1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted. Miss 3 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: aggy or is age. I've heard it pronounced several different ways, 4 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: and that's what today's FIP tip is about. I love 5 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: this term. I love this concept and I first learned 6 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: about it in Michael Easter's book, The Comfort Crisis. If 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: you have not yet read that book, put it on 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: your list. It is an absolute I have to read. 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: If you are listening to this podcast, you need to 10 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: read that book. You also need to listen to the 11 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: podcast I did with him. Incredible writer, incredible person. And 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: in that book he talks about miss Aggy Again. It's 13 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: the first time I truly came across the term. Now 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: it's everywhere, not everywhere, but a lot of fitness guru 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: type people are talking about it. There's challenges and things 16 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: like that. So what the heck is it? I'm gonna 17 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: give you like kind of the Google definition, and then 18 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: I want to read a couple lines from Michael Easter's 19 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: book The Comfort Crisis as well. He takes it in 20 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: a somewhat different direction, but not really. Okay, So the 21 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: traditional definition is that it is a Japanese Shinto practice 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: of ritual purification by washing the entire body, and it's 23 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: also related to another Shinto purification ritual. So let's think 24 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: of purification right as part of it. One of those 25 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: people who throughout a challenge described it as that it's 26 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: you do something so hard one time a year that 27 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: it has a huge impact on you, huge impact for 28 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: the rest of the year. All right. I like to 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: define it too as that definition of goals, that your goals, 30 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: or at least one one, should be so big that 31 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: it scares you, scares the heck out of you once 32 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: a year or more. But if you truly have a 33 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: true Missoggi for yourself, one is enough. You know, we 34 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: always try to do too much too soon. If one 35 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: is good, too is better. Now start with one a 36 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: year and then we'll talk. But have you truly done 37 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: something recently that truly scares you? And in Michael Easter's book, 38 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: and I'm quoting right from it, he says, put yourself 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: in a challenging environment where you have a good fear 40 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: of failing. And another definition in the book. I don't 41 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: have it written down here, but I remember vividly that 42 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: they another person when he's talking about the MISSAGGI. Uh. 43 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: The character in the book describes it as, uh something 44 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: where you have a sense of dying. That's extreme, but uh, 45 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: you get my point. Big scary all right? For me? 46 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: That was during COVID the r two are two are 47 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: the Rim to Rim to Rim run races were canceled postponed, 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: And so a friend and I ultra marathon guy, we 49 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: had talked about this. I've gone a couple of ultras. 50 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: I'm not him, he's a true ultra marathon or we 51 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: went and we did exactly what they were talking about. 52 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: Michael Easter And and this character in the book, true 53 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: true life person by the way, Um he was going 54 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: to do that. He didn't end up doing it. And 55 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: it is something that's scared the heck out of me. 56 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: And guess what, I'm doing it again in two days, 57 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: and I'm scared in a different way. And anyone who's 58 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: done two of the same scary things or one and 59 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: then going back the second time, it's like when I 60 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: did my first Iron Man. First one, you don't really 61 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: know what you're getting into. Second one, you go, I do, 62 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: and that's a double edged sword. We are doing it 63 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: a little differently. There's two trails. I mean they feed 64 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: into the same one, but there's the South Kaibab and 65 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: the Bright Angel. We did Bright Angel last time. We're 66 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: doing the South Kaibab this time a little shorter forty 67 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: two instead of forty eight. But you're still climbing up, 68 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: climbing back down, going across and back, so you actually 69 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: end up on the same trail um after the start. 70 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: So I'm scared. And at fifty three, it's tough. I've 71 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: done a lot of events, have done a lot of things, 72 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: and by the way, I'm gonna end this fit tip 73 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: talking about it's physical and I want the mental. Miss 74 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: Agg's two business family. One thing that truly scares you. 75 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: And one of the great lines that Elliott character in 76 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: the book Comfort Crisis talks about he puts it so perfectly. 77 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: He said, people vastly overestimate the consequences of failure today, 78 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: And as I have talked about on this podcast, I 79 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: don't believe in failure. Failure is not trying. Failure is 80 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: making the same mistake over and over again. But failure 81 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: is not doing something and coming up short, because you 82 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: never truly come up short. The lessons learned when you 83 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: do a MISSAGGI are unbelievable and not only change you. 84 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: As I said in the beginning, the person who said 85 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: you know impacts you the other three and in sixty 86 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 1: four days of the year. No, it impacts you for 87 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: your entire life. And it goes to that term I 88 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: love and will use over and over with you self efficacy. 89 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: Confidence when you do something that truly scares the pants 90 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: off of you and you accomplish it, never quite in 91 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: a way you think, But that's also life. Things happen. 92 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: We can only control so much, and that's a huge 93 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: part of the confidences that you can't control everything. If 94 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: you didn't listen to my first recap of doing this run, 95 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: I encourage you to do that so much fun, one 96 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: of the greatest things I've done. And then came back 97 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: and recorded podcast when it was fresh in my mind. 98 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: Still sores could be that changed me and I can't 99 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: believe I'm going back. It's a little different. I want 100 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: to go a little faster. But let me talk about 101 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: that too, because that's what's so great. This is not 102 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: an event. In other words, there's no aid stations, there's 103 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: no start line, it's not with a group. It's not sanctioned. 104 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: The actually discourage this, and I love that I've done 105 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: all that. I've done the Iron Man's in the marathons 106 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: and gone fast. You know, it's really freeing now is 107 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: to not worry care about how fast I go. I 108 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: still get asked how fast, and people compute miles, you know, 109 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: minutes per mile and things like that. You can't do it. 110 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: Trust me, I'm just gonna leave it at that doesn't matter. 