Habits and Hustle - Episode 524: Liron Kayvan: How to Make Fitness Goals Stick And The Top Fitness Trends This Year
Episode Date: January 30, 2026Every January starts with big fitness intentions, and it usually ends the same way, routines quietly fall apart once motivation wears off. The real issue is well known: building habits around feelings... and calendar dates instead of non-negotiable standards. In this Fitness Friday episode, we break down the New Year fitness cycle with Liron Kayvan and talk about how to approach it in a way that actually sticks. We get into why walking is the most underrated habit in fitness, how non-negotiables put discipline on autopilot, and what truly separates people who stay consistent from those who fall off every January. Liron Kayvan founded BFLA in 2019. He’s a NASM Certified Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, and Transformative Life Coach. Liron has competed in Amateur MMA, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Rugby and has been a Fitness Coach for over 10 years. What We Discuss: (00:00) Why New Year goals fall apart by mid-January (02:48) The New Year reset cycle and why starting dates don’t create consistency (05:52) How too much daily decision-making sabotages long-term habits (09:18) What it actually means to build non-negotiables (14:46) Interval walking explained and why it’s trending for 2026 (20:02) Recovery as a top fitness trend and what’s driving the surge (24:37) Cold plunges, saunas, and why sleep is the most underappreciated recovery tool (30:51) Training early and why prioritization matters more than motivation Thank you to our sponsors: Prolon: Get 30% off sitewide plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their 5-Day Program! Just visit https://prolonlife.com/JENNIFERCOHEN and use code JENNIFERCOHEN to claim your discount and your bonus gift. Therasage: Head over to therasage.com and use code Be Bold for 15% off Air Doctor: Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code HUSTLE40 for up to $300 off and a 3-year warranty on air purifiers. Magic Mind: Head over to www.magicmind.com/jen and use code Jen at checkout. Momentous: Shop this link and use code Jen for 20% off Manna Vitality: Visit mannavitality.com and use code JENNIFER20 for 20% off your order Amp fit is the perfect balance of tech and training, designed for people who do it all and still want to feel strong doing it. Check it out at joinamp.com/jen Rho Nutrition: Try Rho Nutrition today and experience the difference of Liposomal Technology. Use code JEN20for 20% OFF everything at https://rhonutrition.com/discount/jen20. Find more from Jen: Website: https://jennifercohen.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/therealjencohen Books: https://jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Find more from Liron Kayvan: Website: http://beyondfitnessla.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/beyondfitnessla
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Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
In today's episode of Fitness Friday, I'm joined by my dear friend and fitness expert,
Le Run Kvan, to break down the New Year's cycle around training and health.
And, of course, share our perspective on the top three trends shaping 2026.
We get into why most New Year's goals fall apart by mid-January and how too much daily decision-making
sabotages long-term habits and what it actually means to build non-negotiables.
If you're tired of the start over a loop and want daily habits that actually support your
lifestyle, this episode gives you clear ways to build consistency that lasts.
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Okay, welcome to 2026.
Here we go again.
I'm joined by my dear friend Lerun.
Hello.
Thank you for coming on again.
We do a lot of, we riff back and forth on fitness all the time.
So that's why I love having you.
an easy conversation. And I'm sure if you guys have listened to this podcast, you are very familiar
with who Leroyne is. He's been on a few times talking fitness, health, wellness. So anyway,
thanks for being on the show. My pleasure. Again, everybody, welcome to 2026. And here we go again,
right? All the new year resolutions, new year, new year, blah, blah, blah. I'm not a humongous
fan of New Year's resolutions. I feel like, you know, I know it kind of gives people,
like a clean slate to kind of start over again. But that's also the problem. I think that people should
be doing things every single day lifestyle-wise and not just wait until January 1st. And this is what I
found interesting. Did you know that the second Friday of January is when the majority of people
start falling off? Like, I think that it was like 80% of people start falling off of their New Year's
resolutions. Yeah, that makes sense. Right? When,
they make the New Year's resolution for like starting in the new year versus like, hey,
you know what, I want to make this life change. I'm going to start tomorrow or right now.
And fitness is also the number one New Year's resolution, right?
