The Body Stack Episode: What Sam and Shaan Do To Get Healthy And How Much They Spend Doing It

Like the point of business and money is like to live a really long and good life. And the really the best way to do that money is maybe number two. Number one is just like being fit. And I wanted to spend ten minutes Talking about My personal W I was like what a engineers say. They say like tech stack, marketing stack. Let's talk about our

Body Staff All right, it's Friday and uh we're gonna do something a little different. So yeah. People know us. Then it was for our brains.

They know us for our money. But they also know us for our body. So me and Sam were doing an episode and for some reason we got on a thirty minute tangent about Fitness as an entrepreneur, fitness as a uh As a business person, what we do Uh more specifically, like what's the routines, what are the uh what are the things that are working for us?

What are the tactics, what are the goals we have. Things like that. Uh so we decided to make it s a separate episode. So this is uh This is the body episode of my first million. Let us know if you like it. Sam, what what did uh What what are they gonna get by listening to this?

I name drop lots of products that I pay for. None of these people have paid me. I'm more than happy to accept payment from them. So if you're you know, my fitness pal. Yeah. If I use my fitness pal, I love it. So if you guys want to give me some money or put it out there. If you are one of these companies or a competitor to one of these companies, pay us. Yeah. Willing to be bought. Uh so anyway, it's a thirty minute episode on Is it thirty, maybe twenty on uh different fitness stuff and the things that we spend our money on to be fit.

Which basically is kinda more important than the whole making money thing because if you're not fit and you're not healthy, you can't really do that thing. So we talked all about it. As one of our friends who's uh you know Super successful. They've been a guest on the podcast before.

Worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They said this once and I can't use their name because it's a little not politically correct, but they said this. If you're rich, there's no excuse to be fat. And I they said that because I was like, man, you spend a lot of time. Like working out. Like what are you what are you trying to do here? And they just said like

Look, the point of having financial freedom is to be able to spend it on spend your time doing things that are like, you know, luxuries, things that like Make your life better. And one of the things that makes your life way better is Having a good like kind of fitness routine and being uh, you know, a healthy fit person. And so That's kinda the idea. Sam is extremely fit. Sam, you're like in the

Oh. Point one percent probably of like founders who are fit. Well yeah, I mean that's I I I added the founder Venn diagram in the Yeah. Give me that founder thing and yeah, we'll definitely call it point one percent. But you know, that's like that that's an easy that's an easy game to win, maybe. And I've been going from pretty unfit to now like, you know, as we say, I was the before before photo. Now I'm just a before photo and I'm getting to the after. And so you get both perspectives. You get the perspective of somebody who's like all about that life and somebody who is like

Yeah, it doesn't come easy to'em, but they're they're making it happen. So so yeah, enjoy the episode. All right, we live. What's going on? Or yeah. I'm sore. From what?

So I went I went on Craig's list. 'cause I I had I wanted something. And I think Craigslist is massively Underrated. Crazy is so good. There is if you want a job Craigslist. If you want a couch.

Craigslist if you wanna learn something. Craigslist if you wanna hook up Craigslist, whatever you want. Craigslist has got the thing for you. And It has the most liquidity. So you go in there And I d I was looking for a um

A new uh new chef. And so I Went on there and I was like, Oh, just have immediately started getting hit with things. And I was like, Why don't I use Craigslist more? Look at these responses. This is amazing. So I was like, what else do I want? Right, Christmas is my like magic lamp, this is the genie, and I need to go and I need to make another wish. So I go Oh yeah, remember that video of Mark Zuckerberg?

And so this is the part I learned from you, which is Describe it. Like a kid with no filter. So I literally just put up a video I I I put up the post and I go Uh, hey, I was watching I was on TikTok and I saw this video.

It looked awesome. I wanna do that. I was like, I wanna do that. That looks fun. And I was like, Will you come w I was like, Will somebody come to my house to just like Train me kinda like that.

Yeah, I don't I'm not b I'm a beginner and I don't even really wanna ever fight. I just think that looks like a really fun workout. So I wanna do that. Um I don't know who I need you don't have to be an expert. Just like somebody who could Just watch that video and if you think you could do that for me.

Then uh just call me or maybe text me, whatever. So I posted that and immediately guy I got a hit from some guy who's like hey Uh I did MMA for ten years. I could totally trade you. He's like I trained with the Diaz brothers in and Stockton.

