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Faithful Fitness at Home: Parenting, Nutrition, and the “Secret Weapon” Behind the Scenes · Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Faithful Fitness Podcast. For my Dad. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Alex Van Houghten helps to get stronger and mind, body,
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. He believes that your body is a temple,
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  Speaker 1: so taking good care of it is an actual worship.
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  Speaker 2: I should know.
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  Speaker 1: I live with them. Every week. He brings truth from
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, tool some science and stories that will set
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  Speaker 1: your heart on fire. May God bless you to become
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  Speaker 1: everything He made you to be, just one percent better
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  Speaker 1: every single day.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the things that we do in
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  Speaker 3: our household that's very different is we will recognize behavioral
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  Speaker 3: things in our children as a nutrition, exercise or sleep
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  Speaker 3: issue before we say you're just in a stupid mood today,
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  Speaker 3: what's your problem? I talk a lot about nutrition and
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  Speaker 3: exercise and discipline in our household, and today you're going
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  Speaker 3: to meet my secret weapon, my wife. This is not
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  Speaker 3: an interview or a lecture. This is a practical conversation
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  Speaker 3: about two people raising two kids in faith full fitness.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into it. Well, this is new to us.
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  Speaker 3: We've never done this before. You are the only person
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  Speaker 3: I've ever done an interview in faithful fitness so far
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  Speaker 3: in person, and so Hi and welcome to the audience.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting to hang out with my wife, miss Kristen
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  Speaker 3: van Outen. How are you doing today, Honey, I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: You fed me a good lunch, so now here I am.
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  Speaker 3: It was a shred lunch and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: all about shred in a little bit. But the audience
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know you, so they've spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 3: with me the talking head in the closet and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but you've been like the supporter behind the scenes for
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  Speaker 3: what like seven years?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Eight years? How long have I been podcasting.
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  Speaker 4: It?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Seven?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, okay eight years ish, So rewind real
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  Speaker 3: quick with me. We have a lot to talk about
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  Speaker 3: in this podcast, but but I want you to reround
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  Speaker 3: real quick with me. Okay, what was it like being
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  Speaker 3: my wife when I first started talking to myself in
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  Speaker 3: an office with a camera and a mic setup?
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  Speaker 4: Ironically, it's probably the most professional setup of a podcast
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  Speaker 4: that we've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: That's so true.
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  Speaker 4: You spent a whole weekend building that beautiful palette wall.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and.
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  Speaker 4: Biggest opstle was probably keeping our two three year old
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  Speaker 4: quiet and from the outside looking. And it's very cool
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  Speaker 4: to see how far you've come.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's very sweet to be because I remember I
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  Speaker 3: remember in there that we had a two story house
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  Speaker 3: and so like it was a pretty professional setup in
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  Speaker 3: the sense that I had like the mic, and I
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  Speaker 3: had the palette wall with the bookshelves behind me and
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  Speaker 3: stuff in the front. But every car that drove by,
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  Speaker 3: you could hear it picked up that. Every time Gabriel cried,
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  Speaker 3: I could hear that, And then upstairs sounded like a
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  Speaker 3: herd of elephants every time that you guys like walked
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  Speaker 3: through the room. And I remember like pausing to like
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  Speaker 3: make it stop so that I could continue talking. But
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  Speaker 3: but you also kept him from like entering that space
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  Speaker 3: of the whole house.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they were clear doors, and so he came to
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  Speaker 4: your doors you were done. Yeah, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: But it's funny you say that that was the most
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  Speaker 3: professional setup, I mean outside of maybe this, which I guess,
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  Speaker 3: like it looks professional this way, but like nobody needs
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  Speaker 3: to see what's what's No, No, nobody sees behind the camera.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's rough.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we need a behind the.
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  Speaker 3: Scene maybe, but but thencrets No, No, it's like a magician.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 3: So so the Then we did it here in the office,
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  Speaker 3: and that was the paint of the butt. Everybody was
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  Speaker 3: always mowing their lawn or something. And then I baby
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  Speaker 3: Bee baby Bennett. He was not quiet, killed Bennett Mann
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  Speaker 3: and a toddler.
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  Speaker 2: So then I moved to the closet. We had to
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  Speaker 2: lock you up, and I hell out.
