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#1884 Listener Questions - Harps · The You Project

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Speaker 1: I'll get a bloody champs. I hope this finds you well.
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Speaker 1: So I gave a shout out on the socials as
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Speaker 1: the kids call them, asking for you, my listeners, to
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Speaker 1: ask me a question. Of course, my little disclaimer here
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Speaker 1: is that this is me just thinking out loud about
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Speaker 1: the questions that you ask. Some of them are silly,
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Speaker 1: by the way, which is intentionally silly, which is good.
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Speaker 1: We love a bit of fun. Some of them are
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Speaker 1: a bit more serious. Some of them could be outside
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Speaker 1: of my scope, but whatever. None of this is meant
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Speaker 1: to be a or is a personal prescription, but rather
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Speaker 1: me just sharing my thoughts on what it is you
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Speaker 1: are asking. All right, So I'm going to go pretty
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Speaker 1: much in order, and I'm working off not the U
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Speaker 1: Project you Project podcast facebook page, fuck that's a mouthful,
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Speaker 1: but rather my general Facebook page. So question one is
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Speaker 1: from Paul Ford. Paul Ford is a quite well known
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Speaker 1: elite conditioning coach and his own right worked in the
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Speaker 1: AFL system and I think Melbourne Football Club. It's got
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Speaker 1: a master's degree. He's a smarty pants. And Paul's very
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Speaker 1: considered question is why that's it?
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Speaker 2: Just the one word?
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Speaker 1: Look, Paul, thanks for taking the time. Great question, Ah,
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Speaker 1: my very considered question. Answer I should say, I'm a
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Speaker 1: very considered answer to your very thoughtful question is because
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Speaker 1: you're welcome, You're well. Our next question comes from Damie Damien.
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Speaker 1: Damie Damien, who is also an old friend of mine.
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Speaker 1: Fucking hell, what is going on? Damien's question is? My
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Speaker 1: question is a multi part question. If you were a
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Speaker 1: fruit bat, would you consider it reasonable to eat the
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Speaker 1: peaches that I grow and then shit in my pool?
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Speaker 1: And would you then think less of me if I
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Speaker 1: didn't like you? Well, the answer to that is, of
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Speaker 1: course I would eat your fruit and shit in your pool.
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Speaker 1: Of course, do you even need to ask that I
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Speaker 1: would eat the fuck out of your fruit? I would
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Speaker 1: do all the shit in your pool. I wouldn't feel
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Speaker 1: bad about it at all, and I'd probably shit on
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Speaker 1: your head as you walked out of the house to
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Speaker 1: check on the pool shit status. You're welcome but nonetheless
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Speaker 1: still loved by me. And the last part of the
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Speaker 1: question is would would I think less of you if
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Speaker 1: you didn't like me? I would expect you to like
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Speaker 1: me less. So no, And now, after the superfluous bullshit
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Speaker 1: from my friends, thank you by the way, let's go
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Speaker 1: to an actual grown up with an actual question. The
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Speaker 1: grown up is Carla Fletcher. Hello, Carla, Carla.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not so much.
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Speaker 1: A question as a there's no question mark in here,
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Speaker 1: but I know what she's saying. Exercise for someone who
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Speaker 1: is fifty six with dodgy knees and lower back and
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Speaker 1: a bad right shoulder, no idea where to start so
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Speaker 1: I don't get injured. So if you listen to me, Carla,
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Speaker 1: you know that I'm going to say probably that there's
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Speaker 1: no you know, for me to not have met you
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Speaker 1: face to face, not have done any kind of assessment,
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Speaker 1: all of those kinds of things that would be unprofessional
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Speaker 1: to tell you exactly what you should do. However, let
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Speaker 1: me speak in generalizations. For somebody who is in their
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Speaker 1: fifties with quite a few injuries, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a little bit of trial and error. So even if
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Speaker 1: I was working with you one on one, I would
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Speaker 1: be doing some kind of assessment, and that doesn't need
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Speaker 1: to be anything overly spectacular, but it might just be
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Speaker 1: do five minutes on this bike at this let's set
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Speaker 1: the seat at the right height for a start. So
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Speaker 1: if you've got dodgy knees, and you sit the seat
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Speaker 1: too or you have the seat too low, it's going
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Speaker 1: to put more.
