RPP 1 Consistency

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Tali 0:00

Okay, so this is take two of consistency. This is the Ruby Peak Performance Podcast.

Cody 0:06

Yes. We are consistently recording about consistency,

Tali 0:11

as in Well, we haven't been consistent at all. That's funny that you say that.

Cody 0:15

Well, it's the second podcast. So true

Tali 0:17

that Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that's gonna make its way back around, like spilling outside of all things, Jim. But, the idea behind this channel for this podcast is to be able to talk about all the things that we wanna bring up in class, but really just don't have the time to. Dive into too deeply.

Cody 0:36

Yeah. We've got 35 years of coaching experience and lots we would like to share with people, but sometimes cramming it into an hour when we're trying to get you moving and moving well and having an effective workout. Sometimes we don't get those education opportunities, so Totally. It's, um, you know, one thing to have. Workshops and things like that, but then that's just extra, extra time for everybody and, uh, this is a way for us to kind of get some extra stuff out to you all that you can listen to at your leisure.

Tali 1:08

Totally. So consistency. The reason that we decided to start with this is it's. Something that, as coaches in our meetings, we talk about all the time, what are the challenges that we're bumping up against and what are ways to alleviate that? And consistency tends to be a concept that we just come back to Always and always.

Cody 1:27

Yes. I think what initially sparked this was, uh, that we live in Wallowa County and there's tons of summer activities that everyone's trying to cram in. Like extreme. I think it's like this in a lot of parts of the world, but here the winters are extreme. Uh, the winters are, you know, kind of long and cold and uh, it's limiting. And half of our clients have kids and that kind of thing. And so all winter long everything's dictated for them. So as soon as they get some freedom in the summer, it's like. Cram everything you possibly can in, we've been trying to have a customer appreciation or you know, client appreciation anniversary party planned. We've moved the date four times. That's 'cause it's conflicting. Exactly. With other things. There's conflicting like in other.

Tali 2:16

Longer standing major events that happen here in the county.

Cody 2:20

Yeah. Which is almost every weekend. Yeah. So, yeah, it's kind of, well, it's funny, I was

Tali 2:23

actually talking to somebody about this after class about how their next four weekends are booked with seemingly fun things. Mm-hmm. But they're kind of dreading it in the way that you and I have felt about our travel plans this summer, that there's just too much of it. Yeah. And so the prepping for it and the aftermath of it is. Daunting enough that it's kind of hard to look forward to. Mm-hmm. Things that are supposed to be a good time or vacation or time off or whatever.

Cody 2:52

Yeah. Well, there's some of us too that like to have just nothing on the schedule once in a while. So you're not just dictating everything by your past self, just like ordering you around like a puppet. 'cause it's, you're like, I made these decisions weeks ago and now I'm beholden to them. And so Is that

Tali 3:09

how you feel about it?

Cody 3:10

Yeah. Sometimes I feel like, geez, I just wanna be like free to say, Nope, thanks, I'm gonna not do anything.

Tali 3:16

Well, let me tell you, you and I have been together for like eight years now. I think I'm finally that person, like I think I've become busy enough to really appreciate nothing.

Cody 3:27

Just having nothing. Yeah. Yeah.

Tali 3:29

But whatever regarding consistency, we've come to find that, um, where we live is very unique to anywhere else that we've been coaches because of the really extreme changes in activity from the fall and winter months into spring and summer. And so what. That has resulted for us is that we see seasonal athletes or seasonal members who are here for part of the year and then have a really big stretch off, and when they come back, it's. Kind of a tough go, right? It's almost like starting from scratch, especially if you're newer to exercise, it can really be enough of a down slide or a backslide, I should say, that it can almost feel like you're starting as a beginner again. Mm-hmm. And wonderfully. That will not be the case. Forever, but it's not without backslide. You and I have had experiences recently, you know, as recent as COVID or your recent injuries and my recent injuries, where we've experienced the backslide too. And you and I have decades of training under our belt. Like we are no exception, even though we've. Put in a lot of time.

