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"Your Journey is Our Purpose" with Dalton Schnase of Complete Health · Caught on the Mike...

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Warning due to some language and subject matter, listener discretion is advised.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: As we're turning the corner to the end of the year, we're entering into that holiday season where people's health, diet, and lifestyle tend to go a little bit awry.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: Whether it be Halloween candy, that big Thanksgiving dinner, or those Christmas cookies that we all love so much.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: Next thing you know, it's the first of the year and we've set ourselves up for failure by making resolutions and promises we simply can't keep.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: But what if you had a guy to help you and educate you with healthier decisions in the first place?
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: My next guest does just that.
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  SPEAKER_01: His name is Dalton Snozzy, and he is the owner-operator of Complete Health in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mike.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dalton, how the heck are you doing today, man?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: Pretty dang good.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: Another great day in paradise here.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna waste any time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's get right into it.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't you tell our audience a little bit about yourself and what you do?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so um, you know, grew up in a small town here, central Nebraska, where everything was pretty much the same going on.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: So after I grew up a little bit, got into college, I decided that I wanted to move away from central Nebraska, so I decided to move east to Lincoln, and that's where I kind of was exposed to a lot more in life rather than the same old, same old, you know, farming, stuff like that.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where I was really able to kind of learn more about myself, to be honest, and interest.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: So now I am uh owner of Complete Health here in Lincoln and represent the Sweat Ethic brand, which is an up-and-coming supplement brand.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I really fell into that by getting away from what I knew and getting uncomfortable and learning to be okay with being uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell us a little bit about your educational background.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: What area did you specialize?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: I started out in school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer or a judge.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, really was interested in law, and to be honest, I, you know, I was in school in my undergrad here at the University of Nebraska and wrote a 40-page paper with a bunch of stuff on it, and decided that that's not what I want to do the rest of my life.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so I really focused on the business aspect.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: So my background's all business.
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  SPEAKER_00: I graduated with a bachelor of science in business management, and I also got a minor in history, believe it or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, that was kind of how it all started, and that's how it kind of propelled me into owning a business.
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  SPEAKER_01: And your business, uh, formerly complete nutrition, now complete health here in Lincoln.
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  SPEAKER_01: What type of products do you sell?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, so when it comes to the product breakdown of what I focus on and sell, I really focus on one, the quality of the product, making sure that a customer's not gonna get, you know, your snake oils, your stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're focusing on more of your general health along with the sports nutrition.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're still gonna get your great pre-workouts, your protein stuff, but we really focus on a product that's gonna help with a daily routine, a daily life, so that you can benefit from that and keep it consistent.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, how did you fall into that as far as your interest spectrum goes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so essentially what got me excited about health was I had an injury when I was younger that uh I essentially had a hip replacement and I struggled with my weight all through high school, and then after I got to college, I got the freshman 15 times two.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I put on a bunch extra weight, and you know, and I honestly I went through a breakup with my high school girlfriend.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: I was with her all through high school, and I decided that uh I needed to look hot.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I really did a lot of self-education um and learning on the health industry, how our bodies work, um, lifting, eating correctly, and that's really what sparked my interest and what I wanted to focus on throughout and make that lifestyle change.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, do you have any kind of training certification then?
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Or so in my senior year at the university, I did take a personal training course.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did all this the hoops and everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never really found interest in doing one-on-one training with anybody.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I, you know, we had to do a bunch of mock clients, and it's great, but my interest was not in teaching you how to do a bicep curl.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: My interest was teaching people hey, you need to eat properly, you need to do these things and prepare your body because anybody can teach you how to do a bicep curl.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't have the baseline, nutrition, and health needs, you're never gonna succeed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, were you an athlete in high school?
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  SPEAKER_00: As much as I could be, I was big into sports.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, growing up, I was, I would guess, would say pretty athletic and able to do a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then after I broke my hip, I struggled, but I played a lot of RC sports, even with a hip replacement, which, in my opinion, now I look back and not as hard on myself, was pretty damn cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what sports did you play?
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  SPEAKER_00: Football, basketball, and golf.
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  SPEAKER_00: I took up golf actually after the hip replacement because I was a catcher in baseball, and it's pretty hard to uh get down and squat for nine innings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right, right, right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, do you keep up on all of that still?
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, obviously don't play football anymore or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: In in college, I played some uh rec flag football, and then I played a ton of pickup basketball.
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  SPEAKER_00: I still love playing pickup basketball.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's kind of one of my favorite pastimes, especially with some of my buddies from high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I golf a lot.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a huge golfer, so golf as long as I can, I'm doing it.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: What gives you the motivation to get up in the morning and keep going with what you do for your career?
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I'd love to tell you that it's all, you know, I want to make everybody healthy, happy, all that stuff, but it's truly one of those things is I judge my own success off of the people I interact with.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you, you know, you come in the store and you're struggling, I'm not gonna be satisfied with myself until you're getting to your goal, you're learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not more of a, you know, I need you to do this, this, and this, and trying to get your volume of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to be able to help individuals.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not not able just to say I want to help as many people as I can, I want to help as many people correctly as I can.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's fantastic.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're the co-founder of the the Lincoln stores, correct?
