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Talking Nutrition
9 - Instagram Q&A: Home Workouts, Fat Percentages, and Carb Cycling
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come back to episode 9 of talk nutrition
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how's it going
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it's good I'm proud of us for being so
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consistent with this
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me too I was actually thinking about
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that before we got on
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like [ __ ] it's episode nine already like
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we've been doing quite a few right now
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in a short period of time so um
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I was listening to Cody or I saw him
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post something was it yesterday and he
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was like he has done 800
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episodes consistently
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that's like that's 100 times as many as
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we got so far
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can you imagine though like a hundred
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times as many that's nuts yeah
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yeah it's insane and that's really
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[ __ ] cool because I I don't think a
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lot of people will stay that consistent
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no
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that's maybe a good lesson too he's
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I always used to say to him so he's been
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both our mentors
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and uh
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do you juggle all of this like how do
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you do everything that you do he's just
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like a machine
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he is and I'm trying to figure out
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systems for my business as well as well
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yeah because it's um it's like the
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podcast and then trying to edit and then
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I'll I'll do YouTube and then I still
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right now I gotta catch up with the
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YouTube stuff man I'm doing articles and
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as clients and more client stuff which
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obviously is the priority like
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it's a lot of stuff you know on your own
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yeah clients for me always take the
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priority that's number one obviously 100
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yeah and but I go in and out of
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being like really in with social media
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and like my mail list I honestly that's
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a weakness of mine okay so like I'll be
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like in my mailing list and like really
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good and then I'll kind of like back off
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a little bit then I'm like all in on my
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Instagram and then I'm like oh like this
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week I'm struggling with Instagram I'm
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like all right I just don't feel
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creative I don't know what to post
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um and he's just like
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for like
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10 years straight oh yeah
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we're a one-man team okay one man team
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he's got like a big team yeah that's
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true well by now in the beginning
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probably didn't but uh yeah oh no he
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definitely didn't but yeah
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I was gonna say this is a good lesson
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for The Listener too because the
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successful people you know of course now
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we're talking business and coaching and
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stuff but also in health and fitness
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are the people who are really [ __ ]
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consistent
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and it's the people who go to the gym
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and get their steps in even when they
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don't want to
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and I drove to the gym yesterday evening
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to get more steps in because it was
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raining outside it's like 10 almost you
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know I'm like still on the treadmill
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feeling like an idiot I gotta get one
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but anyway like it's the people who do
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that stuff right the boring stuff the
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eating your veggies drinking your water
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getting your protein in going for your
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walks you know training if you don't
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want to
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of course also when you do want to but
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going to bed early all that stuff
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it's just people who stay consistent who
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are actually successful right right
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and that's probably the hardest thing we
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need to learn as well as and it's normal
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to like have one thing kind of fall off
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and then yeah you know you're focusing
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on other things and then something will
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fall off and you restart it again like
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it's not it's it's normal to do that
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like it's the half like I said it
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happens to me all the time like
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especially with my mailing list like but
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I always go back to it you know I don't
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just completely give up on it and that's
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what matters yeah
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so guys listening if you you know
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Mission proteins for a couple days it's
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okay you start eating more protein again
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the next day right and the same with
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your steps and all that you know like it
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does happen flow and you can't be
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perfect all the time and that's okay no
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so
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let's get into the episode right yes
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another q a I really like this format
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and uh we actually already got some
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quite good feedback on the the previous
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one
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anyway so um we figured let's do a few
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more right
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so if you don't know I mentioned this
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last time as well if you want to submit
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a question
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or just a struggle or whatever it might
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be go to my Instagram go to Christine's
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Instagram go to that link in our bio and
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scroll down you'll see a question box or
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just DMS that's fine too
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but submit a question I will definitely
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uh take that in consideration for the
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next
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um q a episode
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so a couple questions you want to start
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with first is going to be tips to stay
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full between meals then we're going to
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get into realistic fat percentages
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um carb cycling we'll talk about proper
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home workout schedules and maybe a
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little bit more
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but you want to start it off with the
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first one yep so the first question was
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tips to staying full between meals eat a
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big breakfast but very hungry between
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lunch and dinner
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so the first thing that comes to my mind
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here is that
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someone's calling me
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um is that between lunch and dinner
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that's a long period of time to go
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without food so this is actually like
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not a complicated thing I would simply
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add in
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a smaller meal a smaller snack between
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lunch and dinner right so when I'm
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eating I have breakfast lunch
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snack dinner
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or it's a smaller meal
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right so simply just eating something
