April 26, 2024 • 39 mins
Avery, Bill, and Wes talk about the importance of being on a physical fitness journey.
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Hey, I'm Wes and welcome toUnsuppressed, back with a new episode,
and we're going to get back intofitness. We had talked about this before
in the past, we didn't gettoo in depth on it. I really
focus on preparedness and year, butI want to talk about physical fitness.
That's something that Bill and Avery arevery experienced then, and I am on
my journey of fitness. Have beenchallenging myself to go to the gym consistently
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for eleven months now, and youlook a lot different because of it.
Yeah, say yeah, I uh, I'm back down to the three forties
again, So that's good. Iweighed in at one five this morning.
My brand new driver's license is alreadyinvalid because it has me at three fifty.
Well, okay, so we talkedabout this off air for a second,
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and it's not just about going tothe gym. If that's not what
this discussion is about. It's prioritiesof fitness and how you're structuring your lifestyle
in order to meet fitness goals andstuff like that. And I think Avery
oriented the first part of that discussionbecause he was like, that's a great
way to organize the discussion. SoI want avery to start and we can
start talking about it in which waysI'm like the organizational aspect of like priorities
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of fitness before we get into theweeds. Well, there's the why.
Yeah, oh well, okay,let's start with the why. So the
reason why you want to stay inshape, surprise, surprise, is because
you'll live longer, whether nothing everhappens or something happens, and you need
to use your muscles and cardiovascular enduranceto get yourself away from the situation or
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respond to the situation. You're gonnafitness is going to make you live longer,
so that's why it's important. Andif nothing ever happens, which more
than likely nothing will ever happen,you'll live longer because you won't be a
blob. So that's important. Yeah. Yeah, And then you know,
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when it comes down to the how, which is what we talked about with
prioritizing, it really depends on whereyou start. I'm going to go from
the perspective of you are the absoluteworst you've ever been. You couldn't get
any worse. It hurts the climbup the flatystairs. If you push yourself
off from the table at the dinnertable, your triceps cramp, you know
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that type of ask me how Iknow you know that type of stuff.
You know, And and when itcomes to that, my suggestion is anything
you do anything, any one thing, you do one thing, because it's
not just the physical lacking in physicalfitness. It also has to do with
the mental toughness of commitment to theexercise. And if you do one thing
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that day, one thing more thanyou maybe you did yesterday, that's a
win. I'd agree with that absolutely. And I'd like to add, so
there's a there's a there's an ancientproverb and the answer proverb goes, how
do you eat an elephant? Onebite at a time? Right? So,
doing one thing is is this firststare step in order to doing two
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things, then the third thing andthe fourth thing. Because your body is
very resilient. Regardless of what allthe Doctor Phil episodes may say, or
my seven thousand pound ass life,all that kind of stuff. If individuals
set out to a goal and tostart now, it doesn't mean you're going
to look like Arnold Swarzenegger. Thatis not the goal of this. It's
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called the intent is to be healthyand physically capable so I mean, in
my opinion, it is very simple. I've always I've led a probably reasonably
active life most of my life.I kind of got chubby when I was
like thirty eight, and I freakedout and started running again. But after
that it's always been, Hey,you know, I ate like a garbage
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can because I ate like a kid, and then I would work my ass
off in the gym. Well,I always had mediocre results. As as
I got older, you had totailor away from the bad foods. So
I think fitness and mental fitness hasthere's two parts of it. That is
the physical concept and you have tounderstand your why, and you have to
have the mental part, which isgoing to be your diet because abs are
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made in the kitchen. That concept, if you are eating right, you
will start feeling better, and ifyou are feeling better, you can perform
better. Avery when I first startedrunning, because he was really instrumental in
kind of getting me to go run. Originally, he said, if you
drink water, and you drink enoughwater when you are hydrated, you will
operate at a completely different level thanyou are if your body's dehydrated, because
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you won't think you're dehydrated, butall of a sudden, but you'll just
feel like you're running on cheap gas. But when all of a sudden,
but you'll hit a runner's high likenobody's business when you're only fully hydrated.
So like I know, Wes,you've been working out now for what a
year, like hardcore and you've losthow many pounds? Well, I lost
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about twenty five pounds. I wasabout three seventy five when I started,
and I lost. Does your backhurt as much? It still does?
It comes and goes. So theheaviest I was about three thirty five.
I got down to about three fortyfour, so just about thirty one pounds,
give or take. And shot backup with Christmas, you know,
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took time off and then you know, January kind of again. Two weeks
I wasn't going to the gym,and it was actually it was about week
in January. Didn't go to thegym and I was eating crap. And
then the last two weeks I haven'tbeen going in because I was having some
sleep problems and got that resolve lastweekend, the day that we actually went
to the range and shot, Iuh basically forced myself to go to mid
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early and I woke up at likefive am. That reset my hours.
So I went about three or fourtimes this week, got you know,
arms and legs, and I gotsome cardio in and so getting back on
the swing of things. But whatwas really really been helping me lately is
I've changed my diet up to ketoand doing little car but my appetite has
gone away. It's actually to thepoint I'm not eating enough, so my
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metabolism has come down. So nowI'm working on refeeding to get my metabolism
back up. But yeah, it'sit's been working out pretty well. Well.
I would like to ask Avery ifhe remembers why his why is why?
Right? Why does he do it? Do you remember why you do
it? Or is it just whatyou do now it's your habit. Well,
I mean I'm actually coming back fromnot doing it for a long time.
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I mean, being stuck up inIdaho trying to you know, run
on sheets of ice down a hillthat's extremely steep, Like it was ridiculous.
I couldn't do it. Yeah,that was a steep hill you lived
on. Yeah, I mean,let me be afraid of that. I
didn't want to do it. Right, So we tried getting treadmills. We
tried to, but there's always somereason that was enough to convince me not
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to do it. So I'm comingback from like basically not doing anything for
two years. Roughly, you stilllook good, you still look solid.
I'm yeah solid right, well,well yeah, that's why that sweatshirt song.
Right, yeah. But you knowthe thing is like people talk about
like you guys talked about weight,or you talked about like I try to
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do this or that, you havethese bars. When I am in this
place, because I've been here before. When I'm at this place, I
don't have any bars for me.I just say I'm going to go.
If I get to wherever I wantto work out or do whatever I'm going
to do, and I do it, I consider that win. If I
feel like, oh I want todo crunches, I'll do crunches. If
I'm like, oh I want todo pull ups, I'll do pull ups.
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I don't sit there with a routineand says, well, today's my
leg day, tomorrow's my arm day, this is this is this. Nope,
I keep it as broad as humanlypossible, and then I just do
Oh that was a win. Thatwas a win. That was a win.
That was when Okay, now we'vedeveloped a mental toughness to be able
to go to commit to five timesa week. Let's say now I can
develop a routine that will enhance thoseabilities or not enhance a tone those efficiencies
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right in working out. And thenI'm a big fan of CrossFit because I
think everybody's time is very valuable tothem, and I think you can get
the best workout doing a CrossFit styleworkout inside of an hour. So that's
usually for me, consists of astrength exercise or a warm up, a
strength exercise, and then a cardioslash workout type thing, so whether a
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load a lot of some sort whichis a workout of the day, or
like an am rap as many roundsas possible e mom, which is every
minute on the minute the BATA like, there's different types of workouts inside of
that that you can you can lookat and find or we're going to actually
start posting them on tak U's Instagramso people can have a choice or an
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option. We might have little instructionalvideos inside of that as well. Well.
I'll break into my why so Patasked me the other day and Pat
went to bed early to night.He wasn't feeling well, so he asked
me. He goes, you knowyou're weird because you like beating the shit
out of yourself literally his words.So and I said, yes, I
do. And he goes, whydo you do that? And I said,
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because I thought about it. Ihad to think about it, because
A I thought it was a habit, right, because it always starts out
as self image. Self images isI want to be able to do this
thing or that thing or the otherthing. That's always been my drive.
It was it was development to begood at a sport, or it was
development to be good at something youknow, or be capable of doing this
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X, y Z and a sport. Well, now it is to be
reliable. I need to be reliable. If I need to do something,
I need to be able to physicallygo do it. Like I shoveled a
ton of sand today, literally aton of sand. I working on horse
stuff and did it alone, nobig deal of twenty minutes, knocked it
out. Well, if I wasout of shape, if I weren't doing
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it, if I was not doingall the crap that I do, beating
the hell out of myself through theweek. I would not be reliable to
be able to do those to dothese things and not be able to be
functionally later. So or let's say, well what if what if somebody gets
hurt and I have to pick themup and carry them or drag them along
or whatever is I need to do? What about that? Because those things
do happen. Shit A you respondedto an accident on the side of the
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road, I mean perfect example.If you weren't, if you didn't have
the mental capability and the physical capabilitiesdo what you're doing, you would be
a liability in the situation. That'sthe point. You don't want to be
a liability. So that's my why. The why is, you know,
and there's the upside. The upsideis you feel better, you have more
longevity. I'm fifty years old,and it is easier to stay fit and
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hurt for a reason than to wakeup with sleep injuries and not even have
a reason why you're hurting. Youjust hurt. So that's the trade off.
