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SPEAKER_02 0:17

Hey, good morning, good morning. This is Brad. Hope you are up bright and early. If you're listening to this, it dropped at 5 a.m. this morning. You may be on your way to work, on your way to the gym, getting those kids ready for school or whatever it is, drinking a cup of coffee, just enjoying your day. We're thankful that you're listening to us, uh Hustle and Flow podcast. We've been loving this and uh been enjoying it. So uh good morning, Tiffany.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Good morning.

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Hope everything has been good for you. We uh I was thinking about our grandbaby. Uh she came and visited the other day, and you were cooking me some lasagna. I'd had this huge desire to have lasagna. Yeah, you've been craving it for a while. You make some of the best lasagna, and you know, even as nice and kind as you are, you made it for me like I like I enjoyed. It was gluten-free.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

And I bet everybody's like, uh You can't, you really can't, depending on the noodles that I buy, you really can't tell at all.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

You can't tell. And so we've kind of adapted our life to some gluten-free living. Uh not not a hundred percent. I'm not uh celiac, I don't have that celiac disease, but it's just it helps with my my belly fat because uh that's where I gain my weight, man. I don't I don't get that I don't get that booty, I don't get those that that those thick shoulders and thick in the chest. I I get it in my belly and and I look like, you know, if I I don't control it, I look like I may be three or four months pregnant and I have to have to work on it. So gluten helps me with that. But uh I was thinking about our grandbaby and she wanted to help cook. Yeah. And so we bought her this uh what what is it? Is it a cook stool? What what is the what is the little thing she's a helper stool like? Yeah. And so she pulls her little stool over there and she wanted to to cook the other day. And uh and so what I was thinking about was she stuck her finger in the egg.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

But she's I don't know I guess her mom's been letting her crack eggs, but she wanted to crack the egg.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

And she cracked it.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Yes.

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And then she stuck her finger in it. Yes. And uh, you know, she's two. You're a little bit of a germaphobe. I'm a I'm a huge germaphobe. Like so she's two, and I don't know where that two-year-old toddler finger has been, but of course your thing was it'll cook out.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

That's what I said. I said, you have eaten worse in restaurants, and we're gonna put this in the oven for a long time. You'll be fine.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

I survived. So um anyway, maybe she sweetened it. I don't know. But uh you took her to you took her to Walmart and you or somewhere and you were trying to buy her some shoes and and that was the funny part. She was so at two Those are slippery and Yeah, like she's got a huge for two years old, she her vocabulary is extravagant. Yeah. Like it's huge. And uh she was telling her that no, those are slippery, and no, I don't like those, and no, I'm not putting those on. And so we finally what was you, compromised on a pair?

SPEAKER_01 2:54

That had a butterfly, a glittery butterfly, because Minnie Mouse clogs were on her mind and it was hard to get her off. And I uh you know, I'm a grandparent, so I I I made the mistake of carrying her down the aisle to let her help me pick out shoes, and so that was a big mistake. I should have but I don't know her l her little foot, if you've seen her.

SPEAKER_02 3:19

She's uh She's got a short, chunky foot. Let's just say it. Short, chunky foot.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

So she's taller and for her age.

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She's healthy.

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Yeah, I told I I told you that in Walmart we run into three or four people and they were all like, gosh, she's so big for her age. And you know, it was she was so cute and chunky as a nine-month old, but you know, she's it's funny because you feel like you're having a defender to you know to people who like, but my two-year-old is half of her size, and so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

