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Second Exercise Rule to Break After 50: You Have to Keep Up · Making Muscle Memories

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  SPEAKER_00: This is the second episode of our five-part series of exercise rules that you're allowed to break after the age of 50.
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  SPEAKER_00: And stay tuned to the end where I show you how you can break these rules with a more intelligent approach to building strong, healthy muscle.
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  SPEAKER_00: After 40 years of work in the fitness industry, I have learned that real strength isn't just built through exercise, but through experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will share with you some of the science as well as the stories that have shaped my work.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are all building muscle memories.
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  SPEAKER_00: One rep, one story, and one day at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Making Muscle Memories Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Lauren Irk and I will be your host.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's episode, which is what I call keeping up the pace, is one of the five rules that we're allowed to let go of after the age of 50.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what is pacing?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is keeping up with the Joneses?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you think about it, do your muscles care what's going on with other people that are around you?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: All they care about is what they are currently feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are inside of your body and they are responding to whatever challenges that you're giving them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The pacing, the keeping up with others that we've all been told that we need to do, gotta keep up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, little Johnny, keep up.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: We need to let that go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is all in our head.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an illusion that we have to keep up with other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you try, you're going to fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this episode, I'm going to go over some of the issues with keeping up and tell you a better way to take a look at your own fitness program.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you've ever been involved in a group situation where you're with a lot of people, it doesn't necessarily have to mean, especially if you're a guy listening to this, you probably didn't do group fitness classes, but I'm sure a lot of you women have.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was uh I'll give you an example this past weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was um driving, it was a Saturday, and I was, I was, had some errands to run, and I noticed there's a big group of cyclists out in the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there were a lot of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, you know, all the cars were trying to stay out of their way, and you're you're you're trying really hard not to hit any of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's and I noticed as as we look at this big group of cyclists, and they were just pumping and pumping and pumping, and they were all just kind of just like this, you can tell that they were like in the zone.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there were literally five to ten of them that were no longer in the pack and they were struggling to try to keep up.
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  SPEAKER_00: This cadence that this this we have this thing called the Louval Willman here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see these guys were dying, and they were trying, and I just wanted to shake them and just say, you know, like why are you doing this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you know that they're gonna pay the price.
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  SPEAKER_00: This one guy was just sweating, and he was just trying to keep up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and it is a problem.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Pacing can be an issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're thinking of, you know, at this point, do I do I this is really gonna get me to my end goal, which is to be able to exercise for life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that we sometimes see with with uh sometimes in these in these group situations is that we all think that we have to do the same number of reps.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you've signed up that you're going to, you know, run a race and you're gonna do, I'm just going back to the cardio thing, if you're gonna run a race and you're gonna do a six-mile race, then that means that everybody has to run six miles.
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  SPEAKER_00: I once had a teacher that said that his dad, every time he would start to run a race, when he got tired, he would find a phone or he'd keep a phone and call him and say, I think I'm ready to be picked up.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I always thought to myself, that guy is a rock star because he realized that you know what, I am done with having to, you know, keep up with everybody else, and so I'm ready to go home, I've had my exercise for the day.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Wouldn't it be great if we would do that?
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: But we all think that we have to do ever many reps it takes because everyone is doing the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or we've heard somewhere that if we only do, you know, 12 reps, if we don't get to 12 reps, there's no benefit.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Or if we only do 20 minutes of cardio, there's no benefit to the heart.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Not true, right?
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Now, being from the yoga world, another benchmark that I hear a lot about is everybody should achieve the same range of motion.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, in yoga, if you don't have the same range of motion, if you haven't achieved this pose, you are not any good at yoga.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I have seen people forcing themselves into postures, trying to pull themselves into all these contorted positions, just trying to achieve a pose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they will spend thousands of dollars working with instructors that can get into all these poses, thinking if they just keep stretching and stretching and stretching, then they're gonna eventually achieve this range of motion.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what do you see?