And yes, you do have injuriesthat are associated with any type of
physical activity. If you are goingto do CrossFit, you'll be sore in
some way. You know or ifyou lift weights you're going to be sore
in some way. Just be incrementaland grow. And if the biggest thing
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I can say to anybody who ifthey listen to this podcast and this is
the tomorrow's the first day they're gonnathey're going to make a decision and make
a change in their life. Doone thing that you enjoy doing, because
you can continue to do something youenjoy and then at a given point you
can say I literally hate what I'mdoing and you'll still do it and you'll
embrace the suck. And that's ifyou just got to get to that point.
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And I think I mean they saytwenty one days builds a habit,
right, Well, the reality isis that you never break a habit,
you replace a habit. So ifyou can replace something in that same timeline
to this new thing that you wantto do, that's going to be able,
it could potentially be a complete lifechanging situation. How about you with
Yeah, I'm doing it for multiplereasons, some personal ones want more penis
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showing. Is that a thing forthe girls? Yeah? Yeah, that's
awesome. That was part of it. It was about a year ago I
got I got dumped it was actuallyexactly yourgo is like like four days before
my birthday, so it's been likea year ago, two days ago.
So and it was just like Ikind of tell myself, look, I
got to get out there and date. And it's easier to date when you're
skinnier, right, Okay, yeah, I mean you're overweight, it's a
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lot harder and so and there's otherthings too, like just back pain.
I've had an injury. I wentto go see a chiropractor for it.
I had one chiropractor kind of confrontme and I like, you know,
you wouldn't have to come in andsee me as much if you just lost
the weight and you started getting active. And he says something, I don't
want to see you. He goes, I'm more than happy to take your
money, and I think you're agreat guy, but in this circumstance,
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I never want to see you again. And he said in kind of a
positive way. And I was like, okay, you know, and I've
been struggling with it for years offand on. It's mindset keeps falling apart.
By I just kind of made thatdecision to her. Guy said,
you know what, I'm sick andtired of this. It's almost like a
family curse. Everyone in my familyand my dad's side is always like just
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obese, And I'm like, it'sgoing to stop here, It's not going
to continue on anymore. So uhkind of like a John Link bocard,
like it stops. Yah, you'redoing it already, so you've already built
the habit. So if your whyis that you don't want to have a
condition that you want to die from, or you don't want to hurt,
then that's a great reason to doit. So now just the back pain
alone is enough to because I wouldrather hurt in my muscles from having lifted
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weights the day before then not beable to get up and walk around because
my back hurts. So I findit to be a fair trade. Well
I have, I have a funnyone. So there are people that are
like Avery that can be self motivatedand have a CrossFit gym in his garage
and do it right because you hadone, right, I mean I had
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one, but I mean it tookan ex wife to get me out to
the gym. So you just calltoday show puppies. I know mine decided
to show up too. Uh yeah, Jesus Christ Lewis, all right,
So I can't stay motivated by goingto in the house and be going I'm
gonna jump on the treadmill and go. I will not do it. I
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will do it incrementally and I willfall off. But if I go to
a gym and I go to aplace that has everything that I need,
I will go do it and itgives me the reason. It's like that
you disconnect. You say, I'mgoing from point A to point B.
It's like going to the range.It's like, you know, you get
yourself in the mindset right, andthat drive time is what gets you gets
yourself in the mindset because you're notsuffering on the drive right. And so
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you know that, like you lookat that treadmill from across the room and
you're like, I'll do it inan hour. I'll do it right after
this TV show and then there's somethingto do. Yeah, and she's like,
oh, can you help me withthe groceries And you're like, oh,
well, i'll do it right afterI deal with the groceries. And
then next thing you know, it'snine o'clock at night and you're like,
i'll do it the money, yeah, tomorrow tomorrow's good. Yeah, but
when you dedicate time and resources toit. And the other part that a
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lot of people you know don't thinkabout it, is like, okay,
so you're paying or do think aboutit. I'm paying for a gym membership
of next number of dollars, andI don't want to waste that money,
so I should go use that gym. Yeah, so I divide it by
the number of days that I go. I think, okay, gym membership
thirty bucks a month. Okay,so if I go thirty days out of
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the month dollar cheap, cheap.Well, Friday has pizzas, so well,
I think that's a pizza on Friday. Yeah. Planet Fitness has on
they have they have this big binof TOUTSI rolls that I walk by and
I give this look as like andas you're walking by, like really,
but they know how to stay inbusiness. That's what it is. It's
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like, you know, what doyou do? I'm going to keep you
on the you know, just alittle treat, just take one I do.
The funny thing is I should walkby with my bag, throw a
bunch in and leave, like what'sthat. Well, I'm trying to save
everybody from the cell. My gymwill do like the thing now, like
a challenge and like I log thismany hours of doing this certain type of
exercise, and you'll put in araffle for to win, like a big
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screen TV or or you just buya raffle ticket. And they do stuff
like that, and they do they'vedone like food events every now and then,
but that's like you know, specialoccasions just every Friday, like serve
your customer's pizza. Like we're allabout health and fitness, but here's joy.
It's not healthy. To'll make youfat, so you'll keep giving back.
Okay, I mean let me wrapup that. So I think their
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model is like, look, notevery gym out there with you know,
dying pieces running around and giant meatheeads is for everybody. So why don't
we create a gym that other peoplecan come to and get to the place
that they want to be at.Maybe they graduate, maybe they go to
the meathead place whatever, right,but at least this place they can go
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to and feel comfortable enough and andnot feel like they're being shoved, like
having kale shove down their throat allthe time. Right. Yeah, I
think that's their opinion or something.Yeah, the plant fin is that it's
a gym for people who've never beento a gym before, who want to
get started. It's a it's abeginner's gym. It's yeah, it's the
nubes gym. And I would saycrunch the pressure I get for crunches.
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It's more of an intermediate. It'slike you can do a hardcore workout there
or you can relax and just goofoff. It's not super serious. And
then twenty four Fitness is like it'sthe serious gem. It's a meat market.
That's twenty four Fit is a meatmarket at four or five o'clock at
night. That's that's like where there'sthings happening. Laugh every year I can't,
but every year I get my Facebookupdate. There was a post I
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put uphere. I was like,man, everyone as twenty for our fitness
is just a complete douchebag, andI just want those whole round about like
how the guys and the girls arejust you know, ridiculously vapid. And
I mean it when I was liketwenty four, so I was kind of
a dickhead twenty all the time asthey hit myself. Yeah, but yeah,
it's funny every year comes up,I'm like, yeah, that's that's
twenty for our fitness. Well,my belief system is this, if you
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can go to a gym that yeah, twenty four our fitness had all the
amenities, and I'm and crunched ustoo. They do have all the amenities,
but is but crunch is a littlebit more of a sweatsck compared to
twenty four. That's there. There'sa little bit different than boutique. I
go to Planet Fitness now because aI'm cheap, I'm old, and I
don't give a shit, all right, and that has the only thing that
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it is missing is that they stopat seventy five pound dumb bills and they
do not have free weights. Theyhave smith machines, so that is the
only downside. But here's the thing. They do have all the area that
if you want to do a wadlike that style of workout, no one
says anything. They're like, youdo you, bro? No one's because
if you go to a meathead likespot, everybody will look at the crossfitter
and be like, what the fright? And then they'll because there's this
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dude that does this weird like plankingthing where he walks like he's like looks
like he's like moonwalking in the air, doing all these weird shit at the
on the benches bar. No.No, he's literally like laying on the
bench and he's walking up doing likea setup like he's air wise. I
mean it looks like something you haveon Instagram and I look at him like
this, okay, whatever, Imean, you know, it's it's you
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know, but you have If yougo into the gym with the intent of
having ego, then you're never goingto get that. You're not going to
have as much success anyway, becausethere's always somebody stronger. I mean,
that's always the way it is.I mean, I mean until you get
to the peak of the peak ofthe peak, unless you're picking up that
like you know, like what's hisname, yourn monster person, you know,
the bit the strongest man in theWorld, ripped his pecks or something
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like that. Yeah, just likehe's like he's like two inches taller than
me and he weighs like the sameamount, but he's like he's the mountain
or whatever. Yeah, he playedthe mountain. Yeah. Yeah. Now
there's one guy I see at mygym that's he's a power lefter. He's
really short, he's just just bulkand he'll go and he'll he'll like take
the you know, like the Pulleymachines and he'll get right in between two
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of them and he'll put the weightsto max and he'll just go and just
go, and he'll move the weightslike two inches. I'm not even exactly
it's just the weights just kind ofyou know what happens, you know what
happens in the future. Oh shit, my shoulder, it's damage. Everything
he does. He just has massiveweights him. He moves him just a
little bit, and I go,I'd rather, you know, pick my
lighter weights and actually move them alot than doing that. But I've had
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dudes on the internet correct me andsay, actually, what you're doing is
basically just cardio. You have todo higher weights. I'd say, you
know what, you know what,how about this, how about you don't
get hurt? All right? Sonow to reorient this. Now, this
is where I get to sharpshoot people. This is where we're going to talk
about a little bit of sharp shooting. We're just talking about priorities of fitness
and rather and then everybody knows thatthere are people that go to because we're
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a gunning podcast, right, andtactical gear and all that stuff. People
like to have all the cool guyparts and all the cool guy guns and
the cool guy calms and the coolguy drones. And they have a big
fat ass and they go to thethey go to the range, and they're
winded doing standards, okay, Andunfortunately for them is that the larporating that
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they're doing versus the reality of theiractual output could be incongruent. So if
you're one of those people, there'snothing wrong with enjoying shooting. If you
are not you know, not youknow, physically fit and all that stuff
that I'm not talking about military standardsand all that. What I'm saying is
is that if you have an expectationthat you're going to be rambo in the
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event that something goes wrong, andyou're capable of operating for days and days
and days without sleep and base sleepscrutch and you're you know, you'll say
people with one hand and kill withthe other. If that's your expectation,
but you have the body of amid fifties gym teacher, then chances are
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you're probably setting yourself up fa failiar. So you know, getting to the
gym and making some good lifestyle choicesmight be beneficial, especially if you're twenty
five years old, then you can'tdo five pull ups and stuff like that.
