1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of My Heart Radio. 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland and this is Fitness Disrupted. The 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: woman in the arena Simone Biles suffering and sacrifice. Now 4 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: I have to just start by saying, this type of 5 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: show takes me outside my comfort zone. I go out 6 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: of my comfort zone in exercise, but this is worse. 7 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: This is more challenging to me because this is one 8 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: of those topics that I don't like. I don't like 9 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: if you want to call it tough love. I don't 10 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: like controversy. I don't I'm gonna be honest, you know. 11 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: I avoid it whenever possible, and it's really possible to 12 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: avoid it most time. And that's why I talk about 13 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: stresses a choice, and I'm gonna talk about social media. 14 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about someone Biles suffering, sacrifice and all 15 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: the interconnections and how it plays into Fitness Disrupted. So 16 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: there's no science on today's show at all. But this 17 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: topic is hot in the media right now. And as 18 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: I've said before, I love this podcast, doing it three 19 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: times a week, and I have shows that are lined 20 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: up and scheduled, but I jump in the studio as 21 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: soon as I'm passionate about something when I read an 22 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: article that's just garbage and it's harmful to you, and 23 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: a topic like this, a topic like this, and one 24 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: main reason this is such an issue today is social 25 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: media is completely tied into not only the people who 26 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: are weighing in on this and shouldn't, but also the 27 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: stress that I know she is going through because of 28 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: social media. It's just another layer on top of everything else. 29 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: But I'm going to finish this episode by reading one 30 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes, passages, speeches of all time. And 31 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: it's often referred to as the Man in the Arena. 32 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: I'm calling it the woman in the Arena, and listen 33 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: real quickly. I consider man to be person. But for 34 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: today's purposes, I'll change it no problem. But that's where 35 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna finish with because it's the perfect way to 36 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: finish this show and ties into everything I'm going to 37 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: talk about. So this is a reality rant. This is 38 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: a reality rant. You want to call it tough of 39 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: for certain people, fine, but guess what you know, having 40 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: been in this industry as long as I have, when 41 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: we keep doing the same thing, when you keep doing 42 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: the same thing, no change happens. And this is a 43 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: huge issue I have with certain companies I will work 44 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: with that aren't willing to make change. They're gonna say 45 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: the same thing. Are you gonna get the same result too? 46 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: With the weight loss and the focus on things that 47 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: are not truly why we should be eating and exercising, 48 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: eating healthy and exercising. So the very feeling I have 49 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: right now getting ready to talk about this subject is 50 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: the feeling I know makes it that important and I 51 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: have to do more of these shows, have to get 52 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: outside my comfort zone because you know what, I'm gonna 53 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: say it right now, I'm one of the few people 54 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: that should be talking about this and I'll tell you why. 55 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: But let me jump right in and say, yeah, I've 56 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: competed at a pretty high level for a long time, 57 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: mostly at endurance sports and events, but other things as well. 58 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: But I've competed, I have made my passion my vocation, 59 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: and that goes for fitness and traveling the world and 60 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: taking on huge challenges. And then I have studied it 61 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: as I've talked about, and I continue to have a 62 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: master's degree in sports psychology and I've continued to study 63 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 1: that for years. I'm in a program right now, human 64 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: Behavior at Harvard. I have this unique mix of experience 65 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: and education that most people don't have in this industry, 66 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,679 Speaker 1: especially the people that are weighing in on this topic 67 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: of those. And that's a problem. And I'll tell you 68 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: why when we come back from this first break. You know, 69 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: it's interesting, as I said at the start, this feeling 70 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: I have right now, this you know approach avoidance that 71 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: I grew up in a family six boys. You avoided conflict, 72 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: You avoided this type of stuff. But that's exactly why 73 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,799 Speaker 1: I need to talk about this, is because too often 74 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: it's avoided and the wrong voices are weighing in on it. 75 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: