Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the very first episode of The WOODLFE.
Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and the reason I was so excited
Speaker 1: about creating and launching The Wood Life really comes down
Speaker 1: to one simple thing, and that is.
Speaker 2: To help as many people as possible.
Speaker 1: And we really want this to be a community.
Speaker 2: Experience, you know.
Speaker 1: We want the questions to come from real people in
Speaker 1: real time and for them to get real answers and
Speaker 1: to cut through all the BS that's out there when there's.
Speaker 2: Just so much of it.
Speaker 1: So I really I felt like it was my responsibility
Speaker 1: as there's so much misinformation out there. But I also
Speaker 1: think it's just a brilliant extension to everything I've done
Speaker 1: in the fitness industry to date.
Speaker 2: And I really felt this is going to be the
Speaker 2: exciting next chapter.
Speaker 1: So what have I got in store for you? Well,
Speaker 1: we are going to tackle one of my pet peeves
Speaker 1: and that is fitness fads. These things that are designed
Speaker 1: purely to make money. They have no intent to help
Speaker 1: you whatsoever. And I really feel it's something we need
Speaker 1: to address because I keep getting questions just like this.
Speaker 3: I was just wondering what you thought about hot yoga.
Speaker 3: I want to know if waist trainers actually work. I
Speaker 3: was just curious about your thoughts on paloton.
Speaker 1: We're going to be having a look at the fads
Speaker 1: that are worth trying, because some of them definitely are
Speaker 1: worth trying, but we're also going to make sure you
Speaker 1: know which ones to steer well clear of.
Speaker 2: But first up, we're going.
Speaker 1: To have one of Austrai's most impressive people on the show.
Speaker 1: She's been a summer and Winter Olympian, she soon to
Speaker 1: be a mother of six people. Oh my god, she's
Speaker 1: also a doctor. It's none other than the incredible Yana
Speaker 1: Pittman and I can't wait for her to give us
Speaker 1: some tips on how to hit those very big goals
Speaker 1: and stay motivated. That's next on the Woodline. Really excited
Speaker 1: to chat to our guest now, which is none other
Speaker 1: than the incredible athlete duel olympian across Winter and Summer
Speaker 1: Olympics Supermum Janna Pittman. Welcome to the wood Life, and
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks, Sam, that was a lovely intro.
Speaker 1: I am genuinely inspired by you, and it's interesting I
Speaker 1: thought back to when I first was thinking of you
Speaker 1: and you were famous for your incredible athletics career, and
Speaker 1: you know you're a fairly polarizing figureback then, and it
Speaker 1: never seemed to wavery you. You know, you were so
Speaker 1: tough and determined, and I'm sure you had your moments
Speaker 1: behind closed doors. But of course, you know, I always
Speaker 1: used to think, God, this woman is just as tough
Speaker 1: as nails. And I think, like so much of Australia,
Speaker 1: we all saw that and fell in love with you
Speaker 1: and had so much admiration for you in the recent
Speaker 1: series of sas where you were vulnerable and raw and
Speaker 1: incredible and also just a powerhouse. And you know I've
Speaker 1: read before that you said your father was sort of
Speaker 1: the inspiration or the driving force perhaps behind this motivating
Speaker 1: mindset that you have. But can you share a little
Speaker 1: bit more, perhaps to our listeners that are thinking, God,
Speaker 1: I wish I had just five percent of Janna's mindset
Speaker 1: and perhaps I'd be kicking a bit more ass.
Speaker 3: I like it, Sam.
Speaker 4: Look, yes, I think I have to preface that by
Speaker 4: saying that my resilience and my mindset has changed and
Speaker 4: wavered over the years. I am absolutely human and I've
Speaker 4: had multiple times where I struggled to get out of
Speaker 4: bed in the morning just because I've taken on too
Speaker 4: much or I've lost faith in myself. So I think
Speaker 4: for me, yes, my father was an absolute role model
Speaker 4: for me in life. He was a gunner right from
Speaker 4: the beginning. You know, he always worked hard. He worked
Speaker 4: Christmas Day, for example, We regularly not even have a
Speaker 4: Christmas lunch with him because the guy was a builder
Speaker 4: out on the building side and he would be actually
Speaker 4: constructing houses, and he was just so focused on success.
