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Dial The Wild
Korby Foxall MacTown Fitness: Strength, Stories and the World of CrossFit
Remember when you could sit with friends, sharing stories and laughter without a screen in sight? That's where our podcast journey began, and boy, has it blossomed! We've weathered job transitions and relocations, but through it all, our passion for conversation and community has only amplified. This episode takes you through the heart of our evolving adventure, from the gargae to the move to a new location. Along the way, we've navigated the murky waters of small victories that have kept our business pulsing with life.
Picture the 5 am clang of weights and the 8 am buzz of camaraderie at our local gym – it's the backdrop to tales of a community that's more family than membership. We share a slice of this vibrant life, where septuagenarians and school kids alike find their strength. Balancing manufacturing chaos, family, and fitness isn't just our reality; it's a testament to our collective resilience.
As we wrap our fitness-soaked dialogue, we welcome Korby from MacTown, whose humor and down-to-earth advice remind us that the journey to personal health is as unique as our DNA. He's the guy that makes you laugh about a salad drowning in ranch, while we're sneaking in a snicker protein bar for balance. From tales of youth camps crafting future sports stars to the impact of personalized coaching, we leave no weight unturned. So, lace up your sneakers and join us in a conversation that celebrates not just fitness, but the power of tailored coaching, community, and laughter – one rep, one chuckle, one story at a time.
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welcome to another dial the wild podcast I'm not kidding, it's good, it's actually nice. It's good, makes me appreciate things yeah absolutely that's.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's what they did back in the olden days, dude, I'm like just went worked, went home, fell asleep and did it again. Talk to people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did no tv and bullshit no just fucking hang out talk, play games, whatever. I'm like people come over to my house to hang out. Now we actually like have to communicate and like figure out something else to do. Yeah besides sit around and watch netflix or something.
Speaker 1:What did we do last week? Uh, same thing we're doing right now. Yeah, can you believe that february 1st of 2021 was our first podcast?
Speaker 2:yeah, jesus, that's, that was podcast that's podcast number two.
Speaker 1:That was like travis does podcast.
Speaker 2:Okay, he's been doing it for and I thought about it, I was like I'm like it's been like it for and I thought about it, I was like I'm like it's been three years. It's been like three years we've been doing it. That's what I told her. I'm like. I think it's been like three years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were podcast number two, jesus. Now I'm on like 88.
Speaker 2:How long does it take you to like do all the editing and shit?
Speaker 1:now if I do like a 45 minute podcast which most of them are anymore, unless we're just like bullshitting for an hour or two then it's. I might spend an hour or so editing and then I run it through a filter to kind of level things off, and then, um, getting it posted is the next thing, and but it's good, man, it still works. But yeah, you came over to the old house. We chilled in the basement and podcasted for a while. You didn't know what you were doing, I didn't know what I was doing. It was fun. Yeah, it was fun. And then I took a new job, quit out and you bought a new building. Yeah, I was I. It was so bittersweet. I'm like I'm glad he's expanding, but I really missed the gym over there next to the depot, cause it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:No, dude, I miss it too, because it was just like in the middle of town actually and it was like a great advertisement spot, especially on like friday nights like tonight we're all saturday mornings, we're all running up and down the road and stuff and people are like what are they? Doing. And then yeah, and then you just have random people stop by, like here. Yeah, there's random people. You know someone who stopped by because they hear like loud music playing and they're like what the fuck is going on over there.
Speaker 1:It sounds like a club. Yeah, they're working out?
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly, but then we got some people like aspen court and stuff who didn't swing by um, but it's a little bit tougher, it's a little bit more of a challenge actually to uh promote um, market this place back here, or yeah, because we're just we're kind of sitting back behind jackson street market and macomb glass and you know pepsi, pepsi and we're and we're behind the, we're on the other side of the shed, so people go to the shed thinking that that's us and then I did come over here did a podcast not too long ago with mike oh, okay so, yeah, they're familiar with michael over there and his um jujitsu studio and stuff and he had a pretty sweet gig uptown and and decided to come over here with you, so that worked out pretty well for both of you.
Speaker 1:And then you had you ended up with two buildings. I ended up with two buildings. And now you're back to one or you still got both of them.
Speaker 2:Uh, I, I let my parents have the other building Um, so that's theirs, um, so that's theirs. And uh, they still use some of it for baseball, uh, running out some dining cages and stuff, and they ran out some other space as well, just to try to get a little bit of income to uh help pay the utilities and whatnot, yeah, but uh, yeah, it's for a good cause and that's kind of what we're doing over here too is trying to help people uh be fit and uh healthy and uh really provide something I thought I asked.
Speaker 1:He's breaking your chair, he's popping out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't you never. I never knew how long these chairs will last. Actually, I just kind of got them from storage Are? You still competing a lot. I am still competing, yeah, good, where all have you been?