And even though, as I said in the intro, I 76 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: have competed. I've done some crazy things, and there's people, 77 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: of course that have done so much more. But I 78 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: have challenged myself and I've studied it. And even with 79 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: all of that, I won't pass judgment on her, and 80 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: I won't even try to get inside her head. I 81 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: have no idea of not competing at her level. I 82 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: have not sacrifice what she has. How she has for 83 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: so long to talk about that they have a very 84 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: small idea, and that idea is way bigger than those 85 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: people that are saying what you know what some of 86 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: you may I always think that everyone knows what I'm 87 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: talking about, So let me get to those comments in 88 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: a second. But for those of you who don't even 89 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, you're like, who's Simone Biles? 90 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: Simone Biles gonna read you quick? Just pulled a couple 91 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: of paragraphs. For those of you who may be confused, 92 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: don't know, or aren't quite up to what happened. You know, 93 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: as I speak, it's still going on. This episode will 94 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: air really soon, so when you're listening to it, it 95 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: will still be going on. Simone Biles, broadly understood to 96 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: be the best gymnast of all time, withdrew on Tuesday 97 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: from the Olympic Team events, citing a metal coal condition. 98 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: With Biles at the Helm, team USA was favored to 99 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: win the top prize without her as anchor, her three 100 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: colleagues snag's second best to Russia. Today, uh and that's today, 101 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: as I record the show, Biles announced she will also 102 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: abstain from the all around final, a competition she was 103 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: almost without question expected to win. For Biles, those mental 104 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: gymnastics um I skipped ahead we're talking now about her routine. 105 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: The mental gymnastics come with some life threatening consequences. When 106 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: considering the gymnasts repertoire is by far the most hazardous 107 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: of all time, so much so that her judging potential, 108 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: this is incredible, people, And I've heard this before, and 109 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: it's it's it's incredible. Her judging potential, partially determined by 110 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: difficulty level, was downgraded to disincentivize other gymnasts from even 111 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: attempting the maneuver she takes on. I'm gonna come back 112 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: to that. Her signature move, the biles is a triple 113 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: twisting double talk that sees her Korean through the air 114 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: with more contortions than ever performed by any other human being. 115 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: Her issue, she said, was with the twist. These and 116 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: quotation marks a little known disconnect experienced by some gymnasts 117 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: where you lose control of your body midstunt, unable to 118 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: tell your whims to twist in the way they usually do. 119 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: That's also tied into kinesthetic awareness, people, which these type 120 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: of athletes have incredible amount of kin aesthetic awareness, ability 121 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: to know where your body is in space, your joints, 122 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: your positioning. You know it's trainable, but it's also genetic. 123 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: But let me let me just get to the comments 124 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: that I pulled, the negative comments on her withdrawing. Simone 125 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: Biles is a quitter. Our mental health issues now the 126 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: go to excuse for any poor performance in elite sport. 127 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: What a joke, selfish so see a path? I mean, 128 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Shame to the country and what 129 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: an absolute embarrassment. Now I didn't waste time looking at 130 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: the resumes of the people who made those statements, but 131 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: knowing who made them, pretty sure none of them, not 132 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: a one competed at a level remotely close to what 133 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: Simone Biles does and is competing at. Let me clarify 134 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: one thing further. Let's talk about quitting. Okay, let's talk 135 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: about quitting. Ah, I'm not a quitter, but I've done 136 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: the episodes also on you got to know when to 137 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: hold them and no when to fold them. But let's 138 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: talk about the unique nature of some of these sports 139 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: and the Olympics that don't think that I know many 140 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: people don't appreciate. And that goes for gymnastics and cycling 141 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: and sports where yes, it is a team sport and 142 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: it's also an individual sport tight end. Okay, And so 143 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: when we're talking about quitting m let's think of the 144 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: other sports where people pull out all the time pre event, 145 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: during the event. Basketball players, baseball players, players who you know, 146 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: might get a tweak here or there before the event, 147 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: during the event and they're out. You know, topic for 148 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: another day, but I need to mention it. These are 149 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: not sports where if you make a mistake, let me 150 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: go back. Told you and I'm gonna go back the 151 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: most hazardous of all time that someone bios repertoire routine 152 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: that if you make a mistake, it can be catastrophic. 