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  Speaker 3: I hung a piece of plywood like from the ceiling
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  Speaker 3: with blue behind it.
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  Speaker 4: And I refuse to do your laundry.
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  Speaker 3: Because you kept hitting your head. Yeah, yeah, well we're
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  Speaker 3: out now, so uh, we've come out of the closet.
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  Speaker 3: On that note, Welcome to the Faithful Fitness Podcast. My
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  Speaker 3: wife Kristin and I are going to have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun today talking about families and how our family functions.
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  Speaker 3: It's not perfect, but we do make sure that faith
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  Speaker 3: and fitness are a part of what we do on
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  Speaker 3: a regular basis. And one of the reasons I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to rope you into this is because I'm always talking
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  Speaker 3: about my wife and kids on this podcast. But like
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  Speaker 3: you're I mean, you're arguably the better half. You're the
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  Speaker 3: the other half that makes this work in our life,
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  Speaker 3: and we live this all the time. So my question
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  Speaker 3: to you is when you look at our lives and
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  Speaker 3: you see how we choose to raise our kids, and
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  Speaker 3: how we do the faith and how we do the
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  Speaker 3: fitness thing. What are some of the things that we well,
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  Speaker 3: we're firm on in our house that you see with
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  Speaker 3: other families and stuff, they're just not quite as firm
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  Speaker 3: on those things that really make the foundation for us.
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  Speaker 4: I think where it starts is we were blessed to
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  Speaker 4: have a background that taught us some very important knowledge
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  Speaker 4: how to steward our bodies well. And so it's not
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  Speaker 4: against other people if they didn't get that knowledge. Did
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  Speaker 4: they have six years of nutrition course right? Did they
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  Speaker 4: go through personal training certifications that taught them how magnificent
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  Speaker 4: our bodies are but also how complicated they can be,
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  Speaker 4: right despite the fact they adapt so quick to chosen circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think that's our foundation in this is
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  Speaker 4: we just if you know better, you do better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And so we know a little better. And you and
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  Speaker 4: I both were not raised that way, So we spent
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  Speaker 4: some years undoing some of those nutrition habits.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I had a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot out of the box and freezer mills, and my
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  Speaker 4: parents cooked for us very regularly, but I wouldn't call
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  Speaker 4: it the healthiest food sure that I grew up with.
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  Speaker 4: Then you the same. And so when you're giving kids,
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  Speaker 4: you get the moment and the privilege and the honor
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  Speaker 4: to pause and say, all right, just because that's how
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  Speaker 4: I was raised, is how I want to do the
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  Speaker 4: same for my kids. And so we chose a different
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  Speaker 4: path for our kids.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're really that's that's very smart to
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  Speaker 3: put your finger on the education thing. I think often
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  Speaker 3: how like, when I'm talking to it could be a client,
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  Speaker 3: but it could also be just you know, parents in
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  Speaker 3: our community and whatnot. And I take for granted something
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  Speaker 3: like I know it has protein in it, I know
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  Speaker 3: it has sugar in it. I know it has fats.
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  Speaker 3: I know what good fats versus bad fats are Like,
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  Speaker 3: I know those things, and I get to just take
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  Speaker 3: that for granted. And so we have dinner time conversations
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  Speaker 3: pretty regularly with our kids, or breakfast time or whenever
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  Speaker 3: we're eating about about food and our like, our community
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  Speaker 3: will say things like your kids say weird stuff like
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  Speaker 3: like oh, no, I've had too much sugar today.
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  Speaker 2: I can't have that, or Mom's gonna say.
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  Speaker 3: No, Mom's gonna say, oh, hey, does that have caffeine
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  Speaker 3: in it?
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  Speaker 2: Let me see the nutrition label? You know, like that.
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  Speaker 3: Our kids ask those questions, they talk about those things
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  Speaker 3: because that's just how we run our household.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, it really.