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: So again, that was a complete nutrition, and we we had we totally rebranded, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We wanted a new face, we wanted a fresh start, and I call myself a co-founder as well as my partner because we reinvented what we thought we knew.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then you talked about the sweat ethic brand.
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  SPEAKER_01: So tell us a little bit about that.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so sweat ethic, that's something that we started on with that whole new rebranding of Complete Health.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sweat ethic is a product line that's based on people that are your everyday person working hard, and our motto is work hard, sweat harder.
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  SPEAKER_00: So every person can always put a little bit more in, and that's what we do with our product line.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: So we're always trying to find the best products that are gonna be a daily lifestyle product for each individual.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about what some basic supplements people should have, you know, entry-level stuff.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so every every individual is completely different, and that's that's one of those things, you know.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: But if I could give you my broad, I have five base supplements for anybody, whether it's man, woman, whatever, doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I generally start with a probiotic.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Probiotics are the God supplement, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something that's gonna affect your gut health, but people don't know that it affects your immune health.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Your gut health is exactly where your immune system starts.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, obviously, you got the digestion part of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if your gut is healthy, you are generally gonna be a healthier person.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, probiotic being my number one, then I always recommend healthy fats.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's a key component to so many different parts of our body, whether it's our skin, our bones, our brain, a multivitamin.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people think that multivitamins are worthless, but I don't know a single person in this world that gets enough of a broad diet that they're getting all their nutrition.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really think of a multivitamin as something that's gonna fill in the gaps.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, those are my top three, and then obviously, protein could be a great supplement too, if you're not getting enough protein.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Some people don't need protein supplements, but it's very hard to get protein in your diet, especially if you have um a dislike or um inability to eat certain protein sources.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: So those are kind of my top ones.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: Good deal.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: So why don't you uh give some examples of some healthy fats?
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, everybody talks about fat, and a lot of times we get the misconception that fat is bad, but fats are really great for multiplitude of things.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: The healthy fats would be, you know, fats from meats being like omega-3s that you could get from fish, or there's omega-3s you even get from beef.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, obviously you're gonna stay away from those extremely fatty cuts of meat because that's not what we want.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of calories in there, but um, olive oil, peanuts, all these different things, all those naturally occurring fats are what we really want to get in our body.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, tons of research.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could go on for days about how they affect every single person.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, whether it's a baby that, you know, omega-3s have direct link to the gray matter and the brain for you know, babies or even nursing mothers.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, the fats are gonna help with joint health.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: So tons of tons of people come in with joint issues that helps lubricate your joints.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: And even I, you know, I know a ton of people who take straight coconut oil and they put it in their hair because it helps with moisturizing their hair and helps with hair health.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: So know a ton of people that utilize fats in so many different ways, and it's a key macronutrient that our body literally needs.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: With your customers, your clients, is there something unique to the area that you know people are not getting in their diet that you're you're kind of advising more of your clients on on a day-to-day basis?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, in in kind of our region, people eat a ton of beef.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we don't have fresh fish.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, again, those omega-3s are super, super important.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why I recommend them to everybody, and they help vitamins absorb tons of different things.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Again, you're not getting a broad spectrum of all the available fruits and veggies that are out there, and especially as it gets colder, people tend to eat a lot less of their garden or you know, the different produce that's out there because there's no more farmers' markets and stuff.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: So we have a new product that's called Vitagreens, and that's a fruit and veggie supplement, and it's a great way just to again fill in the gaps, get those antioxidants into your body and maximize on what you're missing out on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Explain to our listeners what an antioxidant actually is.
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  SPEAKER_01: You hear that thrown around a lot, especially on commercials when people are trying to shill good heart health or anything along those lines.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, so like explain what an antioxidant is.
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  SPEAKER_00: An antioxidant, the simplest way I put it is it gets rid of the bad things in our body, in our blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our body's filled with oxidative chemicals, different things that are trying to break down our bodies.