And you know, I'm a Caesar Gracie purple belt, I'm a striker, but I was like, Whoa, okay, great. He's like He's like, uh and so he calls me. And I'm like, all right, yeah, um, do I need like equipment or like how do I do this? And he was just like No, y he's like you don't need anything. I was like, what do you do during the day? He's like, I'm a handyman.

And I was like, he's like, Oh, this is cool'cause I'll get back into shape too. And I was like, All right, sounds fun and he's like uh Did he like fix a bunch of stuff afterwards at your house? No, but I in my mind I was like, dude, I've been looking for a handyman too. Like my wife's always on me about building and assembling things and hanging things. I was like, this is two for one, baby. And so Which basically means this guy's like a professor like his he's the reason he was on Craigslist he was probably looking for handyman gigs. Yeah, exactly. And he just happened to see this and was like, Oh I used to whoop ass.

And so he goes, um And what I why I knew he would be good, he goes What are you doing today? And I was like uh Uh uh I was like mentally not prepared to like immediately get in a fight today. So I was like, No, but how about tomorrow? He's like, All right, I'll be there. What time? I was like, I don't know, uh let's do the morning. He goes, Great, I'll be there at eight AM.

And I was like. And so he came over, we trained and he came over, by the way. Looking like a handyman. He comes over in his like handyman boots. His like, you know, like those jeans that are like covered in paint and he's like

Rolls up, he's got like a pair of k he's got a set of keys that has like fourteen hundred keys on it. I was like, Bro, do you have the keys to my house? What's going on here? And so he just got all these keys, all and he brings his boots and he's just like So he's one of these guys that works out in his jeans or what? Yeah, so he basically did the whole workout in his jeans, which was crazy to me. He's like throwing kicks in his combat boots, and I was like, What the hell's going on? Uh but he knew what he was talking about, and so he trained me and I'm still super sore. It was incredible. My hand I had to ice my knuckles, my hand was in so much pain last night. It was great. I don't know if this is legit. It felt like a real Did he do some did he do a little reference checking? Like I I don't know if that's how it works. No, I don't do reference checks. You got some risk at all times.

Did you like wrestle or do you jiu jitsu like did you roll? What did you do? Yeah, he's well, he's like, All right, we're gonna start with the basics. He's like, Here's how you move your feet. He's like, Here's how you throw a jab, here's how you cross. And it's like and you know, you know these things, but he's like, you know. Clean it up, right? Like let's do these right. Um and then but I told him I was like, dude, I don't want to just learn tactics. Like I'm not here to learn technique. I'll learn just enough technique to make the session

Worth it. I was like, you know, that video I was like the I want the sweat that they were breaking. I want the way that they were breaking that sweat. A competitive sweat is what I'm looking for. And then he he hits me with this, he goes Yeah, I didn't watch the video, but I I got an idea what you want. I was like, bro, there was only one thing in the ad. It was one two minute video. You don't even watch the video? He's like no. And uh, but at the end, we basically like sparred and so for ten minutes we just like fought.

And it was amazing. My brother in law came, so uh long time listeners the pod, no brother Aaron, he he was there. So Aaron, he kinda like vouched or not vouched, but he kinda checked the guy out. Uh no, not that he checked the guy out. He was just like my sp sparring partner to do the thing. Dude, I'm reading this is so funny you're bringing this up this morning. Uh you know, I listen to like three audiobooks a week.'Cause I go I like walking it. Well, I w uh you know, I like walking.

And uh the book that I'm listening to now is called When Violence is the answer. And By Sam Femoir And the premise is is that basically like Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it's the only answer. And when it is the only answer, you wanna act fast and as violently as possible.

