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Gym | The Christian Reeve Podcast #185 · The Christian Reeve Podcast

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Christian Reef
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podcast. Today's guest is all about going
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to the gym. I still at this point of
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recording, haven't decided what it will be called, whether it be
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called Jim or starting out at the gym or at a, my experience
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at the gym. I don't know.
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But there was a lot of things I wanted to cover about Jim.
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And most of it is really, really positive in terms of my own
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personal transformation over the last seven months.
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What? I get out of it, what I've seen,
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what I've experienced the kind of Good Vibes that I see
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whenever I go into the gym. There's a lot of things that I
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wanted to cover in this show. And there's also some
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unfortunate things, some things that aren't so pleasant about
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the gym and I'll be sharing some of reddit's thoughts because as
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you know every time I do a podcast or content for my
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patreon I'll always ask the people have read it and ask
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people online and sort of gather responses and again Sort of an
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idea of what other people think and what other people's
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experiences are. And some of them were pretty
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wild, but I want to start with a quote, because I think this sort
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of sums it up quite well. As far as starting out of the
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gym, it takes 21 days to start a habit and 90 days to create a
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lifestyle. And that's something I want to
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lead with, with this particular podcast.
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Because If you're going to go to the gym, if you're going to work
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out or do any kind of Fitness in your life, it needs to be part
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of your life, it needs to be part of your lifestyle.
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It's not enough to just do it here and there, you know,
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sporadically like the key with working out and, you know,
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getting fit is consistency but you've got to Consistently do
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it, right? So it's got to be part of your
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life and look. Sometimes you just don't want to
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do it. And ironically, and I've said
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this to friends of mine that go to the gym those sessions where
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you really don't want to go tend to be the best sessions that you
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have, because they tend to kind of make you get the most out of
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you. You get more out of You by going
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and doing those sessions and I think A lot of going to the gym
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is is kind of proving something to yourself.
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It's like you versus you. Some days are harder some days,
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it easier. It's always hard.
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It's always going to be something that pushes you.
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It's always going to be something that, you know, can
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get can get the best, you all the worst of you but it will get
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something out of you. And I feel like obviously the
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best kind of indicator of whether or not you're doing
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well, is obviously the progress that you make but it doesn't
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come. Right away and I feel like Jim
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offers so many life metaphors. Like for instance, even just the
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fact that it takes a while to achieve your fitness goals, you
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don't see the results instantly, it takes some time.
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That's a great metaphor for what life is like, because a lot of
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things in life are not instant and, you know, we live in an
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instant gratification culture. Now, everything is
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instantaneous, we can get anything by the click of a
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finger by just tapping. Something on a An app or a
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computer. You know, we get things really
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really quickly now but that still doesn't change the fact
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that there is so much in life that requires you to be patient
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and wait and see it through. And Jim is the best example of
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that. And I think that for me, you
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know, my approach to the gym has changed over the course of the
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last seven months, so I basically to catch you up.
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I used to go to gym pretty solidly.
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I would Say somewhere, mid 2018 to the end of 2019, something
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like that. I basically went for a year and
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a half when I used to live in Estonia.
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And when I look back at what my workout schedule was back, then
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it was okay, I wasn't paying much attention to my diet, which
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is a real, big part of Jim in. I used to just eat anything and
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just I thought by eating a lot that would work but you know, it
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really depends on what you're eating.
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You ready go get the most out of your food as well as your
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workouts and you know back then I hadn't really figured out what
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my goals were I guess I was just kind of like hmm I should do
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this. I should go to the gym and just
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kind of get fit, right? But I think you need some
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short-term goals and some long-term goals when it comes to
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going to the gym. You need a kind of a clear.
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Structure. And I find that structure is
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such a big theme in my life, with everything that I do.
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Everything I do is planning now, especially since I have a lot
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less time because of, you know, having to work in an in customer
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service and working unspeakable hours.
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Sometimes, you know, it means that you have less time and
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that's inevitably impacted my gym time as well.
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So everything has to be kind of planned out but by doing that I
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feel like you do get a lot more from the sessions.
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And when I Compare where I used to be with Jim and where I'm at.
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Now, it's like night and day to give you a bit of a rundown of
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what I used to do. It was basically just like, I
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would go in and not dissimilar to what I do now.
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I would, I would warm up warm down, always warm up and warm
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down, always do that. But then, I would go and, like,
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NACA myself out on like the treadmill or, you know, I do
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cycling, but I do it for like, 15, 20 minutes.
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And so, I'd be knackered. And then, I'd have to be like
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the rest of my workout, like, weights and whatever.
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And I'd, I used to, basically think that intensive training
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was key, like, I would just do 5, 10, 15 minutes, each on
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different things and then switch around.
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So be like cardio, weights, cardio, weights cardio, weights
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for like an hour and a half or something and there was
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progress. There's photos that I have from
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back then where I could see, you know, some definition muscle
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definition arms and everything but it was pretty ineffective
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and I think a Out of that came down to diet, but I'd say, the
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bigger problem was, basically that I hadn't really thought
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about what I was doing in the gym.
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I haven't really researched and asked anybody and that's a big
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problem. You need to do that, you need to
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do your research, just like with anything else.
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I mean recently, I've had a friend shout out to Lewis,
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you'll never hear this or see this but shout out anyway and
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he's really into his Fitness and he's very good at and I told him
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what my current workout regime was and he was Just like, hmm.
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You seem to be missing all of these different muscle groups
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that why are you not doing this. And then he sort of told me the
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problems with what my current work out would be in terms of
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like the future. So my workout regime for like
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the last five or six months was basically.
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And this was completely different from what I used to do
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in the gym, I would go in and my so I start with my goal and then
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I'll run through. My workout regime.
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So the goal was to just lose weight and you know I wanted to
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lose weight here. Here I'd really let myself go
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during lockdown. I wasn't gyming obviously the
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gym is closed and then when they reopened I just never really
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Could be bothered to get back in there because once you fall off,
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it's very difficult to get back into it, you know, and as I said
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at the beginning of this, you know, takes 21 days to form a
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habit. But, you know, takes much more
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to make it into a lifestyle. It's You know, whenever I tell
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people or encourage people to go to the gym, it's not something
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that I take lightly. I know it's just not as simple
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as like, oh, you just go and that's it.
