When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and nobody embodies that spirit quite like my dear friend and peak performance aficionado, Geno Lechuga. Together, we've conquered countless challenges, and in this episode, we're inviting you into our world of resilience and self-improvement. As we stroll down memory lane, we uncover the secrets to our enduring bond and share the collective wisdom that has been a catalyst for our personal growth. Geno's unique lifestyle and diet choices serve as a testament to the power of stepping out of one's comfort zone.
What's the relationship between a post-workout meditation and a high-five in the mirror? More than you might think, and it's all about the small but mighty practices that can transform your life. My own routine has taught me the immense value of acknowledging the hardships that refine us, and Geno and I dive into a heartfelt discussion about the positive impact of self-talk and nightly reflections on well-being. We also shine a light on the magic of giving back, through tales of community service and the joy of influencing the younger generation to lead lives marked by kindness and generosity.
Ever wondered how a cold plunge at midnight or embracing a hearty banana first thing in the morning can contribute to your health and fitness? Well, hold onto your hats because we're taking you on a whirlwind journey from the icy depths of Lake Algonquin to the warm embrace of an infrared sauna. We'll explore the surprising benefits of these practices, along with the importance of a disciplined diet as we age, all while maintaining a sense of humor about the universal struggle to resist those delicious temptations. By the end of this episode, you'll be charged up to make 2024 your most vibrant year yet, armed with practical tips and real stories to kickstart your journey to a healthier, more fulfilling life.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and nobody embodies that spirit quite like my dear friend and peak performance aficionado, Geno Lechuga. Together, we've conquered countless challenges, and in this episode, we're inviting you into our world of resilience and self-improvement. As we stroll down memory lane, we uncover the secrets to our enduring bond and share the collective wisdom that has been a catalyst for our personal growth. Geno's unique lifestyle and diet choices serve as a testament to the power of stepping out of one's comfort zone.
What's the relationship between a post-workout meditation and a high-five in the mirror? More than you might think, and it's all about the small but mighty practices that can transform your life. My own routine has taught me the immense value of acknowledging the hardships that refine us, and Geno and I dive into a heartfelt discussion about the positive impact of self-talk and nightly reflections on well-being. We also shine a light on the magic of giving back, through tales of community service and the joy of influencing the younger generation to lead lives marked by kindness and generosity.
Ever wondered how a cold plunge at midnight or embracing a hearty banana first thing in the morning can contribute to your health and fitness? Well, hold onto your hats because we're taking you on a whirlwind journey from the icy depths of Lake Algonquin to the warm embrace of an infrared sauna. We'll explore the surprising benefits of these practices, along with the importance of a disciplined diet as we age, all while maintaining a sense of humor about the universal struggle to resist those delicious temptations. By the end of this episode, you'll be charged up to make 2024 your most vibrant year yet, armed with practical tips and real stories to kickstart your journey to a healthier, more fulfilling life.
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Hello and welcome to the Bamboo Lab Podcast with your host, pete Performance Coach, brian Bosley. Are you stuck on the hamster wheel of life, spinning and spinning but not really moving forward? Are you ready to jump off and soar? Are you finally ready to sculpt your life? If so, you've landed in the right place. This podcast is created and broadcast just for you, all of you strivers, thrivers and survivors out there. If you'd like to learn more about Brian and the Bamboo Lab, feel free to reach out to explore your true peak level at wwwBambooLab3.com.
Speaker 2:My brother. Hey, buddy man, it's so good to have you back on here today.
Speaker 3:Man, I'm so glad to be back. We are brothers from another brother and I always enjoy our talks together.
Speaker 2:So, folks, we have Geno Lachuca back Now. Geno was in the forefront of the podcast. He was episode number 25. We recorded back on June 28th of 2022 and it's called the Human Brain Can Accomplish Anything. Geno and I have met one time, made Geno in person In person one time. Yeah, that was like maybe four years ago.
Speaker 3:You know what? Yeah, it was four and a half years ago, wow.
Speaker 2:That was crazy, crazy, and we met at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, michigan. That's where that event was held. That was at the John Ball Zoo.
Speaker 3:We had our sales meeting there. We came in, crushed it for us and you know what? You and I knew that we're going to have a lot more history besides that day, and you fast forward four and a half years ago and here we are today, so that was quite the day my brother.
Speaker 2:It was man, and so folks out there, geno and I talk on the phone probably once a month. We spend a half hour on the phone and we talk about just about every subject there is, from health to fitness, to politics, to business, to sales, to leadership, to personal development and I thought let's get him back on here because there's no reason why people aren't. Every one of our talks should be recorded. Really, maybe a few things can be kept out, but I could edit them. You know, you can do that on air too. I mean, I've had a lot of people swear on here. So we're Geno and I were talking last week, everybody and I said, hey, buddy, when you come back, let's do another show.
Speaker 2:And I was really surprised Geno's really busy at work and with his family and everything. And he said, yeah. So I think it was what. Maybe Friday I texted you let's do it next week and you're like yeah, let's do it. So here we are. This is officially the latest I've ever done a podcast at 5.30 out of Thursday evening and my bedtime is normally eight o'clock. So I just I called my mom like an hour ago and she says what are you doing? And I said I'm making coffee. She was like what? And like I had to have a cup of coffee before I got on.
Speaker 3:So you know, we do talk once a month and I got to say I just I really look forward to our calls and I know you and I ping pong times back and forth until something works out, and sometimes we, you know, we miss it by a week or two. But I am always so grateful for our conversations because it's, you know, it's not every day that you get to talk to somebody. That really gives you energy, you know, and you're one of those guys called me brother. So I just want to say thank you for being that guy for me and for always just being there regardless. It's just, it's a it's, it's a blessing, it's a bright spot on my day to just be with you, man.
Speaker 2:No, I think the same way, buddy. I mean, I think I've told you before. I have a sled group of people around the country that I consider my brothers and when I talk to them I call them brothers, and you are one of those, those people. I think I probably have about eight people that I that I would really say are brothers, even though you have met once and another guy who I've talked about a lot on here, dave Dick out of Dallas, texas. I've met him one time in 17 years or 18. I don't know. We've known each other for a long time and the same thing you know, every time we talk it's brother. Hey, I love you, man, you know, get the. I like getting texts from you saying, hey, have a great day, brother, I love you, and that's just the kind of stuff that feeds my soul.
Speaker 2:I was thinking do you remember back? I don't know when it was maybe a year ago I sent you a pic. I think I had just lifted or something. And I sent you a pic and I felt really buff and like, dude, don't fucking, I'm fucking man, I'm like I'm really fucking cutting. And then you sent me a picture of you and like you, fuck, you got these, these abs. You got it. Looks like they can come out of a magazine. I'm like Jesus and that that might have been before I had you on the podcast, because then you came on the podcast and here's the. I've heard this from so many listeners Did you know a dude actually eats oranges without peeling them? He eats them like an apple. I'm like, yeah, that's the real deal. And I'm like everybody's like that. Dave Dickens said that dude is next level man.
Speaker 3:You know it's crazy, I do a lot of weird stuff. My neighbors are all. They constantly look outside at me, especially in the winter, when you know and we'll get into this probably, but you know, as as it's cold outside but but you got to get that sun on your body, but you know that they look over there like who is this dude, all dude that sits outside without a shirt and 30 to 30 degree weather. Who is that guy, you know?
