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Speaker 1: Getto Thanks for listening to the show. This is better

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Speaker 1: than yesterday. Useful tools and useful ideas every week since

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen that will hopefully help make your day to

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Speaker 1: day better than yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Does what it says on the box.

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Speaker 1: Get it manas Joshiginsburg, thank you so much for being here.

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Speaker 1: I know this feeling all too well. You may recognize

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Speaker 1: this feeling and get an invitation of something in the future.

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Speaker 2: It requires you to wear a suit, no problem. I

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Speaker 2: own a suit. I've had this suit for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant, I'll be there, you reply, just imagining in your brain,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to look so good, worrying that fantastic suit

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Speaker 1: to that fantastic thing. I had a tailored I look

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Speaker 1: great in that suit. Weeks go by, the day of

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Speaker 1: the event arrives, You liberate the suit from the dry

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Speaker 1: cleaning bag. You go to put those pants on, and

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Speaker 1: there is a chasm of flesh where the pants used

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Speaker 1: to be able to button up. They do not fit,

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Speaker 1: not even close. That suit was tailored exactly for the

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Speaker 1: way your body was shaped when you bought it.

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Speaker 2: Something in this equation has changed shape.

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Speaker 1: It's most definitely not your outfit. This has happened to

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Speaker 1: me more than enough times. A previously good run of

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Speaker 1: eating and also moving my body, well, it gets interrupted

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Speaker 1: by a holiday, a new job, a new partner, new kid.

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Speaker 1: You blink your eyes, A year goes by, and now

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, something's come up. I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: be able to make it.

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Speaker 1: There's a challenge to be anything but reactive in these situations.

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Speaker 1: I've certainly been there, and you know, I've thought.

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Speaker 2: To myself, what that's it?

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Speaker 1: The very next day, going absolutely nuclear on myself, straight

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Speaker 1: into a strict fasting protocol, trying to replicate my previous

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Speaker 1: five kPr, even though I hadn't run a five k

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Speaker 1: in a number of months. I mean, it's that or

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Speaker 1: heading back into the gym and trying to lift the

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Speaker 1: same amount of wheels I lifted last time. The only

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Speaker 1: thing that happens then is I'll either blow out my

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Speaker 1: back or overtrain so hard I'll end up sick for

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Speaker 1: two more weeks, and that delay will usually sap the

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Speaker 1: momentum out of any drive to start moving again, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm back in my track pants thinking about takeaway food.

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Speaker 1: If this cycle sounds familiar, you're not alone. We know

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Speaker 1: exactly what to do in this situation. I know exactly

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Speaker 1: the gentle curve of activity that I need to introduce

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Speaker 1: if I want to get moving again after a period

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Speaker 1: of inactivity. I discovered it in my late teens. I

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Speaker 1: graduated high school about one hundred and twelve kilos, no muscle,

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Speaker 1: all fat. And when you're a fat kid, walking is

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Speaker 1: the enemy because unless you have a gate like a

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Speaker 1: Jack Rooge is back from Musta, walking makes your thighs

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Speaker 1: ruped together. And when this friction combines with the special

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Speaker 1: steaminess of the subtropical southeast Queensland, that's sweaty raws, skin

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Speaker 2: Of nasty in your trousers.

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Speaker 1: It was hellish, and I ended up planning my days

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Speaker 1: to minimize the amount.

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Speaker 2: Of walking that I would do wherever I could.

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Speaker 1: When I was about nineteen, i'd been at Taye for

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Speaker 1: further into uselessness as each day went by, just sitting

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Speaker 2: After a few weeks of it, I started.

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Speaker 1: To notice that my brain was kind of turning to jelly,

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Speaker 1: Even Oh outside for a walk? Wow, outside a guy

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Speaker 1: You know. My brain then catches me grabbing some socks,

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Speaker 2: Like, what's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Is no, no, no, no, just putting my shoes on because

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Speaker 2: You know, been to his front yard barefoot bad.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to alert my brain to my cunning plan,

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Speaker 1: I just passed out on the beanbag from effort. But regardless,

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Speaker 1: And sure enough, when I got back to the letterbox,

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Speaker 1: when I did this, and so I started to want

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Speaker 1: After a couple of weeks of this, setting out for

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Speaker 1: and I just had to It was as though I

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Speaker 2: I just hurled myself forward, the.

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Speaker 2: Could have dreamed.

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Speaker 1: It felt incredible to move like this until my intercostal

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Speaker 1: prison shit, and oh my god, I had to stop.

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Speaker 2: My stitch was so bad.

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Speaker 1: And I came to a whole hundred a shady purple

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Speaker 1: After a while, I'm finally able to stand up see

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Speaker 1: to admit that I'm not that smart sometimes. So now

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Speaker 1: When I'm getting back into something, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: do my regular workout. I'm just gonna I'm just going

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Speaker 1: the twenty four kilogram kettle bell, I'll just grab the

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Speaker 1: The fact is is whether you're nineteen or forty nine

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Speaker 1: You can't leap straight into the person that you want

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Speaker 1: You kind of have to start with who you are today.

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Speaker 1: And that's enough. Forget the idea of a health kick.

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Speaker 1: You're probably going to slip and fall. Take a health

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Speaker 1: one thing I did learn under that Jagoranda tree, gasping

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Speaker 1: be that instant transformation is a fantasy. It could be

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Speaker 2: That's an imaginary thing. It doesn't work. I have to

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Speaker 2: remember that. I just need to.

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Speaker 1: Get my ego out of the way and be prepared

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Speaker 1: for the change to happen. One step, one rep, one

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Speaker 1: bide at a time. All I have to do is

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Speaker 1: that was helpful. Let me know if it was, Sandosha

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Speaker 2: So What Now? What is out? Now? As is back

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Speaker 2: after the Break?

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Speaker 1: Come and See You More show. It's called story Club.

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