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Transform Your Fitness Journey with Expert Tips from Deshaun Jackson
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Jan 1, 2025
#crazyfitnessguy #weeklymotivationwithcrazyfitnessguy #crazyfitnessguyhealthylivingpodcast #jimmyclare Welcome to our channel, where fitness meets expertise! In this video, Deshaun Jackson, an esteemed personal trainer, shares invaluable fitness tips and tricks. Whether you're a beginner embarking on your fitness journey or a seasoned athlete, Deshaun's insights will guide you toward achieving your goals. Where To Watch?📺 Watch our show live on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch or on our website at https://www.crazyfitnessguy.com/ About The Guest Deshaun Jackson story and expertise stand out due to a combination of diverse professional roles, a commitment to personal development, and a unique journey that intertwines personal challenges with professional achievements. As a 44-year-old African American male from Davison, Michigan, just outside of Flint, he navigated through various roles including fatherhood, Physical Therapist Assistant, and now Registered Nurse. Graduating from the University of Michigan-Flint during the Covid-19 pandemic was a significant milestone, particularly in a field predominantly occupied by Caucasian females. This experience presented distinct challenges as I balanced rigorous academic demands with societal perceptions and systemic barriers. Follow Guest: https://instagram.com/psychrnfit/ Support CrazyFitnessGuy, Connect, Shop, And More!
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guy welcome to another episode of crazy finsy health1 podcast that's R motivation with crazy fin guy today's
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guest his name is Deshawn Jackson and uh he's going to come out introduce himself
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and uh we're gonna have a great conversation so please sit back relax and enjoy the
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show hello how you doing Jimmy how you doing today good how are you good thanks
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for having me on want to thank your listeners for tuning in so before we get started can you tell us a little about
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who you are what you do how it got started and why it got started absolutely my name is Deshaun Jackson
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and a little bit about myself I am a lifestyle and fitness coach I have
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started this lifestyle fitness coach brand because I found myself struggling
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through life and needing Mo mentoring and motivation so when I found myself in
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that situation I found myself a coach who helped teach me to help push my lifestyle and brand and the foundation
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for this is I currently work as a psych nurse in a partial hospitalization program where I work with youth and
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adults in mental health I have used this Foundation working in mental health as the basis for starting my lifestyle
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fitness coaching um I'm a father I'm recently divorced um
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uh Avid workout Enthusiast um and a physical therapy assistant and I use all
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these in my life's journey to help people grow expand move from what they're struggling with and their liing
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beliefs to push them into a better future wow I think that's a very very
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fast elevator pitch my goodness and I mean that in the most sincere way as possible I mean there's sometimes where
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I can narrow myself down really quickly and then there some days my my words get
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all mixed up and mumble jumble all over the place and it's like oh well that person's not gonna hire me
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crap but you make it really make it seems very easy thank you just been doing it for a
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while um you know previously like I said I was a physical therapy assistant for seven years um graduated from a
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community college and took myself to the University of Michigan Flint as a nurse graduated with my RN and immediately
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jumped into psych and I've been pushing mental health and My Lifestyle brand ever since you know uh for me I got into
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fitness because I got into I had I've been bulling for eight plus years of my
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life and the only way I was able to stay stand up to the bullies was to lose 30
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pounds and uh I've been working on it since 2011 and the only times when I have ever
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stopped working out was because I've been sick for a week or two but other than that I just I pretty much love
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working out so much that I can every time on like sick in bed or whatever I'm
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like I miss working out I hate this feeling already people's like there some people's
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like don't you ever stop and it's like no
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no Jimmy it sounds like for you working out changed your life the same way it in a different way but in the same way it
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changed mine um for me growing up as a teenager I was the fat kid I had man
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boobs and I hated it I remember when I was young growing up it was always shirts and skins and the Skins had to take their shirts
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off and they had to run up and down the court and I always had mine jiggling and it had a big impact on me when I was a
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kid and I remember as I finally got an adult I was tired of it and I didn't want to go back and that one of the
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things that help forced me into the gym yeah I was heavy as well for my age
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group uh pretty much I anytime I had to run or do
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something uh everything jiggled and also um I I could never change in the locker
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rooms because I I just did not like how I looked uh uh and I also didn't like
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how I felt and I admitted I ate a lot of junk food back then me too the time the
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only time now I eat junk food is like special occasions where I I've made a rule for myself a very hard rule for
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myself that says if I have dessert it has to be something where I can't get
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easily and it has to be like if it's ice cream it has to be
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either an ice cream shop down at the shore that I can't get a can't get a a
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similar flavor to what I have in my grocery store has to be special
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occasions like if it's a birthday but it depends on what that
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person has for their birthday if it's like store bought it's like I could go to my store and buy cake too and it's
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like not very special but it was like homemade it's it's like oh yeah you know I made this and it's like oh okay now I
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want to go eat it now yep yeah I mean not trying it's like
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okay I admit I I broke that rule a little bit uh over uh last weekend when