Speaker 2:but yeah, I do a lot of weird stuff. That's my brother, that's who that is. That's because you know, you know I, and that's. I think that's a really good topic because I you know a lot of our listeners. Now just to let you know, you know you are episode 112, you were 25. Now we're doing 112. But as of yesterday, we have subscribers in 67, in 67 different countries and you know, 1,972 cities. I'm I'm trying to get to 2,000. I'm going to celebrate when I hit 2,000 cities. So I know we have people around the world.
Speaker 2:So not everybody faces what a lot of us are facing in, at least in the Northern hemisphere, which is kind of the winter blues. You know it's, it's dark, it's. We don't, especially here in Michigan. You know, and we do have a lot of subscribers in in Michigan, we don't, we don't get a lot of sunlight this time of year. It's harder to get out. You know, it's just cold in the Northern hemisphere, days are shorter, it just it can be a depressing time and every time I talk to you it's like a shot of B12. I get off the phone. I want to put my head through a brick wall and so I'm like man.
Speaker 2:I got to talk because everybody has goals. They set this time of year, they have New Year's resolutions, and then we, we start off so strong and motivated. You know it's like that resource out of the gate. Then we start to, you know, kind of fizzle out a little bit. The days get, just they wear on us and you always seem to have that level of physical and mental energy and that's really one of the let's talk about that Cause I think there's a lot of people out there who could use this right now, really no matter where you live. But you know, primarily if you're feeling any kind of kind of an adulteram right now, you're feeling a little melancholy. So let's just talk about that. Like for you, you know, if you could think of what are some things you do, you know, to number one, to keep your body energized, what are some unique things you do or whatever. Just share with us, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no, I appreciate you asking. Yeah, I'll give you credit real quick. I mean, 112 episodes. Be, that's the best, though. Joe, 2000 cities, you're almost at. Congratulations, man. I've listened to a lot of your podcasts, especially when you first started off and then to the middle and to now, and it's, it's just amazing what you've done and just the guests, man, that you've brought on. This show is incredible. So I'm humbled. I am so humbled and honored to be here with you and thanks for having me a second time around. And then you know.
Speaker 3:Next, I do want to say, you know, having this much energy sometimes is not easy, brother. So, yeah, especially if you're not a morning person, right Cause I, you know what I think are very alike, we're very, we're morning people and so, for example, my family not not one of them is a morning person. Okay, so when they get up and I've been up for two hours and and they get up at seven 30, and you know I'm bouncing off the wall, they just want to. They even tell me this that chill, bro, is seven 30, you know, and I can't help it myself. So sometimes I go from a 10 and I got to really, really try to bring myself to that seven, you know, just just so my family doesn't kick me out of the house, so so it's not easy all the time.
Speaker 2:It's not easy on our loved ones. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know I do want to give credit before I get into this. You know my grandpa was, was a big driver behind what I do now and I keep my body and my mind healthy. My grandpa, my wife, caitlin dude, she's been awesome with it. A couple of people to mention as well. I know I'm going to miss some people, but just to give credit to them Ben Greenfield, gary Brecca, andrew Schuberman, Peter Akiya, barbara O'Neill I mean, the list goes on, but those are some of the main folks too that I've I've adapted some of their stuff, and now I'm not a doctor by any means, but I've listened to these well qualified people and implemented, you know, my version of of what they say to do for your body, and so some of these routines might not be exact science that that they preach. Um, I played around with a lot of them. It's taken me trials and errors and I've just found, you know, ways for my body to to adapt to what they're saying, and that's what I'll share with you. So really, my goal, brian, is just to connect with your listeners, man, and give them, you know, one or two things, one or two nuggets that they could take away from this and maybe apply it to their own life and maybe they'll be like you know what that Genu? He's right, he's not the craziest dude in the world. I believe what he's saying.
Speaker 3:I'm going to try and sell, um, you know, I would say it goes down to the mind and then the body, okay. So I'm gonna start with the mind, okay, and I'm gonna give you three things that are really easy, that are free to do, completely free. But before that I'm gonna show you my foundation, okay. So, to all the points that I give you when it comes to mind and body, there's gonna be a foundation. And so for the mind is my family, okay. So, first and foremost, I wanna serve my family to better than in some way or another.
Speaker 3:So there's three of them. There's my wife Caitlin, my son Dante and my daughter Eva, and for all three it actually I got kinda lucky. It's quality time. That's what they want, right? And so my wife wants quality time with me, and that was pretty easy. Take her on a date and hold her hand and treat her like a lady, that's real easy. My son is also very easy. He's an athlete. He's a high level basketball player. So if him and I can get on the court together. That's building that foundation I'm gonna talk about.
Speaker 3:And then my daughter is also an athlete, but she's a dancer. Now that doesn't come very natural to me, the dancing son, but man, I try my butt off to be there for her. I know there was one time she was learning her back hand spring and she's like, please, man, just show me how to do it, like, just, you just gotta do it for me, and then I'll do it. It took my whole courage. I hadn't done it back handspring in years, but, man, I did it. I didn't do it back handspring About killed myself, but I did it. But you know, that's the foundation, okay, so for me personally, I have to find a foundation and then I can kinda break it up, so my family being my foundation.
Speaker 3:And so here's the three things when it comes to mind anyways.
Speaker 3:The first one is meditation and prayer.
Speaker 3:Man, every morning after my workout which I'll get into I go into prayer and meditation.
Speaker 3:Now, some people think meditation is you know, you sit with your legs crossed and you know you throw your hands in there and you hum and stuff. But that's not really what I'm talking about. Really, it's really just head, downtime, quiet time, where you turn off everything and you sit there with your old thoughts, and sometimes, man, sometimes you might think of 10 things, right, sometimes you might think of 10 things that you just wanna sit there and think about, and other times you might not think about anything. You might just sit there in silence for three minutes, and that's okay too. But I do think that people that are busy like us, that are professionals, it's very important to have that time to yourself and just to take a moment and really just be in your own thoughts, man. So, and to go along with that, I do pray, so I'll pray, for I don't really pray for many things, but just blessings. So I feel like, on a daily basis, I'm given crazy amounts of blessings that I just gotta think are worth saving for. So that would be the first thing.
Speaker 2:Any questions on that beat? Yeah, so when you're doing this, do you just you're by yourself? Do you close your eyes? I mean, is it in the dark or is it just? And how long do you normally do something like that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, great question, man. So for my meditation portion, or head downtime I can call it that's usually a three minutes thing, three or four minutes. Now, if I feel like I need to sit there a long way, then three to four minutes I'll do that right, but it really doesn't go any longer than six, seven minutes. Okay, and man, I'm just sitting. It's after my workout, so you know, my body is feeling good. I got those positives, positive and borphins going and I just sit there and I don't think about anything until that thought pops into my head. Then I start thinking about it and then I start thinking if it's an issue, for example, how do I overcome that issue? I always think, think myself, for you know, for being in that spot, that I can have that issue, because man, issues create strength. So I appreciate them right. So that would be the first thing, right there. That's a great one.
