Overcoming Adversity: A Journey from Near-Death to Empowering Lives

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I don't know about you, but I believe and think

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other day, Why is the internet not a safer place?

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with Crazy Fitness Guy. Welcome to another episode

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of Crazy Fitness Guy Healthy Living Podcast.

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That's Weekly Motivation with Crazy Fitness Guy.

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Today's guest, his name is Austin Page. From

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nearly losing his life to living and creating

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his own life, he's been a full -time coach for

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over 10 years, and he uses his personal experience

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and adversities to overcome to help push others

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into growth. And I look forward to... talking

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with him today because this is right up my, well,

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I was in a funk last two or three weeks and I'm

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slowly and steadily getting myself out of this

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funk. And last night I came to a webinar that

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got me out of this funk even further. But I'm

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always ready to learn more new things and learn

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how to motivate others even more. That's the

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word I was looking for. Sorry if my voice is,

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I mean, just all over the place today. That's

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my day -to -day. Everywhere all at once. It doesn't

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add up really good. Math does not add up. But

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anyway, let's welcome Austin now. Hey, Austin.

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So before we get started, can you tell us a little

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bit about who you are, what you do, how you got

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started, and why you got started? Yeah, Jimmy.

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Well, thank you for having me. And I would love

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to tell my story on hopefully at... reaches somebody

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and inspires somebody to maybe take action on

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their own path or journey. But my journey per

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se that I guess we're on here to talk about is

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from nearly losing my life, which goes back to

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2010. In 2010, May 9th, exactly, 2010, which

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was Mother's Day that year, I was at a party

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and I was 20 years old and a typical 20 -year

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-old for the most part. like to go out on the

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weekends, find the party or the happening and

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get involved and have fun. And I had a little

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too much fun that night, which I did often when

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I was growing up through high school and into

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early college. Ended up drinking a little too

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much that evening and wanted to go home. And

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growing up all through high school and even into

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those early years of college, I thought I was

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Superman. I thought nothing would ever happen

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to me. Nothing could touch me. I was 10 foot

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tall and bulletproof. Typical ego of a young,

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dumb guy. And wanted to go home that night after

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drinking way too much and hopped in my car. I

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don't remember hopping in my car and made it

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the typical story of about a mile away from the

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house to where I ran off the road and wrecked

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my car. I didn't hurt anybody else. Nobody else

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was involved in this wreck. It was a pretty desolate

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road, which doesn't make it right or a good thing.

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Fortunately, no one else was hurt except me and

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my dumb ego. But that wreck landed me in the

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hospital for over seven weeks. And then from

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there, I was moved to a rehabilitation center

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to where I learned how to walk and do simple

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things that we all take for granted. I lived

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there for two months and then slowly got released

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from that and moved back home to... very quickly

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of a story recap, getting to where I am now,

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which is coaching and helping others find their

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way, sort of break out of self -limiting beliefs

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and creating their own identity per se. Because

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back when I was younger, I didn't quite have

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my own identity. And a lot of people don't growing

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up, but some people know what they want to do.

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They want to go off to college. They want to

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do this as a career. They have some type of vision

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or path. But me was just, my vision or path was,

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hey, I'm worried about next Friday, actually

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next Thursday. It's Thursday. We're going to

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drink Friday. We're going to drink Saturday.

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We're going to drink Sunday. We might drink a

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little bit to cure from Thursday through Saturday.

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And then Monday through Wednesday, go to school,

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do a little side work, and then back at it the

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next Thursday. So that was my path, and it was

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taking me nowhere quick. Well, there's a few

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things I want to piggyback off a little bit.

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I kind of know what you mean a little bit, but

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I mean, I was never into... partying, drinking,

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or anything. But for me, it was basically a lot

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of video games. My life didn't fall around video

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games. I went to school Monday through Friday.

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Hated every aspect of school. Maybe a lot of

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people can relate to that, just because being

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forced to do maths on its history. routine basics

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and getting bullied for eight plus years on top

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of that uh i got to i mean i always loved playing

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video games but i got to the point where every

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pretty much every single day when i got home

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was video games video games video games video

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games video games and i was like okay to a point

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i i was kind of like i know i was pretty much

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on the wrong path but It was like my escape from

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bullying. Yeah. So I was like, well, it's not

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like I'm hurting anyone else, and it's not like

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I'm... So I was like, I'm just going to keep

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playing. Eventually, I got tired of feeling that

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all I understand is playing video games, and

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all my friends are doing all this other stuff,

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and here I am playing more video games. And so

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finally, I got to the point where I quit for

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a couple months, which... I was kind of bored

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with my time at the end of time because like,

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huh, what do I do with my free time? And so finally,

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one of my friends who I met along in the game,

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and I still stay in touch with them, and they

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said to me, it's like, Jimmy, you should come

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back. And I was like, okay, if I come back, I'm

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playing a blocker so I can get to them. During

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the week where I'm working or going to college,

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and I'm still in college, but I decided to, I

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was like, okay, if I come back, I'm putting a

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lock on each one of these apps or other games

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on my computer. Can't get it through Monday through

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Friday, unless it's a vacation week. And it's

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like in one role, my vacation week, and extend

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the family or friends I haven't seen in a long

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time. are in my neck of the woods, it's better

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to take that offer than to play video games.