And uh it just tells like stories that like He's like, I'm not teaching you tactics. We're gonna talk principles. And the the whole book is basically like When you have to be violent, you wanna annihilate them as fast as possible and take their mind completely out of the equation. Because like it's like if you ever get in like punched in the balls, you're like, Oh, I can't fight. Like there's nothing I can think about right now. Or imagine like being in a fight

And like just having your elbow broken. You know what I mean? You're like I I can't do anything right now. Like I I don't even want to think about this, versus like a punch in the face, sometimes you could still like anyway. It's so funny you're doing this now,'cause I'll have to give you the cliff notes of when violence is the answer as soon as I dig deeper into it. Uh anyways. Uh Zuck and his inter So Zuck went on Joe Rogan. He was talking about it and Joe's like you're doing MMA now? And he's like, Yeah, you know, but uh

I just uh whatever, he gives some reason for starting, he goes He goes. It's not like why are you doing MMA? It's more he's like now that I'm doing it, I'm like Why have I not been doing this my whole life? Because this is It's

Clearly the best. And he says it like in such a You know, computer nerd sort of way where it's like I have found The best workout. Right. It's like in the office. What is the best bear?

There is a best bear. So that that's how he was saying it. And I was like um the best bear. And so that's how I f that's how when he said that, I was like, That's probably right. And uh I like the idea of getting competitive sweat in the morning and I told the guy I go, look, I'm gonna sit at my key keyboard all day. After this. But like if I could start the day with kind of like a this like Very intense. Can't think about anything else.

Type of workout, right? Like extreme focus is required. My mind is not gonna be drifting around thinking about the to-do list and about this and about that, my email. No. I'm gonna be locked into this. It's a very primal thing. I'm gonna break a huge sweat. And then I can go on with my day and everything else in my day I will have uh it'll be much easier. I'm s I know I'm preaching the choir with you, but

I I feel like That's been my uh my realization with it. And And I actually I wanted to spend ten minutes and and bring this topic up because you sent me this gym picture and your gym looked sick. And I and like two years ago or year and a half ago, you saw mine and you're like, I'm gonna get one and you got one and it looks awesome. And then like four years ago, maybe You weren't in the best of shape, and you've made a big difference, and so have I in terms of fitness. And I was thinking.

I saw this guy, he's a picture of a sev he' is seventy one year old, his name's Mark. He started Primal or Uh Primal Kitchen, I think it's called. And it's like a sauce business that I love. But he's seventy one years old. And he shared this picture of him and he just looks great. He's not like Huge muscle guy, but he's like really fit. Abs looks awesome.

And I realized. This is the point of business. Like with the point of business and money is like A, there's like some practical reasons, so providing for your your family. Two, it's fun and fulfilling. But three, like the point is like to live a really long and good life. And the really the best way to do that

N money's maybe number two. Number one is just like being fit. And I wanted to spend ten minutes Talking about My personal well, I was like what a engineers say. They say like tech stack, marketing stack. Let's talk about our

Body stack. And I wanted to run what run through all the things that I'm currently doing and I would put myself in the category of a weekend warrior. Meaning I don't have like formal education on this, but I do listen to podcasts and I read books and I'm like self educated, which means You know, like I'm a B maybe, or not not an expert, but uh I I uh I I try to read and learn and and teach myself. Okay, great, go for it. All right.

So let me walk through. So what I do Uh and then I w and I'll go first and then you can go'cause I know you didn't prepare, so you can kinda like think about it as I do it. So what I do. I do four four days a week of strength tra training and then the other three days cardio. Those are usually weights or body weight. uh stuff. So that means you're working out every day, you're doing seven days or you take a rest day some days you do two. I do I do every single day. The day that I want to rest is uh I'll just go for like a fifteen thousand step walk, which is like a two hour walk.

Um, that's that's usually. And then I sleep from eleven to seven. And right now I'm around eleven or twelve percent body fat, with and I have a background in in athletics, so I'm not like a complete new, but I basically just learned all about this. in the last like six, seven years. I I w used to just do what I was told. Now I kinda know why I'm doing what I'm told. And my goals with with healthy eating and working out is basically uh three things. One. Live a long and healthy life. Two look good naked.

And three. uh like achieve certain like fun goals like running a certain race, hitting a certain body fat percentage. Lifting a certain amount of weight, just fun stuff. But that's really the simple stuff. T m people don't admit that. It's I just want to look it naked. You know what I mean? That's not weird. That's not weird. That's not weird. That's not weird. Might be a little weird. Look, I'm just saying what people think.

