Hello everyone. I'm Jordan and this is the fnasis, the podcast for fans of everything. Welcome. Today I'm joined by Eric Z Unite to continue BRO Accountability.
This is month two of our year long project of accountability and supporting each other as we try to improve our health. This month is a little bit harder on both of us, but with some discussion advice, we manage our way through it. I think both of us have seen a lot of positive change in just two months and that sometimes can be lost in the mire of our daily lives. Hope you enjoy it on the discussion.
All right, this is week five. Check in. First week of month two. Check in.
Eric, how you. How you doing? I'm all right. I just got back from the gym.
I'm kind of wrinkled. Wrinkle is bad, right? Oh, it's. It's.
I mean, I suppose it's. It's worse than good. Okay. Someone sent me a weird message and it's.
It's got me in my feelings a little bit. So we're gonna. We're gonna not talk. This is a safe space.
We're gonna not talk about that right now. Okay. How was your week? How.
How was your exercise and diet? Not bad. Went over on calories a little bit here and there. Went under a couple of days too.
I don't know, more or less. Still pretty steady. Nothing ridiculous. But I mean, I would have preferred to, of course, kept it more level.
Tell you, I ate the out of this morning. Oh my God. I bought a big Kit Kat and you know how it has the big thing on the front that says the calories and like big bold face numbers. It said 210.
That's a lie. It's 210 for half of it per serving. Yeah. It comes in a package.
You're gonna eat the whole fucking package. It's fucking 420. Yeah, watch. You gotta watch those.
You have to watch out for when they fucking want it. That should just be illegal. Pop Tarts should be individually wrapped and fucking. If it's.
If it says 200. Everyone, everyone. When you know, everyone on earth, as we know when we buy KitKats. Yeah.
We carefully read one, we absolutely carefully read the entire package. Everyone. Everyone does. And two, we cut it in half and save the rest for later.
Yes, absolutely. Everyone does. I don't. I don't buy a.
I just. I walk. I can't. Candy is a trap.
It's a trap. So I don't keep at the house. But it's very bad. But I mean, you need quick carbs.
Like I. There's a thing that I looked up a long time ago that I. People said that pre workout is kind of a hustle. I mean there's so much woo woo and hokum in fitness stuff.
And I looked up like what was in pre workout and most of them are just caffeine, maybe protein, maybe creatine and sugar. And I'm like, you can get all those things and you probably already eat most of them. So I have coffee and a piece of fruit or a candy bar or something. Usually not candy bar, but sometimes I will.
Um, this was convenient today and I felt like having it. Did you get your workouts in for a week? I went three times. Just.
Just a little while ago was the third. Well, this is technically only six days, so I think, yeah, we recorded on Sunday. Saturday. I don't remember anything anymore.
I mean it was within. It is within us. It is within a week long period. Sure, yeah, that's.
That's over your goal, right? You wanted to go twice, right? Yeah, yeah, I. If I can make myself go Monday and Wednesday, it's downhill from there and I can.
I don't want to be doing my second workout on Saturday morning. Although Saturday morning workouts are nice because I can be leisurely about it. I mean if I'm going to the gym, I'm usually. I was there so fucking long.
Oh, on. Yeah, it was Wednesday. I was late getting home to watch Dynamite. Didn't miss it, but still worked out for like an hour and 15 minutes.
Which interviews it is. Oh God, here's being weird. It is called Crunch Fitness. I don't know they are.
They exist anywhere outside of the general area. They're chain ish. But I think there's a lot of them. The one in South Tampa is very nice.
There is one in Clearwater that I went to for a while. I may move my membership to the one on channel side because it is a little bit closer to work. And the one in South Tampa is extremely crowded, but it is a very. A nice and well stocked gym.
Spacious, lots of free weights, squat racks, great stuff in general and $10 a month. So like you really can't beat it. Nice. Yeah, it's pretty fantastic.
There are a lot of $10 a month gyms, but this is honestly probably the best one I've seen. Most of them do not have many free weight options. They have some dumbbells and that's about it. Right?