I know because it was funny if somebody told us one time when they met her that she'll be applying for jobs next week, you know. And so like, yeah, I was like, okay, but so so anyway, we're we're we're having a a fun time raising a granddaughter. We've got a grandson on the way, he'll be here in August, JB, uh John Bradford, and uh we're excited about that. And so uh it's fun being a grandparent. And uh I I I our topic today kind of brings me to this point. Uh we were in uh we were in Utah back in December for your 50th birthday. She wanted to go snow skiing. And uh we'd been snow skiing one time before back in our 20s. Uh I don't even think we did a whole lot of skiing, but we we went, cared a youth group, and and did that. And so for her 50th birthday, she wanted to do something different. I want to do something different. Yeah. Had me a huge 80s party, which was great, but she wanted to do something different. So we took the whole family um to Utah to Park City. Park City. Park City went skiing, and uh the grandbaby got to go, everybody got to go. It was really it was a good time. It was we had a really good memory there. But I remember I was uh I was still I was a little sick when we were there, and uh had to take a steroid shot and I was just didn't feel great. But I tried to continue running because I I I run quite a bit, and running in the mountains really suck, like that high altitude really sucks the air out of you. And uh but I remember uh Edie, our granddaughter, was it was in our bedroom and and I was hugging her and kissing her and talking to her and I was getting ready to go run and I said uh I said Big Papa's gotta go run. I said, because he wants to be here when you get married. And man, when I said that, like tears of emotion fell my face, and I was like, whoa, where'd this even come from? And so today we want to talk about fitness. Now, if you know us at all, then you know that we this is kind of our our vein. This is kind of something that we enjoy. If you don't know us and you're you're in in other cities and things like that, uh we enjoy fitness.

SPEAKER_01 5:50

You enjoy fitness.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

You tolerate fitness, right? I do fitness. Yeah, you do fitness, but uh I enjoy fitness. Do yard work, but you enjoy yard work. That's right. So uh I do cooking, but you enjoy cooking. So uh but we're gonna talk about fitness today. And uh let's just let's just hop in and talk about fitness uh as a as a rule. Tell me your tell me your fitness background.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

So I joined a whole bunch of gyms, the k the cheap kind where you go and you can go any time of day, and I would go any time of day and I would get on the treadmill for five minutes, get on a machine I didn't understand for five minutes, and then um say I had been to the gym. That was my fitness background. High school, I did not play um sports, I was a cheerleader, and we did things for that. Um so I had to be, you know, reasonably fit for that, but I didn't do other sports because I do not have coordination and nobody would pick me. I would try out for teams. I've told you vol volleyball, and I think there was even maybe enough spots that I could have made the team, but I just didn't make the team. I don't know. That's the way I remember it anyway.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

Um So volleyball, like at 5'4, you thought, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna play volleyball. I need to jump high and be able to spike the ball, and volleyball was a good that in your mind.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Because it seemed easier than the other alternatives.

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Uh huh.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

So that's why but yeah, um, so I mean my fitness background, I really didn't have one until I was thirty-nine and that is when I began a serious fitness journey. Um two things. I was tired of like constant autoimmune dis you know dis disorder, um, symptoms from those, and I wanted to be in the best shape I had ever been in when I turned 40. So I got serious about fitness in either January or February when I was 39.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Right. Yeah. But fibromyalgia is is is one of the things that you you deal with. And working out helped help that. I don't know that it alleviated it completely, but it helped the the fibromyalgia. And so I remember that was one of the reasons strengthening.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

And that's one of those things that you know, y if you talk to somebody who has it, they'll say, Well, I don't feel like working out. Well, I mean, I get that. I do get that. But i when you push through some of those things and it becomes a routine, then you find all of a sudden your life has changed. Yeah. You know, and that doesn't maybe happen for everybody, but it happens for a lot of people who who try that as a resource to battle it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Well, and I I and so I I remember you starting that. My my background with fitness is I I grew up an athlete, uh not much of an athlete, but uh but an athlete. But an athlete. And played ball, um, basketball, baseball, football. I quit basketball in ninth or tenth grade because I realized that they didn't need me. Um we had five guys that started and one guy that kind of like uh tr transferred in and they didn't need me. They went 34 and one their senior year, lost lost one game to Shannon 72 to 68 and uh won the state championship. They did not need me at all. I was wasting my time. I was just the the the white boy sitting on the bench that might get in if we were up real big. They didn't need me.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

