Double Edge Fitness
This podcast is dedicated to showcasing to our members and any of our listeners who are interested in how this northern Nevada gym operates. Our mission is to inspire others to bring health and wellness home to truly make a difference in the household with the ultimate goal of making Reno the healthiest city in the country.In this podcast, we will be talking about things that are on our mind and answering questions from our members and our listeners to provide a unique listening experience.
Double Edge Fitness
DE Update | Week of October 14
Are you ready to revolutionize your approach to long-term health and fitness? This episode promises to bring you valuable insights from the book "Outlive" by Dr. Peter Attia, guiding you on optimizing your health journey. Despite a few microphone hiccups, we're excited to share updates on the "Metcon for Hope" event, where fitness and philanthropy unite on November 16th for a community cause you won't want to miss. Plus, discover how our revamped gym schedules are setting up our coaches for success, ensuring you get the best training experience possible.
This October, we're turning the spotlight on protein intake at Double Edge Fitness. Whether you're a seasoned athlete or just starting, understanding how much protein your body truly needs is crucial, and we've got the tools to help you figure it out. A body scan is your new best friend on this journey, and we're here to support you every step of the way. Let's hope the audio held up, so we don't find ourselves in a re-recording frenzy! Join us for a lively discussion that wraps up in under ten minutes, packed with practical tips and a sprinkle of humor.
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all right having major microphone issues. Hopefully this works. But apparently my setup doesn't want to record audio. So we are going to attempt to do this again and with that give me a short one today, not going to bore you guys too long, because the bulk of the context content for everybody is in written form via blog on our website. So a little bit of education.
Speaker 1:This week I am revisiting old friend book called Outlived by Peter Attia. I was harping on it a lot a little over a year ago, telling everybody about it, trying to get everybody to read it. A lot of people did read it. Time to harp on it again. If you have not read it or at least listened to the audiobook, I would highly recommend you do so. Not even joking, if you are breathing, currently actively alive, I suggest at least listening to this audiobook If you care about your long-term health, quality of life as you age and understand the principles that matter and the things you have to do now to optimize your health and long-term health span.
Speaker 1:It's laid out beautifully In this book. You're going to learn so much good stuff and it's just massive amounts of really good information. Again, the book is called Outlive by Dr Peter Attia. Again, the book is called Outlive by Dr Peter Attia. I summarize some principles and some key points that I find valuable in a blog post. So go to the newsletter, go to our website, click on the blog. You can read it there. I won't bore you guys with it, but it's good stuff and if you truly care about your long-term health, at least do a favor, get the audiobook, listen to it. Such good stuff in there, right.
Speaker 1:Next thing Metcon for Hope is November 16th. It's free to sign up. It's free to participate. So you guys now let us know that you're interested in doing these kinds of things and the community's interested in doing these kind of things across the board, across all of Reno, carson City, tahoe, maybe California, and sign up, because people not signing up tells me there's no interest, which tells me we should direct our energy into some other kind of fundraising efforts. Maybe we do a potluck or something, but in the past people have seemed to enjoy getting together with friends, competing, doing hard things and raising awareness and funds for a great cause. So if you are interested, link and information is in the newsletter. It's November 16th. It's partner comp. It's one day only. No, it's not going to be two days, three days. It's a simple, one day only partner comp. Yeah, so the newsletter also. We have solidified Toilet paper situation. We are going to have good quality products and that has all been solved Burning through some older stuff, some samples that we had, but we have got that solved. So if you guys out there were super concerned about that situation, just know it has been solved.
Speaker 1:Schedule mornings are pretty dialed in right now. As far as both gyms morning schedules, we are implementing a few changes in the afternoon at South sitting now, with the coaches, jacob and Jason, discussing this afternoons and having split schedules and juggling some life situations. It makes more sense and it always has. This is way we always try to do it to where coaches aren't having massive split schedules. So we're gonna going to simplify that. Jason is going to coach the afternoons, my brother, jacob, is going to coach the middays going forward and this change will probably be implemented in the next week or so. It just makes more sense from a coaching longevity standpoint to where their blocks of coaching are in blocks versus spread out throughout the day. So my initial focus with all this was getting the mornings dialed because we had a lot of moving parts between both gyms. We got that dialed, so we're dialing in a couple more things. Yeah, you know what party people? I think that's it One little piece, one little tip I want to leave y'all with.
Speaker 1:If you don't know how much protein you are consuming, how much you need and how much you are actively consuming, if you don't know the answer to that, we need to help you find out. Okay, so there's homework. One know how much protein you need. Simple Best way to do it get an in-body scan. Get a current in-body scan. You need to figure out your optimal ideal body weight for health. All right, we figure out that and it's simple. We eat one gram of protein per pound of ideal body weight. All right, my ideal body weight is 195, 200 pounds, so I roughly eat 200 grams of protein body weight. My ideal body weight is 195-200 pounds, so I roughly eat 200 grams of protein per day. I make changes to my diet. I measure out how much protein I'm consuming.
Speaker 1:Protein is the building blocks of your skeletal muscle system. Building muscle is the most metabolically demanding thing you can have in period. More muscle you have, the healthier gonna be. I'm not talking about turning into some, you know, crazy bodybuilding Goliath kind of deal. I'm talking about just having quality, healthy, functioning muscle mass. That's gonna help you fend off metabolic disease, manage your body weight, maintain good balance, coordination, stability, prevent osteoporosis. So many good things come from building muscle. To build muscle, we need protein, and the number of folks that I've had conversations with that have no clue how much protein they're consuming per day. But they work out every day, train every day, but they don't know how much protein they're getting. You're leaving a lot of opportunity to build valuable muscle on the table by not ingesting enough protein and not having enough protein.
Speaker 1:I am a big fan of animal protein, but if you are not, I'm happy to have the conversation and help guide you in the directions and the things you need to do to get enough high-quality, complete protein in your diet. All right, I mostly do it with ground beef. Various plants, vegetables, lentils are one that I get plant-based protein from. I eat eggs every day, plain yogurt, greek yogurt almost every day. I drink 2% milk almost every day. I eat usually some fish every week, not every day. I have two scoops of protein powder every single day and across all that, I'm getting close to or around 200 grams of protein on average every single day. My protein shakes, for instance, alone have over 40 grams of protein in it.
Speaker 1:You need it, and if there is just one little tidbit, I want you all to start focusing on getting in body scan if you don't have one, and let's dial in your protein intake over the next month. All right. If you need help with it, reach out to me. Any of the other coaches. We can help with this. All right, but let's make that a goal by the end of October. Every person that works out at Double Edge Fitness knows how much protein they're consuming and how much protein they need. Fair Right, you guys. That's all I got. Sub 10 minutes. Love you guys, and I really hope that this mic situation worked so I don't have to throw a temper tantrum and redo this video again. All right, see you guys out the gym. Love you, have a good rest of your Sunday.