Aug. 13, 2025

Getting older but getting stronger | Guest: Ralph Caggiano

Getting older but getting stronger | Guest: Ralph Caggiano
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Some things definitely diminish with age, but the need for strength is not among them. After being introduced to designing fitness training for others in the Coast Guard and a career in the California Highway Patrol, Ralph Caggiano turned to helping clients get stronger as they age. While he does train clients of all ages, he specializes in older clients and their specific needs.  

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Welcome. We're back with fifty percent of facts. Like you

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guys can't tell. But I'm just on vacation for like

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three weeks.

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That's why he look so relaxed. Yeah, that's I'm sure

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that's it.

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Yeah, if I could sleep, I'd be really relaxed. I'm

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I'm this is I'm on this sleep struggle currently like

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like five hours maybe six, and then I'm awake and

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there's nothing I can do.

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And what do you think that's from?

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I have no idea.

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Yeah, I get that from just having like back pain.

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Oh yeah, yes, where I'll go to roll over and

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then it wakes me up, and then sometimes my brain

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will kick in at that point, and then I start

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thinking about everything. And I would imagine for you running

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a gym and the podcast and everything, your brain's probably

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always going Yeah.

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Unfortunately, I wish I could shut it off sometimes. And

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I don't know, just sometimes like I have a comfortable

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bed and a comfortable room or whatever, I just can

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still feel uncomfortable in those circumstances.

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I don't know why. Yeah, same way. Sometimes it's just

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it's a little warm or something. But most of the time, Yeah,

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I'm like the bed, everything's comfortable. I'm right here. Why

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why am I waking up? Why can't I fall asleep?

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Why am I only getting You know, I hate to

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look at the sleep thing. So do you ever use

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your watch or anything?

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Yeah?

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I do, Yeah, so it'll monitor my sleep. I really

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hate that because I think that maybe puts a little

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bit of extra pressure on me to get some good sleep.

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And then I wake up and book at it and go,

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oh great it says four hours or it's all interrupted

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the whole night.

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Yeah, it's yeah, it's uh, it's very sometimes disappointing. Yeah,

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it's like when you look at the clock and you

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think that it's later than it is, like oh, maybe

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I've got, you know, six or seven hours of sleep,

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and then you oh no, it's like it's been four

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and I know I'm awake and I don't know what

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to do.

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I'm sure i'll catch up on it this weekend, right. Yeah.

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You always kind of think that there's gonna yeh, and

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it never really works out. And I keep reading about

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the like beneficial quality of naps. It's love to do that,

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like on a schedule as opposed to just sitting someplace and.

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Then yeah, I don't have a scheduled nap time. But

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I do take naps. Naps, Yeah, I do. I love naps.

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I'm going to ask our guests to introduce himself.

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All right. My name is Ralph cad Channel. I own Longevity,

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which is a personal training and nutrition coaching service. I'm

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out of Valao, and what I do is I am

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a concierge service, so I go to the clients generally,

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and then when I don't go to clients, I also

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have a conditioning program that I put together as a

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small group. We usually try to keep it to five

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or less and we do that on Wednesdays and Fridays

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right from my backyard home gym wow. Yeah, and so val.

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Just so that people know who are not in California

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or understand it not far from Sacramento exactly.

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So we're probably about fifty miles I think from Yeah,

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because it's it's a little under an hour when there's

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no traffic. But as we know nowadays there is nothing

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but traffic.

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Yeah. Lately it's been that that corridor of of eighty

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and then as it abuts fifty over here, it's just

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been a nightmare for years, yeah, years, Yeah, Like there's

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there seemingly no end in sight.

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Yeah, there was a point I think when everybody moved

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out this way, and then the commute changed and it

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used to be very easy commute, and now it's turned

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into it doesn't matter if you're going towards San Francisco

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or towards Sacramento. It's usually awful at least part of

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the day. Yeah.

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Yeah, particularly between here and Davis, but also several other

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other spots along the way.

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Yeah. I think my mic might have cut out on

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you guys. Did you hear it? I can still hear

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you now, I'm back.

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Just be the headphone.

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Yeah, fine, it could be the headphones. The Yeah, it's

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only is.

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I think it could be right down there is the connector.

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It might have like decide to that stepped in. Yep,

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we're good, okay, sorry, Yeah, sometimes they do that. They

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have a mind of their own. Some of this discoripment.

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It started to be old. Oh man, it's been done

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for a minute, so it's starting to be like us.

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So that are starting to.

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Be like us.

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Yeah. You were telling me a little bit before about

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like how how you got into a fitness track in

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the Coast Guard. Yeah.

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Yeah, so I was in I was enlisted active duty

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in the Coastguard from nineteen ninety one through nineteen ninety six,

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and from ninety four through ninety six, I was my

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unit's wellness rep. Which back then, yeah, that was kind

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of like a new thing. They weren't really you know, wellness,

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especially in the in the military and the service services.

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That was like a very new thing. They thought, hey,

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you know what we need to bring in this wellness

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idea to kind of start promoting fitness culture but also

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just better overall health and wellness, you know, regarding food

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and the whole thing. And so they sent me to

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the Cooper's Institute for Aerobic Research, which is out of Dallas, Texas.

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It used to be. I think they still have the institute,

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but they don't do the same things anymore. So Kenneth

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Cooper was the father of aerobics back then.

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Yeah, brings a bell.

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Yeah. And so interesting how we kind of have come

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around with protein being like the thing right now, because

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back then carbohydrates were the thing, right yeah, yeah, And

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it was all, hey, you know, you need a diet

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full of complex carbohydrates mostly and aerobic you know, aerobic

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performance and all this stuff. And now here we are

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more about muscle building and protein and anyway, that's just

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a whole nother topic. But the so they sent me there.

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I got trained, went back to the unit, put together

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a whole fitness room because we didn't have anything. So

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the mirrors, the weights, the cardio equipment, all that stuff,

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put that together, started working with everybody on their nutrition

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and their fitness, and it was really fun and rewarding.

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I enjoyed it. Plus, I was a kid that grew up,

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you know, I was born in the seventies and grew

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up through the eighties. Loved all the same things that

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everybody loves, the rocky movies and all that stuff, and

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you know, I would see see that and go, man,

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I want to get into fitness because I want to

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look Whi's funny. I wanted to look like Apollo Creed.

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I didn't want to look like Sylvester Stallone.

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Well, I mean to be fair, you're much taller than

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so that's true.

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Yeah, but I used to think that was pretty funny.

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I'm like, yeah, well look at this guy's shoulders. Man,

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that's the kind of shoulders I want to get one day. Right,

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So that kind of got me into the fitness. When

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I was a kid, and then then it's turned into

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you know, this passion and I had and I thought, oh,

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I can take this from the Coast Guard and then

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be a full time trainer and maybe open up my

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own gym and that kind of thing. But I started

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looking into it and the finances and all that stuff.

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Jim and I went, you know what, I'm going to

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have to go a different route. Yeah, easiest broad It

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wasn't gonna be the easiest road. And I was living

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in Hawaii. I was finishing up my enlistment and so

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you know, I had a real tough time over there,

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having to go down to the North Shore after work

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and you know, enjoy the sun and the water. It

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was tough, man, It was tough. People don't understand how

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I suffered, but you know, I made it through. And

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then I transitioned out and I ended up going into

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the California Highway Patrol right over here in West Sacramento. Yeah,

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and then that took me away from fitness. Funny enough, right,

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I mean, we're we're very fitness oriented while we're at

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the academy. After that and after that, it goes to hell.

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It goes to hell because now you're about working that

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overtime when it comes up, you know, the sleep again

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goes goes down. You start shift work, shift work, Yeah,

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you start getting your circadium rhythm thrown off. You're a

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mess and and so but anyway, that led me down

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this path to where I was with the Highway Patrol

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and I promoted to sergeant and then I was having

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a lot of problems and ended up retiring because of

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a low back problem. And I was getting a lot

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of backspasms L four L five SI joints, her neated

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disc bone spurs on the vertebrae, the root nerves contacting

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those bone spurs causing a lot of the problems. And

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then surgery. I saw a couple of specialists. They all said,

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don't have surgery, or we'll have scar tissue problems and

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that's gonna build up and you're gonna still have the

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same issues. So I ended up retiring close to twenty

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six years of service there. And when I was going

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through that, I also had a couple of problems with

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my left knee that had me focus back on my fitness,

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which I should have been focused on all along. But

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I was the kind of person that I would work

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out here and there during the career, just enough to

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stay you know, halfway in shape and not look too

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bad and not feel too bad if you were having

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to chase people down, right. So I ended up one

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of my left knee surgeries. It was a microfracture, and

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that's when I really got into having to get into

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my own fitness learn corrective exercise. I decided to get

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certified through the NASM on being a certified personal trainer again,

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then the corrective Exercise specialization, and then got into the

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nutrition side of things and ended up doing the physical

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therapy for myself on my left knee for the second surgery.

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And then they've been trying to work through these back issues.

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But unfortunately, when they tell you lose weight, become more flexible,

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strengthen yourself, it doesn't always fix everything. You must still

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have problems.

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So yeah, it doesn't always fix everything for sure, And

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then some people just find that like almost impossible for

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them to do on their own.

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It is, you know, yeah, it's difficult. And I'm even

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finding like, even with the knowledge I have, I come

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across little things here and there. So like lately it's been, oh,

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you know what I think it's problem is with my

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obliques and you know, just being sitting in a patrol

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car for you know, so many years or sitting period.

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And this is for office workers too, is that a

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lot of times we'll favor one side or the other

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with on pelvis right, we like to lean to the

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right or lean to the left. Don't generally sit you know,

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in the perfect kinetic checkpoints right. And so you get

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that pattern that just builds up over time, and then

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you have problems with your you know, your spying and

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your alignment and everything. Hmm.

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I actually that reminds me and you wallet.

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Yeah, huh, we sit on our Some people sit on

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their phones now too.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so. I was just in

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in Nova Scotia and we flew to Boston, but we

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sat around all day, not all day, but hours before

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the plane because you know, international, you try to get

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there early or whatever, so you know, three hours before

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the flight. I think we was a little more than

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three hours before the flight, and then two hours on

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the flight and I'm sitting on my wallet the whole time.