So Well, I mean you went to Morville. Morville was notorious for being really good. So I I I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you know what? They probably did not need you.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

They did not. I could have I could have gone somewhere else and I might have played, but I was still was not that great. But uh played baseball, football, and you know, but even that, you know, athletics is not fitness. Because just because you played football didn't mean you were fit. Right. Um they might could run five yards and be out of breath. And so our our thing was uh we just lifted weights. Like we we didn't even really squat weight or anything like that. My day, all everybody wanted to bench press. That's all we wanted to do. We wanted to get 250-pound bench press. That was that was a big deal, man. In 10th grade or 11th grade, you wanted to have a 250-pound bench press. You didn't care about running, you didn't care about any of that stuff, and so that was my MO. That's we just go in there every day and we try to bench press every doggone day. And and we would we were so stupid, man. We would put uh we would put the weight on the bar and we would bounce it off our chest real hard and try to push it up, you know, and it even got to the point to where we would put um pads across our chest so that it didn't bruise our chest, and that that was what we that's that's my fitness background as an athlete, man. I was I'm bouncing weights off my chest, and I think I bench pressed 250 pounds one time, and and like it was you you would have thought that I become Mr. Olympia, you know what I'm saying? Like everybody was like stoked, and then anybody who did that was the same as well. That that's just that was my fitness background. So fast forward, we got married, and uh, you know, I think we went to the gym on and off, some of those gyms you were talking about. Uh we weren't very dedicated as f I mean I say that we we'd go, we didn't know how a crack uh we didn't have uh uh we didn't know what we were doing. Right. And so we'd get on machine five minutes, get on the other machine five minutes, we'd do we didn't know nothing. And uh no fitness plan, no health plan, no diet plan, none of that kind of stuff. Well, my dad, uh my dad has had a string of health problems since he was uh was young. He's uh he'll be seventy-two, or he's so he's already seventy-two. Um at 42, he had a he had a heart attack at 42. Uh then he had a heart attack at 45. And then he had three open heart surgeries, he's had 12 bypasses, he's had some some cancer issues, he's had some uh he's he's had several health issues. And so as I was creeping up on 40, 41, uh, 42, I thought, I d I don't want to be that guy. Not that my dad's a bad guy, I love my dad. Uh he's a he's a hero of mine, but I didn't want to be that guy in that health issue. And so at that time, uh I was kind of like our grandbaby. I was a little chunky. And uh, you know, uh I thought if you continue down this road, you have a likelihood because you're predisposed because of genetics, your your your dad has these issues, your your grandmother had cancer and had a heart attack. Uh your your grandmother on your mother's side had cancer, your grandfather on uh on your your dad's side died with cancer, your uh grandfather on your other side had um um I can't think of the word, my gosh, where you lose your you lose your your mind. Um Alzheimer's disease. And and and so you're predisposed to some things. If you don't change your lifestyle, this could very well be your lifestyle. And and again, I saw what it did to my mother. My mother is is a trooper, man. She's taken care of my dad and been been there for him in in all the hard places where he has been. And he's he's been tough too to to come back from all this stuff. But I didn't want to do that to you. And I and I didn't want to do that to my family or my kids. And and that goes back to being in Utah when I when I w was was hugging Edie and telling her I gotta go run. I want to be able to be there and as long as I can and watch my kids grow up, my grandkids grow up, be able to dance with them at their weddings, be able to bless them and love them and hold their kids and do everything I can. So I that's where my journey started. And it started with just that step of I've gotta change my life.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