Not there's anything wrong with machines and stuff, but I think that. I think that various free weights and functional strength training is pretty important. You'll hear no disagreement from me. I was expecting, I was hoping for an argument.
It's an easy Saturday morning. I'm not feeling very contentious right now. That's good. She's chilling.
I was waiting for you to ask me how my week was. I think that was, that was me asking. Oh, I mean, I, I, I did the experiment proved successful. I worked out, and then I worked out on a day, and then the next day I would go for a walk, and I managed to do that.
I'm probably gonna go for a walk a little bit after we are done recording. But I, I did that, did two ring fit adventure sessions on a good hard bike ride. My legs, my, my hamstrings are hammies. And my hammies are, are complaining today because I did, I did some.
The, the, the, the, the little track that is pedestrian bike path that is on a road next to my house is uphill, one direction, very subtly uphill. If you're walking, you can't really tell, but on a bike, you absolutely can tell. Yeah, that makes it hard and so, but I mean, it's, it's actually turning out nicely on my bike because it's, you know, it's really tough going up by the end of the path, but on the way back, it's slightly downhill. So it's like a nice beard.
I can, you know, catch my breath a little bit and recharge and psych myself up for the next, you know, circuit or whatever. So that's good. Walks are nice. I'm making myself walk.
It's been. I think it helps clear my head as well, keep my brain, keep my thinking going while I'm trying to figure out writing things. They do say that, you know, the getting up and walking and all that stuff, it's good for kind of jotting the creative parts of your brain. It's good for your creativity.
Yeah. I had to fill in some plot holes, so I need a tobacco to get going in my head. I have too many people and I have too many characters. Some of them need to die.
It's unfortunate. It's very unfortunate for them. Diet has been, is good. Been good.
I have been pretty disciplined this week. I haven't had any desserts at all. I usually give myself dessert once a week. I haven't done that this week on purpose.
I kind of want to cut back a little bit this week. Not say that I won't necessarily just do it tonight, but dessert is generally just like yogurt with some fruit in It. It's not really a. It's not like I'm eating a cake or something, but it is additional calories.
But I've been eating pretty. Pretty good, pretty consistent, and I'm happy with it. I've seen some. Some slow, steady weight loss, which is really what I'm going for.
Not. I don't, you know, I don't want big, you know, dips. I don't want to, you know, I just want. I don't like doing dips.
I don't. Well, knowledge mentioned. No, I don't like doing dips. I hated them.
What a Claire. I hated when we did a football. Football practice or offseason conditioning. I hated dips.
It was my least favorite thing. My triceps. How is it. How is that your least favorite thing?
I don't know. Like doing sprints more than dips. I never did. We didn't really.
I never did. We didn't really go to sprints. Mostly. I did, like, lunges around the track.
Lunges. Lunges. Lunges hurt. I did lunges on Monday lunch day.
I was. I was not aware of how fit I was as a teenager, so I didn't understand how bad everything was. Honestly, I would neglect. You just recover very quickly because you're 17, 18, your body is full of.
Of testosterone and growing all the time. Yes, that's very true. But no, I can't complain. This week's been pretty good.
What's. What are the goals for next week? It's really more keep on, keep on, keeping on. I'm not ready to escalate even any more than I'm at.
Right. I'd prefer to hold steady at two stretch. Goal for three. Okay.
Every week. Honestly, three workouts a week is about as much as I can really, I think is worth getting in. I can. Like, if I miss a couple of days, like, maybe I can try and make them up and go four times in a week.
Like, if I only go one or two days and then the next week I do four, that's okay. But more than three. Three is hard enough to fit into my schedule. It's tough.
You know, I don't. I'm certainly not pushing you to more if you're not, you know, I don't. I think you find a good rhythm. Right now I will have to create the Pro Accountability podcast.
We're getting shitloads of work done. In addition to this, have you thought about the possibility of adding, you know, walks to. On off days? I would like to, but it's just as much Time as anything.
