Well...Basically
Well...Basically
Warming Up to Winter: Fitness, Festivities, and Finding Joy in the Cold
As the mercury plummets, so does our enthusiasm for leaving the cozy confines of our beds – but what if the secrets to thriving in winter's chill were just a play button away? In our latest auditory escapade, we wrap our vocal cords around the impact of cold weather on everything from fitness regimes to our culinary whims. We even offer up a whimsical riff of Vivaldi's "Winter," providing the perfect backdrop to our musings on whether classical music still holds sway in our beat-driven lives.
Ever wondered what it's like to wrangle a wedding crowd or navigate the electric buzz of a music festival? Well, buckle up as Andrew regales you with my latest stint as a wedding MC, ensuring not a dry eye in the house (from laughter, of course), while Sammy tiptoes through his Secret Valley escapades - the good, the bad, and the downright muddy. Plus, we're toasting to the warm reception of our EP launch and slicing through the confusion between EPs and LPs faster than a hot knife through butter.
Waving a fond farewell to the episode, we don't just lament the shorter days; we're here to arm you against the winter blues with hot tips from the perfect weighted blanket to the ultimate fitness guide we're itching to drop. It's a riveting conclusion where we reveal how to keep those muscles warm and toasty even as Jack Frost nips at your nose – and trust us, our upcoming training program is the beacon of hope in this frost-bound saga. So, slip on your favorite sweater, pour a cup of something warm, and join us for a heartening blend of laughter, anecdotes, and winter wisdom.
this is well, basically with your host, mike de silva, and sam weeks have you got snow in your shoes?
Speaker 2:is the cold weather getting you down? On today's episode we talked about it. Does your gym behavior change during the winter time? Are you struggling to get there? Does your food change Sleep patterns? We went into a deep conversation about all of these things. We hope you enjoy today's episode. This is Well basically. I mean I'm sure it is Bring some classical to this podcast. I mean I guess it might be nice to people on a Sunday. You know what I'm going to throw caution to the wind and play some classical music.
Speaker 2:Love that You're going to go crazy Some thematic Wow, does this get you ready for your morning struggle? I love that You're going to go crazy. Symthematic Wow, does this get you ready for your morning stroke?
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm prancing. Yeah, I'm ready to go to church now, or doing housework.
Speaker 2:How good's a harpsichord. What's a?
Speaker 1:harpsichord.
Speaker 2:Oh, that sounds. No, that's just a harp.
Speaker 1:Oh, do you know what? I've seen the harpsichord at the symphony and I always turn to a leader and I'm like what's with that janky, tiny little?
Speaker 2:piano. It looks like shit. Yeah, they also sound pretty bad too. This was the ad for that bank, wasn't it With the horse? Oh, national Bank. Yeah, it was, or like a car ad or something, oh my gosh. But no, I think you're correct. So this is a song called Winter, written by Antonio Vivaldi, very famous classical guitarist. We're going to talk about Winter today, so I thought it was relevant, but I've had enough of it. So it's going off. It's quite calming, wasn't it? Yeah? I know I don't want to feel calm before.
Speaker 1:I have to talk to you a lot, though I want to feel oh, you want to feel on edge, you want to feel terrified, calm, but exciting, yeah.
Speaker 2:Calm but anxious, yeah. Really understand why you go and see classical music, andrew. I don't see the allure of like sitting and listening to it oh, you don't see why I go and see it. No, I know exactly why I get that. I think that's cool and beautiful and amazing. But just like sitting down and be like this is such a vibe. I love it do you know?
Speaker 1:the four seasons actually was the first um the first show I went to go see it was the australian chamber orchestra and my brother was like hey, do you want to come see this? Like classical, it was supposed to be the four seasons and they were each paired with a modern composition that like went A B with them. Now I didn't understand anything about music at the time, but I really enjoyed going and listening to the music and it was the chamber orchestra, which is what it's like six people or something it's like a tiny amount.
Speaker 2:How do you do that with?
Speaker 1:that many, eight people. But you heard it. It was like a violin, a harpsichord, maybe another, but it was heaps of violins. You can just play it with one.