Cody 4:39

Mm-hmm. Yeah. So there's things about consistency that we wanted to talk about on this podcast that I think are not all that obvious. I think that sometimes, well, first of all, we're gonna talk a little bit about what it takes to be consistent, because sometimes it's not what you think. And and then some of the ramifications of not being consistent because it's. It's more than just not quite getting the results that you want. There's more to it than that. So we just wanted to share a few of those points.

Tali 5:08

Totally. Do you wanna just start right there? That most potent one that is already kind of. Showing itself. And the last thing that you said?

Cody 5:16

Uh, yeah. So, uh, in over 20 years of coaching, now I've only had two members that got a mild case of what's called rhabdomyolysis. And sometimes it's associated with compartment syndrome. They're similar situations, but basically what happens is you work a muscle hard enough with a lot of volume. There are also things like kidney failure that can cause this or. Other, you know, like diseases, but exercise induced lysis is just an extreme overuse injury where the muscle protein breaks down so much that your kidneys can't process the proteins that are breaking down and entering your bloodstream. And so then you end up with like localized swelling. That can sometimes turn your urine brown because you're like peeing out protein and if it backs up your kidneys enough, this is like a life-threatening situation. You go to the hospital and it's, it's not good. And even in a mild case, you can cause a lot of damage, of course, to that muscle. So it's uh, it's not quite like a muscle strain. It's more like the entire muscle is sort of broken down and loses its integrity. So it can result in some long-term issues. Luckily, in the two cases that I've been experienced to, that was not the case. Both people made a full recovery but it was painful and. Discouraging and scary and it lasted for weeks. And so I'm sure

Tali 6:46

imagine scary for you as the coach.

Cody 6:47

Uh, yeah. Yeah. I don't ever wanna see anybody injured, let, let alone with something like that. And what had happened to explain the situation and how it relates to consistency is that these were both. The higher performing athletes in our gym. So people who were consistent coming in three back then, sometimes it was 3, 4, 5 times a week. Like

Tali 7:08

six pack abs.

Cody 7:09

Yeah. Five times a week. Six, six pack abs. Um. And, you know, one of the particular, one person I'm thinking of, uh, she was a gal who she kind of came in to like lose mommy fat. You know, she had a baby about a year before she started training. She was always just a runner. And then when I exposed her to mixed modality training, like CrossFit, she just kind of got addicted to it and was really. Awesome. Like she, she had this like gradual ramp up, but within two years she was like one of the fittest people in the gym and everybody's like, oh, I wanna be like Rachel. 'cause she was just like, amazing. And go, Rachel. Yeah. Six pack and knocking out like dozens of pull-ups. And she couldn't do one pull-up when she first started, you know? And she just, everybody just loved. Her and her work ethic and her abilities. It was just really fun to watch. Well, she had some work stuff that life changes and uh, had been very sporadic for a little while, and then coming in off of a two or three week gap and that's all it took was two or three weeks. Wow. I mean, there was like lower attendance, sporadic. Training and then a three week, you know, lapse. It snowballed. Um, yeah. But then she came in and did a workout that she had done in the past and, uh, hit it just as hard as she had in the past, but she was not in the same condition that she had been in the past. And so the next day her arms were all swollen like Popeye and it was just, oh no, really sad. Yeah. 'cause she had done a bunch of pull-ups and so, but that's the testament to the consistency aspect is that. I heard one coach online. I don't really agree with everything he says, but I thought it was an interesting concept that, who are we talking about? I don't even remember his name. Oh, okay. 'cause I don't, I don't like most of what he says, but this is like just one little thing that I thought was interesting that, if you take time off, you could double your time that it takes to come back. So if you take three weeks off, you're gonna take six weeks to gradually ramp back up to where you were. It's the breakup rule. It's kinda like that. It's the breakup

Tali 9:11

rule, right? Like however long you were with somebody, it's gonna take twice as long to get over them or something like that.

Cody 9:18

Something

Tali 9:19

maybe it's supposed to be actually the other way around. Like it takes us half as long, maybe half as

Cody 9:22

long, hopefully, you know, depends.

