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CrazyFitnessGuy® Healthy Living Podcast - How To Stay Mentally Healthy During The Pandemic
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Aug 5, 2024
Mental health during a pandemic can be difficult, as stress and anxiety can increase. It is important to maintain a balance between work and personal life, get enough sleep, and find activities that make you happy. There are also many ways to stay mentally healthy during a pandemic. Key Take-Aways From The Episode How to stay sane during a pandemic? How to stay busy during a pandemic? About The Guest
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Then Crazy Fitness guys started Today I'm going to talk about What I'm doing to
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Keep myself sane during this pandemic I hope you enjoy So Lately I've been
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wondering what people have been doing to keep themselves sane in this whole
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messed up situation that we're in as a as just around this whole pandemic around the world
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It's scary and sometimes there's some days I'm bored. Some days I don't feel like
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I can get stuff done. And those other days, I feel like I'm on top of the world
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So I think sometimes, sometimes I don't know what I'm going to do
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Sometimes I'm worried that I'm going to be bored throughout the whole day, what I'm going to do
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And I thought it was going to be hard for me to stay on the schedule, but I don't think it really has been that hard
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But I'm going to go over some tips of what I'm going to be, what I found how I'm staying sane
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I've been making sure I've been making sure I've been reading books
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That's number one. Number two, I've been making sure I stay away from watching the news
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As I've found lately, the news just likes to keep telling about the statistics
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and getting people worried that there's going to be no summer. and I think that I keep reminding people it's only April
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yeah the warm weather is here and whatnot but it's not summertime yet
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it's official summer. Official summer is like forgive me if I'm wrong but I think it's like June 22nd
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so you can start freaking out I'll give you permission to start freaking out
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about if we're going to have a summer around June 22nd. Until then, stop freaking out
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It's, you still have the rest of April, you still have May, and still have part of June
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So there's no time to stop freaking out. We might get a summer out of this all after all Hey I looking forward to a summer is I need to work for Uber and Lyft to get some more money for it Keep supporting my website
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Got to do what you're going to do. But, yeah, guys, I stop watching the news because they just hype on numbers and point fingers at each other
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It's all old. So that's number two. Stay away from news. Here's what I do
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When somebody in my house turns on the news, I walk upstairs
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I go in my bedroom, read a book, talk to a friend on the phone
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Oh, I even admit, I have a newsfeed reader on my app called Flipboard
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No, this is not an advertisement for them, but, but, like, even if I saw a site
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title of something coronavirus related I just read the title sometimes but that's okay
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but I'm not going to read the whole article because yeah I'm not going to get depressed on
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the news just not being so that's two number three I've been
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trying to just stay productive getting my to-do list done every single day
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There might be one or two things on my maybe like one
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thing I might forget to do during the day. But there are so many ads these days
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Now let's get back to the show. show. I've been trying to stick to my schedule again up at 6.30 and working out in the morning and I have breakfast
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And I just got up my day. Some days I have like nine things to do on my list
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Sometimes I do have like a whole. a lot of things to do on my to-do list
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I'm making sure I'm getting stuff done and sticking to my same exact schedule
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Is, yeah, we're in this whole thing together. And it's scary at times
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And I admit it. But people still, I'm just, I'm just trying to stay
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like on a regular schedule, like nothing's really different. Yeah, okay, you know, my church is on
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my church does online sermons, and that's different, but you know, I think that they're in a great job with that
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They're not pretending that nothing's happening. So that'd be, I think, number three, maybe number four, I kind of less try
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Let's say that's number three. So you got stay on a consistent schedule, number two, read books, stay away from the news
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Okay, so this is number four. Okay, I lost count. See, that's what happens when you
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I don't have a script in front of me. Oh, well, I'm just waiting in it
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First episode, I can only improve from here. So number four, stay on a consistent schedule
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and don't pretend nothing's happening at this whole coronavirus, but just stay on a consistent schedule
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wake up every single, wake up at the same time, go to bed at the same time
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Number five, don't binge watch Netflix all week long. And, you know, I have a TV right here on the side, on the, on my, next to my computer while I'm recording this
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Yeah, you know, it's easy for, it's easy for me to, I could
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easily turn on the TV and watch Netflix. But what I do
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I set a schedule on my calendar for the weekend, Saturday and Sunday
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I can only watch 10 hours total. Not 10 hours on Saturday and 10 hours on Sunday
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It's 5 and 5. So if I want to watch 5 hours
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may not in a row, I may break here and there. and I can
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but as I to be honest to be fair on Saturday I watched a movie with my
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and my brother and my parents but it was all good I don't always do that during the week
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but as you know whoever follows me on social media yeah I try to stay I just try to try uh I just try to uh yeah I try to uh I try to not watch any TV or Netflix during me because you know it's kind of like like after I get all my uh uh after I get all my to uh after I get all my to do list
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done during the week and being productive with my website and now this podcast
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I just try not to I like to reward myself with a movie or Netflix
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during the at then on the weekend so that's number five
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is limit your time on Netflix. You don't have to binge watch every show