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  SPEAKER_00: These antioxidants are literally trying to eradicate those, make our body more pure, if that makes sense.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, antioxidants can help with inflammation, um, you know, brain clarity, all kinds of different things because they're getting rid of the bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's cleaning our body.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna see a lot of the antioxidants again from your fruits and veggies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blueberries are gonna contain different antioxidants and say that of a carrot versus a strawberry.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: So each one is gonna have a bunch of different chemical breakdowns.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one of the most important ones that I talk about from a sports nutrition side is an ingredient that we put in pre-workouts called S7, and it's gonna use broccoli extract, different leafy greens, that those all help with getting rid of buildup in our blood so that we can allow more blood flow.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: In layman's terms, when you're working out, you want to get as much blood flow to a muscle as possible so that you can break it down and then on the flip side rebuild it and get the nutrients to it.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: So that S7 is an ingredient that's put in there because it's gonna have the antioxidant properties to clean the blood up, allow more proper blood flow.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So, you yourself, obviously, somebody that's got a vested interest and making sure you're advising your clientele properly, you must have a pretty decent routine of your own.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: So, why don't you share with our listeners what your personal routine is?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so growing through all this, I always learn, I'm always adapting my routine.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I'm not a guy at the gym at 5 a.m., I'm eating breakfast at 6 30.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not doing the rock schedule kind of thing.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm always learning and adapting, and it doesn't come down to, you know, a set routine.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: My routine is I have to get up in the morning, I have to drink some water, I have to get my body going.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, I've learned throughout that there you have to listen to your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't go to the gym every single day and bust my butt and lift copious amounts of weight.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so there's days where I'll just do stretching and yoga.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: Other days I will, you know, focus maybe more on just going on a walk, to be honest.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but my routine's always gonna include some sort of movement, some sort of uh a way to engage my body, engage my muscles, and it doesn't always have to be lifting weights.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: I always follow the 80-20 rule when it comes to diet.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: So there's no way that anybody can follow a strict, strict diet where they're always eating the perfect foods.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 80% of the time I'm cooking something that I, you know, have to prepare, whether it's raw meats, the raw veggies, fruits, stuff like that.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: 20% of the time you will find me at a donut shop.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I love sweets, I love them.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: I won't lie to you.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's they're my favorite, favorite foods.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: You and me both, man.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: The food is my Achilles heel.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: I am a 4 30 in the morning guy, like every day.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: I've had those runs where I've gone like no days off, 20 days in a row to the gym, just because my body says, I can handle this, I can handle this, and then I crash one day, and then I'm out of the gym for three days, and I'm eating like shit for three days.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so um I've had that happen, but sweets are my biggest Achilles heel.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying, I'm not plugging for crispy cream, but right now they have a caramel one.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: It looks delicious, dude.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm I'm like I'm big on like the bavarian cream, like bavarian cream, long junce, but it's gotta be bavarian cream, not that big sugar cream shit.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's gotta be like that pudding consistency.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: I want the whipped cream, white cream, like that's the way to go.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's the way to go.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: So, um, so it's it's great that you mentioned that.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: What you're basically talking about is active rest days, like paying attention to your body, but at least doing a little bit of of movement.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, in my younger days, and by no means do I feel like I'm that old, but with a hip replacement and a few other joint issues that I've kind of self-inflicted, it was because I was trying to be Superman, um, trying to do too much.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I've learned that I want to be able to, when I'm 45, 20 years down the road, to be able to go out and play catch with my kids or go on walks and not be in pain.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I've really started to focus more on healing my body, giving it the proper rest, and allowing myself to do more functional movements rather than again trying to be Superman.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: So, what does a typical workout look like for you when you do spend some time in the gym?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: So, my typical week when it comes to gym, on average, again, it's an average thing.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: Different weeks are gonna include different things, but I'm gonna try to do a push-pull leg split.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's the best that works for me.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Now, that doesn't work for everybody, but if I can go five to six times a week, there's gonna be a day focused on my lower body, there's gonna be a day focused on the pulling movements in the gym, and then another one focused on the pushing movements.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: This allows my muscles to be engaged enough to grow and build the strength, but also gives them time to recover.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I could go into the reps, the sets, all that stuff, but they're always changing and they're always incorporating new movements.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always trying to learn new movements that I can utilize and build strength in places I didn't know I could.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: If you had to pick and you had to isolate five specific go-to exercises that you do in a week, what are five?
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so this is I always look at my weaknesses, right?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: And my legs are my weakness.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'd use a Smith machine for everything when it comes to those compound movements.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: So squat Smith machine, I do an incline bench Smith machine, I do a shoulder press on the Smith machine.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Those are those heavier lifts that help protect my muscles and my body and my joints by using something that's more guided.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: I rarely use a free bar.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: So those are the top three, but then each workout, I always include some sort of an abdominal movement, whether it's cable crunches, hanging raises, maybe it's just a plank.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: But I always try to focus on that because it all starts with your core.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: I I know there's kind of a, you know, there's guys that lift heavy that say no cardio.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: There are guys that are heavy cardio that are more like lightweight, more reps.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: If you were to classify your particular workout style, what would you say it is?
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Mine's gonna be a hybrid.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I look up to a couple different people, and I've really focused on getting that hybrid, whether it's cardio, lifting, yoga, different things.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: Because no matter what anybody says, you know, YouTubers or fitness people, they're always gonna tell you theirs is the best.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: But theirs never the best.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, mine's not the best.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: I always try to focus on incorporating so many different opinions, just like I try to do in life, is focusing on learning and experiencing different things.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, sure.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, I mean, obviously, we have those routines that we kind of fall back on.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: How frequently do you kind of just shake up your routine and like try something completely different than what you've done before?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Probably honestly, every three to four weeks.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if not something small each day.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I keep my baseline.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: Again, a push-pull leg split was really what works for me.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: And it depends on the time or my goals as well.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm trying to build muscle or lose weight, it all's gonna depend on that.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm always looking and I'm following people, and it could be as simple as changing my grip on a on a pole or something.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, your traditional weightlifters and your traditional trainers and crossfitters kind of exist in two different camps.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: There's yeah, there's a ton of great um concepts from both.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Traditionally, I see CrossFit as if you don't have proper guidance, you will fail because of injuries, uh, different things.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: But that's not saying that that happens, it's just you have to have a great guide, a great trainer, because they will protect your body.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, a good foundation.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and that's and honestly, that's because I'm no way knocking it whatsoever.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: I to be honest with you, uh, I've never attempted CrossFit because I just don't think that it's the right fit for my body.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's very intense.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I'm not as young and as spry as I might have been one time or another.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Something else you and I have kind of shared interests on in the past is intermittent fasting.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Do you still do that?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's it's actually funny you say that.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: I've implemented that and I've thought about it, and I've started about two years ago.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: I really haven't gone away from it.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I don't do extravagant fast, I'm not going three days without eating, but for me it works because intermittent fasting, the basis is you can control your eating window, so it's harder to overeat.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And if you allow me to eat, I don't stop.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I've made it that my body's gotten used to where I'm not really eating until later in the afternoon and I'm not hungry then.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not gonna be able to easily overeat, essentially.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Do you find that when you are doing intermittent fasting that you are explaining to every single person around you what intermittent fasting is?