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Unless they want to play, of course. Well, dude,

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that's pretty smart and good thinking and good

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discipline to be able to put your own lock on

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your game, right? I think that takes awareness.

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So my next question for you is, did it feel After

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the accident and everything, how did you know

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where you wanted to go next in your life? It

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was almost like levels. Before the wreck, like

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I mentioned, to give another quick recap, I was

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that typical guy that didn't really have much

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going on besides my only hobby was partying.

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I come from a small town of what's called Tappahannock,

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Virginia. The only thing really from there is

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kind of a big person, but Chris Brown, the rapper.

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But outside of that, it's just a small farm town.

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I think I had a graduating class of like 98 people.

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So a very small high school as well. And wasn't

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many hobbies around there, you know? So outside

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of that, I was drinking a lot and partying and

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just getting into trouble. Many other things

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that I can go along and stories of things that

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didn't include alcohol of getting in trouble

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still. During that wreck and during that process

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of recovering, after I had been through the wreck,

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I ended up in the hospital to where I broke both

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my legs from the knees down and the ankle and

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also ruptured my intestines. So they had to cut

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me open almost like a zipper from my sternum,

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the top or bottom of my rib cage down to pretty

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much my pelvic bone or like hips. And had to

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go in there and spice back up my intestines that

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I had ruptured from that wreck. And that led

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me to eventually moving to that rehab center.

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And that's where things took off and started

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to sort of take the turn in my life. Before this

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whole wreck and scenario, I really wasn't into

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fitness or working out. I'd go work out occasionally

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once or twice a week at a YMCA, but I really

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didn't know what I was doing. And I was just

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doing it. more so for the vanity of it. I wanted

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to get a little bit bigger. I wanted to get stronger.

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It was typical high school, early college. I

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wanted to be a guy. And during that rehab stint,

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every morning, even in my wheelchair, my physical

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therapist would come to my room and say, hey,

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get your ass out of bed, hop over into the wheelchair,

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and we're going to stroll down to the gym. They

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had a gym inside this rehabilitation center.

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And every morning, I'd have to go down there

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and do a workout. Whether it was in the wheelchair

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and I had dumbbells or I was in the parallel

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bars doing dips or the cable machine, I'd pull

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up to it, hit the brakes in the wheelchair and

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bang out some triceps or bicep curls. And it

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was something to pass the time in there. And

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it also, I don't know, made me feel good about

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myself. I was able to get out of bed and do something,

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you know, instead of just sitting there watching

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TV all day and hearing all the old people that

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were in this place moan and groan. So the love

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and almost not addiction, but. The love and discipline

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of waking up, going down to the gym, working

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out, taking care of myself, building myself,

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that seed grew from that rehabilitation stint

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where I lived there for about two months. And

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once I left the rehabilitation center, I realized

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my old ways and habits weren't really getting

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me anywhere I wanted to be. It was on a quick

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path to nowhere. So my first job... getting back

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home or released from that was at a local gym

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in that town of Tappahannock. And fortunately

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they hired me and I was working a front desk

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job and it gave me a free membership. And that's

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where things really took off because not only

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did I work at the gym, after or before I would

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go and work out every day. So it started to create

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that habit and that internal self -work and building

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myself up and giving me something to focus on.

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I think that can go hand in hand for a lot of

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young people. guys or girls is if you don't really

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have anything to really focus on, you can find

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your way into trouble. At least I did pretty

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quick. So it gave me something that just, I don't

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know, get behind. It kept me out of trouble.

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It kept me from, you know, you can't, there's

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a saying, you can't be a bodybuilder and a rockstar

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or a rockstar and a bodybuilder. So if you want

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to feel good during your lifts and perform your

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best, you probably shouldn't drink the night

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before. So me going into the gym more often kept

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me from drinking or partaking more often. So

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I don't know, things just lined up that way.

