a
person's listen and you believe pornography is a big deal,
you believe going to like a strip club's a big deal.
You believe where you are physically and who you're with
physically is a big deal, then I think logically you
have to extend that into things like health because if
(19:46):
I'm a person who says, hey, yeah, like porn can
be a sin in your soul, but it's something that's
happening physically, it's something that's taking place, it's a physical pleasure.
It's all that stuff. It's everything mixed together. So is
food for people like people that have food addictions. I mean,
all these things are valid and real and they're tough
(20:06):
to navigate and all of that stuff. What this podcast
is about is not about how easy it is to overcome.
It's about the fact that you should be overcoming it. Like,
don't let yourself off the hook and go well, this
is just like this is just the life that I'm
supposed to live like if God, if God once your
body presents him as a living sacrifice. If God tells
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you that your body is a temple. You know, the
big question that people ask and what people say all
throughout the church world. I mean, this isn't a new thought,
is do you want to give God a broken down,
messed up, unhealthy temple? Right? If I was if I
was going to say, okay, Nick, you're my friend, and like,
I know you value what I say, and what I
say is like you should go be healthy, and then
(20:50):
you don't go be healthy. It's like, well you don't
honor what I say. You don't value what I say
because you're friend it right, Right, So God tells us
to honor God all the way, like God tells us
to present everything about us as a living sacrifice. So
that's the first thing is good weight. But then it's
also to treat something as valuable. So when when we
I mean just fundamentally, when we live an unhealthy lifestyle
(21:13):
in any way, if that's smoking, I mean there's a
lot of people I know, those lot of people, you know,
they seem to be physically fit, and they just they
they drink alcohol, like all the time, they're always drinking.
Are they vape or they do all kinds of other stuff,
or they'll do they'll do they'll smoke weed, they'll do
all kinds of you know, it's like, this is not
about fat people.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
This is about it's not about looks.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Yeah, this is about health. And so it's like, if
you drink to excess on a regular basis, you're not
honoring God with your body. You could say, I'm a Christian,
you know, Like it's the same, you know, And there's
so many people I've known, so many people, you know,
Nick that they negotiate themselves out of they negotiate themselves
into basically having an alcohol problem because they say, well,
(21:55):
the Bible's not against drinking, and you're right, the Bible's
not against drinking. Jesus drank wine and all of that.
Does that mean that there is there that it's a
good thing? Like Paul talks about this in the Book
of Romans. He says it's a sin to not do
what you know that you should do, right right, Yeah,
So does that mean it's a good thing for you
to go party, get hammered, go live a life and
(22:17):
do that kind of stuff? No, it doesn't mean that
that that's a good thing. It just means, oh, we're
probably not going to go to hell for it, right,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, and I but that is that is the thought
process is it's like, oh, like that people go like, oh,
it's not a heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Or Hell issue.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
And I just I think that that whole thought process
is poisonous.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh it's because I don't it's awful. Yeah, I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Like, what's so interesting is when Jesus talks about all
his parables of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He talks about how.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You get rewarded for what you do on Earth over
and over and over again. When you look at the parables,
it is very much a case of, like you enter
into eternity, not like, oh, hey, you slid in and
everybody's like, you know, okay, great, you're here, that's all
that matters. There's very much a case of like steward
ship being rewarded. We don't understand and know, but like
that is a consistent theme. So I like that bothers
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me that people would say like, oh, it's not a
heaven or Hell issue.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
This was never meant to be.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Like it's back to worldviews. It's back to worldview for
people like if you it's like I knew people like
this in high school, Like how how much can I
do with my girlfriend before it's a sin? Like if
you're asking that question, you're not really understanding what it
means to really put God first in your life.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
And that's that's back to having a biblical worldview and saying, okay,
like what is the purpose of all this stuff God
asks out of me?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
And if a person lives their life like in general,
and they go, Okay, how close can I get to
the line before X would happen? How close can I
get to the line before my wife would leave me?
How close can I get to the line before my
kids would hate me? How close can I get to
the line before I have a heart attack? How close
can I get to the line before I go to hell?
I mean, it's a completely normal, mediocre, average approach to life, right.
(24:04):
And you know, I have a we Oh, I used
to have a friend. He's a decathlete. He's not really
my friend anymore. But one of the things I've I've
learned about decathlon, So like when you do a decathlon,
life is like a decathlon. Like there's all these different
aspects to life, and so someone could be listening to
this and they could be naturally like a lot more
(24:26):
focused on emotional health or mental health. Like for me,
it's not hard for me to read books. It's not
a challenge for me to learn, it's not a challenge.
But physical stuff has always been difficult for me. Like
when Garrett Garrett's three years younger than me, and when
I can come home from college. He was home for
like a semester before he left to go to the Seals,
(24:47):
and uh, I was, you know, I just lived my life, man.
And at that time, I was like, you know, two
sixty two seventy didn't work out.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Just like a big dude.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I'm six five whatever, I just look like a big guy.
