Mark Bell's Power Project - Budget Friendly Tips To Get In Shape || MBPP Ep. 989

Episode Date: September 27, 2023

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Being super rich makes it way easier. Staying afloat and working a nine to five while trying to clean, cook, work out, and sleep is unrealistic LMAO. I think most people think it's too expensive, like not so much just from a financial standpoint, but it costs you too much energy and too much bandwidth. If you have multiple kids, if you're working a job

that you feel stress at and that you don't really have a break, you don't even feel like you have time to go to the gym. I can get how it can feel like a barrier, but the thing is many people manage to do it. How do you think people can kind of reframe their mindset? A lot of people have been actually getting some equipment for their apartment or their home.

That's one thing I've noticed. I have a slack block. That's like a little balance block. I also have a slant board That's like a little balance block. Yeah. I also have a slant board that's near my couch. You know, we talked about this at the beginning of the year. Maybe have a checklist of habits that you're trying to build. Maybe you're trying to build the habit of walking.

Maybe you're trying to build the habit of lifting some weight. Because that momentum will build up over time. And just figure out a way to get yourself moving. Whatever will motivate you. Yeah, stupidity at its finest. You live and learn, I guess. Yeah, some of these things that are good for us they can be hard hard to digest you know and then some things that are like processed some of them are like quicker to digest like i don't think you're gonna fuck yourself up from eating like a rice crispy treat you know what i mean like i don't know why but it's like it's not gonna do anything to your

stomach nothing i'm gonna like rip your guts apart no and then if if i were to have a giant kale salad you'd be like oh my god she's fucking farting all day yeah but yeah so like even like a protein bar though like if i if i go to bed like right before bed i'm like oh i'm so hungry and i have like two protein bars i'm gonna be cramping in the middle of the night but like if i have like i don't know like straight candy like i might have a hard time falling asleep because it's like a sugar spike or whatever. But my stomach won't be cramping. Are you pretty much telling everyone to start eating processed foods and stop eating whole foods? Is that the goal?

No, no, no. I think if you get the timing right, you can have processed foods. If you get the timing right. The bodybuilder has been doing it for a while, right, with the cereal and stuff like that and uh kind of hard candy right that's low fat get that insulin spike yeah sam solik will have like an entire box of cereal for like a pre-workout meal and i think it's working he's looking pretty jack yeah i know we always say to stay away from like ultra processed food but they seem to like i don't know sometimes it seems to digest pretty good i I have a curious question for you guys. Since Andrew brought up the name FemFolic, rewind.

Mark, what was the last thing you just said? I feel like I didn't even just, I didn't even pay attention to that last statement you said. I just went to the Sam's Fulic. What did you say? I lost those foods. They digest great. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Yeah, they digest really well. They do. All right. That was good. Now to what you mentioned about Pam Thulick. He's saying it that way. I don't know, dog. It's just fun.

Today is something else. I saw this video from 2Buff for this. Yeah, yeah. That guy is funny. He is. Maybe we should just pull it up. It's so good. We need to get that guy on the show.

You can go to 2Buff's page. I like how he always has the camera right in his grill. He is. Maybe we should just pull it up. We need to get that guy on the show. You can go to two buffs to this page. I like how he always has the camera right in his grill. I fucking love that guy's page, man. And then he pulls the hat. That fucking guy is unbelievable, too. He's very, very strong. Extremely.

I think he deadlifted over 900 pounds, I think. Oh, is it the... I'm just laughing at this one. Oh. I think. Oh, is it, is it the, I'm just laughing at this one. Oh, that's great. Damn, I didn't know he had it like that. Good for him. Good for him.

Oh, okay. Go, go down, go down, go down. down, down,

down, down, down. Just hold on. Let me play. 135 down bench is impressive. down. But just hold on. 135 down bench is impressive. That's pretty great.

So y'all gotta go follow this man. Alright, let's see. There's a video. Do you see Sam? I like how sometimes he just doesn't even say anything. It's just like the close-up of his face. If he was my son right now, I would be terrified. Every single day, I'd be terrified about the path he's going down and even about the things that appears he's doing right now

i'd be terrified so my concerns come from a genuine place because i do not you know what i gotta say it because this is it's getting annoying to this point. None of y'all care about Sam Sulek's health. Y'all are just clout fishing at this point. Athlean-X, all these people just using Sam Sulek's name just for some clout. Because y'all don't care. If y'all really care about his health and what he's doing, performance enhancing drugs, you would DM him and say like, hey, i want to talk about what you're doing you're cycling etc but no we live in a time of social media where we have to be like oh man we're

gonna make a stitch about sam sullick you know that's gonna get a bunch of views a bunch of likes etc because you know his name brings likes and views so don't pretend like you care about his health. You care about the clout. I saw that video. I was like, yo. Yeah. And then he made that video to get clout. Yeah, it's a bunch of likes. We're all chasing after it. I mean, what are we doing, right?

We're all pieces of shit. All of us. Yeah. But at least our stomachs are really upset. And we're gassy. Yeah. That's our karma. I know.

That's true. When we got to, we got to just deal with it. We got to work through it. It's just the way it is sometimes. Yeah. Anyway, what the fuck were we talking about?

The UPS guy? Yeah. The UPS guy. Oh yeah. What's that all about? Getting his workouts in during the day kind of intermittently interesting let's uh let's check it out you have the clip you need it emailed yeah i didn't get the clip oh we have pat the uh you got the notes somewhere but oh my bad

um but i think i think it'd be really helpful for a lot of people to start to look at exercise habits as just that just it's just an exercise it's just a it's just a thing that you're going to go do and it doesn't have to be perfect you don't have to necessarily do it the the exact way that someone instructs it instructs you to do it you can kind of pick and choose your own way to do it but the cool thing about pick and choose your own way to do it. But the cool thing about following somebody or following something that they say is that you're following like a structure or following a plan. And sometimes that makes it easier to integrate into your day-to-day if you're like, okay, I'm going to do three sets of 10 of these curls, three sets of 10 of these tricep exercises. For some people, that organization really helps.