Speaker 1:this last year or so, because I see it on social media. Oh gosh, he's in like Florida this week or something.
Speaker 2:His last year with work was a little crazy. So this past winter when I did a competition, really my first one was in north carolina in january uh, no, actually, yeah, north carolina january and then I did tennessee, um, after that we just kind of, we we did the open, the crossfit open, which is virtual, okay, so you do like three weeks, one workout a week. Video your workouts, submit your scores, turn that into crossfit top 25, advanced at quarterfinals, which is another online stage, um, and so that's like one long five day span. You do like four or five workouts, same thing video workouts submit your scores.
Speaker 2:Top 40 go to semifinals in Knoxville at the end of May and then from there top shoot like top five go to the CrossFit games okay, only five of them, only five, yeah, yeah. So I've actually got some big uh off-season events coming up. Fitness wise uh. This year I'm supposed to go to california in september for a big competition and Hungary in November, oh wow, with the team USA functional fitness.
Speaker 1:Do you remember when? So did you go to? Did you go to Korea? I?
Speaker 3:went to China. You went to China for a game. I swear.
Speaker 1:I brought COVID back During. Covid yeah.
Speaker 2:I swear I brought COVID back. Like when I got back, they're like yeah it was already happening.
Speaker 1:It was already happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, back. They're like, yeah, it was all more flights, it was already happening. Yeah, but they're like, yeah, there's no more flights. I was wondering why, cause ours actually got delayed like a day or two, I don't even remember, but we were, I just remember, going to the airport and being like sorry, like your flights canceled today, and we had no idea why. And we went back to the hotel and just chilled like god, I hope we can, like get back home soon. It was. I mean, it was you could have been stuck in china. Yeah, yeah, we had no I I mean, it was an. It was an experience.
Speaker 2:You go to most foreign countries and a lot of people are bilingual and like somewhat understand english you know and you go to china and you get in a taxi and you pull up google maps to try to like coordinate where your destination is, like where you want them to take you, and the first time we did that, uh, we ended up being like an hour away. I'm getting dropped off like an hour away from our actual destination.
Speaker 1:That was an expensive it was a man bill.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it was a mess I had. I did not realize how big china actually is. My sister was pissed. She went with me. She's like you think you think you, you know that I would have, uh, done my research and actually known, like, what I was getting into. But no, I just kind of I usually go with the flow and that wasn't a good choice.
Speaker 1:That wasn't a good thing to do. I remember that vaguely, cause you came back and be like is is you going to get toasted, but you're like yes, I'm going to get tested.
Speaker 2:Dude, I was so sick when I got back I I like I went into, I went to do a workout with the girls like Saturday, that's week on a Saturday and I walked in I was like drenched in sweat. They're like go home, Do not be around us. Do not come close to us.
Speaker 1:Is it the same kind of format here, where they're here at about five each morning and and then you got another class at eight and then a couple in the evening, or?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah. So we have a 5 am uh, timmy harding comes in and kind of leads that group, and then 8 am uh, another group workout. Uh, amber patrick kind of takes control of that and leads that. She has been forever.
Speaker 1:She's great she used to do the 5 am yeah kids and stuff.
Speaker 2:It's a whole nother. Yeah, it's getting them out the door, but no, she's awesome. Um, and then I do a 5 30 in the afternoon right now. Hopefully, uh, hopefully, we can add something else. Um, I love group classes, but besides, it's just a lot of.
Speaker 1:Well it's a lot of fun. You're actually pushing each other. I mean we'd get together for dinner like every other week or so. Oh, exactly Because I'm over here busting our ass and we all end up at Mexican.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, and we were just at Mexican Sunday. It's like sweet too.
Speaker 1:Now that you say that, god, it's hilarious it is, but I loved it because you'd have somebody. How old was Skip, do you think, when he was?
Speaker 2:working out. I remember his 70th birthday. We did a workout together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you had him there and then you had people in there with their grade school kids doing the same workout, anything and everything in between. It was a lot of fun, and unfortunately I don't know if it's still that much fun, because my dumb ass moved to bushnell no, it's still a blast.
Speaker 2:I mean everyone, everyone, basically. That used to work out still comes um. But yeah, we always talk about where's travis. Is travis ever going to come back? And I said well, he moved to bush here we go he's, he's uh here we go he can't make the drive, so I don't know if we'll see him, hopefully, in the near future. This is one step. This is one step closer. One step getting him in the gym is this the intervention.
Speaker 1:One step, this is one step closer. One step closer. Getting him in the gym tonight. Is this the intervention? Yeah, I'll do a podcast. By the way, you're fat, get back in the gym.
Speaker 2:This is it. This is the one I told Steph. I said hey, maybe Trav will be here. We'll see him soon. I've got to be able to come on Tuesday nights anyways for archery.