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And slowly but surely, I found my love for fitness

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and found my way into helping others and being

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an example for others and ended up getting a

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job as a coach at a local Gold's gym. And from

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there, this was a couple of years later, I walked

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into the Gold's and I wasn't even certified as

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a trainer. I just knew that I loved it and went

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every day and I could see the progress that it

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was bringing to my life. and people around me.

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So I was like, I think I could do this as a job

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and I would love to do it as a job actually.

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So reached out to the local trainer director

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and I said, hey, I'm not certified, but I would

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love to learn more about coaching, training.

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And he said, you know what? I followed you for

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quite some time around the gym. I've seen you

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in here every day. He was like, I'm going to

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take a leap on you. We'll go ahead and hire you.

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Not being certified, we'll give you 60 days to

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get certified and we'll keep you on board. So

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giving me that opportunity or offer to take the

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reins and jump, make the leap, I did it. And

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within 60 days, I was certified. And that was

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in 2013. And I've been coaching ever since. That's

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amazing because, you know, I'll just say I didn't

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know exactly what I wanted to do going into college.

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I'd done five different majors. one too many

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for my parents liking yeah and well let's be

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i mean there's nothing wrong with community college

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and i'm still in community college but um but

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i was like well at least it's not the four -year

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school where it costs even more money so yeah

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and so even though i have a scholarship and whatnot

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i was like i don't know what i want to do uh

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i Because I was passionate about video games,

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I was like, I want to try the video game route.

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And funny enough, my teacher, I mean, he wasn't

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the one teaching the video game studying, but

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he was my web design teacher. He was like, funny

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thing about video games, there's a person, a

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friend who works at EA, the big gaming company.

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Yes. All he does is make grass all day. I'm like...

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Make grass? Yeah. And I was like, there's a department

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for grass? I'm like, no, I'm not going to video

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games. Because every time when I play all these

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cool video games, it's like, well, these characters

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can talk, these other characters can move, and

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I don't know how that works. But there's a department

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just for grass? Yeah. I'm like, no thanks. I'm

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like, I'm not doing that. And so after, and I

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did, when I first started college, I did go into

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a personal training field, but math and science

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were not my strong suit. And so I was like. Okay,

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what would be my strong suit? And I was like,

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okay, something in technology, media, speaking

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-wise. And I found media studies, and it's like,

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oh, speaking, broadcasters. I do have a big mouth,

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and I don't know when to shut up. So I was like,

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let's go there. And here I am ever since. And

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my parents were like, what do you do for work?

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I was like, podcast, live streamer, keynote speaker.

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And I was like, how's that a job? And he was

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like, I use my voice 24 -7. I don't know how

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to shut up. It was like a couple of years when

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I wasn't talking, so I'm playing catch -up. Jimmy,

00:22:01.970 --> 00:22:04.289
if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

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I'm 30. Okay, so I'm not too far away. I'm 34.

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And obviously... I wanted to chime in and sort

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of give my take and not that it means anything

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or holds any weight because who am I? But I finished

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school, but I didn't do anything with my degree.

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And that seems to be the typical story. And I

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think for some people that might be listening

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that are in that scenario of like, I don't know

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what the hell I want to do with my life. You

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truly probably don't. And I feel like even to

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this day, even though I love what I do, I've

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been coaching for over a decade. Is it the only

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thing I'm going to do for the rest of my life?

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Probably not. I went to school originally for

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engineering. And then after that, I wasn't too

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great with math myself and went into paramedic.

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So after that wreck, before I was actually certified

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or took that leap as a trainer, the two years

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after the wreck, I went to a community college

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and took my paramedic or health and sciences

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degree and went through the whole process, got

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my paramedic. and never did anything with it.

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I think because my calling or my love for fitness,

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even though I enjoyed, I got Dean's List every

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semester in my paramedic program, my love and

00:23:20.170 --> 00:23:24.349
just passion for fitness and seeing what it did

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for my life took over. There's a saying that

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I've heard and I try and remind myself, the path

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illuminates as you walk it. So some people that

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may be listening that don't know or unsure of

00:23:36.470 --> 00:23:38.849
what direction they should take, just start taking,

00:23:38.970 --> 00:23:41.769
pick one and go with it. Whatever you're passionate

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about or pulls your heartstrings, start walking

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towards it. And then the path will illuminate

00:23:47.509 --> 00:23:49.690
as you continue to walk it. But if you just sit

00:23:49.690 --> 00:23:52.410
there and watch it from, let's say, a distance,

00:23:52.650 --> 00:23:54.329
it's never probably going to light up and show

00:23:54.329 --> 00:23:55.990
you the way until you start taking those first

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initial steps. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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00:25:02.859 --> 00:25:09.000
because I'm very passionate about fitness, but

