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Why Your Health Is a National Security Issue (And What To Do About It) | Coach Alex On This Week Explained | Faithful Fitness · Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten

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  Speaker 1: Hey, faithful, welcome to the Faithful Fitness Podcast. In a moment,
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  Speaker 1: my dad, coach Alex van Houten, will help you honor
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  Speaker 1: God by making the most out of the body God's
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  Speaker 1: given you. Today you can expect truth from the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: tools from science, and guidance for everyday life. So listen. Closing,
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  Speaker 1: get ready, let's get one percent better today.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, faithful coach Alex Here, grace in peace to you.
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  Speaker 2: Over the past couple episodes, we've been building something. We've
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  Speaker 2: stepped outside the walls into culture, we've come back home
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  Speaker 2: into the body, and now today we're asking a harder question,
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  Speaker 2: what does it actually mean to take responsibility for the
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  Speaker 2: body God gave you in a world that's falling apart.
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  Speaker 2: This conversation was recorded on this Week Explained, a geopolitical podcast,
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  Speaker 2: and at first glance, it might feel like it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: belong here, but it does because one of the most
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  Speaker 2: overlooked truths in our culture right now is this. Your
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  Speaker 2: health is not just personal, it's not just aesthetic, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not even just about longevity. It's about readiness. Scripture says,
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  Speaker 2: be sober minded, be watchful. This is not just spiritual language.
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  Speaker 2: It's a call to be prepared, to be clear, to
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  Speaker 2: be capable, and the reality is most people just aren't,
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  Speaker 2: not because they don't care, but because they've been taught
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  Speaker 2: to chase shortcuts instead of stewardship, to look for a
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  Speaker 2: quick fix, instead of becoming the kind of person who
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  Speaker 2: can endure. In this episode, we'll talk about belief, then identity,
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  Speaker 2: and then discipline and the simple truth that transformation doesn't
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  Speaker 2: just come from doing everything at once. It actually comes
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  Speaker 2: from the one percent decisions that we make daily. So
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  Speaker 2: as you listen, I want you to wrestle with this question,
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  Speaker 2: if God required strength from me tomorrow, is there anything
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  Speaker 2: that I would do differently today, not someday, not when
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  Speaker 2: things settle down today, Because readiness isn't built in a moment,
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  Speaker 2: it's cultivated day by day. And if you're realizing you
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  Speaker 2: don't just need more information, you want structure, consistency, a
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  Speaker 2: podcast directly. You're an agent in this all right, without
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  Speaker 2: further ado, let's get into it. I believe that a
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  Speaker 2: sick population is a huge geo political threat, not just
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  Speaker 2: from a financial and resource perspective, but also from a
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  Speaker 2: just a will to live perspective. When we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: large forces that want to snuff out of people group,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it comes down to who has the will to
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  Speaker 2: live and you don't get to decide in the moment.
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  Speaker 2: That is a process of generational cultivation, and I believe
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  Speaker 2: fitness is a deep part of that.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to a bonus episode of this week.
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  Speaker 2: Explain.
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  Speaker 3: We spend a lot of time on this show analyzing
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  Speaker 3: troop movements, supply chains, and the shifting plates of global power,
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  Speaker 3: but today we're looking at a strategic asset that most
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  Speaker 3: analysts completely overlook.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 3: We are currently at a global inflection point. We talk
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  Speaker 3: about hard times and strong men, but the reality is
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  Speaker 3: that in a world of overstretched systems and volatile borders.
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  Speaker 3: Your personal health is no longer just a lifestyle choice.
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  Speaker 3: It's a matter of national and personal security. When the
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  Speaker 3: hospital systems redline and the supply chains falter, the healthy
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  Speaker 3: won't just thrive, they will be the only ones capable
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  Speaker 3: of standing a line. Now, to help us navigate this,
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  Speaker 3: we're joined by someone who operates at the intersection of
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  Speaker 3: high level kinesiology and clinical psychology. He has trained DELETE
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  Speaker 3: operators and has currently deep in research on the mechanics
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  Speaker 3: of human performance. He's here to help us spot the
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  Speaker 3: fake news in the fitness world, solve the chronic pain
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  Speaker 3: that's straining your bandwidth, and explain why bioindividuality is the
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  Speaker 3: secret weapon you didn't know you had. All right, Welcome
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  Speaker 3: Alex ben Houting into the podcast. Alex, thank you so
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  Speaker 3: much for joining.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me today. I'm thrilled to be
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  Speaker 2: here and I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. Well, I think a lot of my audience may
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  Speaker 3: already know who you are. You've done some work with
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Bustamante, which is big, and I see the everyday
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  Speaker 3: Spy shirt on It's big in my audience. So love
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  Speaker 3: of the things that you guys are doing, but for
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  Speaker 3: those who don't, could you give a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a background on who you are, what you're doing, and
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  Speaker 3: then we'll kind of get into the discussion of today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, thank you, thank you very much for that.
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  Speaker 2: I am an exercise scientist who gets to represent everyday
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  Speaker 2: spy in our Spy Fit brand. It's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun to build that together over the past. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been five years. Five years at this point. In
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  Speaker 2: Andy actually connected with me seven years ago when I
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  Speaker 2: was running my own fitness company at the time it
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  Speaker 2: was called Defining Dadbod. Now you can find all my
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  Speaker 2: work on that front under Faithful Fitness, But back then
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  Speaker 2: we were just two dads trying to run a business
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  Speaker 2: and talking through how difficult it was as a father
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  Speaker 2: to maintain health and fitness while juggling all the things
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  Speaker 2: that you need to juggle between sleep deprivation and feeding
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  Speaker 2: yourself on the road and finding time to exercise and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: And it was excellent to help him find that for himself.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, you know, I haven't had this sort
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  Speaker 2: of individualized guidance since I left the CIA, And what
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  Speaker 2: you do is just head and shoulders above anybody I've
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  Speaker 2: ever worked with from a coaching perspective, And so that
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  Speaker 2: for me comes out of a past of twenty years
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  Speaker 2: in the health and fitness world, struggling with my own
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  Speaker 2: personal genetic disorder. That's that's difficult for me, and also
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  Speaker 2: helping my clients make the most of the body they've
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  Speaker 2: been given. And so it's it's been quite a quite
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  Speaker 2: a ride where I'm at right now. I just I
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  Speaker 2: just published a book called Faithful Fitness to help people
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  Speaker 2: walk through forty days of getting their their faith and
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  Speaker 2: their fitness aligned together. And I'm also working toward my
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  Speaker 2: pH d on the on the exercise science and clinical
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  Speaker 2: psychology side. I'm particularly interested in how belief changes the
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  Speaker 2: physiology of our body.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's there's a lot to unpack in there. Top
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  Speaker 3: of mine is probably the last thing you said, and
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  Speaker 3: and how belief kind of changes. So it's and and
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  Speaker 3: maybe won't get in this too much. I had other
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  Speaker 3: questions to start this out, but I really like how
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  Speaker 3: you ended that because Tho's good some of the struggles
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  Speaker 3: that I have as well in my own health journjourney.