Speaker 2:Then yeah, I like the fact that you do it after you workout too, because after you workout you just have that natural high going anyway and you have more confidence, your body's more relaxed. I think that's a really good, that's a great opportunity.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's an essential part of my day. You know, you can get through a lot of things just by thinking about it on your own, and some people you know what Some people will go for walks and meditate, so you don't have to sit there. I mean, you could be doing anything and meditate, so that's just how I do it. All right, I like that. That's a good one, that's an easy one.
Speaker 3:The second one that's an easy one and everything I'm gonna get is completely free and it's easy. The second one is self-positive talk. So it's really to call yourself a dummy or, to you know, downgrade your abilities or your talents. It's very easy to do that. We make mistakes on an out of the basis. Okay, that's just how we were built. So if you're constantly downgrading or having negative self-talk, it's going to be slightly poorly on you as a human, you as a father, you as a community member, a husband, whatever. So anytime you can give yourself positive talk and that's what you're looking for, and it can be whatever. I mean you make a good workout happen, I make it a point to tell myself nice work, nice, good workout, good workout, or good set, great set. Or if I'm talking to one of my people on the phone and we have a great chat, I'll let myself know I mean, that was a good chat, keep that up, type of thing. So self-talk is so important, and especially young people.
Speaker 3:My son, he's a shooter, he's a good basketball player and he's a great shooter. But sometimes you go in a slump as a shooter and in any circumstance with a good shooter, you have to talk your way out of that slump. And I asked him in the summer because he was in a shooting slump and I said, hey, how's yourself talk? And he goes not good. And I said, okay, well, that's easy, let's start working on that. And so him and I go shoot and if he would miss, I'd be like, hey, that's a good miss and you know what that's good, that's good arm, that's good leg work. So just having that reassurance could completely change an outcome of an issue.
Speaker 2:One of the things that I've learned. I don't know if you ever listened to Mel Robbins podcast fantastic podcast for anybody out there. Mel Robbins is a writer, speaker, thought leader, podcaster. I believe she's a number one female speaker in the world, or at least in the country right now.
Speaker 2:She talked in a specific episode I listened to I don't know nine, 10 months ago, about high fiving yourself in the mirror every morning. And the research shows you know, when you high five somebody after a game or something, it's always a sign of you know you've done something really well. There's an explosion of celebration with that. And she was talking on there about her husband who then came on the. He came in the bedroom in her podcast room and started crying, talking about how just that simple act of him high fiving the mirror every day was a great way to set the day off by giving yourself kudos.
Speaker 2:I've been doing it now since. I mean, I brush my teeth as soon as I get up, I high five the mirror, look yourself in the eye and high five it. You don't have to say anything, it's just a quick little thing and it's the same thing you're telling yourself hey, good job, you haven't done anything yet. But good job, and that does bring it, carries you forward for a little bit during the day 100%, and I wouldn't be an artillery on that.
Speaker 3:A little bit shorter, I would say when you go to bed, give yourself a high five too, amen. You know, laying in bed one of the one of the most rewarding things. It's easy to think about the negative things that happen that day, but if you're thinking about the positive things and let that be the last thing that goes through your mind that you could pillow, you're going to wake up. A different person if you, if you practice that over and over and over again. I promise that will change you.
Speaker 2:I think you're right. I think I'm going to start doing that. I've been waking up at like I call it the three and terror hour. I've been waking up like that between one and three in the morning for the last three or four months, not every night, but probably three nights a week, and I just sit there and my mind is just going through this crazy stuff worry and fret and scared and it's a weirdest thing and I get up in the morning, I write it down you know, here's what I've thought about and then that tends to help. I haven't had it in the last week or two, but I think that might be part of it. I, you know, I go to bed sometimes a little stressed out, little anxieties, a little high. Just throw myself a little high five, say hey, you've done a good job today. No rest 100%.
Speaker 3:And maybe, as we go through this a little bit, my wife has the same thing, where actually she she'll wake up a lot of times in the middle of the night and when she put some of these things into practice and we'll get into a few more things, but it can really change that, you know. So self talk, right action, go into telling yourself that you're not going to wake up during the night. When I travel overseas, I will tell myself okay, you're going to go to the end of 10 to nine and you're going to wake up tomorrow and even though I'm on eight hour time difference, right, you're going to wake up tomorrow at five third, just like you do every other day. And no kidding, when you, if you truly believe that in your mind it'll happen, it'll completely happen. So a lot of people say, hey, how do you, how do you what have been on these different time zones and how do you get out at the same time? And I say I just tell myself that's what we do.
Speaker 2:You know you do that because you're my brother man, you're my brother, you know you are a next level man.
Speaker 3:I appreciate your feet. It's, um, yeah, it's. It's funny because it's it's like a muscle, right, just kind of working it, working it, working it. All of a sudden it's muscle memory and now you're just complete, you're doing it all the time, you don't even know it. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3:The third one man is a big one, okay, so, um, I'm going to tell you what it is that I'll explain. So, love in my heart Okay, so, love, you know, like the, like the Bible would say love your neighbor, right? So I love to put that in practice. So, loving your family is an easy one, right, you see them daily. It's easy to give them love. But then, how do you, how do you love others? And how I do it? My brother is I just give back, so I can give him so many opportunities in this world by really good people. And if I didn't give back, um, I don't think I would be doing that justice, okay, so, so I try to give back wherever I can. So I give you an example Eight years ago, my family and I developed a sports camp for underprivileged children, and this, the camp, is designed to be free, completely free with some of the top coaches in the area and really this just started off as a conversation at my dinner table with my kids and my wife.
Speaker 3:And you know you fast forward. Eight years later there's 350 kids that show up for this thing. Man and um one year. We live probably about 20 minutes from Colorado University, cu Buffaloes, um, the CU Buffaloes football coach called me. I was mulling the lawn actually. He called me and he's like hey, coach Gino. And I said yes, sir, and he goes up. You know, this is coach for water over at. Um. No, I'm sorry, coach Mack. He said this is coach Mack over at the CU Buffaloes football. How you do it today?
Speaker 3:I said I'm serious, I've got so much mess with me, you know, and uh, he's like yeah, yeah, and so I'd love to come and be a speaker for your camp and so we keep people like this to come to the camp and work with the kids and and you know that, like there is a is a big, big, big energizer for my brain. That's beautiful.
Speaker 2:You know it's so amazing. You know, when I talk to people like you and I'm thinking of another guy, derek Kenny, who's a friend of mine again, never met the guy, but he's been on the podcast twice and we get, we have a we text back and forth. He's done, he's an incredibly successful man. Not only his book is his business, plus, he's on Fox, cnn, always on the news. He started a process called simple teen success. It's a program that teaches young kids how to start, you know, as teenagers.
Speaker 2:How do you build your life? You know how do you handle money? How do you, you know, develop leadership skills? How do you develop self confidence? It's always these people who have this abundance of energy, like you and like Derek, who you just can't hold it in. You know you got to give it out to other people because there's too much in just for you and just for your family there's. You know, god blessed you with this abundant amount of energy and and passion. That it's too. It's too large to hold for just a small group of people, and I love to see and a lot of people do hold it in. They hold it in in a selfish, greedy manner. You expand that out, brother, and I love that about you. I love that. I mean the legacy you're leaving when you do shit like that. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's not countable. It's not countable, it's not real smart, it's not very countable. You know it's. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:It's beyond.
Speaker 2:We're still holding time to brother, I know, I know I don't let's, I don't edit my podcast, I just let it go.