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And that night next morning, my hip is killing me.

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What did I hell did I do? And then I realized, oh,

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I'm sitting on my wallet, like and you don't even

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you don't even noticed the discomfort of it until you

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have irritated everything and and then you don't want to walk. Basically,

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I don't.

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Know, it's just did you have like, did you start

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kicking the sciatic nerve? Yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the

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first time I ever. I used to carry my wallet

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in my back pocket all the time when I was

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working because there was no place else really to put it. Yeah.

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And then back then too, we didn't have like the

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little slim wallets and stuff, so we were still carrying

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the big leather ones or stands. The wallet. Yeah. Yeah.

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We used to call it the deuce wallet because anytime

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you pull over somebody for DUI, it seemed like they'd

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have this fat wallet and they would have everybody and

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their brother they ever came in contact with business cards

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just shoved into their wallet with their money, with their

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ID everything else, and you're and you'd go, dude, how

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did you sit on that like they would? They would

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be up good six inches on one side.

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I can't imagine that. That sounds painful. Yeah, Well, so

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the upshot of this is I just I ordered myself

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across body bag and I do not care what it

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looks like. When I heard from this point for it,

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it comes in this afternoon, it's from Patagonia looking for

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a sponsorship there or something as well.

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You should yeah it just yeah, I just I got it.

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I gotta do something different because between that and I

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have a bruise on this knee.

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It's like where did I get this bruise?

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And I realized that a couple of nights we were

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kind of a little bit of landlocked where we were

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in Nova Scotia. It wasn't easy to go out and

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take a walk whatever. And we finally when we were

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up in monked and we found a way to go

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take a walk. And my phone was dying at that point,

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so I had the power bank, you know, I had

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it on the power bank in this pocket and the

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whole weight of it is pulling is down and like

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three miles of this banging on my knee and I

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have a bruise.

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Yep, it will not go away yet. So yeah, it's

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probably deep on the bone.

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Yeah probably so yeah, and it actually does hurt. It's

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not like I'm you know, internally bleeding in or tore

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something and it.

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Is just yeah, it's not feeling good.

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Yeah, if you just just impact, just like just impact

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after impact after impact, death by thousand bangs. Yeah. Yeah,

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So you're working with UH for based on what I've

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seen on your Instagram. We met on Instagram, everybody, Just

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so that everyone knows that used to be uncommon and

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it's not anymore. No, you work with an older population, Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, most of the people I work with are

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probably I like to say I've worked with people younger,

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but also most of them are probably around the fifty

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and up mark. Yeah, and so, which has been Actually

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I didn't know that that was going to be kind

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of my niche, but it has turned into it where

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I've learned to work and help people with their activities

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of daily living, because what I've noticed is like I

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work with an eighty six year old lady and she's great,

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but we work on a lot of things that deal

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with cognitive issues as well as the physical issues. She's

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got one knee replaced and it's kind of failing, I think,

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and then the other knee is always in pain, so

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squatting is kind of off the table, so we have

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to figure out ways around that, how to strengthen her

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quadrceps because she still needs to walk, she still needs

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to be able to, you know, sit in a chair,

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get up off the toilet, up off the toilet. Right.

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People take this stuff for granted a lot of times

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until they get to a point where, oh my gosh,

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this is really difficult for me. And that's where building

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those habits earlier would be helpful, because it's really tough

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when you're older and you haven't been physically active to

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start to try to build those habits in at that

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point of your life. And so it's been fun with her.

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I work with a couple of others that are over

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seventy five, and the same thing. We like, we'll throw

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in things like the ladder drills, you know, but just

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we're not doing them at the speed you know, a

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top athlete, but we're doing them to try to just

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tie that that cognitive in with the movement and stuff,

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which has been fun to watch the improvement because they

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also will start to drag their feet a little bit

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and that causes the tripping, and then we have the

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bone breaks, the hip breaks, stuff like that. So putting

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that into their programming is good along with the regular strengthening.

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Using a lot of resistance bands or dumbbells, body weight,

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a lot of things. We have to be careful because

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it seems like as you get older too, most people

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end up on blood pressure medications, and so we got

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to watch out for that, you know, hydration hydrations.

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Yeah, with the with the blood pressure medications, that's right.

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It's so easy to get dizzy because they because they've

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gotten dehydrated.

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And it takes us away from being able to do

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too many things like down on the floor, but that

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are also beneficial for working the lower body. So a

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lot of times I have to figure out ways, Okay,

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how can we do this standing and just just regressions

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to normal patterns that we would do like you would

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do here in the gym, you know, your regular squats,

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your regular bench pressing, deadlifting, things like that. I still

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want to incorporate those type of movements. I just have

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to figure out, Okay, where are we at limited right now,

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and then how can we build up to maybe getting

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back to doing a full squad again. And so it's

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been it's been fun, it's been rewarding. I like that.

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I also like working with all the first responders. Well.

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When we do the conditioning at the house. That's generally

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started with guys I used to work with, ok, Yeah,

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and I would see I'm be like, hey, you guys

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need to come over because I don't want to see them.

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A lot of times, the lifespan of an officer after

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they retire is pretty short.

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Yeah, I've I've been aware of that. That's that's kind

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of scary.

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Really, Yeah, And I think it just is sometimes they

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may just not have the same purpose they had, you know, or.

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They have get identity issues, like.

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They're tied to the job, right, Yeah, And so it's about, hey,

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let's let's get these active you know, habits built in

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and maybe change up the nutrition a little bit and

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you know, back off on a few other of our

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bad habits too.

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To like, like, what do you is the percentage of

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people that have maybe been that you worked with, have

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been like fit in the past kind of let things

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go follow and now we're like trying to get back

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into it versus people who were never fit are who

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are trying to now like improve the quality of their lives.

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I'd say we probably have. For me, there's probably two

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that have never been active. The rest have all been

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active to an extent, you know, and I'd say probably

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overall fit and then just let it go over the years.

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And that's probably so probably about twenty percent of maybe

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a little bit less, maybe ten percent have just never

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been active at all and fit from what I deal with.

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Yeah, that's I mean, that's actually so much harder situation

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in a lot of ways. But I think that at least,

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you know, they haven't developed bad habits around the fitness stuff, right,

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because they just haven't had the exposure. It's like they're

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getting it for the first time, and so you're you're

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you're getting to teach them the right way to begin with, right.

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Which is fun. It can also be challenging too, because

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you're trying to, like sometimes you'll show certain movements or whatever,

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and I try to keep them very basic. You know,

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I'm not doing the Instagram you know, choreograph choreographed crazy

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stuff with them, because you know, one, we don't need

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that anyway, but just getting them to do a simple

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like let's say, let's say I'm using a resistance band

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or a dumbbell and we're doing something like a tricep kickback.

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Just let's do a little something like that. I find

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it very funny because a lot of times they can't

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just keep the wrist flat and straight, and they'll start

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wanting to curl their wrists and do kinds of crazy

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stuff like that. I'm like, no, no, we're just working

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the tricep. Whoop, sorry, we're just working the tricep. We're

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not working the wrist right now. We'll do that later.

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Let let's just work that tricep.

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For I could see that, and it's got to be

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I mean, if you've ever worked with with kids, especially

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you know, like just just pre pubescent, just like that

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in that range or just like getting into early puberty,

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they're so awkward and like you think of them as

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being you know, kids is being relatively graceful or whatever,

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but during those growth phases there, they are awkward and

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it's difficult for them to like quickly learn how to

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to mimic a movement right perfectly or whatever. And that's

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got to be somewhat similar in that it islation. Yeah,

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it's very similar.

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Yeah, it's it's crazy.

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You think, you know what, you think the kids would

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get it easy, but they but they don't necessarily, And

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like sometimes there's nothing more horrifying than watching a teenage

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boy kind of try to do some exercise for the

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first fifteen times.

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Oh yeah. I worked with a fourteen year old early on,

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and you know, just things like the bench press we

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forget like they're growing, they're you know, they're they're going

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through that stage of life and there must there. They

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might be getting a little lanky in their limbs and

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then they're you know, all over the place with the

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pattern trying to bench press. You know, once that's stronger

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than the other, it's all wobbly, and you go, we're

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we're just using the bar here. Oh man, we got

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we got a lot of work to do.

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A problem.

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Yeah. Well that's the same with working with the older

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population too that have never done anything, is they don't

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even feel there's definitely no mind muscle connection at all. Yeah,

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so there's that's out of there. So you know, when

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you're talking to them about, hey, tell me, how does

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that feel to you right now? Like if we're doing

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something like a row, oh I feel you know, someone

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might say I feel it, you know, up here in

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my shoulder, and I'm like, really, yeah, I'm like the

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rear of the shoulder. No, I feel it in the front,

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and I'm like hmm. Interesting. I'm like because we want

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to feel it in the back. So then I'm you know,

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I have to kind of go, you know, let's let's

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try to picture you know that you're pinching. Yeah, yeah,

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And so that's that's all fun for me to try

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to to relate and cue them properly and then get

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their mind to think about that because they just never

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never connected with that at all.

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I sometimes think the first thing that we teach anybody

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is to is to pinch your shoulder blades together, because

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pretty so many of the movements that we do. I'm

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particularly empower listing for sure, but beyond that really require

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that that stability back there, yeah yeah, back tightness exactly.

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What How do you how do you manage expectations with them?

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That's a that's a little tricky too, because sometimes I'll

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get asked where, you know, where should I be right now?