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  Speaker 3: Not that I ever thought I was on a health journey,
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  Speaker 3: but it's like, look, I'm a dad as well running
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  Speaker 3: a podcast, which is a business. I am you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm out I doing work for the Department of War,
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  Speaker 3: so helping other soldiers in it. So's it's like physically
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  Speaker 3: you need to be up to the task, but mentally
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  Speaker 3: you need to be up to the task as well.
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  Speaker 3: And so can you kind of try to unpack that
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  Speaker 3: sort of how belief and belief and then your health
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  Speaker 3: journey and how that kind of coincides.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna I'm gonna tie this together with
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  Speaker 2: a study that just blew me away in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to explain it. It's difficult to explain,
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  Speaker 2: but if you can wrap your head around it, it
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  Speaker 2: will change the way you see your body and the
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  Speaker 2: way your brain works with regard to your body. So,
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  Speaker 2: in this study, what they did and this is this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of the initial stages of nutrient genomics, where
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  Speaker 2: where we were investigating individuals DNA and finding genes that
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  Speaker 2: they carried and how that how that showed up in
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  Speaker 2: their body. It's the genotype that's the the fingerprint at conception,
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  Speaker 2: your very special DNA sequence that's that's unique to you, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then your phenotype, how it shows up, how strong
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  Speaker 2: you are, how tall you are, what your IQ predisposition is,
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  Speaker 2: all those things, right, that's that's all your your phenotype.
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  Speaker 2: And then the study. What they did is they were
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  Speaker 2: interested in how genotype affects individuals in their exercise performance.
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  Speaker 2: And then they'd, like any good psychological study, they had
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  Speaker 2: a little twist in here, that's that's pretty powerful. So
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  Speaker 2: the first thing they did is they took these these
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  Speaker 2: individuals and they brought them in and they said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to test your genes. We're going to see
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  Speaker 2: if you have the endurance genes with regard to exercise
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  Speaker 2: and see how you perform in it in an assessment
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  Speaker 2: of endurance right in. And so that's something we actually
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  Speaker 2: know we can take. We can take, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: the Olympic level marathon ers and we can test them.
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  Speaker 2: And there are these clusters of genes that seem to
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  Speaker 2: be really helpful in coding for extremely excellent exercise performance
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  Speaker 2: and endurance. Things like things that seem to code for
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  Speaker 2: for slightly increased VO two max, slightly increased mitochondrial density,
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  Speaker 2: slightly increased stroke volume of the heart, or greater lung
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  Speaker 2: capacity right, you can imagine how those things would be
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  Speaker 2: useful in endurance. And so they took these people and
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  Speaker 2: they took them, took them on a treadmill. And if
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  Speaker 2: you've ever done a tread have you ever done a
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  Speaker 2: treadmill exhaustion test? I mean you were in the military.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like something that you've gone through. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 2: you can do this one of two ways. You can
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  Speaker 2: make the treadmill faster until somebody gives up. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: can increase the incline until somebody gives up, basically, right.
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  Speaker 2: And so they said, hey, we want you to get
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  Speaker 2: on this treadmill. We want you to give us your
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  Speaker 2: best effort. We're going to test your your endurability. How
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  Speaker 2: how long will you endure? Right? And so they so
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  Speaker 2: everybody's starting at a baseline, right. And so then they
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  Speaker 2: also so took their their DNA sample and tested them
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  Speaker 2: for the endurance genes with the with the goal of
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  Speaker 2: bringing them back six weeks later and understanding, okay, you
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  Speaker 2: have the gene, how did you perform you didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the gene pool, how did you perform that sort of thing?
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  Speaker 2: And and so so they brought them back and here's
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  Speaker 2: the twist. They retested them and they lied to them
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  Speaker 2: about their genetics. So so for the people who who
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  Speaker 2: had the gene and for the people who didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the gene, they randomized what they told them. So you
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  Speaker 2: bring these people back. Are you following me so far?
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  Speaker 2: Because this yeah, yeah, this is super interesting. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 2: so now you have four categories of people. You have
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  Speaker 2: you have the people who have the gene and are
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  Speaker 2: told they have the gene, so they believe it. Right,
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  Speaker 2: not only not only are they an endurance buff that's
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  Speaker 2: built right into their system, right, they believe it. Then
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  Speaker 2: you have the people who don't have the gene and
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  Speaker 2: and they were told they don't have the gene, right,
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  Speaker 2: so they already kind of suck at endurance anyway, but
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  Speaker 2: now they believe it. You're like, oh man, I'm bad
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  Speaker 2: at endurance. This is where things get interesting. You have
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  Speaker 2: the people who don't have the gene, but you tell
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  Speaker 2: them they do, so, so genetically speaking, they're not good
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  Speaker 2: at endurance, but they believe they are. And then you
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  Speaker 2: have the other group of people. Genetically speaking, they have
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  Speaker 2: the endurance gene, but you tell them they don't, so
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  Speaker 2: as you might imagine, and it's not actually very interesting
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  Speaker 2: at the polls. If you have the gene and you
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  Speaker 2: believe you have the gene, guess what happens? You perform
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  Speaker 2: significantly better. Yeah, you're like, You're like, like, I'm an
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  Speaker 2: endurance boss, Like I'm not stopping anytime soon. You beat
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  Speaker 2: your last record, you know, six weeks ago, No bigie
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  Speaker 2: that we expect that. We know that there's nothing special there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's cool, but there's nothing special there. And
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  Speaker 2: in the same token, the poor guys who don't have
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  Speaker 2: the gene and you tell them they don't have the gene,
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  Speaker 2: guess what they perform worse because why would you try? Right, Like, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the gene. I'm not good at endurance.
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  Speaker 2: I hated it to begin with. It hurts and makes
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  Speaker 2: me out of breath, and it's stupid, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: get the high, you know, all the stuff. So that's
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  Speaker 2: not surprising, right, that makes sense in back of the
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  Speaker 2: Napkin psychology. But things get really interesting right here. So
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  Speaker 2: for the people who don't have the gene and are
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  Speaker 2: told they do, they performed on average about twenty percent
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  Speaker 2: longer on the assessment than they did previously, just with
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  Speaker 2: the belief, just with the belief like, hey, I can
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  Speaker 2: do this, I'm going to go longer, right, And then
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  Speaker 2: the people who had the gene but were told they didn't,
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  Speaker 2: they performed somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty percent less
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  Speaker 2: well than they did six weeks ago. Now that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But here's where things get it even more interesting, because
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  Speaker 2: the psychology of it is like, Okay, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: guess I get that, like, if you believe you can,
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  Speaker 2: you can. If you believe you can't, you can't. You
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  Speaker 2: know what is that Yoda? There is no try. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's something absolutely Yeah, we know that, right. But here's
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  Speaker 2: the kicker. And this to me this may when I
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  Speaker 2: read this and I understood it, it made the hair
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  Speaker 2: on my arms stand up, and it freaked me out
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  Speaker 2: with regard to the time that I've spent with my
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  Speaker 2: clients over the years because because what they took another measure,
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  Speaker 2: and it's called carbon dioxide buffering, So you actually you
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  Speaker 2: actually get to see how much carbon dioxide somebody is
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  Speaker 2: able to get out of their body. Right, So this
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  Speaker 2: is a physiological measure, has nothing to do like you
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  Speaker 2: can't make yourself better at carbon dioxide buffering. You can't
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  Speaker 2: go oh. In the same way you can't digest your
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  Speaker 2: food faster. You can't sit here thinking like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wish that chicken would roll through me a little quicker,
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  Speaker 2: or I wish it would slow down, whatever end of
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  Speaker 2: the spectrum you're on, you can't do that. There's no
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  Speaker 2: mind over matter that controls peristalsis in your digestive tract.