Speaker 3:I appreciate you said it again. No, um, it's not the easiest thing to be, to be energized. So I'll tell you, I'll tell you a funny story with that camp actually. So we're sitting around the table, my kids they'd know about the background I come from, so they're they're like, hey, dad, you know, how can we help kids like you who couldn't afford a sports camp and this and that? Now, how can we just stop with that? So that's where it started off. And then it's, and then it kind of transformed the conversations with local businesses in the area, my local church, and so I had this meeting with with the local church eight years ago.
Speaker 3:I was sitting down and you know, I just I made these plans to put this thing together. I made a happen at that meeting and I called all of my wife's like, hey, baby, what are you doing, you know, and I'm like, hey, like that's some good news, you know. And she's like, oh God, you know what did you do? And I said, babe, you're going to be the camp director. And she's like, well, you know, she goes. We just literally like had a conversation, just a, just a, you know, a simple conversation. So we're actually doing this, you know, yeah, we're going to do this. It's going to be great, it's going to be a change. You know she's. She's just like, oh my God, what are you doing to me? You know it's, but it's fun, you know. And then it does show me up, it does energize me to do those types of things and I am very blessed because, in the end, my wife and my family support my crazy lunatic ideas all the time.
Speaker 2:Well, I think what you're teaching Dante and Ava too is is one of the most immeasurable treasures you can. You can teach them is that you know we're. We're put on this earth not just to benefit ourselves but to benefit others, and those people turn on to benefit more people. You know, I think if there are people out there listening saying, oh man, I love what Gino's doing, I don't have the resources or the knowledge or the or the opportunity right now to start something like that. But here's what you can do. You can just practice random acts of kindness to people. You know it's and you know one of the things that I that has helped me so much lately.
Speaker 2:I put a goal in place about a year ago to practice three random acts of kindness a week, and it could just be holding a door for somebody you know, commenting on someone's you know hair, you know, or making sure I call the clerk at the gas station by their name and saying have a great day, I appreciate you. Then I went up to seven times a week and I'm just practice seven a week and what I find, and I actually track it. I'm a nerd, I track shit like that and I make sure I count seven because it's one of the 32 things I have to do every week as a person to continue to grow, and that's one of them. And but when I, when I try to track seven, I always find that I'm I get to seven like by Wednesday, and now it's just habitual. So every time I go into a store I'm like, hey, like today I was in the store and there was a lady I had a bunch of stuff and there's lady behind me, older lady, with one thing. I pushed my stuff aside, said, let you know, let her go first and I've paid for people's groceries behind. You know, we're in line with me before like a mother who was one time she was just rushed and she was. I could tell she had kids in her car going to school and beat up a minivan and she had like I would head over, and she had like snacks must be kids lunch at the gas station and I'm like you could tell she was frazzled, she had sweatpants on her hair, was all messed up. I'm like, hey, let her go. And I said, let me get her groceries. And she's like, or she only had like $25 for this stuff, you know, snacks, and I'm like, and she goes. Oh, but I also have stuff for my dog. She had a handful of dogbow and dog treats. I'm like I don't, yeah, get a pay, and she was so lit up by that and that was like that was in the summer.
Speaker 2:So I just kind of started this process. I was, and I'm like that's why you do it. And one of my guests, art DeLorenzo, that was on here a few months ago. He said when you a random acts of kindness or helping other people is the greatest sleep medication you could possibly have. When you help somebody and you look in their eyes and you go to bed that night, you remember their face. That will put you to sleep and you will sleep more soundly than you ever have before. And I'm like, and it does, it works.
Speaker 3:It works, man, it works so well. And yeah, it's, it's one of, it's one of the drivers right behind. Having a healthy brain to you know, obviously the sleep portion, but just having a healthy brain, if you help people you'll be that much more energized and healthy. Just as an image, oh, for sure and for sure.
Speaker 2:You know Derek Kinneau I mentioned earlier. He has a book called Good Money Revolution, which was the best book I've ever read on money, because his, his premise is good, people should have more money so they can do better things for other people. That's kind of his premise. I'm like what a great way to look at money, where you're not making money just to make yourself wealthier and have more things, but you're also making money so you can make the world a better place and help other people. I mean, that's just, that's good shit, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I'm with you, be I, I just so. I became recently a board member, actually first for our school district. So it's a, it's a, it's an elected position and it's if you don't get paid, obviously, but it and it. A lot of people say, why would you do something like that? You know, don't you have enough things to do? And and I said, well, I, I, I serve in kids. There's never, I never am too busy to serve kids. I love that, you know. So now that, so that would be my three, four years, me, when it comes to a mind energized, and let's look, was getting to the little, the body section, because I think there's some good young I'd be. You got anything for a cough, I just I just need the high wicker.
Speaker 2:I think I do, and I'm all alone, my dogs, I'm in here to say me anymore? Oh my god, no, I. I took a drink of my water and went down the wrong pipe. Whoa yeah, I got all choked up on you serving people and live the love in your heart, man. So I'm gonna recap those for everybody. So geno's three major Tools he uses to keep his mind energized his meditation and prayer, self-positive talk and love in his heart. So those are great. Excuse me, you got me choked up, brother.
Speaker 3:We're gonna have a lot more of those choked up.
Speaker 2:Now I want to know how the hell you get those, the six pack abs. So let's talk about your body now. Let's do it you know, man.
Speaker 3:So I Don't know where or why I really started focusing on the Body portion, but I think it stems back to when I was an athlete, you know, and just getting certain things from coaches, getting ideas, getting tips, and then just researching on my own as I, as I get older, because the things that you do as a kid or a younger person, obviously that they don't affect your body as much as you get older I'll be 44 next, but two weeks, so you're catching up, get any younger brother and so the first thing that I like to look at, man, when I put food into my body, is non-gmo Food sources. So GMO I don't know if you know it stands for genetically modified organisms and and basically that's just saying food that's made in a lab. You know it's so. So just not Try and not to put those types of foods In my body just as much as possible, and I'm really trying not to put any unprocessed food if possible. So, and what's really difficult about that be is Unprocessed food is really hard to come by, so that that could be anywhere from canning to freezing food Stuff like that. Right, that's, that's processed food. So how do you keep that from from not getting into your body.
Speaker 3:And then the big one, man, and this is another tough one. I'm not gonna say these are easy, because it's really hard. Try, try going to the store looking for non GMO food sources and non unprocessed food. And then this third one, staying away from soybean oil, corn oil, sunflower oil and canola canola oil. Those are hard, brother. You, you go to the grocery store, a normal grocery store. I have the things in there are poison, so it's it. It's tough, right, and I'm not saying it's easy. You know, we go to the store and my, my wife and I and we just laugh about stuff that that we're like man, we'd really like to eat that.
Speaker 3:But what was sitting there, you know. So it just, it just doesn't make sense for us to put it Our body. So those are the. Those are the four oils that I really try to stay away from so what were?
Speaker 2:they were soybean, corn, canola and Sunflower, and was corn in there too?
Speaker 3:Yep, yep, soybean oil, corn oil sunflower.
Speaker 2:Okay so so you're good with like avocado spray.
