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
Embracing Change: Fitness Strategies for Navigating 40 and Beyond
Turning 40 is more than just a milestone; it's a wake-up call for those of us clinging to outdated fitness routines. Have you ever tried to incorporate a new sport like jujitsu into your regimen only to find your body protesting? Join us as we share personal stories about facing longer recovery times and navigating the increased risk of injury that come with age. We aren't just talking about physical changes; we're tackling the cognitive dissonance we all face when our bodies no longer match our mental image. Embracing new, age-appropriate strategies can transform your routine and keep you in the game longer.
In our podcast, we explore the often tricky balance of integrating new activities with current fitness habits. Whether it's the allure of jujitsu or the grind of weight training, understanding personal limits becomes essential as we age. We discuss how adapting our activities can prevent constant setbacks and injuries while still allowing room for growth and experimentation. Finding joy in movement is critical, even if it means pivoting to pursuits more aligned with our evolving capabilities. It's not just about maintaining physical health; it's about making sure we enjoy the journey every step of the way.
Consistency is key to a sustainable fitness journey, and we dive into how to maintain it amidst life's chaos. From battling poor diet choices to struggling with sleep, a regular fitness routine can anchor your well-being. We highlight the versatility of resistance training, whether through bodyweight or weights, and share personal experiences on how to keep it fresh and fulfilling. By adopting a beginner's mindset, we can overcome the mental hurdles that often derail our progress. Small, consistent actions can be the catalyst for larger achievements, helping us avoid the all-or-nothing mentality and ultimately leading to long-term success and satisfaction in our fitness endeavors.
Hello and welcome to episode 38 of Coach's Corner with Justin and Ethan. I am Coach Justin and I'm Coach Ethan. Today, folks, we're going to be talking about letting go of things in your life, specifically fitness, that may have served you at one time but no longer serve you now, and you might be hanging on to this idea of what it takes to get fit aka I only get fit when I cut out carbs or when I run five miles every day. But the reality of your life now might not support that belief system and that's keeping you from being consistent, which we know is the key to success. So we're just going to kind of talk about our own stories today on things we've experienced like that you know that we've had to just let go of, and also things that we've allowed into our life that we never really thought we would have fully embraced, but just kind of works and makes sense and allows us to keep showing up every day. So that's what we're going to be talking about today, if up every day. So that's what we're going to be talking about today.
Speaker 1:If you don't know us, we've been doing this podcast for eight, nine months now. We've worked together for like 20 years. Trainers in the gym floor. We've owned gyms together. At this point now, ethan has his own studio in Los Angeles where he sees people. I have a business online Bottom line. We've been doing this for a very long time Weight loss, nutrition coaching, fitness consulting and so now we come together this podcast to help you guys cut through the noise and get on the straight and narrow for your own health and fitness journey. That's right, there we go. So, with that being said, man well, I gotta say I'll start out with like I just turned 40 years old last week say the compliments.
Speaker 1:Don't tell me, I look younger, it's okay you look like 52. You don't look a day over 50, uh, and you know, I think 40 is just that age man. You're turning 40 in like a couple months yeah, that's pretty close in age and, like you know, it's a, it's that very like introspective moment in your life, these milestone birthdays 20, 30, 40, 50 where you're just like 40 is like it's, I feel, like 40.
Speaker 2:Is that? That's the true halfway point, right, like obviously, leaving your 20s to your 30s has a signature to it yeah, but you're still right, but you're still pretty with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you still you still got that.
Speaker 2:You still got them.
Speaker 1:Hormones flowing you're still yeah, you're still doing good but 40 is you're entering the f's?
Speaker 2:yeah, the 40 50 right and I think it is the true like half. It is middle-aged by definition, right.
Speaker 1:Which is a trip.
Speaker 2:It is no longer like, oh, I'm like riding out my 20s.
Speaker 1:It's like I mean, whatever your life is it's like the numbers are there, Things are just. They just aren't the same anymore.
Speaker 2:You know like joints.
Speaker 1:It's true, I mean I've had more injuries in the last year and a half than I probably have in the last 10 years combined and they're not like career-ending devastating injuries, but it's just like, oh wow, this back tweak is lasting six weeks, like and I wasn't even that bad, and like we're maybe in your 20s. It would have been like four or five days and you're like all right back at it.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. I did, uh, I was demonstrating a pull-up on the rings and I like tweaked some elbow flexor it's a good comment like man, it just will not go away and I think, just hold, wrap, yeah, yep, and it's not like again, it's not devastating, but like it hurts all the time.