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  Speaker 2: The same way there's no way you can control carbon
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  Speaker 2: dioxide buffering. And this is this is what got me
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  Speaker 2: in these two groups. In the group of people who
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  Speaker 2: did not have the gene but they believed they did,
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  Speaker 2: their carbon dioxide buffering was significantly better than it was
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  Speaker 2: six weeks ago. The belief that they had the gene
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  Speaker 2: gave them the same level of carbon dioxide buffering as
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  Speaker 2: the guys who had the gene and believed it. Like
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  Speaker 2: that's crazy, Like which is more important belief for genetics? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Scaredy true. At the same time is what I always say.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's exactly right. But here's the other kicker.
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  Speaker 2: The people who who didn't they had the gene but
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  Speaker 2: they were told they did not, their carbon dioxide buffering
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  Speaker 2: was as bad as the people who didn't. Have the
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  Speaker 2: gene and also believed they didn't. So so like wrap
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  Speaker 2: your head around that. From a hell and fitness perspective,
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  Speaker 2: that's just one thing, that's just endurance. But when we
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  Speaker 2: start thinking about how belief can change how our body
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  Speaker 2: physiologically functions on a daily basis, man, that that'll that'll
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  Speaker 2: change everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely. And look, they're they're all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of people myself included sometimes who are uh And it
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  Speaker 3: always brings up a story that that I like to
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  Speaker 3: tell about my time being attached to special operations and
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  Speaker 3: so I was intel for special operations, but I was
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  Speaker 3: not an operator, right, I was not a six four
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  Speaker 3: two twenty five guy running running around like that. Didn't
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  Speaker 3: go through the Q course or anything. And and while
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  Speaker 3: I was working with them and became good friends with them,
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned one time it's like I could never do
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  Speaker 3: what you guys have done. I couldn't get through the
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  Speaker 3: Q course. I couldn't get through BUD or anything. And
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  Speaker 3: one of the guys who's really good friends with he
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  Speaker 3: looked at me and he said, well, you've already failed
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  Speaker 3: because you've lost the belief that you can. You told
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  Speaker 3: yourself you can't and you're not going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, anyone can make it through barring some right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some other physiological condition or something. Anyone can
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  Speaker 3: do this if you have the belief that you can
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  Speaker 3: do it, right, That's what I find so fascinating about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So like exercise and nutrition science, I'm sure we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get into some of that. Exercise in nutrition
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  Speaker 2: science is fascinating the way that exercise can be used
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  Speaker 2: as an adaptive stressor that changes your body for the
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  Speaker 2: better through an epigenetic process. Similarly nutrition, same way how
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  Speaker 2: nutrition can be used to create adaptations in the body
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  Speaker 2: through an epigenetic process that stick around, right, that's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the last third years of calorie counting, don't shake a
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  Speaker 2: stick to what sort of thing we can actually shift
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  Speaker 2: and change in ourselves if we use these things like
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  Speaker 2: a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer. But when we understand
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  Speaker 2: what our belief about identity has to do with how
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  Speaker 2: our physiology responds, that's to me, that's that's the thing
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  Speaker 2: that kind of undergirds this whole piece. Right. So your dad, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know that doing squats is good for your legs? Right? Like, duh,
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  Speaker 2: doing squats is good for your legs, right, But making
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  Speaker 2: the space to do that in your life regularly and
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  Speaker 2: challenging yourself to do it with more volume, or to
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  Speaker 2: do it with more intensity, or to condition yourself so
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  Speaker 2: that you can leap small toddlers in a single bound. Right,
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  Speaker 2: that that requires if your kids are important to you,
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  Speaker 2: that requires that somehow that practice is related to the
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  Speaker 2: idea of good father. Am I a good father?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Or no? And if your goal is to be a
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  Speaker 2: good father, fitness can either be a distraction from that,
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  Speaker 2: like oh no, I have to take time away from
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  Speaker 2: my kids to work out, for instance, or fitness can
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  Speaker 2: be a supporter, encourager, or even prerequisite for that. Right,
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  Speaker 2: I want to leap to small toddlers in a single bound.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: That's part of being a good father. Therefore I will
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: squat more often, right, and and and that that's where
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that's where this this question of belief and identity come
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: into our personal health and fitness practice because the science
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: can inform us, but it can't tell us who we are.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: And and that's the realm.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's absolutely right, a great point, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: bringing it into fatherhood very astute timely in this in
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: the day and age and what I kind of think
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: and why. I mean. We're a geopolitical intelligence podcast that
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: does interviews from time to time, so some of my
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: audience may say, well, why are you talking to this
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: guy about fitness. I think it is a geopolitical risk
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: to a nation's security national security to have an entire
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: population that is unhealthy. We're seeing that with standards for
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: the US military maybe going down so we can let
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: more people who are unhealthy. And that means if you
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: don't put those standards down, you're letting less people in,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: you know, a less qualified population. But also the population
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: not fighting in a future global war is going to
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: take up hospital room for those who may need it
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: that are fighting in those conflicts. So my question is
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: everyone wants like quick wins, right, we want Okay, we
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: see these fitness influencers and they tell us if you
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: just do this five minutes a day, you're gonna be
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and then it shows you a picture of like Arnold
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Schwarzenegger from nineteen seventies. It's like, you're gonna look like
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: this five minutes a day. I'll get you trained up.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: And then when it doesn't happen, in a week or
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: two weeks and there's no change. You kind of give up.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So we'll talk about the elite clients that you have,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: but when you're when you're talking to everyday dads like myself,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: who just want I don't care like I've been married
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: twenty years. I don't care about, you know, going to
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: the beach and looking good for women like my wife
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: thinks that I'm the most attractive person in the room
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: all the time, and I think she's the most attractive
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: person in the room all the time. I am trying
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: to get healthier, get better for a mental health as
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: well as longevity. So how do you do you deal
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: with clients like the everyday client who's just like, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: want to do this microwave nation five minutes, let's get
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: it done. I want to be shredded.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I won one hundred percent deal with those clients, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry that's not going to happen in five minutes.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: So there's that, But but I do want to address
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: something you said there. So one of the one of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the products in our our spy Fit program is called
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a lifetime athlete, and our demographic is not people who
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: ran the four hundred when they were twenty one and
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: got gold medals and in their forties still want to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: do that. I mean, great, if that's what you want
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: to do, keep at it, have at it. It's an
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: awful race, by the way, it hurts so bad. They're
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: run as fast as you can for four hundred meters. Man,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: that stuff. I don't have the sprint power gene. That's
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say. But so so that that said.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: In the Lifetime Athlete, one of the things we talk
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: about is, look, athleticism is not just performing at a
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: high level to win a trophy. Athleticism isn't lifting the
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: heaviest weight you can. From a physiological perspective, what athleticism
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: actually is is resilience and then and actually the functional
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: ability to produce and respond to power. So let's say
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: let's say I am a young dad throwing my child
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: up in the air and catching them, which, by the way,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: brings us a boost of oxytocin because dad gets oxytocin
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: through play. Mom gets oxytocin through cuddles. Not a lot
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: of people know that, but dads get this bonding neurotransmitter
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: through play. Throwing my child up in the air and
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: catching them, which is also good for them because that
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: response of learning how to trust and flexing down their
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: core and laughing and giggling and having a good time,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it's good for the kiddo to that's power. Being able
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to generate enough force to throw a child in the
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: air is power in the same way that if you're
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: seventy two years old and you trip over a pair
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: of shoes in the living room and you're about you're
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: about to hit the ground, and you put your hands
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: down and catch yourself with your muscles in your pectoral
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: muscles or deltoids or triceps, your core, you don't break
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: any bones because you have power the ability to decelerate
