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Thomas Nagy discusses the challenge of staying fit and healthy while on the tools · The Electrical Show

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The Electrical Show with Thomas Naji sponsored by Boss Professional, Powerful power Tools Talk
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for measuring tools and experts Accessories. Welcome to the Electrical Show with Bosh Professional
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here on Fixed Radio. I'm Thomas Naji, and over the course of the
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next hour we are going to be talking to some fellow electricians about how they
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approach their exercise and diet in the trade. So sort of a follow on
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from last week's episode. Now Paul is not going to be following them because
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he isn't here today. He's off i think this week and possibly next week
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as well, so he will be back as soon as he can. So
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I'm going solo today now. I'm interested going back to health and fitness,
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this exercise and diet shenanigans. I am interested to find out what people are
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eating during their days out on site because, as we know, being in
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the trade, you in the van a lot and by default you do end
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up eating a lot of fast food unless you are prepared enough that you make
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it at home before you go out in the morning. So yeah, we're
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going to be talking about that in this hour, and if we can try
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and fit some exercise into it even better. Fix Radio time to crack On.
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I'm Thomas Naji and on today's electrical show, I am asking electricians about
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their approach to diet and exercise. Now, if you've just tuned in,
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don't worry with just getting started, and we're going to get started with Danny
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Webb, known as Sparking Milan on social media. Now, Danny, thank
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you very much for joining us. It's you've actually been on a little while
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bag, so it's good to hear your voice again, sir, no problem,
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Thanks for having me back on. When Jack sprung me up to come
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on, I thought he was mocking me with the discussion we're about to talk
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about. Apparently, Yeah, give us some background age, how fit you'd
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say you are, Give us a little bit of background. I'm forty two
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now I would say generally I'm quite fit, but recently, where work's got
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so busy, I've got a little bit out of shape. But I mean
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that's how it is in this trade. I feel for ye. Life has
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been very kind. Life has been very kind to your face because you don't
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look forward to to on Instagram, that is for sure. But that's because
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I think it's because I tried to take the diet seriously. And I do
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think what you're put in your body does help, so for sure. Yeah.
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Best. So how about exercise off the tools do you actually do?
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Do you do stuff like gym or is that like a wishful thought? Do
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you know what? Only until recently I started slowing down on that. So
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when I lived down South, as I've said on the show before, I've
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moved recently up to the Midlands for work, I had a gym built in
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my garden. I was doing kind of what I've seen you do online,
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you know, the Olympic weights, free weights, no machines really, so
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I like things like deadlift squats, you know, pull ups, all things
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like that, things that your body weight as well. So I did a
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lot of that. But as I'm getting old, you know, the recovery
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time is so difficult, you know, you've got to really plan, you
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Like, I could hit the gym hard if i know I'm doing the ICs
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a week. If I've got a first week coming up, I can't do
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it. So it's difficult. Yeah. Yeah, what about eating? How
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about diet wise? Whats because it is difficult as a tradesman, especially if
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you're in your van all day going from job to job. It is a
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challenge. How do you find it? Because you you you're pretty healthy eater,
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aren't you, So you do must You probably do a lot of pre
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pre work for food. Yes, that's it. Yeah, it's prep I
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mean, I mean my partner is very good at that, so she preps
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a lot of like decent lunches and salads and bits and pieces fruit salad.