In fact, I think it would be probably better for me than the weight training to walk every day. But a walk is an additional hour, you know, out of the time when I'm awake and have the energy. It would be tremendous for overall activity and health and weight loss. But I think will prove difficult.
I don't know what about half hour walk? I mean, it's worth incorporating something doing like 15 minutes, 15 minutes back. Maybe just addiction, your blood pump a little bit. Yeah.
I can try adding two. Two in the week. I don't think that's. That's not too onerous.
We can see how we feel about it. Because I, I've, I. It is. I think it's.
Once you get started doing it, it doesn't. The time I found already the time is not the time restriction. Doesn't feel as bad. Yeah.
Because I just generally do it when I need a break anyway. Yeah. When I need to do something, instead of just sitting and playing a video game or watching something on YouTube. Yeah.
I just get up and walk. It is when we have all these things that we've been sold or we put on our phones, like if we feel like bored or anxious, where a healthy way to deal with that feeling is to exercise or go for a walk instead. We eat Cheetos and look at Instagram. I don't really eat Cheetos.
I don't think you do either. I'm not. I've never been a huge fan of Cheetos. I don't.
If I'm gonna be a snacky, crunchy thing, it's not gonna be Cheeto probably. It's messy and the cheese is not. The cheese flavor's never been my favorite. This is the Cheetos podcast now.
Yeah. Swerve. Yeah. You didn't see it coming.
It's been secretly. We've been building this up. Now it's Cheetos podcast. We're gonna review the original Cheetos flavor right now.
Eric, what do you think? I like what it tastes like at this point. It tastes like cheese powder. Crunchy cheese powder.
That's really. That's all there is. There's no, there's not much nuance to Cheetos. That's what I'm gonna.
I'm gonna make a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese and put in some soggy Cheetos in with it. That's gonna be my. That's gonna be my. My white trash.
That's my white trash Thanksgiving dish. Oh, it sounds so bad. My goal is really hard to Start, I think the same. I'm gonna try and do on off exercise, hard exercises with just walks.
Are you really, are you doing half an hour? It really is more like 40 minutes. But it depends on the day. Like some days, like I don't really like think about it, but some days I just end up doing.
I do this one, I walk down to the park, I walk around the park and then I walk back and that tends to be like 40ish minutes. And it's like, it's the nicest walk in the area because it's through a park and I get to see trees and animal life. It is nice to experience the world. As you walk around, you get a very different appreciation for the environment that you're in when you walk it versus when you, you know, drive around.
Right. So that's, that's, it's not quite, it's like 40, 45 minutes or it could be 35. What of the ring fit, though? That's what I mean.
Oh, the ring fit is. Well, it's. The ring fit timer isn't for. It doesn't measure the, the amount the actual play session.
It only measures when you're actually moving. So usually it ends up being when I'm about to be. I'm dead tired and beat. It's about 20 minutes, which that actually equates to like 35 to 40 minutes total.
Because you know, you're in between workout, you're pausing to get a drink of water to watch your face and then you're going back to it. You're playing the game also, which, you know, there's menus and you're moving through the video game parts of it which not work. You're not technically working out, but when you're at a gym, you're not also working out for the entire time. So you're doing a set and then you're resting for a second, you're going to drink water, you're in the bathroom and do another set.
And it's the same thing here. It's, it's more like, you know, you're, you're, it's, it's, you know, you're doing. It's not quite like high intensity, but it is, you know, that kind of like work real hard for like five and then you sit for a minute or two or for another six, sit for a minute or two for seven or eight. I usually, my general thumb is not necessarily oh, the timer.
It's more about how I feel. And usually the game will ask you because it's A Nintendo game after they usually ask you, are you ready to quit today? You put in a lot of work, and I usually just say, no, I do one more and then I quit. And usually that is the right amount of time.
Even though I have it a little bit easier lately, I might pop up the difficulty. That's what I was going to say. You might. You might want to try and do a little bit longer.
But it's. It's mostly just a product of. By the time I'm ready. It's not that I'm.