153 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: And and we are talking a mental level of incredible 154 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: proportions outside the norm and a physical challenge ridiculously outside 155 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: the norm that I guarantee you not one of the 156 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: people that made those comments has any indication of what 157 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: it takes. I want to go right to the the 158 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: man the woman in the arena speech, but but got 159 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: to clarify a couple of things. First. Think of let's 160 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 1: go back. Let's let's just equate it to everyday sacrifice 161 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 1: and suffering as it applies to exercise and nutrition. People. 162 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: It's the number one excuse people give for exercise I 163 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: don't have time. Well, COVID proved that to be patently false, 164 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: patently false. More time than ever before, home, locked in 165 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: your house, more time than ever before. You can't make 166 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: the excuse by the way that I didn't couldn't get 167 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: to the gym, couldn't do anything, no body. Way that 168 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,599 Speaker 1: I gave you all the everything you need today is 169 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: there is free YouTube videos, body weight exercises, going for 170 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: a walk, going for a run, riding your bike, using 171 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: whatever equipment you might have, non excuse. So it's gone that. Yeah, 172 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: but it's gone. Yeah, but I don't have time, Okay, 173 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: And then with let me take a breath, you know what, 174 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: let me take the final break because I want to 175 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: get into it. So one more quick break and then 176 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna get into it. All right, We'll be right 177 00:12:50,040 --> 00:13:05,239 Speaker 1: back and we are back talking about Simone biles sacrifice 178 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: and suffering, and it just it ties into everything we 179 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: talked about here, and I need to talk about it 180 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: and and this should be something you Again, there's a positive, 181 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: there's a huge positive out of all of this. That 182 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: is who I am, is that we get reframe everything 183 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,599 Speaker 1: the way we want to end. When it comes to exercise, 184 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 1: and nutrition and our mindset. That's all up to us, 185 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: as I say at the end of every show, but 186 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: they don't have time excuse out the window, right, and 187 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: then it's boring. Okay, So let's just get into what 188 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: a pro athlete, someone like Simone Biles. Again, she is 189 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: so far above even the normal pro athlete, but the 190 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: parallels are there. The parallels are there, and so I'm 191 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: just gonna go back and forth between what the average 192 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: person consider sacrifice and suffering and what someone like her 193 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: has to do and endure for years years. You think 194 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: getting on a treadmill and walking three times a week 195 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: is boring, try doing what they do. Let me just 196 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: give you, like, just real quickly, what the average, you know, 197 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: typical day for a pro athlete is. And it's it's 198 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: you wake up at like five six am, you work 199 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: out for hours six to ten, six to eleven, six 200 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: to twelve, then you eat, then you sleep, then you 201 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: get up and you work out from like one to 202 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: five pm again, and that includes stretching and and you 203 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: know all the different things. The recovery usually comes in 204 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: the afternoon. So that's again stretching, massage, cupping, needling, all 205 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: the recovery things that they used to try to keep 206 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: them going working on injuries. That get to and then 207 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: you have a couple of hours at night and then 208 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: you go to sleep early, like eight nine. For many athletes, 209 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: there's no social life. You want boring, you want repetitive 210 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: and for what. Jump all over the place here I 211 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: got notes, But it's like for what For some people swimmers? 212 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: You watch the Olympic swimmers, they can lose, and do lose, 213 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: often by a hundred of a second. You think not 214 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: eating for fifteen hours from seven pm until noon the 215 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: next day is sacrifice. Try eating healthy and being hungry 216 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: and eating relatively perfectly for years to lose by a 217 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: hundredth of a second, and and that loss maybe from 218 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: third to fourth place, so you're in fourth. You don't 219 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: get a metal. That's sacrifice. That sacrifice that I have 220 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: no concept of at an Olympic caliber level doing it 221 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: for years. I do it for years in a different way. 222 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna get to that. I'm gonna get to 223 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: what we consider sacrifice. Okay, what do we consider sacrifice? 