Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler - Minisode: Getting Fit with Ben Bruno

Episode Date: July 31, 2026

Chelsea’s personal trainer Ben Bruno is here to discuss dumbbells, getting fit, and why doing things the simple way actually gets you a lot farther.  Sign up for Ben Bruno’s fitness program here! * Need some advice from Chelsea? Email us at [e-mail] * Executive Producer Catherine Law Edited & Engineered by Brad Dickert * * * The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the Podcast author, or individuals participating in the Podcast, and do not represent the opinions of iHeartMedia or its employees.  This Podcast should not be used as medical advice, mental health advice, mental health counseling or therapy, or as imparting any health care recommendations at all.  Individuals are advised to seek independent medical, counseling advice and/or therapy from a competent health care professional with respect to any medical condition, mental health issues, health inquiry or matter, including matters discussed on this Podcast. Guests and listeners should not rely on matters discussed in the Podcast and shall not act or shall refrain from acting based on information contained in the Podcast without first seeking independent medical advice.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Come on up. Come on. Yes. Oh, hi. This is it. This is what we're talking about. Oh, duh. Can you believe how magical you...

I wish our listeners could see how beautiful you are. Well, they will. But he blends in with the sofa. You can't really see him ever. Right? He's just a void. You could never see this beautiful brown eyes that you have. She'll lay a white blanket over it.

My baby is a beautiful. Hello, Ben Bruno. Hello. Hi, Ben. We're here to talk about Ben's new workout app. What number is this? What number is what? Your workout apps.

You've done a few before. No, so I have- You need a microphone, dumbass. This is my personal trainer, everyone. Ben Bruno, Ben Bruno Training. You can follow him on Instagram at benbrunotraining. benbrunotraining. Okay.

Did I do this right? Dot com. Yeah. If we have to show you how to use a microphone, then we should just surround us on. This is my world. Yeah. Does Doug hang out with you guys when you're working out? Yeah.

Doug comes with me to the gym. He comes with me wherever I go. He knows because he sees my belt packing all my medication, so he knows I'm on my way out. That's how he knows when he sees a lot of prescription bottles. He's like, uh-oh, she's leaving. Right. Are you a king? Do you remember, Catherine, the story of when Chunk walked down Wilshire two miles?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is a good story. Do you remember Chunk? I never met Chunk. Chunk was before my time. Chunk is the dog that made me a mother. When I met Chelsea, she was the mother to Chunk. I've trained Chelsea through many different employees, whatever, and also dogs.

And the first dog was Chunk. Was that your first dog, period? Yeah, my first dog. Chunk was like famous because it was on your show, right? Chunk was stud muffin. He was the best dog. When I met you, your show was not, was done. Chelsea Lately.

Chelsea Lately was done. But Chunk was already a celebrity. But Chunk, well, so long story short, we went to this gym that was an underground parking garage and Chelsea and I got to talking and Chunk just meandered away at some point. So Chelsea's assistant, this is actually a true story. The gym was between, if anybody knows Beverly Hills,

It was in an alley between Roxbury and Linden right off Wilshire. So smack dab in Beverly Hills if you don't know Beverly Hills. I don't know how long goes by, but it must have been – Chunk wasn't fast, so it had to be a while because Chunk kind of walked slow. And so we get a call from Karen, her assistant, saying, one of your fans found Chunk two miles down the road on Wilshire. I'm not making this up. I'm not putting anything on this.

chunk just walked out of the garage and walked two miles down Wilshire and was so famous that some random person just spotted chunk and so Chelsea just I was thinking like oh my god we got to go get him Chelsea goes well I don't want to get him that's embarrassing you go get him and just hung up and Karen had to go pick up chunk I have no clue how chunk lived through that but oh my gosh what about chunk was so funny because chunk was famous so people would stop at the at stoplights when we were on our way to to the studio and they would recognize him and people because his head would be out the way and people would be like oh my god is that chonk is that chonk because he had his bandana and it was kind of recognizable and then i would always be like

