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(0:19) Introduction to Health Decoded with Dr. Alessi and Matt Tack (0:30) Guest introduction: Dmitri George (1:19) Demetri's journey from corporate to fitness training (4:17) Training approach and client customization (7:33) Role of the trainer and initial client assessments (10:26) Combining physical activity with resistance training (14:54) Building consistent nutritional habits (16:47) Avoiding common exercise mistakes (19:45) Psychological aspects of burnout and recovery adjustments (22:07) Debunking health misinformation on social media (25:17) Creating positive health habits (29:24) Synergy in health practices (32:33) Sponsor: Alessi Functional Health Total Care Program (34:02) Gut health's impact on wellness (39:08) Tailoring fitness programs to individual needs (41:11) The right dose of health stimulus (42:25) Seeking new fitness outcomes and finding the right coach (45:20) Family involvement in health and childhood obesity (46:51) Health as an investment00:00:00
If you increase just your physical activity, so just your caloric output, that alone will not
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lead to significant or sustainable weight loss.
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You have to add the addition of either adequate nutrition or resistance training Yeah.
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Or both, which is the key now.
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Welcome
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to Health Decoded, your number one source for real health information with your host, doctor
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Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Welcome back to another episode of Health Decoded.
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I'm your host, doctor Alessi.
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Today, I'm joined by an awesome guest, Dimitri George.
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We met through a mutual friend and client of ours, and just started talking about the
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collaboration and kind of the synergy between what we do as far as functional medicine and,
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and, alternative health.
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And then on your side, more of the high level fitness training and nutrition as well.
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And so today, guys, we're bringing you a really awesome episode.
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We're gonna get into Dmitry's origin story, how he got into what he's doing, how he's working
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with really high level executive type clients and getting amazing results, and then the
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synergy between fitness and health and and kind of everything we talk about on the show anyway.
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So let's get right into it, man.
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It's great to see you again, brother.
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Just blessed.
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Coming off of Thanksgiving.
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So health is not everybody's focus right now, but we're gonna we're gonna dial it in a little
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bit.
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So, man, tell me a little bit, and tell everyone a little bit about kind of where you
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come from, your background, man, how you got into what you're doing, and how that, you know,
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trajectory led you to where you are today.
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Yeah, man.
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Again, guys, welcome.
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Dmitry, coach Dmitry.
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I also go by The Booty God, something you can go look up and find out about.
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Love that.
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How you got started, man.
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I first started, I I was a US Coast Guard Academy scholar.
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And in our downtime, that was one of my first bits of exposure to the gym and resistance
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training.
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And me being the nerd that I am, I dove right into the books and learned how can I translate
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all of the technical aspects into something cool that I can communicate to to my friends
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and peers?
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So that I could be the guy that they come to for for this.
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Right?
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I wanted to be the authority in everything that we were doing that fun.
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This was our only downtime.
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Sure.
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So that's how I ended up learning a lot about training, from a, you know, from the book at
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least.
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Right.
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And then I, you know, started just training friends here and then.
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I recognized, okay, I ended up going to University of Tampa and graduated with two
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bachelor's degrees.
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I have a bachelor's degree in, pre law and another in, PR.
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So I have a huge background in science as well.
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So I got started there and that's pretty much how how I got started, man.
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I just started training friends and
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Yeah.
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Left left the corporate world.
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This was like a side gig at the time.
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And then it just transformed into something something more.
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Took a chance on myself and here we are.
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So it became more of like a passion for it.
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Yeah.
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Big 10.
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So it sounds like did you have, early exposure, like sports and fitness as a kid at all?
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Did you play sports?
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Yeah.
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So for me, you know, I grew up, first generation American.
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My my parents are immigrants.
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Everything for me was definitely academics forward, you know, actually, But was my dad was
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also a huge guy in sports.
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So I definitely only did track and soccer.
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That was for my, my big things, baseball here and there.
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So, you know, never really was like a sports guy.
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No.
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Did all that did sports at a high level.
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Got it.
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Yeah.
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You know, I was a was a trainer for a while before I went back to chiropractic school.
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And it was kind of a similar thing for me.
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You know, my my focus was like the business side.
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I always thought I was gonna work in my family's business and just kinda go in that
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route where you're where I was expected, you know?
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Mhmm.
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And then, the passion of fitness and health really took over.
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And so, kind of similar, man.
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That's cool to hear.
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I love that kind of stuff because I can really I can empathize with it.
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But, man, tell me a little bit and tell everyone a little bit about kind of, you know,
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your focus when it comes to training.
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You know, a lot of trainers, and it's like anything, there's good and bad, right?
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You go somewhere and you might have a good trainer, you might have a bad trainer.
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And your approach obviously is different.
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Tell me a little bit more about it, man.
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And like what your, I guess your focus is with people.
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Yeah.
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I mean, my thing with, with, with the approach for a lot of things is most people focus on
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what they want to know or what they want to do.
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But a lot of times, when you have a goal in mind, you need to focus on what not to do.
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And that because those are usually the the things you struggle with.
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Right?
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Sure.
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Like, if you're trying a diet, you're usually struggling with the things you shouldn't be
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eating.
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Right?
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You know what to eat, you know what to do, and you can do it.
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It's usually you struggle with the things that you you know, those types of things.
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So I usually try to identify those those areas of opportunity and, like, really get, like,
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that one on one almost therapy, like, hey, this is what's wrong.
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Let's identify the problem and kind of, you know, problem solve it out.
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That's sort of my method.
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And for a lot of people, that can be nutrition.
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For some people, that can be strength.
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For some people, it can just be routine.
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You know, there's a lot of people that look the part and they know everything, but just going
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is not they they don't have the motivation or the the drive to go or Yeah.
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You know?
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So that's a bit of what makes me a little different is I try to find that new intrinsic
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value for you.
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Because a lot of a lot of people go to the gym for extrinsic reasons.
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Yeah.
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So I love that.
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Yeah.
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I think the first time we met, you talked about that a little bit, how you like, you really tap
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into what the person's, what's driving them, the why, right?
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The We purpose of them being do that with our patients too.
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It's like, because eventually it becomes mundane.
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Eventually the routine becomes kind of, I gotta go back to the gym or with us, right?
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It's like, I gotta go for my next appointment.
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But if you can tap back into why did you start this?
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So much more powerful.
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Would you say you have like a specific, I guess, know, I don't want to say like niche but
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you know, it's like within our clinic, you know, we focus on spinal health but mostly
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corrective spinal health.
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Not just like kind of crack, pop, that kind of stuff.
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And that came from when I was a trainer, I focused on corrective exercise.
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So do you have more of like a niche with the type of exercise you do?
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Yeah.
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In regards to the exercise, I'm usually you know, because I like to be such a one on one
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custom design coach, I like to meet people where they wanna go.
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Okay.
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So I wouldn't say that I I limit myself to a certain type of of modality.