Speaker 1:This is like, oh man, one thing I elbow, yeah, no but like one thing I was telling, like all our new clients that are over 35, I'm like, hey, that like I know you want to get jacked and I know like we want to just like look awesome and be super fit. The number one objective, those injury prevention, yes, because man, guy, girl doesn't matter, you're one gnarly like just past the line of oh, this is not just a tweak, this is and you are, it's, it's done, it's demoralizing it's depressing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the amount of time it takes before you return is so much more detrimental than just taking like a more tender route. Totally, yeah, it's just and yeah, the fundamentally it's just, the healing time is so different and so we had met.
Speaker 1:We were in the pre-game, the pre-show.
Speaker 1:We were talking about this concept of like cognitive dissidence and like one thing that I think of when I think of cognitive dissonance is like closing the gap between what you think and feel it should be versus what it really is, and I feel like that's sort of like a cognitive dissonance gap that we have to close, but also part of just like calibrating and aligning our brains with being a little bit more accurate to self-assess, because I think what happens is we have this idea well, but no, I I'm like a marathon runner, I am a you know crossfitter, I'm a competitive kickboxer.
Speaker 1:It's like well, you were, and I think there's a part of that that is, that you can't remove that part of you. No doubt it's been the foundation of your being, but if the objective truth is that it's been 10 years since you've done any of those things and in that 10 year period you've like gotten a busier job or you've started a family or you've just like taking your eye off your game, I think the the goal is to assess that and make sure that you don't just go back and try to like pick up where you left off. But give yourself a little grace to either a ramp back up to that over you know period of time or be entertain the idea that maybe there's something that's more appropriate for you at this stage of your life?
Speaker 2:Yeah, without question. Like you know, I think it comes. Just, this is a process that probably happens with every stage of life and you know, like my mom's older, she had me pretty late in the game and you know she started just using a rollator, which is like those like kind of not quite a walker, but those like walking roller walkers With the tennis balls in the front.
Speaker 1:No, no, that's like a legit walker.
Speaker 2:Okay okay, the rollator is like that, has like the little like almost like a seat, but it just rolls as you walk, whereas a walker is like a clink clink.
Speaker 2:Okay, clink clink, yeah you know. And so she finally accepted it and she's had all types of hip and knee replacements and all types of stuff. But you know, like mentally it was like hard for her. Yeah she's, she's probably needed it for so many years and has resisted it for so long, and so I feel like it's just a process of life where we don't want to get older. We don't want to get older, we don't want to accept that the youth is gone and it's never going to come back, and the things that we were able, capable and the identity more importantly, right To those things that we did when we were younger and we're just going to go with that right now and those things that are more accessible, is like it's hard to let go.
Speaker 2:We don't want to do it Right. And there is a whole thing Like I get it, like you accept defeat and that's it right. You take the role later and now you have a walker and now you're in a wheelchair and now you decline because you don't care and you don't try, and I get that. That's a potential path. But at the same time, like she's in less pain because she's using this thing Right. I see through her, the process. I think of what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:Because it's a spectrum. It's a spectrum, it's not just either you're like young or you're old.
Speaker 2:You're just not all of a sudden like 80 and fucking decrepit.
Speaker 1:No, it's from like 35 to like death. It's just this like spectrum of, like readjusting.
Speaker 2:Readjusting, and this is barring no major injury or something, so it things. So it's like you know, imagine, like I remember in college that we talked about the whole like psychological component of an, of an athlete that goes through a major injury and the depression and the things that come with like your whole identity is taken away from you, and so that's like you know, barring all that, I think there is just having this kind of real like have to kind of like a look in the mirror and readjust your approach to your goal yeah and you know, and I think you know to honor, there's a broad spectrum of like.
Speaker 2:I think consistency is what matters most, and there's lots of ways to have a generally fit and healthy lifestyle. None of them are always have to be like reps and sets in a gym. You know, if you want a mountain bike or surf, that's great, totally, and I do think that there's a certain joy component. But I think fundamentally it it's like honoring what is it that you know would serve you the best? And, exactly like you were saying, the consistency matters. So what is going to make that consistently accessible for you?
