Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 359 - No Rona Talk

Episode Date: April 3, 2020

Today the crew is going to try to take your mind of the coronavirus by talking about some things we do in our everyday lives. When do we prefer to train? Are we side sleepers? What is Nsima's lotion routine? Answers to this and much more like, Mark and Andrew admitting they never wash their face! Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Support us by visiting our sponsors! ➢Perfect Keto: http://perfectketo.com/power25 Use Code "POWERPROJECT" for 25% off and free shipping on orders of $99! ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $99 ➢Icon Meals: http://iconmeals.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" for 10% off ➢Sling Shot: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell ➢Mark Bell's Daily Workouts, Nutrition and More: https://www.markbell.com/ Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/ Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz

Power Project crew, what's going down? Hope you guys are having an awesome day. Today we're doing things a little bit different. Well, not necessarily different, just different than the things have been going. We basically all kind of just got tired of talking about COVID-19, coronavirus and whatnot. So we kind of just wanted to just like shoot from the hip,

go off the script a little bit and just talk about like our everyday nuances. Like, you know, like how do we like literally how do we sleep like left side right side back side front side uh all of that good stuff uh we find out that enzima has quite the um regimented uh lotioning lubing up routine um again we talk about like certain cultures have to do that. Others don't. And, you know, Mark and I basically call them a weenie and just said like, Hey, yeah, we don't actually ever wash our face nor put lotion on or do any of that stuff.

Uh, we talked about just like our schedules, like when we like to lift, when we, you know, would rather, uh, do, you know, when we would rather lift compared to like when we wouldn't, um, you know, a lot of, compared to like when we wouldn't um you know a lot of a lot of basic stuff like that but and then we eventually do fall into start uh talking about the virus and how it's affecting a lot of people but we think this is going to be an awesome break from the everyday uh you know virus talk and whatnot and i've already said it way too many times so i'm going to shut up and just move on uh real quick. Uh, if you guys haven't already taken advantage, please, please, please head over to markbalslingshot.com. Uh, right now everyone's gym is shut down. So what do you got to do? You got your home workouts to go ahead and

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universe telling you something that's what it wants to be everybody knows you're full of shit i almost spit coffee all over the mic that was that was close hey man i'd love it if greg duchette made a video on me i don't think i'm that big yet though but i want i want a greg duchette video a natty or not video from that guy it'd be an honor was he natural no uh no he's not but like he's open about it you know he doesn't like he knows everyone knows he does and he's open about what he does but uh he made one recently yeah he made recently one uh one on lane norton which was pretty cool he's a smart guy that's interesting interesting all right i'm ready to go if you guys are yeah we're ready to go all right well we were just uh i was just trying to see if there's like

shit i can make. You know, I'm, I'm looking at making, you know, stuff for like home exercise and stuff like that. But, I was also checking in to see like if I can make like masks and stuff, but I don't know anything about masks. So, in asking about it, it sounds like we can, sounds like we can make some. So I'm going to find out about that a little bit more later on and, you know, hopefully we can sounds like we can make some so i'm gonna find out about that a little bit more later on and you know hopefully we can assist or help in some way i'm not sure what way that would be or if it will even happen but why not try right wow that'd be that'd be

awesome um i don't know if it's well you guys already know you can make it but i don't know if it's of any help there's a company that i actually just bought some masks on i don't know if you saw i posted it their origin usa the ones that make my gi um but yeah they re like they changed one or two of their plants to only making masks so they have like a i guess a template i don't know how that works but yeah yeah i think rogue fitness also posted um Everyone should check out Rogue Fitness' post. They posted, like, you can go and, like, download, like, a template, and they're asking for people to help, anybody that manufactures stuff. And I thought that was pretty cool.

But yesterday we were just – I was just thinking it would be kind of neat to just talk about, like, rather than talk about the coronavirus, which is everywhere. It's super important for everyone to understand and know the information that's going on. But we wanted to kind of take your minds off of it for today. And we wanted to just talk about our favorite topic, which is ourselves. And I just decided, hey, like, let's maybe talk about like weird stuff, like little quirks you have. How do you sleep? You sleep on your back, your side, your stomach. For me, I sleep almost always pretty normally

on my left side. And if I need to get to sleep, if I'm having restless sleep for some reason, or just having a hard time getting to bed, I have lay face down it kind of calms me down somehow but then trying to figure out how to breathe in that situation is always weird you're always wishing that you had like a like chiropractic table to put your face in so you can just be completely face down but that's how I sleep how about you guys what do you do with your your hands though when you're face down my hands are usually like one is like up or one is like or they're like kind of both towards the side i actually have a pillow that's kind of perfect and i can just like prop my forehead up and i can i don't have to really turn my head too much to one side of the

other so uh that doesn't bug me too much yeah but if both hands are over your head you wake up and both arms are asleep and you're screwed i actually like hurt my shoulder that way before i try i think i like rolled over in the middle of the night and like fucking jujitsu myself yeah pretty bad mine's pretty complicated and i use, let's see, let me, let me count them up. Uh, one pillow for my knees, uh, one pillow for like my chest, because if I, so I, I, I start on my back and so I have to have a pillow under my knees. Cause if, if not, I wake up the next day and my right knee is just like done for like, it feels terrible. Um, but what ends up happening is I'll roll over to my left side. Every,

this is how every, every night it's the same thing. Start on my back, roll to my left. And so I have the pillow for my knees, a pillow for my torso, I guess, because if I don't have a pillow,

my right arm falls completely asleep. It has to be propped up. So I have one on the knees, one on the torso. and then of course my regular pillow but then i have another pillow because i put my arm under my pillow and i have another one that props up my left hand i have a i have a question uh-oh where in the fuck is your wife during all this she's yeah she's she's next to me. But what usually happens... Those are some Stephanie blockers right there.

Well, there's the ultimate... She can't get near you, bro. There's the ultimate cock block, which is one or three dogs that sleep between us. Every single night, one of them will just burrow through and it sucks.

Dogs and pillows. Yeah, so I have the final pillow to prop up my left hand because if not, that hand will fall asleep or just my wrist will wake up in so much pain if I don't do that. And then no matter what, I still wake up on my right side. And when I sleep too much on my right side, it really jacks up my back. So there's a bit of a process. I sleep with a lot of pillows as well. I think I have at least three. I sometimes have one between my knees and I have one that I'm like holding onto and then one for my giant head. Yeah, I got four.

I used to put one in between my knees, but I haven't done that in so long. I mean, like I sleep on my left side too. I don't sleep on my i mean like i sleep on my left side too i don't sleep on my right side i sleep on my left side but uh yeah i just usually put maybe a pillow underneath my arm oh nice coffee cup manager is that how many poops did you take this morning by the way uh just two just two oh yeah i took like i took like it's not oh oh yeah i I'm having a great day. Yeah, it's been a great day so far. But yeah. And then, oh, one thing that really works well for me, especially if I'm not going to fall asleep, is I'll take these two fingers and this isn't going anywhere weird. Whoa. I'll take my two fingers.

I'll put them on my knee and I'll just rhythmically tap like back and forth. And then slowly what will start to happen is like, I'll just slowly drift off into sleep and my hand will go still. But I think I watched a video on that or something. And it was like, if you do that, something happens with your brain and makes it easier to fall asleep. And it works it might be a little bit like counting you know some people say count sheep or something like that right yeah yeah so yeah no i don't stick got your mind occupied on something else yes that makes sense because like i would i would uh shake my foot

quite a bit like i do it like pretty much all day long anyways but i will i will shake my foot like back and forth but what ends up happening is stephanie will get seasick because it like shakes the whole bed and she's like can you please stop so i i stopped that that habit but yeah that that puts me to sleep right away let me ask you this real quick uh have you guys ever woken up um and like done like yes where your whole body just just saying you can't control it i've done that a few times and i've just like kicked my girl super hard just like my whole body goes like everything everyone my legs flail no wonder why she's telling people that you hit her. Because he does. Yeah, I've had a bunch of shit like that happen in the middle.

Like, I don't know if I'm, like, lifting or, like, what I'm doing. Bench pressing or something. Like, whoa. I had somebody do it on a flight, and they spilled, like, they had a thing of water with them. And just every drop of their water spilled right into my lap. Oh. And they were, like, they were so upset by it. And I was like, Hey,

it's like, just happens to me all the time. Like I do the same thing. You intentionally dump water on me. I don't think, right. You know, then we started laughing about it. But yeah, it was like, the water just like went right in my crotch too. I was like, Oh, this is super comfortable to be soaking wet, you know, on this flight. Yeah. Back in my day when I was drinking alcohol, if I drank beer, I would just pass out. But if I drank hard liquor, I basically dreamt that I got in a fight every single time and I would just be kicking and punching in my sleep no matter what.

But only with hard liquor. I don't know what that was all about it was weird wow you know i'm so curious what drunk andrew was like like like i'm i just can't picture it you know what i mean i'm doing my best and i i can't imagine it because you're such a chill just like lax dude i can't imagine you getting just like wasted uh yeah i don't i don't know about wasted. I don't think anybody can say anything real positive about being wasted. But like a couple drinks in,

oddly similar to like you take in like a couple Mind Bullet capsules and then a Mind Bullet potion. Very similar to that. Like I'm just like a very fun-loving positive guy. But like all the inhibitions are completely gone so like uh i would be way more charismatic i'd be a lot funnier that's for damn sure uh and so that's why it was really hard for me to like say goodbye to alcohol because i'm like oh how am i gonna be like the the fun guy that i used to be like what's's going to happen now? And so I'm still me, but I'm just way

more chill. That's for damn sure. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It takes, uh, it takes a lot to, um, to like not participate, you know, in, in stuff that's going on when it's going on in front of you. Like an easy thing is just to not go at all you know you just don't go out at all you just don't go to your friend's house anymore those things are kind of easy to do but it takes someone tougher i think it's a good mindset it's a good way to look at it if you're trying to build your mindset to be stronger that um it for someone to have a sober mind all the time, it takes someone that has some courage because not everyone is willing to do that all the time.