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Or you know, I feel like I should be able

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to do more, and then I have to to help

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manage the expectations. I actually have to show them like, well,

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here's where we started, and now here's where we're at,

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where we're at right now, and so like starting with

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the client who was a eighty six, and then even

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seventy eight. For the other client that I'm thinking of,

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we started with maybe using little dumbells that were like

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the little three pounders, right, and now we're using ten

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pound dumbells, and so I have to remind them like, hey,

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this is where we started. Now we're here, and now

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we can actually progress further. I feel like we can

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progress to the fifteen pound dumbells. I feel like the

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way this person was doing exercises on the floor, I

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put a resistance band around their legs. They'd do the

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clamshells and stuff to sharp striking the hips and then

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glut bridges and things like that, and I'd say, at first,

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you know, you couldn't even get your hips up off

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the ground barely. And now look where we're at. You're

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doing you know, twenty repetitions, and here's where we're you know,

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we're constantly progressing. So it's almost just reminding them of

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where they started and to where we're at, and then

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hope and then give them a vision of where we

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want to get to, so that it kind of keeps

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them motivated to keep working towards it. Most of the time,

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they're they're happy to keep going anyway, and and for me,

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like I think generally, and I think a lot of

468
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trainers would think the same thing, is like we would

469
00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:01.559
prefer to work with somebody not too long term, but

470
00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:05.960
just you know, let's say three six months, nine months maybe,

471
00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:07.480
you know, and get them on track so that they

472
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:09.240
could do this themselves. But I find that the older

473
00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:11.720
population really wants you to be there with them every

474
00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.119
single time that they're working out. That's a tough one too,

475
00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:17.480
because if I'm only training you twice a week and

476
00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:19.519
you're only going to work out twice a week, We've

477
00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:21.000
really got to figure out how to cram that in,

478
00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:22.480
and then I have to figure out how to motivate

479
00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:24.519
you to do more on your own when I'm not there,

480
00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.000
because I tell them, you know, two days a week

481
00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:29.839
is good from where you were, but it's really not enough.

482
00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.759
It's kind of a maintenance mode and not really a

483
00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:35.680
progress progress yeah for sure.

484
00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.160
Yeah, So it's trying to get that mindset into and

485
00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:41.839
when they haven't been into that frame of mind to

486
00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:44.880
really work on their fitness and things like that, it's

487
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.519
very tough to go, Hey, now I'm going to give

488
00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.240
you these workouts, and I want you to make sure

489
00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:50.960
you keep doing them. You know, give me at least

490
00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:52.920
another day a week. You know, if you can give

491
00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.319
me three days a week full body, then we're okay.

492
00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:57.400
And then you kind of, you know, work on your

493
00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:58.960
other stuff, go for a walk, you know, on the

494
00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:00.920
other days, you know, do something to kind of keep

495
00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:01.599
yourself moving.

496
00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:07.799
To what extent are these folks in need of weight

497
00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:15.279
loss or versus just you know, building muscle for endurance

498
00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:16.359
about you know, life.

499
00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:21.039
I think that it's there's weight loss needs for sure.

500
00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:26.480
And then because probably one of my heavier clients is strong,

501
00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:32.400
you know, two knee replacements can do squats, you know,

502
00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:34.720
we're doing body weight squats or maybe holding you know,

503
00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.599
twenty pound twenty pound dumbbells, and then they can do

504
00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:42.759
squats just fine. And they have strong arms and everything.

505
00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:45.000
So the strength part is fine, but they do need

506
00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:47.559
to bring down that body weight for their overall health

507
00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:50.039
and to probably improve a lot of their other risk

508
00:24:50.119 --> 00:24:54.000
factors that they have. Right now, another client, probably weight

509
00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:57.279
could come down a bit. That person probably needs to

510
00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:00.640
work on more cardio training and that it's tough when

511
00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:02.960
they don't walk really well and they use a cane

512
00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:05.000
or something. Because we need to figure out how can

513
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:07.359
we get that cardio because we have high blood pressure

514
00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:09.920
issues and other problems that would be helped if we

515
00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:14.680
could get the cardiovascular system working better for that person. So,

516
00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:17.319
you know, it's it's kind of a combo. I think

517
00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.400
anytime you can bring your weight down to a healthy limit,

518
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.079
it's always good while strengthening your body as well. I

519
00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:24.319
think it's needed for everybody.

520
00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:27.799
One of the questions I've been asking every time bring

521
00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.279
a trainer in who deals it all with nutrition is

522
00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.079
getting an approtein is hard for everybody. And I think

523
00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:39.839
that even the older population you're dealing with, like as

524
00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:43.519
you said before, like they you know, they have other

525
00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:49.720
things programmed into their minds about protein, right, and it's

526
00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.000
hard to get enough anyway, whether you believe in it

527
00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.559
or not. I'm just wondering how you're approaching that with them,

528
00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:59.160
Like what are you telling them to do?

529
00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:02.640
So with the I give them the same advice. I

530
00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:05.359
tell them, Hey, look, protein for you is probably a

531
00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:08.400
little more important than you know, than even for other people,

532
00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:11.640
because as you get older, your body is already wasting

533
00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:14.279
the muscle. You got the sarcopenia issues, right, so you're

534
00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:18.799
muscle wasting and then they're just they don't have the

535
00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.319
appetite or the total daily energy needs, right, so they

536
00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:25.279
are not as hungry. A lot of times already they

537
00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.319
you know, it's very rare that I come across an

538
00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.640
older person that is going to eat like a teenager.

539
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:33.680
They're going to eat a lot less and then they're

540
00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:35.960
a lot less active and they just don't need it.

541
00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.039
And so they're to get them to eat a lot

542
00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:41.119
of protein. It doesn't it just doesn't equate in their mind.

543
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:43.759
And I also think it's a generational thing because they

544
00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:45.480
grew up and it's like, oh, I'm going to eat

545
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.480
you know, I can have an egg and egg one right,

546
00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:52.039
and a piece of toast and there we go. And

547
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:54.920
I'm like, well, and egg's only six grams you know protein,

548
00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.079
and so that's not really enough to trigger muscle protein

549
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:01.799
synthesis even really, you know, so we're not really getting

550
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:03.680
anything out of this. And you know, so I tell them,

551
00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:05.240
you know, we need to we need to try to

552
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.839
you know, kick that up a notch and let's aim

553
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.960
for twenty, you know, and if they could get like

554
00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:13.559
twenty per meal and try to eat three. But a

555
00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:15.440
lot of times they'll say, I only eat like twice

556
00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.319
a day, or only eat one real meal a day,

557
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.079
you know, And so it's difficult. I try not to

558
00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:25.200
harp on the older group. I should probably do it more,

559
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:27.640
but I try not to really harp on them about

560
00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:31.680
their nutrition because they're so they're already set in their ways,

561
00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:33.759
and most of them will tell me right up front, hey,

562
00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:36.079
I'm not changing the way I eat. I just want

563
00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.240
to work out and get stronger. I don't care about

564
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:40.759
my food part. And I'll tell them, well, all right,

565
00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:43.359
but you know, the food is a big part of it,

566
00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:48.720
you know, for overall performance and improvements. But I'm not

567
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:50.920
going to tell them you can't have your ice cream,

568
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.480
you can't have this unless they're you know, we're going

569
00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:55.799
towards down the path of diabetes or whatever. You know.

570
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.440
Then it's like, hey, you know what, we really need

571
00:27:57.480 --> 00:27:58.359
to tighten this up.

572
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:01.720
Yeah, actually, just this study that may or may not

573
00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:04.160
be fake, I did not really go down the rabbit

574
00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:07.880
hole with it about ice cream actually being a healthy

575
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:09.119
thing in.

576
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.240
You know, obviously this sounds good now, yeah, I know.

577
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.880
It's like it's you know how the best post workout

578
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.559
is supposed to be chocolate milk? Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah,

579
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.759
it's similar to that. Just having a certain amount of

580
00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:26.359
like carbs and fat in your in a little pocket

581
00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:27.039
in your diet.

582
00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:27.720
Interesting.

583
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:31.640
Yeah, it's supposed to be good for you and need you.

584
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:35.960
Know, I could imagine, uh, you know, it's so funny

585
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.200
the way we can play around with nutrients, right, like

586
00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:40.599
pre and post workout type of things where you can,

587
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:43.720
you know, hey, if you're gonna, if you want to carb,

588
00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:46.599
you know, with some simple carbs, it's it's okay to

589
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:48.680
do it before your workout. And I'm kind of of

590
00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.119
that mindset where I don't mind throwing in some cereal

591
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.160
or you know, or something you know, more of a

592
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:58.720
simple sugar. I probably would usually go. I personally prefer

593
00:28:58.839 --> 00:29:01.480
like a honey or something more natural sugar like that.

594
00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:04.839
But if you're you know, depending on where you're at

595
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:06.720
with your with your physique and everything, and where you

596
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.640
want to be, I think it's okay to throw in

597
00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:11.960
those simple carbs pre workout and then uh, and then

598
00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.960
maybe something a little more on the complex side post workout.

599
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.599
So I could see where the ice cream might come

600
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:21.799
into places, you know, if it's not got full of

601
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:23.680
too many other bad things. Right, We've got we've got

602
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.680
the fat, the sugar, and the proteins. Yeah yeah, yeah,

603
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.720
it's got it all right there.

604
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.680
It makes sense, particularly for people who want to eat

605
00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:32.119
ice cream.

606
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.279
So yeah, we can justify it.

607
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:38.200
Yeah, totally justify Yeah yeah yeah, no, I I it

608
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:40.720
was just on this vacation for almost three weeks, and

609
00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:44.359
I like lost more weight than I do at home.

610
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:48.920
Oh yeah, we walking a lot, No, really not much,

611
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:50.880
not nearly as much as I normally do.

612
00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.400
Are you a Are you a snacker or a grazer

613
00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:54.160
when you're at home?

614
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.160
I can be I have not been much in the

615
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.240
last like ten twelve weeks, But but I don't know.

616
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.599
I literally couldn't tell you except that, like I was

617
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:09.279
dealing with a lot of foods that are not in

618
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:13.359
a database, so I'm like having to guess, and so

619
00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:16.599
I tend to kind of overestimate. I think, yeah, what

620
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:19.480
I'm getting and and and they're actually in a deficit

621
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:20.880
and more of a deficit.

622
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.799
Yeah yeah, I think I was listening to you talk

623
00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.240
to it was a good, good, uh interesting podcast to

624
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:28.519
me when you were talking about to one of your

625
00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:33.000
friends about uh training executives. Oh yeah yeah, And and

626
00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:35.559
the nutrition app kind of thing and stuff like that,

627
00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:39.440
And I find that the same thing with the nutrition apps.