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of people go, Why are you you so you just don't eat?
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I say, essentially, no, not until you know I feel too hungry, or it's one or two in the afternoon, and then I eat.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's not, it doesn't become a mental thing, and it's not for everybody.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I agree.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: My you know, my dad, I've talked to him about it multiple times, and he overeats.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: So it's one of those things when if you deprive yourself, it could be great, it could be bad.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, for me, it's just a great way that I can control the calories.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: So let's do everybody a favor.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't you explain exactly what intermittent fasting is and what the benefits of it are?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a broad question.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: Let me bring it down.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: Intermittent fasting is choosing a period of time that you fast, you don't consume any calories.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: So essentially, you can drink tea, coffee, water, and that allows your body to kind of rebuild and reset, if you will.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: There's different things, lots of different theories and stuff that go along with that, but it gives your body a chance to reset.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, you're not consuming calories at the time.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: The only reason people are overweight is because they eat too many calories.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's just the plain simple facts is calories excess will store as body fat.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: So it's great for people trying to diet or that just have big appetites.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you can get your body used to it, it's harder to do that overeating, it's easier to get on a structure.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: So, um, and there's several different ways of doing it.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: The most popular that I've experienced is like a 16 8 where you're where you fast for 16 hours and then you have an eight hour eating window.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so like cutting off food at eight o'clock at night and then not eating again until 12 o'clock the next day.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's the one I've done.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I can only do intermittent fasting like four.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: About two to three months at a time, and then I have to give myself a massive break about with it.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if there's anything scientific, and you might be able to answer this.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I mean, first off, that 16-hour fast is the most common.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: There's a few different processes that go on in our body with the 16-hour fast, such as agopaphy, where our body can recycle essentially dead cells and reuse it.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: So 16 hours is where a lot of people aim for based on the science.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, now when in regards to your, you know, every few months, generally you're probably losing weight when you're doing that.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: So what happens when we lose weight?
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Our body wants to be at a balanced position.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: Our fat cells want to be happy, and our body's genetics tell us what that is.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: We don't get to choose that.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: So you're probably losing that weight, and there's two different hormones called ghrelin and leptin.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: And once your body starts to that leptin is stored in your body and your fat cells.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: So as you start to lose fat cells, you're losing that leptin.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Leptin is the most satiating hormone.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: It tells your body, I'm happy, I'm content.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Ghrelin is its counterpart, and that's what's spiking.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: The less leptin you have, more ghrelin goes in.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's saying, Hey, you're hungry, eat.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not happy.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: You need to survive.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: So that's generally what happens, and those levels are probably um creeping up on you, and it's saying, Hey, I don't want to do this anymore.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not happy.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because that's exactly what happens.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: I I'll go like 60, 90 days, and then all of a sudden I'll start going through a week or two where I start getting cagey.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, I've lost weight, I've gotten down to a extremely low body fat percentage, and it was miserable because I was so hungry, I felt terrible.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: And what happens if people get too lean to what where are their bodies happy, bad things can happen.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen it firsthand with myself is you overeat, you binge eat on a bunch of stuff, and it your body's it's just your body's reaction.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like if you were on an island and you're starving, your body's telling you, hey, get food in me.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right, right.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's not sustainable because the the thing that I've experienced, and because I've done it wrong so many times, is like I'll drop down to the super low weight, drop down super low body fat, and then gain it all back, and it's harder to lose the next time around when I want to do it more sensibly.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's the number one thing I see is people can lose weight.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Losing weight's not the problem.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: Maintaining weight loss and feeling good is hard.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: So my rule, Mike, is one percent of your body weight is what you should max lose each week.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: So if in a week's time, if you're a 200-pound person, you should only be losing about two pounds each week, and then obviously it scales down because that's a healthier way.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: You're not putting your body into a shock.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Your metabolism does not slow down necessarily, but it adapts.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're eating significantly less calories than it's used to, it's gonna learn and it's gonna say, okay, I have to function off of these.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, one of the services you offer at complete is the in-body system, and something that I I gotta give you credit for because you've done a very good job at teaching me about is paying attention to numbers other than weight, more importantly, body fat percentage, skeletal muscle mass.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I I've made some drastic changes.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: What I look like now, my weight hasn't changed much, but what I look like now is way different than what I looked three years ago, even.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: Talk about some of those numbers a little bit and kind of what the in-body system does.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know, in our stores, we focus on education, that's a key part.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: So we use the in-body.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's a machine that uses different electrical impendences and it can diagnose essentially an average of what your body fat mass is, your muscle, different things.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: And this allows a consultant.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: So, me or any of my people that work with me or for me, they're able to give you a consultation based off of your numbers.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's personalized to you, it's your reading.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: So when I'm looking at that sheet, it's gonna focus on a few different things.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: But I really like to point out one, your basal metabolic rate.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's your minimum amount of calories that you're burning each day, what your body requires.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's number one, you have to learn your baseline before you can do anything, whether it's weight loss or weight gain.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like Mike was saying, that you know, there's different things like skeletal muscle mass.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: Skeletal muscle mass is important.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: We want to build and maintain muscle.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: Women want to build and maintain muscle.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Our goal is to function and be healthy so that you know, say we get to 90 years old, we can walk and function on our own.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: We have limited muscle, it's harder to do so.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: And then obviously the body fat.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, minimizing excess body fat.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: The misconception is body fat is bad.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Body fat is great, and as we get older, it's actually more important to have body fat on our body because hormones, different things will kick in.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine if you were minimal body fat and you're in the hospital versus somebody who is larger, that larger person, or even on an island, they're gonna live longer because they have more energy stored and ready to go.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: So as we get extremely older, um, you know, I'm thinking for myself, 60, 70 years down the road, it's not healthy for me to sit at this 10% that I'm at now.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's more to be closer to that 20-25%.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it varies with age and different things, and also your genetics.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: When people come in to see you, are they naturally self-accountable?
