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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to There is a Method to the Madness.
My name is Rob Maxwell, and I'man exercise physiologist and
personal trainer.
I am the owner of Maxwell'sFitness Program, and I've been
in business since 1994.
The purpose of this podcast isto get to the real deal of what
really worked and mostimportantly why things work.
Hence the name, there is amethod to the magnet.
(00:24):
Before I get started today, letme thank Jonathan and Lynn
Gildan of the Gilding GroupRealty Pros.
They are committed to providingthe highest level of customer
service in home sales.
Why don't you give them a shoutand figure out what your home is
worth?
386-451-2412.
(00:45):
Hello, everybody.
Coach Rob here to talk aboutsome fitness.
It is Sunday mid-morning for me.
Not quite sure when you're goingto listen to this, but hopefully
you're having a good day.
Hopefully you have takenadvantage of the many, many
benefits of exercise or you aregoing to at some point today.
(01:07):
Before I get started with themain theme today, I want to do a
little bit of uh, you know,house cleaning here.
So hopefully most of you, if notall of you, have purchased the
new book.
I really like it.
I think it's got a great messagein there for what the problem is
as far as people not getting inall their activity that they
(01:28):
should get if they want to reapthe benefits, and then what some
solutions are.
But um, reading through it asI'm reading through my copies
myself, I'm finding some typosand some errors, and it really
frustrates me because you know,we pay good money for the
editing services, and uh, youknow, there are things that
(01:49):
always tend to happen when we dobooks.
So, you know, ultimately theresponsibility lies with me
because I didn't see it, but atthe same time, professional
editors are supposed to catchthese things.
So if you catch any of them,just be aware that we're aware
and hopefully you see the uhforest through the trees, so to
(02:10):
say.
The one that is frustrating,though, is with the Hippocratic
Oath, and they called it the uhSocrates.
I don't know if they saidSocratic Oath, but mentioned
Socrates, it's Hippocrates, andI know this very well.
Again, who knows how thathappened.
But anyway, forgive me on that,and uh let's uh move forward.
(02:30):
So I want to talk a little bit.
I had a question about theholidays and what people should
do, what this person should dothrough the holidays with their
physical fitness, and uh, Ithink that's very apropos, of
course.
This is uh the last day ofNovember that I'm recording
this, and you will hear thiseither today or tomorrow.
(02:54):
So it'll be going into December.
Um, look, this is what tends tohappen every year.
People kind of like count theholidays as Thanksgiving or
probably the day beforeThanksgiving, all the way
through the first Monday of thenew year.
That is a long time to be onbreak, right?
(03:16):
So that's like the very lastweek of November into the very
first week of January, that alot of people just kind of like
put on hold the whole timeregarding their health and
fitness.
And um I don't think that's agood idea at all.
I talked about last time and weput out some emails about we
(03:39):
don't want to be fanatical, likeI don't think that's good
anyway.
We don't want to say don't haveany of the you know fatty stuff
like the gravy or the mashedpotatoes with gravy on
Thanksgiving.
Like, I I don't think that's agreat way to go through life.
I think there is a uh you know ahappy medium.
(04:00):
And as I said in the lastpodcast, and I say pretty much
often, we just need to be good80% of the 80% good 80% of the
time.
And I think if we're mostlygood, I mean, we're gonna come
out of everything okay.
Now, the people that tend tohave a lot of trouble are those
(04:21):
people that can't turn off thatblack or white thinking through
the holidays.
You know, they either go oneextreme or the other.
Now, I don't see too many peoplegoing through the extreme of
dieting, you know, even though Ireally don't like that word.
It's really more about a healthylifestyle.
(04:42):
But you don't see too manypeople going to the far extreme
that one direction of dietingthe whole way through.
But what you do see is peoplebasically saying to hell with it
and doing everything they wantto do, and then say, you know
what?
Come January 1st, I'm gonna fixthis.
So for now, I'm just gonna dowhat I want to do.
(05:03):
And that is very, very common.
And it may not be that extremewith you, but there might be a
level of it.
And the bottom line is it's justnot necessary.
We don't have to throweverything out and then pick it
up come the first week ofJanuary.
(05:24):
I mean, for one thing, yourmuscles begin to atrophy after
96 hours.
That's four days, they begin toatrophy.
So if you're like throwingeverything out muscle-wise,
like, well, I'll pick up mystrength training come January,
but in December it's going to behit and miss because of the
(05:46):
holidays.