oh yeah come quickly take a picture if you want get out of the car at the red light and then one day after doing this like every morning it would happen pretty frequently right and then one day chunk literally a woman was coming over to take a picture and chunk just put his paw on the control window controller to put the window up he had had no pictures he was like fuck this shit i'm sick of this i'm with my family what was the dog chronology it was chunk chunk and then tammy tammy gary at some point but gary was returned to gary was a return to sender i think that was before then i had hodor who molly my cousin took because he and then there was burton bernice and then burton bernice and then doug and then ray j who short-lived and we're gonna get another one though

great there's one in mallorca oh wait you're bringing it from mallorca i think so that's the plan as of right now there and we'll see remember when bernice tumbled down that was tammy but it was tammy tammy would follow me bernice would never fucking follow me she would hide from me another funny story that i don't know if translates to words because i think you had to be there but chelsea used to live on this giant hill i'm not not exaggerating it's huge and also it was like a 70 degree angle to come down really steep so when tammy was new and it was chelsea gets dogs they don't look the best when she first gets them uh i don't know how to say that she had a good heart but she had very little hair she had all these patches of hair and just

looked like a hot mess and so chelsea and i were gonna go walk to play tennis at the bottom of her street and we look up and tammy had tried to run to meet us but went on the steep part of the hill so I'm not putting anything on this down this giant hill through the bushes and everything and then just kind of like shook it off and walked away I was just like yeah I have no clue how Tammy lived to tell about that behind every night spent making the kids lunches there's a lot of suspense will they finally eat the veggies will the pesto survive the first bite Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all? And will you finish episode eight before you're done slicing the cucumbers?

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Each week we talk to someone in show business, aka The Biz And try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us Everyone has a good time and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show we've had a lot of great guests like sarah sherman not that great actually can you help me can you help me shape this yeah how about we flip it on his head okay how about we flip the script okay what is the surprise woman who actually you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird adam scott this entire time you've been expecting adam sandler to come to visit the show i i would never let go of that i have i would never set expectations for something like that

it seems like if the universe allows for something like that to happen i'm open to it i'm always going to accept you know danny mcbride fine yeah it's all this fragile masculinity exuding i could smell it walking down the hallway to be honest with you i was like is that weed nope it's fragile masculinity ben stiller no because a lot of times in out of context people don't get it or even know what a circle is you know what i mean like you're like oh what's this everyone's so dumb and fake right fake and and also not interested or just like oh i've got my life i don't care about your life and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us oh and by the way will ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a

on every episode but he's just so busy listen to hollywood handbook on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts well i have one caller for us today and i have a couple other little questions but we could just keep to one call well we're first we want to talk about his fitness program that's what he's here to promote we want this for women thank you by the way this means a lot oh yeah because i i love ben bruno here quick backstory on my app but i started it three years ago and then this past week it was a third-party app service because I'm a tech moron and the program I'm proud of it we have 25,000 people that do the app it's a lot of people which is you know and it's really cool because I you know since I've known you I've

essentially just seen the same 10 clients in person every time so it's been a great way to do you want to talk about the other people you train do you want to mention their names or do you not would you rather not I mean it's gonna just make you sound like a douche okay yeah Okay. Well, do you want me to do it? Yeah, you can. Yeah. Okay. Justin Timberlake, Jesse Beal, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, you've trained, lots of basketball players. Well, so the interesting thing about that is that's what I like about the app is, you know,

when I moved to LA, I didn't have a celebrity training background. I trained hockey players in Massachusetts. And then I moved here and got connected to you and some other people. And celebrities an interesting thing to me as someone who comes from new hampshire and like doesn't really it's kind of funny to me like you name dropping that makes me seem like a star fucker and really i just like watch espn all day but there's a perceived expertise that comes from training celebrities so like thanks for that but the training is i feel like training is i always say it's one of life's equalizers but the training that you do is the exact same training that i did with moms back in massachusetts is the same training that's on the app because it's like

you know i think people think i hate the term celebrity trainer because one i feel like it's just a douchey term but two i think they there's just connotation like we're doing these wild workouts right and at every point in the 11 years we've trained 11 years which is the longest relationship i've ever had with any man including my brothers but think about it we work out with dumbbells and a bench and very you know basic workouts and stuff like straight out of new jersey and and the the training actors thing is funny to me because again you know i'm sure there's a lot of fields like this i'm sure your hair people benefit your makeup people benefit there just is a perceived expertise with celebrity but when i think of actors you know as somebody who came

