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S3EP10: How Ordinary Consistency Creates Extraordinary Results with Ted Enea!
Ever wondered how some people maintain incredible fitness well into their 60s and beyond? Meet Ted Enea, our first guest of Season 2, who embodies the power of consistency, persistence, and patience in health and fitness.
At 67 (turning 68 this July), Ted doesn't consider himself extraordinary. Rather, he describes himself as "an ordinary person doing ordinary things consistently," which has enabled him to achieve remarkable results. Currently maintaining a streak of over 600 consecutive days with 10,000+ steps and averaging 15-16,000 steps daily, Ted is also on track to complete 68,000 push-ups in 2025. His story demonstrates that impressive achievements don't require superhuman abilities—just unwavering consistency.
Ted's journey wasn't without setbacks. A cycling accident left him with cracked ribs and temporarily derailed his fitness plans. But instead of giving up, he used that time to develop patience and returned stronger than ever. His accident also highlights a critical safety lesson—his helmet sustained nine significant dents that would have been catastrophic head injuries had he not been wearing protection.
What makes Ted's approach so accessible is how he breaks down seemingly impossible goals. He didn't start with hundreds of push-ups; he began with sets of five, gradually building capacity over time. "Until you do that first day, you're never going to get to 500," Ted wisely notes. These incremental improvements, combined with nutritional changes like intermittent fasting and cleaner eating, have transformed his energy and appearance.
Since age 54, Ted has created annual birthday challenges to test his limits and celebrate his health. This year's 68th birthday challenge on July 19th will support Meals on Wheels, combining 20 miles of walking with 1,000 push-ups at Osage Park in Danville, Ca. We invite listeners to join or support this worthwhile cause!
Whether you're just starting your fitness journey, recovering from a setback, or looking for motivation to stay consistent, Ted's story offers practical wisdom: start small, be consistent, and embrace the process. After all, extraordinary results often come from ordinary actions performed with extraordinary consistency.
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Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to the Peach Podcast. Just a couple of dudes and an occasional guest breaking open topics from everyday life on purpose, energy, attitude, commitment and health. So, if you're ready, listen in as we live to learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude, and laugh as we level up to learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude with Doug and Daryl man. I am excited for this week. Daryl, I got to tell you I've been waiting to bring my boy, ted, onto the show.
Speaker 1:Ted is one of those people who is the epitome of persistence and patience and perseverance, so I can't wait to share his story with the listeners and also with you, daryl. I think this is the first time you're actually listening to him. So that's what we're going to kind of cover in this episode is just the power of consistency, persistence and patience. Ted did struggle with a big setback man. He was out on a bike ride, broke some ribs. I'll let him go into the details on that whole story. But man, to where he is now through his persistence and patience and perseverance and his consistency, it's just astonishing man. It really blows me away. I have the privilege of checking in with Ted weekly and catching up and seeing how he's doing, and so I'm excited to have him share his story and his life and his methods and his routines, all the things he does to stay healthy, all the things he does to stay healthy.
Speaker 1:So, but before we get into that, daryl, man, we had a big weekend, brother. We had a big weekend. My legs were exploding. We were out in gold country, out in grass Valley, nevada city, and out in the damn hills. Man, why don't you recap for us what went on this weekend? And also, daryl, speaking of pace and persistence. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we did a 70-mile ride with over 7,500 feet of climbing, and the next day, daryl and Eric went for a 11-mile run with some elevation training, and then later on, I saw Daryl's posted on Strava that he finished the day, the weekend out, with a workout right after the run. So, daryl, I don't know how the hell you do it, man, but I'm proud of you, brother, I'm proud of you and I am cheering for you. So why don't you some highlights and some points? And what are you looking forward to this weekend as well? So let's start off with how the Gold Country Challenge went.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm super excited having Ted here. I'd love to hear all the stories about his birthday challenges. I'd love to hear all the stories about his birthday challenges. I remember last year, doug, I don't think you walked well for about a week after that. So I'm excited to have him break down what he's done in the past and what he's got going for this year. It was so awesome to get back riding this weekend. I've spent a lot of time, like you, running this year, getting back on the bike with the team, taking our pictures, registering, getting our packs loaded, you know, and everything else, getting up at like the crack of dawn and getting up there ahead of time to the coffees. Everybody worried about that. Am I going to make it to the bathroom before I got to go ride?
Speaker 2:All those fun, fun things. It was cool and this is the first year, like you said we talked about last year. This is a great ride. It's unbelievable roads, but generally, doug, it's hot. Um, but it was a little less this year, so it still was hot, but it wasn't like that a hundred degrees, and so we took off and just had a great time. We just it didn't just feel like old times, it just felt like it just like got back.
Speaker 1:The moment we get up there, you smell that smell of being out in the woods and it's just amazing. It was a great reconnection.
Speaker 2:It's about 24 miles in where we get to the first main rest stop and it was like, you know, people saw us. I don't know how many times people said team peach, you know, and then and then somebody else would hear it and say where did you come up with the name? And, like, doug would tell him once, I would tell him once, eric would tell him once, and yeah, um, so it was great, just a great weekend. Um, nothing, nothing changes. Doug, you get down to the bottom at mile 51, you take the picture and then it's just pure mental grind.
Speaker 1:It's mental hell. There, I call it mental hell.