And it's not easy. You go to a party, you go to a dinner, you go here or there. And I think that people don't even understand or realize how high everyone is all the time on something, whether it's kratom or marijuana or alcohol. It could be just about anything, but people are getting lit up usually, you know, to kind of ease some of that social anxiety. And you wouldn't even think that you would have that necessarily because you would think, oh, I'm going to hang out with my friends or my family. I'm going to have a good time. Yeah. But a lot of people feel like it's almost like their identity,

identity, right? Like it sucks. But one thing you said, and we've said it a couple of times on the podcast, but I think it's, it's huge and it needs to be repeated is, uh, you know, just if you are the only sober one in the room, like it's, nobody's going to care what you say or do anyways, cause they're all hammered. So you kind of get, you get a free pass to kind of mess with everybody at that point. And for someone like me, man, if I had learned that a long time ago, I would have stopped drinking, you know, even sooner. But, um, I think that's great because yeah, you kind of like, uh, you're, you're walking around walking around like uh what's it called uh i can't

think of the word but basically you get like a free play a free pass to like kind of i don't know trick people into like investing in your company and stuff since they're hammered you know you say that but i've honestly found that being around a lot of drag drunk people when sober is one of the most like infuriating things for me like it just i because like you you you do then see how how many stupid things people do and then if some of these people are really close to you you kind of just get frustrated with them and you just it's just yeah yeah i don't like it i don't like it at all yeah there's a there's an old saying it says uh uh don't observe that they drink too much but observe that observe that they drink a lot

meaning like they just drink a lot but you're not passing any judgment on them and that's a hard thing to do that's actually really tough because they could be acting like what you think is a total idiot but it's hard to put yourself in somebody else's shoes like you know why they're drinking you know or why they're doing what they're doing um it's uh you just don't have any idea on why someone's doing it they might it might not be a deep it might not be like a deep-rooted sad horrific thing that happened in their They might, it might not be a deep, it might not be like a deep rooted, sad horrific thing that happened in their childhood or something. It might just be that they just want to, they just love to let loose. You know, it could be as simple as that.

But I think that most of us, if we're to really think about it, it probably is some deep rooted thing that is probably somewhat problematic because they feel that, and i'm guilty of this with with steroids i'm guilty of this with uh kratom or or caffeine or you know i can look to anything and and and think of that it's trying to solve a problem for me right um but why can't i just solve i should just solve the problem myself you know i should i shouldn't necessarily need anything i think we can all probably agree that you know relying on stuff too much to take you to another place probably isn't a good idea like i think all of

us are probably open-minded to like mushrooms and some things psychedelics and they're kind of cool but if you got to do them all the time now maybe you're just turning into kind of an idiot yeah yeah um real quick deep so we were just talking about sleep um i don't know what's going on lately but i've been like essentially ruining sheets because i am sweating like Like I've never, like, I mean, my most difficult workout, cardio session, whatever you want to call it, I sweat whatever amount. This is like multiplied by 100. I don't know what's happening now, but it's pretty consistent.

Like we literally like I saw like the sheet that just came out of the washer and it looks pretty bad. I don't know what's going on. Nothing's really changed, but I'm just curious. Has that ever happened to you guys? It's gross, dude.

Yeah, it's real bad. Are you peeing? Are you peeing the bed? I dude, uh, two nights ago I had to like check because the sheet that I had on me, like, you know, like when you had on me like you know like when

you guys have like you're like sweating and you take your shirt off and it just goes like smack like it's just gross so i if that happened but to my leg on the bed and i'm like oh shit i i peed myself like there's no way but like crotch area was good but everything else just drenched in sweat no clue what's happening and i haven't had anything like that i mean other than maybe if it was really hot out or something like that have you been doing like since you know quarantine have you like been doing a little bit less working out than usual or has everything been the same since you can still trade if anything since every like the quarantine and everything started, I'm actually working out more.

I don't know. Stephanie was just telling me that oftentimes that'll happen in deep REM sleep. I think because I am gassed at the end of the day that I'm probably hitting that a little bit quicker and a little bit longer than normal.

Maybe that has something to do with it. I didn't work out yesterday and last night there was no sweat. So maybe there's some correlation between the two. So we'll see what happens tonight. We shall. Yeah, no, I've,

that's happened to me a few times, but it's been a long time since I've sweat a lot when I've been sleeping. Like there, there was a period where like for a week I would drench my sheets like every single day it was just it smelled horrible too didn't smell like pee because i didn't pee well we don't know maybe i did but it wasn't it wasn't the greatest i had to wash the sheets every single day so yeah i don't know man that's tough so then after uh you wake up, what's your morning routine? Um, you know, every morning is a little different for me.

I don't always do the same exact stuff, but usually it's, I kind of check to kind of see where everybody's at. Sometimes my wife has gone swimming. Um, I think she goes swimming in the morning. Oh, no. Anyway, I never really thought about it. She goes a lot wherever she's going. She comes back super happy.

Anyway. I usually kind of check in and kind of see where the kids are at, what they're doing. You know, normally they're asleep because it's still pretty early um and then um i usually just kind of like see what i have to do work-wise especially with these uh you know 100 day in a row uh this vlog thing that i've been doing um sometimes i might have to finish off the editing of a video, stuff like that. And then usually I'll just like take a shower and then I usually do coffee afterwards. I've kind of learned that if I take coffee or drink coffee in the morning, like as soon as I wake up and I'm still kind of a zombie, it doesn't really do anything for me.

that it doesn't really do anything for me. So a while back when I stopped drinking coffee, I started to kind of evaluate like, hey, can I just, even if I don't remove coffee from my life forever, are there spots where I can just get rid of it? And that was one of them. I was like, I don't really need it when I first wake up because I never noticed that it even does anything.

And it's like after I take a shower and after I'm kind of ready for the day it feels more productive to have the coffee then it actually feels like it works like a nootropic because i did sleep long enough and now it's uh kind of giving me like a bonus push rather than like oh i need this to like wake up because i'm groggy or whatever. How about like supplements or anything that you can't miss? I take some supplements in the morning. If I'm going to eat, if I don't eat anything, the only thing I might take is kratom.

And that's kind of the same thing as the coffee. It's like if I feel like unless I have a use for it, I just don't take it, you know? So if I'm, if we're going to podcast or something like that, I love having it before we podcast. Um, if I'm going to like do something, you know, um, that requires, you know, some mental capacity of me like thinking or something, um, or I want to just, you know, have a little trip while I'm walking, then, uh, then I'll I want to just, you know, have a little trip while I'm walking, then, uh, then I'll utilize it for that, you know, and it, and it feels good to do that.

But I'm also a, um, I like showering in the morning more so than I do at night, but I tend to do both fairly often. How about you guys? I'm so happy you said that. I'm so happy you said you shower at both morning and night. I can't wake up. I mean, I can. I've done it before where I've taken a shower at night and I just go the day or whatever. But I feel like I somehow got dirty from sleeping, which I don't understand. But you do lose water weight when you sleep. You do sweat, even if you don't feel, even if your bed's not wet from you sweating, you do lose water weight when you sleep. You do sweat, even if you don't feel, even if your bed's not wet from you sweating, you do perspire. And it just doesn't feel right, especially in the summertime. It feels really gross to me. I just don't feel good doing that.

So I don't like in the summertime, in Sacramento, you are forced to take multiple showers a day. are forced to take multiple showers a day. Pause. I got to ask you both real quick. Uh, what do you guys shower? Do you guys use like a washcloth or a loofah or are you one of those people who puts soap on your hands and wipes it around your body? I'm just curious. No, no judgment at all. I think, I think like, uh, you have to use a loofah, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely a loofah, I think. Yeah, definitely a loofah. I think those things work pretty good.