Speaker 4: And I think in some ways it's a positive and
Speaker 4: a negative sam because I think you grow up with
Speaker 4: the idea of what you want to achieve in your life,
Speaker 4: and then sometimes when you fall short of that, it
Speaker 4: can be quite debilitating. So for me, the greatest I think,
Speaker 4: the most success I've had in my career has actually
Speaker 4: been after athletics, So sport was great. I think a
Speaker 4: lot of that comes back to genetics and luck, but
Speaker 4: it's the things I've pursued subsequently, you know, trying to
Speaker 4: be a doctor, having babies by myself through sperm donation
Speaker 4: at one point, and then obviously now clocking over to
Speaker 4: six kids this year will be an extraordinary challenge. But
Speaker 4: they come about because many years ago I had to
Speaker 4: actually stop and look at my mindset and realize that
Speaker 4: it was offskew, and a lot of that negative media
Speaker 4: you're talking about and some of the things that I'd
Speaker 4: done wrong in my life, I think really humbled me
Speaker 4: to realize I needed to find some self acceptance and
Speaker 4: once I found that, I was able to grow from that.
Speaker 4: So we often I do a lot of public speaking
Speaker 4: these days, and we talk about growth mindsets and things
Speaker 4: like that. But for me, it was actually breaking down
Speaker 4: who I was as a person and rebuilding from there,
Speaker 4: accepting that some of the things that other people don't
Speaker 4: like are actually my strengths and the reason why I'm successful.
Speaker 4: So for those people out there who might be thinking, Wow,
Speaker 4: she's taken on the world, and you know, I can't
Speaker 4: be her because she does all these amazing things, it's
Speaker 4: it was actually realizing that I love being busy, accepting
Speaker 4: that I'm not always around with family and kids, and
Speaker 4: being comfortable with that, but also accepting that I'm going
Speaker 4: to fail. And it's almost like once you once you
Speaker 4: get over that fact and you realize it's going to
Speaker 4: happen whether you like it or not, you then don't
Speaker 4: get as fixated on those results.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's something that will relate to
Speaker 1: so many of our listeners. I'd love you to share
Speaker 1: perhaps your thoughts on goal setting. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want people to listen to you, and I love that
Speaker 1: you said that before. I don't want her to be
Speaker 1: listening to you and say, well, I'm not necessarily trying
Speaker 1: to do all of these things at Yana is doing
Speaker 1: so known and this relates to me.
Speaker 2: I want if they're trying to run a five k
Speaker 2: or they're trying.
Speaker 1: To lose five kilos, or they've tried and failed before,
Speaker 1: but they're wanting to get back on the horse, and
Speaker 1: you know, must up.
Speaker 2: That courage and must trap that motivation.
Speaker 1: What are your hips from either a goal setting or
Speaker 1: motivation perspective that you think can help people the most.
Speaker 4: Well, I reckon we should debate this one a little bit,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure you've got lots of great ideas around this.
Speaker 4: And it's funny because if I put the athlete hat
Speaker 4: on so for many years and so many of the
Speaker 4: young athletes out there, or anyone, as you say, with
Speaker 4: a five kilo goal or whatever it is that they're
Speaker 4: trying to pursue. In life often gets so fixated. I
Speaker 4: think you mentioned that a little bit before too with
Speaker 4: the blinkers on when I was a younger athlete. But
Speaker 4: you get so strongly fixated on a goal that therefore,
Speaker 4: when things go astray, you have the tendency to fall
Speaker 4: off the wagon and maybe you know, eat that mass
Speaker 4: bar rather than sticking to the goal of little bits
Speaker 4: incremental you know, changes make the difference. So I makes
Speaker 4: it completely different from the average person when it comes
Speaker 4: to goal setting. I am someone who believes in having
Speaker 4: five or six goals all at once, and I figure,
Speaker 4: if one of them fails, I'll just lean on the
Speaker 4: next one. So it's that whole one door closes, the
Speaker 4: next one open. So that's actually how I've got through
Speaker 4: all the failures in my life, failed marriages, miscarriages, lost
Speaker 4: the Olympics, all that kind of stuff, because I always
Speaker 4: had a concurrent love running alongside my main goal. And
Speaker 4: so I would simply and maybe this is a skill
Speaker 4: I don't know, I would just simply skip focus. So
Speaker 4: I change from focus on sport to focus on medicine,
Speaker 4: or if medicine is not going too well, and I'm
Speaker 4: being yelled at by the bosses at work focus on
Speaker 4: the children and a goal we have there. So I
Speaker 4: think it's it does make a busy life, but I
Speaker 4: think just throwing yourself into multiple eggs, you know, having
Speaker 4: multiple eggs in one basket, which a lot of people
Speaker 4: who say goal setting is not a good thing. They
Speaker 4: say you have to be focused and committed to that
Speaker 4: one goal. Well I tell them, well, I don't agree
Speaker 4: with you. So what do you think? Are you a single,
Speaker 4: sole focused goal setter or a let's have multiple balls
Speaker 4: in the wagon and protect yourself a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with having one or two horses in the race,
Speaker 1: but I'm probably I like things to stay simple. From
Speaker 1: a process perspective, I think people complicate things, not necessarily
Speaker 1: with having too many goals, but having too many processes
Speaker 1: for them to focus on at once, and therefore getting
Speaker 1: a little bit overwhelmed or lost along the way.