Speaker 2:It's uphill and hot, yeah and um, but he was really a fun ride, really a fun ride. Um, some great stories just finishing. Um, first of all, big shout out to gold country. Uh, they even put out it was their most successful event. They really marketed extremely, extremely well. So I think they had what would you say, doug, close to 300 people At least, yeah, at least parking lot was packed. And, uh, the race director, um, john from death ride, john Erickson, was there. He was actually promoting, he had a tent there or like a over overhang kind of a pop-up, so they're promoting it as kind of four weeks out from death ride. Uh, so we saw lots of people. It was super fun. Jr crushed it. That is not an easy ride.
Speaker 1:Yeah, big shout out to JR. This was his first one man. He was suffering injuries and just schedules problems in the past and on our fourth one he finally made it. Unfortunately, dave the fixer couldn't make it on this one, so we still haven't done this particular event with the whole team. Fixer couldn't make it on this one, so we still haven't done this particular event with the whole team, so hopefully next year we're all together and all the schedules match up.
Speaker 2:So, knock on wood, everybody got through safe, everybody was, you know, came through really well. We had a good time. Um, we do have uh, this weekend. Uh, eric and I are kind of in our distance to empty. We're trying, ted, we're trying to find where our empty is and I think for this year we got to a 50K and then somehow we decided to sign up for a 50 mile.
Speaker 2:So that's next weekend up in Cool called Cool Moon. So I'm very excited about there. Eric, who is probably one of the best researchers in the world, is already like on a first name basis with the race director up at Cool Moon and is Strava friends with him. So, um, we decided to go up on Sunday morning and, uh, there's two loops, the South loop and the North loop and uh, you know we've done this before in the past like doing something hard but also mentally seeing it. So we just we felt like, even though it was maybe not the best, it was the day after we rode. We just physically felt like we had to get up there, we had to mentally see it. We did one of the loops. We only got lost like five times. We had all trails. We're looking at it like this, and so it was really good and very excited about it this weekend.
Speaker 2:But first of all, let's get to Ted. This is our first official Ted Talk. Now we're going to break the rules of Ted Talk because Ted Talks are a small amount of time, but we'll have some more time. So, doug, why don't you introduce Ted?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, my pleasure, my pleasure. So, ted, I met Ted man years ago. My daughter, paige, was playing soccer and Ted was one of her coaches. And this is when Paige was still in high school. Gosh, was she still in elementary school at that time? I can't remember. It was years. You were coaching for years, ted. So that's how I met Ted. But I'm going to fast forward a little bit and, ted, you can share a little bit about the soccer coaching as well, if you want. But, ted, why don't you? I don't want to mess up who you are and where you are and what you do and what you've done. So, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, my boy, ted Ania from Danville. Come on, ted, tell us about yourself.
Speaker 3:Well, first of all, I want to congratulate you guys for your one-year anniversary. That's pretty cool stuff and honored to be your first guest of year two. Oh yes, also, you know, I've been a listener virtually every week and wasn't that long ago. I can remember Daryl saying do not call me a runner, I'm not going to be a runner. And now I'm here at 50 miles, 150 miles something happened.
Speaker 1:He's possessed, Ted. He's possessed.
Speaker 3:Like Doug said, I met him back when I was coaching. I think the girls were 13 then. My oldest daughter, katie, played with Paige. We lived in Walnut Creek and we actually put a couple of teams together that year and great group of not only girls but parents coaches. We just had a great time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was good times.
Speaker 3:Just a little bit about myself been married 40 years this year, celebrating our anniversary uh next month and uh yeah, I have two daughters, katie and samantha. Katie's got a granddaughter, rila, and my grandson, griffin. Uh, from sam, so the from Sam. So the family is growing. It's great. I live in Danville and I'm going to be 68 this year 68.
Speaker 1:And what's your? When's your birthday, ted Cause, that's a big thing we're going to get into. Is your birthday challenge too? July 16th? July 16th, all right, 68 years old. We, you and I, went for a hike years ago and I'm just going to kind of back up a little bit to the beginning of your health journey. You saw that I was doing some health stuff and we reached out and connected and you wanted to get into helping other people get healthy because you were out, getting some steps in and being consistent about it, about it. But maybe your nutrition wasn't locked in just right or just so, and you were experimenting and whatnot. Share a little bit about when we first got together on the health journey. I mean, again, we've known each other for years, but then we got a little more intentional with our relationship as far as health goes.
Speaker 3:Right. Well, I think you came out and joined a couple of the birthday challenges. We reconnected then after a few years and you mentioned that you were doing some coaching and some work with people's health and just kind of mentioned it briefly. And a few years later, when I quit working, COVID came along and I wasn't working. I decided to do something that I was passionate about. So I reached back out to you and said, hey, tell me a little bit more about what you're doing. And you filled me in and got me, got me involved in that. I would say neither my nutrition or my exercise were dialed in. I think they were both inconsistent.
Speaker 3:you know, like most people, Right and you know we just we kept talking, we got involved in the coaching and had my ups and downs, you know, with with that again, like most people, and the last year or two have gotten a little more serious about it and tried to dial it in. And I know one of the things you guys always mention on your podcast is something about ordinary people doing extraordinary things or extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, and I think I'm a little different than that. And I think I'm a little different than that. I think I'm an ordinary person doing ordinary things consistently. That allows me to do some extraordinary things. Yes, you know I'm not riding the death ride, I'm not running 150 miles, but you know I'm doing things that most people can do, but I just do it very consistently and I just keep trying to add on to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you took a big turn, ted. I remember you and me were getting prepared and Beth was coming down too or Beth is Ted's wife, who, by the way, is another badass and I should probably have on the show. Oh, I still think about those photos you guys showed me when she had her accident and it was just like wow, I can't believe she came back from that. So, but yeah, maybe you know if she's into it, I'd love to have her on, get a woman's perspective on just being a badass. But, ted, we were getting ready to go down to Newport beach and do some writing and, uh, it was going to be part of your coastal. I don't know if that particular journey was going to be part of the coastal route.
