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EP 352 - KB Certifications, One Lift a Day Program, Easy Strength, Aging Well & More · The Dan John Podcast

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Speaker 1: Well, hello, welcome back everybody to the Dan John University
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Speaker 1: dot com podcast. I'm Dan John. This is episode three
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two. If you have a question for
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Speaker 1: the podcast, please send it to this address podcast at
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Speaker 1: dan Johnuniversity dot com. I do my best to answer
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Speaker 1: each and every question, but we're getting a lot lately,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of them more repeat questions, and so
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Speaker 1: we're just trying to combine the ideas together. I hope
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Speaker 1: that helps. Our first question today is from Michael. Michael
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Speaker 1: says this, I think you may have answered this question before,
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Speaker 1: but for the life of me, I cannot find the
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Speaker 1: podcast where you addressed it. I was wondering if it
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Speaker 1: would be possible an easy strength to alternate days where
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Speaker 1: I focus on and going heavier on one exercise one
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Speaker 1: day and heavier on a different exercise than next. I
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Speaker 1: think naturally a lot of us who do it for
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Speaker 1: a while end up doing it this way. Michael, So
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Speaker 1: the original answer straight up is yes, it's just fine
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Speaker 1: for example, and now he'll give us some details what
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Speaker 1: he means. For example, on Monday, challenging myself a bit
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Speaker 1: on my bench press while still playing in my comfort zone,
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Speaker 1: but going light or moderate and intensity in the other exercises,
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Speaker 1: then on Tuesday challenging myself on the deadlift but going
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Speaker 1: easier on other exercises. Obviously, as you can say again
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Speaker 1: and again, I should listen to my body and lift
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Speaker 1: as much as I feel comfortable on any given day.
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Speaker 1: But I wonder if I'm following a structure like this
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Speaker 1: as closely as I can would help to avoid overtrain
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Speaker 1: and burn out. One of the great things about easy
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Speaker 1: strength is you don't burn out, you don't overtrain. Guaranteeing
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Speaker 1: that I'm challenging muscles used in every individual movement pattern
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Speaker 1: at least once a week, but also giving every muscle
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Speaker 1: and movement pattern a chance to recover and build on
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Speaker 1: the work from the days where I lift a little
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Speaker 1: heavier in that particular movement pattern. Do you think there's
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Speaker 1: any merit to this ideal? What are your thoughts? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: So sometimes, and I like this variation folks. So now,
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Speaker 1: obviously you know I've written a massive book on easy Strength.
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Speaker 1: On the book, it's massive. You can find a Dan
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Speaker 1: john University dot COM's last bookstore, and it I mean
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Speaker 1: I cover everything. In some of my earlier writings, you'd
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Speaker 1: find some of this on Teenation and then on my
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Speaker 1: one of my blogs, probably the Dan John dot net,
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Speaker 1: which is no longer with this blog WordPress. One of
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Speaker 1: the things I used to recommend is that I I've
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Speaker 1: changed in my own personal train. I don't do this,
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Speaker 1: but I moved to this in my early fifties, where
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Speaker 1: you would lift, for examplet's just do it this week.
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Speaker 1: You're going to lift three days a week. And let's
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Speaker 1: just say because Monday's National bench press Day. Monday is
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Speaker 1: bench press and the big the big push day, the okay,
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Speaker 1: but on that day you still do a light set
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Speaker 1: of chin ups, the light set of squads, a light
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Speaker 1: set of deadlifts, and maybe an easy farmer walk. Wednesday
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Speaker 1: is the big poll day. You do your you do
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Speaker 1: your loaded you know you weighted chin ups, you do
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Speaker 1: your ros, then some light presses, some light squat squads,
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Speaker 1: a light deadlift, and a light farmer walk. Friday is
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Speaker 1: the hard lower body day. This isn't working out perfectly
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Speaker 1: in this example, but that's the day you go for
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Speaker 1: in the front squad. You go for the deadlift, and
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Speaker 1: you go for on the farmer walk, and then you
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Speaker 1: do some pushes, easy pushes and pulls. To ease the
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Speaker 1: day out. That's just an example. The way I train
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Speaker 1: now with Monday is mostly an upper body day, Wednesday's legs.
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Speaker 1: Friday is kind of a mixtured day with a little
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Speaker 1: Friday is the day I focus on military press and
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Speaker 1: chin ups. When you're doing an easy strength protocol like
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Speaker 1: you're saying here, which I like, you're almost sliding it
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Speaker 1: into another program I love called one lift a Day.
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Speaker 1: Came from the American heavyweight lifters of about nineteen sixty eight,
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Speaker 1: where you'd pick one lift, no shock a day and
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Speaker 1: do it. So, you know, for example, when I was
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Speaker 1: doing this at the best of my athletic career, I
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Speaker 1: think I snatched on Monday, Tuesdays was jerks, Wednesday, front squad,
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Speaker 1: Thursday rest, you know, and you just work it through
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Speaker 1: like that where you're only doing one lift, your option
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Speaker 1: here focusing. I'm going to go after overhead presses on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: and on Fridays, I'm gonna go after front squads, but
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Speaker 1: you're still gonna do the overhead press on Friday. I
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Speaker 1: think there's wisdom in it. I think it's a good idea.
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Speaker 1: My only concern is this is that some exercises do
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Speaker 1: better with like two or three training sessions a week. Weirdly,
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Speaker 1: I think like the overhead press can be pushed a
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Speaker 1: little bit more. I also think this is a tough one.
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Speaker 1: This is a depends on who you are. Some people
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Speaker 1: find if they do chin ups pull ups two or
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Speaker 1: three times a week they can get steady improvement. Other
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Speaker 1: people more than one day a week at chin ups,
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Speaker 1: and their railbows start the bark. So you've got to
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Speaker 1: be careful here. If you're like me and you weren't
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Speaker 1: born to squat, squatting daily at a reasonable amount and
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Speaker 1: then having that one hard work out a week probably
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Speaker 1: would have done a lot of good work for me. So, Michael,
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Speaker 1: I like your idea. So to review gentle listeners. His
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Speaker 1: idea that you can do easy strength. You can do
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Speaker 1: the five exercises and you're going to focus. We'll just
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Speaker 1: go Monday through Friday to save things. You're going to
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Speaker 1: focus on exercise A on Monday, but do the other
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Speaker 1: four lifts exercise B on Tuesday, and do the other
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Speaker 1: four lifts exercise C on Wednesday, and do the other
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Speaker 1: four lifts D other four lifts E four lifts. I
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Speaker 1: haven't done this, but I would just say, it just
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Speaker 1: makes sense that it would work. Again, You're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to give it a few weeks to see how things go.
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Speaker 1: There might be an exercise or two that you find
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Speaker 1: needs in your case, maybe a hard hard day and
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Speaker 1: a medium hard day. Or you might find that you
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Speaker 1: like this idea, but you know, I have workouts that
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Speaker 1: I can only do once every two weeks or never. Now,
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Speaker 1: like the Tabata front squad workout. I would do that
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Speaker 1: every two weeks to prepare myself for the conditioning I
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Speaker 1: need on the platform at an Olympic lifting meet. You
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Speaker 1: might find that there might be an exercise that you
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Speaker 1: only need to push once every two weeks. So, Michael,
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Speaker 1: I guess my point, my big point is it is
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Speaker 1: going to be a bit of an experiment of one
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take. You're gonna have to take
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Speaker 1: some good notes. You're gonna have to kind of pay
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Speaker 1: attention to progress. Remember on the upper body, if you're
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're atting five to ten pounds over
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Speaker 1: a limited amount of time, say a month, and in
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Speaker 1: the lower body ten to twenty pounds, that's that's good progress,
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Speaker 1: and that you know, adding ten pounds a month to
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Speaker 1: the overhead press in a year. That's that's a lot
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Speaker 1: of weight. You know, that's even five pounds, that's sixty pounds.
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Speaker 1: That's that's a lot of load in the overhead press
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Speaker 1: in a year. One hundred and twenty in a year.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's it could be possible, but
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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good jump. You know, if you're pressing
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Speaker 1: one forty now and in a year from now you're
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Speaker 1: pressing two sixty, you're going to look a lot different,
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Speaker 1: especially for two easy sets of five. Love the idea.
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Speaker 1: Don't know enough about it, but I think you'll need
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Speaker 1: to experiment, keep good records, and you know, wait till
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Speaker 1: at least day twenty two of the forty days before
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Speaker 1: you make any big decisions. Stick out the plan. So basically,
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Speaker 1: you want to be into, you want to be passed,
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Speaker 1: you want to be passed week two, three, four before
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Speaker 1: you make any decisions. I picked twenty two because that's
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Speaker 1: usually when I did my best, but on the forty days,
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Speaker 1: so you want to get over halfway before you go, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this isn't working or this I need to make huge changes.
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Speaker 1: Get there first, then make some decisions. Thank you, Michael,
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Speaker 1: wonderful question and a lot of fun to look at. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we've got a question from Riley, and Riley says this.
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Speaker 1: I'm a thirty two year old physician with young children.
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Speaker 1: I am constantly surrounded by germs. I started Armor Building
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Speaker 1: Formula on January first of this year and saw phenomenal results. Hey, folks,
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Speaker 1: thirty two year old physician with young kids and making progress.
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Speaker 1: That's what I want to hear. That's what I want.
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Speaker 1: That's what I do this for. I made it to
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Speaker 1: about five weeks until I came down with a good
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Speaker 1: old common cold. From previous training mistakes, I have learned
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Speaker 1: to strictly avoid weight training, went sick and focus only
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Speaker 1: on recovery. Okay. I took several days off and then
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Speaker 1: did a few lighter workouts before officially resuming the program.
