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08 | Growth Mindset & Becoming Clear on your Mission
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Developing a growth mindset and becoming clear on what your mission is is vital. Whether this relates to your relations, your business, your work, your fitness, etc.
Search for clarity in what you are currently doing and then go have tons of fun.
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Welcome and Episode Introduction
00:00:36
wegettodothis
Welcome back. This is episode eight already. It's wild. Episode eight. I was talking to someone at the North at Roth the other day and they asked somebody episodes we had out and they said, there's seven. And they went, what? That's, that's incredible. And I said, we're weekly. Get on it. Say, if you haven't been watching, you better jump on board because we're cruising.
00:01:06
wegettodothis
yeah we are And we've changed our video again. It will not be the last time. I mean, I'll probably like look at the camera sometimes and then back at you. And I don't know what the move will be, I guess. But we'll see. If you really want to get your point across and you get up close in the camera, get up close and personal. Right. Yeah, we're going to go for the vertical.
00:01:31
wegettodothis
look. I think. Or maybe horizontal. We're figuring it out.
Improving Production and Sponsorship
00:01:38
wegettodothis
Someday we'll have a studio and you know a couple cameras, a couple mics maybe. If you want to sponsor us to get better quality of audio and visual let us know. Well and the sound is the most important thing at least right now. Yeah most people are listening. Our YouTube videos get like two years So whoever's watching those, thank you. And I'd be curious to know who's watching the YouTube videos. So if you're watching them, shoot us an email, or text, and let us know. How you feeling?
Stress and Health Challenges
00:02:12
wegettodothis
Tired. Yeah. It's been kind of a wild week again for both of us. But you, specifically, I feel as though we're the yet hidden this weekend. We're on the verge of being sick again. Yeah. Yesterday. What the heck?
00:02:28
wegettodothis
You're famous one time. Yesterday i came home from work and felt some migraine symptoms coming on, which I haven't had in a little bit. I was feeling nauseous and just extremely tired and fell asleep for a couple hours, a couple hour nap. And one of the things we want to talk about today is stress and balancing that with, you know, running and think in our case, balancing that with work and entrepreneurship. Because it's definitely not an easy thing. Careful if putting your foot on that shakes it a little bit every time you do. Thanks.
00:03:16
wegettodothis
but We're both learning? i'm challenge just I was just oh just doing that. For some reason, I like moving my legs a lot during this. And I don't even notice. Yeah.
00:03:28
wegettodothis
Yeah, so anyways, slept a lot. Then this morning did a 10 miler with some pace work in there and came home exhausted again and to another hour nap. Feeling better now, but still tired. And tomorrow I have a full day of teaching. It's a Sunday, which is why I wanted to catch up on some sleep today because going from a full work day on a weekend to then back into a five day work week can be a lot.
00:03:59
wegettodothis
even when it's things you enjoy. I think that's what I'm always learning and people are always, including you, telling me to slow down, but it's hard. It's like, I love what I'm doing. I really, this week was really good, but it's still tiring. And I know I've talked about being an introvert before with, was I on episode three? I think we talked about that, but who was Kaylee one?
00:04:28
wegettodothis
respect And yeah, I need time to decompress and to not be super social. And with our jobs, we're kind of always on with people. Even if it's that we're doing fun things, it's just, you know, where people are always asking about our businesses, our jobs, our life, which is amazing.
Balancing Workouts and Social Activities
00:04:57
wegettodothis
And and it's super fun to talk about it.
00:04:59
wegettodothis
but it's still draining at the same time. And then I get to moments like yesterday and today where it's like, okay, now I need to chill for a little bit. Also as the first week back at Northwestern teaching, which is great, but just another added thing for the week. So how have you been feeling? Great.
00:05:25
wegettodothis
You had a pretty big bike yesterday. Yeah, I went and biked to Stillwater, which ended up being 69 miles.
00:05:37
wegettodothis
Which was... Yeah, you can determine why you did that on your own. Not intentional, right? No, it was totally intentional.
00:05:50
wegettodothis
we yeah While talking to Caleb and around mile 40 or whatever, I realized that I was going to be really close to 70. And I said to him, Caleb, the real question of today will be, does Jacob have the ego? Will Jacob be able to have the ego check to go straight back to his apartment and end at 68.6?