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: you against gravity. Right, that's an athletic trait. That's an
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: actual athleticism when we talk about the biomechanical process of
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: the body. Right. So what I want individuals to understand
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: is is if they're working toward doing literally anything in
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: their life, it's going to require athleticism in their body.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Not being able again to jump super high or throw
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: huge heavyweights over their head or whatever, but to be resilient,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to be able to produce power, to be able to
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: prevent injury. Right, And an athlete, if I see myself
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: as an athlete. Then then I will feed myself differently.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I will make room for exercise in my life. I
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: will I will make some decisions about my rest and
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: recovery that other people won't even think about. Right, And
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: in that sense, that comes back to that identity question
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: because I completely agree with you. I believe that a
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: sick population is a huge geopolitical threat, not just from
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: a financial and resource perspective, but also from a just
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a will to live perspective. When we're talking about large
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: forces that want to snuff out of people group, sometimes
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: it comes down to who has the will to live
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: and you don't get to decide in the moment. That
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: is a process of generational cultivation, and I believe fitness
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: is a deep part of that. Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: So this is what we trained seer specialists for, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the will to live, and and that goes from the
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: survival aspects of getting out into the desert or the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: forest and just surviving for a time. That evasion of uh,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: you know, the evasion is the will to survive because
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I'm evading an enemy. It comes a point where your
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: mind goes, do I even care anymore?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Like, should I just give up, and but you said
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: a very interesting thing which which popped into my head
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: the scene from the Matrix right where Keanu Reeves is
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: neo and he's asking, oh, can I dodge bullets? And
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the ant the response was no, you just know that
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: when you need to, you won't have to. So I
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: was kind of thinking through this, like when you get
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: pushed back from people who are like, you know, I'm
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: gonna want donuts, I'm gonna want all of those treats
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: and that that serotonin that that comes from food, and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: they say, you know, will I you know, well I
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: ever give up all of this stuff? Do you ever
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: kind of tell them bring that neo and go. It's
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: not that you're going to give it up, but when
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the time comes, you're not gonna want it anymore. Is
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: how I see that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I love that I might be more a little more
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: manipulative psychologically speaking. So so, well, well, and this is
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: this isn't important. This is an important thing about nutrition,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: and so we don't just eat because it's good for us.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: We don't just eat for nutrition. We don't just eat
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: for our metabolism and whatnot. Sometimes it's actually a big
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: social thing. Sometimes we eat just to connect with people.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we eat for the pleasure of it, right, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: then and then sometimes people eat to regulate their emotions.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So there is a there's a big spectrum of reasons
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: people eat things, right, and and the question I'll get
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: from somebody is, Okay, look, I'm trying to get more healthy.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to do these things. But do I have
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: to give up donuts forever? Like? Is that a thing? Like?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: You know, that's always the question.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do I have to give up donuts? And and
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and My shorter answers no. But if you understand who
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you are and what you're doing, then your your interest
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: in donuts needs to align with the goal. Right. So
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: so as a as a short answer, Hey, all those
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: extra carbohydrates and all that extra fat and all that
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: processed folic acid enriched flour, which if you have the
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: mt hfr genetic mutation, it's not going to be good
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: for you anyway. If you if you know who you
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: are and you know what you're up to, and you
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: and you're like, man, donut sounds great for me. I'm
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: going to share donut with my kids. I love donutnuts.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I think they're great. I don't eat them a lot,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: and I eat them on leg day because I'm going
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to go nuke my legs. I'm gonna wear out all
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the glycogens does in my body. I'm going to put
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: myself into an adaptive state where I need that extra carbohydrate,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that extra that extra fat, and then we're gonna go
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: have donuts. And what's great is is in that state,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: it doesn't make a huge negative impact on my pancreas
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: it goes to helping me adapt and grow from what
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I just did. Right. And so oftentimes I'll tell my
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: clients I won't use the neo thing, although I kind
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: of like it. So no, you you won't. You won't
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: have to give up those things forever, but they'll be
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a part of your program and you'll have earned them.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: And that's the difference that that I want those things
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: that we enjoy for pleasure, those things we use for
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: social connection. I want those things to serve our health
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and fitness, not to not to pull away from them.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: And you know, for some people that means you'll you
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: will eat a lot less donuts than you currently do.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: But but when you do eat donuts, it won't be
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: hurting you, it'll be helping you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Hey, you brought up something that again, very interesting in
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: the way that you talked about, Like, I am talking
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: to you about health and fitness in a physical look
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: at the way I look, and I think that's how
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: most people think about their physical state. But I would
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: say everyone maybe younger than fifty, and I'll just hit
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: fifty because I'm not fifty yet, so I'll say everyone
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: younger than that probably cares physically what they look like.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: But you you were talking in the internals, right, so
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: like the pancreas and what it does to your liver
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: and your kidneys, And I think do you have some
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: difficulty with kind of invoking that or telling that to
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: people because they can't see it right unless it's they
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: do blood work and then the doctor sits with them
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: and says, look, you got some issues here, Vitamin D deficiency,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: all of these things. You're going to need to do
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: something you're coming at it from. Yeah, it might make
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: you look better these this training program that we're going
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: to do, But what's really going to happen is inside,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: you're going to feel better. You're going to feel the
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: way you feel when that doughnut hits your body, right,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: that serotonin that the dopamine that hits. I know this
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: because I don't like to say that a gym, but
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I go to the gym, but immediately afterwards, the dopamine hits,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: and it's like the music you're listening to sounds better,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: the world around you looks better, it smells better. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: all of that I would assume is from a physiological
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: stamp the internals that are happening in your body.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, there's so much to impact. There really two
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: things I want to I want to hammer down on
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: when when I work with individuals, oftentimes by the time
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: they get to me, they have already chased that I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: want to look good fast way of doing things. And
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: and not everybody, but you know, some of your listeners
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: might not have you know, run that gambit yet, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: you know it's your journey. Have at it, that's what
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: you want to do. But but I work, you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: in the in the health and fitness world, I meet
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: all sorts of people. I used to work with bodybuilders,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: and these are the kind of of you know, they
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: were the image of masculinity at one point. You know,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: some people think the big muscles are gross and some
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: bub but whatever. But but imagine this image of a
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: perfect male body, whatever that is. And I got to
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: meet one of these guys and I was doing, you know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I did his blood work, and we walked through some things.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: And this guy was, you know, twenty two years old,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: six foot nine, just just built, you know, great lats,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: he's got great symmetry through his abdominal muscles, giant legs,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: you know, he's got he's got this this pretty girlfriend
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: next to him. We do his blood work and he
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: sits with me and he says, hey, uh, what's it
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: looking like. I said, dude, you're His HDL was so low,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: so low, like in the twenties, which is not good.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: It's not good for your heart. It's actually indicative of
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: several hormonal issues. For somebody who lifts weights as much
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: as he does and looks as healthy as he does,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: his HDL shit at least be in the seventies, at
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: least somewhere in their heart protective, great hormonal system. His
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: testosterone was below one hundred, which for a man in
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: his twenties is like almost ten percent or less what
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: he should have. Well, And I said, dude, your blood