Speaker 2:True, yeah, that's exactly what it sounds like. Anyway, that was the first one.
Speaker 1:And then I kept going because it was so cheap. What did they?
Speaker 2:pair them up with Like ACDC or something. No, no, they just played.
Speaker 1:Taylor Swift. No, they paired it with modern compositions. Oh, like modern chamber music. Nobody knows any modern composers. I don't for sure. They always play them. When I go see the symphony, they always play modern compositions at the beginning and I'm always like, get to the good stuff Come on, the good stuff was made 300 years ago.
Speaker 2:See, that's why I'm always like get to the good stuff, come on, the good stuff was made 300 years ago. That's why I don't like it. It's not very. I guess it's from being a jazz musician I'm a bit of a classical hater, but it doesn't seem very progressive.
Speaker 1:Oh, classical music isn't progressive Sam.
Speaker 2:That is a real harsh look at the genre.
Speaker 1:It wouldn't be called classical if it was progressive. I'm going again next week actually, but my partner's not going with me, so I have a spare ticket. What night, is it?
Speaker 2:Wednesday Do you want to come? We're doing this Wednesday night. Oh, wednesday night, I'll check.
Speaker 1:I'll check my calendar. Do you have?
Speaker 2:the little spectacles I think you should get some Andrew actually goes dressed in full Victorian attire when he goes. I think I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1:He's got the fluffy sleeves I've got one of those little silk parasols.
Speaker 2:And what's the headpiece called?
Speaker 1:Oh, the one that judges wear.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, the great curly yeah.
Speaker 2:And he bows to everyone before he sits down. Hello.
Speaker 1:I took our friend Lockie to go and I was really clear to be like you can wear anything, Like there's no dress code, there's no decorum. The idea that you have to go and like look really fancy is just not it. And he rocked up in like a button down shirt and everything, and he saw me in like a singlet and a pair of shorts and was like Andrew.
Speaker 1:I can stop for this and I was like you don't have to Like, there's people in there with like sweats. I see people in pyjamas there all the time, Wow it's really gone to the dogs. I love it.
Speaker 2:Bring the dogs in. What's the age?
Speaker 1:of most. Oh, it's grey hairs only. The reason I like going partly I love the music, but also the tickets are so cheap. It going partly I love the music, but also the tickets are so cheap. It used to be for anyone under 30 and then the year that I turned 30 they bumped it up to 35 and it's because the median age there has to be like 70 years old like 65, 70 years old yeah they're trying to attract young people in um I mean, most of the musicians are quite young though.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, they are, yeah, yeah there's a local gay that I know who's um one of the violinists, one of the numbered violinists.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know you're important when you get a number.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, as long as that number isn't three.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you want to be one. Yeah, first, first, second, third's okay. Second, to the top Means you're the best at violin. Yeah, I'll take any.
Speaker 1:Anyway, fun times. I enjoy it. Everyone should come along. We'll do a well, basically a symphony trip. Yeah, we'll take it over.
Speaker 2:We'll do a podcast at the same time it can be like an art thing We'll do. Spoken word podcast over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'll love that. The dead silence and us being like ah, look at all those like violinist bows, just like flying in the air, Whoa.
Speaker 2:Look at the way he fiddles his bits. Yeah, those would probably be about the quality of the jokes I used to love going.
Speaker 1:When I used to drink, I'd go and I'd have like two or three wines with my friend before we go in, and then I would just like sleep through the first half.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'd be good music for sleep.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:What have you guys been up to this week? I mean, we've had some time off so I think we should share with the people. Oh yeah, two weeks Two. We didn't do last week, did we?
Speaker 1:So it has been two weeks since we've recorded.
Speaker 2:I want a time warp. You keep me updated, please, okay.
Speaker 1:I went and emceed a wedding on Saturday. You did Another one Great job.
Speaker 2:Is this Groundhog Day? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Are you?
Speaker 2:always emceeing weddings.
Speaker 1:People just want me on the mic.
Speaker 2:There's too many weddings this year and Andrew's very good at public speaking.