from an athletic training background i look at trainers that train the athletes and be like well they really know what they're doing. And actors, I'm like, those were like the theater kids that aren't really that athletic. So the training isn't always what it's hyped up to be as you know, what is it hyped up to be though? No, I think that, you know, a lot of people probably know of me, which is great because I train you and people like you, famous people. And, but at the same time, I think you would agree with me. This isn't a knock. Our workouts are very average average but i'm very strong you're yeah you're really strong but now i'm lifting like 35 i'm just squatting with like 35 pound dumbbells and stuff no you do 35s and awesome and i'm

tinier and stronger than i've ever been at 51 years old first of all so any ladies that are watching this or listening to this like just you know this whole myth about weightlifting and this idea this kind of fallacy that it makes you bigger is not true it makes you smaller but i think what what i'm trying to do with this app is just basically bring the training that i do with you and my other clients to everyone and that has to say you know because for the people listening chelsea works out with dumbbells and a bench at her you know and slightly more at my house but not not crazy and you know with good programming and just slow and steady progression it goes along how long is the course each program six weeks but there's seven total programs and then what i

basically did is i what i created that just came out a week ago that's new is when i first started my app it was a test to myself to see if i could do it as a tech moron but also just see who was interested and i learned that i overshot my audience a little in the sense i thought they were going to be more gym people like me but there's a lot of beginners and so that that is not there's no judgment to that i think that everyone follows the same process and when i was scrolling my phone last week with your videos i realized we didn't do any videos for like the first three years we trained and i just shared like pictures of you to just say oh i trained celebrity whatever but your workouts were nothing to even they weren't even post-worthy because

no because you're new to it and my point is i think that the online fitness social media world shafts beginners a little bit because yeah because people really like think of you know people post the hard stuff the novelty stuff the cool looking move in order to get clicks but everyone that is doing those moves started with the basics but we never share that because it doesn't look cool and i never share that with my clients because i'm not trying to throw them under the bus and say here's chelsea lunging with five pound dumbbells but you did and now you're lunging with 30 pound dumbbells and I'll show that cause that's bad-ass. But you know, the, the thing about it is like, if somebody listening to this without a training background tried to do what you do now

after training with me for 11 years, they'd hurt themselves. And so it's, it's, it's not just, you know, the, the further along programs or what you're currently doing, the, you know, we have programs if you've never done it, it's to kind of build up because I think, think about how when we when i met you i came to your house and you had dumbbells up to eight pounds and we worked out on a deck and that was it and so we've come a long way since then but i think that when enough time goes by you sort of forget that stage but so the program instructs people how to like what level to start with right yeah for beginners or people who are just getting into weightlifting it totally walks people through i i set out to make it as close to training with

person as you can get. So each, each exercise from like every warmup move, you would actually hate it because you think I talk too much, but I give a one and a half minute kind of like right now tutorial for every single move. Okay. Well, that's good. How to do it safely, how much weight to do, how to start, whatever. And so you can, everyone has to walk before they run. And I think that most women that aren't lifelong gym heads come into it with fear, either about bulking up or getting hurt. And so I think that I really just shoot to meet people where they're at and start slow and then build. Yeah. But also just to know that like, that is not, first of all, as we get older, we need to be stronger period for your bone density. It's so good for your bone

density. It's so good for your like lean muscle mass. Yeah. Your hormones, everything. Like if I don't get a workout in for a couple of days, I start to get like ornery, which is not a thing I would ever thought I would say, you know? And even when I'm not with him, which is most of the time, because now I'm traveling a lot, but like I have the same situation. I would love if you actually tried the app. I know you won't, but like – I'll try it. Tell people how they can download the app.

How do they do it? It's through the link on my Instagram. Okay. Ben Bruno Training. They have this – it's cool. I tried to make it very user-friendly. I have seven programs, and you can select which one you want in the series, and the more programs you buy, it adds like crazy discounts on top of it.