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Whatever you wanna do, I'm gonna be able to lead you in that direction that way.
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I think that's a miss misnomer or misconception a lot of trainers have or lot of people have of
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trainers is that I have expectations of you.
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If your trainer has expectations of you, that's a little weird.
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I think your only expectation should be that you come back and you do what it is that you
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said you wanted to do.
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I'm I'm just a GPS.
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Like, your GPS actually doesn't I won't say it doesn't care if you get to the destination, but
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truthfully, does your you're the one that hits end route.
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Right?
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Sure.
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You're the one that hits start route.
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So you've gotta be a part of the
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You're the one who drives there too.
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Right?
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Of the journey.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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That's huge.
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That's a big, it's a big thing, a part of it, you know?
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Yeah.
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No, I mean, we align on that for sure.
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I always tell my patients, I'm like, hey, everybody's seen like a movie with a hero and
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then there's like the little old man or a wizard or something, Miyagi.
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It's like Miyagi's not the hero of the story, it was Daniel's son, right?
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Miyagi's the guide.
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And so, that's what we are, you and myself, like we're guiding people, but they're the hero
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of their journey.
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That's awesome, man.
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You know, tell me, okay, so someone comes to see you or say a patient of mine is, you know,
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they're working on something with their lower back or their neck or posture or whatever and
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we send them your way or someone comes to see you organically, what is the first step?
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Do you do like an assessment, like a movement assessment or a strength assessment?
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Yeah.
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I mean, so typically I, you know, do like an assessment on paper.
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So the way I'm aware of what's what, and then I can go and assess the things they told me
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about.
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So usually, I do some sort of a functional assessment, you know, try to check their
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alignment, check their range of mobility, and ask if they have pain doing any of those
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movements across all planes, and then kinda go from there.
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If there are restrictions, limitations, then I will go ahead and create some alternative
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exercises or focus on enhancing those areas.
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Yeah.
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What do you see as like the most common deficiencies, man?
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And we can probably go all Yeah. Day on
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Day on
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A big common one, pop for one is gonna be posture.
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Yep.
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Particularly a lot of women don't chain don't train chest or a lot of men that just kind of I
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guess they wanna avoid it, perhaps.
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That's a thing.
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Okay.
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So, you know, you end up having this weaker chest, so you end up having this, you know,
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slouched over in the front, and then the traps end up taking over, and they come see you
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Yeah.
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That's little more than they need to.
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Like, yeah, that upper cross posture for sure.
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Lower back is definitely a big one.
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Yep.
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Humans are never designed to sit for sixty eight hours a day.
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Yeah.
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So and we do a little more than that sometimes.
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So Yeah.
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There's that, you know?
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Yeah, no, totally.
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And I think that's like the value in, you know, because a lot of what we do is so focused on
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getting people out of pain and obviously restoring the alignment and the movement and
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the basic kind of range of motion to the joints, But we are, we harp on exercise.
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The tough part is that most people, and you know who you are if you're listening to this,
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most people take the exercise we prescribe them and they don't do.
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And so it's like having accountability, having someone in your corner to be like, yo, this is
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how you need to do it, this is where maybe you're doing it wrong, right?
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Because if they're following one of our videos or something, maybe they don't feel like
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they're doing it a 100%, and then they're like, I'm just not gonna do it, then they end up kind
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of quitting on it.
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And so that can limit results, that can limit obviously outcomes and build sometimes even
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like more negative of an outcome.
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I always tell patients, I'm like, hey, if I just adjust your neck, if I just crack release
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a bunch of stuff, and then you go stare at your phone with your head bent forward, you're
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actually gonna reinforce negative posture, and I'm making you worse now.
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Right.
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So, getting an adjustment or an alignment is one thing, but what you do after is so much
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more important.
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You have to focus on, you know, restoring the curvature to the neck or embracing the core and
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standing up taller.
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So, yeah.
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Heck yeah, man.
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It's like kinda like the the relay I posted recently, you know, a lot of people are
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treating their goals as check boxes.
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Mhmm.
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You know, what you should be doing is do you know, you should be working at least at a
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sufficient level to meet your goals.
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Don't just go check a box.
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Say, yeah, I went to the gym.
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I ate healthy today.
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Yeah.
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Those are very, like, ambiguous terms.
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What is healthy?
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Does did what you eat actually align with the outcome that you want?
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Mhmm.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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Like, those are the things we have to consider instead of just Oh, healthy.
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Check.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We call those box checkers, man.
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That's me and my business partner, Matt.
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We always talk about that.
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Someone who's like, they showed up to the gym, but they sat on their phone the
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whole time.
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Right?
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They were on the bench press on their phone for thirty minutes, you know?
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Well, man, when someone's training on their own, right?
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Like, obviously, you and I both know the value of working with a professional to get enhanced
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outcomes.
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And it's like, if somebody just wants to like go and get some movement and feel better and
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like just do their thing, they don't need us, right?
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Like and I'm so a proponent of that like, Hey, don't waste your time and money if you can't
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commit to something more high level.
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But you work with and I work with patients who are like, Hey, I have this goal and I want to
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achieve it.
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You know, what is the, like, I guess the one thing or a couple things that people get wrong
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usually, right?
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Things that people maybe have a wrong perception of when they get started on
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something like this?
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Yeah.
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I'll give it to you straight like I give all of my clients.
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Because I I'm not someone that's necessarily well, I won't say that I'm not motivated
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financially, but I'm not motivated primarily by I'm gonna take your money and and and keep
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going.
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Right?
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Because there are lots of trainers like that.
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They just keep you busy, keep you sweaty, and keep it going.
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Right?
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Right.
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The truth is, and this has been proven in tons of studies quite a while now, if you increase
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just your physical activity, so just your caloric output, that alone will not lead to
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significant or sustainable weight loss.
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Mhmm.
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You have to add the addition of either, adequate nutrition or resistance training Yeah.
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Or both, which is the key.
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Ideal.
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That's ideal.
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For sure.
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Generally, you know, you just like at the term I use, you're just getting sweaty.
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Yeah.
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It's it's amazing.
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I don't wanna discredit anyone that just goes to the gym and has some movement versus no
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movement because that's that's worse.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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But the truth is you need to do what you need to do.
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Don't just do something to check a box.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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And I mean, activity and exercises are not the same always.
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Right?
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Right.
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You taking out the trash and you doing chores around the house or being with your kids and
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stuff, that's physical activity.
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You are being physically active and that's good, you're not sitting.
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But exercising is stressing.
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I like to say it's stressful on the body which is a hormetic stress or a positive stress to
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gain something on the back end, that adaptation.
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And so that's actually the next kind of thing I wanted to get into is like the cardio myth,
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right?
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Of just like, oh more cardio, more cardio.
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And for the listeners, this has been shown and researched and proven that the way cardio works
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or like daily repetitive cardio is like this, okay?