That you know, there's some thereis. Okay, I got a
question for you, avery each becausesince you're familiar with all the military standards,
obviously, I know that they've changedthe PFT sum over the class.
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You know, right that for awhile they change it. They just changed
it again. I think, yeah, they're constantly changing it. So my
question is is there a metric thatyou would say for someone who's just starting
out, Like if they're like,hey, you know what, I'm going
to make a change. I'm twentyfive year old girl. Guy doesn't matter.
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What should I what's the basis?What's a foundation where something they should
aim to just say I can dothis. Well, let's say you move
past the like needing to commit,right, and so you're already at the
commit mint phase. Now you're like, well, now we need to start
doing a program of some sorts.So one of the things I would suggest
is you can either look up theArmy or Marine Corps physical fitness tests,
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just the basic one from back inthe old days, which was two minutes
of push ups, two minutes ofsit ups, and then a timed one
or two mile run, depending onwhich department you're dealing with. Usually two
minutes two minute run, let's say. And you can do that on the
treadmill something like that, but that'llgive you a baseline. CrossFit also has
a baseline. I believe it's afive hundred meters row and then one hundred
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What is it I want to say, is like it actually let's let me
let me look it up. Itup. I know you were talking about
back in the day there was likea one mile run that was like one
of the things that was like ametric that was fast. That was one
of the output ones, high output. While while Avery's looking shit up,
I will say this, if youare a person that needs to have the
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climate like I do, right,go to a place that is like a
gym and do that, or joina class like a like a crosswit club.
Do that, because then you buildcommunity, playing or running crew or
anything anything that interests you that youwill build community. So you'll build friendships
within that. And there's already there'salways somebody that's like the yin and yang
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to you, that would be agood fit and help push you. So
the cross. The baseline load workoutof the day is a five hundred meter
row, forty air squats, thirtysit ups, twenty push ups, and
ten pull ups. So you canban the pull ups too. So you
can like basically all these things.If you can't do them, you can
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scale them accordingly. Right, solet's look at the row. You can
scale the road to one hundred metersor two hundred and fifty meters air spots.
You don't have to go down allthe way, or you can actually
ban air squats too if you wantedto. But basically air squads just you
standing there and you squat down toninety degrees and come back up. And
that's one. Uh. You cando crunches instead of sit ups. You
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can't do a sit up, whichtrue story. I've met a guy who
said he couldn't do a sit upgetting out of his bed one time.
And then push ups. You cango to your knees and then pull ups.
You can do band it or youcan do jumping pull ups. Depending
on what resources you have, youknow you can you can skip That's what
I like about CrossFit is that youcan ban or get the gun. You
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can you can tailor the workouts forany situation, whether it's the equipment issue
or personal issue, injuries or anythinglike that. You can modify them.
I said. The only thing thatI've the only thing that's a downside to
CrossFit if you are if you're pushingyourself too hard when you're trying to like
do some of the complex lifts.That's the only thing I see people get.
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I'd like you watch the CrossFit theathletes. Everybody gets fed up when
they're doing some of the crazy stuffthey're doing. But like on a personal
level, like going and doing likethe Olympic lifts, if you're doing it
and you're maintaining control, just dodo perfect sets and then you'll build speed.
Yeah, you go down and waitlike, why no ego? But
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that's the checkbox though that most peoplecan't like, Oh well, no,
I have an expectation. I wantto be able to do this, and
then they let their ego do thelifting, which everybody who's young has done
it. And if you do itwhen you're old, oh my, the
mistakes that you make, it's notso good. So yeah, there's a
few different things you can use.I mean even if you just pick something
out yourself, you know, justget your times, ride them down in
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a book, and then go fromthere. I do a Hatch strength lifting
program. You can google search it. It's everywhere. And then I do
usually do a Burgener warm up,which you can google search that, and
there's tons of YouTube videos on that. And those two things coupled with some
sort of simplified workout of the daythat gives me an hour workout and it's
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easy to easy. Yeah, soI go in and I look at I
do a I warm Okay, Soeverything that I do now is it's like
a diesel engine. You warm upeverything before you go. Back in the
day, it was just start,don't going. Now can't do that anymore,
but I follow a different doctrine.The doctrine is it's all hit training,
which is similar to CrossFit in thatconcept, but I'm doing it through
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standard you know you resistance training.So I'll do sets of I mean,
if I'm on bench, there's I'llstart and I'll do a set of twenty
to forty with a lightweight. Youget all the blood moving, so I
get everything oiled up, and thenI'll go to a point of failure or
not so much failure, go tolike your eighty five ninety five percent,
and then you'll stop at four reps. So you'll do like a like twenty
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to forty, then a twenty twelveten eight four, you know, something
like that, and then you movethe next exercise. But you always leave
enough on the table to get thenext exercise, the next exercise, the
next epercise exercise. And the reasonis that you need to be able to
go back the next day or theday off, depending on what your body
needs. And that's going to beone hundred percent contingent on the person.
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I don't think going every day untilyou've built, like you know, because
your body will break down. Becausethen if you're going that much, you're
also going to start looking at yourdiet plan to make sure you're getting enough
protein, because you get on thisweird rollercoaster of your body eating muscle or
over trying to take fat. Andthat's a whole different discussion in itself requires
a nutritionist and some googling. Yeah, so that's next level stuff. Yeah,
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yeah, that's yeah, yeah,Because if you're a lifting with that
much, if you're not eating enoughprotein, you will start to break down.
Thank you. Yeah, yeah,it's not going to have the nutrients
that needs to build up the muscle. So going on bodybuilding and try to
get away with the vegan diet atthe same time. Usually I'll say this
too, if you if you arewanting to speed up your metabolism, doesn't
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matter what discipline you're wanting to do. If you eat small coloric density,
but multiple times a day so youkeep your body constantly cycling energy, you
will turn your metabolism up. Sothe typical numbers three hundred calories, five
times a day. And you doit, you know, pre post,
pre post, preposts, right,and however you meet that is how you
meet that. I've done it through. I've done it with like a carnivore
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diet that style, you know,then a normal diet, and then I've
done it with vegan and or vegetarian, and the vegetarian vegan thing because of
my age group, seems to beworking pretty good. But I still cheat
and I still do eat meat.So it's like probably ninety percent and I've
lost ten pounds in about a month, and it's and it's and I'm maintaining
muscle mass. So it's but you'realso working like your macro so and you
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can look up macros too. That'sthat's the thing. But long story short,
because we can talk about this typeof this is a this is literally
an industry discussion because you could talkabout this forever and everybody be right and
wrong at the same time, becausein two years somebody's going to come up
with something new and exciting and saythat this pill will save your life.
And you know what, here's here'ssomething interesting. If you're old, get
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all your levels checked because if you'reoverweight and you don't, you're not producing
testosterone like at the level you shouldhave, you're you're really low tee.
