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How to Train the Smart Way | MindSets Podcast | Episode 74 · The MindSets Podcast

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Welcome back to another episode of the Mindsets podcast.
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Second one of the year, Chow. Chow down.
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Chow down on that, Charles, how you doing?
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I was having a really good start to the year Angus, until this
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morning. I was hoping you're going to be
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upbeat today. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
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I'm going to be more upbeat. I just need to get this off my
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chest and share it with the listeners who I think will also
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find this funny. But I have a new Yeti water
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bottle. I have a new Yeti coffee mug.
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Hold on a minute now. Not specified.
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Yeah. Not once, yeah.
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Off the back of last. Episode.
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Yeah. Not yet.
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Not yet. Not yet.
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We're working on it. And they, I mean, then they
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don't look even remotely similar.
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They're not even the same shape, but in my days, at 5:30 this
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morning when I got to the gym, I had coffee in one, I had water
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in the other. And what I do with my water in
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the morning, I get my electrolytes.
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I wasn't thinking. I ripped open the electrolytes.
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I went to pour it into the water vessel and went straight into
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the black coffee. Vessel So I had this.
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How quickly did you realize that as I was pouring?
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I was like that's no good, no good.
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And at 5:30 in the morning there's little hope other than
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my black coffee to get me through my 3 hours of
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back-to-back coaching. And as I did it, members started
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walking in and they all found it very funny and I was very upset.
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Did you, did you try and finish it and get through the hallway?
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So it was lychee flavoured electrolyte is that?
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Is that a strong flavour? It's pretty strong.
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Oh, OK. And like, I wouldn't be able to
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describe to you or explain to you what lychee flavour is, but
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it doesn't go with black coffee. So yeah, it was a tough start to
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the morning. I, I did try it.
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I was like, I'm, I'm not particularly fussy, but I, I
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can't drink that. That's.
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Horrible. It was a tough start.
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Do you want it? Even even though like you're an
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adults, you're like, well, that's not going to define my
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day. It does a little bit.
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Well, I no, it's all about framing 'cause then I was like,
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it can't possibly get worse. Did it?
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No. Well, there.
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You go there. Exactly.
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Exactly. What a great day.
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I know What Great. Yeah, that's what I think.
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What a great episode this is going to be.
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Fantastic. Well, let's kick it off then.
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For those that are unaware, we're now doing news in
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two-minute format. And what that means is because
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we had some issues last year where we've waffled and rambled,
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we've decided to rein it in and get competitive with ourselves
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and we're going to try and give you the best Sports News updates
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you can get in 2 minutes. Do you want me to kick us off
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this this. Particular time you're going to
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have to. OK, this is going to be quick,
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so make sure you're listening. Ready, steady go.
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John Harboe and Mike Tomlinson have both stepped down from
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their coaching positions in the NFL, which is crazy because
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that's the first time they've been out of a job in 18 years.
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So that's the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers that
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are out of a coach in college. American football.
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We've got Indiana, who are currently #1 ranked first time,
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possibly ever that's happened. They're going to the national
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championship final against Miami U.
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First time in a long time they've been there as well.
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We're switching footballs to El Clasico, Barcelona versus Real
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Madrid. It was Barcelona 32 to Real
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Madrid, a quite convincing victory actually, actually.
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But talking about convincing victories, Crystal Palace reign,
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champions of the FA Cup. They lost to Macclesfield in the
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FA Cup this season. Crazy for switching over to
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women's football. We've got Man City.
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You look like they're going to absolutely dominate this league.
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They've played 12, they've won 11.
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Whereas if you look at Liverpool bottom of the table, they've
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played 12, they've only won four and they have lost 8.
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Then we move on to the Winter Olympics.
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We've got Chloe Kim who's snowboarding half pipe, gold
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medalist for the US, she's won it twice.
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She's dislocated to her shoulder just a few weeks out of the
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competition. So that's crazy.
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The next most crazy news from the Winter Olympics is that in
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hockey, rinks aren't going to be finished for the Olympics
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apparently anyway. Tabitha Soka, silver, the Euro
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champs and skeleton, she's British.
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She's going to be a medal hopeful for us in the Winter
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Olympic Games and I'm passing over to you for however long and
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we've got left. I don't even know where to
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start. You've got 40 seconds, Jake
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Deardon. I guess this is less official
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Sporting News, but still equally impressive.
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He set out to run a 219 marathon in Houston.
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I think it was last weekend or the weekend before.
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He just missed it. He ran a 222 which is also
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unbelievable given the the size of the guy.
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That's 17 minute 5 case for the whole time.
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Yeah, and just like unbelievable performance, I'm like seeing
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that I think he definitely has a sub 220 in the tank, which I
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think will prove a lot of people wrong.
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You've. Got 10 seconds.
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And off the back of that, true, Haynes also announced that he's
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going to go for the Olympic Trials for the marathon, which
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is also ridiculous. He is a freak.
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He is. He's the guy that runs in jeans.
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He might be like the epitome of hybrid.
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That was one minute, 59 seconds. Thank you very much.
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Smashed it. I do have one thing that I want
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to talk about that's not news. OK, so now we're into the normal
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part of the podcast. We can talk about this quickly.
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Talk slower. Jake Dearden with his 222, I
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heard today that he had something like 19 gels
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throughout the race. He averaged that.
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That could be wrong. He averaged a gel more than
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every 5K, OK, which is so he was having a gel pretty much every
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20 minutes, which is crazy, especially because so he's
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sponsored by BPN. So they have the go gels, so
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they've got quite a high carb loading in them.
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But just his ability to consume that amount of fuel is so
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impressive. I think it's really interesting
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and like something with maybe future episodes we talk about
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because it's like he is bigger than most marathon runners.
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So I'm sure he's consuming well. He obviously is consuming more
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fuel than your typical marathon runner, but it's interesting to,
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I'd like to see the research to go, this is the fuel that you
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need to be using Jake during your marathon because I always
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think that I take on more fuel when I'm running long compared
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to what other people are using. And again, like I'm probably
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heavier than most typical runners.
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So it's interesting to see. But I mean, it still seems like
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a lot of gel to be consuming. One more question.
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The state of his stomach. One more question for you.
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If you're Jake Geeden, you said you're going to run a 219.
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You ran a 222, which is very impressive.
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You're also in the Elite 15 of High Rocks.
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Now what do you? Do he's?
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I think he'll probably now switch focus and I don't want to
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speak on his behalf. He'll switch focus back to high
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rocks and then potentially run again at the end of this year.
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Valencia could be fast. Of course, it could be, who
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knows, or, or something similar or, or or, you know, when you
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you're that close to it, his body will need a long time to
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recover. But it would seem a shame to not
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kick on from that training and kind of with that added race
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experience because did I read that was his second marathon?
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I think so is it? I think that might be as, which
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is again, like insane. Like it's doing the rounds on
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social media and I see lots of running coaches and running
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influencers talking about him and and Trey Haynes.
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But like, the guy's a freak and like, he's obviously very
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committed to it and he's very talented and I'd love to see him
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reach his goal. But to be that close must be
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frustrating for him, but also, like, equally impressive.
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I'm calling it right now. Jay Dearden top five at the
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World champs in Stockholm for the Elite 15 and then runs a 218
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in Valencia later this year. 218 that's fast man, I'm calling it.
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Don't let me down. I think that puts him like that
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would put him top 100 marathon times of 2025, which which
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actually doesn't sound that impressive, but it is
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ridiculous. That's impressive.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Especially if that's not your main discipline.