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you get do you get some customers that are kind of like, Man, I was just in here two weeks ago and my numbers were this and now my numbers are that.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: I just shit the bed on everything.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, most of the time, people want to lose weight or gain muscle and they do not know.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: So my goal is to be able to teach you so you don't come back and you're either saying, I did this or this is the reason and I know it, rather than saying, you didn't like nothing's changed.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to understand why or how the process is to lose weight or burn, you know, burn fat, build muscle, whatever it might be.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: So people are after they've had that initial consultation, but a lot of times people just don't have the education, and that's no fault to their own.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lack of the social norms.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: We we as a society here, we don't teach basic nutrition.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: That was kind of a loaded question.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: And the reason I asked that is because not only have I done that, is I've kind of stood by in your store.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: You and I will be hanging out in the store, and I'll see you consult somebody else.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh my gosh, that guy just asked the same load of questions that I just asked, and then the next person comes in and they ask the same load of questions as well.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: So, and and that's something where I want to pay high compliment to you and your store is you're educating people on a healthier lifestyle.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're not trying to sell them supplements to get them all jacked up and this, that, and the other thing.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: You're you're trying to improve somebody's quality of life overall.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Is that fair?
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Fair assessment.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly that's a great way to put it.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: Improve the quality of life.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I take a lot of pride in not being, you know, what people dub as a bro shop because I want to help people.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody wants help and they always want to be able to maximize on being the best they can be.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've met zero people that don't want to be a better person.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: And that also helps with it starts with health.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people want to be healthier, but they just don't know.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it's hard to ask, it's very hard to ask because they just don't like to bring that up.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: And and one of the things that uh you're getting into in your shops is you're starting to get to a holistic side as well, like with CBD and uh some of the other items that you're starting to bring in.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: So talk a little bit about that.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know, the CBDs, the Kratoms, the natural herbal side of things is something that I didn't feel comfortable with for a long, long time.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it took me, you know, dang near a year for CBD to be kind of a widespread thing for me to really understand and feel confident in selling it.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: So we just started selling a new brand of CBD, and it's being able to take different approaches to things, right?
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: Again, you're never you never have the exact thing or have the miracle thing, but if you can learn and expand and feel confident in the things that you're selling and being able to provide knowledge and a basis, that's what it's really about.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: So it took me a long time to feel comfortable to learn so that I could do that.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: What are some of the benefits of C BD?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, name anything.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, we have we have certain people that come in for C BD purely off of pain, and these are all you know, third-party people.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't my personal experience with it.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: People come in for pain, other people come in for sleep, stress.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: I even have a lady who comes in and swears by it that if she applies a salve to her, you know, her zits, they go away.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one of my employees, one of my best friends, has anxiety and he uses it for anxiety and he tells everybody, hey, this helps me relax.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm uh I'm a big proponent of it for two reasons.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: One is the anxiety side of it, because it does work for me.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and I don't think it's snake oil, or I I I am like, I will swear by it.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: The other thing is it's a good post-workout, too, for me.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: It just really after I'm after I'm working out, I'm like, I'm keyed up and I'm hard to calm down.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: So if I work out in the afternoon, if I don't take a little bit of CBD or something, I'm wound up and I'm staying up until midnight, one o'clock in the morning, and I gotta be back at work or back to the gym at 5 a.m.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: the next day.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's there's so much out there that you I mean you can use your Google machines and type in things, and you're gonna find a rabbit hole of stuff.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: But if you can find some good hard science on it, right, the way it works is similar to your your painkillers or your medicines, all kinds of different things is our brains have an endocannabinoid system, and we want to f the basis is to fulfill those spots, whether it's the pain, the anxiety, the you know, the insomnia.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of science to it.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: You just gotta find legitimate science.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: And do you feel that um part of the issue with CBD currently is the lack of regulation in you know some of the the products that are out there right now?
