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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland and this is Fitness Disrupted. Now.

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Speaker 1: I have truly made my passion my vocation. I love

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Speaker 1: what I do and I have had just so many

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Speaker 1: incredible experiences over the years that are connected to fitness

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Speaker 1: because I made my passion my vocation and I'm all

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Speaker 1: about collecting experiences. It's all about experiences for me, not things,

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Speaker 1: not material possessions. It's just amazing experiences and fun uh,

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Speaker 1: different types of experiences all over the world connected to fitness.

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Speaker 1: For the most part. I'm gonna share one story with

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Speaker 1: you today. I've told this story numerous times and I'm

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Speaker 1: going to share it with you today. And what I'm

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Speaker 1: calling it is the Trained by Tom, a Boston Marathon

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Speaker 1: short story. So regardless of whether you're a runner or not,

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Speaker 1: I think you get a kid get of this one.

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Speaker 1: So let me preface it by saying I spent many

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Speaker 1: years in Boston because I attended Boston College and I

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Speaker 1: stayed for numerous summers as well to work. So I

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Speaker 1: have connections to Boston in unique ways and this all

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Speaker 1: ties into one year many not many years ago, would

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Speaker 1: be two thousand twelve, two thousand twelve. One thing I

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Speaker 1: did over the years that I've talked about is I've

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Speaker 1: paced clients through marathons all over the world. So you know,

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Speaker 1: back when I was training and coaching clients in person

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Speaker 1: as well, oftentimes I would run with clients and then

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Speaker 1: for certain clients, they would hire me too past them

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Speaker 1: through races, and I did so Rome Marathon, Boston Marathon,

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Speaker 1: Boston Marathon story. And in two thousand twelve it was

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Speaker 1: one of those crazy hot days. That's one of the

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Speaker 1: most amazing things about the Boston Marathon is it happens

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Speaker 1: in April. It happens on Patriots Day, which is a

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Speaker 1: holiday in Boston, you know, just in Massachusetts. Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: a movie that came out called Patriots Day based on

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Speaker 1: the bombing. We're not talking about that. This is a

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Speaker 1: happy story, funny story, but it's an incredible day in Boston.

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Speaker 1: So it's a Monday in April, and historically speaking, you

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Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna get weatherwise, So we can

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Speaker 1: either be thirty degrees and you know, raining sideways, freezing cold,

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Speaker 1: or it can be as it was this year. Uh,

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Speaker 1: high eighties, low nineties. Incredible. And what's challenging is because

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Speaker 1: it's April and many people are training through the winter. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so it can be super challenging. If you're in the East,

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Speaker 1: you're training primarily inside for many people, I mean you're

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Speaker 1: getting outside when you can. But then all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden you have this Indian summer day where boom, it

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Speaker 1: is super hot. That's what happened this year. So I

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Speaker 1: was pacing a client. Now, this is actually one of

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Speaker 1: the clients that I talked about in my book The

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Speaker 1: Micro Workout Plan. Okay, so he came to me many

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Speaker 1: years prior. His goal was to lose weight, to to

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Speaker 1: get healthy. He was an entrepreneur working his butt off.

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Speaker 1: Was not a runner, couldn't run more than a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes. And one of my greatest success stories. We

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Speaker 1: spent years fixing everything, getting him strong. He followed the

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Speaker 1: excessive moderation plan and he became and is in his

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Speaker 1: sixties now a top marathoner. Okay was running three forties

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Speaker 1: in his late fifties, after having not been able to

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Speaker 1: run at all. We would run a minute and we'd

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Speaker 1: walk four minutes. Then we'd run a minute and we'd walk,

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Speaker 1: and progressively he got stronger, he got faster, and we realized,

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Speaker 1: And that is just one of the kind of fun

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Speaker 1: stories that I have in that book, and it just

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Speaker 1: shows you what you can do. All right. But he

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Speaker 1: he did a couple of marathons and he qualified for Boston.