224 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: What is the normal person consider sacrifice? As I just said, 225 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: not eating for you know, fifteen hours, which is essentially 226 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: skipping breakfast. People. This is the tough love, getting up 227 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: early a few times a week, a few times a week, 228 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: a half hour early. These people do it every single 229 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: day for years on end. Eating a salad most people, 230 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: and they eat healthy. You know, they're the memes like 231 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: I had a salad and I'm weighing myself. The short 232 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: term results, expect to lose weight, to lose ten pounds 233 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: in two weeks, not this long term commitment to something 234 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: that might not even happen. I'm getting ahead of myself. 235 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say it right now. There is no 236 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: sacrifice in what I tell you to do, because you 237 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 1: are guaranteed results. But I'll come back to that once again. 238 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: What do we consider sacrifice? Going on a fat diet 239 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: for four weeks, that's sacrifice. Fasting for a day or 240 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: two that's sacrifice. Doesn't even come close to what these 241 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 1: people put themselves through. And again, he may go, that's 242 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: their job. I hear you, that's their job. You're right, 243 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. But that's the extreme. That's the extreme. 244 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: And before you ink that you can pass judgment or 245 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,959 Speaker 1: call that quitting, call that quitting until you've stuck with 246 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: something and sacrifice for something that might not happen. Let 247 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: me say it again second time. Now I was gonna 248 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: hold this off to the end, but things flow in 249 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,880 Speaker 1: a certain way when I get going. When you find 250 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 1: the exercise you like, not the one you dislike, the 251 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: exercise you like and you do it frequently. When you 252 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: find the foods you like, the healthy ones, and you 253 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 1: do it frequently. There is no sacrifice. You are guaranteed results. 254 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: You just have to give a time. You have to 255 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: follow the advice you get here, you have to give 256 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: it time. You have to follow the advice. You have 257 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: to make changes, but they are not the sacrifice that 258 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: the simone bio is not even close. And you're guaranteed results. 259 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: Those people can work their entire lives and not make 260 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: it or just miss and do it in front of 261 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: the world. And there's so much here. And that's back 262 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: to the social media. I remember vividly my first iron 263 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: Man New Zealand. There was the internet was just starting, 264 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: just in its infancy, and so you could go do 265 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: races and no one would know. And one of the 266 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: greatest memes now in relation to that is pain is temporary. 267 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: Your race times exists on the internet. Forever. What's my point, 268 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: A whole new level of it's not just on TV 269 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: when these people are performing, it's on YouTube. If they 270 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: make a mistake, it's there forever, and then they get judged, 271 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: and then they get judged. And my whole out shoes 272 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: about judging. And that's why I keep pulling it back. 273 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: And the comparison too, living a healthy lifestyle and what 274 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: people consider sacrifice, what people consider going outside their comfort zone. 275 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: You know, when you are doing what she is doing. 276 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: And I'm using her as an extreme example people, because 277 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 1: we learn from the extremes. I will say that over 278 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 1: and over she is operating at a level outside a 279 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: comfort zone that none of us have any concept of. 280 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: And so when I ask you to do some intervals 281 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: every now and again, that ends up being fun and 282 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: you don't have to stay there that long. You don't 283 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: have to experience the discomfort that many of these athletes do, 284 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: and you are guaranteed results. That's the takeaway that I 285 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: want to leave you with along with the speech in 286 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: a second. But if you are actually sacrificing and suffering 287 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: in your healthy lifestyle behaviors, you're doing it wrong. Goes 288 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: against I know those no rest any no days off. 289 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: People the you know, go hard every workout, Yeah, those 290 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: people won't be doing it for very well. And I'm 291 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: not saying you shouldn't work hard, but the hard work 292 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 1: for the vast majority of us, even me who's still 293 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 1: you know, back into the iron Man and marathon and 294 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: wanting to go fast, the sacrifice is consistency. But even 295 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: then it's not a sacrifice because I get to travel 296 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: the world, I get to be healthy, I get to 297 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: feel good, and I don't get judged well I do, 298 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: I do, I have a whole Oh, I get judged, 299 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: but I'm okay with that. That comes with the territory. 