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Fitness and Golf: Striking a Balance Between the Tees and the Weights
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Ever wondered how to hit the sweet spot between staying fit and swinging a perfect golf arc? Coach Austin and Kevin "iRab" Irabagon are here, bringing you a year-end special that's part reflection, part foresight, and all about the fun and fundamentals of fitness and golf. Settle in as we exchange tales from our golf hiatus and holiday festivities while delving into the fitness trends that shook 2023. We’re not just flexing our muscles over the latest craze; we’re laughing along with you at gym stories that strike a chord with anyone who's ever picked up a dumbbell or a golf club.
No one wants to wade through fads to find fitness gold, and that's where we come in. We're tackling everything from 'Hot Girl Walks' to AI's burgeoning impact on our workout routines. With Kevin's Christmas adventures and my dad-duty escapades setting the backdrop, we're here to connect with you on a level that's more than just scores and reps. Whether it's our musings on golf lessons, protein bars, or walking our way to wellness, we're bringing our honest banter to the table. Plus, we lay down the gauntlet on biohacking trends and ask, "Can you really hack your way to youth?"
As we wrap up, we're handing out a lifeline to all the gym newbies out there—straight from the heart, no nonsense advice. From choosing the right gym to crafting a workout routine, we're your cornermen in this fitness bout. And for those seasoned in the art of lift-and-lower, there's plenty of insight into how technology like AI and magnetic weights are shaking up our gym lives. It's an episode packed with hearty advice, a side of humor, and a dash of heartfelt stories. Join us, your fitness comrades, on a journey through the laughter and the sweat, the tech and the touch, the walks and the weights.
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Reviewing Fitness Trends and Christmas Gifts
Speaker 1What's up everyone? It's Coach Austin here with HyperStraint Thinking, Dishing with your NerdOut and Workout Podcast, where we nerd out workout and podcast with my co-host, Kevin Arap Arapagone.
Speaker 2What's up, y'all what is up?
Speaker 1And this is actually our first taped podcast. First taped podcast. This is weird. This is insane.
Speaker 2We're not used to being in front of the camera when we talk. So I'm more worried about my facial expressions, because normally during our podcast I'm like hmm, or like hmm, like you don't say you don't, so it'll be an interesting experience.
Speaker 1It'll be great. It'll be great we get to. We're going to today. We're going to be talking about kind of an end of year review. We're going to shoot this shit about. Everything, everything More, so golfing. We started golfing almost a year ago.
Speaker 2You know, I'm not going to golf until next year. I'm shutting it down until next year, brother, I can't why. I guess you know. I think it's time to shut it down.
Speaker 1So thank you Tomorrow. Probably We'll see We'll go over the best and worst fitness trends of 2023 that we found. Credit to garage gym reviews.
Speaker 2I'm totally going on your website and never just go Some of the stuff that you guys talked about.
Speaker 1We're going to do a reaction to a gym story Saturday and probably some more content and our hopes and dreams going into 2024. Yeah, I like that. But with that being said, kevin, how are you man? I'm good man.
Speaker 2You know we just had Christmas was a couple of days ago Fun day.
Speaker 1At the time of this recording Christmas with a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2At the time it was actually two days ago. Two days ago it was good, it was all fun. You know good food, you know good presents and good times. How about you, man? How was junior's first Christmas?
Speaker 1It was good it was uh, it was my son's first Christmas. That's awesome, and I was very tired. We said no to a lot of family parties because I felt bad about it, but it's just, there's like the RSV going around and we're just exhausted as new parents. So we just kept small, kept the suite, we kept it to Giselle's family, my family and then just us together. That was it, man.
Speaker 2That's good, I mean I feel bad.
Speaker 1I only bought. I only had one responsibility this year was to buy Giselle the present.
Speaker 2And you fucked up. No, no, I got it. I got it right.
Speaker 1I still handle everyone else present.
Speaker 2Oh wow, I mean, she is amazing, so she's awesome.
Speaker 1So I'm talking about being junior's mom, and junior got a crap ton of gifts.
Speaker 2I bet.
Speaker 1How many golf clubs?
Speaker 2did he get Realistically?
Speaker 1I got, I got a set.
Speaker 2You got a set he did not get a set.
Speaker 1He got a football, though, and a demo jersey from one of Giselle's cousins.
Speaker 2They're so sweet.
Speaker 1Shout out to Sello and Joanne.
Speaker 2They, they, they, they went hard.
Speaker 1They went hard Nice, I mean there's other, there's other gifts that I didn't just all knows.
Speaker 2Would you guys open all of them for junior? Are you guys like?
Speaker 1she knows all the the, the football, the jersey just stood out to me like like she probably has it all and is taking all everyone who gave it to him, because I'm just kind of like football, yeah. But I saw the football, the jersey like what's this, what's this? She goes oh, that's from Sello and Joanne Yo.
Speaker 2So yeah, that's, that's cool. Are you guys like, how are you? Just so you had junior, you guys opened all his gifts, or is it? Is it something like? I don't know? I don't know how you feel? I've seen like parents what they do is like for like newborns or like one year old and stuff. They kind of get the presents they open, maybe one or two a day, and then they kind of like spread it out.
Speaker 1No, you open that shit all I want. I don't have a lot of time. I don't know shit. I have no time for that. I am a tired dad.
Speaker 2No, time Open it now.
Speaker 1Open it now. If it's too slow, I gotta open it, Like why are you so slow? Why are you so slow?
Speaker 2I'm becoming my dad. Why are you so slow? And he's like why are you crying? Why are you crying? Why are you crying? I'm not yelling. Why are you mad? I'm not yelling.
Speaker 1I'm not mad. I'm not mad, I'm just talking.
Speaker 2Oh, Filipino heads.
Speaker 1Tiger Woods he's a loser. Huh, he's a cleaning.
Speaker 2Oh, my God, I do not. I love your dad. Your dad's one of the coolest guys I know, but I can't.
Speaker 1For those of you who don't know my dad, is the typical like if you're winning he's on your team, if you're losing, he discards you. I think that's 99% of the Boomer Filipino generation, maybe just that mentality. I think the ones that don't know sports.
Speaker 2That's how they are. That aren't into sports.
Speaker 1My dad's really into golf. That one time we were golfing and it's like, yeah, we're watching someone, someone, someone, someone. He's like Tiger Woods he's no good anymore, he's a loser. And I'm like dad, he's a goat. He's like look goat, he's a loser. You eat goat.
Speaker 2I can't stand this tiger woods slander.
Speaker 1You can't. It's like bro, he, okay, that's tough, but yeah, no, it was. What were we talking about again? Oh, golf clothes for junior, yeah, but yeah, I mean, yeah, we don't, we don't do. Oh yeah, we're talking about the, the, the, the, the deal out junior to like open gifts and all that I mean no, I don't right now, since re overload.
Speaker 1No, I mean, he's like he's five months, the fuck he's, he's his. His thing right now is putting everything in his mouth. Oh yeah, like like grabbing. He's learning how to grab onto toys. He's learning how to like grab onto things. Roll over, roll, roll. Like he's like army, not crawling, but like he's he's moving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like you can't put him in one place anymore because he's going to figure it out. I was like, oh shit.
Speaker 2I just can't leave him in the playpen anymore.
Speaker 1I can't just leave him in one place and like do my thing, I got to like, I got to like secure him in a cage or like pillows all around him. Well, like, take out the sofa cushion, I got a lot not to suffocate him, but I got to build some barriers where he does it like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2You know. So we just started climbing. Bro, don't even get me started, I'm going to start with that. You grease up everything. You're going to get it up here.
Speaker 1So if I grease up everything, he'll just cover himself in grease and start sliding it.
Speaker 2He's going to figure that out.
Speaker 1He's going to figure it out. He's smart, like he's I know every one of the every dad's like oh, my kid's smart, but like it's just weird. You know you have a newborn and they don't do anything. Then all of a sudden they start figuring things out and you're like holy shit, like slow down buddy, slow down buddy. We ain't there yet, Like I'm not. I'm not ready for this, hey buddy.
Speaker 2the book says six months.
Speaker 1The book says six months why you had a schedule. Yeah, he's dude. I was like yo man, what?
Speaker 2are you doing?
Speaker 1So, but yeah, I cannot wait for the day we take him golfing with us. It's going to be fun the first time.
Speaker 2Hopefully he's interested or we'll make him interested.
Speaker 1I mean, I mean, I don't know, I don't want to be one of those parents, but I can tell you I'm just saying the you make the cut at the masters.