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: work looks like you feel miserable. He's like I do
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I'm so miserable. He was depressed, he was on several
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: different medications. He was looking into testosterone replacement therapy, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: from the outside looking in, if that guy walked across
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the gym, every other guy's looking at him, like, man,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I want to look like him someday, you know, like
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: lifting my weights to look like that dude. Right. And
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: he told me, he's like, I haven't had sex in
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a month, not because my girlfriend's not interested, but my
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: body will not. I can't and he's probably not interested
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: mentally exactly. So he had gotten himself to a place where,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: from the outside looking in, everything looked I mean before
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: AI could generate the perfect male body. I mean he's
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: pretty close, you know, right, And but he wasn't even
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: able to enjoy it. He wasn't even able to embody it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: He wasn't even able to appreciate it because he had
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: worked so hard through bodybuilding to get it to look
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: a certain way that his body was just crying for
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the necessary nutrients, the fats, everything that it needed in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: order to be a healthy young man. And you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I remember him very often when people tell me they
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: want to look a certain way, and that's fine. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: get it. I get it one hundred percent. What I
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: want individuals to understand is I want who you are
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: on the inside physically, but also who you are in
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: your identity. I want that to be on the outside
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: because the truth is on the other end of the
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: spectrum too. Individuals who have, you know, two hundred extra
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: pounds of fat on their body and they're like, I
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: just want to look strong. I don't want to. I
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: want to want to be the fat guy. I don't
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: want that. And I get it. I completely understand. I
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: think I think those are very redeeming desires. And so
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: what I do oftentimes when I work with people is
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I ask them to do this thought exercise, and I
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: would encourage you and your listeners to do the same.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: You might not do it in this conversation. You can
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: pause and do it for yourself, but ask yourself, ask
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: yourself this question. If I did everything right over the
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: next year, one year from now, if I did everything right,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting here in spring twenty twenty seven, but did
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: everything right? What's the best that could be? Who am I?
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: What's that look like? What's the best that could be?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: And picture it? Draw a picture, write it down and
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: In the same way, you can ask the same question,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: if I did everything wrong a year from now, what's
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: the worst that could be. What's the absolute most terrible
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: place that could be. I'm still around a year from now,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: what's that look like? And you can draw a picture,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: you can write it down, and what you'll find is
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: neither of those pictures has you standing in front of
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: a mirror going like, look at me, I'm so beautiful.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: That might be a part of that, but it's not
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: all of it. And that's the thing that individuals have
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to understand that this body you're in is the only
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: one you get, and as many years as the Good
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Lord gives you moving forward, it's gonna be with you.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: So what you do will either help you to feel better,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: perform better, enjoy yourself more, be more who you are
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: and maybe even look better at the same time, or
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: degrade you faster. And those are the options because we're
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: fighting entropy and you don't get a say in that one. Yeah.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And so with that, have you ever dealt with
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: someone who either go going back to the belief system,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: believed they were at the point of no return or
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: they were at the point of no return? I guess
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: that's two questions. You know, how do you talk to
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: someone who believes they are at the point of no return?
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: I probably think up some answers for that, But how
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: someone who literally is at the point of no return
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: and this is their last chance that they get what
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: are those interactions?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, well, I'm for me. When I get to
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: that place with somebody, for me, the faith has to
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: come on because because there's no other way I know
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: how to speak to that without without invoking some some
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: deeper belief system for myself and appealing to that in
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: somebody else. And so, I mean, it's a very simple question.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: The way you're acting, you're done, you think you're done,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: and if that's it, fine, But we don't have any
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: more work to do together at this point, and that
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: that's fine, Like that's your choice. But if you're not done,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I need you to understand something. God's not done with
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: you yet. And if that's true, you still have days,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: then then our goal here is to finish well, whatever
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: that looks like. And I have I have a I
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: have a client I just just got to work out
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: with who three years ago he had his second heart
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: attack and he was he's in a. He's in a
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: it was a really rough spot. Man. He'd had so
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: much work done on his back, so much work done
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: on his knees, in pain all the time, early sixties,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: you know, not not somebody who you would expect to
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: start a fitness journey. And he he was with Banie,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: was like, Alex, you know, this feels kind of like
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: a hail Mary, but can you help me? And I said, well,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: let's spend some time together. Let's let's see what you're
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: willing to do, and and we'll make a decision together.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: And and he said, you know, I've I've been in
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: and out a doctor. As my rap sheet is, he
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: gave me like a thirty page medical record. You know.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: He's like, they really don't know what to do with me.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: So that's fair. I completely understand. And so when we
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: first started working together, he couldn't walk down my driveway
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: forty yards. He couldn't walk down my driveway. It was
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: it was impossible for him. It was painful, it was difficult.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: He was in a he was in a pretty rough
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: state of depression. He was on a a lot of
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: medications at the time. And actually, at one point I
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: had to stop our training write a letter to his
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: cardiologist and tell him, I believe there's a problem. I
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: need you to do some imaging because because he's not
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: adapting to exercise in the way he should and turned
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: out he actually needed he needed a three blockages opened
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: back up that that had accumulated, and we're weakening his heart.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: So so long story short, I'm going to fast forward
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: to the happy part three years later. Thank you, all right.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: He was in a rough spot and I've already had
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of people like this. Three years later, he's
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: lost sixty pounds. That's not why he's in better health.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: It was a it was a byproduct of getting things right.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: He can now hike six miles without stopping, which is fantastic.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Since then he had his first grand baby and he
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: looked looked at me with tears in his eyes and said,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: this is what it was training for. I just didn't
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: know it. And uh. And he gets to be an
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: active part in his in his family's day to day
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: and and to this day we still work together and
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: he's still he's still growing and climbing out of that
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: that terrible hole for himself. But it's a it's the
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: same question whether you're a sixty year old man who's
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: been through heart attacks and lots of work, or or
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: maybe you're a lady who's wrestling with an autoimmune disorder
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: or a traumatic brain injury or something like that, and
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: you're just you know, like, man, if I keep if
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: I keep going this road, I'm done. I know it.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: When you see the fork in the road, the question is,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: is God done with you yet? Are you? Are you
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: ready to throw in the towel VR, I'm so sorry.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: There's nothing else you can do from health and fitness
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: perspective that's going to help you. But if you've decided
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: you're going to finish, will maybe the finish lines further
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: than you think it is and you just take it
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: a day at a time.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's an incredible That's an inspiring story. I
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: think anyone who's listening who maybe more like me, who
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: was like, I'm not there yet, but I could see
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: myself talking about in the next year. It's maybe not
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: in the next year, but the next five years. Where
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: are you at if you just keep doing what you
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: were doing, you know, in the last year being depressed
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: and being physically just not wanting to do things right.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to interrupt your thought there. But
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: I think this is why the draw of the promise
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: of the fitness industry is so powerful, because it's always
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: this little thing. Take this pill, do this exercise, subscribe
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: to this channel, whatever it is it's sow.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Is this legal to subscribe to this?