Speaker 1:So there you go. Once a week. Once a week, there you go. I would love that Steph talks about you all the time. Still, I love Steph, and if my girls, uh, if we didn't end up moving to Bushnell, they would probably still be at West Prairie, and so there was a chance that, like she could teach my daughters. So I was really excited about that. And then we bought a house.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's okay. Moving on to bigger and better things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is, it's been a. It's a whole different grind. You know just the manufacturing world and kids ball playing age and everything, dancing age and anything else that they can do to be expensive if they do it.
Speaker 2:yeah, we gotta like love it yeah, it's awesome it's once in your life bows.
Speaker 1:Now you know it's it's a blast and um. I don't want any more, but I love the ones I got right exactly but you've been uh, you've been busy with a lot of your instagram stuff, videos and stuff. Are you doing all your own content now or are you putting it up or uh?
Speaker 2:I actually work with, uh, a couple video, uh content creators, um, and someone who helps with my instagram, um, kendra, whack and jessack, who they're from Macomb originally she used to be a personal trainer and stuff here. They moved to Tennessee for a few years, gotcha, they moved back and they live up by Quincy now. They're super awesome. They've been like I wouldn't have grown as much as I have. Yeah, I guess it was kind of a dumb question.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess it was kind of a dumb question, because if you'd have thought that, like running an Instagram channel would have taken away from your workout, you definitely wouldn't be doing it right now. Oh my gosh. I have to push pause. No, I try to get one more set in, so you'd be like that would be pissed off. Try to get one more set in, so you'd be, like that would be pissed off. You're not getting the content you want, but you're also not getting getting the the workout in that you want to get.
Speaker 2:I wish I could run my own stuff, but god same. They are amazing for helping me.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, because there's definitely tricks of the trade when it comes to and now that you're like getting sponsors and posting events and stuff, now you got to figure out algorithms and the right time of the day to post stuff it's like dude, I just want to do a podcast now, fine, oh, you just want to work out and have fun.
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly, I had a buddy stop in last night, tima, and he showed me some of the stuff on Facebook. Yeah, just like, cause he used to uh market, um for this farming company. And uh, he showed me some different things. Like, hey man, you need you should boost this post and this is.
Speaker 2:but this is how you do it, like go into the settings and like captivate this certain audience in this region. I'm like, oh, okay, so I could like be more efficient with the way that I spend my money when it comes to marketing in my time, yeah absolutely so. That was super awesome, so I've had a lot of support.
Speaker 1:It's and then you learn all these things when you start putting on events too like you gotta. If you want people to see your event on social media, you gotta put it up a certain times of the day, or? Or. I'm not gonna pay for it, but you can pay for it to be put up at prime 100 and I'm just jeez chris. I have to get help when I when I do the the production events. I have to get help if I don't then I'm just like everybody's like you had a show last week.
Speaker 1:It's like damn it. Yes, I've been posting it for two months now, but that's how the monster grows, man.
Speaker 2:No, I'm always like, especially when it comes to the gym. It's like I'm just here, I just make sure it continues running and pay the bills, like I, not the gym, like the members are the gym. Right, it's like people who help me with the marketing stuff, with like sponsors and brands and CrossFit and stuff, like I'm not successful without them. Absolutely Super grateful for that. I would not. I'd never try, never to take all the credit. I always try to share, you know, the, the love and everything with other people.
Speaker 1:Absolutely yeah. It takes a village in more than one way. So yeah, it's, it's huge. And, speaking of the production events, you were a sponsor for that and we did appreciate that. Um, hopefully somebody saw mactown on a metal poster and was just like I'm gonna go work out with that guy, hopefully that'd be nice, or I'm not gonna go over that guy.
Speaker 1:He's fucking, he's too intense yeah, I just got my ass beat in the pit. I better go muscle up. Yeah, I always love watching the guys that that are that think they're working out but they're not and they still go into casey's and bite muscle milk and they're just like I feel amazing oh god, yeah, I know, I know, yeah, oh, 80 of what you.
Speaker 2:You know, though, your workout is what you put into your body.
Speaker 1:It's absolutely even actually it's not even the workout. I tell people that all the time is like 70, 80 is just what you're eating and drinking some of the stuff that they promote.
Speaker 2:Man like snickers protein bars have you seen those? Yeah, probably. Yeah, snickers protein bars and uh quest m&ms like. If people are like oh man, this must be good for me it's in the healthy isle at walmart, so it's just protein on it and they're like I'm gonna eat this and instead of uh, you know that like it's full of oil, full of oil and oil, no oil, peanuts, yeah, exactly, and it's chocolate coated, but it's got some protein in it. It's good. It's good for you it's like I got a salad.
