Hello everyone. Alright arden. And this is 0fnasis, the podcast. Fans of everything, welcome.
Today I'm joined by my handsome boys co host Eric Zeke Knight with something a little different. This is the first episode in the series we are calling Bro Accountability. In it, Eric and I will be doing weekly fitness check ins with each other and recording our conversations. You'll be hearing five of these conversations now starting with our zero session so to speak at any of our last check in of January is an effort to take control of our health and fitness to help each other stay accountable and hopefully talk about a lot of related health and body image topics a month in.
It's been very helpful. I also think it's an interesting conversation to listen to. On to the discussion. All right, this is week one of the account bros name still pending.
Let's see if it gets better. It might. I mean how can I get better than that? It's already, already protect.
It's already golden. How can I get better than gold? It's true. Stay gold, bro.
This is me and Eric's health accountability podcast. Whatever you want to talk about that the why the mission statement, I think to help keep us accountable to each other throughout the year 2020 and maybe broach larger men's health questions probably as well. Does that sound, I mean I think it'll, it'll definitely come up and for anyone that chooses to witness and take the full gear challenge with us, it'll be on discussion. We'll be talking about diet, fitness, exercise, weight training, all kinds of important health related things.
Struggles and struggles, successes, challenges. Why are we doing this, Eric? I propose this. I pitched this at you.
Gosh, I forget when it was we saw each other last. I guess I thought of it before because the last time we were hanging out just before Christmas and I know for me it's been a very tough couple of years, but this year has been exceptionally bad. My health has been really bad and I've lost a lot of my athleticism and mobility and, and I'm having a challenge kind of finding the reserves to force myself to do things and it's better to not, it's better to not leave it up to willpower. It's better to have someone help you be accountable.
No, it's useful to have a friend to keep you honest frankly with yourself and with them. And I also have struggled in 2019, the past year to, to maintain a diet. I maintain a diet that is healthy, that not fall into traps, that I fall into my entire life basically. Right.
And also struggling Just with aging and not being as fit as I once was, and as fit I'd like to be, and I'd like to find a healthy medium somewhere. And this is as good a method as any to try and do that and explore that. And I think talking out with you would probably be helpful. Just it helps you realize things.
Not necessarily not to realize by yourself. And I think it can help us both. They say that one of the big things about why CrossFit works is not because there's some kind of magic to the dumber parts of what CrossFit is, the muscle confusion and all the dumb shit that they do, that you're in a community with a bunch of people that care about your eating habits and fitness and. And in general, as Americans, we don't have that.
I know when I was working out with my friend Peter Baker three and four times a week, it was a lot easier. I had him to help me be accountable. Right. And setting that up like it never was.
Like, oh, God, do I want to go work out with Pete? Do I not? It's just like, no, Pete's there. Like, I have to do this like that.
I don't know. I don't have to dig down to the reserves for that. Right. It's easy.
It's not relying wholesome willpower. It is in general pretty dumb to force your willpower because you have a limited amount, right. You're going to. And you know, whether it's the first thing you get up in the morning and you have to do it or you have to do it after work.
Yeah, it's tough to find that one way or the other. Particularly when it's like, oh, it's five o', clock, I gotta get up and get to the gym. So I can be. Work on time or be here on time or do whatever.
Like, I think most of us just roll over and go to sleep. It's just more human. Right. But I don't know.
Never had a problem when I was meeting Pete. And that's part of this, you know, part of my thought process. Right. And I think that's a solid enough basis.
We're gonna do this for a year. We're gonna meet weekly, we're gonna talk to each other about what we want, what we are doing, how we failed, how we succeeded over. Each week we're gonna compile those recordings with hopefully something listenable and put it out there. I think that's enough for the why, enough for the how.
Yeah, yeah, I have a pretty clear. And we can at Least in terms of the workouts and stuff. I would. I can share you information that I have.
Right. But I'm curious sort of what your plans were. I mean, I don't really have anything specific yet. I'm still, I mean, at least not for the diet.
I, I'm. I want. This is. What I want is achievable.
I don't know. What I want is to break out of eating habits that affect my entire life and eat reasonable sized meals three a day. Not, not in crazy calorie deficits, moderate calorie deficits paired along with, you know, simple workouts of riding a bike for cardio. And I've got the Ring Fit adventure game for the Switch and I'm trying that out.