But I think it would be helpful if people were like, you know what? I'm just going to have this kettlebell in my house. It's going to be outside. It's going to be part of my morning routine. I want to see what this is about. Andrew Huberman, all these people are always talking about going outside, getting some sunlight.

You got this 30-pound kettlebell or 20-pound kettlebell that's outside. Squat it. Maybe do some push pushups in between. Just be outside, maybe walk back and forth a bit. It doesn't have to be complicated or complex and you don't need to wait. I think a lot of times people are waiting.

Like I'm gonna wait until I like learn this or I'm gonna wait until I get this program or I don't think there's any reason to wait. You just select a weight that's comfortable. You won't hurt yourself. I mean, you can hurt yourself doing just about anything, but the odds of you hurting yourself with something really light is really low. And just figure out a way to get yourself moving. Whatever will motivate you to start to incorporate some exercise into your day.

What are some tools that you keep around you? Like you keep around into your day. What are some tools that you keep around you? Like you keep around maybe your house, obviously. This is a podcast studio. It's a gym. But what are some things that you keep around? I have a monolift right next to my bed. I'm just kidding. I have a slack block.

That's like a little balance block. Yeah. And then I also have a slant board that's near my couch and then other things like um they're not really exercise i don't think but they are exercise because i end up moving around a lot i'll just lay on the ground in my in my bedroom i have a carpet and the carpet is uh it's like kind of softish so it's it's really comfortable just to lay down on it. But it's still like a hard ground. So it's got like the benefits of both almost, but getting down on the ground, doing some myofascial release, getting down on the ground and whenever I do that, I'll also start to do some stretching. I do some stretches on my bed. I found that like

some might look weird, but I found that it's just been really beneficial because if I go down on the ground and try to stretch, sometimes it's kind of uncomfortable. Yeah. And like, I don't know, bugs my knee or bugs this or that. And I'm just such a baby about it. Sometimes I'm like, you know what? Why don't I just stretch where it's more comfortable? So I stretch on my couch and I stretch on my bed. And, uh, those are – there's lots of different ways I'm getting exercise in during the day. But those are probably like the main ones. Okay. And those are things – the cool thing is that like, for example, the Slackboard you mentioned, the Slackblock you mentioned, some of those tools.

I think anybody who's working a job or they're maybe in an office, you might be the slightly weird one, but those are things that you can keep in your office and you can intermittently do while you're working. I use the roller thing a lot too, the thing that you roll on like your shins and calves. Yeah, what's that? I forget what the roller eight or whatever. Roller recovery. Rogue. The little clamp. Yeah, we got it off of Rogue.

Yeah. But I use that a lot. And actually, when I was using that today, I was I put my foot up on the couch and I was rolling my calf and I was like, my foot was resting on the back of the couch. I didn't even think about it. And that for me, that's kind of high. It's not it's not as high as this table, but it's not too much lower than where this table is at. as high as this table, but it's not too much lower than where this table is at. I was like, hmm, that's interesting. I just put my leg up pretty high and it's just for me to roll, to have easier access to roll my calf out. And so now I'm stretching in these positions that are longer than, like that would have been a stretch for me to do that. Like that would have actually probably hurt like a year ago. And now things are starting to open up and they're starting to get easier, but we don't really

understand or think about these things when I'm doing that exercise, that is an exercise. Like I'm, I'm wrenching down on my calf and my shin. And, uh, while it might not produce some crazy caloric burn or it's not going to make me necessarily more jacked. It still points on the scoreboard each and every day of kind of getting in some exercise. And I do it before I run, so I'm getting like a great benefit from it, getting the shins and calves warmed up before I go out on my run. Andrew, by any chance, do you have the email of the quotes? I can maybe read some of them. I found a UPS driver talking about stuff on TikTok. I don't know if that's the one that you're talking about.

Let me see. This guy right here, Mark? Yeah, but I think, yeah, let's read the quotes first because this guy, it'll make sense. Okay. Yeah, but I think it is that guy. Yeah, it looks like he had the right clip. Mm-hmm. Now, we did an episode with Tom Shigura recently.

And what I found interesting is obviously Tom is wealthy, right? He's rich. He wasn't in shape a few years back, but he changed his habits in 2020. He got in shape, right? Now, there's a few comments from people. They also love to take a ton of gear and lie about it. This was about Tom. So keep scrolling down.

And then... I would like to mention first that from a financial perspective, I don't know what his situation is, but he's probably been pretty well off for like the last 10 years. Probably more than that. Okay.

I would assume, yeah. Yeah, so he may have been well off for over a decade, maybe two decades. And even with wealth, he was out of shape. So there was some sort of difference some sort of change that happened and i know people like he's blasting trt uh they want to hop on that and we can talk about that openly too a bit i think i think that's fair game i think it's fair

for people to mention yeah but you know i just think a lot of times people are just throwing this like money thing out as an excuse or just he made some lifestyle changes people should be pretty pumped about that it's something to look up to and admire i think that that kind of falls in line with this quote from a moog now being super rich makes it way easier staying afloat and working a nine to five while trying to clean cook work out and sleep is unrealistic LMAO. Okay. I do think that's – so like that's a fair point and that might be like if you were to ask Tom Segura specifically when things went downhill for him in terms of his health and in terms of maybe his aesthetics,

it probably was when he was in the height of his career of trying to really figure himself out in terms of, I don't want to speak for him, but this is what I've seen happen to a lot of people. They are sometimes having children. They are simultaneously trying to figure out their career. They are hungry for those things. They want to do better at those things. And sometimes the last person they help is themselves when it comes to the physicality. I know my cousin did that. My cousin is like the greatest dad ever. Like he's an amazing, amazing family man, amazing father, amazing friend to a lot of people. But he wasn't so friendly to himself. He wasn't great to himself. He, he poured so much into his kids

with his work and his schedule and everything that I just think he wasn't thinking about himself in terms of what he could do for his own physicality, his own body, his own health overall. I think most people think it's too expensive. Like it, uh, not so much just from a financial standpoint, but it costs you too much energy and too much bandwidth to eat better and to make better decisions. But it's probably easier for us to say now that we're on the other side of this thing. But we know the impact that it has and how good it feels. it has and how good it feels. And I would say, you know, with my cousin Steven, if he was here, he would probably mention it and he would probably agree if he was able to hold it down, if he was able to hold it together, able to eat a little bit better and have some habits.