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Speaker 1: My question is, how do you personally jumpstart or revamp
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Speaker 1: your training after an illness sets you back? Okay, So
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Speaker 1: Riley appreciate for those you have no idea what he's
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Speaker 1: talking about he's talking about. I have two books, The
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Speaker 1: Armor Building Formula and then, of course, the brilliantly titled
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Speaker 1: Armor Building Formula Too. Dan John University dot Com, slash Bookstore,
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Speaker 1: so I can remember just a few years ago where
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Speaker 1: Nate and I were doing the ten thousand Swing Challenge
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Speaker 1: and it was at the lowest point in my life.
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Speaker 1: And I can say that with total candidness. And I
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Speaker 1: also had COVID and I was very sick with COVID.
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Speaker 1: But every day the two of us would get online,
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Speaker 1: I would put on my would I filmed it all.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's on my YouTube site, but
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Speaker 1: it was on my Instagram live and Nate and I
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Speaker 1: would do five hundred swings together every morning for twenty days.
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Speaker 1: And then I would say thanks everybody, Thanks, and then
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Speaker 1: I would fall in the couch and fall asleep for
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Speaker 1: about three hours. That's not the way you should do sickness,
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Speaker 1: but I was using my training to overcome some emotional issues.
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Speaker 1: You know, we used to joke as teachers rightly, and
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Speaker 1: you might understand the same thing. Teachers tend to get
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Speaker 1: sick on Christmas vacation and June. The month of June.
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Speaker 1: It's because you've been going, going, going, going, going. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a little calendar that says three days ago, two
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Speaker 1: days ago, one day to goo yay into school. School ends.
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Speaker 1: You walk around the building about an hour later, and
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Speaker 1: it's just you know, the kid's backpacks. You know they
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Speaker 1: some kids throw papers in the air and then get
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Speaker 1: in trouble because they don't think that they have their
10:45
Speaker 1: names on the paper, and they get in trouble for that,
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Speaker 1: at least at school's I taught him. And then I'd
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Speaker 1: go home and say, ah, finally get a chance and
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Speaker 1: get sick. Okay, I still use The basic thing is
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Speaker 1: if I have a stomach issue that would be a
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Speaker 1: diarrhea or vomiting, it's a done so done. So it
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Speaker 1: comes down to me to the two things. If I
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Speaker 1: have a fever, then I don't train it all. If
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Speaker 1: I have a fever, I wrap up, I might sauna,
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Speaker 1: I drink excessive amounts of water, and I just go
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Speaker 1: with it. If I have a cold, and the problem
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Speaker 1: is I also have allergies, so I'm never sure if
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Speaker 1: it's a cold or pollen. But I don't have funny
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Speaker 1: this year. My allergies are actually quite good compared to
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Speaker 1: everybody else's so for me, so that's how I kind
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Speaker 1: of work it. If it's intestinal, don't work out. I
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Speaker 1: don't want you spotting me in the back squat when
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Speaker 1: I have diarrhea. It's the old joke I use. You know,
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Speaker 1: if you're vomiting, you shouldn't be out in the gym
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Speaker 1: with the fever. I figure the body is fighting something
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Speaker 1: big time, so I won't work out with a fever.
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Speaker 1: If it's a cold, it could be allergies, it could
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Speaker 1: just be the sniffles. If I feel miserable with a cold,
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Speaker 1: eye off and find that if I do work out
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Speaker 1: and walk when I come home, I feel better. So
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Speaker 1: that's how I break it down. The other thing in
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Speaker 1: your physician, I hope you support me on this. I
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Speaker 1: do now twice a year I do blood tests. I
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Speaker 1: pay for the one of them, and my insurance picks
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Speaker 1: up the other. I donate blood five times a year,
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Speaker 1: so I get those minor checkups every time I go
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Speaker 1: to the dentist, and I go to the eye doctor
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Speaker 1: once a year. And the value on all those things
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Speaker 1: I just said is that I can really get a
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Speaker 1: sense of how things are going. You know, hopefully with
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Speaker 1: all those checkups we can pick up on you know,
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Speaker 1: because of the blood I mean, okay, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: my blood pressure is high all the time, and blood
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Speaker 1: pressure isn't the most perfect measure. But I get a
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Speaker 1: sense of things with my bi annual blood tests. I
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Speaker 1: can see early certain things are happening. There's a PSA test,
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Speaker 1: there's some other things that give you great A one
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Speaker 1: C give you great information about where you're trending. So
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Speaker 1: that's that's how I do it. There's nothing new that
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Speaker 1: I picked. Mike junior college coach coach Loahatti taught us
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Speaker 1: that that little system vomit, diarrhea, stay in the house, fever,
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Speaker 1: shut it down, if it sniffles and cold, you know,
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Speaker 1: do your best. That's the system I use. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it's perfect or not. I do know the
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Speaker 1: following thing though. If I do. If I take good
13:30
Speaker 1: care of my dental hygiene I take, I do my
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Speaker 1: medical visits, I get my vaccines, I take care of business,
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Speaker 1: good things tend to happen with me. I trend in
13:39
Speaker 1: the right direction. And yes, I am very much pro vaccine.
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Speaker 1: I grew up with my mom, of course, whose greatest fear.
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Speaker 1: Of course, her husband, her sons, her nieces and nephews,
13:51
Speaker 1: her brothers, everyone in her family went off to war.
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Speaker 1: She didn't fear war, she feared polio. And so I
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Speaker 1: grew up with the idea that if something can be prevented,
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Speaker 1: easily prevented. So I hope that helped and thank you
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Speaker 1: so much. That's a good question. Got a question from Philip.
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Speaker 1: I just got to know your YouTube channel and podcast
14:12
Speaker 1: format a couple of weeks ago and find it very inspiring.
14:16
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for your work in your human
14:18
Speaker 1: and heartwarming way of talking about so many interesting things.
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Speaker 1: I am twenty seven years old, currently finishing my university
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Speaker 1: exams to becoming a teacher, and my girlfriend and I
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Speaker 1: are expecting our first daughter in June. Congratulations. That's great.
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Speaker 1: Because of studying, working and searching for a bigger apartment
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Speaker 1: for my family, my training schedule got completely thrown over.
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Speaker 1: I did nineteen Moi Thai fights on a good amateur
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Speaker 1: semi professional level with training Mui Thai three to four
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Speaker 1: times a week, two strength and conditioning sessions and a
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Speaker 1: couple of Zone two running sessions every week. Now, as
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Speaker 1: my life gets completely different, I still want to be
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Speaker 1: fit while working full time after my MS and becoming
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Speaker 1: a dad. Easy strength in the armor building complex seem
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Speaker 1: to be good routines to combine in this upcoming time. Also,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to get back to martial arts training after
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Speaker 1: my girlfriend daughter and I find a home. As I
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Speaker 1: know you are realistic of getting the work in, I
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Speaker 1: would like to ask you what you would recommend me
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Speaker 1: to get assault and realistic combination of strength, endurance and
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Speaker 1: martial arts program. I would appreciate it for information. I've
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Speaker 1: got a one by sixteen kettlebell bell, one by twenty
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Speaker 1: two by twenty five kilo bells at home. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: let's take easy strength and wipe it out of the way,
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Speaker 1: because with those bells, I think it'd be hard to
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Speaker 1: do an easy strength program. But don't worry. I have
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Speaker 1: a better idea for you. I actually think, and you're
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Speaker 1: going to have to. By the way, for the record,
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Speaker 1: for those of you who've had infants, we all know
15:55
Speaker 1: some of us are going, yeah baby, so babies. In
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Speaker 1: my armor armor building formula book too, I have something
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Speaker 1: called a Weekend Warrior, and in that book I recommend
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Speaker 1: on Saturdays do the running back complex, and on Sundays
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Speaker 1: do high Rep Militaries, and on Wednesday do the armor
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Speaker 1: building Complex. I think it'd be a great idea for you.
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Speaker 1: What I would also recommend is best you can is
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Speaker 1: on Saturday maybe do your martial arts work, and right
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Speaker 1: after you're finished rolling around on the mat, pop up
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Speaker 1: and do the running back complex. Sundays, go roll around
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Speaker 1: the mat after you're done, do those high rep military
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Speaker 1: presses Wednesday. If you can get it in, roll around
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Speaker 1: the mat, and I would really focus on technical expertise,
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Speaker 1: and then come home and do couple rounds with those
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Speaker 1: double twenty fives of the armor building complex. One thing
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to think of is, at least for
16:50
Speaker 1: a while when you're doing your training, if you have
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Speaker 1: a coach or a training partner, don't just get tired
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Speaker 1: out on the mat. Just don't get tired. Work on
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Speaker 1: technical skills. Don't spend a lot of time working on
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Speaker 1: conditioning and more conditioning. Work on whatever weaknesses you have
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Speaker 1: in your system. If you're not good at a certain
17:14
Speaker 1: I'm going like this hit, work on this hit. If
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Speaker 1: you don't know how to do that hit, work on
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Speaker 1: that hit, practice, practice, practice, don't for at least a
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Speaker 1: while until you can kind of get more serious time
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Speaker 1: back on the mat. At your age, you're young, don't
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Speaker 1: overwhelm yourself with conditioning. More conditioning for one thing, you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to recover with an infant. My
17:38
Speaker 1: granddaughter is with thirteen months old, and sadly, my son
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Speaker 1: in law and daughter have lost a lot of sleep
17:45
Speaker 1: in the last few weeks because of teething, and she
17:48
Speaker 1: the poor little, poor little girl, she's just she's such
17:51
Speaker 1: a kind little thing, and yet she's so miserable. So
17:55
Speaker 1: thirteen months we're back to almost a newborn level of
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Speaker 1: So that's my So I would weekend warrior this thing
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Speaker 1: in the weight room, and what that'll be nice is
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Speaker 1: that'll leave you Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday to do your
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Speaker 1: job as a teacher, be present to your girlfriend and
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Speaker 1: your infant, and take care of business. And the most
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Speaker 1: important way, the only hard scheduled day I see in
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Speaker 1: the week would be Wednesday, and you're just going to
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Speaker 1: have to figure that out. I would suggest if you
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Speaker 1: have a slow cooker, Wednesday is the slow cooker day.