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Speaker 2: Pressure on your knees.
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Speaker 1: So when you're, for example, riding a bike and you've
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Speaker 1: got shitty knees, you want the seat height to be
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Speaker 1: so when you're pedaling and your foot is at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the rotation, the bottom of the movement, then
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Speaker 1: your leg is almost fully extended, but not quite just
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Speaker 1: a little kink in the old knee. So with all
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Speaker 1: of those issues. At fifty six, I'm five years older
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Speaker 1: than you, so I don't think you're that old, of course,
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Speaker 1: But it's going to be rehabby stuff. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be light stuff. I'd be doing some strength training, I'd
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Speaker 1: be doing some walking, which you're already doing, and I'd
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Speaker 1: be doing some low to no impact cardio stuff like
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Speaker 1: I said, like the bike, like the rower, like the
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Speaker 1: elliptical strider or the cross trainer. There's a bunch of
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Speaker 1: things that you can do in the gym, but you
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Speaker 1: need to be prepared to get into the gym or
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Speaker 1: whatever the training environment is and just try carlor and
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Speaker 1: obviously start very easily, start with you know, low level intensity,
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Speaker 1: low volume, but see how your body responds to that.
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Speaker 1: So whether or not you're face to face talking to
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Speaker 1: an excise physiologist exis scientists like me, or a physiotherapist
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Speaker 1: or a surgeon or a GP, none of them will
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Speaker 1: know exactly how your body will respond to individual stimuli
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Speaker 1: and whether or not that's you know, walking up some stairs.
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Speaker 1: I'm imagining that walking upstairs is not as bad for
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Speaker 1: you as walking downstairs. That seems to be the case
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people with knee issues. So some
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Speaker 1: fundamental strength training is really important. I've torn my right peck,
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Speaker 1: I've got both my rotator cuffs have been torn that
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Speaker 1: the muscles in the shoulders. I've had multiple injections in
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Speaker 1: my lower back for disk issues. I've torn hamstrings, quads.
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Speaker 1: I've had a million issues. And I'm not discounting what
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Speaker 1: you're working with. I'm just saying that many of us
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Speaker 1: get to a point where having a brand new body
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Speaker 1: with no pain, no injuries, no issues, is a thing
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Speaker 1: of the past. And so as we get older, and
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Speaker 1: as we try to maintain and improve and navigate the
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Speaker 1: territory of exercise and rehab and health and function and
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Speaker 1: wellness and performance, there's a fair bit of trial and error.
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Speaker 2: There's a fair bit of trial and error. So look, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know if you a member of a gym or
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Speaker 1: you want to join a gym. And before to all
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Speaker 1: of you people who listening to this straight away default
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Speaker 1: to I'm not a gym person. I'm not a fan
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Speaker 1: of people joining gyms just to go.
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Speaker 2: I train in a gym. The reason that I the
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Speaker 2: reason that.
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Speaker 1: I like people having a gym membership, whether or not
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Speaker 1: that's my eighty five year old dad who has a
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Speaker 1: gym membership by the way, or whether or not that's
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Speaker 1: an elite athlete who's in their teams right, is because
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Speaker 1: if you join a good gym, you are going to
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Speaker 1: have access to Most gyms would have a million dollars
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Speaker 1: or more of equipment for you to access for somewhere
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Speaker 1: around two or three dollars a day, depending on what gym,
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Speaker 1: what membership, you know, what you're paying and so on.
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Speaker 1: So and as soon as we say, oh, I'm not
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Speaker 1: a gym person, I hate gyms, well, we kind of
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Speaker 1: deprive ourselves of an opportunity to be able to use
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Speaker 1: some resources and equipment and tools which are really really valuable.
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Speaker 1: And there's so much even with injuries, and even with
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Speaker 1: issues and challenges, there's so much that we can do.