That's not a good idea for thatreason.
Does that mean you can't pick itup and start to get benefits
again?
Of course you can, but you don'treally have to take that step
back to do that.
You can maybe not be as uh, youknow, frequent with your
(06:06):
strength training sessions,maybe.
I don't even see that that'sreally necessary.
I mean, if we're strengthtraining and doing our cardio
correctly, it's not really goingto take up that much time.
But like, yes, you can pick itback up, but why would you want
to have to pick it up?
Like, why can't you justmaintain some semblance of it
(06:30):
through the holidays?
I mean, the answer is you can.
You're just gonna have to bemotivated to do so.
So, one thing to keep in mind isthat you will begin to atrophy
after 96 hours.
So that doesn't mean yourmuscles go away in 96 hours.
That means that the processbegins.
So, why would you want to takeunnecessary time off?
(06:54):
I mean, the the only reasoncould be because number one,
it's not a big enough priorityfor you.
Or number two, you think youhave to do so much to maintain
it.
And that's gonna be the meat andthe potatoes of this podcast.
I want to really dispel thosemyths.
(07:14):
I want to get rid of them.
All right.
The other thing we don't want toreally do either is why would
you want to say, quit doing yourcardio?
Why would you want to stop overthe holidays and say, again,
just like strength training,well, I don't really have the
time, or I'm gonna really go atthis full swing come January 3rd
(07:38):
or 4th, you know, whatever it isthis year that that Monday lands
on.
I haven't looked that head inahead in the calendar yet.
That's probably a good thing.
But why would you want to dothat when you don't have to do
that?
You don't want to always go onestep forward, two steps back,
because that's what that wouldbe.
(08:00):
Again, that the thecardiovascular muscles, such as
your heart itself, it evenbegins to atrophy a little bit.
We do start to see somedeconditioning occur in just a
week, let alone a month.
I mean, and it's justunnecessary.
Sometimes it is necessary.
You get injured, um, you have totake a physical break.
(08:21):
I mean, sometimes it'snecessary, but the holidays
really isn't necessary to justtotally make your exercise
routine go in the backseat.
It's just like, why would youwant to do that?
And then finally, why would youwant to just throw out all the
work you've done on your weightmaintenance and just eat however
(08:43):
you want for basically fiveweeks?
I mean, it doesn't have to belike that, you know?
It's just why would you want toput on the five or six pounds?
I mean, a lot of times peopleoverrate how much they put on,
but you know, maybe you can puton a few pounds.
Why would you want to do thatwhen it's just not necessary if
(09:05):
you are trying to lose weight 12months out of the year, or I
should say 11 months out of theyear, why would you want to
throw it all out for one month?
And the so it comes down to tworeal answers, right?
Number one is you're notmotivated enough.
You don't care.
(09:25):
Um, and if that's the case, Imean, what can I say?
I mean, I learned in mypsychology studies in my
undergrad, you know, you can'tmotivate anybody else, meaning I
can't motivate you.
You're gonna have to motivateyourself.
All we can do is really teachthe facts, and then someone will
pick it up where they think theyneed to.
(09:47):
But that's all really I can do.
So I can't motivate theunmotivatable.
That's just impossible.
But I can give everybody theknowledge that's out there, the
knowledge I have.
And so that's could that's thesecond reason if it's not
motivation.
It's you don't know better.
So there's a level of ignorance.
You think that you have to do somuch to maintain or so much to
(10:13):
make progress.
And that's not true any monthsof the year, let alone during
the holidays.
Like that's a big myth.
More is not better.
I don't know why.
Well, I kind of do.
Marketing and all that, youknow, is why people believe you
have to do so much.
Or, you know, oftentimes therole models that you see for
(10:39):
fitness oftentimes are thepeople that are thin and they
seem to be doing so much all ofthe time.
But what I want you to keep anopen mind to is you might be
seeing more of a correlationversus a causality, meaning
that, you know, they may do alot of work.
(11:02):
They may like run six miles aday.
You might see that.
And, you know, they're thin andthey're fit, but that might be
like the correlation.
Like that they might be thin andfit because they're genetically
predisposed to that.
There's a combination ofgenetics and hard work and
weight maintenance.
(11:23):
Like, you don't know.
So oftentimes that is sort ofthe stereotype we have that this
person is doing so much work.
And the reality is this we getmore fit, we increase our
fitness via intensity versusvolume.
(11:45):
We know that we all need acertain amount of reps per se,
but it's not as much as youthink.