It's like my legs literally can't do anymore. And it's usually like the breaking point is just like, I can't do any more leg things and I have to progress in this video game. I need to do leg exercises. Well, no, I mean, in general, you.
You do a couple of exercises to get a range of motion in, and you. I mean, at a certain point, like, your shit's fried. Like these workouts that Peter gave me a couple of years back that I'm still using, they're, you know, you'll. You'll do like two and three arm exercises using the same set of muscles, and then you're like, they're completely destroyed.
And that's the whole point is they're real. They're real tuckered out. And to, To. To keep doing it, you're just.
I mean, I don't know. The point is to hurt yourself a little bit, maybe not a whole lot. You don't. You don't want to be crippled after it, but, you know, you do need to literally injure the muscle to build new muscle tissue.
Yes. That's just a product. It's just. It's learning.
It's feathering back and forth between. The last one was a little too easy. I'll go a little bit harder this. And then.
Yeah. Letting your body recruit great enough to be able to go. It does sound like you're getting good progress. I'm getting good workouts in.
You know, this was a. I mean, I did. I did pretty much the whole workout this time and feel pretty good about that. It was a little bit easier workout just because the other two this week were pretty tough and last.
Last Wednesdays was ridiculous. And that's. That's the workout I'm going to do again on Monday, I guess, which is gonna be amazing. I don't know.
As long as you're working out hard and you have a goal to do it for longer if you can, I think you should do that. You should continually feel Challenged. And when it gets a little easier, try and make it a little harder on yourself. The point is increasing your, your athletic ability.
I mean, I'm getting there. Well. Well, how much pain are you in? You mean while I'm exercising or now in your, in your daily life mean from working out or just being decrepit?
I don't think you're decrepit, but if that's how you want to characterize it from a. Crude injuries. Well, how is your back? Is a question that I might be driving at.
Well, you have. When you're asking about pain here, you gotta be very specific. I mean, there's existential ennui that's just ever. I.
I'm happy to. I'm happy to create that podcast with you as well. We'll just. We'll just perform cognitive behavioral therapy on each other.
I'm. I'm okay. I think it's. I think the weight loss will help.
I think moving helps. Do you feel better? I think incrementally so, yeah. I mean, I don't think you're gonna do one workout, be like I'm cured and start doing backflips all of a sudden.
I can do. I turned into shooting star breath now. Oh, I did a phoenix splash off the top rope. No worries.
I have crash pad. Don't worry about it. I feel, you know, I feel incrementally. I think as time I feel I felt incrementally better.
Yeah. And I think I will continue. I'm. I'm trying to enjoy my bike riding.
Do you like it? Sometimes I kind of. You kind of? I don't know, watching Chris Broad do a cross country cycle and hearing you talk about it, I kind of want to cycle, go on longer rides again.
It hurts bad. It hurts pretty bad. I mean, 25 miles is not that ridiculous to do, but like it gets so dehydrated and my legs cramp so painfully bad after. After an amount like that.
I am not doing 25 miles. I'm doing. No, I know. I imagine you're not.
It takes fucking hours to do that. No, I'm doing like. I think it's. I think it's like probably four miles.
I think I did four miles yesterday, maybe four. But it's. I'm just trying to build myself up so that I can actually use the bike to get around the neighborhood, to get around the area. Like I want to have my finesse level be a point where I can do that, where I can ride my bike a few miles down to a movie theater.
And not be incapacitated afterwards. I want to go get a haircut and not be dripping in sweat while I'm getting my haircut. And did you know you used to bike to work? I did not know that.
Do you know where Town and Country is? Yes, in Tampa. Do you know where Carrollwood is? Vaguely.
It's North Tampa. I used to bike from. From Town and Country. Carrollwood.
That's the distance. It was like seven miles. Yeah. That's a lot.
Yeah. It was quite husky then as well. It's hard. I mean.
Yes. My. It's. But I usually.
I was doing two circuits, and now I'm up to three, and I'm gonna go three until I think I can do four, and then continue, continue, continue. See how many I can do. Ring fit. Ring fit circuits.