Speaker 1:Right, because, like if you fancy yourself as a power lifter and that's what you did in your 20s and 30s, and then now you just keep finding that, man, my back is just always tweaked, I'm always having to recover, and you're 40, you got to ask yourself like is there something else that you could allow into your life that gives you 80 of that satisfaction, right, but only takes 20 of the toll on your body that you know may not be what you've identified as, whether that's like a endurance athlete, a martial artist, a power lifter, a bodybuilder, like whatever. It's a different set of lifts, but but something, yeah, but like if.
Speaker 1:But now it's like if. Is there something that we can do that would encourage, what would allow for more consistency? Because, like you know uh, case in point and totally so like last year around january, I kind of had this like thing. I'm like I've just been like in the gym lifting weights for many years now, but I was kickboxer in my 20s. I've always been like, I've been like constantly doing two days, always lifted weights, and then we'd open up the crossfit gym in our late 20s. We were doing like crossfit competitions in addition to training. It just felt like there's always like athletics in my life of some degree, you know, especially as an adult. Then I went to this like stretch, there's just nothing, and I'm like that's it, like I'm I'm. At the time I was like 38, I'm like'm 38. I'm not over the hill yet. I'm going to go join this beach volleyball league Turned into this whole thing, ballooned to this. I'm doing tournaments now because I picked it up quickly. I was kind of good. I'm tall, so it worked.
Speaker 2:I just really enjoyed it. It was so much fun. I met friends.
Speaker 1:It's social, it's got all the text and you go you go talk about it, about like a happy life, totally. It was so much fun. And then, like you know, I did this like back-to-back leagues and tournaments and I was like getting good. It was like I was like this is fun, like let's go like ah, what's that little ache pain in my knee?
Speaker 1:anyways, long story short, by september, full-on gnarly patellar tendonitis, aka jumper's knee, went to the doctor. It was so bad I had to get like x-rays and they're just like. It's just tendonitis. Man, I'm like man. I have never felt tendonitis like, really that is gnarly. I could have sworn. I just had grinded down my meniscus or something but yeah you're like.
Speaker 1:Well, they're like you, besides having like stage two um osteoarthritis and your knee which is normal for a man your age I'm just like thanks, they're like. You know, it's just tendonitis, you just gotta give it time. Took six months and then during that six month period couldn't really exercise my legs. Much was kind of limping around it was gnarly anyways and then.
Speaker 1:So then this year was like, okay, I can't do beach volleyball anymore, but let me do something that does it. That's not like jumping jujitsu, that makes sense, it's fun, it's cool. Here we are approaching, you know, october of this year now and I've, like so far, had three kind of decent injuries through jujitsu this year and like every time I do it, it's like I gotta take a month off of weight lifting, or at least I have to baby the weights, and so there's no progression in my weight training. And it's just, you know, it's just. I'm just kind of getting to that point where I'm like man should the game like okay, like I got to find something.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think the takeaway is don't try anything new. Yeah, the takeaway is don't do any intramural sports, you know, but I know, but I think it is kind of the fact that, like you know one I really respect, because I don't, you know, I guess not a vulnerable share. But it's like I don't fucking do any of that, I don't try new sports, and I think that's why you didn't have any tendonitis, so I really respect the kind of willingness to put, because it's time and effort too it's not just like you got to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1:You know, you're with new people and start from the beginning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think there's the rewards and joys like with the volleyball that comes with it as well so I respect your pursuit of that, but it's kind of like we're talking about like there might be a point where, like as someone who is now middle-aged officially that you know, maybe jujitsu isn't the place to start, and, like you, know, and it's either like you love it so much, it's so much a lifeblood, that you have to do it and maybe progress into it slower or take your time, or then start rehabbing and spending time outside of the dojo to make sure your joints are acclimated and ready and really going down that rabbit hole, yeah.