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I had a F small little family reunion for the day and somebody brought store
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bar cookies and it was like one of those like gooey chocolate chip cookies and
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I'm sure it was nothing in there absolutely I know it's not healthy at all but I only had one I was like okay I
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never had a chocolate I mean I I had a chocolate chip cookie before but I was like it's been a such a long time since
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I had one that is actually gooey and it's like okay you screw it I'm I'm just gonna have
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one so I was like yeah fun it's fun as long as for me as long as I can fit it
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into my macron nutritions I absolutely will eat it if I can fit into my diet I can have it if I can't I got to get rid
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of it so yeah I can still people think when you when you start to diet they think that you have to take away
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everything they enjoyed no we just learn how to how to learn how to eat in moderation exactly like uh for instance
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I actually had uh I didn't mean for this to actually happened but uh when one of
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my friends was visiting me at at my parents sh house the I had
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uh I had this nice barbecue uh sandwich and it it was a brisket
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sandwich and I had that for dinner with there's this thing called uh there these
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homemade potato chips I had those too and I was like okay this is gonna be my
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only cheat meal day well then T Tuesday came around and and I I had
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a I pushed myself during this hard workout uh I took Monday off just
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because I knew that they were coming down and then Tuesday I didn't know if we were leaving in the morning or we
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were just hanging out and we leaving at night so we chose to leave at night but
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so then during the day on Tuesday I had a medium ice cream cup and I was like I
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worked out and I knew I was gonna be walking some during the day too so I was
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like okay you know worst case and plus I didn't have like so I usually have like
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small little snacks do during the day like protein bars or or or nuts but then sometimes I I
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didn't have many snacks during day so then it's was like okay so I didn't
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consume a lot of calories so I was like okay I can fit this in and I like worst case I might gain a pound or two but
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then I found the oppos when I weighed myself this morning I actually lost a pound it's like how does that work nice
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nice I mean honestly I didn't even know I was like maybe I gained a pound and I just walked just lost it again I don't
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know but I like I'm just gonna go with it screw
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it so uh what's your favorite what do you find the most what's your favorite
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thing to do when you're working out uh for me I love body weight
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exercises you give me squats you give me pull-ups give me burpees um any type of
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leg workout uh Romanian deadlift Bulgarian split squat um give me Dynamic
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hit exercises um I I love it all I tend to not just focus on heavyweight and
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bodybuilding I love a good hit workout or um a body weight exercise
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workout I like hit as well uh I'm the the thing for me for about leg
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days I can't do a lot during leg days due to I have slight arthritis in my
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right knee and my knees Point Inward and and I find and my one of my doctors
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said to me the reason why I have um the author is at at 30 something years old
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and is simple wear and tear but also because my knees Point inward it puts more pressure on and so I focus more on
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the exercises that strengthen it like uh simple squats I even do sumo
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squats uh sometimes I do a squat with a Twist just to work some my op leques but
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but I I stay away from any kind of lunges any kind of split squats just because
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I'm like if my physical if I go back to my physical therapist he's gonna kick my
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butt and he told me that and he he's like I will kick your butt and it's like and it's like and I will double torture
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you if you come back I like you can come back for something else but if it's your knee and I like I'm gonna tell you I
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told you so I was like no I'm good because I did that twice and he's
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like third time it's like it's not the charm I like
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understandable you didn't have any injections in the knee no I ju no injections in the knee
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but all I just been doing is I do my knee exercises every single day when I
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get up first thing I do in the morning and then uh and then I also been
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implementing a lower back exercise just because I had lower back pain last year
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before um before I went on a trip with my family and and none of my doctors or
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physical therapists know why what why it happened it's like backs spasm it's like
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great what else can go wrong with my body so I started implementing a small
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little back exercise it wasn't like uh what's this things called
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uh uh jeez now of course when I'm looking for the information my brain is like no I'm not gonna give you any of
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information uh I'm gonna come back to that exercise but uh but something I can
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do I can use my uh it's basically kind it's called the the one I do is called a
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half Cobra and so it's not full Cobra so it's like a yoga move but I did a few
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times this is strengthen just the lower part of my back I know there's a better
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a different kind of exercise it's more like Superman or something but I but I
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can't do that because of my spinal sosis in my neck and so instead of me making excuses it's like I was like let me find
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something I can do uh to strengthen my lower back so I I went with the half
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Cobra and it's like no pressure on my neck so what the heck I'll try good