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  Speaker 3: Just starts with a foundation of education. You are a dietitian,
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  Speaker 3: went too. You're actually more educated than I am, news
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  Speaker 3: slashed to everybody. She actually has a master's degree in
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  Speaker 3: nutrition and dietetics. Thanks for that. I'll kiss you for
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  Speaker 3: that later. But and I'm twenty years in training and
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  Speaker 3: exercise science. So when you put those two things together,
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  Speaker 3: it's just we see the body differently than most people
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  Speaker 3: see the body. And that that was very poignant With
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  Speaker 3: our children. It's like, hey, we've got a we've got
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  Speaker 3: a super important person God put in our life to
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  Speaker 3: take really good care of. We're going to make darn
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  Speaker 3: sure that they've got what they need from a nutrition perspective,
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  Speaker 3: they got what they need from a movement perspective, and
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  Speaker 3: we're going to form our household around.
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  Speaker 2: Doing those habits right.
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  Speaker 3: Does anything stand out to you as we raise our
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  Speaker 3: kids that you're like, man, that's that's one thing. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's a thing that we do differently.
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  Speaker 4: Basic nutrition obviously, when I pat Bennett's lunch for school,
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  Speaker 4: I mean he has vegetables going. When I hear what
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  Speaker 4: some of these kids are eating at lunch, we'll table
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  Speaker 4: that for another school nutrition. But then it eats different
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  Speaker 4: at lunch when I have control over the situation versus
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  Speaker 4: most kids that he's sitting at a table with. And
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  Speaker 4: he knows why. He's not jealous, he doesn't wish it
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  Speaker 4: could be different. He just knows that that's how we
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  Speaker 4: do it. And what a blessing that will be. I
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  Speaker 4: know when he gets older, we joke he'll be a
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  Speaker 4: little vegetarian because he's a little gorilla, and like, so
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  Speaker 4: be it. At some point you do have to release
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  Speaker 4: them to me their own decisions, right But right now
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  Speaker 4: I believe that we're laying a beautiful foundation for them.
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  Speaker 4: But it even goes past nutrition in their sleep. Like
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  Speaker 4: I guard my sleep. I love my sleep. I get
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  Speaker 4: lots of sleep, not a night out or a morning
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  Speaker 4: person something in between. But we protect our kids' sleep
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  Speaker 4: because they need it, and we know that's the only
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  Speaker 4: way that even though we feed them well, if they
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  Speaker 4: don't sleep well, they're not building anything well. And so
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  Speaker 4: I think our kids are blessed by all aspects of
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  Speaker 4: not just nutrition but just basic good habits.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's such a good point.
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  Speaker 3: Gabriel broke us into the sleep thing because he was then,
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  Speaker 3: So Gabriel's are our oldest, so he was the one who,
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  Speaker 3: like if he didn't get his nap or if he
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  Speaker 3: went to bed too late or something like that, the
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  Speaker 3: next day. He wasn't He wasn't difficult in the way
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people think it, Like he wasn't like
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  Speaker 3: on the ground throwing fits or whatever, but like that
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  Speaker 3: kid could not focus to save he was manic. It
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  Speaker 3: was like this crazy manic energy. It's Oliver, like, why
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  Speaker 3: is this child not listening? What's going on? Oh, we
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  Speaker 3: messed up his sleep yesterday and we can't And so
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  Speaker 3: we became the nap Nazis. Like we were like, no,
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  Speaker 3: when it's naptime, Gabriel lays down at this time, and
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  Speaker 3: he wakes up at this time, and we go to
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  Speaker 3: bed at this time. And I mean we had to
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  Speaker 3: like in our lives that would even affect our friendships.
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  Speaker 3: It was just like, you know, we could come over
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  Speaker 3: to your house, but that's o our nap time, so
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  Speaker 3: we're not going to do that that.
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  Speaker 4: And we can have dinner at four because we need
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  Speaker 4: to be as sick.
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  Speaker 2: For right.