Tali 9:23

Depends on the relationship perhaps, but yeah. Yes. So in summation, consistency is safe.

Cody 9:29

Yes.

Tali 9:30

That's safe training.

Cody 9:31

That's right. Um,

Tali 9:32

it's interesting to lead with something like safety because obviously that is our primary job. Yes, we're teaching people how to do things, but we're also very much trying to keep people in a safe and productive mode of training or level of training. And that varies person to person, of course. But I often feel a little crummy about talking about consistency. 'cause I feel like it sounds salesy. Like, oh, you got this membership, like, I'm gonna see you every two, you know, two days a week for the rest of your life. Yeah, I don't want it, I don't know how to stress that. That's really not what we're saying. You know,

Cody 10:12

Is that what we're, is that, is that not what we're saying? Well, I mean,

Tali 10:15

we are, but not for the sake of like. Our business.

Cody 10:20

Yeah. We're not trying to reveal, it's really like

Tali 10:21

it's for our members' benefit. Yeah. Like that is how it allows us to do our best work to keep them safe. To train well. Yeah. Yeah. Right. It's like kind of a multi-tiered thing.

Cody 10:31

Yeah. And I think, uh, we did talk about this the last time we were having this conversation in case you didn't pick up when we were introducing this episode. Had this, we've done this before. What? This episode? Oh, this podcast. So, uh, we had an hour long podcast on here and we were feeling great, you know, and it

Tali 10:47

was really good back

Cody 10:48

on the horse, and we're like, yeah, we nailed it. And then I went in to hear the file and it was like the same 12 seconds looped over and over and over again. Compounding on itself. So it sounded like there was a thousand of us in a room saying the same thing.

Tali 11:00

Not worth listening to, I guess.

Cody 11:01

Yeah, it was unsalvageable even with ai. But anyway

Tali 11:05

did you try ai? Oh, I tried everything. I tried. No way. Yeah,

Cody 11:08

I gave it an, an effort. Old AI try. I, uh, um, what I had mentioned on that podcast that is relevant to what you were just saying though, is that we've. Really worked hard to try to align our business success with our client success, so our incentives are aligned so we do better in business when people are consistent. But that's because we want people to be consistent. We want them to get the effectiveness of their training in a safe manner and see these long-term results. And so we've designed our business. With the same incentives. Like we do better when our cons, when our clients are consistent, but it's also better for them. Oh yeah. So these incentives are aligned, so I don't feel smarmy about it at all. I feel like we've, we've structured our business so that our incentives match our clients and. One way to think about this too, is like, if you look at big box gyms, you know, I don't mm-hmm. I'm not gonna like, put down other businesses or other gyms that are, that might be competing with us, but I don't consider big box gyms competition, so I'm gonna shit on 'em a little bit. So big box gyms, like 24 Hour Fitness and Ballet, toll Fitness. So you're

Tali 12:17

coming from that background, like you know it through and through Yeah. LA Fitness, if you didn't know that, that Cody was a manager in. Bally's,

Cody 12:25

Bally, total Fitness. I was, yeah. Manager of like a 20, no, I think it was bigger than that. It was like a 40,000 square foot facility. It was huge. Geez. And I was the fitness director there. Well, I know for a fact that A, if everybody showed up, they wouldn't even fit in the building. You know that, right. That building already set up to fail that location had, in the, in the teens of thousands, I forget exactly how many, but it was dozens of thousands of members. Dang. At any given time, of course, you look around the gym, there's 40 people in there. Their business model is based on the fact that you're not gonna show up. Yeah, they just want your cheap dues, your $25 membership or your $50 a month membership for life. And they get you on these long contracts and they know you're not gonna show up and they don't care. Their business is not aligned with their client's success. Well,

Tali 13:12

and they're also, they're not a coach based gym. They do offer it, but. You know, there's people getting away with, it's just murder in there, you know, it's just way to terrible things. It's some people. Yeah, yeah,

