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Speaker 1: Welcome to Healthyish. Thank you for joining us listeners on

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Speaker 1: this daily podcast from Body and Soul. I am Felicity

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Speaker 1: Harley and joining us on the pod today is Alis Today,

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Speaker 1: otherwise known as Ali Day. He's a five time Iron

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Speaker 1: Series champion and whoop athlete, and we're picking apart well

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Speaker 1: what his race series is all about, and also his training,

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Speaker 1: nutrition and covery in preparation for these grueling events that

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Speaker 1: he participates in throughout summer. Make sure you're listening to

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Speaker 1: extra Healthy Ish, where we take a bit of a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into his mindset and how he keeps going

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Speaker 1: when things are getting pretty mentally tough. Ali, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us on Healthy Today. How are you?

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing well well all the way from your

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Speaker 1: kid's bedroom, although I probably wouldn't so, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Brannie's chair, it's extremely it's actually not too bad. It's

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Speaker 2: pretty comfortable, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 1: I do love that we can do podcasting from wherever

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Speaker 1: these days, even if it is our kids bedroom.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: So mean obviously not being living here on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 3: You down in Sydney, Yeah, I mean COVID and all

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Speaker 3: those sorts of things. Although it was like a bit

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Speaker 3: of a huge negative, but this has been a big

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Speaker 3: positive out of it, the easy being.

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Speaker 2: Able to do this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, tell us about what you do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's actually involved in an iron man iron woman race.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like a really good question.

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Speaker 3: So the sport of ironman or iron woman racing was

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Speaker 3: born out of basically, you know, trying to save someone's

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Speaker 3: life as quick as you can in the ocean. So

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Speaker 3: there's obviously the similarity between iron man like you riding

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Speaker 3: a bike, running and swimming. And when I was at

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Speaker 3: school or my teachers to ask, how is it, You're right,

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Speaker 3: you're running and you're bike riding going, and so this

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Speaker 3: that people get confused. Our iron man, as I said,

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Speaker 3: and women sorry, is born out of saving people's lives.

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Speaker 3: Is born from surf life saving. It involves four disciplinancy.

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Speaker 3: Go a swim leg in the ocean, a board leg

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Speaker 3: where you're sort of on achron board, either kneeling up

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Speaker 3: which is basically a kayak, and you use a rum

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Speaker 2: All of those legs up.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, because we race in mother nature, you

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Speaker 3: can you can have races, or you can racing conditions

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Speaker 3: like Musa where it's dead flat, or you can go

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Speaker 3: down to Victoria and borts you like I have in

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Speaker 3: my early days, and you're racing you six to ten

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Speaker 3: foot surf sort of thing. So mother nature is I

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Speaker 3: guess like has a huge part in our sport. And

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Speaker 3: as I said, it was born out of being able

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Speaker 3: to be the fastest person to get out in the

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Speaker 3: water and save someone's life. And that's kind of how.

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Speaker 2: The sport was born.

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Speaker 1: And what are the lengths, just so we can determine

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Speaker 1: the difference, because I think that was a really good

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: So there's two really good points there that you just ask.

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Speaker 3: So in our like our formats are always different, so

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Speaker 3: our austrain and iron. Then at the end of the

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Speaker 3: And you could turn up and they draw basically a

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Speaker 3: again it's there's no there's never any set order and

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Speaker 3: then you look at a race that I'm about to

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Speaker 2: It was born out of the movie. It's its fortieth.

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Speaker 3: Those races can go from anywhere from fifteen minutes to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. I mean, it's a sport that really

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Speaker 1: emotional strength. What I mean, what drives you to do

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Speaker 3: Well, for starters, I think you know, I was. I

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Speaker 3: Took me and my brother and my sister so many

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Speaker 3: sporting events, and ironmn was sort of the thing that.