00:06:21
wegettodothis
<unk>s The answer to that. Well, and then at mile 65 or whatever, it got dark and we were coming back and Caleb actually guided me back. Cause I know like my bike learning a lesson. You should have taken mine. Well, I didn't, I have one somewhere. I'm pretty sure my uncle, when I got my uncle's bike, I think it had anyways. So.
00:06:45
wegettodothis
We were coming back and I said, Caleb, it's time for you to make a decision. This is going to be so close to 70 and it will take eight more minutes to rip out another mile and a half. And you know and then I thought to myself, do I really need to hit 70? And then I thought, you know what actually might be cooler than 70. And so yeah, that's how we got there. And so I added a little tiny loop. and Such a boy. Yeah, you know, I'm ah i'm a 17 year old at heart apparently. 12 year old, I don't know. 12 year old. vote i Five year olds. Sometimes my temper tantrums I'm supposed to. Yeah. But yeah, it was good. I ended up biking about 107 miles this week total, which is the most of every bike in a week before. And it felt really good. I feel like volume wise, I'm doing a lot. Yeah. How much do you run? I'll be at.
00:07:40
wegettodothis
50 on this, just like 50 points something. And with the two lifts, it's going to be about 18 hours of working out this week, but the bike ride was six hours of, you know, of it. So it's not like I'll do a six hour bike ride every week. I think, yeah, it's all like aerobic, extremely aerobic.
00:08:07
wegettodothis
zone one and two, par rates from also at least 10 hours, I'd say, probably, has been below 130, below 130, I would say. So biking, maybe less than that. So, you know, I had the one day so far that had intensity. That was four miles of intensity. And then I had fillsprings too, I guess, so I never mind.
00:08:34
wegettodothis
That was like a mile total. So of all of everything I've done this week, roughly I would say an hour of that 18 hours was very, very hard. That got my heart rate up a lot, you know, and that's, you count weightlifting too, that can get hard, but in a different different of way, you know? So yeah, I mean, I'm on like 95, 5% split right now. I'm not even on the 20 split. So.
00:09:02
wegettodothis
I think that's a testament into staying, how you stay healthy. So far. Knock on wood. But I think you're very good at keeping the easy days easy. And I think that's something and as runners, we all struggle with that. Comfy days, comfy. Cause it's like, okay, I know I can run faster than that, but should I be running faster than that? Yeah. Well, I also, I have ego too.
00:09:30
wegettodothis
Everyone does, and it is fun to run faster. Right. And so a lot of times what I do is, and I go back and forth and this is my change, but on days in which I know I will be taxing my body a lot, specifically my speed run days and my long run days.
00:09:52
wegettodothis
I give myself permission to, so she since I don't have a workout built in along runs that I give myself permission to push spaces those days. So even warm up and cool down on speed days, I usually will. Like when I do an easy effort, I, it's very rarely on run. It's very rare that I'm running below eight 30 pace for any miles, but then I'm warm up and cool down days for speed work. A lot of times I'll start my first mile at nine and then I'll run eight 20 and then I'll do the speed work. And ah that's a lot of times my cool down I'll end up doing two flat miles and then i'll walk for five minutes
00:10:25
wegettodothis
cool down So again, I go back and forth, but I just, if I'm, I just, I really believe in easy days, easy, comfy days, comfy, not comfy, uncomfortable days. Our days are right. So that's, that's what I do and it's been working and that's what Matt just big on too. And, you know, even with the cross training stuff, he, we talked about how It's very hard to overdo it to this week might've been a stretch because like a 70 mile bike ride is yeah. But for the most part with like how I incorporate biking, I'm doing like 20, 30 miles a week. So it's not an excessive amount. It's like two and a half hours total usually. like And so, and because it's so low impact and um it's not like I'm on the bike going as hard as I can, like literally ever, it's pretty hard to overdo that. Running is very easy to overdo.
00:11:22
wegettodothis
And I'm sure if biking was my A1, it'd be very easy. Like whatever, like the number one thing isn't focusing on, I'm sure that'd be very easy to overdo as well, but yeah. So it's good. It's a good week. Big week yeah for you. Yeah. I'm excited for CN and a much different spot than I was before grandmas.