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between those two meals
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um is going to help with that hunger and
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this too is this can lead if you're not
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eating enough during the day or like
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you're missing meals that's what can
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sometimes lead to like binging at the
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end of the day because you're just so
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freaking hungry right
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um
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and then balanced meals so we've talked
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about this before right so getting a
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protein a carb fat and fiber in each
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meal is going to help to keep you full
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keep you satiated and you're not gonna
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deal with as much hunger
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um just because it slows down that
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digestion process
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um so those are my two
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big things for that
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um obviously under eating you're gonna
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be hungry that's gonna lead to more
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hunger
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um but yeah just just adding in another
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snack is going to be better for you than
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potentially dealing with a ton of hunger
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at the end of the day and then you end
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up kind of blowing things out of the
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water because you're super hungry
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for sure I think that's a good one too
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like diving a little deeper like what
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does the food that you do eat look like
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as you mentioned you know balancing
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meals
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I feel like it's a very common one where
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people try to eat too clean or too low
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carb or too low fat or you know low
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protein whatever like low anything
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really
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um
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that's why people tend to kind of like
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run into
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just being you know hungry again within
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30 minutes after their meal you know yes
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yeah you want those meals to be
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satiating yeah definitely
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those are my tips
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cool
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all right so I've got this question in
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one of the initial assessments so this
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is from a client who I worked with
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he asked me what is a realistic fat
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percentage goal and how long will it
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take
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so right off the bat I told him well I
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can't answer that second part because
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how long it'll take I don't know
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like we we've talked about those you
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know the weight loss percentages and
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stuff
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do you hear the car coming by or the uh
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yeah okay yeah okay sorry but um we
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talked about the weight loss rates and
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stuff but like
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adherence is a big one too right because
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you know we can't really like plug plug
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a person into equation and say okay
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you're going to be losing one percent
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per week for you know or 0.5 per week
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that's really worked that way
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um most of the time we're not perfect
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and that's okay but usually adherence
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like that's the number one thing that's
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very difficult to actually figure out
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getting consistent and that's why we
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don't know how long something is going
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to take
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might be short or relatively short if we
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don't want to lose that much plus we're
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super consistent might take a really
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long time you know especially if you're
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trying to learn tracking and trying to
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learn how to actually stick to you know
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a diet or a deficit I should say and uh
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yeah I told him like I don't know the
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second part of the question now the
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first part though
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is important to talk about because
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I don't think that fat percentages are
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great goals for most people
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at least for most of the people that I
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work with right who are not trying to
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get like next level like super lean
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shredded basically where it might be
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beneficial to go on a DEX discount a
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couple times you know
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realistically
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we are not going to be able to really
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figure out your fat percentage
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sure we can use the scale at the gym
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which by the way is super incorrect just
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so you know
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we can get into calipers
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which is a great way to do it if you can
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actually use it personally I've never
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used them
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so I wouldn't know I have I used to I
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know yeah and that's cool but you got to
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learn how to use them and you even see
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that with measurements like just with
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the measuring tape it's already
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difficult to get into right yes
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so that's why typically I say hey a Fed
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percentage was maybe not use that as a
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goal okay
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it's just too hard to measure right and
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um
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I feel like that's almost like a tool
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that um that the gyms like to use right
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because the guide you on that scale
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you're probably wearing clothes which
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weighs something you probably ate food
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you drank water you get on the scale and
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you're like oh [ __ ] I have redone a
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thought
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that can be a great way for a gym to
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tell you hey maybe you should buy our
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supplements too or you should buy you
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know our meal plan or whatever
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I'm not saying that's always how it goes
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but that's you know one little method
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that a lot of people do use or a lot of
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gins
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Rockstar short is hard to measure plus
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people store fat completely different
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right you might be the same fat
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percentage as someone else and you might
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look different it's mostly genetics
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um some people are lean or have like
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visible ABS at like 20 body fat
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others might not have them yet at 15 you
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know right so that's maybe another one
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so you know again makes it difficult to
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really figure out okay what are we
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aiming for
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and I also don't think that most people
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should actually go super low and this is
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maybe like social media's uh fault or
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influence you know a lot of people on
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steroids let's be honest
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yeah and um and I feel like that's often
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the people a lot of people follow on
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Instagram and Tick Tock and whatever