Speaker 2You make 50 K Just to like be there, I mean just to, just to make it to the weekend. You got money. You make. You literally make someone's yearly salary in one weekend.
Speaker 1So you have to pay for your catty though?
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, but still, like you know what, 10%, 50. What is what do you work out? Yeah, it goes straight to me. Remember when I was changing your diapers.
Speaker 1Oh the no, the names Austin Ryan to lose a senior.
Speaker 2How come Austin Ryan is like he's catty for him? Oh, it's a senior.
Speaker 1We'll write the check out the senior the whole I'm driving him home.
Speaker 2I'm driving him home. That'd be pretty funny.
Speaker 1Dude, yeah, no, that'd be fun. I mean we'll see. But now we get to play from the orange teas, yeah, when we take them, so we can feel like Torpros Getting on the green Instead of like one hit.
Speaker 2Instead of shanking it right from the blacks, we can shank it from the right from the from the orange. Bro go farther.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, and our and our and my son will just be more accurate.
Speaker 2That'll be fun, that'll be great, he's like dad really.
Speaker 1Well, we'll play your ball, son, again dad.
Speaker 2No, we're like. We're like, we'll keep your score, but we're playing scramble. Yeah, that's what it is. We're just here for the exercise. We're here to watch you develop you. Yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker 1I can just see my dad as a grand. Oh no, you sucked.
Speaker 2You're no good, no more, no good, no more, you're looser Okay.
Speaker 1So I've been trying to try to get him like lessons. I bought him lessons for his birthday. He didn't want it.
Speaker 2What do you do with them?
Speaker 1I had to read. I walk, she, I used to.
Speaker 2No way you gave him. Oh, I went to golf garage. My boy met. Speaking of golf lessons, your boy has golf. Yo, I mean, I haven't. I haven't booked them yet, but who With who? Uh, golf garage. Shout out to golf garage, cause this man recommended them and I'm like I've seen what his games at now. It's, it's not there yet. Oh, it's there, but when he's there, holy shit.
Speaker 2When it hits it's straight down the middle, it's pretty nice. So that's how I was, like I think I got to go to this guy, cause it's it's crazy what he's doing, but uh, yeah, so, um, that's why I'm shutting it down for this year and shut it down, shut it down.
Golf Lessons and Protein Bars
Speaker 1Did you book it, cause he's always booked out.
Speaker 2I don't know, I'll have to see.
Speaker 1I haven't booked like three months ahead.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, we'll. We'll start in March so let me know. Oh yeah, I'm going to see, I'm going to see what, what, what is this Cause I'm going to use some of my Christmas money.
Speaker 1I got you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2What do you? What do you? How do you? How do you normally? What are you setting up? Like you get a lesson and then what's your next lesson?
Speaker 1I do it every quarter, okay, so you're, you're having a lot of like in between time. Well, I mean however much I can get away with it just all getting mad.
Speaker 1I mean, if this was like pre married bro, I give me, I'll see you later, I'll see you tomorrow. I'm working Bro, I'd be, I'd be signing up clients so I can get more golf lessons, like that's. That would be my hustle. But the way I do it is, and there's two coaches actually there's. I started with coach Alex um YP golf on on Instagram, shout out to him he's. He's building a great following too. He's a good dude.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I do follow him too. He's great, he's great.
Speaker 1Um, and then, and then I went with Matt, and then I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm. I do plan to do a few lessons with with Alex again too. I just like to get different perspectives. Um, but those two guys are really uh, legit. But I take with what I learned, and then you just, I mean just- edit huh, you just like put it together. Well, I got to practice it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Cause they teach you so much like and both of them you know you're so eager like, can you teach me driver, can you teach you driver? And they're like no, that's when you really felt like you're like a young Jedi. You're like oh you're not ready for driver? Yeah, you're ready for pitching wedge.
Speaker 2Pitching wedge. Oh, and maybe a nine.
Speaker 1Yeah, Like pitching wedge, maybe nine. Then I hit my nine Back to bitchy. I was like shit.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm just more excited because, like you know, I'm I'm a student of a YTV, you know a. Youtube university, wow and uh, you know there's a lot of information and you get to a point where you watch like how many different influencers?
Speaker 1Not everyone's the shambles. Yeah, I am, though. Yeah.
Speaker 2No, but what I'm trying to say is that there's so much information on YouTube and people giving their two cents on swings and stuff it's like you start to contradict yourself. Oh yeah. So that's why it's like there's a point where you could work on your swing through YouTube, but I think you have to stay with one person.
Speaker 1Just one lesson.
Speaker 2And then you got to get a lesson, because then there's nothing. There's something that someone else is looking at you. What you're doing is like it will help out even more, so I'm excited for that.
Speaker 1No, I mean for every person who takes lessons. There's like a hundred others who would like say you know lessons, they're going to ruin my swing. You know what I'm talking about, I know you said a hundred people.
Speaker 2He sounds like one person, I know.
Speaker 1But yeah, it's. Yeah, my dad, I asked Micah, and Micah and my guys don't know Micah's a buddy of ours.
Speaker 2Micah's, our local pro.
Speaker 1He's our local tour pro right now. When we scramble we kind of go off his ball.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1We just we have a good time after that. But even Micah he calls a lot of my dad he's he's technically a brother to me.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's a brother.
Speaker 1Yeah, Like that way. But he's, he hangs out a lot more of my dad than I do and my brother. So we kind of kind of jokely tell him he's like our, he's like our third brother.
Speaker 1There, you go, um, but he goes. Yeah, I've been trying to tell your dad to get lessons, but your dad just goes. No man, they're going to ruin my swing. That is such a Filipino machismo thing to say Very when have you played a tournament? Yeah, when have you? These guys are like award winning, like they won things. What have you?
Speaker 2not bogey An 18 holes, probably never. And plus I know how your dad plays. He doesn't give himself gamies. He needs to see the ball going.
Speaker 1The he needs to see the ball going, the cup, but also he's also the dude who throws the ball.
Speaker 1He also misses the fucking two footer and he's all like no, I need to see it go in and then like I can agree with him on that, but it's just, he'll drop a ball if you can't find it, type of thing. But he won't tell you he dropped it, it's here. Yeah, there's what the for one of the first times I got with him he was driving and then, because we were going on the fairway and he could find his ball and I was still new so I didn't know what the hell's going on. I just thought he was still looking for his ball, and then he kind of just took a ball from the cart and you just kind of threw it on the field like oh there it is and I was like wait, okay, is that, is that how you do it?
Speaker 1I don't, I don't think that's how you do it. He goes no, no, no, it's fine. I don't, I don't know where my bullet I Like we're pretty close to the green man you know what I saw like a group, like influencers.
Speaker 2They were talking about the gallery Mulligan or the gallery drop. What?
Speaker 1does that mean so?
Speaker 2what it means is like, let's say, you hit off the tee and everyone can see where your ball went and you went to go in that area. You can't find the ball, but you know it's in this area, you just can't find it, like it maybe a plug, or it rolled and and it's like a free drop you like well, just drop it here. We know it's here, we just can't find it.
Speaker 1So the guy it's called the gallery Mulligan something like that. So like as long as I hit it hella far, if you hit it hella far and we see where it lands, kind of like by the green.
Speaker 2No, no See if it's on the right side in the rough and the word on the fringe of the green or no on this right and like, well, it's on the right side, and we just look and we can't find it. And it's cool, we're not pros, we're not on the PJ guys, like there's you know it's on the green. It's all the green, just 550 yards. I swore.
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Speaker 2No, not shameless, it's, it's a plug.
Speaker 1So we do, so, we do also. This is a shameless plug. Also, this is a shameless plug. I'm kind of hungry, kevin. Are you hungry? Are you hungry?
Speaker 2I haven't had much protein today. Oh, I have a solution for that Is this the Snickers high protein bar with 20 grams of protein. Oh, you know what's even crazier? You know it's four grams of total sugar. Four grams of total sugar. We should try it, we should try it and have a blind taste test.
Speaker 1This is the first time I too have had this, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2This is a Snickers bar, I mean, it's not like a.
Speaker 1Snickers yeah, but I like a Snickers yeah but I see I taste the protein man, it's like a protein bar.
Speaker 2I like that. Snickers Pretty good. They replaced the new get with protein. Wait what? The candy bar? Like the the new get? Like the caramel no, the caramel's in here. So the new gets like the meaty part. Oh, but that's not replaced with protein. It's very chewy Like. It's not bad. It doesn't taste like I have the ones from Costco or the blue one, I forget what they're called like. They have like a double brownie, they have like a chocolate chip. They have a peanut butter one similar to this. I don't taste like ass Shut up. It's like so chalky. At least this is a little chewy, but at least it tastes tastes good. I'm gonna eat this.