Speaker 1:Really, what'd you have on it? I don't like a bottle of ranch. I'm guilty oh, that's funny no, it's, it's and it really. As long as you're consistent, it doesn't take much. But like if you don't put the time and effort into it, then it does not take long for it all just to kind of evaporate no, it doesn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, and like the unfortunate part, like we kind of like laugh and joke about the uh, you know what, we were just talking about protein bars and like the mis conscued, I guess, like what's healthy and what's not, like what you should be eating and consuming more of and we should be consuming less of um people get stuck into that.
Speaker 2:You know from just how the world is, you know listening to other people, whether it's social media, friends, family, etc. Um, and then they get lost and don't even know what to do. Like I've talked to, there's a lot of kids in their 20s and college kids who are getting these surgery, like reverting to surgeries, like belly fat reduction surgeries and, oh wow, taking you know, we know where your taking yeah, taking shots and like to reduce their appetite and pit like different things like, and they're paying out their butts yeah
Speaker 1:for these things, like some surgeries, can cost up to like five grand and some of these shots are like four or five hundred bucks a month and some of the other stuff that's out there now that, yeah, it was created for diabetics and heart patients right, exactly, and now you're taking it for weight loss, spending 200 bucks a month getting injected, yeah it.
Speaker 2:It's sad because they're missing. We're like our bodies are, like we're meant to move and you don't get the same feelings. Your endorphins don't get the same feeling. It wears off, you know, by getting these injections, these surgeries and stuff. There's nothing, you know, like getting in and doing something hard every day, like just we're showing up to the gym. It's hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you show up to the gym, you've just done the hardest thing, up as hard waking up and getting out of bed, it's like, exactly, you're not freaking, kidding. And so when you show up and you go to the gym and you get a workout in, you sweat, since you feel good about yourself and you get a workout in and you sweat. Sense the entitlement you feel good about yourself, yeah, and you actually have confidence in yourself and it makes you a better person for your friends, family and, most importantly, you. You make yourself proud yeah. And that's like what we're missing, like in today's society.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of it.
Speaker 2:It is a lot of it. I would agree with that. Yeah, society, it's a lot of it's. It is a lot of it. I would agree with that. Yeah, I feel like, you know, being able just getting the opportunity to invest in people and like teach them that you know and just kind of be there for them, um it's huge. You know we need more. We need more of that, I think that.
Speaker 1:That's what I miss most about being at the gym full time is to anything was like the um. The accountability was why I liked a lot, because if there went two or three days I wasn't in the gym. It was like I get a message from corby hey, where the hell are you at? It's like, oh, sorry, man, I got this that going okay. Well, you've come a long ways, you know. Don't stop now. It's like okay, oh, I'm sorry yeah, I mean it's just, it's like I'm paying you but I'm still apologizing to you.
Speaker 2:It's a weird concept. You invest and you try to invest in people and you want that same investment back and it just it sucks when you start to care about people and, uh, you know that's one of the hardest parts. You know you're getting too attached emotionally to people and then seeing them not reach their goal, but it's, I mean, it's also your goal too, because you're trying to help them get there, yeah, and then all of a sudden they vanish.
Speaker 1:You know where they're gone or something you know, and it's like anything else that is like, oh, I didn't accomplish what I wanted to, or things aren't going the way I want to, so I'm just gonna kind of slip out and you know, do the whole social media. Hey, you know, I'll try it, maybe later or something. But it's it kind of sucks because you get, like you said, emotionally invested and then all of a sudden it's you're ghosted man and it's just a matter of shame. Yeah, right, and I don't mean that to be an ass, I mean that is. You know, whenever you did something wrong as a kid, you felt a little bit of shame about it. You didn't want to talk about it, you didn't want it to be made public.
Speaker 2:You just wanted to quietly deal with it and move on. Yeah, we all have those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whether you go and work out or not, I've got plenty of this. Oh oh shit, dude yeah absolutely, we're actually really bummed out this last year because, like what is it? Two years ago I had devin me you, marcus, and we had one other guy on a golf cart flying through wiu that was.
Speaker 2:That was actually a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:That was a blast just how bad corby is a goal. Oh, I'm so bad. I'm actually like how is a college baseball player so bad at golf?
Speaker 2:I'm so bad I. That is the one sport I just I won't do it.
Speaker 1:It was funny as hell because there's five of us there. I'm like corby, how's this gonna work? He's like we're gonna play with five of us. That's not how this works. You're like I just paid 700, we're rolling five deep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we are okay, here we go. Oh god, I actually am actually sponsoring MPD's golf outing at the end of May, nice, it was supposed to be last weekend, but it's the end of May. I'm like I'm not fucking golfing. I'm going to show up and support them, but I am not talking to a golf club, not a chance.
Speaker 1:Turn around and face the highway. Okay, how the hell did you still shank it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, literally turning around like 180 degrees basically. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:He's like are we going to sponsor a team this year? I don't know, Izzy, I don't know. That was a lot of fun though I had several other buddies that were at that outing. It's crazy I never realized just how much college baseball parents party Welcome to college baseball parents party.