Because really his his only problem was that he would overeat. He was extremely active. And lazy is not a word that would ever use to describe this guy. He was up at 4 o'clock every day, going to bed at probably 11 o'clock every day. I mean, the guy, he works very, very hard, so he's not lazy. He just sabotaged himself with food. The food and the stress went hand in hand. But how much easier would that stress have been if he'd eaten better the whole time?

Much easier would that stress have been if he'd eaten better the whole time. And so I do think things do unravel for a lot of people as they're trying to build up their career and their family and those things. It's very common. Andrew, you have a two-year-old and you're starting to see other dads and other people around and they have two, three, four-year-old kids, stuff like that. A lot of times that's right when people start to kind of of fall apart that's right when people start to add weight so this guy um kind of pointing the fact that like it can be really difficult during those times i think it's a fair statement it can be really difficult at those times but it doesn't mean that you can't do it yeah no i kind of take pride in being able to be a a father that can get down on the ground and roll around with my two-year-old son.

And as far as like you're asking Mark, like what are the things that he has around the house, you know, to help stay active and stuff? It's like, well, should I have my son? It's really hard to just take a break with a two-year-old that's jumping. So are you tapping him out every once in a while? Just to remind him. He is, isn't he? Just to let him know-year-old that's jumping. Be honest, though. Are you tapping him out every once in a while? Just to remind him. He is, isn't he? Just to let him know. Let him know what's up.

You keep giving up your back, and this is what happens. There's going to be a price to pay, son. There is a price to pay for these actions. Poor little guy. Twelve years from now, you're going to wake up. You're going to take two steps, put your feet on the ground, and suddenly there's going to be an elbow your neck so that's why i'm like you know telling you and i was telling my wife i'm like yeah i gotta get a black belt because by time this kid is 15 he's gonna beat the shit out of me like all this stuff i'm doing to him he's gonna be like hey i never forgot like i was two years

old but i remember the first time you put me out like oh no good thing I'm a black belt. Do it again. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't read this one yet, though. Oh, yeah. All you need are steroids, a personal trainer, a home gym, a nutritionist, and even a crude wealth to no longer need to work. That and a little bit of hustle is all you need. That's it. I am.

The thing I don't get is like I can see a lot of this being a barrier for some people. If you have multiple kids, if you're working a job that, you know, you feel stress at, and then you don't really have a break, you don't even feel like you have time to go to the gym. I can get how it can feel like a barrier. But the thing is, is like many people manage to do it. Many people manage to stay in shape. And it's partially a big aspect of it is the choices you make with the food that you eat.

Because it's like you can eat processed foods, a lot of them that are hypopatible that you can eat a lot of. And it may make you feel a bit better because it's sweet or whatever. But at the end of the day, that's messing with your health. And it does come down to a choice. Sometimes those choices are harder because for a lot of people, that food brings them a level of pleasure that they may not feel in other aspects of their life. And I can, I understand it. But again, it's not there. It's not just wealthy people who are in

shape. There are many, there are many unhealthy, wealthy people, and there are many in shape people who don't make much money. I remember Rich Froning going to the CrossFit Games and I think he already won once or twice. So from a financial standpoint, he was probably fine at that point. But he was like building and raising a family along with a business. building and raising a family along with a business. And I think at that point he had two kids and his wife had like, or he was holding one kid like on his lap. And then his,

his wife has like the baby, like a baby baby. And he's heading to the CrossFit game and everyone's just got this to say, and that's saying it just wasn't even a contest. He, he won the CrossFit games goes on for like three days. I think it was going into Sunday and it was already over. He already won.

He didn't even have to really do the last couple of events because he smoked everybody so bad. Damn. And so, you know, yeah. I mean, you hear these stories all the time of like things being bad for people at certain times,

but they don't always have to be i mean even even in times of like where the market or something the economy has been like awful it doesn't mean that ever like everyone doesn't fail at that time sometimes people are able to excel they're able to think maybe a little differently so i think sometimes some and this guy might some of these guys might just be fucking around. Tom Segura is a comedian. So some of these guys might just be throwing some shit at him for whatever reason. But I think just a little shift in your mindset and understanding that just because you don't have that much money and just because you don't feel like you have much

going for you, and maybe that's the real underlying problem is that you need to feel a little bit better about yourself. So if you start to do things that help you to feel better about yourself, you build confidence over time, you should be able to stick to the habits that are continuing to help you to grow and help you to expand. And those things would be regardless of money. We see it all the time with athletes that are involved in sports where there's not money involved. I just watched a Kurt Angle documentary and in that documentary he seemed to be grateful that there was no money in the sport.

He's like, this is the greatest sport in the world. This is the toughest sport in the world. And he's like, I love it. He's like, we might not get the big paychecks like the nfl guys he's like but we get something different and i was just like wow like i kind of wonder i almost wonder more about that statement like what he means but i also kind of get it because i was in a sport that had no money too yeah and then so like this is this is like very unfair but like when people win like the lottery they don't all of a sudden get in shape i understand they don't care but now all of a sudden they're super wealthy

so when somebody doesn't have the habits now all of a sudden the the shitty mcdonald's meal whatever like you're like that's easy to avoid because now you're getting like five star meals you know i mean like you're you have more options to have way better food. So like if somebody is rich, it's still hard for them to avoid some of these yummy foods. Because now it's like you're not getting the fucking drive-thru meal. You're getting like a chef-prepared meal, right, or whatever it may be. But it's still the same thing. You still have to say no to like the extra stuff. So it's a different battle.