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Like its it takes a lot of mental strength to keep going
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especially when you're just tired.
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Like maybe you come home from work and you're exhausted.
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And now you got to do a gym session or it's your day off and
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you just want to relax. You know, it takes a lot and,
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you know, even seven months later, there are days when I
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don't want to go but You just got it like push yourself to go.
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You really do but you don't have to go like every and here's the
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thing as well and I'll get back to the goals and everything.
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But like one thing I want to add is that I think It, there's a
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lot of people that see in the gym and I'm guilty of this to
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wear when you're not informed and you don't know what you're
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doing, you kind of just make these crazy decisions.
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Like, I meant what I said earlier about, you know, doing
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like half an hour on the on the bike or 50 minutes on the bike
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and an actor and myself out, ideally, you want to kind of
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conserve your energy throughout the workout in order to use it
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steadily throughout the workout. So by the end of it, you know,
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you're getting the last bits of whatever energy you've got for
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the workout. Out, but you're not completely
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exhausted. Because obviously, if you're
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completely exhausted at the beginning, then you're just
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going to have no energy and you basically can't really do much,
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so it's kind of illogical to do it that way.
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But if no one tells you and you don't know, you don't do your
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research, then how will you ever know and you're just not going
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to make any progress and I think that's the key.
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You want to see that progress and I think Sometimes in the
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beginning, when someone doesn't see progress after like a month
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or two generally, they will give up so below our, this is not
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working and it's like, it's not working because your Technique
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is not quite there that it needs to be something needs to be
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switched up. And another thing about Jim,
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just final before I start talking about my current or my
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switched up regime in the last six to eight months, is that at
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the end of the day, when you're figuring out how to do your
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workouts, you've got, you've got a kind of like break it down in
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terms of what actually works for you.
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Because what works for you might not work for another person.
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Just because this person is doing things this way, doesn't
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mean it will work for you, our genetics are different, our
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bodies react differently to things, even dieting and and,
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and the meals and you know, for example, I never eat breakfast.
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but if I eat
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breakfast I get super tired. Doesn't matter what it is.
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Even if it's something slow-release like eating
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porridge or something, it just does nothing for me.
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Our what'll happen is I'll have a breakfast at like 7:00 or 8:00
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a.m. and then I'll feel really natural.
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Bye-bye 1112, which I just think is pointless.
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So, I just load up on coffee and I'm not advising this.
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This is just for me, this won't work for other people, but I
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load up on coffee, that keeps me going and then by lunchtime
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that's when I have like a big meal.
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Ideally lately. It's not been like that because
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I've just been working so much. So I've been skipping meals and
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stuff and it's really, really bad.
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And I'm starting to notice that too.
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Because I've started losing more weight than I wanted with lose
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the we move. Right.
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Anyway, that's something really important to consider.
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I think is just like the impact on your body, trying things
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other people advice because that works for them, but that might
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not work for you. Anyway, my regime, my goal as I
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said before was to just cut weight, get a bit toned and then
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kind of see where we go from there.
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And this was my workout for about five or six months.
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It was to just go in Basically, just wonder how many times I
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said, basically in this let's get counter stretch, do free
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weights, either dumbbells or the bar where you touch it yourself,
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and you put the weights either side and I would start the
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workout doing that. So I do bicep curls and then I
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do like above head. I don't know what they're
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called, but it would sort of lightly, train, shoulders and
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mostly train your biceps this way and you'd feel a lot more
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weight doing it this way than you were.
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Doing it this way for those listening, please watch the
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video version. Yeah, I mean, imagine bicep
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curls and also lifting the bar above your head with like that's
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basically what I'm talking about and so I would do maybe three or
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four sets of each version and I was normally like I thought I
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would sort of do it until I couldn't really do it anymore
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and that that would always be my limit and sometimes I push it a
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little bit more if I like I had a bit more energy.
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But that's just the beginning of the workout and so my arms would
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be aching a little bit and so I would go and do some cardio or
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something. And that was always, my plan is
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to kind of do what I used to do, but be a bit more intensive
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about it. So instead of doing like 50
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minutes on an exercise bike, maybe I just do 5 or 10.
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And so I was doing like, five minutes on the rowing machine,
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maybe 10 minutes, cycling, a give my arms a chance to rest,
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and then I would go and do a chest press and I would end on
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that. So I basically just do The bicep
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curls and this in the shoulder. Wait, so the beginning, rowing
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cycling and then end on chest press and I inevitably had less
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energy to do chest, press. See now I begin with trespass
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because it's I feel the most physically demanding machine
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that I use, but that's just for me personally.
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And I sort of do it in a little Loop, which I'll explain in a
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second. But that's how I was doing my
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workouts for about six months and I explain this to a friend
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of mine. And Louis whoops, and he
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immediately was like, well, you know, well done for achieving
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your goals. I've seen your progress.
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It's really, really good. But you know at the end of the
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day, this is causing problems because you're not training your
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back, your lats shoulders. If you continue in this way,
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it's going to push your shoulders forward and sort of
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push you into a sort of hunch position and it's not going to
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be healthy for your body. But most importantly, there's a
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bunch of different muscles sets that you are not training.
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And that's integral like obviously Lee everyone has
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different goals in the gym. Some people just want to lose
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weight. Some people want to just have a
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little bit of muscle definition. Some people were bodybuilders
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some people athlete. Everyone's got different goals.
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Minor not 100% clear. By think my goal is mainly a to
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just keep fit, you know, set myself up for the future in a
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good way. And then also just see how far I
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can push this really. You know, I don't I don't want
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to use anything, you know, supplements or anything like
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that. I'm not interested in that.
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I might, I might use stuff that's, that's legal and I like
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good for your body potentially. But I'm not going to use
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anything to do body bodybuilding.
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Like I'm not really interested in that, but I want to, I want
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to see how far I can push this and how How much I can get out
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of myself, really. Because I feel like that's one
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of the biggest parts of Jim is, is the healthiest Parts.