Speaker 3:Sprays. Okay, extra virgin olive oil is is probably the go-to. Yeah, if you can, if you can do the go-to that, it'd be the extra virgin olive oil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've done, I have that. That's what I use. I don't really cook much I. What I eat, you know, is a shit ton of fruit, like my, do I may. I mean literally I eat a Bag of grapes every two days, probably five oranges a day, a couple grapefruits, a couple apples and a banana every day and I eat a lot of tuna fish, which I got to get away from that because I don't like the fact that there's mercury in the tuna fish. I eat chicken and then I love my ice cream.
Speaker 2:Oh man, and I gotta, I gotta tell you this my, my cousin sent me a box of Christmas cookies. She does about every year she's a lovely lady, I'm sure she's listening and she sends me a box of Christmas cookies and I literally got it, I think the day before my dog died and I was gonna bring it home to everybody. When I went to my mother's house For Christmas, when my kids were all there and everything, and after Chloe died, my son left the next day and I'm like those cookies look pretty damn good. So I thought I literally between Thursday and Sunday when I left to go home for Christmas or Saturday, I ate all 30 cookies dunked in almond milk. I drink almond milk and I ate every single damn cookie and they were the best Christmas cookies I've ever had.
Speaker 2:But, man, so there are times that I do what you do a lot. I'm a very finicky eater, but then when I go off I'll go way off. Like that. I'll eat 30 cookies in two days, or only like 12 reesee cups in a day. He's what. And then I brother it just a human man. I know what I mean, we do and I know. But I'm 57 and to it next month. I got to make sure I I got a. I got to tighten it up a little bit more.
Speaker 3:Man, you don't want to put carbs near me, I'm telling you. So a whole, an extra large pizza I will. I will Crush that in the matter of 15 minutes without even blinking. Yeah, my family are. They're just like. You are such a hog and I am. I just I can't, I can't explain how much food I consume. But when it comes to you know, believe me, when it comes to pasta or pizza, you know carbs, like that brother, I will tear that dude up.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude you, when I will you put a piece in front of me? Keep your fingers away from my face, cuz I'm like a rabbit, damn dog. Man, I will. I'll take three or four. I like I could eat pizza. I don't get full. I feel like a. Then I, when I finally feel like I'm full, I'm actually sick to my stomach. I've eaten so much pizza, pizzas, my go. I love.
Speaker 3:It was funny. My daughter had us over about a month ago. You know I like to. I like to be a goofball sometimes, and so her, her friends, are sitting in the kitchen and we have pizza and you know, I was trying my hardest to stay away from it. My wife's like you know, you want some. And I'm like I just gotta do it. So I the girls were all watching. I said, girls, you ever seen how to work truly in pizza? But do you know how you pizza for real? And they're like no, I'll show them. You fold that sucker in half and you literally take the biggest bite and then one more and that's it's two bites and the slices gone. And they were like Haha, have you my daughter. And she, she knows me. So she's like that's my pops, my podcast as my pops.
Speaker 2:You know, I do. You know what helps me with eating better. And let's see, the good tool for a lot of people is, if you have the opportunity, I shop at walmart. But I don't go into walmart, I do the online in that and that go for it. They either deliver it they used to deliver it, now I just go pick it up. It's a couple of miles away but and then I go on there and it just says your items and I click yep, yep, yep, and I don't ever have the. I don't.
Speaker 2:And when I do go in, I go. I circle the outside of every store because that's where your vegetables, your fruit, your produce and your meat are. If you go in the inner aisles, that's where you got your potato chips and all your crap. You know your Twinkies and all that. I don't even go buy that stuff, because if I'm hungry and I go buy it, I'm getting it. But now I don't even I barely ever go into a store. I just I order online, I go there, they call them, they come up, put it in my Jeep and off I go and that saves me a shit ton of carbs and sugar and processed foods and the GMOs. I don't. I don't get it because I don't it's never in my cart on my app, so so that's a good one, and I think you're right.
Speaker 3:You know another saying, another idea for you be I've I've recently started adding in you know shopping at different types of manufacturers. So you know we love be turkey. So if you can find a non GMO, very healthy, you know high in protein beef jerky, this kind of off the market, you know off the shelf type of thing, you know let's go to their website by that instead of buying that at King's Super's or you know we have to be super sure I think you guys have bought what is it Smith's or my year? We have Ryder area and much. Yeah, liar, yeah, so well, you know I'll just all buy stuff off off line of people that I trust and and start doing it that way. It's a little more pricey that way, for sure. But how I looking at it B is you're gonna pay for it, no matter what. You pay for it in food, right, like you, you pay for it now or you pay for it when you're retired it with your medical Right right on.
Speaker 2:I couldn't agree more. You know what the best thing to do? Shoot your own damn food. Oh man, my, my son, dawson, shot a buck this fall. Yeah, my daughter's property shot a nice little buck.
Speaker 2:And we, he ball, I wasn't there, I was, I was. I don't even know if I was in the, I think I was traveling. But he, yeah, he, my, he brought it in and my he gutted it and then my son-in-law Skinned it and processed it all right at their house. So we've had hamburgers, he's got back straps and everything's right there. You know, there's nothing in it that we don't want. There's no chemicals, no GMOs, there's nothing in it. I just come. It came right from the, from it was, it was in the swamp one day and the next day was on the table and and hamburger and it was. My son-in-law made the best hamburger I've ever had, best burger I've ever tasted in my life. With that, and I know what he put in it, he would cry. He won't cry. You were in front of me, so so that I like. So non GMO foods, unpros, no prize.
Speaker 3:That's my base, right? So I forget to say that. So that, so the shields for the body, that's gonna be the base. So non GMO, untrusted food as much as possible, and then stick into extra virgin olive oil, okay, okay, so that's, that's gonna be my base. So now we'll get into the three things here.
Speaker 3:So morning routine, man, a that is my go-to. No matter where I'm happy if I'm, I have to travel to Germany for my job. Every every once in a while. I've been to the UK, I've been to South America. So even when I go to these places, I still have my morning routine intact. And what that? What that consists of is I, we could. My internal alarm goes off Anywhere between 5 20 and 5 30 am Every morning. Man, I don't even have to send the alarm, it just goes off. So I Wake up at that time, no matter where I'm at. Okay, even, man, even if I go to bed late, which isn't very often. But there is the occasion where a it's New Year's Eve, you want to stay up till midnight to watch the New Year come in. You know, you could have been at midnight, or whatever. I still wake up at 5 30. It's just how it is.
Speaker 2:You know what I was doing that midnight this New Year's Eve. What were you doing? I was swimming in an ice-cold lake. I so that day with a new New Year's Eve, I did. I did tweet two colds plunges, two cold swims in in Michigan and my been Lake Algonquin Algonquin Lake, I guess it's called and then I told my buddy I said I'm gonna do one at midnight this year. That's my celebration. Well, I ended up falling asleep he won't read him over and woke me up I think I don't heat his way for up. He woke up hey, you said you're gonna do that plunge. I'm like, oh shit. So I literally got up at midnight through my wet shorts on, put a, put a towel on or a jacket, walked down. He sat there, he recorded me, I walked in, I did a plunge and it was cold, as you could possibly imagine. So, anyway, that was what I was again Midnight this year doing a cold climb for you be.
Speaker 3:You know, do you have each photos from that? Yeah, maybe, maybe you could send me a.
Speaker 2:I'll send you one room. We get off the far off the recording. I'll send you one. I've got a couple pictures in that.