Speaker 1You already ate.
Speaker 2I didn't eat one. That's right. You're right, I did eat it.
Speaker 1And we're gonna eat that throughout the episode, with the logo perfectly placed in front of us.
Speaker 2This would be real. Okay, I'm getting paid for that, so I'll give you some.
Speaker 1I'll pay for our next round. There you go, perfect so For those of you guys don't know, because you don't, you don't know, you don't know, I actually landed my very first, not very first, but very first, official um Wait what clapping clapping emoji?
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 1Oh, I'm good there you go, I'm gonna try that again.
Speaker 1Guys. Sorry, take two, I'm protein. Hello Julie, I'm true, I'm Rosie burger, so I've had, I've done, sponsored posts before, but this is actually one of the First ones we did with a big like a big big company and snickers reached out and they wanted to do a um, um, sponsored post and I'm gonna post it later on in my socials um, and they, you know, I threw them a number and just, you know, for shits and giggles, and they actually said they're like okay, yeah, and I'm like, oh, without getting too much into detail, because I think I signed some things where I'm not supposed to say anything, but by the time this episode is released, everyone will know Already that I'm part of it, um, but it was, it's fun and you know it was one of those things. Like, I agreed to it, but I'm like man, I better better taste this. I could always pull out. I could be like no, you know, I don't want to do it, I taste it. I'm like all right.
Speaker 2This broadcast. We don't pull out anything but congratulations, austin, that's awesome.
Speaker 1Thank you It'll. It'll go towards our round and Maui.
Speaker 2Can't wait for that, but I'm still chewing. It's right, chewy guys, it's good, though, trust me, it tastes good.
Speaker 1Trust me.
Speaker 2I think three bites ready. If I didn't like it I wouldn't have gone for a second or third, you know.
Speaker 1What's the worst one there's, the one that we all know Was it the power bar?
Speaker 2Oh, you mean like the 90s gold power bar. Those are fucking nasty. I was like whoa.
Speaker 1Oh, but yeah, no, that was pretty good, all right. So, with that being said, uh, yeah, so golfing, we did it for a year. We started off as super noobs last December.
Speaker 2We're still noobs, we're not super noobs, we're just noobs. We're just noobs now.
Speaker 1Like I think, every four or five shots we hit a good one, like a four five 10 to 12 over here hey, but it went from like no good shots before.
Speaker 2That's true.
Speaker 1It was like oh, what are we doing out here?
Speaker 2It's having being and we made good time under last round, like we were within under four hours.
Speaker 1I think, yeah, dude, and that's like remember that time we took six hours or something.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that's also because we weren't scrambling either. We were kind of playing our own ball and I was like playing polo that was I was like oh god, like you go, it's fucking enjoyable.
Speaker 1So it's so fun. It's so fucking fun, hey, but for real though, walking Golf, and wife, you walk the course in golf. Just a nine hole. It is really good fitness.
Speaker 2It is good.
Speaker 1I mean if you, if you walk a hole. 18.
Speaker 2Damn power to you that you'll be tired. You'd be tired, I don't. I just where I am in my fitness level. I just I don't think I could walk 18 you walk nine. I could walk nine walk nine like a pleasant.
Speaker 2Pleasant in the one we play in, pleasant in like I think I've got that down to where, even after we play nine and we walk it and all that, it's like I go home, I'm not even like Tired. Yeah, you know what I mean. So I'd like to try to walk Muni nine Like a front nine or back nine.
Speaker 1We go walk 18.
Speaker 2One day You're gonna have one of those remote control uh push cards.
Speaker 1Why, dude, all those guys have dude. Like one of them follows you now or no. He was so good that he controlled it.
Speaker 2I used to talk shit about like that's so lame. But now, like after you get a push card, I'm like that's kind of cool, she's doing push card, yeah, she's doing push card. But, um, I am in the market of buying a push card, though Really used. Yeah, because it's just like I why don't you just get a? Caddy. Well, junior's not old enough.
Speaker 1You know I'll suck it to um, what was it? A slice of dopamine. He's on instagram, but he went from being a cop to uh to a golf. Like he wants a yeah, like he wants to be a golf. He is a golf influencer. Now he's uh, he's pivoting all his content into golf. He's showing his progress in golf. So him and I, we've been following each other. I've been following his like he's been killing it, like he has a job now as a content manager Of a cricket club.
Speaker 1Oh and he was telling me how, like you know, you could get a job as a caddy at a at a country club and like you'll learn a lot. And I'm like, but I don't, I don't know shit as a caddy. They're like you know they'll teach you, like you could just start teaching the kids first. Oh, so you're walking around with the kids and you're like, oh you, you should use a nine or you should use a pitching wedge. Like, oh so you started, then he started learning the course and then over time you start really learning the game.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's the thing too, because you know kids, especially when you gotta start them early, like um. Here's a good example of uh, matt Fitzpatrick, he's from, he's from anglin, you know. And uh, anglin, anglin, he's cool, he's, he's, he's um, he's that meme where, uh, there's a meme of Brooks Kepke like putting like uh Tobacco into, like his mother, like two types of golfers, like Brooks Kepke has a badass and then like the nerdy one. You see, matt, he's like putting on sunscreen. It's not the spray one, it's like the very white, thick stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just hella funny.
Speaker 2But he's a good golfer and he's, he's kept every round he's played. He has a notebook for it. He has a notebook for it. Oh, I think I know this dude and he literally like he, they go to his house. He has a bin like every hit, every shot he's hit and he like noted, notes it down.
Speaker 2I remember watching this guy crazy and I like that's. That's because they're dedicated from a young age and they had the foresight to do that so that anytime they go to like a certain like course, like they know what they're bringing. They're either like looking at those notebooks the day night before and they're just Like prepping their minds and stuff dude, it's a thing that's.
Speaker 1it's huge, it's you know it's wild. Compared to like sounds even useful. Ah, we've been in this hole before. I was like, oh, I've been in this rough, I've been in this. Oh, fuck hole, hole 13.
Speaker 2Oh man, fuck this whole Shit you know it's just, yeah, it's, it's, it's the. There's always levels to everything and you know it's just different, you know so.
Speaker 1I'm excited. I'm excited to see where we go in 2024. I definitely want to hold an open eventually.
Speaker 2Breaking news.
Speaker 1Eventually, I mean, I'm probably gonna be managing it the hyper strengthening conditioning, probably not gonna be playing it, but I do want to do something like for charity next year. I think we should think, we should think we should. I think it'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 2It'd be. It'd be a lot of fun and I, you know muni, does that a lot. They they work with people, so Should be a good fun experience the food, and the food has to be like. I mean muni's food isn't bad. Actually not bad that egg salad I had was. Good toast the bread so it holds everything better, but it was good.
Speaker 1I heard they cook for you or something. Oh, really.
Speaker 2Oh, I don't know that sounds good, that sounds fun, though, so.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, that is fun. Um, uh, what are we?
Speaker 2doing next topic. Transition.
Speaker 1I was actually gonna go, oh, actually, yeah, we should listen.
Speaker 2So, we're.
Speaker 1Let's go over the best and the best fitness trends of 2023. All right, I'm excited. According to garage gym reviews dot com, shout out to those guys backslash best and worst fitness trends just.
Speaker 2Popping pace. Credit to them, credit to them.
Walking and AI-Powered Workouts
Speaker 1They're just they did the work. I'm just gonna read, I'm just gonna kind of go over what she's gonna react to it with what they, what they have. Um, I'm gonna go One that, one of one best trend that I personally Totally agree.
Speaker 2Can I guess what it is?
Speaker 1Go ahead.
Speaker 2Is it, uh, something to do with like whoop, like the the watch? Oh, that's the second one.
Speaker 1Oh, that's a second. Well, there's several. They listed several, but I like I like Okay top two for me are like yeah, these are, these are. So yeah, I'm thinking like the whoop is like huge.
Speaker 2I think that's like no. And then water Number like maybe number one like you drinking more water.
Speaker 1That was last year.
Speaker 2That was like oh, that was last year's trend.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2So waters out, waters sparkling water, sparkling waters in.
Speaker 1I'm just kidding Um walking. Okay is making a comeback. So what was it they? I guess it started from a tiktok user, mealyn. The hot girl walk has started in 2020 by tiktok user mealyn and is still marching on strong. Mia started sharing her experience on her daily walking four mile. Her daily four mile seph self claimed hot girl walk, where she assigns her mental focus to gratitude and goal setting and encourages other tiktok users to do the same.