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Speaker 3: I love the fact that I was watching these guys

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Speaker 2: So that's sort of that's what sort of kickstarted it

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Speaker 3: I thought, wow, what a you know, I never thought

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Speaker 2: Now I think, yeah, the motivation has changed.

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Speaker 3: I've been very successful. I know that sounds really braggy.

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Speaker 1: But you have been You're allowed to own it.

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Speaker 3: And also at the same time, like it's think us

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Speaker 3: about motivation, I think, yeah, I mean I'm still trying

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Speaker 2: That I've had so far.

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Speaker 1: When it comes, I mean, it takes obviously a lot

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Speaker 1: some of your just in a nutshell, non negotiable habits

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Speaker 1: throughout the weeks when you're leading into the I mean

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I'm four weeks out at the moment

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Speaker 3: and it's a big one for me. As I said before,

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Speaker 3: which is crazy to actually think about. So I actually

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Speaker 2: The psychologist's everything.

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Speaker 3: But she asked me, what do you want to what

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Speaker 3: And it's just really knuckling down on my diet. It's

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Speaker 3: something I looked at almost ten years ago, when I

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Speaker 3: I use that sort of season to look at areas

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Speaker 3: I could improve. So diet will be a huge thing

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Speaker 3: It's something I'm really actually passionate about and will continue

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Speaker 3: to be passionate about post iman career. Sleep is another one,

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Speaker 3: you know, like making sure that I'm getting just enough

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Speaker 3: and so yeah, between sleep, hydration, and food, they're kind

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Speaker 3: add in like I've got a sauna at home, I've

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Speaker 3: I said, to sleep, the hydration, the food, and off

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Speaker 3: the back of that you can start doing I guess

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Speaker 3: like the you could almost call like the sexy stuff,

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Speaker 1: Can I just talk about hydration for a minute. That's

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Speaker 1: really interesting because I haven't had anyone mention that as

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Speaker 1: part of their key pillars before. How do you go

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Speaker 1: about making sure you're hydrated enough throughout day?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm pretty you know, I wish we could

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Speaker 2: we have, not our water, but at my routine.

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Speaker 3: So I drink like an athletic green supplement and the

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Speaker 3: wrning the water that we actually drink is a company

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Speaker 2: It's like pure flow water. So the water that we

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Speaker 2: buy is delivered to us.

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Speaker 3: And I've always, like probably the last six or seven years,

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Speaker 3: we've just always had that in our house. I've traveled

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Speaker 3: So it's yeah, it's a non negotiable again, Like again,

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Speaker 3: it's something I'm really we're really passionate about in our household.

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Speaker 2: And I feel like it's a one percenter It makes me.

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Speaker 3: Feel I feel like I'm more hydrated throughout the day

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Speaker 3: having that do you.

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Speaker 1: Keep a track throughout the day of what you're drinking.

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Speaker 1: Do you like tick one glass, tick two glass?

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Speaker 3: Through just making sure like as I said, I have

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Speaker 3: like before I get in the pool, presuming in the

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Speaker 3: morning it's like having another thing of water with electro

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Speaker 3: like I'm always sort of you know, we trained two

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Speaker 3: just making sure that I'm carrying my Yeddie water bottle

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Speaker 3: just some hydrolight tablets and stuff.

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Speaker 2: I don't overthink it.

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Speaker 3: But again it's just if I'm hydrated, it means I'm

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Speaker 3: going to sleep better. It means I'm going to feel better.

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Speaker 3: And same goes with food, tango goes to sleep. They

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Speaker 3: sort of all don't know, they're all sort of combined.

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Speaker 1: In one personal support water bottle. That's what we call them.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what I call it. Ali. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming unhealthy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, my friends. Grab your emotional support water bottle, give

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Speaker 1: it a sip, and remember hydration. This keeps coming up

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Speaker 1: a lot more and more. Actually, I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: valuing hydration more when it comes to exercise, fitness, and

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Speaker 1: overall well being. Thanks for listening to this chat with Ali.

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