It's a battle I'd rather be facing also. But it's still a battle. So it's a battle i'd rather be facing also but it's still a battle so it's not like oh you make money all of a sudden poof like you have these super strict habits ingrained in you and everything becomes super easy all of a sudden you bring up a good point because a lot of times people say if i had that kind of money i would just be hanging on the beach doing nothing i would just be chilling chilling. Like I wouldn't be like Hugh Jackman going in the gym and getting after it with deadlifts. Or if I had money, I wouldn't be like Elon Musk trying to build more businesses. And these people, they just have these habits. They're not going to like just shut them off because of their finances

or because of their circumstances. You know, I think a lot of times we think that these circumstances completely prevent you from doing certain things, and I don't think that they do. Yeah. Andrew, can you go to that comment again, though? This one from Spaghetti Pipes, though. It's like the thing that's kind of odd, though, when someone does say something like this, it's the fact that you are now setting up barriers for yourself

because if your belief is that the only reason this person is the way they are, it's because they were wealthy and they had a nutritionist and a home gym and this and that. And that's why you personally believe they were able to do what they did. That means that you think that if you have that, you're going to be able to get in shape. And now the only time you're going to get in shape is when you're wealthy, you have a nutritionist, you have a home gym, you have a trainer, and that's when you're going to get in shape. So right now you can do nothing about your circumstances because you don't have that. And you're going to be like, why would you do that to yourself? It's unfortunate. It's just a really unfortunate thought process, but you've quite literally already put up like eight barriers for between you and the goal you you want because you believe that you need all these things to get there.

Right. And if you're out of shape and feel like you're 50, 60 pounds overweight, could you work your way towards being less fat? Could you work on being like 30 pounds overweight instead of 60. Like I think as you're pointing out, you don't need everything to be perfect in order to change your circumstances slightly. And if you think about the things that will get better if you're healthier, it's usually everything. You know, I think one of the things is it's just really it's talked about a bit. it's just really, it's talked about a bit, a bit. People talk about like stoicism and they talk about, um, you know, how important it is to kind of work on some of these things and gain these, uh, abilities with your mind and your ability to reinterpret the stuff that comes at you each and every day. And to maybe not just because something might be, something may have been a,

a stressor in the past and it may have resulted in some negative outcomes for you because you were associating negativity with it, it doesn't mean that you can't work on changing that. And if you work on changing that along with working on your body, you're going to get yourself into a spot where things that happen day in and day out, they just, they just like wash off your back. Like they're not a big deal. They're just not, you hear, you know, your wife says something about one of her friends who's a pain in the ass or whatever. Or you hear someone starting and you, you just kind of notice your registers in your head and you're like, I don't really care.

This doesn't – I mean it's not like you're not listening to the person that's talking. But you're like – you're viewing it differently. You're like this is kind of just a negative. I'm not going to jump on this pile. The play is already over. There's no reason for me to really have much of an opinion on this. And you start to work your way through. It's not even so much about thinking more positively all the time.

It's just that you are just, you just think like, like just straight across the board. You're not really negative or positive too much. And that's been super helpful for me over the years. And I think that when I see comments like this, I kind of think, oh man, it kind of sucks because I think that some of these people are like in pain, like they're locked into a certain mindset and they haven't been able to graduate to that next mindset yet to where they're able to take things on in life a lot easier. I was mentioning to you, Andrew, like a couple of weeks ago,

like the ability to sprawl, like the ability to sprawl against stuff that's trying to take you down, you know, or your perceived things that are trying to take you down. What a cool ability that is. You don't literally have to learn how to fight or learn how to wrestle, although that might solve some problems for you. But your ability to kind of keep your hands up at all time and be able to protect yourself and have things that are happening in the world not register as negative, not register as stressful. When I see the negative comments, I'm thinking,

oh man, it kind of sucks because a lot of things are probably still registering for this person as negative. And their life's probably like uptight. Probably don't feel great about what they're doing. And they probably feel kind of locked into this mindset that's not allowing them to grow. You just caused a few guys in the audience

to probably have like a dry spell for the next three weeks because they're going to be in some like conversation with their woman and she's going to be complaining. And then you're going to pop in their head like, don't care. Like like, don't care. Like, I don't care. No pussy for a month. You just don't say it out loud.

Shit. Yeah, just don't say it out loud. Oh, God. Or say it out loud. Have some balls, man. That's right. Lay them on the table. So you're working out.

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your hormones. It's important to understand and it's also important to know if what you're doing is actually working. Andrew, how can they get their hands on it? Yes, that's over at MerrickHealth.com slash PowerProject. And at checkout, enter promo code PowerProject to save 10% off the PowerProject panel, the checkup panel, or any individual lab that you select. Again, that's at merrickhealth.com slash POWERPROJECT, promo code POWERPROJECT at checkout. Links in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Well, I think, you know, it's, again, when we're thinking about these things and we're thinking about people that have certain types of jobs and things like that there's just so many ways to incorporate it and i know sometimes it can sound ridiculous

but casey uh who works in our warehouse he built a step a giant step because he's like that's one that's one step up every time i go from uh you know putting labels on stuff in the warehouse back to my computer. So he has like a step up basically. It's probably 14, 16 inches high. So he's got to flex his hip every time, hip flex or flex, and then put his foot on top of the box and take a step up there every single time. And he was even saying like – he's like, I try to do it with different legs, but sometimes I favor my dominant leg or whatever. You you get that from amazon too probably you're

right you can you can figure out ways to kind of have your own versions of these things he also will sometimes put on a weighted vest just because of all the steps that he's getting in during the day to just add a little weight add a little resistance what he's already doing yeah and honestly like you you can't do things like everybody at this point because that's shown to not work. You know, if you do work in a job where you're forced to be sedentary for a majority of the time, majority of those people don't feel good. So the fact is, is that you do have to be the weird person in the office. If you want to be able to work yourself out of the situations that a lot of these other people around you are going to, they're going to be in, you got to be that guy or girl. It's just the fact of the matter. I mean, you could start to have, there's all kinds of practices

that you can have, but you could, I found it like this Morpheus app has been so transformative to me. It's not even, the app doesn't even suggest like meditation or anything, but I'm just like, well, when I get my HRV tested through this app that I have, I'm like, I should be like more calm. I'm like doing it on my way to run or I'm doing it while I'm walking. And I'm like, this isn't, this isn't a good way to kind of check my health and check my heart rate. So I usually, uh, I'll lay down and I put my feet up, uh, like up against the wall or on my couch or something like that. Takes two and a half minutes and then that two and a half minutes almost every single time I almost fall asleep. It's just really like restorative for me.