The chance if you cutting body fat'sa lot harder, there's I mean,
or you know, women, samething. If you have a ton of
estrogen going, it's a little bitharder to the balance, and it's not
easier when you get older. It'sharder. So you know, there's there's
just some things there that you shouldalways deal with your physician to make sure
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that you're you're healthy enough to dostuff and to do things incrementally. We're
not saying if he's not suggesting togo out and say, hey, go
for a fifty mile run today.Don't go out for a five mile run.
Don't do that. That's that's notsomething you just start with. Yeah,
you just find yourself there. Yeah. I hadn't really done any working
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out. He's like just gott topush through it and trying to make me
go for it. Was almost killedhere in me one day. Yeah,
just go for a couple of miles. I think I made it like one
mile and I was done. Well, I remember one night you're spaghetti.
You wrote around with me. Youmade it almost halfway back. Yeah,
all on the ground. Yeah,you're like, what the fuck? Because
he made me do that. Andthen I went home and like my muscles
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were for remember it was it hurtto get up out of a chair for
a week after that, and walkinghurt, and like my muscles were shot.
And I'm like, what's the pointof destroying your body if you can't
do and work out for another week? And didn't, So I kept trying,
telling I to pain myself. Goes, you have to do this.
Eventually I said, you just goand you run without me. I'm going
to go home. Well. Hewas a marine or something, right,
Yeah, that was his whole ideais it's just like you know, pain
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is weakness leaving the body, andlike it works in some situations. If
you've been training, if you've beenworking out, if you're in shape,
then yeah it makes sense to pushyourself hard. But if you're going cold
Turkey, you haven't worked out inthree years, and all of a sudden
you go for a mile run,you're gonna collapse. Go swimming, you
will find out how quickly how tiredyou'll get fit. I've heard that a
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lot, and I don't have apull up my gym, but yeah,
I've heard that swimming will work outand then you don't feel as exhausted because
you're you're sweating into the water.Oh no, no, no, no,
no, that's all a lie.You will be completely smoked because swimming
is about relaxation. If you cannotrelax, you will drown. Well,
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you you swim competitively, right averyin school, just in high school.
Yeah, yeah, it's like,yeah, triathlons and things like that outside
of school, Like dude, swimmingand Alicia and I were just talking about
that, trying to try and getback into the pool a little bit more
and then one other angle for peoplewho may have a combat mindset, there
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are I mean, I'm not thebiggest fan of like BJJ, but that
is one of the best training mechanismsbecause you get a massive workout and you
can go kind of full speed withouthurting people. You know, it's not
like boxing or you have to getan ass beating. You can just get
you know, rolling and you getyou get exhausted. And I know,
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if you have full of people thatdo that, and that's still very you
know, if you're young and that'swhat you want to do and get after
it, well it's very humbling too. So that makes you realize that you're
not actually superman and not like well, when the adrenaline is gone, I'll
win, probably not. Nope.Training with world champions back when I was
younger, and I saw where Iwas sitting in that hierarchy of getting my
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ass kicked, I just pretty muchknew where I was at. I mean,
it's sparring with the world champion isa I opening experience. That's that's
the best best example. And II mean I've rolled with people that know
how to roll and they'll just ballyou up so quick. They turn you
into a mess so fast. It'sfunny. Yeah, but long story short,
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work out so you can be awesomewhen the world collapses. There you
go thoughts on, yeah, I'mworking out, so yeah, be prepared
body and mind and do it forthe gram. If you want to look
at my Instagram, mine is doone more thing than you did yesterday.
That's it? What is it?The GBRS thing one percent better every day?
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I'm like, that's a hard assmetric. Bro only takes some who
says that a GBRS group, theguys that fired the guy or you know,
they're under a much of scrutiny rightnow, but they have on their
wall be one percent better every day. And I'm like, you know what,
I like that idea because one percentis relative. You could be one
percent more intelligent about a subject.You could be this. There's all the
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metrics, there's the DNA of bettergrowth. So use like it only takes
one hundred days to be better thatI'm doing this for three hundred for three
hundred days and three hundred percent betterthan I was on day one. Should
do math one percent better every daybetter? Someone asked me, They're like,
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do you ever listen to Jocko WellNick. I'm like, yeah,
listen, I've listened to Jocko Wellnick, and I'd say this. I trained
for fifty six hours a day andif I could, I would train for
one hundred hours a day because Ilove jiu jitsu that much. Jiu jitsu
is life itself. I fucking loveit. I want jiu jitsu to live
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inside of me, but it can't. It does live inside of him.
Literally, that's what it does.That's literally how it oppens. You watch
him and he starts talking about jiujitsu, It's like a fact guy talking
about ice cream. It's just he'sjust like, oh my god, I
fucking love training jiu jitsu so fun. That's his why, that's the why
that gives him business. That's thething. I mean. I just I
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kind of laugh. I admire itthough, Like the fact that he's so
passionate about it and so knowledgeable Iadmire. I'm not mocking him, just
but at the same time, it'slike you can't help but like laugh at
just like how excited he gets aboutit. It's like a complete nerd for
it. So it's it's like,would you listen to Mike Tyson talking about
beating someone's ass because he's you know, I mean exactly exactly. I love
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yeah, would I'll make you mygirlfriend? WHOA do you love? You
love me? When when he saidwhen he said, discipline is doing something
you hate doing, but you're sogood at it you can't do it they
of the way, So you juststay disciplined, stay doing it, I'm
like, okay, And yeah,I was like, I was like,
well, you know, discipline isdoing He goes, anybody can be good
at something, but it takes disciplineto be great, and I'm like,
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okay, But he said it likediscipline the great. He does this like
the Mike Tyson voice, but it'sa and I know. I guess he's
going to fight Jake Paul. Now, I guess that's the latest. Fuck.
Yeah, I want to watch JakePaul's face get broken. Okay,
so Mike Tyson is fifty seven yearsold. That is not exactly the Mike
Tyson that you know I grew upwatching. Mike Tyson would have literally knocked
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that dude in the third row.Still, this is like that Rocky movie
from two thousand and six. Iwant to watch I want to watch Mike
Tyson. I just want to watchsomeone break Jake Paul's deck and Logan Paul
too. I want them both todie in the ring. Global Paul got
rolled up, dude, he gothis ass dropped by an amateur boxer.
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Yeah, because he's a fucking douchebag, rich boy who gets everything he wants
in life. I just want towatch the one beat the shit out of
him. Okay, So what Itell him is is that that guy is
a marketing genius because he has madetons and tons of money doing something beating
up people that are not really boxers. But he's doing selling boxing, so
you know, and he's working overMMA people because everybody has a misdirected belief
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that MMA fighters are great at asingle discipline and they're not. So they're
they're a jack of all trades.That's they're a gladiator. That's what they
do. It's not like a boxerwho's a boxer, a kickboxeroxer. It's
a mixture of different martial arts.We're going way over on this one.
It's okay, Yeah, you guys, support us. Check us out at
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to do some uh video content foryou, Yes, exactly. Yeah,
Red Earth concealment. He followed methe other day. Yeah, he was
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like, oh, I uh wasthat sportsmans look at some handguns the other
day and I was talking a guyand he said he was having a hard
time getting a certain holster for ahandgun. I was like, Dudek John
bought it. I bought another Savagetwenty two. Boys birthday is coming up,
so he's going to start shooting withme. Awesome, and he's going
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to learn how to shoot the boltaction twenty two of Doom. You will
you will learn precision marksmanship. Thatwould be fun. Excellent. Yeah,
the oh by have you been tothe range down in Albany, Avery?
Have you been there? I have? Yeah, Okay, have you been
on the on just the shooting pitsor have you been to the long range?
Okay? So it goes zer,it goes to fifty to two hundred,
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so they've got a full long rangewin two so and yeah. So
it'll be interesting to see a shootat twenty two two hundred yards, see
how well he shoot? Said,watch it go trans sonic and something right
now, last time I shot twentytwo one hundred and ten yards, I
was hitting about one out of everyfive. Oh, I was gonna say,
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I remember the first time I shottwenty two is two hundred yards and
I shooting golf balls? Bullshit?All right, I don't believe you anyway.
Well, there's also the scope.I wasn't really able to set it
in. I was using Kentucky windageto hit things. And it was a
was a man sized target and itwas one of the shrunk down ones.
It's like one third the size,so it really was like it was like
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I was shooting at three hundred yardsbecause it was one third the size.
So that the math works out.You know what, don't question my math.
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Hey, I'm Wes and welcome toUnsuppressed, back with a new episode,
and we're going to get back intofitness. We had talked about this before
in the past, we didn't gettoo in depth on it. I really
focus on preparedness and year, butI want to talk about physical fitness.
