Why Men Over 40 Are Aging Faster Than They Should And How to Reverse the Decline. Guest: Janet McConnell - 36

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Welcome to Driven for Health.
This is episode 36 and really

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excited to have you here today
with Janet and I.

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Now Janet is a longevity
specialist.

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She has transformed her life
from her 30s forties when she

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realized she just wasn't looking
or feeling that great.

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And we'll go into her story a
little bit.

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And then when we when she
transformed through the last

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what 2 decades or so at the
young age of, I'm not even going

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to say how old she is or young
she is because she does not look

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how young she is.
She's a testament to good

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health, good nutrition and just
overall taking care of yourself.

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Let's welcome Janet McConnell to
our show and we're going to jump

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into longevity.
Janet, what is one or two key

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pieces of takeaways you'd love
for the guests to just grab on

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to?
Hello and thank you so much,

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Coach Brian for that
introduction.

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And it is OK to say my age.
I'm going to be 70 in four

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months.
That's incredible, right?

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I wanted you to say it, not me.
No, I know in our culture we're

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afraid of that.
Like never your age.

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I mean, if you're a longevity
person, you should tell your age

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because that.
It's a badge of honor for you,

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right?
I, I hope my goal is I'm 42,

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almost 43 at the end of this
month, being today's December

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8th, but 28th is my 43rd
birthday.

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But I just want to look and feel
the way I do now when I'm 50.

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But I imagine that'll keep going
until I'm 70.

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I just want to be young and
Sprite and energetic and all so

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right.
Well, so to answer your

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question.
And if you keep going the way

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you are, you will reach that
goal.

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Thank you.
Thank you.

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I think it's important, you said
a couple of takeaways.

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Yeah, like one or two big things
that you want to grab onto and

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then we'll jump into the story.
So we just spoke the audience,

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right?
We want to get them all ready to

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go.
Yes.

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So I think that one of them that
I believe very strongly and that

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I want people to take away from
this is a way of shedding this.

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The idea that aging is something
to avoid because we can't avoid

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it.
So they to meet it is head on in

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saying aging is inevitable but
decay is optional.

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I love that that is that's
powerful.

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I like that a lot.
So what she's saying is that you

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can choose to take care of
yourself or let yourself go, but

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at no matter what point you are
in life, And she and I are both

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a testament to working with way
too many clients throughout the

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years, that no matter where
you're at, you still have the

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choice to improve yourself.
Even if you let yourself fall

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victim to a chronic illness,
just not paying attention to

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life, stress, all sorts of
different things that like

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throws at us, you can still
choose to do that.

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So let's jump in your story with
that juicy nugget.

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Tell us what were some of the
say when you're around my age,

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that middle life, because that's
where a lot of my listeners are

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in that middle age.
They've got young families,

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kids.
It's crazy trying to do all the

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things and we know that women
are super women for sure, and

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and that's part of your story.
But the the guys too, they get

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they're having their own issues
with juggling all the demands in

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middle age and we'd much rather
have a midlife evolution in a

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sense of better health than a
midlife crisis.

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And they crash and burn with
their relationships, their

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finances, their create whatever.
We don't need to do that.

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Right.
Well, I think that sometimes

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that crisis does come, but it
can be the doorway to

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transformation and it can be a
new beginning.

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But it doesn't mean you have to
have a crisis to be healthy when

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you're older.
It's just sometimes that's the

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way it, it's like, it like takes
you by the shoulders and shakes

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you a little bit.
So that's exactly what happened

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to me.
And you're absolutely right.

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I think from our late days to
about 50, depending on the

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person, those are the hustle
years because back when you're

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ramping up your career, you're
creating your family, you are

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establishing yourself in society
and you are and, and we're off

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to the races.
So there's some that you need to

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do and cram into every day and
every week and every year that

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and it and it's, I mean, quite
frankly, it's pretty fun,

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stressful sometimes, but very
changing.

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And what can happen.
And what happened for me is that

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I started out my life very
healthy.

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So as a young person, I was an
athlete, my parents were

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vegetarians.
I had this amazing, you know, I

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became like this iron child and
I was good at everything in

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sports.
And as I launched into my 20s, I

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was still healthy because I was
still I had that youthful

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vitality.
So many people, they take from

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that high school and they're
athletic, and then it starts to

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be that some point in the
college years or early 20s where

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they get settled into life.
And that's probably what sounds

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like might have happened to you.
Yes, yes, my, my career was so

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fun and engaging and, and
satisfying and, and I just fell

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in love with it.
And I stopped paying attention

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to my health because I was
already healthy.

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I took it for granted.
I, I will admit that I took it

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for I was like, I don't know
what all this business is about

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going to a gym.
I mean, what are you doing?

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I mean, I would go on a hike or
play a football game or

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whatever.
I could do all those things

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without training for it.
So I didn't really quite

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understand what the hullabaloo
was about until I got into my

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mid 40s.
And at that point I was just a

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notch below the C-Suite.
I was a director of operations

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traveling all over the country.
Lots of responsibilities.

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Yes, and and and sleep deprived,
jet lagged, eating hotel food

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and airline food and eating on
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And usually those foods are not
healthy.

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Carbs, sodiums and fats, right?
Fried things and sugary things

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and caffeinated things.
Well, and it was OK.

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I mean, I wasn't, I wasn't
sickly, but I was gaining weight

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and I, I was feeling a little
more tired and it was harder to

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keep up, like to bounce back
after a difficult weeks, for

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example.
So anyway, I went to my annual

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physical when I was 46, as one
should do, and the blood work

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came back.
And my doctor, he just kind of

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sat me down and he kind of
looked at me over.

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The talk that you don't want to
ever get right, right.

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And he he slid a stack of
prescriptions across the dust

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and he said, I don't know what's
going on with you, Janet, but

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you have high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, high

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triglycerides and you are
borderline obese and you are on

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your way to early heart disease.
Right.

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And that just hit me so hard.
I mean, I knew it was a little

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fluffy, but so is everybody
else, you know, I, I didn't, I

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wasn't like fat, like I felt
like I was, you know, really.

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Also, just think about the
culture that you're in the

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position in your career and just
the the family raising all the

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all those things that are going
on in that 40 ish time window.

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I'm feeling and my oldest is 16.
I've got it 16, soon to be 15

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and like a week, then 12 and 10,
three boys and girl.

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It's I spent at least 15 plus
hours Wednesday, Thursday,

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Friday at after school events,
which then cramps my work

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schedule and capacity to do all
that or let alone do anything

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for myself.
It's just forget working out.

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I have to work, go to the after
school thing and then I'm

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falling asleep by the time it's
past bedtime.

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Yeah.
It's like your commitments that

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you set into place because you
wanted to then just kind of

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become A and you can't just keep
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It's like a gravity well that
you can't escape until something

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just shakes your complete world
where you have to stop and take

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stock.
So he had a little pep talk with

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me and said, listen, you aren't,
you are you're trending down.