Because I don't want to be that person. So um I you've not had an easy road when it when it when it has been uh or come to working out. Uh you've been injured often. Yes. But the one thing I will the one thing I respect about you is you're tough as nails. And what what I will say, the tenacity with which I have seen you respond has been incredible. Like it and and and it has been awesome to watch the response because you're tough as nails coming back from injury. So you're not the most uh graceful person, some of your injuries are are from that. But talk about having to come back, even working through fitness and and trying to come back from some of that.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Well, I think just because I'm not graceful and I I don't know if some of the the chronic illness stuff played a part and you know b me being able I mean me being injured more easily, but I think my first big obstacle was um back surgery, having, you know, the disc issues and needing back surgery and because I had to be off for a while. And the the crazy thing that happened is it could have went two ways. It could have been like I have been not doing this for so long, it's just gonna be too hard to come back. But for me, it made me want it more than I ever did before because I took for granted that I was able to go do that, and so after I came back from back surgery, I came back probably, you know, even harder than before. I played a lot, you know, a lot less and I was, of course, more careful. And I did not, you know, there's the the you know, we do CrossFit. That's one of the things that we do three times a week. Um, there's always the misper you know, conception that you're gonna get hurt doing CrossFit. Well, most of the people I know that have gotten, you know, had had some kind of injury in CrossFit while they're doing CrossFit is not from CrossFit. Like mine was a an old back injury before I started CrossFit that just over time I couldn't, you know, I couldn't ignore it anymore. And um, but then some of my other stuff is just, you know, cra crazy things that don't happen to so many crazy things that don't happen to other people. You know, I've got the large scar on the front of my leg now from cutting it, jumping over something, doing a burpee. I've got, you know, I've tore both, I've was in a boot three summers in a row. Yep. One summer I tore my plantar fascia on my left foot, the next summer I tore the plantar fascia on my right foot, the next summer um the the little fractures in my tibia. Um you know, my most recent one was it's so silly. It didn't sideline me. Um I kept working out, but I broke off half of my front tooth changing the plates on my my barbell because of the tension clip that holds the weights, you know, in place. Uh just crazy stuff. So, you know, $260 later at the dentist, I have the rest of my front tooth again. But yeah, I mean, there's just been so so many things. I could like have I wish I had a little catalog of all all of them. But for me, you know, I think after the back surgery, I said I cannot take this for granted that I have the opportunity to um to be healthy.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

Right. Yeah. Well, and and and that's that's one of the things that you said is that it would be easy to quit and get discouraged after those things. And and but instead your mindset, which we talked about a couple weeks ago, your mindset says, Hey, I'm gonna do hard things and I'm gonna continue this process and I'm not going to allow uh a fixed mindset that I can't change to sideline me where I'm just gonna go back to to normal.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Yeah, because the i it's so easy when you do have injury um during fitness to have a pity party because you can't do what everybody else is doing. I can't go if I'm in a boot, I can't go running right now. If I've got a shoulder issue, I can't I can't do what everybody else in the gym is doing in the workout today. Um it is very easy to get sucked into, you know, being sad and depressed and having a pity party because maybe you can't do exactly what you were, you know, doing before.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Yeah, yeah, that's right. And and so with that, you know, I think that the the one thing that we've tried to to work on and instill is a lifestyle of fitness and and for our kids too. Yeah. Uh some of them have adopted it, some of them not quite as much. Um I know that that you know, some of them would do different things, and uh we want them to understand that that's a part of of of of wholeness. You know what I'm saying? You get your mind right, cool. Get your body right too. Right. Get your spiritual life right, get your get your family life right. There there's a there's a process to wholeness, and if you miss one of those pieces, uh it's then you're lacking. You know what I mean? You're lacking in your life if you miss one of those pieces to make you whole. And fitness is one of those things that I believe that does make you whole. It makes you happier. It makes you uh, you know, I always love uh Legally Blonde is one of my favorite movies. Like and I know it's a girl movie, get off me. Y'all, y'all go on with your own self. But I love it because uh, you know, whenever they're they're interviewing the the blonde that supposedly killed her husband, she said, I I uh uh uh Reese Witherpoint said, I don't believe she did it. She said, because working out gives you endorphins. And endorphins make you happy, and happy people don't kill people. Yeah. And so, you know, I do believe that uh it does give you endorphins, it does make you happier, it does make you just a little more whole. And so fitness is important. Uh but you know, what does fitness look like? I here's the thing. I've said this and I I don't know why it's my hot button, but social media lies a whole bunch. And there's so many things on social media that tell you what fitness are or is. Uh and if you believe some of those things, then you'll get frustrated and you won't be able to accomplish that. So what does fitness look like? Does it does it look like uh a Greek God? You know, that body of a Greek God where uh your muscles have muscles and and your abs have abs and and like you you are in peccable shape or is it the maybe I shouldn't say this, is it the juicy booty that you see from the Instagram models? I would I do want one of those.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Well, I mean I told somebody my friend yesterday in her clinic, I said, I really want your booty. No. And that's it and it could look like that if you have the dedication and the hours and the commitment, because people don't understand sometimes. If you've got an hour a day, that's awesome. If you've got thirty minutes a day, that's awesome. But those people may have four or five hours a day, some of them, not all of them. Some of the people are just genetically disposed to having to be a good idea. Genetics played into that? Yeah. But no, you're right. I mean it it it that's not always what it looks like. Well what does it look like?