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  SPEAKER_00: Injuries, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: No two people are gonna be able to achieve the same range of motion, and we literally should not be comparing each other one way or the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: We also have these situations where we think that we all need to pick up the same resistance.
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  SPEAKER_00: I always feel sorry for guys because what's the first thing guys say?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: How much do you bench, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who cares what your best friend benches?
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know how much did you bench last month and how are you today?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will say this if I didn't lose anything from one month to the next, that to me is a great benchmark, right?
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: That the fact that I didn't lose my resistance amount that I was lifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when we start comparing ourselves with other people, you know, trying to keep up with the industry standards, we're gonna lose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who cares if you can bench your own body weight?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't been benching for 20 years, you're not gonna bench your own body weight.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: And listen to the no pain, no gain episode.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you some insights about pain when you're trying to lift too heavy at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, we have exercise variation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, being a group fitness instructor, a lot of times we feel this pressure that if we're teaching a class, we have to show different levels.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: And in some ways this is a good thing, but in some ways it's not.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if I remember filming a video with a with a fitness company once, and we had three people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was the middle the middle guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was another girl that was showing the beginning version, and of course, the one that was teaching was the advanced girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let me ask you a question.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're at home, or let's say you're doing it with a couple of people, which one did you follow?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you feel guilty following the beginning person?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you feel like you weren't quite right if you were in the middle person?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or did you feel like I'd better follow the guy, the lady that was doing the more advanced version?
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  SPEAKER_00: This happened to me all the time in group fitness.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, I used to tell instructors when I would teach them how to teach, I would say, don't show the hardest level.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intentionally, don't allow yourself, even if your body can do it, don't even demonstrate the hardest version because everyone is gonna do that and they don't need to be there.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I'm gonna be in a room full of seniors, I'm not gonna show the hardest version because I know that somebody's gonna try it and somebody is going to get hurt.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's our natural human nature that we think that we have to give that up.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: And we simply need to throw that out.
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  SPEAKER_00: That being said, what about the recovery time?
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Who says that everyone should be recovered after 30 seconds or after five breaths?
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: What if we need an additional minute to recover?
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: What if what if that workout is done for the day?
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've had the experience once of working with a client who had a lot of things going on with her joints and with her health, and I thought what I gave her was nothing.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: I started working with her, and this was actually an in-person client.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: And she within a matter of minutes looked like she was getting ready to faint.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh my gosh, what did I just do?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: And we literally had to abort the entire session because she could not keep up with everything that I was doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So not everyone needs to recover at the same time.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now I keep saying about being with the group, being with the group.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: One yoga teacher that I studied with years ago, and I've said this in other episodes, Krishna Charya, I love what he said because he always said that no two people can perform the same asanas, but they must maintain an evenness of the breath.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I am paraphrasing some of you diehard yogis, you may know the exact quote, but that always stuck with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's considered the father of yoga, and he said this, but somehow or another, yoga became this showpiece, or maybe it isn't as much now, but back in the back in the 2000s, man, it was just like there were yoga competitions out there, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we think about two people, do two people have the same bone structure ever?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, have you ever seen the people that are like seven feet tall?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you think that those people are gonna be able to be able to uh achieve the same position as some guy that had shorter bones?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's take a bench pressing competition.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I had really long skinny arms because I was seven feet tall, or maybe they aren't skinny, maybe they're muscular, next to the guy with little twiggy arms, who's gonna be better at a bench press?
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably the guy with a little twiggy arms because he doesn't have as much distance to move the bar.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those two people are not gonna be the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about muscular participation?
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, that's huge.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: If I've been conditioning all my life and I've been strength training, I'm gonna have a better endurance level and a better ability to lift more weights than somebody who hasn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't compare yourself with that.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: What about a man or a woman?
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: I hate to admit this, but for the most part, men are stronger than women.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I said it.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, honestly, a band a man could probably beat me up.