And so Garrett Garrett was like, man, you need me
to train you like you need me to you need
you need a trainer, you need a physical trainer. I'm like, nah, dude,
I need a friend.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So he was nice that he didn't like force me
into the gym with him. I mean, but I have
a dad who's like super fit, right. Yeah. So I
think the reason why I say that is because physical
fitness for me has always been a little bit more
of a challenge than other types of health. But so
like all of us have Now I feel like there's
like this really interesting thing in human beings, Like all
of us have this natural pull towards discipline in some area, right, right,
(25:32):
like people are people can be very disciplined in their career,
but then not be disciplined at all physically or emotionally,
or mentally or spiritually. Right, Yeah, So it's learning about
life is a decathlon that there's all these different events.
So there's all these different events that you have to
you can't Like if you're the best runner, that's great,
You're not gonna win the decathlon. You've got to throw
(25:53):
the you gotta throw the javelin, you gotta do the
long jump, you gotta do whatever it is that the
decathlon is. So life is about scoring points in every area. Right, So,
like if you're listening to this, it's all this stuff
is true. Like you need to be healthier. You need
to understand if you're a Christian, you need to understand
(26:13):
that God, God cares about what you do with your
physical body. There's no way of getting around that. Your
body is a living sacrifice, the Bible says, so present
yourself as an acceptable sacrifice. Give God your best offering, right,
not because you're going to go to hell, but because
you honor God and you really value him. But also, like,
(26:34):
here's the thing, the interplay between us and God is
God has a great plan for our life. God doesn't
want you to die of a heart attack. God wants
you to be able to play with your kids your
whole life. God wants you to make a meaningful contribution
well into your hundreds or however old you're going to
live to so him ask God asking things out of us,
like God asking us to forgive, for instance, to not
(26:54):
even use a physical example. God asking us to forgive
isn't about oh, you should just forgive, because that's what
God says. He's asking us to forgive because he knows
forgiveness leads to our emotional health. And all of psychology
can tell you all of these.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Different kind of things.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
So it's the same with physical It's like, Okay, you're
telling me God that for thousands of years to worry
about the state of my body and to honor you
with it. And then there's all this data that says
when you don't do healthy things, here's what happens with
your body. So God, the plan of God for our
life is to help us avoid really really crappy stuff. Yeah,
(27:30):
like an in the eternal sense. It's like, yeah, God
wants to us to avoid hell, but also everything else
that's in scripture is about avoiding a really bad life.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, you know, I think so one of the things
to note those like obedience always precedes revelation with God.
It's not like he tells you, and so I think
that's where you can miss it. Like I hope that
people out there are going, okay, you know, if you
think about it and you talk about you're told to
deny the cravings of the flesh right g Latians five,
nineteen twenty, Like, consider that, you know, talks about what
to stay away from, right, And if you sow to
(28:05):
the flesh, you'll not read from the spirit. Anytime you
have a craving for bad food, that's exactly what it is.
It's a craving like it comes on suddenly and you're like,
oh my gosh, dude, some salty chips or some ice cream.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I mean, that's what Roman is. Don't obey your body's desires, right,
So don't don't let sin rain. So you obey your
body's desires. So when you are allowing yourself to be
led by that appetite, you're not being led by the spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No. And here's what I would say, here's where the
obedience part is.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I hope that people out there are grasping, like, man,
maybe I've been thinking wrong about health. We're not saying
you have to look like Schwarzenegger, or you need to
everybody needs to go be a bodybuilder or whatever you
think a picture of health is. It's not we're saying
at all. You should one hundred percent have a minimum
standard though, of what you hold yourself accountable to. And
you know, I would highly recommend dexis scans. I think
they're great because you know exactly what your body composition is.
(28:57):
You'll find out your visceral fat. It will actually help
you live a health your life. But here's what you
miss if you think like all this stuff is nonsense,
And this is what I'll be honest. I don't I
love sports, but the people I love in sports are
all the mental monsters. Like I like Jordan, I like
Kobe in hockey, I like Sydney Crosby.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I like these guys who are cerebral.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I was never like a Shack guy or a Lebron
guy because to me, they were just massively physically gifted,
but not necessarily like cerebral giants. And I've always been
attracted more mentality, so I didn't value this.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
But what I've learned in.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
My own health journey, and I've transformed a lot in
the last three and a half to four years physically,
and I continue to put more effort into my physical health,
not because I have any ambitions of being you know,
I've really anything other than living a really long time
being energetic. But what you will find is physical is
the easiest to understand. Like Garrett said that in the teams,
(29:47):
they used to say, oh if you don't if you
don't learn, will beat you. That's how dogs learn. And
I think it's an amazing thing, Like you don't have
to be wise or smart or learned to understand pain,
and so we physical is the easiest place to learn.
And so what thing's gonna happen in your spiritual life,
in your emotional life, in your mental well being if
you can start to be the kind of person that
can be like man, God said to honor him with
(30:08):
my body. So I'm going to honor him. And this
is how I'm gonna get into that. And you start discovering. Man,
I got to track what I eat. I got to
be consistent in my disciplines. What's that you don't feel
like doing it? You got a bad night's sleep, and
really it's a tight scheduled day and you prioritize it anyways. Wow,
you're becoming a regardless person because guess what. Things are
gonna blow up in your life. And it's not gonna
be convenient to read the Bible. Something's gonna happen in
(30:30):
like that group that you said you're going to join
for church, Oh, man, it's really inconvenient. Or Sundays, I'm
so tired, my only day to sleep in. You're always
going to have an excuse or something that's gonna make
it seem logical to skip the things that you really
know are great and what I think people miss. And
it's one of those things you have to do it.