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nice is I think for a lot of people that some people like when they like oh I
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can't do that so I'll just fast forward and Skip through it's like no no no you don't skip youh it's like you add
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something different it's like just because if you're on a a fitness platform and the trainer is
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doing something do something different if you can't do what the trainer is doing right modify yep yep absolutely if
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they're doing jump squats I'm just I'm just doing a regular Squat and I just do a
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cafr yeah nice way to modify the exercise but still get it done yep
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absolutely and for the burpees I would just step back uh one leg at a time and
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do it as quick as possible just because I'm uh a another fun fact about my body
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is I have weak wrists so I'm afraid if I jump back I'll probably smash my wrist
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into the floor and break it okay okay hey at least I at least I
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know my body and you know your body yes because some people like I'm gonna be able to do that and it's like yeah do
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you really want to do that and it's like not me it's like I don't want to damage something in my body yeah for me it's
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the right shoulder I can't do heavy weight anymore on that right shoulder I can still work it out but when it gets
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to heavy way it starts to talk to me so my my next question for you is why
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do you think some what in your opinion why do you think some people uh hate working
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out one I think some people hate working out because a they haven't done it before they have no experience they have
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no knowledge of it and it's uncomfortable to go in and the next day know you're going to be sore you're not
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going to feel like it you're going to hurt to sit down on the toy all of these things I think deter people
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from going in the G the gym also on top of it um some of it is also knowledge
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like a coach or a mentor they don't have one so they don't know what to go in and do how to go in and do it if they're
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doing it the right way so one I think a you need to get your knowledge up two if you don't know you need to get yourself
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a mentor or a coach that can help and guide you in the gym um and three I
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think some people are dealing with past injuries and like you stated they don't know how to modify so because of the
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injury they stop all together versus saying I can do it but in a different
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way it reminds me of somebody uh I know at karate there was one time
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where uh he injured his foot or something or maybe it was his ankle and
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he had to wear a boot and people thought he was crazy for going into for
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wearing right in the boot and he like what if I can't kick with the leg I can
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still Punch Yeah Yeah it's like and I still
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have the other leg that still kicks so it's like and what you're talking about is a bit okay so I I'm gonna summarize
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what you just said I'll hear people tell me all the time well I injured a part or I injured my leg or I injured my knee or
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I injured my hip or something why I'm like you still have other body parts you can work there's still other things that
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can be done just because your shoulders may make it some issues don't mean there aren't body parts that we can still
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work exactly uh every time when I want to make it
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sometimes there's some I admit there's some days where I just feel like I don't
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feel like working out but then if I don't feel if I don't work out like I only give myself like maybe like one
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rest day uh and I met there was maybe a few
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weekends ago where I get myself to was just because uh I think I was just where was
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I let's just say I it was just like a very busy weekend and it was just like
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nothing was just my usual routine was just like just literally gone and it's
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like okay uh I guess I'm not working out this weekend but it's was like okay whatever uh and I just got back on a
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straight there on Monday but it's like you know what sometimes you just need uh two days off and it's like okay as long
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as it's not a whole week and three weeks and four weeks and five weeks really true it gets harder to start back
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up yeah so my next question for you is if somebody is having a hard
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time getting going into working out or when they hit a rhythm but then they had
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to stop because they got sick or whatever how do they
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how can they bounce back from that when you say sick are we talking about the flu type of sickness the flu or cold or
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just whatever um one the way I look at obstacles the the adversity that you're
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talking about the flu you caught a cold the flu is one of the most common illnesses around so what happens is
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though when we when we catch the flu we act like it's so bad it's so worse
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everybody catches a flu at some point so for me it's putting perspective hands
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down I have to put perspective on it and two if I'm sick does my body need to rest does it need um sleep does it need
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to if it doesn't I have yet to ever experience working out in the gym and when I get done I feel bad or I feel
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worse so I know that even if I'm sick as long as I'm not contagious and giving it to everybody I can still go and push
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myself and do something because I know in the end I'll feel better so I try to stress that to people that whatever
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you're going through not going to the gym isn't going to help your situation any if we need to rest because you're
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sick that's one thing but going to the gym while you're sick as long as you're not contagious I'm for it I have found
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in my experience and what I know of people that work out they tend to on average almost all the time feel better
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after a workout of some kind you know I actually did try working
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out when I was uh like on the edge of getting better but then but then of