I can find this client info. Have you heard of HubSpot? HubSpot is a CRM platform, so it shares its data across every application. Every team can stay aligned. No out-of-sync spreadsheets or dueling databases. HubSpot, grow better. Sorry, here's the products that I use. For I spent two hundred ninety nine dollars a month, three hundred dollars a month, and I have a trainer at Central Athlete. Uh it's a place in Austin. They ba I have an app, they just tell me exactly what to do, and if I have questions or an injury or I'm traveling, I text my trainer Jesse and I say

Traveling, let's adapt this workout. And then we meet once a month to say, All right, here's the goals for the next month. Let's try and do this. Here's my goals for next year. Let's work backwards. Uh, the second thing I do is I pay six hundred dollars a month for a daily call from a nutritionist with my body tutor. Soon I'm gonna switch to the two hundred dollar a month plan and that's gonna be a once a week call, I think. But uh I spend six hundred dollars a month and basically I've someone calling me every day saying, What's the plan today for your diet? Um, let's work backwards from where you want to go, whatever. It's a 15 minute call. Uh the third thing is I spent around three thousand to five thousand dollars upfront cost and I built a home gym. Maybe it could have been twenty five hundred, but I think it was probably thirty five hundred. Uh the second thing or the the uh another thing is I do blood work. So two to three times a year I spend on average two hundred to three hundred dollars and I give I do inside tracker. It's just a fun way to track your blood uh and uh and see like where you are and see if you can improve things that were not so great the the time before.

The next thing is I get massage massages one to two days a week at this place called Run Lab in Austin, which basically just r I have a history of calf injuries and so they massage my calf and it's covered by insurance. So I pay I only pay about twenty bucks each time I go. And then I do uh a subscription to Aptive. Have you heard of Aptive? Yeah, it's like an audio workout thing. Yeah. I pay a hundred dollars a year for that. And so whenever I'm traveling and I need to do a body body weight workout like I did this weekend, I Say I want to do a sixty minute body weight workout. And it's like a trainer in your ears and I find that to be fun.

Uh, the next thing is I do uh my fitness pal. I track everything I eat and I spend sixty bucks a year on that. And then I spend a hundred dollars a year for fit fitive, it's called. It's an whenever I do cardio, I always try to keep my heart rate right at like a hundred and forty five beats per minute if I'm doing like a long cardio workout because that's like perfect. Like I think it's zone three, zone two. It's one of the zones that I want to like stay in. Uh, and then I basically subscribe to Pandora. I'm like the only guy ever who pays money for Pandora. So I I pay money for Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, and Audible and I listen to all those when I work out'cause I love doing that. Next. I have zero budget.

for whole foods and healthy foods. Whatever I see And I want I get. I don't question the price. I just think I'm doing it no matter what. And then finally I

w probably spend around a thousand dollars a year on equipment. So I have lifting shoes, I have like a lifting belt, I replace my running shoes consistently and I buy any type of equipment that I need. I always uh I buy it. And then finally I listened to Nick Bear. You know who that is? Remember that Rip dude?

Yeah, he came on the butt. Yeah, he's amazing. So I listen to his podcasts and I listen to Mind Body Pump. That's another one of my favorite fitness podcasts. And then I just follow tons of rip dudes on Instagram. And you know how they say you're the average of the five people you hang out with most? I feel like I'm the average of like the fifty followers. that that I follow on Instagram. So I'm just constantly like seeing like Rip dudes and like People running far and running fast. I get that on Instagram.

So that's all my equipment. I'm gonna wrap it up with Here's the rules that I basically have for my fitness and my health. So I always have a goal with a deadline, meaning Like Next year.

My goal is gonna be to run a hundred mile race. This year it was to hit body fat percentage. So I always have a goal. Number two, I always hire coaches. If there's anything I wanna learn, last year I learned a boxing, I had a boxing coach. This year I want to think of my nutrition right. I hired a nutritionist. I always hire a coach, no matter what. Finally. Or the third one, no processed foods. Uh and no sugar unless it's planned and and uh it it's intentional. So like I know like two weeks, three weeks in advance, this is a special occasion. I want to splurge there.

Um, I don't fret over money if it makes me healthier and finally I'm not trying to be perfect. I'm just trying to be the least bad most of the time and intentional about when Uh I am gonna like splurge. So Those that's basically my whole thing. A few things in the future that I want to do what does that add up to the dollar amounts that you just mentioned? Did you sum it up by any chance?