I'm at. To start and see how that goes because I tried it one time already and it kicked my butt. So interesting. I'm going to see how that goes.
Pairing with just simple bike riding, cardio train. Make it so that my. And I got my bikes so I could get around the neighborhood really easily. But turns out I'm out of shape and it's not easy.
So I want to be able to do that. Biking is. It's easier than running, but it's hard. I mean, cardio is very important.
I would, I would suggest. I would suggest just doing some walking for cardio at least for a couple of weeks. You know, three to three or four miles I think is. It takes so long to walk, but it's really good for you.
It does. That's the, that is my main. It's like it just takes so long to walk. That's another reason that I specifically wanted to talk to you about this is we both have a tremendous amount of creative work and I'm probably going to be traveling a couple of times for art.
You know, you'll travel for vacation. We'll do all these things. So we have to. We have to figure out how we're gonna make it work and what we can do in these extreme circumstances.
Right. I mean, because the creative work can't really suffer, you know, part of it. And it's. That's.
I mean, also the bike writing is just. I like running. I know you hate it. I like the worst, man.
I like, like. It's batshit insane you just said that sentence. Well, the problem is I can't run anymore. My body can't handle it.
So I'm gonna try to ride my bike and see how like it goes in sets. Try and try and like biking like the way I like. I liked Running. I think you should.
I think you should ultimately set a goal to begin running again. You are not that old. I was older than you. I got in really very good shape.
No, man, Literally, I bought my back. I tried to get back and running. Okay. Literally my back will not let me run anymore.
And I'm sure you need to train and strengthen your back. I need to lose weight is the first step in that. So, yes, that is part of this. You can do all these things.
They're all harder. When my back hurts so much that I can't. When my back hurts so much that I can't sleep, running will not work. I understand.
You have to do what you can. Yes. And that's. Running makes my back hurt so much that I cannot sleep.
I get sciatica pain. So not. Not pleasant. I did something to it probably when I was weightlifting in high school.
Yeah. Yeah. Probably when it started. And I didn't.
I never. And I not getting back surgery. So losing weight is hopefully a way to ease the. Ease those symptoms.
So all the way back around the fitness and dieting, the dining part is really just like a small breakfast, reasonable lunch, reasonable dinner. I've never been able to maintain that ever in my entire life. So that's the goal. My strategy is different.
I want to try and keep a very similar intake as often as I can. Try and cook for myself more than I used to. I read Peter Baker's book. My friend Peter Baker read his book and thought he said a lot of interesting things in it.
Really sort of based on what I know from what he's presented to me, I want to try and eat maintenance calories. Eat maintenance calories every day when possible, because eating less can create problems in the future and try and increase my sort of daily activity for a calorie deficit. But also, I mean, I still need to be doing the things that make me stronger and increase my athleticism, you know, increasing my cardio. Probably doing some hiit training, probably walking, probably never running, because fuck running, maybe a little bit, but fuck running for the most part.
Mostly weight training, HIIT training. Maybe I will go back to the jiu jitsu gym. I have been missing it. It's been like a year and a half.
I've been off. Maybe it's been almost two years. I don't remember. It's been a while.
It's been quite some time. But those are like, weight loss is important to me, like, and muscle gain. But really this is. If I can just sort of work out my chest, back and arms for the sake of vanity and normalize my eating.
Like I wouldn't hate it. You know, I'm going to take gains in any direction. Um, this is really sort of about progressing and getting better, feeling better. Yeah.
Starting where I'm at. It's just, it's been, it's been tough. You know, breathing is more challenging. It's just, it's different because I was in 2016 and 20, early 2017, as fit as I've been in my adult life, and it's cratered and I don't think I'm so far gone.
Even earlier in 2019, I was lifting very well and doing pretty hard workouts. And I think I have a tendency to think I'm more decrepit than I am, but I want to train these things. I want to increase my athletic ability again and you know, those things. Calorie deficit through exercise and try and scale up the amount of times that I can go and work harder.
I think for the next couple of weeks I'll shoot for twice a week and from then on it's going to be three or four times. Yeah, that's a good. Yeah. I could plan to start probably for myself as well.