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Maybe is seeing how far you can push your body, how much mental
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strength do you have, how much can you get out of yourself?
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Like, how? Deep down.
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Can you dig? It has been times when I really
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felt like I couldn't keep going and I just push myself a little
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bit more and it feels so much more gratifying afterwards.
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When you do that, like, when you have a good workout and I've got
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a list of things. I look forward to hear that I'll
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get to in a second, but I just wanna say like when you get a
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good workout in and you walk out of that place, you feel like a
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million bucks, you feel proud of yourself, obviously the
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endorphins have kicked in. So you're feeling the effects of
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that. But you feel a sense of
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achievement after doing it, particularly when you've been
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doing it for a long time and you start to see the results, you
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look in the mirror and you like, what you see?
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And you're like, yeah, you know, I remember when it was this and
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that's why those transformation pics are so important.
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Like I saw so many of those so many of those videos and I was
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always really inspired by those people.
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But I never really thought that that could be me.
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And now it is me, I'm well on to that Journey, the journey is not
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finished. I don't think it ever ends
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really. You just keep going, but I've
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seen that progress and I think the biggest thing that Jim is
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taught me above all else. Is that anything you want in
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life? If you work hard enough towards
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it, you can achieve. It might not happen as quickly
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as you want it to happen. Might not start to show results
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as quickly as you want them but you you will get there.
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Through consistency and hard work, you will get that you will
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get somewhere. And then, once you start
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achieving that, I mean, I remember when I achieved my
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six-month goal, I was just like, wow, what else could I do?
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Where else could I take this, if I could do this, what else can I
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do? And it's then it gets really
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exciting then it's like you've stepped into like a new phase
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and I've applied that mentality to like everything else that I
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do in life. It's not just Jim and this is
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why I always employ people to go to gym.
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This is why I Mention this in my live streams, I mentioned this
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in real life. I'm like one of the best things
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you can do with your life is go to the gym or do some sort of
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Fitness training because it really will give you like a
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newfound appreciation for life for yourself.
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I think it gives you a better relationship with yourself in
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some, in some ways. I feel like It makes you realize
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that like, you can, you can be so much more and you can keep
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building and moving forward and, you know, even in the darkest of
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times, when things seem hopeless, or things seem dire,
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you can still achieve results with the gym.
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You know, you did something that you have 100% control over.
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And I just find that amazing because there's so much in life
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that we don't really have control over or there are, you
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know, it's out of our hands, and we just kind of have to accept
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it, but with Jim, it's completely in your hands, it's
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all down to you. And that's an amazing feeling
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being able to control something like that and then see, The
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fruits of your labor after a while, you know, like you start
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to see it and when I took those six-month photos and put them
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online. I was so proud.
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I was so happy in myself of what I'd achieved.
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And I wanted to sort, I wanted to show that off a little bit,
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you know, I'm not a big show off but I did want to kind of share
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that with everybody. But I remember writing the blurb
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and just kind of talking about the transformation and what it
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meant to me in and how hard it can be.
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And you know what it meant to me because I think that's key gym
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and working out at Fitness is it's so much more than just
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going and lifting weights or doing some running.
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It's it's a journey, it's a lifestyle.
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And it will change your life. It really will now when it comes
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to my current work out, which, as I said before, I'm still
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figuring out all the time. But what I do now is, and this
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was a bit of advice. I got from Louis was too instead
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of timing everything focus on just doing sets, and see how
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many I can do and kind of push myself here and there, if I can
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go. More do more, but kind of stick
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to that. So, every machine now or free or
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sets of free weights, whatever the case may be, I will always
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do like three sets of 10 or like 15 or three sets of eight,
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something, something like that. And the interesting thing about
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that as well, is that every time you go into the gym, you have
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different levels of energy, sometimes you've got more so you
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know, you're going to push yourself more and get more out
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of it, and you can feel your body, you know, if you've got
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more energy or less energy, you can just feel it.
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It back when you're pushing it and you're pushing it now,
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you're pushing it. And you can kind of there's
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something in your head that almost tells you or least it
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does with me. Yeah, I can go I can do a few
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more. I can do more than this.
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Let's do it. Let's do a few more than that
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I've already got to 10 but let's do 12.
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Let's do 14, like whatever. And then there are some days
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when you just do less, you know, there are days which, you know,
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and it's not great. But sometimes you'll go there
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and you just won't really be able to do much.
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And so you have to kind of dial it back a bit and be like, okay
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what can I achieve in this session?
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That normally I'd be able to do more with and so some days on
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those days I'll dial it back and just do like three sets of a or
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whatever, but I always make sure to get every single machine in
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the I've that I need to get in. I'll make sure to get all of
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them in. So at least I've trained those
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muscles even if I haven't trained them a lot.
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I've still train them and therein lies that consistency.
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Because you're building it, you know, several sessions a week
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you're building on it. One day you do really well run
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day, maybe not so much but together on top of each other
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that's going to account to progress.
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That's going to give you something hopefully so yeah.
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Like I normally I'll start with a chest press machine and then
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I'll move to bicep curl and then I think it's good arm extension.
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I'm still learning all of this and then I've started adding
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lateral, press some, trying to focus on training, my shoulders
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and back. Back a little bit more now and
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then I'll move on to. I think it's like a form of
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rowing machine, but it's supposed to train like your
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chest muscles. So it's kind of more building on
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what I would do with the chest press machine and they're
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normally at the moment, I'll end on sort of a lats style machine,
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but instead of a bar, you have like two handles that you sort
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of pull down sort of Outward and like you have to sit in a
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certain way. There's different ways you can
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sit to kind of train your muscles but the best way to sort
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of lean your back outwards so that you're feeling the effects
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and in your lower body as well as your upper body.
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And so I'll normally end on that and as I say like as the
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progress moves forward and as I move forward with Jim, I think
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I'll slowly add more and more things.
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Sometimes I'll add things like like this back training machine.
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Which is really awkward. You just basically just extend
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your back out a bit like, when Robbie Williams look from where
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we were in is Robin Williams in that movie, did an impression of
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the hot dog and he's went back like that.
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It's like that. It's such a weird machine.