That's something that Bill and Avery arevery experienced then, and I am on
my journey of fitness. Have beenchallenging myself to go to the gym consistently
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for eleven months now, and youlook a lot different because of it.
Yeah, say yeah, I uh, I'm back down to the three forties
again, So that's good. Iweighed in at one five this morning.
My brand new driver's license is alreadyinvalid because it has me at three fifty.
Well, okay, so we talkedabout this off air for a second,
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and it's not just about going tothe gym. If that's not what
this discussion is about. It's prioritiesof fitness and how you're structuring your lifestyle
in order to meet fitness goals andstuff like that. And I think Avery
oriented the first part of that discussionbecause he was like, that's a great
way to organize the discussion. SoI want avery to start and we can
start talking about it in which waysI'm like the organizational aspect of like priorities
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of fitness before we get into theweeds. Well, there's the why.
Yeah, oh well, okay,let's start with the why. So the
reason why you want to stay inshape, surprise, surprise, is because
you'll live longer, whether nothing everhappens or something happens, and you need
to use your muscles and cardiovascular enduranceto get yourself away from the situation or
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respond to the situation. You're gonnafitness is going to make you live longer,
so that's why it's important. Andif nothing ever happens, which more
than likely nothing will ever happen,you'll live longer because you won't be a
blob. So that's important. Yeah. Yeah, And then you know,
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when it comes down to the how, which is what we talked about with
prioritizing, it really depends on whereyou start. I'm going to go from
the perspective of you are the absoluteworst you've ever been. You couldn't get
any worse. It hurts the climbup the flatystairs. If you push yourself
off from the table at the dinnertable, your triceps cramp, you know
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that type of ask me how Iknow you know that type of stuff.
You know, And and when itcomes to that, my suggestion is anything
you do anything, any one thing, you do one thing, because it's
not just the physical lacking in physicalfitness. It also has to do with
the mental toughness of commitment to theexercise. And if you do one thing
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that day, one thing more thanyou maybe you did yesterday, that's a
win. I'd agree with that absolutely. And I'd like to add, so
there's a there's a there's an ancientproverb and the answer proverb goes, how
do you eat an elephant? Onebite at a time? Right? So,
doing one thing is is this firststare step in order to doing two
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things, then the third thing andthe fourth thing. Because your body is
very resilient. Regardless of what allthe Doctor Phil episodes may say, or
my seven thousand pound ass life,all that kind of stuff. If individuals
set out to a goal and tostart now, it doesn't mean you're going
to look like Arnold Swarzenegger. Thatis not the goal of this. It's
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called the intent is to be healthyand physically capable so I mean, in
my opinion, it is very simple. I've always I've led a probably reasonably
active life most of my life.I kind of got chubby when I was
like thirty eight, and I freakedout and started running again. But after
that it's always been, Hey,you know, I ate like a garbage
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can because I ate like a kid, and then I would work my ass
off in the gym. Well,I always had mediocre results. As as
I got older, you had totailor away from the bad foods. So
I think fitness and mental fitness hasthere's two parts of it. That is
the physical concept and you have tounderstand your why, and you have to
have the mental part, which isgoing to be your diet because abs are
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made in the kitchen. That concept, if you are eating right, you
will start feeling better, and ifyou are feeling better, you can perform
better. Avery when I first startedrunning, because he was really instrumental in
kind of getting me to go run. Originally, he said, if you
drink water, and you drink enoughwater when you are hydrated, you will
operate at a completely different level thanyou are if your body's dehydrated, because
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you won't think you're dehydrated, butall of a sudden, but you'll just
feel like you're running on cheap gas. But when all of a sudden,
but you'll hit a runner's high likenobody's business when you're only fully hydrated.
So like I know, Wes,you've been working out now for what a
year, like hardcore and you've losthow many pounds? Well, I lost
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about twenty five pounds. I wasabout three seventy five when I started,
and I lost. Does your backhurt as much? It still does?
It comes and goes. So theheaviest I was about three thirty five.
I got down to about three fortyfour, so just about thirty one pounds,
give or take. And shot backup with Christmas, you know,
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took time off and then you know, January kind of again. Two weeks
I wasn't going to the gym,and it was actually it was about week
in January. Didn't go to thegym and I was eating crap. And
then the last two weeks I haven'tbeen going in because I was having some
sleep problems and got that resolve lastweekend, the day that we actually went
to the range and shot, Iuh basically forced myself to go to mid
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early and I woke up at likefive am. That reset my hours.
So I went about three or fourtimes this week, got you know,
arms and legs, and I gotsome cardio in and so getting back on
the swing of things. But whatwas really really been helping me lately is
I've changed my diet up to ketoand doing little car but my appetite has
gone away. It's actually to thepoint I'm not eating enough, so my
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metabolism has come down. So nowI'm working on refeeding to get my metabolism
back up. But yeah, it'sit's been working out pretty well. Well.
I would like to ask Avery ifhe remembers why his why is why?
Right? Why does he do it? Do you remember why you do
it? Or is it just whatyou do now it's your habit. Well,
I mean I'm actually coming back fromnot doing it for a long time.
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I mean, being stuck up inIdaho trying to you know, run
on sheets of ice down a hillthat's extremely steep, Like it was ridiculous.
I couldn't do it. Yeah,that was a steep hill you lived
on. Yeah, I mean,let me be afraid of that. I
didn't want to do it. Right, So we tried getting treadmills. We
tried to, but there's always somereason that was enough to convince me not
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to do it. So I'm comingback from like basically not doing anything for
two years. Roughly, you stilllook good, you still look solid.
I'm yeah solid right, well,well yeah, that's why that sweatshirt song.
Right, yeah. But you knowthe thing is like people talk about
like you guys talked about weight,or you talked about like I try to
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do this or that, you havethese bars. When I am in this
place, because I've been here before. When I'm at this place, I
don't have any bars for me.I just say I'm going to go.
If I get to wherever I wantto work out or do whatever I'm going
to do, and I do it, I consider that win. If I
feel like, oh I want todo crunches, I'll do crunches. If
I'm like, oh I want todo pull ups, I'll do pull ups.
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I don't sit there with a routineand says, well, today's my
leg day, tomorrow's my arm day, this is this is this. Nope,
I keep it as broad as humanlypossible, and then I just do
Oh that was a win. Thatwas a win. That was a win.
That was when Okay, now we'vedeveloped a mental toughness to be able
to go to commit to five timesa week. Let's say now I can
develop a routine that will enhance thoseabilities or not enhance a tone those efficiencies
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right in working out. And thenI'm a big fan of CrossFit because I
think everybody's time is very valuable tothem, and I think you can get
the best workout doing a CrossFit styleworkout inside of an hour. So that's
usually for me, consists of astrength exercise or a warm up, a
strength exercise, and then a cardioslash workout type thing, so whether a
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load a lot of some sort whichis a workout of the day, or
like an am rap as many roundsas possible e mom, which is every
minute on the minute the BATA like, there's different types of workouts inside of
that that you can you can lookat and find or we're going to actually
start posting them on tak U's Instagramso people can have a choice or an
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option. We might have little instructionalvideos inside of that as well. Well.
I'll break into my why so Patasked me the other day and Pat
went to bed early to night.He wasn't feeling well, so he asked
me. He goes, you knowyou're weird because you like beating the shit
out of yourself literally his words.So and I said, yes, I
do. And he goes, whydo you do that? And I said,
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because I thought about it. Ihad to think about it, because
A I thought it was a habit, right, because it always starts out
as self image. Self images isI want to be able to do this
thing or that thing or the otherthing. That's always been my drive.
It was it was development to begood at a sport, or it was
development to be good at something youknow, or be capable of doing this
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X, y Z and a sport. Well, now it is to be
reliable. I need to be reliable. If I need to do something,
I need to be able to physicallygo do it. Like I shoveled a
ton of sand today, literally aton of sand. I working on horse
stuff and did it alone, nobig deal of twenty minutes, knocked it
out. Well, if I wasout of shape, if I weren't doing
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it, if I was not doingall the crap that I do, beating
the hell out of myself through theweek. I would not be reliable to
be able to do those to dothese things and not be able to be
functionally later. So or let's say, well what if what if somebody gets
hurt and I have to pick themup and carry them or drag them along
or whatever is I need to do? What about that? Because those things
do happen. Shit A you respondedto an accident on the side of the
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road, I mean perfect example.If you weren't, if you didn't have
the mental capability and the physical capabilitiesdo what you're doing, you would be
a liability in the situation. That'sthe point. You don't want to be
a liability. So that's my why. The why is, you know,
and there's the upside. The upsideis you feel better, you have more
longevity. I'm fifty years old,and it is easier to stay fit and
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hurt for a reason than to wakeup with sleep injuries and not even have
a reason why you're hurting. Youjust hurt. So that's the trade off.