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It's okay. You can always come back to it later. That's why they have multiple episodes
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You don't have to watch it all on one. The internet can be in a distraction place
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at Crazy Fitness Guy, there was only me, aka Jimmy Clare. I am what you call an indie podcaster
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meaning there is no company backing Crazy Fitness Guy. So in other words, if I run out of money
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Yeah, and there's a pause button for a reason. You don't have to finish every single episode
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Use it. So number six, stay healthy, stay hydrated
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and exercise. I'm making sure I have I get up out of my chair every single hour or take a break, walk around
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And, yeah, I like to take a break, walk around. I've been drinking lots of water, keeping hydrated, exercising
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And first thing in the morning, sorry, it's over and I'm done with
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Except when it's my karate workouts because I need more water than just 32 ounces in the morning when I wake up
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So it's going to have to be like nighttime around like 7 p.m. karate classes for me
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So that's number six. So stay hydrated, healthy. and and yeah
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number seven have you feeling anxious you're frustrated
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your board around the house and you need a vent he is a journal app
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I like to use this journal article called Penzu it's free You got unlimited storage for writing stuff in your journal
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I like my digital, digitally, because my handwriting is really, really, really bad
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I think a two-year-old can, maybe a four-year-old can write better than me
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And, yeah, I'm just, my handwriting is atrocious. Sometimes I can't even read my own handwriting
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Anyway, I digress. That's the fun part about not having a That's the fun part of not having a script in front of me
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I'm just going off the top of my head at the moment One of what I can do next time
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So I like to write in my journal I set up a reminder of my to-do list
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To write in my journal every single night before I go to bed
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Just to jot down my frustrations, my prose Of the day, my cons of the day
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my cons of the day. Sometimes it's just saying how productive I am during the day
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Yeah. And number eight, this kind of ties back into the whole
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this kind of ties back into the health and wellness and stay hydrated
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and make sure you're also tracking your food intake because I know sometimes during these hard times people like to like oh yeah I got a
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I'm eating a bunch of cans stuff. And it's like, buy some healthy can stuff. Don't buy high and sodium stuff
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Like yeah I I mean healthy Sometimes even when I have we have to order And I like to order healthy stuff like I had a balsamic chicken sandwich from
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a place that delivers and it had chicken balsamic vinaigret
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with a rusted red peppers, mozzarella cheese on some kind of like taste
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it's like a test of roll or some cheese on top I guess
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and that sounds like 100% healthy but it could be it's better than have pizza or
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show notes. Now let's get back to the show. I think I only have like, I think I only had like maybe 400 milligrams of sodium in it
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It's not terrible. I've seen a lot of worse things in my life with high sodium
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So make sure you're tracking your food and making sure you can hear, uh
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fruits, vegetables, proteins, keeping a sodium down. And so number nine
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uh, uh, uh, listen to something positive, like listen to some upbeat music
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Listen to a, uh, um, um, uh, listen to a, um, uh
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podcast like I like this one called the Daily Boost by I think his name
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I think it was a Scott Scott something Scott I think of Scott
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I'll tell you right now Oh Scott Smith Yeah Yeah Yeah
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he has a one he does these short little episodes to help people get motivated and
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there's like maybe I think the longest one I ever seen on his show was like
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21 minutes but that was a coronavirus episode like this one but yeah he's
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I really enjoyed I really enjoy to listen to his podcast. It keeps me motivated
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keep going on when I'm stuck with some of my things I have to do
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It's a his podcast actually I got me to motivate motivation just on my own
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So thanks Scott Smith if you're listening. So that's nine. Number 10, I have to say, tune out the negative people out there who are worrying about the summer
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and about just how crappy the stock market is and whatnot. you know, it's like, we're in a tough situation and tough everything right now
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But, you know, I think I believe that we can pulsarated together as long as we work together to get a care or a vaccine or whatnot
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And here's one more as a bonus for you. Number 11, this just popped in my head
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Make sure you don't read the fake news about fake vaccines and cures
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Just listen to what the CDC has to say. I'm not listening to anybody else
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I'm not listening to the news, what they have to say. Until the CDC comes out with something new
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I'm not going to listen to anyone else because they're not experts
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The CDC is an expert. And it's like the news. In my opinion, I think the news should just report the news
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and don't give me your opinions. Just report the news. I don't want to be preached at
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Just tell me the facts, Jack. Got it. So I hope you enjoyed today's episode
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And please don't be one of those people on social media. I'm saying
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we're going to, we're not going to get a summer out of this because of this or whatnot
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It's only April. It's April 13th. It's not June 22nd. I give you my permission to be worried about the summer the week before June 22nd rolls around
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But until in that time, don't worry. Keep a level head, eat healthy, and stay away from the news
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Wait until the CDC comes out with something with more guidelines. or listen to them
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They're experts. So I hope you enjoy today's episode. And the next episode
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expect around the same time next month, maybe the week of the 13th or the 20th
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