SPEAKER_02 20:33

For me, like I was thinking about my brother. My brother uh has at a year ago or something like that, he started running. And I've been running for a while, and so he started running too, and he and I just completed the death by 5K a couple of three weeks ago, but uh he lost about 70 pounds.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

And got down to less than when he was in high school. And he looks great, you know, he's doing good. But the key is not about how he looks, it's that he was able to get off of some of his medicines that he had been on. So it gave him more of a clean bill of health. And for me, that's kind of where my goal is I want to stay fit to keep a clean bill of health, you know.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Both of us have great blood work when we go get and we get it done regularly. Um we both, you know, our all those, what is it, lipids and glycerides, I don't know, cholesterols, all those things are always fine. They're always in in line. But that changed because, you know, yours was not. No. I remember yours was not in line. And you know, talking about your dad and the heart issues, some of that stuff was out of whack for you, and seemingly you would have appeared to be healthy.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

But now those things have stayed in line. Even if you get off plan eating, you know, just having fitness in your life has caused those things to stay in check for eleven, twelve years now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Well and and you know, I I go do the the Young Medicine. You your fat over at over at um nutrition shop. And you know, the visceral fat around my heart, that stuff's way down, it's way below what it needs to be. That kind of stuff matters.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Yes, but you also have um a body fat percentage that m makes me angry.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

So that just is what it is. But I again, it don't look like great guided bodies, it necessarily may not be the juicy booty. But it's clean bill of health, it's wellness. Right. You know? Uh i it's it's functionality. And and that was one of the things, and I know CrossFit gets a bad rap, and I get it, man. There's some stu everything you see that that hashtags CrossFit is not CrossFit, some of that's just stupid people doing stupid stuff. Um but but CrossFit for us has been functionality. It's about functional movements, uh being able to do stuff, and I know that, you know, uh being able to put stuff over my head and carry it or be able to deadlift something up or pick something up or whatever, it's functionality.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

For whatever reason, we are always moving very heavy stuff. I do not know why this is part of our life, but we are always moving heavy stuff, and we are able, you know, to still, as a team, you and I both move very heavy stuff. That's a functional part of life. Hey guys, get you a woman who can lift heavy stuff.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

I'm telling you, it pays dividends. You don't have to buy beer and pizza for your friends anymore if you'll get you a strong wife.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

The only thing that always aggravates me is because I have short arms and you want to lift things at an angle that like my short arms will not l allow me to lift things.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

So let me clarify men get you a strong wife with long arms, that'll help a whole bunch.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

But it looks like wellness, it looks like functionality. Uh listen, if being sore every day is not a badge of honor, that don't mean you're making progress, you know. But uh again, uh for for us it looks like being able to play with your kids, your grandkids. You know, if they're outside and you're sitting on the couch because you're too tired and you can't go outside and play, listen, you need to visit some type of fitness to kind of get you to be able to be functional.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