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Yeah, I suppose. And I completely probably made
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that fact up, but. So it was so it was interesting
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though. Yeah, that's what well, we're
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moving into the next section. So the next staple section of
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our podcast now is Grind My Gears.
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We're not leaving you guys hanging.
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We're going straight into the nitty gritty and we've had some
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fantastic submissions this week. The first one we got was
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actually a voice note from a Mr. Charlie bottle.
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He is well known in the fitness space for being the connoisseur
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of meal deals. He's particularly interested in
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the episodes where we have brought those in.
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When he comes back on soon enough he will be having a bit
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of meal deal breakdown with us. However, in his local Tesco, his
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gears have been ground recently. So he understands that Tesco
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have got the snack side of the meal deal which can be from the
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bakery and in particular at the moment he's a big fan of getting
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a pretzel. However, in his current Tescos,
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the bakery bit is disconnected from where the rest of the meal
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deal is. And there's a there's a gate,
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like a security gate. What that means is so basically
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you go in to the meal deals. So I've actually been to the
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area, it's not the nicest of areas.
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So this Tesco's got some good security in the meal deal
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section. Once you've picked your meal
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deal, you go through a security gate and basically leads you to
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paying. OK, now you can once you step
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out of that gate, you can go to other parts of the shop, but the
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next thing you have to do is go to pet.
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Now the problem for Charlie at the moment is pretzel stock has
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been a diabolical, but you can't see if the pretzels are in stock
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before you get there. So he's banking on it choosing
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his drinks selectively, choosing his main course selectively and
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hoping that the pretzels are there.
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But when they're not, he has to set the alarm off by going the
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wrong way to have a snack because he doesn't have a snack.
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And he's not paying full price for those two items.
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I see it so. He's it's fair to say he's
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rather upset at the moment, the pretzel stock and that has
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ground. Like in a Charlie bottle's gear.
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Fully appreciate why. However, I think we need to add
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something else because I forgot to say it in the last podcast
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and this leads nicely into it. We talk comically about meal
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deals, like the the volume. We talk about meal deals like
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it's, it's a big thing. It's a big topic.
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We like talking about it. Obviously Charlie does as well.
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I feel like we can actually hold some credibility in the sandwich
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space in this podcast now because if you haven't got
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Nectar card, they do like a Nectar card wrapped at the end
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of the year, a little bit like Spotify Wrapped.
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Clubcard do the same thing as well.
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And you can see what you purchased, how much you purchase
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of it. Oh.
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This is such a cool thing. Well, it's not actually cool.
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It's always actually fairly tragic.
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Yeah, But I, I went on, my necks are wrapped at the beginning of
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January because I was interested to see basically how much I'd
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spent and saved. But it turned out that not only
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was I the number one purchaser of the pull pork sub in my local
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Sainsbury's, but I was the number one purchaser in the
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whole of England for that one sandwich, which I think that
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adds some credibility to us talking about meal deals.
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If I remember correctly, you went in Sainsbury's something
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like 430 times last year. It averaged out as like 1.3
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times a day. No days.
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Off given the fact that I also was not in the country for a
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good couple of weeks so there were days where I was averaging
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like maybe 3-4 times and says plus my 190 something visits to
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Tesco, basically all I did last year was go fucking shopping.
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If you want to see a live reaction because I've not had
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the sandwich that he was buying before, If you want to see a
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live reaction and I can basically potentially shit on
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you for one of the worst sandwich choices.
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I'm quite excited by it. And if you've bought that many
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and you are the number one purchaser in the UK, it has
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pretty good. It says a lot about me if it's
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not good. I was.
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I was pretty upset with mine. Lidl also did a similar thing,
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however, I apparently haven't been shopping nearly as much as
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I thought I had. And I was proud of the fact,
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however, that one of the main things that was in my basket was
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chicken breast. But that's like the most boring
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thing as well. That's pretty boring.
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Like that's why when supermarkets were like, oh, we
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should do that, they didn't think it through.
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Because now I've looked at it and gone wow, I'm.
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Boring. Also it's like really depressing
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that I spent so much money in Sainsbury's and like I saved
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£22.00 or something because the OR like that was how much net to
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savings I got. It's, I'm pretty sure.
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I've saved that on one purchase. You go to the habitat range and
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you see something that's cheap and you save 22 lbs or
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something. Terrible.
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Anyway, slightly distracted, however, bringing it back into
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the meal deal area, one of the things that has been grinding
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mine and other people's gears. I haven't seen it in a while but
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someone told me about this which is phenomenal.
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British society has gone so far downhill.
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The Red Bull cans and other energy cans, not just Red Bull
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have can locks on them because people are shoplifting them and
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then these like little plastic things which they'll undo for
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you at the till. But it's it's an energy drink.
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Is the economy so bad that it's worth the investment in those
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locks to just stop someone nabbing a Red Bull when, correct
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me if I'm wrong, especially in London, every supermarket has at
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least one security guard now. Yeah, yeah, at least.
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With a camera, yeah. Why do I have to ask someone to
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take the lock off my? It is crazy, isn't it?
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Do you think it I mean, it must be the supermarket that is.
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I'm just finding that initiative.
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It's not the OK Red Bull align. You must put locks on our cans.
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Yeah, no way. But also just standing and
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waiting for like verification of my age to buy a white monster
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with my meal deal. I think I've told you this
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before, but I got IDD by someone for an energy drink in my local
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village that I grew up in by someone that was in the year
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below me at school and I didn't have ID and therefore they had
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to refuse me to. Oh, really?
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Yeah, just doing their job and I respect that terribly and you
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should respect that as well. No respect at all, really.
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Following protocol I respect my. Gears that really round my
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gears. The next one we've got is from
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me. This was I just added it to the
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list. Oranges that don't peel well.
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Yeah, I saw that on your story. I was a bit sad.
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Why are we growing them anymore if we're doing that much genetic
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mutation? Easy peelers.
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Why? Find the ones that don't peel.
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Easy. Well, I wasn't aware that I had.
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That's the problem. I assume that they all should.
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Be Yeah, that's the gear. Grinding.
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Yeah. Next one is we got 2 messages
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similar to this. I'm tying it all into one, but
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it's something I've also witnessed quite a lot and ties
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nicely into today's topic of choice.
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But working in etiquette in the gym is terrible.
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So recently and I'll I'll give my personal experience.
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Recently I was in a pure gym and I went over to someone who was
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using the adductor abductor machine.
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I've been told it's one of my weakness areas and I'm trying to
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work on those. So I went over and I was like
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hey, how many sets for your left?
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They said three. OK, now I'm thinking, cool, I
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see you sat on your phone for three minutes at a time between
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your sets. I'm expecting them to go, but
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you can work in because if you're going to take 15 minutes,
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I would expect that, you know? And that offer never came.
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And I was like, oh, how long do you reckon you'll be?
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And they were like, oh, probably like, at least 10.
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And I was like, OK, I'd done everything else.
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So I actually did stand there like a mug.
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Like that's literally how I felt just.
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Stood watching them. Yeah, and I felt like a bit of a
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creep to be honest, because as you can imagine, by the typical
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user of that machine, they weren't male and I just felt
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awkward about it. But people just need to
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understand if you say one set, the person is fine to wait or
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should be fine to wait 2 sets maybe if we're going to be
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quick, just always throw it out there anyway.
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I even if I've got one set, I'll be like, you can get on it now
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if you want. Yeah, and I'll just do a set.
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I'm just I'm I'm more interested to know how many sets they're
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doing in total. If they would still had three to
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go. How many sets did you do?
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I did three sets. OK, so so then you're like,
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well, is there actually much point in doing more than three
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sets? Why were they doing more the?