00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:13.519
since math and science were not my strong suit,

00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:20.359
I know media studies is where I'm meant to be

00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:26.140
because I'm not going to name any names, of course,

00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:29.769
but let's just say there's some. Facebook groups

00:25:29.769 --> 00:25:33.430
I'm in that I've seen some people who call themselves

00:25:33.430 --> 00:25:38.210
podcast professionals. And it was like, I know

00:25:38.210 --> 00:25:41.490
everything about podcasting and whatnot. And

00:25:41.490 --> 00:25:44.869
let's just say there's some people in that realm

00:25:44.869 --> 00:25:49.690
of the industry. It's surprising that they can

00:25:49.690 --> 00:25:53.069
call themselves professionals because there are

00:25:53.069 --> 00:25:56.049
some things that they lack knowledge of. Like,

00:25:56.089 --> 00:25:59.750
oh, this tool can hook up with this to go to

00:25:59.750 --> 00:26:03.049
this platform. I'm like, if you're a professional

00:26:03.049 --> 00:26:05.690
at doing this, then you should know this. And

00:26:05.690 --> 00:26:08.690
it was like, I know this. And I don't consider

00:26:08.690 --> 00:26:13.990
myself as a podcast expert guru because I'm not

00:26:13.990 --> 00:26:18.589
teaching in podcast expert guruing stuff. And,

00:26:18.589 --> 00:26:23.869
but I was like, come on guys. Well, that's, you

00:26:23.869 --> 00:26:26.490
know, I think the fact it's, it's cool that you

00:26:26.490 --> 00:26:28.829
mentioned that, you know, you're a podcaster,

00:26:28.910 --> 00:26:31.529
right? You are one, right? You're I'm with your

00:26:31.529 --> 00:26:34.150
show, which I'm grateful to be on. But at the

00:26:34.150 --> 00:26:36.049
same time, you don't consider yourself an expert.

00:26:36.170 --> 00:26:40.730
And I, I think that that mentality, uh, or that

00:26:40.730 --> 00:26:42.890
way of thinking isn't a bad thing at all. And

00:26:42.890 --> 00:26:45.329
it's probably a great thing. I think for a lot

00:26:45.329 --> 00:26:47.799
of, not just podcasting, but. most things in

00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:49.700
general, because once you think that you're an

00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:53.180
expert, you stop learning. You stop being open

00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:56.000
-minded and listening to insights, perspectives,

00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.619
analytics, things like that, because you're an

00:26:59.619 --> 00:27:02.680
expert and you know it all. I deal a lot with

00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:04.519
that when it comes to helping people with their

00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.140
fitness, their mindset, their nutrition. But

00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:09.200
I'm sure you could do the same thing when you're

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:11.160
talking to a podcast expert. You're like, man,

00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:13.619
this person's so closed -minded. They think they

00:27:13.619 --> 00:27:17.559
know it all, right? It's about being, I guess,

00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:21.660
not humble is a word. Some people might take

00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:25.500
that as being soft, but realizing that you're

00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:27.819
on your journey, but you're just getting started

00:27:27.819 --> 00:27:32.019
type of deal. Exactly. I always tell people,

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:35.759
let's just say there's some people around me

00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:38.279
who's like, how are you going into the tech industry

00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:40.200
and help people with their computer problems?

00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:45.410
I'm like, I'm sorry, no. I was like, the amethyst

00:27:45.410 --> 00:27:47.970
with my business, troubleshooting this, troubleshooting

00:27:47.970 --> 00:27:51.450
that. I'm like, it's enough. I'm cutting it off

00:27:51.450 --> 00:27:57.750
of there. There's companies I work with who is

00:27:57.750 --> 00:28:02.589
now taking over the technical stuff for the website

00:28:02.589 --> 00:28:05.910
and whatnot. I was like, there's a reason why

00:28:05.910 --> 00:28:10.750
I pay a large sum of money to a company to go

00:28:10.750 --> 00:28:17.980
do this. I would say I'm very knowledgeable in

00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:21.339
the technology realm, but I always know that

00:28:21.339 --> 00:28:24.900
somebody's going to know more than me. Oh, yeah.

00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:31.460
My friend, who's also autistic, he can literally

00:28:31.460 --> 00:28:38.700
take a used TV apart and he made it into a tablet.

