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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast, an NFL podcast for

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Speaker 1: the players, by the players. Here is your host, fourteen

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Speaker 1: year NFL veteran and Hall of Famer Anius Williams. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Legends Podcast. I'm a Nius Williams.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you're listening to this podcast at home. I'll say

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Speaker 1: it again, hopefully you're listening to this podcast at home

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Speaker 1: as we all should be staying home doing this COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen crisis. To keep our family strong, safe and healthy.

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Speaker 1: We're keeping our podcasts going, though remotely, to address challenges

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Speaker 1: NFL players, legends and fans. I haven't doing this challenging time.

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Speaker 1: Today we're going to talk about physical fitness. That's right,

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Speaker 1: that's not a curse word, physical fitness and total wellness.

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Speaker 1: While standing at home with us today is the coexecutive

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Speaker 1: director of the NFL Legends Community, Lennard Willard, who has

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Speaker 1: been inviting the Legends to join him for his fitness

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Speaker 1: regiment on social media to motivate everyone to stay physically

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Speaker 1: and mentally sharp even if they can't leave the house. Welcome, Lenar,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, and ne appreciate you having me here alright,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the stuff you're doing on social media

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Speaker 1: to motivate legends. Let's here's the first question. Here's the

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Speaker 1: first question. Are you seeing a lot of engagement. I

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Speaker 1: am witnessing a lot of engagement. I'm witnessing um legends

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Speaker 1: that are bringing their kids, that are bringing their fouses,

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Speaker 1: that loved ones. And not only that, I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: people that are working for other teams as well, like

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Speaker 1: Tracy McDonald's from the Vikings, they are also joining in

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Speaker 1: on the workouts. Why did there so many legends need

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Speaker 1: external motivational workout all these years we've had these regimented schedules.

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Speaker 1: Why do we need to continue to remind legends to

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Speaker 1: work out? Well, we know that burnout is real and

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Speaker 1: is and emotionally mentally. Um, what happens is is that

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Speaker 1: we've been working out since we were five six years old,

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Speaker 1: and so sometimes we leave the game, we're already better,

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Speaker 1: and we and we automatically say to ourselves, We're not

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Speaker 1: And so what happens is is that we get to

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Speaker 1: mental and that spiritual. Know you you said something in

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Speaker 1: the midst of sharing the last point. You mentioned a

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Speaker 1: word bitter. Could you speak to that you know quickly

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Speaker 1: in terms of bitter And if a legend is experiencing bitterness,

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Speaker 1: may not be able to identify this bitterness, how would

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Speaker 1: you encourage them to push past that and get back

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Speaker 1: to physical fitness. I love talking about emotional cuach ability.

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Speaker 1: I love talking about emotional stability. When we left the game,

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Speaker 1: But most of us leave the game literally being released.

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Speaker 1: And so sometimes we take that bitterness into the rest

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Speaker 1: us of what happened with us, right, we don't want

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Speaker 1: And so what we do is, you see a lot

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Speaker 1: physically also connects to your mental and emotional health. So

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Speaker 1: what should Legends be doing to self motivate? Well, one

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Speaker 1: And when we come up with hashtag, hashtag NFL Brotherhood,

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Speaker 1: to remain in our virtual huddle. This is our virtual huddle. Right,

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Speaker 1: We're in a community. It's a virtual locker room. It's

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Speaker 1: And one of the traits we've always had in Legends

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Speaker 1: we we restructure our lives where we could create structure

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Speaker 1: for ourselves Leonard, that would also include staying fit. What

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Speaker 1: great question because what what what happens is this crucial

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Speaker 1: situations when when something like this happens, like COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 1: where we have to get to. We have to forgive

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Speaker 1: ourselves for not being structured. Right, that's number one. Extend

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Speaker 1: action and say, you know what, I'm gonna start today,

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Speaker 1: not tomorrow, but today. I just read something that said,

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Speaker 1: because we're in a crisis, it's okay not to be regimented.

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Speaker 1: is that habits are habits. Rituals are rituals. Habits follow habits,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a happy hour for the Legends community. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna We're gonna do Zoom Paul as a happy

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Speaker 1: This will be a good time to read up on

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Speaker 1: And everything is available on players dot NFL dot com.

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Speaker 1: Everything is available on our portal UH. Tracy and her

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Speaker 1: we monetize the information that is available to us. Lennard,

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Speaker 1: And now here's a question directly and personal. How have

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Speaker 1: I've had a business for nineteen years. I do global

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Speaker 1: executive coaching and speaking, and I've had um events, canceled,

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