Speaker 3:It was so. So what happened was, uh, for my 65th birthday. Uh, one of my buddies said well, you need to do a challenge that's a little bit more substantial. So I decided to bike the length of California, from the Oregon border to Tijuana, and the original plan was to do it all over, I want to say 21 days, with a couple one-day breaks in between. So I managed to uh convince doug to do part of it with me, the the oregon to san francisco part, and so we rode for seven days and, uh, just had a great time.
Speaker 3:But I realized by the time we got to the bay area that this was too much like work and probably wasn't best to continue at that pace.
Speaker 3:So I decided to kind of call it at the end of that summer and then proceed to do it the following years and do it in segments of a couple of days at a time, riding 60, 70 miles a day, two or three days at a time and then taking a break, so that following year I was training to start a few of the segments, and the segment I was going to do was going to be, I believe, from San Francisco to Santa Cruz and then Santa Cruz down to Monterey and went out for one last training ride with my buddy, greg who we can talk about later, was the guy that I've been doing birthday challenges with, started with me on the first one and has gone on with me since then.
Speaker 3:We went out for a little training ride and we were in Walnut Creek, just on the bike trail't even started to uh go do the ride and I turned around and said something to him and when I turned back my handlebar I swerved a little bit. My handlebar clipped a fence cyclone fence along the canal trail right and kind of spit me out onto the trail and, unfortunately for Greg, threw me right in front of him and he had to choose running over uh, from what he said running over my head or running over my back.
Speaker 3:So he ended up running uh right over the back of me bottom line was ended up with a few cracked ribs and some stitches and, you know, know some bumps and bruises, but mainly the main thing and I say this until I'm blue in the face but the ribs healed, stitches came out, scrapes went away, but my helmet had nine dents in it and that went from being, you know, an accident we can talk about and laugh about. Could have been something very serious. I've not been wearing a helmet and you know, I know guys that are serious about riding like you guys would never think about riding without a helmet. But I see it daily, including some members of my family, and I hear constantly well, I'm just going out for a little ride on the trail.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know I said they call them accidents for a reason. You don't go out there planning to fall and, uh, you know, just put the helmet on. You only have one brain. You know, you got to protect it.
Speaker 1:You hear that people put the damn helmet on. All right, ted is telling you, and Ted I was, I was just in an accident in January and my helmet has some serious dents all over it and cracks and uh, like you are an awakening moment where you're just like man, like life could be totally different if it went, if something terrible happened, like it could just be a totally different life right now. I, you know, I could be, you know, dead, vegetable or, and my kids could be without a dad and my grandkids without a grandfather. And it makes you really stop and think about stuff. I don't stop, I don't. I haven't stopped writing and I still do it, but uh, you know I would never ride without a helmet. But so so good, call on that. Good, shout out. Darrell, did you have something you wanted to say?
Speaker 2:Yeah, hey, ted, I love what you said. You know, you know consistency you talked about maybe you weren't quite dialed in with you know everything, your nutrition, if you, you know. You said, hey, you don't do extraordinary things. If you probably look at Doug, probably my number one item is probably consistency and I think maybe about a year, year and a half ago, I got a lot more consistent across nutrition, hydration and physical activity. And man, I'm telling you, you got to check all those boxes, don't you Ted? You know what I mean and it's not a short game, it's not a one month, it's not a three month, it's not a six month, you know. But you turn around and you can do some pretty extraordinary things if you're patient. But you know, I love what you said. Right, you know, like, and trust me, I've seen some of the things you do. It's extraordinary. But talk a little bit about what changed and what little things did you do to kind of dial in those other aspects to get more consistent overall?
Speaker 3:The most recent was when we finished up our ride last september, I believe. Doug and I went down. We rode from. Well, they're all kind of blending in. Uh, some beach town, hermosa, beach, yeah, hermosa ended up at the border and uh, you know, you know it was great and we took a bunch of pictures as we were going and, uh, I remember those pictures and I was sucking my gut in and when I saw the pictures it wasn't sucked.
Speaker 1:That was about all I could do. You just thought it was.
Speaker 3:And uh, you know, I just I didn't like the way I felt, I didn't like the way I looked. Doug had been talking about intermittent fasting that he had been doing and I had done that years ago when I used to work. You know, I would get up in the morning, four in the morning and I was in the dairy business. I'd hop on a truck and I wouldn't eat till two or three in the afternoon and then maybe have dinner and then be in bed by eight o'clock and I was always very thin and people would say, oh, that's so unhealthy for you. Well, now they found out the science behind it is it's not necessarily that unhealthy. And so Doug had mentioned it to me and uh, it's funny because we were driving up from uh, from San Diego.
Speaker 3:I was doing the math in my, my head and I said, oh, there's 99 days until the end of the year. I'm going to do 100 push-ups a day for 99 days and I'm going to get back to doing my planks and uh, and all of that. And it was a struggle. I mean, I haven't been doing push-ups and basically what I do is I I'll start, if I have to do a set of five, do that for a week and then just two sets of five or two sets of ten and just keep adding to that, you know, up until you know the start of the year, I said, okay, I, okay, I'm going to get dialed in here, I'm going to set some plans for the year, some goals for myself.