00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:43.619
Oh, dang. That's badass. Yeah. He just taught

00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:46.140
himself. He didn't even look up YouTube. He was

00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:48.640
just tinkering. He was like, if I did that, I'd

00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:51.319
probably either A, electrocute myself, or B,

00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:57.400
I was like, what the hell did I just do? I got

00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:03.160
a question for you about your path and gaming

00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.299
and whatnot. Did you or have you? I'd love to

00:29:06.299 --> 00:29:07.720
learn a little bit about you at the time that

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:10.059
we do have. Have you thought about streaming

00:29:10.059 --> 00:29:12.380
some of that gaming? Like on Switch or anything

00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:18.180
like that? I have. Let's just say in some of

00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:21.539
the gaming that I do, there's a lot of better

00:29:21.539 --> 00:29:24.440
streamers than I would be out there. Like, some

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.460
of them, I've seen people risk, like, I mean,

00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.019
I know it's only in -game currency, but, like,

00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:34.920
one of, like, somebody I heard of, like, lost,

00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:38.319
like, hundreds of millions of... stuff worth

00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:43.380
and in -game stuff. But he can just reaffirm

00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:46.859
it again in the game. I don't even have that

00:29:46.859 --> 00:29:51.339
in the game. I guess it depends on the game.

00:29:51.539 --> 00:29:53.880
I'm friends, and I'm very close friends with

00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:57.480
a professional gamer who streams a lot and whatnot.

00:29:57.700 --> 00:30:01.700
He came from a background similar to mine. Partying,

00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:07.000
going on a path to nowhere very quickly. He just

00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.460
devoted all his time, which he didn't know that

00:30:09.460 --> 00:30:13.180
it was going to take off like it did. But he

00:30:13.180 --> 00:30:16.880
put in the time and over compounding time and

00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:20.380
efforts, slowly built the following and has continued

00:30:20.380 --> 00:30:22.880
to, I guess, play professionally for a decade

00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.099
himself. But I'm not big into the gaming thing.

00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:28.359
I haven't played video games since like Call

00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:31.799
of Duty Black Ops back in the day. But he plays

00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:34.940
a game called League of Legends. I've heard of

00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:38.539
it. Yeah. Well, I've heard a lot of people play

00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:42.799
that game. But my next question for you is like,

00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:49.940
well, I mean, the next question, like for me,

00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:52.980
like, you know, fitness for me helped me get

00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:57.720
up, lose 30 pounds with P90X. Dude, that's awesome.

00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:03.619
And so I got into fitness back in 2000, around

00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:08.380
2012 -ish. I've been working on pretty much nonstop

00:31:08.380 --> 00:31:11.519
ever since. I mean, the only times when I do

00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.579
stuff is when I'm like sick because I'm not one

00:31:15.579 --> 00:31:18.740
of those people who's like, yeah, I'll just sweat

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:21.839
it out. And it's like, I tried that before. It

00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:24.720
doesn't work. Yeah. It made me worse for three

00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:29.519
more weeks. I was like, thank you. Great idea,

00:31:29.579 --> 00:31:32.960
brain. Yeah. I got to do it in my brain again.

00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:38.819
Do it yourself. Never do that again. Right. My

00:31:38.819 --> 00:31:42.839
next question for you is how do you stay motivated

00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:50.099
to keep learning new things in the gym? I'm sure

00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:52.160
you probably can't come across after a while.

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:57.680
No matter who you're following, other trainers,

00:31:57.980 --> 00:32:01.859
they're all the same. There are different workout

00:32:01.859 --> 00:32:06.170
programs. Yeah, this is, I'm just going to make

00:32:06.170 --> 00:32:08.049
up something off the top of my head. This is

00:32:08.049 --> 00:32:11.809
the bear crawl pull -up or whatever. I don't

00:32:11.809 --> 00:32:15.950
know. I get what you're saying. For me, I find,

00:32:16.089 --> 00:32:18.289
I meet people where they're at. You know, if

00:32:18.289 --> 00:32:21.210
we're talking or if the question involves working

00:32:21.210 --> 00:32:25.549
with people. But for myself, I found kind of

00:32:25.549 --> 00:32:30.690
a, I found over time that the simpler, the better.

00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:34.900
So success, not only with fitness and most everything

00:32:34.900 --> 00:32:37.619
else in life, success comes through consistency

00:32:37.619 --> 00:32:40.759
and the simplicities. So the more simple you

00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:43.740
can keep it, the more frictionless you can keep

00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:46.000
it or make it, the more compounding consistency

00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.279
you'll probably be able to keep at it. And over

00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:51.359
time, over deposits, compounding interest, you're

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:54.079
going to get more result. More inputs equals

00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:57.339
more outputs for the most part. There's nuances,

00:32:57.339 --> 00:33:01.690
variances for that. But for me, There are little

00:33:01.690 --> 00:33:05.630
things or tricks that I might add into a program

00:33:05.630 --> 00:33:07.210
or something like that. But for the most part,

00:33:07.309 --> 00:33:08.789
I keep it pretty simple and straightforward.