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And I'm gonna use basic numbers just for an example to make it easy for people.
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But say one day you run a mile and in that mile you've burned 100 calories, right?
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Just for easy numbers.
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The next day you run a mile, you might burn 99 calories or 98 calories because your body is
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gonna become more efficient at storing calories.
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And so then if you're in a calorie deficit and you're doing cardio, endless cardio, your body
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will become more efficient at storing.
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That's called survival.
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That's how we made it as a race, as humans this far because there were times where people
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didn't have food for weeks and so their body had to store as many calories as it could.
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So, you go into starvation mode, which so many people do, they under calorie themselves and
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then, so they're not eating enough and then they're running too much or doing too much
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cardio, they're not building muscle, the body goes into starvation mode and people become
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like that, almost like kind of skinny fat, right?
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Is what They we don't look like strong but they're not fat either.
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It's kind of a, it's not healthy either because the organs and things don't have the support
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that they need.
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So, you and I are in the same realm of thought that resistance training meaning putting any
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type of resistance on the body to build muscle, which builds joint and bone strength as well.
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And I focus on a lot on protein.
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With your nutritional approach when you're guiding people, what is kind of the focus?
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So for me, the focus is not macros.
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A lot of people would go, oh, wow.
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What does that mean?
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For me, I think a lot of it is about building a habit.
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For a lot of people, they need to look at this as like, you're not renting a car.
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This is your body for life.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So if you know, hey.
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I'm not the person that can follow a diet or anything for a 100% all the time, right, which
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is which is in most people.
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Right?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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So which is the point of the advice.
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Take a few days out of the week and say, these are the days that I wanna be a 100%.
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And then slowly over the over the course of a couple months, weeks, can acclimate and add
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another day.
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So I get a lot of my clients when I say, pick three three or four days out of the week you're
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gonna be a 100%.
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Because and these are for people who are struggling, and they want to make forward
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progress.
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Just pick three or four days.
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So Monday, Thursday, Friday, something like that.
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And they'll be a 100% those days, and the other days, they're they're trying.
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Right?
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They're not totally letting go of the ball.
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They're they're still trying.
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And then, you know, as the weeks go by, months go by, they acclimate, add another day, add
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another day, add another day.
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A year goes by, they're doing it every day.
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Yeah.
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And it's their new norm.
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Now now there's nothing to go back to.
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Yeah, for sure.
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That's like the habit stacking approach, you
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know?
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Exactly.
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When we have patients doing their cervical orthotic at home, where if they have to lay on
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a little hard foam pad to restore the neck curve, you know, it's not comfortable, it's not
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fun, it's kind of boring.
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But if you stack it with something you do daily, right?
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People forget.
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A thing ends up becoming a dust collector, a dog chew toy.
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But when you pair it with something you do daily, which you're like, hey, every morning I
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do X.
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Then it's like you don't do X until you've done your cervical lordotic, right?
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And so vice versa, right?
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Like habit stacking, then it just becomes something you do.
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And so, that's that's huge.
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We always say it's better to be consistently good than occasionally perfect.
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Right?
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Like an eighty twenty kind of thing.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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What would you say, I mean, as far as like when it comes to exercise, man, obviously, we both
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prioritize resistance training.
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What would be like the biggest, I don't know, one, two, three waste of time things that
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people are doing that you're like, man, don't even do that.
00:17:05
Like, you know, like flip it over and do something else.
00:17:07
Yeah.
00:17:09
I'll give you one and only because I think when you look at it, you'll understand it doesn't
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make a lot of sense or or benefit to you.
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But it's exercise it's doing a resistance exercise while doing cardio.
00:17:22
So there are people that will do sprints and jump squats.
00:17:27
You should do them separately, not the same time.
00:17:30
Sure.
00:17:30
Okay.
00:17:31
Or people do do the, the the stair master with kickbacks.
00:17:37
That that's I don't know what the benefit is.
00:17:40
I think a lot of people may like, it looks like, oh, this is gonna help my glutes.
00:17:43
Right.
00:17:44
But it isn't.
00:17:44
Yeah.
00:17:45
You're doing cardio.
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The point of the cardio is to send that signal that you're you wanna you wanna increase your
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caloric output.
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So I don't know.
00:17:53
I there's quite a bit of those.
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There's there's a bunch.
00:17:56
Yeah.
00:17:56
It's almost like you're trying to do two things at once to like maybe be more efficient, but
00:18:00
you're actually being less efficient at both.
00:18:02
Exactly.
00:18:03
Exactly.
00:18:03
I think it's one of those things where people think more is more Mhmm.
00:18:06
And more is better, and it usually isn't.
00:18:09
You know, if you just calm just let things compound.
00:18:11
Yeah.
00:18:12
They they work better though.
00:18:13
Yeah.
00:18:13
You literally just said the next point on my list here.
00:18:15
Why why more is better is destroying people's joints.
00:18:18
That's like a point I had to talk about, but yeah, I mean, that's the other thing is like
00:18:22
people are like, oh, I just do more, right?
00:18:24
If I just do more cardio, if I just eat less, if I just, you know, push harder like, which
00:18:29
when we work with high level executives and stuff, that's when you lead into like almost
00:18:33
like burnout.
00:18:33
Right.
00:18:34
Because your nervous system can literally only handle so much at a time.
00:18:39
And so, if you're stressed from work, you got a deadline to hit, you got kids at home that are
00:18:43
you know, keeping you awake at night, now you're like, oh, I gotta get to the gym because
00:18:47
it's my thing, it's my release.
00:18:49
But you're in this like overwhelm phase and your adrenal system's running on like red line,
00:18:54
that gym might not be the thing you need that day, right?
00:18:57
You might need a day to like go do some sauna breath work, right?
00:19:01
Or like go just take a walk right outside in nature.
00:19:04
Let your body, your nervous system kind of recalibrate.
00:19:07
Then the next morning you go and hit it at the gym.
00:19:09
And so, I think that comes into like people being more in tune with themselves.
00:19:13
We see a lot of patients who come in and they don't even know how to pinpoint their pain.
00:19:17
Like, I think it's here, I don't.
00:19:18
And they're so out of tune in awareness with their body.
00:19:21
Yep.
00:19:21
Oh, yeah.
00:19:22
That's a big one.
00:19:23
Yeah, man.
00:19:23
For sure.
00:19:24
I mean, why do you think most people burn out, like, when you see that?
00:19:27
Do you see a lot
00:19:28
of that?
00:19:28
I think the burnout is more tied to anxiety than it is to act.
00:19:34
People think burnout is just doing a lot, but I think a lot of it is stressing about doing a
00:19:39
lot.
00:19:40
You know, a lot of the time that people spend in their burnout is actually unproductive.
00:19:44
Yeah.
00:19:45
They're doing nothing.
00:19:45
You're just up trying to be busy.
00:19:47
It's like trying to correlate busy with productivity and they're not really the same.