Cody 13:22

yeah. So sometimes when people think about the cost difference too, and like a big gym and then a small coaching gym like this, it's like, well that's because we only have room for 10 people in our class. We want you all there totally. So we're not gonna sell 50 memberships for the same class and hope 40 of you don't show up. So I think it's. I think it's awesome. I'm, I'm proud of the fact that we actually align our incentives with our clients. Yeah. And so consistency is safe training. And then obvious, the more obvious one is that consistency is effective training. And when you look at our gym and you look at the people who are achieving amazing things, you know, just when I say that, I'm sure that a handful of people just come to mind that we know of. Oh, yeah. In our gym, who are just like, wow, I can't believe how far they've come, the things that they're doing. That, that is always, always, always associated with the most consistent people. The people who have not only been here the longest, but who have missed the fewest classes.

Tali 14:21

Well, you also mentioned early on as we started recording that, there's kind of an illusion to consistency in that there might be a mistaken idea of what it looks like. Mm-hmm. And I think consistency is really easily mistaken to be thought of. Like showing up every single time I'm ready to hit it a hundred percent. Like I'm feeling good every day. And that is not it. Like the people who are coming to mind are people who've probably had the rockiest roads with us. Injuries, lifestyle changes, whatever. But the fact that they're continuing to circle back and return, and return and return regardless of what their life is throwing at them, that's who sticks out to me. Mm-hmm. Right. You're showing up, right? Like that, that first consistency rung is just showing up. Yeah. There are more levels beyond that in terms of like how much you're lifting or how intense you are. Like consistency can kind of. Build on itself, but just showing up and just doing that minimum can go so far. Yeah. And those are the people who come to mind who have really accomplished amazing, amazing things with us.

Cody 15:30

Yeah, and I don't know who to give credit to this, to, it's something we've talked about so often. I forget where we, where we learned it, but that sometimes, you know, if, if 50% is all you have to give. But you give 50%. If that was all you had to give, then you gave a hundred percent that day. Right. So I

Tali 15:48

think I know where that came from. Mm-hmm. I think that's a Brene Brown thing.

Cody 15:50

Okay.

Tali 15:51

She had talked about that as like a relationship.

Cody 15:54

Mm-hmm.

Tali 15:54

Like showing up for your relationship and you might not be able to show up a hundred percent each day, or maybe each person is responsible for some portion of a hundred percent. Right.

Cody 16:05

Similar. Yeah. Something like

Tali 16:06

that.

Cody 16:07

Yeah. But that's what real consistency looks like. Yeah. It's when you're dragging yourself in and you don't really want to be here or you have an injury and it's discouraging, but you're willing to trust your coach anyway and say, you know what, we can move through this. We could work around this, we can modify, we can assign you a different movement and being willing to do that and not feeling like a failure or, you know, maybe you do feel like a failure. Like that's, that's the funny thing is like, it kind of doesn't matter how you feel about it. Just do it anyway. Yeah.

Tali 16:36

It's true. If you're

Cody 16:37

just here doing it, it's so true. You may. Feel discouraged. You may feel like you're being held back. You may feel like this injury is stunting your growth or whatever, but you showing up is the difference between you continuing to make progress and reduce the likelihood of your injuries. Versus somebody who has an issue, let's, my elbows messed up, I can't come train. It's like, well, I don't buy that. You got three other limbs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I used to have a coach with one arm, so that excuse doesn't fly with me.

Tali 17:05

Right.

Cody 17:06

Yeah.

Tali 17:07

Well. And what an example to set for everybody else in the room too, right? Like when I had injured my glute the other summer you know, we still had early morning barbell club and I was going to that class and I did everything everybody else did, but with a dowel. Mm-hmm. And I could tell, I could feel that there was a really important. Opportunity there to show that even the coach, like even the person in charge or the strongest person in the room, or like whoever it is, if they can humble themselves enough to pick up a dowel instead of a barbell, because that's gonna be the best option for them to get a good workout that day. Mm-hmm. You're teaching other people in that moment too. We all get discouraged by injury. We all get discouraged by whatever reason we feel like we can't come to the gym. And you getting back up and showing up and making it happen some way is incredibly inspiring. Like we are a young gym and one of the reasons that we have this podcast is. To teach all of these things kind of upfront rather than like many years down the line. And so that, I think is a really important example to set for other members too.