Like I said, you have to have obedience before revelation.
But if you can be obedient, you can start to
say okay God as an act of worship. I'm going
(30:52):
to honestly, like I'm going to get myself. I promise
you God will honor you, He'll meet you in that
and you will find such a revelation of His goodness
because it applies to so many other areas.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's just speaking from experience.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Well, and it's uh, you know, I mean, and like
everybody says this kind of stuff, but it's like, don't
do it. Don't do it for even don't do it
for yourself, did for other people. Like the thing that's
the most sad to me about looking at all these
statistics is that nineteen percent of children in America obese. Man,
so like for me, I know this is like a
(31:26):
hard statement to say, but I think if a child
is obese, their parent is pretty much an abusive parent
because your kids eat what you decide, so you can
abuse your own body. Right, that's but you if you
develop then this is what people don't understand about their life. Like,
if you develop unhealthy things in your life, you pass
(31:48):
this stuff down to your kids, and you train children
that know no better and they have no other opportunity.
You train them wrong, right, and so yeah, do it?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Do it?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Do it from an understanding, like here's the thing, and
here's how simple I think God makes it, Like God
knows all this stuff is gonna happen, right like you're
talking about obedience. God knows the cascade effects of bad
decisions and the cast gade effects of good decisions. You
don't have to understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
All you got to do is be obedient.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
And that's and that's to your point. Nick, It's like
if and this is all through scripture and this will
just sum it up, like ask yourself this question today.
Is God really first with my time? Is He first
with my talent? Is He first with my treasure? And
then is He first with my temple? Do I really
honor God with my physical body? And if not, go
back to the Decathlone thing my encouragement to you is
(32:42):
just start to score points in that area, like you
can you can go to YouTube and do yoga and stretching,
or you can there's there's twenty minute hit workouts that
aren't that hard. You don't have to go join a
gym and hire a physical trainer and all that stuff,
although that would be healthy. But like read you know.
The last thing I'll say before we end today is
if you don't know how to get started, don't know
(33:03):
where to get started. Before you even start taking this journey,
read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear because he
talks about making small changes. So don't jump off this
podcast and go, Okay, I gotta go run. I gotta
go run five k today, like go like just do
take a walk, like take a walk round. Yeah, so
start scoring points and watch what happens in your life
(33:25):
when you start to score points. And this is true
for every aspect of our life. But it's easiest. It's
not easiest, I would say it's the most true. It's
the most clear. When we start to do this physically.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, I completely agree. And just because we do like
to be practical. We've had him on the podcast, Cody McBroom,
who's been a huge blessing to me. He has just
made this so simple for me as I continue to
like build muscle and burn fat and I mean by
seventies on the podcast, he can make something that's complex
sounds simple. I'm gonna link to his tailored coaching method.
(33:58):
He has a podcast, he has a webs they have.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
A ton of start.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's a great I mean, like, honestly, if you have
no clue what to do, or even if you think
you know what to do, go check out Cody, follow him,
follow his stuff. Like we don't get anything for it.
It's just I know how great Cody is. I trust him,
I love him, He's a brother, and so I'll put
all his stuff in the show notes. If the very
least you did was just go read some of the
free resources that he has on his website, you'd be
infinitely better.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
So I'm gonna link to that.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
But guys, you know, I feel like if Garrett's here,
this would be a lot harsher. You and I are
actually inviting people into fitness, Like come on, guys, like.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The Lord, this is the dude is under the Lord.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Garrett would probably be a little bit harsher or maybe not,
who knows, But but I hope you guys are seeing
because you know, the underlying thing that that Josh said
and we'll end here is are you putting God first
in every area?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Is the question that you should ask.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
And like we talked about biblical worldview, don't just say
well this is the way it is, really do the
work to mine what's in the Bible and confront those things.
One of the best places you could ever be. Is
is a hump to walk humbly with your God. It says,
what does he require of you?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
A man?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
To love justice? Sorry, to do justice, love mercy and
walk home with your God? Is what it says in Micah,
And that is really it is like walking homely with God?
Is you admitting I don't know what's best for my life?
I actually will not be in a I'm not capable
to lead myself. Well, so, Lord, I need to know
what you say. And when you have that attitude, God
(35:20):
meets you where you're at. He's a better communicator than
we are listeners. He's given us his words, He's given
us the body of Christ. And if you will have
that attitude and everything you do, you will see God's
plans unfolding your life. And when God's orders in your life,
there is a flow, there's an abundance, and there is
a favor.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
That truly is the joy of living. Absolutely. Thank you
very much for listening.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
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Speaker 1 (35:47):
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Speaker 3 (35:48):
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Speaker 1 (35:51):
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Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Thank you again for listening. Go out there and think
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