00:11:47
wegettodothis
So far, it's just Caleb asked me yesterday about goals and stuff. And I said, stay healthy. Have fun. That's all that matters. Well, yes, but I'm at, yeah, have fun. You know, you know what I'm saying. that I wasn't, I said, I'm going to let the time stuff come to me. It's just like, I just want to keep doing this. I don't want to have to deal with the shit that I was dealing with last spring. And in hindsight, I could have done things differently, especially once I was injured, accepting it sooner would have This is a good learning lesson, you know?
Health, Nutrition, and Fitness Journey
00:12:19
wegettodothis
Yeah. Well, it's all about learning. And I think both of us want to be doing this for a very long time. And that's where the stay healthy and enjoy it comes in. Right. Like it's okay to have harder seasons where you're pushing it more and doing more mileage, but at the same time, you still want to be staying healthy, thinking about like the future also. Yeah. Yeah. And cleaned up my,
00:12:47
wegettodothis
cleaned up and I'm not, that's the right word to say that, but putting really intentional about just eating. Um, you know, and with my background with that, which we might talk about some bit at some point, you know, I'm like probably 90% of other endurance athletes out there that have struggled with some type of disorder eating. And it's a touchy subject, right? But I feel as though I have a pretty good relationship with food right now. And I.
00:13:15
wegettodothis
Not that, you know, weight matters a whole lot. I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say there, but I've lost 15 pounds since the grandma's build during the grandma's build, specifically when I got injured and then I didn't run at all and kept eating. Not amazing and getting a little sleep and you know, different things like that. It was, I got like two 18 that one, one day I told you and I felt it. I just felt, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't like how I felt.
00:13:43
wegettodothis
And again, and then that moment was specifically when I had to really think about, again, with the disordered eating stuff, how I was going to go about, you know, essentially trying to lose some weight. So that's been a huge project all summer. And I'm very happy with format now because I'm at 203 ish. So proud of you yeah, and it feels, it feels good.
00:14:11
wegettodothis
better And it's not even like I feel better because I'm lighter necessarily. it More so it feels as though I feel better because specifically my stomach on runs doesn't feel like junk. Cause I'm eating enough and I'm not, cause when I, when I under eat, I feel like garbage on runs. And then when I was overeating and binge eating and stuff, then I feel awful on runs too, right? So I'm in this kind of in between and Yeah, feels good. I like what you're saying about feeling good though. Cause I feel like that's the type of relationship I try to have with food and exercise and everything. And instead of eating to be a certain weight or to hit a certain amount of calories or, you know, it hit these other benchmarks, it's more of like, I'm eating to feel nourished. I'm eating because if I eat fast food and junk, like you said, then you feel like junk.
00:15:10
wegettodothis
But if I'm eating nourishing foods, I'm going to feel good and my runs are going to feel better. And in turn, like if you are looking to lose weight and stuff, that typically naturally happens. And with exercise, it's more of like not having to do it to lose weight or whatever it is. But like I like to run and do things because it feels good. And and I feel like when you can get that kind of relationship,
00:15:39
wegettodothis
to exercise and fitness fitness and food. It's a good spot to be, but it's definitely something that's taken me a very long time to get to as well. It's ever changing too. Absolutely. yeah And I think too is interesting is I used to think that
00:16:06
wegettodothis
I could just burn anything and then I could just eat, eat, and eat. And what I've been doing a lot of this summer, thanks to you. I mean, I've moved, right? 18 hours this week. I don't really feel like I ate any more this week than I did really last week when I did, I think I was like 11 hours.
00:16:29
wegettodothis
I probably did, but I just really listened to, tried to, which is very hard. but try I've been trying very hard to listen to when I feel full. I'm really trying hard to just say, okay, can you'll be able to eat again. Sounds like almost, that didn't sound good. But you know what I mean? it's like like we had We had Chinese food the other night, right? And I used to think, oh, I can't. I need to eat this cause I don't know what I'm going to have the opportunity to eat this again. Right. And then it ends up with me eating five more shrimps or whatever. whatever Right. But instead thinking I'll have leftovers tomorrow. And because I'll have leftovers, I won't have to prepare something else. Right. So yeah, yeah I don't know. It's a different. And that's even like the mindset that I have of drinking and stuff too. It's like, okay, right now in the moment it would feel good to drink more, eat more, but how am I going to feel later? Right.
00:17:26
wegettodothis
And instead of thinking of it as depriving yourself, it's just, okay, well, it's gonna make me feel good tonight, tomorrow, while I'm working out and after that. So yeah, I'm proud of you. Proud of you. Thank you. Thanks. Announcements. So I wanted to, we got a couple.