Cody 18:21

Yeah, that's a good point. That part of consistency is just inspiring the people who you're with too. So it's not just a selfish thing, like, no, we're a team being here showing up every time. Like you're setting a great example for other people that you know. May not have perfect circumstances either. And so you, you know, if, if you are fitter than them or usually outperforming them, being willing to like humble yourself and do a lesser workout for a period of time while you're healing is a great example for those people. Yeah. Ego can kill

Tali 18:52

you in both directions, right? Yeah. Like if you are trying to like. Crush it. Smash it to, you know, at your body's expense in front of everybody. That's like one way ego shows up. But the other is to have so much ego that you're not even willing to show up. Right. Yeah. And that's something that I think our gym does really special Lee, in a special way especially, I dunno, but we've had a handful of people who have joined our gym who are kind of wied out by the idea of working out in front of other people. Mm-hmm. And I kind of just say like. You gotta get over that. Yeah. Like a a, nobody's watching you, but like b people are are watching you. Yeah. Like we are a collective community, um, of like-minded people and you know, setting that example is gonna have a benefit beyond just yourself.

Cody 19:39

Yeah, for sure.

Tali 19:40

Yeah, definitely.

Cody 19:43

The other thing about consistency I'd like to talk to you a little bit about is like the psychological aspect of it. It is so much easier to keep going than to start going. Starting is the worst part, like every, I mean, if any of you remember what it was like to not have a fitness program routine, aren't like, get themselves here. Yeah. Or to get yourself to the gym the first time, or? To change an eating habit or anything like quitting alcohol or whatever like that, it's always that first go out of it that just is, that just sucks. Like there's fear of, there's an unknown, there's feel of fear of failure or fear of, um, showing up and being seen. You know, there's all kinds of different fears around starting. And what's interesting is even if you get past that and you're consistent for a while, but then you drop off. Those fears return.

Tali 20:37

Oh yeah.

Cody 20:37

When it comes time to restart. So better to just be consistent and not ever take the time off. Totally. 'cause then you just avoid that whole psychological rollercoaster.

Tali 20:49

Well, ab like, I completely agree. And you know when we first moved here, it was in the middle of COVID or right at the beginning of COVID. And so nothing was going on. We didn't have a gym, we weren't working, we weren't doing a lot and. I had mistakenly thought, okay, I had trained really hard for the last seven years. I can probably stand to take a year off and I'll be fine. Mm-hmm. And that was not the case at all. Lifestyle had changed completely. Definitely won too many nachos, lots of movie watching, uh, and a long winter, you know, up on the slope. And my body totally deconditioned. Shocking to me how quickly I could lose as much muscle as I did. And you know, it's taken years to come back to that. Mm-hmm. That's, it's taken years to come back to 80% of my fittest body. Mm-hmm. I'm also only getting older.

Cody 21:47

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like this

Tali 21:48

only gets harder. Right. The longer you like the, the more we like fall off the wagon, like you're getting older simultaneously. Yeah. So we're not making it easier for us.

Cody 21:57

Yeah.

Tali 21:58

At all.

Cody 21:59

Yeah. There's definitely no such thing. This may be a whole other topic for a podcast, but there's no such thing as maintenance.

Tali 22:05

Yeah.

Cody 22:06

There's just not, you're either making, it's an illusion. Yeah. You're either making progress somewhere or you are decaying because that is the nature of the universe. I actually thought about that today. Just, it's like this infinite heat death. What?