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, please subscribe to this channel. He's not over promising,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: But this little thing will make a big difference if
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: you just do that thing right. The reason that's so
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: powerful is because it's true. It's just that the focus
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: is wrong. So if if you decide I'm not done,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to finish well, I'm going to move forward
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: because I see the fork in the road. I see it.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a part of the jeald
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: political national security threat of being terribly unfit and out
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: of shape and not knowing who I am and what
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I'm doing about it right or or I'm going to
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: be a good dad, which whatever floats you about, I
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: don't care, as long as long as you you stop
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: giving up. The next step forward is a small thing.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: It's not a big thing. You don't have to change
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: everything all at once. It is a small thing, but
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: it's not usually the small things that the fitness industry
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: tells you that if you buy those things or do
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: those things, it's going to make a difference. I call
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: it the one percent. It's the one percent. What is
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: the one percent that I can shift or change now
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: That might not make a huge difference tomorrow, might not
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: make a huge difference a month from now. But if
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I keep doing that, if I keep moving forward that
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: one percent, and I do it every day, I move
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: forward a little one percent every day. I build consistent habits,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I change things that really matter, even the small things,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: and I do that. Over time, the results compound in
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: a way that you will reach a point where you
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: look back and have like nothing but gratitude for how
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: far that's taken you, And you won't be able to
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: point to any one thing. Oh, it was the detox
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: pill that I bought. Oh it was the It was
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: that Alex influencer trainer and I bought his program. You
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: know that that changed everything. I'm still doing it to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: this day. You know. It's it's the one percent. When
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: you have decided you're not giving up, when you've decided
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: that that you're going to move forward, you look around
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: at your life and say all right, what's one thing
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: I need to start. I'm not doing it right now,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: but I know it down in my soul. I know it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: I know I need to start doing that. And then
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: you look around and say, what's one thing I need
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: to stop, and that's your one percent? Do that and
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: then tomorrow do it again, and then tomorrow I'll do
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: it again, and then tomorrow do it again. And it's
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: so crazy how compounding interest works. And I've been preaching
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: this long before the Atomic Habits book. This is this
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: has been, This has been how I've been trending my
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: clients for for twenty years, because because really I remember
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: as a as a young trainer, bright eyed and bushy tailed, thinking,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: oh man, if we just had the best exercise program,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: if we just had the best nutrition program, everything would
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: be good. And I would hand these people these beautifully,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: painstakingly non ai because we didn't have it at the time.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Programs here, do this, just do this, it will change
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: your life, and nobody does that because it's too many
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: things all at once. You got to know, you've got
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: to know what your one percent is. Yeah.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're all normal, regular people, right. I think a
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: lot of the complaints sometimes is you see, we have
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: this vision of what the perfect human body looks like,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: perfect on a man, perfect on a woman, and that
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: is usually through the lens of Hollywood or magazines and
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: people who have cooks and personal trainers and all of
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: these kind of things. And you just you said something
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: that I was hoping that we would get into. Which
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: is that one percent?
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: So even for myself, if I take an Ubon stop
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: that is one stop before my apartment, I get an
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: extra kilometer of walking in. If I take a different
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: you know, if I go up the stairs to get
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: to somewhere, rather than not do it at all, I
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: have taken those stairs and oh, by the way, I
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: have to get down those as well. So we're not
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: just talking about up, but we're talking about compounding down
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: the stairs. Well, getting that that extra workout in. I
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: have five minutes, the floor is clean enough, Let's do
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: some push ups. I got nothing else that I'm doing.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Why sit here and be bored? So it's I love
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: that you got that across to everyone, Just do that extra.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: It's one percent. We're not talking about Hey, let's put
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: another plate on the bar and try to max out
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: this workout. That's a year from now, let's work our
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: way up to that. But then it also brings up
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: that's the one percent that we can do. But you
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: train the one percent, you know, operatives, special operations, so
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: you're kind of on the both both of those scales. Right,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: the people who are at their wits end and they're
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: at the very end, and they need belief, and that's
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: one training program. How do you develop a training program
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: or the elite operators is in similarly focused in belief
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: in what they can do? Or are you looking to
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: push them more than you would someone else.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: It's a great question. So the one percent have already
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: figured out the one percent if that certains makes sense
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: now because you know, when you're working with an elite operator,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: usually you don't have you don't have to dig into
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: their questions of belief to be an elite operator. They've
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: already honed that. They know who they are, they know
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: what they're doing with themselves. The question is how do
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: they optimize that, how do they how do they arrange
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: what they've already done in their world to find the
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: one percent things that will change them? Right, I'll give
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: you an example. So one of the things I like
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: to do with my elite operators is I do like
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to do a nutrition genome panel, so I want to
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: see again you, you and I we have different genomes
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: at conception we have we have these genotypes. We share
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: most of that, like as Homo sapiens, you and I
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: have ninety nine point nine I don't remember the number.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of that is shared. Right, we both
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: have five fingers, you know both have two ears. You
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: know that we share much of our genome, but we
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: differ in some small ways that matter. And those differences
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: are not something you can see on somebody very often,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: like maybe you can see their eye color, or maybe
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: you can see their hair color or how tall they are, right,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: But but some of those are hidden differences that change
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: the way I should exercise and recover, and that change
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: the way that I should feed myself versus you. And
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: this is this is why it's such a gosh. The
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: nutrition landscape in this world is like a like a religion,
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: you know, like you can even be ludibar. You can
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: be a carnivore who thinks everybody in the world will
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: be way better off if they just ate steak. And
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, there are some individuals, genotypically speaking,
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: will do great if that's the only food they ever eat.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: And then there are these vegan people, and no offense
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: if you're one of them, but there is vegan people
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: who are like, if everybody would just stop eating animals
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: and torturing things that are living and whatnot and just
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: ate plants, everything would be great. You live longer, you'd
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: be happier, you lose all your hair, and I'm just
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: kidding yet. And what's interesting is is individuals who have
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: experienced nutrition changes in their life that transformed them, made
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: them feel better, made them look better, made them operate
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: at a higher level, have had their eyes open in
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: a way that is almost religious. Like they've had their
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: eyes open a way that's almost spiritual to them because
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: they're go, oh my gosh, I didn't know I could
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: feel like this. I didn't know this was possible, right,
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: and so and so then that what do you do
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: when you have your eyes open? Spiritually speaking, you proselytize,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: you think everybody has to do it. You should be
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: a vegan, and you should be a vegan, right, and
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: and you come up with all your arguments and stuff,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: but really, at the end, at the at the base
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: of it, it's bioindividuality. What works for my body optimally
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: might not be what's best for your body optimally. There's
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of similarities we're both human, right,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: but there's gonna be some significant differences too. And those
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: differences that's where I like to start with my elite
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: operators because because they they have understood the value of exercise,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: they've understood the value of walking in their nutrition. Discipline