No, on the bike, around the circuit of the trail, the path up and down the incline, and then the back to that round where the house is. I can do three of those now. Let me see if I can eventually get to four and then, you know, on an onward and upward. Can I.
Can I brag from that? Sure. My arms look fucking sick. And I'm very happy.
Good. I really am. I really am. Like, catching looks at myself in the mirror and kind of feeling myself.
I have not weighed myself since my last trip to the doctor, so I think maybe I need to start doing that at least. I don't know. There was a point I was doing it every day and recording it, and I don't. I don't know.
It's a band aid that I am not wanting to take off yet. I do it once a week. Yeah. And also it's.
It's a. You know, as you're getting muscle here's. There's a lot of. To collect a lot of data points and look at the overall trend line.
Yeah. I mean, my. My weight has gone down since we started this. But it's also.
I've. No. I'm. I know I've gained some muscle.
Um, and also it's how close fit, how, you know, how do I feel? So it's the weight. The number is not the only thing. We do put a lot of emphasis on that.
And there's a difference between weight loss and fat loss. Like, you can get your legs cut off and lose weight, but I don't think that's as healthy as losing fat tissue. It's a lot easier to put it on and take it off. Anything you want to add before we leave for the week?
Nothing. Okay, that'll do it for Us this week five, check in. I will talk to you guys again next week. This is the week six.
Check in for broke accountability. Eric, how you doing? I'm all right. Hanging tough.
I'm having a hard time. I'm alive. Shabbata. I'm alive.
A little Shabbata. What? Shabbata. He came back.
That's all he said for the first appearance. First appears back after his terrible, terrible injury. He just. He went to the ring and said, I'm alive.
That's all he said. Everyone claps. Didn't say I'm a sandwich bread. No, he did not say that.
Shabbata. Just said, that's a. I feel like that's a pretty good pun. Shabbata bread.
I understand there. I got it. That's funnier when you explain the joke. Yes, it makes everything 100% funnier when you explain it right after you say it.
But can you not hear me smiling? I'm having a good time. I mean, I'm also smiling, but I can't hear your smile. No, I'm smiling and I hate it.
You hate smile? Why? It's a quote from Undertale. Ah, then you're the video game.
You're just playing. Yes. Yes. How's the week?
How was your week? How was your week? It's been extremely hard. I have.
I managed to get to the gym one time. This weekend has been kind of a free for all, unfortunately. In terms of eating, I've been on track for the rest of the week, I'd say, but that it has been not going over on calories, but macros being wonky, not getting enough protein, eating roughly the same amount of carbs, getting too much fat, not great. But I've also been painting a mural, having some issues, getting extremely depressed, feeling really terrible.
Mural didn't go exactly the way that I wanted. Just general, you know, just general stress. Not. Not doing great, feeling pretty dark.
Yeah, my week wasn't great either. I only worked out once. I got one walk in. Aside from that, what was.
What was all for you? Good question. Just, I don't know, Beginning of the week, I felt. I don't know, it was really strange.
Like over the weekend I felt fine, felt strong, feel good. Then Monday, roll around. Just got hit with just malaise. Just feeling a lot of it is connected to my work, my writing and a lot of, you know, I don't know, I guess it's stress.
I don't know what to call it, but it's, you know, I feel, you know, I go through bouts of Self doubt and bouts of questioning why I'm bothering with this. Why, you know, I, why am I, why am I spending all this time, effort on this? I can just go get a regular 9 to 5 job and get a good paycheck, whatever, and you know, bang my head writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. All this work harder than I've ever worked on anything before.
And that's not really directly connected to my exercise. But when I feel like that I don't wanna do anything, I, I just wanna like lay down and die. And that's, you know, I didn't, I just, I didn't get much work on this week either. Yeah, I got some done.
Not nearly as much as I wanted. And my diet was, I think that's the one. Like, I guess if there's a silver lining is my diet was fine. Like I generally have every time, all my entire life, basically.