So like there's people that don't like exercise. Can you take can you take a couple minutes and just you don't need the fancy app. That's not the point. People have more fees. I need to get the app now. i can't do it without the app the point is is put on some sleepy music and uh if you have to lay down in your office put your feet up on your chair be weird three minutes later you're gonna feel restored maybe you'll feel a little groggy but it's something that you can now get used to. And would that help someone have a better

body? I actually think that it would. I think if you can start to decompress and get yourself away from stress, when you are in stressful situations, you're going to be less likely to go off the rails because you're going to feel better. And so to me, it's about feeling better and about feeling energized. And so even something that simple, which doesn't even require any exercise, it's just a kind of a mind practice. It's a practice of stillness for a moment. And there's people listening right now who are like, I can't do that. They didn't even try it. I have a game for both of you guys.

I want you guys to ninja me and uh combat my excuse well you know it's because he's on trt you guys are on trt so you have energy and you can be in shape i'm just not on trt that's what i need well what up what you got for me both y'all what you got for me well uh uh there is a story there is a story of two comedians and one of them went on trt and made great progress and the other one didn't um i would say that the inner the introduction of performance enhancing drugs and the introduction of like testosterone all those things they sound great but again if you don't have your habits together, you're, you're not really going to get anywhere. Someone could potentially, like if they have a little bit of a habit of lifting,

they could take some TRT and they could notice that they gain like four or five pounds of muscle. That is actually a big deal. Like that's actually huge. Testosterone can also help with motivation. So I'm not going to deny those factors as well. But again, you still need, so that might happen at first, but then we get into the same situation we always get into and the same thing that I always say, and then what? So we played this card, this little motivation card, we played this game and now we get a little boost. We gain four or five pounds of muscle maybe over the next six months. Our motivation is up a little bit, but now we're in the winter time. The sun's not out as much. It's rainy, it's snowy, and we're just left with our own thoughts. We're left with our own habits. And as far as I know, there's not really a drug that will really help a ton with that.

So I think that people, they need to stop putting so much weight on TRT. If it's something that you really think is massively beneficial to other people and you think you need to get your blood work done, then go ahead and look into it. But I've seen a lot of people get on TRT. look into it. But I've seen a lot of people get on TRT. I've seen a lot of people just straight up go on steroids and even abuse performance enhancing drugs and really not look, they certainly haven't looked better. I'll say it that way. Yeah. Recently, I mean, so I have my prescription. I ran out of that prescription and I stumbled upon a different bottle that was not from my prescribing doctor. Allegedly, potentially, possibly this is what happened. And that dosage was a little bit higher than what I was used to, but I wasn't really paying attention. Sorry, being a rookie at this. All of a sudden, like, dude, I keep waking up heavier. Like, what is going on here?

I've never weighed 186 pounds and been like in pretty decent shape. You know, I have all the same habits. Nothing changed except for switching to this other vial. It's like, dude, what's going on? I got my lab work done because I'm like, dude, this is weird. I'm even eating less. I started tracking again. And I'm like, I'm eating so much less and i keep gaining what the hell is happening here like gaining in a good way not really i was super bloated i was like watery i felt kind of gross got my levels checked

dude i was like at 2500 on the uh the total test or whatever it's like what the holy shit the high normal is like 1200 correct and that's where i was that's where i was at so i was really really freaking high i felt terrible i was like i said i was feeling like all super bloated and i couldn't keep my weight down it felt weird like i didn't look good at all switch back to my regular prescribed stuff and everything's kind of back to normal so i'm back at like 181 pounds feeling way better even though i currently feel sick but um what i'm getting at is like even if i were to quote get on a lot more steroids or whatever like it didn't help me at all like i felt worse and i started gaining the wrong weight maybe if i had switched over to like lifting heavy or did something else it could have been like like

oh shit like damn Andrew's looking really thick right now like this is awesome but that was not the case yeah no that was not it at all like so I mean hopefully that helps a little bit maybe that just like helps cement someone else's argument but I'm just explaining my experience more was so much less like I do not ever want to feel that way again it sucked i also think that people in general feel like shit because of what they aren't and because of what they don't have and that is a that is a practice that you need to fucking work on really hard as a young man it's really easy to look over here and over there and i'm going to be better when i move here i'm going to be better when i do this i'm going to be better when i have here. I'm going to be better when I do this. I'm going to be better when I have this car.

If I had the circumstances of that guy, I would be just as wealthy. I'd be just as ripped. I'd be just as this, just as that. That is really damaging, really, really damaging. And more so than damaging, it's just limiting. So it's something that people need to work on it i think it's where most people's anxiety comes from it's just hidden in this thing of uh you're not what you want to be yet well okay why don't you fucking work on it like how can you work on it and then you start

saying like that uh you know everybody else is on steroids everybody but if you're not going to do those then why are you bringing those up like if that's not an option for you, if that's not something that you're going to do, oh, this guy is only better than me because he has a lot of money. Well, what's your access to money right now? Do you have access to more? If you don't have access for more money, then it's not anything that – you can't really be too worried or concerned about it. Obviously, it could be something that you can work on building towards because money has a great convenience. TRT can be a great convenience for some people, especially people that need it. But these conveniences aren't things to really, you know, you don't have access to them. There's no reason to really put a lot of thought and energy into them because there are things that

you don't have and there are things that you won't have for a while. And especially with that attitude, you'll never have them. How do you think people can kind of reframe their mindset? Because if somebody is unhappy with something, we'll just even say with the way they look, they're upset. They had to go to work today and they're just feeling like shit. Like, damn it, I want ice cream because I want something to make me feel good. How can they flip that around to being like, I'm going to go for a walk and that's going to make me feel good?