Speaker 3:But but one of our good friends, you know you and my friend, john live. He sent me a video of him and, man, when I need a good laugh, I look at this video because his son was teeming him and they have a. They have a lake house that's way up in the you, I'm sorry, in Canada. It's in Canada, yeah, and he jumps off the rock and I can't remember the temperature of the water, but it was cold and he let out a whoo. You know, I just every time I need a good laugh, I watch over Johnny live jumping to that lake. It's.
Speaker 2:It pleases me very much, so you'll have to give you have to give me a copy of that video, because I got, I got to shoot him a text here any day. I had that my mind to shoot, give him a, give a texture quickly. So so you get up at 525, 30 your routine, yeah.
Speaker 3:I wake up, man, I do my workout. Okay, before I do my workout, I fill up a nice glass of water. I I pound that sucker Because when you sleep and you lose so much Fluids in your body, you know you're typically dehydrated a little bit when you wake up. So I I slam some water, I do my workout. My workout consists of it just depends on the day. So one day I'll break it down to I always do core, so I think it's for me personally, it's really important to keep my core strength, just because I I still do.
Speaker 3:I mean, I told you I helped teach my daughter back and spring, so I gotta have a strong core. So I do core every day and then I break down for muscle, but I don't do heavy weight. I stopped heavy weight altogether. So I'll do like chest one day, biceps and shoulders the next, and then triceps, and then I mix it in there, I sprinkle in the legs portion to, and my workout I mean this is that this is a six day a week Routine, so I don't I skip one day when it comes to working out, and the only reason I do that is because I promise my wife that I will bring her coffee in bed.
Speaker 3:We'll sit there on Sundays and chill and talk. So, man, yeah. So it's one day out of the week that I don't do it, so I do my workout in after the the water, and then that's when I would do my breath work in between the sets, when I'm working out, so breath working. So I could go into breath work like you wouldn't believe. But Are you familiar when I say breath work, oh, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure everybody the audience is, though, so you want to give a little, yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, I guess the simple way of describing my breath work is I Inhale Very aggressively, uh, 30 times. So it's literally like, if you could see me, my diaphragm is going up. Right, if you, if you, if you think of, like your belly button, act like you're, you're pulling your belly button in and you're pushing your rib cage up, so you're, you're breathing in really deep, as if, like, that's the first breath You've ever taken. Asking, you've been under water for two minutes. Okay, you feel me so far, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I do 30 of those three sets In between sets of my workout.
Speaker 3:Now, you're not, you're not gonna wake up tomorrow and, being it, you're not gonna be able to do 30 reps, three sets, right away. You might be able to do five reps of 30 of three sets, but it takes a while to work yourself up to 30. Now I do want to give your audience a heads up. So when you're doing this, um, their last breath k the last, the last inhale very aggressively, very, very, you know, deep breath. You're gonna hold that sucker and when you hold it, you're gonna think about something else besides holding your breath, because that's where our human brain wants to go it wants to go into a fight or flight mode, like what's the problem and how do I fix it? Well, the problem is your old, your breath. How do I fix I'm gonna breathe. So that's the last thing you're gonna think about. What I want you to think about on that last breath and, believe me, when you do 30 reps, that is pretty intense. So you're gonna hold it as long as you can and you're gonna just focus on anything. Maybe it's the car outside the drill by your house. You're gonna focus on that car. Maybe it's a bird chirping, you know. Maybe it's a creek in your house. Whatever it is, do focus on something completely different Besides letting that press out. Now You're gonna feel lightheaded and your fingertips may go numb, your toes might go numb, but that's it's all part of the process, and then you're gonna slowly let it out, dude, and that teaches your body You're. You're gonna feel amazing after you do that, by the way, because you just went from the most Uncomfortable state of mind to the most comfortable. You feel me. Yeah, I know you do that before you work out.
Speaker 3:I do it during my workout. So let's say, it's chest it. So I, I get in two reps, I mean two sets, and then I prepare myself for 30 reps of breath work. So I'm like, okay, here we go, right self talk, here we go positive self talk. Man, you got this. And then I get to it and it's amazing what it will do.
Speaker 3:But but I highly recommend, don't, don't try to go 30 on your first time. Maybe go five reps, okay, or something like that. Yeah, and then what's your way up? Right, but, but start, start small and work your way big. Love it, yeah, so then. So, then, after my workout though, that's when I would do my head down time, my prayer time, and then, man, here comes the craziness, right. So Later on in the day, it's gotta be in the morning, though, because I want to try to make my body Uncomfortable.
Speaker 3:So I go outside, I take off my shirt and as cold as balls outside, and the sun is shining on my, on my chest, and I get that light exposure, brother, I get that light exposure to my body and just soak up the vitamin D. Now I live in a spot where we do. I mean, we have 300 days of sunlight. Yeah, where do you ever come anywhere? You live, you know? Yeah, so already raised it in Denver, colorado, actually, right now it's 65 degrees out and I'm not like I see a single cloud.
Speaker 3:It's gonna so so it is kind of Kool-Aid, right, you know it's. It's a little easier for me to do that then. Then you know people that live in the UP or Michigan or something like that, a bit West where it's it, you don't get the sunlight like that. But man, if you can get light exposure like that, it's amazing what it'll do. And and you know people be like, oh man, so cold outside, or oh I, you know it's, it's raining. You know what? We're gonna survive if we can go outside for 15 minutes and make this happen. I promise you're good, you're not gonna die.
Speaker 2:You're gonna be okay. Here's the things. You know we don't have that, you're right, but we do have things. I call them happy lamps. You can buy those, son. I have one right in front of me on my desk literally right now. I bought one for my mother, my daughter and my son for Christmas, like three years ago, and I was at my mom's a month or so go and I said mom, do you ever use it? She goes now I don't really use that. She said, take it. So I took it. I've been using it this week 20 minutes. I sit at my desk, I turn it off for 20 minutes while I'm doing paperwork or talking to a client and 20 minutes later it's off and I you know I haven't seen the benefit yet, it's only been a few days, but I know they work. I did the research before I bought these ones. They're like $35. You just get on and put. I don't know what they're called. I call them a happy lamp.
Speaker 3:Yeah, man, they make. They make different types of bats that you can leave on the game to the UV's, like that. I mean, if you really want to get jiggy with it, you can get a, you can get a bed that you can lay in, but they're crazy expensive. Oh, man, it's if you can get sunlight exposure. You know that the natural sunlight it feels wonders it really does well.
Speaker 2:Like two weeks ago I did the infrared 45 minutes and infrared booth and it got. It was a it was kind of a sauna infrared booth. It got up to 120, I think, in there slowly but it was all the different colors of the Sun. It was infrared. I was sweating my ass off when I was in there, but it was it was. I walked out of there. I'm like I just start guzzling water and I felt so relaxed.
Speaker 3:Infrared is amazing. Yeah, it can. It can fix a lot of things. It really can. And you know I if I don't have an infrared system yet, but I will be getting one here real soon because Just for simple aches and pains or whatever it's, it's really good for stuff like that.
Speaker 2:I want my next place to have a sauna, infrared and a cold plunge. You know what my buddy did. I know I know you have a high hard stop here in a little bit, but my buddy did it. He's from. He's from Sweden or from Finland, pardon me, my name is Sami and I was at his house dot the night of Dawson's graduation party. Two, three, three, three years ago now In June we went over to his house after the party and he was my neighbor, a good friend of mine.