Fitness is the number one. Health, fitness. That's why when you go to the gym, it's like packed,
right, for the first two weeks. And then my gym is. Well, there you go, right? Well, you know,
you're a gym owner. So what happens to what happens? You just get a flood of, of, of,
people, especially now with, you know, companies like class pass and stuff, they offer people
like New Year's deals and stuff like that. So you just, it kind of now has become this
self-perpetuating thing where everyone just thinks, okay, I'll start in January. And they're
thinking about that from probably October, November. Right. So December is kind of empty because
people are like, oh, I'm going to start in January. That's the problem with the New Year's resolution
is you're basically just like kicking the can down the road. 100%. And then like they, that's the
problem and then like they let themselves be probably more gluttonous and do all these things that
they would otherwise not do. Okay, so I want to go over a couple of things. I research the top
three fitness trends for 2026 and what I found was, well, not that, that unique, but what I found
people searched for the most. Are you ready? Okay. Okay. And then I want you to compare it to what
you see, okay? All right. The first one, but I'm not that surprised, but, well, actually,
the first major one is low impact training. So the biggest trend right now in fitness is interval
walking. Have you heard of this? I have not heard of this. It's a brand new information.
It's brand new information. I'm glad that I'm the one to tell you. Interval walking has been the number
one searched fitness trend for 2026. So it used to be Pilates. Pilates is still up there because it's
low impact, but walking has now like take, like interval walking, especially for many reasons.
Number one, it's for people, anyone can do it, anybody can participate. I do believe, I know that
you're not going to agree with me, I believe walking is, because I can see you're smirking.
I just smoke. I think walking is by far the number one.
fitness, like the number one thing you can do for overall health, wellness, mental health,
focus, productivity. Like walking, I think beats out everything. It's also great for insulin
sensitivity. Your VO2 max, like I said, your mental health, big one. You're shaking your head.
Also for fat loss. I'm not saying about it too. Actually, funny enough, I do agree with you.
Really? Okay. I also think the barrier to entry is so low.
low that there's no excuse not to do it. You can just walk out of your house and start doing the
thing. So that's the number one. But interval walking, I really kind of, there's been a lot of
different force. How do you define that? What makes it an interval? Okay, so interval walking is
basically walking at different paces. So you can do like a three minute basic walk, I guess,
like at a moderate pace. And then you can fast walk for a minute to two minutes. So you're basically
changing the speed of your walking. And you can do it for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and that's how
they define it. And the other thing is, it used to be, well, there's a, there was a whole trend with the,
do you remember this 12, the incline? 30, yeah, yeah, 12, 30, walking on a 12 incline at 3 miles for 30 minutes,
which, I mean, yeah, that that works. Any form of walking, in my opinion, works. You know, I actually
tried this. And like, look, I'm not someone who buys into trends in general. So whenever,
whenever there's a trend, that's why I'm smirking. I know. But I did try that workout because one of
the girls at my gym was, you know, talking about it from TikTok or whatever. And so I tried it.
It was actually not easy. It actually wasn't. Trying to keep that pace and that inclined for 30 minutes
was challenging. Well, I think it all depends on what your baseline is. Yeah. Right? But I walk a lot.
an hour a day. You walk an hour a day. So what I do is I walk whenever I'm on the phone. I walk whenever
I am kind of, you know, walking from point A to point B. And, you know, I've said this before,
but my non-negotiable is if there's anything that I have to do or go, that is under two miles,
I will walk it. I don't care if it's like a business meeting, a lunch, a dinner. I will not get into a car.
That's amazing and it's rare too, especially for busy people.
people like yourself and I know you, you're extremely busy. And the fact that you do it means that
really anyone can do it. And it's, it's very rare that people choose to do that. Well, this is what I think,
thank you. Well, I do it because I believe so much in giving yourself non-negotiables and
parameters that you work within. Like kind of bulls for life. Rules of life. I believe in giving
yourself like particular rules of life to keep you accountable. I agree. Right? Or else you can just go,
haywire, especially for personality types like mine that, you know, left to my own devices,
you know, I would eat, you know, five bowls of pasta. I would, you know, be gluttonous in every
possible way. So I gave myself, and I think people should give themselves like parameters
and boundaries, so to be, to be the most effective, optimized version of themselves. I call it
hard lines. Like having a hard line, which is another way of
saying non-negotiable, there's just rules that you just follow and you kind of go on autopilot
and you just don't think about it anymore, this is what is happening. You brush it through,
most people have brushing their teeth twice a day. It's just hard lines around that. You just do it.