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's for all supplements, Mike.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, CBD supplements, protein, pre-workout, whatever, they're not FDA regulated.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of these guys don't want that.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: Personally, I do.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because it keeps people accountable, and you can put whatever you want into a product, and the FDA doesn't get a care.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: So, in regards to CBD, yes.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think there needs to be regulation, and that could even go in with marijuana.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, there's a lot of things out there right now where people have learned how to breed and crossbreed hemp and marijuana plants, and it makes it completely different.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, regulation in this sense would help give you more clarity as a consumer.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, I agree with that.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: I agree with that.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: I've read so many stories where um, because of the lack of regulation, um, there have been sample pools of certain CBD products, and you will have one pool that's pure placebo, it doesn't even have any CBD in it, and then you'll have another pool of C BD products that's like straight up edibles.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: And and that's the scary thing.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that from a consumer standpoint, and and I trust your products 110%, so I want to kind of put that on the table first.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but from a consumer standpoint, I can see where there's some hesitation for people to get into C BD.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you come into my store and you will see the certification of analysis, and what that means is it's tested, and I show you those certifications right up front because that allows me to be confident in selling the product.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: It tells you if something says there's X amount of CBD in this product, I'll pull it up and I'll show you that.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it says there is that, it meets the threshold.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: I even have some that are actually testing just a tiny bit higher, meaning you're getting a better bang for your buck.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the other great thing is is here in Nebraska, um, there's a lot of people in influence who are very against THC and different things.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: So these products that I have have zero THC in them, and you can see that right on the certificate.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a great way for you guys to feel confident in what you're buying.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you said uh there's a lack of FDA regulations on supplements in general.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: What are some other supplements that kind of run into some of those traps in particular?
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: Pro hormones, sorry, okay, everything.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so basically, you know, when you for the general person, a protein powder is not regulated.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's what a great thing about our sweat ethic line is is it's third-party tested and made.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it has a food grade label.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: So it is technically a food, and it actually is regulated.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: But another protein from another company might not have that food grade label, and they might be saying you're getting X amount of protein or nutrients from this when you don't know, unless you third party test it yourself, and that's a lot of money.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, pre-workouts, they there's a you know, you never know what you're gonna get in those.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody can make a pre-workout.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's it's something that takes a lot of time and making sure you're not you know getting duped when you're purchasing these.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, when it comes to the muscle building product side, that's a whole nother realm.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um a lot of this stuff is gray area andor illegal.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: And so when people, other shops, other people are trying to sell you on these things on the internet, you have to be super careful because if they're illegal, that means it's also really hard to get.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're getting them for a great deal, they're probably fake.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, yeah.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because there's a yeah, people people always price shop everything on Amazon, yeah.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: And and you take that human experience out whenever you're shopping on Amazon and you're price shopping on Amazon, and you know that's that's where there's a lot of trust in that.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: The edgy products you won't find on Amazon, and there's a reason because they don't even want to mess with it.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: If it's pure, they don't want to mess with it, if it's fake, obviously they don't want to mess with it.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: So that's just gotta give you guys kind of a reason to think, okay, if it's not on Amazon um or something similar, like an ingredient, it's probably not what you should be taking.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: But in a sense, like putting the human experience into it, uh, it gives people a reason to come into your store to like sit down, have an actual consultant in front of them to explain exactly what it is that they are taking.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're not a you know, we're not a retail store in my eyes.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're a service.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um we we give you that experience through consultation, whether it's your body fat reading, whether it's about a different protein, you know, where you can sample, you can try things in the store, you can feel them, you can do these different things.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm really selling a service, and the merchandise is just on the side.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's just the the icing on the cake.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: But again, it goes back to what we said before.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: If if you don't have a baseline, you're never gonna succeed.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's not how supplements work, that's not how workouts work.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: You have to be able to have a baseline before you can even get started.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: Hypothetically speaking, you know, and and this is me jumping to a conclusion, but this is just because of my age and my experience.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um you probably getting a wave of customers in, I would say, demographic-wise, age 33 to 43.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they've lived through their 20s, they've lived it up, you know, gone to the bar, put on that freshman 15 times 10.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but now they're in the they're in the mid mid-years of their life, and uh they want to get in shape, um, they want to slim down.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: What would be some products that you would recommend for them to start off with?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that I see that all the time.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_00: Men and women, right?
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of these people have families.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: Teaching them one about their diet and how they can implement that, and that's that's an hour-long conversation if we want it to be, but it's all about how we can adapt their regular into a new regular and being it so that their families can adapt to that as well, and not feel like you're, you know, on these crazy kicks.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_00: Just being able to implement, you know, like, hey, this is why we do this, and it still tastes awesome or whatnot.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: But then it comes down to you know, the big things are first we have to look at what's your goal, right?
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: Some guys that need to lose weight, women, um, maybe it's muscle building.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: We figure out your goal and then we recommend the supplementation.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: It always comes back to those keys, right?
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta get your health in check.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: So the probiotics, a multivitamin, the healthy fats.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, if it's muscle building, it could be creatine.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if it's weight loss, maybe it's a protein because protein doesn't bulk you up, but it helps you feel fuller and it's harder to overeat when you're full.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: What are your absolute most favorite products?
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, wow, okay, lots, but um, my favorite product right now is our vitagreens.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's a five in one, and I've taken a probiotic for a long time.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: I've always done a multivitamin ever since my dad forced flint stones down my throat.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the fruits and greens aspect, right?