Speaker 1:That's very sweet Thank you. No, it's the easiest job in the wedding. I love emceeing. You talk for a minute and then someone has to give like a heartfelt like five minutes speech.
Speaker 2:I'm going to get married again, just so I can put you in the kitchen. This is the hardest job. How do you fill in a fish? Shut up, your job's not talking this time no, the hardest job is the bride.
Speaker 1:It's true, it is true yeah the hardest job is whoever has to sign the check to pay for everything. I reckon that is the hardest job yeah yes, you know it's true. Um. So yeah, that was what I did. That was a lot of fun. It was very nice wedding, very beautiful. I got to speak on the mic. I got to see also the photographer. I bless him.
Speaker 2:Do you make?
Speaker 1:jokes yeah wedding jokes. You gotta bring the mood up.
Speaker 2:I always start with the same line, which is that's who I am, so you'd be almost hammered by the time I got to the microphone. It's absolutely pointless.
Speaker 1:They'll laugh at anything, oh yeah that's a riot yeah, no, I do, I do tell jokes. You gotta keep the, gotta keep the mood.
Speaker 2:What's your opening line?
Speaker 1:my oh yeah. My opening line is for those of you don't do oh my god, I've only fucked it up, that's how I started you take the mic off me. Um, it's for those of you who don't know me. I'm so sorry for you. That's good. That is good yeah I saw a really good one.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry for everyone who doesn't know you. Actually, it's true, very sweet.
Speaker 1:I saw the single girl was doing one where she was like okay, everyone in the audience, put your hand up. And then she was like if you're married, put your hand down. If you are engaged, put your hand down. If you're in a longterm relationship, put your hand down. And then she looked around the room and was like okay, everyone with your hand up the bar is free, so if you want to swing by and get me a drink, I'm right here and single.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's good, I like it, it was good.
Speaker 1:I could have done that, but it wouldn't have worked as well because it would have been a lot of straight guys with their hand up. And I think they may have felt threatened when I was like Give me a drink.
Speaker 2:You should have done that Gay thrash. That would have been good, get the mood up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like it A little, a tiny hateful vibe going on.
Speaker 2:Nothing like some hate to power you through a wedding.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Sammy, what about you? It was a festival last weekend.
Speaker 1:What was the?
Speaker 2:festival. It was called Secret Valley. Chloe was doing lights. It was heaps far away, but it was a good time, had a good party and then helped. You know well, helped in the only way I know how, which is carrying lights and putting them in places.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice, where you're directly told to put them and then tilting them at different angles.
Speaker 2:And then, what was the worst part about the festival? I don't want to talk about it. I loved it, yeah it was great it was all positive. Yeah, it was all positive. Then we watched our EP also last week on the Wednesday Congratulations, which was pretty big and very fun. It was a full room and lots of people came, which was great. You went fucking there, though, were you, mikey? I didn't try to meld into the corner. I didn't think anyone would miss me. We always miss you, and it was late.
Speaker 1:There were a lot of fans there as well who came up for a signing with Sam and myself and they were asking after you.
Speaker 2:I bet they were, and now you're signing a contract. Yeah, that's just for more music later. That's part of the thing.
Speaker 1:There's always more music. There's always.
Speaker 2:What's an EP? It's generally three or four tracks, so I would say full-length albums like 10, I guess I don't know actually what the definition. Yeah, what does the E in the P stand for? That's a very good question. Let's find out. With the power of Google we can find out. But generally an EP is just like a. It's like a taster, I guess is what you'd call it. You do them a lot in dance music. Like there's not. People generally only do full length albums if they're well established and I think like there's more of like a theme going throughout an album and it's like harder to keep a theme, in my opinion, anyway, for a whole, if you don't have an album.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but in other words, if you're really established, you can have an album that has 31 songs on it, like taylor swift yeah, too many maybe, maybe they that needed a little editing no, I'm enjoying them all.
Speaker 2:So far, all of them. Ah, okay, an extended play, extended play, ep is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or an LP record. What does LP stand for? Long play, surely no extended plays. It is long play, wow. One could feature 10 to 12 tracks and be double the length. So what is an album then? I guess an LP and an album are the same thing.