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Speaker 1: So next question is from Mike Creed. Mike asks why
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Speaker 1: am I so motivated? Why am I so motivated to
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Speaker 1: be a better version of me but lack the discipline
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Speaker 1: to execute?
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Speaker 2: So, Mike, I, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Like to me, that almost seems counterintuitive, like that you're
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Speaker 1: really motivated, but you won't do it. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't The simple answer is I don't know. The
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Speaker 1: question once again is why am I so motivated to
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Speaker 1: be a better version of me but.
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Speaker 2: Lack the discipline to execute on the plans?
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Speaker 1: So rather than me tell you why that is, because
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Speaker 1: I don't know, because I don't know you, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's different for different people too. But nonetheless, and
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Speaker 1: I'm being fully respectful of the question, of course, I
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Speaker 1: completely believe that is the case for you, but I
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Speaker 1: think you know the thing for many people is that
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Speaker 1: one and this is going to be very Craig Hartbridge.
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Speaker 1: The thing that we need to do is not the
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Speaker 1: thing that we want to do in the moment. The
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Speaker 1: thing that we need to do the exercise, the movement,
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Speaker 1: the habit, the food protocol, the whatever it is the
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Speaker 1: thing that we need to do over the short to
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Speaker 1: medium long term that will create eventually create the long
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Speaker 1: term result we want. The thing that we need to
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Speaker 1: do now is probably not the thing we want to
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Speaker 1: do now. What we want to do now is eat
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Speaker 1: cake and we also simultaneously. I'm using that as an
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Speaker 1: example or a metaphor, but it's this lack of willingness
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Speaker 1: to delay gratification that for many of us is the barrier. Now. Again,
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Speaker 1: this is just me talking about this question, but I reckon, Mike,
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Speaker 1: there could be a scenario in your life which would
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Speaker 1: arise where given a certain event or scenario or circumstance
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Speaker 1: in your life, you would absolutely do what you needed
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Speaker 1: to do because you were backed into a medical, clinical,
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Speaker 1: or health corner. You know, the amount of people who
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Speaker 1: can't find the will power or the discipline or the
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Speaker 1: self control to do something something that's good for them,
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Speaker 1: despite apparently having motivation. The amount of people who get
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Speaker 1: some kind of dire health news, who all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden have all the discipline, all the willpower, all the.
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Speaker 2: Self control is many.
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Speaker 1: And I've worked with those people, and I've been around
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Speaker 1: those people who can't They just can't find it, and
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Speaker 1: they struggle to persevere and be consistent and to keep going,
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Speaker 1: and then they get told they've got diabetes, or then
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Speaker 1: they get told that there's some significant potential catastrophe that's
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Speaker 1: like five minutes away if they don't turn their.
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Speaker 2: Life, thinking, habits, behaviors around.
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Speaker 1: So, but on a much more practical level, Mike, what
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Speaker 1: I think is great to do is to create. You know,
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Speaker 1: so you say there's you want to be a better
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Speaker 1: version of you? Firstly I would go what does that
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Speaker 1: mean to you? Physically, mentally, emotionally, behaviorally, practically, So when
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Speaker 1: you say I want to be a better version, my
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Speaker 1: question is how what does what does a better version
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Speaker 1: of you look like? And what is a better version
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Speaker 1: of you doing?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: I would think that doing is habits, behaviors, protocols, diet, food, exercise,
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Speaker 1: lifestyle choices, all of those things. So I'm saying, get
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Speaker 1: clarity around what better you looks like, and then get
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Speaker 1: clarity about around what your non negotiables are, right because
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Speaker 1: right now those things for you are negotiable. That is,
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Speaker 1: you'll do them sometimes but not at others. Now, when
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Speaker 1: something becomes really a hardwide non negotiable, that is, I
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Speaker 1: do this no matter if I'm motivated, not motivated, happy, sad,
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Speaker 1: if it's sunny or fucking raining, if I'm in the
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Speaker 1: zone or out of zone, if it's quick or not quick,
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Speaker 1: if it's hard or easy, whatever I'm doing it, that's
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Speaker 1: a non negotiable. This is something that is hardwired into
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Speaker 1: your daily operating system. And it takes a while. But
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Speaker 1: after you get clarity around what those non negotiables should
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Speaker 1: be then or you want them to be, then step
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Speaker 1: two is create an accountability process around that, something that
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Speaker 1: will keep you doing the things that you need to
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Speaker 1: do despite the peaks and troughs of self control, focused discipline,
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Speaker 1: all of those things, those things that come and go.