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course uh my body decided to take a turn and decided to say I'm G make you go to
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stay in bed for the next two weeks and I was like n yourself I'm never doing that
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like suggestion for my brain again yeah yeah I try to stay as
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consistent as I can again do I get sick does it happen yes and I just if I'm not if I'm not contagious I'm going and I'm
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going do something mild little whatever I got to push to squeak out because again it's part of the daily process I
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know I tend to feel worse if I don't I think for me I like
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to if I'm not feeling well like I can barely get out of bed I'm I stay in bed
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a couple of days to see see like okay if I'm lightheaded I'm I can't really
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uh sit at the desk but if I'm feeling okayish no interviews just because my
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appearance might look like crap on camera and I'm just blowing my nose a lot been there done that uh and I I
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decided this just like okay you know if my body needs to rest let it rest
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and I was like and it makes me miss the gym even more because me more excited to
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come back because like okay if my B's telling me I need a rest I'm just going to let it rest I like if I try to fight
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it it's like I could either piss off my body more and then it'll piss me off even more so it's like it's not a it's
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there's no win-win for either way I agree I agree
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um I found myself I play volleyball avidly and um I found myself injured at
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the beginning of the year as I partially tore my patella uh quad tendon excuse me my calf tendon and it
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was difficult trying to still find the motivation to go work out even though I
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can barely walk in this one leg and still having to realize you still got three other good body parts to Sean
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let's go got to put some working I like that mindset and you know
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I've been I've been implementing ways to like I'm me and my brother taking a uh
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trip to Japan soon and he uh I I know I
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probably won't be able to work out as much as I want to but then you know one
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of the things that my brother's planning on doing is going for a hike and I like well you know I'm gonna be working a lot
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on this trip I'm gonna go I like take some trains but then I'm gonna do a lot of walking and so I was like well
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there's exercise right there like what I say is if if people find
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themselves without a gym I I talk to people all the time who will tell me you know like almost if I don't have a gym I tell them body weight squats step back
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lunges burpees and push-ups you got your workout right there with those four core
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exercises I mean I haven't really I haven't been in a gym
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for I think 10 years I've been uh on this platform called fiton the last year
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now and I've been enjoy what I like about it is that um it gives you a lot
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of different workouts give you some it gives you nutritional plans and
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whatnot and it's like well that's actually better than going to the gym because you know at the gym you're paying a membership just to get into the
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door uh you're not paying you're not uh finding there's no one there to
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really help you navigate how how do you do this properly they
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might sometimes I heard from some people that they might be like a video on that
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machine and it's like hey this is how you do this kind of exercise and whatnot
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but that's pretty much
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it um you cut out the last part sounded like you were asking me how do you figure out the exercise if you don't
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have a have never tried it before no I I was just saying like for one thing uh like for me for my
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fitness platform uh it it you basically
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for my the fitness platform you basically they show you exercise and how
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on how stuff is supposed to do versus going in the gym paying for a membership you have to there's some people that
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they they're trainers but that's extra and so with the membership you're only paying to get into the door and
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uh so I haven't really used a gym for 10 years and I I I worked out my own I've I
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got resistance bands because one thing I've learned about resistance bands you can't cheat I I've tried it doesn't work
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very I mean like with weights I seen some people when I used to go to the gym
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there's one guy who's like just lifting back and forth rocking back and forth with weights it's like yeah and that's
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how you g injure yourself and ironically the guy got injured because I I remember over
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hearing him and then he got injured and and I was still in the gym while he was
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being injured I was like how did I know he was gonna get injured it's like I
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like I'm not saying like oh W I'm perfect at working out it's like yeah
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you know stuff happens to me too I do something wrong I that too but you know
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I like resistance bans because it's hard to cheat
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it to make it harder step out wider or if you have adjustable resistance fans
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like I do I don't another band mine goes up to like 150 pounds oh wow
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nice not that 150 pounds like too I I'm all around bands
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free weights barbells anything that gives me resistance
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absolutely so my next question for you is
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uh what is your number one workout that you absolutely hate
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doing cut out Jimmy what was your what was the number
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one uh workout that you hate doing that you cannot stand doing oh
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so I don't know if I hate it it's it's timing so long story short I play volleyball a few days a week and my leg
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day will fall after I play volleyball for example I play volleyball Tuesday nights my leg Day falls on Wednesday