00:19:52
You know, like, while I'm a big proponent of of volume, whether it's in training or in work,
00:19:57
more isn't always better.
00:19:58
That's right.
00:19:59
Yeah.
00:19:59
Yeah.
00:20:00
For sure.
00:20:00
It really isn't.
00:20:01
You know?
00:20:01
A lot of times you just, I I think, you know, even in even in training, you know, there are
00:20:05
people that that only train 30 reps.
00:20:07
Was speaking to this girl at the gym.
00:20:09
She only does sets of 30.
00:20:10
And then I I, you know, convinced her, so to speak.
00:20:14
So I don't convince people.
00:20:17
I get older, I said, let's try a half a day and a half.
00:20:20
It's like, increase whatever your starting weight is by, like, about a third.
00:20:23
So 40%.
00:20:24
And then go to 15.
00:20:27
She started having slightly different results.
00:20:29
She could recover better.
00:20:30
Yeah.
00:20:30
I don't talk too much about the results, but is recovering better.
00:20:33
Sure.
00:20:33
Was it feeling as burnt out?
00:20:35
Yeah.
00:20:35
And as burnout on all levels, as burnout mentally, physically, attrition, everything.
00:20:39
Yeah.
00:20:40
Yeah.
00:20:40
That input was a little bit too much, Yeah.
00:20:43
I mean, there's also the concept of like what we and I talk about a lot and and Matt,
00:20:47
obviously, the novelty stimulus approach where it's like if you're doing sets of 12 to 15
00:20:56
repetitions on a weight with the same weight for months and months and months, you're
00:21:00
eventually getting less impact from that.
00:21:02
It's the same thing we see in our clinic with the spinal decompression.
00:21:05
If someone's being stretched, their spine's being stretched at 80 pounds, eventually the
00:21:09
body gets used to that and it's less effective.
00:21:11
We have to increase that pull.
00:21:13
Same concept where, you know, so what I do is I'll do about a month, maybe a month and a half
00:21:18
of like heavier strength training where it's like five to eight reps.
00:21:22
Then the next month, I'll push into more like power where I'm doing like two, three reps, but
00:21:25
like quick and explosive.
00:21:27
Then maybe the next month it's higher repetitions, more of like a hypertrophy and
00:21:30
kind of periodize that a bit.
00:21:32
And and that's sort of my, mentality and approach when it comes to training and
00:21:36
supplementation is let's let's keep some stuff in the arsenal.
00:21:39
Like, we don't need
00:21:40
to just pull out the big guns right away and Sure.
00:21:43
Slowly acclimate, build yourself, you know, get there.
00:21:46
And then you can start, you know, throwing in creatine, throwing some more stuff, throw you
00:21:51
know what I mean?
00:21:51
Things like that.
00:21:52
And then you can actually truly benefit.
00:21:54
Yeah.
00:21:55
Yeah.
00:21:55
No.
00:21:55
I love that, man.
00:21:56
And I know you do a lot online too as far as with obviously on social media and, you know,
00:22:00
we try to it's just it's you have to, like, to be able to educate and obviously spread more
00:22:05
positive knowledge.
00:22:07
But what's like some of the we could go down a rabbit hole in this by just prefacing that.
00:22:11
We could go forever on this.
00:22:12
So what's some of the worst stuff you're seeing on social media these days, if
00:22:16
you could think?
00:22:17
Oh, some of the worst.
00:22:20
I think the misconception so I'll tell you the things that I've I've experienced are there are
00:22:25
actually people.
00:22:27
This sounds condescending, but there are actually people who believe what they consume,
00:22:32
food, does not affect what they look like.
00:22:35
And to me, like, I just couldn't understand that.
00:22:37
So before I got judgmental, I was like, tell me more.
00:22:40
Like, tell me what what does that mean?
00:22:42
Like Yeah.
00:22:42
Say that again.
00:22:43
Put it in
00:22:43
one detail.
00:22:44
Right?
00:22:44
Yeah.
00:22:45
Right.
00:22:45
Because I don't like, how did you how do you think people change?
00:22:48
Like, what is it that you think people have this misconception that food doesn't affect
00:22:53
their body.
00:22:54
That's that's a big one.
00:22:55
Interesting.
00:22:55
Okay.
00:22:56
You mean, like, calories in, calories out kind of thing?
00:22:58
Or or
00:22:59
the type of food.
00:23:00
You know?
00:23:00
Yeah.
00:23:00
People think a lot of foods are equal.
00:23:02
That because this bag of chips is 300 calories, and my chicken breast and broccoli is 300
00:23:09
calories, that they're equal, and that's certainly not true.
00:23:12
The nutrient status of those foods is kinda what we're talking about is like, you know, a
00:23:16
pound of ground beef is dense with nutrients, B vitamins, iron, right?
00:23:20
Like these things that build the body and the tissue and your body needs to function.
00:23:25
That same number of calories in a bag of potato chips or even in vegetables, right, is gonna
00:23:29
have a different nutrient density status.
00:23:32
So, diversity is obviously huge, know.
00:23:34
Obviously, I think people should be eating meat and protein, but vegetables are important as
00:23:39
well.
00:23:39
For sure.
00:23:39
I'm big you know, speaking to my clients in a language that they can speak.
00:23:44
If I'm talking to you, we're gonna be a bit more technical, more scientific.
00:23:47
Yeah.
00:23:47
Yeah.
00:23:48
If I'm talking to, you know, John, one of my clients, we're gonna speak how he speaks so
00:23:52
that he can understand what what's going on.
00:23:55
Yeah.
00:23:55
So I use a lot of analogies, and one of the best ones is, you know, if you're a Mercedes,
00:24:01
your body's a Mercedes.
00:24:02
I knew
00:24:03
you were gonna go
00:24:03
with a car on the
00:24:04
left.
00:24:04
Yeah.
00:24:05
You can't put 87.
00:24:06
That's right.
00:24:07
Yeah.
00:24:07
You've gotta put premium.
00:24:08
For sure.
00:24:09
So if
00:24:09
you want to be a Mercedes, whatever, right, you've got to start putting in that high
00:24:14
quality fuel to get the high quality output.
00:24:17
Yes.
00:24:17
Otherwise, you know, you gotta keep in Yeah.
00:24:21
Hey, the the car won't run on that, it'll break down over time.
00:24:24
I use car analogies daily, man.
00:24:25
And it's like the biggest one is the alignment one.
00:24:28
When people talk about and especially with like people who are trying to push it and be like
00:24:31
more athletic or train hard, your alignment is so crucial because think of it like this.
00:24:37
If you if you just have a Honda Civic and you just gotta get to work or a Toyota or whatever.
00:24:41
Right?
00:24:41
It's just a standard car.
00:24:43
You just gotta get it to work.
00:24:44
The alignment being off is not gonna affect you getting to work, you'll get there.