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: is not a problem for an elite operator. In fact,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: sometimes they need to rest like they're just going all
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the time. You know, I'm not gonna throw anybody under
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: the bus, Andrew Bustamante, But but it's it's elite operators
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: don't get there because they don't understand discipline and following
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: a plant and program. It's that, how do I use
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: what we now know about exercise and nutrition science to
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: optimize my drive? How do I do that? And so
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: as an example, and I know I've talked a lot,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: but I want to use a concrete example that's useful
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: for people. I reference the mtahfr gene earlier. Mthfr gene
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: is the gene that regulates weather or not you're capable
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: of turning follic acid into methyl full eight. Now, if
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: you don't understand nutrition science, that's okay. I'm not going
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: to be really annoying about it. I just want you
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: to know your body can use methyl fol eate, it
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: can't use fullic acid. And there's a small percentage of
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: the population who can't convert fullic acid to methyl folate.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: They're incapable, they don't they're bad at it. And so
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: what happens is in our world where many developed countries
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: have started enriching things with fullic acid. That's generally great
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: for most of the population, but for a small percentage
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: of the population, fullic acid just builds up and builds
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: up and builds up and actually can create that global
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: inflammatory response. It can actually create migraines. It can actually
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: create immune system dysfunction and make you make you more
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: prone to infections and whatnot. It can actually cause joint
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: inflammation because of the immune system response. And I know
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: that because I'm one of those people. My body does
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: not convert fullic acid into methyl fol eight very well.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: And so there was a time in my life where
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: I ran a marathon and I feeled the whole thing
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: with breakfast cereal, And I don't recommend breakfast cereal in general.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Great source of cheap carbs for a college student, right, absolutely,
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: but breakfast cereal in the US has tons of fullic
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: acid in it, and I was sick most of the time,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: and I had no idea. And so having come on
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the other side of that and understood my personal genetics
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: better as an elite, I can cut that out of
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: my world and find a different source of cheap carbohydrates
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: when I need it that doesn't introduce a chemical into
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: my body that my body just can't handle. And so
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: and so helping my elite operators understand those things is
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: really a step one for the people that I work with.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's that's super interesting because now now you're talking
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: about getting into the weeds of you know, we I
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: talked about this before we started and started recording, but
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: it's we're like the DNA diet and like what is
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: are the blood you know, like your blood type diet, right,
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: and how the things inside of your body are going
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: to affect what you will do on a day to
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: day basis and how you can perform. Yes, So it's
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: it's kind of and going from the beginning where we started,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: the belief system of even though your body doesn't have
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: all of this stuff, you can believe that it can
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: do certain things. To now identifying, Okay, these are the
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: inherent issues that I have. I'm not an elite athlete.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: I am not, but I can do some elite things.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: So how do you actually make those changes stick? Both
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: for the one percent who are trying to do one
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: percent better than the day before, right, be better than
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: who you were the day before. You never have to
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: be perfect. And then the elite people who are doing
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: the one percent for their own how do you make
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: those changes stick because you're not there twenty four to
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: seven unless you do put Andrew hasn't said anything about this.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you're putting cameras or if he's
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: putting cameras in everybody's houses to liberty to.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Discuss everyday spies a covert operation. I'm just kidding, got it,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: We'll delete it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: We'll take that out of the podcast.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: A please scratch that. I'm just kidding. So I'm glad
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: to said that. Actually jokes joke first and then and
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: then real life. I have many of my clients who
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: joke that there is a little Alex on their shoulder,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: a little coach Alex that's like you are you really
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: gonna eat that? Are you serious right now? Or like
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: a little coach Alex he's like, is that really as
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: hard as you can run? Like? Stop being a pansy.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: So so I don't know how that works. I'm people
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: don't pay me for that. So whatever that is, that
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: seems to be a real phenomenon. But but that that
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: question is it actually comes back to what makes exercise
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: science and nutrition science work, and that's this idea of
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: epigenetic adaptation and how we bring that about. So so
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be annoyingly complicated for a second and
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: then I'll make it simple. So if I don't like
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: annoyingly complicated, plug your ears and la la la for
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: a second, but we'll get simple. Epigenetics is the study
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: of how our genome responds to stress. And it's really
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: cool because just because you have the gene for something
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that that's expressed in you. You actually have
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: the ability to turn on and turn off genes. That's
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: called methylation. When you turn on a gene, your body
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: can your body can turn it on. And when you
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: can turn off a gene that's called acylation, and we
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: actually know that we can create epigenetic changes in the
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: body through different stressors. Right, So on a positive side, hypertrophy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, muscles, hypertrophy is the growth of tissue. It's
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  Speaker 2: the oversizing hyper meaning over trophy meaning growth, the oversizing
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  Speaker 2: of muscle tissue. We know that if we do three
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  Speaker 2: to five sets of eight to twelve repetitions at a
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  Speaker 2: moderately high weight of a compound exercise like bench press
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  Speaker 2: or or lap pull down or leg press, right, we
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  Speaker 2: know that if we do that, it will trigger hypertrophy.
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  Speaker 2: It will make the muscle grow over time, and there
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  Speaker 2: are limits to that. But you can actually take somebody
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't have a lot of muscle tissue on them
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  Speaker 2: and after twelve weeks await training and inadequate nutrition because
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  Speaker 2: you got to feed the beast, you can create muscle growth.
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  Speaker 2: That's hypertropy. What's crazy is you can actually test that
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  Speaker 2: person years later, and even if they've stopped training, and
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  Speaker 2: even if the muscle tissue has gone back down to
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  Speaker 2: its normal dormant size, the epigenetic changes that you created
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  Speaker 2: to turn on that muscle growth are still there, and
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  Speaker 2: so if you retrain that person, they actually wrest. Their
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  Speaker 2: body works hard, Their immune system works hard to rush
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  Speaker 2: back to their previous level of fitness with regard to
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: how large their muscles are. And that's that's why my
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: poor forty year old dudes who are like, yeah, I
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: was an athlete back at my twenties, you know, And
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: you're like, okay, great, we're gonna start working out. Your
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: first week is going to suck horribly. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a big deal. I used to do way
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  Speaker 2: heavier weight. And they're just so sore, like what you
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  Speaker 2: do to my legs? Like this. I don't know why,
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  Speaker 2: but this is the kind of text that makes me
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  Speaker 2: sleep better at night. Alex, I hate you. I can't
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  Speaker 2: sit on the toilet. You suck, but I'm not done
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  Speaker 2: something like that, like sweet, yeah, and we got another one.
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  Speaker 2: We got another one, And that's good because what's happening
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  Speaker 2: is their immune system is working hard to adapt them
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  Speaker 2: back to what the changes they have already created were.
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  Speaker 2: That's et the genetics, right. So I know that was complicated,
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  Speaker 2: but now let's boil this down to how this works
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  Speaker 2: for both ends of the spectrum. It's really simple, actually consistency,
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  Speaker 2: volume and intensity. Consistency of the stressor, the volume of
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  Speaker 2: the stressor and the intensity of the stressor. This is
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  Speaker 2: actually where we're people really get messed up in the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: fitness world. They try to flip the order. They try
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: to do intensity first and then try to add a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: little volume and then try to be consistent. It's not
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: how the body adapts. That's not good. It's only going
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: to end an injury and burn out and lack of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: ability to adapt. It's consistency first. Then you up the
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: ante on how long something is or how many repetitions
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  Speaker 2: you do, or how much of your day it requires.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: And then intensity. Intensity is how heavy something is, how
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  Speaker 2: little rest you get in between, how much of a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: thing that you do on top of itself. Right, that's intensity.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's how I help these individuals create those changes.