I think being reasonable and being rational is a really key factor. What have you done? What have you done lately? What have you done for yourself? Have you lately? What have you done for yourself? Have you addressed this? Have you addressed this situation? Like, man, I'm fucking – this sucks. I'm 50 pounds overweight.

What have you done? Have you done something about it? Have you – and just try to be really honest. Have I stuck to this diet for more than three days, seven days, three weeks, three months? diet for more than three days, seven days, three weeks, three months. If you have, and you're looking at yourself and you're like, man, like I lost 50 pounds and I'm, this still sucks. You know, like I, I, this, I'm still not happy. You know, then you have to start to kind of, you got to look at the bright side in a way, you know, that's where you're going to have to say, well, look, man, you look way better than you did two years ago. You're in way better shape than you were two years ago.

You made a lot of progress from where you were in the past. And you have to think about where else are you making progress? Are you making progress in other areas of your life other than just that? Because the weight loss journey is just one little chunk of the whole thing. And I think that people just that? Because the weight loss journey is just one little chunk of the whole thing. And I think that people get caught up in the weight loss journey, but you have to also be making progress in other areas of your life. Because if you don't, whenever you think this weight loss journey is like ending, then you'll probably go back to a lot of your other habits unless you feel good about yourself in a more well-rounded way.

If you have knee pain or lower back pain, the initial thought is that it's probably coming from the knee or the lower back. But have you ever thought that it could actually be coming from your feet? Most people wear shoes like this. They are narrow. They are not flat. They are inflexible. So it's almost like your feet are stuck in casts all day long. And if you imagine that your hand was stuck in a cast all day, well, your fingers are going to become weak, but then your elbows might start feeling a little

bit wonky because your fingers don't move and then it might travel up your shoulder. That's the same thing that happens with your feet when you put them in normal and flexible shoes. That's why you want to throw those out and start using some Vivo barefoot shoes. They have shoes for hiking on their website, working out in the gym. They have casual shoes like these Novuses right here. But the difference with Vivo is that they have a wide toe box so that your feet, like my wide ass feet, can spread and move within the shoe. They're flat so that your feet are doing the work when you're walking and they are flexible so your feet have the freedom to move the way they need to move so that they can be strong feet. That's why you want to get yourself some of these.

And, Andrew, how can they get it? Yes, that's over at vivobarefoot.com slash powerproject. When you guys get there, you'll see a code across the top. Make sure you enter that code at checkout for 15% off your entire order. Again, that's at vivobarefoot.com slash powerproject. Links in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Guys, look at this. Ooh, look at that bend. I could stick that in my mouth.

Do it. I'm not going to do this. Come on. It's disgusting. No. Get him. Before we play this clip, I don't know if you remember this,

but also I think like from the what have you done for me lately thing, just like, you know, we talked about this at the beginning of the year. Maybe have a checklist of habits that you're trying to build. Maybe you're trying to build the habit of walking. Maybe you're trying to build the habit

of lifting some weight. So if you can just have a checklist of, okay, today, did I take a two, 10 minute walks or three, 10 minute walks? Did I actually do this? If not, if did I lift some weight for a few minutes? Can you make a checklist of just simple things that you know you want to be able to do that the people that you pay you pay attention to are doing did you fuck did you sit in a squat at some point today or did you mobilize yourself at some point did you do any type of myofascial release just have this as a checklist and just try to get through some of this even if it's doing some myofascial release for one minute do it because that's that's like okay i did it and then tomorrow you'll probably do it for a little bit longer than a minute but at least

you're you have some momentum rather than like know, you have the things that make you feel happy, like the ice cream, right? But you're not paying attention to the things that you know are going to move you forward. So try to have some things that are just like, because that momentum will build up over time. As you do these things more and more, you'll do a little bit more walking. You'll lift a little bit longer. You'll do these things a bit more. It'll be easier. You've got to be accepting of the fact that you're going to lose.

Mm-hmm. And you're going to fail. Yeah. Before you become a Masters World Champion. Uh-huh. Yeah. Right? Come in second a couple times, you know?

And it sucks. It doesn't make you feel great, but you keep working on it, and you try to figure out the puzzle. Yeah. This clip, this is too good. That's the thing, bud. You've got to be careful. You've got to have a J-O- thing but you got to be careful you got to have a job in the 80s you gotta have some money gotta have some money you can't get no pussy listen to the radio that's what it's about listen to madonna i'm a material girl

and a material world you ain't got no money you can't have no pussy basically what it is it's a song out now called got to Have a J-O-B if you want to be with me. In lyrics, yo, ain't nothing going on but the rent. Like if you went up and said, hey, babe, what's going on? The rent, motherfucker. You have a job? I would get the fuck out of my face. That's so good.

I'd have some money. It says no romance without finance. And women love them songs. Got to have a J-O-B. No no romance without finance. And women love them songs. Have a day of it. No romance without the finance. Janet Jackson got a hit record. What have you done for me lately? That's what they've been thinking. What have you done for me lately? The record starts off like that.