Speaker 3:I did it with push-ups, with planks, with nutrition, and I've continued to walk my 10,000 steps. I'm kind of obsessed with my Fitbit. I don't know where I am now, somewhere around 600 days in a row where I've done at least 10,000 steps. But I think this year I'm I don't know, I'm averaging maybe 15, 16,000 steps a day. It's a little easier when you don't work. You have that time, but it's basically, you know. The mindset shift was when I said, not how am I going to do these steps, but when am I going to do that? It wasn't if I was going to do them, but just when I was going to fit those in. Sometimes you have to plan a little bit to get your walks in and get your exercise in, but if you're committed to it, you'll find a way.
Speaker 1:So, ted, I remember, sid, when you had the broken ribs I'm going to back up just a little bit you were totally bummed out because you couldn't ride down there at Newport and Beth and I were riding up and down the coast and having a good time and all that stuff. And but then after that, that, the following year or even before the following year, you had the shift and you started getting into motion as soon as your body healed and you were doing stuff and you started the push-ups and the planks before 2025, but then 2025 comes. I want to fast forward back to okay, now here comes the new year and you set some new goals. What were your initial new goals when the new year came around?
Speaker 3:I believe I wanted to do 50,000 push-ups for the year. 5 million steps and maybe 200 miles just walking.
Speaker 1:Got to pop in here right at this moment with this live edit because, after we recorded this episode, Ted told me that he meant to say 2,000 miles of walking, not 200. And now back to the interview.
Speaker 3:I know Daryl does that on the weekend, but Right, not 200. And now back to the interview. I know Daryl does that on the weekend, but Right, yeah, that was kind of what I did and plants every day.
Speaker 3:Going back to the nutrition piece of it, when I started doing the intermittent fasting, I read up on it a little bit and it says you can do this and the fasting part of it helps, but you have to still continue to eat properly. And so I really focused on eating cleaner. We tried to prepare meals more so we knew what was going into our meals. Stop drinking for the most part. You know I still have a beer now and then, but just don't drink much. You know all of that. I don't drink soda, don't eat candy, that type of stuff, but kind of boring actually. But I feel great when I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 1:And that's worth it, right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boring is badass man. Boring is the new badass Daryl. Did you know that I'm making a bumper sticker? I like the way that sounds. Boring is the new badass.
Speaker 2:Daryl, did you know that I'm making a bumper sticker? I like the way that sounds. It is so. Did I hear 50,000 pushups? Yeah, so that's 136.9. We got to get the .9 in there, that's right.
Speaker 3:So you're going to have to round up per day. And, to be honest, I started day one doing 150 a day and have not done less than that. So I had to kind of readjust my goals recently. So I bumped it up to, uh to try and tie it into my year. I decided, uh, the new goal is 68,000 for the year, wow so.
Speaker 1:Ted, you're a machine man and you're going to be 68 this year. Yep, damn, you look like a fine wine, ted. You just get better with age.
Speaker 3:Baby, come on well, you know, and uh, I, I know we haven't touched on the birthday challenges yet, but last year the birthday challenge was I'd done one when I was 55. I'd done a couple of uh, I'm drawing a blank on the name, but I'd done one of those for my 55th birthday where I did 55 laps around a track, right, and so I said that was kind of fun. Maybe for my 67th I'll do the equivalent of 67 laps around a track. And we did it at a park. We had to throw something else in there. So I said why don't we do? And I say we because I dragged Doug into this one too. He does. And I say we because I drag Doug into this one too, he does.
Speaker 3:Why don't we do 67,000, I'm sorry, 670 push-ups as we go? So we did 67. After each lap we did 10 push-ups and it was just great. We had so much fun, Just walked around the park and friends came during the day and joined in and did a lap or two with us and it was kind of like a walking party. It was so much fun and I had such a good time that I said, okay, I want to do that again this year. I enjoyed that so much. But I knew I could do 67 and that really wasn't going to be much of a challenge to do 68. So we decided to bump it up a little bit.
Speaker 1:So we're doing 20 miles, which is 25 laps around the park and we're doing 1,000 push-ups as we go. Yeah, I may not be able to do the push-ups because I'm still working through a shoulder injury, but I found out I can do burpees while Ted is doing. I can do like one or two pushups. That's why a burpee works, cause it gives me a little relief in between each pushup, so I might be doing burpees while Ted's doing pushups. I'm not going to be doing a burpee for pushup, you know. One-to-one no, hell no, just when he's done.
Speaker 2:We need to negotiate with him. I think it's a half, I think, uh, for for 10 pushups, five burpees. So, um, I remember last year uh, Doug entering, just so you know how big of a deal this is to Doug. We, two years in a row, we have a peach event plan that day and Doug always puts his hand up and says I can't do it, I'm doing Ted's birthday. Remember last year?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah and uh, he goes down and does your birthday and he talked about it and we're like the pushups might be hard. Doug said the walking was the hardest part last year.
Speaker 1:I was man. I think the challenge should be called how many steps does it take to make Doug limp his ass home? Cause that's what. That's what happened after that damn challenge.
Speaker 3:man, that hurt, I remember that I remember that he was. Uh, he was struggling a little bit yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, but it was good.
Speaker 3:That felt good after Doug watched me struggle for seven days on the bike. I got to see him struggle for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Misery loves company. Trust me.
Speaker 1:Hey, but birthday challenge. So, ted, this year we're doing 20 miles. You said and, uh, a thousand push-ups. Well, you'll be doing the thousand push-ups. I'll be there, obviously, walking alongside you, but this year ted ted I'm.