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And it's I don't want to see
this.

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You're, you're you really are
too young to be this old.

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And so here's some prescriptions
to get you back on track.

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No talk of exercise or what I
was eating or anything.

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And.
Just medicine.

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I just glanced down at them and
those were the medications my

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grandparents were taking and I
was like no, no, something just,

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I just, I got stubborn really
quickly and I said listen, give

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me 6 months, give me and and he
goes, are you bargaining with

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me?
Yes, I am.

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But he needs I had been seeing
him for a few years.

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And so, all right, let's make
the appointment right now.

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Let's write it down and you're
coming back and you'd better

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throw up.
And if you're still not good,

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then you're taking these
prescriptions.

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OK dear, so I.
Want to interject real quick,

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just for everyone listening, The
reason the doctors give you

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prescription is they're there to
triage, they're there to help

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immediately.
Everyone knows that it's a

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lifestyle change.
You got to change your nutrition

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and exercise and all that.
But the doctors, due to our

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healthcare system, their
bandwidth, the insurance, all

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these things that we're not
going to talk about but we know

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are a big challenge for them to
actually serve their clients

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very well.
If you come in with high blood

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pressure, they give you a blood
pressure pill tomorrow.

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It's normal and you are
adherently healthier and at

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lower risk.
If you have cholesterol issues,

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you take this pill and it will
lower consequently and keep you

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healthier, longer, show less
signs.

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That doesn't mean that you
shouldn't do something to get

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away from that health issue.
But I just want to throw that

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out there.
And that's why the doctors do

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what they do.
But they would love that you

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just, you bargain like Janet.
And I can't tell you how many

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clients that I've had show up on
my door saying the doctor wanted

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to put me on meds and I said no.
And then I didn't know what to

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do.
But episode was it 29?

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Yeah, it was episode 29.
I had a colleague on his name

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was Brian too.
He had a 374 blood sugar.

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He had the cholesterol he had he
had the whole game it and he did

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the exact same that you did.
He said I'm not doing this if

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I'm going to die young, then I
will, but I'm not taking meds.

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And then he made a quite a
shift.

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He slipped and kind of fell back
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But then he ultimately has had a
lifelong shift going into his

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mid 50s to the point where he
has developed a fitness coaching

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business with his son, his mid
20s son.

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So it's a complete 180 in
lifestyle.

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So if you're listening in and
you are excited about what

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Janet's saying, listen to
episode 29 and Brian has a story

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that'll help inspire you as well
of being that stubborn.

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I'm not going to take medicine
route.

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And So what happened and after
that point that you actually

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transitioned in the last what,
2:00-ish decades?

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Right.
Well, it was a rude awakening.

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It was much needed.
And I'm really glad that my

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doctor gave me just a little bit
of grace to pull myself

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together.
And I, I, well, after I had a

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little hysterical meltdown in
the parking lot, I went to Walt

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and I talked to my boss about it
because I said, listen, I've got

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this bit, this thing I need to
work on, but I don't want to

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back on my travel schedule.
She said, well, I have a

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trainer, Janet, why don't you
just hire him?

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He's fun.
He really knows what he's doing.

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He'll take care of you.
You'll show up because you have

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an appointment and start with
that and then figure out the

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rest as you go.
And I was good at, so I did that

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and he happened to be a
bodybuilding trainer and it was

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fun and I loved it.
So I was very compliant.

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So I did all of the, the, the
bodybuilding strength training

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and didn't address my diet at
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Brian only did my only worked
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week at 5:00 AM and.
Yeah, it's committed.

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Yeah, I was serious.
I I took it on.

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And so by the end of six months,
even without changing my diet, I

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had lost 35 lbs, which tells you
how much I needed exercise.

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Yeah, exercise really helped.
And the quiet came in after,

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because then after I went to my
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of my symptoms were gone and I
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I saw these two women that came
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time as me who were just a
little bit younger, but they

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were jacked.
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the same weights I'm lifting.
If I was curling a 20 LB

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dumbbell, they were curling a 20
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They look like that.
And I remember asking my

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trainer, why is it that we're
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And they look like that.
And I said, oh Janet, they're

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bodybuilding competitors and
they're five weeks out in the

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stage.
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strategically.
And I said, what does that mean?

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And you want it now?
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Here's the other thing.
Is that you?

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You you said no to the medicine,
Then the next step, you

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consulted a close friend or Co
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solution.
Hey, hire this person that knows

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what they're doing.
And that was just the next step.

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And then you started showing up
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But just show up when you
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They ask in a personal trainer.
I was a personal trainer for six

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years and then I owned a gym and
and that was the main thing.

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Just show up when we agree that
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will be significantly more
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And what I'm trying to say to
the audience is it's just a

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simple next step of, OK, I need
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getting healthier.
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Now she's hooked, bought in.
She's already had an incredible

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transformation so far, But then
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We always want more.
It just can't always just

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settle.
It's just like, oh, what are

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they doing?
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your social circles were

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different as well.
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and what was seen as OK and, and
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And, and that's just as how this
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A tiny little story of me.
I ran in high school, I ran in

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college, realized they their
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It felt like I said, all right,
I'm a little out of my league

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here, but I went to a Saturday
morning running group that was

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fun and engaging.
We get up and running Saturdays

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and 12 miles on the Buckeye
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All of a sudden I ran A50 mile
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I ran a dozen marathons because
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And guilt by association.
I wanted to be like my peers

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and, and so this is where you're
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So what what was some of the
the, the shifts that that

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transitioned of say that
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Yeah, that's powerful.
What you just described is that

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surrounding yourself with the
people that you want to be more

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like because that will inspire
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on days when you don't feel it,
you know?

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Yeah, you're not always going to
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Right, right.
But so I think what happened too

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was I had reached that goal of
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radar.
And then I didn't have a new

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goal.
But when I saw those ladies and

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found out that they were, I was
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So it's also what is the next
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And don't leave yourself, you
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long without it.
So I saw that I wanted that, and

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a year later I was on my first
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eating, which reduced me to the

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idea of eating clean.
Plenty of protein, a balance of

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carbs and fats, healthy fats,
healthy carbs, slow carbs, all

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of that.
And then learning how to

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schedule everything and and and
very measured and aware so that

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you can't.
As soon as you try to trick

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yourself, it shows up on your
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Your body doesn't lie.
No, if you're not losing weight,

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it's because you're not in the
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Period.
Yeah, yeah, that's it's nice

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that something in this world
doesn't lie, but does it have to

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be your body?
Right, right.

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So that began my journey of
learning how to eat clean, take

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care of my body, really honor
the hard work.

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I can see what's happening to my
body and thought, why would I

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give it junk?
Look at it, look what it's doing

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for me.
So I got a respect for my body,

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which gave me confidence.
It changed everything and then

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after a couple of years of that,
it really propelled me into

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wanting to change my life
purpose from being a corporate

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person for a company.
It was great mission, but it

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really was not dear to my heart.
Not an alignment.