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after playing four sets of volleyball on Wednesday I don't hate leg day but it's
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it's harder it's hard my legs are exhausted I've been jumping I've been in the sand I've been running so I don't
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know if it's I hate it but I'll tell you what after I put 225 on the bar for
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squats after leg day it's brutal like it is absolutely brutal I don't hate it but
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I know it's gonna be work I think for me I would say I hate
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burpees and I hate inchworms okay and and the reason I brought that
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up is because when I took a break from Karate for a week just because I was catching up with friends and family
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members uh uh just because that's just how the
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schedu line our schedule lined up and that's the only way how I could have catch up with people just to take some
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time off from work and that was like okay fine whatever and but the thing was
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when I got back to karate of course the night when I got back it happened to be inchworms I was like why me damn it why
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day when I come back has to be inchworms and everybody says like Jimmy you think we were just waiting for inance just for
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you to come back it's like probably it when it went past it went surprised me
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at the very least that's funny it's like we have to do them too
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it's like yeah but you already been here for the for the beginning of the week
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and it's like I came in on Wednesday it's like oh crap now I have to do insurance for two more days damn
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it there like they said to me like Jimmy you must suffer it's like
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thanks that's funny but yeah those are the two exercises I hate the most I mean
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burpees I'm getting uh you know I'm gonna clarify it's actually I I actually
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hate heppes more and just going in and out in and out I the reason I hate half
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burpees is because every time when I do them my knees bang against each other
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because of my inter printing knees so that one I I got my help I asked my
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instructors i c to like if you're doing that can I if if we're doing that can I
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just do something completely else it's like my niece can't take it and it's like I'll be uh crippled or I'll have to
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get a knee replacement at a young age like I don't need to do that at the moment and they told me it's like Jer
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modify it and like do something different do more push-ups do squads do
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something as long as you keep doing it it's like okay good thank you nice I like I'll do full burpees I
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still hate burpees but I like I'll do full ones but I'm not doing half
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anymore one of the clients I work with uh young female client she had never been the gym before never worked out
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didn't know macron nutrition never wait her food and I told her we're going to get to a point where we're doing a 100
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burpees before you start your workout and she told me I was crazy she now is up to 60 burpees before we start the
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workout yes jeez yes and so i' funny
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another funny part um I learned this from another coach and so if she ever sees this Marisol I learned this from you uh Marisol great coach I learned
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from and she has her own uh class class that she teaches and part of her teaching is that if you speak negative
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in her class you owe $10 and she said amongst her students she collected
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enough money to buy a bunch of new equipment so I said I like that Marisol so I started to implement that into my
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program with Shannon and I started to tell her you speak negative say telling me you can't you owe me $10 and it it's
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been a couple weeks but ever since then I'll ask her are we going to get to 100 burpees she won't say no any
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anymore that's just evil my goodness we gotta find a way to get rid
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of people's self- leming beliefs I truly believe if you ask somebody to walk into the gym in unconditioned and to do 20
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burpees before a workout 50 they're going to tell you no because their automatic thought is there's no way I can do it but if you work with me you
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allow me to crush those self- leiming beliefs we start saying yes you start watching things change
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you know my next question kind of just a funny question uh if you don't mind my
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so do you think that method would work when uh to get my parents to stop talking about the news when they watch
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it after those 50 burpees they ain't thinking about that news or what's on the TV they're
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exhausted well my parents like they literally every time when they watch the
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news at 5:00 then then they talk about it during the during the commercials and
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whatnot it's like oh wouldn't it be great if I could now that you gave me the idea I should make a jar every time
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when you guys watching news in front of me and talk about it and analyze the crap out of it you owe me 10 bucks there
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you go there you go probably got the big middle finger too but well
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well y I'm definitely going to use it
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that's what I said when I heard it I was like oh I'm using that marol so yeah so my next question for you is
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uh how do you think in your opinion how can people make workouts fun for
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them one okay so for me if it's always perspective right it's always how you
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look at things if you go into a workout and you look at it like oh this is going to be so hard oh this is going to be so
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difficult oh I don't want to do it oh when can I leave you're already shaping your view on the perspective you have to
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go into this exercise this workout knowing what it's going to do for you knowing what it's going to uh how you're
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going to benefit from it and you're excited about it and for me once you change that perspective you start to go
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into the gym looking for the benefit you start to look at yourself and notice oh
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am I getting bigger am I noticing more muscle am I getting more lean am I noticing more bicep veins more these