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  Speaker 3: But we were so serious about that because we saw
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  Speaker 3: in him that that made such a huge difference. And
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the things that we do in
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  Speaker 3: our household that's very different is we will recognize behavioral
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  Speaker 3: things in our children as a nutrition, exercise, or sleep
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  Speaker 3: issue before we say, you're just in a stupid mood today,
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  Speaker 3: what's your problem, or like, hey, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what's going on with him right now, but we've
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  Speaker 3: got to figure something out. It's not that it's like, no,
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  Speaker 3: we as parents have the opportunity to feed our kids well,
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  Speaker 3: to make sure they get to bed on time, to
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  Speaker 3: make sure they get enough movement in a day, and
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  Speaker 3: if they don't get those things, we notice and we
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  Speaker 3: always fall back on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we always fall back on that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I feel like and I mean you
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  Speaker 3: talk to a lot more moms than I do, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that is a thing that not many
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  Speaker 3: parents consider when their children are out of sorts. It's
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  Speaker 3: not like, oh, it's been like three days of poor sleep,
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  Speaker 3: or oh, we had a donut for breakfast today.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder they're throwing a fit at nine am. They
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  Speaker 2: don't think like that.
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  Speaker 4: Well that so many are in that just day to day,
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  Speaker 4: like if I can just get through today, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to claim his new mercies tomorrow and do it all
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  Speaker 4: over again, right, versus truly taking ownership and what it
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  Speaker 4: means to train a child up in the way they
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  Speaker 4: should go mind, body, spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well said, Well said, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 3: nice that our children can cans take that for granted,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because I mean they don't know any different.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know any different exactly. And that's the thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, another thing in nutrition, we'll talk we'll talk
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  Speaker 3: more about family nutrition probably in a later episode, as
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  Speaker 3: people ask questions and we get we get parents thinking
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  Speaker 3: through this. But when children buck the system, they're like
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  Speaker 3: they'll they'll think, oh, why does my friend get to
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  Speaker 3: do this?
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  Speaker 2: Or no, I don't want to eat that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll hear parents say things like, oh, we can't have
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  Speaker 3: broccoli at dinner because little Timmy whoever, won't eat it right.
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  Speaker 3: All he'll eat is mac and cheese, right, And I
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  Speaker 3: get it. Like, We've had plenty of our own struggles,
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  Speaker 3: especially with Bennett. Bennett's much more picky of an eater
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  Speaker 3: than Gabriel is. Was that we talked about last night eggs.
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  Speaker 3: Something about eggs. What did he say?
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  Speaker 4: Nowhere? He said we shouldn't have any taste buds because
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  Speaker 4: then I'd eat my eggs way faster.
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  Speaker 2: True true story. I'm like, you don't like your eggs?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, no, this.
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  Speaker 3: Kid has been eating scrambled eggs for four years, four
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  Speaker 3: days a week, easy, easy.
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  Speaker 2: That's a normal nutrition thing in our house.
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  Speaker 3: We're like torturing him by making meat eggs, but like,
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  Speaker 3: but he doesn't. He doesn't like them, and he'll say,
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  Speaker 3: I don't like this, but I'll eat it because it's.
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  Speaker 2: Good for me.
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  Speaker 3: And like, as parents, we've had to fight that because
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  Speaker 3: Bennett would prefer chicken nuggets for every meal. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the little Dino dealis he would eat those for breakfast
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  Speaker 3: or mac and cheese if we gave him the option.
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  Speaker 3: But we know that's not what's best for him. We know,
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  Speaker 3: like we could easily say we had mac and cheese
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  Speaker 3: and Dino nuggets for breakfast because that's all Bennett will eat.
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  Speaker 2: But we're the parents.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like if we say this isn't what we're eating,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't good for you. Over time, let's work together
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  Speaker 3: to find something that I mean, isn't torture to you,
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  Speaker 3: but is good for you. And then I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: that's what's available, that's what we'll eat.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think a couple of things there, though, we
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  Speaker 4: take the time to explain why so many times people
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  Speaker 4: could choose the easy way, because that's what I said,
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  Speaker 4: versus stopping down taking the few minutes to explain why
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  Speaker 4: we're making this choice, whether they agree with it or not,
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  Speaker 4: at least no lot. And then they also get to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of the conversation and the solution. So
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  Speaker 4: now they're an active agent in the decision. And when
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  Speaker 4: they were little, it was do you want A or B?
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  Speaker 4: Not what do you want in this beautiful pantry of options? Right,
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  Speaker 4: that's too much for them?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's too much freedom, that's too much for me.