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  Speaker 2: Regardless of what end of the spectrum they're on. We
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: find the one percent that they can actually move forward
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: on and we get consistent at that, and then with
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: that consistency, we can grow volume, and at that volume
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: we can grow intensity. I'll use your example, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't mind of dropping yourself off early so you can
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  Speaker 2: get a kilometer in doing that every day this week
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  Speaker 2: is consistency. Dropping yourself off two stops before then one
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  Speaker 2: stop is volume dropping yourself off and jogging for thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds and then walking, and then jogging for thirty seconds
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: and then walking. That's intensity, right, So what most people
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: do is like, you know what, I'm out of shape.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: I want to get in better shape. I heard running
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: is great, cardio seems to help with the genes. I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: don't know anyway, I read something, So I'm gonna drop
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  Speaker 2: myself off a stop before and I'm gonna run as
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  Speaker 2: hard as I can. And that's great. It feels good
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: until three days from now, when your body, your ligaments
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: and tendons you're bringing everything is like what are you doing? Like,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: come on, man, So consistency, volume, intensity, that's how we
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: create change that adapts us for the long haul. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And now you've just told me to now go
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  Speaker 3: two stops since I've been doing the one stop. So
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  Speaker 3: I'll get right on that. I'll let you know how
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  Speaker 3: that I have volume, how that works out. I'll add
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: the volume to it. But I also think you kind
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: of just just wrapped up right there, and we could
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: talk probably for hours and hours, but I'll be a
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  Speaker 3: good steward of your time in my time as well,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: but that this is one of the more interesting conversations,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: and I don't I always say you've been a great guest,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: blah blah blah, but I don't usually say this is
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: one of the most interesting conversations that I've had, especially
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: something not dealing with what I usually deal with in
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: the geopolitical realm of intelligence analysis and stuff like that.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: But I also think that it is one of the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: more important conversations to have outside of will China invade Taiwan?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: What is that going to look like? You know, will
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: US strike Iran in the next few weeks. You'll hear
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: that on my podcast week week by week. But what
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: you won't hear is how you can become a national
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: security threat by not It's not getting you know, being
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: a physical specimen. It is just by being able to
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: get out of bed without a nine on the pain
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: scale and moving so that you're not put into a
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: hospital that someone else is going to need to take,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: or taking doctors away from the front lines because they
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: need to deal with a society that is not in shape.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: We're not talking about overweight or or anything like that.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: We're talking about just not a healthy people in what
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: we consume. That's both mentally, you know what we consume
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: on social media, talking about these fake influencers who are
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: trying to get us healthy tomorrow. But I rambled on
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: a little bit there and I don't know where I
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: was going with them.
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  Speaker 2: I actually really like that message, if you don't mind,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: I'd like the opportunity to kind of add some redemption
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  Speaker 2: in there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Absolu and.
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  Speaker 2: There are very large, very important things happening in the world,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: and as an individual, it's it's easy to feel like
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: they're beyond you. This is something that you are an
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: agent in. You do have ownership of what goes in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: your mouth. You do have ownership of how you use
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: your body, whether walking down a driveways hard or you
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: can jump over toddlers. You do have ownership of how
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: you rest and recover. You do have that ownership. And
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: what I hope to get across individuals when we when
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: we think about the world of health and fitness and
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: exercise science and nutrition sciences, you are You're an agent.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: You really can take a one percent step and you
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: really can do that consistency. You really can grow volume.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: You really can grow intensity at whatever level you're starting.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: And when you see all these big forces moving in stuff,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: there's this deep desire to do something. And don't get
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: me wrong, because all kinds of things you can do,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: but one of the most important things you can do
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: is to take good care of the body you've been given.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: That does everybody a favor, including yourself.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm glad you circle back. You you redeemed my
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: commentary there, so I do appreciate that. But a few
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: more minutes, I just want to give you time to
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: your said you were working on a book, got a
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: book coming out. I definitely want you to let everyone
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: know how to do that. And for those one percenters
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: who are listening, both on both spectrums, how do they
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: get in contact with Alex how can they change their
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: life through your mind models?
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  Speaker 2: Awesome? Thanks for that opportunity. So the book's called Faithful Fitness.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: It actually just published a week ago, so I'm very
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: excited about it. It's from a Christian perspective. I have
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: worked hard to take what I understand about exercise science
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: and nutrition and have used in my clients and walked
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: people through a forty day journey which if you're from
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: a biblical mindset, forty days is extremely important. A forty
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: day journey of getting your getting your personal body aligned
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: with your faith journey. And it's a book about identity.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: It's a book about cutting through the noise of the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: nutrition and exercise world. It's a book that challenges those
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: notions of why we even do this, why would it
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: matter at any sort of existential level what you do
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: with your body? And it's well, I spent a lot
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: of time and energy writing it. My boys, I've got
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: a ten year old and a six year old, They're like,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: how long did it take you to write this book? Dad?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: And in many ways, you know, it took me thirty
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: years to write it. It took it took me thirty
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: years to write it, But the actual amount of time
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: that I wrote it in this in this season of
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: my life, it was quite the quite the labor of
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: discipline and love to take that much time from business
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: and from family and what not to pour out in this.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: But for me, I've been working with people for a
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: long time and I know that knowing what to do
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: but not doing it is the hardest struggle that individuals
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: I work with face, And this book works to address that.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: It's a process for sure, but that's how health and
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: fitness is. It's a journey. So that's the book, Faithful
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Fitness of forty day devotional for health and stewardship and
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: to get connected with me and my programs. In Everyday
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: Spy we call our we call our programs spy Fit.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: We have everything from from personal one on one coaching
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: so individuals, it could be a lead operators or you're
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: making that decision about whether or not you're giving up.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: We work with individuals at that level to be bio
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: individual in their program. But we also run a series
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: of challenges to help individuals learn these things. For instance,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: the spy Fit Lean and Mean we worked hard for
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: eight weeks to teach our body how to burn fat
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: as a fuel source. Now just to lose fat as
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: fast as possible, but to teach our metabolism to adapt
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: such that we can tap in to this fuel source
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: that many bodies aren't tapping into. And we have several
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: challenges like that we run throughout the year. There are
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: group challenges, very very powerful. I love the community of
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Everyday Spy. Andrew Bustamante does a great job of attracting
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: a very very cool, very eclectic, very headstrong and I
• 1:08:54
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• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: be a part of it. And you can find the
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: links to to our work with every Day Spy below.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so very much. And usually I will in
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: these and I will tell the audience to stay safe
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: out there. But I think after this conversation, what I
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: want to end on is the great words of the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: former head coach for the NC State basketball team, who
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: Jimmy v who said never give up, never ever give up.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: And I think that's a good point to end on today.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Alex, thanks for having me, and
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: thank you guys for listening.
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  Speaker 1: What's up faithful this episode? Help you share it with
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  Speaker 1: My dad's devotional Faithful Fitness is available now and you
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  Speaker 1: in the show notes. I'll have a cross to carry,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: but it's lighter when we do it together. See how later, Alligator.
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  Speaker 1: But until then, train hard and pray even harder.