And you said it some type of fitness. CrossFit may not be for you. You may not be able to the class times may be off for you. I have a friend that I mean, it they truly don't work for her. She's 30 minutes from two places, there's not a CrossFit in her town. I know what time she goes to work, I know what time she gets off. It truly does not work for her. However, something works for her. I was talking, and I don't know why sometimes people that know that we run and that we do CrossFit feel the need to explain away their fitness collective. I'm happy for anybody doing anything. But she was saying, Well, I just walk. You don't just walk. If you go walk 30 minutes a day, you're you're improving your cardiovascular health by dividends. You know, you're there's all kinds of benefits to I I would do air quotes, but you can't see those if you're listening to just walking, like you're doing something. So whatever fitness looks like for you, it's it's fitness. You're still creating wellness in your body.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

Well, you said it though. People who don't do like you know, I'm die hard about some things. And people like, well, I I you you you know, I don't I don't really want to go run a half marathon uh trail run and obstacles. And they they they do. They want to downplay what they do. Well, uh I man, I'm happy that anybody gets out there and gets hustles after anything. I don't care. You know, you said walking. Walking, there's a benefit to walking. During 75 Hard, and we were talking about m with with Michael there there just a minute ago. 75 Hard, the one thing that made the one of the most impacts in your life was walking 45 minutes a day outside. What you don't realize is that puts your body in a zone two heart rate zone, which increases your aerobic capacity, right, which increases your fitness, which allows you to become better in the gym, in running, and those type things. And so if you dedicate yourself even to walking 30, 45 minutes a day and staying in a zone two heart rate range, you realize you don't realize what that does for your your body.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

Because even if you can't run right now, walking is a great precursor to building up to ha to, like you said, building up that capacity for something like that and being able to get your breathing in check and just staying out there and sticking with something for a little while, it builds all that up. So don't ever discount anything you're doing, which you know that's why sometimes, you know, don't if you can't go do this, then just do something.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I and and and again, there's some couple other things we want to hit before we finish, but it goes back to I can't do this. I'm I'm overweight, I'm I'm tired, I'm there's a lady on Instagram who uh I started following. Uh her name is I can't remember her name. She's she's from like England, I believe, but it's at Laritom, L-E-R-A-T-O-M underscore fitness. Laritom underscore fitness. And her bio says that she is a plus size running enthusiast. She weighs uh her starting weight, she weighed 277 pounds. And I started looking at her stuff and she just decided one day she was gonna run a 5K. Not not not just go out and run a 5K, but sh that was her goal is to run a 5K. And and and she you'll see it. It's the slowest thing you've ever seen in your life. You could probably walk faster than she was running at 277 pounds. 78. 78, whatever. So what I'm saying, but she slowly started moving. And then then you see where she finally hit a 5K and then she's dedicated herself to X number of days of running. I just saw the other day, uh, you know, we always talked about Risa Tisa and then all the kind of stuff. Uh ASICs sent her a new pair of running shoes.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

And she didn't she didn't advertise for ASICs. She just is on this journey and she went from getting like, say you're getting three or four thousand views, now she's getting like four point five million views because she just started doing something and and her journey to fitness, and so it was incredible to see that. So you can do something. And that's that's what we're talking about. Fitness is not necessarily how you look, it's about doing something. And so that starts with uh eating better, you know. I hate salads. Like I'm telling you, I don't I I probably don't I don't know that I've I've ate maybe one salad in my life. I hate salad. And it was forced on me because I was in an environment where it was kind of socially you're supposed to eat the salad and I like choking it down because it was gross. Uh but it but eating better, learning how to cut back.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

No, salads are not always healthy because you put a lot of dressing on them and then they're not even healthy.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