I want to do the, you know, I want to do the. I want to do biking, I want to do the ring fit adventure sessions as long as much as my body is willing. You know, I did one of the ring fit thing and it's like maybe 25 minute workout, but my legs are been murdering me for the past few days because I just haven't been using those muscles very much, you know, sitting and doing nothing. So this is what happens when you write four novels in a year.
Yeah, exactly. Your legs atrophy. But it's like being in space. I just want to.
Two to two a week is probably a reasonable goal. And you know, if I feel good enough to do more, then I will. But any more than that, I think is, you know, I think it's important to push yourself when you can because the goal has to be improvement whenever possible. And I, I find that I let myself off the hook.
That like Peter was very good at not just holding me accountable, but pushing me beyond limits that I didn't think I would like. I did things working out with Peter that a couple years ago I would have laughed at you if I don't. Stuff I have not been able to do since I was 17 years old. Right.
I don't know that we'll be able to get those kind of results out of each other, but you know, certainly we need to try what we can. Right. You don't intend to have any kind of weight training as part of your regimen then? Not to start, I wouldn't think that's fair.
I want to lean down first and then see where I'm at. Yeah. I'm not against weight training, but I think I initially just want to focus on lean muscle, if anything, and losing weight. And then once I'm at a place where I feel better, then maybe build the muscle back up.
Right. I think just getting your general activity limit up, your daily activity limit or daily activity up will help you feel better, lose some weight and probably help your back feel some better. Right? Yes.
All those things you explored using a roller on your back. I have. I mean it's really not, it's really just about resting it in stretch, stretching helps, but it's, you know, it's really just I, I've multiple times try to go back to running. It just makes it worse again.
And then I wait, I wait, I rest, I stretch once in a while and it makes me feel better and I feel better again. It's just that that is the impact of the running has high impact stuff on my feet. So it does. This does support my theory that running is terrible.
Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's not great. You could also try low impact things. I mean that's using a, using the elliptical.
Yes. The gym. Like Christopher Daniels, he does like the elliptical. The ring fit has a silent mode, which is basically instead of running, you just do squats.
You run in place in the game, but instead of you do. You do squats. And my legs are certainly feeling that. I mean, I think that's a reasonable one.
First week just, you know, trying to exercise twice. I think as a dieting, just maintain a moderate calorie. For me, that's, that's pretty much it. Just.
And, and, and, and try and reach consistency with that. Yeah, don't. I'm not gonna go crazy. I'm just gonna say try and find what, try and test the waters.
Find what works. I know in my experience it is better to do a moderate amount at first and scale up. Right. Particularly after so long way.
It's better to do less consistently than to do go hard a couple of times and then stop forever. Yeah. Which is what most people do with their exercise. Yes, I think that's about it.
Is there anything else you want to say before we cut it for the week? I don't think so. I mean I can go into more specifics about all of that. And I think that will be a part of this where we're talking off the record in terms of more specifics, which we might, depending on how we feel about, we might share.
We might not. But I will not. I mean, I probably should because I did not. I did not.
This is like we said about accountability. I did not go to the gym tonight, despite planning to. I don't know how I'm going to feel about going to the gym tomorrow morning after staying up and watching Wrestle Kingdom. You can always watch the whole gym.
Yeah, that's true. We're good. Well, only if it's a 24 hour gym. I mean, I would just wake up very early and avoid Twitter and then watch it on band.
Yeah, well, actually, don't they take like a couple hours to get ready? As long as you start watching it before it ends, yeah. You can start from the beginning. Interesting.
So I'll be up in time to start at the beginning. You will too, knowing how early you get up. It's been. It's been nice working at this new place.
I get up later now. Okay. But I think that's a good start. I think we can.
We can go into more details next time and we can discuss things, you know, off mic as old about how further we want to talk about whatever until next time. All right. This is bro accountability week One check in. We've.
It's technically like a little bit over a week, but whatever. We're not gonna. It's weak. Ish.
I don't think it's roughly seven days. What am I, a fucking scientist? Calendar ologist? What am I?
Calendar man. I'm the tick tock man. The long Halloween over here. It's true.
We had one week of our trying to be fit and eat well and exercise some. Eric, how you doing? How you feel? Terrible.