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But it if you do it right, it does kind of give a bit of a
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feeling I do have leg days. I sometimes skip them though
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because I do a lot of running around at my workplace and I
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walk to work. Each way.
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So I get a lot of like cardio in any way but like really you need
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those leg days when you can train the muscles, and I'm a bit
22:42
neglectful of that. So I'm trying trying to get that
22:45
in. But again, I've got limited
22:46
time. And, you know, when you got
22:48
limited time, it's like why I definitely want to get my, I
22:50
want to favor getting the muscle days in over the leg days, but I
22:55
know everyone watching this. That's a regular gym.
22:56
Go, I'll be like, no. No, he's missing leg.
22:59
Date ever skip, mr. Never died.
23:02
Can't speak. Never skip.
23:03
Leg day. I know, I know, I'm sorry, I'm
23:07
so sorry but that's that's I mean that's how I approach it
23:13
with regards to my diet. I basically just removed all
23:18
carbohydrates for the most part from my diet because I always
23:21
found that I got super tired and I made the switch to whole
23:24
wheat, like ages, many many, many, many months ago, but it
23:28
made no difference. Like, every time I would have,
23:30
like, pasta and chicken, I would just be exhausted.
23:34
And as I do, this isn't right food.
23:35
Shouldn't constantly make you feel sleepy and tired like you
23:38
should sort of get a bit of energy from it.
23:42
So instead, I kind of eat lots of Chicken and veg, and I've
23:47
dropped down to like, one or two meals a day, which, again, as I
23:50
said earlier, it's not ideal. I think that really and
23:53
truthfully, I should have two meals a day that should be the
23:58
norm. But, you know, we're not always
23:59
able to find the time to achieve that unfortunately.
24:03
But, you know, we are slowly very slowly getting there, but I
24:09
mean, it has benefited me. I've learned to love chicken.
24:14
I would one day love to be a vegetarian.
24:17
And other than chicken, I'm basically pretty much a
24:19
vegetarian when I do eat other things here and there.
24:22
But, you know, like I, If all I was going to eat a chicken and
24:25
veg, I'll be happy with that. I do a lot of soups where I'll
24:30
cook chicken with I do. I did this one soup where I have
24:33
like chicken. Let me see potatoes.
24:37
Sweet potatoes carrots, onions. Chopped tomato.
24:41
Sometimes real tomatoes tomato passata.
24:45
What else? Oh and the secret.
24:49
Awesome ingredient coconut milk. That was that was a lifesaver
24:54
when I discovered that because I needed something that made the
24:57
soups less watery, but I'd sort of didn't anticipate how much
25:01
flavor coconut milk, gives the soup and all my God, does it
25:05
taste good on carrots if they didn't say carrots.
25:07
I had carrots to it and that's a very good kind of soup that kind
25:11
of gives you quite a lot. I should really start eating.
25:14
Bread to get some more fiber and bit more carbs in there but
25:18
yeah, I don't know cross that bridge when I come to, I think
25:21
I'm going to switch up my diet soon anyway, and probably add
25:24
carbs back into it with in terms of pasta because soup just takes
25:28
forever and I don't really fancy.
25:31
So there's a lot of days when I don't really fancy eating it
25:34
like it's first, it's nice, the first few days.
25:36
But after a while arms, like four or five days of this,
25:41
argues that the housemate who was also a big muscle guy, And
25:44
he would literally just eat chicken and rice every single
25:48
day. And I was like, bro, how do you
25:50
not Tire of this? And he's like, it's fine to me.
25:52
I don't mind them like fair enough.
25:55
It would drive me nuts. I need that variation in my
25:59
life. The variety.
26:01
You know, it's it just gets so boring.
26:03
It means it sucks. The fun out of eating and I love
26:06
to eat. It's one of my favorite things
26:08
to do in the world. I love food.
26:11
It's yeah, it's almost salivate at the thought of it as a much.
26:17
I love food. So anything that makes me not
26:20
lovey in is like the enemy. Yeah, not really much to say
26:25
about the diet side of things, but that's where I'm at with it
26:28
right now. One thing I miss about living in
26:31
Estonia, was my whole set up there.
26:34
I don't have that here and I really miss it because you do
26:37
your workout. And then what I would do, Is go
26:40
sit in the sauna or go swimming and then sit in the sauna, sweat
26:44
out all of the toxins and then sit in a hot tub and then go
26:50
about my day. And a lot of the time I would do
26:53
that on my lunch break, because there was a Jim Cross, the cross
26:56
the road from where I worked. So I just got my lunch break, go
26:59
hit the gym, do all these things.
27:01
Then I was really cheeky and I'd have my actual lunch afterwards.
27:04
So I took way more than an hour. So yeah, it's a bit cheeky but
27:08
yeah, the managers would As well, so they never said
27:11
anything. So I got away with it but yeah,
27:16
that's a bit cheeky. Everyone went to the gym.
27:18
They're like estonians, love the gym.
27:20
Europeans are big fans of the gym.
27:23
It's very Durham, orientated country and I just missed that
27:27
set up because I don't have that at the gym here.
27:30
I mean, the most we have is showers which I don't ever
27:32
really use. Like I used it yesterday because
27:35
I had to but generally speaking I never really use their
27:37
facilities. I just Go do my workout.
27:41
Have a shower at home because it's about five minutes from my
27:44
house. It's okay.
27:45
But yeah, I do. Miss those facilities.
27:47
I would love to go to a bit more of a premium gym, be able to
27:50
afford to do that, and have access to someone, or, and all
27:54
the other nice kind of leisure facilities.
27:57
That would be nice. But his things I look forward
28:01
to, when I go to the gym, getting flavored juice at the
28:05
end of a worker. Oh my God.
28:08
There's this machine. And it has multiple Juice
28:14
flavors. I don't know what I guess.
28:16
It's just flavored water. I don't know if it's got like
28:18
electrolytes or something in it, so I think it's just flavored
28:20
water but my thing is to go in there, use drink my water and
28:26
only sort of The what, how much water have consumed during the
28:31
workout? Is a good indication of how
28:32
close I am towards the end as well.