00:17:49
wegettodothis
comments and feedback from last week's episode, which is great. Please always feel free to send us comments, feedback or anything about the episodes. If you have not listened to episode seven yet, we talked about the superior races and I kind of talked about some things with the 200 miler and about how You know, once you've reached that big goal in life, whether it be finishing a big race, retirement, you hit the top of your company, whatever it is, that thing that you've been working towards for a long time, like then what and kind of how do you navigate that? Um, so anyways, one message that we got, I'm going to read it quickly here.
00:18:41
wegettodothis
It says, Hi, Kaylee, I just got a chance to listen to your podcast as I'm driving. Just want to say that this week's one really hit home. I can relate relate to the feelings a lot with swimming. You put into words something that I dealt with, and I appreciate you being open about it. In 2016, when I was going for my Olympic trials cut, I went through a very similar phase with the sport. I don't think I ever really I don't think I ever really recovered fully from it. And I believe it was because no one talked about things like this. Still haven't been back in the pool in over two years. And I just really appreciate you being vulnerable and talking about this because people do go through this quote piat PTSD, love, hate and mixed feelings in sports. So yeah.
00:19:32
wegettodothis
Um, who shared that. I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us because like, selfishly, my first thought was it validates, like validates my feelings, which obviously it feels good because as I talked about last week, sometimes you feel alone in this stuff and it's like, okay, is anybody else feeling the way I do? And you know, do I have anybody to talk to this, talk about this too? And It was just, it's cool seeing this stuff to be like, okay, other people are resonating with this and other people are experiencing the things that we talk about. And yeah, it was just good feedback and validation to be like, okay, what we're doing is working and it's okay to be vulnerable. And hopefully I feel like our, like,
00:20:29
wegettodothis
generation is getting better about talking about stuff. Like even my friends talk about like abortion and things like that, like topics that people never used to really talk about.
00:20:40
wegettodothis
Yeah. Do you have any comments?
Personal Growth and Finding Joy
00:20:44
wegettodothis
I agree. So thanks for sharing that. And then I'm just going to say like, you know, if something like this has happened to you and you haven't, you know, gotten back in the pool or for me, like,
00:20:59
wegettodothis
I'm not anywhere near ready to run an ultra again or whatever it is. I feel like, like in my opinion, I'm going to get to a point where I'm going to be like, okay, I'm ready to do this again. And I'll just know. Or maybe never. And that's fine too. And I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do any of this. And if it takes five years, fine. It takes 10 years, cool.
00:21:24
wegettodothis
but we don't need to force these things. And I can find another thing that will make me happy. Like I have the personality where I'm not just gonna be like okay done with fitness and pushing my body. Like I know that's not me, but I think it's just about finding your own your own joy and what brings you happiness. And even if it brought you joy at one point in your life, that doesn't mean that you need to force it now. That's okay. Which brings me to the other comment we got. This one says, in my opinion, I never truly arrive.
00:22:08
wegettodothis
Completing a certain distance or being awarded a certain title is certainly fulfilling, but my core value is growth. It was never really about completing 200 miles or becoming a CEO. It was about the process of growing into the person who could do those things. As long as I stayed focused on continual growth, the achievements are just benchmarks.
00:22:30
wegettodothis
And I really like this one because this specific human has also completed a few 200 milers, specifically Tahoe, Bigfoot 200, like some really badass 200 milers, which like if you don't know like Tahoe and Bigfoot, I mean, you're you're up and down, you're in the mountains the whole time. Like these are extremely challenging courses. And he's also a CEO. So he has gotten like to the top of his company.