Like, you know, a washcloth can be effective. I know some people just grab like a bar of soap and they're just like, you know, they use an old school like bar of soap, you know. Whatever way you can get clean, I don't think it really matters too much. But for anybody that's of my age they know where the luffa uh kind of came from they know who popularized it and that's uh craig ironhead hayward a football player he was a 270 or 200 yeah about 270 pound running back running backs it's really rare for running back to be over 225, maybe the top end 230 pounds, besides a Jerome Bettis, right? But Craig Ironhead Hayward was a monster. His son played in the NFL too for the Pittsburgh

Steelers. He played for the University of Pittsburgh and then played for the Saints for a long time. And this guy used to just, he used to run people over like you never seen like he was like a like a runaway train or something man that no one could stop this guy so anyway they made a commercial uh i think it was and i think it was like some sort of soap commercial and he's like pretending like take a shower or something he's got this like little scrubby thing and at that, no men use this scrubby thing. You can look up the commercial. We should put it at the end of this video. It's a legendary. I think from a marketing perspective, it's one of those things that changed every household,

maybe without anybody even noticing it or recognizing it, especially younger people. noticing it or recognizing especially younger people but craig ironhead haywards is big strong 270 pound nfl running back and here he is using this kind of you know some people might kind of consider like a girly product like girls kind of use that the guys they use the washcloth they just use a bar of soap or whatever and uh the commercial in the commercial he uses like this high-pitched voice and he's like hey ironhead what's up with that thingy and he waves the thingy like this in the air he waves the loofah in the air like that and he's like it's called a loofah and like i don't care i'm gonna use it anyway he like scrubs his body with or whatever at least that's how i remember i don't i don't remember exactly how the commercial went down but i remember seeing that

i'm like that thing's cool i'm gonna use that like rather than thinking hey that thing's for chicks uh you know so craig ironhead hayward is the guy that uh popularized the show that imagine if he was able to monetize that how much money he would have made yeah i remember i don't know if it was that one or if it was uh one similar but i remember it was a football player it might have been like lt or somebody but they called it a lather thingy and i was always curious like what the hell is this lather thingy that they're talking about and then eventually yeah alufa showed up and i'm definitely a lufa guy because i i can't imagine like for me also the longevity of the soap like okay if you're gonna use body wash

uh if you're gonna do one pump and try to like rub that on your body like it's gonna be gone pretty quick but if you put it on the loofah that shit's good for a couple days even okay not a couple days but it lasts long enough it too like it falls out of your hands and a big old splatter of soap goes on the ground like shit like that didn't like because sometimes you know if you're at a hotel or something maybe you don't have the same setup and you go to try to use the body soap and it just goes everywhere it doesn't get on your body all that well you're like shit yeah so in in ohio over the when we were there i was just like man this sucks like i just like dump like a handful, sorry about my dogs, handful of, you know, body wash. And I'm just like trying to like, man, I'm, I'm wasting a lot because yeah, I would fall down on the ground and I'm just like, this sucks. And then also

like if you're washing a car, do you just like pour soap on it and then rinse it off? Or do you like scrub it? You give it a good rub down right so with what you gotta get in there yeah with the with the loofah you can actually like scrub off some of the grime that you built up throughout the whole day and if you're not yeah if you're not if you're not using something to you know kind of polish everything off i i don't know how you can really still clean after that yeah and the ladies will love it too i've women notice when you use a loofah versus like either just being a savage and putting soap on your hands or on a washcloth when my lady saw my loofahs bruh that that like brought me up put close to over the edge but the next thing was when

she noticed my lotion the different types of lotion I use now, now for, for, for people of my, you know, complexion. And I always mentioned this whenever I go into the gym, well, you know, sometimes I'm a little bit ashy elbows, knees, hands. But one thing I noticed is like Mark, Andrew, do you guys use lotion? Like I'd hope you do, but let, let, let's, let's go about this. Do you guys use lotion? Because I want to have a discussion with you. This is serious. Yeah, I don't ever use lotion. I don't use, I'm not a chapstick guy either. I never use anything like that.

But it's kind of funny because chicks sort of dig it. And I think guys think it's girly. But yeah, I don't put anything extra on my body other than like i wash myself and if i remember i put deodorant on that's about it i don't even really put deodorant on that i don't i found that like i mean maybe you guys disagree but i found that i just don't i don't need it that much uh oddly from a guy named smelly right but that was because when i was a kid i didn't like to take showers, but, um, yeah,

no, no lotion, no lube, nothing. Yeah. And it's funny. I remember when, uh,

I first started working with, you know, with you guys, um, that was when you were, I think you were going for the 600 pound bench. I just remember you were, you're a bigger guy,

bigger guy. And I remember being like, man, he doesn't smell at all. Like a bigger dude. Like that's, I wonder what kind of deodorant he uses um but yeah no weird these are weird feelings i have for somebody andrew well i mean because i think it's valid like you know you walk by somebody who doesn't smell good you're like fuck whatever deodorant that

guy's using does not work but you walk by mark and he didn't smell bad like just like and he's in the middle of a training session you know he's turning purple and he didn't smell bad like just like and he's in the middle of a training session you know he's turning purple and he doesn't smell like that's really sometimes you can we get pretty close to each other and sometimes you can smell each other's nuts it's not great i mean true okay i'm gonna let the deodorant thing slide mark because like for some reason i i do i do notice you don't you really don't smell like I podcast next to you all the time and I've never noticed you smelling. But myself, if I don't wear deodorant, it's like an immediate thing. So I have to wear deodorant.

It's an emergency. It's a fact. Yeah. Yeah. Same here. I have an extra deodorant like behind my desk pretty much at work because I don't want to be that guy. All right. And Seema, let's play this game for a second

tomorrow andrew and i turn african-american what do we need you know what kind of lotions do we need what do we need to arm ourselves with so we don't get ashy like let's just rewind because what's going to happen is is this like i'm already going to buy you guys some lotion like and this is like when when we see each other next i'm going to have a body lotion i'm going to buy you guys some lotion. And this is like, when we see each other next, I'm going to have a body lotion. I'm going to have a face lotion for both of you. And I'm not joking. For some reason, you guys think that you don't need to moisturize because you don't see the ashiness.

You don't see when the in-between your thumb and your finger gets kind of dry. You don't see it because everything's the same color. But let me tell you all this. Okay. And, and for, for everyone listening, if you use lotion, you know how they say that black don't crack how like we age better. Right. Right. That may be partially true, but another reason why we may age a little bit slower is because we moisturize our skin. Our, our, our skin is supple. It's moisturized. It doesn't wrinkle. You're going to getinkle you're gonna get you're gonna get shot you're not supposed to release that you're not supposed to release that information

dude oh man communities like what second guys my headphones came out why why do you give why do you give away that secret what the hell yeah that's proprietary information that you can't share with everybody. That's how Biggie and Tupac went down, too. They rapped about it. Oh, man. Yo, but seriously, I bet you Andy uses lotion. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. You see, women already know. But you guys, if you use some lotion, I guarantee in the next five years, you'll look younger than you look right now. Because your face will be moisturized. Everything will be nice and supple. My wife's convinced that I'm gross and that I'm a savage. So maybe you're right. If I start utilizing that stuff, maybe she'll be like, oh, look at trying to turn over a new leaf.

He's trying to be civilized. Yeah. leave he's trying to he's trying to be civilized yeah steph will always like have lotion and chapstick ready for me but i i've never i don't i hate the feeling of it period like i do not like and then everybody always says no you got to try this lotion this does not leave like your hands filmy or whatever it does i could just touch the bottle and i will feel that for the rest of the day so i have to go run and wash my hands it drives me insane because you're going to do that then touch your phone then touch your keyboard and it's just like going to leave fingerprints literally everywhere i cannot do it um definitely do deodorant and you might love this one i actually never wash my face either yeah i don't want to wash mine either i know

people always find that to be like uh horrifying but i mean i wash my face in the shower but yeah that's about it and i don't think i don't like care about a difference between uh like soaps or whatever like facial soap and regular soap you know i just wash with whatever and it will feel dry i mean you can feel it like especially if you use like ivory soap or something that'll that'll make your face feel like it's gonna you know fucking shatter into pieces or whatever yeah i said the only time i actually like wash my face is really just like to wash like my my mustache because if like i have the smell of food stuck in it or something that's that's a for

sure that has to go but like yeah even in the shower I just kind of use the runoff from like the shampoo whatever like cheap brand it is and just kind of like that's that's about it yeah and that's been like that forever like when I used to work on cars I'd get sweaty in the summer and then like oil dropping all over my face. And I just like get a rag, rub it off and good to go. I'm so disappointed in the both of you. To be perfectly honest, I am so disappointed.

Oh my God. I would say that probably most men don't wash their face. I would say that that's probably, I don't know. We'd have to ask a lot of people. Maybe the people that listen to this can comment to us on the YouTube channel. I guarantee that a lot of our Asian listeners and black listeners definitely wash their faces. I can't say for yours, Andrew, and definitely Mark, I know a lot of your people need lotion.

And that's just the honest truth. A lot of your guys need to use lotion. Yeah, my people, we just put Vicks everywhere. That's about it. Vicks? Yeah, Vicks. Vicks Vapor Rub. Vapor Rub. It cures everything.

Yeah, that's the only kind of anything we're going to rub on ourselves. Oh, my God. All right. We need to have that. Well, it's definitely a cultural thing because if you're in the grocery store, there's kind of like an African-American section for different razors, for things for bumps on their skin and stuff. And you told us about that before where a lot of times your hair is going to be curlier.

And so when you shave, your skin might get more irritated and stuff, but yeah, it's definitely like, you don't really see, you don't really hear or see men talking about it as much, but it is a common thread. It's one of those funny things.

It's a common thread amongst men that are good looking, good looking guys. Probably, you know probably, like Mike O'Hearn is watching his fucking face, right? But I think it's sort of a cultural thing. What comes first? Does the guy get a set of abs first, or did he start surfing first? Did he start beach volleyball first, or did he start surfing first did he start beach volleyball first or did he start you know working out first to have abs in the first place probably like it's probably

the guy was always in shape and when he went to play beach volleyball or went to surf it was an addition to what he had going on already same thing i think with this it's like uh you're leaning into some strengths that you have and you're keeping yourself pristine. Yeah. I'd imagine Aaron Marino does not leave the house without lotioning up. Yeah, of course not.