Speaker 1Okay so it's like your own little personal time to really focus on you, reflect on yourself, okay, which a lot of people Start doom scrolling and tend to not really understand and be in the moment.
Speaker 2Yeah, this happens Well, plus with all the like media and social like interactions, and so they just need to wind down.
Speaker 1So they just need to break focus on yourself. Everyone be comparing themselves, including me. I fucking do that shit, oh man. So they got this and they go. Oh man, I suck, yeah, I suck, they're the same age and. I suck, I'm horrible. I don't have a million dollar, jet oh.
Speaker 2What am I dying with my life? What are you doing? You don't have, you don't have. You're not driving in a Uh, a freaking tesla yet.
Speaker 1I didn't start a trt early enough, like fuck.
Speaker 2Oh, I've got to get on trend now I gotta get on trend.
Speaker 1I missed the boat by 15 years.
Speaker 2Hey, you missed the boat because liver king got the, the ab implants and stuff like did he get the ab implants? Dude, he has ab implants.
Speaker 1There is no way. Liver king has ab implants. He has ab implants, dude.
Speaker 2Dude, he's off, he's low, like reportedly Looking up.
Speaker 1Have ab implants? No, there's no way.
Speaker 2Hey bro, this shit looks too good to be like.
Speaker 1I've never had ab implants, ab etching nor any other plastic surgery underghost test. Tmz reported that he underwent a test to show that his abs are legit after coming clean about the steroids. I mean that whole topic just sounds off bro, I'm telling you, bro, like it doesn't.
Speaker 1But walking any listener who's listening to us, who's been listening to us walking? If your goal is fat loss or just getting your part and lungs back into shape, walking is a big thing. We are bipedal animals that we evolved to walk. That's how we were able to hunt down and chase down our prey. We are efficient walkers. We were the original Slenderman Dude. Think about this gazelle or hog trying to run for the life. They see this animal running on two feet and he's like, oh, I'm just going to run, and then after about 10, 15 minutes he'd lay the leg back and then the animal just keeps coming. And then he's like, oh shit, so they just keep sprinting and they just keep coming. That's scary as fuck.
Speaker 2That is pretty scary.
Speaker 1Original Slenderman I saw it somewhere, someone talked about it. But yeah, that's how. That's how Walking wears a ton of calories. It keeps your joints healthy because you're moving. That's how your joints gain your health. That's how you're moving. And when you're walking, people think, oh, I'm just walking, I'm not only doing anything. No, you're exerting energy.
Speaker 1You're exerting energy. You're moving your legs, you're working on balance and coordination. You're moving your pelvis. Your pelvis is rotating and then your spine and your arms and your shoulders and all that your body is actually rotating as you're walking. It's a great workout. It's a great exercise to do on the daily. Anyone can do it, anyone, as long as they can walk. We're not injured or suffering from inabilities or what have you, but most people can walk about 10 to 15 minutes, like right now.
Speaker 2Yeah, easy.
Speaker 1On a treadmill and doors. It doesn't have to be outside.
Speaker 2Just kind of get moving.
Speaker 1That's it.
Speaker 2You know you can do these things, that you sit down and you're under your feet and it moves it for you. You seen those what you seen, those for the elderly people.
Speaker 1I mean, if you need it.
Speaker 2Does it count? You're like no.
Speaker 1No, but if they need it, then yes, I'm all about it. If you're bedridden, yeah. Whatever can get you to move. If you're bedridden and all you can do is this, I'm for that.
Speaker 2Better than nothing.
Speaker 1Yeah, don't put words in my mouth like oh, you're not for people Can't move, Don't.
Speaker 2No no.
Speaker 1Like I'm for whatever could get you moving, grooving and doing your things.
Speaker 2Gotcha.
Speaker 1Okay. Study published by Journal of Environmental Psychology found that walking in nature or even in an urban park can help reduce the natural tendencies tendency to ruminate on negative thoughts. So if you're feeling down, go out for a walk.
Speaker 2I like that, I was trying to rhyme.
Speaker 1There's no.
Speaker 2Nope.
Speaker 1I couldn't rhyme. Second second out of this list, I'm only going to choose two. What's the second one that I feel like? That's actually. Yeah, it's on the open up.
Speaker 2Best trend the whoop.
Speaker 1Kind of.
Speaker 2The, the, the, the, the it's actually maybe.
Speaker 1yeah, actually it's not. It's not whoop per se. Ai powered workouts oh, In addition to open AI and chat, you can see making headlines all your long. Ai powered workout programs have also made an impact on the fitness industry. So using artificial intelligence to dictate programming is not new in 2023. The garage gym review team has seen this trend take off this year, with an explosion of workout apps using AI to drive progressive overload. Some of our top picks that some of the top picks to talk about is a, a, a active juggernaut.
Speaker 1Ai and I fit user workout performance and adapt your future workouts based on your current metrics, like running speed or weight and repetition performed Well. It's not exactly the same as working with a coach and personalized workout plan. An AI generated program will nudge you to push harder or lift heavier, which is better than being stuck in a rut with your workout routine. Additionally, whoop, the wearable fitness tracker brand, announced whoop coach, an AI algorithm that uses the data from your wearable tracker, including metrics of sleep, strain, recovery and stress, to identify patterns and make recommendations. Whoop coach uses more personalized data and maybe the most advanced AI generated fitness program to date. I like this. That is awesome. I like that I'm trying to cause. Our main business is personal training and this just helps make life easier for the coaches so they can actually focus on coaching and being more uh, being more involved in the programming and not so much of the weeds like, oh, I got to, I got to increase the reps in here and I got to figure out the volume.
Speaker 1Like, if we have AI just understanding, like, hey, based on this individual's metrics on what's going on, we suggest that the volumes and the sets and reps should be over here, or the movement should be focused. Then it allows the coach a little bit more room for not always making decisions on that the the day to date, that that the data stuff, and more of being more creative on like what type of movements will their client?
Speaker 1like what type of movements are actually going to be beneficial from the inefficiencies inefficiencies that they see their client moving with. So I just feel like it gives more creative freedom and more why stop there, though what? Do you?
Speaker 2mean, why don't we just have the AI coach them?
Speaker 1I mean, that's the future.
Speaker 2Look, you just control the AI. No more trainers, you know, just you and the gym and holograms. Wow, the future man. Imagine that's crazy.
Speaker 1So I actually thought of that.
Speaker 2We're having a slippery slope buddy.
Speaker 1We actually thought. I actually thought of that. I'm. I'm going to tell you a story back in 2014. I won the. I'm not one. I was part one of the top 10 personal trainers to watch right, yes, by Life Fitness. Shout out to Life Fitness. They flew me and Giselle out to New York.
Speaker 2I competed with nine other trainers from around the world.
Speaker 1You know you got judged on by how you train someone. I have to train about a professional ballerina.
Speaker 2Oh, so you're actually training people, yeah. And then there's a judge there like yo yeah, it was. Yeah, they critique the shit, yeah, I was very nervous, I was very nervous, I was very nervous, nervous nervous, but I had to train a professional ballerina and I was like what so? So they give you a professional ballerina? Did they give you someone that was unhealthy? No, so it was all healthy people. Yeah, but it was like there were athletes like dude.
Speaker 2I wish I could have been there, because the trainer was like hey, I need you to do this. I can't coach, it hurts too much, or something.
Speaker 1It's a sabotage.
Speaker 2It's a curveball. It's a curveball. What are?
Speaker 1you going to do Well the people they got. I think it was more of like a liability issue type of thing.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, yeah, Because they want anyone getting hurt, right okay, but they got us like crazy athletes.
Speaker 1That's good, but what I'm trying to get at is that during the speech, one of the directors of this program they're making a speech in there and she was like an app will never replace a coach. She said that she was an app will never replace a coach.
Speaker 2She was great. She was great.
Speaker 1I'm not trying to bag on or anything, but when she said that in my head I was like I mean, the app app sounds dope. No, but it was just like I don't know, like I don't know about that, like I think I think at the end of the day it just it just didn't feel right. When she said it I'm like no, we're replaceable in a way, like in a certain way, because there's, especially coming from San Jose, silicon Valley, a lot of engineers. They don't a lot of not in Cent engineer. That's not, that's not the right term. A lot of people who are introverted don't want that one-on-one interaction. They don't want a personal trainer but they still want help.
Speaker 1And I've ran into a lot of people who would rather not talk to me, but they just want, like, the workouts, they just want the data, and there was, like there was this one gym that does they're trying to do something, that where everything's uploaded into this machine and it's like a machine, it's like a, it's like a chest fly leg extension lat pull-down machine.