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Speaker 1: So what is the thing, what is the what is
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Speaker 1: the accountability? What is the tool? What is the resource?
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Speaker 1: What is the thing that will keep me doing those behaviors,
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Speaker 1: those actions, those protocols that create change. What will keep
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Speaker 1: me doing that when I typically would have given up
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Speaker 1: in the past because what you don't want to do,
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Speaker 1: Mike and everyone else is you don't want to wake
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Speaker 1: up in a minute, and we go, oh fuck it, now,
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Speaker 1: it's two thousand and thirty. It's two thousand and thirty
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Speaker 1: and I'm still going, ah, well, I would have. I'm motivated,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not disciplined. You know, I was talking to
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Speaker 1: somebody this morning about a guy I listened to. This
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Speaker 1: is not me, this is not original, but I loved it.
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Speaker 1: And this guy he was a coach, I think he
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Speaker 1: was a coach, and he was talking to these bunch
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Speaker 1: of kids who were athletes, students and athletes, and he
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Speaker 1: said to them, you need to want this thing. And
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Speaker 1: he was talking about success you need to want if
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Speaker 1: you're serious about it, you need to you need to
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Speaker 1: want this thing like you're a drowning person who needs
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Speaker 1: fucking oxygen. And I just think that some things we
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Speaker 1: don't want enough. We like the idea of it, but
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Speaker 1: we don't we don't want it enough that we're actually
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Speaker 1: really going to make it an absolute, overarching, no matter what,
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Speaker 1: non negotiable priority in our life. There's a big difference
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Speaker 1: between Look, you know, I'd really like to do that
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Speaker 1: or I'd love to achieve that outcome or reach that goal,
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Speaker 1: and no matter what, I will do the fucking work. Like,
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Speaker 1: there's a big chasm between there, and we need to
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Speaker 1: be more up the end of the no matter what scale.
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Speaker 1: Next question is from Andrew Sutherlane. Andrew, training with injuries.
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Speaker 1: As we get older, we all tend to carry some
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Speaker 1: sort of injury. Fuck yeah, we do tennis, elbow, b
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Speaker 1: side a sticky knees. I'm loving all these medical terms
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Speaker 1: or dodgy backs speaking my language. Disclaimer, I don't have
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Speaker 1: all of these, but training partners combine we cover off
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Speaker 1: most of them.
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Speaker 2: Of course, you do.
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Speaker 1: Some of these injuries just don't go away, so we
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Speaker 1: have to train through them or modify what we do.
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Speaker 1: Given yourself proclaimed dinosaur harps, I am indeed, I'm wondering
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Speaker 1: if you have experienced any age or repetitive injuries, and.
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Speaker 2: Do you have strategies for managing.
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Speaker 1: This is my life. You're talking about my life. You
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Speaker 1: are talking, Andrew about every day of my life. Now
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Speaker 1: that's not to say I'm majorly disabled or anything like that,
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Speaker 1: but I have like my body is almost never painfree,
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Speaker 1: and by that I mean there's not a thing in
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Speaker 1: my body that hurts at all. I never have those days.
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Speaker 1: So right now, as I sit here, last night, I
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Speaker 1: did seated rows in the gym. And Andrew, you know
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Speaker 1: what they are because you train. Most of my listeners
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Speaker 1: know what they are. It's you know, where you sit
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Speaker 1: forward and you grab a weight with a V grip
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Speaker 1: or another grip and you pull it to your waist.
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Speaker 2: When I grew.
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Speaker 1: When I do seated row, I do full range of movement,
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Speaker 1: and I flex through the hips and I bend right forward,
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Speaker 1: so my hands at the bottom of the movement go
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Speaker 1: past my toes, So I am using all the muscles
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Speaker 1: in my back. I don't sit bolt up right like
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Speaker 1: a lot of people do when they do a seated row.
