Coach's Corner With Justin and Ethan
Welcome to "Coach's Corner with Justin and Ethan," where your health and fitness journey gets a simplified makeover! Join Justin and Ethan, two seasoned coaches with a combined 30 years of experience, as they navigate the labyrinth of health and fitness, unraveling myths from facts to guide you towards success.
In each episode, we dive headfirst into the vast world of well-being, shedding light on weight loss, dissecting diet fads, exploring diverse workout styles, and fine-tuning the often overlooked aspect of mindset. Our mission is to demystify the complexities surrounding health, making your journey not only effective but enjoyable.
Get ready for a lively and informative conversation that feels like a chat with your favorite fitness buddies. Justin and Ethan draw upon their extensive experience, sharing real-life stories from working with thousands of clients. No stone is left unturned as they break down what really works and what's just another fitness fad.
Whether you're a fitness enthusiast or a beginner taking the first steps toward a healthier lifestyle, "Coache's Corner" is your go-to source for practical insights, debunking myths, and embracing the joy of the journey. Tune in for a fun and engaging exploration of the truth behind health and fitness, and let Justin and Ethan be your trusted guides to a healthier, happier you!
Coach's Corner With Justin and Ethan
Fitness Myths You need To Stop Listening To
Is lemon water truly the weight loss miracle it's hyped up to be, or just a refreshing start to your morning? Join us as we shake up common fitness beliefs and tackle the myths that persist in the fitness world. From the contentious debates around the timing of meals to the allure of fad diets, we unravel the truth behind these misconceptions, focusing instead on the undeniable power of consistency and hard work. The key isn't in magic fixes or timing tricks but in understanding fundamental weight loss principles and making informed, sustainable choices in your fitness journey.
In this episode, we draw parallels between fitness and finance, highlighting the danger of extreme approaches in both fields. Just as you wouldn't rely solely on skipping meals for long-term health, unsound financial shortcuts won't bring lasting prosperity. We question misleading fitness marketing and debunk pseudoscientific claims about body and blood type diets, steering you towards balanced and science-backed strategies. Our personal stories and expert insights aim to leave you empowered to cut through the noise and focus on what truly matters in achieving your health and wellness goals.
Welcome to Coach's Corner, episode number 32. I am Coach Justin and I'm Coach Ethan, and today, folks, we're going to be talking about fitness myths that, despite massive amounts of evidence to the contrary, people insist are real. And science be damned. We are all just purely based off of emotion and and uh, bias. Here the true lies, true lies. So we're gonna talk about some fitness myths, some of the big ones. I did a post on this that went viral, went crazy viral. I'm at like almost 100,000 views.
Speaker 2:I guess it's not that crazy, but for me that's like the biggest no, that's a lot of eyeballs.
Speaker 1:And it was this. It was essentially just like fitness myths you have to stop listening to and the vehementement like just people's beliefs I mean the wars the comments that break out when you just say, dumb like one, the biggest thing was squeezing lemon. Your water is not going to help you lose weight true. So is that the first myth is that the man, did I ever just light a the world war three in the comment section? Oh, that's good, yes so so, anyways, we're gonna talk about some stuff like that, but wait though.
Speaker 1:So lemon water doesn't make you no it does I just just, I was just trying to, you know, make some good content it's ruffling some feathers controversial.
Speaker 1:No, it definitely for the record guys. Um, if you like one lemon water, if you find a squeeze of lemon in your water, refreshing, cleanse the palate, maybe in the morning, that's what I like to do with it Great, lovely, there's tons of benefit to it. As far as like any sort of direct correlation between that and like losing pounds of body fat, of direct correlation between that and like losing pounds of body fat.
Speaker 2:Well, when it alkalizes your blood and mobilizes the fatty acids from your fat cells and then better utilizes them for, you know, utilization for energy throughout the totally of course, it's just obvious there's certain components of a lemon that when you ingest it, it it burns fat. When you drink it.
Speaker 1:It kind of tastes acidic. Yeah, that's what's burning your fat.