628
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:41.960
They're not They're great for package things.

629
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:44.359
That are already there, yeah, but they're they're limited for

630
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.319
home cooked food for sure, Yeah, or any restaurant meal

631
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:50.119
that's not you know, obviously a thing and you can

632
00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:53.240
use the A lot of them have the AI stuff

633
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.480
and it kind of gets in there, but but the

634
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:02.359
it could be off by you know, which is a lot.

635
00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:05.279
I think that's the same thing. Like even with our wearables,

636
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.960
they give you a good kind of baseline way to

637
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:13.200
track it. Like the watch right, it'll say if I

638
00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:16.480
try to aim for, you know, a thousand move calories

639
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:18.559
on top of my regular energy, and at the end

640
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:20.240
of the day, it'll go, oh, yeah, you know, you

641
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:23.680
used three thousand something calories for the day. Okay, So

642
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:25.559
then I go, well, how much should I be eating?

643
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:27.480
And I could kind of play with a deficit in that,

644
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:31.119
but even that is off because if I really was

645
00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:33.880
to eat as much as it says I burned, I

646
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.839
generally start gaining weight. So I'm like, okay, that is

647
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:38.119
not exactly accurate.

648
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:42.559
Yeah, yeah, I think that that the calorie burned by

649
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:46.119
exercise estimates that you see on all of these things

650
00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:49.119
are way off thereof yeah, yeah, that's why I just

651
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.039
kind of turn that stuff off. I used three different

652
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.480
trackers in the course of twelve weeks or so, just

653
00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:57.000
and just see which ones I like. And I don't

654
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:01.119
really like any of them, you know, I can figure

655
00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:04.000
out how to work with them. Yeah, but I've also

656
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.279
not been using any of the ones that have like

657
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:11.440
an AI that tells you how much of what to eat.

658
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.519
I just have like I'm working with different people who

659
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:18.400
give me ideas about what I should be doing. I

660
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.519
can never hit a protein goal though, Like it's just

661
00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:24.039
not happening because I we don't eat enough meat is

662
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:24.920
the issue.

663
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:28.240
Yeah, I find it used to have the same problem

664
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:31.880
with the protein. And then you know I always tell

665
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.720
people they go, oh, what do you eat, Ralph, And

666
00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:35.079
I'm like, well, I don't really want to tell you

667
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:36.960
what I eat because most of you you're not going

668
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.359
to want to eat it yourself anyway, because it's surely

669
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:42.359
not not appeal appealing to many people. You know, Hey,

670
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.359
I crack open a can of tuna, you know, and

671
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.839
I may throw in a little bit of Reo spaghetti

672
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:49.599
sauce with it. Just to kind of give it a

673
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.920
little different taste, you know exactly. He squint. He's like,

674
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:56.200
oh god, I'm gonna vomit, all right, but you know,

675
00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.279
and then you get your thirty six scramps of protein

676
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.559
right there, and it's only one hundred and eight calories

677
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:02.440
in a little can of tuna, right, so you can

678
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:04.920
keep the calories down, keep the protein up. You know,

679
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:10.119
a non fat yogurt has fifteen grams of protein and

680
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:13.400
only maybe like ninety calories, and you throw that in

681
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.759
with a protein shake that has twenty five you know,

682
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:18.000
not in with the protein shake. Sorry, everybody, I don't

683
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.480
want to crow out even further. You eat them separately,

684
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:23.759
but you know, have a protein shake that's twenty five

685
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:25.920
grams and you know, there you go. You got what

686
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:26.680
is that forty?

687
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:30.440
So yeah, one of the things I have done this

688
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.200
time around is mixing like a couple of scoops of

689
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.720
protein powder in with Greek yogurt and just sort of

690
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.759
making it into well, tries to be a paste, and

691
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:42.960
then it's like then once it gets in your gut,

692
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.640
it's concrete.

693
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.000
It just just stays there. It's like that doesn't sound

694
00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:50.599
it tastes okay? Uh huh, Like you can.

695
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:53.680
You can choke it down without too much trouble. But boy,

696
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:55.839
once it makes and you can't get it off the

697
00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:57.240
dishes for some reason either.

698
00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:58.440
I mean it's making a spackle.

699
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:02.000
Yeah, it's like, yes, goal so we can grout cement grout.

700
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:07.119
Yeah yeah, yeah, I meant. Another thing I've been dealing

701
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.599
we're using it to try to get some protein, is

702
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:15.119
is doing a like coffee shake kind of thing, right,

703
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:17.360
you know, just like you take an ice and a

704
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:21.800
and an espresso or decap espresso or whatever, and in

705
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:24.199
a couple of scoops of protein and maybe a little

706
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:27.360
bit of soy milk. I don't know, I started drinking

707
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:29.840
soy milk probably over ten years ago. Not because I'm

708
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:32.840
lactousin tolerant. It just gets the just less calories. Yeah,

709
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.079
even the sweetened wines of less interesting.

710
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.360
Yeah, I haven't. I haven't looked at those that. Yeah,

711
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:41.800
there's there's a lot of things, you know, I mean chicken.

712
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:44.199
You know, you can get a pretty good bank of

713
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:48.360
your butt ground turkey, low calorie, high protein. You can

714
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:50.400
play with it, put it into taco meat, you know,

715
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.719
make yourself something like that. Keep your carbs.

716
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:55.920
Sown, my wife has has gone for a few days,

717
00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:59.159
and so yeah, so no I went. I went to

718
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:01.639
I went to church was yesterday and I was like, okay,

719
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.119
so see, here's that pre cooked chicken, and hear some

720
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:10.400
bag salads, and here's some spinach, and here's some ground turkey,

721
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.159
and you know, so I can survive for a few days.

722
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:19.800
I'm it was more weight. Wow, I'm home finably than

723
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.559
I would have under normal circumstances. I don't know it.

724
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:26.679
Part of the tracking thing, too, is that like you

725
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:28.159
look at it and go, well, I got this many

726
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:30.760
left and I haven't hit this goal, so I'm gonna

727
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:33.840
eat this. Where if you were not paying attention to it,

728
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:36.519
you would probably not eat it because you would think

729
00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:37.559
you would have the room for it.

730
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.519
That's true. I think if we really listened to ourself

731
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:43.440
and felt like, am I really hungry right now? Because

732
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:46.079
I can go I can go pretty low on calories

733
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:49.400
for the day. The problem is I don't want to

734
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.960
get smaller, you know. So I've been messing around, Like

735
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.239
the last month, I did a little experiment on myself.

736
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:58.559
I was about two hundred and four pounds last month

737
00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:00.239
on the seventh and I went I wonder if I

738
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:02.280
could get down to one ninety five. And usually my

739
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.400
body weight was always around that like two fifteen mark,

740
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:08.920
and I thought, well, I wonder if I could take

741
00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:11.960
take it down. So I had an appendix rupture in

742
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.239
December of last year. Oh my god, yeah, which really

743
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.599
messed me up pretty gotcha, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well

744
00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:20.760
I was doing the whole you know, kid born in

745
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:23.519
the seventies thing and like, hey, you'll be fine. It's

746
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:26.519
just something you ate during Thanksgiving and you know, and

747
00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:28.599
rub some dirt on it maybe, you know, and it'll

748
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.000
be fine. And I had to go to the hospital.

749
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:34.480
They're like, yeah, it's ruptured. We'll get you in surgery

750
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:36.239
in the morning. We'll put you on some pain meds.

751
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.000
Right now. It felt like felt like the alien was

752
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:39.519
trying to claw its weight out. I might have them

753
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:42.840
and worst pain I've ever been in. And but then

754
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.199
after that, I was sitting in the hospital for five

755
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:47.360
days and by the time I got out, I had

756
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.119
gone from I think they weighed me in when I

757
00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:51.119
got there at like two hundred and five pounds and

758
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.039
I left at one hundred and eighty seven pounds in

759
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:53.599
five days.

760
00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:54.400
Oh my god.

761
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:57.119
Oh yeah, it was a drastic, just muscle wasting drop

762
00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:02.960
and I walked I walked out going terrible, like, how

763
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:05.760
big was my appendix? I know that's what the hell

764
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.599
happened in that sucker way. Yeah, doctors like it was

765
00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:10.039
a bad boy. You had a bad boy in you,

766
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:11.559
and that's how he kept saying, which was funny. And

767
00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:13.840
I'm like, well, all right, I'm glad it's gone.

768
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:18.400
But five days on antibiotics or something afterwards liked it perfed, Yeah,

769
00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:21.280
it had and it was gangrenous and yeah, they had

770
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:24.280
to take the ilium off, the short off, the short

771
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.360
off the small intestine, so they took that and then

772
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:28.199
the secum off the went up to the seacum and

773
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.239
took that off on the large intestine side along with

774
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:33.840
the ruptured appendix, and then had to replace it.

775
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.079
There's like a valve I guess between the two intestines

776
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.639
at that point. They had to redo that, the ilio

777
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:41.840
sequel valve or whatever they call it. And so you know,

778
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.039
that causes all kinds of other issues later on down

779
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.800
the road. We won't talk about that. Yeah, no, I

780
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.760
totally yeah. But so then it was like, hey, let's

781
00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:50.800
get some weight back on you. So I was, uh,

782
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.639
and this, you know, since we're talking about nutrition, I'll say,

783
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:56.360
let's talk about hospital nutrition real quick. Oh yeah, I

784
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:59.159
get done with this surgery. And what are they feeding me?

785
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:03.159
They're feeding me all this junk, just trash food. You know,

786
00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:09.159
everything's packaged and just horrible for you. And I remember thinking, hey, doc,

787
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:11.320
is this really like what I should be eating or

788
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:12.280
is this all they have here?

789
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:12.480
You know?

790
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:14.159
And he's like, oh, it's fine, you know, this is

791
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.239
what you eat this, And I went, oh my goodness.

792
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:17.559
I was like, no, wonder people get sick.

793
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:28.719
Yeah, yeah, no kidding. I uh, speaking of doctors years ago,

794
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:32.679
many years ago now, had a primary care doctor was like, well,

795
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:34.920
well you did about exercise. Well, I lift weights and

796
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.800
I you know, I walk. I don't like a runner.