That's not good. Terrible's bad. I mean, I think I'm being more down on myself than I need to be, but probably, yes. It's only a week.
I mean, it's not been more or less. I'm just really upset at myself because one of the things about being a smart person is you shouldn't. You can rationalize anything to yourself. And I'm very, very good at rationalizing that.
I will have time other days or I will do this or I will do that. And I use all the time that I have to exercise. I use it to fucking goof off or whatever. But whether I need it or not, it's unclear.
But I'm very upset at myself. That I have not done more, but I have not done nothing. But I guess it's better than nothing. How has your week been?
It's been okay. I don't use the word good. I mean, I did the Ring Fit Adventure thing twice. Which.
Which are. Those are pretty strenuous, honestly. That was your. I haven't looked up what ring fit adventure is and I might.
I might laugh at you. I mean, it's basically like use a Pilates ring basically, along with the joy cons to one strap your leg and one in the ring and the motion sensors in that will sense your movement and you do a bunch of. It's basically like circuit training. Like with a little bit like an RPG video game in front of you.
Like you're fighting monsters with doing exercises. Certain monsters. I'm gonna talk about this probably Hanson Boys too this week, but it's basically like you can't cross the string. Ghostbusters was lying to us, I guess.
No, actually, yes. Cross the street is a lot. It's more helpful. It's basically a circuit training thing and it works.
It's pretty good at making you do exercises. Your legs, your core, your arms, everything. It stretches you out. It's pretty good so far.
I like it and it's. I don't have to go to a gym. I can do it in my house. It doesn't require a lot of room.
It's low impacts, which is important. I ride my bike once. I want to do that more. But until my.
I can't do that when I'm sore from squatting. So can I wait until my legs. You know, I went on walk on the days where I do sort of do much anything else. So it was fine.
My diet is. I think I'm doing a decent job at keeping my calories like slightly under maybe, you know, a slight deficit, but not crazy deficit. I think I maintained a good. Like eating three meals a day and not.
But not like not being gluttonous, just like binging on a certain meal because I'm hungry all of a sudden. I think it's helped me. I've had small breakfastes. Breakfastes.
Breakfasts. Yeah, that's. That's. That's how we say it.
Precious breakfastes, small breakfast, like a large lunch relatively and then a medium dinner. And I think that is. I've tried to stick to that. I've done a decent job with that.
Well, it sounds like you've really met all of your goals. Why are you hesitant to say that you did well? Because I want to Keep myself, keep myself humble. That's stupid.
I work better. Okay. I mean, that's fine too. I'm used to it.
It's like, this is. And it's the mindset that's helped me so far. And it's one I think that I've never really understood before. I never really, I never really, I don't know the right word for not embodied, but like, like understood and like it took it to heart while I've been trying to.
Whenever I try to lose weight, it's always like, well, I need to do this. How much weight have I lost this week? How much we have last this month? I need to, I need, like, I feel like there's like this urgency about it.
Like, when it's not. I don't need to worry. I don't. It's not a thing that's gonna get done in a week or a month.
I. It's a year. There's a year. And I think this project, whatever we want to call this, is kind of helped me realize that it's like, it's like writing a book.
It's not a thing, that this is a long term project. So one single day, whatever I do in a single day, if I, if I do what I do well or I do poorly, it's not gonna make or break me. I can't and I don't want. If I do poorly on a day, let's say I, you know, I, I eat too much or I get ice cream or I haven't done that, but if I do, I'm sure I will at some point.
Ice cream is really good. It's not the end of the world. You get back on the wagon. You have, you have a year to try and, to try and make progress.
So I think that long term thinking has helped me stay calm about it, which is, I think, worthwhile. What, what is keeping you from working? Is it just usually just tired? No, in general, I mean, I am slap it up with adhd.
Like a problem that a lot of people have is taking action on things and getting stuck on stuff. Like, there's a popular ADHD account that I followed where she listed like three or four simple chores. And she's like, I get stuck on like. And it's like she breaks it down like eight or nine steps.
You know, it's like, get the dirty laundry, put it in the thing, put it to do this, do that. And it's like. And usually I get stuck on one of these steps and I'm like, my God, it's just. This is just what my life is like.