And he's going to be lubed up. Yeah. You know what? Michael Hearn, everyone's like, Oh, he spent so much money on lipo, blah,

blah, blah. You know what I bet is the only difference between everybody else and Michael Hearn. He uses lotion. That's probably the only difference. He just uses some lotion on his face. Yeah. It's actually really, it's an interesting topic because I think, I kind of think that all that stuff is bullshit. There's billions and billions of dollars in that industry. I remember when my wife and I first moved in together i was like i just want to fucking wash

i just want to take a shower and i don't know what the fuck to use because i don't use i never use shampoo even if i have hair i just use the body wash right because i don't have that much hair anyway i don't care how my hair feels or how my hair like works or whatever because i don't comb it and so i'm like i just want to fucking wash my body off but what is this cell volumizing conditioner like i've never used conditioner in my life there's conditioner there's like a shampoo i'm like what is what how do i just get myself clean? This one, and then, you know, they have these different smells and everything. And, yeah, I'm just like, what the hell? Like, can you just point me in the direction? Is there a bar of soap or something somewhere?

Or which thing should I use? I'm like, what the hell is going on with this? Yeah, I always actively seek out, like, the 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner or even the 3-in-1, which is everything. And you just have one bottle that you need to go you guys use shampoo no actually i use a beard wash but on your head what do you use on your head to be the beard wash you just use that on your head no i use facial soap oh i got it i have anything So anything from the neck above. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense because the skin on your face is way different than the skin everywhere else.

No, no. Let's let's let's talk about this. Let's talk about this. The skin on your face is more sensitive than the skin on your body. You'll notice. OK, so if you were a lotion user, which I am, which I need to get both of you guys to be. When you use like normal lotion, like, for example, this. Can't see it.

There we go. Noir for men from Bed Bath and Body Works, right? If you use that on your face, like for myself, I would break out. Like I'd have a pimple here and here and here because it's too thick. But it's perfect to clog your pores everywhere else. I don't get pimples on my body. And yeah, I guess it is perfect for everywhere else. This is nonsensical. It's not nonsense. I've used body lotion on my face before and like clockwork, I break out. So it's the truth. But then you use some facial lotion, which is a little bit thinner. It doesn't clog up as much.

Use that on your face. Boom. Just moisturize, nice, supple. You know, very, you know, it's good. Andrew, we've got to try it for eight weeks. If they don't look like Ensema after eight weeks, then we can tell them it's trash. Your wives are about to thank me. I'm going to get you guys a whole setup.

I don't know because, well, now that has me concerned because I'm thinking, like, right now there's nothing on the face, no pimples, and then I don't know because, well, now that has me concerned because I'm thinking, like, right now, like, there's nothing on the face, no pimples, and then I don't do anything for it. So, if I start putting lotion and cleaning things up, will that now, like, drop some of the, like, the quality of the skin of the face because now I'm leaning on… I would say that a lot of people that I know that fuck with their face are always dealing with pimples. fuck with their face are always dealing with pimples. And I see a lot of women, you know, use a lot of makeup often, especially nowadays women put on a lot more makeup than they used to when I was a kid.

But I see a lot of people struggling and they have to wash their face all the time. I don't think they're like, where did, where did, where did this come from? Where did the, this facial washing stuff come from probably came from makeup in the first place to wash your makeup off. And how long have people been washing their face for with these special? I mean, there's just no, there's absolutely no way that you would need to even wash your face in any sort of natural setting. Let me tell you. With anything in particular that I could think of.

I agree with you with part of with anything in particular that i could think of i agree with you with with part of what you're saying people do wash their faces too rigorously like there's there's like little um there's bacteria that's actually good for your skin so i don't think that you need to be using like like just washing your body super hard with like crazy amounts of soap every single day this is a whole science seriously you need to have some days where you don't use as much soap because soap does kill bacteria but like i said your skin does have good bacteria so you don't want to like mess it up too much right so there are some days where i'll use a little bit of soap if i have we need a dermatologist

we do we need to finally Yeah. That would be awesome. That's actually really cool. I'll try to find somebody. Yo, but on the makeup kick, let's talk about this real quick. Just a little bit. How do y'all feel about that? When a woman, we don't need to talk about your wives or girlfriends, my girlfriend. But how do you feel about makeup nowadays?

Just curious. Yeah, I just, women, women wear a lot. I think I personally, you know, everyone has their own taste, right? So to each their own, but like, personally, I think that makeup is great. And it, and it's, it should be like a special effect in a movie, like where you shouldn't, you shouldn't be like, Oh my God, you see that special special effect the special effect should just enhance what happened and i think the same thing with where you're kind of like i don't even really know like if she's got makeup on she just looks pretty she looks like she just enhanced her features you know um that's what i would say but like with instagram and with people constantly taking pictures and being in videos,

they want to always look their best, which is totally understandable. And so, uh, you see people with it just completely caked on from what I, from what I see. That's it's, it's not a, it's not an attraction for me, but it's not for me to determine. It's, it's, uh, what makes them feel good. So if it makes them feel good, then fucking go for it. But I think they wear too much personally. Man, I think that was extremely well said because I'm kind of on the same wavelength. I don't have an issue with it whatsoever. It is weird when you see a photo of somebody and it looks fairly natural,

but then you see the person with what would be about the same you know amount of makeup in person and it's like holy shit what is that like it it looks it's just you know it's like when you see somebody with a lot of like uh plastic surgery on surgery on their face and you're just like something's a little bit off there um but i'm pretty terrible at it and this is good and bad but like my fiance will either have makeup on or no makeup on and i can't really tell the difference um so it's good it is i feel like it's good but then it's like when she does take the time to put on the makeup and stuff and i'm just like oh yeah like you did the same thing yesterday like

whatever you know it comes out that i i I didn't, I couldn't tell. And it's like, oh shit, did, did that, or was that a positive or negative? So, so I'm not sure. Yeah.

Girls can like make everything kind of match too, which is, which is cool. You know, like they can have their shoes and their purse and their, and then something about their makeup kind of match other things. And, you know, like I think stuff like that is great like especially if they're going to get like

more dressed up um but i think if you're putting it on because it makes you feel good that's amazing like if it makes you feel better but if you feel like you have to put it on i think that kind of stinks to be honest with you yeah it's a feel like you have to put it on every time you go out to feel good about the way you look like that would be rough. That, that, that, that is rough.

That is rough. And it's like, like you were saying, man, when someone looks like a different human being, because I've seen, I've seen people that don't look the same. Like they just like look like a different person when they have it on.

And when they take it off, it's just like, Hmm, are you sure you want to go that far like all the time all the time because then it's like taking off a mask you go home you take off your mask and then who is this person you know i wish it didn't exist when did you start wearing makeup oh when i was six yeah yeah you know i could tell some days you got a little bit more on than others yeah yeah i i always use foundation because the skin needs to be uniform not too much so it doesn't clog the pores and i don't break out um i use a little bit of eyeliner sometimes not enough where you'll notice but a little bit to make a dramatic effect so that

looks you know i look a little bit dark and mysterious i think people are writing this down right now always make sure men always make sure to fill in the eyebrows because it does bring out the features of your eyebrow ridge helps a lot and then i always have vaseline obviously to make my lips more supple and plump necessary absolutely necessary how do you know this what do you mean how do i know this is just what I do on a daily basis? I'm not even going to tell you if I'm joking or not. You'll have to determine that for yourself. You never know. I thought you were natty.

What about when it comes to lifting? Do you guys like to have a set time? Like I'm going to work out kind of between, you know, nine and 10 every day or, or, or you guys okay with just kind of w between you know nine and ten every day or or are you guys uh okay with just kind of winging it and say i think i'm gonna work out at this time i i personally like um i don't like lifting too late like like in the evening the only way i could actually lift well in the evening is is honestly if i lift with somebody else like if i live with my girl or something but like when it gets to six or seven p.m i don't like lifting i like lifting earlier in the day um maybe around like two or even in the morning time

anytime before like 5 p.m i like to get it in i don't know why that is it just feels better for me yeah same here like if i lift too late it like excites me too much yeah i definitely i'm a i'm a morning person now with working out i wasn't definitely was not always like that but i came out of necessity and then also like it's just like you guys like well for me i'm i'm kind of gassed at the end of the day, like of my work day. And I'm just not too fired up the way I used to be. Cause I, I used to train with the team like, uh, for a little while. And, um, so that, that would be like, you know, around three 30, but I just now I, I just, I can't get the same intensity that I do in the morning. So I definitely like to schedule my, yeah, try my best to schedule my days around making sure I get in bed early enough to wake up early enough.

So, anywhere from 5 to 6 is when I like to start the workout. And then anytime I work out and it's after 7 o'clock, I'm kind of like, ah, shit, I really got to start wrapping things up because the workday is going to start pretty soon here. Something I really do like to do though in the morning, and you don't have to like use, if you want to do this, I'd say try it out. But I like to do like a little bit of kettlebell work in the morning. Like after I get up, maybe 15 or 20 minutes, it could be something that's like a short five minute thing or a 10 minute thing just to like get the blood flowing and then get sweat going. And then I'll take a shower because that feels really, really good. It's not like a, I don't even call that really a workout. It just really gets the blood going. And then I feel just really excited for the day after I've been doing that. I've just been feeling awesome. You know, think

people listening to this, you know, please don't think, always think about your workouts as being this big thing, this big production. I like what you just said right there, and I have the opportunity to do that. I know Andrew has a home gym set up as well. And it's like if we really wanted to, right when you wake up, you could just walk into the gym and you could say, I'm just going to do kind of like one thing. It could just be like maybe you're shot. You just don't feel great, and you just go on the treadmill for five minutes as you're looking at your IG or whatever. It doesn't always have to be a crazy strenuous thing, but just imagine if you do have some dumbbells at

your house or some weights at your house, a bike, an elliptical, whatever it is. If you just went in there for 10 minutes and just said, I'm just going to do this one thing for 10 minutes. And almost like you said, you don't even really count it as a workout. It's like we're doing with the squats, just like we're doing with the 10 minute walks. These are massive lifestyle changes that can really impact you immensely for the rest of your life. I know with Andrew, the big shift was the bodybuilding stuff. The big shift was you and I worked out a lot together. And I've done this with a lot of people. I've worked out with a lot of people.