It gets progressively cheaper. and it's you know it's it's a very cost-effective simple program that we love it yeah we love it did you do we have fitness questions uh i do i have okay we have a couple of questions callers yeah okay you want to put your headphones on yeah so carla says hi chelsea and crew from down under i need some help and have nothing in the toolbox for my current situation i'm a 44 year old professional cpa living independently with multiple sclerosis it's been about 11 years living with the diagnosis and I've always found refuge in movement and exercise. My MS diagnosis was the best motivation to explore activities that challenge and support my body. I work out

around four days a week, walking outdoors, Pilates and swimming. I see a physio who has been life changing with craniosacral therapy, but a sudden onset of fatigue is making it impossible to continue my normal workout schedule. I'm very deliberate and sensible with my workouts, but would like some tips on how to manage fatigue and working out and how I could start simple workouts at home. I'd love to get safely into weights and have no idea where to start. Oh, perfect. Yeah. I have some basic dumbbells and a barbell at home and unsure if I should start at two kilograms, 10 kilograms or 20 kilograms. Do you have any tips on where to start? My goal is functional strength. Carla. Hi, Carla. Love this. Hello. Hi, Carla. Good morning. Hi. Hi. This is my

personal trainer. So this has been Bruno and he just launched an app that you could an exercise app and may not just launch. She launched his newest exercise app. So this is a perfect app for you. You can download it that he has. The program that I would recommend for you is called intro to strength training. It's a beginner program, but listening to what Catherine just said, I think it's really important to remember with exercise that the devil's in the dose. And so when you're really struggling with fatigue, I really, I think that exercise gives you energy as long as you don't overdo it but if you overdo it it'll suck your energy so i really recommend people i always say seven out of ten hard in in each set and seven out of ten hard in each workout

so what that means is you do your set where you could do a few more reps but you stop short because i think going to true failure is where injury happens and that'll zap your energy and then stopping the workout before you feel crushed will go a long way and you just make long-term sustainable progress. So I would say consistent workouts two times a week, but not crushing yourself. I think that too many people look at a workout program as all or nothing. I'm either just going to go all in or it's not worth doing. Yeah, I do that a lot. Yeah, I've been doing that in the past and that hasn't served me very well. Yeah. Part of why I'm, I was so grateful that Chelsea had me on here is I think a lot of the mainstream info to women about strength training.

I love it because I love that strength training is becoming more popular, but I think a lot of the advice comes from men and women like me who have worked out hard their whole life and just like it, but they're trying to make those recommendations ubiquitous to everyone that just is brand new to training. And so it doesn't have to be that intense. A lot of the stuff that I see is telling women with no background that you have to go to failure, that you have to do sprints and super heavy weights. And I don't think you need to do any of that. I think it wouldn't make sense for a woman just starting out to train like they're training for the NFL combine. So it's sort of a gentle, simple, sustainable program will go a long way.

And also remember the new buzzword that I actually like is called progressive overload. People teach women to progressively increase the weights, but I think the message that gets lost and can actually be defeating for women is that, for example, Chelsea is lifting 35 pound dumbbells now. And we started with five or 10 pound dumbbells. So that's only like five or six weight increases in 11 years. So I think that sometimes when you really break it down like that, uh, if we were able to increase the weight, you know, I see a lot of simple recommendations on mainstream women's podcasts, telling women to try to bump the weights up five pounds every time. And that sounds good. And that works initially. But if that were the case, Chelsea and I have

conservatively done 2000 workouts, she'd be lifting 10,000 pounds on every single exercise. But I also think that something that you're saying is really important, like with your level of energy and everything, like sometimes you can go in the gym and sometimes I'll just do a 20 minute workout. And that gives me the energy that I need. You don't have to commit to doing 45 minutes or an hour every single time. And if you do download Ben's programs, each class is what? It's like 30, 40 minutes, 30, 40 minutes, but you know, you don't have to finish the whole thing. If you're not feeling it, you just kind of want to do a little bit of something when you feel, you know, exactly right. I think it's also important to know too, that when people say social media is