00:24:47
Right.
00:24:48
Now, if you're trying to take a Porsche GT around a hairpin turn and the alignment's off,
00:24:54
you could flip the car, right?
00:24:55
Or you could burn out or twist out or whatever the term is because you're trying to push it to
00:24:59
a higher level, the alignment's so much more important.
00:25:02
And then as far as like avoiding injury, so I think car analogies at humans are just like so
00:25:08
hand in hand.
00:25:09
But that kind of goes into the next kind of point I wanted to talk on is like, people been
00:25:14
doing something their whole life.
00:25:16
We see that all the time.
00:25:17
Oh, I've just been, you know, dealing with this forever, forever, had a car accident, or this
00:25:21
is just how I am.
00:25:22
And now you're trying to undo some type of pattern, whether it's physical, whether it's
00:25:27
nutritional, whether it's internal, mental.
00:25:30
What is kind of your approach there, man?
00:25:32
I mean, are you just like, I know you kinda say, it's not like we overhaul everything, it's
00:25:36
like one habit, right?
00:25:37
But how do you help people, like, to rebuild after years of doing the wrong thing?
00:25:42
Right?
00:25:43
Yeah.
00:25:43
So I I have this this quote that I say that practice doesn't make perfect.
00:25:48
Practice makes permanent.
00:25:49
Mhmm.
00:25:50
Because you can practice something incorrectly for years and think that that's the right way
00:25:53
to do it.
00:25:53
Or the the way that that you should do it, at least.
00:25:57
So how I get people to break out of a negative habit and and a more positive habit rather is
00:26:05
just kinda see how it's misaligned with the outcomes that they want.
00:26:10
Right?
00:26:11
Like, if you're someone that wants a six pack and you're avoiding cardio Enough said.
00:26:22
Enough said.
00:26:23
Like, you know, there's there's there's a there's a there's a huge step that's not
00:26:27
happening that needs to happen.
00:26:29
So if I've prescribed you, you know, forty five minutes of cardio, forty minutes of cardio, and
00:26:34
you're struggling with that, you've communicated that.
00:26:36
Now we've gotta not just give you less, but create a system so that you can get that that
00:26:41
amount of cardio completed.
00:26:42
That's right.
00:26:43
So that's just my thing, is just creating systems for for success rather than just giving
00:26:48
you an expectation and hoping you make it.
00:26:50
And if you don't, giving you a a lower bar to meet.
00:26:54
That's Yeah.
00:26:54
That's that's that's that's that's kinda pointless.
00:26:56
Yeah.
00:26:57
You wouldn't change your your treatment methods to give a lower outcome for the patient ever.
00:27:03
No.
00:27:03
No.
00:27:04
No.
00:27:04
I I think, you know, the way we approach it is like I'm I'm super firm in the way I
00:27:08
communicate with people.
00:27:09
I'm like, hey, this is what it's gonna take to correct the problem you came with and the goals
00:27:14
you have to get there.
00:27:15
This right here, right?
00:27:16
This number of sessions or this approach, right?
00:27:20
Now, if you don't want to do that, that's okay.
00:27:23
You can do less, you can do a modified version of it, but let's set expectations that you're
00:27:28
not going to get the goals that I anticipate.
00:27:30
So as long as you're cool with that, long as as you're cool with me not solving your problem
00:27:34
and you want to come once a month and just kind of pop in when you need, all good.
00:27:37
I will be that doctor for you, but let's just be clear.
00:27:40
And to be fair, I think a little bit of that is okay.
00:27:43
Think sometimes people do have goals that they're unaware of the effort and consistency
00:27:48
required to achieve those goals.
00:27:50
And maybe that timeline is a bit longer or arduous than you expected,
00:27:55
but Yeah.
00:27:56
It's a different timeline than than what they thought.
00:27:58
Yeah.
00:27:58
And we have to let you know that because Yeah.
00:28:01
You know, I'm not gonna tell you, oh, yeah, just come three times a week, you'll lose a 100
00:28:04
pounds.
00:28:04
Yeah.
00:28:05
It won't it won't work.
00:28:06
Some people aren't ready for that level of commitment.
00:28:08
Right?
00:28:08
Say, hey, I need to see you for six to eight months.
00:28:11
They say, man, like, I did not expect.
00:28:13
They thought maybe a month, right?
00:28:14
So then I'm like, hey, start with a month.
00:28:16
If you can commit in your brain to a month, let's see what we get done.
00:28:19
Just know that on the back end of that month, we're gonna probably need more, we'll just have
00:28:23
to sit down and have that conversation.
00:28:24
More often than not, what happens is they get through a month and they're feeling better and
00:28:27
they're like, wow, yeah, I'm ready to go for the next six months.
00:28:30
Right?
00:28:30
Like, they That get that makes me think of something I I just talked to with one of my my
00:28:36
therapist clients about.
00:28:37
I I gave her a bit of my philosophy and she's telling me how it's the same in in her work as
00:28:42
a therapist.
00:28:43
And it's pretty much just telling people to, like, meet themselves where they can meet
00:28:48
themselves.
00:28:48
Yeah.
00:28:49
You know, don't don't try to be someone you're not.
00:28:51
For sure.
00:28:52
Big time.
00:28:52
Yeah.
00:28:53
Yeah.
00:28:53
Or, like, over committing to, right?
00:28:55
Like if you fully like know inside, you're like, oh, this is stressing me out to commit.
00:28:59
Like patients will be like, I want to come three days a week to get this solved.
00:29:02
But that three days a week is a lot on them because they got kids, they got family.
00:29:06
I'm like, do two a week.
00:29:07
Do one a week, right?
00:29:08
Like let's start with what you can actually do because you're gonna over commit, then you're
00:29:12
gonna miss a couple sessions, you're gonna feel like you've failed, and now you're gonna quit,
00:29:16
right?
00:29:16
And so it's like versus if you said, oh, I can do one a week and you make one a week for you
00:29:21
know, four months or something, now you've succeeded versus failed.
00:29:24
So, I agree with that a 100%, man.
00:29:28
You know, I think a lot of what we're trying to talk about here, the whole concept is like the
00:29:35
synergistic approach of everything.
00:29:37
And so, people who listen to the podcast are mostly patients, but there are some non patient
00:29:41
listeners as well, but they understand that it's not just one thing.
00:29:45
Yeah, It's not just fitness.
00:29:47
It's not just nutrition.
00:29:48
So
00:29:48
You know, you use a good word there, synergy.
00:29:50
Mhmm.
00:29:50
And I have got a great analogy for synergy because a lot people think, like, okay.
00:29:54
Well, that's just called being healthy, seeing a chiropractor, going to the gym, eating
00:29:58
healthy.
00:29:59
It's like, ah, too much.
00:30:01
Right?
00:30:01
Yeah.
00:30:01
You would never drive a car without your gas gauge to know how much fuel you have to go to
00:30:06
what distance you gotta go.