And then, you know, you just get disconnected sometimes. Like it's not always super convenient to always meet up all the time to work out together. You have your life. I got mine. And when that's happened in the past with some people, they have completely fallen off and i don't hear from them i don't like not only you know not only are they not only do i not hear from them as much um when i do you know start to talk to them again i find out they're not exercising at all you know and i'm like shit man like we we spent all that time training together i never meant for you to just completely fall off or to need me for motivation or inspiration every single time forever.

And so what you did, Andrew, is awesome. I'm super proud of you. Because when I text you sometimes, I'm like, hey, I'm going to train legs later today. You're like, I already did it, already trained. And I'm like, shit, but I'm super excited that you got it done. So I'm like, already trained. And I'm like, shit, but I'm super excited that you got it done. So I'm like, that's awesome. Because now you learned, like for me, I just know like I'm going to get my workout in. And it doesn't matter. I'm going to end up at the gym at some point and I'm going to lift. I end up at the office all the time. And so I just know that it's going to happen. And I don't care if there's other stuff in front of it or behind it or whatever. I just make it, I just make it work, but that's my schedule. Your schedule is,

is much different than mine. So I think, you know, people need to, whatever, whatever way they're able to get it done. I don't need a lot of motivation or inspiration. Um, I just, uh, make sure that I don't overdo it. And I make sure that when I do train, that the training is simple enough to where it can be repeatable. I think that's the key. Whatever you're trying to do, have it be simple enough to where you know for a fact that it's like, you're like, that's cake, man. That's fucking easy. Kidding me? Go in there and do two different movements for shoulders and do four sets of each thing that's easy that'll be easy workout i'm gonna do that at 10 o'clock and then you write

it down and get that shit um schedule it out but yeah i think it's great what you've been able to do andrew it's awesome oh thanks for saying that man i really appreciate it um yeah no i i definitely would be lying if i said i didn't miss the, uh, some of the early morning workouts, not necessarily all of them, but some of them, but like, yeah, but like today, you know, I, I did, I did a lot of back work and I initially wanted to go in just to do a, uh, like a markbell.com workout, which is free for 30 days right now. Uh, real quick plug. Um, yeah, check it out. Yeah. Check it out. Body weight workouts for everybody that's training at home, slingshot, hip circle workouts, again, markwell.com free 30 days. Uh, so I initially was going to go in and just do something from there, but then,

and I kind of looked around, I'm like, I'm going to do something different. And I just took a bunch of the workouts that we have done in the past and started doing like circuits, you know, to keep moving. Cause I'm like, ah, okay. I'm here at the gym, but I'm going to go home and work. I don't have that much time here. So I'm going to do circuits of everything. And I was doing like, you know, inverted rows. I did, uh, you know, I was milking the cow. I was doing all kinds of stuff. Tempo stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, man. We told you, you grab the, uh, the udders, the udders, and then you just pull them down into you and you, you know, flex your lats.

It's one of the best workouts ever. It's the thing with the pulley on it that we have in the gym, the, uh, the accessory hand, uh, handle that has a cone shaped things. And then we sometimes we'll go back and forth with the hands.

That's why we call it milk. Okay. I got you. Yeah. Cause if you let go of one and you can get like a really awesome stretch on the lat, oh, it feels so good. So yeah, milk in the cow, inverted rows, all kinds of fun stuff. And it was funny, like actually literally on the way to the gym, I'm like, dude, I don't

know what I'm going to do today. And I'm like, everything's pretty sore. I did legs. I did chest. I'm just like going through it all. And I'm like, oh, wait, I haven't really messed with my back too much this week. Like that's what I'm going to do. And then like, I, again, like I said, I pulled up the, um, the app and I'm just like, now I'm going to do my own thing today. But I essentially basically did exactly what,

you know, Mark would have told me to do anyways. So that was a lot of fun. But yeah, like I said, the motivation right now is because, you know, the gym is closed, but I just happen to work there. So if I sneak my way into the gym, nobody knows about it. You know, I can take advantage of it where a lot of people would right now would be killing to try to have that opportunity. So that's been really motivating lately. Yeah. Andrew, if you didn andrew if you didn't if you didn't like know how to work out like let's say it was a few years ago and you just like you just knew a lot less would you have to write it down or would you have to have a plan like spelled out for you to make sure that you get it done because i'm just trying to

you know walk people through like you through what it might be like for them if they're newer in their fitness journey and they don't really know, like, oh, I'm going to do four sets of this and three sets of that. If they feel like they're really confused about what to work, when, what split do I do, what do I train on this day, and all those things, would it be more helpful to you you think if if you were um you know in that boat of being like newer to have it something kind of spelled out for you like programming like in sema does or something like that uh yeah and so like for me early on

writing stuff down um that's only going to work for you if writing stuff down works for you um like i i'm pretty bad at taking notes. I usually don't learn that way. I learned through like listening or like you said, having somebody tell me step by step what to do. Um, so yeah, for someone like me having like in SEMA, tell me like, Hey, you're going to want to do this, this, and this for this many reps and this many sets. Um, as much guidance as possible actually would help even more because if it's like, okay, do this, you know, do X, Y, Z and, uh, do this weight, see how that feels. Was that too easy or was that too hard? Okay. It was too easy. Now try

it with this weight and then go from there. So having it laid out to where like, okay, any, you know, like you should be smart enough to understand what I'm talking about here. Uh, you cannot mess this up. Like that's early on. That's what I needed. Now I can kind of have a little bit of leeway where it's like, oh shit, like, okay, I didn't rest at all yesterday. So instead of grabbing the 25s, I'm going to grab the 15s to do these thrusters. I just lied. I would never do 25s. I just wanted to sound cool. But you know what I mean? Like the stuff like that, that because I do have experience now, I know that I can grab a lighter weight. Early on, I would have been like, nope, the plan says I need to do the 20s. So I have to do do that and then i'd have a bad workout or i'd get

hurt and then i'd be so like upset at myself so yeah i definitely haven't at all spelled out for me is good but also knowing like you also got to listen to your body is really really important andrew i'm also i'm curious about this for yourself man like because i think right now is is a stage where everybody is trying to build up the motivation to do something and to exercise and to work out. How do you feel that building this habit has changed you as a person? How do you feel now? Different. Oh, I'm a totally different person. They say once motivation is gone, you just fall back into your habits.

Well, my habits are just, they've kind of been this way for a couple years now, but just working my ass off. So as work productivity would go up, my fitness would go down the opposite direction. So at least having that staple has helped me a lot because also what normally would happen to somebody is like the fitness would go down, like the training exercise. And so with a diet, my diet has been on point. You know, I had a bowl of cereal last night, but you know, like that's like the first thing I've had in a really long time that was not considered like on plan or whatever. So the disciplines that

I've been able to obtain through training have definitely fell over and spilled over into the rest of my life. Starting, you know, or sticking to the diet has been like the, probably the only thing that's really kept me close to being where I should be. You know, I don't think I'm too far away from, you know, getting back into photo shoot readiness. But again, like I did lose motivation. It was hard for me to wake up in the morning. But some of those disciplines still stuck around. And one of them was the diet.

And the other one was also still just being, you know, a hardworking person. So the podcast, everything, nothing faltered. Like nothing was lacking anywhere else except for me. Just like, like, come on, man, like just get to the gym and you'll be fine. And then once I just would show up, I would have a great workout. I would feel better. And then everything started falling back into place. Like, oh, oh shit. It's like seven 30 and I'm really tired. So it's time to get ready for bed. Whereas previously it would be like, oh, it's seven 30. Okay. We'll watch one more episode of tiger King or something, you know, which is an amazing show. Uh, watch tiger King. Yeah, dude, it's really good. So yeah. And then of course, you know, the confidence like Mark talked

about on a previous podcast about me speaking at the, uh, the meathead millionaire summit where I normally would have, you know, probably passed out and pooped myself. Being able to stand up and speak my mind, which definitely wouldn't have happened if I wasn't in my opinion in good shape. I now have a little bit more confidence

in that area. Cool. Yeah, it's hard for people to get momentum. think uh a lot of times we just we bite off more than we can chew and um when you when you do that you end up being fatigued you end up being kind of tired and it's kind of hard to you know prep for the next day um how meticulous are you guys with like do you how meticulous are you guys with like scheduling do you schedule a lot of stuff or um like do you write down that you have like for for you and sema a lot of it's got to be internal you know motivation you got to be self-motivated because you're writing programs

for people like is there like a window for that is there a window for that? Is there a window for your eating? Is there a window of time for kind of all the different activities? I know that things are different now because you don't have like jujitsu and stuff, but what is that? What was that looking like? Yeah. So like for myself, I noticed that when I, if I try to like really do deep work, something, something I'd really need to think deep about in the early mornings doesn't work well for me. I work really well when it starts getting towards the afternoon, like 11 a.m. to like 3 or 4 p.m. My mind just works really well at that point. So that's when I try to get most of my work done within that window of time. So if we're like podcasting on a certain day, then I get back and I can just try and work during that time. Not that I don't work later. It's just, I know this is when my mind just works best.

