Speaker 1: Get everyone Sam here. We have a really interesting guest
Speaker 1: coming in today, a guy by the name of Lucas
Speaker 1: who is a biohacker. So he's got a business called
Speaker 1: boost Your Biology, and it's really interesting. Even saying this
Speaker 1: to you now before we meet Lucas, I'm still.
Speaker 2: Not really sure what a bio hacker is.
Speaker 1: So we're going to go on an exploration and we're
Speaker 1: going to find that out together. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: really interested in all these little one percenters or five
Speaker 1: percenters or a little ways out there that you can
Speaker 1: make improvements, particularly if it's in a sphere or a
Speaker 1: space that I'm not an expert in. I'm really sort
Speaker 1: of fascinating the way I dive down these little rabbit holes.
Speaker 1: And you know, for me, I think, and I'll have
Speaker 1: this discussion with Lucas when he comes in. I tend
Speaker 1: to think sometimes that biohacking, in inverted commas and these
Speaker 1: kind of hacks can sometimes be just hooks or tricks
Speaker 1: to grab you or get you in or perhaps take
Speaker 1: advantage of unsuspected the uneducated people, and the actual substance
Speaker 1: to what these people are talking about is questionable. Whereas
Speaker 1: this guy really in my mind seems to really know
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. Really interesting space, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to dive into it with him, and we're going
Speaker 1: to dive into it together.
Speaker 2: So that is what's coming up.
Speaker 1: First of all, on today's Wodlife episode, We've got a
Speaker 1: question that had come through regarding you know, I've seen
Speaker 1: his person on TikTok and are they right or are
Speaker 1: they wrong? Or you know, should I be wary about
Speaker 1: this stuff? So we're going to dive into that who
Speaker 1: you should trust or how you should perhaps cast some
Speaker 1: criteria over the people that you're listening to to sort
Speaker 1: of decipher whether they are or aren't.
Speaker 2: The right person for you.
Speaker 1: And then I'm going to give you a little list
Speaker 1: of some of my favorites for you to look out
Speaker 1: for and maybe follow them on socials or go to
Speaker 1: their website because there's some brilliant information out there from
Speaker 1: some brilliant people and it's a.
Speaker 2: Great opportunity to share that information.
Speaker 3: So that's coming up next on The Goodlife.
Speaker 2: So here he is.
Speaker 1: He's in the studio, Lucas Owen. Welcome to the wood Life.
Speaker 1: I'll just give your heads up, mate, because before you
Speaker 1: popped into the studio. I just gave my listeners a
Speaker 1: bit of a heads up that you're a biohacker, and
Speaker 1: I don't really know what a biohacker is, so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of learning with the listeners today, so I'll give
Speaker 1: them a little bit of a background. So you've got
Speaker 1: a business called Boost your Biology. You're this globally recognized biohacker.
Speaker 1: You're on so for those that have never heard of
Speaker 1: Ben Greenfield's he'd be considered in the top three biohackers
Speaker 1: in the world. You were a guest on his podcast
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago and your business sort of
Speaker 1: took off into.
Speaker 2: The stratosphere since then.
Speaker 1: A lot of people I've heard talk about you as
Speaker 1: kind of the author on supplements and in Australia, probably
Speaker 1: the guy that knows the most about supplements, particularly the
Speaker 1: less common supplements. Maybe got a degree into tropathy. You're
Speaker 1: a Melbourne based guy, so welcome to.
Speaker 2: The wood life.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's sincerely when I say two things, it's
Speaker 1: great to have you here.
Speaker 2: And what's a biohacker?
Speaker 4: Oh? Thanks, Sam, Well, that's a warm introduction. Ball Yeah,
Speaker 4: pretty much. That's what I love to do, is create
Speaker 4: health information and health content that's gonna reach millions of
Speaker 4: people and just provide really cutting edge bio hacks that
Speaker 4: can benefit numerous people around the world. And so, like
Speaker 4: you said before, most people probably hear about the term biohacker. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and they think, you know, what is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't really even know.
Speaker 1: And I've been on this to twenty five years, so
Speaker 1: a lot of errands you'll be like, what is it.
Speaker 4: Well, for your audience, I'd say like a lot of
Speaker 4: them might be familiar with Andrew Huberman Andrew Human, Yes,
Speaker 4: so I'd say like he's like the leader in that
Speaker 4: sort of health optimization space, and so bi hacking is
Speaker 4: all encompassing looking at nutrition, sleep, stress management, exercise, things
Speaker 4: like that to basically improve and optimize your health and
Speaker 4: well being.