Speaker 2It has everything on it.
Speaker 1It has everything. It's like one of those like Sears machines, but on steroids Okay, gotcha, yeah. And it's like it has like a computer and you just upload your data and it'll be like, oh okay, it'll just tell you what to do, it's all yeah. And it's like, oh okay, 10 of lat pull-downs, 10 chest press, 10 leg extensions, rest. And people are like I love this because it just tells me what to do. I don't have to deal with anyone and it it, it tracks my progress.
Speaker 2That'd be a great topic for us to dive into.
Speaker 1Yeah, like AI and computer-based oh, we're going to articles already.
Speaker 2Oh perfect. Coming at you in 2024.
AI in Fitness and Personal Training
Speaker 1Yeah, they are actually. But but the my thing with that is going to your original input. There is going to be a time where you know, like people, when they pay personal training, it's an investment in your health, right? I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh no, my personal training is cheap. It's not cheap. I'm paying someone a hundred to $150 a session to train with you. I charge that because I want to. I want to pay my trainers a good wage. When we're in Silicon Valley, I mean, if you're in the Midwest, you could probably get away with charging 75, 90. But if you're in the West Coast, especially in San Jose, silicon Valley, we we got to charge. Dude, in LA they charge like what? 495, 500, probably now a thousand a session.
Speaker 2A session.
Speaker 1Yeah, in LA, because they got it like that and the studio's pay for it.
Speaker 2Costs is everything too.
Speaker 1Costs is everything.
Speaker 2They're all surrounded.
Speaker 1But what I'm, what I'm trying to get at, is like AI will definitely replace that where you know the average or the average person who wants to do personal training.
Speaker 2It just kind of streamlines everything for everybody.
Speaker 1Yeah, they'll be like oh, if I could have an app that's just AI powered and it could just tell me what to do, or it could scan me and and do a movement screen and be like hey, you're, you have knee valgus, you have this and the other, your hips are fucked Like you don't got to do with all these.
Speaker 2I've seen commercials for apps that, where you like, scans your body and it tells you how much VMI you have, and well, that's the scan.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah no-transcript.
Speaker 2Uh, you know, I'm trying to say like I know you guys have the live body or the in body, in body at the yeah, that's like the electrical notes you hold it. I understand that. That makes sense to me because there's nodes coming, could really feel it out. But just using your iPhone to take pictures of you to understand how much BMI and lean mass or lean muscle you have, I think that that possibility, or is it kind of just marketing right now?
Speaker 1No, they did, they did the. We did the fit 3d scan, where they actually did the scanning right and then they calculated your. They calculated your body mass index and your body fat and you're asking how accurate that is. We're just using cameras, right?
Speaker 2Yeah, just cameras, but they're.
Speaker 1They use their there. They worked on their algorithm and they compared it to the algorithm of the dexa scan, so it's comparable.
Speaker 2Okay, but that's interesting.
Speaker 1But if you just run that through an AI, it'll just be more efficient. Now, because the AI will like take, because it only the AI will learn, the generative AI will only know what you give it. Right, right, right. That's the thing. Like people are writing blog posts with AI and it's stupid, it's so stupid. Like people, I mean I can answer, I could understand writing emails with it cool. But like writing like it doesn't understand, not yet of like how to write a simple like I don't know, like it makes up sources. Did you know humans can fly by the age of 35? Source Wait, wait, what my user.
Speaker 2It's like wait what? What source DC comic error 404.
Speaker 1Yeah but I mean where? Yeah, to answer your question again, ai being a viable option for people who would otherwise do personal training. Going into AI, that's a big viable option. For me as a business owner, what I see in the future happening is I still would want to serve the community that wants to connect with people, so personal training will still be there. Yeah, it'll just be like way more niche down. It'll be a niche market, which it already is what we're doing, but I truly feel that people will still want to come into the gym for like an experience of to get pumped.
Speaker 1Yeah, they just it's a general like right, and I'd be a fool to say like, oh, a technology in the future will never replace gyms.
Speaker 2I'm not gonna say that but yeah, I mean, there's so many market, there's so many products out there.
Speaker 1There's so many things that could just happen in the future that I don't even know. You know, there's like so many things at home gyms that are trying to like yeah, the bronze James really works out with Commercials. Yeah, it works out with LeBron James. Lebron.
Speaker 2James works out with LeBron James on the tonal and he that's how he gets ripped, okay.
Speaker 1I'm just saying that's the future. That's what got him into the league, got it.
Speaker 2You know what, going back to your, the seers like the machine. It's like the bow flex extreme, except this has a computer Like you are not strong enough.
Speaker 1Yet you cannot leave until you finish your lips. Oh no, I'm more a little man. Five more sister girl.
Speaker 2I like how this machine is like ways and you can change the voice, terry, crews and stuff You're like. So only ten reps, you like? Indeed, hey, oh, man, cruise, you want to collab? Let us know, I'd be the tree. We're developing something.
Speaker 1But uh, yeah, I mean the future. I would see, I would still see, I would make a gym. Let's say, 20 years from now. I can see a successful gym being like a very clean environment, still has all the all the irons, all the plates, open space where people can actually do their AI generator workouts or listen to their AI app and and just work out. But there also will be a demand for studios to have it have an experience people want to have.
Speaker 1They want to do things. So like classes, like Barry's bootcamp, but yeah, more extra. Yeah, more, because people come out, they want to see a coach, they want to.
Speaker 2You know, they want to be they want to feel like sort of motivation, that's. Yeah, they want to be part of something. Yeah, they're part of a tribe and that's, and that's still gonna be there. Yeah, that's. I think it'd be very difficult for an AI to Reimagine that or like, oh no, they can.
Speaker 1Sky yet.
Speaker 2Right, but here's my next question about the future, like fitness and stuff like mm-hmm. What about machines and like weights? Machines like I, like you, said, 20 years from now, we'll still have the irons and the weights. Will we still have that, yeah, or will there be like a dumbbell or like a plate that you Could just put? Oh this, we want a hundred pounds on this one now. Maybe, you know I'm saying manipulate matter. That would be crazy, huh, that's imagine like having a like a fine physics a Bar that has like two 45s right it's like 145.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah but it's really like 225.
Fitness Trends and Ice Bath Use
Speaker 1I could. I could see that as like magnet, like using magnetic thing, but then you run into issues because it fucks with you. Like, yeah, like, can you guarantee so it won't fuck with someone's pacemaker, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2It doesn't look cool either, what it looks way better when there's like more plates you know, I Mean they're trying to do that with the bars and it's.
Speaker 1It's like that. I like the wires.
Speaker 2Yeah, the wires, oh, this is 400 pounds.
Speaker 1And you're just like but it doesn't look cool. Where's the place you were still place like? I think plates have been around for hundreds of years it's gonna stay and I'm not gonna be the guy like to talks about horses and be like horses. I've been around for a hundred years. What is this car like? But you know if, if you can manipulate matter or you know, that'd be crazy. But I could see some type of tech where it's like a Magnetic thing, where it's like you get one set of iron and it's just.
Speaker 1It's just it's just how how hard you crank up the Magnet.
Speaker 2That really Exuberate you think how crazy it is, how, like, fitness will be the same, but it'll also evolve like it's pretty wild. Oh yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, so I mean fitness is one of the most. If you take all the bullshit, take all the salesmanship, take all the marketing, fitness is one of the most honest things you could truly sell. Where it's like here's a place where you can come in, pay ten bucks, back then pay ten bucks, twenty bucks a month, come into your workout, you know, use our machines and then off you go right, like it. Ultimately, my retirement plan is to just have a gym like that, where it's like open gym. We have trainers, we have all that, but it's just kind of. It's not based off of People not showing up, it's based off of people showing up and contributing to the community.
Speaker 1That's like my yeah big vision, you know, like my own gym when I'm 70.
Speaker 2I gotta admit, like being part of HSE and, you know, being in the gym, versus going to just 24 like there's. You know, it's not for everybody. There's some people who just want to get in, get the pump, do their stuff and get out. They don't want to be like, hey, what's up? You know. Oh, did you watch the game? I was. You know it's for different people, you know, and I don't think there's any reasons for anyone to be like, oh, I would never pay that much for a gym just to live weights.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, there's people like that.
Speaker 2There's definitely people like that, but it's just, it's not for you, you know just fuck off.