Speaker 2:That's what's burning your fat yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know, I really it's crazy to me that this is something that we've talked about before where there's we've been in this world for so long and we've read so many studies and we've made so much content, we've had so many conversations with clients and individuals that it seems like obvious obvious to the point where we don't even need to talk about this anymore. Like, of course, like you know, like that's not. Like, if you're eating like a sleeve of oreos and washing it down with like a two liter of soda, like no amount of lemon water is going to fix that, but no, lemon water is not going to do anything.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I hate to break it to you, but it's just mind blowing that that's where we're at. But the so much of the general population still is kind of really betting hard on this like anecdotal approach to weight loss as opposed to just like looking at any science, and so it's. It's always approach to weight loss as opposed to just like looking at any science, and so it's it's always. I think just good to rehash this stuff and just kind of like set the record straight.
Speaker 2:Yeah well it's interesting because I I was thinking about the lemon water and you know it's like the making your bed in the morning, you know, kind of putting your best foot forward, and so I could see it's like when you make a decision early in the day because this is most of the time, I think the idea right, you wake up, you drink your lemon water in the morning and you're good for the day.
Speaker 2:So I think there's like a component that if somebody's going to start to make lifestyle changes and decisions, that like the lemon water being a putting, like making the bed, setting the best foot forward for your day, that you're making this intentional decision for what you're putting in your body, giving it some thought, actually getting behind your decision making, and I could see how that could cascade out into making better decisions throughout the day and that might lead to some weight loss. And so I could see how there's almost like but no, I like people probably were saying, oh, I lost 20 pounds by doing the lemon water and it's like, okay, well, what else were you doing? What else were you doing Exactly? And maybe the lemon water was just a mental, emotional catalyst for making other good decisions throughout the day, but the lemon water itself obviously wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 2:I hear your point on that and I think that, like even myself, I and I'm not saying it is the reason, but it's just I think I was thinking like why it could be a tripwire to a framework of decision making that could, yeah, yeah, which is why people are so adamant, like how does the myth or how does the the anecdotal information get so potent?
Speaker 1:you know, I think that you know, some person writes a blog or makes a post or does something that their aunt loses weight, yeah, that says like you know. It like like we were joking about it. But yeah, you know, when you drink lemon water, it like curbs your appetite, or it like you know who knows it helps, like, reduce blood sugar spikes.
Speaker 1:There's probably some crazy anecdote out there like that, but like people want to believe that, and one theory that I've been coming to as far as weight loss is that, as with anything in life, the answer is usually much more simple. But as human beings, we tend to want to overcomplicate things in our lives that we desire. In other words, we tend to overcomplicate the path to achieve, achieve things we desire so that it gives us a plausible reason to continue procrastinating.
Speaker 1:So if like so, like like we all know, like, hey, listen, if you want to be more successful in your career, you should just work harder. You know, like you just gotta wake up earlier and maybe just put a couple more hours in every day and, like you know, take that certification or read that book and apply these principles. But people, but it's almost like that's too easy.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, there's got to be something else to it right, right and then people kind of jump in these like bandwagons of like getting fit quick or getting rich quick. But then people who are on the other side of it, it's like no, literally, it's just like hey, man, so like, go and just google, google TDEE or total daily energy expenditure calculator, put your age, height, weight, activity level and it'll show you if you want to lose like a pound a week. It'll just show you how many calories to eat. Just do that and it's like no, no, I think it's a cold bath, I think it's lemon water. I think it's a cold bath. I think it's lemon water. I think it's a breath work. I think it's only eating every third day and that's what it is Right. And then don't eat past seven, obviously, of course, always. That's how you lose weight, because that's how a friend of mine did it. So you're an idiot. What do you?
Speaker 1:know yeah what do you know?
Speaker 2:You fucking? You're just a slave like the rest of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just just believe whenever they feed you, but yeah, so I think that I think that the lemon water, it's just it, just it's just kind of that. It's like there's we need to stack these like things that all add up to this transformation, when really it's like nah, if you like it, go ahead, great, but you don't know there are benefits to it, but it's not going to be any accelerated weight loss or fat loss, you know no, and another one, another one, um that uh got a lot of heat in that post was not eating past seven.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I said hey in the post. I was like hey, a banana has a hundred calories, right. Whether you eat it at 7 am or whether you eat it at 7 pm, a banana has 100 calories period, right. So it doesn't matter what time you eat, like like the the time meal, frequency, meal, timing is marginal I mean meal size meal.