And when you are in a situationwhere you feel like you don't
have enough time, and I thinkthat happens with the holidays.
So look, I'm not busting onanybody, I get it.
(12:06):
It gets very stressful.
We get family coming in, we areentertaining, or we're being
entertained, or we aretraveling.
All these things are going onwhere the world is grabbing our
attention.
I get it.
But what I'm telling you is ifyou just took a little time each
day to just make sure you'regetting in some form of
(12:31):
exercise.
You will thank yourself comethat first week of January.
You won't be starting over.
If you just exercise for 10minutes a day, or even five, if
it was like the last resort, youare going to get the benefits.
Too many times people say, Ihear it all the time.
(12:53):
Well, if I can't do this much,why bother?
Here's something pretty uhsimilar to this.
So, you know, social media whenit comes to physical fitness is
pretty horrid.
Like it's bad.
It's just like, I think if I wastrying to get in shape and I
didn't know better, I'd be sofreaking confused, or I'd be
irritated with people, you know.
(13:14):
And so I saw somebody on um, Ithink it was Threads, and they
made a comment.
They were a runner and they werepart of a running group or
something.
And the person said, you know,I'm at that point where if I
can't do a 10K, which is 6.2miles, then I don't know why I
even bother to run.
And I and I was, I read this andthere's all these comments,
(13:37):
yeah, me too, you know, all thisstuff.
And I just kept scrolling, ofcourse.
But in my mind, I'm thinking,you know, this is such a problem
to think that you have to run a10K when you run.
And I'm also thinking to myself,in sort of this judgmental way,
it's like, oh yeah, why don'tyou come out and do like a
really hard mile?
(13:58):
Like, let's push you for five toseven minutes, whatever their
capabilities are, and let's seeif they really feel that way.
Because the bottom line is weget more fit from intensity, not
duration.
I hate to break it to everybody,but people that do really,
really, really long workouts allthe time, it's usually there's
(14:18):
some disordered eating patternsin there, like they're doing it
to burn too many calories or orwhatever.
Sometimes they're training forlong distance endurance events.
So, you know, that's fine,whatever.
But the bottom line is we getmore fit from intensity, not
duration.
A hard 10-minute run.
I'm just using running as theexample.
(14:40):
You could say swim, you couldsay bike, you could say whatever
you want.
But a hard 10-minute run isgonna do more for your
cardiorespiratory system, morefor your slow twitch muscle
fibers, more for your endocrinesystem than a moderate 30-minute
run ever will.
(15:01):
So, yes, we need to accumulate acertain amount of volume in the
week, but we don't have to donearly as much as we think.
I have a client now who uh hasreally gravitated towards the
zero, zero days.
Like she really gets that.
Let's have no zero days.
(15:21):
And the other day I texted, Isaid, Hey, go out and get a mile
in.
And they check, they textedback.
They said, Check, I did it.
It's like, that's so great.
Like if you'll just go out andwalk a mile, if you'll do 20
push-ups or 20 squats, itdoesn't have to be a lot.
You just really, I believe, wantto get in the habit of doing
(15:44):
some form of exercise every day.
Just look at your schedule inthe morning through the holidays
and say, you know what?
Today's a horrid day.
I have to go shopping for themeal.
I've got so-and-so coming over.
I've got, you know, I have 15minutes.
It's like, okay, to do afive-minute walk jog, do as many
(16:07):
squats as you can and as manypush-ups as you can, call it a
day.
I mean, that is gonna benefityou.
Too often we get locked into thethinking of if I don't do this,
what's the point?
And I'm telling you right nowthat that is the false mindset.
Instead, tell yourself you'regonna do something positive
(16:28):
towards your physical fitnesstoday.
Something positive.
My piano teacher, who whoteaches me remotely, she knows
that we're all guilty of it, nomatter what the discipline is.
In this case, it's music.
And I'll say, Oh, Natalie, youknow, when am I gonna have the
time?
You know, I'll do the samething.
Actually, I don't complain likethat.
But she just reminds me, shesays, Rob, 10 minutes a day at
(16:51):
the piano, 10 minutes will doyou so much more good than if
you sit down and try to do amarathon one day and then don't
play with the keys for a wholeweek.
She's so right.
And when I sit down for the 10minutes, I enjoy it, I like it,
I often spend more time doingit.
All right.
So this holiday season, everyday, do something, one thing
(17:14):
positive towards your physicalfitness.