Speaker 2:Welcome to a college baseball.
Speaker 1:Holy crap they were out there tailgating nine in the morning with bloody Mary's getting ready for a golf outing. I was like, oh, okay, here we go. And then, uh, 18 holes later, yeah, we're still feeling pretty good oh yeah, uh, that was a blast.
Speaker 2:that was a lot of fun, but so what's on the agenda nowadays?
Speaker 1:you said you're still competing yeah, still competing right now.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm just chilling a little bit. I got like super sick dude like three weeks ago. Oh really my body like blew up like I would try to do like a workout or something. But it just Just chilling a little bit, I got super sick dude.
Speaker 1:like three weeks ago, oh really, my body blew up. I tried to do a workout or something and it just stopped. It just quit. Did you have to do a reset or something?
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, I literally gained 25 pounds, really 25 pounds. Last week I went to the doctor to get antibiotics and stuff because I was like last resort, I hate going to the doctor. I try everything ice bath, sauna, massages, ivs, anything besides. You know, I just hate what I hate? Medicine, I I just hate I don't, I hate it man well, it's my thing.
Speaker 1:If it's a common cold or something, you could sweat it out. It wasn't when it took. When it's your bloodstream or something, dude, you gotta get help.
Speaker 2:So I got weighed at the doctor's last. So when I first before I got sick, I was 205. I got weighed as a doctor last week, 231. That's how much fluid was going up a weight class, yeah, weighed myself like two days ago, like when I'm like okay, like I'm back to normal, yeah, 2.11. Like all right, like my body was like super, like I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1:It had no idea.
Speaker 2:I mean this body was just filled with that much fluid Like holy crap. It was insane.
Speaker 1:What did they say? It ended up being they.
Speaker 2:just when they don't know what it is, they just give you a general sinusitis or something. Oh yeah, so they just. I just they had to have been more. I have no idea. I got blood work and stuff done. They're like oh well, this correlates with sinusitis, so that's what it was. So I was like all right. Well, whatever you say, you're the professional.
Speaker 1:You're the dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that, yeah, so, so that. Anyways, so you're doing gym full-time now gym full-time training, a lot of people enjoying it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, talk about your, uh, what you're doing online. That's interesting.
Speaker 2:You were showing me that a minute ago, yeah, so I start clients off super slow on a initial assessments and testing phases. Everything's super individualized so I'll take clients through their goals. I've got clients, uh, who are 50 55, who just want to be able to go out and play with their kids and do you know daily jobs and chores around the house.
Speaker 2:I've got law enforcement officers who just want to look good and perform their daily duties and I've got some uh in the middle, uh, competitive crossfit athletes who you know want to reach the next level, and so everything. You start them all off with the testing phase. Uh, we try to screen for any uh strengths and weaknesses, any underlying injuries, anything that I need to be aware of, so that we can uh work on that and, um you know, get stronger in different positions that they're weak at. We can work on any limitations, any mobility issues.
Speaker 1:Well, you look at the big picture too. When you do that, you're not just like, hey, you're coming to back and bys next day just to try.
Speaker 2:No, it's not bullshit. Yeah.
Speaker 1:You're taking BMI and you're, which I understand you. You know BMI works to an extent I haven't stepped in body skiing.
Speaker 2:We do their weight, body, their muscle mass and body fat percent. We set a goal and just kind of check out their general realistic goal, I think, is the big. Thing exactly and their lifestyle, and we do some different like strength exercises, just some like cardio things, just to kind of see how their cardiovascular and strength is, and then from there I'll build a program based on exactly what their goals and their mission is.
Speaker 2:So everybody's different, everyone's individualized, so it takes it takes time to get through all their programs and stuff and build it out and uh, some of them, honestly, I've got one who's struggling with a shoulder issue.
Speaker 2:I don't know nothing about that she was struggling with a shoulder issue before she came to me. So we're taking it like day to day and I'm building it out day to day, checking it. I check in with her almost every day throughout the week. I try to stay off my phone a little bit more on the weekends. I shut it off eight o'clock at night but when I get up you know I'm messaging clients and checking in with them and making sure you know they're on track. They don't have any questions. They can always shoot me a text. I talk to them on the phone all the time. There's some who will um. I've got a couple online. You know people from hannibal who drive down here once a week to work with me, a couple in Monmouth, a couple obviously here in Macomb, one in Quincy. They all really enjoy it. I've had some really good feedback. The fitness industry has just kind of changed a little bit.
Speaker 1:You've got to know how to adjust with it.