And yes, you do have injuriesthat are associated with any type of
physical activity. If you are goingto do CrossFit, you'll be sore in
some way. You know or ifyou lift weights you're going to be sore
in some way. Just be incrementaland grow. And if the biggest thing
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I can say to anybody who ifthey listen to this podcast and this is
the tomorrow's the first day they're gonnathey're going to make a decision and make
a change in their life. Doone thing that you enjoy doing, because
you can continue to do something youenjoy and then at a given point you
can say I literally hate what I'mdoing and you'll still do it and you'll
embrace the suck. And that's ifyou just got to get to that point.
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And I think I mean they saytwenty one days builds a habit,
right, Well, the reality isis that you never break a habit,
you replace a habit. So ifyou can replace something in that same timeline
to this new thing that you wantto do, that's going to be able,
it could potentially be a complete lifechanging situation. How about you with
Yeah, I'm doing it for multiplereasons, some personal ones want more penis
(11:26):
showing. Is that a thing forthe girls? Yeah? Yeah, that's
awesome. That was part of it. It was about a year ago I
got I got dumped it was actuallyexactly yourgo is like like four days before
my birthday, so it's been likea year ago, two days ago.
So and it was just like Ikind of tell myself, look, I
got to get out there and date. And it's easier to date when you're
skinnier, right, Okay, yeah, I mean you're overweight, it's a
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lot harder and so and there's otherthings too, like just back pain.
I've had an injury. I wentto go see a chiropractor for it.
I had one chiropractor kind of confrontme and I like, you know,
you wouldn't have to come in andsee me as much if you just lost
the weight and you started getting active. And he says something, I don't
want to see you. He goes, I'm more than happy to take your
money, and I think you're agreat guy, but in this circumstance,
(12:11):
I never want to see you again. And he said in kind of a
positive way. And I was like, okay, you know, and I've
been struggling with it for years offand on. It's mindset keeps falling apart.
By I just kind of made thatdecision to her. Guy said,
you know what, I'm sick andtired of this. It's almost like a
family curse. Everyone in my familyand my dad's side is always like just
(12:31):
obese, And I'm like, it'sgoing to stop here, It's not going
to continue on anymore. So uhkind of like a John Link bocard,
like it stops. Yah, you'redoing it already, so you've already built
the habit. So if your whyis that you don't want to have a
condition that you want to die from, or you don't want to hurt,
then that's a great reason to doit. So now just the back pain
alone is enough to because I wouldrather hurt in my muscles from having lifted
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weights the day before then not beable to get up and walk around because
my back hurts. So I findit to be a fair trade. Well
I have, I have a funnyone. So there are people that are
like Avery that can be self motivatedand have a CrossFit gym in his garage
and do it right because you hadone, right, I mean I had
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one, but I mean it tookan ex wife to get me out to
the gym. So you just calltoday show puppies. I know mine decided
to show up too. Uh yeah, Jesus Christ Lewis, all right,
So I can't stay motivated by goingto in the house and be going I'm
gonna jump on the treadmill and go. I will not do it. I
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will do it incrementally and I willfall off. But if I go to
a gym and I go to aplace that has everything that I need,
I will go do it and itgives me the reason. It's like that
you disconnect. You say, I'mgoing from point A to point B.
It's like going to the range.It's like, you know, you get
yourself in the mindset right, andthat drive time is what gets you gets
yourself in the mindset because you're notsuffering on the drive right. And so
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you know that, like you lookat that treadmill from across the room and
you're like, I'll do it inan hour. I'll do it right after
this TV show and then there's somethingto do. Yeah, and she's like,
oh, can you help me withthe groceries And you're like, oh,
well, i'll do it right afterI deal with the groceries. And
then next thing you know, it'snine o'clock at night and you're like,
i'll do it the money, yeah, tomorrow tomorrow's good. Yeah, but
when you dedicate time and resources toit. And the other part that a
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lot of people you know don't thinkabout it, is like, okay,
so you're paying or do think aboutit. I'm paying for a gym membership
of next number of dollars, andI don't want to waste that money,
so I should go use that gym. Yeah, so I divide it by
the number of days that I go. I think, okay, gym membership
thirty bucks a month. Okay,so if I go thirty days out of
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the month dollar cheap, cheap.Well, Friday has pizzas, so well,
I think that's a pizza on Friday. Yeah. Planet Fitness has on
they have they have this big binof TOUTSI rolls that I walk by and
I give this look as like andas you're walking by, like really,
but they know how to stay inbusiness. That's what it is. It's
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like, you know, what doyou do? I'm going to keep you
on the you know, just alittle treat, just take one I do.
The funny thing is I should walkby with my bag, throw a
bunch in and leave, like what'sthat. Well, I'm trying to save
everybody from the cell. My gymwill do like the thing now, like
a challenge and like I log thismany hours of doing this certain type of
exercise, and you'll put in araffle for to win, like a big
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screen TV or or you just buya raffle ticket. And they do stuff
like that, and they do they'vedone like food events every now and then,
but that's like you know, specialoccasions just every Friday, like serve
your customer's pizza. Like we're allabout health and fitness, but here's joy.
It's not healthy. To'll make youfat, so you'll keep giving back.
Okay, I mean let me wrapup that. So I think their
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model is like, look, notevery gym out there with you know,
dying pieces running around and giant meatheeads is for everybody. So why don't
we create a gym that other peoplecan come to and get to the place
that they want to be at.Maybe they graduate, maybe they go to
the meathead place whatever, right,but at least this place they can go
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to and feel comfortable enough and andnot feel like they're being shoved, like
having kale shove down their throat allthe time. Right. Yeah, I
think that's their opinion or something.Yeah, the plant fin is that it's
a gym for people who've never beento a gym before, who want to
get started. It's a it's abeginner's gym. It's yeah, it's the
nubes gym. And I would saycrunch the pressure I get for crunches.
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It's more of an intermediate. It'slike you can do a hardcore workout there
or you can relax and just goofoff. It's not super serious. And
then twenty four Fitness is like it'sthe serious gem. It's a meat market.
That's twenty four Fit is a meatmarket at four or five o'clock at
night. That's that's like where there'sthings happening. Laugh every year I can't,
but every year I get my Facebookupdate. There was a post I
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put uphere. I was like,man, everyone as twenty for our fitness
is just a complete douchebag, andI just want those whole round about like
how the guys and the girls arejust you know, ridiculously vapid. And
I mean it when I was liketwenty four, so I was kind of
a dickhead twenty all the time asthey hit myself. Yeah, but yeah,
it's funny every year comes up,I'm like, yeah, that's that's
twenty for our fitness. Well,my belief system is this, if you
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can go to a gym that yeah, twenty four our fitness had all the
amenities, and I'm and crunched ustoo. They do have all the amenities,
but is but crunch is a littlebit more of a sweatsck compared to
twenty four. That's there. There'sa little bit different than boutique. I
go to Planet Fitness now because aI'm cheap, I'm old, and I
don't give a shit, all right, and that has the only thing that
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it is missing is that they stopat seventy five pound dumb bills and they
do not have free weights. Theyhave smith machines, so that is the
only downside. But here's the thing. They do have all the area that
if you want to do a wadlike that style of workout, no one
says anything. They're like, youdo you, bro? No one's because
if you go to a meathead likespot, everybody will look at the crossfitter
and be like, what the fright? And then they'll because there's this
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dude that does this weird like plankingthing where he walks like he's like looks
like he's like moonwalking in the air, doing all these weird shit at the
on the benches bar. No.No, he's literally like laying on the
bench and he's walking up doing likea setup like he's air wise. I
mean it looks like something you haveon Instagram and I look at him like
this, okay, whatever, Imean, you know, it's it's you
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know, but you have If yougo into the gym with the intent of
having ego, then you're never goingto get that. You're not going to
have as much success anyway, becausethere's always somebody stronger. I mean,
that's always the way it is.I mean, I mean until you get
to the peak of the peak ofthe peak, unless you're picking up that
like you know, like what's hisname, yourn monster person, you know,
the bit the strongest man in theWorld, ripped his pecks or something
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like that. Yeah, just likehe's like he's like two inches taller than
me and he weighs like the sameamount, but he's like he's the mountain
or whatever. Yeah, he playedthe mountain. Yeah. Yeah. Now
there's one guy I see at mygym that's he's a power lefter. He's
really short, he's just just bulkand he'll go and he'll he'll like take
the you know, like the Pulleymachines and he'll get right in between two
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of them and he'll put the weightsto max and he'll just go and just
go, and he'll move the weightslike two inches. I'm not even exactly
it's just the weights just kind ofyou know what happens, you know what
happens in the future. Oh shit, my shoulder, it's damage. Everything
he does. He just has massiveweights him. He moves him just a
little bit, and I go,I'd rather, you know, pick my
lighter weights and actually move them alot than doing that. But I've had
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dudes on the internet correct me andsay, actually, what you're doing is
basically just cardio. You have todo higher weights. I'd say, you
know what, you know what,how about this, how about you don't
get hurt? All right? Sonow to reorient this. Now, this
is where I get to sharpshoot people. This is where we're going to talk
about a little bit of sharp shooting. We're just talking about priorities of fitness
and rather and then everybody knows thatthere are people that go to because we're
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a gunning podcast, right, andtactical gear and all that stuff. People
like to have all the cool guyparts and all the cool guy guns and
the cool guy calms and the coolguy drones. And they have a big
fat ass and they go to thethey go to the range, and they're
winded doing standards, okay, Andunfortunately for them is that the larporating that
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they're doing versus the reality of theiractual output could be incongruent. So if
you're one of those people, there'snothing wrong with enjoying shooting. If you
are not you know, not youknow, physically fit and all that stuff
that I'm not talking about military standardsand all that. What I'm saying is
is that if you have an expectationthat you're going to be rambo in the
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event that something goes wrong, andyou're capable of operating for days and days
and days without sleep and base sleepscrutch and you're you know, you'll say
people with one hand and kill withthe other. If that's your expectation,
but you have the body of amid fifties gym teacher, then chances are
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you're probably setting yourself up fa failiar. So you know, getting to the
gym and making some good lifestyle choicesmight be beneficial, especially if you're twenty
five years old, then you can'tdo five pull ups and stuff like that.