Speaker 1:I guess Maybe an EP is also kind of an album, but just a little one 7 to 29. Oh, so she's exceeded the number. What's beyond 29? An epic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:Just the Iliad and the Odyssey put into a CD.
Speaker 2:Should we move on to our thing? I'm feeling wintry. I'm not going to play the winter music again. I didn't do the intro, though we should probably play another winter theme song, just because what are we feeling? I think walking in a winter wonderland.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's going to be. Even though it's a Christmas song, it's going to make me feel like Christmas. It is kind of Christmas. Have you done a white Christmas before? Is it where you do cocaine?
Speaker 2:Yes, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Are you listening? In the lane Snow is glistening.
Speaker 1:A few little signs. I'm in America baby Walking in a matter of wonderland.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the World Base League Podcast. I just thought I'd jazz it up, but you know we've all Good DJ, good DJ. Episode number one Seven one, one, seven one. Wow, we're almost at 200. What are we going to do for 200?
Speaker 1:Start an OnlyFans party.
Speaker 2:It's true, yeah, that's probably a good thing to do. Party I won't attend. Welcome to First Time Listeners. Second Time Listeners, Third, Fourth, Fifth, you guys who listen every week, we really like you a lot Like. It's just a like.
Speaker 1:It's a like.
Speaker 2:It's like, like you a lot this week, we're here to talk about some stuff and things. I am here, andrew is here and Mikey is here too.
Speaker 1:And Andrew is here and Mikey is here too, and we're going to have some fun talking about winter.
Speaker 2:Key change, baby, I love key changes. Oh ow, that bell hit my ears. I'm going to have to fix that in post. That really stung.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I'm turning down the wrong thing. Uh yeah, winter it's a time we're coming into it now it really but it hit us like a truck in sydney.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's technically still autumn here, but um, are you guys feeling chilly?
Speaker 1:I'm feeling chill. Yeah, it's the morning workouts for me that I use to like gauge, and evening workouts as well, when I start to get less or more sunlight. You know like now. We finished our little session an hour ago and the sun was down. The darkness had started Two months ago, it'd still be sunlight, I could walk home, we could do this podcast and I could walk home in the sun.
Speaker 2:No longer it's a very sad time. It is sad. Now you've got a reason to be depressed. Oh, that's nice, I feel justified. It's like when you work out and you feel tired the next day and you're like, oh, I've earned this tired.
Speaker 1:When it's shitty weather, you're like, yeah, I love that I don't have a will to live anymore.
Speaker 2:That is true. A lot of people feel that way. Chloe reckons she gets very, very sad when it's winter she hates. When it's um winter, she hates it. I kind of love it really. What do you like about? I like crispy mornings. I enjoy it. I like feel like I really fly up out of bed in the morning when it's a bit cold oh, you want to get up?
Speaker 1:yeah, I do. Isn't that self-flagellation? Like you're like, I need to? You know, I'm gonna get up into the cold because I'm such a strong person like I can take it yeah, no, I don't think it's that, I just like it.
Speaker 2:It like it can't be raining, obviously, but if it's like a bit cold, I just feel.
Speaker 1:You know, I feel good I do appreciate sleeping in winter is much better because I, like everyone in the world, I like a cold room and a warm dinner. That's not everyone, though, who would want to sleep in like a sweaty like you, put like a top sheet just only over yourself in summer, and you're still sitting there just covered in.
Speaker 2:I don't like I. You see, this is another reason why I like winter is because I don't think a sheet is a sufficient coverage for sleeping.
Speaker 1:In the summer?
Speaker 2:it is no, but like I, still want a blanket, You've got to get the weighted blanket that I have. Now we're getting into weighted blankets 20% off.
Speaker 1:Really I should get two.
Speaker 2:I've got like a weighted one, with it's like a really super-sized thick knit, so there's like holes in it. So what do they put in it? Just balls of iron To make it look like it's a chainmail with a little fabric that never leaves the house.
Speaker 1:I'd love that. That would be good. That would be great in summer.