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Speaker 1: They sit bolt up right, so their back stays in
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Speaker 1: the same position as they pull the weight towards and
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Speaker 1: let the weight go to me. That is a shit
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Speaker 1: way to do that exercise. I could explain for a
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Speaker 1: bunch of reasons, but the main reason being now, unless
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Speaker 1: of course you have to because you've got an injury.
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Speaker 1: But what I like about doing the full range of
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Speaker 1: movement that I just described is that I'm using all
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Speaker 1: of the muscles from my hip extenses, you know, lower back, glutes, erector, spine,
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Speaker 1: a lats, rhomboids, rear adults.
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Speaker 2: All of those muscles get used.
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Speaker 1: But every time I do that, I don't get injured,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just a bit sore Andrew for a few days,
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Speaker 1: and it's muscle soreness, it's training soreness. There's a little
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Speaker 1: bit of micro trauma. But in a few days, I'll
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Speaker 1: be good. But right now, sitting here talking to you,
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Speaker 1: right now recording this, I'm a about a four out
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Speaker 1: of ten pain three maybe three, and it's not horrendous,
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Speaker 1: but it's there. It's there, and I know by tomorrow
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Speaker 1: it'll be a two and the next day it will
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Speaker 1: be one. Then I'll be fine, you know. But there's
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Speaker 1: always so the challenges. Of course, we want to minim
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Speaker 1: minimize our injuries as much as humanly possible, and the
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Speaker 1: injuries that we can fix in inverted commas great, but
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Speaker 1: there will be things that you know, just degenerate over time,
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Speaker 1: often these hips, joint sankles, ligaments, tendons, the spine, those things,
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Speaker 1: just those things. So my as I always say, with everything,
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Speaker 1: there's no best program, right but there's the best program
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Speaker 1: for Andrew Sutherland. So if I were you, I would
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Speaker 1: be figuring out what's the stuff that I can do
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Speaker 1: at one hundred percent, what's the stuff that I need
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Speaker 1: to do at fifty or sixty percent, what's the stuff
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Speaker 1: that I need to find another way to create intensity. So,
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Speaker 1: for example, doing what I just described seated row, I
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Speaker 1: can't go balls to the wall super heavy like I
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Speaker 1: used to, which in the old days I would seated
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Speaker 1: row three hundred pounds or one hundred and forty odd kilos.
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Speaker 1: Now my upper limit would be about one hundred kilos,
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Speaker 1: so two hundred and twenty pounds, so not the weight
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Speaker 1: I used to do, but more reps. So what we
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Speaker 1: are trying to do is we're decreasing the load, but
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Speaker 1: we're increasing perhaps the volume the reps. So we're creating
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Speaker 1: a different kind of intensity, but nonetheless still relatively high
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Speaker 1: intensity without putting our back under the same absolute load.
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Speaker 1: If you know, and I'm just giving you one example
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Speaker 1: there so you know, I know for me, for example,
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Speaker 1: I can run three days a week two or three k's.
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Speaker 1: If I ran, I could I could run ten k's.
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Speaker 1: But I know that if I consistently ran ten k's
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Speaker 1: in my sixty one year old body, unless I was
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Speaker 1: running in amazing shoes on grass with perfect technique, which
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Speaker 1: I don't have, but me just running around suburbia like
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Speaker 1: a fucking dinosaur the way that I do. You know,
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Speaker 1: running if I'm honest, mostly on concrete. I try and
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Speaker 1: run on nature strips, but concrete, bitumen nature strips. If
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Speaker 1: I did that three times a week for a longer
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Speaker 1: distance than two or three k's, I would get injured.
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Speaker 1: So what I do do is I realize that running
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Speaker 1: is good for me. I also realized that shorter running
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Speaker 1: is going to help me hold onto muscle more than
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Speaker 1: longer running, of course, And I also realized that I
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Speaker 1: can run two or three k's at a level which
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Speaker 1: for me is fucking uncomfortable. And even though it's not
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Speaker 1: a long distance, it's still quality training. So I don't
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Speaker 1: think I gave you a specific answer Andrew, other than
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Speaker 1: just pay attention to your body, and you need to
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Speaker 1: creatively find ways.