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Right.
And so that's when I became a

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fitness trainer and into all
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And and so let's just pause here
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So getting rewinding everything,
the doctor appointment turned

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into talking with your Co
worker, turned into a personal

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trainer, turned into 35 lbs
down, turned into want to hey,

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they're doing what I'm doing.
Why am I not getting better

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results turned into you paying a
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And I just want to throw this in
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There are a lot of different
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sense, but Janet was eating
Whole Foods, she was eating

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portion food, she was having
proteins, vegetables, searching

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guards, some fruit, and having
balance in the day, eating an

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appropriate calorie amount for
what her body needs were to

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reach her goals.
And whether you want to be a

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bodybuilder or not, a go on
stage or not, that's irrelevant.

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The physique athletes just stay
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diet meaning that we're in a cut
phase, a fat loss phase for an

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extended amount of time.
And any person could do that if

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they're willing or want to stay
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two or three months in a sense.
And then they will be as lean as

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a stage competitor, bodybuilder
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And I just want to throw that
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that there's no difference of
what where Janet was when she

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decided to shift to her getting
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conditioning level.
So just willing to do the work

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longer.
And you could already tell she's

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a go getter because of like her
career path and all.

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that intensity and drive in her

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career and focus some of it on
her health.

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And it made a obviously a
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So anyone else can do this.
I talked to so many high

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performing, productive, career
driven people and they're

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successful and got money in the
bank in the car and the the

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vacations in the house and blah,
blah, blah.

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And they don't have the body and
then they're high.

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Agency or capacity in one area
and and really alone the other

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and one of my habits and and
strategies and probably yours as

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well because we'll get into the
actual coaching pieces you

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borrow from this person to to
pull into this to raise up your

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health.
And that is a very strategic

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coaching practice that we do.
So now you're coaching people.

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You have some processes here was
go heavy and go home myths,

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right?
And strength versus ego lifting

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and different things.
Let's jump into some of your

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actual how you coach men,
because that's your primary

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audience too.
That's why we're here.

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And they're say 40s, fifties,
60s and beyond.

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What, what are some of the
things that you're seeing and

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how do you coach them and, and
challenges and all?

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It appeals to me what you said
about having the house and the

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car and the job and everything,
because I would say to that to

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your listeners, tend the house
that you live in this one, this

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is the house you live in your
entire life.

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You can get a new car, but this
house you just won.

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So it.
Wears.

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Out right if you.
Don't or later you don't affect.

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Change orders, the blueprint is
fine, but you need to affect

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change orders.
So one of the things, yes, in

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talking about go heavy or go
home, which is kind of like a

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Jim Bro phrase that we.
Lap.

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You know, right, Because you
know it.

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I mean, it has the idea of if
you're going to do it, go all

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the way and don't leave anything
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So that's OK.
But it's really important as we

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leave our 20s and our 30s get
into midlife and beyond that.

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If you are in this for the long
haul, if you want to live as

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long as you possibly can as well
as you possibly can, then you

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have to shift.
It doesn't happen overnight, but

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you have to catch yourself
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your joints and your tendons and
your are going to pay the price.

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So if you want to build
longevity, strength, it's not

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couched in a momentary
performance but in the

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consistency over time of good
form, being intelligent about

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where your body is and to not
ignore stability, mobility and

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balance along with big muscles
because otherwise you'll have

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more injuries, longer recovery
when The thing is when you get

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older.
If you get injured, then it's

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more of a set back, which is not
desirable and it makes you less

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motivated because you're like,
oh, I don't even know what I'm

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doing.
This is ridiculous, you know.

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So.
Yeah, so I I think you and you

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made a good point about you
don't have to be a competitive

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bodybuilder to be in great
shape, but some of the habits

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are similar.
It's just a lot more intense.

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But it's.
Well, let's say intent, not

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necessarily intent, intent on
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The same thing with say in the
career path of a lot of the, the

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guys that we work with, they're
very intent on attaining a

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certain income level, a certain
level of status, a certain car,

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a certain personal brand in a
sense of how people see them.

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They're very intentional on
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But they don't see the, the
health as one of those areas.

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And it could totally be from
their upbringing to the crazy

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chaos that comes in the 2025 to
50 ish range of, of life and

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trying to juggle everything
that's happening there.

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So the intent of where your
health is.

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And Jane and I both have very
strong intent on staying healthy

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because obviously it's part of
what we do as a profession,

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which is important.
You got to look the part, be the

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part.
But then it's just who we are at

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our core identity is we are
people who take care of

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themselves and we do the the
basic things because our

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coaching is probably very
similar.

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Get some sleep, drink water, eat
Whole Foods, eat 3 or 4 times a

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day, have balanced meals.
These are things that I preach

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for 30 plus episodes and and
giving the keys.

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But it's the accountability of
the support or, or having that

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transfer of identity that is the
biggest challenge, having that

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support accountability there.
One thing I remember you speak

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now right on stage and all, and
and you said friends don't let

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friends skip leg day or brain
day, right?

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Right, yes, that's friends.
Don't let friends skip.

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Leg day is kind of also a phrase
that we like to use in the gym

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because leg day is usually the
hardest and it's the one people

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kind of like.
They know they need to do it and

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sometimes they do.
But there's always that feeling

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of like, oh, it's going to be so
hard.

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It's going to be a lot and what
I want to say to people is that

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in my latest speaking rounds
that I've made in the last year,

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I have really I've dived into
brain health a lot and it's

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connection to physical activity.
And we've known for a long time

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that cardio VO2 Max is really
good for the brain.

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We know that community and
friendship and connection is

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really good for the brain, but
there's there's so much more to

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it than just doing Sudoku
puzzles to avoid dementia.

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Finding out in the research now
in the last four years, it's

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been long enough to have
longitudinal, double-blind, peer

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reviewed research that says one
of the most important things you

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can do to catapult your your
brain for health in the decades

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to come is really maxing out the
strength in your legs.

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Your legs are the stimulus for
BDNF, which is brain derived

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neurotropic factor, which is
like miracle growth for your

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brain.
So the lower body work that you

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do gives you the biggest
hormonal and neurological

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response to be able to rewire
frayed connections, to create

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new brain cells, new neurons,
and also it helps with improving

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insulin sensitivity and insulin
mussels love sugar, so they're

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kind of.
Carbs.

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00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,880
Now let's take a time out here.
You eat food.

449
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,760
Food is dried of calories, then
protein, carbs and fats, and

450
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,080
then your body does things with
it.

451
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,400
Magically it takes carbs and
break them into glucose and then

452
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,000
that elevates your blood sugar
levels and then your body

453
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,200
releases insulin which then
grabs onto the blood sugar in

454
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,960
stores.
Stores isn't necessarily a good

455
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,760
or a bad thing depending on how
you utilize it.