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Speaker 1: You make the meals Tuesday night. By the way, I
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Speaker 1: think this is good advice for everybody out there. Make
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Speaker 1: the meals Tuesday night and do your best. Okay, and
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Speaker 1: congratulations on the infant. Okay, that's awesome, awesome, Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I hope that helped all right, I hoped it helped
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Speaker 1: and that I think is a really good option for you. Okay,
18:48
Speaker 1: Paul asked a question. It makes me feel good, so
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Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, Paul says this, Hello, I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to say that I am a longtime viewer of the podcast.
18:58
Speaker 1: I love the work Dan does and how I give sensible,
19:01
Speaker 1: no nonsense explanations of all sorts of training methods and
19:05
Speaker 1: other elements of life. I've gained some really great insights
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Speaker 1: into my own training from the podcast. My favorite is
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Speaker 1: the one Lift to Day program, and Paul, I love it.
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Speaker 1: I think One Lift to Day is the least appreciated
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Speaker 1: program I offer. The problem it is just too simple.
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Speaker 1: How many lifts you can do today? One? Well? Can
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Speaker 1: I had bench press? Well that would be two. Well
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Speaker 1: can I do it well, then it wouldn't be one. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Although I've had great success using it, I was wondering
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Speaker 1: if Dan had any updates or thoughts on improving the program.
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Speaker 1: You know, Paul, let's just answer this question first before
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Speaker 1: I move on to the next question, because I appreciate
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Speaker 1: the next question. The issue I have with improving the
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Speaker 1: one day, One Lift to Day program is that they're
19:48
Speaker 1: you know, so Week one, folks, you do seven sets
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Speaker 1: of five in the exercises you choose. Week two is
19:54
Speaker 1: six sets of three. Week three is you're testing yourself
19:57
Speaker 1: a set of five, a set of three and then
19:59
Speaker 1: a heavy double. And set four is you do circuit
20:03
Speaker 1: training or compound training a d load week and then
20:06
Speaker 1: the next week your job is to try to add
20:08
Speaker 1: to the seven sets of five, six sets three and
20:11
Speaker 1: the five three to two. The challenge is the next
20:14
Speaker 1: month you get how it goes. At the peak of
20:16
Speaker 1: me using this, after every set of the lifts, I
20:21
Speaker 1: would do a jump. Originally we did a whole bunch,
20:24
Speaker 1: and later it became on the seven sets of five.
20:27
Speaker 1: Look on power snatches, we might do two or three
20:31
Speaker 1: just vertical jumps. Originally it was ten, and I was like,
20:34
Speaker 1: you know the plan that I've mentioned several plans, but
20:39
Speaker 1: you know the one where we were doing the snatch
20:42
Speaker 1: on Monday. Let me give you a different variation than
20:46
Speaker 1: I usually would. Maybe the bench press on Tuesday, military
20:50
Speaker 1: press on Tuesday. Wednesday, the front squad seven sets of
20:53
Speaker 1: five with jumps, brutal. Thursday was a day off. Friday,
20:58
Speaker 1: we usually was something like, you know, kind of dependent
21:00
Speaker 1: on how sorry you were for Wednesday's workout, but it
21:03
Speaker 1: could be something as simple as a power clean. And
21:05
Speaker 1: then on Saturday we did break the rule because we
21:08
Speaker 1: did snatch and clean and jerk. I have countless variations
21:12
Speaker 1: of this, so my mind gets jumbled. Adding medicine ball
21:15
Speaker 1: throws between those sets would be very good. So if
21:19
Speaker 1: you're can do seven sets of five, you do medicine ball,
21:22
Speaker 1: you can mix it up. You could do jumps in
21:24
Speaker 1: medicine ball and bounds and skipping. You could do sprints.
21:28
Speaker 1: You could do running backwards, or you can just sit
21:31
Speaker 1: there and just sit there and recover. That would be
21:35
Speaker 1: fine too, And if you do that, think it through.
21:39
Speaker 1: Do some logic if you can. But it's a great program.
21:43
Speaker 1: I don't have really anything to add to it because
21:45
Speaker 1: the program that's gonna I'm not comfortable saying this because
21:49
Speaker 1: tomorrow will probably have some great insight. The program has
21:52
Speaker 1: pretty bulletproof right now, so let's just mess it up, okay.
21:59
Speaker 1: I like the We've had great success with it, and
22:02
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I just don't know how to
22:05
Speaker 1: make it better. As an Olympic lifter, it was the
22:07
Speaker 1: best thing I ever did in my career and everybody
22:09
Speaker 1: knows what I'm about to say. It worked so well
22:12
Speaker 1: I stopped doing it. I remember when I changed programs
22:14
Speaker 1: and Dave Turner just I think he was. Dave doesn't
22:18
Speaker 1: really get angry angry, but I got to tell you
22:20
Speaker 1: his voice was ringed with disappointment. I got advice to
22:24
Speaker 1: do a completely different high volume program, and Frank I
22:28
Speaker 1: never lifted as well. Again, so it's a great program.
22:31
Speaker 1: The discipline of it is month three, you know, having
22:36
Speaker 1: to do it for three months, which is hard for anybody.
22:40
Speaker 1: So updates in the program. No update is my regrets
22:44
Speaker 1: for not doing it more. Okay, thank you. Okay, Now
22:48
Speaker 1: we have a follow up question from Paul That yeah,
22:51
Speaker 1: makes me kind of happy to be honest with you,
22:53
Speaker 1: so thank you. Paul says this, I recently rewatched an
22:57
Speaker 1: episode from five years ago and then one from a
23:00
Speaker 1: few days ago. It's really noticeable how healthy Dan looks
23:03
Speaker 1: compared to five years ago. He didn't look unfit then,
23:06
Speaker 1: of course, just better now. I'd love to hear more
23:09
Speaker 1: about the changes Dan has made to his diet or
23:12
Speaker 1: training to achieve this. Well. First off, you know, thanks,
23:16
Speaker 1: you know, it's uncomfortable for me to have these kind
23:22
Speaker 1: of discussions. But I thank you so much. Let's just
23:25
Speaker 1: go for that. Let's just knock out the big rock
23:27
Speaker 1: right now. Five years ago, I was under a tremendous
23:29
Speaker 1: amount of stress, and i'd been probably since the start
23:33
Speaker 1: of this podcast. I had some major stressors in my
23:37
Speaker 1: life that aren't aren't a parent, are with me anymore.
23:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly have other stresses stress, you know.
23:44
Speaker 1: I mean, it's life, you know. I mean, I have
23:48
Speaker 1: a family member in harm's way right now, and I worry.
23:54
Speaker 1: You know, I got daughters going through transitions, good transitions,
23:57
Speaker 1: you know, babies becoming toddlers, becoming you know, walkers, walkers
24:03
Speaker 1: becoming kindergarteners. You know how that goes. But I was
24:06
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure there for a long time.
24:09
Speaker 1: Also too, I was dealing with some major surgeries. I
24:15
Speaker 1: always think it's funny when I read online that I
24:17
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about because I've had surgeries.
24:20
Speaker 1: And I think about the litany of friends who are
24:23
Speaker 1: very famous in the fitness industry that get quoted by
24:26
Speaker 1: this that have gone through the same surgeries I have.
24:30
Speaker 1: I'm very happy about a few things decisions I've made
24:32
Speaker 1: in my life, you know, I'm sneaking up on seventy
24:35
Speaker 1: years old, and it's I mean, it's right around the corner, seventies,
24:40
Speaker 1: right around the corner. And you know, like my you know,
24:46
Speaker 1: my blood profiles are better than they were five years ago,
24:49
Speaker 1: better than they were ten years ago. Let's talk about
24:51
Speaker 1: let's just start with the big let's so big rock.
24:54
Speaker 1: Number one is the stress is less in my life,
24:58
Speaker 1: much less in all ways. And to get on the
25:02
Speaker 1: other side of the stress was not a happy voyage.
25:07
Speaker 1: Some of the saddest things in my life have happened
25:09
Speaker 1: in the last five years. The next thing is since oh,
25:12
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably five or yeah, probably five years
25:16
Speaker 1: ago is when I started to invest heavily into fasting. Now,
25:20
Speaker 1: I don't know if fasting is the miracle that you
25:23
Speaker 1: sometimes hear, but in my case, there's a concept called
25:27
Speaker 1: autofagi or autophagi auto self esophagus eating. I think as
25:36
Speaker 1: you get older, fasting's biggest values. That allows your body
25:40
Speaker 1: to deal with protein in a better way. So I
25:44
Speaker 1: fast about about sixteen hours every day. And there's folks,
25:48
Speaker 1: there's no heroism here, Okay. I eate dinner at six
25:51
Speaker 1: I wake up basically six or seven, sometimes eight, like
25:54
Speaker 1: this morning, because I had no alarm clock and had
25:57
Speaker 1: no reason to get up. Today, I work out with
25:59
Speaker 1: Mic and America and TJ and everybody else who shows
26:03
Speaker 1: up at nine thirties. I drink a lot of coffee
26:06
Speaker 1: Before that, I lift weights three days a week. I
26:09
Speaker 1: walk seven days a week. I do mobility every day.