Speaker 1That's usually my response to everything like that's I do just well, it really depends on where you're at to with your life, right? I mean, dude, five years ago, if they told us like hey, you got to pay 50 bucks to play this 18 hole, we'd be like fuck you what, we don't play golf. Now it's like oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2It's just like video games. You know, when we grow it up like Super Nintendo, games were like 30 bucks, right for me, they still are yeah. Now we go to like play stations like 50 bucks and play says you 60 bucks.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, 60 plus. Like oh, you want to get to this next level with this cool ass armor, so the $20,. But wait what?
Speaker 2paywall. But you know, just, that's just how it is. You know I mean, but can not for everybody, can I play?
Speaker 1Okay, so we talked about the best trends, best friends worst trends worst trends.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Ice baths replacing basic recovery. Hear me out, this is huge. Hear me out, it's huge. Oh my, hear me out, hear me out, okay. So Ice baths and cold plunges are all the rage.
Speaker 2Yes, from.
Speaker 1June 2022 to May 2023. Right, the keyword cold plunge increased from 11,000 monthly searches to just 50,000. Wow, but is the juice worth the squeeze? I?
Speaker 2Don't know. What do you think?
Speaker 1long story short, pete, a lot of a lot of coaches out there even the founder of a garage reviews thinks the cold tubs are fat. Okay, it's used a lot in the sports setting. We used it a lot when I was like interning for athletic training and when I was interning in the professional level, like I, ice Tubbs were used to help recover right from, you know, injuries and all that stuff but soreness and soreness. But you know there's other. There's other less expensive ways in buying like a hundred fifty, two hundred thousand or two hundred, that thousand, two hundred dollar tub and and just soaking it. I mean it works, it helps people. I'm gonna say like, if you swear by it, good for you, boo, boo.
Speaker 2But you mean? I mean I have a cheaper way. I just buy a freezer, outdoor freezer, pull water in it and the next day it's it's ready for I have a cheaper way. What's you okay? What is it?
Speaker 1okay, I go to Costco.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I'm not a member.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1I'm saying we get food so I have to show a card. So I go, I go, okay, I go straight in the back to the freezer section, okay, like where you get the milk, yeah, yeah, and it's like that whole big freezer. I just stand there and I'm cold.
Speaker 2Here it is. Here's the thing though free Costco, you do have to have a card to get food. Now, wait what? Yeah, so like you're talking about hot dogs and stuff. You have to have a membership now.
Speaker 1No, then I'll just go with, I'll find a Filipino family and I'll just walk behind the dead.
Speaker 2You know what it's funny to this whole cold cold punch thing, like it's such a huge trend now and people like swear by it. Like you said, if it works for you, works for you. I remember times where I had to wake up very early and I just take a cold shower. I mean, cold shower is fine, cold shower, I think it works just fine. I don't think you need a huge setup or because the reason why I bring up a freezer is because I've seen people get Like they're freezers, put them outside with water and in the morning they get a huge like barbell and break down the ice.
Speaker 2So like get in and it's just kind of like that's so weird.
Speaker 1I mean it, it there are some benefits as far as, like mentally and physically, like getting you focused, and oh yeah, I think it's more of like a mental thing, but it's a fat dude.
Speaker 2I definitely think it's more of like if I do this today, I could conquer the day type deal. Yeah, it's more in that fashion now but it's like oh, it's so hard.
Speaker 1It's like I don't know. 10 years ago, when I was doing fitness, no one was fucking doing this. Yeah, it turns out like people were doing it to just recover, but they weren't fucking going live. It's a live style, or you know. They weren't going live or posting about like I just started my day.
Speaker 1Which which if you're listening, there are some people I follow they're, they're really cool, they. They do this. I'm not trying to shit on them Like they're really great, but, like I said, if it works for you, work, because some of them do it for mental health, and I'm all about mental health.
Speaker 2Yeah and that's fuck, yeah, if you get through, if I get through this, I could get through. Yeah, like I like that.
Speaker 1But if it asks for as far as fat, like no one was doing this 10 years ago.
Speaker 2I mean as they almost ruined this shit five years ago.
Speaker 1That's true.
Speaker 2I mean as long as I mean also think you're doing it safely too. I'm sure there's a way you can do it like not safe and I don't know. Yeah, just like hold your breath and just go underwater, go underwater and yeah, but that's yeah, it's freaking, no.
Speaker 1I mean most of there's more effective ways like getting more sleep to to work. Yeah, more protein, drinking plenty of water right. I mean, but those aren't sexy. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 2It doesn't look good.
Speaker 1It doesn't get likes, doesn't get engagement, it doesn't get engagement, doesn't get likes, doesn't get comments.
Speaker 2Oh, you're eating chicken again.
Speaker 1Like what's the social blade, like grade on your profile, if all you do is post yourself sleeping and eating extra protein?
Speaker 2I mean you could post yourself sleeping on twitch.
Speaker 1Speaking of extra protein.
Speaker 2Snickers snickers high protein with 20 grams of protein 20 grams of protein Mmm. Mmm, why I'm gonna finish it Speaking of hungry, hey man.
Speaker 1I'm proud of this shit yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I'm good, but All right.
Speaker 1So because I'm like I'm usually the first like I'm trying to like. There's people who ask me help for social media content and I said don't Devalue yourself. You know, like people wanting to post For 300 bucks, but you have like 20,000 followers, why not? No, oh, deny it.
Speaker 2Really.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Like, if you're 20,000, you have good engagement. Especially the younger crowds. They got great engagement 1000 bucks minimum. That's just me going like. Just think about, like, how creative you are and all the the reaching. You especially have high engagement.
Speaker 2Especially the work you put in for each real Well, a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1Then on yourself better yourself, because I'm telling you it's gonna hit. Someone's gonna be like all right, and I know joke, and I've been saying this for years and and I'm the type of person where it's like you know, I try to lead by example. And for the longest time I was denying all these, like all these fucking people would just email me like oh you know, if you want to do a story, we'll pay 50 bucks a story or pay a hundred dollars a post, thousand. And then I'm like no, I started a thousand and I get ghosted right and then this month ship. I'm not saying any pricing details, but I saw, I said I told them a ridiculous number and they're like okay. And you're like okay, sure, and I'm like Okay.
Speaker 2Imagine they're like left to me and they're like what an idiot. What'll he? Low probably low-balled himself probably probably so, but yeah.
Speaker 1I don't even know I'm supposed to be talking about that, but Well, live and learn, live and learn.
Speaker 2All right. So cold plunges and what's the other other thing? I'm kind of excited to hear what the other one is.
Speaker 1There's no, so stupid Biohacking oh, what is that? It's a generalized term that essentially means self experimentation with your lifestyle, namely with things like nutrition, exercise and sleep. One common means of biohacking Is through technology to check your fitness and sleep habits. Biohacking can also involve testing tools like fitness trackers, massage guns, infrared saunas and customized supplements to improve your recovery or affect overall health. Sometimes the term biohacking is synonymous with reverse aging, where things can get a little weird right, that doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1Again. I'm reading this all straight from garage gym reviews Um best known where's trends article. I'll link it in the show notes. Um, but yeah.
Speaker 2So people are like oh, let's try a biohack. Today I'm gonna eat chicken For six hours straight. See what happens to my body.
Speaker 1Yeah, or it's like oh my god, I'm gonna buy this hornet goat weed and then We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2I'm gonna eat raw ginger Every day every day. Oh, where'd you tell me about raw ginger. I do that Just because my dad read an article saying that how good ginger is for you and your blood and your blood sugar and stuff. And yeah, you know, and it's funny because there's a limit you're supposed to take. Like like five to six grams is like the most you should take in a day, or something like that of ginger, of ginger.
Speaker 1What raw ginger, palling that quartz.
Speaker 2He takes like a big ass teaspoon of it. I'm just like Yo. I'm not gonna lie though, when I take that amount of type of ginger like, my stomach hurts like I am because maybe no it's because the digestive it's just, it's a lot. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1So I so I was like what the fuck I'm?
Speaker 2not gonna lie, though it's. It does help my digestion, though Like helps with, like I do take. I'm drinking metamucil, I'm old, I need the fiber. So you're biohacking, a biohacking you know, yeah, but no, but you know, I I've never heard that term before and I just think it's like, like you said, it's a fad, like a fad type word.
Exploring Biohacking and Anti-Aging
Speaker 1Well, they talk about this article, andrew guttman, who's like the head of content over there he goes. I have no issue with people trying new things to get certain results or because they like how it makes them feel, but when you start touting saunas, ice baths, special workout machines as essential or key to Unlock a fitter body, especially when research on many of these products are still so new, it's essentially the same as snake oil.
Speaker 2Oh, gotcha, it's true Like um, oh, I swear that mushroom coffee is so much better.