And a lot of times I'll have. They say it's an emotional regulation problem in terms of like choosing to do things because we don't. We don't do things because they're logical. We do things because we're, you know, we're spurned to, we have emotion to.
And I, I don't know, it's challenging for me. And it's also challenging for me when I don't get immediate like positive feedback from something. And going to the gym is basically all negative feedback. So it's tough to sort of deal with that.
So I procrastinate on it as much as possible. And I, I don't know. That's the, that's the, the trap that I keep falling into. Where's your gym?
It's near work. See Joe before. After work. Yeah, that was the plan.
I never seemed to get up early enough to go before work. And at the end of the day it's just right there, sort of in this uncanny valley of, you know, I need to look into my, my pit of willpower and find out, find the courage to make myself go to this place. You know, I like to jit the games and sometimes I even like the work. I think that's a big part of my working with Peter was.
I mean, it was mostly just him and me one on one. And I got to talk to him and we were, we became good friends. So it was, it was nice. There were positive things about it.
The gym is just a bunch of unpleasant rich people that don't really talk to me and look down on me. You know, I don't think they do it like in necessarily a mean way, but like, you know, I've been fucking lifting weights my whole life and some, some 27 year old is gonna come over and like correct my form on something. It's annoying. It doesn't happen a lot, but people assume things.
It's really annoying. Mostly people leave you the fuck alone though. Thankfully. Is there anything.
Go ahead. Is there anything you think you could do to make it easier on yourself? I have no idea. If I knew that, I would probably be.
I'd probably dick skin ripped at this point. You keep saying that. It's a thing that Pete says. It's disgusting.
It's a thing that other. I've seen other bodybuilders say it too. It's funny. It's evocative.
No, it's disgusting. Evocative. That's not evocative. Is about.
Okay, what Are you scared of. I'm not scared of anything. I still like hearing gross things in my ears at nine in the morning. This is some fucking Twitter talk, man.
Okay, well, how is. How's the dieting going? How's not dieting. Dieting?
There's been some successes, and the sort of a part of my personality is I'm not necessarily good. I'm very, very, very hard on myself. And I was really bummed. Like, I'm like, oh, God, I'm just eating like a fucking hog and blah, blah, blah.
And I'm not, you know, Like, I. When I count the calories I'm actually consuming, I'm actually able to. I mean, my macros are gonna be weird. It's like.
It's very different than what I was doing. Like, it's a lot more starch. It's still a pretty reasonable amount of protein. Probably as much or more as a normal person gets in a day.
I would say big successes is I have. I didn't even think about it, but I completely have given up diet soda for several weeks at this point. I have as well. Yeah.
It's not the easiest thing. Like, I was having. I mean, basically as much as I wanted two or three a day, you know, and. Okay.
So, Eric, what are our goals for week two? For me, I. I don't know why I am typically challenged to start. This is the way that it was when I started the diet with Peter that it took me a while to get my head around it.
I know for me, my goals are the same. I have to get to the gym two times because I failed that. Okay. I mean, I think I'm the same.
And I think I'm gonna, you know, try and stay easy. Not easy. Achievable goals that. So do ring fit slash bike rides twice.
At least twice. If more. If my body lets me, I'll do more. It sounds like you did considerably more than that, particularly if you're walking on the off days also.
Yeah, I don't. The walking is not strenuous. For walking, you know, it's not strenuous, but, like, I still have a hard time making myself do it. I mean, I didn't walk every day.
I just would. I, like, walked twice. I rode my bike once. I did ring fit twice.
So that's, you know, it's not every day I was moving, which I probably should do. But it's also like, I. The constant push of. I want to get work done.
And if I want to walk an hour, I will say that procrastinating from going to the gym has forced me to create more artwork, and that is a. That's a relative positive. Has that happened to you at all? You seem to have hit all your goals.
So, I mean, it's. I mean, I think I just. I'm revising, which is the thing I hate the most. Yeah.
So sometimes it's really like, oh, I'm going to go work out instead of staring at this chapter for an hour here. Eric, let me ask you a question. Yeah. What if for this week, your goal was to get to the gym once?
What, this week? Yeah. For next week, too. Yeah.
Just one time. I mean, maybe that. Maybe that is part of what I need to do is, I don't know, set smaller goals, do whatever. Rip off that band Aid.