Speaker 2:I think we locked in 500 burpees just now. It's gonna air um doug. Just want to make sure it's on the recording. I don't think so well, well, we'll see.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm going to give it my best, that's for damn sure. We'll see what it comes.
Speaker 3:I'll keep counting, I'll keep track to see what I come up with so I can set it up for the next year challenge. We got a spot for you afterwards, though, in the cold plunge. Yes, you got to tell Ryan.
Speaker 1:If you're doing this year, this year you are working for, is it meals on wheels? Meals on wheels, yeah, meals on wheels which is a great organization and they do a lot of tell what is meals on wheels do for uh. Share for the people who don't have haven't heard about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, meals on wheels program uh, senior nutrition, it's great. I mean, they vary in different areas as to what they provide. In some areas they go daily and bring a fresh lunch or a fresh dinner for elderly people or people that can't get out and shop for themselves or prepare for themselves. They've got a meal delivered. In the case of Meals on Wheels, diablo region, which I'm a part of, we deliver five frozen meals, five frozen dinners, once a week. They also get some fresh salads, fresh fruit juice. Once a month they get a loaf of bread. Every other week they get a half gallon of milk. So there's nutrition there.
Speaker 3:But on top of that, we're going in, we're speaking with people which, you know, a lot of them don't have a lot of interaction, so we get to talk to them. We're actually doing as we talk to them, you know, wellness check, make sure things haven't changed with their health. They also do a lot of things. They'll send birthday cards on their birthdays and it's amazing that some of these people just light up just getting a birthday card on their birthdays and it's amazing that, wow, how these, some of these people just light up just getting a birthday card. Or they'll send on Easter they'll send little flowers for them you know just different things it really is, and so I.
Speaker 3:I a buddy of mine got me involved with this about a year ago and I've never, and all my birthday challenges, I've never really done them uh organization right it's just been something I've done for myself, that I've kind of made up as uh, so gone along.
Speaker 3:I started, you know, with my buddy Greg we, just because my birthday's in the middle of summer, we said, let's, let's plan on something so we can get in shape by midsummer, because we were slugs all winter. So we started when I was 54, I think was the first one. And it was hiking up Mount Diablo up and back, and it was that and followed by a party, which that was always kind of the case. There was always a party involved at the end of it.
Speaker 1:I've been to one of Ted's after-birthday party challenges. You need another challenge after the party. Let me just tell you. I was going to say that's for sure.
Speaker 3:So you know, dave, kind of changed over the years. We did the 55 laps. Relay for Life is a group I was trying to think of, that, I think raised money for the leukemia and the FOMA society, so we did that on my 55th. We've done a couple of triathlons that I kind of made up where we went out on our road bikes for 38, 39 miles. Right, we went out on our road bikes for 38, 39 miles, then got on our mountain bikes and rode for another 15 or 16, and then did a hike for the differences to what the years were at that time.
Speaker 3:If it was 59 years or whatever it was. Some years we did it. We'll hike 62 miles in a week. We'll hike 62 miles in a week, or you know, then did one year, did 63 miles and then did a 63 mile bike ride at the end. So just just different things to uh.
Speaker 1:What was it two years ago that you did a hundred thousand steps in 24 hours?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that was that's. That was a monster and you scared off. Lou Corrella. Remember Lou Corrella? I don't know if you've been listening to this man, but I hope to see you out at the park. Lou, come on, man, don't be scared, that's right but so what do you?
Speaker 2:go ahead. One question hey, you get a pretty clear doug's. Uh, the ted's a math guy. Right, can you hear it? He's got all these numbers floating around.
Speaker 1:You should see his, uh, you should see his Excel sheets His.
Speaker 2:Excel sheets. So, ted, somebody listening they hear a thousand push-ups in a day. They hear 20 miles right, it's overwhelming. But like a lot of the stuff that Doug and I do, they're kind of long, all-day events. I know how we kind of do it. Doug has a different way than maybe me. How do you break things down in your mind? You're not doing that first pushup going, you know um 999 left. So how do you kind of look at the day? How do you mentally break stuff down into smaller chunks? Great question.
Speaker 3:You know I hate, I hate to use a phrase, but it's uh, just do it. You know, when we went out there that day I was with doug and another buddy, nick, and we started walking and you know we kind of set up some ice chest, have some fruit and drinks and stuff all set up. It was eight in the morning and actually was a little bit before, and we just said, all right, I guess we're ready, let's go, and uh, just started walking, got to our first stop, did the pushups and to be honest it was we were just talking and telling stories and catching up, hadn't seen them for a while and you know, just had a great day.
Speaker 1:You know, ted, as you're sharing how we're getting started. You know what it kind of tells me there's like some wisdom in there is that we didn't really focus. We weren't focused on man how are we going to get, are we going to get these pushups done? Are we going to get these steps done? We lit, like you just said, we just started. We were so immersed in the process and in the moment and we took care of business when business needed to be taken care of and at the end of the day, I think we were all blown away Like damn, we could have done more pushups or we could have, you know, walked more steps. It was like we had, you know, if we just we got married to the process and it was, it was really a great time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's true. And uh, it's funny because I had never, doug and I I think what we did leading up to it was 67 days prior we started doing 100 push-ups a day. I remember right, I think that's what we said we'd do. So I was at home one day and I said I have no idea how this is going to feel and you know, we figured that a lap around a track would take about five minutes walking. So I was sitting on the couch watching a soccer game and every five minutes I would do 10 push-ups and I did 30 sets of those. So I'd done 300.