Uh, well, so the I I didn't have the exact cost of my home gym because I spent about three grand up front and then I've been like buying stuff as I've gone. Yeah, let's call it five. Let's call it five grand. We'll call it five. Then I would say I spend around fifteen thousand dollars a year. And um You know, like LeBron James has this like this famous stat where a million dollars a year. Yeah, he's like, I spent a million dollars a year on my body. And when that first came out, Other athletes were like Well, uh you know, like other NBA guys were like I I don't spend anywhere near that.

But you know, you look at LeBron, he's sort of like the pinnacle athlete in terms of f physical fitness. Even athletes in other sports. I've heard NFL's guys reference that. I've met NFL guys and they talk about Yeah, LeBron said he spent this. That m that got me thinking, what am I spending on? Why am I not investing in my body? Connor McGregor has said that he goes, I heard LeBron James says he spends a million dollars a year I'm thinking

I don't spend anything. He's like and so then he started like he hired a he hired like full time staff and people and started doing the whole thing. And so I think that w it's funny how that one Person saying that. Um

You know, like trigger a a kind of a chain reaction. And I actually think it's smart that you're sharing this because it's not our typical thing we talk about on the pod. Uh, we'll joke around about it, but it's not like a usual segment on the pod, but I think Is a big part of Being an entrepreneur and a founder is like Dude, that founder 15 is real. That founder, for me, it was the founder forty five that was real, dude. I gained so much weight stressing out.

Eating wrong, sleeping shitty. Uh, you know, not work not working out'cause I didn't have time. And um that really costs you. And so I think it's great that you uh that you decided to do the second time. And we didn't even want to talk about this. Say at the end. Well oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The other thing. So w we didn't even talk about mental health stuff. So the mental health stuff, like I try to like uh I just like I write every morning and it's not like dear journal typically. It's like here's what I want to get done today. Like I'm pretty bummed about this, this, and this, but I'm very thankful for this.

So like that's my version of writing. Um, and then like obviously like autotherapy. So those are like my mental health things. But all right, last thing, the things I wanna try. So one, an executive health checkup. So basically you spend some number between five and twenty grand a year. Or twenty grand in one turn and you go for three days to a Mayo clinic and they just do all types of stuff to you. I'm not convinced that it's entirely needed, but I I ever I test everything just mostly for fun. Number two, a concierge doctor. Have you ever had one of those?

Briefly I had a yeah, I had a concierge doctor. I had a concierge doctor. Yes, I had one when I was one time I got really sick with lime and my face like broke. Uh I had like Bell's palsy. It was it was horrible. So I spent twenty five grand. I had a concierge doctor, a doctor on call, and that was awesome. I want to get one of those. The third thing. Skin stuff. Do you do anything for your skin, like wear sunscreen? No, I don't do.

Dude, I I have it. Honestly, I haven't washed my face in like six years. I might be I might be a white guy. You know, underneath all this. This might just be stuck that I I gotta sit down here. Like people are like Oh, what face wash do you use? I was like Yeah, if my face gets wet during the shower, it gets wet. That's that's the wash, bro. Like there's not there's not a routine. Whatever's left over on the towel when I wipe my face off and dry it off is the soap that I'm using. Dude, I don't know if it's a woman thing or if it's a black woman thing because my wife like knows everything about like Skincare. She's like, You gotta use this, then you gotta do this, you gotta do this. And I'm like, dude, that's just way too complicated and I'm doing any of that. I'm just gonna use the hand soap. But sh basically uh

I have to use sunscreen, she's telling me. So I I wanna start doing some some skin stuff. And then the last thing. Dude, I want to do a five day fast. I was pretty inspired by John Lee Doumas. That's like on my bucket list is a five day fast. So those are some of the things I want to try. But that's my

That's my body stack. That's great. Uh have you heard by the way, have you heard how have you heard how young people, instead of saying, um, how many people have you slept with, they say, What's your body count? Yeah, it's so funny. It's so funny. That's why I came up with this name. Here's my body stacked some young woman raised her hand and she goes, Hey teacher, what's your body count? And I'm It's the funniest thing I've seen in a in months.

So go ahead. Um all right. So my buddy is uh going through a company acquisition and he's like, Oh yeah, you know, I'm gonna have to earn it out there, blah, blah, blah. And I told him, I said, You know, when we got acquired, I did one thing really well. I go, I wrote down I was like, all right, I know what this year is all about. Um, it's this acquisition, and I know this could go many ways. I talked to a bunch of people who got acquired. And for some of them they just got really depressed. They were bored at the acquiring company. For some people they had a great time.