300 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: You're not going to get judged in that way. Most 301 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: likely you'll get judged by your friends, but not in 302 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: this ridiculous way that Simone Biles is getting judged. Selfish 303 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: sociate path Are you kidding me? I mean that even 304 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: blew me away when I read that one. But let 305 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: me reiterate one more time for those of you who 306 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: still think it's quitting, think of all the sports and 307 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: all the times that athletes stop that aren't even comparable 308 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: to doing what Simone Biles is doing. You know, there 309 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: are athletes that don't start that, don't start their event 310 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: or a game because of much less. And that's okay, 311 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: and that's okay, all right, who all right, we're getting there, 312 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:48,959 Speaker 1: We are getting there. Let me say this, This is 313 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: a rare occasion where almost without fail, I can say 314 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,680 Speaker 1: that not one person who has truly sacrificed would say 315 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: those quotes that I read at the beginning, Not one, 316 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: especially in athletic endeavor at a high level. Not one, 317 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: because they get it. And this is where the man 318 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: in the arena of the woman in the area speech 319 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: is going to resonate. We live in a world, a 320 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: social media world where it is so easy to pass 321 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 1: judgment and so fun for so many people, which I 322 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: find really disturbing. I use social media so little and 323 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 1: just enough because I have to. But Twitter some of 324 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,120 Speaker 1: the most unhappy people I've ever encountered, and I'll fall 325 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: into that trap. And it has to be said that 326 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: to get a hundred thousand likes as one of those 327 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: comments received, you go negative. Social media is all about 328 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: the negative. I could have made a whole career by 329 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: being negative. It's not who I am, it's not who 330 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,239 Speaker 1: I ever will be. And those people who wake up 331 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 1: every morning just to put other people down. I feel 332 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: bad for them. They're not happy people. They're not happy people. 333 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. So the Man in 334 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: the Arena speech. This was given for those of you 335 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 1: who don't know, and I love this. You know, I 336 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: actually spoke about this and wrote an article put it 337 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 1: on social media not too long ago. I've written about 338 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: it many times over the years because it's so darn good. 339 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,959 Speaker 1: There's many who haven't heard it yet, and I'm so 340 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: excited for those of you who have not. And so 341 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: the history real quickly. April, in Paris, Theodore Roosevelt gave 342 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,959 Speaker 1: the US speech, one of the most widely if not 343 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: the most widely quoted speeches of his career. Again, it's 344 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: known as the Man in the Arena, but actually the 345 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: speech itself is Citizenship in a Republic, but it's widely 346 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: known as the Man in the Arena that I will 347 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: change to women in the Arena. Let me give you 348 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: before I give you the actual speech. He actually had 349 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: a couple other lines that I found that I had 350 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: not read before. And Roosevelt was basically railing against cynics. Right, 351 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: this is all about the cynic who looked down at 352 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: those who were trying to do good things, challenging themselves, 353 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: going outside their comfort zone. Okay, And he had these 354 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: two quotes that I just read for the first time. 355 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: The poorest way to face life is to face it 356 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: with a sneer, he said. A cynical habit of thought 357 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: and speech. A readiness to criticize work which the critic 358 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will 359 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 1: not accept contact with life's realities. All these are masks 360 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: not of superiority, but of weakness. That right there describes 361 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: an enormous amount of what I'm talking about with the 362 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: criticism of Simone Biles specifically, the social media world generally, 363 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: and a lot of the media in and of itself. 