Speaker 2:And also protect you from murderers. You couldn't get stabbed in bed A knight comes into your room In the middle of the night. And tries to lance you. You're sorted, so safe. Is it made of mithril, though? Then you're a real protected.
Speaker 1:Oh nice Good. Is mithril a real? No, that's made up right, it's fake. It's Lord of the.
Speaker 2:Rings. Yeah, it's great for, like it's good Nintendo weather. It's good, going back to bed for a nap with your nintendo, weather and a snack. Why would you go to bed with your nintendo if you're gonna nap?
Speaker 1:that makes no sense you play it until you're tired put it down oh I always wake up with it sitting right next to my head and I always go. Why didn't I kick you off? And I think it's because I know I love you.
Speaker 2:It's good for like relaxation activities, but maybe not so great for those who are trying to get to the gym no, I would say I um.
Speaker 1:I like working out when it's cold. I find it a lot more difficult to get to the workout but I love to do the actual workout when it's cold because it's like a global cooling system for my body.
Speaker 1:In the summer I sit and I sweat and I'm guzzling water and I feel really ill from the amount of water that I've drunk and I just feel really uncomfortable working out. But in the winter, when I work out, it's not as sweaty. Your body cools a lot quicker. It's not spending all this energy to expel the heat, would you say.
Speaker 1:You're more motivated to exercise during winter um no, I enjoy the workout more when I'm there. I think the idea of walking from my house to the gym, for instance in the winter, is because then you have to put on extra layers to get to the to the gym and you have to take them off when you get there and I really am just like I just want to pick up and go. But I find the motivation does creep down in the winter and also I don't need to be. My body doesn't get seen in the winter. You know I can't wear my little hoochie mama tops and shorts in the like freezing cold, so why would I bother?
Speaker 2:looking good. No one's stopping you, Andrew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think my nipples slicing through the fabric on my singlet might stop it from happening.
Speaker 2:How's your motivation in the luncheon times? It goes down a little bit because you don't want to leave the house, you just want to snug. But motivation is not bad. But for a while I've been working on working out while not motivated, so that helps a lot. I feel like that's a lot of people right, I've carried it over into, particularly around this time yeah so you just get used to going even when you don't want to go yeah, I'm good, I can totally relate to that, but, like, I have a simple solution and that's the fact that I have to physically go to a gym at least once a day to work.
Speaker 1:It's a lot easier.
Speaker 2:Just tap it on there at some point?
Speaker 1:How do you feel PTing people Because your gym is in the backyard? How do you feel PTing people in the winter?
Speaker 2:You probably noticed this the warm-ups are double the length Because you've really got to warm up. Yeah, exactly right, physically you've got to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like more than just jog, I just yeah.
Speaker 2:I just like yeah, exactly right Physically you've got to do it, yeah, yeah, and it's like more than just jogs. It's usually something that's quite specific to the thing that we're going to be doing. You should just bodyweight exercises with the groups. But I can get a bit more specific on the one-on-ones, because it's nice to feeling again with this.
Speaker 1:I like working out in the cold than where I'll get into my like tiny clothes to work out, because I'll get warm enough just from the warm up and the workout for me to be able to stand in like 10 degrees.
Speaker 2:I want to see these outfits. You see them every time we record. They're very tiny, very tiny clothes. They're getting smaller as well, I put him in the dryer every night andrew actually looks like thumbelina just tied a piece of craft string.
Speaker 1:We've got a few steps further than a crop top, um, but I like. I like feeling the body keeping itself warm in the really cold. Like you know, when you train us, obviously you're not doing the warm-up as well. You're telling us to do the warm-up, so you'll be rugged up, but I'll be sitting there I'm freezing my tits off. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah uh. What about food? Did you guys eat differently during? Oh this is my favorite thing about winter, because the food stuff, I reckon, gets easier. You can throw a whole lot of shit in a pot and then and it just tastes good really I don't know. You can always do that shit in a pot, yeah but you know, like you that you don't want like a slow cooked meal in the heat of summer, do you? You don't want to pull out a loin of pork when it's like 45 degrees and everything's dripping off you.
Speaker 1:No, you're right.