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  Speaker 4: We still gave them the option to make the choice themselves,
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  Speaker 4: whether we controlled the direction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, true, that's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: And then that therein lies the things that our children
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  Speaker 3: say that not a lot of children say. If you
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  Speaker 3: ask Bennett, why do you eat eggs for breakfast? Why
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  Speaker 3: is that something Mom and dad push on you. He
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  Speaker 3: would say, Oh, they have protein and they have lots
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  Speaker 3: of nutrients, and it really helps me. He understands that
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  Speaker 3: it is at a six year old level.
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  Speaker 4: But he knows at sixteen he wants to be strong,
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  Speaker 4: and he knows at sixteen he wants to be able.
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  Speaker 2: To look like that's exactly right, yep.
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  Speaker 4: And he knows he can't make muscle without.
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  Speaker 3: Protein, right right. And he knows there's not a lot
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  Speaker 3: of protein in mac and cheese. He was very pointed.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I told you about this, but
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  Speaker 3: when he looked at the nutrition label, he was like,
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  Speaker 3: there's only three grams of protein in here. I'm never
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  Speaker 3: going to meet my protein goal with this. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like and and please tell us if you
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  Speaker 3: want to hear more conversations about family nutrition and feeding
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  Speaker 3: our kids, well on what that looks like. Obviously, you
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  Speaker 3: as the audience, ask us questions and maybe we'll get
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  Speaker 3: on here and talk through them again because it's such
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  Speaker 3: a huge topic in our house, but we't want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about if it's boring to you or not useful
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  Speaker 3: to you. But I did want to switch gears a
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  Speaker 3: little bit because we're in a garage gym, and you
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  Speaker 3: are a working mom with two boys, and it's the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the year. So we're doing a shred together
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  Speaker 3: and we're lifting weights and we're running. We don't really
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  Speaker 3: lift weights together all the time every time, but but
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  Speaker 3: I love you all the time every time. But our
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  Speaker 3: workhouse don't look the same because you have some struggles
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  Speaker 3: that I don't have, and I have some struggles you
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  Speaker 3: don't have. And I like heavy metal. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: really it's really what it comes down to. Your worship
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  Speaker 3: music you like to listen to when you work out.
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  Speaker 3: I can't lift to it, man, I can't do it anyway.
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  Speaker 3: So we have a struggle though that I want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about, and that is we record content in this garage.
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  Speaker 3: I trained clients in this garage. You work out in
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  Speaker 3: this garage, and I work out in this garage. Can
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: you tell me about how difficult it is to manage
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the schedule of the garage gym and how you because
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: a lot of people that would be like a deal
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: breaker for them. They'd be like, I can't, I can't
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  Speaker 3: do the fitness things exactly. It can't work out it's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: all scheduled up. But you work really hard at this
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: and you haven't rejoined the gym that you left when
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: we got the equipment that you needed in here. So
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: how do you manage like working out in a day
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: between work and kids.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we talk a lot, and thankfully your schedules super consistent,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: and so you have put the parameters around certain things
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: that you do in the week to where I just
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: know that Thursday mornings, clients are here, Thursday mornings you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: going to record a podcast. But looking at your week
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: just it's intentionality. It's deciding that I'm going to be
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: intentional this week, but also flexible when I need to be.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: And then thankfully for you, sometimes it's like, hey, I
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: can only work out today, especially on Wednesdays because that's
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: my heavy workday. I have to work out at seven am,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: and you're going to have to get the kids to
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: school today. And thankfully you see why you need to
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: get the kids to school today and you're going to
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: do that for me. But I just think it even
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: if I'm going to the gym, it's just intentionality to
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: decide that I've set this amount of time aside today
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: to work out.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, save us money too, We don't have to have
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: a gym membership.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I canceled that though.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Oh snap, it's almost saving.
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  Speaker 4: That's money that's frozen.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, it's frozen gym. Enough are we there yet? Okay?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: It's the dress on it helps. It's it's also winter here,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: so it gets cold in here.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's my rest.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Now, I will say that having a garage gym and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: scheduling it in the middle of things and knowing like
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: this is my hour, Like if I don't work out,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I don't get to work out today. To me, that's
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: very motivating. There's like a certain level of urgency to
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: it that makes me do the thing. Have you noticed
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: that too?
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  Speaker 1: Or No?