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Only time I'm not keen for someone to work in with me if
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it's something like a bench or plane loaded where like you've
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got to swap it all around. So if someone comes over to me
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and they're like, oh, how many sets have you left?
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I'm on the bench and I've, I have got like maybe 3 left.
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I'll be like, I've literally just sat down.
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Yeah, because I probably have literally just put the weight
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that I wanted to. I'm, I'm going to do some warm
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up sets. So I've got three sets and I'm
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going to take 2 1/2 minutes worth of rest.
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Like Max, you're going to be there was like 15 minutes.
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So like you can go and do something other.
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The other reason specifically to bench that I wouldn't want
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someone to sweating with me. No, not even that is if they're
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like joined spot you. No, I don't.
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I'm good, thanks. Really, I'd rather die.
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Let it pin me. Let it pin me.
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Let me get squashed by a bar. Yeah, really.
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You're against. You're against being spotted.
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I don't like it. I think it's just a really
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awkward social interaction. It is quite intimate.
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It's is. They're the way.
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I'd describe it very intimate and you're so like you're
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exposing yourself so much. Like this is your I'm.
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Trusting this stranger with my life, I don't.
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Think it's that deep? Have you not seen the failure
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videos where someone asks for a spot to come over and they have
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no idea what they're doing? Or the funniest video is where
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they're holding the bar down on their chest.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had AI.
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Had a weird one where I was spotting someone mentioning the
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other day. There's like when you're getting
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spotted, maybe you're like failing your last Rep, you're
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still trying to push. I'm there.
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This guy just stopped. Like like in this position you
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want me to hold 110? I wasn't ready for it.
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OK, so I do this really funny thing.
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I always should. I do when people ask me to spot
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them. First of all, I'm delighted.
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You've picked me out of a crowd and you've gone.
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You're good to spot me and I'm like, thank you, I've got it.
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I've really worked on this, that you feel that report anyway,
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when it comes to the time that the person is inevitably failing
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that Rep, I never ever want someone to feel like they didn't
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give it a good effort, even if they haven't.
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Yeah, you must. So toxic trait from me and has
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nearly cost me multiple fingers. I only have a spot with two
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fingers from each hand. So if someone has pretty much
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given up, I'm still only going to do it with two fingers.
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So I've been there like, Oh my God, my, my tendons are going to
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RIP off my fingers here. But when they stand up, I'm
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like, I literally just needed these, man.
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You didn't, You did all of that. You can basically claim.
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And I walk away and I'm like, Oh my God, I mean.
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That's bad spotting etiquette for safety.
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But you only ever you only ever. OK, this actually grinds my
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gears when this is, we're going down a rabbit hole, but it's so
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relevant. But it's like spotting, but
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you're doing too much. You like you've got main
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character energy when you're not the main character on the bench
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because it's like you only spot. And this is useful practical
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advice in the gym, especially if you're going to go and spot
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someone. You only ever spot on the bench
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press when the bar starts coming back down because it's like
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that's when it can get dangerous where you're like, you have to
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save them. But if the bar's moving up, do
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not touch. It get your hands off.
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The bar is stationary. Do not help them because they
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they, they squeeze, they're going to.
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Mentor it mentally switch on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Do not go near that. Bar that's like the warning
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signs you're like OK maybe I'm ready to work so.
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Here's my here's my spot cues, and you can tell me if you like
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them, and then we can use that as advice for other people.
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You asked me to spoil you. I go, yeah, How many reps you're
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going for? Cool.
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Nice. Position myself behind before we
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have to do an awkward thing where I'm standing over your
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head. I then I quite like the approach
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that like I'm so confident in you I'm going to stand back.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm like away from it like all you.
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But I will ask do you want to lift off?
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Do you want to lift off? I'll help you when I give you
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the bar. I'm going to say your bar and
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I'm going to I'll obviously take my hands away and then I'm going
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to go stand back and relax. I'm not going to go on my phone.
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I'm going to make it seem like I couldn't.
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I might as well be Then. I'm just going to watch very.
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Mental, the mental psychology I'm going to watch that believes
19:32
in me. If this person is getting close
19:34
to the number they said and they look fine, then I might be like,
19:37
Yep, Yep. Like quietly.
19:40
I'm not trying to speak over your music.
19:41
If you've got music here, I will listen out for if they go one
19:44
more, two more because they might be like, oh, I'm having a
19:47
good set. I'm actually going to go for two
19:48
more and I'm like, cool. If I start to see them slow
19:51
down, then I'll put my hat. If you're watching this, you can
19:53
see. But if there's an imaginary bar
19:55
here, I'll put one hand over under and I'll just have it out,
19:59
but nowhere near the bar. Once they go down and when they
20:02
start coming back up, I'm like Yep.
20:04
And then I'm just waiting and it like you said, if the bar goes
20:07
down, then I'm there. But again, I'm not yanking it
20:11
off you. I'm helping you until you say
20:13
Nah and then I'm going to actually try and take some
20:15
weight. That's a that's a that's an
20:17
experience spotter that someone who's done it before and but I
20:20
would I would never also then go they've done, they told me
20:22
they're doing a set of eight and they've done 8 reps I'm never
20:25
going to be like. One more bro.
20:27
I'm I'm never interfering with their training and be like, you
20:29
should do more, just like I'm probably helping back into the
20:32
rack and then I'm never speaking to you again.
20:34
Question. Be quickly scenario based.
20:37
You're spotting someone for bench, they're going for a very
20:39
heavyweight. They ask you to come over, they
20:41
go death grip. Do you say anything?
20:44
No. Do you prepare any differently?
20:47
I might be on more high alert but probably not that mean.
20:51
They're probably freaking strong if they're doing that the only.
20:53
Reason I ask this question is I was at my university gym someone
20:56
was going for a personal best of 120 kilograms which was a
21:00
personal best by 10 kilos which they felt like they were ready
21:02
for. To be fair they went death grip.
21:05
They chose not to go for me as a swasso.
21:07
They chose a friend and they re rack.
21:10
They sorry they took it off the rack as they started doing them
21:13
push up slipped out of the house and landed on my forehead
21:16
knurling mark on the forehead. Crazy crazy to go on a night out
21:20
with that as well. But yeah, no death grip changed
21:23
my life that day. Have you got any grime?
21:26
My gears. I feel like I offloaded a.
21:27
Lot I mean that was that was a good grime, my gear like an
21:30
impromptu spotting grime my gear that's good.
21:32
But I do I do have one and it's been coming up.
21:35
This may be out of jealousy, but people posting their golf round
21:39
on Strava. I don't know if you've seen
21:41
that. And it's like it comes up as a
21:42
heat map of them doing their golf round.
21:44
And I'm like Strava, it's for running, it's for a little bit
21:48
of cycling, even swimming. Hide it off your feed.
21:51
There's no route, there's no map.
21:53
I don't want to. I want to see a map and I want
21:55
to see some stuff. I don't want to see you shooting
21:57
125 rather. I was going to say the opposite.
22:02
I think it's acceptable if your handicap is like higher than 30
22:08
because I think that's funny then to look at because it's
22:10
just like zigzagging you. Can't even really see that all
22:13
you see is like the heat map of you.
22:15
You've you've clearly played eighteen holes.
22:17
And I know there's like gold function on most smartwatches,
22:20
but I just don't think it has a place on Strava unless unless
22:24
you like legit have done the worst or best round of your
22:28
life. I mean the worst around more
22:30
funny, but like people aren't putting enough effort into their
22:33
Strava either. Now I got rid of Instagram, I
22:36
spend even more time on Strava and I'm like I'm curating my
22:40
posts, I'm having a think about the caption, I'm putting a meme
22:42
in there as well. I'll get 9 kudos for my freaking
22:46
all my effort. But other people just like.