28:35
But at the end of it I just like to kind of get my juice from the
28:38
machine and I normally get like I think it's coconut pineapple
28:41
flavor or something like that and it's like a little treat for
28:45
working hard. It's like here's your treat for
28:48
working hard. I know it's silly but I don't
28:50
know. Okay, makes me happy.
28:53
It's the small things in life. Also, of course, the shower
28:57
after the workout, I mean you feel good after the workout
28:59
anyway. But once you've had that nice
29:01
little shower and you've relaxed and kind of eased into you the
29:04
rest of your day, a lot of the time, I'll actually feel quite
29:09
sort of a sense of a euphoric feeling after having gone to the
29:13
gym, especially if I've done cardio during that session.
29:17
Like, I mean, I feel a rush after I've done cardio anyway,
29:20
because you know, you get get your heart racing, you sweat and
29:23
you know, use it's good for you. But after the workouts done and
29:27
your body has time to rest, you know, you feel a lot better and
29:31
you've got a bit of an energy boost and of course, you have to
29:33
kind of counterbalance that by eating and may be consuming
29:37
things like coffee or caffeine or whatever, just to kind of
29:39
raise you up afterwards but you will have a little bit of a rush
29:41
for about Kyra, can about an hour or so which is always
29:46
useful and yeah, there's also a sense of a rush when you're able
29:52
to reach new weight goals. It's a that way.
29:55
Yeah, yeah. Weight goes that when you're
29:57
lifting weights at the gym and you're able to kind of go to the
30:01
next level it and it's always the same for me.
30:04
I'll get to a certain thing where I'll be doing my usual
30:08
workout and I've been at, huh? That feels very weak.
30:11
That's weird. And then I'll go to the next
30:14
weight saying the height of the next highest one another.
30:17
Like oh so all this time I was at 41 kg now I'm at 50 kg huh?
30:24
And it's like I was thinking about this the other day like I
30:26
started at like 20 or something at the beginning of this journey
30:28
and now I'm at 50 and it's like that's amazing that progress
30:33
small and it's steady and slow but it's incredible.
30:38
I just I can't be any help but being or of that you know
30:43
because that's a good indicator of as well of your progress is
30:46
like how far you can push yourself and you know like like
30:50
can you go long run on the treadmill.
30:52
Can you go longer on the exercise bike?
30:54
Can you lift heavier weights you know like can you do more he do
30:57
more reps you know it's there's always constant into the
31:00
indicators around you. Demonstrating to you, your
31:04
progress and how you should keep going.
31:07
And Sky's the limit, you know? It really is and it's
31:12
incredible. Now, we move to some of the
31:17
less. Positive stuff about the gym.
31:22
Unfortunately, you can get dodgy people, you're gonna get, Creech
31:24
can get weirdos, you can get assholes.
31:27
And for the most part in my gym that I go to, it's pretty fairly
31:32
decent. I don't have to deal with many
31:35
rude people for that all difficult people, but you get a
31:37
few and I want to cover that. Now, there was a guy at a chest
31:43
press machine recently, so I sat down and I just started doing
31:48
reps. Soooo.
31:49
I was like two or three in and he interrupted me now, got as
31:52
Cardinal Sim, number one, if you want to speak to someone at the
31:55
gym, don't interrupt them during the middle of their work out.
31:59
Wait till they finished or taken a break, something like that.
32:02
Unless it's like an emergency or something, don't interrupt them.
32:06
Wait just wait, I just started and I was in a my flow and he's
32:12
interrupting me right? But gets right up in my face and
32:15
asks me how many more sets I have?
32:19
And I said, like two or three more.
32:23
And he heard 45 minutes apparently.
32:28
And the guy remember, the guy very well, he was in a tank top
32:31
and he was just like, I don't know.
32:35
He was carrying around. Luggage like a suitcase.
32:40
So I assumed he was from out of town or something, and instead
32:43
of just going somewhere else, working out with something else,
32:45
he chose to stand like a meter away from me and just wait, wait
32:51
until I was done. Now, that is one of the most
32:53
infuriating things you can do to someone when they're there at
32:56
the gym because you need to give people their space.
32:58
Like Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I feel like Jim is kind of like
33:04
Sanctuary when I go there. You know, everybody has the
33:08
right not to be harassed and everyone has the right to feel
33:11
comfortable in their space and just do what they need to do and
33:14
because it's post it is a form of leisure is a Leisure
33:19
activity, you know? And it's a luxurious will was
33:23
what do they call it? A recreational activity.
33:25
It is that this is some people's real sense of fun and joy in
33:30
life. And if you come along and ruin
33:31
that, I mean you're an asshole, you know?
33:33
And this guy was an asshole and I'm putting them out for if
33:37
sorry if you ever sees this you're an asshole.
33:41
It just what the fuck man. Sorry I just I hate rude people,
33:46
I deal with them so much and I just, I just why'd you have to
33:49
be rude, it's not necessary. But okay, what should this guy
33:53
have done? This guy should have gone to
33:54
another machine and just come back in like 10, 15 minutes?
34:00
Yeah. Because how long is like if he
34:03
wanted specifics, he should have asked at the beginning if I just
34:06
because I would have said, oh, probably 3 sets of 10 3 sets of
34:09
10 with breaks in the middle, not going to be more than about
34:12
10 minutes if that. But I like to take my time.
34:15
See now that he was there sitting there also standing
34:18
there. I felt pressure to go quicker.
34:20
I couldn't sit and rest because every time I was like, resting.
34:23
He was staring daggers at me and I'm like, motherfucker.
34:26
Like, I need time to rest. I'm not just going to do three
34:29
sets in a row with That a break. Like that's not how this works.
34:33
Sorry. I'm get.
34:34
I'm get, I got a bit heated when I took about three people.
34:36
So I start swearing a lot but it just infuriates me.
34:40
How dare you, how dare you do that?
34:42
And then if that wasn't enough, he interrupts me off to the
34:45
second set, it's an envelope. Hey, listen me, like how long
34:48
you going to be like, you know, I have to go to work soon.
34:50
It's like I don't give a fuck if you need to go to work soon, you
34:54
should have planned your day better, you know what I mean?