456
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,800
And what Jen is referring to is
when you do leg day and you have

457
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,240
used a lot of gas in the tank.
The tank being your muscles and

458
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,720
the fuel being the muscle
glycogen which your body

459
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:26,080
converts blood sugar into and
carbohydrates that you eat.

460
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,200
Whether it's simple sugars like
the white stuff, candy, honey

461
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:36,840
or, or even say like milk or
rice, or then we have the just

462
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,400
our, our regular food sources
that we have too, that then get

463
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,080
put into your muscle.
And so you work out and then you

464
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,960
eat carbs, which is important
here, right?

465
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,520
We're, we're both of us are in
agreement that carbs are

466
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,840
important, that you shouldn't
cut them out.

467
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,160
And so you eat carbs and then
they go back into the muscles,

468
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,760
which then recover the whole
body and the muscles and help

469
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,920
keep you strong and energetic
and recovering well and all

470
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,960
these things.
So time back in.

471
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,440
Just want to declare that for
people.

472
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,280
That was that was a really good
breakdown of what happens.

473
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,640
We we think of muscles as a
place where glucose just

474
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,600
naturally goes like it's
magnetized to go to your

475
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,120
muscles.
If you have more muscle mass,

476
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:27,000
you can process more glucose and
what happens is then your

477
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,520
insulin sensitivity stays
healthy.

478
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,680
And the reason that good for
your brain is because, I mean,

479
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:38,640
one of the nicknames for
dementia is type 3 diabetes.

480
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,480
And that's because when you
become insulin insensitive, not

481
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,760
only can it lead to diabetes
anyway, it can also encourage

482
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,800
dementia processes to begin
happening.

483
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,040
So it's really, so that's why
now my clients always come to

484
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,200
the gym and they go, it's leg
day.

485
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,400
Friends don't let friends skip
brain day.

486
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,520
Yes, yes, that's awesome.
And and so let's define insulin

487
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,560
resistance.
So say normally your body, you

488
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:13,120
eat this much food and your body
releases this much insulin to be

489
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,760
able to then grab on all that
and store where it needs to go

490
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,760
and the muscles and stored body
fat.

491
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,160
That's how that's what your
body's constantly storing and

492
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,840
releasing carbs, storing and
releasing body fat.

493
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,760
It's it happens all day every
day.

494
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,000
So people like, oh, I don't want
to store fat.

495
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,480
You are going to, it's just a
biological process.

496
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,560
So your body, you eat this much,
you release this much insulin to

497
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,960
deal with this.
Well, insulin resistance means

498
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,120
that you, you got to, nothing
happens here.

499
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,120
You need to hear and then hear
and then hear and hear.

500
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,200
And you keep having to release
more, which then places a huge

501
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,320
strain on your your pancreas and
other systems that are going on

502
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,200
because you have all this, you
have this much extra insulin

503
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,120
every single time that you eat
to get the same response that it

504
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,760
used to cost here.
And it is a big issue.

505
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,400
And it does lead to type 2
diabetes or it goes into the

506
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,080
process of where exactly what
Ken is talking about is causing

507
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,920
dementia.
And that's just based on just

508
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,120
poor eating patterns that you
could influence dementia

509
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,520
happening sooner or more
aggressively, even if you were

510
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,000
going to get it anyways, what it
could be happening sooner,

511
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,080
faster, more aggressive if that
were to be the case?

512
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,680
Right, Yeah.
And and also what you're

513
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,680
describing in that you did a
really good job of breaking that

514
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,200
down, Brian.
I have to keep it as simple as

515
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,000
possible for people or they I
lose them anyways, right?

516
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,480
You know, it's just like, OK,
what's the third grade

517
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,800
explanation of how we explain
this, right?

518
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,440
Well, and when insulin is really
high like that and it's having

519
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,800
to increase in order to keep
trying to do the job and you

520
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,440
have extra insulin in your body.
When you have extra insulin in

521
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,480
your body that is not reacting
with sugar, what that does is it

522
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,320
leads to what we call visceral
fat.

523
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:06,000
That is one of the influences of
creating visceral fat and that

524
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,840
is the fat that grows around
your internal organs, in your AB

525
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,280
and in your chest, heart, your
liver, everything.

526
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:18,640
And so that is the toxic fat
that and one of the signs, this

527
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,000
is one of the physical signs
that, excuse me, that you have

528
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,480
too much insulin swimming around
is when your waist is bigger

529
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,360
than your hips.
So if you guys waist and it's a

530
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,760
larger, you know, we talked
about the dad body.

531
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,720
Beer belly exactly what I was
going to point out.

532
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,920
So you you already transition of
if your stomach is hard to push

533
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,960
on and it sticks out a lot, then
yeah, you're you're in trouble

534
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,360
even if this real fat.
Blood test, even if your blood

535
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,640
test doesn't quite show it yet,
right?

536
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,640
As it will.
I mean, it's it.

537
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,160
Will yes, it's coming, is
coming.

538
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,760
Right.
And so that's the thing to

539
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,200
really watch out for, even if
your doctor has not, you know,

540
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,520
rung the bell yet on you to have
to take insulin help.

541
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,920
So it's really important to get
that under control.

542
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:16,040
And I believe that that is one
of the cultural things that we

543
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,960
kind of make it OK these days
when we talk about how 70% of

544
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,320
our population is overweight and
it's so it's kind of normal.

545
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,920
Normalized it, right?
Not good for longevity.

546
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,080
I mean, obviously.
It's not, it's not.

547
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,440
It's normalize that the food
that you eat on a everyday basis

548
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,240
someone else has prepared for
you.

549
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,160
It comes in a package, a box,
it's got a label on it.

550
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,880
These are obviously things that
don't necessarily align with

551
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,720
eating more of a Whole Foods
diet, which that in and of

552
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,040
itself will cause a lot of some
of the issues that you're having

553
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,520
to reverse.
Because you'll feel full and

554
00:32:55,520 --> 00:33:00,520
more content and have more fiber
and more vitamins and minerals,

555
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,760
which will then help just manage
your overall hunger and help you

556
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,320
manage your calories better.
And you'll lose weight if you're

557
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,240
overweight by stop eating stuff
in them box and or something's

558
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,920
got a lot of sugar or carbs or
bats or things that we

559
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,880
referenced even earlier in the
call of that with your travel

560
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,480
career, right?
You lived it, you experienced it

561
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,680
and it did exactly what it was
made to do.

562
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,560
And it's just unfortunate that
our society spends so much time

563
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:34,040
and money and influence just to
have those really tasty, ultra

564
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,960
palatable processed foods
available to the public that

565
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:44,360
ultimately is making us sick.
Again, not not part this episode

566
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,040
to jump in, but we're doing our
part right.