Speaker 2: That I'm a big believer with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense, but.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be frank with you, I've never heard
Speaker 1: that theory before.
Speaker 2: That's quite that's a revelation.
Speaker 1: No, it is, And I'm giving myself sixty seconds to
Speaker 1: digest it and actually get my head around it, because
Speaker 1: what a fascinating outlook. And a lot of people I
Speaker 1: agree with you would argue if you're spreading yourself too
Speaker 1: thin and you've got too many balls in the air
Speaker 1: at once, that's going to be it's going to be
Speaker 1: detrimental to any of them potentially landing. But someone like you,
Speaker 1: who's obviously.
Speaker 3: That's just something we've been told.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think it's just me, snam I reckon.
Speaker 4: It's something we've been grown up and told that don't
Speaker 4: take on too much. Now I'm not saying take on
Speaker 4: killer goals five or six of them at one time,
Speaker 4: but I just feel like I need my emotional energy
Speaker 4: to shift in different areas. So I can sit down
Speaker 4: for four or five hours and study, but then I
Speaker 4: need to shift to my fitness goal, and then I
Speaker 4: need to shift to my parental goal, because if I
Speaker 4: didn't have areas, it's almost like you're rebooting your system
Speaker 4: every time you change to the next to the next goal.
Speaker 4: But the biggest time is when it's protective, when something fails.
Speaker 4: So it's funny because my vivid memory of the twenty
Speaker 4: fourteen qualifications for the Winter Olympic Games, and I'd put
Speaker 4: my total ass on the line by announcing to the public,
Speaker 4: you know that I wanted to be the first you know,
Speaker 4: female summer Winter Olympian double. And it came down to
Speaker 4: this one race. I had to push off the top
Speaker 4: of this ice hill and if I didn't push, well,
Speaker 4: that was it. I could go home with tail between
Speaker 4: my legs. And I remember getting so nervous standing at
Speaker 4: the top, going I can't do this, I can't do this.
Speaker 3: What if I fail? What if I bugger it?
Speaker 4: Da all that, you know, that little mental chatter that
Speaker 4: can happen in anybody's life. And then I had that
Speaker 4: split moment where I said, but it doesn't matter because
Speaker 4: you're in second year of medical school, so you'll go
Speaker 4: home and become a doctor. And I thought, oh yeah, sweet,
Speaker 4: and all the nerves just flew out of the way
Speaker 4: because I realized it's not my only goal. It's a huge,
Speaker 4: important thing that I want to achieve, but it's not
Speaker 4: the end of the world. So yeah, you know, I
Speaker 4: think that mentality has really helped when you're trying to
Speaker 4: achieve things that other people say might be impossible.
Speaker 1: The perspective from which I love it is often working
Speaker 1: with people who who are focused on a body goal.
Speaker 1: They tend to get so fixated on that that they
Speaker 1: think that their body defines them and they think that
Speaker 1: you know their weight on the scales or how they
Speaker 1: feel about themselves, you know, and they forget that they're
Speaker 1: this beautiful person with a beautiful soul and their intelligent
Speaker 1: and a wonderful mother and a great friend and all
Speaker 1: these other things, you know. I see it with mums
Speaker 1: a lot, where their whole you know, self worth in
Speaker 1: their own eyes is.