You can do the same thing with fitness easily. And if you do, you'll find it actually quite easy
to stick to. I think it's with anything in life. Like fitness, of course, but I think giving
yourself hard lines or ways to be accountable to yourself is very, very important, especially,
but I think what comes before that is having the self-awareness to know where your triggers are,
where you will fall, and then plan accordingly. So like, because I know where my, I know myself
and I know how I would basically flail or, or how I would kind of get myself into a problem,
that's why I have these hard lines for accountability. But you'll learn, I mean, I think people would
learn that through the process of having those hard lines, learning themselves and where they start
making excuses, right? And if you're committed to it, then you have to make that choice. Am I going to
make an excuse or am I going to follow through on my non-negotiables? Another one I want to say
is, for me, one of my hard lines or non-negotiables is that I will not take a meeting,
do a podcast, or schedule something that is work-related until I,
exercise first. That's like a non-negotiable for me. And again, like knowing how busy you are,
I know people at home know this, but like I know how busy you are, the fact that you do that
means really anyone can do that. Well, not necessarily anybody. I mean, fortunately, I'm in a
situation where I can make my own schedule. I have pretty much autonomy and I work for myself.
However, with that, I also eat what I kill, right? So like, if I don't work, that I just don't
make money or I just don't, I just don't be, I'm not able to do what I do. But that's why,
why I do it for me is twofold. Number one, it actually makes me more productive when I exercise
before I work or do a podcast because it like turns on my brain. It's the best form of brain
training. Exercise to me is the number one best form of brain training you can give yourself.
You will be more productive, more efficient, more effective, smarter.
I can go on and on and on.
So why I give myself that parameter is like if I do not exercise before I work,
I'll just be sluggish.
Like, and now I've trained myself and my brain has been now trained where it just doesn't
turn on until I get that done.
And I will be probably 10 times more productive if I worked out before.
So I don't even give myself that option.
So that's the first part. The second reason is that makes me like, okay, it's like kind of like
habit stacking. You know, like if I wake up, I eat my breakfast, I have my water, blah, blah,
then I go, then I work out, then I go to work. That's my stack, right? So it's again, the habit
stacking is again what keeps people accountable and keeps them successful. Do you look forward to working
up? No.
Do you look forward to the feeling you get after you work?
workout. Yes. I never do anything based on how I feel in the moment. I do things based on how I feel
after the fact. I think that's one of the things I've noticed about fit people versus non-fit people. Almost
every person I know who's fit has a unconscious shift of their attention to how they're going to feel
when they leave the gym or finish their workout rather than how they're going to feel going into
the gym or starting the workout. Well, yeah, I always say that your emotions is information.
it's not factual.
Like, I think that, like, don't ever do something based on how you feel, right?
That's not fact, it's feelings.
And that can shift and change.
So I won't do that.
I will, I will do it anyways.
Like, I say these things like these four words, like, I do it anyways, those four words, no matter what, right?
If I'm sick, like, not totally sick, but, you know, if I have a little snuffy nose, if I'm sad, if I'm, you know, mad, if I'm, you know, mad, if I'm,
I'm low, if whatever it is, I will do it anyways.
Do you apply that to non-fitness things too?
Yes.
Well, it depends.
I think what I love about it is fitness is a microcosm for everything else in life.
Yeah.
What you do in one area of life is how you do something in every other area of life.
So how you do one thing is how you do everything.
But fitness has really trained my brain to really have like a level of discipline and really
just a self of sense of standard where then I apply it to everything else in life. So that's why to me,
you know, I really, I really kind of like deep dive into or I became like super interested in like
the business and area of fitness because I think it's so much more than just like lifting a weight
and putting it down, right? Like I think the skills and the foundation that you get from building a
fitness, routine, and lifestyle is unsurmountable and will basically one million extra life
in every other area. So that's why. How's that for an answer? That is great. Now, with that
being said, let's go into it. Okay, so walking. Walking is number one. Walking is good. Walking is
summary. The other thing I found very interesting is recovery, is the other thing that's become
number two on the list in terms of top searches, like cold plunging, saunas.
Massive right now, yeah.
But I feel it's been massive for a long time.
But I feel it's been massive for a long time.
I don't know why now it's becoming.
Probably because it's becoming an industry.
But wasn't it an industry before?
I think more and more now you're getting these companies that are recovery-based
companies with recovery-based products.