34:56
Like, you should have given yourself more time, so that if
34:59
something will come up. Be an issue.
35:01
You know, that's your problem. That's not my problem.
35:04
And, of course, I'm too nice to say that.
35:07
So I'm just like, just one more set mate, but we always live it.
35:12
I was so annoyed. And then when I got off and I
35:15
was finally finished, he was like, oh, thank you me and I
35:18
really was just like, yeah, whatever made fucking dickhead
35:21
and then a similar situation happened recently, where a guy
35:27
came up to me while I was at the bicep curl machine and he asked
35:30
me how many sets of had left and I said to and then he went away.
35:34
Was it? Okay, great brilliant.
35:36
He gets it but then he comes back and I'm Midway or at the
35:39
end of my second set. So it's only been five minutes
35:42
since he was last there and he go he just stands there with his
35:46
mate and they both have their arms crossed just staring at me.
35:50
I can feel their presence like it's that when you know, when
35:54
you're doing something like let's say you're at work and you
35:56
have a supervisor like staring over your shoulder, you just
36:00
more prone to fuck up, you know. And like I was struggling.
36:04
In this particular one because you know, like you strain
36:07
yourself whatever and I felt more pressure to get to the end
36:12
of my set and I just felt them staring at me the whole time,
36:18
you know, like if you get a set stand there and stare at me
36:22
while I'm doing. At least give me some fucking
36:23
encouragement. But yeah, come on, keep going
36:25
something like that. But no, just staring and judging
36:29
they might not have even been judging at all.
36:30
They might not have been thinking anything but that's how
36:33
it felt. And I just feel that that's so
36:35
rude and obnoxious and just really demonstrates like how
36:40
blissfully unaware people can be in the gym.
36:42
And you know what, like I've got more to talk about infuriating
36:46
people at the gym and this is just a few of the things I've
36:50
noticed in my local gym. I'm also going to throw out a
36:54
lot of the things that people want to read.
36:56
It said as well because there's a lot so it's not just me that
36:59
feels this way. There are a lot of assholes out
37:02
there. People putting weights in the
37:05
wrong places. I don't like to go on a fucking
37:09
Easter egg hunt around the gym trying to find weights.
37:14
That's not my idea of a good time at the gym.
37:17
I want to be able to go over to the weight section and find 15
37:20
16 kg. I don't want to have to find
37:22
like one on the floor over here, one at the other end of the
37:25
fucking gym somewhere, next about the exercise bikes, like
37:28
what the fuck? It takes like a minute, 30
37:32
seconds to, just put them back where you found them.
37:35
You know, is that? That hard?
37:37
Is it that taxing? But no, you just get these lazy
37:40
fuckers who just can't be bothered and it's really
37:43
disrespectful. I think you know.
37:45
Yeah okay let's not Palace but you should be treating it as
37:48
such you should be treating it as like you would treat your own
37:52
home you know with respect I do I just don't get that people
37:57
leaving the gym in a mess in general, you know, just not
38:01
cleaning machines or sweating on a machine than just getting up
38:04
and walking off, you know, like that.
38:07
Disgusting other people have to use those machines and you've
38:11
just let left all your bodily fluid lying around on top of
38:15
them. You know you just left things in
38:16
a state. It's disgusting.
38:18
Here's a lot of people that like also get annoyed when like, you
38:22
asked how many sets they've got. Like I'm always nice and polite
38:26
to people. When they ask me things, okay?
38:30
I'm only annoyed or give people a bit of an attitude back if
38:34
they're rude in the way that they said it.
38:36
You know, if you go Oh hey buddy.
38:38
How many sets you have left? I've been at are this many mate,
38:41
no problem. But no people will just be like,
38:44
how many sets do you have or how many states do have a left and
38:47
then you'll tell them that. But yeah, can you hurry it up?
38:50
I'm like, fuck you. I'm not gonna hurry up.
38:52
I'm gonna dunk if anything. I'm going to be Petty and take
38:55
top, take my time now, just because you were like that.
39:00
Fuck. This would be what gets viable
39:04
run. It me just getting angry about
39:06
gym stuff. If anything I've been doing this
39:11
show now for two years, two years, this is episode 185.
39:16
And I'm talking about the gym and I can't count how many Clips
39:20
I've made. How many Many, many hours.
39:23
I've spent doing this. I love doing this.
39:25
Don't get me wrong, but none of my Clips have ever gone viral.
39:29
I've had a few that have had, like, some somewhat virality,
39:33
but never really, but I feel like it would just be very
39:37
fitting if this was the thing that went viral was me just
39:41
pissing and moaning about gym or just people in general people
39:46
shouting and screaming during sex.
39:47
That listen you can make a bit of noise, all right, I get it.
39:52
Sometimes you just got to get your strains out.
39:55
I was doing it at the gym the other day, but if I can hear you
39:58
like at the other end of the fucking gym, that's not normal.
40:03
I remember one guy was doing, I can't remember what the name of
40:06
the machine is but it's where you like, take two handles and
40:08
you pull them towards yourself and they both have like string
40:11
on each side and you just pull them in towards yourself and all
40:14
I heard was Was he the fucking incredible Hulk?
40:22
Like, come on, man, I can hear you.
40:25
Everyone can hear you. It's just like we've all got
40:29
headphones on but we can all hear him.
40:31
And it's like, what is that? You're like a certain your male
40:35
dominance like oh I'm the old me.
40:40
I am the alpha, everybody pay attention to how strong I am.
40:47
Like this, what the fuck man? Come on.
40:53
Enough is enough. All right, let's, let's hear
40:59
what read? It doesn't like about the gym.
41:02
Someone taking all the free weights even though they weren't
41:04
using them. Yeah, I've seen this, someone
41:07
will take like three or four different sets, put them all on
41:10
the floor, and probably just take like the smallest ones lift
41:14
about five reps and then just sit there on their phone for
41:18
like an hour. And that's another thing.