Speaker 3: You know, fixed by the mirror or the weight scale.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, and they are so hard on themselves and
Speaker 1: often neglect to give themselves any credit at all or
Speaker 1: definitely nowhere near as much as they should in all
Speaker 1: these other beautiful areas of their life. And so I
Speaker 1: think I love how diverse they are too. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're having similar goals or huge goals
Speaker 1: in similar areas, it could be quite difficult to achieve
Speaker 1: them all. But if you're spreading yourself out and you're
Speaker 1: looking at all these other areas, I think that could
Speaker 1: be a really healthy thing. And it's and I go
Speaker 1: back to the athletes. It's interesting when you talk to
Speaker 1: athletes to have other things going in in their life,
Speaker 1: they tend to be able to cope with challenges better.
Speaker 1: They tend to be able to switch off better. You know,
Speaker 1: whether they're studying, or whether they're got a business on
Speaker 1: the side, or whatever it might be, they tend to
Speaker 1: find that's a really good escape for them, where you know,
Speaker 1: the bubble of sport and social media and all of
Speaker 1: the stuff that comes with being an elite athlete these days.
Speaker 2: Can be pretty overwhelming and all consuming. So I absolutely
Speaker 2: love that.
Speaker 1: So what about that's goal setting And that's really sort
Speaker 1: of thrown me, But I love that it's thrown me
Speaker 1: because perspective and I've never heard before, and I'm here
Speaker 1: to learn as we go along. What about from a
Speaker 1: motivation mindset perspective? Because it strikes me and even talking
Speaker 1: to you today for the first time, there's a softness
Speaker 1: to you that perhaps I didn't necessarily know, which I love,
Speaker 1: but you seem to be this person who you know
Speaker 1: I can't isn't in your vocabulary? Where does that come from?
Speaker 1: And if there are people out there who that's not
Speaker 1: just in their vocabulary, it's probably the most.
Speaker 2: Often term that they use.
Speaker 1: How do they get that out of their system?
Speaker 2: And what's your advice to them.
Speaker 4: I've got a few things yet. Firstly, for the first
Speaker 4: time I reckon in my life. Recently, I've been sitting
Speaker 4: there going, I don't know how I'm going to cope.
Speaker 2: So that's nice, And.
Speaker 4: It was vivid the other day I was lying on
Speaker 4: the bed. I'm not coping with this twin pregnancy as
Speaker 4: well as I hope. So my superhuman motherhood powers are
Speaker 4: debilitating at times, and I'm in eight tired fatigue with
Speaker 4: saw legs and a saw tummy and thinking how on
Speaker 4: earth am I going to cope with twins and an
Speaker 4: eighteen month old and my kids and my career and
Speaker 4: realizing that something's got to give. So I am a
Speaker 4: big believer that you can have it all. You just
Speaker 4: can't have it all the time at the same time.
Speaker 4: So it's prioritizing what things are most important. So where
Speaker 4: are you going to throw your motivation? And certainly I
Speaker 4: do agree with you. The word I can't is something
Speaker 4: I've worked very strongly since I was a young person
Speaker 4: to not have as part of my vocabulary.
Speaker 3: And it's funny you say that because.
Speaker 4: My children say I can't, And the first thing I
Speaker 4: said to them is, sweety, let's change that I can
Speaker 4: do this, but I need mummies help, or I can
Speaker 4: do this. And we'd have that conversation two or three
Speaker 4: times a day. So it's something I've had ingrained in
Speaker 4: me as a young person for a very long time,
Speaker 4: and I do it with my children now. So I
Speaker 4: guess for your listeners, it is something you can encourage
Speaker 4: in your children to change that mindset. Before the age
Speaker 4: of seven, they say, is when you can really put
Speaker 4: those inroads to sort of form those neural patterns in
Speaker 4: the brain. But one how I actually learned about it,
Speaker 4: because it wasn't something my mum and dad taught me,
Speaker 4: was when I was in my early twenties, I was
Speaker 4: working with this fantastic coach that talked about how your
Speaker 4: brain is like a filing cabinet and whatever you saw
Speaker 4: at the front of it is the thing you draw
Speaker 4: out first.