And that's just like coming from working at different points in time. Like I just work really well in the afternoon. And then I don't really, I guess, schedule things much just because I know the times I'm typically going to be doing certain types of work. But one thing that I do is like when I am working, I like try to use this thing right here. It's like this little, there we go. It's like a Pomodoro thing. I don't know if you guys have ever heard about it, but like what I'll do is like, I'll set it, I'll work for 30 minutes. I'll take a break for five minutes. I'll work for 30 more minutes and take a break or whatever. for 30 minutes. I'll take a break for five minutes. I'll work for 30 more minutes and take a break or whatever. But yeah, everything for me, typically things work at the same time. So unless I have to be on a call or whatever, those things are scheduled when I have client calls and all

that type of stuff. But around that time, I already know the times I'm going to be getting stuff done. And if I didn't know the times I was going to be getting stuff done, I'd probably schedule a little bit more on the money. I do think that would help me out though. Like if I were to pick up that habit of scheduling everything more meticulously, I think it would help me out. And that's something I'm going to do. But right now, I just kind of know when things need to get done. Yeah, I think it would help me a lot too. I'm just not, uh, I don't practice it. You know, I don't practice it that much. I kind of just have, you know, kind of vague ideas of like, Hey, this is going to happen around this time. It's going

to happen. I'm like, uh, I'm like the cable guy, you know, like I'm going to show up between nine and 12, you know, but which means 1230. But, uh, you know, I think everybody like um some people say they're not organized or some people say they're not uh you know they don't like scheduling stuff or but it really i think having something uniform to follow would probably assist everybody you know just but again i like what andrew said too about like writing it down Like if you're not used to writing stuff down, that's not normally how you operate, then you're probably not going to even look at it. So it's probably not going to, it may not be that useful or that helpful.

But I think whatever the case is, I do think it's a good idea to think about what you want your days to look like. And, um, you know, especially in these times, I think it's great to map out a schedule. Like if you like to read, you can say, I'm going to read between this time and this time. I'm going to eat between this time and this time. It doesn't have to be rigorous. You don't have to beat yourself up if you don't follow it super specifically. But I think it's a great thing to do.

You know, you pop in your, you know, hey, I want to walk around this time. I want to get outside, get some sunlight. Cause a lot of times if it's not scheduled, I know, you know, nowadays with our calendar and just with how many different things are going on at the business at one time, if it's not in the calendar, it's likely not going to happen. And so at this stage, I probably personally need to be more organized and probably help, um, everything else move along a little faster, a little bit better. Cause, uh, people don't know where the fuck I am or what I'm doing or what I'm doing all

the time. Yeah. And you need to know. Yeah. And then also like, uh, so I, I've tried a habit tracker. I've tried a, uh, uh, I can't even, uh, it's like basically, uh,

what is it called? Uh, the, the, uh, the, the habit book, what was it called?

It's just, I guess called the habit tracker. I don't know. It was just a bigger, more fancier one. Um, I would get super motivated, that big old,

yeah, Brendan Burchard. And we'll figure it out. Um, it was really, really cool because it laid everything out for you, but I'd get motivated and I'd fill out like one page and I'm like, fuck that. That took me like an hour and that's just for one day. Like, I'm not going to be able to do that tomorrow. And

then it's like, it wants you to do like the day, the week, the month, the year. And I'm like, man, this is so cool. Fuck. I'm never never gonna fill this out though so like i did like one page and like that was it so yeah i i couldn't keep up with that because i was like man i'm spending more time planning my day than doing my day so that's why that didn't work out for me and then also like what you're saying mark like if it's not in the calendar it's not gonna happen but also like if i have something in mind if i don't put it on the calendar something else will take its place so and sema you um you you uh you and your girlfriend live together right uh something breaks around the uh around the around the place who fixes it like even just

like a light a light bulb goes out or something like that, who gets on a chair or gets on a ladder and fixes it. That's me. Why? I'm curious. Are you handy at all? Can you fix stuff, fix stuff, or no? No. I'm not that way either.

You said light bulb. Simple fix. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When it comes to… What about a… Because this happened the other day and i wanted to bring it up um the smoke detector never ever starts chirping in the daytime change the batteries right okay now what happens when you change the battery you can never figure out which one it's

which one it is there's that but when you change the battery and it's still chirping oh then you're you're fucked thank you but why check youtube i don't know so that's what i did because i'm like why why the like this never happens during the daytime of course right when i'm finally getting into bed chirp like oh no this one right here it's pretty high up and i like we didn't have anything to get to it yeah we didn't have like a ladder or anything to get to it and it was We didn't have like a ladder or anything to get to it. And it was, I stayed here for a few days by myself and I just let it go the whole time.

I just, I wore headphones and then Andy came up and my kids came up and was like, how did you deal with that at all? Cause they like just put a bunch of furniture together and stack stuff up. And then they, they changed it. I'm like, I don't give a fuck.

I don't, I'm not, I'm not going to try to like, you know, balance, you know, on these weird chairs and stuff and try to try to change it. So it was funny, but my wife, you know, she does a lot of that stuff and like when it comes to anything like mowing the lawn or any of that shit, my, you know, my son mows the lawn. Like I'm just super like, Hey, I'm lazy, and B, I never really learned how to fix much of anything,

which I realize that most people are just kind of winging it or YouTubing it, especially nowadays. But I'm pretty useless around the house. I'm lucky. Everyone's lucky if I take out the garbage. I don't wash plates. I don't load the dishwasher. I don't load the dishwasher. I don't unload the dishwasher. I barely know where shit goes when I've had to unload the dishwasher.

I'm like, wow, this is really bad. Where the fuck do these cups go? I don't do a lot of that stuff. How about you guys? Oh, man. As far as dishes and stuff, I'll wash dishes. You know what surprised me i know okay maybe you might be in the same boat mark i know people who don't know how to do laundry do you know how to do laundry yeah i do know how to do laundry thank you i'm so happy for

you because legit i know i know adult dudes that like they're like oh dude yeah i don't know how to really do not very good at folding but i yeah but i can figure it out half halfway figured out like i do the simple stuff she handles like a lot of like deep cleaning stuff i'll help with that but like she is very particular about certain things um but a good way of putting it without getting in trouble very particular yeah there's there are just ways things that things should go that I just don't tend to care that much. She's like, why'd you do it that way? And you're like, I don't know. Am I in trouble? Shit. But yo, on that smoke detector kick, it was a few years ago when I was living on my own. And the smoke detector, it just went out. I noticed it, but then I was just like, every single day, I'd just be like, F it, F it, F it. And then after time, I just,

you get used to it, and you don't even realize that it's beeping anymore. So, people would come over, and they'd be like, dude, what's that annoying sound? Like, wait, what are you talking about? I don't hear what you're talking about. Legit, I couldn't hear it anymore, because I was just so used to it going off that's crazy yeah when ours started going off in my head my first thought was like i'm gonna sleep through it but she definitely wouldn't be able to sleep through it so i'm like luckily it was a low one so i just needed a step stool and yeah i just got up there changed the battery still chirping so i'm like you mother so i just yanked it out unplugged it and so we got to get a new one but who cooks uh i cook for myself and sometimes for her

in terms of like if she wants some meat um i'll eat her food sometimes but like i i just i eat a lot of meat man a lot of meat and eggs so yeah it's kind of interesting yeah you always feel pretty awesome when you cook a gigantic meal and then you have to let everyone know like oh that's just for me sorry she thinks my steak is too bland i'm gonna make her some steak tonight but i need to like figure out what fancy marinade i'm gonna put it in because like she won't just eat a steak with some salt like it's just not tasty to her you know what i mean so now like i'm gonna go online after we do this and i'm gonna try and find some marinade i can put the piedmontese in to make it you know whatever i don't care i just want some salt in my steak and

i'm good yeah definitely but yeah we both cook She can cook her face off. I'm getting better. It's mutual. But the thing that sucks, though, is if she cooks, that means I'm going to usually wash the dishes. I hate that part because it takes me way too long. Yeah, it just sucks. I grew up washing the dishes. I mean, so did I, but I just suck. the dishes so i mean so did i but i just suck dishes thing is is interesting because if it's left to me like when when i have had to wash dishes which is which has happened uh i'm ashamed to admit but it has happened before i actually just wash them i don't put them in the dishwasher dishwasher i know it's supposed to make things easier but i think it makes things way harder i think like if you just clean shit like as you make stuff dirty uh it's done but then it's kind of weird because it's got to like rest on your counter or somewhere it's got to like you know it's got to be somewhere to like

dry off or whatever that's the kind of the complicated part of it but letting dishes like pile up and put them in the dishwasher until the dishwasher is full. And then like unload the whole thing seems like a huge extra step that makes everything way slower. But that's just the way my mind can't comprehend the dishwasher. There's nothing embarrassing about that. Dude, no, I've always wondered why do people wait for things to get so for things to pile up so much and then put it in the dishwasher? Why not eat wash eat wash