Some people it was just sort of like uh dude, I don't even remember just sort of like Yeah, you know, whatever. I don't know. That was years ago and I Honestly, I was just kind of a zombie while I was on autopilot. I I don't really I didn't really have much intention behind how I spent that year. So I said All right, I'm gonna have some intent. So I wrote this document and I'm gonna read part of it to you. Uh, you tell me when this gets boring, we'll switch it. But I go.

My twenty nineteen mindset. So this is twenty nineteen we got acquired by by Twitch. Where'd you write this? Just in Google Docs and um At the top I wrote I I wrote a quote, Time is what we want the most. But we use the worst.

I said this document is a chance to think about how I want to spend the next year of my life. Time is the most precious resource. Here's how I'm gonna invest it. I go, number one. Get fit. Enjoyably. Number two, earn and learn.

And number three, become a great person like Ramon. Those are my three sections. Uh our buddy Ramon is uh is the honorary. So on the get fit enjoyably, I go. Every year I'm getting fatter, less mobile, and I shorten my lifespan. This is a bad trajectory. I need to invest now or I'm gonna pay like I'm gonna pay later. Hell, I'm paying right now. And I go, I think getting fit means dropping to a hundred and eighty five pounds. Feeling athletic.

And the word enjoyably is really important. Every time I've tried this in the past, I start, I get motivated, I take some action, get some results. But it's hard. I don't really like it. So I slip up and eventually give up altogether. Three weeks later. What did you weigh then? Like two thirty? Two twenty, two twenty five, something like that. I said three weeks later, I'm back on my couch and my boxers eating chips and queso again. This cycle is bad. Long story short, willpower is not the what not the fuel to use. If I use willpower I fail.

Instead I'm gonna find a way to do this. Uh in a way that's enjoyable'cause when I like it, I'll do it. Um so that means I gotta figure out foods that are clean that I actually like. I gotta figure out exercise that's good that I actually look forward to doing. Here's what winning looks like. I'm a hundred eighty five pounds. This is what I wrote at the time. I I got nowhere close to this. A hundred eighty five pounds by the end of twenty twenty.

And I with a new set of exercise and eating habits that I enjoy and I'm not forcing myself to maintain. All right, so that was the The first part. A little A little letter to myself. I I'm proud of reading this. I was like, you know, I did not hit that goal. I'm not one eighty five, even now I've Probably Two

twelve two thirteen, so it doesn't even sound like much, ten pounds, but it was But I probably double that in terms of m yeah, muscle mass comp composition versus body fat. Dude, and one eighty five for you, a lot of people don't realize this, but you're six one. You think you're are you above six one you think? Yeah, like your that one eighty five would be pretty small. Yeah, so I don't know, I picked a number, but like

Specifics aside, I think I got the idea right. And and when I look back, so at that time I was working out zero times a week. I was eating Like dog shit. And I was I really didn't have even a game plan. And in fact I actually had very little

Uh Evidence. that like this was doable. For some people, if you've been in great shape before, you always have that. You've got that in your back pocket. You've I have done this before. Imagine never having done it, right? Like never I never saw an ab. It was the Lochness monster of my body. It was like Where where is this thing?

And so That was where I was at. Now the two things that worked for me. So in in terms of your tech sty in terms of your body stack. I share two things, uh, but I do everything else differently. So I also get get a coach for everything that I'm doing. So I have a personal trainer who I talk about a bunch.

I have a uh nutrition. I use the same once you've talked told me about my body tutor, I do the two hundred dollar a month plan where I text her every day. You dig it what I what I'm eating. I dig it. Yeah. I've I'm not the most consistent with it. Like I will forget to update it at night. I'll update it later, but like whatever, just a little late. Um And um Uh yeah. So I do the coach thing. That was really, really important. And I like I was saying with the MMA thing, same thing. Oh, I want to do this.