Tali 22:16

Kevin said something today during open gym, like he's trying to avoid perishing or something, and that exact thing came to mind 'cause it's true. We're just trying to. Outrun the inevitable, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and something I wanted to say about setbacks and lifestyle change and injury is like those are gonna happen. Mm-hmm. Like expect it to happen. Like let's just throw that out there right now. Mm-hmm. There are gonna be set setbacks to your training. No one has just the up and up trajectory, not even like. Olivia Reeves, right? Like from a distance, it looks like she's just on this upward trajectory forever. And there's just like no ceiling in sight. Look her up if you haven't heard of her. She's an incredible young weightlifter who's just rocking the world. Um, but even she would have setbacks. Everybody has an off day. Everybody has a meeting that comes up. Everybody has family emergencies. Everybody has injuries. It's gonna happen.

Cody 23:17

Yep. Yeah. Can't be fair weather about this, basically.

Tali 23:22

Mm-hmm.

Cody 23:22

Yeah,

Tali 23:24

I think most of our members are getting the hang of that. Oh, for sure. I really do. I, it's a lot of returning conversations and we don't get to have those conversations with everyone, you know? You and I. It's you and me and a hundred members. Mm-hmm. Which is amazing. And this is exactly why we have the podcast. We wanna be able to talk to you. Almost like we're talking one-on-one, but I just also wanna kind of plug in here that remember you have the opportunity to meet with your coach whenever you need to, right? Mm-hmm. We have progress reviews that you can schedule at any time. You know. Given the schedule works, but we want you, we're working on that. Yeah. We want you to have access to us so that we can help you through these challenges that I mentioned are inevitably gonna happen, and how do we stay on track? How do we make adjustments for what your life realistically allows?

Cody 24:14

Yep.

Tali 24:14

Yeah. And that's a moving target that changes all the fing time.

Cody 24:19

Oh yeah. Yeah. Where you're going is always gonna be a moving target. Yeah. We can only hope for a sort of directionally correct trajectory. Mm-hmm. Um. And make adjustments as we go. And that's what real consistency is. It's, it's not doing the same thing over and over. I think that's where the misnomer comes from is like consistency is doing the same thing over and over and over. No consistency is being willing to pivot in order to continue to do the thing. Mm-hmm. Rather than letting any deviation trip you up.

Tali 24:48

Yeah. It's trending in the right direction. Yeah. Even if it looks completely different. Leave and you planned.

Cody 24:53

Yep.

Tali 24:54

Yeah.

Cody 24:54

And injuries are gonna happen outside the gym. Like it's not just, they usually do, we're not ta Yeah. Usually we're not talking about just like exercise induced injuries. It's like every, it's like you're gonna be injured, you might as well also be fit.

Tali 25:06

You know what's funny is when we were coaching in the city pickup basketball was like, oh yeah. The worst. Yeah. Like members of mine who would play pick up basketball always wrecked themselves and. Pick a basketball is not a thing here, which I'm okay with for one, but you know what it is.

Cody 25:24

Mm-hmm.

Tali 25:25

Shoveling snow,

Cody 25:26

gardening,

Tali 25:27

gardening, like, yeah. There are these like things going on on the weekends that like, don't sound like they're gonna be so physically taxing, but like people are wrecking themselves out there. Yeah.

Cody 25:37

Yeah. Just had our uh, sixth gardening injury this year in one in my classes. No way.

Tali 25:43

You're keeping track of those. Oh

Cody 25:44

yeah. So usually it's back issues, uh, or knee issues. Mm-hmm. And in this case, uh, someone got some, uh, swollen wrist from pulling weeds too hard, like Oh my, like, yeah. Oh no. So careful out there folks. Yeah. But she came in

Tali 26:01

Awesome.

Cody 26:01

Yeah. Who needs a rest and had a great workout. Yeah. We, we just worked around it and it was great. Yeah. While we're on the subject of injuries too, the. It's very important to realize that the same mechanisms that help you get fitter from your workouts are at play in healing injuries. So in its broadest sense, a workout actually is a breakdown of your systems. Somehow you're either challenging your heart to, uh, outpace what it would normally do, your lungs, your lung capacity, your breaking down muscle tissue, literally. Microscopic level scarring of your muscles, and it's that trauma in quotations, that sort of microtrauma that your body's adapting to that makes you stronger, leaner, improves your VO two max and all those kind of things. Well, that means that the same stimulus of challenging your body and the hormonal response, the down to a cellular level of how those cells repair. That's all the same mechanism. So if you are working out while you're injured, you're actually very likely to recover from your injury faster. Totally. Than if you're just taking it easy. I'm not talking about pushing the injury itself. Mm-hmm. You know, like if, I mean, if you have tendonitis in a joint, I'm not gonna like. Tell you to load up that joint and just keep working. That's not what I'm saying, but working around it and having a full body exercise experience and being consistent and trying to improve in other areas and still gaining strength and all those hormonal responses that you get from that training is gonna help the injured area.