Speaker 3: You know, whatever at the front drawer is the thing
Speaker 3: you find first.
Speaker 4: So when you have those conversations I can't or i'm
Speaker 4: fat today, or I'm not able to cope with this.
Speaker 4: If you keep reiterating that to yourself. It's going to
Speaker 4: be the file that you take out every time you're
Speaker 4: faced with any challenge. So I guess we retrain that.
Speaker 4: So I wore a little elastic band for about a year,
Speaker 4: and every time I said I can't or you know,
Speaker 4: I'm going to fail at this, I would actually snap
Speaker 4: that elastic band on my wrist and it would have
Speaker 4: like a little bit I know it's ridiculous conditioning, but
Speaker 4: it would short circuit that process in my brain and
Speaker 4: I would try then to automatically replace it with something positive.
Speaker 3: I will do this.
Speaker 4: I will try to do this the sort of the
Speaker 4: reverse of my current feeling, and to be honest, Sam,
Speaker 4: over time it just became natural, so you know that
Speaker 4: though process is always still there. And don't get me
Speaker 4: wrong on SAS Australia, there were multiple times where I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I can't do that, but then it
Speaker 4: wasn't an option.
Speaker 3: I just did.
Speaker 4: So it's almost it's a reprogramming and a retraining to
Speaker 4: make you believe that nothing that's important will come easily,
Speaker 4: but that you're just sabotaging yourself if you don't give
Speaker 4: it a shot.
Speaker 1: I love that nothing that's important will come easily. And
Speaker 1: I always say to my twenty eight brigade on my
Speaker 1: fitness program, whether you say you can or you.
Speaker 2: Can't, you are right, that's correct.
Speaker 1: And I think manifesting the positive rather than manifesting the
Speaker 1: negative become just paramount to people's mindset and attitude and success.
Speaker 1: What would your most succinct powerful note to leave our
Speaker 1: listeners be.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I have an answer to that
Speaker 4: is that's impossible. No, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 4: mechanisms on how to do it. But I think the
Speaker 4: number one thing we need to strive for in life
Speaker 4: is self acceptance. So trying to find what your strengths
Speaker 4: and weaknesses are outside of what other people think your
Speaker 4: strengthens weaknesses are will go a long long way to
Speaker 4: your goal setting and your ability to achieve what you
Speaker 4: really really want and love in life.
Speaker 2: What a beautiful spot to finish on. I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could honestly chat to you, probably for the
Speaker 1: next two hours, but I feel like I'd be taking
Speaker 1: such a valuable amount of time off the busiest woman
Speaker 1: in Australia that I probably shouldn't do that, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to sincerely, thank you so so much. I
Speaker 1: love that you are adopting these things not only to
Speaker 1: your own life, but your children's. I have a two
Speaker 1: year old and a four year old. I also have
Speaker 1: a pregnant wife who I'm continually okay, okay, but she's
Speaker 1: feeling pretty crappy at the moment, and I'm always saying
Speaker 1: it's okay, you know, don't feel like you need to
Speaker 1: conquer the world. Now, is not the time for you
Speaker 1: to be trying to conquer the world to a human.
Speaker 1: And she's, you know, just obviously with a public profile,
Speaker 1: she always feels like she needs to be strong and
Speaker 1: glamorous and you know, all that kind of stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about that crap. The more real and raw
Speaker 2: you are that I.
Speaker 3: Think, the more I'll resonate with you.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, So thank you so so much. It was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think just those powerful tips on mindset, motivation, goal
Speaker 1: setting absolutely incredible. I knew I would be inspired, but
Speaker 1: you've thrown me a real curve ball and given me
Speaker 1: something really.
Speaker 2: Powerful to think about.