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  Speaker 4: I don't like working out as much as you, so
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I'd love any excuse not to. But I am committed.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I am committed by three to four days a week,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: depending on what phase you have me in that I'll
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: do it.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: What phase are you in now? I don't know what
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you're You're in the hypertriview phase.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Lived in three to four sets of heavyweights, eight to
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: twelve reps for the guns for the gun show.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: It just changed on Mondays.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: It did it did in your defense shred well during
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: the shred, so So for those of you who don't
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: know we're we do in Faithful Fitness, we do a
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: twenty eight day shred and usually we do it January
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and May. But during the shred, we're actively working to
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: make our body burn fat better as a fuel source.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: And one of the issues that you wrestle with when
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: you do a shred is you could you could actually
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: lose muscle tissue if you don't actively tell your body
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: you need to keep it around. And so you're in
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: here lifting heavyweights and doing the thing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: You're doing a good job fasting and fasting cardio and cardio.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: It's exhausting.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: We're only only four days the twenty four more to go.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Hang with me. She hasn't gotten irritable enough to slap
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: me yet.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: So no, it's my favorite challenge that you do.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I like it. I think it's I think it's good.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Well, so what it came out of actually, and you
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: know this as my wife, I would regularly go through
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: an endurance phase twice a year because it's important to
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: revisit that phase of training to allow your body to
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: burn fat wells of fuel source. And it also for
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: me from a spiritual perspective, just practicing fasting. If you
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: don't make time and space for that in your week,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: it's not going to happen. So that was really useful
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: and helpful to me. And what I found is a
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: lot of my clients needed to do that too. So
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I just started inviting people to join me during my
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: phase of endurance, and that's where the shred really came from.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: The hard part was making it like general, you know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: like exactly, like, Hey, I'm a woman, so how is
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: that different from you coach Alex and what you need
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: to do in a shred or I'm a beginner. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: don't work out regularly, So how do I shred in
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: a way that doesn't hurt my metabolism and it isn't
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: too intense for me? And so I think that was
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: the hardest part of inviting people into that was just
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: kind of dividing that. But you've you've done a great
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: job in helping me, helping me see it well, Like
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: like you said, you don't like to work out as
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: much as I do, So if you can, if you
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: follow the shred program, then then I know I can
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: ask that of other people too.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if I can do it, anyone can do it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna say it that way, but.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, so so I feel like we've we've covered a
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: lot of things that give people an insight into our household.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: At the moment, I did want to ask one more
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: question before we wrap this up. What is something that
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: that people probably think about our house? Given all the
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: stuff we do in the world with church and faithful
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: fitness and nutrition and exercise and stuff. What's something people
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: probably think about our house that just isn't true.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Probably that we live this rigid nutrition plan one hundred
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: percent of the time and our kids are these deprived,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: little free old children who don't get to eat anything yummy,
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: which is not true. Our kids know the pleasures in
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: this life as much as we do, and we probably
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: live what eighty five fifteen some seasons we just came
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: out of the holiday, some seasons eighty twenty. But we
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: balance things really well when we do want to go
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: out to eat, or when we do know the holiday
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: dinner is gonna have all the cast roles in the
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: pie and it's gonna be so worth it, and our
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: kids know it. We have a candy bucket inside like
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: we're not beyond it, but we are teaching appropriate healthy
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: limits and balances, because there's an inner ch toddler in
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: all of us. Just this week, I had to dump
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: out the Halloween chocolate because on the shred, if I'm
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: gonna be touted by anything in this house, it's chocolate.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Gonna want to go get that little bite sized Snickers,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: and so just removing it. But it doesn't mean it's
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: not here.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And it doesn't mean you don't enjoy Snickers now.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: And then it's just, yeah, you were willing to settle
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: for a Snickers.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Really where it's at now?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: I think I think you're one hundred percent right on that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: When so, I talk a lot on the show specifically
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: about stewarding the body God's given me or how to
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: make the most out of the body God's given me.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Right, But.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: In Ecclesiastes it says that one of the pleasures. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: know it's a very depressing book, but it can be
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: a very depressing book. But in Ecclesiastes there's a there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: not all of it's depressing.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of depressing. Steffinically vanity.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Vanity all is vanity, and it doesn't matter, it doesn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: matter what you try in this world. There's no real