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Speaker 2: Remember the way that our.
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Speaker 1: Body, our body keeps adapting is through progression and variety. Right,
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Speaker 1: So if you do the same thing the same way,
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Speaker 1: same sets, reps, volume, exercise intensity, recovery time, blah blah blah,
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Speaker 1: same workout, same exercises, you know, same thing, same way,
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Speaker 1: you're going to produce the same outcome. And you don't
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Speaker 1: want that You either want to. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: old you are, but for me at my age, for example,
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Speaker 1: sixty one. I'm either trying to keep what I've got
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Speaker 1: without going backwards al with some things improve.
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Speaker 2: So what am I trying to improve? I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: improve flexibility.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to I fucked up one of my shoulders badly,
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Speaker 1: six badly six months ago in a fall, badly, like
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Speaker 1: couldn't lift my arm to take the kettle off the bench, right,
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Speaker 1: So I'm rehabbing that. I'm making that strong again. And interestingly,
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Speaker 1: there are things like I just describe seated road that
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Speaker 1: I can do with, you know, relative confidence and strength
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Speaker 1: and other things like I still cannot bench press, so
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Speaker 1: I trained my chest, but I don't do Barbelle bench
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Speaker 1: press on the bench. And there's a million reasons why.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to put an asterisk. Maybe a lot
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Speaker 1: of us should avoid that exercise. I'll talk about that
21:49
Speaker 1: at more some stage, if you want me to. Anyway, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: thanks for your question.
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Speaker 2: I hope it didn't bang on too long in the answer.
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Speaker 1: All right, now, just in cases is a bit stoppy starting.
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Speaker 1: I'm pausing in between. I'm pausing the recording momentarily, so
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Speaker 1: if you hear any weirdness, that's that. So I can
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Speaker 1: read the next question. So next question is from Kelly Smith.
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Speaker 1: Good a Kel. Kelly says, can I come and be
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Speaker 1: the interviewer? Well, let's get you. I'll tell you what, Kel.
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Speaker 1: What you can do is because you are quite good
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Speaker 1: at that, I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 2: Kel.
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Speaker 1: You come up with fifteen questions that you want to
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Speaker 1: ask me. It could be anything about anything. Um obviously
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Speaker 1: keep them somewhat in my wheelhouse. You come up with
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Speaker 1: fifteen questions, and then you can interview me on my show.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Now the next question or the next part of that
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Speaker 1: is no. But seriously, my question is do you think
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Speaker 1: there is a danger of becoming too self aware and
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Speaker 1: over analyzing every part of your life instead of Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't think there is a danger of becoming too
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Speaker 1: self aware, because self awareness is a gift. But what
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Speaker 1: I do think there is a danger of is becoming
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Speaker 1: a wess start again haaps obsessed with becoming uber self aware.
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Speaker 1: So I'm fascinated, of course with my research and just
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Speaker 1: with my life and my brain. I'm fascinated with self awareness,
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Speaker 1: people understanding what they're like for themselves and for others
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Speaker 1: and so on. I don't think we can have too
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Speaker 1: much self awareness. But I think we can overthink self awareness.
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Speaker 1: I think we can become obsessed in the pursuit of
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Speaker 1: consciousness and awareness.
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Speaker 2: And also the.
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Speaker 1: Second part is and over analyzing every part of our
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Speaker 1: life instead of just living and learning.
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Speaker 2: I one hundred.