26:13
Speaker 1: And then after I lift walk, I come in and
26:17
Speaker 1: then I eat. I try to eat the exact same
26:20
Speaker 1: brunch every day. I'll share it with you real quick.
26:23
Speaker 1: Two eggs, a cup of cotta cheese, a fruit of
26:27
Speaker 1: some kind, and then a fruit smoothie. I use premium
26:31
Speaker 1: protein vanilla. And then at Costco they got the three
26:34
Speaker 1: and four berry formula and just pour those in and
26:37
Speaker 1: I share that, so it's only half. I used to
26:40
Speaker 1: do two and share that, but it's just way too
26:43
Speaker 1: much for me. So we're got to a good hit
26:45
Speaker 1: up protein and fruit right there. Brad Pelan one time
26:50
Speaker 1: said that if you eat protein and fruit, you're not
26:52
Speaker 1: really breaking your fast. I don't know that's true. I
26:55
Speaker 1: may have misunderstood that. And then I try to eat
26:59
Speaker 1: a veget and protein heavy dinner. Some afternoons, I will
27:04
Speaker 1: drink an additional coffee and protein drink. It comes from Costco's.
27:10
Speaker 1: It's protein coffee or something like that. And so I
27:12
Speaker 1: try to get you know, my coach wants me one
27:14
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine grams one hundred forty nine. I
27:16
Speaker 1: think that's funny. But one hundred fifty grams one hundred
27:18
Speaker 1: and forty hundred fifty grams of protein a day. I
27:21
Speaker 1: get there. It's not that difficult, all right. So that's
27:25
Speaker 1: on the nutrition side. On the body composition side. About
27:29
Speaker 1: five years ago, I started walking more. At first, I
27:33
Speaker 1: just took Rusty Moore's advice. I'd lift weights and then
27:36
Speaker 1: I'd walk. Then later I just started trying to get
27:39
Speaker 1: ten thousand steps a day. And for those of you
27:41
Speaker 1: who know me, I'm reaching into my pocket to pull
27:44
Speaker 1: out my pedometer. Right now, I'm at eighty six hundred
27:48
Speaker 1: steps for my day. It's still early in the day.
27:51
Speaker 1: That next fourteen hundred to be nothing. I mean, you know,
27:54
Speaker 1: who knows. So let's go through number one. Big Rock.
27:58
Speaker 1: Number one, Big Rock stressed seem to have a big impact.
28:02
Speaker 1: Rock Number two, the intermittent fasting seems to help me
28:06
Speaker 1: look better. I don't know if you can tell but
28:08
Speaker 1: when you look at those other episodes, I was always
28:10
Speaker 1: kind of bright red here. You get that from two things.
28:13
Speaker 1: Of course before. If you have a really traumatic injury,
28:17
Speaker 1: the cortisol levels stretch you out and you get those
28:19
Speaker 1: at least. I think the best thing about being Irish
28:22
Speaker 1: I'm half Irish is my face. You know, the skin
28:26
Speaker 1: is the largest organ My face shows. My face clearly
28:30
Speaker 1: will show you. When I'm under physical stress and even
28:33
Speaker 1: emotional stress. I get these little red like I'm blushing. Okay,
28:38
Speaker 1: that's the intermittent fasting seems to help with that. Next
28:41
Speaker 1: thing is I did well. I'll get to that. But
28:43
Speaker 1: I hired a coach, and my coach has me lifting
28:45
Speaker 1: three days a week and focusing on those ten thousand steps.
28:49
Speaker 1: I take the weekly measurements. Now. My daily measurement is
28:54
Speaker 1: body weight and waistline, and that just helps me. Interesting
28:58
Speaker 1: I can there are certain foods that will make my
29:01
Speaker 1: waistline and I'm not making this up go up four
29:04
Speaker 1: centimeters overnight. It's like, what the hell happened? And I
29:09
Speaker 1: just try to avoid those foods in the future. Weekly measurement,
29:13
Speaker 1: weekly photo I have to send in and then I
29:16
Speaker 1: have to fill out a weekly questionnaire. So big rocks,
29:21
Speaker 1: less stress, intermittent fasting, lifting as a bodybuilder three days
29:26
Speaker 1: a week, ten thousand steps a day, hiring a coach,
29:30
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you each one of those
29:32
Speaker 1: is big. Oh. And then having a community that supports
29:35
Speaker 1: me very well, my daughters, my lifting partners, Mike and Erica,
29:40
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, TJ Kevin, you know, Brian Dede will show
29:45
Speaker 1: up sometimes, other people should. This nice community of people
29:47
Speaker 1: who help support me, Emily of course, my throwers that
29:51
Speaker 1: they all support me. Now, the next thing, kind of
29:53
Speaker 1: the medium the rocks is I've been getting some good
29:58
Speaker 1: advice about certain things. Share it in armor building formula too.
30:03
Speaker 1: But one of the things that my skin doctor has
30:06
Speaker 1: me doing two things every day. Oh, this is a
30:09
Speaker 1: basket that this is my morning basket I'm sharing with you, Okay,
30:12
Speaker 1: And here's all I talked about it. Here's my measuring tape.
30:15
Speaker 1: I measure my waistline with every day. Okay. So there's
30:18
Speaker 1: a couple of things he recommends. First, he recommends that
30:21
Speaker 1: I use head and shoulders, and not only do I
30:24
Speaker 1: put it on my hair, but he also tells me
30:27
Speaker 1: to put it on certain areas in my face, I
30:30
Speaker 1: have that wonderful condition of he calls it adult acme.
30:35
Speaker 1: But sometimes I'll get these w C fields. Has it
30:38
Speaker 1: that bulbous nose thing? Yeah, I got it too, thank you.
30:42
Speaker 1: But putting head and shoulders on here daily seem to
30:45
Speaker 1: keep it back. So's that's a very simple thing I
30:51
Speaker 1: do every day. And then along with that, right after,
30:56
Speaker 1: let's just do this. I put on oil ovolas. It's
31:00
Speaker 1: got sunscreen on my face every day. Get I get
31:03
Speaker 1: nothing for this, okay, And I'm gonna be talking about
31:06
Speaker 1: this in another question today. But this was recommended by
31:10
Speaker 1: my hair person. This is Tea Tree Special. And what's
31:14
Speaker 1: great about this is it has sunscreen in it, and
31:18
Speaker 1: so it's it's a hair conditioning product, but it also
31:22
Speaker 1: has sunscreen. So I used to get pretty serious sunburns
31:25
Speaker 1: right back here. I don't know if it still still
31:29
Speaker 1: has a patch or a hole back there, but when
31:32
Speaker 1: I was young, I got I got a pretty good
31:34
Speaker 1: scar back there. And so I do have a bald
31:36
Speaker 1: spot right there. I don't know how much you can
31:38
Speaker 1: see it, but when you if you have a bald
31:40
Speaker 1: spot and you don't put sunscreen on it, you're getting
31:44
Speaker 1: those burning sunburn rays. That turn in the skin cancer,
31:48
Speaker 1: so I use that. What I also like about it
31:50
Speaker 1: is it's my course of being a gentleman recommends that
31:54
Speaker 1: you always have a comb on you. Oh and always
31:57
Speaker 1: have a watch, and always have a pen on you,
32:01
Speaker 1: but always a comb. So it allows me to comb
32:05
Speaker 1: my hair. I feel like a nineteen fifties commercial right now.
32:09
Speaker 1: I can't put these in my pocket, but so I
32:13
Speaker 1: take care of those things obviously. You know. I scrape
32:17
Speaker 1: my teeth, I have armpit juice in there. I floss,
32:23
Speaker 1: you know, I focus on certain things. The other thing
32:27
Speaker 1: I also did is I took a class on style.
32:29
Speaker 1: Now you wouldn't necessarily notice it here because I just
32:33
Speaker 1: tend to wear dark T shirts here, but taking a
32:36
Speaker 1: style course was really helpful for me. The style course
32:40
Speaker 1: I took is this one right here. This is my
32:43
Speaker 1: graduation certificate, bomb bum bumb bomb bomb bomb and the
32:49
Speaker 1: course is called Real Men, Real Style. And I really
32:54
Speaker 1: got a lot out of it. You know. For example,
32:56
Speaker 1: I'm going to share this. I'm working on a book
32:57
Speaker 1: about all this, so thank you. I have a picture
33:00
Speaker 1: of myself. It's my whole family before everything kind of exploded.
33:04
Speaker 1: It's from nineteen seventy. It's one of the last times.
33:08
Speaker 1: I mean there obviously probably would have been a few
33:10
Speaker 1: more times, but I think it's one of the last
33:12
Speaker 1: times we were ever together as a family, just before
33:15
Speaker 1: people started dying and stuff. But I'm standing there and
33:19
Speaker 1: I'm on a T shirt in jeans, because that's what
33:22
Speaker 1: I wore my entire youth. If it wasn't if I
33:25
Speaker 1: wasn't going to school or a church, I was in
33:27
Speaker 1: a T shirt and jeans or in an athletic uniform.
33:30
Speaker 1: And it's funny because a couple of weeks ago, I
33:32
Speaker 1: was wearing a pair of light Levi's my nun and
33:36
Speaker 1: bush walking around shoes, a white T shirt like this
33:40
Speaker 1: and a sport coat on, and I had my pocket
33:43
Speaker 1: handkerchief in an inverted V. It's sometimes called the JFK style.