41:19
If you're on your phone at the gym, okay, it's fine to check
41:23
your phone. I'm not, I'm not going to be
41:26
fucking Jim, please. He's alright, like, I don't care
41:28
but if, if I'm waiting to get onto one of the machines and
41:33
you're there on your phone, for like 20 minutes, that takes the
41:36
piss, go stand on your phone, so start on your phone.
41:40
Yes, stand on your phone. Go, look at your phone somewhere
41:43
else. If you know, you're not going to
41:44
be working out, you know, the only thing reason you should be
41:47
checking, your phone is in between when you're resting or
41:50
to like, I don't know, change. The song or like, you know, if
41:55
you got call Bluetooth, whatever, fine.
41:58
But that you should be using the machines and not making people
42:01
wait for you. So when groups of jimbros or gym
42:07
babes take up stations but spend more time, they're on their
42:10
phones or shooting the shit. Yeah.
42:12
And yours funny about this as well.
42:15
Sometimes these groups have the audacity to give you attitude,
42:18
when you ask them how many like sets they got there by 8:00 that
42:21
will be done, will be done and it's like, you're the ones who
42:24
have the problem. Not me.
42:25
You're the ones being rude and taking up space and being
42:29
obnoxious and sorry. I'm reiterating.
42:31
What said before, essentially, but like when it's Groups of
42:33
people, obviously they feel more inclined to be like that because
42:37
they've got an audience, and it's like a group of people.
42:40
And it's, you know, what I've noticed is, why it's always like
42:42
super young people. People like, I don't know, maybe
42:45
like teenagers, and 16, 17, 18, something like that.
42:49
It's never like older people, really.
42:50
It's mainly just these younger people that have probably never
42:53
been to the gym before or is that their first time going.
42:56
And they've just got an attitude problem.
42:58
Whereas, most of the people that I see at the gym have been
43:01
they're going there for many many years.
43:03
And they just have wonderful, amazing attitudes.
43:08
They're always nice and polite and respectful and they'll help
43:12
you out the be there for you, if you need it, they'll spot you
43:15
there. Do all these amazing things
43:18
because they get how it is. It's supposed to be a sanctuary.
43:21
It's supposed to be a nice place.
43:22
It's not supposed to be a place where people have an attitude
43:25
problem. People bring in portable
43:27
speakers and Blasting their own music throughout the entire gym.
43:30
Yeah, I mean, there's already shitty music being I played over
43:34
the tire noise that no one listens to.
43:36
I don't want to hear your music on top of that.
43:38
Shut the fuck up. Turn it off.
43:40
Get some by some headphones. I spilled some water on the
43:43
floor and the gyms trainer rushed to be are rushed over to
43:46
ask. Are you going to clean that in a
43:48
very condescending tone? It was my first day there first
43:54
I wish to leave a one star review on Google when I got back
43:56
home. Never went there again, I don't
43:58
blame you like it sucks when you go there and the gym memo.
44:05
So the gym staff and not nice because if nothing else that the
44:08
gym staff are supposed to be there as like a last support
44:11
line, you can ask people at the gym for help and whatnot but
44:15
like the gym stuff should be the nicest people because they work
44:18
there, you know, like there's gonna be so many people that
44:20
come in that don't really know what they're doing and they need
44:23
your help and support. And they don't know, they don't
44:25
know about Jim culture, see I guess a lot of me complaining
44:29
here is me talking about like how Jim should be.
44:32
There is like gym etiquette and gym culture and like little
44:35
things that you learn across the way little things you learn,
44:38
like how to be and it's not that difficult, you know?
44:42
I mean, it's not difficult to be polite.
44:43
It's not. I mean for example If you know
44:48
you're going to be doing a lot of sets, you can be using a
44:50
machine for a long time and nice way to enable another person to
44:55
use the machine in that scenario is to offer to do a common
44:59
voice. It is cool, but you take turns.
45:01
So like I'll do a set. I'll come off.
45:04
I'll rest you do your set and then we swap and someone can
45:08
suggest that. And that can be like a good way
45:10
of you still get to use a machine, you get breaks, maybe
45:13
you even make a friend and the process like it, everybody's a
45:15
winner, right? Right.
45:16
And a lot of people will tend to go for that and I think that's,
45:19
that's really, really awesome. So yeah.
45:23
What's this one? I worked out so hard at our gym
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at Camp. Follow Yaar, Iraq.
45:28
That I broke all the elliptical machines and they wouldn't fix
45:33
them or by them by more. Okay.
45:38
I got told at Planet Fitness that my this is an American
45:41
chain. I believe that my water bottle
45:42
was too big by the manager. Someone said lunk alert what?
45:48
What does that mean? What does that mean?
45:52
What, how can it too big to have a water?
45:55
What? Your water bottles too big?
46:00
Wow. Does that?
46:01
What does rules? I don't get that.
46:02
That's, that's not normal. Women's volleyball volleyball.
46:06
Team at my college, getting priority on the free weights,
46:08
the whole area is sealed off, or they're in there.
46:10
Most of them not using the squat rack.
46:12
Anyway, but instead the Smith machine for half rep squats,
46:16
that sucks high school has taken over the bench for eternity just
46:20
to Ego left. By the way, I asked the people
46:23
have read it, what would the most infuriating thing?
46:26
They experience than the gym was and this is all the responses.
46:29
Has taken over the Beds For Eternity for ego left.
46:35
Yeah, well like they just sit there for like so long, not
46:39
using it, but they just own this part of the gym apparently
46:43
people not minding their own business.
46:45
While I left tell me what routines to do.
46:47
Oh my God. And what not to, even when I
46:51
have my own fitness instructor. They're very annoying.
46:53
Yeah, it's unsolicited advice. Nobody likes, unsolicited advice
46:57
but best way to approach that is, if you know what, like, I
47:02
see, people at the gym, sometimes doing things, You know
47:06
that aren't correct. And I don't really feel like
47:11
it's my place to say anything. If I feel like it's going to be
47:13
dangerous for them, I will say something.
47:16
And I'll be like, hey mate, just just to let you know, like
47:20
there's a better way of doing this.
47:21
Like the bit safer did a bit but like generally speaking, you
47:26
know, you learn, you learn through progress, but I think
47:29
it's important for people to once in a while just point
47:32
things out and, you know, take care of each other, it should be
47:35
a kind of a nice space where everyone takes care of each
47:37
other and looks out for each other.