567
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,040
We are getting out, we're
speaking, we're talking, we're

568
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,880
communicating, educating people
and encouraging them and

569
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,080
creating real life
transformations.

570
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,840
When someone awakens, in a
sense, they take the red pill

571
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,120
and they come out of the matrix,
so to speak.

572
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,240
And like, wait a minute, why
have I been eating all this

573
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,200
stuff?
Well, it's because Kellogg's has

574
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,320
spent billions of dollars to
tell you that Frosted Plex is

575
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,000
great thing to eat first thing
in the morning.

576
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:14,840
And right before bed, too.
Because.

577
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,239
Yeah, right.
I just had somebody respond to

578
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,000
me on my YouTube channel saying
thanks to you, I'm now eating

579
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,320
protein for breakfast.
And, you know, he was like

580
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,800
listening and he goes.
I used to just have strawberry

581
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,520
zingers.
Yeah, right.

582
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:31,920
Nothing like he's starting that
that insulin roller coaster off

583
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,320
the first thing in the morning,
right?

584
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,239
Yeah, yeah.
Pretty scary.

585
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,320
Yeah.
But I oh, go ahead, go ahead.

586
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,639
You finish.
I already know what I'm going to

587
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:42,840
say.
Oh, I was just going to say that

588
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,239
it's important.
I mean, people say to me like

589
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,880
you did at the beginning, like,
well, you don't look like you're

590
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,639
on the verge of turning 70.
And what I try to say to people,

591
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:55,239
and I don't know that they
always believe me, but I have

592
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,400
been working on what I am today
for 25 years.

593
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:04,720
Yes, 25 years is day in and day
out and not always super

594
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:06,160
disciplined.
I I don't.

595
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,680
You don't have to be here.
So I let myself off the hook a

596
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,760
little bit.
Thanksgiving dinner, right?

597
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,400
But then it cut, Then you're
right back in it.

598
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,760
And I want your audience to
remember that your future self

599
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:27,600
is just about to be born right
now, just about to be born what

600
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,440
you want that new self to be.
Right, right.

601
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:39,240
I think of maybe in 43 I by the
time I'm 70, it's what third, if

602
00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:44,680
I do the math correctly, it's
what, 27 years or something like

603
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,160
that left.
I can be a millionaire just

604
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,440
investing properly.
I can have and own a house.

605
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:58,280
I can own cars, I can have
challenging to to grow a family

606
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,240
at this point at 43, depending
on how young or old my wife is

607
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:06,440
or remaining fertile, but I
could have like a whole other

608
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:11,200
life in that time frame and and
still come out really well.

609
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,000
So this is a wake up call.
If you're listening in and

610
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,800
you're like, wow, I'm completely
lost.

611
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,280
I don't know what to do.
I just don't feel well.

612
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,720
I don't like myself the way I
look, feel any of that stuff.

613
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:27,040
It can be different.
Yeah, absolutely.

614
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:31,160
You have you control it and it's
it's easy to to kind of like

615
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,000
forget that in the in the mad
rush of life.

616
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,200
But we do have choices that we
can make.

617
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,680
They're the art.
You're an architect years now

618
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,680
where you're building your
future health and strength and

619
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:47,040
muscle that are laid down now
are insurance for when you are

620
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,040
70 or 80, life insurance.
You're doing it right now for

621
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,800
then and.
You'll.

622
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,640
You won't know until you get
there and you don't want to be

623
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,440
like, wow, I should have done
something.

624
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,600
And and life insurance and
quotations cost a lot more.

625
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:09,280
If the next say 25 years is in
poor health and poor nutrition,

626
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,040
it it's going to the ROI on that
investment is significantly in

627
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:18,120
the wrong direction than where
you want it to be and it will

628
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,960
cost you way more.
Everyone's like, oh, health

629
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,160
insurance cost so much now what
do you think it would be like a

630
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,760
25 years?
Holy moly.

631
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,160
Right.
And if you have a heart attack

632
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:32,440
that is a clear 6 figure
occurrence that that you pray

633
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,560
that there might be insurance
that can cover you.

634
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,800
But also like, well, this one
little tiny clause in this one

635
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,040
thing and yeah, it's on you, not
us.

636
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:42,880
You know, like, wait a minute
here.

637
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,800
It's so good.
Right, right.

638
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,120
Take take your own health into
your own hands as much as you

639
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,640
can and it will give you the
dividends.

640
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,760
The ROI's beyond just feeling
good, looking good, but the

641
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,600
ability to experience life on a
significantly higher level is

642
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,320
what's at cost here.
Yes, exactly.

643
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,600
It is that, what do you call it,
sweat equity?

644
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,200
Yes, yes, yes.
And a lot of it's free, right?

645
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:19,360
You can drink water, you can go
to sleep on time, you can walk

646
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,880
your body, you can do
calisthenics.

647
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,640
All the stuff is free and
readily available to you to

648
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:32,280
start and do and and be healthy.
And each of those things you

649
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,240
mentioned, those are little
habit tweaks.

650
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:38,400
You know, you don't have to do
everything at once, but pick one

651
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,880
thing perfect that because every
little habit that you change for

652
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:48,880
the better is another vote for
the person you want to be.

653
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,800
And it's another way of really
underlining that you are who you

654
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,280
say you are.
If you're you know, if if you're

655
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:02,080
amazing at work and you're the
hero of the day, how are you

656
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,560
that for yourself Are you who
you say you are?

657
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,080
Then let's get to it.
Yes, let's do the work here,

658
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,960
people.
Yep, exactly.

659
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,400
I'm curious about what are some
of the other things that you

660
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,880
talk about or hear other people
talking about, especially when

661
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,040
it comes to say, longevity,
taking care of yourself.

662
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,640
Are there any other highlights
that come to mind from you or

663
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,240
your colleagues when you're when
you're on the speaking circuit?

664
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:32,160
Yes, one of the things that we
talked about quite a bit in this

665
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,840
last I went, I was in
Minneapolis a couple of months

666
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,520
ago and a lot of there was a lot
of talk about this idea that how

667
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:45,440
important it is, especially for
men when they retire from their

668
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:49,040
career and now they're and if
they're especially if they're

669
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,920
still healthy, what now, you
know, and So what, what is it

670
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,520
that you want to do next?
So one of the things we've

671
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:02,320
talked about is that even more
for men than women, I think your

672
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,320
identity is caught up in what
you do, you know, what kind of

673
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,000
what do you do?
It's the first thing we somebody

674
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,880
else and then that just ends
well.

675
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,200
I used to I used to do this.
I right?

676
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,160
Your past identity.
I used to.

677
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,560
Play football back in high
school and then I haven't taken

678
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:23,960
care of myself at all since
then.

679
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,480
Right, but you still want to go
heavy or go home.