Speaker 2:He goes hey, come in, jump in my plunge with me. So I go in his garage. He had a chest freezer he bought like a used one. It was all rusty on the outside. You know a chest freezer like the pine. You put food in and he filled with water and he keeps it at 34 degrees and you're plunging that. He goes in Finland. First time you go in here and can stay for a minute. You're a god and I'm like, oh, I could do a minute. That's not a side, jumped in there and I was in high, was Hyperventilating. He sees like they calm down, calm. So I did like a minute and three seconds. I, after a minute, three, I jumped out. He jumped in there and sat for three minutes. It was like he was sitting in a locked in a lazy boy chair, and that's so good for your body.
Speaker 3:It's amazing for your body, and that would be my number. Two, actually, is the cold punch. So You're right, you can, you can. People are like, oh man, I can't invest too grand in a cold punch machine or where you don't have to go fill up your bathtub full of cold water, rock roll right or even just take a cold shower after you take a warm shower. It does amazing things to your body and into your mind.
Speaker 3:And because here's the thing be this is what I firmly believe I feel like you know, as you get older, as you make more money, you pursue comfortable things, right, like think about your bed. Think about the bed that you had at college versus the bed that you have now. Right, because now you can afford to pay for it. And I just said, well, when you go to a hotel room now, you sleep in their bed and you don't sleep very well because you're still used to your comfortable bed.
Speaker 3:So if you're constantly looking for ways to make comfort out of your life, you're going to get old very quickly. You're going to get really soft. You're going to get really old very quickly. Yeah, I'm fully. Admit, man, I do the same thing. I'm not as hard as I used to be, but I try to do things like a cold plunge or a cold shower, things that I hate to do, go out in the cold and take my shirt off, like I don't like to do that. But I try to do that so that I don't get old, I don't get fragile.
Speaker 2:I agree, I take a cold shower every day. I do this of what you said. I do the regular shower and then I rinse off with ice cold water. I take it as cold as I can get wherever I am at, wherever it's cold as it will go, and then I stay there for, you know, two, three minutes, and after I go on my face and head first, because when you get your face and head cold first, then the rest of your body can acclimate more effectively. And I do that. And then I rinse my body off and I put it on my shoulder, my neck, and I go back to my face. And what I've heard and I've heard people who are much older who have been doing this for years it keeps the wrinkles off you and it keeps your skin thicker. Your skin does not get that thin. You know, when you get old you get those. Your skin gets much thinner.
Speaker 2:So anyway, so yeah you don't have to have a cold plunger or a lake around you folks. You can just take your cold and take a shower. Then, when you're done, start off with 15 seconds of cold and then go to 20, then 25. Until you can get to two or three minutes of cold shower on you. It's not that bad actually. When you get done you feel like a million bucks.
Speaker 3:You do, man, I don't know about you, my joints feel good, yeah, and some people which, if you really wanted to do it right, probably you would do that before you work out. Personally, I don't. I just don't like it a lot. It just doesn't connect with me. I don't want to push myself to do something uncomfortable, but not to the point where I dread doing it. You know what I mean. So a lot of people will do the cold plunge before they work out and then they naturally heat their body up, and that's really good for you. But I typically do. I do it the cheater way and I do it after.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did a cold plunge. I was on Park City, utah, two years ago right now, like February of last of two years ago. Yeah, and I did. We did a spa day and I chose my. We went off, we did a couple's massage and I went off on my own and did an hour of hot tub.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, sauna, cold plunge, sauna. You'd wait I think it was three or five minutes and you'd go from, you do five minutes in the cold water and then you go wait five minutes, do five minutes in the sauna, wait five minutes cold, and it was like you just submerge yourself right up to your neck and I think it was like 38 degree cold water and I got done with that and we went and had pizza and a beer and I felt like I was stoned out of my mind. I was so happy, so relaxed. I'm like this is the greatest feeling in the world. I could do this every day, but it was uncomfortable. I mean getting that cold water after you've been in the sauna. It was really cold, it was pretty intense, but it was.
Speaker 3:It is man. It is, but it works and it does man. If your audience could do one thing, I would say just try and try it for 30 days and see what you think and again, yeah, and folks don't do two or three minutes.
Speaker 2:If you do it, do 15 seconds, then the next day 18,. Just go up every day till you're to the point where you could act like I hate it every day. I hate every day when I go from hot to cold in that shower, but after five or six seconds I don't even. You're fine, you are yeah, but it makes the. I mean, I got done today. I took a later shower today because I had a lot of appointments early this morning. I had seven coaching sessions starting really early this morning and I took my shower in the afternoon and then I ran to the store and then I came back to do the podcast and I was driving the store going. I feel like a million dollars right now. It was because I just took that cold shower. You know, I just got out and you feel energized. So I don't mean to interrupt you, but so oh no, that's great, I love hearing that.
Speaker 3:So that would be my second one. My brother would be would be the cold plunge. And then the third one, which some of your audience might already be doing this they just don't know is between anywhere between up 14 and 16 hour intermediate, fast, every single day. I do that on a daily basis, even my obstacles, and it's not that hard, and you might. It might seem like that's a long time, but think about it.
Speaker 3:If you eat dinner, let's just say you eat dinner at five o'clock, yeah, okay, well, 14 hours ahead, it's going to be seven AM, right? So between seven and nine AM, that's when you eat breakfast, which you finish your dinner at five PM, and I mean nothing, right, like you could put water in your body but try not to put anything and it's, it's amazing what, what your body will do. So so here's what happens really why, why, why do this? Right? So when you put food in your body, okay, the food contains glucose, which is basically fuel that feed your cells. Okay, you follow me. Yeah, well, that glucose also feeds what what's called zombie sale cells, and what zombie cells are are just the old, damaged, those lingering cells that really don't give you any useful life anymore. And the reason why those are bad is because the zombie cells actually release toxins that can speed up your aging process. It can promote onset arthritis, it can promote cancer, dementia, a lot of things, right? So there's? There's the two different cells the good cells and the zombie cells that you're feeding. So when you, when you fast, you actually cut off the supply of glucose, right, that's feeding the cells and it's starving those zombie cells. You following me, yeah, and it destroys all their powers. Okay, plus, with your, with your good cells, the inside those good cells, sometimes there's normal wear and tear on those. It repairs the wear and tear as you starve your body with that glucose. Now, it's not damaging anything because when you actually eat food, your body will store fat, basically, will store fat in your organs, and so when food is scarce, that fat is basically set to your liver and it's turned into alternative fuel sources, which is called Piaeton. Okay, and so you're, you're going to survive, your, you might be hungry, but you're going to survive. But it's killing all those zombie cells, Okay, and so it's. It's promoting really good things on your body.
Speaker 3:And, trust me, man, like, like, like I said before, if you just try this for 30 days. Yeah, you know what, maybe the first week you do this, first two weeks, you might be a little hangry, and first, if you're one of those people that get hangry, that's okay. You don't fight that off a little bit. But man, you like it, so used to it that it's not even hard at all for me. I don't even think about it, if it doesn't even cross my mind. We dinner at five five, 30. And it's so easy for me not to eat till nine eight next morning.
Speaker 2:It's, it's, it's very, very would you include coffee in that? You know it'll what technically, yes, you would.