00:30:08
So that's why you gotta follow a nutrition plan in order to be successful.
00:30:12
Yeah.
00:30:12
That's that's a big one.
00:30:13
Yeah.
00:30:13
What is it if you fail a plan, you plan to fail?
00:30:15
Right?
00:30:16
Exactly.
00:30:16
That's you know, I we used to talk about that all the time.
00:30:19
People just go into the gym.
00:30:20
They're like, I think I'm gonna just do, like, some upper body today, but they don't actually
00:30:23
have a structure.
00:30:24
You're gonna waste so much You're gonna be looking for what you wanna do next.
00:30:27
Oh, that one's taken.
00:30:28
I'm gonna go do this.
00:30:29
And then your mood dictates the end or or or your limits rather.
00:30:33
Yeah.
00:30:33
You know?
00:30:34
Because I I've done that.
00:30:35
When I you know, in the past when I was for starting, somehow I'd end up on these weird
00:30:39
numbers with my reps like 11.
00:30:41
Yeah.
00:30:42
You know, like, instead of twelve because I just didn't wanna go further.
00:30:45
Yeah.
00:30:46
You know, if you if you can push yourself to to go there or follow that plan, then Yeah. You'll
00:30:50
You'll make
00:30:51
That's I'm glad you said that because that's something that they show on research is that
00:30:56
we, as humans, we limit ourselves based on preconceived expectations or set.
00:31:02
So, you're like, oh, I'm on this machine and I'm gonna do 12 reps.
00:31:07
You tell yourself 12.
00:31:08
You get to 12 and you could physically squeeze out like three or four more, but you tap out at
00:31:13
12.
00:31:13
Oh, yeah.
00:31:14
You didn't hit that positive muscle failure and actually get the best of it.
00:31:17
So, I've almost sometimes I just go in there, I put a a weight on the bar that are or on the
00:31:22
dumbbell that I think I can get 12 to 15, and I don't count.
00:31:25
I just go.
00:31:26
And sometimes I'll squeeze out, like, 20 if I'm in a good day,
00:31:28
I'm juiced up, like, whatever.
00:31:30
Yeah.
00:31:30
So for me, like, I do a lot of, mental toughness coaching for all the c suite
00:31:34
executives and salespeople.
00:31:36
Yeah.
00:31:36
I see.
00:31:36
And one of the the one one of their their big things is just having those limits.
00:31:42
Mhmm.
00:31:42
You know?
00:31:43
Like, they just think more is more.
00:31:45
More is more.
00:31:46
And a lot of times, you gotta structure it out so that you can recover and be able to do it
00:31:50
again.
00:31:50
Mhmm.
00:31:50
Because if you're if you put in 300% effort today, then you can do nothing tomorrow and the
00:31:56
next day.
00:31:56
Yeah.
00:31:58
Kind of kind of negative that way.
00:31:59
100%.
00:32:00
Yeah.
00:32:00
And I I feel like I go through that too, man.
00:32:02
Like, sometimes we're in a heavier season or something and we're pushing.
00:32:05
And I know, like, at least I think I'm aware enough to know, I'm like, yo, this week's about
00:32:09
to be one of those weeks.
00:32:10
Mhmm.
00:32:11
That means this weekend, I'm gonna pretty much take it easier.
00:32:14
I'm gonna chill, I'm gonna recover, I'm gonna focus on that versus maybe push on the weekend
00:32:18
too.
00:32:19
So, which I think is okay.
00:32:20
Like if you're a high performer and you're trying to accomplish things, you have to have
00:32:25
that.
00:32:25
But it's when it gets to be too much all the time that negative gains occur and that's the
00:32:31
same with physical fitness as well.
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00:34:02
Well, man, let's let's talk a little bit about kind of more on the internal side and the
00:34:06
functional medicine side.
00:34:07
You know, we we focus heavy.
00:34:09
I think if we had a niche, it would be like gut health.
00:34:12
But that's just because someone comes in with hormone issues, someone comes in with thyroid
00:34:17
issues, someone comes in with joint inflammation, body inflammation.
00:34:21
It can always be tracked back to the gut.
00:34:23
Like, I wanna say like ninety nine point nine percent of times, there's something internally
00:34:28
that is then manifesting other places.
00:34:31
So, if we don't address the gut, we could miss the picture and now we're trying to treat
00:34:35
something without getting to the root versus, you know, say we check the gut and everything's
00:34:40
fine, then it's like, okay, now on to the next step, which is to balance the hormones or
00:34:44
whatever.
00:34:44
Yeah.
00:34:44
I mean and I think you and I discussed a bit about gut gut health in the past.
00:34:48
You know, a lot of people are unaware that the majority of their neurotransmitters live in
00:34:52
their gut.
00:34:53
Mhmm.
00:34:53
And that's why you feel how you feel based on what you eat and if you eat or don't eat.
00:34:58
You know, you have that that home cooked meal that's loaded with carbs and and tryptophan.
00:35:02
Right?
00:35:02
Yeah.
00:35:02
That turkey, you feel nice and calm and you're just like, oh.
00:35:06
Right?
00:35:06
And when you are carb depleted, your brain makes significantly less dopamine and you're
00:35:13
what they call hangry.
00:35:14
Mhmm.
00:35:14
Now you're starting to correlate what you eat and your nutrition affects your mood and your
00:35:19
actions and all those things.
00:35:21
Yeah.
00:35:21
When I when I wasn't meal prepping as consistently as I should have, I was always a
00:35:25
little little crabby, little angry.
00:35:27
That's when I started realizing, let me let's feed the beast.
00:35:31
Yeah.
00:35:31
For sure.
00:35:32
Right?
00:35:32
I started eating and then, okay, I was in a much better moods and things were worth feeling
00:35:36
better.
00:35:37
And that's when people tend to overeat, right?
00:35:39
They maybe missed a meal or they're so busy they didn't eat, they're like just going,
00:35:42
going, going, then they're like, crap, I haven't had lunch.
00:35:45
That blood sugar's low, the dopamine's low, and now you have this almost like addictive
00:35:49
approach to food where you're like, oh, I'm gonna grab that like that whatever That's mac
00:35:54
and cheese.
00:35:54
Yeah, Snickers, right?
00:35:55
You're not hungry or you're not yourself without
00:35:57
you know what I like I mentioned earlier, like the point was to get acclimated to your diet
00:36:03
and and not force so much on yourself
00:36:05
Sure.
00:36:05
Just for that exact same reason.
00:36:06
Got it.
00:36:07
Yeah.
00:36:07
You know, we, I myself use like a delivered meal plan and that's just because I'm busy all
00:36:12
the time and I'm going, going, going.
00:36:14
It just takes the stress off me having to go to the grocery store and cook.
00:36:17
Like I'm like, I'll just have someone do it for me.
00:36:19
So that's a plug to nutrition solutions.