Tali 27:43

Mm-hmm.

Cody 27:44

So just something to keep in mind when it comes to injuries and whether that's the thing that's holding you back or not.

Tali 27:50

Totally. And I think just what you were saying just makes me think about. Building momentum as well. I think there's kind of a tendency to feel this kind of starting and stopping, uh, when it comes to a lack of consistency. And you get to celebrate the accomplishment of having come in. Every single time you make that happen. Yeah. Sometimes coming to class isn't the right choice, but I'll say, you know, come to open gym, I'll work with you. Mm-hmm. You know, there's gonna be something that we can do to continue to move the needle in the direction that you told us you wanna go to when you first sat down. Like, just know that every conversation that we're having with you. Encouraging you to come in. It might feel pushy at times, but just know that we're advocating exactly what you asked us for.

Cody 28:38

Yeah.

Tali 28:38

You know, this is what we do best and we need you guys to remind that to us too. Like we are no exception. We run up or we bump up against all the same challenges. And you know, you're my trading partner. You know, I really appreciate all the times that you. Ask me if I'm going to the gym, you know, it's right next door. Mm-hmm. And you would think at this point it would be a given, but sometimes it's not like, there are so many days that I wanna bail, I'm tired. I have a lot on my plate. Like in general, like aside from work and. There are some days where it just feels like too much. But I have never regretted going in. Ever. Yeah. Ever, ever. And I know that I've been able to get back to where I am prepared to compete again. Mm-hmm. You know, after seven years because of that consistency. And it took a long time to get there. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie. Like it was touch and go for a while. And ever since we've had formal classes, like peak fit classes, that's really where it made the difference for me. Yeah.

Cody 29:43

Yeah. Yeah. And I think you make a good point about how long it took to get consistent too, is just like, that's what, that's how you get consistency is you, when you're not consistent, you just, you show up again. One more. Mm-hmm. One more, like, today's workout is the most important workout of your life. 'cause today is all that there is. Yeah. The past is done and you can't predict what's gonna be happening later on. So like, today's workout is that important? It's everything. Mm-hmm.

Tali 30:09

Show up today. Well, and. It's taken about three years. Right. As long as we've been in business. Mm-hmm. For me to get back to where I am right now, which is still not at my very best, but I'm pretty glad to be here. Yeah. You know, I'm just grateful to not be back there

Cody 30:22

better than we were three years ago. Yeah, for sure. I want to touch on too, before we run out of time here, the we've been talking about injuries derailing people a lot, but there's also family and obligations. And I wanna touch on this in a couple different ways because. Uh, if you have young kids, I, I've raised three kids, so I'm not just talking outta turn here. I've, I've experienced, I know where you're at, uh, with that. And it is crazy the the number of commitments that you can get yourself into because you wanna say yes to your kids all the time, or you want to, you wanna be a great parent. And I think it really needs to be. Recognized and it can't be overstated that you showing the commitment. To yourself to take care of yourself and to, to show up to the gym when you don't want to or when they have things going on. And sometimes you have to say no. The thing is, is that it's a monkey see, monkey do situation. Like kids learn from example more than any lecturing. You my, you know, it's like my parents smoked and they told me not to smoke. And it's like, well, I'm gonna try that 'cause you're doing it all the time anyway. So, uh, but, but being that example for them, like if you really, I, I know as a parent, I want my kids to be fit and healthy, so I look at this as somewhat of an act of service to them.

Tali 31:41

Yeah. You're setting the best example. Yes.