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  SPEAKER_00: As much as I know about how to defend myself, and I have taken some self-defense classes in my day, I probably could be beaten up by a man because I'm a female.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so then the whole women's sports thing, I don't want to get into all that, but it is a fact that the genetics play a role.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about injury history?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, huge.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: If I take somebody who has had a spinal fusion and I try to move that that person that's spinal fusion is trying to move the same as a 20-year-old that has never had a spinal injury, that's insanity, right?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: The person that's had the fusion is going to have a different range of motion than somebody else.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: What about fatigue levels?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: If I have somebody that's well rested and then came in, or maybe myself, let's say I came in one day on a Tuesday and I had a ton of sleep and a really good breakfast, and it was in the middle of the day and I was like full of energy, versus I'm dragging in there on a Friday after a week, I'm going through a divorce and I haven't gotten any sleep.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: My performance given from the beginning of the week and the ending of the week is going to be different.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: So why am I trying to keep up the pace, right?
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of the things that I love about having an online program, which I said I would never do, but now it's become like the cornerstone of what I do when I work with people.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Because being online allows you to slow something down, it allows you to pause something, it allows you to give up like half the routine and come back to it later.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: It allows me to say, oh, this is too much for me today, I'm gonna go and do this routine instead.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: But when I get in my car and I drive somewhere and I'm in a room full of people, well, that's where a lot of the competition comes from.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: And keeping up with the Joneses has to go.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what I'd like to discuss now is what are sort of the reasons that that that that when people start to keep up, some of the reasons that they do, some of the reasons that they try to keep up pace.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: Keeping pace will actually help us to, so we call it borrowing momentum.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever been out on a boat and you sort of get into somebody's wake, or I say it like when you're surfing or something like that, when you're when you get into the wave of a boat, you can kind of pick up momentum.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you're in a root, if you're in a position where you're running with a lot of people and you're and I've had this happen before, and I'm and I'm in a mini marathon or something, if I get behind a bunch of really fast people, I can somehow, you know, keep up the pace with them because I'm there.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: If you're biking, you can actually pick up the wind speed of somebody else and they can carry you along.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: And you see animals do this a lot.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: But this is so this this is one thing that can sometimes be detrimental if we really uh don't need to be there.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: We can also notice that we will lose muscular control.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Muscular control.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: So if I'm moving really fast, let's say I'm keeping up with somebody, I'm on my bike and I've got that wind speed, and I'm trying to pedal really hard, there may be a part of that range that I'm pedaling through that I'm not really even using my muscles because the momentum is sort of keeping me going, right?
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that's I think a lot of the reasons why people move quickly.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I know that there are some people that are working with power-related activities, they're really trying to move weight and they don't really care where they got there.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: But realize that even power lifters, if they don't train, I know some power lifters, and they don't just do power, they have to spend a lot of their time doing powerlifting, but they're still doing other types of training as well.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: You simply can't control the entire range of motion if you're just gaining momentum to gain from point A to point B.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: You are going to lose some muscular control.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: That being said, we're gonna lose some useful, you use useful, I can't say it useful range of motion.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if I'm gonna take my a weight, and I'm gonna take my weight from here, I'm gonna push it over my head.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: If I do this with such a pace that I call it what I like to call owning every single part of that range.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm feeling it down here, I'm feeling it up here, I'm feeling at the top, I'm even feeling at the end of my range, and then I'm gonna slowly come back down out of it.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to potentially own every single part of that range.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that's another reason why I love doing isometric resistance training so much, because it really does help me to slow down and own every single part.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: But if I just you know come out of a squat and boom push that weight over my head, my legs may have done more to move that weight than my effort ever actually was.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I may have never really experienced what it felt like to be at this part of the range, or maybe what it felt like to be here and try to move my arm closer to my head.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: So you losing some of that range will diminish our amount of muscular control.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Now, when we do diminish that and we have lost muscular control, we've kind of been dealing with momentum, you can see that this is a recipe for compensation.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing is, the faster that we move and the more that we try to keep up the pace of things or keep up with the amount or the effort that we always did in the past or that other people around us are doing, it's going to lead to compensation.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: So if I have it in my head, okay, on Tuesday when I worked out, I was able to get through this video.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: I got through 60 minutes of this video and I use this weight.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so I go down to my basement, I pick out the weights that I want, I punch in the video, I press start, and my goal is to get through 60 minutes and come hell or high water.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna use those weights throughout.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think happens when you start getting tired?