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So we try and make sure we're really well prepared. Don't always go to
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plan, of course. But the biggest thing. I'm a massive believer is
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fasting. And I will fast generally obviously from the last thing that of at
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night, all the way through the morning, and I'll try to get to
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twelve one o'clock because I'm far more productive when I've not got food makes me
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sluggish and sleepy, so I can't get as much done. And yeah,
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obviously by doing that fasting, your body's attacking your fat cells for energy,
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so it's like a double wind really, And then I'll eat more later,
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all right, So you literally you won't eat anything so sort of mid day,
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Yeah, try not to. It doesn't always go to plans, you
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know what. Sometimes you wake up for some reason you're absolutely starving. But
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generally, if that's the case, I'll have like a protein shape or something
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so something's still a bit healthy, or a blended up smoothie something like that
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to keep me going. But certainly not the old days where I'll come from
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in ethics when I was growing up, the gut buster breakfast. I don't
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do anything like that anymore. But you think that that for you, that
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really benefits. Yeah, yeah, it really benefits. Like if you ask
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anybody that works with me in the morning, I just shut up. I'm
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focused, and I'll just I treat it like a little bit of a cardio
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session up down a ladder or whatever it is you do. I'm trying to
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do it really quick to film my heart going. And then I know when
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I get home, I don't really have to go to the gym because I've
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burnt a lot of calories while i was at work. Huh. I mean,
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I've heard of people doing fast, but I've never heard of it.
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That's interesting. Before we go, because we're running out of time, a
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bit of advice or any sort of top tips you'd give for a listener that
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have just anything in your world, A top tip you think for exercise,
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the top tip is like you sort of touched on. It's planning, isn't
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it. If you don't plan I've been there a million times as well.
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You're starting hungry and you just stop off at the space or something like that
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and you get a sausage roll, you know, a crappy sandwich. If
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you plan it and you put the time into planning, you're going to eat
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healthy. But it's not always that easy for everybody. People come home absolutely
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kna good and you might not want to prep food, but if you do,
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you're going to be healthier. The Electrical Show Thursday from three and catch
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You're listening to the Electrical Show with none other than Bosh Professional here on Fix
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Radio and today if you've just tuned in, we are midway. Our trainers
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pulled out the station. It's rumbling down the tracks and we've been talking about
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diet and exercise as an electrician. Now, as you know, Paul Meanan
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isn't here. He's decided to go out and earn some money, as if
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that's more important than being here. I don't know, I don't know what
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the world's coming to, but I'm sure, he's listening to it driving up
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the motorway wherever he is. Paul, Hello. So we're going to take
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this opportunity because normally in this link me and Paul, by this time,
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we'd be throwing pop shots and you know, cheap shots at each other about
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health and exercise and how little we do. So I'm going to take this
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opportunity to reflect on how I approach diet and exercise instead. So unless Jack
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the producer wants to answer them, which I don't think he wants to,
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which means it's just going to be me. So the first one is how
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fit would you say you are? It's a funny question because initially when I
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before I actually started going to the gym, and I had a personal trainer
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and stuff before I started that, I genuinely considered myself you know, yeah,
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thirty seven years old, pretty fit, and you know, I'm not
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amazing. I'm not you know, I'm not David Beckham territory, but I'm
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pretty fit. I can stay ahead, or so I thought. And my
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pet started my first day in the gym August fifteenth, August fourteenth, think
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it was. It took me straight to the dips machine. So anybody's been
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to the gym, you know, dips like hell on Earth, the horrible
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things. He just took me to a dip and he just he demonstrated a
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dip and I can't really it's too difficult to describe over the eight you'd have
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to google it. But I thought, well, so I've got pretty good
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upper arm strength, you know, triceps, pretty good? How hard can
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this be? Couldn't do one? Mate, seriously, Like it was really
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embarrassing, Like, but you the thing is, you go in with this
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sort of mental thing that you're you're pretty good, you know you're ahead of
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the game, better than average, and you're actually not. You realize how
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actually, how underfit you are. Three months later, I'm pretty good at
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them. I'm not an expert, but I'm a hell of a lot better
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now. I can I can bop out like sixty seventy dips before I've had
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enough. Like so it's you've got a train to get there. But it
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is amazing, like how how sort of muscle orientated you think you are and
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actually you're not? So yeah, next question when it comes to exercise,
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what do you try to do off the tools? Again? It is Jim,
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I do it four times a week and it is a big commitment and
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it is it's hard work. I won't lie do Mondays, Mondays, Wednesdays,
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Thursday, Fridays. So it's two hours a session, and let me
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tell you, he beasts you for that two hours. Like I mean,
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it's literally like training two failure. So it's you just go, you do
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one, you do one excise, so dips, for instance, you do
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that, you do it for you know, twenty minutes. So basically until
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you try sets are burnt out and you literally you just you reached muscular failure
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and then you just move on and you go and do some cable exercise or
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whatever. But I've been doing that, yeah, about three months now.