00:23:02
wegettodothis
and And it just resonated with me because I like what he said about growth. And I think it, it is about growth. And we talk like you and I talked a lot about how it is about the journey and how, you know, specific race or whatever it is, is just kind of like the cherry on top for all the work that you've been putting in. And yes, me completing the 200 was amazing. I'm very proud of myself for it, but I'm also just as proud of the time leading up to the 200 that I put into it and know it was more than just the couple months of like work that I was putting in every single day. It was the last you know 10-20 years of me putting in the work to get to that spot and I think maybe I could have
00:23:55
wegettodothis
I don't know, could have talked more about that in the last episode about how it's not just, you know, hitting this distance or hitting this milestone and then you're just done. It's just for me, I guess it's more of, okay, now where do I want to redirect this energy? Like knowing that this is just a milestone or stepping stone into the rest of your life. And it's not like that has to be the end all be all. And
00:24:24
wegettodothis
This wasn't something that I, like it was an, yes, it was a key, an accumulation of a lot of things in my life, but also it wasn't like the only thing that I've been working towards for my entire life where now I'm like completely lost and being like, okay, now what? Like I have no idea where it to go from here. Um, cause I think that can even be like in a marriage, like you see a lot of people who put all of this effort, like, you know, you meet someone.
00:24:50
wegettodothis
And then you plan your wedding and it's this whole thing and like your entire relationship is built off of just like the wedding and getting married and then the honeymoon. And then after it's like, now what, you know, now where does our relationship go after this and go from here? And I think that's why I do try to enjoy the moments leading up to those big things. We're not married yet, but I,
00:25:19
wegettodothis
feel like we're very good at building our, what? Yeah. Is there something you want to say? Is there an announcement you need to make? Should we, should I propose for the people of the pod? Um, no, we're not married or engaged, but I think we're very good at building up our relationship before all those things happen. And that's again, just part of the growth in the journey. I feel like we're both good at and with CIM for you.
00:25:48
wegettodothis
I mean, you can speak to this, but you know, hitting sub three, I don't even know if that's still your goal right now. You can talk about that, but like you just talking about like seeing healthy, like that's, that's your journey and that's your growth right now. And then CIN is just going to be, I mean, you can talk about it, but I just think that.
00:26:16
wegettodothis
Becoming extremely clear on what it is you are trying to do in terms of your mission in life, right? If you become clear on that, none of the other achievements and milestones matter as much.
00:26:41
wegettodothis
They still matter, right? What they become, like you're saying, roadmap blocks or whatever, it's a game, right? So I'm just very not focused on climbing ladders right now, getting faster, doing more, thinking up more clients, right? like that's not That's not the focus. I don't mean to say I don't,
00:27:08
wegettodothis
want to pick up more clients because that's an announcement we're going to talk about today actually. But I mean to say it as in the goal isn't to pick up more clients. The goal is to build the community. And so that more clients will then ideally naturally kind of form to that. The goal isn't to run sub three. The goal is to become the person that would run sub three.
00:27:30
wegettodothis
The goal isn't to do a 200 mile. The goal is to become the person that can train and dedicate their life to covering 200 miles. Right. You know what I'm saying? So that's kind of the idea. And ground is a good representation of what could happen when you get too focused on the one roadblock. Right. So that's how I kind of look at it. I, uh,
00:27:58
wegettodothis
I don't think that works for everyone though, either. I just think it works for me.
Racing Philosophy and Self-Improvement
00:28:03
wegettodothis
It takes pressure off me. And again, it's at CIM, I mean these next few races I have, right? TC 10, indie half, CIM, right? That workout I did on Tuesday. Where the hell did that come from? Right? So it's, it's these checkpoints in which let's go see where I'm at.
00:28:27
wegettodothis
Right. If I go and run PRs for all of these, does it really matter with the numbers? I'm better. Right. Right. I just spiked the first, or it bites my life. And I was completely fine today.
00:28:47
wegettodothis
Right. It's not, and again, we laughed about that number with 69 versus 70 versus 71. Like, and yeah, it's like a, holy shit. That's pretty cool. And yeah, I'm over a hundred miles in the week. And like, yeah, there's sometimes it's fun to think about the numbers, but like, I don't know. I just don't, I'm in a phase right now, at least where I'm very not focused on that. And that could be the impact initiative work I'm doing too. I'm just really diving in deeper on like my mission vision and vision.
00:29:19
wegettodothis
You know, I think it's good to like to have these goals, you know, to run 200 mile or to have a hundred mile week or to you know, be running 50 miles a week for X amount of time. But I feel like at the end of the day, the underlying goal is to become clear and clear of the type of human that we want to be.