it's so simple i like you could you could have one plate exactly it's it's uh yeah that minimalist life yeah i when i live when i lived with my brother i used to have i had i had a plate i had a fork i had a spoon and a knife because he was just a man. And I had a cup and I kept them all in a separate cabinet and I washed them and cleaned them. And, you know, I clean whatever we would use together, like the pan or whatever. And then like every once in a while, I seem like reaching for my plate. I'm like, nope, stay the fuck away from my plate. He's got, you you know a bunch of plates

piled up in the uh in the sink or whatever yeah i've been uh as i cook i will clean so like whatever it is you know pan full of eggs like okay eggs on the plate it's gonna sit there for a second anyways wash that you know whatever the next thing is wash as i cook and yeah we we have a dishwasher we don't use it they say that it saves water by using it but i think that's bullshit because that thing goes nuts for like i don't know how long but we do loud it's loud too yeah so we we just use it as a drying rack right that makes sense that actually makes a lot of sense i should but how i i'm just confused how the heck does a dishwasher save water it was just a commercial i had seen uh i don't remember no it was like a hulu commercial that's what it was being lied to andrew i know that's well it was my like i mean i had skeptical hippo

eyes right away i'm just like what are you talking about like that whole box gets full of water like there's no way like there's just no way and then you got to wash it before you wash it like nope no thanks not gonna do it twice i think that this quarantine is going to test a lot of people it's going to test relationships because oh people don't realize how much they hate each other oh no you're forced to stay in the house with this person every day i'm gonna see you wiggle your goddamn foot one more time i'm gonna chop it off well we're pretty we're lucky because we worked together for i think it was two or three maybe

even three years uh remotely from home so we've been we were at one point around each other like non-stop and it was totally fine um so now like working from home again it's like hey it's like the good old days so we're lucky we're already accustomed to it but yeah there's there's other people like i've been seeing the memes about like people pulling their hair out because they're with their significant other or like even with their kids like oh my god i'm just like wow like man like the the uh the partner i can kind of get it like it is you know kind of funny but then i'm like whoa like do you not like your kids like you're the one that raised people hate being around their kids yeah but you're the one that like made them who they are like it's not their fault so those those are pretty funny

oh my god it's hilarious yeah i so those those are pretty funny oh my god it's hilarious yeah i was at the grocery store maybe like a week ago or something and i you know they asked me they're like oh how you doing i said i'm doing great i said i love uh have my kids at home i said i'm going home to kick it with them right now we're gonna eat some food we're gonna watch some movies and stuff you're like you are the only person that said that everyone else has been like i don't know what to do with my kids yeah same thing with like the quarantine stuff like uh the self-isolation i told you guys recently i'm like it says something about me but man it's been awesome like just staying home my sister on the other hand she's just like i'm

getting anxiety just being home all the time she has four boys uh so maybe that's part of it but she's like i don't know what to do i'm like just go for a walk and she's like oh my god that helped i'm like yeah just you know you can still get outside like just right just breathe check out this rpr stuff yo real talk though uh a few days ago i had to do like a little mini dopamine fast because I was finding that I was going on IG way too long. I almost fell back into that habit of just like scrolling through Instagram too long. I was just like, nah, okay, put it away. Like I have on my whiteboard, no IG, YouTube or Facebook. Do not randomly pick it up for that. And what I noticed like this morning, I opened up my phone, uh,

and I typed into INS. I was like, Nope, you know, or yeah, like to get to Instagram, you can do a search feature. So I typed in INS when I was even, I wasn't even trying to go to Instagram. I was trying to go to Gmail, but my fingers wanted to go to Instagram. I was just like, Oh fuck. So, uh, yeah, it's, you gotta be careful with that, man. I imagine like a lot of, a lot of parents are putting their kids in front of iPads right now. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a weird, it's a weird time and no one knows what's right or wrong, you know? Like, um, but consuming too much, uh, information about like a death toll. I don't know how productive that is.

It is certainly scary out there and it's important to understand the magnitude of it all. But maybe just small doses of that just so you're informed. I think we know as much as we're going to know as much as we need to know. Now, I don't think there's any further information that nothing has changed. I mean, this virus is attacking a lot of people. Thousands of people are dying from it. And also, you know, I don't think anything, nothing has changed from what has changed is the fact that we're quarantined, you know, that's the main change but people do die I mean part of being a you know part of any

living thing is that you know it lives and then it dies at some point right I think that you know a couple months ago you know go back to Thanksgiving time or something like that you know before we were to Thanksgiving time or something like that, you know, before we were really aware of what was going on. I think maybe people were under the illusion that, you know, what they possessed was theirs forever. And now everyone just can know and understand that that's not true. Anything and everything you have can be taken away from you at any moment, including your own health, including your own health including your children including your significant other uh that is just the unfortunate way of life and

that has not changed that was the same beforehand you know so while it does suck and it can make you a little more anxious because you're like oh this whole shit is going to happen a lot faster than I ever anticipated. And that, I think, is the truth of it. But, you know, most of us get about 80 years to run through this thing. And a good majority of us don't. Some people die when they're 10. Some people die when they're 50. Some people die when they're 90.

10 some people die when they're 50 some people die when they're 90 um and so i i just think that it's while it's a shitty thing to have to go through i think it's a good practice and it's a good it's a there's not really a lot of good that comes from it but if there's any good that comes from it maybe it teaches people to slow the fuck down and to enjoy the moments that we have because as i said earlier they can and will be taken away from you at some point in your life. Yeah. And like this, this had me thinking a lot about like my, my mom and my grandma's mortality. And even my sister too, because my sister, like right now she's kind of sick. She's, she's not too healthy.

Right. And my mom's like 62 my grandma's like 98 and like grandma's lived grandma's lived a long life so like if she goes at some point okay but i i don't think about it that much but these days i've been thinking about that a lot more you know because it's it's it's it would be horrible if they ended up having this. Right. Yeah. It keeps, it's like,

uh, you know, every day you get, you get new news about it. But again, I don't know. I don't think it's, I don't think it's useful to continue to consume a shit ton of information that we don't really, it's not really confirming anything.

Like we already know people are getting it. We know that, uh, you know, America is kind of under siege for it and it's going to attack more cities and more States. Like we already have that knowledge. And so it's time to maybe stop allowing all that to keep smashing you in the face all day. Do you think they're going to take the lockdown a little bit more serious for everybody? Since it seems like,

I mean, I know from last week to this week, just being on like the freeways, uh, I can see a lot more traffic this week as opposed to last week. So I'm wondering if people are like, uh, okay,

this is serious. And then all of a sudden like, well, no one I know has contracted anything so i'm gonna i think so i think even if there was double the amount of deaths i still think that people would be going out i still think even if even if you tripled it i just think that uh it's kind of um the american condition we have a lot of freedoms We have a lot of freedoms. We have a lot of, you know, for China to be on lockdown is one thing, you know, cause who knows, who knows what, um, what history or what, uh, previous things have happened to people there

that haven't listened, haven't followed direction, haven't followed law. I don't know. I'm not sure of their practices and what they do and don't do, but I would assume that they fall in line pretty quick. You know, they're probably like, hey, like government said this and we're doing that. Boom. Like that's it. Unless, you know, unless you want to face the consequences of whatever that would be. But here, you know, it's different. You know, we have a lot of freedoms. And I think even if there was military on the street telling people not to do stuff, they would still do stuff. I don't think they would, like, fight and resist the military or police or anything. But, I mean, there would probably be a little bit of that.

But I think people would still be like, oh, that's probably cool if I go over. They're not talking to me. You know, that american way that's the american condition and when it comes to like you know somebody could say hey this is a total disaster i can't believe this is that way we need we need more low-income housing and like okay we're going to put that you know over here and then as soon as they want to put it over there, someone's like, not in my backyard. No, I didn't mean by me. We need more prisons. Oh, let's put one in Bodega Bay.

And then everyone is pissed. We need more recycling plants. Whatever it is, people have a fucking problem with it the second that it's an inconvenience to them. And so that's what we're seeing is people are being inconvenienced. People are – and losing your job is a horrific thing. But what I'm seeing is money is shifting from one spot to another. So while there's a lot of companies that may go under from this,'s also uh probably companies that will be born from

this and there will also be a lot of companies hiring i know you know amazon is one of them and there's there's a bunch more you can google it and youtube it and you'll find a lot of information on a lot of companies that are that are hiring if they can help everybody i don't know you know and the government's got some financial things that they're trying to employ, and maybe those things will be useful as well. But yeah, it's just kind of a condition of America where we never think it's going to be us.

Like, that ain't going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up with diabetes from eating cookies every day. That happened to my uncle, but that ain't happening to me. not gonna end up with diabetes from eating cookies every day that happened to my uncle but that ain't happening to me like why would that happen to me i'm i'm 35 i'm in good shape you know and then sure enough when you're 55 same thing happens and you're in a wheelchair or whatever right it's hard to take that third person point of view and like not just like look at things through someone else's perspective. It's very hard to do that. It's not a natural thing to do that. You know what I mean?