But they were always around, hyper-ice, their body.
Yeah, they were early, but I'm saying you get loads now. Everyone's kind of wants a piece of that pie. And a lot of it's really good stuff. I mean, in general, I would say that recovery is something that people still, no matter how much they know that they need to prioritize it, like people who have any sort of experience in the fitness world, it's still underappreciated by most people.
Okay, I have a question for you. In the space of recovery, what is your number one modality?
Sleep.
In recovery?
Sleep.
Yeah.
Number one.
Yeah.
Okay.
Good, long sleep.
Really?
Yeah, I got it with my life.
And I was, someone was telling me today that Matthew McConae is the same, random.
But like.
Well, it's Matthew McCona.
He says it.
Yeah.
I mean, the guy is not only a hyper successful actor, but he's also extremely fit.
So he has this really well-balanced approach to life, I think.
Most people err on the side of one or the other.
you know, their professional life and then their fitness life are two separate things.
But like, you know, a guy like him.
Okay, well, let's couple this.
Great, Matthew McConaughey's fit.
He's always been fit.
He's got great genetics.
I love Matthew McConae.
He's been on the show.
What about in terms of recovery, though, what do you think?
You say sleep is the number one modality.
What would you say is number two?
It's closely related to sleep, I think, is so, I don't know, it's 1.5.
I can go more step for it.
but just sort of relaxation slash napping,
specifically I think yoga nidra.
Yeah, but yoga nidra is actually technically non-sleep deep rest.
Basically, I think that people should not only be sleeping,
but taking time in the middle of their day to just switch off.
But it is kind of an asterisk on sleep.
It's kind of a form of just general rest.
I think that stuff is more important than just rest in general is more important
than things like jumping in a nice bath.
I think cold therapy definitely works.
I use hot therapy and gold therapy, both.
But I think if you're prioritizing that over things like napping
or just taking time in the middle of the day,
and definitely if you're trying to ice your way to recovery
without getting really good night's sleep,
then I think you've put in the cart before the horse.
Okay, I like that.
I think that at the end of the day,
Well, the research actually says that people are trying to work out smarter, not harder.
So that's why recovery has really hockey pucked.
People want to work out less time, of course, but more, but not even to do hit training,
but just more smarter ways of working out.
That's great. That's great.
But I do think sleep obviously.
Personally.
How much do you sleep, Jim?
Not very much.
I can tell.
Okay, first of all, I think that not that I don't, I want to sleep eight hours.
I think I try to sleep, well, not try, I try to sleep eight hours, but if I get six hours, I'm happy.
I've been waking up a lot lately, just because I think that when your brain doesn't shut off,
it's, you know, that's why.
But I definitely, I know I very much value sleep, obviously, I mean, but what I was going to say is,
besides sleep, the other recovery that I think is like monument. I think the best one is just sauna.
I think it's my favorite one. I do not like a cold plunge. I think it's terrible for your hormones,
for women. I think it's good for men. I don't think it's great for women. And I just don't like it.
Yeah. You know, I just don't like it. And sometimes-
I remember when cold showers came out and everyone was doing it because of Wimhoff and stuff. And again,
there is a place for it. I'm not saying it's throw the baby out with a bathwater. But all it did for me personally,
was make me not look forward to showers
because I was not having cold showers.
Well, also, I think it's a stress of like having that angst every time.
It's like to me, that to me is not appealing.
And there's other things you can do.
Like the other thing is like not everything is for everybody.
Right.
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Right.
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But it doesn't only work for you.
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That's true.
Right?
So I think, you know, going into the new year, pick one thing in that area, in that space.
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You don't have to do everything.
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The other one, number three.
Number three.
Most trending in terms of things that people are searching for or Googling or chat GPT these
days is home gyms and fitness tech.
So that's a big one.
Yeah, that's much.
It's like I kind of feel like what was trending during the pandemic is kind of now having an
uptick a little bit, which is interesting because at the same time, what's really trending
on the social front is community.
It's like two opposite things.
Yeah, which is really interesting.
Well, the extremes often polarize each other and they kind of feed each other.
There are more people probably wanting to be home, especially after COVID.
It still has that.
Some people really liked being on their own.
And then some people, it was like torture for them.
Yeah, but I do find it interesting, like home gyms, AI, tech kind of assisted workouts.
You're talking about like tonals and mirrors and things like that?