111 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: But people will always do that. And a great line 112 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: from the look it's just oh my gosh resonated with me. 113 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: Is this, when you remove superficial metrics, you can accomplish 114 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: way more. The superficial metric being time, like caring how 115 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: fast you go, things happen. And another final thing is 116 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: like during a race, people can track you depending on 117 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: what you're doing. They can look up at your results 118 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: no matter what you're doing, and no one knows if 119 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: you've got a flat tire or something crazy happened, and 120 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: that takes away from the event. I've done it both ways. 121 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: I was racing long before the internet and that changed everything, 122 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: especially when you're in the business. And I'm also someone 123 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: who has paced clients in races for years or or 124 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: been with them right in marathons and and shorter races. 125 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: So people look up my times and they see, you know, 126 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: time's all over the place because I was running or 127 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: doing something with someone else helping. You know, a client 128 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: do her first half marathon and finishing second to last. 129 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: So those metrics, when you just get rid of them 130 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: and listen, I'm all for competing. I did it, but 131 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,239 Speaker 1: I like doing both now, all right. And one great 132 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: final quote from the book about Miss Aggies is people 133 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: aren't watching, right, And the line is this, and it's 134 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: gonna be hard not to quit because no one is watching. 135 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: But I'm not going to quit because I'm watching. And 136 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: then I can reflect back on how I was the 137 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: only person watching myself and I still rose to the 138 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: occasion in a big way. Now I say that, but 139 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: like I'm gonna put it on social media so people know. 140 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: But when I'm out there, it's it's not about anyone else. 141 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: It's about me challenging myself and enjoying the experience every 142 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: minute of it. Okay, So I want you to think 143 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: about picking fitness. Miss Aggy be anything people. It can 144 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: be going to take that class that you've always wanted 145 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: to take, but you are too scared to take it 146 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: for fear of not looking great or making a mistake. 147 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: And it could be and should be business, something big, 148 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: something that scares you because the incredible lesson you will 149 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: learn how often you succeed, and the confidence you get 150 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: even when you don't because you tried, and then you 151 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: go back again and you try in a different way. 152 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: Maybe you learn from it's a failure, it's learning. Miss aggies. 153 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: I want to hear about them. One final quote from 154 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: Michael Easter's book, because it's just so clarified it in 155 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: a way for me, and I've seen the way other 156 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: people are putting them out there. And listen, I don't 157 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: once you get hurt like a MISSAGGI is not not 158 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: going to name these specific challenges now doing something stupid 159 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: every day. That's not a missage to me. Okay, I 160 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: can give you a list of like three exercises and 161 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: three crazy things and you can do that for seventy 162 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: five days and listen, If that works for you, so 163 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: be it. If you don't get hurt and you come 164 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: out of that better, fine, But that's that's not the 165 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: way I look at it, all right, So these are emotional, 166 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: spiritual and psychological challenges that masquerade as a physical challenge, right, 167 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: and that's the fitness side, but there's an emotional aspect, huge, spiritual, huge, 168 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: and that goes back to and wrap it all up 169 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: the call back as they call it in comedy, stand 170 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: up comedy, it's the purification. One of my Missoggi's many 171 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: years ago was running to the top of Hallaka, thirty 172 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: six miles from sea level to the top of Mount 173 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: Holyako on Maui. That was your purification. I was not 174 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: the same person at the top that I was at 175 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: the bottom. Scared the heck out of me, basically, straight up, 176 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: I've never done altitude. I suffered, but I finished and 177 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: the time didn't matter. And you have amazing stories and 178 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 1: amazing memories because that's what I'm about. I'm about collecting 179 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: experiences and I'm gonna go collect another and I want 180 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: you to do that too. I don't want to hear 181 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: about them, put it out there, let me know. If 182 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: you don't want to let anyone else know, let me know. 183 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: Tom h Fit Instagram, tom h Fit Twitter, You can 184 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: direct message me through there. You can go to Fitness 185 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: disrupted dot com email me through the site. Please follow 186 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: the show. Anyway you can connect is appreciated. Subscribe even 187 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: if you can do that same way we could at 188 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: the start, connect right it, all that stuff, it's greatly appreciated. Again. 189 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: My most recent book is The Micro Workout Plan, and 190 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: I look forward to doing a recap of this when 191 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: I come back and give you the new lessons learned. 192 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 1: And I'm scared people, and I'm excited. This is living 193 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: to me. It's not about things, it's about challenges. It's 194 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: about learning about myself. It's about being healthy, and let 195 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: me say that before sign off here. It also forces 196 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: you when you do something this scary, Guess what do 197 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 1: you want? Motivation people to eat healthier and sleep better 198 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: and do all that stuff. Guess how well I've been 199 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:46,599 Speaker 1: doing that in the last couple of days, trying to 200 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: get ready. When something scares you this this much, you 201 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: darn well do what you need to do. So I'll 202 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: leave you with that. You want motivation talked about goal setting. 203 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: When you set miss aggis m you are darn likely 204 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: to do what you need to do to get there, 205 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: all right, And if you don't have that motivation, it's 206 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: not big enough. Thank you for listening. I am Tom Holland, 207 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 1: exercise physiologist, certified sports nutritionist, lover of everything fitness, and 208 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: my only goal just to help us with our best lives. 209 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: All right, Thank you for listening and believe in yourself. 210 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: Fitness Disrupted is a production of I Heart Radio. For 211 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the i heart 212 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 213 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: favorite shows.