Speaker 3:That was our, that was our build-up to it. So we had, I had no idea what was going to happen after 300, you know, and we kept saying you know what, what's going to be the total effect on these, the wear and tear on your body should continue. And, as doug said, we, we finished and said you know, that wasn't bad, because you know, if you're doing normally, doing sets of 30, or it's those last few that really stress your body, when you're doing 10, you're not putting that stress on your body. At least that's what we discovered.
Speaker 3:It wasn't too bad. Now we're going to add another third to that. I've been training a little bit harder this year for these, so we'll we'll see, hey on back to the challenge, ted, a couple things.
Speaker 1:Uh, number one you're you're supporting meals on wheels and I think you have a little web page where they create a little web page for you with the link. We're going to share that in our show notes. So please, anybody listening, help ted out, help Ted, raise funds and awareness, especially for Meals on Wheels and all the great work they do, and click the link and give them a support. But also, what else was I going to say, ted? What else was I going to say about the challenge? Oh, we were talking about let's see if we can get more people out there this year. Right, 68 people out there, or something like that, that's like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get 68 people out there Right, and they don't all have to come at once right Just throughout the day.
Speaker 2:What is the date?
Speaker 1:July 19th.
Speaker 1:July 19th week after the death, right, well, yeah, he always pushes it away, he, he. So he does me a solid and he, he, uh, postpones his birthday celebration so I can be a part of it, and and waits another week so that I can join him, because he knows I'll be out there suffering on the weekend of his birthday. But so I appreciate that. But so we want to try to get. So, if anyone's listening to this podcast, whether you know us or not, you know, come on down, where's it going to be ted.
Speaker 3:Osage Park in Danville.
Speaker 1:Osage Park in Danville, Danville, California.
Speaker 3:Beautiful park. There's a lot of things for the kids to do there Playground, play area yeah, it's very nice.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of trees, there's good shade, good spots. We'll have a little table set up and probably a couple little signs and some coolers with some refreshments and stuff. You can bring something if you want, but we'd love to get, you know, at least 68 people out there for to represent Ted being 68. And again, they don't all have to be there at the same time, but you know if, throughout the day, if we could have 68 different interactions, that would be freaking awesome.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, you know. Another thing Daryl is uh, you know we talked about. You know some people were very fortunate that you know we're, we're blessed with good health right now and uh, we take advantage of it. I, I, you know, I tell people, you know. They said how long are you going to do these birthday challenges? And I said as long as I'm healthy enough to do it, because I feel it'd be a sin to have your health when so many people don't, and not do something with it.
Speaker 3:You know, sit around and not take advantage of it. But I do have to say, you know, I told you I was in the dairy business for years and I've had a bad back for years. And a couple of years ago I started playing golf again, when I retired and my back had just it got to the point where I was thinking of quitting golf because after I played one day it would take me two days to recover. My back hurt so badly and my leg was going numb. And I was online one day and I this thing on on a facebook ad for, uh, it was called spinal decompression therapy. They were having a special 99, they did an x-ray and stuff. I said go see it. So I went, uh, I went to a. It was done through a chiropractor office, canyon Chiropractor in San Ramon and I I went and saw them and they looked at it, took x-rays of my spine and basically my discs had been had been compressed on over the years and they said, yeah, we can do this.
Speaker 3:And if you remember back in the day, this thing called traction, where they kind of tie your feet up and stretch out and this is a much more scientific version of that and I'll tell you it was a three-month process, two days a week, where they basically put you on a table, strapped you in and just very, very gently kind of stretch your spine out and it gets nourishment and hydration to the discs. And after three months they re-X-rayed it and it was amazing how the discs had gotten bigger again and separated the bone on bone, uh, in your spine and I mean I, I go to them, you know, once a month now, just kind of to get get adjusted. But it was, it was life-changing, allowed me to just continue doing the things I love doing. Shout out to the doctors there at canyon chiropractor, canyon chiropractor Canyon.
Speaker 1:Chiropractor Nice, okay, yeah, and they're in San Ramon, san Ramon, yeah, they still running that special, do you think, or what?
Speaker 3:I don't know if they are or not. You should tell them. You should tell them.
Speaker 1:Listen to the podcast and tag the special in this bad boy, they need to have a table at your birthday thing. They can be one of those sponsors on the side, so because we can sponsor your birthday challenge now, ted, yeah, I was actually I was there this morning.
Speaker 3:I I told him said uh, you know, I would give you a shout out on this podcast, because you guys worked wonders for me I remember going through that process with you or because ted and I check in every.
Speaker 1:We've checked in, uh, every week consistently for gosh a couple, couple, few years now, right, ted, yeah, and. And so I get to go through him with these journeys and he reports back on how things are going week by week and it's, it's just really cool. I remember you were at first you were like I'm going to try you. There was a little skepticism in the beginning, yeah, absolutely Is this going to work.
Speaker 1:But but then damn, I mean you were even talking about how your golf game improved and, uh, you know just feeling better and I'm like, damn, I need to check some of that out.
Speaker 2:Think about the guests we've had on. The difference that Ted talked about is you didn't stop. Right, yes, for something. Right, we had um. You know, we had um people on a few weeks ago that talked about being really frustrated and looked at active, active recovery. Right, you were like hey, I'm not going to go sit home to sit on the you know the couch, I'm going to go look at the chiropractor. Right, just, there's things you can do for your health, right, you know, and just don't give up.