a highlight reel, so is fitness. And I'm guilty of that in the sense that I'll show the day that Chelsea lifts 35 pounds. Cause I'm trying to make her look good. I'm trying to make myself look good and whatever, but we're not doing that every time. If that makes sense. Some days we might only lift 20 pound dumbbells and live to fight another day when she's tired or feeling sore, you know, whatever. Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah. I've really been overdoing it in the past, probably three months. And that sort of led to a bit of burnout. So at the moment I'm just, you know, some days it's only just a walk around the block, but yeah, I think getting into a program and knowing that even if I just do like the 20 minutes 30 minutes maybe one day it might

be 10 minutes like I think yeah I like to keep that habit of doing that daily or you know at least four or five times a week some sort of movement and exercise because I found in those times where I let it all go well then you sort of don't want to pick it up again so it's um yeah having another tool to give me a bit of motivation do something a little bit differently sounds It's really great. Yeah. Great. Great.

Thank you so much for calling in. Thanks, Carla. Best of luck. Amazing. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye. Bye.

Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pesto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all? And will you finish episode eight before you're done slicing the cucumbers? Get Bell Pure Fiber Internet with Crave, Netflix, and Disney Plus from $94 a month, price guaranteed for two years on Internet with a two-year term and auto-pay credit.

Visit bell.ca for details and to check availability. Bell. Connection is everything. When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the Survivor Files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything.

Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo, and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having.

I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table it's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is a trojan horse whether you're looking for literary deep dives smart pop culture conversations or a community of readers who love to think a little too much you're in the right place listen to pro society on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts See you between the pages. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport.

And Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, a.k.a. the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman.

Not that great. Actually, can you help me shape this? how about we flip it on its head how about we flip the script what if the surprise woman who actually you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird Adam Scott

this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show I would never expect I would never set expectations for something like that to happen if the universe allows for

something like that to happen i am open to it i'm always going to accept you know danny mcbride fine yeah it's all this fragile masculinity exuding i could smell it walking down the hallway to be honest with you i was like is that weed nope it's fragile masculinity ben stiller no because a lot of times in out of context people don't get it or even know what a circle is you know what i mean like you're like oh what's this So everyone's so dumb and fake, right? Fake and also not interested or just like, oh, I've got my wife. I don't care about your life.

And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. Do we want to do another question? Yeah, let's do another question. All right. Well, I have getting my confidence back as an athlete or my brother-in-law works out too much. Do your brother-in-law works out too much? Okay. So Amy says, Dear Chelsea, my younger sister has been married for two years and has been with him for six years. And six

months ago, they had a baby. It should be noted that it was him who initiated and pushed to have a baby, not her. My sister has absolutely loved being a mother and she's objectively a fantastic parent her husband on the other hand has been absent ever since the baby was born he's at the gym she gave birth on a thursday he came home on a saturday and then monday morning he began a twice a day workout routine he works out for an hour before work then works all day and then three times a week meets up with his friends to go rock climbing for several hours on the weekends he often goes climbing or to the gym or has evening plans with friends meanwhile my sister is home with the baby because of all of this my sister has spent most of these past six months alone

with the baby. He seems truly addicted to fitness. He's always been interested in it, but ever since the baby was born, it's gone to another level. My sister has talked to him many times, but he always tells her that he loves being at home, but he also loves being social and sees it as his social time with his friends. When she forces him to stay home, he's miserable and constantly checking his phone. I'm not sure what to do as the sister-in-law. I love my sister and it's obvious to me she isn't very happy. He doesn't see it as a problem because when he is home he's very present that being said i don't know how to help i have to stop myself from saying things like wow he sucks the truth is he is great when he's home he's just never home any help would

be appreciated sometimes an outside perspective is what's needed amy i have a brother-in-law who over exercises yeah yeah he gets home he works out then he goes on a bike ride then he goes but i mean yeah i don't ever i don't know i don't know but depends a new dad and a trainer yeah i mean, as a dude, I kind of get it. I would imagine that both the guys you're talking about exercise more for mental reasons than physical reasons. I find working out to be a good mental outlet for me and I'm in new debt. I mean, I think this guy kind of needs to realize if you're going to have kids, you have to give up some shit in the beginning. It's just like very, you know, that's just what it is. Uh, my life got pretty small the last four months and I understand where