00:36:22
We're not sponsored by them.
00:36:23
I just love that company.
00:36:24
So And, you
00:36:25
know, if you're someone that does follow, you know, a pre prepared meal plan, like yourself,
00:36:32
your only job now is to eat it.
00:36:34
That's it.
00:36:35
Right?
00:36:35
So if
00:36:36
you don't do it, the only person you gotta talk to is the person in the meal.
00:36:40
Right.
00:36:40
Right.
00:36:40
You gotta do it.
00:36:41
So much done for me.
00:36:42
Yeah.
00:36:42
That's right.
00:36:43
Like, if I miss a meal, it's all on me.
00:36:44
It's like I didn't, the grocery store was closed or something, right?
00:36:47
There's always a chance, but yeah, that's awesome.
00:36:49
And so, know, synergy, kinda getting back to that point is like we're talking like the
00:36:54
combination of, obviously, physical fitness training, gathering data.
00:36:59
So, when you meet with someone, you're gathering data, goals from them, like objective
00:37:03
stuff.
00:37:04
We're doing blood work, we're getting DEXA scan done, so we're getting data.
00:37:08
What is your body fat percentage?
00:37:10
What is your muscle mass percentage?
00:37:11
What is your
00:37:11
bone density?
00:37:12
What are your cholesterol levels, blood sugar, all of that, plus nutrition, plus hormone
00:37:18
therapy, plus stress work and recovery.
00:37:20
Like all of this comes together, but that could sound like a lot to someone because they don't
00:37:26
know.
00:37:27
So that's where, again, it comes back to like working with a professional, working with
00:37:30
someone who not only has done it himself, like look at the guys, so Jack, but also has been,
00:37:36
you know, look at the results you have with your patients.
00:37:38
Like you share those as well, and people are getting awesome results.
00:37:41
Well, one of the ways I get a lot of my my clients, particularly the executives and women,
00:37:45
to understand, the synergy and and why you need that synergy how the synergy is beneficial and
00:37:50
why you need all the pieces together is think about skincare and your hair.
00:37:55
Right?
00:37:56
Your skincare routine is cleanse or exfoliate, then tone, moisturize, then retinol.
00:38:06
Right?
00:38:06
You you got all of these, and then you gotta do your hair, and your hair has stages.
00:38:09
It has shampoo, condition, blow dry, curl, whatever.
00:38:13
Right?
00:38:13
There's there's all these steps.
00:38:15
For what?
00:38:16
For the final outcome.
00:38:17
That's right.
00:38:18
For that.
00:38:18
And makeup, same thing.
00:38:19
There's all these steps to get you to the final product.
00:38:22
Mhmm.
00:38:23
And if you miss one of those steps, you're not gonna like the outcome.
00:38:26
Yeah.
00:38:27
Right?
00:38:27
Like, you've gotta be on stage for a pageant and you don't have the foundation, you just got
00:38:31
the lipstick and the eyeliner.
00:38:32
That's a little off.
00:38:33
That's right.
00:38:34
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:34
Like, you need all the pieces together for everything to align.
00:38:37
Yeah.
00:38:38
So 100%.
00:38:39
You you can't pick and choose what you wanna do.
00:38:41
You gotta do it all.
00:38:43
Yeah.
00:38:43
And that all comes back to, the synergy approach, man.
00:38:45
It's like, you know, and then the the enhanced outcome.
00:38:49
Right?
00:38:49
Like, exercise, good.
00:38:51
Nutrition, good.
00:38:52
Exercise plus nutrition, better, right?
00:38:54
You're gonna get that summation effect.
00:38:56
That's what we do with a lot of our therapies in the office as well.
00:38:59
So, know, what do you think the biggest thing holds someone back from being able to do this
00:39:06
on their own?
00:39:07
Education?
00:39:08
I think it's the feeling of being lost.
00:39:11
One of my taglines used to be no more aimless wandering in the gym.
00:39:15
Right?
00:39:16
Because I see it all the time.
00:39:17
I see it is it's it's everyone.
00:39:19
It's not male specific, female specific, or age specific.
00:39:23
It's everyone.
00:39:24
They'll come to the gym, look at a machine, feel overwhelmed or intimidated, go to the
00:39:29
stairmaster or the not the Stairmaster, go to the treadmill.
00:39:32
Yeah.
00:39:33
Walk for ten minutes, then go do five lap pull downs, you know, things that seem easy.
00:39:38
Know, the machines that you can look at and go, oh, I know exactly what that does.
00:39:42
Yeah.
00:39:42
The bicep.
00:39:43
You know what I mean?
00:39:43
And then they just leave.
00:39:44
Yeah.
00:39:45
And it's this constant hamster wheel of, I went to the gym, but when they when they're alone,
00:39:50
they look in the mirror, they know,
00:39:51
I did good.
00:39:53
Yeah.
00:39:53
Yeah.
00:39:53
Right?
00:39:53
So communicating with people so that they can overcome that right there is sort of my my one
00:39:59
of my things, Victor.
00:40:01
Yeah.
00:40:01
No.
00:40:02
I yeah.
00:40:02
That's so good.
00:40:03
And I think that comes back to like the education.
00:40:05
Right?
00:40:06
Like, it's when I was first a personal trainer in college, I had multiple times where I tried
00:40:11
to take someone through like my exercises that I would do.
00:40:14
And the person turned white, they looked like they're gonna pass out.
00:40:17
It was like that was too much for them.
00:40:19
And so now, what I know, it's like meeting them where they're at, their starting point, and a
00:40:24
lot of people, and this is maybe a bit of a reality check for listeners, a lot of people
00:40:30
can't handle much.
00:40:31
Right?
00:40:31
They need they're starting pretty ground zero.
00:40:33
Like, they maybe never exercised.
00:40:35
You know, they have gone to the gym and done some stuff, but, like, is it enough to actually
00:40:38
consider exercise?
00:40:39
And I think that's more advice not for the individuals that are going to the gym, but for
00:40:44
the coaches and trainers.
00:40:45
Mhmm.
00:40:46
Because, you know, you're setting expectations and you're creating systems for their outcomes.
00:40:51
Right?
00:40:51
So just because you think 30 pounds is really light on a lap hold down, it may actually be
00:40:57
beneficial for this person.
00:40:58
Yeah.
00:40:58
Yeah.
00:40:59
You know, things like that.
00:41:00
For sure.
00:41:00
But that being said, the girl that's doing 10 pounds hip thrusts, sorry.
00:41:06
Not quite enough.
00:41:07
Not quite enough stimulus Yeah.
00:41:08
To give you, you know, the outcome you look.
00:41:11
Perfect word, stimulus.
00:41:12
You know, you have to use the right it's the same thing with us, right?
00:41:15
The right amount of weight on a decompression, the right nutritional supplements for the right
00:41:19
job, right?