Speaker 1:And that's and that's Ted. No-transcript. Like Ted is this guy who? He just does shit because he wants to have a better quality of life and he's willing to do the work and he's willing to do the small steps, he's willing to take the time.
Speaker 1:And, ted, I remember when you were coaching people in their health. You know, sometimes it was, it was it'd be frustrating to you because some people weren't willing to take the time to be patient, to just be consistent. But you have that gift where you're able to do that and I love having you on here because you know, year after year, day after day, month after month, you show up and you get it done. And here you are with some crazy audacious goals for steps, for pushups, for planks, you know, for this year, in 2025. So much to the point where halfway through the year, you're like you know what I need to raise these.
Speaker 1:I love that you didn't just say, okay, well, I got this, you know, and you left the coals where they were. You went in and you adjusted them, because you enjoy challenging yourself. But he doesn't challenge himself in a way where you know it's like he's stressing about it. He's like, you know, I'm just going to add on a little bit and make it happen. And this, this guy, you know, again I, this is a man I watched who was bummed out and was suffering from cracked ribs and was frustrated, you know, in a in a season in his life because his friend ran his ass over. But you know, it's all good man. But look at him now.
Speaker 3:Don't blame him, though. Be careful there. No, I know I'm just ribbing him man. Wait, who was it? Which one was?
Speaker 2:it again.
Speaker 1:What's that who ran you over, greg.
Speaker 3:Greg come on, Greg you better be out of the walk. Great, come on. He's mad at me because I made him fall. Did he break any ribs? No, he was. He had a couple scrapes, but all right. Uh, yeah, you know it was funny, daryl, that uh, he dropped me off at the hospital and uh, I went in, you know, was going through the process, and they took my jersey off and they go what's this on your back? And it was this tire mark all the way up my spine. And this is I'm telling you, this is what, while I'm going through the decompression therapy, these guys are seeing all these great benefits. And then I go in to see them and I go, hey, I said you know, had a
Speaker 3:little setback and they were great because they still managed to do the adjustments and do what I needed to do, even with the rib issues. But the next day he and I went out for a hike and I, uh, I said, look at this picture. I said, see if you can figure this out. There was a picture of my back, kind of my shoulder, and it had three lines on it three, uh, three scrapes. And I go, you have any idea what that is, how that got there, and we walked a little further. We were thinking about it. We finally concluded that, as his bike has, his tire went over me right, his pedals turned and that was his pedals going over my back as it turned and scraped the three lines on the all right.
Speaker 1:Well, you know that that makes me kind of. That just makes me a little bit wondering, man, you know who when you're running somebody over you're usually not pedaling, you know? And lessons intentional.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying come on, greg, yeah and I I don't know greg, but greg is an honorary member of team peach because early on I accidentally ran over someone on the bike trail by myself they happen to be some MMA writers right that were there and the same thing. He fell in front of me and I ran right over him and he was laying on the ground and he had a tire mark on the back. So it does happen. So, Greg, Greg, you're on team peach. Now Just let him know.
Speaker 3:It's funny, you tend to have a lot of skills on the trail.
Speaker 1:Thanks, ted has been listening to the show for sure. Hey, ted, you should get a tattoo of a tire mark on your back and then say Greg was here. No, I'm just kidding, hey. But Ted, we're going to wrap up and we're going to move into. Let's Get Deep in a minute here, but before we do, ted, I've been fortunate and blessed enough to just, week after week, you know you drop little pearls of wisdoms on me and whatnot. But is there any last thoughts on your, on your mind right now? If someone was to come to you right now who is just in a setback right now, maybe they're in an injury and they're feeling frustrated and like damn it, I'll never get this right. Or maybe it's just someone who's on the couch who just doesn't feel motivated but has this deep desire within that's just bothering them. Like God, I got to start doing something. What would you say to those people?
Speaker 3:Well, two things. One I remember, when I was going through that, talking to you, that you said here's something, take this as a challenge and learn patience. And it's funny because I think I've repeated those same words to you in the last couple of months as you've been going through your. You know you want to get out there. And I still remember five days after my fall was when I was going to ride down to santa cruz and I went to get my bike off the rack, thinking I was still going to go five days later and couldn't get my hands above my head, and that's when I realized I had my, my bag packed and everything. I was still determined to do it.
Speaker 3:So it when you're going through something like that, you have to just take a step back sometimes so you can move forward. Those just getting started I just saw a quote the other day the secret of getting ahead is getting started, very similar to what you say at the start of your podcast. You know you got to begin. We have a group text and when I walked 500 days in a row or something, my daughter said how do you walk 500 days in a row? I said well, first you have to walk the first day. You know, until you do that, you're never going to get to 500. You got to do the first one, then follow the second one and you know that's what I would recommend to anyone is you say it every every week to begin your show. Just get started. How to?
Speaker 2:do something.
Speaker 3:It doesn't have to be anything big. There's that game, liar's dice. That's kind of how I do my exercises. You know, it could be one set of five pushups, and the next week it could be two sets of five or two sets of 10, and then just each week, incrementally increasing it until, uh, you know, by when I started, you know, in september, I struggled to do, you know I think, three sets of five push-ups. Yeah, the other day I went out on a walk and I stopped along the way and do it and uh, I keep pennies in my pocket, I'm moving from one pocket to. The other day I went out on a walk and I stopped along the way and do it and, uh, I keep pennies in my pocket, I'm moving from one pocket to the other so I can keep track of how many I've done. Nice, and when I got done I looked at the pennies and I realized I had done 400 push-ups while I was walking I'm struggling to do five to 400.