00:29:41
wegettodothis
right
00:29:43
wegettodothis
And ah po I listen to a podcast on my run today and it was talking about becoming obsessed with whatever it is and his was like running and Is that toxic, toxic hustle mentality right there coming for you? I'm just kidding. I love you. I love you too. Help the people that want to be helped. Yes. It's not toxic. I'm totally messing with you. But yeah, like becoming obsessed with whatever it is. And right now we're both, I think obsessed with becoming the best versions of ourself. Yeah. And what's wrong with that? Yeah. Like seriously, I don't, there's a book called,
00:30:25
wegettodothis
I think it's, i'm andnna I'm gonna look it up so I have the exact, exact.
00:30:38
wegettodothis
Sorry, I need to plug in a laptop here. The book title is Be Obsessed or Be Average, which could be looked at as extremely, you know, that again, that toxic hustle, whatever, and
00:30:57
wegettodothis
to sound rather blunt, right? That's the people that want to better themselves or our, our, our audience, right? We're, you know, not to get into like balance, like Taylor talks about, but like, I don't believe in that either. I do a lot of things that are a lot of fun and I do them very hard and
00:31:27
wegettodothis
Yeah. I, I am totally cool with being obsessed. I really am. I think that some of those levels, I think, you know, becoming so obsessed in one specific thing. Yeah. Like that could, you know, addiction, right? It can, you can get, there's issues with that. My point though, is that I don't think it's wrong with becoming obsessed with bettering yourself. And I, I don't think that. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I don't.
00:31:53
wegettodothis
And I think especially when you want to do it with other people and build your community. And we always say, like you said, help the people that want to be helped. And I'm always like, whoever wants to come on board, like great. Yeah. Welcome. And the people that do, we have a lot of fun. Yes. Right. And so we're not doing this to be like a solo person who's, you know, climbing the ladder. Like you said, and like this is all about creating,
00:32:22
wegettodothis
this kick-ass community of other people who also want to buy better themselves. Right. and sort And that means different things for different people. Again. And there's a reason we don't talk about numbers very much. Like we just don't so far at least. I don't care how much, I really don't care how much you're running, how fast you are. I don't care how much you can bench prep, like.
00:32:49
wegettodothis
If I have a conversation with someone and one of the first things I find out about them is their PRs or something, and I didn't ask about it, it's just not something I really care about. you know yeah And I don't know if that makes me sound like but I'm more so interested in hearing about who you are as a person. Yeah, how did you get to those PRs and what was your journey to get there and like what were your struggles along the way?
00:33:19
wegettodothis
And like, all I ask about, I definitely do ask about PRs. Don't get me wrong. I do, but it's just not at the top of my list, you know? And even with races, when I talk to people about their goals they have, when I meet someone randomly in like a run club or whatever, and we start talking about, oh, I have this race coming up.
00:33:45
wegettodothis
I don't, I never really asked what the time, I guess I might say, what's your goal for the race? I guess in those situations, but I leave it kind of open and did a little bit. Yeah. Cause I mean, time goals can lead to you becoming better. Right. I mean, there are benchmarks. Yeah. And if, if you are someone that needs that to kind of guide you along the way. Cool. Yeah. Great. I guess that's fine. I don't, you know.
00:34:14
wegettodothis
I just think, and that's where becoming obsessed. we problem If you get so obsessed with one specific number, that's a. Yeah. Cause then what happens when it doesn't happen, then where do you go from there? Like, are you a failure now? right No, like that's when you need to look back at all the training you put in and see like, okay, I did everything in my power to get to that goal. And maybe I, you know, didn't hit it or fell short, but does that make me a terrible human. No. You became better in that process. And now by not hitting it, you will, like you learned a lesson and now you have something to take with you and can try again or not. You can do something else, but you learned a lot along the way. And that's the important part. Asking yourself 20 years from now, if this is going to really matter all that much of an important thing too.
00:35:14
wegettodothis
while announcements took a long time. So I guess this is going to be an announcements episode, but it's a lot of good content, so. Yeah. Well, and I have another comment. Um, well, the other one that was commented was just about the, you know, what do you do after becoming the kid in that bench stone? And I think somebody commented retirement. So that's their next bench stone and what they're going to do after that. Yeah. So my parents are currently going through this with retirement and it's a whole nother benchmark in life. Right.
00:35:51
wegettodothis
You know, something that you've worked towards, you know, for the last, you know, whenever you retire 55 age, 65, 70, whenever it is. And we've gone through a lot of life at that point. And then you finally hit retirement that you've been talking about for a long time. And then where do you go?