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: joy until you follow God and keep his commandments. But
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: there is a there's a few sections in Ecclesiastes that
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: talk about what makes life worth living, And one of
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: the things that the writer says is one of the
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: great pleasures that God's given us.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Is to eat and drink.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: It is like we know that that we steward our
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: bodies nutritionally. That feeds the metabolism, helps our hormones, gives
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: us all the building blocks we need for new cells
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: and fuels, service, and parenthood and and shenanigans. But but
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: nutrition is not the only reason we eat.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: We for pleasure, we for social connection, we for joy.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Like like I always joke that I have carrot cake
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: on my birthday.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I'll go for a run.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: But I eat carrot cake on my birthday and it
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: won't be replaced by spinach ever, Like if that ever happens,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: it's not me.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. But I've been replaced by
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: my body double.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: It would be cauliflower.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: But okay, no, thanks, cauliflower and olives.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I fro'm ever beating colorflower and olives.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: You've lost your taste.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I've left I have covid or I've been replaced by
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: my clone. But I think that I think that's a
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: good truth. I think that's a good truth to center
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: on because I hear that when I take the men
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to lunch or something.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they can't believe what you're eating.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: They're like, oh, my gosh, you eat carbs, Like who
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't eat carbs?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, eats so many carbs it's not even fair.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: And the difference from a training perspective, and I'll have
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: to I always have to explain it. I lifted weights today,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I used carbohydrates in my body, and now I'm recovering,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: so yes, I.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Need to replenish these carbohydrates.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Also, your genetics say that, Remember we took twenty three meters.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and I'm caught us.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Well, we already knew it intuitively because we've done enough
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: nutrition challenges and whatnot. But our genetics said, your body
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: tolerates carbohydrates, whereas mine tolerates that better. So right, my diet.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Sent fat easily. I attribute that to the Shawnee Indian
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: in her.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: But I could be wrong.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But yes, like the amount of fat that you eat
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: on a regular basis, percentage wise, it would destroy my
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: digestive tract and I've tried it, like I've tried to
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: eat that was paleo or whatever, and man.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: It just it was awful.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: It was not good, did not feel good. And you've
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: tried on the opposite side of things. You tried to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: eat more plant based died at one point when we
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: were working together at Lifetime, and you're like, no, thanks.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Let's be honest. Carbs are way better than proteins.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: They taste better anyway.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I love something crunchy right now.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Making me hungry, and I just had lunch. That's the shred.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Twenty four more days, twenty four more days until a chip. Well, Hey,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I wanted to say thank you so much for joining
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: us for this conversation. I hope that it gave you
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: some insight into our household, and also I hope to
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: do some more of this with my lovely wife in
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: the future. So if you have some questions or thoughts
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: about what it looks like to run a household with
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: fitness and nutrition in a positive and powerful way that's
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: glorifying to God, whether it's about raising kids or taking
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: good care of your own self, I'd love for you
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to submit those questions. You can find a spot in
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: the YouTube comments below, and you could also join our
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Faithful Fitness community and you can find that link in the.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Show notes as well well.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Sweetheart, before we finish this, I actually would like to
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: pray over you, and I would like to pray over
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: our listeners to this conversation in their houses.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Would you mind doing that with me?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, Father God, thank you so much for this day.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you for the opportunity to do this, to have
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: a wonderful conversation with the person who makes me a
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: better man.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: God.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I pray that you bless her and keep her help
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: us to continue to build our household on a rock.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I also pray that you would bless those who are listening.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know the situation in their household, Lord, but
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I pray that your Holy Spirit would lead them, help
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: them to eat in a way that is good for
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: their body, help them to guide their children in a
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: way that would grow them into the men and women
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: you created them to be. And if there's any obstacles
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: or struggles that they're wrestling with, Lord, I pray that
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: they would seek community and help and feedback in that
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: so that they get the knowledge and the wisdom and
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: the accountability that they need to move forward on that front. God,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I love you, I thank you, and I praise you
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: in Jesus' name. Amen, guys, thank you so much for
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: joining us here on Faithful Fitness. Until next time. This
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: has been coach Alex van Houten and my lovely wife Kristen.
• 29:43
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