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: And with everything going on in the world, getting your immune health is obviously a high, high focus, but it's also great outside of that, right?
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: You want to stay healthy, you want to maximize on your body's functions.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: So the vitagreens is my number one product I like.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't drink a protein shake every day, believe it or not.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: People always kind of stereotype it that way, but I cook a lot with protein.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I add protein to my pancakes, to waffles, I make smoothies, I do all kinds of things.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't just make up a protein shake.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be honest, I don't know the last time I did, Mike.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know when I when I put a scoop of protein in some water and shook it up.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: I always find different ways and get creative with it to supplement into my diet rather than I need a protein shake.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but protein's so useful.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then I use pre-workout, right?
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I thoroughly enjoy caffeine.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: And caffeine's not bad.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, no matter what people are saying, obviously, different people have different things, but our caffeine's a great, great supplement if used properly and at the right dosage.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, what goes into a good pre-workout?
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a few main ingredients, but caffeine if you need a stimulant, citrulline, which is gonna help with blood flow, it's an amino acid.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: Arginine and agmatine are also different precursors, allowing more blood flow.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_00: Again, we go back to that blood flow.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta get the blood flow so you can break down and rebuild the muscle.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, an ingredient a lot of people may be familiar with because they feel it, is the beta-alanine.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's that itchy feeling, that warm feeling you feel in your face and your arms and stuff.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: That helps buffer out lactic acid.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a bunch of clinical dosages that you can apply: six grams of citrulline, 3.2 grams of beta-alanine, 300 milligrams caffeine.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, those are kind of my baseline.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: You want to have something that's gonna, you know, pre-workouts, there's tons of different things.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: You want something with your right stem level, you want something with a good blood flow, and then you want something that's gonna help with your endurance because if you can lift or run or swim or jog that little bit more, you're going to get closer to your goal.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh pro hormones.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: Talk about those a little bit.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: Pro hormones, SARMs, different muscle builders.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, those are something that they're not for 99% of the population, I'll be honest, right?
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm glad I'm glad you said that because that's exactly where I wanted you to go with it.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: There, there's people view those as a get big or get lean fast.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, they're just not healthy, right?
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm focusing more on the health side of things.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's side effects.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: No matter what you do, if you're taking something that's gonna accelerate your metabolism, your testosterone, whatever it might be, there's always a side effect.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: So you have to learn and do these properly.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's so many different compounds nowadays, some that are illegal, some that are legal, different things, and I get questions about all kinds of stuff.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's just understanding that you really don't need them.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_00: I don't take them.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm 175 pounds.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: If I was taking something like that, I would be, in my eyes, too big and just wouldn't look the way I want to, and I wouldn't look healthy.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's different side effects.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Again, you can take them, and if you're taking them, just make sure you know what you're doing and understand them fully.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: Blood work is always recommended.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: There's a huge movement, and I'm not against this movement because I'm actually I'm actually for this movement, but once you start messing with your testosterone levels and such, you're kind of committing to that for a good chunk of the rest of your life.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: Is that true?
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, oh man.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: So we also run a testosterone clinic.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: We have a doctor, we have a nurse practitioner that we work with, and a PA.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_00: And testosterone is one of those things that our genetics decide.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_00: But if you start trying to change nature, if you will, bad things can happen.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of people in kind of that range, like you're saying, 30s, 40s, um, abused pro hormones because they were very easily available.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: And the bodybuilding nation, the Arnold, Arnold was looking great in the early 2000s, and people always want to chase that, right?
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that happens, and your body naturally will suppress testosterone.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: And when that happens, it's harder for it to get back up there.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to, you know, men and women, hormones control everything we do.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: And for men in particular, our testosterone is what's gonna help us with you think of anything, you know, recovery, feel good, all that stuff.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't want to mess with it, but if you do, understand the consequences.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: How have you been coping with the year that is 2020?
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_01: How has Dalton been coping with 2020?
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, that's a great, great question.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I got engaged this year, so that was fun.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: That was a highlight of my highlight of my year.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Year, it's really been a great thing.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_00: And to be honest, it's taught me more on being able to spend that time.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a very high strung go go go kind of guy.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's taught me to slow down, and I've been able to cope with it by appreciating little things like cooking meals together, making sure the house is clean so I don't get yelled at, um, enjoying and trying all the different blizzards, you know, little things that I never would have thought about.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: I've been able just to kind of slow down, think back, and really appreciate what I've always kind of had.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to expand upon this if you're not comfortable, but how has this year impacted you as a business?
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, positive, negative?
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_01: Are you noticing more people in the store, less people in the store, or more people like with inquiries?
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's been positive, Mike.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm gonna be honest with you.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've been doing this for four years, and I've been working my tail off to provide real value to somebody.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like maybe it's because we've been working so hard to build up positive experience that people are going to, you know, when they're in a downtime or a desperate time or you know, in a position where they want to maximize on what they get out of something.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we want to maximize on the customer.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: We want to make sure you get everything we can provide for you.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: So that's uh I think that's what's really drawn people to us.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been able to, you know, fortunately stay open for God's sake.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's been one of those things that we're we're really lucky in that sense.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's it's great.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: You even delivered stuff to me one day when everything was shut down.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: Before I came in, before I came here today, I uh delivered four proteins to a customer who lives um way west.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's why I said I'm ready to roll, Mike.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_01: But that's good.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, because the weird thing is, and it maybe it's not a weird thing, but when the gym shut down, um everybody was starting to invest more of their time at with home workouts, which everybody had the fear that they were gonna get their own version of like quarantine weight or COVID weight or anything along those lines.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I I would think that that would be a very advantageous position to be in for you.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was so you know what we sold shifted, right?