Let me get a coach. And a coach is not because you don't know how to do it. It's because It's like the real way to commit to doing it. And for me, I was like

Even better. I need somebody to show up at my house. So I looked at what are the things that trip me up. I was like, It's not like I'm going to the gym and doing a crappy workout. I'm just not going to the gym. And so I was like, I need to find a way to go to the gym. I was like, all right, well, what if the gym came to me? So

I saw your home gym. I got inspired. I was like, dude. What's the flooring you used? What's this that you bought? What's this I asked you for every little piece of And it was way easier than you thought, wasn't it? Oh dude, I copied the exact same thing. I bought the same rubber mounds for my phone. Wasn't a lot of stuff. And you know, a few kettlebells, this, that, great, got it.

Um so got a home gym. And then I got a trainer to come to my house. Now, obviously this is a a luxury. Not everybody can afford to do this. But hey, that's the point of this show. It's about like, you know, building wealth and then figuring out how to use it. And so this is this is how to use it. Um Second thing was the nutritionist. So okay, the coaching thing, I'm right on board with you. Mine was

remove friction. Find the places that like The habit slips up and just Literally try to get rid of that step. So that was bringing the gym to me. The last piece was basically like what is the

What is the version of this I'm gonna enjoy? So I had to find a trainer who I vibe with, who I actually like hanging out with them. Um, like the conversation is fun. It's not just that they're good at their job. And secondly, like we do workouts that are fun for me. Sometimes we'll just he'll come over and it'll be like Let's go play basketball. We'll just go to twenty four hour fitness. We'll play pick up basketball. It's kinda weird.

You're paying this trainer a hundred dollars to go play pick up basketball with you? It's like Yeah, I'm actually paying For me to exercise regularly and get in great shape. I'm not paying for a specific hour block of time. or a specific like skill set and know how. And so same thing. MMA looked fun. All right, I'm gonna do MA.

Um we do training that's like about mobility sometimes or or very simple things. Like I'll tell them like look I told him very simply, he's like, What are your goals? And I think for every other client of his his their goals are like I wanna lose weight, I got a wedding coming up, I gotta uh you know, I wanna look good with my shirt off, blah, blah, blah. I wanna you know, some shit shit like that. I was like When I stand up from sitting, I feel like an old man.

I was like, I don't get up like an athletic person. So that's my first goal. I wanna be able to Like We do this exercise on the ground and you say, All right, let's get up, let's go over here. I don't want to go I don't want that to be like a eighteen point turn. Like I I need to just like get up, not like up. Yep, coming. Hold on. Gotta get on my elbow, then my knee, then my put both hands on the ground, do like a you know, tripod, then I'm up. Like that's that's how I was moving, honestly. And I was like

Same thing when I run. I was like, I don't know if I run right. I think my gate is all messed up. And so we spent a lot of time literally fixing my walking gait or my sitting posture. Or you know, like my habits for the morning of how to get loose. And those things matter to me. So I would suggest also like Don't make your goals the cliche. Think about what actually would feel good as maybe like a middle step in between you and being just like absolutely ripped. Cause that became very motivating to me. And I started to see results in all those little things first. Oh.

I'm smoother when I run, I'm smoother when I walk, I get up more smoothly. I can crouch down in a b in a easier way and play with my kids. That was the I can I could just sit in a squat. Like those things were really important. And I had to find somebody who knew how to Who knew how to train in a functional way like that, not just All right, let's do you know, three sets twelve.

Uh with a you know, this heavy weight. That's it. Uh time aside. Is it like every day at this time? Every day at the same time. Shows up at my house. I'm not gonna be rude and leave them waiting. I have to drop what I'm doing and I go do it. And that's it. And then the whole thing.

So we do it at three uh three PM. Um But it it doesn't it could be any time. I actually prefer to move it to the morning now, but like whatever, we do three at the moment. Dude, I don't like Andrew Tate that much because I think he says some silly stuff, but he says a lot of interesting stuff uh that I agree with and

One of the things that he said that I've I've been obsessing over, he goes I'm not motivated. I'm disciplined. And I thought that's beautiful. That's a that that's a really that's a beautiful idea. And that has definitely that is definitely key to achieving a lot of goals, whether it's work or uh

Fitness it's just like no, I just like I don't I I I remember when I was starting my business at like two o'clock, people would call I'm like, Hey, let's go hang out. I'm like, dude, I gotta work. And they're like, What are you talking about? You're the boss. You can do anything you want. I'm like it's a and I remember I was like twenty three and I would say it's a school night. You know, I can't go out on a school night. You know, like we had these rules. I was like