680
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:32,680
And that's right.
I think that having having a

681
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:37,560
vision or who you want to be
next, what are the, what are the

682
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,360
things that you've always
enjoyed doing, barely had time

683
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,000
to do that can now expand.
Who are you now really

684
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,320
journaling and meditating and
therapist, whatever you need to

685
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:55,360
do to get that out, But find out
who are you now or who do you

686
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,240
want to be next?
Because it's really completely

687
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:02,080
up to you.
You don't have to punch in.

688
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,440
You know, you're, you're you now
and having those goals and

689
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,360
aspirations.
And very many people in my

690
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,080
audience, they're always very
active goals like traveling or

691
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,160
getting better at the golf game
or their pickleball or their

692
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,280
time.
Pickleball's all the rage,

693
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,440
right?
Yeah, yeah.

694
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,840
And just having like, what is
it?

695
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,360
What is it right now that you
love doing that Maybe you don't

696
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:33,360
get to do a lot, but you love
doing it that you don't want to

697
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,960
give up when you're 70 or 75.
It gives you joy.

698
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,920
Even if you don't have
grandchildren yet, will you

699
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,640
will.
So do you want to pick up your

700
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,440
grandchildren and play with them
without throwing your back out?

701
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,960
Do you want to be able to get
down to the floor and play with

702
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,040
them, or is it going to hurt
your knees or your hips?

703
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,280
You know, you want to take care
of yourself so that things that

704
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,760
bring you alive do not go away
when you retire.

705
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,800
When you're 80.
I, I think about Dick Van Dyke.

706
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:10,400
You know, Dick Van Dyke is, he's
99 right now and he is turning

707
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:16,520
100 years old on Saturday.
And he has this, this, this

708
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,440
amazing presence he's written a
book about.

709
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,960
What did he do to make it here?
Well, he loves to dance.

710
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,040
He loves to dance.
He quit smoking and drinking in

711
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,960
time.
Living in that, that's a high

712
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,800
celebrity lifestyle, right?
Back in that day, yeah.

713
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,880
He was back in the days of Mad
Men, when everybody smoked and

714
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,320
drank.
Yep, he was young and so he.

715
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,920
Smoking was cool, yeah.
TV cars in the 60s, everybody

716
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,800
smoked like chimneys.
But he also just has this, this

717
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:54,280
joie de vivre where he just
loves being alive and being

718
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,200
vibrant and he speaks very
eloquently of this.

719
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,920
But but it's because he stayed
moving and he stayed challenged

720
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,640
and kept looking for the next
thing he was interested in.

721
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:06,880
Super.
Right.

722
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:11,840
And let's think, so he's turning
100 and there's a 30 years from

723
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,560
where you're at to where he's
at.

724
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,360
And again, you can reinvent your
whole life and you can be a

725
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,960
millionaire and you can do if
you focus your energy and you

726
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,680
choose to become these things in
a sense.

727
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,960
And, but ultimately what Janet's
saying is you need to live a

728
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:34,920
happy, healthy life that has
some purpose and and intention

729
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:39,200
to it to be able to thrive.
Because without those things and

730
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,720
life is meaningless in a sense.
I know one thing that I'm going

731
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:49,440
to have a big problem with here.
And the next daughters, 10 and

732
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,040
my oldest is 16 and they're
going to empty nest at some

733
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,440
point relatively sooner rather
than later.

734
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,160
Now all of a sudden the holy
cow, my oldest is driving now

735
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,720
and to an high school and holy
cow, it's just going to be my

736
00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:04,840
wife and I here within 10 years
basically.

737
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,960
And that's going to be a radical
transformation in my day-to-day

738
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:13,000
life.
And I, I was crazy busy last

739
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,320
week with school activities and
I will, was going out of my mind

740
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,760
trying to juggle all the things.
But then Fast forward in 10

741
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,840
years, I will be missing those
things so much So.

742
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,600
And I will, if I'm not careful,
life will get very boring

743
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:32,080
because no matter what, my whole
family environment was 6 people,

744
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,000
there's 15 relationships.
And it's like this dopamine

745
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,320
pinball machine, you want this
and this.

746
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,760
And then we're going here.
It's just like constantly going

747
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,040
on.
It's going to be a very

748
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:48,400
interesting transition into what
that, that part of life will

749
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:53,800
look like for, for my wife and
I, but huge opportunity to

750
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,680
obviously stay engaged with my
family.

751
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,440
It's going to evolve The,
there's going to be a more

752
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,840
opportunity to travel.
We've travelled all 50 states.

753
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,520
We've, we're going to work on
all 7 continents now and and

754
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,800
then after that it'll be the
finer parts of travel or

755
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,000
different adventures that we
haven't been able to seek out

756
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,160
or, or whatever.
Who knows?

757
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:18,160
It'll be wow crazy but fun and
we'll live in anticipation.

758
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,120
That's one undertone I always
tell clients is we have to live

759
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,320
in anticipation of what's to
come and be excited and have

760
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,480
something exciting on your
calendar.

761
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:31,160
Even if it is just hanging out
with your family or with a

762
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:36,640
friend or traveling somewhere or
doing a OK or writing a book,

763
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,200
whatever it might be.
But we need to have some sense

764
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,080
of purpose and excitement of
something that's to come.

765
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,480
Yeah, Yeah.
All that stuff is so true.

766
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,960
And you made you, when you said
7 continents, you made me think

767
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,440
of this lady that I just
finished training a while a

768
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,920
couple years ago.
Who wanted to see all 7

769
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,240
continents?
And she was 82.

770
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,360
She had five of them already
checked off and she had two

771
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:04,160
more.
So she needed help because she

772
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:08,520
wanted to go to Australia and
scuba dive on the Great Barrier

773
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,320
Reef.
Yeah, so she got certified and

774
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,120
then she trained with me so that
she could be strong enough, and

775
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,400
she did it.
That's awesome.

776
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,640
Such a such a a bus in there.
Yeah, that is so awesome.

777
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,840
What are maybe as we start to
wrap here, but what are some

778
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,080
other success stories that
you've seen from your clients

779
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,720
like that?
That is a huge amount of success

780
00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:34,560
that you can't put into terms.
I'll start with one and then

781
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,240
I'll turn it over.
But I had a lady, her name was

782
00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,440
Betsy Finley.
She was a personal and training

783
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,200
client of another person at the
gym that I was at.

784
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,720
She started coming to my
phenomenal abdominal class on

785
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:49,200
Mondays at 5:00 and then she
came to my spinning class and

786
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,400
then she started doing my shake
and bake Friday night boot camp

787
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,960
class.
And then all of a sudden she is

788
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,800
the other trainer stops and
she's changed job roles.

789
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,920
And I, I was like, I'll take
Betsy, yes please.