Speaker 2:Or it's like okay, well, maybe I just can't jump into jiu-jitsu at 40.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that is exactly right. Can't jump into jiu-jitsu at 40? Yeah, I think that exactly exactly right. You know, like, had I done, had me or anyone you know in this case started maybe a five or ten years ago and kind of gotten over that initial adaptation hump, it's a little bit different. Your body's more equipped and certainly I, there's no doubt I could get there eventually. It's just kind of at what cost? Yes, and you know, for me it's like weight lifting is important and I don't want to keep showing up each week to my weight training sessions and have to, like, cut out all the volume in half because my shoulder is jacked from jujitsu. You know, yeah, yeah, 100%.
Speaker 2:And so it's just those.
Speaker 1:You know it's okay to transition from what used to be to a thing that you know we can show up for. That doesn't beat us up so much that maybe we never thought in a million years that we would be that guy. But then the reality is. Is that you know jujitsu, volleyball, sports, weightlifting aside? Like what is the real point of it all?
Speaker 2:what is the real like goal? Why are we doing this?
Speaker 1:why we want. You want to look good, of course, but you want to be healthy.
Speaker 2:You want to live longer and there's nothing you want a better quality of life like fundamentally, I mean if you work out.
Speaker 1:If you have like a decent workout a few days a week, I mean that is the thing you could eat like shit you could. Your sleep could be jacked, you could. You know all the other things in your life can be, you know not, but if the one thing is just you're consistently training, you'd be, surprised how far that goes from just a general health standpoint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just there's just no stagnancy. Yeah, you know it's, there's the the. There's not that dirty pool of water at the corner of the Creek. Yeah, it's collecting mildew. Yeah, and the foam, and whatever.
Speaker 2:It is Right and it's, it's's, it's just the truth and I think, like resistance training is just such, there's so many avenues of it. So, whether you're like going body weight and doing like a gymnastics skill-based progressive overload, or you're just lifting a heavier dumbbell, I think that resistance training is just undeniably asking your body to show up and I think that that whole continuum is just going to be something that is infinitely accessible to make your life better. And again, it's like I, you know cause it's like I don't want to shy away from being inspired and doing something that fulfills your life, or looking for something that fulfills your life.
Speaker 2:You know, in a certain sense, I'm actually kind of going through a process right now where you know, in a certain sense, I'm actually kind of going through a process right now where you know when I first started back when I was fucking 15, 16, 17 and on the wrestling team it's like I was all about the calisthenics, dips, push-up, handstand, pull, push-ups, pull-ups, all the stuff, and that like progressed into kind of what I just named, like that kind of gymnastic skill based where you're like a new ability was based off the gaining of more strength versus just like, okay, 35 pound dumbbell, 40 pound dumbbell, and it's almost like I've moved so far into that classic kind of functional strength training world that I almost like miss the, the calisic body weight stuff.
Speaker 2:And I'm kind of having this, like I can feel this like little smoldering inside of me, that I might switch back over there, because if there is something about the success of a new position or a new movement that's inspiring and like no doubt it's the same thing. Like, oh, I bench pressed 200 pounds and then I bench pressed 215. And like that feels good, but there's a certain monotony there, right, whereas like it's like, oh, like I couldn't do this and now I can actually do this thing even if it's, even if it starts as five push-ups to 10 push-ups, to a new kind of push-up, and so it's just.
Speaker 2:I think you know I will see, and it's still just resistance. Training is what I want to come back to. I'm still just asking my body to do things that are hard of heart. It's hard for it to do, for it to do. But you know, I do think there is a component of you know we got to, we got to do something that's going to be fulfilling as well, and I think fulfillment can come in so many different forms. And so it's like I don't. You know, there's some component of me that wants to make sure it's not just like do the boring shit in the gym Totally, and I think there's always a progression or regression, just like you kind of talked about the jiu-jitsu If you took the time and it really mattered to you, you could adapt away in there. It might take two years, but you could if you wanted to. But there is a truth that, like what happens in the weight room or the gym in terms of consolidated, chosen exercise in some capacity, is always going to be the most accessible thing, in a way.
Speaker 1:And it's like to your point, like that doesn't mean it's not a binary of you do the weights or you do the know impact sport it's, it's a, it's a continuum of okay, well, how much of each is it is appropriate?