797
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.159
And he was a runner. And it's like he entirely

798
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:43.159
discounted any effect from walking.

799
00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:47.639
Oh. Interesting, Yeah, it's like, oh, that's not really cardio.

800
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:50.440
It's like, yeah, it is exactly.

801
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.599
And like I was one of the kind of nothing's

802
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:56.639
ever new in in fitness, but kind of the new

803
00:38:56.719 --> 00:39:03.559
emphasis on on walking is comforting because like the numbers

804
00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:06.599
back it up. If you know, all cause mortality falls

805
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:10.159
if you're over X number of I think it's seven

806
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:15.079
eight thousands something, right, yeah, steps today, But it was

807
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.920
it was very defeating. The same doctor like I had

808
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:20.400
intentionally lost fifteen pounds and I said, oh, I lost

809
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:25.199
fifteen pounds and he said on purpose. It's like, well, no,

810
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:29.159
if it wasn't on purpose, then I have cancer or something.

811
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:30.360
That's right, we got a problem.

812
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.559
And yeah, you should be asking me a different questions, like, yeah,

813
00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:36.159
there was doctors there.

814
00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:39.280
They're behind the times on a lot of that fitness

815
00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:42.440
and nutrition. They give a lot of bad advice from

816
00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:44.480
what I've what I've been observing.

817
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:50.880
Yeah, I saw a neurologist last year for a thing

818
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:58.480
I had going on, and this foreign trained neurologist. It's

819
00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:02.239
like yeah again it was like walking. It's like, oh,

820
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:08.320
you don't like just exercise just makes you hungry. Really,

821
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:14.239
exercise just makes you hungry. It's like, okay, fine, that's fine.

822
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:15.920
Now stress does too, doc.

823
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:17.360
Yeah, you know there's a lot of things that might

824
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:19.360
make you hungry. Yeah, you know that's funny.

825
00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:23.519
Yeah, going back to like stress eating or whatever. I mean,

826
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:27.199
I'm one of those people unrestrained. If I am not sleeping,

827
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:28.880
well I will eat more to stay awake.

828
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:31.239
You know what that happens. I think that's that's kind

829
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:33.440
of I think there's been research into that with sleep

830
00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:37.239
deprivation and then throws off people's eating patterns. A lot

831
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:40.119
of times they'll end up overeating over consuming for the day.

832
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.400
It's something about probably cortisol or whatever. Something triggers it,

833
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:46.639
and then you just want to go crazy and start eating.

834
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:50.599
Yeah, trying to shove calories into to keep your brain

835
00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:55.400
metabolism probably going yeah, yeah, it's frustrating.

836
00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:55.880
Yeah.

837
00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.800
Uh, let's roll back in your career a little bit,

838
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.920
like what you have it? Do you have any really

839
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:04.119
crazy HP.

840
00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:09.880
Stories, crazy CHP stories. There's there were a lot of

841
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:16.559
interesting events that that occurred during my HP time. There

842
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:20.400
was let's see I think one of the there's man,

843
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:23.480
I don't know what do I tell they're there, they're

844
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:27.800
allegedly Well, there's just so you've run across so many

845
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.840
different people, right and you and you have people that

846
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:33.559
are having a bad day, or you have people that

847
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:39.079
are you know a little bit mentally challenged in certain ways,

848
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:41.800
and and uh, you know, like I think one I

849
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:45.960
remember one time just something goofy and it's it. It

850
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:48.719
was just you know, there's a guy and he's we're

851
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:50.800
down in Los Angeles. I'm working there. That's where I

852
00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:54.599
broke in his West LA and uh that was in

853
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:59.280
nineteen ninety seven. And when there, they had this guy.

854
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.119
He's standing on the off ramp and he's got his

855
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:04.039
bike with him, but for some reason, he's got his

856
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.000
pants down and he decided he's gonna, you know, masturbate

857
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.440
while people are driving by in the morning commute.

858
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:11.599
You know, you know, there's nothing like the show.

859
00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:13.760
First, right, you know, He's like, hey, you know, here

860
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:16.400
we are. I'm entertained by traffic apparently. And then we

861
00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:18.199
get called and I thought, oh, is this how the

862
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:22.320
job's going to be. So we go and uh, you know,

863
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.159
get there and he's he's like pulling up his pants

864
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:27.360
to run off, and he jumps on his bike and

865
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:30.760
and I'm just running down the ramp I left. You know,

866
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:32.719
they had a couple of units there, but I'm running

867
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:34.440
next to him and I'm like, hey, what are you doing?

868
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:36.719
And you know, so I'm on just like casual job, hey,

869
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.360
you know, and he's like, hey, leave me alone, and

870
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:41.480
I said, well I can't because you know, you got

871
00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:43.199
your pants down. Back here and stuff like that, and

872
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.320
you know, take him and uh we book him. But

873
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:47.599
it was just, you know, there's just a lot of

874
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:50.719
silly things like that that happened. There was some serious

875
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:56.480
events that happened that, you know that you just try

876
00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:59.960
not to think about too much. A lot of people, unfortunately,

877
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.039
a lot of people die or dead and had to

878
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:06.960
break the news to family members about that. That was

879
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:12.400
never any fun. So that happened probably actually more in

880
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.719
my last three years on the job than it did

881
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.119
during the rest of my career, which was different for

882
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:20.679
me too to come at that point and have to

883
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:21.760
do those kind of things.

884
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.519
Do you feel that something changed that caused that to

885
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:25.159
be true or.

886
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:28.079
Just I don't know, honestly, I'm not sure. After we

887
00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:30.239
were kind of going through the pandemic and then after

888
00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:34.239
a lot of things changed and you know, and then

889
00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:36.719
with the homeless population and stuff like that, so you

890
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.960
would come across a lot of people that just died

891
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:41.679
living out on the side of the freeway. You know.

892
00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:43.199
That was one of the things too. We used to

893
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:46.320
talk about, where like there needs to be something to

894
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:49.400
protect pedestrians from being on the freeway like that. It

895
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:53.400
doesn't need to be people need to make sure that

896
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:56.960
I think the freeway is not a place for pedestrians,

897
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:01.000
you know, and they started making it okay, know, and

898
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.039
it wasn't enforced anymore, and that became a problem.

899
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:11.800
Yeah, I've been puzzled by I'm finding people protesting. Protest

900
00:44:11.800 --> 00:44:14.119
all you want to, but doing it on a public

901
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.559
freeway is a scary thing and like people could die,

902
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.400
and that's probably not what you want connected to your cause.

903
00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:24.360
Sure, I guess, yeah's my easiest way to say it. Sure,

904
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:27.280
we'd have a couple where they'd shut down the Bay Bridge,

905
00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:30.400
you know, they chain themselves across the bridge and sit

906
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.800
out there linking arms. We've got other people in traffic though,

907
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:35.159
that are having issues. Some people are you know, on

908
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:37.599
their way to the hospital in San Francisco, stuck and

909
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:40.800
they're stuck all because you're upset about something. And a

910
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:43.280
lot of times people that were out there, they were

911
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:45.800
out there being paid to be there. So you go, okay,

912
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:47.800
well this is like a job for them. You find

913
00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:50.000
that out as you're arresting and going through the process.

914
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:52.840
But those things don't get really, you know, people don't

915
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.880
hear about that a lot. And then you think, wow,

916
00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:58.960
you're you know, because you're upset, you're you know, infringing

917
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.079
on these other people's travel rights and stuff. So it's

918
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.159
kind of it's one of those like Okay, like you said,

919
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:08.760
we don't mind anybody protesting. In fact, it's fine, but

920
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:12.360
try not to impede everybody else's probably you know, movements.

921
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.920
I just I've never completely understood that why that was,

922
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.559
why that felt necessary, And I mean it's just right

923
00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:22.039
over here. I five, that's it's it happens right, you know,

924
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:25.599
twenty twenty, it happened a lot, and it's I think

925
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.920
it's happened once recently, yeah, this year or two, where

926
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:32.400
it's just shut down the freeway. It's like, yeah, that

927
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:36.719
like you're making a point, but you're also like you're

928
00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:38.559
also pissing off a lot of people who are not

929
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:40.440
going to see your point of view now because you

930
00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:41.719
have inconvenienced them.

931
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.800
If you're looking for sympathy, you're kind of probably shooting

932
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:45.760
yourself on the foot on that.

933
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:51.039
Yeah. Another one that that pisses me off is side shows.

934
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:54.440
Oh yeah, that's been a big problem. Like I actually

935
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:56.840
like was held up by one on the on the

936
00:45:56.840 --> 00:45:59.480
Bay Bridge a couple of years ago, I believe it, yep,

937
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.159
where I worked in Oakland in my last three years.

938
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:05.840
And so yeah, side shows, you know that's like the

939
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:06.880
weekend entertainment.

940
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:11.760
Yeah, this was motorcycles. Uh, and so know because I'm

941
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:14.880
not really enough enough space for cars to do it

942
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:17.519
on the on the bridge. But like, what what is

943
00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:21.280
this about? Like what kind of statement are you trying

944
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:21.920
to make here?

945
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:22.440
Yeah?

946
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:26.119
I don't find this entertaining, So I'm not your audience,

947
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:29.360
and and I want if I'm finding it irritating because

948
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:33.320
I can't move forward right, It's like why I don't

949
00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:34.199
understand the why?

950
00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:37.400
Yeah. Yeah, and then if you do move forward, right,

951
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:39.440
then you get you get to face the wrath of

952
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:41.239
whoever's running the side shows.

953
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:48.679
Yeah yeah, how how from an enforcement perspective, like what

954
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:52.119
can s HB even do? I mean you have to

955
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:53.360
be in the right place at the right time to

956
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:54.360
even catch it going on?