790
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,920
And that from 55 to 60.
Now I just want to say she never

791
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:13,320
worked out before age 50, OK,
Because it just wasn't part of

792
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,480
culture.
I imagine you probably were felt

793
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,200
that too on some levels.
It's like, yeah, no one worked

794
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,480
out when I was younger unless
you were just like a tomboy or

795
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,160
something like that, right?
The girls sports were just not

796
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,200
that much of a thing as they are
now in the availability

797
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,400
opportunity there.
So she didn't work out before

798
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,320
and she wanted to go kayak.
She wanted to reinvent her life

799
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,400
and do fun things and go on
hikes and take pictures of of

800
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,240
wildlife and on.
And she became a CrossFit world

801
00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:41,480
champion at the age of 60.
She could deadlift 250 lbs, she

802
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,480
lift 100 lbs over it.
She could do rope climbs, she

803
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,320
could do pull ups.
She could do all these crazy

804
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:51,000
things just because we did what
Janet said was just progression.

805
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,840
We just lifted a little bit more
than we did the last time.

806
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:57,600
We just kept good form and
technique and hey, you lifted

807
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,200
this last time.
How about we lift this plus 5

808
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,920
lbs And all of a sudden she was
really strong, really fit,

809
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,800
really capable on.
And again, we didn't let her

810
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,720
skip leg day either or brain
day, but she was functionally

811
00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:15,760
fit, capable to do fun, exciting
things at the age of 60 plus.

812
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,640
And you know far more than a lot
that having that level of

813
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,840
strength and that that ability
allows for you to go travel

814
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,200
around and, and jump on speaker
circuits and, and, and do all

815
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,600
sorts of fun stuff, which is is
really fun.

816
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,160
That's probably what I will do
is my kids start to to move out

817
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,480
of like, well, let me go talk
somewhere and go travel.

818
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,960
Someone pay me to speak and and
buy me places please.

819
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,400
Yeah.
I mean, all of that, just having

820
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,720
the energy available to me to do
the things, all these things

821
00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:51,560
that I'm doing is, I mean, I
think I'm busier now than I was

822
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:56,480
15 years ago, but it's all
things I've chosen and that I've

823
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,360
worked toward.
But there's story that I can

824
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,280
think of as I'm thinking of a
story of one of my guys.

825
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:09,320
He he was a Seattle police
officer and he was the.

826
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:13,640
Kind of was one of those before.
That walks, he walked his beat.

827
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,200
He didn't have a car.
I mean, he used a car.

828
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,280
He so he knew his neighborhood
really well.

829
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,560
He was a very recognizable face
on his.

830
00:49:23,720 --> 00:49:27,680
So he, as we know, police
officers often retire at a

831
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,640
fairly young age compared to the
rest of us.

832
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,720
And so around in his I probably
he was probably about 50 and he

833
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:40,200
retired and then he'd worked
hard his whole life, was pretty

834
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,080
fit because he was walking all
day.

835
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:47,400
And he moved here to Arizona
for, for retirement.

836
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,800
And it was a bit great golf.
It was a great place so he but

837
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,640
but he proceeded to be very
sedentary.

838
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:59,000
He just thought I can relax now.
I don't have to set the alarm, I

839
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,480
don't have to do any of that
stuff I did before.

840
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,240
And he sat around a lot beyond
walking his dog, maybe mowing

841
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:09,240
his lawn.
He was not physically active.

842
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:17,160
So sadly, he contracted
Parkinson's after about ten

843
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,120
years or so into his retirement.
But what was he doing?

844
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,880
He wasn't exercising.
He was eating ice cream before

845
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:30,560
bed as a regular thing, lots of
sugar while he slept, insulin,

846
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,760
right, and various other
unhealthy habits.

847
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,640
He started to develop a little
spare tire.

848
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,280
So his wife said you need you
need to get to the gym.

849
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,920
You're not being healthy.
And this is South fast and I

850
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:46,720
love you.
I don't want to see this.

851
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,720
Have you?
So he signed up and trained with

852
00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:52,840
me.
And after a year, I mean, he

853
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,720
loved it.
It was fun.

854
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:59,600
Yeah, so you probably tapped
into his younger self, right is

855
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:03,680
hey, you're strong, handsome
man, let's get back in moving

856
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,840
and and tapped into all that
energy.

857
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:10,000
His, his, his joy for it
reminded me of my joy for it

858
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,880
when I first encountered it, it
was like, it's like this feels

859
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:17,320
so good.
And you get pretty much better

860
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,920
pretty quickly.
If you're really consistent, you

861
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,840
see progress really quickly.
And he just loved that.

862
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,720
So, so he started and so after
about a year, he came to me and

863
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,040
he goes, you know, because he
went to a neurologist obviously

864
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,320
for his Parkinson's and he was
taking some minor medications to

865
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,400
control the tremors.
But that was it kind of early

866
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:42,280
stage.
But his doctor said, I don't

867
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,800
understand it.
I don't understand why you're

868
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,320
not getting worse.
And so, you know, so he didn't

869
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,560
have to up his meds.
And this doctor, of course, was

870
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,120
treating lots of Parkinson's
patients.

871
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:58,080
The general progression, it's a
progressive degenerative disease

872
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,760
and there's no cure.
So it's just a matter of keeping

873
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,560
the person functional as long as
you can.

874
00:52:03,240 --> 00:52:07,960
But this was the one patient who
was actually strength training.

875
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,960
And he kept saying that.
And then he'd go back three

876
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:12,560
months later for a check up
again.

877
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:16,960
And Nope, still don't know why
you're not getting worse.

878
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:22,120
And that is what made me curious
about the connection.

879
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,440
Yes.
Plug into the research and found

880
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,800
out sure enough these papers
were coming out from

881
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,200
neurologists who are finding
that there's something too

882
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,560
lifting.
So even now he's still very

883
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,440
active.
There has been a little bit of

884
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,680
progression.
You know, it's been 4 years.

885
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,720
So you know, the stuff he's
experiencing now, he should have

886
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:47,680
experienced in one year.
Right, right.

887
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:53,320
So it's going to extend the
quality of his life just because

888
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,800
his wife got after him and said
you need to go to the gym.

889
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,240
Yep, Yep, Yep, that.
That's excellent.

890
00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:04,360
Kudos for her to stepping up and
calling him out and making sure

891
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,200
he did something because
sometimes spouses or people

892
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,640
don't and they end up again, get
by association.

893
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,840
The people you spend your time
with will either lift you up or

894
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,480
sink your ship in a sense.
And if they were both or just

895
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:22,080
dozing off on the couch with ice
cream balls on their, their, the

896
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:26,680
visceral fat stomachs that are
poking out, then yeah, they're,

897
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:30,280
they're both going to die
younger because of just lack of

898
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:31,920
movement.
Humans are meant to move.

899
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:36,160
We have to move until you die.
And that I have an 83 year old

900
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:40,520
that I'm working with and she
is, as she was talking about,

901
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:44,600
she's having a hard time keeping
food and calories from getting

902
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,040
burned too much.
She's 83 and she's like, I keep

903
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,720
losing weight.
And so she's like, maybe I

904
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:54,520
should stop going to the gym.
Say Setsu is her name Setsu?