Speaker 1: How is that tip about the elastic band and flicking
Speaker 1: it every time that you think to yourself, I can't
Speaker 1: I'd actually love to know what you think about that.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's too extremely do you think it's
Speaker 1: a really good thing that you could try to get
Speaker 1: that out of your vocabulary forever. Make sure if you've
Speaker 1: got your thoughts, to send them through in the link
Speaker 1: in the show notes. Now it's time for hate it
Speaker 1: or rate it. Now. I think we would all agree
Speaker 1: that it's never been a busier market. And I use
Speaker 1: the term market because it's often a marketing spin of
Speaker 1: pills and potions and books and formulas and whatever it
Speaker 1: might be to help people lose weight. Now you look
Speaker 1: at that, and then on the other hand, you look
Speaker 1: at Western society and we've never been fatter. So little
Speaker 1: segment called hate or rate where we uncover the good
Speaker 1: ones and the bad ones. We're going to be brutally honest.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, this is just my opinion, but it
Speaker 1: makes my blood well sometimes when I see these things
Speaker 1: that are promoted as good for you and they're clearly not.
Speaker 1: And I often think there are some that sneak under
Speaker 1: the radar that are actually a little hidden gems that
Speaker 1: more people should know about.
Speaker 4: I'm back and I keep seeing hit workouts promoted everywhere.
Speaker 3: Are they actually worth trying.
Speaker 1: You probably have to be living under a rock if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard the term HIT workouts by now, but
Speaker 1: HIT hub it stands for high intensity in training. It's
Speaker 1: the likes of F forty five, it's the likes of
Speaker 1: Body Fit, it's the likes of many others along that mold,
Speaker 1: where we do short bouts of high intensity exercise followed
Speaker 1: by a little bit of recovery, and then we go again,
Speaker 1: and we go again, and we go again. This is
Speaker 1: a great way to train if you want bang for
Speaker 1: your buck and you want to burn fat fast. It
Speaker 1: is a big part of my twenty eight program. We
Speaker 1: do HIT workouts, but you do them at home. That's
Speaker 1: how it all works. The reason they are great is
Speaker 1: you are working your cardio system, you are working your
Speaker 1: muscular system, and it's a relatively quick workout for a
Speaker 1: relatively big result. So you do have to be a
Speaker 1: little bit careful. I think the one caveat I've got
Speaker 1: with HIT training is it can often be high impact,
Speaker 1: so intensity should be you are working hard relative to
Speaker 1: your fitness level. Impact can obviously be lots of jumping landing,
Speaker 1: lots of jumping land, lots of jumping land, so be
Speaker 1: careful if you're trying it out, because some of these
Speaker 1: workout places that focus on hit training exercises tend to
Speaker 1: be very repetitive and very high impact, and that's not
Speaker 1: for everybody. But if they have lower impact but still
Speaker 1: high intensity options, then that is a really good hit
Speaker 1: option for you and it's a great way to train. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm really from Central Vick and I was just wondering
Speaker 1: what you thought.
Speaker 3: About hot yoga.
Speaker 2: Hot yoga.
Speaker 1: Now, that's a good question because hot yoga, I think
Speaker 1: polarizes a lot of people. Some people think it's completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Other people it's their thing, it's a cult and they
Speaker 1: couldn't live without it. I think it's one of those
Speaker 1: really interesting ones. I personally really like it because I
Speaker 1: like to sweat, and it makes yoga, which is a
Speaker 1: wonderful workout all on its own, I think that little
Speaker 1: bit more challenging and that little bit more exciting, and
Speaker 1: that little bit more I think different. You know, it
Speaker 1: sort of separates a little bit from normal yoga, which
Speaker 1: I also like.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: The one thing you have to be aware of is
Speaker 1: it's bloody heart. It's amazing. I have done one marathon
Speaker 1: in my life.
Speaker 2: I reckon.
Speaker 1: I've sweated more in a hot yoga glass than I
Speaker 1: did in the entire marathon. I cannot believe how much
Speaker 1: you sweat. One, I think it's because I'm not very
Speaker 1: good at yoga.
Speaker 2: Two the room was.
Speaker 1: Really warm, and three I don't think I was ready
Speaker 1: for it. I kind of went in with these expectations
Speaker 1: that it was not going to be that hot and
Speaker 1: it was not going to be that hard, and it
Speaker 1: was way hotter and way harder. So if it's something
Speaker 1: you've been thinking about trying, I really think there's some
Speaker 1: benefits there. I think it's a wonderful way to you
Speaker 1: tend to be a bit more limber in a warm room,
Speaker 1: and that's really good for yoga because it's a great
Speaker 1: mobility exercise. But don't underestimate how good yoga is as
Speaker 1: a cardio and strength workout as well. If you're really
Speaker 1: doing a bit more of a flow based yoga rather
Speaker 1: than a yinn based static yogurt, it can be really.