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and you see these people like saying
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like you know do this ab workout or you
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know take these fat burners whatever it
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might be like
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they look absolutely jacked you know and
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people think oh I gotta follow their
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meal plan to look like that
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yeah that's not really gonna happen
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so like
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with these unrealistic expectations I
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just don't think like a fat percentage
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is a great idea to kind of Chase you
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know sure like if you want to look
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leaner if you want to get surrendered if
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you want to have a stick pack six pack
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that's cool
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but I think
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um there's more to life than a fat
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percentage and it can be a tool to
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measure it's just very difficult and one
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thing that I didn't mention is that you
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can drink a little bit of water
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and be leaner because water is not body
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fat
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right so it's going to show up on the
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scale so even with with the dexile which
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is considered like the golden standard
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like
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even there there's a lot of things you
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can do or kind of mess up
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to you know influence that skill so oh
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yeah long story short let's maybe not
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use it
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maybe use photos you know
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um
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and use the metrics as your measure to
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see M I make progress yes or no but
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don't make it to go yeah I don't focus
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on body fat percentages at all with my
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clients none
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and when you're talking about where
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people store fat it's so funny I was
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thinking about this the other day uh I
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personally have been reverse dieting
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myself and
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I've put on a little bit of body fat and
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I'm I notice is I'm noticing so well
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I've always noticed that I put it on my
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legs
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my butt and this is for a lot of women
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okay so I have apps okay but I also have
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a higher body fat percentage because I'm
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getting it in my legs and my butt and
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the other place I get it is my face
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yeah yeah like you can tell in my face
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then you have other people who gain body
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fat and their face doesn't change at all
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it's just it's really interesting and
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it's all you know genetics yeah and and
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hormones and things like that but
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yeah everyone's gonna store it
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differently
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yeah and usually the yeah so you're
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probably gonna say the same thing as
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Mira and Hell probably not it's you the
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the places you want to lose it the most
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they're the most stubborn exactly we
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didn't even write this down but yeah 100
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yeah that's like word for word what I
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was gonna say like my legs I've always
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had insecurity with my legs and if I go
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into a deficit or anything like that
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that's the very last place I lose it and
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it's hard because I have to go like
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steep really steep to get to that point
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like sometimes I'm just like like I
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would rather eat food and have more body
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fat you know than try and live in this
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like super
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steep deficit and be grumpy and Moody
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and just not feel good you know what I
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mean so there's a trade-off there yeah
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definitely it's usually not worth it
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and for most people and that's okay
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right like we're not trying to jump on
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like a bodybuilding stage no like some
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people might but our clients no at least
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for me like I have none of those clients
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you know and that's okay you know it's
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just a different kind of goal right but
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what it takes I think people are not
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aware of what it takes to get that lean
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insane measures
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yeah and saying deficits insane
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adherence being very strict very
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diligent
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having very little flexibility
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and yeah it's a lot of trade-offs that
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you if you want to get that lean you
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need to be making very moody not
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sleeping well no libido potentially
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losing your cycle like all of those
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things come with that can come with that
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and this is where we need to remember a
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low body fat percentage is maybe not the
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healthiest yeah
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even though we think that really you
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know like are we like people in general
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it's like oh this person has a six-pack
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they're like the healthiest people you
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know person in the world
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well no no I probably feel like [ __ ]
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yeah I wrote a post on this a while back
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saying like uh six-pack having a
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six-pack doesn't equate to you being
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healthy and having body fat doesn't
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equate to you being unhealthy like there
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is
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a reason like for females why we
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shouldn't be going into lower body fat
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percentages because it's extremely
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important for our overall hormonal
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Health it's important for men too but
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they can get to a leader uh body fat
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percentage without any you know issues
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happening but for females like body fats
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a a good range of body fat is important
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for us for our overall health totally
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it's still okay to go a little bit
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leaner from time to time but just be
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aware that that's not going to be all
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the time because then if it's long term
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like then it's going to be bad for you
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health-wise yes and I like to think that
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even though sure we're chasing physical
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goals and performance and all that we're
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still trying to do it in a healthy way
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yes you know yeah and in the long term
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like that's really what matters
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all right
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third question
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do you feel like carbs I think cycling
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is more beneficial to eating the same
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amount of macros each day
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so carb cycling is essentially you have
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higher carbs on some days lower carbs on
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other days
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um no it is not more beneficial it can
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be a tool used
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do I think that
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so for let me back pedal there