And I promise you that the newyou in 2026 will thank you.
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Welcome to There is a Method to the Madness.
My name is Rob Maxwell, and I'man exercise physiologist and
personal trainer.
I am the owner of Maxwell'sFitness Program, and I've been
in business since 1994.
The purpose of this podcast isto get to the real deal of what
really worked and mostimportantly why things work.
Hence the name, there is amethod to the magnet.
(00:24):
Before I get started today, letme thank Jonathan and Lynn
Gildan of the Gilding GroupRealty Pros.
They are committed to providingthe highest level of customer
service in home sales.
Why don't you give them a shoutand figure out what your home is
worth?
386-451-2412.
(00:45):
Hello, everybody.
Coach Rob here to talk aboutsome fitness.
It is Sunday mid-morning for me.
Not quite sure when you're goingto listen to this, but hopefully
you're having a good day.
Hopefully you have takenadvantage of the many, many
benefits of exercise or you aregoing to at some point today.
(01:07):
Before I get started with themain theme today, I want to do a
little bit of uh, you know,house cleaning here.
So hopefully most of you, if notall of you, have purchased the
new book.
I really like it.
I think it's got a great messagein there for what the problem is
as far as people not getting inall their activity that they
(01:28):
should get if they want to reapthe benefits, and then what some
solutions are.
But um, reading through it asI'm reading through my copies
myself, I'm finding some typosand some errors, and it really
frustrates me because you know,we pay good money for the
editing services, and uh, youknow, there are things that
(01:49):
always tend to happen when we dobooks.
So, you know, ultimately theresponsibility lies with me
because I didn't see it, but atthe same time, professional
editors are supposed to catchthese things.
So if you catch any of them,just be aware that we're aware
and hopefully you see the uhforest through the trees, so to
(02:10):
say.
The one that is frustrating,though, is with the Hippocratic
Oath, and they called it the uhSocrates.
I don't know if they saidSocratic Oath, but mentioned
Socrates, it's Hippocrates, andI know this very well.
Again, who knows how thathappened.
But anyway, forgive me on that,and uh let's uh move forward.
(02:30):
So I want to talk a little bit.
I had a question about theholidays and what people should
do, what this person should dothrough the holidays with their
physical fitness, and uh, Ithink that's very apropos, of
course.
This is uh the last day ofNovember that I'm recording
this, and you will hear thiseither today or tomorrow.
(02:54):
So it'll be going into December.
Um, look, this is what tends tohappen every year.
People kind of like count theholidays as Thanksgiving or
probably the day beforeThanksgiving, all the way
through the first Monday of thenew year.
That is a long time to be onbreak, right?
(03:16):
So that's like the very lastweek of November into the very
first week of January, that alot of people just kind of like
put on hold the whole timeregarding their health and
fitness.
And um I don't think that's agood idea at all.
I talked about last time and weput out some emails about we
(03:39):
don't want to be fanatical, likeI don't think that's good
anyway.
We don't want to say don't haveany of the you know fatty stuff
like the gravy or the mashedpotatoes with gravy on
Thanksgiving.
Like, I I don't think that's agreat way to go through life.
I think there is a uh you know ahappy medium.
(04:00):
And as I said in the lastpodcast, and I say pretty much
often, we just need to be good80% of the 80% good 80% of the
time.
And I think if we're mostlygood, I mean, we're gonna come
out of everything okay.
Now, the people that tend tohave a lot of trouble are those
(04:21):
people that can't turn off thatblack or white thinking through
the holidays.
You know, they either go oneextreme or the other.
Now, I don't see too many peoplegoing through the extreme of
dieting, you know, even though Ireally don't like that word.
It's really more about a healthylifestyle.
(04:42):
But you don't see too manypeople going to the far extreme
that one direction of dietingthe whole way through.
But what you do see is peoplebasically saying to hell with it
and doing everything they wantto do, and then say, you know
what?
Come January 1st, I'm gonna fixthis.
So for now, I'm just gonna dowhat I want to do.
(05:03):
And that is very, very common.
And it may not be that extremewith you, but there might be a
level of it.
And the bottom line is it's justnot necessary.
We don't have to throweverything out and then pick it
up come the first week ofJanuary.
(05:24):
I mean, for one thing, yourmuscles begin to atrophy after
96 hours.
That's four days, they begin toatrophy.
So if you're like throwingeverything out muscle-wise,
like, well, I'll pick up mystrength training come January,
but in December it's going to behit and miss because of the
(05:46):
holidays.