Speaker 2:But you can pop that little sucker in a wee pot and come home to it. You're quite conscious of your food being different during winter. I see.
Speaker 1:I eat a lot more soupy stuff, I reckon. I mean I think everyone does.
Speaker 2:I think soup's a shit I'm not a fan of soups what about ramen? Oh yeah, that's good, that's a soup. That's different. Chicken noodle soup is a soup. Yeah, I know, but it's got noodles in it.
Speaker 1:What about egg? And?
Speaker 2:lemon soup, egg and lemon. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is that a soup that exists?
Speaker 2:It's a very famous soup in Greece. Okay, yeah, right, I've never had it. It's delicious. Is the egg like whipped up and like broken into particles, or is it a whole egg? It's broken into it.
Speaker 1:It's like Well, it's.
Speaker 2:Greek. But okay, yeah, so they must have stolen it from the Chinese.
Speaker 1:They probably did. Everything was stolen from the Chinese. What about you, Sammy?
Speaker 2:So your food doesn't change? Not really, but I don't really think about my food that much anymore, going from being hyper-focused on it to trying to not. So I don't really think about it, I just eat if I'm hungry, really.
Speaker 1:Do you eat for joy? Huh, really. Do you eat for joy, huh, Do you eat for joy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I mean no, not really.
Speaker 1:I mean, like I'll know, I gotta think about that.
Speaker 2:That's an interesting one. Um, yes, I do.
Speaker 1:Like you'll deliberately cook good tasting meals.
Speaker 2:You're not just going to be like oh no, yeah, I'm not like eating the fucking drywall just because it'll stop me from being hungry, like it obviously has to taste good and I come from like me wanting to be a chef for the longest time, so I'll always like oh really. Yeah, I didn't know this about you. Did you not know that? Did you ever Hotel management school? Cordon Bleu what Cordon Bleu? Was it a dish?
Speaker 1:I think that's a. I thought that was like a restaurant or management training school.
Speaker 2:It was one in Adelaide that I went to. I did a visit for it, but I also met Rick Stein and he told me not to be a chef, so that kind of who's. Rick Stein. I love Rick Stein. Yeah, see, andrew doesn.
Speaker 1:I like food, I'm going to be honest, I would eat the same dish every single night. Yeah, I know you would. I'm such a lazy eater. I'm in the middle.
Speaker 2:I do both, but I'm also like that, like I can happily just eat sort of whatever unless I like see something. Like I can see something in the supermarket and get excited and be like, oh, that's a new thing, I should try cooking with that. Oh yeah, dishes. I'll just make an omelette every night. It's the easiest dish. Yeah, I see, I could do that, I, but at the same time I could do that as high protein as well. Um, but yeah, my, like I said. Getting back to the topic, my diet doesn't really change from winter um summer. I've been doing the same thing.
Speaker 1:Who's the guy that told you not to be a chef?
Speaker 2:rick stein, he's famous he's a famous chef oh, he's got a very good restaurant actually in Australia, somewhere Nice. No, it's in New South Wales. I've forgotten what it's called.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can look it up, but why did he tell you you?
Speaker 2:should be ashamed. Well for my 18th birthday. Wow, have I told this story on the podcast before? Maybe not. I've not heard it. We're sidetracked. It was actually wintertime, so let's keep it in there. It was actually winter time, so let's keep it in there.
Speaker 2:He was doing like a guest thing At a lodge In New Zealand and he was doing a 10 course meal and I was obsessed with him, like I used to practice with my saxophone While watching him cook food, and I did the 10 courses. I was freshly 18, so I also had 10 glasses of wine. So I was proper 18. So I also had 10 glasses of wine, so I was proper lit and so was he. And then I remember the vaguest memory of him saying how hard it was to be a chef, and then he'd been very lucky and I was like, well, that sounds shit, I don't want to do that anymore. And then I didn't.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's the story from all of that. They always talk about being like ah, it's a 14 hour days, every single day, and I spent most of those 14 hours cutting up onions.