Whenever I felt bad, I eat, I eat a lot. I would go, that's comfort food. And just go get garbage. Just get, eat an entire pizza and follow it up with a cake for dessert or you know, something equally just stupid like spend $40 on order from pizza or Domino's or Papa Johns or whatever with a pizza breadstick and some brownies or whatever.
Eat all of it and feel terrible. You know what I did? I was incredibly depressed and I made myself a don't kill yourself meal. I mean, I ate sushi and pizza.
Not pizza, sushi and a steak. And it actually ended up fitting my macros really well. I did the math and I didn't completely ruin my day. So like, I don't know, I, I have had success on, on, on diets, like allowing myself to sort of treat my depression with food, but do it in a way that's not, that doesn't set me back too much or actually fits right.
I've had some, I've had a lot of failure with that as well. Um, so I'm not saying it works every time because it certainly can fail. But I largely stayed within my, my constraints. I, I ate reasonable sized meals.
I never overate, which is really what. I just don't, I don't overeat. That's really all I like. That's your, that's, that's your one job.
Yeah, just don't overeat, eat enough and then be finished, finish, be done, Put your plate down, stop eating. Um, that was, I did all that. I didn't really overeat at all, but I just did not work out. I didn't walk.
It was also Cold this week. Yeah. And I just didn't want to go outside. Um, that sounds like you've been pretty depressed too.
It's. Yeah, but I don't know, it's. By the end of the week, I was getting. I was like, I was working more again.
It's just. It's just a process of confronting that self doubt and kind of. I've been dealing with tons of imposter syndrome my own self. It was about an opportunity that I had to throw an event and it's just sent me into a fucking spiral ever since.
So I. I understand where you're coming from. It's not been. I don't know, it's.
It's unusual that we're kind of going through at the same time. I don't know. It's. It's very much trying to refocus, trying to, I don't know, allow myself to acknowledge the feelings, acknowledge why I feel those feelings and, you know, you know, not necessarily like comics.
Don't beat myself up over it. Just move on, get, you know, try and do better, then feel better, you know, get past those feelings, I guess. Acknowledge them and move on through them and work more, you know, I don't mind. I don't.
It's not like I hate my writing. It's more just me. Like, it's always a battle over me feeling like I'm wasting my time. A big part of doing anything creative is there's just so, so long a period of convincing people that it's worth something.
People, really. It takes a lot to pierce the veil of indifference. And I understand where you're coming from. You can work for hundreds of hours on something and for people to, you know, look at it and say, isn't that nice?
And then never give a shit about it again. Yeah, it's. It's difficult and it impacts and attacks my mood and then it impacts how I feel, how much I exercise, how much I want to, how much I want to eat, etc. Etc.
It all, you know, it spins down. But I'm still going to try and do better next week. What are your. What are your goals for the next week?
It would be nice to get a second workout in, maybe more. I'm going to not be painting a mural this week, although I feel really bad about the state that it's in. Everyone tells me, or a lot of people. People that matter tell me it looks fine.
I hate it so much and I liked it while I was doing it. And then I get to a point where I can't do anything else. And I'm like, this is trash, and I despise it. It was exactly the same thing the last two years.
Ugh. Um, I would say try and make it for that second workout. I don't think I'm at a place where I want to change my macros yet. I was thinking about that, and it made me think about.
It made me think about Simon Miller talking about, like, you know, you don't need to change your program just because you see radical. You don't see radical change immediately. Yes. So I.
I'm not gonna. I was thinking, like, oh, I can cut. Probably cut 300 calories out of my day pretty easy. And then I'm like, I don't want to do that.
I'm not all that interested in doing that yet. No, I think it's gonna take longer, more than six weeks before you can make big changes about. You know, I don't even think that 300 would be that. It doesn't feel like it'd be that big a change.
I could still eat and be reasonably full, even increasing protein or changing that ratio a little bit, take out some calories, probably would take out some carbohydrates. But I'm gonna stay the course. Honestly, it's fine. I want fewer bad days.