33:48
Speaker 1: And a friend of mine walked up and said, I
33:50
Speaker 1: just can't get over how your fashion has changed. And
33:54
Speaker 1: it made me laugh because because Paul I was wearing
33:59
Speaker 1: a T shirt and jeans like I did in nineteen seventy.
34:02
Speaker 1: But here it is, Ooh, I don't know if I
34:04
Speaker 1: can do the math in this, But you know, almost
34:06
Speaker 1: sixty years later, wearing basically the same outfit, but by
34:10
Speaker 1: tossing on a jacket, people thought it was all of
34:12
Speaker 1: a sudden fancy. And I think that one of the
34:16
Speaker 1: things I'm doing to look younger is it's, gosh, the
34:20
Speaker 1: opposite subtraction by addition. In this case, I look younger
34:25
Speaker 1: by adding a few things. I wear a nicer jacket.
34:29
Speaker 1: I you know, I take better care of my hands.
34:33
Speaker 1: I you know, you know, I once I get manicurious,
34:37
Speaker 1: but I take very good care of my my nail
34:40
Speaker 1: beds and my fingernails. I take good care of I
34:45
Speaker 1: try to look a little bit better, and I think
34:47
Speaker 1: it's right there. I think it's the trying. I'm doing
34:52
Speaker 1: a lot of things I learned in my Gentleman's course.
34:54
Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot of things I learn in my
34:55
Speaker 1: style course. For those of you who know me in
34:59
Speaker 1: real life, I'm on a perpetual improvement kick. I have
35:04
Speaker 1: the Harvard Classics just down the way there, and I
35:07
Speaker 1: do the Doctor Elliott daily reading plan. Yesterday we read Huxley,
35:14
Speaker 1: which was really great. You know Servantes last week. So
35:20
Speaker 1: one of the things I think helps me, and I
35:22
Speaker 1: really appreciate you asking, Paul, is that I've improved how
35:25
Speaker 1: I do things physically. I'm training like you should at
35:29
Speaker 1: my age, bodybuilding, walking, fasting, eating appropriately, sleeping really well.
35:36
Speaker 1: Financially I'm doing okay. You know. It's it's always rough
35:41
Speaker 1: in the business I'm in, because you just never know anything. Intellectually,
35:45
Speaker 1: I continuing to push myself. Every day. I do a
35:48
Speaker 1: daily reading out of Tony Robbins and I have a
35:51
Speaker 1: little discussion on it. I'm doing the Doctor Elliott Harvard
35:54
Speaker 1: Classics daily reading. I try to I try to keep up,
36:00
Speaker 1: you know. I just finished the Iliad again in the Odyssey,
36:02
Speaker 1: just finished Great Expectations, a standard joke. I expected more, okay,
36:07
Speaker 1: ha ha, but thank you, and it means a lot.
36:11
Speaker 1: I feel at almost sixty nine, I'll be seventy. After
36:15
Speaker 1: almost sixty nine and seventy right around the corner, I
36:18
Speaker 1: feel like I look better and feel better than it
36:20
Speaker 1: did in my fifties, which is an important thing. My
36:24
Speaker 1: friend Rayan told me years ago that the twenties are
36:26
Speaker 1: better than the teens. The thirties are so much better
36:29
Speaker 1: than the twenties. The forties are better in the thirties,
36:32
Speaker 1: and I'm here to say that. Weirdly, in my case,
36:35
Speaker 1: my sixties are better in my fifties. Thank you. There's
36:40
Speaker 1: nothing fancy in the world as supplements or anything else.
36:44
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm a big believer that taking some of
36:48
Speaker 1: the drugs that people in my age cohort take actually work,
36:51
Speaker 1: opposite of which you would think. You know, there's a
36:54
Speaker 1: certain set of drugs that leave you bald and broken,
36:57
Speaker 1: and I'm glad I don't do those, but thank you
37:01
Speaker 1: so much. In other words, if you get ABF two
37:05
Speaker 1: and you read the section on I think I call
37:07
Speaker 1: it Poor Danny's longevity program or something like that. Nothing fancy.
37:12
Speaker 1: I did mention supplements, and I gotta be full candidness here, Okay,
37:16
Speaker 1: so let me tell you what I do. My first
37:18
Speaker 1: cup of coffee in the morning from Costco, I use
37:21
Speaker 1: their collagen, the one that's got the prebiotics. And I
37:24
Speaker 1: don't even know what that means anymore, but I do
37:26
Speaker 1: one scoop of collagen. And the reason I take that
37:29
Speaker 1: is because Nicholas over Psio Physiogenics says that it's good
37:34
Speaker 1: for your skin. And I got to tell you, I
37:36
Speaker 1: think it's helped that little test you, the snapback test,
37:39
Speaker 1: is miles better for me than it used to be.
37:42
Speaker 1: And then I just drink coffee somewhere in the morning.
37:47
Speaker 1: I do drink a serving of meta mucil and creatin.
37:51
Speaker 1: Now I didn't. I didn't take creatin ever. I never
37:55
Speaker 1: agreed with me and I know why now because the
37:58
Speaker 1: early creatin said, wait to my shirt they had sugar nail.
38:01
Speaker 1: But my brain concussion guy told me that's really a
38:04
Speaker 1: good idea for me to get back on creatin for
38:08
Speaker 1: my concussion issues. So it's caffeine with collagen, coffee and collagen,
38:15
Speaker 1: metamucil and creatin. Those would be the supplements I take.
38:20
Speaker 1: I also take oh when I do have a bottle hair,
38:23
Speaker 1: I do take hibernate every night, and that has zinc
38:26
Speaker 1: and magnesium and just a whiff of melowtonin over it.
38:31
Speaker 1: It's a little bit harder and harder. Fine Hibernate is
38:36
Speaker 1: a hibernate. I can't read it. Oh, hibernation lab dot com.
38:42
Speaker 1: Tell me or my friend and ask for a discount.
38:44
Speaker 1: They if you get a chance to read their blog
38:47
Speaker 1: there they talk about easy strength, original strength, easy walking,
38:52
Speaker 1: and sleep. And I'm like, I love, I mean, I
38:55
Speaker 1: just they nail it on what's important. So if you're
38:59
Speaker 1: going to say that I take supplements in a sense.
39:01
Speaker 1: I take zm A in a whiff of melatonin every night.
39:05
Speaker 1: I guess creatin is a supplement. You know. Collagen comes
39:09
Speaker 1: from bone marrow, creatin comes from muscle. Yeah, there's supplements,
39:13
Speaker 1: but they're you know, it's not like supplements, you know.
39:16
Speaker 1: But so it's interesting. As I stopped. Before I stop,
39:20
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I emphasize one thing.
39:22
Speaker 1: I put this on my skin. I put this on
39:24
Speaker 1: my skin. I use this because it helps with my skin.
39:28
Speaker 1: I take collagen because of my skin. You know, I
39:30
Speaker 1: sauna and when I sauna, I have a little scrubrush
39:33
Speaker 1: I use. I'm just starting to think that something I
39:36
Speaker 1: learned as a kid. Skin is the largest organ in
39:39
Speaker 1: your body, and if your skin is healthy, that's a
39:41
Speaker 1: good sign that good things are happening otherwise elsewhere inside
39:45
Speaker 1: your body. Paul, I hope that helped, and it's just
39:47
Speaker 1: an honor. Maybe I can reprint that poor Danny's longevity
39:55
Speaker 1: thing somewhere. I know it's on the DJU forum, and
40:00
Speaker 1: I know it's in the book. I'll have to see
40:02
Speaker 1: if I've printed it somewhere else. But thank you so much, Paul.
40:05
Speaker 1: It's an honor, So thank you. Got a question from Ryan. Ryan,
40:09
Speaker 1: my question for you is how do I do easy
40:12
Speaker 1: Strength program with only kettlebells. I just finished the armor
40:16
Speaker 1: building formula using double twenty kettlebell bells. I'm forty four
40:20
Speaker 1: years old, five to seven, about one hundred and thirty
40:23
Speaker 1: six pounds, soaking wet. I have double bells at the
40:26
Speaker 1: twenty four and single twenty eight kilos. I have a
40:29
Speaker 1: pull up and dip station and a belt that I
40:32
Speaker 1: can tie a kettlebelt to it. Listen. So in the
40:35
Speaker 1: book at Dan Johnuniversity dot com slast bookstore, go get
40:40
Speaker 1: Easy Strength omnibook, and I have an entire chapter on it. Now.
40:45
Speaker 1: The only problem with this is, Ryan, it is really
40:47
Speaker 1: hard to make easy Strength work perfectly with kettlebells because
40:52
Speaker 1: you don't have those minor jumps. Here. With your double twenties,
40:56
Speaker 1: double twenty four, single, twenty twenty eight and thirty two,
41:00
Speaker 1: you should be okay. But the exercises you're gonna do
41:03
Speaker 1: are military press double kettlebell front squats. You know what's
41:08
Speaker 1: funny is with those double twenty fours you can up
41:11
Speaker 1: the reps and do double kettlebell deadlifts. A Turkish get
41:16
Speaker 1: up and then either a swing or snatch finisher. So
41:20
Speaker 1: with the snatch you probably don't want to do more
41:22
Speaker 1: than twenty to forty reps a day. With the swing,
41:25
Speaker 1: seventy five reps a workout, you know, five sets of
41:27
Speaker 1: fifteen or something like that. The issue comes from it's goldilocks.
41:32
Speaker 1: The goldilocks is the issue. You know, goldilocks. This one's
41:35
Speaker 1: too light, this one's too heavy, this one's just right.