Speaker 1Oh my god, I know, I fell into that too.
Speaker 2I have mushroom coffee Fuck so you're drinking that stuff, I'm drinking that shit. Is it like working? I mean.
Speaker 1I'm awake.
Speaker 2Uh, I mean yeah, what are the benefits of it?
Speaker 1mushroom mushroom coffee. Supposedly it's supposed to like Be a little bit more calming, not as crazy, but I'm like it's caffeine at the end of the day, bro.
Speaker 2Well you're just a lower dose of caffeine from beans versus mushrooms.
Speaker 1But I mean, I mean, one of the biggest things, especially for biohacking, is a lot of the anti aging stuff, because Now that we talked about that previous episode, ozempic, ozempic- yeah, ozempic yeah. Yeah, there, that's a pill that helps you lose weight. It actually works, but you don't shit for five days.
Speaker 2I told this guy last pod Ozempic is not a pill, it's an injection. Oh, it's an injection.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, sorry, there's a drug, it's a drug.
Speaker 2It's still a drug. It's still a drug, injected, you know. But you just can't shit for five days. I mean that's if you get past day two and three.
Speaker 1But then if you shit it like explodes, right. Yeah, you're like.
Speaker 2But again, that's when they do, when they take it in high doses.
Speaker 1Yeah, but because, you know, because people are stupid.
Speaker 2It's funny because you could adjust the doses on it yourself. You know what.
Speaker 1I mean, yeah, that's, that's another stupid thing. They should.
Speaker 2Yeah, anyways, that's they should have pens. They're like oh, it's 0.5. It's 0.5.
Speaker 1But also it's like who's stopping someone from not taking four pills instead of two, like the prescribe?
Speaker 2injections. But yeah, injections but I'm saying like no, yeah, yeah, you just.
Speaker 1It should just be a one time, and then you're done.
Speaker 2Oh, got you like a one and done yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, but then you need a coat. No, it's just too much now it's too much. We need AI to like Like sir you have taken, sir, you take it.
Speaker 2Four doses Stop.
Speaker 1I'm calling the emergency services now.
Speaker 2Please sit by the toilet.
Speaker 1Please sit by the toilet. I think that's AI is going to save us from ourselves.
Speaker 2That's probably what's gonna happen I?
Speaker 1hope so. It's not gonna do sky-nish it, because it's gonna be like holy shit, this piece is insane.
Speaker 2Holy fuck.
Speaker 1But, yeah, but yeah, that is so bio hacking. So what I'm trying to get at is that, even though you know they have the fat loss remedy now, so everyone, so you can't Things that are like oh, fat loss products, it's gonna burn fat. No, people already know this drug really fucking works, and they're gonna do it, they're gonna hop on it. But anti-aging that's. There's still nothing for that. So, there's gonna be a lot of bio hacking, anti-aging shit out there.
Speaker 2The only anti-hacking or anti-aging thing I could think of that's like I don't say works, but it's like effective is like Benjamin Bun disease. No Botox, you know, I mean like botox, like it helps hold your wrinkles in and stuff. You know I mean like.
Speaker 1I think you love like this.
Speaker 2Like in all reality. I think that's the only thing that's like, really not I won't say effective, but like in terms of anti. It's not anti-aging. It's just kind of like holding the gates back, like holding the. You know holding it back, you know, like the, the wrinkles of your face and shit you know. But Everyone's gonna age, everyone's gonna die, you know. You want to know how to like. I don't think it should be anti-aging, I think you just be more of like Extending your life. I think that's what we should be focused on and that's again like we talked about walking, walking every day, sleeping, sleeping, recovering the theme of this episode, guys.
Speaker 1Yeah, and like it's walking, walking and sleeping. I'm walking out and recovering, we're covering well and and eating 20 grams of protein every bar for snickers.
Speaker 2But but yeah, you know, I'm saying like that, that I think, in terms of it shouldn't be anti-aging, should be like we should Be talking about extending our lives through what we do every day, you know, like eating and walking. It's the only way things we could control, things you can control, like there there's absolutely what it? What is it Like? It's too good to be true.
Speaker 1It's probably it probably is too good to be true Like that. That's six team parlay. We did through a generator of ai to see if it predicts the teams that'll win, and it totally did not.
Speaker 2I'm gonna call out. Okay, I'm gonna call him out on this. Okay, he told me to do it. I'm gonna call him out because he sent me the video and he was like I was. He was like oh, ai is picking the picks for us, right?
Speaker 1But I told and I was like it.
Speaker 2I don't know man like and then it was funny because it was like oh, you know, it's picking. And I'm like okay, Where's the picks? He's like watch the video. I'm like it cuts off. There's, it's the highlighted ones. I'm like well, thank you for telling me. I'm watching this video 80 times. I'm like is it, is it cutting off? Doug, you got to tell me that it's the highlighted teams or what it's picking.
Speaker 1That's a great, uh, that's a great hack. Or that's a great like youtube or like content hack, like to make people watch your whole video. Like, oh, watch these, and you're like watching the video. Like, did it cut off?
Speaker 2Well, that's why you got to be like like you know those like fake, like ghost people, like they swear they're like haunted, their houses haunted, and stuff. They always put these like reels up of them, like talking like into the camera, and then something the background moves, oh bro. And then the title is like did you catch that?
Speaker 1I did catch that. It's crazy.
Speaker 2It's whole fucking nuts. So then you had to like, where is it? And you, and then you realize I've watched this five fucking times, where the fuck is it? So you don't did you catch it. And then you're just like the roommate, naked in the back and you're just like I gotta go to the comments because I didn't fucking see it. Five times and the comment says top left top left oh shit. Yeah, it's right there. Fuck. Then it got seven views out of me.
Speaker 1Yeah, well.
Speaker 2I don't know what it works, you know so.
Speaker 1Speaking of content Jim story Saturdays to wrap this episode up.
Speaker 1So this is the latest Jim story Saturday from the reddit fitness community. Now, real quick, this is just a one of one of the newer stories. Hasn't really been uploaded a lot, but I picked it, uh, because I feel like it represents a majority of people going into 2024, starting their fitness journey. So, so, joined a gym after himing and highing for the longest time. Goal is to what? Himing and high? Himing and highing Okay, himing and highing. Goal is to increase endurance and muscle mass. I'm supposed to be getting a free training session at the gym, but everyone is busy with the holiday, so I totally get it.
Speaker 1Well, last night I decided to go to the gym and mess around. I started with a brief 10 minute jog to warm up, but I probably pushed too hard because it got me winded. I went to do some machines. Again, I think I pushed too hard too soon because by the end of the third set I was getting very exhausted. I only ended up doing five exercises and one of them I barely started because I was shaking. Obviously, I didn't push myself to do anything that would harm me. I definitely need to get a plan. That's. It was a very vanilla story, yeah, but I feel like it represents a majority of people going into the gym in 2024 or just just starting the gym.
Speaker 1Like they. They end up they don't know what to do. They jump into the cardio machine because it's the first one they see it's usually available. They do like 10 minutes of what, what fuck? All right.
Speaker 1Yeah and then after that they, they look for a machine and maybe the chest press is open, because we know how to press. We do it all the time arm first, so they do the chest press, and then maybe I got to pull something and they look, they look for something to pull and all that machine's open. I'm gonna pull it Three sets of 10 and then maybe some leg stuff. So maybe a leg extension or leg press leg press looks too scary. Maybe the leg extension, I'll try it out. I don't know how to set this up right, and then Then that that didn't feel right. They didn't set it up right. Then a leg curl machine, maybe some abs, and they're done Like.
Choosing a Gym and Workout Routine
Speaker 1I feel like that's probably what a lot of people going into the gym as a newbie run into. So I would advise. I would advise this if you're new brand fucking new and don't know where to start, I don't mind going to the cardio doing for 10 minutes. Do an uphill walk. You don't have to go to the elliptical, you gotta do a treadmill, do an uphill walk, get the heart flowing, get the blood flowing, get your core temp up. If you haven't moved in a while, this is gonna feel like a feat, so don't go all crazy. And then I would just stick to three main movements.
Speaker 1After that, look for, start with your lower body first, look for the leg press. Look for and this is just me just touting these machines off Like if you have no idea and I have no time to coach you right now, but if you were looking for some advice do some legs, again a leg press machine, something like a big compound movement. You don't really need to do leg extensions like curls right now, like leg press. And then after that do some back. You know T bar rows or one of those hammer strength machines where they have the plates and you're just pulling them down. They got those lat pull down machines, but they're with the barbells.