Speaker 2:People love the remote coaching. It's super easy to use. There's, you know, videos and uh, I can go in there and give the clients notes, feedbacks. They plug videos in of movements. Hey, corby, can you look at this and I'll look at their movement and I'll provide feedback on every single thing that they're doing. And uh, day by day, week to week, and uh, yeah, just overall, I've gotten really good feedback.
Speaker 1:I'm super excited and if you don't want to, take the time or the money to, to do the individualized stuff you're always really good about, like, okay, if you want to come to one of the classes that are scheduled, you know, for the open workouts, um, I'd be like, okay, look, I'm not doing snatch because, uh, my shoulders wrecked. You like, okay, well, let's, let's do this, this and this, and that'll compensate for your inability to do that. And it was always nice to just have options, you know, instead of just here's the workout go, which I do. Like that aspect of it too, because I really liked getting off at a certain time, getting to the gym, getting my ass kicked for like an hour and then being able to go on with the rest of my day. Because you know how it is with most of us we go to a gym, we pay a membership or 30 bucks a month or whatever it is. We will be there two or three hours, spend half of it on our phone.
Speaker 2:Right, you know exactly, and I've had a lot of people switch and come over here just because that aspect, just because the group setting, because it's nice being around people Right, and other people who are motivated. Right, you know, it's not just come in here and get your ass kicked, but it's come in here and have a group of awesome people.
Speaker 1:Everybody's getting their ass kicked.
Speaker 2:To be around too. Yeah, exactly, you know, know. So it's a lot more fun, it's a lot more bearable, yeah, and I mean a lot of people are just here to socialize, and sometimes they're just venting about their day to each other and yeah, their workout and you know they're just bullshit, and throughout the entire workout yeah which is cool. I you know it's.
Speaker 1:It's their workout, it's your hour, it's your best hour of the day is what I call it, and if you got to come in and vent and you're putting in yeah, exactly, if you're coming in and you're venting, but you're still getting half a workout. You're still getting half a workout. It does, yep exactly, exactly. So you hit me up not too long ago. You got this big summer camp project going on.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about that uh, in June, starting in June, June 3rd through the lead, the 26th of June, it's four weeks. Uh, it's going to be our first session, so we're going to have one in June. We're going to have another four week session in July. Um, that way, uh, if you know, a lot of kids have camps in June, they can do the one in July. If a lot of you know, some have camps in July. They can do the one in June. It's kind of why.
Speaker 2:I split it up, uh, but I'm trying to cater to anyone from youth, third grade through fifth, uh, grouping them together, and then junior high, sixth through eighth, and the high school night through 12th. Um, and yeah, we plan on doing a summer camp and sports specific working on again, just kind of like I'm doing the online programming to making it specific to the kids, uh, their needs, um, limiting the spots only 10 group, 10 kids per group. That way I can work with each kid there you go yeah, and it doesn't get too overwhelming.
Speaker 2:And you know they feel like they walk out of here with something uh super valuable at the end of the summer and hopefully you know my goal at the end of it is to retain, obviously, a bunch of those kids and to be able to build individual programs for them moving forward when I was, when, I was involved.
Speaker 1:It was crazy how a handful of high school kids come in and all of a sudden their parents are here working out, or you get a husband or something and all of a sudden his wife's in here working out, or someone's in here working out, then their daughter shows up, or you know, it's crazy how that grows. And a lot of that is from the camaraderie you're talking about or the accountability that comes with it. You know, just, we're so-and-so you know, that's exactly.
Speaker 1:You know when someone misses a workout, and then it's almost like you have to text somebody ahead hey, I ain't gonna make the workout today because I gotta take a kid to something and there's like but we're so-and-so, they never miss a workout. I had to take a kid to the doctor or something. Yeah, but the. But the camp, you've got age specific. You said it's going to be kind of, but we're so-and-so, they never miss a workout. Oh, they had to take a kid to the doctor or something. Yeah, but the camp, you've got age-specific. You said it's going to be kind of garnered around sports-related movements and activities and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yep, a lot of dynamic movements, power outputs, speed, agility. We're going to have a testing phase at the beginning testing day. We're going to have a testing phase at the beginning, uh, testing day, uh. And then we'll do a four week cycle and super quick, just because that's what the session is, and then we'll do another testing day at the end of it, just so the kids see progress, we see progress and, um, they, you know, know that they got bigger, thinner, faster, stronger, stronger, you know, more powerful at the end of it there, you're not gonna get much bigger in four weeks.
Speaker 1:I said no, I said the wrong thing there, but it does create good habits. Yeah, it creates a good habit.
Speaker 2:It creates a good base for the kids and I just I I hope to create an environment um a good environment and get them to enjoy working out. There, you go Because they need to. They can't just be beating their head Playing videos. Against videos and doing sports 12 months out of the year.
Speaker 2:That's fair, you have to build some kind of base and you have to get stronger, faster, fitter. On top of that, you need some kind of off season and working. You know you, you can't just sit around and play video games, like you just said. You need to still work out during that off season for an hour a day, but you need some kind of mental break from, from sports and life.