Speaker 1:It's marginal it's marginal and that got a lot of heat as well. And it's like, just to set the record straight, you can eat six big, six small meals. You can eat two or three large meals if you need to eat, let's just say, 1800 calories in a day. Divvy it up however you see fit. Right, you know, just hit your numbers.
Speaker 2:Just hit the numbers. Yeah, because the thing is, is the the calories in, calories out, the energy and energy out is always just gonna? You know, that's gonna be the like master equation and it's just not gonna matter either way there's.
Speaker 1:They've done so many studies on this where they have. They had one control group eat three large meals and they had the other control group eat six small meals. Same amount of calories, same macronutrients, same everything. Right over an eight-week period they both lost the amount of weight.
Speaker 2:That's the thing you know there might be changes in your hunger levels or you know how you know. I find that when for me, if actually eating earlier in the day helps me to lose weight because or if I'm trying to cut in a general sense, I find it like I don't know something about. It just gets my appetite going and gets me on track to, like, eat the larger volume foods.
Speaker 2:When you eat earlier, you mean yeah when I eat earlier Because I tend to not have appetite in the morning earlier. So it's just, it's kind of going that if I'm making the right food choice decisions, that like somehow eating earlier kind of gets my body started with it and then I get hungry and then I eat the large volume and I get full versus like it's somehow. I just find that that is a pattern. I noticed that when I start to introduce a meal earlier, yeah, it just helps, like put me on the right track. It's just for whatever reason, I, yeah, I.
Speaker 1:I find that it's better for me to have a kind of a bigger breakfast and that I don't really think about food until afternoon. You know, so I have like a big breakfast around nine and then I'm pretty much good to go until one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's put a bunch in the trough and burn it off.
Speaker 1:But what's interesting is that this is the real thing, right, that the volume of food that you're consuming is way more important than anything else, I believe, as far as making good food choices.
Speaker 1:So, single ingredient, whole foods, yeah, without question. Um, I literally did an experiment yesterday and I it was. I had this like chocolate muffin that I bought that I. I haven't eaten it, I just leave it in a ziploc bag in my freezer and I use it for like videos that I make for like content, just as like a comparison reference. Right, it's 480 calories and a standard chocolate it's a chunky muffin.
Speaker 2:Right, it's a chunky muffin.
Speaker 1:Right, it's a chunky monkey. And then I built a 480 calorie breakfast. It was a whole egg. It was eight ounces of egg whites, so one full egg and then eight ounces of egg whites, yeah, a half cup of oatmeal with 100 grams of banana and strawberries chopped up and a little bit of agave over the oil and some mixed vegetables. It was a whole ass big plate and it was only 480 calories as well. And so it's like that's the difference. It's like it's so easy to just like mindlessly roll through Starbucks or Dunkin' or whatever and just get, like you know, a coffee and like a muffin. I'm just, I mean, I eat kind of light, I'm gonna eat kind of light but you probably just ate a thousand calories and didn't realize it.
Speaker 2:Yeah and you're gonna be so much more satiated, especially with the oatmeal and the fiber.
Speaker 1:Sure, yeah fruit and everything. So you eat a big ass plate like that. That's 50 grams of protein and it's only 480 calories. But then you're like I eat that at nine. I don't think about food until 1 pm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, and I think that's one of the reasons, too, that I find that when I do that, because what will happen is that all if I don't get some food in me early, then I start getting hungry, and then that's when more potential bad decisions will come in, because I'm like, oh, I'm so hungry, look, let me maybe just pull into a starbucks and get a double frap with them with a muffin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just, I just need a little something to hold me over just need a little something to hold me over, yeah it's like man, it doesn't like.
Speaker 1:Objectively it doesn't matter. Subjectively. You got to figure out what makes sense for you yeah and to ethan's point, like he knows himself, and if he pushes it off, all of a sudden that little gremlin voice in his head starts saying you know what, maybe, uh, maybe I got maybe like oh, I didn't get a chance to eat this meal I made, but you know, I could just pull over and get club sandwich, and yeah exactly some french fries, or you know so easy to do it too.