47:40
But you know, unfortunately you're not, you're not always
47:42
going to get that. Some people are going to be
47:43
quite, I don't know how to put it.
47:48
But then I don't I don't see necessarily say egotistical, but
47:51
it's kind of like arrogant like that.
47:53
It's kind of you come over and you just thrust this knowledge
47:56
on the people and it's like, all right, I get it, you know,
47:58
everything like it's all about the way you relay that message.
48:03
I don't think there's anything wrong with people coming over to
48:05
you and giving you advice but try to Do it in a way that's
48:11
respectful. I think that's always the way to
48:14
do it. Some fat guy, making fun of
48:18
another fat guy for working out at night because that must mean
48:21
he's insecure. That's why he's here at night
48:23
when no one could see him. See this is awful.
48:25
Like whenever I see someone that's you know overweight
48:30
that's at the gym. I think it's amazing.
48:32
I'm so inspired by that because it must be so tough to keep
48:38
going because you are heavily so self-conscious.
48:40
It's a place that You feel like the eyes are on you?
48:43
They're probably not to be honest but you feel that way
48:46
because the whole point is that you go there, you feel
48:49
body-conscious. I felt the same way when I first
48:51
started going to the gym I felt so tiny.
48:54
I felt fat I felt terrible about myself but the reality is like
48:59
it's a space where In its best state, everyone is there to
49:04
better themselves and everyone is there to help each other out
49:06
and it's a good positive environment to be around.
49:09
And I can't tell you how proud and happy, it makes me to see
49:12
someone keep going to the gym consistently.
49:14
And you see like the progress. They're making over months and
49:16
months and months. He might never speak to that
49:18
person but you see that progress and you're like, I get that.
49:22
I know what goes into that, I know how hard you've worked
49:26
because I've been there and it's a very inspiring atmosphere to
49:30
being and no one. In the gym should be you know,
49:35
making others feel bad. That's just not the way that it
49:38
should be. It should never be like that,
49:44
and if ever is like that, it's disappointing people should do
49:48
better. People should support each
49:50
other, you know, raise each other up.
49:53
Not push each other down because What you don't realize is, you
49:58
might be affecting that person's confidence the self-esteem and
50:02
then they might stop going. And then they won't achieve
50:05
their goals and you might be the reason that prevents them from
50:09
achieving their goals and that's awful.
50:12
Try to raise people up. Try to inspire people motivate
50:15
people. That's what you should do.
50:18
Oh, and just one final comment, this person said me pulling and
50:21
pushing with all my might and not being able to open the
50:24
entrance Door. Hey, some doors are just a ball.
50:27
Ache to try and open. I've had this, and it makes me
50:29
feel like, oh, yeah. Doesn't matter how long I've
50:32
been going to the gym. I can't open this fucking door.
50:34
I was wrong with me. He like clearly, I'm a weakling.
50:38
It's just annoying. Tricky door, sometimes, isn't
50:41
it? Bill better doors, Jim people.
50:44
I mean, maybe they don't purpose.
50:46
You know, it's like mmm. We're going to make everything
50:48
about this place as tough as possible.
50:50
So you're always always getting a workout.
50:53
Like for example, I don't think I've ever seen a lift in the
50:56
gym. Maybe some I never seen it.
51:01
I just see steps everywhere. It's like, that's right.
51:06
You want to get to the locker room.
51:07
You got a walk, he got it's a workout, everything's a worker.
51:12
I mean I mean it does it does inspire you to do that.
51:16
Like if I'm in a train station I'll always go for the steps.
51:18
I won't go for the escalators. I mean, even now I walk to work,
51:24
I could take the bus, there's a bus stop right outside my house,
51:26
but just makes more sense to walk to save money.
51:31
Get some exercise in, that's at least nearly an hour's worth of
51:36
working out every single day. You know, just by walking to
51:39
work, half an hour each way. I feel like that kind of gym
51:43
mentality or Fitness mentality seeps, its way into your
51:47
everyday life. So, if you see opportunities to
51:50
get some exercise, even if If it's just walking, you'll
51:53
probably take it. And I feel like that's more of a
51:56
change of mindset. More than anything else, you
51:58
know. Anyway, I'm glad that I finally
52:03
did this episode. It's been sitting in my, my
52:06
notebook for ages. And I wasn't sure when I was
52:08
going to do it, but I realized that I didn't have a podcast
52:12
lined up for this week, because I always try to get the podcast
52:16
out on a Friday. And I don't know if I'm going to
52:18
edit this in time. Hopefully, I will, I think, I
52:21
think I'll be all right, I think, Right.
52:23
But yeah, I wanted to do this for so long especially because
52:28
and you might see this in the thumbnail for this podcast.
52:32
You might see one of my transformation images like most
52:36
recently like how I'm doing. I'd I haven't decided what to
52:39
put as the photo, but it felt like a good time to talk about
52:44
it because I'm very proud of my progress and where I've come and
52:47
and what I've learned through this gym journey and you know
52:49
maybe we can do a follow-up to this in a year from now or Finn
52:52
and I can kind of share more with you but I just kind of
52:55
wanted to share my experiences of what I've learned.
52:58
And I guess if nothing else to say to you like hey if you're
53:01
thinking about going to the gym or you're thinking about
53:04
bringing some more Fitness into your life, it is one of the best
53:08
things you can do. It really will change your life.
53:11
It will change. It will improve your mental
53:13
health. It'll improve how you feel about
53:16
yourself. It will make you physically and
53:19
mentally feel better. And it just gives you so much.
53:24
You know it really is a positive thing to add to your life so
53:27
really if you listen to this and then you're thinking about it
53:29
and you're not sure give it some serious thought.
53:33
Really might be one of the best things you ever do with
53:36
yourself. Thank you so much for watching
53:40
listening to this episode of the Christian rebroadcast.
53:44
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54:31
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54:34
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54:37
Do sir, thank you so much for listening and watching guys
54:40
until the next time. Peace be with you be safe.
54:43
Be well and I'll see you in the next one.