364 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: A readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never 365 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness. Heard that, seeing that 366 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 1: here that on a daily basis, which will not accept 367 00:26:54,160 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: contact with life's realities. All these are marks of not superiority, 368 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: but weakness. There you go. You know what is sacrifice, 369 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: what is suffering? We control what we put into our mouths, 370 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: our attitudes, and how much we move. I switched the 371 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: order because I'm getting worked up. We do. And all 372 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: of the bogus information you received that says you not 373 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: that it's your genetics. It's all disproven through science and 374 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: experience and just real world examples, all of it. But 375 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: that's the problem. Those are the people making the judgments. 376 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 1: It's easy to criticize those who are doing more than 377 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: we are, who are taking chances. I have, as I've said, 378 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: an entire folder of all the criticism that I have received. 379 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: I save it. It fuels me. And I've had people 380 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: say over the years, let me just real quickly. You 381 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: know when I was trying to break three hours in 382 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: a marathon and it took you know, I missed it 383 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: by it was like three one, and then people are 384 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: like why you know you failed? And then the next 385 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 1: time I did a three sixteen failed, Yeah, and then 386 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: a three ten and a three chipping away at it. 387 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 1: But the number of people who are like, why are 388 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: you bothering? Because those people aren't willing to try, aren't 389 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: willing to go outside their comfort zone, aren't willing to sacrifice, 390 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: aren't willing to suffer a little bit. And again I 391 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: used suffering in a very loose term topic for another 392 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: show because people like myself Dean car Nazis And when 393 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: you choose suffering, it's kind of great. It's your choice. 394 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: You're in control. Topic for another day. But those people 395 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: who never sacrifice suffer, those are the ones who are 396 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: going to weigh in. All right, perfect timing. Here we 397 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: go going to end the show with this because nothing 398 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: should follow it. So you know what I'm gonna do 399 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: my normal outro here. Please subscribe to the show. I 400 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: want to hear comments. Do you like these shows where 401 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: I go off on this type of things? I know 402 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: it's uncomfortable for many many of you probably criticize. Many 403 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: of you probably called her a quitter. I just want 404 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: you to kind of put that mirror up in your 405 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: face and say why you know. Tom h Fit is 406 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram tom h Fit. You can comment reach 407 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: out to me there. You go to Fitness Disrupted dot 408 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: com as well. And the newest book is The Micro 409 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: Workout Plan. Thank you to everyone who has purchased it 410 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: and reviews on Amazon are so greatly appreciated that many 411 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: of you have, so thank you for that. There is 412 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: so much more I want to say on this topic. 413 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: Talk about the injuries, the discomfort, that these type of 414 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: athletes endure for years on end. You think a blister 415 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: or a headache is going to keep you from your workouts? 416 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: You can't. You can't. These people work through injury just 417 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: so much so. Final final thought, how bad must it 418 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: be for her to pull out? Given all that she 419 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: has suffered and sacrifice through? What should think about that? 420 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: All the years, all of the hours, and all of 421 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: this stuff that she is now enduring as a result. 422 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: How bad must it be? Think about that? Really? Think 423 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: about that? All right? This is how we're ending the show. 424 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: The man in the arena speech. It is not the 425 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: critic who counts, Not the man who points out how 426 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds 427 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: could have done them better. The credit belongs to the 428 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: man who is actually in the arena, whose face is 429 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, 430 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: who airs, who comes up short again and again, because 431 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: there is no effort without error and shortcoming. But who 432 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 1: does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, 433 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, 434 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: who at the best knows in the end the triumph 435 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, 436 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 1: at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place 437 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: shall never be with those cold and timid souls who 438 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: neither know victory nor defeat. I am Tom Holland. This 439 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: is Fitness Disrupted. Believe in yourself. Fitness Disrupted is a 440 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. 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