Speaker 1:It's just so easy to just find yourself consuming, like unknowingly, thousands of calories that seem harmless. So, subjectively, you know, you got to kind of just understand, like do you, are you? Okay, a lot of people don't need to eat breakfast and they're totally cool with just pushing it off to lunch, and that's fine, especially if you're trying to lose weight and you don't really get hungry until lunchtime.
Speaker 2:Great yeah, you might be able to have a big lunch that way. It's really satiating and really satisfying mentally. You're like, oh, got to have a big old meal man I need to eat.
Speaker 1:I need to eat like I, I'm good, I wake up at like 5, 36 and then like around nine I'm like that's still.
Speaker 1:That's a good chunk of time, though yeah, yeah, that's, that's that's me, but so that's the truth. Like, and you know, a lot of people that we work with at carbon are nurses, and a lot of these nurses are 12-hour shifts and they start, they have to be the hospital at 7 am. Yeah, so that might mean they have to wake up at 5 so that we can leave the house by 6 15 or 6 30 to get there by 7. They burn through their day. Some of them, you know, don't always make the best food choices but or have the best options available to them. Yeah, that too, um, but then they get home and then I hear this all the time. It's like oh, but I thought I wasn't supposed to eat past seven right, so now you didn't get home till eight right, what are you supposed to do?
Speaker 2:what?
Speaker 1:are you gonna do? Yeah, so it's just this like belief breaking, if like.
Speaker 2:Well, I love that it's just seven. I love that it's not eight, it's not nine, it's not six, not 6, 45. It's like I've got 15 minutes.
Speaker 1:Quick get it in, yeah, you know, because back in like the, you know the uh good old days. You know they come home from work at 5, 30 and then be ready by 6. It's like 707 and you're like damn it, you missed your metabolic window.
Speaker 2:That's it. Yeah, that's it. You're doomed Just go straight to fat after that.
Speaker 1:So you know the thing that we avoid so much of tracking calories. If you just look at it the other way, it's like that is what sets you free, because you just go oh okay, I get to eat 1,800 calories in a day, great. So you know, whatever time that makes sense for you, whatever type of food, as long as you're hitting you know a good protein level and getting your veggies in whatever food choice works best for you. Like wonderful, like this is your freedom now you can like. You have autonomy. You're not stuck in some rigid template that you're going to eventually fail at, but you have flexibility to move things around. Bring in the stuff that you want, remove the stuff that you can, make room for the things that you want with you know, it's just, it's just the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, another one. I find it's like I don't know it's. It's kind of a one that's it's. It's just something I see people engage in almost every time they choose to try and lose weight, and that's like just reverting to salads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just like oh, like I want to go on a diet or I want to lose weight, so I'm just like going to eat a salad for lunch and that's going to do the trick, and it's just like, okay, uh, and it's a two-edged sword, because on one sense, like, yeah, salad, like just a pile of leaves, tends to be zero calories and so you can have a huge volume amount where you know, if you just have cucumbers and some sliced tomatoes and arugula, it's like, yeah, there's like 50 calories in that, and so, yeah, if you can commit with like a piece of chicken breast on there, sure, that might be a quote, quote high volume, low calorie food comparatively to the burger you were eating for lunch.
Speaker 2:But it's not. Again, it's just missing the picture that like, oh, if I just do this one thing, that's going to do the trick, it's going to solve the problem that I have of being overweight, when really it's like one that might work. But if you're just eating nothing, then you're not really getting any food. You're going to probably crash and burn and make poor food choices, and then the other caveat is that you can easily eat over your calories with a salad.
Speaker 1:Everyone Google how many calories are in a Caesar salad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it's not you know, it's like the especially if you're getting it from like a restaurant or someplace that's loading it up with all the fixings and fun things easily can be just as much, if not more, than a solid meal. And I also think it goes back to things like olive oil. Right, it's like people don't realize the caloric density of olive oil.
Speaker 1:But now, olive oil is a healthy fat. Oh, of course yes. So it's not going to contribute to your weight gain.
Speaker 2:No, it's a healthy fat. No, no. So I'll put olive oil on a handful of pecans. Yeah, some dried fruit and a half an avocado, some blue cheese crumbles, little bread crumbs, parmesan and then next, thing, you know, especially those fats are so tasty, they get on there. Next thing, you know, you have, you know, a whole bunch of fat calories plus you got some chicken on there.