00:36:12
wegettodothis
yeah We have no idea. We're not retired. So if you're someone that has some advice, shoot us an email and we'll read it off. I would love, I would love that. Cause we're playing on being retired by what is it? 35. That's the new Gen Z goals, right? I mean, I've always lived, I mean, I'm trying to live a life I don't want to retire from. So I, I don't know. Yeah. I'm just joking. We're not retiring for very long time.
00:36:39
wegettodothis
We like building too much. I think that things will shift in what I'm interested in, but I don't know. I'm 26. Who the hell knows what I'm gonna think when I'm 60? We have a lot of working left to do. The other big announcement that I think is worth going over that, and I should say this too, but I think we should, because this happened to you twice this week, but you had a client come in and ask you about, somehow I came up with a conversation that them posting would benefit you by bringing out new clients. And they said, oh, I wasn't sure that you were looking for new clients. Something on the science, right? Yeah.
Building Community and Services
00:37:20
wegettodothis
and And I just think it's a worth saying that both Kaylee and I are very much actively looking for new clients. So like yeah from my perspective, if you are a runner or an athlete of any sorts,
00:37:37
wegettodothis
I would love to work with you in some capacity. So on the, on the run side of things, this is our shameless plug. So if you made it this far, I get to hear this feel on the run side of things is on the run coaching side. If you're a runner looking for a community be trying to not get injured, mitigate injuries of some sort, or see just looking kind of what we were talking about, working on bettering yourself in some sense, I'd love to chat. I think what we are building for Oak endurance.
00:38:07
wegettodothis
and specificallyly the app and the community there on the run side like within in that app right with the monthly call the one-on-one check-ins with me I think it's sick I really I'm really excited about that side of my business and I'm actively looking for more runners and especially if races start to taper down now or as we get into race season this is the time to my opinion start looking at coaches right because now we're starting to think about spring and if you are going to do a spring race my opinion planning starts now
00:38:39
wegettodothis
So, and then on the personal training, personal training, personal training side of things, anyone that is looking for any of those three things as well. It's, it's not exclusive to runners though. I wouldn't say at this point, I'm very much interested in working with triathletes. I have a new client that's a basketball player that's starting to meet this week. If.
00:39:04
wegettodothis
If that's something that you're interested in, I love the chat as well. I think that specifically on the strength strength training side, you can think about me as someone who from an exercise perspective is very specialized and good at corrective exercise. So if you will have chronic injuries, if you want to look at your gait, if you want to try to figure out things that have been bugging you for years, that's definitely my ally. If you're coming back from an injury, things like that,
00:39:34
wegettodothis
And if you're just looking for a partner that's going to help you get better, I love the chat. And then group classes, Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Thursdays, 6 a.m. Both at Reactive Wellness, both classes of about five to seven. Yeah, that's a small group, so you get very individualized attention at the group. Yeah.
00:39:59
wegettodothis
and I don't actually want, those are the one thing, I don't want those to go up 10, so they're at a good number, but I would love to get a few more in both. And then gate analysis too, I use that as personal training now, so I don't really have that as a huge thing, but I do do gate analysis, I'm certified through nDNA up to level two.
00:40:24
wegettodothis
So if that's something you're interested in doing and learning about your gate and how you can potentially move more efficiently, it's not just running, but how do you get from point A to point B more efficiently. And, you know, specifically as you age, as you run, as you bike, anything more as the line goes up, your gate will change. You do not have, if like, for example, if you are a 30 year old, 40 year old, 50 year old right now, if you are looking at the gate you had when you were 20 or even the last year, it's different. So paying attention to that is very important and you can typically tell if an injury is coming roughly six weeks out. So if you will see me for date analysis, but again, personal training, it's kind of mixed in. If you see me for that, you can see it and get a benchmark of what your gate looks like. And then six weeks later from that, look at it again. If they're identical, you're in a good spot, right?
00:41:21
wegettodothis
if they're starting to change and they will again with agent time, right? It's something to monitor and, you know, pay attention to. So active is looking for clients very much. So I just, well, I think sometimes we forget to like, people just assume that we're not and like we definitely. When really we're busting ass over here to build. Yeah. I'm definitely very much on build mode right now. You know, cause she has, I'm doing just Oak now. It's just full on, but all services Well, I was just going to say for strength training too, I've been doing your classes twice a week now, just for even the last couple of weeks. And already I feel like I'm getting stronger again and like feeling stronger with running. And what is it? We started losing muscle mass after like 25, 30, something like that. So it's something that everyone can benefit from, whether you're, you know, running 50 miles a week or five miles a week.