41:39
Speaker 1: With easy strength with kettlebells, very often you find yourself,
41:42
Speaker 1: this is too heavy, but I don't have an option
41:46
Speaker 1: for this is just right. And not that that's a
41:48
Speaker 1: bad thing, but that's just the way it goes. Okay,
41:51
Speaker 1: thank you, great question. Michael says this. I watched the
41:54
Speaker 1: video of you doing your new workout with the folks
41:57
Speaker 1: in Australia. At one point you remarked that you had
42:00
Speaker 1: develop diastasis rectee. Now somebody else said that I never
42:04
Speaker 1: remember the name of it in your abdominum and that
42:07
Speaker 1: you had knitted it back together during the exercise you
42:09
Speaker 1: were demonstrating. Would you talk more about this? What I
42:13
Speaker 1: knitted together was my nervous system on how to straighten, strengthen,
42:18
Speaker 1: how to come back up on things. So but we'll
42:20
Speaker 1: come back to this. I've got the same problem. I've
42:23
Speaker 1: already done it on another episode I can go back
42:26
Speaker 1: to if you remember which one. So so, oh gosh,
42:30
Speaker 1: it was a while ago I was taking at beakroom
42:32
Speaker 1: and yoga class. And by the way, folks, you know,
42:36
Speaker 1: I liked the yoga class, the hot yoga classes. I
42:39
Speaker 1: remember the first time I showed up and the woman goes,
42:42
Speaker 1: you lift weights, and she said, Beakrim got the medal
42:45
Speaker 1: in the Olympics in weightlifting, and I said, no, he didn't,
42:50
Speaker 1: because you know, as an Olympic lifter, you kind of
42:53
Speaker 1: know these things. And it was really an interesting conversation
42:56
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, obviously Beaker's been a little
43:01
Speaker 1: bit discredited. But I was doing one of their positions
43:04
Speaker 1: and I was back here like this, and I was struggling,
43:06
Speaker 1: and the instructor came up and she put her hands
43:09
Speaker 1: on my shoulders here and pressed me back and I
43:15
Speaker 1: had an umbellica hernia pop up right then in real time.
43:20
Speaker 1: So I that was fascinating, and so I got my
43:24
Speaker 1: umbelica hernia fixed. The problem was there was more damage.
43:29
Speaker 1: I remember one time I was at a thing with
43:31
Speaker 1: Grey Cook and Brett Jones, and Greg Cook said, why
43:36
Speaker 1: do all you guys, all you lifters have diastasis RECTI
43:40
Speaker 1: because we all seem to have had that little where
43:42
Speaker 1: the middle of your stomach pops up. Well, I didn't
43:45
Speaker 1: get the surgery to fix that, but taking Tim Anderson's
43:48
Speaker 1: pro reset, so that's the original strength course, so that
43:51
Speaker 1: I can I can do an assessment on you, okay,
43:54
Speaker 1: which is I think is really great. We were doing
43:57
Speaker 1: this new style, so you make a triple chin, you
44:01
Speaker 1: put your chin on your shoulders. I'm on my back
44:03
Speaker 1: and then what you do is you just kind of
44:05
Speaker 1: I call them reverse cobers. You it's not a set up.
44:09
Speaker 1: You row yourself up. What I had noticed was when
44:13
Speaker 1: I was first doing it, the middle of my stomach
44:16
Speaker 1: tinted like this, right up the middle like that. So
44:19
Speaker 1: I put my hands on my stomach and I started
44:22
Speaker 1: to breathe. Now an important thing if you're gonna do
44:26
Speaker 1: I'm gonna this is really interesting. I'm just learned this
44:28
Speaker 1: from Erica. This is from a pelvic floor a physical therapist.
44:32
Speaker 1: When you're on your back doing these movements and you're
44:35
Speaker 1: trying to breath, what I'm doing it here for you,
44:38
Speaker 1: and you're trying to breathe in deep. Try to push
44:41
Speaker 1: your back into the ground with your breath, so your
44:46
Speaker 1: big breath. You try to push your back into the
44:49
Speaker 1: ground hard and spread the load out. And then I
44:53
Speaker 1: looked down and that tinting had disappeared once I showed
44:59
Speaker 1: Once my bo and I figured out how to do this,
45:03
Speaker 1: it seemed to have stopped. Now for me to show
45:06
Speaker 1: it off at a at a at a workshop to
45:08
Speaker 1: show that diastasis popping up again. I actually have to
45:13
Speaker 1: do it wrong and rethink it. I have to kind
45:17
Speaker 1: of breathe wrong and do a few things wrong. And
45:20
Speaker 1: I don't like doing it. I'm trying to teach as
45:23
Speaker 1: i'm doing it, you know, but I don't like doing it.
45:26
Speaker 1: So I so I fixed it by going to a workshop,
45:30
Speaker 1: discovering the problem, changing my breathing slightly. But the thing is,
45:34
Speaker 1: I hope I don't know if you can see this,
45:36
Speaker 1: but I have my hand on it so I can
45:39
Speaker 1: feel it when it's wrong. Now. The other interesting thing
45:41
Speaker 1: is the more I do that, the more my six
45:45
Speaker 1: pack shows up when I when I when I kind
45:48
Speaker 1: of do different things. So I'm I'm extremely excited and Michael,
45:53
Speaker 1: thank you for the clarification. Next time I do a
45:56
Speaker 1: video like this, Michael, first off, I want you to
45:58
Speaker 1: be there, but I'll do my best to show that
46:02
Speaker 1: in real time and how this happens. Okay, this might
46:06
Speaker 1: make another little good blurb video. So thank you, Thank
46:10
Speaker 1: good question. Much appreciated, Lane, Lane, Lane. He was a
46:14
Speaker 1: great friend of mine of blessed memory. I am a
46:17
Speaker 1: thirty year old in a tactical profession. My home gym
46:21
Speaker 1: is mostly fixed, mostly things with fixed weights, such as
46:25
Speaker 1: kettlebells and sandbags. I like using these items as it
46:29
Speaker 1: makes me feel like I'm improving that brute strength and
46:31
Speaker 1: anaconda strength. Love it. What guidance can you give when
46:35
Speaker 1: programming with these items. I understand that percentages can't be used,
46:39
Speaker 1: but also neither can small increases in wait, I know
46:42
Speaker 1: that's either a good or bad advantage. I'm also not
46:45
Speaker 1: sure if easy strength is the right answer, because what
46:49
Speaker 1: if I can do ten reps of exercise with a
46:51
Speaker 1: certain win, but I can't do one with the next one?
46:55
Speaker 1: Is it okay to do eleven reps? Or the ghost
46:57
Speaker 1: of Dan John Past visit me in my sleep? Okay?
47:01
Speaker 1: So most of you, probably listeners, have never trained with
47:06
Speaker 1: fixed weights. But when I was young, that was the norm.
47:11
Speaker 1: You go to a you go to you know, Bob
47:14
Speaker 1: Spa in South San Francisco or the Lions Club and
47:18
Speaker 1: they had a little spa or the whatever, the golf
47:21
Speaker 1: they would all have just fixed weights. So it was
47:23
Speaker 1: fixed dumbbells. There was a twenty, a twenty five or thirtieth,
47:26
Speaker 1: you know, all the way up fixed bar bells with
47:28
Speaker 1: many of you wouldn't believe, but I trained with them
47:31
Speaker 1: as a kid. You know, you'd walk over to the
47:33
Speaker 1: rack of barbells and there was an eighty pounder. You'd
47:36
Speaker 1: pick it up. Oh, and then you'd walk over with
47:38
Speaker 1: it and you'd put it on the ground and you'd
47:40
Speaker 1: do your cleaning press or your curl whatever, and you
47:42
Speaker 1: pick it up and you walk it back. And I
47:45
Speaker 1: got to tell you, their real training came from picking
47:47
Speaker 1: it the wight out of the rack because they were
47:50
Speaker 1: always put in vertically. He had to pick it up
47:53
Speaker 1: and carry it like a kind of like a caber
47:55
Speaker 1: and flip it and put it down. Maybe that's why
47:57
Speaker 1: I was good in the cabra. But the upside of
48:00
Speaker 1: if all you have is this is that you can
48:02
Speaker 1: build some great ideas. I'm going to bring you back
48:05
Speaker 1: to Auto Arco. Now you know who Auto Arco, even
48:08
Speaker 1: if you don't know he is. He was Rodin or
48:11
Speaker 1: Rodin's model for the thinker and smether things and all
48:16
Speaker 1: he had was a body weight barbell. So he weighed
48:20
Speaker 1: sixty kilos one hundred and thirty two pounds and only
48:22
Speaker 1: had it was one hundred and thirty two pound bar
48:25
Speaker 1: So what you do with it is this, and Solaine
48:27
Speaker 1: and anybody else who wants to try this, it's kind
48:29
Speaker 1: of fun. You get yourself your fixed weight, and so
48:32
Speaker 1: it's too heavy the first time you try anything. So
48:34
Speaker 1: it's too heavy, so you just can deadlift it. Okay,
48:37
Speaker 1: So you deadlifted for six weeks. At the end of
48:40
Speaker 1: the six weeks, you're up to twenty reps in the deadlift. Ah,
48:42
Speaker 1: that's too easy. So now I'm going to clean it.
48:46
Speaker 1: Then you clean it. You only get one rip to
48:49
Speaker 1: six weeks later, you're cleaning it with ease. Now I'm
48:52
Speaker 1: gonna try to clean. I can't press it, but I
48:54
Speaker 1: can jerk it, so you jerk it pretty soon. You
48:57
Speaker 1: don't need is to split your legs. Pretty soon you're
49:00
Speaker 1: just push tracking it. Pretty soon, you're push pressing it.