22:48
Morning run. It's possibly the oldest thing
22:51
you've ever said is that I'm really putting effort into my
22:54
Strava. I'm curating my Strava
22:57
Instagram. That's not the kids.
22:58
Yeah, I'm not even embarrassed about it.
23:00
I love my Strava. Well, let's move on to unless
23:04
you've got anything else, let's let's move on to today's topic.
23:07
So today's topic, pretty apartment.
23:09
We discussed similar sorts of things last year, but we thought
23:13
we'd come back around and take a slightly different approach in
23:17
giving bits of advice on what to do with your training this year,
23:21
especially if you're going after something new, whether that's a
23:24
different set of goals, a different sport entirely or
23:26
you're new to the idea of training completely.
23:29
And do you want to kick us off with this one?
23:31
Yeah, it's it's a nice one. I think going into the new year.
23:35
I mean, we spoke about this in depth last year on the podcast.
23:38
I don't like resolutions necessarily, but I like having
23:41
goals. And I think everyone should have
23:42
a goal. But it's so contextual when you
23:45
talk about training because like you say, some people might have
23:48
loads of training experience, but they might be starting
23:50
something new, or you might be just getting into fitness and
23:53
that's your new thing. But definitely having some
23:56
goals. And we don't have to go into it
23:58
too deeply, but making sure your goals are actually like
24:02
realistic. And we have that anagram
24:04
framework. Is it smart?
24:06
Smart. Do you know the SM?
24:09
You've got it. I know you've got it.
24:11
Smart is sensible, specific, specific, measurable,
24:19
attainable, or achievable realistic time.
24:23
Based, yeah, timely. And then do you know there's
24:25
like an add on if you want to go smarter?
24:28
Do you have the E and the R in the locker?
24:31
Not a chance. So evaluate is the E and then
24:34
reward is the R. So you can make it a slightly
24:37
longer anagram. But I mean, it feels like
24:39
overkill, but it is a nice way if you're going, OK, what do I
24:42
want out of my training? Especially I think if you're
24:45
newer to the gym and you're like, my goal this year is to
24:49
get fitter. And I'm going to do that through
24:51
going to the gym, having some like bite size manageable chunks
24:55
along the way to actually measure or give you some
24:58
tangible progress to see, OK, I'm getting fitter.
25:01
What does fitness mean? Like for for some people, fitter
25:04
might just be getting stronger. For some people, it might be
25:06
aerobic fitness or I might have a goal.
25:08
I want to do a 5K in X time or whatever it happens to be.
25:11
So it's like, it's nice to have a framework for setting goals,
25:14
and I think that's a really useful way of doing it.
25:16
Yeah, I think a lot of people will dive into achieving for
25:23
some, for some people they, they choose a goal, but then don't
25:25
really think about what needs to change around that.
25:27
And if you take the example, and we've mentioned this one last
25:31
year, but a very common one is people try and get into running
25:33
as a way to get fit. Some people say I'm going to do
25:37
cash to 5K, which we've discussed before is just one
25:40
method to get to running that distance.
25:43
Other people will go. I think I'm just going to get
25:45
into running and different approaches work for different
25:49
people, but there's not necessarily always the
25:54
consideration to make that possible.
25:57
And when I say that if I'm going to go and do a gym session now,
26:01
as someone that's been going to the gym a lot before, it's
26:04
really hard for me to leave the house if my rucksack isn't
26:07
somewhere near the door. I know where my trainers are, I
26:10
know that I've got some sort of fuel snack in the bag.
26:13
I've got the right clothes on or at least in the bag.
26:16
If those things aren't done, then it's really hard for me to
26:19
get out the door. If they are, it's actually
26:22
really not that hard. But if I was going in completely
26:25
afresh, just like I'm going to start going to the gym all this
26:27
year. The one thing I probably
26:28
wouldn't say in attachment to that sentence is by always
26:32
making sure my gym bag is ready or that it's always in a
26:35
convenient location. And I think that's one of the
26:38
things that people underestimate and underestimate is if you, if
26:42
you see all of the cringy quotes that are online, it's like the
26:46
biggest thing that you achieve when you run X marathon time is
26:50
the person you became to do it. But like, that's actually so
26:53
true. You change as a person to
26:55
achieve something, and you need to think about how you need to
26:57
change as a person in order to be able to achieve it in the
26:59
first place. Or like the best gym is the most
27:02
convenient gym because if the gym is it's so inconvenient to
27:06
get to if a if a water. Pipe we're talking about my my
27:10
local gym has been closed for 9 days now.
27:15
Yeah, that is really tough. Yeah.
27:17
Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, like on point.
27:20
So it's just like make sure that when you're getting into
27:24
whatever your new activity is, you have some way of actually
27:28
tracking progress. And I think it's very easy.
27:30
When you do start, you obviously have much higher motivation
27:34
you're talking about now going to the gym can sometimes be
27:36
difficult, but you've been doing it for so long that sometimes
27:40
the motivation is difficult and it can be tedious when you start
27:43
something new. Everything's really fresh and
27:45
it's like me getting into gut health and wanting to grow my
27:48
own bacteria to make ferment my own yogurt.
27:50
Like the motivation is high and I want to do that, but in five
27:54
years time, am I still going to have that same motivation?
27:56
That was a really niche example. So it's like, don't do, I think
28:00
don't do too much too soon and give yourself lots of time to
28:04
rest and recover. And basically, don't lead
28:07
yourself to burn out, because that could be a surefire way of
28:11
making your goals not happen. I want to take an example of
28:14
something that I saw happen recently, but there's there's
28:18
numerous examples in sport of 1 athlete switching to a different
28:20
sport and actually been pretty good at it.
28:22
We've actually done episodes on it.
28:23
They're more sort of different sports when you're looking at
28:25
Michael Jordan going from basketball to baseball.
28:28
But if we take it from the approach of a fitness level
28:31
where an example that I'm aware of recently was Max Whitlock did
28:36
some work with runner. Max Whitlock is a famous three
28:39
time Olympic champion and world champion at the pommel horse in
28:44
gymnastics. He retired from gymnastics a
28:48
while ago and and recently Runner decided to do a six week
28:51
plan to help him improve his five kilometre running time.
28:55
And so his initial test and I really I had the chance to speak
28:59
to him. I don't think he sandbagged
29:01
this, but he ran a 2940 something and his first five
29:05
kilometre attempt. And then six weeks later we
29:08
retested with Runner. I think it's out on YouTube,
29:11
especially by this point it should be.
29:12
You can watch it if you don't like spoilers.
29:15
Skip ahead 10 seconds. But he ran it in 20 minutes and
29:19
22 seconds, which is taking a third of his time off, which is
29:22
crazy impressive. If he took the same amount of
29:25
time off again, he'd have a world record.
29:27
Put that into perspective. But he wasn't coming from an
29:30
experienced background in fitness of 0, whereas some
29:33
people might be when they're doing Couch to 5K.
29:36
You then take the likes and we've already mentioned him this
29:38
podcast, but Charlie, people might start this year and go,
29:42
I'm not doing enough zone two. I've seen it all over the
29:45
Internet for high rocks. Everybody's doing Zone 2, all
29:47
runners, anything with cycling and Iron Man's, all they're
29:51
doing is zone 2. Easy work.
29:52
I'm just going to do loads of it.
29:54
You can't sit on a bike for four hours a day.