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Speaker 1: Percent agree with that. I wrote a post recently. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how long ago it was, doesn't matter I
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Speaker 1: write so much. But anyway, in the last month I
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Speaker 1: think where it was called something like fuck all days,
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Speaker 1: and so a fuck all days where you do fuck
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Speaker 1: all a fuck all days where you're not productive, you're
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Speaker 1: not proactive, you're not kicking goals, you're not ticking boxes,
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Speaker 1: you're not crossing things off a to do list, you're
24:18
Speaker 1: not investigating the fucking meaning of everything and the meaning
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Speaker 1: of life, and you're not opening fifty doors a day
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Speaker 1: and being you know, the ever present students. Sometimes you're
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Speaker 1: just watching Netflix and fucking off. Sometimes you just fucking
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Speaker 1: riding your bike, or sometimes you just you know, putting
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Speaker 1: your toes in the sand or the water, or you're
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Speaker 1: just fucking you know, you're not learning, you're not growing,
24:38
Speaker 1: you're not evolving, you're just being.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: I am one hundred percent on board with this question,
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Speaker 1: and I I am, I might not seem it because
24:54
Speaker 1: all people get from me obviously, because this is a
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Speaker 1: personal development kind of podcast, is they might think all
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Speaker 1: day every day, I'm just thinking about fucking human behavior
25:04
Speaker 1: and psychology in performance. It's definitely not the case. I
25:09
Speaker 1: think I would spend more time fucking off, goofing off
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Speaker 1: than the average person.
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Speaker 2: And why do I say that? Will one?
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Speaker 1: I live by myself, so I'm not saying that's a
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Speaker 1: good or a bad thing. I just live by myself,
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Speaker 1: so there's no one else in the house. I can.
25:27
Speaker 1: You know right now as I'm recording this, it's eleven
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Speaker 1: twenty one AM. If I finish this podcast and go,
25:33
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna go midday, I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: lie in my bed watch an.
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Speaker 2: Hour of shit. I can do it.
25:37
Speaker 1: It doesn't fuck up my day, it doesn't derail anything.
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Speaker 1: So I think there are definitely times, there are definitely
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Speaker 1: times where the most healthy thing to do, the most
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Speaker 1: logical thing to do, the most even productive thing to
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Speaker 1: do over the long term is to do not much,
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Speaker 1: is to goof off, is to have fun. I think
26:02
Speaker 1: becoming overly analytical of everything can be a problem. All right,
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Speaker 1: and the next question is from Allison jen Hi. Allison,
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Speaker 1: what's the first thing you would recommend people tiding up
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Speaker 1: their nutrition for weight lot? You know, the challenge with
26:22
Speaker 1: this question is there are just way too many variables
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Speaker 1: for there to be an absolute starting point that will
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Speaker 1: be optimal for everybody. For example, we can, you know,
26:36
Speaker 1: we look at micros and macros, We look at fat,
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Speaker 1: protein carbohydrates, we look at vitamins and minerals, that's the
26:41
Speaker 1: macros and micros. We look at calories in and calories out,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people would a lot of people
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Speaker 1: would answer this question, probably Allison by saying, you know,
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Speaker 1: just just make sure that your energy balance is somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the right ballpark, you know, so if you're having
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Speaker 1: two thousand calories a day in expending about two thousand,
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Speaker 1: so you're not in calorie surplus or calorie excess. And
27:06
Speaker 1: of course, while there are many variables around how we
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Speaker 1: lose weight, and there are many factors which influence weight
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Speaker 1: loss and perhaps more importantly, fat loss, invariably there is
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Speaker 1: a caloric equation that needs to be factored in. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying it's the only thing. There are many things
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Speaker 1: but that's definitely.
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Speaker 2: One of them.
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Speaker 1: But perhaps where I would start, and this is more
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Speaker 1: based on me, and I guess also a lot of
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Speaker 1: people I've worked with, which is trying to understand you
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Speaker 1: maybe didn't expect this answer, but the psychology, the psychology
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Speaker 1: and the emotion behind our eating habits, patterns, and behaviors. Also,
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Speaker 1: you've written what would I recommend for people tidying up
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Speaker 1: their nutrition for weight loss? I think people are far
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Speaker 1: more educated and enlightened and aware and knowledgeable about weight
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Speaker 1: loss and food now than we've ever been for a
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Speaker 1: range of reasons, the main one being we've got all
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Speaker 1: the information in the world we need pretty much our fingertips.