Today's. I don't feel like today's that bad a day, but yesterday was not the best. Yeah, my. I think my goal is I'm gonna dial back down from where I was last time.
Cause I was pretty aggressive. And I don't think that. I don't think that necessarily directly. Uh, like, I don't think it was the amount.
Well, I don't think the goal itself was like, imposing me or something or intimidating. I just was just. I was just a very bad state, not in a great mood. And so that's why I didn't exercise enough.
I'm still gonna try and just ease back into it. I'm say or ease. Not ease, but I don't know, a little. A simpler goal.
Maybe like two workouts, two walks in that time span. I'll try to do the walks. If it's too cold, I'm not gonna do it, but I'll see what the weather's like this week. But that's not.
I was. You know, every other day was. Is a lot. And I think just two.
Two, I think, is a good achievable goal. And I wanna be a little gentle with myself next week. So I think that that's a very underestimated thing. That the whole point of working out is to help yourself to love yourself, you know, and people act like it's torture or that you're paying penance for something.
And we have this awful Calvinist sort of mentality around exercise. And it's to. It's to help you. To help you live healthier.
It's to love yourself. And if you do it to torment yourself, why the are you doing it? Like, I don't know, treat yourself nice, Say it better myself. Yeah.
Anything you want to add before we leave for the week? I can't think of anything. I think it's a good note to end on. Yeah.
All right, till next time, guys. Bye. This is the week seven check in. Is that right?
We should really keep the notes on those. This is week seven. I hope you're at least naming the files. I am naming the files.
I am naming them. This is week seven of the Broken Billy podcast. It's still February. Eric, how was your week?
It was okay. I mean, last week I kind of went off my calories for a couple of days. I might have last night. I'm struggling to work out as much as I would want to, but honestly, I'm seeing and feeling like the gains are there.
Even though I'm imperfect, I'm trying to look on the bright side, because what I will do is be like, I didn't go to the gym enough. Like, I went to the gym. I made myself go on a date. I normally don't go.
And I worked out very hard, and it was not that long ago that that was too difficult. I could not do what I did at the gym. So it's. It's nice to see, like, I'm.
I'm feeling stronger. My cardiovascular capability is definitely heading in a better direction. I just, you know, would probably do better with a little bit more consistent workouts, but life is difficult. I'm trying to do a lot of work.
I just need to keep trying not to go over on my macros, eat good things. Mostly I'm doing all right. Just wish I was going to the gym more. It's so cold outside.
Eric, that's queer talk. We had a day of cold here. We've had a day, 40 degree weather. We've had an entire week of cold.
It's been in the 40s and 50s, mostly raining, so that's also great. So I've only got one walk in. I did get two workouts in, so I got almost there. I'm not too.
That's not bad. I got one reasonable walk In. I mean, I. I don't know if you ever painted a whole lot of murals in your life, but it's very grueling, very physical.
I didn't know the yard and we like it. That's kind of like. That's like painting a mural. That was grass.
Well, the lawnmower is a manual. It's a. You know. I know.
I understand how long. I've done a lot of lawn mowing. My father is also a baby boomer and I. That was my.
My whole childhood was fucking cutting grass. So that was a little bit of workout. Not a lot, but it was something. It's activity, which is.
It is. It is not training, but it is still good for your overall health. Moving necessary. Yes.
Moving is moving. Moving. Yeah. That was the thing that Pete would always criticize people who treat yoga like it's great exercise and there are health benefits to it.
Most of them are meditative. But it's not really moving. Training and moving is important for your heart and body. It is a thing that we as Americans and knowledge workers don't do anymore.
Or creatives, whatever. I think we kind of fit in both categories. So it's. Yeah, I did that.
I did my two warehouse. It's just actually the harder battle. It's. As soon as the weather improves, which hopefully we have coming.
Any basic hour it stops being cold, you start. Need to invest in some sweatpants. I have them. It's also raining.
I'm not going outside. I don't care. That's. You need waterproof sweatpants.