Speaker 1:You got this 1500 calorie salad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's, it's easy to do, so I just it's one of those ones, again, that's just like I see come up so often, just like a such a common practice across the board, that once people want to make that decision to lose some weight, they're just like, oh, I'll just eat salad, that's just the answer.
Speaker 1:That's just what I didn't need to do just eat salad yeah, that little, that little side house green salad just all of a sudden turns into a full-blown fucking caesar with like yeah and again it's like and again, even if you do just eat a little side salad, like you're probably going to be so hungry because you're not.
Speaker 2:then it's like you're either eating nothing or you're eating. Probably there's a chance you're eating too much and the salad can be a great choice, but, like if you still don't know what's in it, it can work against you in both ways.
Speaker 1:It's like, you know, it's one of those things where it's like there's such an analogy to money and finances with food and calories. Yeah, such an analogy to money and finances with food and calories. Yeah. And when, when we, when people say, okay, hey, you seem to save 10 of your income, everyone kind of understands that, okay, great, all right. So for every you know thousand bucks I make, a hundred bucks goes into savings. Okay, we all understand that conceptually, it's no different than just being in a 10 calorie deficit. Right, so like. Okay, so like every day.
Speaker 1:You just need to, like, you know, shave off 10, yeah, you know, and that's what's gonna, you know, get you, get you out of debt. Quote, unquote, right, um, and everyone understands that. But, like there's something about like the analogy in this scenario would be okay. I just need, I just need to eat salads, or the finance version of that would be like, all right, I just need to like, um, you know, just like, just watch my spend. I just need to, like, make better choices, right, just like spend less right there's no structure.
Speaker 1:There's no real plan there, and so what happens in those people who just want to eat a salad is that they, they, it's to your point, it might work, but they don't know why it worked and then when it stops working, they don't know how to fix it.
Speaker 1:And it's like the same thing with like, okay, I'm, I'm getting into too much debt, I'm just gonna stop spending, I'm just gonna save everything. I'm just gonna take my entire paycheck and put it towards my credit card, right, well, it's like. It's like starving yourself with money now. So now it's like yeah, that worked. It got your credit card debt down, but then you ran out of actual money of your own, and so you have to pull the credit card back out, yeah, and to cover the difference. It's like the same thing when you try to go too aggressive with your fat loss, it's like, yeah, it worked.
Speaker 2:And you might with a little side salad or out. Are you gonna really just like eat a little side salad for the rest of your life? I mean you have there's no plan there to actually have a sustained practice of how you live your life all?
Speaker 1:right, I got one for you um working out for your body type.
Speaker 2:Ah, yes, there's that one guy. He is just that. He looks like just such a cocky actor, he looks like an actor and then he looks like he trains actors. You know who I'm talking about? Is this a V-Shred guy? I think it might be V-Shred. Yeah, that dude is just somehow managed. He's been everywhere for so long. The amount of money he must put into marketing is crazy.
Speaker 1:So I found he doesn't even own. That's not, he's just the face of the company. Yeah, there's like a whole like. Yeah, it's like herbal life or something. Yeah, yeah, I've looked into it a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a whole, he's just the face yeah, and it's been so many different things, but yeah, that that is the big. Take the quiz.
Speaker 1:Oh, man for your body type and and the thing is, is that, like all like legit online influencers that are fitness like you know, like the guys that we like, the doctors and all these people who are like phd level, like legit, very respectable, uh, fitness influence, they all hate him so much because they're just like he is just the worst because he's out there influencing so much.
Speaker 2:These little tendrils are just yeah, it's just like he is just the worst because he's out there influencing so much. These little tendrils are just yeah, it's just like seeping in how about.
Speaker 1:How would that feel like just know that, like you are the least respected human being in your field. That would suck. But anyways, you know, yeah, it's like that. It's like it's a perfect example of somebody who abandoned any sort of sense of like moral duty or or responsibility to like provide the right information and just went straight the marketing route of just like, hey, you want to burn up that stubborn belly fat, take my body fat quiz and you got the, you know, bottom half of america. Just being like, yeah, that's it for me.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't realize I was an endomorph.
Speaker 2:That's what happens. I'm an endomorph, that means I need to eat this way. I mean, it's true, though, you as an ectomezo maybe? Yeah, for me as an ectomezo.