That you know, there's some thereis. Okay, I got a
question for you, avery each becausesince you're familiar with all the military standards,
obviously, I know that they've changedthe PFT sum over the class.
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You know, right that for awhile they change it. They just changed
it again. I think, yeah, they're constantly changing it. So my
question is is there a metric thatyou would say for someone who's just starting
out, Like if they're like,hey, you know what, I'm going
to make a change. I'm twentyfive year old girl. Guy doesn't matter.
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What should I what's the basis?What's a foundation where something they should
aim to just say I can dothis. Well, let's say you move
past the like needing to commit,right, and so you're already at the
commit mint phase. Now you're like, well, now we need to start
doing a program of some sorts.So one of the things I would suggest
is you can either look up theArmy or Marine Corps physical fitness tests,
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just the basic one from back inthe old days, which was two minutes
of push ups, two minutes ofsit ups, and then a timed one
or two mile run, depending onwhich department you're dealing with. Usually two
minutes two minute run, let's say. And you can do that on the
treadmill something like that, but that'llgive you a baseline. CrossFit also has
a baseline. I believe it's afive hundred meters row and then one hundred
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What is it I want to say, is like it actually let's let me
let me look it up. Itup. I know you were talking about
back in the day there was likea one mile run that was like one
of the things that was like ametric that was fast. That was one
of the output ones, high output. While while Avery's looking shit up,
I will say this, if youare a person that needs to have the
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climate like I do, right,go to a place that is like a
gym and do that, or joina class like a like a crosswit club.
Do that, because then you buildcommunity, playing or running crew or
anything anything that interests you that youwill build community. So you'll build friendships
within that. And there's already there'salways somebody that's like the yin and yang
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to you, that would be agood fit and help push you. So
the cross. The baseline load workoutof the day is a five hundred meter
row, forty air squats, thirtysit ups, twenty push ups, and
ten pull ups. So you canban the pull ups too. So you
can like basically all these things.If you can't do them, you can
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scale them accordingly. Right, solet's look at the row. You can
scale the road to one hundred metersor two hundred and fifty meters air spots.
You don't have to go down allthe way, or you can actually
ban air squats too if you wantedto. But basically air squads just you
standing there and you squat down toninety degrees and come back up. And
that's one. Uh. You cando crunches instead of sit ups. You
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can't do a sit up, whichtrue story. I've met a guy who
said he couldn't do a sit upgetting out of his bed one time.
And then push ups. You cango to your knees and then pull ups.
You can do band it or youcan do jumping pull ups. Depending
on what resources you have, youknow you can you can skip That's what
I like about CrossFit is that youcan ban or get the gun. You
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can you can tailor the workouts forany situation, whether it's the equipment issue
or personal issue, injuries or anythinglike that. You can modify them.
I said. The only thing thatI've the only thing that's a downside to
CrossFit if you are if you're pushingyourself too hard when you're trying to like
do some of the complex lifts.That's the only thing I see people get.
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I'd like you watch the CrossFit theathletes. Everybody gets fed up when
they're doing some of the crazy stuffthey're doing. But like on a personal
level, like going and doing likethe Olympic lifts, if you're doing it
and you're maintaining control, just dodo perfect sets and then you'll build speed.
Yeah, you go down and waitlike, why no ego? But
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that's the checkbox though that most peoplecan't like, Oh well, no,
I have an expectation. I wantto be able to do this, and
then they let their ego do thelifting, which everybody who's young has done
it. And if you do itwhen you're old, oh my, the
mistakes that you make, it's notso good. So yeah, there's a
few different things you can use.I mean even if you just pick something
out yourself, you know, justget your times, ride them down in
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a book, and then go fromthere. I do a Hatch strength lifting
program. You can google search it. It's everywhere. And then I do
usually do a Burgener warm up,which you can google search that, and
there's tons of YouTube videos on that. And those two things coupled with some
sort of simplified workout of the daythat gives me an hour workout and it's
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easy to easy. Yeah, soI go in and I look at I
do a I warm Okay, Soeverything that I do now is it's like
a diesel engine. You warm upeverything before you go. Back in the
day, it was just start,don't going. Now can't do that anymore,
but I follow a different doctrine.The doctrine is it's all hit training,
which is similar to CrossFit in thatconcept, but I'm doing it through
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standard you know you resistance training.So I'll do sets of I mean,
if I'm on bench, there's I'llstart and I'll do a set of twenty
to forty with a lightweight. Youget all the blood moving, so I
get everything oiled up, and thenI'll go to a point of failure or
not so much failure, go tolike your eighty five ninety five percent,
and then you'll stop at four reps. So you'll do like a like twenty
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to forty, then a twenty twelveten eight four, you know, something
like that, and then you movethe next exercise. But you always leave
enough on the table to get thenext exercise, the next exercise, the
next epercise exercise. And the reasonis that you need to be able to
go back the next day or theday off, depending on what your body
needs. And that's going to beone hundred percent contingent on the person.
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I don't think going every day untilyou've built, like you know, because
your body will break down. Becausethen if you're going that much, you're
also going to start looking at yourdiet plan to make sure you're getting enough
protein, because you get on thisweird rollercoaster of your body eating muscle or
over trying to take fat. Andthat's a whole different discussion in itself requires
a nutritionist and some googling. Yeah, so that's next level stuff. Yeah,
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yeah, that's yeah, yeah,Because if you're a lifting with that
much, if you're not eating enoughprotein, you will start to break down.
Thank you. Yeah, yeah,it's not going to have the nutrients
that needs to build up the muscle. So going on bodybuilding and try to
get away with the vegan diet atthe same time. Usually I'll say this
too, if you if you arewanting to speed up your metabolism, doesn't
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matter what discipline you're wanting to do. If you eat small coloric density,
but multiple times a day so youkeep your body constantly cycling energy, you
will turn your metabolism up. Sothe typical numbers three hundred calories, five
times a day. And you doit, you know, pre post,
pre post, preposts, right,and however you meet that is how you
meet that. I've done it through. I've done it with like a carnivore
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diet that style, you know,then a normal diet, and then I've
done it with vegan and or vegetarian, and the vegetarian vegan thing because of
my age group, seems to beworking pretty good. But I still cheat
and I still do eat meat.So it's like probably ninety percent and I've
lost ten pounds in about a month, and it's and it's and I'm maintaining
muscle mass. So it's but you'realso working like your macro so and you
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can look up macros too. That'sthat's the thing. But long story short,
because we can talk about this typeof this is a this is literally
an industry discussion because you could talkabout this forever and everybody be right and
wrong at the same time, becausein two years somebody's going to come up
with something new and exciting and saythat this pill will save your life.
And you know what, here's here'ssomething interesting. If you're old, get
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all your levels checked because if you'reoverweight and you don't, you're not producing
testosterone like at the level you shouldhave, you're you're really low tee.
The chance if you cutting body fat'sa lot harder, there's I mean,
or you know, women, samething. If you have a ton of
estrogen going, it's a little bitharder to the balance, and it's not
easier when you get older. It'sharder. So you know, there's there's
just some things there that you shouldalways deal with your physician to make sure
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that you're you're healthy enough to dostuff and to do things incrementally. We're
not saying if he's not suggesting togo out and say, hey, go
for a fifty mile run today.Don't go out for a five mile run.