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But there was no particular it wasn't a goal as such. It was just
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I just felt like I wanted to do it. But diet wise, that
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was the next question. Diet what do you eat and drink throughout the day?
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That is a tricky one. I don't have a specific diet, so
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I will say that a PT is worth every penny. That is absolutely worth
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it. Because one of the things I'll do is I'll give you what's called
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your macros, your daily intake your nutritional intake. And it is really good
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because you can try and follow you don't have to follow it one hundred percent.
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But when you start tapping into like so for instance, I say like
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I need two seven hundred calories a day. That's what we worked out too,
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those seven hundred calories seventy grams of fat. Which actually that's the hard
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part. It's not exceeding seventy grams of fat. That's really tough if you
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actually weigh up, like you go to this is the thing. You go
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to a petrol stage and you buy a sausage roll. I'm telling you now,
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there's about thirty grams of fat in that sausage roll. You'd be amazed
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how much fat is in everything around you. So the hard part is cutting
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fat out of the diet. So normally the way that I tend to do
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it is I'll go to the unit first thing. I'll be in the unit
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by sort of five thirty in the morning somewhere around there. I'll have protein
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in the morning with some like protein granola fuel, I think it's called.
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That's quite a tasty on if you want to buy some. So I normally
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have that and that will keep me going comfortably until about midday. So it's
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actually different from the way our first calling guest, Danny Milan, so he
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doesn't eat till twelve. I do it the opposite. I eat first thing
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in the morning. But it's just how everyone's diet is different. This is
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the way that if I don't eat in the morning, I'm just a grumbly,
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irritable bear. I have no fun to be around, so I have
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to have something to eat. But yeah, I have that in the morning,
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and that keeps me until about sort of midday, sometimes two o'clock if
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I have a big serving in the morning, and then I'll just have something
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else once to get back to the unit. But the big thing is not
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trying to eat crap during the day. That's the hard part, because it's
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so tempting to go to a garage or something and just you have a sandwich,
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a sausage roll or a pasty cornish pasty that's straight up sixty grams of
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fat right there. Like it's trying to stop that. So and it's really
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difficult because you fill up with fuel and you go in it smells so nice,
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especially if you go to BP ones and stuff. They smell really good.
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So it's trying to stop that. So yeah, next question, what
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do you find most challenging and why staying fit or eating well? Eating well
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is not too bad that it is a bit challenging. Like I've just explained,
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the staying fit part is the hard part because it it requires constant work.
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You know, you've got to do it whether you whether you want to
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do it or not. If you don't feel like it, you've still got
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to go. You've just you've got to do it. And it's all right.
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It's just sometimes when you get back from work and it's you know,
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the last thing you want to do is turn around and go back out to
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go to the gym. But once you're there, it's all right, and
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it's you actually build a fantastic circle of networking people at the gym, friends
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and stuff, little gym bros and stuff, and it really is good fun.
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So once you get into it, it gets easier. And that's probably
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the biggest thing I'd say to take away from it. Once you start it,
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the first like two weeks is just hell on earth because you just ache
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everywhere. And once you've passed that bit, it does get easier and easier.
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So it's worth, it's worth staying with it. And as soon as
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you start seeing muscle and gains it does it's quite satisfying, so it's definitely
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worth doing. Yeah. Last question, what would you like to improve with
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regards to your diet and exercise? I would like to meal prep, but
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I just can't be bothered. It's just nah, it's time. I haven't
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got time. I'm sat here in orange clothing. I didn't have time to
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change, so I'm not going to be able to fit meal prep in.