Speaker 1:And then also on a personal level, like, well, how much am I willing, how much of either one am I willing to let go of, in order to create space in my life to not only train in this, in this area, but then also recover from the training in that area. And that's like a personal struggle that I'm in the midst of right now of just like, okay, like I have this idea that I want to lift weights five days a week. Four days, four or five days a week would be ideal. But then, man, I do two jujitsu sessions and I'm like everything hurts and I'm achy and I just have to skip it. But you know, everything hurts and I'm achy and I just have to skip it. But yeah, it is, it can. It's like okay, well, what does one jiu-jitsu session look like a week? What is doing two jiu-jitsu sessions and maybe only doing two weight training sessions a week look?
Speaker 2:right or like how do you have time to then do like joint rehab?
Speaker 1:yeah, or prehab.
Speaker 2:Right, like okay, I want to do two jiu-jitsu sessions a week, but in order to do that at my age and physical situation, I have to give time to be like. I have to then carve out more time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so now, maybe one of my two weight training sessions a week goes into like just complete, like bulletproofing of joints, yeah, Because I choose jujitsu, and now it's only one weight training session a week, right, and I think it's this kind of continuum that goes back to your age injuries. You know imbalances in your body. You know kids. I mean, like you know, neither of us have kids at the moment well, that's the thing is.
Speaker 1:You know, that's what inspired this episode, as well as, like you know, for so many clients that we have. It's like I can't say how many times you get on these calls where it's like, you know, I, I know what, I know it works for me, it's, it's.
Speaker 1:I think you've had clients like this too, you know, it's when I cut out carbs and run like 20 miles a week. It's like when's last we did that eight years ago. What's happened from eight years ago till now? Well, I got a new job and I have family now and it's like okay, listen, there's a reason why you're not running, you know 20 miles a week anymore. It like it's just not realistic with your schedule to commit to waking up at five so you can get your 40 minute run in every day.
Speaker 1:And so it's like these conversations that we constantly keep having with folks. It's like okay, we want to lose 30 pounds, we know that, right. Okay, we also know that, like, we have like other things that we would love to do. Then we all have, we have like the reality of our life. We have to kind of find that venn diagram of like well, what's like the sweet spot of like instead of these two days that maybe you used to do in your 20s, but then now we're doing nothing and because we don't have time to do two days, so therefore you don't do anything because there's this kind of like well, I gotta wait until I have time to do the thing that I know worked, but it's like well that you don't have that time and you and your kids are five. So you're saying it's the reason you got 12 more years of this shit right. So it's like you know what about a 15 minute at home hit workout three days a week?
Speaker 2:right? Or what about a 15 minute run, a one run. One mile running is your thing right, like I get it like, but now you don't get to do 20 miles a week right, do three miles right.
Speaker 1:Right, like literally, you know, but then it's just yeah exactly, or it's just a new modality altogether.
Speaker 2:But like, what is the like it's like? Can we really be real with ourselves? I think in a lot of ways. And just like what? Back to the? Why do I choose to include fitness in my life specifically, I gotta think exercise and movement. I mean, obviously, this is all applicable to food and how we eat as well. But like, do I choose to include this for the just without question, cause I know it's going to make me a better person. It's going to just make life better.
Speaker 2:Whether I hate the time in the gym or I love mountain biking or whatever it is, do I choose to do it what's accessible and just keeping it real. About that, I think Totally Because, understandably, like life comes at you, it's hard Like if you've got one, two, three seven kids. You know you got four jobs. No, but really, really, really though it's. You know I have a client that brings his kids to the studio.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm so grateful in a way that I have that ability to let him do that. But, like that's, the real truth of his life is that if that wasn't an option, he wouldn't be in the gym.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Yeah, and you know it'd be very easy to just not want to bring your kids and then therefore not go to the gym.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean that's and you know, and again, I think that it's like the inertia.
Speaker 1:One quote I heard from some book I listened to many years ago.
Speaker 1:I couldn't tell you who or when, but the quote that stuck out was never break the chain of habit.
Speaker 1:You know, everything has momentum and everything has inertia, inertia and it's like constantly the better you can get at acclimating in real time to the moment and not having it be this all or nothing decision that you do or you don't, but just always it's like die. It's like constantly in the moment dialing up and dialing down. Okay, you know, like case in point, like instead of it just being like well, well, I can't do my workouts, I can't go to the gym because we move the gym's 30 minutes away now and you know I just can't. I don't have two hour block in my day to go work out, so I haven't worked out in months. It's like it's like the better we can get at just recognizing kind of seeing the crystal ball, seeing around the corner sooner, seeing that potentiality, and then acclimating in real time, being like let me just order some resistance bands, let me just like get something moving, even if it's just 15-minute workouts at home 10-minute walk, because once you break that chain of habit, man.