Speaker 2: Really good for you.
Speaker 1: Putting in a hot room absolutely takes to another level
Speaker 1: and I rate it.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Cassie from Melbourne and I want to know if
Speaker 1: wasste Trainers actually works waist trainers, waste of money trainers,
Speaker 1: that's what they are, total garbage.
Speaker 2: Don't like them at all.
Speaker 1: I can understand how, perhaps psychological, they might make you
Speaker 1: feel better because they sort of pull everything in. I
Speaker 1: put waiste trainers one level up from these muscular pulse
Speaker 1: things that you put these straps on your stomach and
Speaker 1: then you sit on the couch eating Doritos and you're
Speaker 1: meant to get a six pack. And they're not that
Speaker 1: bad because I'm sure they can help you tighten your
Speaker 1: deep core muscles by making you a little bit more
Speaker 1: aware of just holding yourself with better posture. But it's
Speaker 1: not a way to get a smaller waist. We get
Speaker 1: a smaller waist by eating less and moving more. It's
Speaker 1: a way it's always been, it's a way it'll always be.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry. I hate waist trainers.
Speaker 3: OHI, it's Oli from the Surf Coast. I was just
Speaker 3: curious about your thoughts on Paloton and whether it's worthwhile
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 1: Great question from Oli. Feel like Olie and I should
Speaker 1: go surfing tomorrow. Ollie, the peloton is a really interesting
Speaker 1: one because it's huge in America and it's just making
Speaker 1: its way here to Australia pros and cons. Pros you
Speaker 1: get a brilliant workout from brilliant trainers. Cons you do
Speaker 1: need equipment, so they starting to introduce dumbbells and hit
Speaker 1: tight workouts. But they originated from the bike. Now it's
Speaker 1: a great exercise bike. It's a gym caliber exercise bike
Speaker 1: that you have in your house. But that comes at
Speaker 1: a cost. You know, it's four or five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to start Peloton. They put you on a payment plan
Speaker 1: so you don't have to fork out four grand, five
Speaker 1: grand straight up. You might be on a three year plan,
Speaker 1: which is their way. You know, it's marketing genius. Beyonce
Speaker 1: is a shareholder in Peloton and jay Z and they
Speaker 1: bring out tracks just for the music videos of Peloton.
Speaker 1: It is soul Cycle, which is kind of the best
Speaker 1: indoor cycle class or renowned, is the best brought into
Speaker 1: your home. And obviously with COVID, at home fitness has
Speaker 1: exploded and Peloton are absolutely the forefront of that. And
Speaker 1: they probably do at home exercise bikes and marketing about
Speaker 1: home xos box in particular better than anybody. So I
Speaker 1: can absolutely see why Peloton is such a phenomenon. What
Speaker 1: it doesn't have is I believe and again this is
Speaker 1: all my opinion, is much personality because you're staring at
Speaker 1: a screen with a very theatrical trainer that I isn't
Speaker 1: my type of trainer. I prefer trainer that I really
Speaker 1: feel is getting to know me on an emotional level
Speaker 1: and connecting with me for real, rather than someone who
Speaker 1: is addressing me as if they're standing in the middle
Speaker 1: of the MCG doing an aerobics workout. That that's just
Speaker 1: my personal opinion, and when I see Peloton, that's sort
Speaker 1: of where I think it sits in the market, but
Speaker 1: from a good product perspective tick marketing geniuses tick. I
Speaker 1: think it's better in America because there's a bit of
Speaker 1: a Peloton community and tend to connect with each other.
Speaker 1: As it's really new to Australia and therefore you're probably
Speaker 1: going to be the only Peloton kid on the block
Speaker 1: for a while. So my advice would be hold off
Speaker 1: for now because it's a really big investment. If you
Speaker 1: find you don't like it, you've done your dough, wait
Speaker 1: till there's a bigger Peloton community in Australia and then
Speaker 1: perhaps jump on board. Thanks so much to everybody for
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