Yeah. Eat the frog. As we said, bite the bullet. Probably didn't record.
We didn't record eating a frog. That's what I would say. Yeah. Just try and go once.
Don't worry about twice. Twice is too many. Two too many. Just try and go once.
I mean, if I'm being perfectly honest, thinking about that does kind of change it, and it makes it less onerous that I think, like, oh, okay, I can do one. Like, that's not hard. And for some reason, like, changing something like that does make it feel bad. I don't know.
It's weird, man. Say go once and you see how you feel afterwards. That's. See how you feel when.
Like, the day after, the. Two days after, three days after. And if you're feeling great, you can go again. If you're not feeling great, you can just go for a walk.
Are you recording your. You recording a food journal? No, not formally. I, you know, I keep track of, like, this is a good meal.
This is. It is filling. It's healthy. It's relatively low calories.
I like. I think I should like a file that way. But you should probably do that even if you're just writing down what it is that you're having. I would recommend it.
It is probably the single most important thing. Yeah, I mean, like, holding yourself to a level of accountability. It's probably the single most important thing that you can do. It was.
It was the first thing that me and Pete talked about, but it took me. I mean, you saw how I went around the problem. I built a crazy person spreadsheet that does math for you. Because that is how my brain works around problems.
Like, I don't just sit down and do a simple thing. I have to build crazy scaffolding infrastructure to do It. Okay, Eric, but I would recommend some simple kind of food journal. I think.
I think any gains that you have, I mean, it's okay to just improve your. Your strength and strengthen your back and it's okay to just have gains in one area. But if you. I would.
I think you would have tremendous success with some kind of food journal, whatever it is. So for week two, I'm basically. My goals are basically the same. I would say.
Yes. I would say for you, just get to the gym once. I think you're doing fine. You seem fine with your food.
I think your diet seems. You're pretty. It really is better than it is. Eating mostly at home is nice.
And yeah, being able to keep at my. My caloric needs and not be starving. It's. It's a lot of.
It's. It really is bigger than it is. And it feels. I don't know, it feels good to talk about it.
I guess. I've been really. I've been really. I don't know, it's been stuck on loop in my head that I'm just completely fucking up.
You're fine. So long. It's a. It's a long road.
So if you stumble once, it's okay. You just. You fall down, you pick yourself up again where. I hope I'm here.
I'll help pick you up. Even though my back is a little sore. Yeah. You are the wind beneath my wings.
Did you ever know that you're my hero? We'll have to work on harmony. I guess that's fair. Like when we sang Electric Eye to say my second scream.
I would say just get the gym once. Yeah. It's all just one time. Yeah.
And then if once you do that and you feel confident you can do it once, then maybe step it up to 2. Don't worry about one thing. I think we'll just start with one. I don't need to think about anything else because whatever it is, it's giving me a terrible emotional barrier to doing even the simplest thing.
So we'll stick with figuring out once. There you go. You can do it. I believe in you.
That'll do it for us. For this week, this is our week two check in of bro accountability. Stand firm with the name. I, you know, I like bros and I like accountability.
You're my bro. I like you. There you go. So after week two, how you feeling, Eric?
Better. Very stressed at the moment. I am driving to Lakeland Comic Con. I'm running about an hour behind and I have metal wax on my head because they just barely fit in my car.
And in order to fit, they have to be on my head. So it's unpleasant. But I think in terms of goals, this has been a much more encouraging week. I felt pretty good about it.
Get to the gym three times. See, there you go. Really? Really?
The actual gym, twice that I did. I did a pretty extensive arm workout at home. Felt pretty good about it. Also just moved a lot of heavy shit, which is also heavy and hard to do, but it doesn't really, really count for exercise.
It's just sort of extra. It has gotten easier to track my macros every day. I'm still not really certain what I want my, like, targets to be right now. I'm eating a lot more carbs because I'm having, like, oatmeal in the morning and rice and veggies would be at night.
Basically, keep it after them all week. I might. I might cut some carbs, but things are pretty good now. We'll see how it goes.
I. I did my two ring fit workouts. It's all right. I feel better.
Like, I feel better. You know, as a whole, I feel. I think it's just mostly because I'm not eating garbage and I'm moving around. I mean, exercise really good.