00:42:18
wegettodothis
And you can just, it's cool because you can also like see just like how your body changes in the process. Yeah. I just feel better. Yeah. One yesterday after the bike ride, I got off and my back was all stiff and you know, we've got backs a little stiff. The first thing I did today was strength training. My back was great. Yeah. And I think that's something people don't know either. It's not like the goal of strength training isn't to walk out of the gym stumbling.
00:42:45
wegettodothis
is to make your muscles stronger. And if you're, a especially if you're an endurance athlete and sitting in certain positions on a bike or pounding pavement, you are breaking down muscle and bone. Well, and I was trying to get my upper back pain back again too.
Physical Wellness and Recovery
00:43:05
wegettodothis
And I think that comes from, you know, bending over with needling and different positions I do working on people. When I was coming home every day, it was just like,
00:43:13
wegettodothis
Terrible like feeling like knots in my back and I don't even sit at a computer all day So I can't imagine if I had a desk job what that would feel like and already in the last couple weeks. It's already Significantly better right since doing that. Yeah, so I mean so many injuries are just in pain is so Avoidable especially if you start a routine on it now like stress fractures are very common, right? Yeah, and They just don't have to be They really just don't have to be, you might have like the fluke where you hit something, I guess. But even in that situation, if you stub your toe really hard and you get a stress fracture, like I would really like to know how much your strength training and like like, yeah, you know, I just, yeah. Right. We were in superior on superior and I rolled the crap out of my hand.
00:44:04
wegettodothis
just immediately bounceed back right your elasticity was there. Todd did that too, everything he was talking about, and it's just things like that. That's why we're both very big into the preventative aspects of what we do. yeah and yeah If you know anybody who can benefit from acupuncture, herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, also actively looking for patients, I'm very happy with where I'm at, but can always treat more people.
00:44:34
wegettodothis
and I'm specifically targeting endurance athletes right now. Um, kind of upgraded my updated my website recently. And if you know, with TCM and stuff coming up, this is a great time to be getting in and I have some runners already who are coming in before race week.
00:44:55
wegettodothis
because it can enhance your performance for your running. Like it's more than just you have an injury. It's preventing that injury from happening yeah and feeling your best while you're doing your activities. And then coming in after, because then you have your recovery. After you're going through very stressful moments, you know, like running a marathon or 10 miler, you need to have like a come down after that. And I'm very big in,
00:45:24
wegettodothis
helping to regulate the nervous system, which is what part of what my services do. So yeah. And I would say both of us are very good at creating safe spaces.
00:45:38
wegettodothis
Yeah, if you just need to talk. That's on my mission statement. Actually, that's on my website. I'm more in the community aspect. But yeah, if you can chat. I don't mean to market my services and sound like a therapist, though, either. OK. Well, part of my thing is to make people feel seen and heard in 100%. I think that's both of us. I think we're going to do a really good job with that. And I think the classes specifically are so fun to see people start to talk to each other and just feel like they belong somewhere. Yeah.
00:46:07
wegettodothis
And I would be like a super intimidating, like gym bro space. right Like everyone is welcome. If you're benching, you know, 500 pounds, which I don't think anybody does that. Or 20 pounds. It's great. You're welcome. Any other announcements?
00:46:28
wegettodothis
I think that's it. See, you just filled 46 minutes. We gave an update on what we're doing. We gave announcements next
Future Topics and Listener Engagement
00:46:36
wegettodothis
week. I say we can talk a little bit more about the stress side of things. yeah i mean didn't really hit that yes we So we should record a podcast and we still have some guests coming on too. So stay tuned for that. If you want to hear more than just Jacob and I talking.
00:46:54
wegettodothis
Even though we are pretty fun. Yep. We get to do this episode eight. Thanks for listening. If you like the show, give us a follow like, and leave us a review. Where? Where are they? bru on Review us on Spotify. Now you can leave stars. Literally it's as easy as saying like rate. And then you literally can put five stars on there. Um,
00:47:20
wegettodothis
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00:47:45
wegettodothis
Anyways, thanks for listening, y'all. We get to do this. We get to do this. We'll be back next week. Peace.