I know he used to do shit for you, but what have you done for me lately? Baby, I love you. What have you done for me lately? You're the only thing on my mind what have you done for me lately we make good love what have you done for me lately got to have some money to get the pussy in the 80s that's amazing oh and in 2023 as well yup that's true do you know which one this one's from

by any chance might be Raw oh yeah Raw Eddie Murphy Raw damn I saw that shit as a kid man that was so good Delirious was also

very very good I wasn't the right age to watch any of that but I mean it changed my world you saw it when you were young too oh yeah yeah

I was probably like nine or something he was so like understanding some stuff but definitely not understanding most of it yeah i remember being a kid watching like stand up and just like kind of looking around like i don't get it and then like my sister was like when you get older like you'll understand yeah okay and then you just laugh because like you're embarrassed so you don't understand it and they're like people are like you don't understand what's going on. And you're like, I get it. They're like, no, you don't.

Yeah, I do. Being the youngest in the family had to do that a lot. Do you have the UPS? Oh, sorry, yeah. Let's see. Is this the guy? Hold on.

Dude, I'm not a fan of TikTok, man. There we go. Okay. Where'd he go? Looks like he was at that. Oh, there it is. All right, there we go. Let's do this.

Oh, fuck. Excuse me. I have a TikTok, and I ask people who are in really good shape what they do for their workouts. Do you mind if I ask you? You're ripped. No, I don't do weights. It's calisthenics. Pull up. They're so intense. How many pugs can you do? Oh, my God. Honestly, two real men, they don't count. Really?

I just go, pow, pow, pow, pow. You know, when I started pain? Yeah. That's when I be like... You can do 30 muscle-ups? Damn. Come on, let's find some scalp holding. I try both. Weight and calisthenics.

Weight, you look chubby, strong. But you cannot do squat. Yeah. and calisthenics. Yeah. Weights, you look chubby. Strong. Yeah. But you can do sport. Yeah. I did it one time. I used to do a few more. I did it one time.

Yeah. I'm with you. I stamina is more so I can go. Yeah. That's what he's talking about. Yeah. I guess so. I always, you know, it's not like.

Nah, go forward. Yeah. You go all day long. Awesome, man. I know. Crossfitters? Why does he keep thrusting? I call it the clock.

Yeah. I like it. This guy interviewed the wrong guy. I like it, brother. Does he actually do a pull-up though no yeah thanks man appreciate it hey i think that guy's full of shit yeah a little a little bit yeah look at me he's jack no i'm just dude like the way he was speaking i don't know man yeah he started talking about like muscle ups out of nowhere yeah and then he said how many he's like i don't count until it gets hard but he still didn't say how many yeah look at him though

he's i don't think he's full of shit. He's in good shape. He's in great shape. He's in great shape. But he might not even work for UPS even. I think he's full of shit. You guys know a lot of guys that, I mean, I don't want to say just go to jujitsu because that's a huge commitment and that takes a lot of time but you guys know that you guys know people that do that are practicing jujitsu and they're in great shape and they they maybe aren't going to the gym and spending a lot of extra hours doing stuff

i i know a few like i mean it's always helpful to have more of a regimen or something but but the guys that i know that are like you know i go to juj and first off, they're good around, but they're keeping things together. They're also people who tend to like pay attention to things outside of the gym. Like they do some sort of strength training. They're not purely jujitsu. And then the really good jujitsu guys I know are doing stuff in the gym. So even the jujitsu people that are hobbyists, that they're good, you know, and their bodies kept together, they're doing some strength training. So even the guys that have more regular jobs, right?

Like, yeah, still figuring out time for the gym. They're still figuring out time on the mat. A lot of people have been actually getting some equipment for their apartment or their home. That's one thing I've noticed. Like a lot of guys end up getting some things to keep at home. Some people still go to the gym, don't get me wrong, but it's like, if things get really busy, it is good to have a few pieces that you have at home that you can just do. A sport I think would be great for people to try to take up, you know, whatever, or, or just some sort of, maybe not even necessarily like a full-on sport,

but like some sort of activity, because if an activity even if you are even if you're just like casually riding a bike uh twice a week or so i would say that could cut back drastically on the amount of time that you need to spend in the gym and if you're going to jujitsu i know uh our boy smoky was going like once a week i think he got more into it recently where he's going more but like sometimes people can't make the commitment to go maybe as many times as the next person or they don't want to spend time on something new in the same way somebody else does. But whatever way you got to figure it out, I think there are ways to where you don't necessarily need to spend nearly as much time in the gym. And we've seen examples of this over the years. There's obviously the Michael Hearns, there's the people that love fitness and there's people that spend hours in there. I still love it. I always will, but I've shortened up my workouts considerably

because I run now. So it's like, you know, running is a, is a huge part of it. Um, but you know, I do think the outsiders that, that, that are looking in and they're like, man, this fitness thing seems like a big commitment. They're right. It is a big commitment. But you don't have to start out with hours and hours of training. You could start out with doing 10 minutes each day until you get used to it more. And then over time, you might be able to make more time for something. used to it more and then over time you might be able to make more time for something but that's been joel green's kind of whole mission is to communicate with people that

he doesn't feel like you need to spend hours in the gym and and i would agree and i think that uh it's easy to kind of think of it that way but if you if you are to another thing that will allow you to not train nearly as much is just to eat better. If you can change your habits and eat less, then there's less time you got to work on trying to work some of those calories off. I think some people, they enjoy food a lot, and so they lift. And the two go together pretty nicely. Like I like to overeat. I like to eat like a pretty big meal. And if it wasn't for lifting, then I'd probably be pretty fat because I like that feeling of not totally like busting and like going to die, but I like to fill up pretty good.

I like to bust. Has there been a – Are you totally impaired? You're like laying on the ground. You're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. laying on the ground you're like oh my god oh my god do you i feel like i can clearly remember a time of my life my early 20s when like i still loved eat i still loved like lifting but i definitely lifted to eat like it was like i was like this is gonna be a good workout but the

big thing i was thinking about was just the disgustingly huge meal i'd be eating food afterwards yeah and then the ben and jerry's pint right i had my pop-tart post the other day you can pull that up on my instagram eating that oh yeah between the sets that was a good one that was in great shape then yeah it's a peak mark bell just round yo dog you're so fucking round just round big ass round face it fucking stuffed two fingers in between like your cheek fat. This is the way you fell in love with me though. These fluffier weights. Why is there no sound? The audio

is the best part. Let me restart it. Let's see. Where'd it go? You can't miss it. Alright. Wait, let's see here. Where'd it go? You can't miss it. All right.