Speaker 2:But I still love to cook, like if Mello is a good chef friend of ours, needs a hand with anything, I'm always happy to help. That's so good of you and I've done a lot of kitchen handing in my time. I've done those chopping of the onions a lot. I'm a good sous chef. Getting that mise en place already. What's a mise en place? All the things that you need to do to get the dish ready. You saw me doing my mise en place just before.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the carrots and the cauliflower. Very nice, and a pumpkin and a pumpkin.
Speaker 2:Pinking. But yeah, diet doesn't change.
Speaker 1:No, that's fair.
Speaker 2:But yeah, for a lot of people it does. I actually do think that I don't. It's not in an intentional way, it's like in an excited way, do you? Find you eat more in the wintertime than you would.
Speaker 1:You should be, because your body uses a lot more energy to keep warm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I find, I do.
Speaker 1:I find I'm more hungry, which is why it's a perfect time if you want to lose weight. Keep the calories the same, and more will burn off.
Speaker 2:You've been in that iceberg for $8. Yeah, I'm definitely more hungry and I think that's a lot of people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, should you be maintaining your fitness level and goals? Should you be keeping a consistent kind of fitness regime?
Speaker 2:Should your training changes, I guess, is what you're trying to say. Um no, I don't think there's a need to change anything in the winter time. Really Like I don't think there's a need to change anything in the wintertime really Like. I mean, like I said Not weather specific, not weather specific, right, I mean, you could have that added benefit of maybe, for example, if you were someone who really struggles to eat food and you find that you are more hungry in those winter months just getting stuck in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nibble away and get stuck into heavier weights, I guess, if you're trying to like add muscle, for example. So that could be something I'd do with a client if they would to like give me those exact details, but also, that's that's so specific so I'm only saying that because that's literally. I had a conversation about that maybe two days ago from the client, so I'm really hungry at the moment, like, yeah, it's probably because it's winter, let's really push on the weights a little more Push calories, it's time for no, just train Like really focus on training a little bit harder, see how we go Bulking time.
Speaker 1:It's like a bear, you know. Yeah, become a bear.
Speaker 2:Except they sleep. They don't exercise. They just go to bed. They do, but yeah, and, and besides that, the warm-up thing is really important. Just be aware that your body will be cold. So if you are someone who's going into the gym to do like heavy deadlifts, deadlifts or heavy squats, I recommend adding like a couple of warm-up sets.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, prior to doing your working and this goes into you've talked about this before that you don't want is it not? Static warm-up so you don't want to go for like a jog to warm up for deadlifts.
Speaker 2:I I mean you want to do something specific, so lighter loads are really good. Static is when you don't move, so you want to be doing something dynamic and relevant. But you can just do that with warm-up sets that are specific to the exercise, so you do a light deadlift. A little jog would be good for lifting your body temperature. Exactly when you're doing a lift like that you want to go through the motions of the lift.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on top of that.
Speaker 2:That's why I always get you guys to jog first. It's the first thing we do.
Speaker 1:Get nice and get that body ready it's because you like watching us all run. You like seeing our butts jiggle. That's true. It's actually the only reason.
Speaker 2:Hanging out by the sounds of it, andrew's piece of string is just falling around.
Speaker 1:G-string is not a joke. Everyone my dental floss.
Speaker 2:What else in winter? What else is good or bad? The best thing about winter is there are less people in the gym, which is not always.
Speaker 1:Not always really it's freaking packed man this week.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's just because of the long weekend, but I found the gyms to be a lot more quiet.
Speaker 1:It's always quiet when I go there. I got no time, but you were saying you've just started a boot camp, so gyms are trying to drum people up in the mid-year lull. They always do that.
Speaker 2:I mean, our boot camps go every. They do eight weeks on, four weeks off. But there was something about shredding and tightening or something Sh.
Speaker 1:Shredding and tightening or something Shredding and tightening.
Speaker 2:You can tell that I don't have a hand in the marketing material and I always wonder if people are disappointed after the boot camp because I do not mention shredding once or tightening or tightening Sounds like something a mafia boss would say to a goon to get rid of someone.