29:57
You can't sit on a bike probably for an hour a day.
29:59
When you start doing it, your body would get very, very
30:01
fatigued by trying to stay in zone 2.
30:05
If your aerobic fitness is generally good because you're
30:07
not adapted to the bike. Take someone like Charlie who
30:10
comes from a professional cycling background. 4 hours on a
30:13
bike is actually an easy day. Six hours is what he was used
30:16
to. So he can do that and his bodies
30:19
can. His body can handle it quite
30:21
well because that's his experience in that field.
30:23
So if you're taking on a new sport or a new fitness plan
30:27
routine, you've got new goals for the year, ask yourself right
30:31
now, are you actually conditioned for it?
30:34
And I think that's one massive, massive thing when you look at
30:37
sports like High Rocks. When I moved over to High Rocks,
30:38
I thought I was going to be great at it because I was like,
30:40
I'm strong and I've always been able to run.
30:42
Wow, was I wrong. And then even when I've tried to
30:45
do other things, just different sports that I am kind of
30:49
shifting fitness away from High Rock style training into, I'm
30:53
like, I'm actually not that well prepared for that.
30:56
And so I'm sort of personally in in like a middle ground at the
30:59
moment where I, I can do everything.
31:00
I'm just not like. General adaptation rather than
31:02
like the specific stuff. Exactly, And so if you're you
31:06
might have a background of various sports, but if you're
31:08
going to be picking and going down the route of one particular
31:10
sport or a couple of particular sports this year, you can't
31:13
really take the approach that just because you were good at it
31:15
once or just because you are fit in your head that you should be
31:18
able to take on the load similar to other people that you maybe
31:21
even know. You've really got to tease your
31:24
body into the adaptations. I think that's a nice, a nice
31:28
little bit piece of advice. And I'd also caveat that with if
31:32
you're getting into the gym is like your specific, I want to
31:35
get a bit fitter and healthier. If you're going to focus on
31:37
anything, it's just focusing on basics.
31:39
I do the basics well and that's in all facets of your health,
31:44
whether that's actual the physical fitness side or like
31:47
the recovery side as well. Just do the basics really well,
31:51
get good intensity, prioritize pain free range of motion and
31:56
just stay flexible and mobile basically.
31:58
And then around that, eat good, sleep good.
32:01
It's, it's like, I know it's easier said than done, but it's
32:04
like those are the basics and if you can do those, you will lead
32:07
a much healthier, better life, I think.
32:09
Tell you one thing that I'm personally focusing a lot this
32:12
year is my lower body training. I've noticed really ever since I
32:17
got into running, which doesn't necessarily mean there's any
32:19
correlation, but my lower body strength is quite frankly been
32:23
poo since I switched over from American football where it was
32:26
one of the main things that I was I was focusing on.
32:29
And I look back at the sessions that I was doing when I was
32:31
training for American football and I used to train legs two to
32:35
three times a week, the intensity of which wasn't crazy.
32:41
I would have heavy weeks, D load, that kind of thing and do
32:44
different things across each session.
32:46
But one of the really prevalent things for me wasn't just like
32:50
mobility in a general sense, but I would do a lot of pauses right
32:56
at the bottom of the squat. And I think about it now and
32:59
yeah, I'm a bit older, but I'm not actually old.
33:03
When I get up in the morning, if I was to try and get into a deep
33:06
squat and let's say I was training first thing, it would
33:08
take me 15 minutes to really warm up my lower body enough to
33:12
be comfortable and pain free to do a full range of motion squat,
33:16
probably even a body weight. And that's because I've let that
33:19
slip for a while and I probably got stiffer and I'm not doing
33:22
it. My mobility is regularly, but
33:24
I've started to say I really wish I was squatting, you know,
33:27
twice a week per for me because I had so much benefit of that in
33:31
my training. I was getting so much stronger,
33:33
so much more quickly and I haven't even been in like a body
33:38
weight deep squat position for so.
33:42
Long, yeah. Full cup, that's really cute.
33:48
He's having a dream. He is having a dream.
33:54
No, they wouldn't have died. I know, because if it happens
33:56
again, we'll just. Yeah.
33:57
Yeah, I'm. Not going to make high contact
33:58
with you, but we'll power. So one of the things that I'm
34:03
trying to do more and I'll mention it and this is this
34:06
means I've got to hold myself accountable to it is I'm
34:09
actually going to try and just sit in a squat position way more
34:11
often. And like not even be at the gym,
34:14
But if I'm doing my teeth or something like that, I'll just
34:17
sit there for like 20 to 30 seconds.
34:18
Because I'll tell you right now, you might be hearing me and
34:20
going, what's he talking about? Do it right now and tell me it's
34:23
comfortable. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there'll
34:26
be a lot of people who will be able to just sit down to the
34:28
bottom of the squat and go. What you talking about?
34:31
But there's there's so much research about like genetics and
34:36
how deep set your hips are. And people from different places
34:39
have better mobility. And culturally there's more
34:42
aptitude to squatting because that's how people still go to
34:46
the toilet or that's still how people sit and eat.
34:48
They sit in the squat position and like definitely in Western
34:51
culture and civilization, that's very quickly conditioned out of
34:56
you to sit in a chair. But like, as primal as it
34:59
sounds, literally our ancestors, however many hundreds of
35:03
thousands of years ago, when they went to go to the toilet,
35:06
they squatted. Well, even even if you go to
35:08
different cultures in the world, so had the benefit of travelling
35:11
Asia, but if you go to Asia, a lot of the street vendors and
35:13
just the locals, when they have nothing bad to do, they just sit
35:17
on their ankles. It's a resting Asian sit.
35:19
Yeah. Asian squat, Yeah.
35:20
Yeah, it's it is a resting position.
35:22
So the fact that you're going, it's so uncomfortable.
35:25
I can't sit down there for longer than a minute.
35:27
It's like you do need to spend longer doing that.
35:31
And I that probably plays into I've mentioned it before, but
35:34
like a little bit of a back flare up that I have, but
35:37
because your eye it. Doesn't tie and it's your back
35:39
is so good at compensating for tightness and elsewhere.
35:43
Yeah, honestly. Like it's a very easy quick fix
35:48
without giving unsolicited physio advice.
35:50
And it's like the easiest way to just get looser and more mobile.
35:53
It's just like sitting in the squat.
35:55
I would be interested to know, but I would relatively safely
35:57
say I don't think if you're listening to this wondering if
36:01
that is a good idea or not. I don't think anyone's going to
36:04
say that sitting with no added weight on your ankles or trying
36:07
to get into a deep squat position a couple of times a day
36:10
for like 30 seconds. Don't think anyone's going to
36:13
say that's bad for you. I think it's a classic.
36:15
It's like I challenge you guys every time you go to put the
36:18
kettle on or you go to put the microwave on, within reason,
36:22
you're like cooking a jacket potato.
36:23
You're like 25 minutes later, go and just go squat position.
36:28
I had a client ages ago who's just getting into fitness and
36:31
like really, really deconditioned and we did
36:34
something similar a couple of weeks in.
36:36
We went every time you turn the kettle on, we're going to do a
36:38
plank. And like, that was just some
36:40
general extra fitness that they did.
36:42
But it, it started to make a almost like game of five
36:45
fitness. And I think that's the way you
36:46
get people to stay engaged and enjoy it a bit more.
36:49
But. And also what's more
36:50
embarrassing, because some people be like, no, that's quite
36:52
embarrassing. If you can't if, if I can't even
36:54
do a squat with my body weight or get in that position and it
36:57
hurts, like that's quite embarrassing.