49:04
Speaker 1: Pretty soon, you're pressing it. Pretty soon, you're pressing it
49:07
Speaker 1: twenty reps. It's too light, and then you put it
49:10
Speaker 1: in the ground and say, well, now what am I
49:11
Speaker 1: gonna do with it? Well, you put it up on
49:13
Speaker 1: one side and you try to do a single arm press. Well,
49:15
Speaker 1: that's too heavy. But if I use both hens, I
49:18
Speaker 1: can put it over my head. Oh now what do
49:21
Speaker 1: you do? Well, you can do a turkish get up
49:22
Speaker 1: with it, you can walk with it, or you can
49:24
Speaker 1: just stand there and have a bunch of photographs taken
49:27
Speaker 1: of yourself. That's how you progress with fixed weights. You
49:31
Speaker 1: keep you keep playing around with the idea, and the
49:35
Speaker 1: idea is always what is a harder, more complex, more
49:38
Speaker 1: difficult way to lift this load. You say you have kettlebells, Well,
49:44
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I hope you can deadlift your kettlebells. Okay,
49:47
Speaker 1: you deadlift your kettlebells. Then you move into that two handed,
49:51
Speaker 1: clean your gobble, squat your kettlebells, and then pretty soon
49:54
Speaker 1: that's too easy, and then you clean your kettlebells. Then
49:57
Speaker 1: you do that whole press. You know, jerk depressed thing.
50:00
Speaker 1: I told you. Then later, with that same kettlebell, you
50:02
Speaker 1: do a turkers get up with it. There you go,
50:05
Speaker 1: and don't worry about getting your reps up high. You're
50:09
Speaker 1: going to find with you know, fixed weights, that it's
50:15
Speaker 1: real natural to go higher reps. Lane. You know, he
50:19
Speaker 1: actually got me enthusiastic about fixed weights. There is something magical.
50:24
Speaker 1: I remember, Oh gosh, this is a long time ago,
50:28
Speaker 1: but there was a time where all I had was
50:32
Speaker 1: a bar bell with one hundred and sixty five pounds.
50:34
Speaker 1: I had two thirty five pound plates and two twenty
50:37
Speaker 1: five pound plates. Because that's all I had. I invented
50:40
Speaker 1: tabata front squats. I invented my transformation program from those
50:44
Speaker 1: I trained for Olympic lifting meats, where I opened with
50:48
Speaker 1: three hundred and eight pounds one hundred and forty kilos,
50:50
Speaker 1: only training with the one hundred and sixty five pounds. Well,
50:53
Speaker 1: why because that's what I had. Later, when I moved
50:56
Speaker 1: to California, all I had was a twenty eight kilo kettlebell.
51:00
Speaker 1: So what did I do. I trained with the twenty
51:02
Speaker 1: eight kilo kettlebell and I made great progress. So you know,
51:07
Speaker 1: and I remember years ago saying, you know, if somebody
51:10
Speaker 1: stuck me in a room and all I had was
51:11
Speaker 1: a sixteen kilo kettlebell and lots of time, and you
51:16
Speaker 1: had there was some like if I get to this,
51:19
Speaker 1: I get to be freed man, I would make amazing
51:22
Speaker 1: progress with is a sixteen kilo bell. You know, I'm
51:25
Speaker 1: going to invent a phrase. I want you rite down ready,
51:28
Speaker 1: if there's a will, there's a way. I just invented them.
51:31
Speaker 1: For those you who don't understand my sense of humor,
51:33
Speaker 1: that was an attempt at humor. That's how you progress.
51:37
Speaker 1: You progress with fixed weights through exercise selection and reps.
51:43
Speaker 1: You know, if you have all you have is a
51:45
Speaker 1: four hundred pound fixed barbell and you get up to
51:48
Speaker 1: twenty turkish get ups with it both sides, twenty left,
51:52
Speaker 1: twenty right, then call me and I'll buy you a
51:55
Speaker 1: five hundred pound fixed barbel. Okay, great question, and I
51:58
Speaker 1: hope that I gave you some value. Thank you. Okay,
52:01
Speaker 1: we got a question from Noah. I have been playing
52:03
Speaker 1: with the kettlebell for a decade and now he's thirty seven.
52:07
Speaker 1: I've done the Rite of Passage and the ten k
52:09
Speaker 1: challenge twice using my fifty five pound bell, so the
52:14
Speaker 1: twenty four kilo essentially twenty five man. Otherwise, I've just
52:18
Speaker 1: incorporated as part of a general mix of calistetics and kettlebells.
52:22
Speaker 1: I set a goal this year to do the hundred
52:24
Speaker 1: snatches in five minutes. That made me consider whether getting
52:27
Speaker 1: a certification would be worth doing. I'm not looking to
52:31
Speaker 1: start a gym, but I'd like to be able to
52:33
Speaker 1: point to something that says this isn't a self taught
52:36
Speaker 1: idiot inventing their own stuff. Noah, I hope I do
52:40
Speaker 1: ASSERT this year, and I hope you're one of the
52:42
Speaker 1: people there. I want you to reach out to the
52:44
Speaker 1: RKC my friend Marcus and say bring Dan John in
52:48
Speaker 1: for ASSERT, because Noah, you're the guy I want to teach.
52:51
Speaker 1: What if any kettlebell certifications are worth earning and paying for? Listen.
52:55
Speaker 1: I think the RKC is still valuable thing. I mean,
52:58
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. With the new way they're
53:02
Speaker 1: doing it, I don't know. I mean, I'm part I'm
53:05
Speaker 1: helping as best I can. I mean, I'm a big
53:08
Speaker 1: fan of the people involved, but there is something important
53:13
Speaker 1: about sitting in a room for two three days with
53:17
Speaker 1: a group of other people with people who've been there
53:20
Speaker 1: before teaching you. Listen, this is something that in nineteen
53:24
Speaker 1: ninety three, I'm just gonna I was at a crossroads
53:27
Speaker 1: of my athletic career as a discus thrower. I was
53:29
Speaker 1: still throwing far, you know, in training I got up
53:33
Speaker 1: to sixty two meters and I got up just to
53:36
Speaker 1: about two hundred and ten feet in a training session.
53:39
Speaker 1: Just before this time, I was throwing far. Every meet
53:43
Speaker 1: I went to, it was a snowstorm or a tailwind.
53:45
Speaker 1: It was so frustrating, you know, I was throwing fifty
53:48
Speaker 1: five fifty four meters and meats. And I just sat
53:52
Speaker 1: down with Tiffany a blessed memory. We had to at
53:55
Speaker 1: the time. We had a one year old and a
53:58
Speaker 1: three year old, and I said, you know, it's either
54:00
Speaker 1: a pooper kid off the horse here, you know, and
54:02
Speaker 1: I don't know what that phrase means. And so Tiffany,
54:05
Speaker 1: you know, she was like, let's look into it. And
54:07
Speaker 1: so I flew out to Columbus, Ohio. I drove the
54:11
Speaker 1: thirty one miles to Detison University, and I, you know,
54:16
Speaker 1: became a student at the John Powell Discus Camp. I
54:20
Speaker 1: was older than most of the counselors and I loved it,
54:23
Speaker 1: and of course at the end, John hired me for
54:25
Speaker 1: the next year to be the head coach. A couple
54:27
Speaker 1: of years ago, I went to another discus camp. Listen, tolks,
54:31
Speaker 1: I've thrown the discus a long ways. Yet every time
54:34
Speaker 1: I go to a discus camp, or a discus workshop
54:37
Speaker 1: or a thing I learned things. I will be at
54:41
Speaker 1: a meeting a high school coach will be talking about
54:43
Speaker 1: how he teaches his kids the throws. I'll recognize some
54:47
Speaker 1: of it. I'll know this, and then there'll be this
54:49
Speaker 1: one point that just completely flips my switch. Makes me
54:52
Speaker 1: want to call every one of my discus stores ever
54:54
Speaker 1: in my career and say, I'm so sorry, we should
54:57
Speaker 1: have done this. That's why you go to these things,
54:59
Speaker 1: you know. I read things online and you know, listen,
55:02
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people think I'm full of myself,
55:04
Speaker 1: and it's probably true. If you ever step into the
55:06
Speaker 1: ring at the Nationals, when they call your name at
55:09
Speaker 1: the Nationals, Dan, you know, Dan, John up, you better
55:14
Speaker 1: have some confidence when they're at the Pleasant and Highland
55:16
Speaker 1: Games and they you know, and it comes time for
55:18
Speaker 1: you and the you know twenty six thousand people are
55:21
Speaker 1: chanting you better have some self confidence, and I wish
55:25
Speaker 1: I had more. Actually, but I'll go online, I'll read
55:27
Speaker 1: these people and I'll just talk about how well you
55:31
Speaker 1: know this is worthless. I know this. I know that.
55:34
Speaker 1: The moment you have the self satisfaction and think you
55:37
Speaker 1: know it all, you know nothing. It's the old thing
55:41
Speaker 1: you know. It's called the circle of what you know.