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little things start to take over because you're looking at the situation positively so for me hands down it
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always starts with perspective if you walk in with a crappy mindset into going into the gym you're G to find that
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you're doing a crappy workout I I definitely agree with that
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uh for for me uh I make I keep uh if fun
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and whatnot I do different things different day is instead of me always
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doing I do Crow Monday Wednesday and Friday eventually I'm hoping to change
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up that routine but for now it's Monday Wednesday and Friday but sometimes like Tuesdays and Thursdays and sometimes
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Saturdays I do weightlifting but then sometimes I just throw in throw in
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Pilates or yoga in the middle of the week and it's like you know sometimes I
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get tired of having it like I like my schedule and I like to stick to my
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schedule of when I work out uh what time I start working out at but sometimes
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it's just like wait this is very repetitive I'm doing this weightlifting oh legs one day upper body one day hit
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one day uh cry three days a week and it's like sometimes I just like to throw
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myself off like the other last week I was like weightlifting cardio I don't
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know what do I do so you I could decide anything so I decided to go on the bike ride instead it's like I'm done y there
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you go that works too and switch it up I there's nothing wrong with um if people
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find doing the same thing over and over again makes a stale for them let's switch it up let's throw in some new
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exercises throw in some new ideas absolutely you don't have to stay doing the same thing
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yeah let's just say I can't name this person because then just be a dead
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giveaway uh but somebody I know uh they stay on the same workout schedule over
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and over again and then it's like I'm bored of this it's like why you even on
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the on a why are you are you even on a same kind of program over and over again
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it's like I literally switch mine up every single week it's like some days I do yoga in the middle of the week
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sometimes I do Pilates sometimes I even do weightlifting and then sometimes I go for a walk outside or sometimes I uh do
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something but just something out of the ordinary it's like this is this is really fun it's like what can what else
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can I throw [Music] myself that's that's it Jimmy that's the perfect mindset you just tapped in right
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there if people go into the gym with that mindset they'll look at it a lot differently but a lot of times we go
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into the gym like oh it's a chore oh it's so heavy oh it's so and not looking
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at the benefit but you that was a perfect example right there you said like even uh I noticed at karate
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somebody came somebody who's like really really smart say that there's a pattern
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in in in karate uh with the schedule because usually how it was set up it was
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like every day of the week resets on Monday so if you're on class on Monday
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it's going to be the same thing from Wednesday and Friday well when there was a new instructor
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comes in town uh we finally got to a point where just because what you did on
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Monday does not mean what you're gonna do on Wednesday and does not mean what you're gonna do on
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Friday and now that we're now in our sparring classes it used to be offense
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and defense you know what you what your partner and you're going to be doing
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back and forth in a safe environment now they were even including free sparring at the end of it just for a
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little bit I was like oh this is really amazing it's like holy crap it's like
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first it was very repetitive now I was like IID like to see what that person think he like yes there's a St there's a
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pattern it's like not anymore right
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yeah I kind of like that design pattern it's like it might be a pattern when we do like uh myths or or morti pads or
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bags but then but then it got into a little bit more extra stuff that I like
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w there actually adding stuff onto it or and then when we get into so many
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different techniques and whatnot I'm like did we even do this before I don't even know it's like it seems
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new such a long time to FR from doing this I don't even know
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anymore I think there's even times where on my fitness platform I I might miss I
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might have passed over multiple workouts before and then all of a sudden I come back to it it's like this doesn't look
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familiar to me yeah and trust me my brain is really
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smart uh and my autistic brain can literally find patterns in stuff so it so it's
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been a while that I haven't seen it was like it looks neat to
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me that's funny so my next questions for you
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are uh how does one
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keep what do you think where do you see the fitness industry in the next couple of
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years um I think the trend will continue uh the internet has allowed people to
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jump into the lifestyle fitness coaching mentoring and it's exponential there's
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no cap you can reach uh hundreds of thousands of people you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars I
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continuing to see I predict this trend will continue Will the Market get saturated maybe there's still there's a
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lot out now but people are trying to start their own brand start their own
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business they want their own um they want to get out of a nine-to-five job they want to have their own make their
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own hours and make more money and I do believe that the trend will continue in
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the health and fitness people trying to create be content creators and help