00:33:08.990 --> 00:33:11.390
The basics, the fundamentals, compound movements,

00:33:11.549 --> 00:33:14.390
and accessories after that for whatever imbalances

00:33:14.390 --> 00:33:17.589
that I personally might have or find, weaknesses,

00:33:17.930 --> 00:33:21.390
mobility issues, whatever. But when working with

00:33:21.390 --> 00:33:24.289
clients, though, I work with all different age

00:33:24.289 --> 00:33:29.630
ranges, male, female. The pre -existing conditions

00:33:29.630 --> 00:33:31.730
going on. And I just meet them where they're

00:33:31.730 --> 00:33:34.509
at. So we go through typically a learning process,

00:33:34.609 --> 00:33:36.329
which takes a little bit of time, whether it's

00:33:36.329 --> 00:33:38.509
online or in person. And then after that, I'm

00:33:38.509 --> 00:33:40.309
able to meet them with what they're able to do

00:33:40.309 --> 00:33:43.490
to start building a path or a trajectory that

00:33:43.490 --> 00:33:46.009
they can knock out one day at a time or one deposit

00:33:46.009 --> 00:33:49.049
at a time and start building a person they would

00:33:49.049 --> 00:33:54.950
admire. So my next question for you is, so I

00:33:54.950 --> 00:34:01.900
had this person on my show before. And the interview

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:10.280
is not out yet. So this person, he was a yoga

00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:16.500
expert. And what I found interesting is that

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:20.900
he basically, I don't know if you've heard of

00:34:20.900 --> 00:34:24.280
this, but he said that stretching can be very

00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:28.440
bad for you. And I was like, And I was like,

00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:31.940
really? And he's like, yeah, stretching is bad

00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:34.099
for you. I was like, huh, that's interesting.

00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.519
And what he shared with me is that we should

00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:44.460
be, everyone should be doing dynamic stretches.

00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.480
So stretching like this way, hold it for a few

00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:57.010
seconds. But if you're doing a warm -up, you

00:34:57.010 --> 00:34:59.929
shouldn't be fully stretching because you're

00:34:59.929 --> 00:35:02.429
basically stretching your muscles and you're

00:35:02.429 --> 00:35:04.889
weakening it. Have you heard of that before?

00:35:05.170 --> 00:35:08.070
I have, and I kind of agree with it for certain

00:35:08.070 --> 00:35:12.190
instances. Weak things break is a saying that

00:35:12.190 --> 00:35:15.269
I try and remind myself and clients. For the

00:35:15.269 --> 00:35:18.550
most part, stretching for a workout, you want

00:35:18.550 --> 00:35:21.929
it to be dynamic. within the same movement so

00:35:21.929 --> 00:35:24.670
if you're going to squat you know if you have

00:35:24.670 --> 00:35:26.429
a squat day coming up for example you'd want

00:35:26.429 --> 00:35:28.789
to squat as the stretch you would want to almost

00:35:28.789 --> 00:35:30.730
do the repetition there's other things you could

00:35:30.730 --> 00:35:32.889
do to warm up for a squat but you just don't

00:35:32.889 --> 00:35:35.110
want to sit there in a static hold stretching

00:35:35.110 --> 00:35:37.469
lengthening that muscle out really pulling on

00:35:37.469 --> 00:35:40.230
it on a cold muscle especially you know so some

00:35:40.230 --> 00:35:43.210
dynamic type of warm -up whether it's just small

00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:45.849
simple patterns or movements that you can do

00:35:45.849 --> 00:35:48.010
will definitely help warm up the muscle per se

00:35:48.780 --> 00:35:52.360
When it comes to a static, I guess, stretch where

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.380
you're really holding it for a certain amount

00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:56.219
of time and really lengthening the muscle out

00:35:56.219 --> 00:36:00.739
is when you're trying to disengage a muscle that's

00:36:00.739 --> 00:36:03.699
tight or locked up because of a weak imbalance.