Let's see here. Boom. Got to keep the glucose levels elevated during training. That's why I eat Pop-Tarts in between my sets. Get me in an anabolic state. And also keep me out of a catabolic state. What flavor is that Pop-Tart? Is it brown sugar?

I think so. Yeah, I think so. It's got to be. Brown sugar is the best. S'mores was also pretty decent. What's funny is at the time, I didn't really eat Pop-Tarts that often, but I ate a lot of other junk.

Well, it was why you were eating something. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, I don't know what happened. I just got fat. That's what everybody always says. I'm not sure what happened. Do you think, okay, you didn't eat Pop-Tarts. Did you choose the Pop-Tart because maybe at the time, you know, IFYM was going crazy?

I think, yeah. Everybody's like, Pop-Tarts. Yeah, it was like 13 years ago or something. So, yeah, it was kind of falling in line with some of that. Good. Pat Project family, we love beef on this podcast. We talk about it a lot. All right?

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like what do you think are some actionable things that someone can do um and maybe do so with a reasonable amount of time and just a amount of money that's not overly expensive. I think the biggest thing, cause like the overarching theme is like micro dosing stuff. So whatever areas that you tend to spend most of your time, those areas may be being some at home. And if you're able some at work, keep things around that you can get yourself moving on. You mentioned a slant board.

There's like, you could get yourself a step. You mentioned a slant board. Um, there's, there's like, you could get yourself a step thing on Amazon. You can get yourself a little kettlebell to keep somewhere. Fuck. You could get yourself a cheap bamboo stick or the, you know, the stick thing we have from stick mobility in the gym. So you can just, just things, keep those things in your area. So you can build the habit of just moving more because one thing that all of us do is our workout or the times that we move isn't only in the gym. It's all day long because we always have stuff in our close vicinity. And the thing is, is that you're most likely to take action on something if it's there, if it's visual, if you can see it. But if it's your workout stuff's hidden away in another room

that you never go to you're not going to touch it so that's one thing punching bag you know like you might be able to get like a used punching bag for a really inexpensive price um you might be able to get some like a used uh i see like assault bikes people are always selling those kind of bikes and i mean i've heard people tell me before they've gotten those things for, like, $40, $50. That's unbelievable. And there's something that you can get to right away. Yeah. I was going to say, like, the treadmill that turns into, like, the clothes hanger.

That's, like, the meme. Like, everybody's, like, they get the treadmill, but all it does is just hold the clothes. It just sits there. Yeah. Not too exciting, but it's like a habit stack. But just eating – I mean, after you eat, going for a 10-minute walk because it's going to develop the habit of walking itself. But like the benefits you get after eating – what's that? That medication, metformin?

Yeah. They compared a study with metformin versus a 10-minute walk after your food, and it was comparable. Right. So it's like, okay, imagine having the power or the benefits of a medication that's going to help you digest this food, but you get it naturally. And on top of that, you might potentially be getting some sun and you're getting some steps in. And, you know, we just had Tom Walters on talking about how good he feels

after getting steps in, and when he doesn't, he kind of just feels a little bit, you know, like his back's a little bit tighter. So, again, like you kind of get like a two-for-one there. You're going to get the benefits of the digestion plus the benefits of getting extra steps. I also want to say I want to echo that same thing. Whenever I feel a little something in my lower back or whatever, I can typically like link it back to, okay, go walk for a while. Because when I walk

for a while and then I come back home, Oh, I'm fucking, I feel good. So like, this isn't, I find it. So I was thinking of going to the doctor when something hurts. Right. Right. Yeah. And I just find that I was just so stupid in my early twenties. Cause I really just underestimated the power of walking where it's like, is you have to like you should it shouldn't be that should be something that you 100 do every single day get some good walks in some myofascial release simple easy get a lacrosse ball go on uh check out the stuff from uh jill miller um yoga yoga tune up right get the get those balls grab her book. Not everything has to be like so exercise heavy. If you haven't really done much in a while and you get down on the ground and you start just

trying to practice some myofascial release, you'd probably be kind of sweating after you do it for a few minutes. You got to position your body very particular ways and probably burn more calories than you might think in just doing something that easy. I think the last thing I'll finish with is just like, I think it's important for people to understand you're not always going to win. It's not going to always feel like you're winning. Like walking is not, walking is not so much work and it doesn't do so much. And there's also, um, there's really nothing physically that you can do in a particular day that's going to really make a significant change maybe if you're super lean and you go on a run you get dehydrated you look different after you run but with with that exception aside

there's not going to be something you're going to do and you're going to look in the mirror the next day or even sometimes handfuls of days later where it's having some real significant change it's going to take weeks it's going to take months and sometimes it's going to be really frustrating sometimes you're going to say to yourself like man i was doing better like three months ago i think but whatever position you're in that's the position that you're in. You know, in football, there was a Bill Parcells. He said, you are what your record is. You know, like, that's it. You can't say it's because we fumbled. You can't say it's because our quarterback hurts or is hurt. You know, you're five and five and that's your fucking record. Like, that's just the way it is. So at the moment, you might not be what you want to be. You might not be in the position that you

want to be in, but you can get there. And if you start to microdose these habits into your life, you start doing five pushups every morning, every afternoon, and every time at dinner. Maybe those five pushups turn into 10. Maybe they turn into 20. Maybe they turn into 30. Maybe you do 100 pushups every single day. And over time, people are going to be like, hey, man, what are you doing? Like you look different.

But it's going to take time. It's going to take – unfortunately, it just takes a lot of time. And so it's important that you stick to the things that are going to move the needle for you and stick to the things that are going to make you better. Strength is never weakness. Weakness is never strength. Catch you guys later. Bye.