WEBVTT - Second Cup: Try 2-a-days

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is that if you want to fit more activity

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<v Speaker 1>into your life, you could try the equivalent of to

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<v Speaker 1>a days. You might be able to use more spots

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<v Speaker 1>of time for exercise and enjoy more variety overall. So,

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<v Speaker 1>as some sports teams are ramping up for the season,

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<v Speaker 1>they do what are known as two A days or

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<v Speaker 1>two practices a day. I believe this was particularly common

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<v Speaker 1>in football, though the NFL stopped doing them at one point.

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<v Speaker 1>This might be because two normal practices a day would

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<v Speaker 1>be twice as grueling as one. No thank you. However,

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<v Speaker 1>the concept of exercising twice a day has some especially

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<v Speaker 1>if you approach it right. Sometimes people assume they need

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<v Speaker 1>to exercise for a long time, or it's just not

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<v Speaker 1>worth it, or they think they only have time for

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<v Speaker 1>one kind of exercise in life. But then that gets

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<v Speaker 1>a little boring and perhaps they stop, so why not

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<v Speaker 1>switch things up? This episode is first airing in summer,

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<v Speaker 1>when it feels too hot to exercise during the day.

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<v Speaker 1>For probably a lot of my listeners, mornings tend to

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<v Speaker 1>be cooler people think, hey, I should get up to exercise.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, then they realize that waking up really early

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<v Speaker 1>to do a long workout in the morning before work

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<v Speaker 1>and feel like a pretty big ask. But maybe you

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<v Speaker 1>could go for a twenty five minute run in the

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<v Speaker 1>morning and then do a fifteen minute strength training session

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<v Speaker 1>at night after your kids go to bed. That is

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<v Speaker 1>forty minutes of activity, but you didn't need a forty

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<v Speaker 1>minute chunk of time to do it. Plus you got

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<v Speaker 1>to do some aerobic activity and some resistance training. That

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<v Speaker 1>is a double win. Or maybe you can do a

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen minute yoga video over your lunch break and then

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<v Speaker 1>you swim laps for twenty minutes during your kids thirty

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<v Speaker 1>minutes swim lesson at night. The lesson isn't long enough

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<v Speaker 1>to cover a long workout, but it can cover something,

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<v Speaker 1>and you can do something different at a different point

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<v Speaker 1>to get yourself up over thirty minutes a day. Or

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you go for a family bike ride on a Saturday,

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<v Speaker 1>but your family isn't particularly fast. You'll get some aerobic

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<v Speaker 1>activity and then you could run sprints up and down

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<v Speaker 1>your driveway while your kids are watching a show. Any

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<v Speaker 1>exercise is better than no exercise. That said, I know

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<v Speaker 1>some people find it hard to believe that twenty minutes

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<v Speaker 1>will do much. Maybe, if you have big training goals,

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<v Speaker 1>any given twenty minutes won't cover it all. But my

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<v Speaker 1>experience is that people have a lot more twenty minute

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<v Speaker 1>chunks during the day than they have hour long chunks.

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<v Speaker 1>If you think you can only exercise during an hour

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<v Speaker 1>long chunk, there may be a reasonable number of days

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<v Speaker 1>when you don't exercise. If you start trying to use

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<v Speaker 1>bits of time, though, you might exercise on more days,

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<v Speaker 1>and by trying different things, you keep from getting bored

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<v Speaker 1>by any one activity. Running forty minutes on a treadmill

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<v Speaker 1>can feel like being on a hamster wheel. Twenty minutes

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<v Speaker 1>might feel like it's just not that long, and then

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<v Speaker 1>you do something else for another twenty minutes. Or maybe

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<v Speaker 1>you even run for twenty minutes on that treadmill in

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<v Speaker 1>the morning, go about your day and run for another

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<v Speaker 1>twenty minutes after your chores at night. Neither session felt

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<v Speaker 1>so long, but you still manage to run for forty

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<v Speaker 1>minutes on a busy day, or maybe you try to

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<v Speaker 1>find three slots in a day. I always love aiming

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<v Speaker 1>for what I call try days in the summer, I

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<v Speaker 1>run in the early morning, go for a bike ride

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<v Speaker 1>as a break from work in the afternoon, and then

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<v Speaker 1>do just a little swimming while I'm in the pool

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<v Speaker 1>with the kids at night. It is not a real

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<v Speaker 1>triathlon by any means, but it makes for a more

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<v Speaker 1>interesting day of activity than I'd experience otherwise, and it

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<v Speaker 1>can be surprising how many days allow it all to fit.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 1>listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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<v Speaker 1>you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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