Cody 31:43

And if you have adult kids. There's kind of another aspect to this, which is that you're, which you now have, which I now have. Yeah. Which is, uh, once you have adult kids, it's a little different. Yes. You can still be a great example to them as you age, you know, to show them that you don't ever have to just sort of succumb to decrepitude and, and failing, but they're gonna be taking care of you someday. Like, that's kind of the way the world works is that, and eventually our kids have to step up and help us out and. Showing a commitment to your fitness is an act of service to those people who are gonna be taking care of you later on because you're gonna be, be able to push out that day,

Tali 32:24

right? For when they have to put their lives on hold. Yeah.

Cody 32:27

They may have to put their lives on hold to take care of you for a while. And you could push that out. Very likely to the last couple weeks of your life rather than the last couple decades. Yeah. And that's a big difference. What a different story. Yeah. Yeah. And so I may, may sound dramatic the way I'm phrasing that, but it's, I see it, I see it all the time. And so it's not overstating the matter

Tali 32:49

Yeah. To be a

Cody 32:50

great example for your kids, but also to, to take care of yourself almost as a, a service to your kids too. Most definitely. So that they're not. You know, spending decades of their lives. Taking care of you when you can't get up off the floor or can't go to the bathroom by yourself or whatever like that. That's a real, that's a reality. A lot of us don't want to think about it, but yeah. Uh, we're all, we're all heading here. We're all going there. We're all heading in that direction, for sure.

Tali 33:13

Yeah. I would say, um, you know, I can't relate to being a parent, but my parents both set this example for me and I, they don't really believe me, but I tell 'em all the time that they have to take some credit for the direction that my career has taken because my mom would wake up. Early at four in the morning to work out every single morning. And my dad was a competitive bodybuilder and dragged me to the gym before school every morning. So, you know, it took a while for me to kind of find my own way, but they showed me with great commitment that this is a part of your life and this is gonna allow you to live well. And they are. They really are.

Cody 33:52

Yeah. That's great. Is there anything we missed so far?

Tali 33:56

Oh gosh. I'm sure we did just because that first time was so great. Guys. I wish you could hear it. It was like light me in a bottle. But you know what? We're gonna have more conversations about this. I'm sure this has a way of creeping up all the time. Like I mentioned in the beginning, this is a conversation that Cody and I are having always, and yeah. More to come.

Cody 34:13

Yeah, more to, to try. We have lots more to talk to you about. We also have multiple podcasts. So this is the Ruby Peak Performance.

Tali 34:20

Mm-hmm.

Cody 34:20

Uh, series. We also have a series that we put out a couple years ago called The Philosophy of Fitness. Oh, it's been

Tali 34:25

more than a couple of years. Um,

Cody 34:28

a couple can be okay. Right. So, uh, the philosophy of fitness where we talk about. The non fitness related things that fitness concepts carry over to, and it was a really fun series. I don't even think we're done with it yet. Other things keep coming up.

Tali 34:42

Oh, yeah.

Cody 34:42

Uh, we've toyed with the idea of writing a book and that that podcast series would be the, the fodder for that book. Kinda a first draft, if you will, but you get to listen in on that. Overall arching channel there is live all your life. And it has several series on it. So anyway, lots of places to tune into us talking about all kinds of different things. And soon we would like to have some guests on this show. We'd like to have our members, you who are listening for the Ruby Peak Performance podcast. Totally. And because you're the star of the show, like we, we have lots we wanna share and, and help people, and it's a passion for us. But, you are actually the star of the show, so we would like to highlight that and and have you guys on here and get to know more. I'm so excited. More about you. Yeah, I'm so excited. Me too.

Tali 35:26

Yeah,

Cody 35:26

so I guess we'll wrap this one up.

Tali 35:28

Yeah. Thanks for making it happen today.

Cody 35:29

Yeah, you too. It's a busy day. You have an appointment in 25, 30 minutes.

Tali 35:34

Yep.

Cody 35:35

Alright, I'll see you next time.

Tali 35:37

Love you.

Cody 35:38

Love you.