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Speaker 1: I'm also aware that knowledgeable people, people with the knowledge,
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Speaker 1: people with the education, people with the understanding, still choose cake,
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Speaker 1: still choose lots of booze, still put way more calories
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Speaker 1: in their body than they need, still make bad decisions
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Speaker 1: on the same day that they also want to that
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Speaker 1: they also talk about being leaner and healthier and changing
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Speaker 1: their body compositions. As an exise scientist and a student
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Speaker 1: of psychology, I am more interested in the why than
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Speaker 1: I am the what.
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Speaker 2: What you eat matters?
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Speaker 1: What you're putting in your body, how much you're putting
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Speaker 1: in your body, the quality of what you're putting in
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Speaker 1: your body, all those watts matter. But the thing that
29:05
Speaker 1: I am most fascinated with, especially around this topic of food,
29:11
Speaker 1: food and humans, is a fucking fascinating subject. Like we've
29:16
Speaker 1: never had more access to my to more high calorie,
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Speaker 1: high salt, high sugar, high fat, low nutrition food than
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Speaker 1: we've ever had, like we have got you know, food
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Speaker 1: is so accessible, so available, and some of it so cheap,
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Speaker 1: and I in the middle of all of that, I
29:36
Speaker 1: am fascinated with the psychology, sociology, and emotion of food.
29:41
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't do a deep dive on the actual
29:45
Speaker 1: micro's macros calories in out as much as I would.
29:51
Speaker 1: Why the fuck do I eat this way? Why do
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Speaker 1: I choose something that I know is not a good choice?
29:59
Speaker 1: Why do I I consciously put things in my body
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Speaker 1: which are a form of self sabotage for the woman
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Speaker 1: who wants to lose weight, lose that improve health, improved performance,
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Speaker 1: improve energy, improved function. So as perhaps atypical as this
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Speaker 1: answer might be, yes, food matters, micro's macros calories, all
30:26
Speaker 1: of that. The science of eating matters. The practicality of
30:33
Speaker 1: eating what we're putting in our god and what impact
30:37
Speaker 1: that food or booze or coffee or tea or whatever,
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Speaker 1: what physiological impact that has, That really matters. But for me,
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Speaker 1: it's trying to understand the human It's trying to understand
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Speaker 1: all of the decision making and all of the thinking,
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Speaker 1: and all of the storytelling and all of the behavior
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Speaker 1: around the food that I think is the thing we
31:01
Speaker 1: really need to dive into. Alrighty now, I know that
31:06
Speaker 1: was brief. But what I'm going to do because I
31:09
Speaker 1: have an appointment in about ten minutes. I just looked
31:12
Speaker 1: at my little pooter and I realized that. So I'm
31:16
Speaker 1: going to do a few of these. I think three
31:20
Speaker 1: or four of these little episodes. I'm not sure how
31:22
Speaker 1: long this is going to run for this one, but
31:25
Speaker 1: I'll come back later or tomorrow I'll do another one.
31:28
Speaker 1: Feel free to go to my Facebook page, probably the
31:31
Speaker 1: You Project facebook page. The New Project podcast facebook page
31:35
Speaker 1: is the best.
31:36
Speaker 2: If you've got questions.
31:37
Speaker 1: And what I'll do moving forward periodically is I'll do
31:41
Speaker 1: these as often as I can. Keeping in mind, as
31:45
Speaker 1: I shared with many of you, I'm under the pump
31:47
Speaker 1: a little bit with my with my study and my research.
31:51
Speaker 1: I'm swimming in the deep end of the PhD pool
31:53
Speaker 1: at the moment, trying not to drown.
31:55
Speaker 2: But I like these.
31:56
Speaker 1: I think these are a good little kind of a
31:59
Speaker 1: break between the end. I've got a bunch of interviews
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Speaker 1: coming up for the rest of the week, but we'll
32:05
Speaker 1: call that day one Q and A. I might do
32:08
Speaker 1: another one today or tomorrow. Definitely there'll be a few
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Speaker 1: of these up. I'll answer as many questions that you've
32:14
Speaker 1: already sent through as possible, but also feel free to
32:19
Speaker 1: jump in the group and ask another one, and I'll
32:21
Speaker 1: get to that when I can enjoy day. Kids,