Speaker 1:A month goes by so fast and when you have not worked out in a month, like Tanya just went through. This was we were traveling and then she got sick. She was traveling for work for a week or two so she couldn't go her boot camps in the morning. Then we went on a vacation for 10, 11 days, indulgence travel, and then we then she got sick, right, so it was a month and then sickness is just, oh man.
Speaker 2:And it was a brutal habits for antibiotics, so you know, here she was for nine months, going to nine months, nine months.
Speaker 1:Well, she had, she had, she had started in january this year, had gone basically three or four days a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, counting her calories of doing yeah, of going to the boot camp six am.
Speaker 1:no, no, no, it's the boot camps 6 am boot camps.
Speaker 2:I thought you were talking about 9 months off. No, okay, yeah, 6 am boot camps for 9 months, so big block of consistency. Right, like your body's in the flow now, dude she shredded like 15 pounds body fat.
Speaker 1:She's like feeling good, feeling good, but man, it's just. But this is what happens. This is how it goes. It's like boom, you know, work, trip, vacation, got sick. Boom, boom, boom, the stack. So that was one month of time. Right there, you're already going to see a huge decline in fitness after a month. But then the inertia of just not going and the fear of how hard that class is going to be the first one back.
Speaker 2:How different it is. It rolled into another month it was two months now.
Speaker 1:She finally went back this week and of course she's so sore she can't walk, but yeah I kept saying I'm like, come in here with me, just do 10 minutes, just so any hard, but she had this like no, has to be the boot camp that I'm going to have you know it's, it's, it's hard man, it's.
Speaker 2:I mean, I, I I definitely fall victim to this pattern where life will happen to me, because life always happens and I'll definitely get derailed. I fall into this lull and I just witnessed myself in the lull where there's like nothing happening and I'm just like fuck dude, I did it again. And it's like happened enough times, where now it's like fuck, I'm back, how'd.
Speaker 2:I step back in this stillness, yes, and I'm like and I know that I'm going to be so sore I can't walk. I know it's this like now. It's not like, it's just like even like the little trickle. It wasn't like the faucet wasn't even dripping. It's like now that the faucet's off, it's like fuck man, I gotta, and. But the mental game of being at a complete stop and coming back is just such a wild thing. It is. It is such a wild thing. I mean I'm in it kind of right now. I've been in a stagnancy where I just can't seem to choose to be consistent with it. It's not nothing, but I'm not in that flow. And it's become such a thing now where I'm just so in my head about it and it's just like motherfucker here I am like yet again.
Speaker 1:I'm like well, here I am again, and there's no like, there's no solution other than just doing just biting the bullet. Yeah, it's just getting it.
Speaker 2:It's like face the music, all these little quotes, all these little soliloquies and it's like, yep, you know, yeah, and it is funny because it's just there is just no way around it, and it's all the fears and it's all the how much fitness I've lost and how my heart is going to be, and who am I and can I even do this, and all that you know, like all the, all the scary thoughts yeah, you know. So, if you, if you ever have a hard time out there, folks, it's not alone, you're not alone statistically, I think 90 of people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it's tend to lose all their progress within five year period of any sort of major transformation and like it just takes a very strong will to keep coming at things with childish curiosity, with the beginner's mind of just like I'm gonna like, if you've done a hundred six week weightlifting, progressive overload cycles, the hundred and one, just so easy, just be like, yeah, okay, this and this and whatever.
Speaker 1:But it's like the ability to like get excited about the thing that you've done a thousand times over again, yeah, and it's just kind of reinventing it and like, and then you know, I think the spirit of this episode is like being okay to adjust, yeah, if the thing that you've done for a long time and you've identified with you start in the back of your mind like it's just not serving you as much as you had thought. Like entertaining the idea of adopting a new style of training. At this point I'm pretty much exclusively doing like what would you, what you would consider classic bodybuilding? Yeah, and I'm not a bodybuilder, but it's just a way for me to be consistent.