Speaker 1:I mean I have to train for my body type.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 1:You know like weight training a few days a week and walking the dogs. And then a few days a week and I'm walking the dogs, and then, you know, jiu-jitsu class once or twice a week, like that's. I have to train for my body type. You know what about you.
Speaker 2:What's your?
Speaker 1:I'm more more meso yeah more meso.
Speaker 2:So I mean I can just basically do a little cardio, do some weight training, you know, maybe get some steps in and, uh, yeah, eat some protein.
Speaker 1:See, there you go we're training for our body types. Yeah, um, or yeah, it's similar to like the eating for your blood type yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:You know, that's an interesting one as well. I, I got in. I got into that in the sense of when I first that was from so many years ago and I was like, oh, that kind of makes sense, like, oh, I can see that, but we're not fucking vampires, you know. Is that like yep, you know, I just there's no, there's just nothing behind the fact that if you're type o or something there, no, you know negative.
Speaker 1:If you're type o negative or whatever, you just the to eat to your blood type. You just have to eat in a calorie deficit that's your can eat tree nuts that's what and that one? Well, that obviously um the blood type.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is. Uh, that is a good one, but sadly it's that's you got to really be. Uh, I'm under people going out getting their blood tested just like I heard it's happening.
Speaker 1:Man, people are doing it. You know, never underestimate, like these little whispers around oh, should I do this, should I do that? It's like no, someone's out there legit getting their blood tested so they can eat that way. It's crazy. And the last one I'll say is the newest thing which I actually would like to do a whole episode on at one point, would be the carnivore diet. Oh, the carnivore diet is crazy. Which used to be called keto, which used to be called atkins, but now it's carnivore which has its own little see.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, carnivore is. I think it's a. It's a deeper beast than just keto. I mean, it's the removal of carbs, but carnivore has taken it to a whole level oh, they're saying vegetables are bad. Yeah, they're saying well because, like on keto, you could still like eat cheese, but I think carnivore would be like, not even cheese, like. Sometimes I think they might be like, oh, raw dairy is okay, but I don't know if they're down with, like you, eating a craft single.
Speaker 1:But like keto, you could technically eat a craft single yeah, and you know the, the, the author of the book the carnivore. I did tell you this already. You're telling me this, yeah he came out and he's like super public. If you just google the author's name and you can see videos of him basically discrediting the whole thing and saying like I I almost had to get hospitalized like I was feeling terrible.
Speaker 1:I started coming down all these symptoms. It's like, yeah, man, what the fuck do you think while he was writing the book he was experiencing all these symptoms. So crazy but of course finished the book because he's a piece of shit and just wants to, you know. And now he's created this whole movement that's spawned a million other fucking influencers.
Speaker 2:Well, and that's the thing about carnivore. It's like it's. It's it like equate it almost to the dogmatic club that is kind of like veganism, that there is such an identity and culture behind carnivore, like it's not just like, oh, I'm going to just focus on a certain macro or eliminate a macro. It's like carnivore is this whole crazy spawned identity, like the amount of momentum that is behind it's like, oh, you're in the carnivore club, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And just like yeah it's like.
Speaker 2:It's like it was branded cult and you know, the byproduct of social media echo chambers. It's just so wild because once people like attach to the carnivore diet, it's there's so much identity behind it. It's not just like, oh, this is the way I'm gonna eat. It's like, oh, I'm carnivore. Now like, oh yeah I've returned.
Speaker 1:Yeah it, we should just make one call, like the alcohol diet so everybody just loves to drink beer yeah you don't understand, you don't get it, man.
Speaker 2:It's like get my beer, get my protein from my own body, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, all right, I think that I think, hopefully we've helped you guys understand that there's only really one way about it and that's to just take control of your health and nutrition and don't get caught up in the bandwagon man. Stop bandwagoning.
Speaker 2:It's just, and you know there's I mean there's one I've been. You know this was. We focused primarily on nutrition, but another favorite of mine is that, like, weight training makes you bulky. Oh yeah, just, I just hear it always from men and from women. And it's just like it's not. It's just not true.