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_00: One, your immunity products, they spike, they're crazy.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: But it was your proteins, these things were educating people on again.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's harder to overeat when you have the right nutrients in your body.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, basic health products really became a you know a key focus.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like my staff did a fantastic job when we did have customers calling and inquiring about different items that they could use to help prevent excess weight gaining, different things.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_00: So we really were able to provide more than again your bro shop stuff.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're not dependent on the pro hormones and different things.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: We want to be able to give that you know, that great experience through great products, sure.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and do you think that as a result of this post-COVID world that your business model is gonna change as a as an end result?
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think I was lucky and I tried to change it right before COVID, right?
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think that we really focused on being able to encompass that health side before COVID.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been able to maximize and learn and figure out what people want, and we're evolving all the time, right?
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_00: We always are learning and getting new stuff in, like you mentioned the CVDs, stuff like that.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: So we're on the right track.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm I'm excited, I'm so excited for where we're going and what we can do.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited for you because I I I remember last time I was in the store, I was uh on like a brief break from work, and you and I got caught up in a in a pun intended honey trap of a conversation about local honeys and like the uh like the holistic benefits of that that Mayo has researched.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's not been proven yet, but I tell you what, man, that there's a lot to mess with there.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, everybody has a as a old family recipe that involves honey to help with an ailment, right?
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's a sore throat, maybe it's a headache.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_00: So that we did get kind of caught up on that, and that's something that's you know, there's always new stuff, and we're learning different things.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_00: So what's next for you?
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, first we got to make it through this year into this COVID stuff, and we're gonna learn how life is post-COVID, right?
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we want to be able to maximize on self-growth.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's kind of my key thing is I want to learn how I can help people in more aspects rather than maybe weight loss or muscle building, but I want to be able to grow as a person and become a better person in the community, um, whether that's through some sort of service or whatever it might be, I feel like I've I've established myself and I want to continue to grow and be able to, you know, reach more people on a non-business side.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's like it's the human element.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: So, and that's one of the things that I've learned this year is that if this pandemic hasn't accomplished anything else, and you were looking for a silver lining, it's re-establishing that human connection with people, re-establishing a sense of basic morality, like to have that mission statement to be a helpful person when time calls.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_01: Fantastic stuff.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um so this is it, man.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_01: This is your opportunity.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: You want to plug the shop and uh tell our listeners a little bit about it, where they can find you and such?
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know, I know people are gonna listen to this all over.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_00: We have seven locations, um, lots in West Texas, Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, Amarillo, Texas, Wichita Falls, out in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then my home base here in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_00: We're down by Red Robin, so when you're snagging some good grub, you can always stop in.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and if you can't, you can always look us up.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's completehealth supplements.com.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a site that we're evolving and always making better.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: But a lot of our base products, like those sweat ethic ones, are on there.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_00: Our slogan for the Complete Health family is your journey is our purpose.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_00: And we truly mean that.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: Your journey is different than everybody else's, but it's our purpose to make sure that you can get to that end goal.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of a that's kind of what I gotta leave you with is your journey's our purpose, and each individual is you know got something different, so we're gonna help work towards that.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell you guys, if you haven't followed them yet, follow them on Facebook, follow them on Instagram.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_01: Complete health linking is how you search them out, and you will probably see at least one to ten videos a week by this handsome feller sitting in front of me.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, yeah, you'll get to see my different uh facial hair changes.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm learning, I'm learning what my facial hair is gonna be like for my next 20 years.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_00: You're rocking the stash today.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_01: Hey man, um, you know, I I appreciate you doing the podcast today.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_01: You are a good egg.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: The world needs more people like you.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I appreciate it.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you having me on.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a fantastic, my first podcast, so it was exciting.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_00: It was nice to get out and you know get this conversation rolling.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_01: And the thing is, is to my listeners, the intent of this episode or any episode is to tell the story of the person sitting in front of me.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_01: But I think this is something you might want to go back and listen to because um health and wellness is such an important thing in these dark times, and it's how we're gonna come out of it.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks again, man.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, appreciate it.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_01: I want to once again thank my friend Dalton for coming down to the Clark Dungeon and joining me on the podcast today.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_01: I have a little confession to make.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_01: I was in a body fat percentage loss contest for basically the entire month of October and first part of November.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_01: I failed miserably.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_01: I had way too many rest days and way too many cheat days.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's time to get myself back on track, and of course, I'm gonna talk to Dalton in order to get that done right.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_01: I hope everybody's gearing up the holidays, getting their Christmas lights up, and uh getting ready for a fun holiday season.
• 52:20
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• 52:28
  SPEAKER_01: I would really appreciate it.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_01: Furthermore, if you could turn on one of your friends to this podcast and we could grow that audience even further, I would doubly appreciate it.
• 52:38
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• 52:39
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• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: Let's get people listening.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_01: This has been Caught on the Mic with Michael Clark.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_01: Until next time, thank you.