Bro, I work. I get there at eight and I work until six usually. Like I and then I go to dinner. Like I I can't do these things. And I remember thinking Uh I'm not motivated to do this, but I'm happy that I have this routine because this is discipline, whether I kind of like forced myself to do it. Same with fitness, same with anything. It's like motivation. is a really good way to get started, but it's not a ver not the best way to maintain discipline. And you can the cool thing about discipline is you can kind of force yourself into it. Like you like I you set these things up, like this guy all you did was told this dude to show up and now you're like Fuck, I gotta do it. I heard this great quote on discipline. Um'cause I always thought about discipline like force being able to force yourself to do something even if you don't want to do it.

And that's true, that does happen. But that's not the definition. And somebody said this beautifully ago. Discipline is just remembering what you really want. Because like In the moment you want

to just sit down and rest, or you just wanna chill, you just wanna eat that bag of chips, whatever. But it's like Okay, that's it that is something I want. What do I really want? And if you remember what you really want.

They do go do that thing. You'll go do the the things that vote towards that outcome versus this outcome. And so discipline is just remembering what you really want. It felt a lot better than like that that's something that's something I wanted to do. Versus Discipline being I force myself to do it even when I don't want to do it. And I that wasn't appealing to me. Yeah, it goes away like the when you wake up in the morning in your store.

Yeah. The the other things I was gonna say, the things I do differently than you is Um I don't sp set the specific timeline deadlines. So which is crazy to me,'cause like In business, of course I do that. I will never set a goal without a timeline.

I was like when I'm trying to do it by. I if and if anyone on my team tries to do that, I don't let them do it. With fitness, I looked at it differently. Look, I've tried that before. I've tried to say I'm gonna lose this by this day. My trainer kinda taught me he was just like look All right, how old are you? And I was like, uh at the time I don't know, it's thirty two or something like that. He's like Thirty two. Cool. So you've had

Thirty two years to build up these habits. And now you're looking for a six week You know, a six week revamp, like oh you need this goal done in six weeks or six months or He's like The way I look at it, you spent thirty two years getting here.

Maybe it's gonna take a little while to get there. And that's okay, right? Like Hey, what's another year? You know, y what's a what's a year or two of working at this when You spent thirty doing it the wrong way. Can we spend a few doing it the right way? Um and he was sort of like

What I don't want is You work out, then blah, blah, blah. Then you Are you go and you door dash some taco bell, now you're feeling guilty and you're eating the wrong thing goes If you're gonna eat it, eat it and enjoy it.

Don't bring the guilt into it. Don't bring the shame into it. Don't don't feel bad that you now it's a setback and have this mental baggage about how bad it's gonna be. He's like Just remember, when you're the dude who you're like who you're becoming, you can eat talk about it's not even gonna mess with you. He's like, I can eat I can eat talk about every day this week. I won't change a thing. Lift up the shirt, still there, right?

And he's like, that's who you're becoming. And so you just need to like focus on that. And don't don't like go through this emotional. Up and down and up and down and oh I'm so proud of myself for doing it good one day and then Oh, I hate myself for missing it the next day and I feel guilty. Like Uh just like That's one way you could do this, but like how about we just don't do it that way?

And so I've gone very much the uh the tortoise, not the hare. Route with this, which is just like Cool. I'm gonna put no no timelines on this. I'm gonna put no deadline. I'm gonna make it where it's unfailable. My only goal is to rebuild my habits of eating and exercise to be healthy. And I don't care how long that takes, I'm gonna do it.

And um and there's no setbacks. Everything is progress compared to how I was before. Even how I was a month ago. And so that that has also helped me and is a very strange thing because I've never ever chased a goal doing it this way. I've never let myself Just do it this like infinite game style where it's like, yep, there's no clock. You're just trying to be better today than you were yesterday.

And like it's okay, you know, even if you Do something that's wrong. You l you learn something in that process too. It's all right. Uh, you know, this pat on the back style. I've never never tried it, but This is the first time. So another news we're gonna be launching Guy Next Door.

Fitness plan. Yeah. Dude, we should totally do that. Attainable Attainable fitness. Yeah, that's that's gonna be called. We're gonna call it uh hot enough. Yeah, we're gonna call it Midwest Seven a New York six. Ha ha ha. Yeah.

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