Speaker 1:No, it's like, I don't want to get bulky, bro, I'm like, I'm like you just need to start. You're so far from bulky, so like you wish. You know how hard it is approaching the day the new, my newest client.
Speaker 2:You know he's a small person, both in stature and he's just kind of. He used to be like a runner. He's cross-country guy and so he's pretty lean but man, he's not thick in any way and he's just like I don't want to get too big. And I'm like I decided I was like dude, I was like you couldn't probably get that big if you wanted to.
Speaker 1:Like I really can't get that big. It takes so much dedication, so much effort and so much time.
Speaker 2:It's such a common concern for people and so much time it's. It's such a common concern for people and I'm just like what do you, what do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 1:like you just look at a kettlebell and all of a sudden you're just like veins popping out of your neck record. Uh, weight training three times a week. Three to five times a week every week, maybe barring being like ill since I was 16 years old. So that's 24 years of dedicated weight training protein tracking calories thing.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're fit, fit you're fit, I mean.
Speaker 1:So it's like listen, guys. Like it's not a conversation of whether you're going to get bulkiness, like you just got like start. It's not a conversation of whether you're going to get bulkiness, like you just got like start exercising and just learn how to move your body. You're not even at a skill level where you could lift heavy enough to even produce the stimulus required to bulk yeah. It's just like you're just teaching yourself how to move right now.
Speaker 2:Right, you're like casting this line of concern to something that, even if it was a potential, is so far down the road. It's like this is crazy, like self-handicap or just like whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, I don't want to get too bulky, so I'm gonna work out, but not that hard. Yeah, it's like, okay, like, why are you? What are you worried about? Like I don't want to get too rich. Yeah, yeah, it's like I don't want to make too much money.
Speaker 1:Why don't you like save a thousand bucks first?
Speaker 2:I know know, I'm going back to school. I just got this new job.
Speaker 1:Before you worry about like being too rich, maybe you should just like open a savings account first, right, you know like let's just start there. It's kind of like the same thing, right, same analogy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I don't get you.
Speaker 1:It's like no, no, no, you don't have any, you haven't even yeah.
Speaker 2:And ecto and mesomorphs. So it's like if I just got to really be careful for my body type, you just got to train for your body type, then man. You know, especially because I'm also on carnivore, and carnivore, just like doubles your testosterone and doubles your protein synthesis in your muscles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally that mixed with the lemon water in the morning.
Speaker 1:Listen, like listen. Are there like the genetic anomalies out there? Yes, of course you know. But like most people are very genetic, genetically average, like most people fall right into the frame of like the bell curve is here really shitty genetics on one end, really amazing genetics on the other, and there's just sort of like the the middle, yeah, and 90 of us fall right smack dab as far as testosterone or hormone production, ability to build muscle, ability to avoid injury. We're all kind of like in the same zone here. We're not all, michael.
Speaker 2:Phelps, who lactic acid production is like 80% less.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:He's like a genetic mutant, yeah he's a mutant and like out of our entire high school maybe there's like one or two mutants, you know, but for the rest of us we're all just like. We would probably experience some really good stimulus or really good results from just training and eating properly. We could all probably get pretty good, pretty fit, just from eating and and training properly. There's gonna be like the some people who just have shitty genetics and like, no matter what they do, they just can't get any stronger or move any better. We all know those people too and they do exist right here. Just yeah, I mean, you know, I don't want to say I don't want to call you out by name, but but for the most part, like, yeah, they've just got to train and eat right and be fucking consistent and whatever you, whatever and I can contest to this because I, you know, I don't have genetics for muscle growth for sure Like I have to work a little bit harder for muscle growth than other people.
Speaker 1:But what people who may lack in genetics as far as like their ability to put on muscle, nothing that consistency can't overcome. That is true, you know. So you might have someone who has great genetics, but they just don't get. They just half-ass it. They skip workouts, eat like shit. You know, even if you have not so great, if you're just consistent and you just keep showing up, you can certainly surpass people with better quote-unquote genetics in you, even though we all kind of land in the same parameters, mostly speaking. That's true, yeah, all right. Well, there you go, team. I think that was there you go. Your Myth Bust episode is over.
Speaker 2:Don't buy in to the true lies.
Speaker 1:Don't believe the lies Exactly. We'll catch you all next time. Peace out, bye.