But it's the perceived healthy. It is. Yeah. It is. But learning how to eat better, learn how to cut back. You know, we were uh the recent season we've been in, we were pretty busy, and we went to uh raising canes one night. And like, dude, we hadn't ate fried chicken in years. Like we just don't eat fried chicken. That's not our choice. Uh I love fried chicken. I used to be a big fried chicken boy. Uh but uh we just don't don't eat it. And so it was weird to be eating it, but learning how to just cut back or make better choices when it comes to that, changing your diet habits, just just small things, you know, cutting something out, cutting a little sugar back. And and all those things lend itself to becoming a better person in in your fitness life, helping you be rounded and whole. And so anything you want to add to the Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

One thing I would say is just i i if if if it's too overwhelming for you to think about running a 5K, then just start running light pole to light pole. Absolutely. You know, at at where we are, there's you know, we um duty duty noble, no, we say that.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

That's missing stage baseball.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Where is it that I go all the time? Not Barnes and Noble.

SPEAKER_02 29:35

We go to a little we go to a little track. She goes to a little track down the room.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Yeah, I mean light pole to light pole, then walking the others, you know, walk two light poles, run a light pole. If that's a goal of yours, just walking in general, making small cutbacks in meals if it's all too overwhelming. And that's the thing sometimes something is so overwhelming we don't start at all. That's right. This this I I can I can testify to. You are always gonna wish that you would have started sooner. And when you feel the effects of having some kind of fitness in your life, you are gonna wish you would have started sooner and you're gonna be so glad you started at all. So that is my huge encouragement is to start doing something. Cutting back a little here and there with your food, a little bit of fitness, even two, three days a week. Just start somewhere. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

Absolutely. And that's that's that's really, really good. It goes back to to our first or second podcast, just start. Yeah. No matter what it is, just start doing something. And uh, you know, the book that I just finished reading, and and I'll finish with this. The last couple of chapters was really, really, really good. And uh it's it the book was how to do do things you hate. Um and I've told you before, I read the Bible in the morning, I read practical, growth-minded books at night. That's what I do before I go to sleep. And uh it said make a make a pact to have uh no zero commitment days. And what that looks like is is that every day you do something. Well, Wednesday you know is my long day for runs. Anywhere six to ten miles is kind of my long day. It's what I what I like to do. Well, there's days that I can't do that because time constraint may not allow me to do that. But uh can I go run a half mile? Can I go run a mile? Can I do something real quick? Yeah, I c there no zero commitment. Do something. Don't make excuses, do something. Something is better than nothing. Well, what if I'm sick? Well, don't do near as fast or as much. Well, I I can barely get up off the couch. Then and then it made a suggestion, just go walk around the house ten minutes. Do something. No zero commitment days. So when it comes to fitness, I think that's a good thing. And listen, you do have to have rest days, and we're not gonna get deep into that, but you do need a rest day every c occasionally. Okay, you don't need ten rest days in a row. But as no zero commitment days, and and I've kind of adopted that mindset over the past couple weeks since I've read that, it just kind of got in my heart that I need to do something. You know what I mean? I don't I don't have to to move mountains today, but I need to do something to move toward my fitness goal. So any pi any any final words here?

SPEAKER_01 32:05

No.

unknown 32:05

No.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

Do something.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

Do something. Do something. Get up off the couch. You'll be glad you did. Absolutely. And listen, it will pay dividends.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

You'll be proud of yourself. I can't think of the word I'm thinking of, but yeah, you'll be proud of yourself.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

You absolutely will. Listen, and find you a group of people who will celebrate with you. Right. And so hey, listen.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

I'll celebrate. Post it on Instagram, Facebook. I promise you I'll celebrate with you.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Absolutely. She may not post really, but she'll post and then and congratulate you. Yes, I will. So she sure will. Hey, listen, thanks so much for listening. We encourage you to get in the flow of life. Find you a group of people who are headed your way that you want to go and hop in there with them and go. Thank you so much for listening. Look forward to talking to you soon.