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Speaker 1: I mean insane, right, you know, the non runner becomes

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Speaker 1: we're in Boston, you know, Sunday night. We look at

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Speaker 1: it could potentially be this brutally hot day. And we

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Speaker 1: had goals, as I always did with clients. We set

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Speaker 1: probably two or three goals. Here's our primary goal, like

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Speaker 1: can't beat the weather. All right. So he agreed and

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Speaker 1: Amazing And because and this goes to the story, because

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Speaker 1: and it's a party atmosphere, and especially on a day

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Speaker 1: so that party atmosphere was even more pronounced. Now I've

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Speaker 1: done the Boston I think I don't know ten eleven

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Speaker 1: years that were hot, and this one again huge party atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: So we are running the race and it's challenging, and

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Speaker 1: I have him doing all the tips and tricks for

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Speaker 1: running in the heat. Uh, he's got a bandana around

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Speaker 1: his neck. We're cooling him down. We're doing all these

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Speaker 1: different things and it's challenging and we're just paying you know,

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Speaker 1: first goal, right and it should be for every race,

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Speaker 1: just to finish. Yes, you can have your time goals,

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Speaker 1: but especially on a day like that when you can't

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Speaker 1: those of you who know Boston, you might have heard

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Speaker 1: about the Heartbreak Hills. So one of the challenging aspects

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Speaker 1: of the Race of Many is that at the later

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Speaker 1: stages of the race, Uh, they're the big hills. You know,

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Speaker 1: at sixteen seventeen eighteen, you start to get these hills.

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Speaker 1: And they are right before Boston College as well, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of fun. So we get to these hills.

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Speaker 1: We're doing fine, we're going slowly, and my clients says

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Speaker 1: to me, Tom, I need to walk some of these hills. Now,

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Speaker 1: running for a couple of hours. So I said, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course we're gonna walk. We'll walk when we can

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Speaker 1: and we'll run when we can. So we start walking

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Speaker 1: up a hill. Now for this race, I had new

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Speaker 1: gear made up for myself. It was a shirt that

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Speaker 1: said trained by Tom and big letters on it, kind

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Speaker 1: of like bodied by Jake, Trained by Tom. So big

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Speaker 1: and I start walking up this hill again. Other people

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Speaker 1: four or five deep, people are partying. You know they're out.

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Speaker 1: It's now. The Boston Marathon starts later. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: In Boston, people are drinking and having fun. So we're walking,

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Speaker 1: keyed in on us. He's got sunglasses on, he's got

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Speaker 1: a beer in his hand, he's kind of swaying back

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Speaker 1: can tell. But he is totally keyed in on us.

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Speaker 1: And I'll go here we go, Here we go. I

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Speaker 1: spent years in Boston where I'm ready. So as we

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Speaker 1: walked past him slowly, he looks at me, looks at

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Speaker 1: my shirt and says, trained by Torn, Trained by Torn.

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Speaker 1: You call Torn and you tell him you want your

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Speaker 1: money back. That is Boston at its finest to me.

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Speaker 1: So didn't know that I was pacing this client, didn't

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Speaker 1: know that I was walking because I was his coach

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Speaker 1: and he needed to walk. Oh, he just saw relatively

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Speaker 1: fit guy walking with a big you know, Trained by

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Speaker 1: Tom across his shirt and he felt the need to

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Speaker 1: make a comment. Awesome, awesome, laughed, eventually picked it up,

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Speaker 1: and we finished. But that's one of my favorite stories

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Speaker 1: about Boston, typical Boston guy, funny, and I have never

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Speaker 1: forgotten that moment. Trained by Tom. You call Tom and

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Speaker 1: you tell him. So there you have it. Just a

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Speaker 1: quick fun story. Every now and again, I'm gonna throw

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Speaker 1: these in just to mix it up. But I also

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Speaker 1: want to say that within this funny experience was this

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Speaker 1: amazing experience with a client who went from not running

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Speaker 1: it all in his fifties to becoming a Boston Marathon

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Speaker 1: and is still running today. So there you have Trained

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Speaker 1: by Tom, a Boston Marathon short story. Hope you enjoyed

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