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There's just no way. Fixed radio. This is the Electrical Show and Thomas
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Naji asking electricians to join me today to discuss their approach to diet and exercise.
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Now joining me, Now we have another electrician, Ian Beddingfield, who's
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been on the show a couple of times. Now, Ian, welcome back
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and set in the tone for us. How old are you and how fit?
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Would you say you are? In layman terms? So I'm in my
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forties forty two and I would say I'm physically fit, athletic, athletic.
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Okay, good, good start? What about what about which I was saying
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that an insulting way is a good thing? What would you say is the
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most sort of challenging thing about getting out there and doing the exercise. Or
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do you feel that you get enough exercise through your job, Because a lot
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of some contractors do get enough through their job, so because you need a
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lot of physical dexterity for it. So are you one of those? Or
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do you do exercise outside the outside of your working hours? Well, I'm
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one of those that probably makes my job more physical than I need to in
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the sense that I'll be the one with a short ladder and jumping up in
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the last pulling myself up rather than getting a longer ladder. And I mean
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our job as physical as it is, so I see that as a physical
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a physical day anyway. All right. The main question diet, How good
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or bad? Are we saying it is bad? I love the answer,
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it's good. I like it good, good, good. What does it
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you find though? Is it the difficulty? Is it the convenience of fast
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food on the go, or how is it for you being one of those
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that's up and out the door. Mine would be not so much the fast
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food, but the convenience of being able to get it a garage shop wherever.
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I'm an energy drink drink car and sometimes I can go through a day
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and not eat at all because I just get way laid into it. You
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know, some days you're bad. Yeah, I mean there is truth in
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that, because I also find the same thing, like if you're if you're
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in the zone on a job, to stop and then to actually stop and
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have lunch is sometimes it's it's almost like a laborious task because once you've had
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it, you struggle to get back. You struggle, I mean you struggle
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to get back into the zone in what you were doing. So you just
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kind of plow through. But obviously you use energy drinks to plow through by
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the same by the sound of it, don't feel for me that is,
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once you have lunch, it's like that, I don't want to carry on.
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I'm done now. Yeah, it's finding that motivation. I was going
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to say, what are the sort of the worst habits that you've got when
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it comes to diet, But I'm guessing energy drinks, so your one.
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Yeah, definitely energy drinks and not making a suitable lunch really in the morning,
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which I should be doing. Yeah, time is it is are the
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time constraints that you find? It's just I mean, I think for a
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lot of people who live in London where it's just so on the go that
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that is a genuine issue. It's just finding the time. I mean,
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some people say that's not an excuse, but I actually think it is because
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it is just it's finding the time to get up and be to have the
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time and the effort and the energy to actually do meal prep and stuff.
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It is just for a lot of people, it's just a ball lake.
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Yeah, definitely. I mean I've even died, like between jobs. You
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think I just grab a sandwich on the go kind of thing. But even
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then driving around if you're doing short distance and trying to multitasking and say you
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can't do it. Yeah, it's you know, if you're out in the
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sticks and you're working London or close to jobs, it's just not possible.
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Yeah. Yeah, all right. Well finally, because we're running out of
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time, what would you change if you had to make one change to your
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diet or maybe an approach to like exercise or something. What would you like
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to do if you had the opportunity. Mine would be make a decent lunge
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in the morning, something that's not going to weigh you down, the eat
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quick on the go or it's there rather than stopping grabbing something, you know,
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even costwise, it's goldn't be cheaper making it yourself, and it is
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for sure in the garage. Yeah, all right, well, I hope
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you managed to find the time to do it. Ian, it's been a
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pleasure to have you on. Thank you the Electrical Show on Fixed Radio.
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That's it for today's Electrical Show with me Thomas Naji, mister mean and do
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you have any final words you'd like to say? I can. I'm sort
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of telepathically talking to him because I can guarantee he's listening in a car somewhere
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and he's saying something and he's just said, nope, there's no other business.
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