Speaker 3:So that that will be. My break is yeah. So the line about seven, seven, 30, I do have a couple of caution.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's not good. You wouldn't consider like a pudding of food in your body.
Speaker 3:You know, technically you would be breaking your fast if you're doing that. But I don't put anything in my coffee is completely black, so it's it's probably pretty close to not breaking your your fast. But yeah, so I typically it's anything except water, so you could put you don't put anything in your body, but water.
Speaker 2:So I kind of do. I'm not. I don't eat. I usually about four o'clock. I have a set. I eat something light at four o'clock, then I eat. I don't eat breakfast. I usually run nine or 10. But I always make my call. I drink my water in the morning, then I drink my coffee and but I put collagen protein in my coffee. I wonder what that would be. Maybe I should wait till later to do the collagen protein.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's technically breaking your fast yeah, it is yeah. Yeah, no. But but you know what, try it without just just see if you can last at least until like seven, 30, let's just said yeah, especially three, four. I mean that's, that's 15 hours. Right, there is yeah, 15, 15 hours, yeah, and so yeah. So if you could wait till like seven, brother, to do that, I think, I mean you're probably okay to start eating and drinking whatever you want at that time.
Speaker 2:I'm never even hungry till like nine or 10 in the afternoon. The morning I don't even get hungry till then. My first thing is I eat as a banana. That's the first thing I normally eat. When I do eat as a banana, then I have a little lunch around 11. That's the way you look, the way you look, my brother. Yeah, you wouldn't see me lately, brother. I've had a lot of ice cream this winter. Those 30 cookies are really catching up to me now. They didn't catch up to me right away. I looked in the mirror the next day. I said I still look good. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's funny, though, because you do have to have a cheat too. Honestly, like I might sound like I'm real hard right now, but honestly, food is my vice. Yeah, I have a beer whenever I don't really crave alcohol, but when it comes to like, if it's a chocolate, whatever, come on, it's hard not to say yes to that. So I do have my cheat days. But, man, this 14 to 16 hour fast is no joke. It's going to change the way you feel, the way you look. It's going to change the whole aging process. It's amazing what it does to your body.
Speaker 2:I like that. One of the things you talked about in our last podcast that I think about you every single time I do cardio is that you get your heart rate up to 150 for about 15 minutes a day, for three or four days a week, and so whenever I'm rowing, running or hiking and hiking's tough unless I have my rock sack, my rock bag on, and then that's a little easier to get my heart rate up to 150. But when I'm rowing I'm always like, because I look at my Apple Watch, I'm 138. I got to get to 150. And I think of you literally every time I do cardio.
Speaker 2:That damn genome maybe get my heart rate to 150. I'm like that 100 is 49. I got to go a little harder to get to 150. And I never keep it up, for unless I'm running out, it'll stay up there for 20, 25 minutes. But rowing it's hard to get it up to 150 for an extended period of time, and so is when you're hiking. It's just you get it up there if I run hills with my rock sack on, but then it goes back down to like 135 for the rest of the hike. But the gist of what you were saying stuck with me.
Speaker 3:It's amazing and I include that as part of my workout. So if I really went into detail with my workout, I would have went through that portion of it. But here's it's actually pretty for me to get my heart rate up that high that many times a week for that long a period of time, because I still play basketball actively and basketball is an endurance sport. It really is, especially when good players like my son If I got a makeshift book with him and really challenge him I gotta push myself in, like sometimes I'll push myself to where I'm seeing dots everywhere, right, and I'm like, oh geez, but it's, it's worth it, because I feel great afterward, just not during the time, you know.
Speaker 2:I know I get that. I'm like that a lot of times. But um, well, hey, I know, I know you have a hard, a hard stop here in a few minutes. So is there any final thought? You want to leave with the audience? I mean, you've given I was. I want to just let's. Let's recap the three things you do to keep your body energized no GMO foods. Keep away from unprocessed foods. Try to stick with extra virgin olive oil. Cold plungers or cold showers folks, I can attest to that one, it's so powerful. And then try to, you know, 14 to 16 hour intermediate fast. Every day, eat at five. Try not to eat again until you know nine o'clock in the morning, eight or nine in the morning. So those are your three body things. Any final thoughts at all? You know be, I'll.
Speaker 3:I'll go back to when I when I said in episode 25, when you were so gracious to have me on on that episode, and in that episode I said the human brain can accomplish just about anything, right? How many times have you heard the story of the little old lady who moves a car off of a, off of a pregnant woman? Because you know, her brain told her I can move this car right? Well, it's true, it's very true. We have these powers to do crazy things with our bodies and our minds. And so if there's anything in this list you know I'd set this at the beginning of of the podcast If I could give, if you could take one or two of these items that I gave you not all, I don't especially to implement all of these, but if you could implement one or two of these things and really put your brain power behind it, I promise, man, you are going to change and you're going to want even more. And that's that's how I started, right. I did one thing that I went to the next and the next, and now I'm just now.
Speaker 3:I'm way out of control with stuff. It's the thing that I put myself through, but I do it because I enjoy it to a certain extent. Right, I like how I like the results. Right, I love the results. Well, you are very strong as a human being. We were made to be strong and to do hard things. Period.
Speaker 2:We were not made to sit around watching Netflix and eating Cheetos. No, not at all.
Speaker 3:No, not at all. My brother and I hope that that somebody in your audience can can do that and maybe they write you back and say you know what, brian, you're right, this has changed my life. I would love to hear that story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't want to ask everybody. Please, whoever tries one or more of these things, please shoot me a text and email, send me a card or a letter, I don't care how the hell you get ahold of me. Let us know how it's working for you, because I I, I can guarantee I do. I don't know five of these things, I guess on a consistent basis. I mean, I do them all, but not as well, not as consistent as Gina Gina does, and they have made a dramatic difference in my body and mostly my mind. That's where I noticed it most, because your body affects your mind and your mind affects your body. So these are kind of they interplay so well together. Brother, I hope you know how much I love you. Brother, I love you so much. Man, you are the man.
Speaker 3:I am so honored, humbled and blessed to be here. Thank you for making me a part of what is it 112 you said, this is episode 112,. Yes, 112 and man, I hope, I hope I I did your justice and I look forward to our next conversation. My brother, you rocked it.
Speaker 2:You rocked it, brother.
Speaker 3:Awesome.
Speaker 2:I love you man.
Speaker 3:Love you. Man have a great day, brother.
Speaker 2:You too, I'll talk to you tomorrow. I'll shoot you tomorrow. I'll see you tomorrow, all right, brother. See you, brother, bye-bye, bye-bye, all right, everyone. Hey, that was Gina Lachuga, a good friend of mine. Thank you for tuning in again today. We will be back again in a week with more amazing guests like Gina, but I'm going to recommend please get out there and try some of these things. I can attest these things work and they don't cost any money. I mean, I know if you avoid kind of the process food thing, you might pay a little more money for fruits and vegetables, but it's negligible, it really is. And honestly, those types of foods fill you up more than the quality. High quality foods fill you up more, so you don't eat as much anyway. So in the end run it's probably built the same amount of money. Everything else is free. Do it. Change your life. It's the beginning of 2024. Let's make this the best damn year you've had yet. I love you all and I appreciate you all. Please get out there and strive. Love and live.