So trying to do that is it's, it's, it's difficult. It's really difficult. I think some of the people that are saying like, Hey, it's not about you. You know, it's about everyone else. Um, I kind of liked that message. Um, but I still don't know how to stop from like, I don't want to stay in my house. Like unless until somebody says like, I mean, I guess they have said it, you know, like, so I guess I'm just not listening. I'm still going to the gym. I'm still conducting myself as if nothing's going on and maybe it's irresponsible but i don't know if if if anyone um has clear enough facts about um what's truly going on or what's a super danger i mean it's been compared to other illnesses and other viruses and um yeah i don't it's it's just such a rough thing. I mean, I, I guess for me, I'd rather just

keep going on rather than to not do anything. And, uh, who the fuck knows what happens based off of that, you know? Dude, you know, I was thinking about this the other day and I think one of the reasons why we, we kind of look at this virus that way is because it just, it seems like a chill little virus like think about it okay you cough a little bit uh if you're older you're more susceptible it's like it just seems too chill but imagine if this was like a virus that had looked like ebola but did the same exact like killed the same exact amount of people i think everyone would be taking it more seriously.

You guys get what I'm saying? If it, if it was gorier and nastier, like Ebola looked more painful, but just killed the same amount of people. Everyone would be taking this more seriously. Like this thing, it's like if someone created this,

it was a genius virus to create. I'm just saying like it, it just, it, you don't think too much about it. Yeah. If, if when you contracted it yeah if you all of a sudden like broke out and hives and all kinds of shit like people would be they'd yeah they would definitely take it way more serious there have been other things that have killed people a lot faster and actually those things are they're kind of better because then you can't spread it. Like if, if you died in 24 hours from it, like it might not leave your city, you know, because, because people might say, fuck, like whatever that guy has, I don't want that. And they might literally be able to quarantine people.

where it's like, ah, we're not quite sure. They're starting to see it in younger people, though. And from my understanding, from what I'm hearing from some people in the medical profession, is that if you have it, like, it's really, really rough is what I'm hearing. So if you do, if you, you know, catch it or get the virus, then it seems like you're in a lot of trouble. But there's also, I think I saw a stat, and again, these are, who the hell knows? I don't even know if throwing these stats means anything,

but there's a large percentage, I'll just say that, there's a large percentage of people that are going to the hospital thinking they have that and have something different. They have like bronchitis or something like that. And I'm starting to hear, too, that there might even be a second version of it, which I know, which, yeah, that could be pretty shitty. And I'm starting to hear that they're starting to see it in some younger people. But I don't know why I still feel like the news is not giving us –

I still feel like they're not giving us – maybe they are. Maybe they're trying to give us the full story, and they just don't have it gathered yet but you know when i when i hear this they'll talk about oh a 19 year old kid died in los angeles from it then maybe like a couple days later i hear that that kid has been sick his entire life or something like you know and i don't know you know how do we i just don't know how do we know I have seen a few people interviewed on TV who have overcome the virus and they said, Hey, this is nothing to play with. Like this is serious.

And as one guy that I saw, he was like 38 years old, but I just haven't seen that much of that. Oh. And that guy, by the way, um, he, he, it's just speculatory. He didn't, he doesn't even really know if he actually had it the doctors just told him that he had it but he was already getting better and so when they tested him they didn't find any of the uh coronavirus but he had all the symptoms so it's like man i don't i don't know what to believe so therefore i'm gonna keep going to the gym and

hitting up some squats yeah honestly i feel like like you said, don't watch too much of this stuff, I think like right now it's, it's not a good idea to like be YouTubing and be watching the news for coronavirus news because the news, CNN, Fox news, all these channels, like they want to get views too. So what are they going to do? They're going to give you the craziest story, the wildest stats. They won't give you the whole story. Like there was a guy, you probably heard about the guy from Disney,

that he went to Disneyland, he got the coronavirus and he died. That's all you heard. But a few days later, you heard that he also like, he was immunocompromised. I think he just finished chemo treatment or something. If anyone was going to go from this, it was him because he was so compromised, but they don't tell you those things. So they're really flooding people with all of this stuff. Like I'm constantly getting messages on my phone from my mom with coronavirus news. I'm just like, yo, I know you want to pay attention to this, but don't have, don't,

don't watch all this stuff all the time. It can really mentally just mess people up. Yeah. And I i think you know where where we need to maybe try to shift our energy is to be thoughtful and start to think about how is there any possibility is there any way for me to assist or help in any way towards um you know um because the main the main issue is a lack of like medical supplies. The main issue is like, uh, they don't have enough help. So even if you're just a person of faith and you want to pray, you're going to pray for something. Those are the things you're going to want to pray for is that we have the stability and the strength to overcome the amount of people.

Cause I'm starting to hear some really horrific things from like New York City where they have brought in trucks, freezers, and that's where they're storing bodies because they don't have enough space in the hospital any longer for things like that. So that's, I think if people are going to have some energy towards anything, like rather than them, maybe rather than having a lot of anxiety and being super worried, which you don't have a lot of control you're going to be worried because people are dying right but if you could try to shift some positive energy towards thinking about those people and uh their families and the first responders that are there and anyone that's trying to help i mean even just if you can't help from a financial standpoint, if you can't help because you don't know how to make a mask, if you can't help because you just can't contribute in that way, maybe you can just

contribute in trying to be as positive as possible. And then maybe even if you are going to consume stuff, try to find some things that are a little bit more positive, that are more informative. I really like what Peter Itea is doing when he's sharing information. Those of you who don't know Peter Itea, he's not highly excitable. He's not yelling and he's not saying, this is what everyone has to do and this is what everyone should do. He's just presenting information and he's got a very calm and monotone voice. So I really like some of the stuff that he's putting out. But yeah, like I said, you know, if you could maybe shift your energy towards, you know, sending some good vibes and some, if you're spiritual,

send some prayers towards the areas that are being hit the hardest. Absolutely. One thing that I've been having a hard time with, because I do like going to the gym, feeling like a hypocrite telling my dad that he can't go outside. You can't go anywhere, dad. Yeah, you can't go anywhere. What would you do today?

Don't worry about what I'm doing. Do as I say, not as I do. It's hard and i know and i know a lot of at least you know i mean a lot of in the mexican culture like you you work hard and that's that's what you do so trying to tell my dad like don't go to work is really really hard but after i talked to or we talked to gabrielle lion i'm just like hey like guys this is serious just stay home like just just do it and it's funny uh she actually texted me this morning she's like so is everybody staying home and i'm like they're still not listening to me so i got i sent like a screenshot like hey your doctor just said you need to stay home and uh you know his answer is just like well i'm 100 by myself

when i'm at work so there's no you know no interaction with anybody and blah blah i'm like okay well that's cool but eventually you're gonna run out of gas so you're gonna have to go to the gas station and oh look at that oh my god i love that area that's a beautiful view geez yeah there ain't there ain't nobody out here well i mean it's always super quiet though anyways but man that looks amazing dude dega bay is always perfect is the family out there with you right now or are you the only one they're not here yet they're coming in a little bit i had to come up here to uh meet the gas man we had uh our gas like ran out or whatever so they had to fix that

yeah kind of reminds me of uh dumb and dumber i don't know if you guys remember the scene in dumb and dumber that's the first thing i thought about when you said gas man yeah again the gas man scene where it's like did you pay the gas bill gas man they well, he says, he says, how do they know I got gas? And he's taking those like antacids or whatever for his heartburn or whatever it is. These guys must be professionals. How do they know I got gas? I don't remember that scene. It's great.

We'll YouTube it. All right, man. I think we should bring this one in i'll um i'll see if uh i got a couple people that uh we might be able to get on a call my my buddy tony out in china he would be great because he's got just so much information um about like kind of what they've already been through and then they're working on you know recovering and and, I would love to know, you know, is there fear of it like spreading again or like, why is it okay to go back to work?

Like how come you wait 12 weeks and then everything's cool. Like what, what's the difference? So I don't know what that difference is. So I'd love to kind of hear it from him and maybe we can get some more, uh, useful knowledge out there. I'm excited for that. Hopefully we can do that soon. Shoot. Yep.

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it feels like you got a new pair ofminute squats. It feels like you've got a new pair of legs underneath you. It feels like you're utilizing somebody else's legs to move around. It felt really good. I've been doing them for a few days in a row now, and my knee has been kind of lighting up a little bit lately with some heavy squats. So it gives you something to do. Give it a try. I mean, you can be listening to music.

You could be on your phone gives you something to do. Give it a try. I mean, you can, you can be listening to music. You could be on your phone if you, if you want to. Um, but it's also good to kind of be mindful of what you're doing. I don't move around as good as it seem. It does. But what I've been doing is, um, is I've been shifting around a little bit when I'm doing the 10 minute squat. So I'll get down to that position and, uh, I will kind of roll onto my right side a little bit and let the

right heel and right Achilles tendon and calf stretch a lot. And then I'll kind of move back over to the left. And I try different, um, different foot positions. If you're not super fit and you're not used to that, and it feels like a lot of pressure, uh, you know, the good, the good rule of thumb from Kelly Sturette is that if it feels iffy, it's iffy, and you should abandon it and give yourself a little bit of rest. So just come up and kind of come up for air for 10, 15 seconds, shake your legs out and do it again. But I'm liking it so far. I haven't really noticed anything miraculous in just a few days, but I do notice that my knee is tender. I have kind of jumper's knee. I've had

that forever. My knee is tender right now. So I'm going to do the 10 minute squat. And when I'm done with it, the pain, I'm not going to say the pain completely goes away, but it definitely feels a lot better. So I wouldn't be doing it. It didn't make me feel better. So give that a shot. Make sure you're getting some sunlight. Let's try to be a little bit more positive, and let's try to start to figure out some ways that we can encourage people to stay fit and stay healthy the best they possibly can because we know that if you stay connected to your disciplines, you're going to be able to be stronger for any situation that you have to face.

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