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people you know I think one thing I would like to see change in the health and wellness
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Department would be getting maybe a little bit more regulation on
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supplements and like just a little secret between you
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and me I think the FDA needs to get either a little bit higher
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requirements and whatnot or they need to pass it down to
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USP and let USP just do what they need to do to monitor the supplement industry
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because one thing I've learned in my my uh I it was a basic nutrition course
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when I uh when I started my personal training degree in college and then I
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switch five different Majors but they one thing I've learned
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is that they let's just say not all supplements you're taking is created equally you
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could instance eating wi chips uh I mean it
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just came into my mind but uh or protein powder could be saw dust for all you
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know I
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got I find
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that to okay in my opinion what I see people use
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people I see use it have the supplement and then end up eating the meal so I
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find sometimes people aren't using it correctly because it's supposed to be used as a meal replacement versus and
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for me if you're not getting the proper nutrition that you need as far as
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protein or BCAAs then absolutely use an adjunct but make sure you are trying to
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eat or drink whatever you can first before you just throw in the the protein
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powder so yeah for me the only time when I use
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a meal replacement shake is for lunch and that's it uh it's just because I'm
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not a big fan of lunch it's like I know a few colleagues I mean
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actually not colleagues but friends of mine uh who said who they do a lot of
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cooking on the on Sunday just do to be ready for the week for me I'll admit I
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used to like cooking uh and I there was one point in my life where I wanted
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to I wanted to be a chef but then I
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just I think where I got done to where I just tired of cooking was that let's
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just say pretty much everything that I want
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to buy for a recipe it's just so gosh Dar expensive and it's like oh chicken gone
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up I mean I know everything's gone up but uh one thing I've uh found for
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myself uh during the summer months when I when I
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tend when I don't cook much is I've been I've been having these Healthy Choice
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meals uh and they have vegetables in it protein
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everything balanced even with the prices at least in my NEC of the woods
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they it's only literally four to five dollars and you have to say to yourself
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what can I eat on five four to five dollars anymore uh not much at the moment and so I was like oh cost
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effective versus and even if I had two of them it's eight Bucks versus it's like and what can you eat at eight bucks
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anymore it's like it's either eight bucks per me uh eight for one little item and then it's like here's an 8
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snack right and you're not getting any Nutri nutrition value from that so I was
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like so I have those for my dinner uh not all the time but uh just when I'm
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like when I didn't want to cook I was like this is the next best choice for me
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just because that they don't have anything not healthy in it I even have
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an app that tells me by scanning a QR c a QR code on it it tells me if what's
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healthy in the ingredients so that so even if I don't know what that is it's
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like no it's good for you or no it's not dangerous for you even though it looks like it's a dangerous word as isn't
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saying self-destruct or something
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yeah you know some of those uh um those big filler words that they use it's like
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blah blah blah and it's like what the hell is blah blah blah and it's like this doesn't seem look this doesn't look
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good and like oh then no that's for freshening or
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something I really feel like that they really need to put it in parentheses it's like freshener and then all the the
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other stuff it's like this is just for this and this and that but then they put so many thing fill stuff in there
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like am I eating a like a r poison I as
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[Music] well yeah oh and the other thing I learned in
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my nutrition class is that the FDA has too many job titles and it needs to just
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move it over to somebody who has less job titles and that's their only
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function for what uh just for like I
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mean the FDA has too many job titles and he needs to pass along like some of the
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responsibility yes yeah it's like supplements put that to somebody else ex
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really regulate something a lot of them anyway L of them agreed it will say it's not FDA approved on if you go into a
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supplement store GMC pull out any of those products in there a lot of them say not FDA approved even though they
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fall under the FDA guidelines yeah I heard some from somebody and I
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don't know if it's true or not that somebody has to pay to get FDA approved or maybe I'm
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wrong that one I don't know either I don't have any supplements my uh crazy F guy has so I
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couldn't tell you um and if I did I probably would have a
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US P approved because at least that makes me feel like it's a higher
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quality I'm not trying to bash your FDA but too many got too
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many uh functions less quality yes yes too
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much bureaucracy less quality exactly thank you for summing that for
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me I've beening looking for the words and like oh damn [Music]