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sometimes you see athletes
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doing this like I've noticed that in the
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past
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um athletes are like really people who
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are
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you know training multiple hours a day
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et cetera they kind of got into this and
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I I'm not really sure why
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um but it can actually hinder
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performance and Recovery
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do you have to think about it so you
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have a normal day okay of carbohydrates
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then you lower it on your rest day now
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you're not getting potentially not
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getting enough uh carbohydrates into
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um recover from the previous training
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session and then again now you're low
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going into the next training session so
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the next day so it can impact that
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for like the Gen Pop I don't think this
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is necessary at all and it kind of over
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complicates things again like we want to
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keep things as simple as possible why
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not just keep things the same across the
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board and have a higher carb intake each
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day like yeah you know
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um
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to me there's no real benefit to it
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um
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I was gonna
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say that I have done like calorie
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cycling with some clients
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um based on like scheduling sometimes it
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can be helpful for someone to like lower
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their calories some days or increase
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them on the weekend you know just to
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have more flexibility like I've done
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that but not necessarily doing this carb
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cycling I just like to keep things
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simple
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yeah
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it just makes it more difficult to stick
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to and uh guess what happened with the
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few clients who I tried carb cycling
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with
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what happened and managed to stick to it
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for a week yeah so like in both cases
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actually only two people they they were
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like I kind of want to try it out that's
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okay cool why do you want to try it out
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I just want to try something
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fair enough okay cool let's do it let's
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see how it goes
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didn't last for a week
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um so give it another week and I was
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like you know what let's make me not do
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it it's okay you know maybe we try it
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maybe it could have worked maybe it
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could have been a great way to stay on
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track in this case that just didn't work
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like that and that's okay I think
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we need to also address whether we are
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in a deficit or at maintenance
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um personally I don't see the point at
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maintenance at all I could see it in a
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deficit if it's simply and this is like
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you know training aside like this would
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be if it's simply to have more over the
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weekends right
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and to allow for like a Friday Saturday
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a little bit more at maintenance and
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during a week you go lower yep oh
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another tool you can use this for
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um is females during their cycle
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um so say you're a person that tends to
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like fats hot more and you're you're
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eating more higher fats and like lower
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moderate carbohydrate but around your
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cycle you tend to Crave carbohydrates a
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little bit more you could then increase
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carbohydrates that through that period
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of time just to help you
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um you know with those Cravings or that
21:21
extra hunger that's another good tool
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where you could potentially use carb
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cycling
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good point
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if you can stick to it all right right
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but yeah it can be great actually to do
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it that way
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next question
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what's a proper home workout schedule
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check out Ka training
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no um
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not like actually like get a program you
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know like let me just tell you right off
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the bat
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um
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a couple things we need to like consider
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when we're looking at a proper home
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workout schedule
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first of all I think it's important that
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you do what you enjoy right
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um we can always talk about like how you
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know resistance training is the best for
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body conversation which it is
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and you know maybe CrossFit is great for
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performance and running is great if you
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want to build your endurance and all
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that but as long as you do something
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that you actually enjoy you're probably
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going to be sticking to it a little bit
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longer right
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um because I had someone a client of
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mine a while ago
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and she just really hated training like
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she she didn't want to go to the gym she
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hated everything with weights
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we talked about the benefits it can have
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and also for body composition and all
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that she simply didn't want to do it so
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I was like okay cool fair enough let's
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figure something else out that you enjoy
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and she ended up doing some cycling and
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some other things like jump ropes and
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stuff so I was like okay cool like we
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still got you to exercise because you
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now found something that you actually
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like so I'll put that you know as
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priority number one
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the proper homework a schedule would
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probably be somewhere around three to
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five times a week
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this mostly depends on the person
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but I think when you're working out from
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home you know depending on the equipment
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that you have that could be a good rate
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now what we want to do in terms of a
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split could be full body if you do like
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three times a week I'd say just do
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something full body
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um you might want to break it up a
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little bit more and if it turns into
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like four to five times
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but once again it's really going to
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depend on what you have we have
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dumbbells we have a barbell maybe you
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have a pull-up bracket do you have
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kettlebells like you want a jump rope
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like there's so many things that I
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unfortunately can't answer in this
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podcast you know