Don't do that. That's that's notsomething you just start with. Yeah,
you just find yourself there. Yeah. I hadn't really done any working
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out. He's like just gott topush through it and trying to make me
go for it. Was almost killedhere in me one day. Yeah,
just go for a couple of miles. I think I made it like one
mile and I was done. Well, I remember one night you're spaghetti.
You wrote around with me. Youmade it almost halfway back. Yeah,
all on the ground. Yeah,you're like, what the fuck? Because
he made me do that. Andthen I went home and like my muscles
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were for remember it was it hurtto get up out of a chair for
a week after that, and walkinghurt, and like my muscles were shot.
And I'm like, what's the pointof destroying your body if you can't
do and work out for another week? And didn't, So I kept trying,
telling I to pain myself. Goes, you have to do this.
Eventually I said, you just goand you run without me. I'm going
to go home. Well. Hewas a marine or something, right,
Yeah, that was his whole ideais it's just like you know, pain
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is weakness leaving the body, andlike it works in some situations. If
you've been training, if you've beenworking out, if you're in shape,
then yeah it makes sense to pushyourself hard. But if you're going cold
Turkey, you haven't worked out inthree years, and all of a sudden
you go for a mile run,you're gonna collapse. Go swimming, you
will find out how quickly how tiredyou'll get fit. I've heard that a
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lot, and I don't have apull up my gym, but yeah,
I've heard that swimming will work outand then you don't feel as exhausted because
you're you're sweating into the water.Oh no, no, no, no,
no, that's all a lie.You will be completely smoked because swimming
is about relaxation. If you cannotrelax, you will drown. Well,
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you you swim competitively, right averyin school, just in high school.
Yeah, yeah, it's like,yeah, triathlons and things like that outside
of school, Like dude, swimmingand Alicia and I were just talking about
that, trying to try and getback into the pool a little bit more
and then one other angle for peoplewho may have a combat mindset, there
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are I mean, I'm not thebiggest fan of like BJJ, but that
is one of the best training mechanismsbecause you get a massive workout and you
can go kind of full speed withouthurting people. You know, it's not
like boxing or you have to getan ass beating. You can just get
you know, rolling and you getyou get exhausted. And I know,
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if you have full of people thatdo that, and that's still very you
know, if you're young and that'swhat you want to do and get after
it, well it's very humbling too. So that makes you realize that you're
not actually superman and not like well, when the adrenaline is gone, I'll
win, probably not. Nope.Training with world champions back when I was
younger, and I saw where Iwas sitting in that hierarchy of getting my
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ass kicked, I just pretty muchknew where I was at. I mean,
it's sparring with the world champion isa I opening experience. That's that's
the best best example. And II mean I've rolled with people that know
how to roll and they'll just ballyou up so quick. They turn you
into a mess so fast. It'sfunny. Yeah, but long story short,
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work out so you can be awesomewhen the world collapses. There you
go thoughts on, yeah, I'mworking out, so yeah, be prepared
body and mind and do it forthe gram. If you want to look
at my Instagram, mine is doone more thing than you did yesterday.
That's it? What is it?The GBRS thing one percent better every day?
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I'm like, that's a hard assmetric. Bro only takes some who
says that a GBRS group, theguys that fired the guy or you know,
they're under a much of scrutiny rightnow, but they have on their
wall be one percent better every day. And I'm like, you know what,
I like that idea because one percentis relative. You could be one
percent more intelligent about a subject.You could be this. There's all the
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metrics, there's the DNA of bettergrowth. So use like it only takes
one hundred days to be better thatI'm doing this for three hundred for three
hundred days and three hundred percent betterthan I was on day one. Should
do math one percent better every daybetter? Someone asked me, They're like,
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do you ever listen to Jocko WellNick. I'm like, yeah,
listen, I've listened to Jocko Wellnick, and I'd say this. I trained
for fifty six hours a day andif I could, I would train for
one hundred hours a day because Ilove jiu jitsu that much. Jiu jitsu
is life itself. I fucking loveit. I want jiu jitsu to live
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inside of me, but it can't. It does live inside of him.
Literally, that's what it does.That's literally how it oppens. You watch
him and he starts talking about jiujitsu, It's like a fact guy talking
about ice cream. It's just he'sjust like, oh my god, I
fucking love training jiu jitsu so fun. That's his why, that's the why
that gives him business. That's thething. I mean. I just I
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kind of laugh. I admire itthough, Like the fact that he's so
passionate about it and so knowledgeable Iadmire. I'm not mocking him, just
but at the same time, it'slike you can't help but like laugh at
just like how excited he gets aboutit. It's like a complete nerd for
it. So it's it's like,would you listen to Mike Tyson talking about
beating someone's ass because he's you know, I mean exactly exactly. I love
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yeah, would I'll make you mygirlfriend? WHOA do you love? You
love me? When when he saidwhen he said, discipline is doing something
you hate doing, but you're sogood at it you can't do it they
of the way, So you juststay disciplined, stay doing it, I'm
like, okay, And yeah,I was like, I was like,
well, you know, discipline isdoing He goes, anybody can be good
at something, but it takes disciplineto be great, and I'm like,
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okay, But he said it likediscipline the great. He does this like
the Mike Tyson voice, but it'sa and I know. I guess he's
going to fight Jake Paul. Now, I guess that's the latest. Fuck.
Yeah, I want to watch JakePaul's face get broken. Okay,
so Mike Tyson is fifty seven yearsold. That is not exactly the Mike
Tyson that you know I grew upwatching. Mike Tyson would have literally knocked
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that dude in the third row.Still, this is like that Rocky movie
from two thousand and six. Iwant to watch I want to watch Mike
Tyson. I just want to watchsomeone break Jake Paul's deck and Logan Paul
too. I want them both todie in the ring. Global Paul got
rolled up, dude, he gothis ass dropped by an amateur boxer.
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Yeah, because he's a fucking douchebag, rich boy who gets everything he wants
in life. I just want towatch the one beat the shit out of
him. Okay, So what Itell him is is that that guy is
a marketing genius because he has madetons and tons of money doing something beating
up people that are not really boxers. But he's doing selling boxing, so
you know, and he's working overMMA people because everybody has a misdirected belief
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that MMA fighters are great at asingle discipline and they're not. So they're
they're a jack of all trades.That's they're a gladiator. That's what they
do. It's not like a boxerwho's a boxer, a kickboxeroxer. It's
a mixture of different martial arts.We're going way over on this one.
It's okay, Yeah, you guys, support us. Check us out at
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that goes towards helping us with equipmentcosts and just expenses, braying expenses,
training expenses. That's trying to dosome video. Bill and I were trying
to do some uh video content foryou, Yes, exactly. Yeah,
Red Earth concealment. He followed methe other day. Yeah, he was
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like, oh, I uh wasthat sportsmans look at some handguns the other
day and I was talking a guyand he said he was having a hard
time getting a certain holster for ahandgun. I was like, Dudek John
bought it. I bought another Savagetwenty two. Boys birthday is coming up,
so he's going to start shooting withme. Awesome, and he's going
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to learn how to shoot the boltaction twenty two of Doom. You will
you will learn precision marksmanship. Thatwould be fun. Excellent. Yeah,
the oh by have you been tothe range down in Albany, Avery?
Have you been there? I have? Yeah, Okay, have you been
on the on just the shooting pitsor have you been to the long range?
Okay? So it goes zer,it goes to fifty to two hundred,
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so they've got a full long rangewin two so and yeah. So
it'll be interesting to see a shootat twenty two two hundred yards, see
how well he shoot? Said,watch it go trans sonic and something right
now, last time I shot twentytwo one hundred and ten yards, I
was hitting about one out of everyfive. Oh, I was gonna say,
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I remember the first time I shottwenty two is two hundred yards and
I shooting golf balls? Bullshit?All right, I don't believe you anyway.
Well, there's also the scope.I wasn't really able to set it
in. I was using Kentucky windageto hit things. And it was a
was a man sized target and itwas one of the shrunk down ones.
It's like one third the size,so it really was like it was like
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I was shooting at three hundred yardsbecause it was one third the size.
So that the math works out.You know what, don't question my math.
So now that everybody knows that theycan support us by going to conspiracy
can spare effect up chip tar blahblah blah blah, what are the fuck
it's called? That's that's what itis. You want you in this one
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before we say something else crazy likesomeone like an owner of CrossFit might be
misrepresented some before I get another socialmedia influencer pissed off, and because I'm
gonna called out multiple people just givenmy opinion. But guys, thank you
very much for listening, and rememberwhen it comes to rights, whether it
be First Amendment, Second Amendment,or all the others, make sure you
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stay unsuppressed. We'll see you nextweek.
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