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: You're watching the that let's say you're on my program and I'm doing some kind of leg program and I'm and I'm down there doing some you know, half reps and full reps, and your legs are starting to fatigue, but lo and behold, I am going to keep that weight because that's what I did last week.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna keep up with my pace and I'm not allowed to recover.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what people do?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: They slowly start to move out of the range a little bit.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're not squatting maybe as deeply as they would.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they're using a little more speed to try to get the weight to they want to go.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: You'll start seeing people like try to get the weight up, but they'll hoist their body to one side or they'll start to shift through their feet or whatever it was.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Your body will find a way to do these things.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you tell it to give it a roll, your body will be like, okay, I'll just use this shoulder, I'll use this other hip, I'll push off this foot.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Heck, I'll just use the you know, the the floor itself and I'll try to get that weight up there.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: But it doesn't mean just because I finished that workout for 60 minutes, or just because I used that weight, who cares?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: You may have experienced none of that weight.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's why I never get into conversations about how much weight do you use.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, how do I even answer that question?
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: What weight did I use for what?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: What was my intention that day?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: How fast did I move that weight?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: How much of that weight did I even experience?
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: How much effort did I put into that weight?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's the question that I want to hear.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: I could care less about the weight.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, I'd rather see you use no weight and really pay attention to your body.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: But when we try to keep up with other people or we try to keep up with ourselves, we will lose.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: If we're going to one of those classes where the goal is, you know, we have to really lift a lot of heavy, heavy, heavy weight.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, we're not keeping up with everybody in the class.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're not paying attention to what you need.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: And if somebody, if you think that somebody is like, you know, looking at you because, you know, you didn't lift as much weight as somebody else, I mean, goodness gracious, right?
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're you're sacrificing your own health.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: And that brings me to my next point.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when we start to keep up the pace, we do a definitive thing to ignore the pain.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna put myself in the hot seat, okay?
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I had this experience once, and I believe it or not, I did use to run.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: I I absolutely hate running.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: I hate all that stuff, but I I did it one time.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember the first mini marathon that I ever did.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you this whole story.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: I thought, this will be a piece of cake as I teach 30 classes a week.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good, and I didn't really run.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: I race walked, but I didn't run.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: So here I was, the gun goes off, and I started running.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I took off at the front because I figured I was in shape.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, within like 30 seconds, half of the people were in front of me.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I learned quickly that you don't do that in a race because if you're not a runner, you are in their way, and I was I was lucky to not get trampled.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Then finally, within 30 seconds, I was with the pace that I had, which I was, I think it did eight minute miles.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was like 20-something years old.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Within a matter of like mile eight, I remember we were there's a place in this race where you're having to run up this hill and it keeps going and going and going, and my thighs hurt so bad.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like every time my foot hit the ground, it was like pain, pain, pain.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I kept thinking, I gotta get through it, I gotta get through it, I gotta get through it.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I kept on going because I was not about to stop.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: By golly, this was something I was gonna do and I was gonna push through the pain.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: When I finished that workout that day, that that race, I finished it and I finished it under two hours.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was pretty proud of myself, 13.1 miles.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: That was the dumbest accomplishment I think I've ever done because I couldn't even work for a solid week after that.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: I had to call in sick because my legs were so sore.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: I would I had to go back to, I was in an apartment then.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: I had to go back to my apartment.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: My stomach was in knots.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: I had things coming out both ends, especially the bottom end.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: I was so stiff and so sore.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't step off of a curb after the race.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I was having a hard time getting up out of a chair and walking across the room, and I was like 23.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: That was not good at all.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: I was pushing through pain, I was letting everybody else pace me, and I thought I was invincible.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Now, at 57 doing this, I would never do that.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: I would never do that.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because I realized now that if I if I did that and kept doing that, I wouldn't be in fitness now.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'd be in our wheelchair.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what happens when people do that though?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: What happens if you listen to this and you don't listen to me?