That's not a good idea for thatreason.
Does that mean you can't pick itup and start to get benefits
again?
Of course you can, but you don'treally have to take that step
back to do that.
You can maybe not be as uh, youknow, frequent with your
(06:06):
strength training sessions,maybe.
I don't even see that that'sreally necessary.
I mean, if we're strengthtraining and doing our cardio
correctly, it's not really goingto take up that much time.
But like, yes, you can pick itback up, but why would you want
to have to pick it up?
Like, why can't you justmaintain some semblance of it
(06:30):
through the holidays?
I mean, the answer is you can.
You're just gonna have to bemotivated to do so.
So, one thing to keep in mind isthat you will begin to atrophy
after 96 hours.
So that doesn't mean yourmuscles go away in 96 hours.
That means that the processbegins.
So, why would you want to takeunnecessary time off?
(06:54):
I mean, the the only reasoncould be because number one,
it's not a big enough priorityfor you.
Or number two, you think youhave to do so much to maintain
it.
And that's gonna be the meat andthe potatoes of this podcast.
I want to really dispel thosemyths.
(07:14):
I want to get rid of them.
All right.
The other thing we don't want toreally do either is why would
you want to say, quit doing yourcardio?
Why would you want to stop overthe holidays and say, again,
just like strength training,well, I don't really have the
time, or I'm gonna really go atthis full swing come January 3rd
(07:38):
or 4th, you know, whatever it isthis year that that Monday lands
on.
I haven't looked that head inahead in the calendar yet.
That's probably a good thing.
But why would you want to dothat when you don't have to do
that?
You don't want to always go onestep forward, two steps back,
because that's what that wouldbe.
(08:00):
Again, that the thecardiovascular muscles, such as
your heart itself, it evenbegins to atrophy a little bit.
We do start to see somedeconditioning occur in just a
week, let alone a month.
I mean, and it's justunnecessary.
Sometimes it is necessary.
You get injured, um, you have totake a physical break.
(08:21):
I mean, sometimes it'snecessary, but the holidays
really isn't necessary to justtotally make your exercise
routine go in the backseat.
It's just like, why would youwant to do that?
And then finally, why would youwant to just throw out all the
work you've done on your weightmaintenance and just eat however
(08:43):
you want for basically fiveweeks?
I mean, it doesn't have to belike that, you know?
It's just why would you want toput on the five or six pounds?
I mean, a lot of times peopleoverrate how much they put on,
but you know, maybe you can puton a few pounds.
Why would you want to do thatwhen it's just not necessary if
(09:05):
you are trying to lose weight 12months out of the year, or I
should say 11 months out of theyear, why would you want to
throw it all out for one month?
And the so it comes down to tworeal answers, right?
Number one is you're notmotivated enough.
You don't care.
(09:25):
Um, and if that's the case, Imean, what can I say?
I mean, I learned in mypsychology studies in my
undergrad, you know, you can'tmotivate anybody else, meaning I
can't motivate you.
You're gonna have to motivateyourself.
All we can do is really teachthe facts, and then someone will
pick it up where they think theyneed to.
(09:47):
But that's all really I can do.
So I can't motivate theunmotivatable.
That's just impossible.
But I can give everybody theknowledge that's out there, the
knowledge I have.
And so that's could that's thesecond reason if it's not
motivation.
It's you don't know better.
So there's a level of ignorance.
You think that you have to do somuch to maintain or so much to
(10:13):
make progress.
And that's not true any monthsof the year, let alone during
the holidays.
Like that's a big myth.
More is not better.
I don't know why.
Well, I kind of do.
Marketing and all that, youknow, is why people believe you
have to do so much.
Or, you know, oftentimes therole models that you see for
(10:39):
fitness oftentimes are thepeople that are thin and they
seem to be doing so much all ofthe time.
But what I want you to keep anopen mind to is you might be
seeing more of a correlationversus a causality, meaning
that, you know, they may do alot of work.
(11:02):
They may like run six miles aday.
You might see that.
And, you know, they're thin andthey're fit, but that might be
like the correlation.
Like that they might be thin andfit because they're genetically
predisposed to that.
There's a combination ofgenetics and hard work and
weight maintenance.
(11:23):
Like, you don't know.
So oftentimes that is sort ofthe stereotype we have that this
person is doing so much work.
And the reality is this we getmore fit, we increase our
fitness via intensity versusvolume.