00:41:20
The right amount of vitamin D to replace, the right amount of hormone therapy to replace.
00:41:25
And so, if you didn't do the right dose, that's the term dose or stimulus in exercise, right,
00:41:31
you're not gonna get the achieved result or the wanted result.
00:41:35
You know, for listeners, I wanna kinda share with you guys what we're building together here
00:41:40
is gonna be what we call more of like a elite health stack.
00:41:44
And so, it looks like synergistic approach between with what Dmitry is doing with the
00:41:49
physical and the mental coaching and then what we do on more of the internal side with the
00:41:54
testing, the data, and the supplementation and the functional health.
00:41:58
And so, definitely stay tuned for that.
00:42:00
You know, we're still working out like what that looks like, but it's gonna be awesome.
00:42:03
I'm really excited because I think a big missing piece is that kind of motivational
00:42:08
accountability and push that people have, and quite frankly, is not our thing, you know?
00:42:14
We're on the other side of that.
00:42:18
Do you have anything you want to leave people with today?
00:42:21
Any advice?
00:42:22
And then share with them where they can learn more about you?
00:42:25
Yeah.
00:42:26
If you want to do something you wanna have an outcome that you haven't had before, you have
00:42:31
to do something you haven't done before.
00:42:33
Mhmm.
00:42:34
Right?
00:42:34
So a lot of times for me in training new clients, especially new clients, I'll give them
00:42:39
what they consider a ridiculous number of reps, for example.
00:42:43
Right?
00:42:43
And then when they complete it or they they experience a little struggle to complete it,
00:42:48
but they complete it, they're like, oh, wow.
00:42:51
Right?
00:42:52
What did I just do?
00:42:53
I gave them intrinsic value.
00:42:55
Mhmm.
00:42:55
I gave them the ability to believe that they can do this, and they like the feeling of it.
00:42:59
Yeah.
00:43:00
So now I just attach feelings to that to to that experience, and now they're tied to a new
00:43:06
tied to their outcome a little stronger.
00:43:09
So those are the types of things you gotta do, and you can't do it on your own.
00:43:13
So when you're looking for a trainer, you're looking for a coach, you're looking for a
00:43:17
chiro, you're looking for a functional medical expert, make sure you're finding someone that
00:43:21
is proven.
00:43:22
Don't just go to the guy with the six pack or the guy with a 100 followers.
00:43:27
Yeah.
00:43:28
Yeah.
00:43:28
Or the really or the most expensive person because they those are not guarantees.
00:43:32
Yeah.
00:43:33
Like, life doesn't give guarantees, but if you can see one, it usually is.
00:43:38
So go somewhere that is proven.
00:43:40
Yeah.
00:43:40
For sure.
00:43:41
And somewhere where you can align with their values too.
00:43:43
Right?
00:43:43
Like, we have our core values on the wall in our office.
00:43:46
And, hey, if it's not me, that's okay.
00:43:48
Like, I just want people to get better, so like, it doesn't have to be us.
00:43:52
Because not everybody vibes with the way I communicate.
00:43:55
I'm a little more firm with my patients and I'm like, Hey, this is this, do you want the result
00:43:58
or not?
00:43:59
And so, I do think that serves people because it's almost like that kind of hard truth.
00:44:03
But not everybody wants to be talked to or listen that.
00:44:06
So that's okay.
00:44:08
Find someone find somewhere where you feel heard and then where you're obviously your
00:44:13
goals are are set and you can be guided.
00:44:15
So Yeah.
00:44:16
Exactly that.
00:44:17
Yeah.
00:44:17
Yeah.
00:44:17
But you can find me at the aestheticsupremacy.com.
00:44:22
Also, the same on Instagram, same on TikTok.
00:44:26
My personal more active page on Instagram is Dimitri underscore the booty god.
00:44:31
That's on Instagram.
00:44:34
Come check me out.
00:44:35
I specialize in training executives, super moms, as I call you guys, and then, you know,
00:44:41
my high level athletes or aspiring athletes.
00:44:44
Nice.
00:44:44
I also do a lot of, you know, lifetime people around the way, you know, usually stay at home
00:44:49
moms.
00:44:51
You know, I hate saying just stay at home moms.
00:44:54
It's more of the partner of those executives.
00:44:57
Mhmm.
00:44:57
Right?
00:44:58
That executive's success and everything is tied to their partner also.
00:45:01
Oh, a 100.
00:45:02
So if I can influence that, I'm adding more synergy to their life too.
00:45:06
Right?
00:45:06
Totally.
00:45:06
So that's usually a a big part for me as well as, you know, helping that whole family.
00:45:11
Right now, I've got a family that I train.
00:45:13
Train the husband, the wife, the wife's sister Mhmm.
00:45:17
And then I just started consulting with their cousin.
00:45:19
Oh, that's cool.
00:45:20
And I
00:45:20
just referred their their dad that doesn't speak English to to someone who speaks the
00:45:24
language they speak.
00:45:25
Like, that's that's how I work.
00:45:27
Yeah.
00:45:27
You're helping people.
00:45:28
That's there is better results when everyone's bought in.
00:45:31
Right?
00:45:31
If a if a man comes in here and then he brings his wife in here with him, he's gonna be more
00:45:36
motivated.
00:45:36
He's gonna get better outcomes and vice versa.
00:45:38
So Oh, yeah.
00:45:39
Yeah.
00:45:39
Yeah.
00:45:39
I sometimes give some moms that they're like, how can I get a meal plan for my kids?
00:45:45
And I'm like, yeah.
00:45:46
I love that because Huge.
00:45:47
It's no longer this just selfish personal experience.
00:45:50
It's something your whole family is tied into.
00:45:52
I don't know if you know about moms, but if their kids are involved, they're into it a
00:45:56
100%.
00:45:57
100%.
00:45:58
That's impact, man.
00:45:59
Right there, that's impact.
00:46:00
That's why so, alright, that's why this synergy is so great between us because that's what we
00:46:04
focus on is like, I don't just want someone to get out of pain or someone to get healthier, I
00:46:09
want them to get out of pain healthier so they can have a better life and impact their family
00:46:13
to get out of pain and be healthier, right?
00:46:15
If they take those lessons home and now they're, Oh, I cut gluten out for my kids, or I
00:46:19
cut out processed sugar for my husband and my kids, that's amazing, man.
00:46:23
You just impacted four people in one.
00:46:25
So Yeah.
00:46:25
One of the things I I personally hate seeing is, you know, childhood obesity.
00:46:29
Yeah.
00:46:29
And it's because they don't have a choice in the matter.
00:46:32
Yeah, man.
00:46:32
So if you can help them beat that, then boom.
00:46:35
Amazing.
00:46:36
Yeah.
00:46:36
So you're getting ahead of it.
00:46:37
Well, that's awesome, man.
00:46:38
I appreciate you coming on.
00:46:40
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00:46:45
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00:46:51
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