I'm talking, yeah, like, first of all, I'm a humongous fan of something called AMP Fitness.
Have you seen this thing?
I have heard of it periphery.
You can tell me about it.
Oh, my gosh.
It'll blow you away.
First of all, it looks like an iPhone, but just a little bigger.
Uh-huh.
And it is really, like, it's really intuitive, but more than that, it gives you three different levels of resistant training. So you can do like eccentric, you can do regular, you could do band. And it can, it's super small and it's aesthetically nice. But I've been using it super easy to use. And I'm not just saying that because, because I'm saying it because legit, it's amazing. So companies like that, I think are going to have a real big uptick because it's because of the. Because it's because of the.
fact that home gym stuff is becoming popular again. I just don't understand what
is, yeah. Oh, I know why. I mean, I don't know why, but I'm guessing is because everything,
so much, there's been so much focus and emphasis on like AI in general. Yeah. Yeah. So anything
that has an AI elements in it, right? It's very, very, very, people are very curious. And so like
an AMP, it's AI, like it's basically, it's helping you.
with your workouts. It's tracking your workouts. It's doing everything in terms of like telling you
when you should progress or progressing it for you. It's very intuitive. So maybe that's easy to follow.
Yeah. But you're okay, I want to ask you because you're again, you're a gym owner. Are you noticing
besides like we talked about like the January, have you noticed that even in like the last year,
people have been showing up more or less? Showing up to the physical gym. Yeah. You do like boxing classes.
Yeah, no, I mean, my business is growing for sure, and it's continuing to go.
But I think what you have to do with a gym is you have to realize that you are competing
with home gyms, you are competing with apps.
People do kind of want to stay home.
They want to work from home.
They want to work out from home.
There's the convenience factor.
And you just have to kind of accept that.
And then you have to focus on what you offer.
And really the biggest thing that you offer with a physical brick and water location is two
related things.
One is your own energy as the trainer, the coach, et cetera, et cetera, the gym owner, what you're
bringing almost really physically to people, you know, I do believe that there's something
that we can't put our finger on, which is like energy that people get, they feed off it.
And two is the community, so that other members of the gym.
Those two things, which are related, you cannot replace with AI, you cannot replace with a home
gym.
And I think that maybe there's some type of hybrid model where people do a few workouts from home
for the sake of speed and convenience
because convenience is a huge factor in fitness.
Nobody wants to drive 45 minutes to their gym, right?
There's nothing more demotivating than that.
Well, you know what I've noticed also is I'm a member of, let's say,
Equinox, right?
I have like the all access to all the gyms and blah, blah, blah.
All the bells and whistles.
All the locations that say, right?
Do you get laundry as well?
Do I get laundry?
No, I don't think I do.
You know what?
I might.
I don't even know.
Because honestly, this is a thing.
Like, I have to have a lot of time to go to the gym.
Yeah.
Does that make sense?
Because I got to like get to the gym.
I got to like walk up the stairs.
I got to do all the things.
And then like by the time I'm there, I'm like, oh my God.
Now I can start.
So there is definitely that convenience factor of working out at home.
Right.
So my point is like here I am spending all this money on a membership to all of these gyms.
And yet I work out at home, quite honestly, like 75% of the time.
Yeah.
Because by the time I go to do all the, you know, the whole thing, it's like two hours a lot of times.
Yeah.
Right?
That's why, you know, I find that that's, I think that people are priding themselves on being so busy these days.
Like that's like a badge of honor where that they're getting more, more bang for their buck and their time by just working out at home.
Yeah.
And all these things that are popular, like vibrational plates are very popular.
Yeah.
That's under, I guess, would that be a bit?
recovery thing? I think so.
I don't know what that is to be.
Like those, you like stand on it.
I don't know what they are. I just don't know what the point of it is.
But yeah.
But that's the thing.
A lot of these things are very like, again, I think what does a vibrational plate do?
I should look it up. Do you want to look it up?
I'm sure I'll have all sorts of claims, but.
No, I mean, like, no, I think.
Suffice to say, I'm not.
Okay, what?
I'm going to write, okay, what does a vibrational plate do benefits?
Okay, let's see.
I don't know. It says it's great for your nervous system. It works harder to maintain. It's for balance. Helps with the balance. Stabilization. All those things I understand. I don't know how. And I guess for balance and stabilization, it's very helpful.