905
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,280
We can't do this.
I am not going to advocate that

906
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,000
you move less.
I'm going to advocate that you

907
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:03,400
eat more and whether we eat when
you first wake up and you eat

908
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,960
right before you go to bed and
we eat as much as we can in

909
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,440
there and higher calorie foods,
the Whole Foods and more calorie

910
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,720
dense starches and, and healthy
bats, then that's what we're

911
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:15,320
going to do.
Because the answer is not move

912
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:19,720
less in your situation.
The answer is eat more And and

913
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,080
that's, that's what we're going
to do.

914
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,560
It's funny you're this because a
week from today, the video that

915
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:31,640
will drop in my channel is about
if you've been skinny all your

916
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,240
life and you now realize you
need to strength train to

917
00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:37,720
preserve your bones and your
muscle.

918
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,440
What do you do?
Because you've never diet.

919
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:46,640
And one of the recommendations
was that there's there's ways

920
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:50,680
that I give where you can sneak
calories in that are healthy to

921
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,840
make it easier to meet your
calorie demand so that you don't

922
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,680
losing weight, but you also
don't feel bloated and heavy.

923
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:00,200
Right, right.
Yeah.

924
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:06,240
Exactly.
Well, this is awesome from from

925
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:10,120
a really busy acts of life to
realizing you're kidding.

926
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,760
You got called out and you did
something about it.

927
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:16,640
Now you're at the young
beautiful age of 70 and you're

928
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:21,280
thriving and more energy than
probably any other 7 year old

929
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,320
that you ever come encounter
with, right?

930
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,120
But you're using it for the
better of mankind, the better of

931
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,600
humans and, and encouraging
people to take better care of

932
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:36,040
themselves and, and so where can
we find more out about you, your

933
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,480
website, your YouTube channel?
Like where?

934
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,800
Where can we go to hang out with
Janet?

935
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:46,760
The most active spots are that
my YouTube channel Aging Strong

936
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,520
for Life and I trust that you
will post the link.

937
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:53,720
Yeah, it'll be in the the show
notes below, right, If I'm

938
00:55:53,720 --> 00:55:58,640
pointing down below, right.
That that it's it's on fire

939
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,160
right now.
It's it's I'm having, having

940
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,640
kind of a viral moment, but I
think it's just not because

941
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,720
there's a lot of people out
there looking for answers on how

942
00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:12,040
to a strong what you know, to,
to cut through all the noise and

943
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:16,680
all of loss and the hype and
that, you know, the extreme

944
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:21,280
language and to it's, it's like
straightforward information,

945
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,840
just like what you would give,
you know, where it's like,

946
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,280
here's the steps, here's what
you do, here's a story, here's I

947
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:31,240
tried, here's what didn't work,
you know, so it's all of that.

948
00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:34,440
And then the other place I'm on
a lot is LinkedIn, because

949
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:38,480
LinkedIn is where people that
are wanting to look for speakers

950
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,480
hang out.
So I'm there a lot, but I put a

951
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,720
lot, I post a lot of videos
there as well that are short and

952
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:49,160
to the point.
My website is really just a lot

953
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:55,920
a place that houses all of my is
for training and which I most I

954
00:56:55,920 --> 00:57:00,320
just train in person right now
thinking about launching an

955
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,960
online coaching program, but I
haven't I I just sort of you.

956
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:08,360
Should because that's what I've
been doing for 10 years and I

957
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:13,520
would probably not go back.
I do like in person, but the

958
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,200
capacity and reach and if you're
going to travel a bunch, you can

959
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,080
still have active clientele and
not miss a payday in a sense

960
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,080
because you're not there, right?
It's more scalable.

961
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:28,000
Yeah, it's more scalable.
I have, I'm considering that now

962
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,960
and writing another book.
I have my my first book is

963
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,480
Elements of Aging Well, my
journey so far.

964
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,760
Look at that.
Show that picture again one more

965
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,440
time.
You can see this on our website

966
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,240
too.
But you, you look great.

967
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,360
You've done so well taking care
of yourself.

968
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,160
Yeah, there's pictures in there
my my bodybuilding pictures too.

969
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,080
But I want to write another
book.

970
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:52,520
It's the working title is
unretired and unstoppable.

971
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:56,680
Yes, that's that's.
I think of this time, Brian, I

972
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,560
think of this time in my life
and in your clients who are

973
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:04,160
getting older that this is the
bonus round, you know, game.

974
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:08,000
Shows.
Like, yes, where you can win the

975
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,480
game with one thing, like, you
know, Jeopardy and then there's

976
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,160
double Jeopardy and then there's
Final Jeopardy.

977
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,400
And in Final Jeopardy you could
be in 3rd place and you could

978
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,040
still win.
Yes, right.

979
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:25,840
You know, and that's kind of my
working, you know, premise for

980
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,640
what I want to write in this
book.

981
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,560
So I'm working on but those are
the two best places to find me

982
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,320
as my.
YouTube and LinkedIn.

983
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:35,720
Excellent.
Excellent.

984
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,600
Well, thank you.
Do you have one last parting

985
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:43,320
gift in a sense, a tip trick
hack, something that that you

986
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:47,200
could part us with that someone
like, yeah, that that's really

987
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,240
good stuff.
Well I just heard the other day

988
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,600
on a podcast where the person
said I think it was like a

989
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:58,960
Buddhist saying or you know some
Zen thought leader who said

990
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,840
don't pray for the road to get
easier.

991
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:07,560
Right.
Work to build stronger legs and

992
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:12,520
so that kind of goes along with
my idea of easy is the enemy and

993
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,920
challenge is the cure.
Yeah, I totally agree with that.

994
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,560
Life is meant to be lived if
there are going to be challenges

995
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,440
that you have to overcome and
the people who are successful

996
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:26,840
have learned the skills and
understand that you, their

997
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,760
change is inevitable.
It happens every single day of

998
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,560
your life.
There's change and you have to

999
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:35,880
adapt and the strongest adapters
will survive.

1000
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,640
And that's just evolution
period.

1001
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:41,720
That's the world that we live
in.

1002
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,960
So buckle up.
Retirement doesn't mean sit on

1003
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,840
the couch and eat ice cream and
bon bons and start to do with

1004
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,000
strawberry zingers.
It's you still have to move and

1005
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:55,440
you have to find a different
stimulus for how you channel

1006
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:57,760
your energy.
That's right, yeah.

1007
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,480
Go down swinging.
Yeah, exactly.

1008
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,040
But I want to thank you and I
want to thank everyone for

1009
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,160
listening to Driven for Health.
And this is episode 36 with

1010
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,840
Janet McConnell and all her
information will be down below.

1011
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:15,400
But what we both agree on is
live life in a challenge and and

1012
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,520
conquer everything that comes
your way.

1013
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,720
Have a wonderful day.
Thank you.