55:44
Speaker 1: So if the circle of what you know, everything you
55:46
Speaker 1: know is inside the circle, everything you don't know is
55:49
Speaker 1: out there. Well, everywhere you touch is where you know
55:55
Speaker 1: what you don't know. As I get studying more and
55:58
Speaker 1: more and read more and more classics, more and more movies,
56:00
Speaker 1: talk to more and more people, my circle grows, or
56:04
Speaker 1: what I know grows more and more and more. Sadly,
56:07
Speaker 1: what also grows. What I don't know grabs grows more
56:13
Speaker 1: and more and more. And as I learn more, I'm
56:16
Speaker 1: also gonna know that I don't know more. And as
56:18
Speaker 1: you shrink that's I know this. I know everything about
56:21
Speaker 1: a subject that pretty soon you become a dot and
56:25
Speaker 1: you don't know nothing there I said it. So yeah,
56:28
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of you
56:30
Speaker 1: going to it, and I think if you can do
56:34
Speaker 1: the hundred snatches with that bell, good for you. But
56:37
Speaker 1: it's also there's gonna be a hint about the press
56:40
Speaker 1: or the clean or something that's going to make you go.
56:43
Speaker 1: I've been spinning my wheels for three years, you know.
56:47
Speaker 1: Thank you. That is a great question, and thank you. Okay.
56:51
Speaker 1: Our next question is from Eric. This is fun All
56:54
Speaker 1: the names are so in the in a row are
56:56
Speaker 1: friends from my life? Say? Eric says this around a
57:02
Speaker 1: month ago on a Pat Flynn video. You said you
57:05
Speaker 1: talked to your barber stylist about hair health and it
57:09
Speaker 1: started doing something for your hair health. I'm looking for
57:12
Speaker 1: the next vanity layer on top of my buns and guns.
57:16
Speaker 1: What was that and do you think it generalizes to
57:18
Speaker 1: the rest of us? Yes, I do. Relevant for this question.
57:21
Speaker 1: I'm a forty five year old male with male pattern baldness,
57:25
Speaker 1: taking oral monoxidial and I've had a fou fu hair transplant,
57:33
Speaker 1: so I'm looking to PreTect my investment. Well, I got
57:37
Speaker 1: to tell you, you know, it's funny. Not long ago,
57:41
Speaker 1: my grand niece said to me that I had a
57:43
Speaker 1: really tall forehead. She's adopted and so our DNA is different,
57:49
Speaker 1: which is the most obvious statement I ever made. But
57:52
Speaker 1: people in my family tend to have this massive forehead.
57:56
Speaker 1: And then she said, is that because you're balding? And
57:58
Speaker 1: I said, and course her mother correct him. Your uncle
58:02
Speaker 1: Danny is not balding. And she goes and she does
58:05
Speaker 1: think about Grandpa and she went, oh, yeah, he has this.
58:08
Speaker 1: He looks just like you. I'm like, well, yeah, we're brothers,
58:12
Speaker 1: you know. And then I lost a lot of hair
58:15
Speaker 1: back here, which is unusual in my family. I have
58:18
Speaker 1: a scar back there. But it was bothering me a
58:21
Speaker 1: little bit, so I took my advice from my hairstyles.
58:24
Speaker 1: Now I stopped taking She had me on a vitamin.
58:27
Speaker 1: It's real simple Biotin b I O T I N.
58:32
Speaker 1: I think it's a b vitamin. If you go to
58:34
Speaker 1: any supplement store or any just type in online vitamins
58:39
Speaker 1: for hair hair health, biatin will always be the first
58:42
Speaker 1: one for me. I have a real line in the
58:45
Speaker 1: sand when it comes to vitamins. If I notice that
58:48
Speaker 1: the color of my urine brightens up, that's when I
58:51
Speaker 1: know I'm really not consuming the vitamin. However, eric I
58:56
Speaker 1: went through a about three month experiment using it and
58:59
Speaker 1: it's seem to help me. Now you've already done two
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Speaker 1: I mean you've already taken two shotguns to it. You're
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Speaker 1: you're on oral monoxidil and the f U E hair trasp,
59:11
Speaker 1: so you've already done the shotguns. I mean you you've
59:14
Speaker 1: already brought out the big arms. Okay, So something as
59:19
Speaker 1: simple as a as a as a vitamin might not
59:23
Speaker 1: be helpful for you. Again, I stopped taking it because
59:26
Speaker 1: of the color of my urine, which is way more
59:29
Speaker 1: information than you probably needed. But as I noted earlier
59:32
Speaker 1: in this podcast that I mentioned before, I also started
59:36
Speaker 1: this is called T Tree Special. I don't I don't
59:40
Speaker 1: get any money for this, so I bought and I
59:42
Speaker 1: bought the big bottle. A couple of things about it.
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Speaker 1: First off, it's a sunscreen, which and as I noted before,
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Speaker 1: I had had a number of skin cancers. You know,
59:52
Speaker 1: nice thing about it being a track coach is that
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Speaker 1: you get you get on the same day you get
59:56
Speaker 1: a massive sunburn and frozen if you're a track coach
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Speaker 1: in Utah. So this has a sunscreen on it. And
1:00:02
Speaker 1: the nice thing is if I rub it my hair,
1:00:05
Speaker 1: it sunscreens any areas that are either light, you know,
1:00:10
Speaker 1: maybe less hair my part, and maybe whatever damage is
1:00:14
Speaker 1: back there, I can't even see it anymore. And I
1:00:17
Speaker 1: also try to get a little bit on the top
1:00:18
Speaker 1: of my ears. And then, as I noted earlier, from
1:00:22
Speaker 1: my gentleman's class, my gentleman class, he always has always
1:00:25
Speaker 1: have a comb, and then I try to put my
1:00:27
Speaker 1: hair in a nice place. But what it also does
1:00:30
Speaker 1: by combing my hair is it also kind of spreads
1:00:34
Speaker 1: the lotion out. So this has a sunscreen in it.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: It's a moisturizer for both my hair and my skin.
1:00:46
Speaker 1: And I don't know why it happens. I don't think
1:00:49
Speaker 1: there's any science about what I'm telling you, but moisturizing
1:00:53
Speaker 1: my skin seemed to really help me. I don't know, man,
1:00:56
Speaker 1: it seems to help me with my hair. I'm sustaining
1:00:59
Speaker 1: my hair growth. That's all I got to say. I've
1:01:02
Speaker 1: also noticed that i've as I've kept my as a
1:01:06
Speaker 1: she's very good. Her name's in that's she lifts weights,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: and she's she's a cancer survivor who lifts waits and
1:01:12
Speaker 1: so it's kind of interesting to talk to. And it's
1:01:14
Speaker 1: nothing fancy, but it's it's it's those are. That is
1:01:19
Speaker 1: a simple thing to do, and weirdly, I do think
1:01:22
Speaker 1: that combing my hair, I don't think it grows the
1:01:25
Speaker 1: hair back, but it makes the hair that's there look
1:01:29
Speaker 1: a little decent. He Again, I'm no fashion icon, but
1:01:33
Speaker 1: I try real hard to take care, you know, at
1:01:36
Speaker 1: least once a day of you know, of how I
1:01:39
Speaker 1: look and how I grow them. You know, I think
1:01:43
Speaker 1: it's important that I think it's important at my age
1:01:46
Speaker 1: that I want to be as physically fit as I
1:01:49
Speaker 1: can to live as long as I can for my
1:01:51
Speaker 1: daughters and grandchildren. I have five grandchildren and I don't
1:01:56
Speaker 1: think I'm going to have any more. I have two children,
1:01:59
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you that that would be
1:02:00
Speaker 1: interesting to have more children. Let's just you know, please,
1:02:04
Speaker 1: no one pray for them, but I want to be
1:02:06
Speaker 1: fit physically for them. So that's why I do the walking,
1:02:09
Speaker 1: the fasting and the other things. Financially, I want to
1:02:12
Speaker 1: be financially fit for them so that I'm not a
1:02:14
Speaker 1: burden on them in a few years. And also too,
1:02:17
Speaker 1: I want to look appropriate so that if I look
1:02:23
Speaker 1: a certain way, it seems it seems that people listen
1:02:26
Speaker 1: to me better, and that's important for me, for my
1:02:28
Speaker 1: workshops and just my general interactions with the community at large.
1:02:32
Speaker 1: It's funny I kept looking outside the whole time I
1:02:35
Speaker 1: was saying that because I was thinking about the community.
1:02:37
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I appreciate the kind comment there, and
1:02:41
Speaker 1: let me know what you think about that. Eric, get
1:02:44
Speaker 1: back to me on trying the Tea Tree special, okay,
1:02:48
Speaker 1: or whatever one you find. Remember, folks, sunscreen has great value,
1:02:53
Speaker 1: not only long term. It's you know, if you use
1:02:56
Speaker 1: I use oilvl at, but if you use suns every
1:03:00
Speaker 1: day and lotion every day, hair and face, ears, exposed parts.
1:03:06
Speaker 1: It's just like three hundred and sixty five, three hundred
1:03:09
Speaker 1: sixty six days a year of eating appropriately, three hundred
1:03:12
Speaker 1: sixty five days a year, of sleeping appropriately, lifting weights
1:03:15
Speaker 1: three days a week for fifty two weeks a year.
1:03:18
Speaker 1: Not one of those things I said is outrageous or hard.
1:03:22
Speaker 1: But in toto, in total, it's going to make a difference. Okay,
1:03:27
Speaker 1: thank you, I think, and yes it is. That's the
1:03:30
Speaker 1: end of this podcast. That's a podcast. Three hundred and
1:03:34
Speaker 1: fifty two is now behind us. I hope you learn something.
1:03:37
Speaker 1: If you have a question, please send it to this
1:03:39
Speaker 1: address podcast at Dan Johnuniversity dot com. I'm more in
1:03:45
Speaker 1: an honor to answer your questions and until next time,
1:03:48
Speaker 1: let's all keep on lifting and learning. Thank you,