I have so many friends that are maybe a little older than me, but most of them are your age. You know, you're several years younger than me, and they're just like, oh, my God, I'm so old and everything hurts. And I'm like, just. Just exercise, like, a fucking little bit.
And you feel amazing. Like, I don't know. There's a reason that, like, people that do exercise stay young looking forever. It is.
I don't know. It's shocking how good it is for you. Yeah. I'm saying that hypocritically because, you know, I will avoid the shit out of it.
Thank you. I mean, it's hard. It's hard work. It's not.
It's not necessarily while you're doing it, but. No, it's great. Temple Evan. And if it's not hard work, it's not really.
It's not really doing you any good. No. I have found myself with the ring even. Like, this is the fourth and fifth time using the Ring Fit game.
It's easier. It's the exercises I've done. I. I'm still, like, completely out of breath and sweating buckets by the time I finish, but it's not.
I'm not wrecked afterward. I'm not, like, done for days. Like, I can I could go back and do it again if I really wanted to. I wouldn't be, you know, I'm not incapacitated anymore.
You know, it gets easier as I've gone. I'm also seeing some games kind of like that that I don't feel as hard. I was actually really pleased because I did that home workout a little bit after going to the gym and like, I was sore, very sore. And then did that home workout kind of soon after.
And it helped me recover faster. So I'm like, I have been to the gym more and less sore, which is fantastic. So, like, to be less out of breath and feel less tired to recover faster, I think, you know, more rather than less seems to be the answer. Yeah, I mean, I would like, probably like to.
I haven't really gone outside and done any walking or biking. It's mostly because the weather effing miserable. So I don't really want to go outside when it's raining or wet and gross. Hopefully it's mostly nice here, but I've not walked at all.
I wish I'd been able to keep my activity level up every day, but it has been. It has been a very busy week. I don't know, you kind of have to take the workouts you can when you have them. Yeah.
I actually worked out Wednesday before Dynamite, which is like, I typically don't do. I mean, my diet has been fairly. I've been pretty holding steady with like reasonably sized meals. Not.
No gorging. No, no. Oh, I want second seconds. Why you want seconds?
Are you actually hungry? Like, wait five minutes for me, it takes more like 40, 40 minutes to know that if you're hungry or not. Yes. Yeah, it's sometimes it's very much like.
I mean, it's. It's a habit that I've had my entire life. It's not something that it's just going to go away. I have to.
But I'm trying to slow myself down. I'm trying to eat whole grains and vegetables, lots of vegetables. Eat really insanely good for you. Yes.
And just trying to make sure I know I'm getting enough my of, you know, nutrients and stuff like that. Not eating empty food basically is really the main thing. Don't eat empty food. Eat food.
I was gonna say eat food that has, you know, you know, when you eat, you're eating protein. If I'm eating carbs, make sure that there are carbs that have a lot of nutrients in them. Eat whole grains, eat, you know, oatmeals and, you know, things like that. If I'm having fruit, it's a little tiny bit of fruit just to flavor something.
Not necessarily. I'm gonna eat, you know, a whole watermelon or something stupid. What if you eat the whole watermelon? Many times in my life.
Wow. I, I, I hate watermelon. We've had this discussion multiple times, haven't we? We have, but I do.
Here's a melon. Here's a melon, man. I'm a melon head, you call it. But I've had in my life eating, sit down, just watermelon.
I'm like, why? What am I doing? I'm gonna say, but of all the fucking things to eat a whole thing of, first of all, I think it's the most clownish. But, like, it's fine to eat a whole watermelon compared to a lot of things.
Like, if I sat down and ate a whole pizza, which I think most of us, delivery is way easier. Like, a whole pizza, like a medium from Domino's is like 3,000 calories. And that's my whole maintenance calories for a day. I, I can eat two meals and then eat a whole pizza, and that's bad.
But, like, like, I bet, honestly, a whole watermelon probably only has maybe 1500 calories. Like, that's not that ridiculous. And there's tons of good nutrition and, like, look at a ton of fiber in it. Like, if you're, if you were drinking a whole bottle of juice, that's way worse for you than eating a whole watermelon.
1300 calories, roughly. Yeah. That's what Internet got there. Totally.