Speaker 1And then, for each, and then after that you do like a chest movement or a pressing movement, you can do again a laying down dumbbell press or, again going to the machine, a seated chest press. Two to three sets, 10 to 15 reps, with a rest in between about two minutes, and that, if you're super new and you do that, that's already a really great start. And then you finish by doing some trunk work, ability work. What about some abs? Some abs or core work. I mean you could do side planks, three sets, two sets, two to three sets of like 15 seconds. Those are hard side planks. But again, I'm not going to put you right into like sit, everyone does sit ups and all that stuff. But if you do side planks, side planks are great and ending then doing them, that should take you about 45 minutes, 40 minutes.
Speaker 2That sounds like a solid workout.
Speaker 1It's very general. It's very super fucking general, like it's like super basic. It's not crazy. But just controlling the tempo, getting full range of motion of each movement, just full range of motion. You don't have to like bang these out, get moderate weight, go all the way down, all the way up, feel the stretch of the muscle Cause you're opening up, you're not moving, your body's not used to moving in these ranges of motion. So just slowly re-introducing that range of motion to your body so we could adapt and do that over time. And then you sleep, you get your protein. Ice bath in the morning, ice bath in the morning, that's that I feel like. That's that.
Speaker 2You do that, you do your ice plunge in the morning, you have your mushroom coffee, mushroom coffee. Go to work. I have another shot of a. Another shot of it. I was that big, I was that big.
Speaker 1Jesus Christ and you finish the day off with some Snickers high protein 20 grams.
Speaker 2I finished mine 40 grams of protein, only four grams of sugar. Woo, Chocolate caramel, some peanuts epic taste, Anything else to add? No, I mean that sounds pretty good, but like, If I'm starting out and I want to go to the gym, right, Am I going immediately to like the 24 hour fitness or am I going to like what's the other one big around here City sport, City sport. Is that like my first options? Because I might be intimidated because there's a lot of people there and, of course, new year's resolutions. People are going to be like workout, you know, but are there any other options?
Speaker 1Like that's a great question. So there's I'm about to post this video up, but there's three different types of gyms that anyone can join. Okay, if you look across any business model the gyms, there's a health club, big box health club gyms where you just pay membership.
Speaker 2It's like 24.
Speaker 1Like 24 hour fitness, city sport, la fitness, all that as law fitness, sloth law fitness law fitness, Not LA law, fitness Law fitness. The second tier is the studio showman fitness studios like Barry's Boot Camp. You're going for a show.
Speaker 2Orange theory.
Speaker 1Like orange theory. You're going for a show, I mean you're going to get a great workout, but the coach is going to be energetic in your face. They did Broadway, Like it's a thing. Like it's a thing, it's great. I didn't know that. No, like they, they create their workouts. I'm not trying to shit on them. Like I know, I know these people like they're great. They're really great at what they do. I've done it early in my career and I fucking love it. It's fucking great to do those things. But to do those, it's like those studio workout group setting, that's like that. That's second type of gym. The third type of gym is personal training. It's straight up, just one-on-one personal training.
Speaker 1It's like a fitness studio. You have a team of coaches there and they're only doing small group or one-on-one coaching. It's more individualized, it's more intimate, but yeah, so if you're just starting and this actually goes against what I do, so I would say you do a trial session at a personal training studio.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Do a trial session. We do trial sessions.
Speaker 2HSEcom.
Speaker 1HSEgymcom. Hsegymcom we do trial sessions. We do that and then at the end we ask you to, you know, enroll in a program or what have you? Yeah, Okay, If you're tied on a budget, but you still want to learn and you don't want to do all the YouTube stuff and you really want to be in front of a coach. The best coaches are these fitness studios.
Speaker 1I hire them, like I know the really great coaches I know in the industry. They work for themselves or they work for a private studio that are really serious about fitness, really serious about coaching, and they pay a pretty penny. So if you do at least a free trial there, you're at least getting you're getting, you're getting in front of someone who's been in the industry, knows what they're doing, as opposed to if you do a free trial at a 24 or city sport nine times out of 10, cause the best coaches there are always booked, so they're not going to be able to give you a free trial. So the ones who are available I was at this point too and I was a rookie as a trainer, my rookie year, bottom tier. You have a lot of rookies in these, in these big box health clubs. So if you do a free session with them, it's going to be very vanilla, it's going to be very cookie cutter.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, but that's just how the industry is. But if you go and do a trial session with a private studio, it'll be more in depth, because these coaches really care what the fuck they do. They're passion.
Speaker 2maybe it's their passion.
Speaker 1You do a free session with a private studio, take what you learned about yourself and then do an online program or something and then go to a health club Like that's how I would if I was really taught on money. That's how I would do it. And then you look for. You look for specials for like group ponds or whatever, or class pass. They do specials for the studios. And if you want to mix it up a bit like, you sign up for like a four pack of like $99 or something and you use that like once every two weeks. So it's like you mix it up. I just gave you something that a lot of gym owners don't want to do.
Speaker 2Hidden secrets of the gyms. They don't want to tell you.
Speaker 1It's just like if you're on a budget, like obviously, if you're really serious, you're going to enroll. Because what I've learned from working with a lot of clients who do personal training some private or classes like people are going to sign up for what they want to sign up for. That's just at the end of the day, and that's what I want my gym to be filled with. It's like I want people who generally want personal training and have the means to invest in it invest in themselves and, like I really want to learn, I really want to do this program for myself but, I need, I want to be with you guys, I need guidance.
Speaker 1I have the money to do it. Let's do this and it's fun. It's just fun across the board, but that's where you want to end up, where you are comfortable at at the end of the day. So, but I mean, if fitness studios are jammed, do fitness studios dude like they have monthly memberships, weekly, I think they have like crazy packages now, and if you know what the fuck you're doing and you just don't want to be bothered, then yeah, health club.
Speaker 2So what's, what's, what's the package at HSE Is it? Do you have one coming up?
Speaker 1Oh, we do. We have a Kickstarter program.
Speaker 2Let's go.
Speaker 1Don't know the price.
Speaker 2But it's coming up.
Speaker 1But it's coming up. Well, we started at around 297 and it gave you three personal training sessions and one month of unlimited classes, but I think we're bumping that up to 347,. But it's three personal training sessions and one month of unlimited.
Speaker 2Not a great pitch and not a great pitch but. It's 297. We're going to go right up, Well it's cause, it's cause it.
Speaker 1it's sold really well. It sold really well.
Speaker 2It's sold really well, and also don't get me wrong, you get unlimited classes Like.
Speaker 1I, I Well, we're also adding more classes, adding more classes Like.
Speaker 2The coaches who run these classes are amazing. I would love to see these guys have full, like Schedules yeah. Just filled with people, because they deserve it. They work really hard.
Speaker 1Thanks, man.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, dude, it's just. You know, I feel the camaraderie, let's camaraderie, but like the want and the desire of the coaches there, not just to make their clients better, to make themselves better too. So it's, it's really good. Like I, I want these guys to be successful. So please, like, join us in our journey and Thank you. It'd be really nice. It'd be really nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we're also trying to make a little profit because I mean, you got to put food on the table, you got to put, you got to put chalk in the chalk dispenser.
Speaker 1Well, I got. I mean, you got to get floor cleaner for the floor.
Speaker 2I have other partners in yeah, we need to get paid. We need to pay those.
Speaker 1But you know that's, that's a Different story. That's a big problem, guys, not you, but just a little insight. But if you listen this far, thank you guys so much, thank you Thank you. For listening to us Jump. Don't forget to follow us on all the channels on Like and subscribe. Like and subscribe. Drop a comment. You know, review this podcast if you really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2Five stars please.
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Speaker 2The metrics mean a lot to us, and you know what for all the YouTubers out there that are watching this very first taped podcast of ours? Drop us your favorite workout at the gym or machine, or push or pull or whatever. Oh, yeah, drop that in the comments Austin, what's your favorite Favorite? What Like? Like Deadlift?
Speaker 1My favorite workout right now.
Speaker 2Or favorite movement Snatch, snatch.
Speaker 1Snatch.
Speaker 2Alright, right now, for me it's the squat. Yo, we're getting more depth. Now let's go. So that's really something we're focusing on me and my coach. So that's right now. So let us know what your favorite is on the comments below.
Speaker 1And yeah, Let us know your favorite workouts in the comments below, and also any other topics you want us to cover in the future episodes. Thank you guys for watching. This is Coach Austin, from Hypersharing to Conditioning, where we nerd out workout and podcast With my co-host, kevin I wrap a rubber gun.
Speaker 2We're going to figure this out still.
Speaker 1And we'll see you guys later. Good bye, bye.