957
00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:56.599
Right, I mean sure, yeah, a lot of times there

958
00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:59.440
there will be so you know, everybody wants to tell

959
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.440
what they're doing. Yeah, right, So it's social media posts

960
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:05.599
we we have you know, will monitor that and there

961
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:08.679
will be there will be signs usually of something getting

962
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:11.320
ready to happen or kick off, because the promoters will

963
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:13.360
always want to promote it one way or the other,

964
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.880
and so it'll be out there, be at Instagram, uh

965
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:21.360
TikTok or something like that, and we will monitor those

966
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:24.239
accounts that usually do it, and then you know, hopefully,

967
00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:28.280
hopefully we are ready to go when it's time. And

968
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:31.480
then you know, it's about just gathering the information, taking

969
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:33.679
pictures of stuff that's going on. Have we everybody's got

970
00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:36.599
body warned cameras. Now we've got the cameras in the car.

971
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:40.039
So let's get the you know, the video evidence. Let's

972
00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:43.199
make some arrests, Let's impound the vehicles for a longer

973
00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.559
periods of time to make it more difficult for them.

974
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:48.400
And so, uh, that's that's the way we go about

975
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:50.599
it right now. And then we want we do our job,

976
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:52.679
and then we turn it over and hopefully the district

977
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.239
attorneys do their job. And there's actually a little bit

978
00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:56.559
of teeth in the in.

979
00:47:56.559 --> 00:48:01.719
The law and yeah, and so they can be discouraged

980
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:02.719
from doing it again.

981
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.480
Yeah, if we're not going to discourage it, then why

982
00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:07.199
are we even risking anybody's safety to deal with it?

983
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:09.280
Yeah, I know, that's that's true. That's true.

984
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:09.800
That can't be.

985
00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:13.400
It can't be the most comfortable situation to be in

986
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.480
the in the middle of as you know, as someone

987
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:18.480
walking I guess.

988
00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:21.519
Right, yeah, yeah, scary.

989
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:23.480
I just don't understand.

990
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:26.840
Yeah, generally those come with you know, and everybody's got

991
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:29.400
some somebody's got a gun and all this other stuff

992
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.079
of the side shows. They shoot at each other during

993
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:33.039
the side shows, and if somebody doesn't do it right,

994
00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:35.360
they'll shoot their car up. It's it's insane. It's like,

995
00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:38.519
what what's the thinking here? Back back back in the day.

996
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:40.079
It used to be just going out and like doing

997
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:42.599
a little drag race against each other, right, maybe someone

998
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.599
in an orchard or something like that. Around Now now

999
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:48.480
it's no, let's take over an intersection in a residential

1000
00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:51.760
neighborhood and just spend don't spend donuts constantly until or

1001
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:54.599
until we smash into the light standards and stuff.

1002
00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.039
You know. Yeah, I don't get it.

1003
00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:59.440
When I was a kid, I didn't have that money

1004
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:02.440
for tires either, you know. You know, if we weren't

1005
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.159
going straight, I wasn't burning them tires up, man. Yeah,

1006
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:07.440
for sure, for sure.

1007
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:11.079
Yeah, I don't. I don't want to do anything to my.

1008
00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:14.039
Tires, right, I know, I'm like, hey, these are forty

1009
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.280
thousand mile tires. I want them to last fifty thousand.

1010
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:18.239
I don't want to pay for these again.

1011
00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:21.920
Yeah, And I mean in in California with our level

1012
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:25.320
of pollution, rubber breaks down faster, That's right, And so

1013
00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:28.159
like that's a concern as well. You just don't, you know,

1014
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.159
don't want to revisit the tire shop when you don't

1015
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:31.400
have to.

1016
00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:33.800
Yeah, what's wrong with these guys? They're not thinking you

1017
00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:35.639
know earth first?

1018
00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:37.079
Yeah, for sure.

1019
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:42.440
Do you have a like favorite.

1020
00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:45.280
Success story of somebody that you worked with in terms

1021
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:48.599
of anything, But I was thinking about, you know, the clients,

1022
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:49.239
but like just.

1023
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:54.639
Period, that's a good one favorite success story. Well, you know,

1024
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:58.079
last night we celebrated my mom's seventy eighth birthday, and

1025
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:00.840
so this is the precious him mind right now. But

1026
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:03.400
she's she had some friends over there and I trained

1027
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.159
my mom as well, and she was telling them like, hey,

1028
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:09.320
we went we went on this vacation. They just got

1029
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:11.599
back from San Diego, her and my father and they

1030
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:16.440
were down there at a family vacation for celebrating an anniversary.

1031
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:19.800
I believe it was in a wedding. I'm thinking that's right.

1032
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:22.400
I'm probably wrong. They're gonna yell at me about not knowing.

1033
00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:25.320
But yeah, so she was talking about, hey, you know,

1034
00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:28.079
without working with you, I wouldn't you know, I would

1035
00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:31.360
have trouble like lifting my leg over into this deep bathtub,

1036
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:33.440
you know, to take a shower. I would have trouble,

1037
00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:36.039
you know, squatting down here to do this, and all

1038
00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:38.440
the movements that she needs to do just to get

1039
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:42.440
along and get around and even just walking different places

1040
00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:45.440
that used to be trouble for her. She's like, oh,

1041
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:48.599
I can walk so much further now, and so hearing her,

1042
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.760
you know, say how much and she's like, oh yeah,

1043
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:52.320
without working with Ralph, I wouldn't be able to do

1044
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:54.679
any of this. That makes me okay good, you know,

1045
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:57.280
yeah it's working and I can see it right from

1046
00:50:57.320 --> 00:50:58.840
my own mom. Yeah, that's great.

1047
00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:01.960
Yeah, that's great. You were talking about hospital food earlier,

1048
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:04.960
and I was going to my mention. My my mother

1049
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:10.599
in law is eighty six okay, two D replacements. She

1050
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:13.280
walks about four miles every day. Oh nice, and she

1051
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:16.800
goes to a silver sneakers program and you know whatever.

1052
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:21.000
But when she had the knees replaced probably ten eleven

1053
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:21.480
years ago.

1054
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:23.800
She would not eat.

1055
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:28.599
The hospital food. She had, Like she just like basically

1056
00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.480
put in an order with my with my wife, like

1057
00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:35.079
bring me refersent dinner for the days that I have

1058
00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:36.679
to be in the hospital because I didn't really want

1059
00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:40.480
to eat the hospital food. Yeah, and she's like retired nurse,

1060
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.000
she knows what the food's like, I'm not I'm not

1061
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.639
eating that. Yeah, I'm not eating that. I'll just tell

1062
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:46.719
them not to bring me anything.

1063
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:50.280
Yeah. It's it was pretty pretty awful. I mean at

1064
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:52.199
the time, I knew I was wasting away though, so

1065
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.239
I ate whatever. I was like, you know what, this

1066
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:56.880
is high calorie stuff. You know, I'm gonna go ahead

1067
00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:58.920
and just eat it. And of course they wanted me

1068
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:00.920
to do certain things where they were ishoe from the hospital.

1069
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:03.639
We will talk about that, and so uh so I

1070
00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:06.880
was eating it all, you know, and but the whole

1071
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:09.559
time I was like, this is just trash food. What

1072
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:12.280
am I doing? And then you know, I got out

1073
00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:14.440
and a friend of mine too, he thought he was funny.

1074
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:16.320
He's like, hey, I brought you a bag of gummy bears.

1075
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:18.079
I'm like, thanks, buddy, I go I've just been cut

1076
00:52:18.119 --> 00:52:19.800
apart in here. But you know, I'm gonna eat these

1077
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.000
gummy bears and let's see what happens. He's like, yeah,

1078
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:23.960
see what you're see what your intestines do with these?

1079
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.199
And I'm like, yeah, we'll wait on that.

1080
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:30.119
Yeah. The worst would however, I wish I actually might

1081
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.639
have solved the problem is the sugar free gummy bears.

1082
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:34.400
Oh yeah, they will make you.

1083
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:38.280
Pooh, right, yeah, yeah, those are those artificial sweeteners. Man,

1084
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:39.360
They're no joke, right.

1085
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:42.440
No joke at all. And that in between the artificial

1086
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:43.159
fat stuff.

1087
00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:45.280
Yeah, I know. I tell people, I'm like, hey, stay

1088
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:47.960
away from anything that ends in tall, you know, Sila tall,

1089
00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.719
SORBA tall, anything like that. I go, that's that was

1090
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:54.880
designed to be a laxative in in like senior homes. Yeah,

1091
00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:56.840
you know, And people like really and I'm like, yeah,

1092
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:58.239
I go. But if you look at it, it's in

1093
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.760
your uh I forgot what's syrious it's in, But it's

1094
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:04.320
in like a one of the brand cereals. Yeah, probably

1095
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.960
frosted mini wheats. Actually the frosted part has a storbaitol

1096
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:09.639
in it, and people would eat it and they go,

1097
00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:12.320
I don't understand, I just keep having a pool right now.

1098
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:15.199
Oh shocker, it's got Storbatoll in it. That's what it's

1099
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:17.440
meant to do, you know, stop eating it.

1100
00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:21.719
I realized that that's I mean, it's probably the last

1101
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:23.920
cereal on earth that I would eat. But yeah, that

1102
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:26.119
I would not have known that.

1103
00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:28.400
Yeah, it's it's funny. And then you know, we get

1104
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:31.159
our protein bars, right, and people I did a little

1105
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:35.800
some UGC type of work. It's user generated content, and

1106
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:38.880
I was telling people it was one was for like

1107
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:42.559
a Loha bar, so hopefully I can see that, and yeah,

1108
00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:44.960
I eat them anyway, but they're they're still they're a

1109
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:48.559
candy bar. Let's be honest, right, They're they're fourteen grams

1110
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:51.760
of plant protein. Uh so it probably equates to twelve

1111
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:53.960
real grams of protein that you're getting out of the bar.

1112
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:57.679
And they're you know, high calorie of like two hundred

1113
00:53:57.679 --> 00:53:59.639
and twenty to two hundred and sixty calories. But anyway,

1114
00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:03.599
I did a little ad for them and they and

1115
00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:06.199
people were like, hey, you know, I'm gonna buy those,

1116
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:08.039
and I was like, well, whoa, whoa, wait, don't buy them.

1117
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:09.960
You know, they're I'm just because I ate them on here.

1118
00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:11.719
I was getting paid to eat them, you know, Like

1119
00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:14.239
if just because somebody does something, you know, they're probably

1120
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.280
getting paid to do it, So don't don't just jump

1121
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:18.960
on it. And most of our protein bars like it.