Speaker 1:Life, yeah, really, you know it was always nice to have that hour or so working out where it's just like nothing to worry about exactly but moving my fat ass for for an hour, you know exactly so but that, and I like how you're limiting, limiting each class like 10 kids, because then it's like um, every everybody's different. So, like this kid's developing or growing a certain way, you're going to recognize that.
Speaker 1:You're going to be, like okay, you're kind of a shorter, lengthier kid, you know, we'll put a little meat on your bones. Try to get you a little more mobile, a little quicker. Or maybe you'll see a, a kid that we would deem a little heavier, and just be like okay, let's try and slim you down, get you flexible, and we always need offensive linemen. Well, that way too.
Speaker 2:You know I can. I can provide some extra additional resources to like kids like that. You know who need to some like nutritional tips advice, that you know who need to some like nutritional tips advice. I can give them some exercises to do outside of here because we are doing, you know we'll be running the camp tuesday, monday, tuesday, thursdays um, for those sessions and who's to say you can't go do more on the other days if you really enjoy it. Right, we're outside. You know I've had plenty of other athletes who I freaking. Ethan ladd was one who started with me. He couldn't jump to a 20 inch box when we first started in eighth grade and now he's playing football at Western. Yeah, like you know, in during high school he loved it so much His dad would have to like monitor him and be like, hey, you need to stay out of the gym Cause we have a game tomorrow. Like I don't need you.
Speaker 2:I don't need you cramping, it's going to be 90, 100 degrees.
Speaker 1:And then you got kids like Braden Duncan who was running around doing handstands.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah yeah, he's running around on his hands. Now he's tearing it up in college golf. And a lot of that could be attributed to not only the strength but the flexibility that he gained working out here, to not only the strength but the flexibility that he gained. You know working out here and you know there's and there was a time where there was a lot of gyms shut down in town and a lot of people had to come. There is a time to back down.
Speaker 2:We can talk about that now. Yeah, that's fine, but yeah no, that's when the group of boys all came, and now they're off playing college sports Almost all of them, besides maybe one who just decided to do something else. I think he's tearing up the student section, though, at U of I Nice, but everyone else playing college. One's playing college basketball, two are playing at Western right now. You said Braden's tearing it up in golf. Yeah, he's a beast. God, god, that dude squatted so much and he's a little skinny like 100 pounds.
Speaker 2:I'm like jesus dude imagine if you were, if god gave you a like, a frame of any kind? Yeah, exactly jesus, but he's doing what he can for he's got yeah, beast work ethic, and that sport's all about flexibility and motion, and I would rather have a work ethic, honestly and like had, like only get what, like go play division three or something, you know, get the opportunity but work my ass off to earn my spot, than to just be given god-given talent and get a d1 scholarship.
Speaker 2:Well, you know like it's cool because it you know in social media and shit. Like it's cool, like whatever, like you can be, like you're a big shot, hot shot for four years, but what are you after that? Yeah you know what I mean, right, right it's the work that you put in in life. That, like, makes you a better person. It makes you proud of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I liked how you hit on the on the mental aspect of that too. It's just like the sense of accomplishment, the sense of pride you get is just. You know, you see somebody who's been working their ass off. They step up on a scale and they're like down 10 pounds.
Speaker 2:Just, you know, know the glow, awesome, and that's what people like, that's what how people should feel and it's like you'll you notice more with people who don't invest into their bodies, invest into themselves, and you know, like self, somewhat of a self-care, and not necessarily in a selfish way, but like that's, that's what we're supposed to do, like we're supposed to take care of our bodies. We have one body.
Speaker 2:You know, we don't know how long we're gonna live you're not controlling how long you live, you're just controlling like you now to be the best you can be now yeah, you know how I feel.
Speaker 1:It just feels like you're talking like right to me right now. No, I'm not, it's all this is an intervention. I knew it not at all but no I'm just.
Speaker 2:What I was getting at is you can see the confidence and like a lot of people and a lot of kids now and the social aspect of it too is sad like people don't even like right look at each other and talk to them that much and they're like nervous as heck, and so you see all these mental disorders like anxiety and depression and etc. Things like that, and it's like at an all-time high and that's why it's because we've got all these other kind of programmed kids to be that way yeah we've got all these other things that we're focusing on the wrong things, you know, and it's like well, even with sports.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and athletics, now it's. It's about you know whose kids should be playing, or you know the political side of it. I want to, yeah, I want to show people.
Speaker 2:I want to help people. I want to help people. Not just show people, but be an example of working hard and just being the best that you can be. That's what you need to do. That's what we were made for, Right, you know. And then everything else will fall into place. Yeah, it will.