Speaker 1:That is so low bar with intensity, because every set I'm taking a minute and a half break afterwards you know, it's not like jujitsu, where you literally feel a little like fear in your you know you feel the fear before each class because, you're about to spar another man who wants to choke you?
Speaker 2:It's a battle.
Speaker 1:Whose intention is to make you tap out? Yeah, like spar or whatever, or going to a 6 am boot camp where it's so easy to cancel. I didn't sleep. It's raining outside. I'm still sore from the other one.
Speaker 2:I haven't done it in a week.
Speaker 1:There's a million reasons you can cancel a 6am boot camp. Don't fucking want to do it, you know. But like when you lower the barrier of entry a little bit and you kind of make it like such a no-brainer, like yeah, of course I'm gonna do a 40 minute you know workout in my home or a 10 minute I mean circuit in my living room even like three sets of 10 push-ups, because I think that's where I get caught up is.
Speaker 2:It is like it like avoiding that all or nothing of like well, I gotta do a solid workout right. And it's like going back to that like just any type of current right, even if the window is cracked and there's just a little bit of air coming through just some type of movement momentum, so that's not a dead stop. Yeah, just don't break the chain of habit just don't break the chain of habit.
Speaker 2:And so it's like, literally sometimes I'm just like, oh, it's so stupid, like I'm gonna do three sets of 10 push-ups, but when I find myself in these places where I've come to a standstill, sometimes that is literally where, and it's almost like this weird place from like well, this is stupid and it means nothing and therefore why bother. And then I stay still, whereas, like sometimes it is, it's like okay, let's just do. You know, like the other day I had Amanda, just be, you know. There's this whole. I'm gonna get woken up and just I was just like three sets, it's like 20 jumping jacks and 15 mountain climbers per leg, just do it at a pace as quickly as you can, don't rush, but just like even that, and she's like I feel great now, you know, and it and it's so simple and so silly, and maybe three sets of pushups just seems like it does nothing and it might not mean you're going to be fit from it, but it does kind of keep the momentum.
Speaker 1:It keeps a toehold on your fitness. But also, I think I've experienced personally where, like, I'll tell myself okay, I'm tired, I don't know, all right, I'm just gonna do three sets of name your movement and that's all I'm gonna do for this body part today, and that's good enough. But then what you? What I've realized is that it's a, it's a trip wire, yeah, yeah. And I trick myself into saying and that gets me to just start, I'm not gonna do the full, you know hour-long thing, I'm just gonna do.
Speaker 1:I got it, I'm just gonna one up and just do easy three sets and I'm done. And then, of course, three sets later, your hormones are flowing, your muscles are pumped, your joints are loose, you feel good and you're like all right, I can do the rest of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can do this. I can do a little bit more. It's no big deal. I got 10 more minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like trick permission to just like completely trick yourself.
Speaker 2:Ham and the garlic, ham and the garlic yeah, you give yourself what you want, or you give yourself what you need you gotta give yourself a little ham, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Totally, and that goes for you know everything. It sure does. But yeah, All right. Well, I think that pretty much sums it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's a good one. Yeah, that was a good one, just kind of a more philosophical approach to your fitness lives and that, like you don't like holding yourself at such a high standard is pretty much set. You're setting yourself up for some degree of failure when, inevitably, life becomes life and, like we live in a culture where it's like suck it up, work harder, no one cares, you know, and there's certain quality, I think, of just like not being too soft when it comes to holding yourself to a standard, but also recognizing that nothing matters if we're not consistent in life. And so if you find that the things you're, the standards you're trying to hold yourself to just consistently come at odds with the realities of your life and you consistently have to put some like, put your fitness on the back burner because you can't live up to the arbitrary expectations that you've set for yourself, that adjusting those expectations down, even just temporarily, so that you can maintain consistency, is the number one, most important thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, Whether it's that you have an exercise in three months or you find yourself at 63 or you've had a major injury or all of a sudden you had your second kid, like whatever it is you just. I mean that was very articulate. Thank you Quite surprised. 40 looks good on you.
Speaker 1:My brain's only half deteriorated, all right, guys. Well, thanks for tuning in. We'll check you all next week for episode 39. Almost the 4-0.
Speaker 2:Almost we're chasing it All right Later.
Speaker 1:Guys, Peace out Peace.