1122
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:21.800
They all have those fake sweeteners in them and everything,

1123
00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:23.920
and people will will think, well, I'll eat these because

1124
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:25.639
I like them. They taste good, But then their gut

1125
00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:28.840
issues start happening. They start getting bubble gut pooping and

1126
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:31.719
you know, and it's because they're ingesting way too much

1127
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:33.119
of it, you know, during the day.

1128
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:37.920
Yeah, some of them count glycerin for the yes for

1129
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:43.440
the protein component and that that'll screw you up, and

1130
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:47.639
or they're sometimes I don't know, sometimes wave proteins. I

1131
00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:51.039
just don't do weeve proteins because I find that the

1132
00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:53.440
higher concentrations of wave protein upset my.

1133
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:55.400
Snowaps here or something. Yeah. I try to find the

1134
00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:58.880
ones that are fewer, fewer ingredients in them. They seem

1135
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:00.880
to work a little bit better for me. But I

1136
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:02.679
know what you mean, And I prefer to just eat

1137
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:06.639
regular food more often. And then I'd like to take creatine,

1138
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:10.119
but I but I take it if I'm not taking

1139
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:12.760
it in a protein shake. Like post workout kind of thing,

1140
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.719
or sometimes pre I'll just throw it in the water

1141
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.199
and dissolve it up and drink it.

1142
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:23.119
I have a thing for creating gummy bears. You like those? Yeah,

1143
00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:26.920
I do like them, Yeah, because I don't want to, like,

1144
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:28.719
I don't do a shake thing every day, but I

1145
00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:30.480
feel like I need the creatine every day.

1146
00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:30.639
Yeah.

1147
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:32.880
And I mean they're they're starting to find that that

1148
00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:38.320
creatine actually is a big boost for cognition, right, and

1149
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:40.960
even in Alzheimer's patients.

1150
00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:47.400
Yeah, I think that's interesting stuff. Right, I'm pretty fascinated.

1151
00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:50.639
I'm fascinated by all the creatine research that's going on,

1152
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:54.239
just because even back in the nineties we started using creatine.

1153
00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:56.519
When it first came out, they were like, hey, you know,

1154
00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:59.360
Muslim Fitness was like, oh, this is the new thing, creatine,

1155
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:01.119
you know, and it was like take three to five grams,

1156
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:03.000
load it for you know, ten days or whatever, and

1157
00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:07.000
then three to five gram Yeah, those were extra. It

1158
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.719
was horrible. Yeah, And then talk about gut issues, because

1159
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:13.079
if you if you have problems with the creatine, and

1160
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.559
some people do, especially the old a mountohydrate, it didn't

1161
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:18.480
really break down, so you're just having basically drinking sediment,

1162
00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:22.400
you know. Yeah, and so that was always fun, but

1163
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.119
now creating has gone from just being you know, on

1164
00:56:25.159 --> 00:56:27.880
that bodybuilding style thing to now we're like, hey, we

1165
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:31.039
can use it for the brain health too, And I'm like, huh, fascinating.

1166
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:34.320
So I I mentioned that to older clients as well,

1167
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.719
but a lot of times they're they're suspicious of things

1168
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.760
like that, and then I go, I'm not gonna push it,

1169
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:41.880
you know, like, hey, you have to take this because

1170
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:43.800
you know, there's other things we need to worry about

1171
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:45.760
that are probably a little more important at this point.

1172
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:48.639
Yeah, at least the gummy berries don't taste bad. They're not.

1173
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:52.679
You should be careful with creating gummies.

1174
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:55.320
Yeah, it's it's coming out that some of them don't

1175
00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:57.480
even have creating intet of them. Yeah, I'm sure.

1176
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:00.400
Yeah, that's a that's a problem with some of that stuff.

1177
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:04.880
Huh yeah. M I think the thing with gummies too,

1178
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.679
and this is something people forget, is when you're thinking

1179
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:11.519
about your total daily calorie intake. Right, if you say

1180
00:57:11.559 --> 00:57:13.719
you like to have your multi vitamin as a gummy

1181
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:18.239
and you like to take a let's say a magnesium

1182
00:57:18.360 --> 00:57:21.480
that like Costco will sell it COQ ten's and they're

1183
00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:25.719
they're at gummies, right, and then you take vitamin C

1184
00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:28.719
or D or whatever. If all these things they come

1185
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:30.760
in a gummy form and people low it up on them,

1186
00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:33.880
they can be ingesting, like seventy five to one hundred

1187
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:36.440
extra calories just in gummies.

1188
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:39.000
They're ten to fifteen gallasically.

1189
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:44.639
Yeah, it's that gummy kicking back up one. I don't

1190
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:50.519
know what it is. Yeah, those things linger. I get

1191
00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:51.639
jim a gummy cough drop.

1192
00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:54.599
Yeah, no kidding. I had I had a cold for

1193
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:56.719
the first time in like ten years before I went

1194
00:57:56.719 --> 00:58:03.360
on this vacation, and it it just kept revisiting me

1195
00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:06.079
lucky all the time, and and part of it would

1196
00:58:06.119 --> 00:58:09.199
be a little bit of a cough. I think Seabst

1197
00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:13.960
is gonna get me to do something to drink. Jesus Christ.

1198
00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:16.400
That's a good producer right there, Thank you, sir.

1199
00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:21.079
And I just thought it was never gonna end. It's

1200
00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:26.079
like I just I never get colds, yeah, never get colds,

1201
00:58:26.360 --> 00:58:28.039
and this one just lame. It just oh my god.

1202
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:31.239
Yeah, that's miserable, especially when you get if it has

1203
00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:33.360
a cough on it, you know, and you just like.

1204
00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:36.039
So my sign says, my throat is still the most

1205
00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:39.519
little messed up and then flying.

1206
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:40.760
Yeah, that's true.

1207
00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:43.440
I have it's actually tip for for people who are

1208
00:58:43.480 --> 00:58:46.840
flying and if you have ear problems from flying, especially

1209
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:48.880
if you're going into a plane with a you know

1210
00:58:48.960 --> 00:58:52.960
a little bit of a cold, allergies or whatever. It

1211
00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:56.519
still has a thing called the earplanes, and basically it's

1212
00:58:56.519 --> 00:59:00.559
a one way valve and you stick them into your

1213
00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:04.320
ears so that the cabin pressure changes don't affect you

1214
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:08.039
to the extent that they would otherwise. Interesting, So you

1215
00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:12.079
put them in it before you take off, get to altitude.

1216
00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:13.719
You can take them out, or you can just leave

1217
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:17.199
them in. If there's a screaming child near you, you

1218
00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:18.000
can just leave them in.

1219
00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:21.679
Okay. Do they have like a noise reduction type of features.

1220
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.039
Yeah, yeah, that's not their major function, but they do

1221
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:27.679
do that too. They do that too, And then I

1222
00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:29.800
just put you know, put them back in when you're

1223
00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:34.719
on approach. Yeah, and it really mitigates that. I it's

1224
00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:36.960
something that happens to me, you know, if I don't

1225
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:38.440
use them, it happens.

1226
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:41.400
Maybe of the time airplanes.

1227
00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:44.119
Yeah, and you can get them at you can get

1228
00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:47.679
them at the at the airport. Usually you know, you

1229
00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:50.400
can get them at drug stores.

1230
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:56.679
Okay, so now airplanes and Patagonia. Yeah, hit him up, yeah.

1231
00:59:56.599 --> 01:00:01.159
No kidding, no kidding. To wrap things up, I know

1232
01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:04.079
you dual acting a.

1233
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:07.119
Little acting, Yeah, yeah, tell me about that. So that

1234
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.239
was something that just happened. I was posting a lot

1235
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:12.800
of my fitness stuff on Instagram, like all of us

1236
01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:17.639
weirdos do, and a friend of mine, she's into I

1237
01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:19.719
went to law school. I know, that's a whole nother story.

1238
01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:21.960
I went to law school at one point when I thought, oh,

1239
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:23.840
let me have a backup plan in case I get

1240
01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:26.480
hurt on the job. And so I went to law school,

1241
01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:29.719
made it about halfway through, and then dropped out. It

1242
01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:33.239
was an expensive learning lesson, but you know what, it

1243
01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:35.239
was a good one though, you know, hey, yeah it

1244
01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:38.760
was good. Good for me for my experience, not for

1245
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:42.039
my finances, but my experience. So anyway, this friend I

1246
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:43.679
went to law school with, she said, hey, you know

1247
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:45.679
what you're I'm watching your fitness videos and when you

1248
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:47.639
have downtime you should get into acting. You should just

1249
01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:49.800
you know, go do some background work and see what

1250
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:52.239
you think. And I went, huh, really, she said, yeah,

1251
01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:53.639
you should try that. And I went, all right, so

1252
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.960
I said, sure, you know what, You're right, I'll give

1253
01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:59.679
it a shot. I got some time and went and

1254
01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:02.840
got headshots. And then like two weeks later, they were

1255
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:06.760
filming filming that Leonardo DiCaprio movie up here in Sacramento,

1256
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:09.519
and I put in for one of the background roles

1257
01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:13.159
and they, you know, I got the gig and came

1258
01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:16.679
up and I was here for a day and on

1259
01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:20.039
set watching Leonardo DiCaprio and his co stars run through

1260
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:22.639
the scene and do it over and over and over

1261
01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:25.599
and over and uh. And then the director said, hey,

1262
01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:27.519
guess what, we don't want to use any of you extras,

1263
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:29.320
so I think we'll pay you. You go home and

1264
01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:32.280
that's it. So that was my first acting gig.

1265
01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:35.159
And uh, it even gets as far as the cutting

1266
01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:35.679
room floor.