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but either way
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um preferably with weights you know if
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you do enjoy doing that you know if
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you're open to trying it out a lot of
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people are doing this for body
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composition goals
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which does require weights if we want
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kind of like Optimal results
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ultimately
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I'm gonna still push you to go to the
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gym though and I've done this with a few
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people like you know
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every every other check-in or so I kind
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of like mention it like I plan to see
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you know like
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I talk about like how you know how the
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program would be if you would go to the
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gym or when you go to the gym I still
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try to like plant that seed because I do
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think and of course it's a personal you
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know choice
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but if we eventually want to
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graduate you know and start to do
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different stuff more advanced stuff
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get better results then it's probably a
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good idea unless you can afford like a
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home gym you know to actually go to a
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gym and it doesn't cost that much
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a membership at a global gym
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but I do know that for a lot of people
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it is a insecurity
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and it is scary I remember that like 10
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years ago like
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being you know pretty heavy and I say
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overweight yeah I was overweight
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and going to the gym and I remember like
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the exact moment like walking in and
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being like [ __ ] I don't you know I hope
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no one's like watching me you know and
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that's scary but a lot of people at the
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gym
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I'm probably thinking same thing you
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know
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they either just focus on their on
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themselves anyway
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or they're kind of thinking the same
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thing like oh [ __ ] I don't hope like no
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one watches me squat like weird or
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something you know everyone's had a day
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one
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you have to keep that in mind so if it's
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an security thing
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I'm still going to challenge you once
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again I'm going to say go to the gym
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it's an environment change too which can
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help
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um and
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I find like I have like like I train
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here most of the time because I do have
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everything pretty much that I need but I
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will still go to the gym because it's
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you're changing your environment and I
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get like a boost of energy when I'm at
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the gym
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um just from other people's energy and
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and being social yeah so it's a nice
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change of scenery right that I think
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it's important too to kind of get out of
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the door and honestly I wish I had a
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home gym
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but I think I'd still do the same thing
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too like actually get out and even if
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it's just for the walk to the gym and
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back like right that's already one way
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for me to get my steps in but also get
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some fresh air but the reason I was
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laughing just now was
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before this podcast I was I was on
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Instagram and there's this page and like
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every video this dude is like going
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through the [ __ ] gym goes to the
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[ __ ] gym
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I was just laughing like not because of
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you know that it's scary I just wanted
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to clarify that yeah but uh
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no I think like if it is an insecurity
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thing
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are you okay with getting uncomfortable
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and go anyway
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if you're just starting out don't
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overthink it just get moving but try to
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get a program preferably something that
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includes like Progressive overload where
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you either progress in you know heavier
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weights or reps or whatever
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if you want to check out Christine's app
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I'll link it in the show notes as well
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but uh try to follow a program and try
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not to like
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do super random stuff and different
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stuff all the time and like in the
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beginning maybe that's fine to kind of
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like figure out what you like
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but I think in actual program something
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that has a structure is going to get you
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better results no matter what you do
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something I will I will add there
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to curious about the gym
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the first time you go just go and walk
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on the tread like you don't have to do
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anything just get a little bit more
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comfortable with the environment
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um and then if you are planning to do
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some sort of program look up the videos
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before practice the movements at home
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get comfortable with the movement and
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then that will help you be feel a little
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bit more confident in the gym
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and another one is bringing a friend
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like go with a friend again you're
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getting more comfortable with the
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environment and you're with someone you
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know so that's going to make you feel a
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little bit more comfortable
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helps a lot good point too like looking
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looking at the movements before going to
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the gym and also like pretty much every
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gym like probably comes with like a
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tryout session so ask a personal trainer
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you know you get at least one free
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session where they can show you how the
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movements work how the machines work and
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all that
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highly recommend it if you don't know
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what you're doing like just ask someone
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because they have to let you why they're
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there you know
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but like I said I do know that it can be
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scary for sure yeah
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yeah
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all right I think we uh covered quite a
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bit we talked about staying full between
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meals we talked about the realistic fat
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percentages we talked about carb cycling
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and a proper home workout schedule
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thank you guys for submitting questions
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I think it really helps us kind of
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address what you want to learn about and
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uh like I said I just really like this
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format and yeah let's do it again thanks
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for listening guys
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all right see you next time