(11:45):
We know that we all need acertain amount of reps per se,
but it's not as much as youthink.
And when you are in a situationwhere you feel like you don't
have enough time, and I thinkthat happens with the holidays.
So look, I'm not busting onanybody, I get it.
(12:06):
It gets very stressful.
We get family coming in, we areentertaining, or we're being
entertained, or we aretraveling.
All these things are going onwhere the world is grabbing our
attention.
I get it.
But what I'm telling you is ifyou just took a little time each
day to just make sure you'regetting in some form of
(12:31):
exercise.
You will thank yourself comethat first week of January.
You won't be starting over.
If you just exercise for 10minutes a day, or even five, if
it was like the last resort, youare going to get the benefits.
Too many times people say, Ihear it all the time.
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Well, if I can't do this much,why bother?
Here's something pretty uhsimilar to this.
So, you know, social media whenit comes to physical fitness is
pretty horrid.
Like it's bad.
It's just like, I think if I wastrying to get in shape and I
didn't know better, I'd be sofreaking confused, or I'd be
irritated with people, you know.
(13:14):
And so I saw somebody on um, Ithink it was Threads, and they
made a comment.
They were a runner and they werepart of a running group or
something.
And the person said, you know,I'm at that point where if I
can't do a 10K, which is 6.2miles, then I don't know why I
even bother to run.
And I and I was, I read this andthere's all these comments,
(13:37):
yeah, me too, you know, all thisstuff.
And I just kept scrolling, ofcourse.
But in my mind, I'm thinking,you know, this is such a problem
to think that you have to run a10K when you run.
And I'm also thinking to myself,in sort of this judgmental way,
it's like, oh yeah, why don'tyou come out and do like a
really hard mile?
(13:58):
Like, let's push you for five toseven minutes, whatever their
capabilities are, and let's seeif they really feel that way.
Because the bottom line is weget more fit from intensity, not
duration.
I hate to break it to everybody,but people that do really,
really, really long workouts allthe time, it's usually there's
(14:18):
some disordered eating patternsin there, like they're doing it
to burn too many calories or orwhatever.
Sometimes they're training forlong distance endurance events.
So, you know, that's fine,whatever.
But the bottom line is we getmore fit from intensity, not
duration.
A hard 10-minute run.
I'm just using running as theexample.
(14:40):
You could say swim, you couldsay bike, you could say whatever
you want.
But a hard 10-minute run isgonna do more for your
cardiorespiratory system, morefor your slow twitch muscle
fibers, more for your endocrinesystem than a moderate 30-minute
run ever will.
(15:01):
So, yes, we need to accumulate acertain amount of volume in the
week, but we don't have to donearly as much as we think.
I have a client now who uh hasreally gravitated towards the
zero, zero days.
Like she really gets that.
Let's have no zero days.
(15:21):
And the other day I texted, Isaid, Hey, go out and get a mile
in.
And they check, they textedback.
They said, Check, I did it.
It's like, that's so great.
Like if you'll just go out andwalk a mile, if you'll do 20
push-ups or 20 squats, itdoesn't have to be a lot.
You just really, I believe, wantto get in the habit of doing
(15:44):
some form of exercise every day.
Just look at your schedule inthe morning through the holidays
and say, you know what?
Today's a horrid day.
I have to go shopping for themeal.
I've got so-and-so coming over.
I've got, you know, I have 15minutes.
It's like, okay, to do afive-minute walk jog, do as many
(16:07):
squats as you can and as manypush-ups as you can, call it a
day.
I mean, that is gonna benefityou.
Too often we get locked into thethinking of if I don't do this,
what's the point?
And I'm telling you right nowthat that is the false mindset.
Instead, tell yourself you'regonna do something positive
(16:28):
towards your physical fitnesstoday.
Something positive.
My piano teacher, who whoteaches me remotely, she knows
that we're all guilty of it, nomatter what the discipline is.
In this case, it's music.
And I'll say, Oh, Natalie, youknow, when am I gonna have the
time?
You know, I'll do the samething.
Actually, I don't complain likethat.
But she just reminds me, shesays, Rob, 10 minutes a day at
(16:51):
the piano, 10 minutes will doyou so much more good than if
you sit down and try to do amarathon one day and then don't
play with the keys for a wholeweek.
She's so right.
And when I sit down for the 10minutes, I enjoy it, I like it,
I often spend more time doingit.
All right.
So this holiday season, everyday, do something, one thing
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positive towards your physicalfitness.
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