Yeah, maybe. Being generous. I think it's also, no, I think it's good for your circulation, for like lymphatic drainage, bone density support.
So, I mean, we, I don't know, we could get into it, but this is pretty much a perfect symbol of core engagement.
The type of thing that we're talking about here about trends and stuff like that,
like when you compare, what are these things like a couple grand or something?
I don't know.
When you compare a vibrational plate to just, I bet there are almost no benefits of a vibrational
plate above walking for half an hour.
Okay.
In fact, grades, I understand because of the shaking.
Hold on. Wait, wait.
You get that from walking.
Okay, says here, who vibrational plates are best for?
Vibrational plates are best for beginners who need,
low-impact movement, people with joint pain or limited mobility, older adults focusing on balance
and bone health, busy people adding short movement snacks, says that, recovery-focused athletes.
Okay, so, and how do you use it? You use it for five or ten minutes, blah, blah, blah.
You can also, you can do squats and lunch. You can actually work out on the vibrational play
if you were someone who's more of an intermediate workout person.
Have you heard of those electric body suits?
Yes, of course.
That's also so popular.
I've actually heard those are awesome.
It's very, very popular.
From people I trust.
I mean, I haven't used it.
But I know people actually, a friend of mine's a trainer who uses it and she is, like, sings the praises to heaven and back.
So maybe some of this stuff works.
I don't know.
This is what I think, right?
I think anything is better than nothing.
Number one.
I agree with that.
I think anything is better than nothing.
I agree.
Secondly, I think that also a lot of these things have their place, but there's nothing.
I don't care.
You can give me a vibrational plate to stand on to do my stability work and my core work
and my lymphatic drainage and all the other things.
It's not going to take the place of lifting weights as you age.
I don't care.
The vibrational plate, the Pilates, whatever it is, nothing is going to be as effective.
plain and simple. There's nothing else to say about it. All of these things are very fun trends.
And yeah, they can they can like uptick or like, you know, move your your baseline maybe a couple
percent here and there. But like the tried and true, people don't want to hear what actually
works because it's not, it's not like sexy and fun. Like no one cares. If I say to you,
walk 34, 45 minutes a day and like lift heavy, people yawn because it's boring. They're like,
Like, oh, no, I'm going to go stand on a vibrational plate.
I'm going to go do this hybrid with a bunch of, like, you know, bracelets that are weighted.
And whatever's like cooking fun.
Okay, you can do whatever you want.
You're not going to get the results.
Right.
But you can do it.
Or if you do that, great, it's better than doing zero.
But sometimes it's like just do what actually works.
And then I want to just, okay, I just want to say one more thing while I'm on my high horse here.
But the funny thing is, and I said this before and I talk about this all the time,
that when I wrote that my first book ever was called No Gym Required. No Gym Required. And that book was like before
its time is before people thought like of, you know, working out with no basically body weight and
blah, blah, blah. It wasn't as popular and trendy. Okay, whatever. So it was very basic, right? Like I talked
about like the main principles of how you can go and become like go from average or not healthy to like really
basically really becoming the most healthy fit version of yourself without going to the gym.
Okay?
It was very basic because, and these things actually worked, no one gave a shit.
There was like, the other books that were coming out at the same time were very kitsy,
super trendy workouts, blah, blah, blah.
And those like outsold my book because mine was like, yeah, that's like nobody cares.
It's like boring to hear about lift, you know, doing your own body weight and pushups or
But now calisthenics are huge.
True, but it's not sexy.
You see in Europe, places like Europe, places like Israel, calisthenics, they have these
calisthenics parks everywhere in Europe, everywhere, and everyone does it.
Everyone does it.
But that's the thing.
Like, I think that not everyone does it, by the way.
People do it that you, like people, you're more like honed into it because that's what you do.
No, I'm talking about in Europe.
I'm talking about when I go back to England, yeah.
Well, we're going to get into it.
But my point is that book, I was.
written whatever, how many years ago, many, many. People don't care about things that are like
they're not sexy and fun. It's like, it's not, it doesn't sell. Doesn't sell. Yeah, you're still going
to talk about it though because it's true. Right. I'm going to keep on, I'm going to keep on
that dead horse because that's what I do. It's true. Okay, so anyway, thank you for coming on.
Thank you. I hope we gave people some information. And Leera and I always love having you on.
I love being here. Good. Well, we're going to keep the fun going here.
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