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it by the way uh my next question for you has anyone ever told you that you
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look like a movie actor um I've been told I look like I'm
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a combination of DMX and Michael Duncan Clark um I've been Michael dun Clark's
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played in The Green Mile um I've been told I'm a combination of DMX and Idris
48:58
Elba um so yeah I have heard different ways and I mean that in a good way uh
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somebody somebody actually compared me to Matt Damon and I told them like well I'm the poor Matt
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Damon nice well I tell you what I'm the better looking Idris
49:18
Elba there we go I I definitely would
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say I could see that thank you thank you so my last few
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questions for you is who's your favorite podcaster and my and feel free not to
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say me okay
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um podcaster now I don't know if he actually is because I've where I've seen
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him at um is on Instagram but I think he does have his own podcast uh Alex
49:53
Hermos um is who I tend to follow a lot um um uh bad
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Skellington and my coach who I gota be honest I wouldn't call him a podcaster but he does YouTube It's kind of
50:05
different but similar format West Watson um I these who are who I follow for my inspiring messages when I'm struggling
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and I need somebody to speak that uplifting message into me I find that their voice really speaks to my spirit
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so I try to um whoever I'm listening to I want to make sure they bring value to me that when if
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listens to me and hears me and that's how I find my coaches affect
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me for me I like to listen to I've been listening to leis
50:43
house um my I also listen to My Mentor a lot even though sometimes I don't get to
50:50
tune into his live show every morning uh Monday through Friday his name is Lauren
50:57
Harris and I but I've been I I see his stuff on social media I
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see his workout photos on uh like his
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Facebook Stories he's always in the gym at like five o'clock in the morning it's like okay I'm still asleep at five
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o'clock in the morning and it's like I'm a morning person but it's like it has to be 7 or 7:30 for me it's like I need my
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sleep I I can't just go to bed at 10 o'clock because like I get home from
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karate at like uh see like depending on the night I either get home at by
51:40
9:30 and then I only got 30 minutes to my or an hour for myself before I go to
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bed so it's like I like to read a little bit so it's like then I had this like I
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to say 7 or 7:30 to get up at I I I can't do anything
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earlier and if I do go to and it's like and then Friday nights I get home up by like 8 so I can read a little bit and
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then can go to bed by 10 o'clock but it's like I can't get up at 5 it's like
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I can get up at five if I if I'm literally going to uh we're leaving for an early
52:16
airplane ride for a trip somewhere uh special
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vacation or just that's how how we booked the lights and whatnot I'll do
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that but that that's in once in a blue moon but every morning holy effing crap
52:33
I can't do that um since I started my lifestyle coaching I am now up at 3:00
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am. every day well excuse me six days a week um I post and show me taking my
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morning coffee and start my morning process in between 3: and 400 a every day I take Saturdays off but Sunday
52:51
starts the week again and we're back rolling well and now you make me feel very
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bad wor you know for me it was I prior to I never got up at 3:00 a.m. I wasn't
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doing I wasn't a 5 a.m. person this all was a result of the lifestyle coaching brand had I not have started that I'm
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right back in bed not getting up until it's an hour before work and everything else so
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yeah yeah I used to get up at six o'clock for my for when I was in public
53:21
school and I finally got I finally decided 6:00 is way too
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early for me so I decid 7 is a very good time it's not too
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late it's not too early but it's just like right in the middle between too late and too
53:39
early right yeah my parents both are great it's like
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well you what it's like I'm 30 years old it's like you know I work for myself and
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it's not like it's like it's not like I'm staying in bed until like 8:00 and I
53:55
just sat in bed until 8:00 it's like I got up I made my bed I'm brushing my
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teeth uh I I might have done my workout already or maybe I'm working out at eight but whatever it is it's was like
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Hey I'm I'm up and out up and about it's not like I'm just being a lazy fart
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right so my last question for you is where can people follow you find you learn more about who you are and what
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you do um if you are turning in and can see me you can find me on under my name Deshawn Jackson d s hu n Jackson on
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Facebook or you can find me on Instagram under the psych RM fit PS y c HR n fi T
54:40
the psych RN fit and under there you'll find me talking about myself my lifestyle coaching brand my business
54:47
I'll get you to know me and Who I Am So eventually if you like what you hear and say you can DM me get you uh signed up
54:54
for some coaching and get you right for 20 25 awesome I'll put the
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uh uh stuff in the show notes and everything and my final question for you
55:07
is are you sure you're not related to the football player I tell you what um if I I I tried
55:16
that a couple of times and they asked me how much money I made and I couldn't tell I wasn't making million so I'm
55:21
definitely not related to the
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I about to say when uh when you appeared on um uh on my calendar list it's like
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hey is it the football player that'd be kind of cool you're still pretty you're still
55:39
very cool thank you thank you I I just had it ask so sorry but
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I've heard it before I've heard it before damn I thought it'd be the first
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person well uh I would I would love to have you back on my show in the future uh let's stay in touch uh keep doing
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what you're doing and I appreciate your time and yeah thank you for having me on
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thank you listeners for tuning in thank you right so that's all the time I have for
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today if you enjoyed the show let me know leave a review uh in the meantime stay healthy
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