Speaker 1:Come on, Ted.
Speaker 3:And it's just, it's amazing. I just I just took a step back and said, man, that's uh, that's really something, how it's gone from here to there, just, incrementally, just. And you know, I don't know the demographics of your podcast listeners, but I'm not like the two of you. I, I don't like Hills as much as you tried to convince me.
Speaker 1:I heard you scream. I love Hills.
Speaker 3:Under duress. I don't like suffering at this age. I don't want to go out there and suffer. I just want to stay healthy and I want to just go out there and do things. So it doesn't have to be about, you know not that there's anything wrong with that, because I think you guys show that improvement by doing that but it doesn't have to be that you can get your health back just getting out there and doing whatever you're physically able to do yes and you feel great today.
Speaker 1:You feel amazing, right.
Speaker 3:I do yeah.
Speaker 1:Nutritionally, nutritionally physically, mentally, all that stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, and it's funny in fact, I was with some guys last week that I work with and I used to work with I hadn't seen them in a couple years and they said man, you're, you're in good shape. They said how many guys your age do you know that are in as good a shape as you? And I thought about it for a minute and I said just about all the guys I hang out with. They're all you know, because we're all. We're all cycling, we're all hiking, we're all golfing, we're all staying active. Yeah, and I, those are the people I gravitate to, are the people that do the things that I enjoy doing. Enjoy doing it with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good shit, ted. Thank you so much, man. I appreciate it. I told you people, man, it was. We were going to talk about the power of consistency, persistence and patience in our first Ted talk today. So, uh, Ted, thank you so much, daryl, I'm gonna I'm gonna punt it back over to you and you're going to take us into this new thing we're doing at the end of our show called let's get deep and ted. As our guest, you get the privilege I don't know if I'll call it a privilege, but I'm gonna call it a privilege of be of answering these questions first and then I'll answer, is I'll answer along with you. However, daryl's gonna lay it out we've got three categories.
Speaker 2:We've got icebreaker deep and deeper, so we got three of them. So okay, here we go, here we go. Do you first? What is the most? What's the most believable conspiracy theory you've heard of, the most believable conspiracy theory you've heard of.
Speaker 3:That Oswald was hired by the mafia to put a hit on JFK All right, Good one.
Speaker 1:Doug area 51, man. I meet aliens every day.
Speaker 2:All right, sounds good, uh, uh, deep. If you could time travel uh, what time? Where? Where would you go and why? If you had time travel, where would you go? And that's a good one. If you had time travel, where would you go and why?
Speaker 3:Probably right before Apple stock took off.
Speaker 1:That's a damn good answer, Ted.
Speaker 2:And we don't need to worry about the why. I think we got it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, I always thought it'd be fun to go back into the you know, the twenties and stuff, when you know when there was real mobsters and gangsters and all that stuff and uh, and the girls with the flapper dresses and stuff and I don't know. There's just something about that era that seemed kind of it was very adventurous. It seemed at least in the movies. Right, it probably sucked in real life, but who knows.
Speaker 2:All right, and deeper. All right, Ted. What's something you can't be trusted with?
Speaker 1:I know this answer for Ted. Yeah, ted can't be trusted with ice cream. Okay, I'm going to just put it out there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, that's very true, and uh, it's funny. One thing that I've told Doug is you know, I won't. I won't eat cookies, I won't eat ice cream, I won't eat sweets. And people say, man, you've got such great self-control. And I said I have no self-control because I can't eat one cookie. If I had self-control I'd eat one cookie or one small little bowl of ice cream, but instead I'll have five cookies and a bag of chips, and so I just can't have it at all. It's much easier for me not to eat anything. So, yes, I think Doug's pretty accurate on that one.
Speaker 1:And I'm only sharing my own struggles as well. You know, I don't think I can be trusted man if I'm at a dessert buffet kind of a thing where they say, oh, it's all you can eat desserts, and I go, I can go in with the plan going, nope, I'm not going to eat that today. But then I see all the little cute little cakes and cubed brownies and this and that I'm like, well, I just won, it's just a little one, you know. So I got a. I got a terrible sweet tooth man. I struggle with that, daryl how come you're not?
Speaker 1:answering these questions, daryl, what the hell.
Speaker 2:I got the thing I'm going to call BS on Doug. Doug can't be trusted around garlic French bread. He came over, we were carboating for a big ride and I came home late and literally there was a whole loaf of garlic bread that was gone.
Speaker 1:That's a myth. Man, that was a myth. No, that's true. My wife was there, so now, Josephine.
Speaker 2:Literally when she goes to buy stuff she puts one for Doug and one for the rest of us. So that's our new goal.
Speaker 1:We're carb loading, ted. I mean come on, that's right. That's funny, all right people. So, ted, thank you so much for being on the show. Daryl, great questions. Remember, ted, what's the date of your birthday challenge again, july 19th. July 19th in Danville, california, at Osage Park, and we'll probably be out there at what time?
Speaker 3:Seven, eight, starting about eight until we finish, not stopping until we're done. 8 a about 8 until we finish, not stopping until we're done 8 am until we finish.
Speaker 1:Yes, and there'll be refreshments and stuff out there. We'll bring some stuff, bring some refreshments if you want and some snacks to share if you want. So every time, we do a lap around the park, which equals about three laps around a track, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, about three quarters of a mile.
Speaker 1:Yeah, approximately. Then we stop, we refuel or just keep going, depending on how we feel. So we'd love to get 89 minimum people out there throughout the day, 68. Or 68. 68. Fast forward.
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