36:59
Is it more embarrassing that it hurts for like 2 weeks if that?
37:03
Or is it more embarrassing that you just can't do it at all?
37:06
Because if you don't do something about it, you're never
37:08
going to be able to do something about it.
37:10
And you'll be 50 if you're lucky, getting pain going up the
37:14
stairs because that angle is too much.
37:17
No, it's a it's a really good point.
37:19
And also, like, we could talk about this for ages and ages and
37:22
ages, but my nephew, who's must be 3 now, when he's playing
37:26
around with his toys every now and again, he just sits and
37:29
squats. Perfect squat.
37:31
His torso has really nice inclination.
37:34
He's like the perfect lumbar position in his lower back.
37:36
His knees are in line with his toes.
37:38
He's never been taught that. It's just genetics.
37:40
And it's like for him, it's I'm playing with my toys, I'm having
37:43
a good time, stand straight back up.
37:45
If I do that, my knees click and they're like groaning.
37:48
It's just like we're being conditioned out of that as a
37:50
resting position. So yeah, it's really
37:53
interesting. It's really interesting.
37:54
I'm glad you brought it up. When, when we're looking at
37:57
other classic things that people do at the beginning of the year
37:59
is not only do they necessarily try these new trends we
38:02
mentioned on the last episode, things like 75 hard and 45
38:05
forward, but people don't try trends.
38:08
But people are all too quick to hop on, not necessarily even
38:12
shortcut investments, but things that they can invest in to make
38:16
the whole process easier. And there's two very big sides
38:21
to this argument in that there are some incredible investments
38:24
you can make to really make things easier.
38:26
And they're quite personal specific, but then there's also
38:29
some, pretty much there's some scams or there's some things
38:33
that just do not work for a lot of people, but you need to be
38:35
very, very aware of before you get involved.
38:39
Is there anything that immediately jumps to mind that
38:40
might be a good or a bad investment?
38:42
And I think so, I guess it just does depend, again, context
38:46
wise, what you're training for and what your goals are.
38:48
But I think the first thing that people gravitate towards in the
38:51
fitness industry or a push to gravitate towards is like
38:55
supplementation, whether that's protein powder or creatine or
38:58
electrolytes or green powder or you name it, there's a powder
39:03
for it. I think the first thing that you
39:05
have great night. Out.
39:07
That's so terrible. I'm sure that will be left in.
39:12
I'm like trying to be all professor.
39:15
So I think it's the most important thing and I mentioned
39:18
it a second ago. It's like focus on a whole
39:21
balanced diet before you start supplementing on top of it.
39:25
It's like just, yeah, kind of like trying to Polish a turd is
39:30
maybe not the best phrase for it, but it's like if your diet
39:32
isn't right, then there's so much like so much more nutrient
39:37
value that you can get from your diet by just improving it.
39:40
Rather than going my diet's a bit shit, I'm just going to
39:43
start supplementing on top of that.
39:45
Maybe protein powder is a good way if you can't get sufficient
39:48
protein in your diet because relatively protein powder is
39:51
quite cheap for what you get it for.
39:53
But other than that, I just stay clear of supplements and going
39:56
down that rabbit hole until you've nailed your your actual
39:59
diet. Yeah, I think that's a good
40:01
point. I just want to backtrack as
40:02
well. Like don't condone any form of
40:04
drug. Don't.
40:06
But one of the other powders that we have mentioned is
40:09
creatine. That's very low cost, easy to
40:13
add into your diet. Again, is some a substance that
40:16
you can get naturally from things like red meat, but.
40:20
Like you said, if your diet is wrong, then you're not really
40:22
going to have any protein. I mean, you can add 20 grams of
40:25
protein by having some protein powder, but is that going to
40:27
take you from where you're currently at and your lifestyle
40:29
you're currently at and being the absolute epitome of who you
40:32
want to be? No.
40:33
I think it's interesting that you bring up creatine because I
40:36
will have to backtrack now because that might be one of the
40:39
ones where I go actually. That has so much benefit, not
40:43
just for your training, just generally and like your brain
40:46
function as well. And there's so much research on
40:48
it. It's like the first thing that
40:49
people jump towards when they're talking about creatine.
40:51
They're like, it's the most research supplement and it's
40:54
probably true. And it's like, I would recommend
40:56
it to everyone and anyone, but I would also recommend doing your
40:59
own research around it before you start taking it.
41:01
So that might be 1, but I just, I don't want people to who are
41:04
getting into fitness and getting into training to go all right, I
41:07
need to start supplementing because you don't.
41:09
There's so much value from just improving your diet, improving
41:13
your sleep and just training more and training more
41:15
consistently, especially if you're new to it.
41:18
All the newbie games that you get in the first couple of
41:20
months, it's like huge you're. Going to play devil's advocate,
41:24
yeah, yeah, a little bit on that.
41:25
I, I agree. I think there are so many
41:28
sports, especially within the fitness space, you don't really
41:30
need to buy anything to start and try it.
41:33
But if you are going into a new year and you know that you're
41:36
going to be doing something slightly different and you think
41:40
maybe if I buy these supplements, you know, that
41:42
might actually make me. Yeah, yeah.
41:44
And for example, with me, I get, I, I understand that the benefit
41:48
of taking creatine really only, it only matters as much as it
41:52
does, or at least it compounds if you are consistent in taking
41:54
it on an everyday basis. So if I am going to be taking
41:58
creatine, then I should not be wasting some of the potential
42:01
benefits in my training if I don't train and I'm going to
42:04
take it anyway. So it almost is an additional
42:07
motivation so I can actually do it.
42:09
So if you, if you need something like that, maybe it's worth
42:11
considering. I also mentioned I think a
42:14
couple of months ago I bought pre workout again because I was
42:17
like, I kind of liked the whole process and I'm very much like
42:20
this. If I'm about to start to do
42:21
something, whether that's work or a session, I like to have
42:24
something that triggers me being in that process, not arriving at
42:28
my desk or arriving at the gym and being like, OK, it's go
42:30
time. I like to kick start a bit
42:32
before get myself in the headspace.
42:34
Boom on that. Whether or not the pre workout
42:36
really does much for me. I mean, you could probably just
42:38
give me a placebo. I mean, I'm itchy as hell, so
42:40
it's not placebo, but you could give me a placebo drink or
42:44
something for work. You see other nootropic drinks
42:48
that are appearing? I would argue that's probably
42:49
what they are. If I have one of those, I'm
42:51
like, I'm about to smash out some work.
42:53
I'm about to have a great gym session.
42:55
Maybe that's worth a go if you feel like you need a bit more
42:57
motivation to do something that you're not currently doing, or
42:59
something you want to change. And it's like if you struggling
43:04
with motivations goes to the gym and you have free workout, you
43:06
can't then just go and sit on the sofa.
43:09
It's like I have to go to the gym now because otherwise this
43:12
is going to be a weird night. The.
43:13
Other thing that I would potentially say as an investment
43:16
that I would consider avoiding is buying loads of equipment for
43:20
your home. We see at the moment consumerism
43:24
and manufacturing is going crazy and you can buy like what's the
43:29
really trendy fitness thing that are in classes with beds with
43:34
springs, Reformer, reformer Pilates.
43:38
You can buy reformer Pilates in supermarkets.
43:41
Are they coming in the middle of little or in ALDI, whatever.
43:44
And people get them for home because they're now going to be
43:47
into reformer Pilates. Guarantee you that you get that
43:50
thing out and even if it is good quality, it doesn't quite give
43:53
the same vibe and energy of the lovely boutique gym space with
43:57
your friends and that sort of thing.