Speaker 1:Shred and tighten. You can go shred and tighten them up. I don't know, I like winter. When I lived in the Northern Hemisphere for a bit, obviously winter was a bigger thing.
Speaker 2:That's a hellish winter, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Well, it's first. Yeah, it's a lot colder than it is in Australia, but I mean everywhere it's colder than Australia. But the cultural the tie between Christmas and winter is a lot stronger there Because we have like Christmas in July in the Southern hemisphere. But it's kind of like a tongue in cheek joke that people do because it's not really Christmas. But over there everything is obviously incredibly Christmas themed. Everyone's hoping for a white Christmas. They have winter wonderland in London, which is one of the most expensive and awful places I've ever been in my life.
Speaker 1:The magic sounds nice. They've, like, supplanted all the magic with capitalism. It's so, it's just wretched.
Speaker 2:That's how the world works, isn't it?
Speaker 1:They do have some fun rides though.
Speaker 2:Oh, I like rides.
Speaker 1:It's good, Little it's. It's just like a carnival, but very expensive. Everyone's like let's get a mulled wine. You're like, oh nice, it's an hour's wage.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much I'm trying to think what else like changes in winter for me. I always stay really rugged up when I exercise, like even summer mostly, so that doesn't change nothing changes I have a lot more showers.
Speaker 1:I like to warm up with more showers.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, okay, yeah, people do love to walk with the shower. Did you know there's a new study that came up about shower? It's completely irrelevant, but like sharing once a day, it's like there's no added health benefits you can show away less frequently. It was smell like an absolute stinky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, stinky, I would definitely be stinky. Um, I also love hot water. Cups of hot water, I love drinking hot water. I winter, I love drinking hot water Winter. I actually love it coming around because it means that I can just absolutely smash.
Speaker 2:That's like is that a Greek thing? Is there like do they drink hot water in Greece?
Speaker 1:Asian continent. A lot of the countries believe in the like in China. People will have these.
Speaker 2:They drink a lot of tea, right, that's just hot water with leaves chucked in it. Hot water is seen as having a lot of health benefits. They have a lot of health benefits why?
Speaker 1:wouldn't you just flavour it? They have a lot of health benefits. It's a lot easier and also you don't have to worry about the flavour. And also a lot of tea has caffeine in it, which means that you're going to dehydrate yourself anyway. But they have these little plates. It's like a coaster. You put your cup on and it warms hot water. I have to say it's life changing. It's life changing it's so good.
Speaker 2:I love a cup of hot water I actually had a client. She was from India and she would drink like the whole time we were working out like hard, high intensity, she would just drink hot water the whole time. I'm like that is I don't know how you're doing that in that, because she would be like sweating and she'd be like I was like why are you drinking hot water?
Speaker 1:she's like I love it I mean, I prefer warm, but that's a step. This is proper hot. No, you want hot. You want it to be like. You want it to be like as hot as a cup of tea, but without the tea in it. No, that's fucked. You know, you drink cups of regular water all the time. You don't flavor that. Every time you do, though, sam flavor your water I love, I can't drink.
Speaker 2:I like flavor. What can I say? I just like bubbles, do you? Yeah, that's kind of a flavor.
Speaker 1:If only you could have the water without the bubbles, yeah, or the bubbles without the water too much for my brain.
Speaker 2:What the hell is happening? Why is that? Ah, I didn't push the button properly. That's fair. Wow, they're so tactile as well. The button properly. That's fair. Wow, they're so tactile as well. Hey, if you're struggling with motivation for training in the winter, getting into it in the winter, continuing to stay into it in the winter, you can reach out to one of us.
Speaker 2:You can find Andrew at the Bareback Investor. You can find Mikey at Well Basically, mikey. You can find me at Well Basically, sam. The podcast website is wwwwellbasicallypodcom. Coming soon we will have a program on there for you to purchase. I'm excited. I know it's going to be like. If you use it correctly, it will be like more than three months of training.
Speaker 1:It's foolproof. You can only use it correctly. It's so easy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, easy, easy, easy, easy easy. So stay tuned for that that is actually coming soon and uh, I mean, that's all I have to say on the matter. Really well, basically, frosty.