00:36:04.059 --> 00:36:06.500
Typically, you want to work on strengthening

00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:08.500
those areas instead of stretching them for the

00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:10.860
most part. You might have to stretch them to

00:36:10.860 --> 00:36:12.820
get them loose to get them working, whether it's

00:36:12.820 --> 00:36:14.340
mobility or whatever that you're looking for,

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:17.039
range of motion. Then after you get that accomplished,

00:36:17.260 --> 00:36:18.989
you want to start strengthening it. as quickly

00:36:18.989 --> 00:36:22.929
as possible because typically uh stuff tightens

00:36:22.929 --> 00:36:24.630
up or stiffens up because there's an imbalance

00:36:24.630 --> 00:36:26.789
or weakness in it so for the most part i mean

00:36:26.789 --> 00:36:29.989
again it's not a cover broad statement for everything

00:36:29.989 --> 00:36:32.849
there's nuances and variances to it but for the

00:36:32.849 --> 00:36:35.070
most part yeah i agree and the reason i was asking

00:36:35.070 --> 00:36:40.329
because uh when he was on my show uh and still

00:36:40.329 --> 00:36:43.849
not out yet but uh but when i was interviewing

00:36:43.849 --> 00:36:48.130
him he was uh he was telling me like that many

00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:52.039
trainers do not know about this kind of stuff

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:55.159
because like he's seen a lot of trainers and

00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:59.019
heard a lot of trainers just talking about just

00:36:59.019 --> 00:37:05.639
regular holding stretches and I was like and

00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:07.500
I was like this is so weird and somebody's telling

00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:11.380
me after all these years that undo everything

00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:14.389
that you've done and I was like Oh, damn. How

00:37:14.389 --> 00:37:16.969
do I do this? Isn't that wild? You know, in high

00:37:16.969 --> 00:37:19.210
school, you were taught a stretch. You got to

00:37:19.210 --> 00:37:21.170
stretch. You know, you stretch before you worked

00:37:21.170 --> 00:37:23.510
out. Like, at least in my high school gym class

00:37:23.510 --> 00:37:25.469
and middle school, they make you stretch before

00:37:25.469 --> 00:37:30.909
you worked out. It was hard then. And it was

00:37:30.909 --> 00:37:32.809
funny. During that episode, I was telling them,

00:37:32.829 --> 00:37:36.010
I was like, so I was like, let me get this straight.

00:37:36.130 --> 00:37:38.510
So first thing is, like, sitting is bad for you.

00:37:41.059 --> 00:37:45.480
Drinking alcohol at any time of the day or how

00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:50.679
many glasses is terrible for you. If you're leaning

00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:52.840
down towards your computer, it's bad for you.

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.719
So not stretching is bad for you. It's like,

00:37:55.820 --> 00:37:59.800
huh, this industry doesn't seem to tire kids.

00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.659
Yeah, it's a lot of contradictories, I guess,

00:38:03.699 --> 00:38:07.420
huh? Yeah. No one know why I can never sleep

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:12.300
at night. Yeah. Well, what's next? You cannot

00:38:12.300 --> 00:38:14.880
drink any more water. Oh, crap. Yeah. And actually,

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:17.519
hold your breath. Yeah. Hold your breath now.

00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:23.420
No, don't. My last few questions for you, and

00:38:23.420 --> 00:38:25.340
I would love to have you back on the show because

00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:28.440
I love talking about fitness and whatnot, but

00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:34.059
my day has just gone crazy. So my last few questions

00:38:34.059 --> 00:38:37.389
for you is, Who's your favorite podcaster and

00:38:37.389 --> 00:38:43.750
why? And feel free not to say me. So one directly

00:38:43.750 --> 00:38:45.690
shot to my mind, and so it has to be that one,

00:38:45.750 --> 00:38:48.309
is a gentleman called Andy Frisella. I don't

00:38:48.309 --> 00:38:49.690
know if you've ever heard of him, but he has

00:38:49.690 --> 00:38:52.250
a podcast or a couple podcasts. One's called

00:38:52.250 --> 00:38:58.030
The MFCEO, and it's an acronym for something

00:38:58.030 --> 00:39:00.929
that I may or may not should say on the show.

00:39:01.889 --> 00:39:04.650
But you could put the words together, The MF.

00:39:05.050 --> 00:39:08.489
CEO. But he has another podcast called Real AF

00:39:08.489 --> 00:39:12.630
as well. And one, the Real AF is more current

00:39:12.630 --> 00:39:16.989
events and topics of current events and stuff

00:39:16.989 --> 00:39:18.590
like that. And then the other one, the MF CEO

00:39:18.590 --> 00:39:21.590
is all about business, entrepreneurship, self

00:39:21.590 --> 00:39:24.269
-development, self -improvement. And I am big

00:39:24.269 --> 00:39:26.710
on self -development and self -improvement and

00:39:26.710 --> 00:39:29.070
building this thing up here as much as I can,

00:39:29.130 --> 00:39:31.989
because this controls pretty much everything.