43:58
And it it can seem like I love that thing, I want to do that
44:03
thing, I'm going to get it at home and I'm going to do it all
44:05
the time. And in actual fact, it has the
44:07
opposite effect. The only time I would say that
44:09
is a good investment. And I can speak personally on
44:11
this. I've always said that I probably
44:12
wouldn't want a home gym. But when times get really busy
44:15
with work and when my gym is shut, for example, I'm really
44:18
glad that I did buy some sort of machine where I can go and sit
44:21
on a bike in the dry as well. That's really beneficial for
44:26
half an hour and get that done or for an hour, whatever.
44:29
And Charlie bottle 4 hours I'll try.
44:31
But. Like that's that's.
44:35
An investment that I made that again, I'm quite experienced in
44:39
my training now, so I wouldn't have just done that.
44:41
It was quite calculated. And that's what I'm saying.
44:44
If you're if you're not or you're seeing something new and
44:47
you think I'm going to buy all the things for it.
44:49
I think that is like a good thing to bring up because it's
44:51
very easy and like obviously if you're going into a hobby where
44:55
it's like, OK, I'm going to start jiu jitsu or something
44:58
similar where you like there's specific items of clothing that
45:01
I need to wear for training or similar.
45:04
I mean, it can be anything. It's like you can't start
45:06
playing tennis if you don't have a tennis racket.
45:09
So it's like there are certain things that you need to invest
45:11
in. But let's see say more broadly
45:13
you're getting into fitness. The easiest thing to get into is
45:17
probably running. If you're keen to get into
45:19
fitness. The only thing really that you
45:21
need like really is a pair of running trainers, whether you go
45:25
for like a really expensive pair or really cheap pair.
45:28
You don't even need an expensive.
45:29
Pair, as long as it's like as long as it's going to support
45:31
your foot and it's not going to cause any knee or hip pain, then
45:34
you've got a pair of trainers, right?
45:36
So it's like you don't have to go and start investing in lots
45:39
of different things. I'd say if you're going to
45:41
invest in your fitness, you want a gym membership that's probably
45:44
a month. It like an expense that you're
45:47
going to have to kind of swallow if you're going to get into
45:50
fitness. But other than that, like you
45:52
can stay clear of most things for a long time.
45:55
And then maybe you'd be like, OK, I'm going to give myself 6
45:58
to 8 months. Am I going to stick with this
46:00
hobby? If the answer is yes, OK, I'm
46:01
going to buy a better tennis racket or I'm going to buy
46:04
better equipment. It's like the same getting into
46:06
something like golf, it's such a rabbit hole and you start
46:09
looking at it and you go, that's expensive, but you can get a
46:13
cheap set of clubs and you can use them.
46:15
Like when I started playing golf, got a cheap set of clubs,
46:18
I think my parents reluctantly bought them for me because
46:20
they're like, no way is this going to stick.
46:22
And I use those clubs until they literally fell apart because I
46:25
just loved it and I'd play all the time.
46:27
And then it's like, OK, I've proved that this is something
46:30
that I'm going to do and something that I want to do.
46:32
And then it's like, OK, I actually can't afford to play
46:35
golf, but I've ruined my clubs. But it's like then you can start
46:39
to invest in yourself and in in the sport that you want to do.
46:42
I've been I've been thinking as we've been talking Possibly
46:45
there's there's two big things that I think are good
46:48
investments. One I know that you'll agree
46:50
with if if in doubt or you're approaching something new
46:54
coaching yeah, get someone that knows more than you Yeah, yeah.
46:57
Get someone not not necessarily knows more than you, but will
47:01
manage things for you and get the best out of you is always a
47:04
coach. You're always going to be better
47:05
when you're coached, which is something that is a really hard
47:07
pill for me to swallow because I haven't been coached in a long
47:09
time And I, I'm still like, it's a mental thing for me where I'm
47:14
like, I should be coached, but then I'm also like, but I don't
47:18
know if I want to be right now. And that's a, that's a personal
47:21
thing. But I know for a fact that money
47:25
no object and time no object, everything like that, I would
47:28
have a coach tomorrow and it would make a massive, massive
47:32
difference today. The accountability side of it,
47:34
as well as the benefit in knowledge and offloading some of
47:38
the mental athlete having to understand how I'm supposed to
47:41
achieve my own. The other thing this, this will
47:45
be interesting because this is really unlike me.
47:48
If you have a bit of spending money after Christmas and you're
47:51
thinking I really wanted to buy that reformer bed but now I've
47:53
been told I can't, what should I do?
47:57
Just get a new outfit? Go go down the fashion route.
48:02
It doesn't have to be new training I.
48:03
Wasn't expecting that. But genuinely I'm thinking every
48:07
time I bought something new to wear to the gym or wear for a
48:11
specific session, it's made me want to do the session.
48:14
Not every time, but like if I buy, if I, if I bought like a
48:17
really nice T-shirt for the gym or for like running or
48:19
something, I'm not thinking I can't wait to run in it of that
48:23
one time. I'm thinking like that's great
48:25
for running. Yeah, I know.
48:27
I get what you're saying. I'm, I'm, I'm, yeah, I just,
48:29
I'm, I'm more, I'm more surprised that it's you.
48:32
I know that advice ME3. Yeah, that's kind of.
48:35
Look good feel good 2026. Wait Look good, feel good, feel
48:41
good, Live good, live good pay, good pay.
48:46
I've messed it up. There's a great quote by the
48:49
Lift. Laugh, laugh.
48:50
Something along those lines anyway.
48:53
I mean, are there any other investments that you think are
48:56
worth mentioning? I think those are like we've
48:58
covered the covered the P6. OK, cool.
49:02
The outfit which? Means then we need to put our
49:06
silly hats back on. Yeah, we've got we've got the
49:09
game. So we we've brought ourselves
49:11
here this time you're bringing the game.
49:14
And after last week, where there was actually a massive
49:18
improvement in your score in the game, as everyone will have
49:21
heard and seen, you've decided to take revenge on me.
49:27
You outed me on the podcast, so if you don't understand that
49:31
reference, you're going to have to go back and watch the
49:33
previous previous episode. I mean, there's a catch 22 here
49:37
because I've I've, I've told Angus, he doesn't know what the
49:40
game is. We always keep it as a surprise.
49:42
I've kind of explained to him the premise and I've said it's
49:45
kind of evil. And the problem with that is
49:48
that you can very easily next episode just do something
49:51
similar to me and make it evil to me.
49:53
I also did say that Angus is going to be very good at it.
49:56
All right, so let me explain the game.
49:58
This is so I've given it a name, all right?
50:00
I've called it hot take roulette, which I like.
50:03
Sounds great. That could be a segment, right?
50:05
OK. Well, it's a hot take roulette.
50:07
They'll be like, Jingle, I like it and everything's going to go
50:10
what? So I'm going to give you
50:12
basically, it could be a gimmick, A fad, something a
50:16
trend in the fitness industry that potentially we wouldn't
50:19
necessarily agree with. OK, but your job, and we're
50:24
going to start with 30 seconds. Your job is to defend.
50:29
Oh, OK, yeah. You're going to be good at this
50:32
for sure. All right, so I think that's all
50:35
you need for now. Maybe in the comments section on
50:37
social media, get in touch, see if he's done a good job because
50:41
there's no real objective scoring system.
50:44
I mean, it's been. Like my like Jordan Belfort hat
50:46
on can. You sell, can you sell this pen?
50:48
So I'll get my timer off on my on my watch.
