Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. Let's contrast the last one. Let's talk about the fun days in the gym for a second. I'm gonna do just that and I'm gonna spotlight one of our members, Sandra, here as well. Um, and she'd kill me for the attention, but I don't care. Uh, this is Saturday morning, October 18th, 2025. Uh, that's when the workout was. I went in for the 8 a.m. class. It's a little earlier than my preferred workout time. Body's not quite ready to hit the go button just yet. But as I got there and I got warming up, I noticed that I was just in like an extra social mood, like even silly a little bit. Uh, and if you were there, you get it. Um, doing little things just to get a laugh out of someone, just to make someone smile, brighten someone maybe who needed some energy. I love those days. Sometimes I draw energy from people, and some I sometimes I have it in abundance to give. Anyway, partner workout, three parts, and the last part was an absolute burner. 10 minutes of you go, I go, 100-meter run, 10 burpees. Um, I spent most of that 10 minutes telling people who were ahead of me, you know, who got started, you know, 10 seconds ahead of me that I was gonna chase them down and not let me catch them. Um, for no other reason than I just love seeing people work hard and push more than they think they can. I'm not here to compete with anybody or anything, um, but I'm gonna try to beat you. I mean, I suppose I I I am, but it's not for anything. I'm not gonna rub anything in. I want you to go fast and I'm gonna pick you up afterward. Um, my last round of this was with Sandra. Okay, so last round, nothing to save it for, and we were cooking. Um as she was running ahead of me, I kept telling her, You better go, you better go. And as we got in the door, um, I proceeded to knock out my 10 burpees in like 18 seconds or something like that. Uh, it was it was quick. I could not go faster. The the way to get other people to push, like so we came in the door at the same time. I knew that I was gonna do them faster. The way to get other people to push is not to bait them along and then you know, let them win. It's to let them feel your push, right? That and and she did just that. Like, you know, she might have thought she knew what her fast was gonna be, and then she's like, oh shit, this guy's going. And so she knocks out hers in maybe 25 seconds. Absolutely lightning fast. Like Sanders in her 50s, okay. Remember that that 10 years of consistency to be in the top 1% of something, okay? Line me up a thousand people in Sanders demographic. She's top 1% easy. Strength, endurance, speed, heart rate, resting heart rate, body composition. Okay. Um, and so we're on our little high after the workout. Heart rates are through the roof, and she says something to me. And I can tell that she's this isn't just something that she hasn't been thinking about. You know, she's wanted to say it for a bit. Jay, women tell me all the time, they look at me and they they say that they can't build muscle or lose body fat. And I interjected, what are they doing? She said that you know, they're menopausal and it's so much harder. I said, Right, but what are they doing? People look at others like Sandra, and they don't necessarily give them credit for what they do. Oh, you just you have better genetics. Oh, I could never do that. Oh, my body, like my body responds to food differently. Oh, whatever. Okay. Sandra's been to my gym probably a thousand times in the last four years. What do you think is gonna happen? Okay, let me be clear. Uh we're not looking for credit or a pat on the back, and I know that she's not, okay. Um, I just want people to know that nothing happens by accident, right? Those people that are saying that to her, they're they're complaining. It's an excuse. They're looking for her to be like, oh, it is, you know, I do have it easy. No. No. Nothing happens by accident. Okay. I said the other day that quitting something and breaking habits usually starts with negotiating with yourself. So does not doing anything altogether. Okay. Oh, maybe this is just the way it is. Maybe I'm not meant for this. Nope. We just let ourselves think that for too long through lack of action. You can be whatever you want to be. I'll see you in the gym.