00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:34.659
The way we see, the way we think, the way we

00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:36.420
think about ourself, the way we talk to ourself,

00:39:36.539 --> 00:39:40.559
the way we show up. And if we can get this under

00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:44.000
control as much as possible, a little self -mastery,

00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:47.840
we'll be able to control this even quicker. I

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:49.860
agree with that. That's why I don't watch the

00:39:49.860 --> 00:39:53.500
news. There you go. The only time when I do look

00:39:53.500 --> 00:39:56.079
at anything news -related, it just happens to

00:39:56.079 --> 00:40:00.179
show up in my Google Newsreader. But that's algorithm

00:40:00.179 --> 00:40:05.360
crap for you. I mean, even when I tell Google,

00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:07.800
it's like, not interested, not interested. It's

00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.000
like, hey, you might be interested now. It's

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:11.739
like, no, it's still not that I'm interested.

00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:14.559
Yeah, I think when you click that, they send

00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:15.840
it even harder. They're like, you know what,

00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:19.119
we're going to change your mind. Yeah, I mean,

00:40:19.219 --> 00:40:24.480
but to me, when I just like read the headlines,

00:40:24.659 --> 00:40:28.760
I kind of get the gist of the stuff. So it's

00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.769
like, okay, if I'm just... Looking at the headlines,

00:40:31.949 --> 00:40:33.750
it's like, I'm not going to let it bother my

00:40:33.750 --> 00:40:35.710
day. I'm just going to say, oh, okay, that's

00:40:35.710 --> 00:40:38.329
what's happening. That's a great way to look

00:40:38.329 --> 00:40:42.230
at it. It's stuff out of your control. So it's

00:40:42.230 --> 00:40:44.949
like, why would you let that bundle up your day

00:40:44.949 --> 00:40:46.650
when you could focus on a lot of things that

00:40:46.650 --> 00:40:49.900
are within your control? Exactly. And, you know,

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.639
it's amazing. Sometimes my parents watch the

00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:56.679
news a lot. And so I said to them, I was like,

00:40:56.780 --> 00:40:59.500
how about we order dinner or like if we're having

00:40:59.500 --> 00:41:02.380
our dinner like at six o 'clock when there's

00:41:02.380 --> 00:41:06.820
no news. I hate news. I can't stand the news.

00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:12.019
It gets me bent out of shape. I don't care if

00:41:12.019 --> 00:41:14.960
people are left or right. None of my business.

00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:17.079
But I was like, at the end of the day, I was

00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:19.250
like, Let's just all agree that all politicians

00:41:19.250 --> 00:41:25.630
are... Yeah. That's just my opinion anyway. Yeah.

00:41:26.289 --> 00:41:29.590
So my last question for you is where can people

00:41:29.590 --> 00:41:31.650
follow you, find you, learn more about who you

00:41:31.650 --> 00:41:34.769
are and what you do? Yeah, man. So feel free

00:41:34.769 --> 00:41:36.789
to give me a follow on Instagram. That's where

00:41:36.789 --> 00:41:42.849
I'm the most active. At APageMan. At APageMan.

00:41:42.989 --> 00:41:46.250
And that's where I show... My daily habits, my

00:41:46.250 --> 00:41:50.210
daily process, and I'm on there all day. I do

00:41:50.210 --> 00:41:52.869
have obligations, but I'm literally on there

00:41:52.869 --> 00:41:54.829
explaining what works for me and what's worked

00:41:54.829 --> 00:41:57.329
for my clients and show how you can start taking

00:41:57.329 --> 00:41:59.630
accountability, ownership, and control of your

00:41:59.630 --> 00:42:02.369
life. That's awesome. And I'll put that in the

00:42:02.369 --> 00:42:04.869
show notes. And like I said, I would love to

00:42:04.869 --> 00:42:09.849
have you back on my show. You are an amazing

00:42:09.849 --> 00:42:13.730
person. I wish you the best of luck. I mean,

00:42:13.789 --> 00:42:18.360
sincerely. And I definitely want you to come

00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:22.440
back at some point later this year because I

00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.320
would definitely love to talk more about fitness

00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:31.139
and not in a rush, rush, rush, rush. Hey, well,

00:42:31.179 --> 00:42:32.780
we made the best of what we had, man. I appreciate

00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:35.480
you having me on, man. It was awesome. It was

00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:38.340
great to meet you, man. Same to you. And let's

00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:41.659
stay in touch and I'll let you know when your

00:42:41.659 --> 00:42:44.000
episode is ready. All right, bud. Have a good

00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.280
rest of your day. All right, take care. So that's

00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.320
all the time we have for today. If you like the

00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:53.480
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00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.699
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00:42:59.699 --> 00:43:01.559
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