50:51
We're going to start. The first one I want you to
50:53
defend for 30 seconds is the grapefruit diet.
50:58
OK, As soon as you start talking my time is running.
51:02
The grapefruit diet, first of all, the thing that people
51:05
struggle with most with their diet is cutting out the bad
51:08
things. If you only have one key thing
51:11
and key focus, it's quite simple for your brain to kind of
51:14
understand, am I hungry? Am I not hungry?
51:17
Because all I'm going to go for is that.
51:18
I've actually heard someone else say they've done a similar thing
51:20
with broccoli. If the picture comes up on their
51:22
phone and they're really hungry and they really hungry enough to
51:26
eat that broccoli. It's the same with the
51:27
grapefruit, if you're going for that.
51:28
Another thing with grapefruit is it's got so many different
51:30
sugars and the citrus element is so healthy for you.
51:33
Time easy. I knew you'd be good at this
51:36
game. But I mean, I don't necessarily
51:38
advocate the grapefruit diet. I like grapefruit.
51:42
I'm going to be honest, I'm not even really sure what it was.
51:44
So I know that I know. I've heard of the grapefruit
51:46
technique. So it's totally different.
51:48
What I noted down was the grapefruit diet.
51:50
This is my kind of perception of it.
51:52
It claims that grapefruit burns fat if eaten with every meal,
51:57
which I is not true. No it's like that part.
52:00
I think the same thing for pineapple doesn't doesn't work
52:03
like that. No, you are.
52:04
That's a crazy thing. So it's like, I know what you
52:07
were trying to get at, but yeah, you did good.
52:09
OK, Should we do the next one? Yeah.
52:11
Have you already? Seen it?
52:12
No, I haven't. With your 2020 vision, yeah,
52:15
it's going to be waist trainers. So it's like a corset anywhere
52:20
that gives you ABS whenever you start talking.
52:25
Waist trainers have been around for centuries.
52:27
They actually do have a physical impact on your body and it is
52:31
one way of measuring your progress as well as kind of
52:35
what's the, this is really difficult.
52:38
I'm trying to think of a word. And now I'm under time pressure.
52:41
It's passive. It's passive effort.
52:43
So like you could be doing your cardio and everything, but the
52:45
waist trainer is making you aware of not only your posture
52:48
and other parts of your training that you're putting an effort
52:50
into. And like I said, it might be a
52:52
motivator to continue with your training if you're going to
52:54
invest in. One time.
52:56
So what I wrote down is corsets marketed as fat loss tools.
53:01
It's terrible. Have you seen the Barbie Girl
53:05
that has like trained? I think she was like Russian.
53:07
I mean, there's a lot of plastic surgery there, but she's like
53:09
through waist training over years has got the smallest waist
53:12
in the world and it. She's trying to look.
53:14
Like a Barbie. It's like a 20 centimetre waist.
53:17
She looks like a Barbie. Really.
53:18
He is crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.
53:20
But they work. Should we do one more?
53:22
Yeah. Cool.
53:23
There's, there's going to be like so many snippets from this
53:25
podcast where it's like these guys clearly have no idea,
53:28
especially Angus. Angus does nothing, not at all.
53:33
Let's go. This is this is going to fall
53:34
night. If someone skipped by accident
53:36
too far forward, they're like they're now getting the wildest
53:39
investment recommendations. It's like I'll come on this for
53:42
advice for for starting my new. Training.
53:44
I'm going. To be grapefruits.
53:47
Let's go. You're going to love this one.
53:50
The vibration plate workouts. You know the drill whenever you
53:55
start talking. I don't want to leave the people
53:58
listening too long, but I'm going to need a little bit more
54:00
time on this one. The old vibration plates.
54:04
OK, I've got it. More and more trendy these days
54:08
are far overpriced massage guns. And while using a vibration
54:13
plate, when you sit in that squat position, you are
54:15
activating some of those stabilizing muscles.
54:17
And when you're holding onto the handles, you're deloading your
54:19
body, so it's a less risk of injury.
54:21
You're also allowing mud blood to penetrate into deeper parts
54:26
of those muscles and aid recovery and flushing out some
54:29
of those toxins and that sort of thing.
54:30
They're left behind after sessions like lactate.
54:33
So you're getting a full body massage gun at a fraction of the
54:36
cost. It's it's like bang on 30
54:39
seconds as well. It's like the marketing pitch
54:41
the pre written marketing pitch, the.
54:42
Worst thing about this is I'm half believing what I'm saying
54:45
when I come up with that. I'm like that kind of makes
54:47
sales you. Know toxic toxins and lactate.
54:50
That was good. Flushing out I'm now genuinely I
54:52
would go on sale on one and I want to know if it's going to
54:54
make my legs feel better now. It's just going to make you shit
54:56
yourself. That's where you're going.
54:59
I'm going to go for the Jay Deardon 19 gels and then go
55:03
stand on vibrating plate and see how long it takes.
55:05
How many? Skills you can have.
55:06
So what do they say about vibration plates?
55:09
Stand and shake your way to ABS. Is that it?
55:13
Is that their? Slogan in brackets, allegedly.
55:15
No, I think that's my slogan. Oh, OK, Allegedly.
55:17
Because your marketing pitch was way better than.
55:19
That I was going to say, is there, is there a business
55:21
that's known for the vibrating plate because if you're
55:23
listening my rates are very unreasonable, but so is your
55:26
product. So I think we can do some
55:28
talking here. Head of Like Global Marketing.
55:31
Global. Vibrating sales.
55:34
I think we leave it there. I did have a few others.
55:35
I had the superfood hype. Can you remember what, like a
55:38
couple of years ago when everyone was raving about the
55:40
Goji Berry? Oh.
55:42
And it was like, I'm going to put goji berries and everything
55:44
because it's like a superfood. If you were one of those people,
55:47
when was the last time you had a goji Berry?
55:48
Now who looks silly? Yeah, you.
55:51
Then also I think the carnivore diet you'd have smashed that
55:54
would have been quite good for you.
55:55
Yeah, the weirdest diet I've heard of, actually.
55:57
And the grapefruit thing threw me off and I went down this diet
56:02
because of the grapefruit broccoli diet.
56:04
No potatoes, really. I knew someone that ate potatoes
56:08
for 60 days straight and all they could have was potatoes.
56:11
That sounds incredible. Awful.
56:13
No, no, not like chips potato like boiled potatoes.
56:18
I was got Iggy potatoes, chips, not like you have a jacket
56:21
potato, nothing on it, just potato, plain potato.
56:26
And they did it two years in a row.
56:28
I mean, it did exactly what they wanted.
56:29
It just helped them with their weight loss because similar to
56:31
the broccoli thing and how I said about grapefruit, they only
56:33
had one thing to think about. So when they were like, am I
56:35
actually hungry because I have to be hungry for potato?
56:38
That is psychotic, yeah. They were quite a big person and
56:42
they lost our way through it, but also.
56:44
I mean, that's good, but it's like there's probably better
56:47
ways to do it. Yeah, the thing that I was
56:49
jealous of, though, and he spoke about this for like the first
56:52
two days after he'd finished the 60 day diet.
56:55
Food tasted amazing. So good.
56:57
Yeah. Yeah.
56:58
But if you could imagine, if you're just basically licking,
57:01
60 days is a long time. Yeah, that's tough.
57:04
Crazy. But I mean, I wouldn't recommend
57:05
anyone does that or any of the techniques we just involved.
57:07
But make sure you get that clear defined line from when we
57:10
started Hot Take Roulette and when we would take the rest of
57:12
the episode. Otherwise it's it's going to be
57:14
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