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna leave feeling defeated.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna feel bad about yourself and you're gonna feel like there's something wrong with you.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm just here to tell you, God created you for a reason.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: And one of my favorite scenes in The Chosen, if you haven't watched The Chosen yet, oh, please watch it.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you're not a Christian, watch it because it will change your life.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: There's a scene, I want to say it was Bartholomew, but I can't remember.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was it was James.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, it was James.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: And James was crippled and he couldn't walk.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: And he came up to Jesus and he said, You know, I have watched you heal so many people.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: Why haven't you healed me?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because he had a cane and he could barely walk and he was walking around.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus, the guy, Jonathan Rooney, the actor, said, Do you want to be healed?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, Of course.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: It would be a and he goes, and it would be a great story, Jesus said.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: It would be a great story.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Yes, it would be a great story.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: You heal people, and he goes, but what if you are a testimonial?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: But even in spite of your not being able to walk, he said, you know, do you walk fast?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Is it is it pretty when you walk?
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Are you an athlete?
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: But what he did have was a story.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so ultimately at the end of this talk, it was one of the most beautiful you can YouTube it if you want, but it's he basically decided after listening to what Jesus said to him that he was better off having a limp because God was using him.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: He was using his lack of being able to walk because he was gonna teach people something so much greater by knowing that even in spite of all of his ailments, he continued to fulfill God's purpose.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: So remember, when you start keeping track of what other people are doing, or if you're in a situation where a lot of people are lifting a lot of weight, or somebody is telling you that you're not good enough, or that you need to be further along, or that you need to move faster, or that you need to lift more, or you know, you need to keep up, or you're you need to lose weight.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying you shouldn't do those things.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: I I don't it I don't agree with this whole movement of I'm obese and I should be great.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Obesity is unhealthy.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: We need to keep strong muscles, we need to do everything we can to keep our bones healthy, but not to the point where we're trying to keep up with somebody that has nothing to do with us.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: We need to keep up with ourselves.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: We need to look at how was I yesterday and how can I improve today.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: If you would like help on understanding how your body moves and coming up with a unique way to use exercise to work for your body for your needs, I'd love to give you a seven-day free trial in my program FIS on demand.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: I can coach people there and well as well.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: I talk to people one-on-one, and that's the one thing that I hear all the time when we're in these one-on-one sessions, or even in I do group sessions as well.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: They always are sad because they can't overcome an injury, they can't keep up, and I'm always saying the same things.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: What are you sad about?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you think about it, there's always something to work on, right?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: It makes it interesting.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Exercise is fun because I get to decide, well, what I gotta work on today.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: There's always something, right?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I would love to hear if you're listening to this on YouTube.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, give me a follow, give me, give me a thumbs up if you liked it.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I'd love to hear from you what resonated with you in this episode.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: I want to have some conversations with you.
• 21:58
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• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe rate this podcast if you like it.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: But most importantly, I would love it if you could forward this to someone who needs it.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: I am putting forth all this effort because I want to help people.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want people to suffer from the same stupid mistakes that I've made for myself.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I thank you so much for watching.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Episode three is next of the five part series of the exercise rules that we need to throw out after the age of 50.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: And certainly, as I conclude, we do not need to be keeping up with others.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Keep up with yourself, my friends.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Make it a great day.