Speaker 1:I mean, that happens. You work on your mental health, mental health your spiritual health. Yeah, you know it comes. You know a lot of it. I like it when a lot of people you know will gripe about their significant other or something like.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, driving me nuts Just nags on me all the time. It's like it's amazing how ifvis just starts taking care of travis yeah, and trying to be a better version of travis, how, like the marriage and the parenting and the guy I am at work yeah, like how that all kind of falls in line, whether it's whether it's like you just need to read a book and work on your 100, how your your outlook, or whether you need to go to church and hear it there, or however it is, you get your tuning fork. I guess you know to try and stay on the on the straight would you agree we're too busy nowadays.
Speaker 2:Oh, very much. So we were too busy, like very much quotes, like too busy, like we just take time, like you just said, like read a book. When's the last time you read a book? Uh?
Speaker 1:if it's not work related. I I man, I just don't people laugh.
Speaker 2:If I told my parents read a book, they would like laugh or go back to their phones and get on facebook or something like. No, seriously, like let's read a book. Like read a book, or something like it's good it feels, good it's like it's actually invest like holy cow, like it makes you kind of self-reflect, whether you want to or not. I'm like you start to begin like, oh man, this is no, that's not me, they can't be no, I mean like no, it probably is me.
Speaker 2:Like let's be real here, oh like this sentence it's not you, it's me right now yeah, I could totally relate to this and it's, it's, I mean, it makes you more self-aware, yeah, and ultimately you start to make better. I mean you, could you start to make better or at least you're more aware of your decisions that you're making? Like you said, it's just all about being the best you and being a healthier version of you. Yeah, I mean, that's my mission.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm doing what I'm doing God.
Speaker 2:I had the hardest time leaving my job because I love the people and I did like you know, I like the job, but I feel like this is what I'm supposed to do, like I'm not getting any younger. No, you know, I'm not married right now. Like it's I can. You know, this is the time to do it, right now, you know you can only be the fittest cop in Macomb.
Speaker 1:for so long, only for so long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. And then I got to pass the torch and now I don't know who it's going to be.
Speaker 1:We'll see, we'll find out. No man, it's cool to see what you've accomplished, from what? 19-year-old in your garage to where you're at now. Like I said, I'm still partial to the gym over by diggers. No dude, I miss that place.
Speaker 2:I miss the atmosphere actually just like around because it's like right by the square, yeah, and it's super easy. Great advertising now it's cool because it you got to be a little bit more creative trying to advertise back here like, absolutely, I just want to make like a giant billboard or sign and hang it up outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get a big old flashing billboard yes, that would be awesome let's talk to carol.
Speaker 2:Maybe I was gonna say maybe you and I can go over. Hey, carol, we're carol, we're gonna put a big ass sign in here if we're in a partner together and we're gonna put uh, we're to put sponsored by Jackson Street Pub right underneath there you go, there you go, big old Corby, head up there on a sign that would be hilarious Next to Travis. Actually, just put Travis. No, we'll put it next to Devin's.
Speaker 1:He's got his shelter insurance. Yeah, we'll put that Big melon head on the highway.
Speaker 2:Everyone will be so confused when they walk in here and they're like wait a minute there's that guy where's the other one?
Speaker 1:that's awesome oh, good times laughing, laughing. Oh, working out all week just to go have Mexican on Fridays.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the point of it, that's what we of it, that's the point of it it was great, slam a cup of beers.
Speaker 1:Be like hey, stop doing that, sorry, yeah we're running extra mild.
Speaker 2:We missed travis around here. I promise you that it's a good time, man.
Speaker 1:I I wish I wish I had more time down here to, I know, to put to it, but we're gonna get um stuff out. If you are at all interested in getting your kid or yourself involved in mactown fitness, you can holler, dial the wild. I'll get you over to corby. Corby Foxall, that's his name, the MacTown madman the strongest man in Macomb. Seth, and I do that all the time. It's Corby Foxall, the strongest man in Macomb.
Speaker 2:I would not say I'm the strongest man. There's some stronger maybe like overall.
Speaker 1:We're always giving you like a WWE promo. It's like my name's Corby, the strongest man In McComb.
Speaker 2:Name a handful of people who can squat more than me, but that's not my goal.
Speaker 1:The MacTown, madman Corby.
Speaker 2:Foxall. No, but in all seriousness.
Speaker 1:We will get you his direction. If you gotta start slow, he'll start you slow. If you wanna come in and hit the ground running, he'll get you running. He'll get you running. He will get you running. But no, he'll, uh, work out a plan for you so that, um, you feel like you're getting somewhere and not just spinning your tires, eating your salad covered in ranch.
Speaker 2:So at los Harding, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:Go get your snicker bar, snicker protein, love it. All right, thanks again, dude. We'll uh, we'll get some stuff posted here. I like what you've done with the place. It looks great. Thanks bro. All right, that's all All righty.