1267
01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:37.679
I didn't get as far as cutting, but I did

1268
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:43.519
get the catering trucks exactly. And and with a DiCaprio film,

1269
01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:46.760
you're talking high high end craft services. Yeah, it's not

1270
01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:49.639
not a student film or anything. So yeah, I went

1271
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:52.800
from that and then and I actually liked it. I

1272
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.159
I did enjoy myself there. It was it was funny

1273
01:01:55.159 --> 01:01:58.880
because it was very positive, even even from from the

1274
01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:01.159
time I got the head shops with headshots with my

1275
01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:05.480
photographer in Emeryville or Oakland, Lisa Keating. She's really cool,

1276
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:08.239
easy to work with. She's shot a lot of top

1277
01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:12.440
celebrities and everything, some Oscar winners, and she was fun

1278
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:14.239
to work with. I was like, oh, this is really positive.

1279
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:16.159
It feels fun, you know. And then I went up

1280
01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:18.480
there and everybody was in a good mood, positive and

1281
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:20.880
which was a shock for me coming from you know,

1282
01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:24.199
working away control where. But he's like, oh, man, I

1283
01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:26.280
can't wait to get to the retirement age, get out

1284
01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:32.480
of this. And and then then I booked a little

1285
01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:35.599
TV pilot, you know, like a hopeful TV pilot, I

1286
01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:39.880
call it, and got to play a pilot in the pilot.

1287
01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:42.119
And yeah, they killed me off though I hope I'm

1288
01:02:42.119 --> 01:02:45.960
not ruining anything, but you know, oilers, Yeah, spoilers. And

1289
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:48.280
they killed me off. And I was I was a

1290
01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:50.760
drunk pilot, you know. Yeah. I take this kid up

1291
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:52.400
and I think he knows how to fly, and he

1292
01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:54.760
crashes the plane and I'm the only one that dies

1293
01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:56.480
in the plane crash. And then they pinned on me

1294
01:02:56.519 --> 01:02:58.159
and say this because I was two times over the

1295
01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:04.199
legal limit. How ironic. A couple of print ads, you know,

1296
01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:08.320
playing a physical therapist, which was fun because when I

1297
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.679
went in for the audition, they were like, hey, Ralph,

1298
01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:12.440
do you think you could pretend to do this? And

1299
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:14.639
I said, not only can I pretend, I actually do

1300
01:03:14.639 --> 01:03:17.039
do things like this. So they had me run through

1301
01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:21.320
like a little improv with somebody on fixing some plantar

1302
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:24.719
fascy itis issues and stuff like that. And that was

1303
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.880
a good, good little gig. And then something for an

1304
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.679
alcohol company which turned into a big party during the shoot,

1305
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:34.920
which was also fun. Yeah, that was amazing. It was

1306
01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:38.039
actually you know, I will say it's a funny company.

1307
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:40.400
Big SIPs. They're kind of uh yeah, they're they're a

1308
01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:46.000
high alcohol little bomb basically like a buzzba like a

1309
01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:48.840
buzz bomb. Yeah yeah, And so we we had a

1310
01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:50.719
good time there. They brought in a lot of stuff

1311
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:52.920
and uh yeah. As we're going through it, next thing

1312
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:54.840
I know, I'm like, this is just turned into a

1313
01:03:54.880 --> 01:03:57.280
party and I'm getting and I'm getting paid for it. Okay,

1314
01:03:57.519 --> 01:03:58.079
I'm in with this.

1315
01:03:58.280 --> 01:03:58.719
Yeah.

1316
01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:02.639
And then uh yeah, Scot on the little background job

1317
01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:06.159
with the Ted Dancing Show on Netflix, where I got to,

1318
01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:08.840
you know, actually interact with Ted dancing a little bit,

1319
01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.039
which was fun. Yeah, seeing him growing up doing cheers

1320
01:04:12.079 --> 01:04:13.760
and stuff like that. Yeah, and now I'm like, hey,

1321
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:16.239
I'm talking to him, and you know, I was asking him.

1322
01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:17.840
I was like, hey, Ted, did you ever throw We

1323
01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:19.880
were at the Giants game for this episode and it

1324
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:23.199
was actually a real game being played, and I said, hey, Ted,

1325
01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:25.000
you know when you were doing cheers, they must have

1326
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:27.119
asked you to throw out a lot of ceremonial pitches.

1327
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:30.440
And he said, thank god, they never did. He said,

1328
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:35.039
I'm awful. But he was really fun to work, just

1329
01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:36.880
to be there and watch him work. You know, I

1330
01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:38.280
walked by that bar the other day.

1331
01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:41.360
Did you know we were in Boston crowded. I don't know.

1332
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:42.679
I didn't because it's down below.

1333
01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:44.119
It literally is down below.

1334
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:46.599
I don't know. I think that the issue is that,

1335
01:04:46.679 --> 01:04:49.360
like the outside of the of the bar was shot

1336
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:52.199
for the show, and the inside of the bar was

1337
01:04:52.239 --> 01:04:55.760
actually was modeled on a different studio or something. Well,

1338
01:04:55.800 --> 01:05:00.119
it was modeled on a different bar in Boston, and

1339
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:03.239
they built the set to reflect that.

1340
01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:05.800
That makes sense, So they sort of.

1341
01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:08.280
Made an amalgam. But the sign is right there, just

1342
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:11.239
just as cheers and they sell cheers merch there and stuff.

1343
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:13.159
I bet they do, yeah, probably a.

1344
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:15.280
Ton, yeah, but that I mean, that's what a fun

1345
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:18.440
what a fun thing to do. Whether whether it whether

1346
01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:21.719
it ever nets you a whole lot of of cash,

1347
01:05:21.800 --> 01:05:25.280
it's still a fun thing to be involved when I imagine.

1348
01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:26.800
I think so yeah, And it's it's been like a

1349
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:29.079
whole different kind of challenge for me too, you know,

1350
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:31.679
like going going from the law enforcement, going from the

1351
01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:34.079
Coast Guard, which we you know, part of the Coast

1352
01:05:34.119 --> 01:05:36.119
Guard's mission is law enforcement. You're just happening to be

1353
01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:39.159
doing it on the waterways, and then going into you know,

1354
01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:43.119
the highway patrol, and then you know, going back into

1355
01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:46.400
training and then the acting. Everything's had its own little

1356
01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:51.239
pathway and challenge, which has been probably good for me

1357
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:54.000
because I'm still at you know, an age where yeah,

1358
01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:56.920
I'm not just gonna not do anything. You got to

1359
01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:59.840
keep doing something, yea, from getting bored, that's right. And

1360
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:02.840
there's so much with in the training, you know area,

1361
01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:06.400
there's so many things to all constantly be educating yourself on,

1362
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:09.679
even though like we know, nothing has really changed in

1363
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:12.119
training per se.

1364
01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:14.599
The best nutrition and fitness advice is boring.

1365
01:06:14.800 --> 01:06:18.840
It's right, it's boring. And you know, yes, the modalities

1366
01:06:19.360 --> 01:06:21.280
that I think a lot of times, the modalities that

1367
01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:23.719
we're seeing now, they're old modalities. They just have come

1368
01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:26.559
back into you know, fashion if you will, and so

1369
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:28.400
and then they're putting a little twist on them to

1370
01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:30.239
make it seem like that's the latest and greatest thing.

1371
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:31.719
You have to do stuff like that, I think to

1372
01:06:31.800 --> 01:06:35.440
keep relevant for a lot of people. But training, as

1373
01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:37.239
long as you just remember you got to move your

1374
01:06:37.239 --> 01:06:39.199
body and you got to eat healthy foods. You know,

1375
01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:41.800
that's pretty basic and that's all you've got to really remember.

1376
01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:44.119
But then you have with the acting, it's been fun

1377
01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:48.039
because I've challenged myself with you know, with just the

1378
01:06:48.039 --> 01:06:51.280
background stuff is not that challenging obviously, you're just there,

1379
01:06:51.400 --> 01:06:52.719
just listen to what they tell you to do and

1380
01:06:52.760 --> 01:06:55.920
go do it. But a couple other things that have

1381
01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:58.159
come up where I am I'm going to play like

1382
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.760
a fight fixer in a short film. We had a

1383
01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:04.000
little mobster style, you know, and yeah, chop into my

1384
01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:07.199
my dad's East Coast New York roots, Italian roots over there,

1385
01:07:07.239 --> 01:07:09.840
you know, So I got this guy he wants to

1386
01:07:09.960 --> 01:07:11.239
you know, I got to get him to throw this fight,

1387
01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:12.320
and I don't know if he's going to do it

1388
01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:16.280
or not, so we'll see what happens. It's great. Yeah,

1389
01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:20.719
it's nice to have that gear. Yeah, so that's been fun.

1390
01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:23.480
And then just auditioning for some different parts and stuff

1391
01:07:23.519 --> 01:07:26.280
and good feedback that I get and everything's been really positive.

1392
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:27.920
So it's it's been a nice challenge.

1393
01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:30.559
Well that's awesome. Yeah, well thanks for coming out today

1394
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:36.920
and saving my butt after my other guests forgot how

1395
01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:37.719
to read a calendar.

1396
01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:40.760
So you know, stuff happens. It was probably one of

1397
01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:45.039
those old Aramaic ones or something. Actually it was.

1398
01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:48.159
You know, we we have three physical therapy doctors who

1399
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:52.159
as members here at the gym, and a state senator

1400
01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:56.679
and some number of nurses and other medical professionals and

1401
01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:00.159
stuff here. But yeah, I've had one of them and

1402
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:01.880
then I want to have the other two on together

1403
01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:06.920
and mm hm it didn't work out. Next next Saturday,

1404
01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:08.159
I think, Well.

1405
01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:09.199
The jim looks great, looks good.

1406
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:09.440
Thank you.

1407
01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:11.039
Meta shoul come out and check it out if you're

1408
01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:12.320
in the Sacramento area for sure.

1409
01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:14.800
Yeah, where can people find you? Uh?

1410
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:21.239
Probably mostly on Instagram at Longevity Underscore CPT Certified Personal

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Trainer Longevity Underscore CPT on Instagram. Yeah, there's also a YouTube.

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I throw in some videos and stuff like that, some tips,

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some some things we do for the cardio conditioning. So

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if you ever need ideas on what to do to

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kind of program your own little conditioning at home, take

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a look at that that one. I think you can

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just reach it at Longevity Lessons.

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Cool.

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Yeah, all right, thanks a lot, Thanks Jim see buys.

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