he's coming from in the sense that sometimes I miss my old life, but I think that it is what it is. But in terms of working out, working out twice a day is just silly from a workout perspective. So I think that's probably more of a mental outlet. And I think within, in terms of working out, I will tell you when I get busy, I, I have a gym in my garage, but I just work out for 20 minutes. I would just call him out to his face as a sister-in-law. You have every right to do that as a sister-in-law. This doesn't feel like a workout question to me. If I feel like I just put on like my new dad hat and I'm like, dude, you just gotta like be home. Well, it covers two bases. You have expertise in two areas now. But I will say as a guy, I feel like men, when they

deal with stress for me a big part of working out is that the common emotion I feel like as life comes at me is anger more so than sadness or stuff and so for me working out has always been an outlet I when I'm pissed off I just lift really heavy and it's like a lot more socially acceptable than cussing out your partner or cussing out your neighbor you know whatever actually I'll tell you But Chelsea and I are pretty close. In a lot of ways, I view her kind of like a sister. I think you would probably agree in that way. And three or four days ago-

I view you as a sister also. Hey, girl. No, but she sent me this text, and she caught me in the wrong mood. And I just responded like a dick. And then I just had to, a couple hours later, I was like, oh, sorry. But I think that I understand where this guy is coming from, because- Yeah, it's hard for guys with the dead kids. It's really, really hard.

This has been the hardest four months of Ben's life. It comes with amazing things, and it's also really hard. And at the same time, I think everyone tells me that these are the times I'll miss. And so I think this dude that's rock climbing with the homies is going to regret that. Yeah, and I get that it's a social outlet, but guess what? You had a baby. You don't get to hang out with your friends that much. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You should definitely say something. I would say something as a sister-in-law. I would say something and keep saying something until he like comes correct. What would you say is like, what's acceptable for a new dad? Like, should he just be doing his before work ones? Like, I don't know. I mean, I don't want to ever comment on people's relationships. We have a situation, my wife and I both work from home.

So it's the other extreme of just, we're just both at home all day, every day. I do think it's important to take space and you time, but definitely not every day. And definitely not for four hours. And definitely not with a newborn. Like it's, that's not fair. Like you have to like acclimate and give up things. You have to sacrifice. You've made a sacrifice. You've had a child. Now you have to, this is why many people don't have children because they can't have, they don't have room for this kind of sacrifice. But once you have them, you have to make the sacrifice and you have to give up some of the things you

love, not forever, but for the, you know, that incremental important period of time to make sure that your baby is okay and that you're bonding with it. Totally, and one thing that I've learned, what I was talking before about the devil's in the dose, I think when you talk about taking me time, the same things apply. So I know for my wife, Nicole and I are recharging right now, might be like just 30 minutes solo,

and that seems acceptable. I think four hours every day is- Selfish, a lot. It's not, you're gonna probably run into some significant relationship problems. Okay. Well, let's get Ben back to his baby. Okay, Ben.

All right, Ben, do you want to give your workout program another shout-out for our mini-sode? Yeah, it's called Bruno Strong. Bruno Strong. It's all through the link on my Instagram, and I have a website, benbruno.com, and I'm very thankful for you giving me this opportunity because I find that everyone that signs up for the program

has really liked it. it's a weird thing delving into the online stuff. Cause you know, I'm a true tech moron and, you know, but as I've learned that if I just publish the workouts that I do with my clients and stuff, it, it has really resonated with people. And I appreciate you giving me your platform because a lot of this stuff that I do, I speak to other trainers and it's kind of like an echo chamber where we obviously all think the same. And I think that exercise for people who haven't done it before, haven't done it consistently, it's truly life-changing. I think, you know, I know that sounds like hyperbole. I think you would say it's changed your life.

Totally. You know, making it part of your routine. And so I hope to just bring that to more people. Awesome. Thanks for coming in, Ben Bruno. Thanks for being here. And thanks for showing me, for being such a tech idiot. You showed me how to edit a video this morning. when we were working out. I know. He showed me. I was like, hey, I need to get rid of this last part. I spent the last three years just swearing at my

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