Speaker 1: So I love Andrew because he shuts people down, He
Speaker 1: destroys peanuts on the internet, giving people really bad misinformation,
Speaker 1: and he with all these degrees and his wealth of knowledge,
Speaker 1: and he's just the best.
Speaker 2: Goes.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's have a look at what this guy's telling
Speaker 1: people to sell a crap product, and let's put flames
Speaker 1: on this because it's just it irks him that this
Speaker 1: person's trying to take advantage of people, make money by
Speaker 1: giving people misinformation, and then he gives them the correct information.
Speaker 2: And I love that.
Speaker 1: How did you sort of get into this by a
Speaker 1: hacking space, Like, what's your story?
Speaker 5: I think?
Speaker 2: I think that's that's interesting to find out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I always had a goal to be a
Speaker 4: professional soccer player, so I was very interested in ways
Speaker 4: your own benefits those one exactly. Yeah, that's interested in
Speaker 4: ways that I could optimize my performance on the soccer field.
Speaker 4: At the time, I was working in my dad's pharmacy,
Speaker 4: So my dad's are farcists, so I was sort of
Speaker 4: exposed to that side of like, you know, medications and
Speaker 4: how they work and understanding things like that. And really
Speaker 4: I just fell in love with the whole idea of
Speaker 4: self experimentation and understanding various pathways within the body, understanding
Speaker 4: you know, the biological consequences of different supplements, different nutrition hacks.
Speaker 4: And then I decided, well, hang on a lot of
Speaker 4: the things that I'm doing right now is literally in
Speaker 4: line with what a natural path focuses on, which is
Speaker 4: like the root cause, you know, addressing diet, addressing sleep,
Speaker 4: all of the foundations that we see as like preventative
Speaker 4: health was very much in line with how I was
Speaker 4: living and also preaching. So I had the choice of
Speaker 4: going down the path of either you know, becoming a
Speaker 4: pharmacist like my dad, or going down more of the
Speaker 4: natural holistic route, and I chose the natural holistic route.
Speaker 2: Do you still only stay in that lane or now
Speaker 2: you're a bit more open to both.
Speaker 4: I'm very open to both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you were.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The goal is to like, we're trying to achieve
Speaker 4: optimal health. What is the best tool in our toolkit
Speaker 4: to do that. It might be a medication which is
Speaker 4: a single handed, targeted approach, or it might be a
Speaker 4: lifestyle intervention that's more of a broad having a broad
Speaker 4: effect sort of thing. But yeah, I'm definitely like yourself,
Speaker 4: like sort of in the middle. I like to leverage both.
Speaker 4: If I have to refer clients to a higher level
Speaker 4: specialist or a doctor, I will do that where I
Speaker 4: see fit.
Speaker 2: And it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get people love the one percenters because
Speaker 1: it's sometimes a great scapegoat to not address the real
Speaker 1: foundational issues, you know, like I don't exercise, I don't
Speaker 1: eat well, I don't sleep. But Sam, what's credatine, Like
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, well, it's good and it will help,
Speaker 1: but you don't really even work out yet, or you know,
Speaker 1: your diet's horrendous, you know, like I don't think you
Speaker 1: need to worry about ice baths and creatine yet. You
Speaker 1: know it's so there's got to build the foundation first,
Speaker 1: don't you. Like, if you've got your fundamentals down, pat
Speaker 1: and you're a good you're a really solid, consistent eight
Speaker 1: out of ten, Well let's become a nine and a
Speaker 1: half out of ten by building other layers with these
Speaker 1: beautiful little biohacks for optimal health.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's well said. I mean, that's definitely the approach
Speaker 4: that I like to enforce is like, yeah, make sure
Speaker 4: you dial in the basics first, and then you can
Speaker 4: come to me, have a look at my content binge
Speaker 4: on my staff, and then you get the one percent.
Speaker 1: Is what's the biggest misconception about biohacking that you experience?
Speaker 4: So the biggest one is whether or not biohacking is
Speaker 4: evidence based, whether or not it's actually legitimate, or whether
Speaker 4: or not it's like placebo, which is a fair statement.
Speaker 4: A lot of people like, oh, what you do that
Speaker 4: but is there any research behind that, does it even
Speaker 4: prove that it works? And I say, sure, like that's
Speaker 4: my mission has always been to showcase things that are literally,
Speaker 4: like scientifically backed and proven and dig deep for the
Speaker 4: research articles. And now Fortune League guys like doctor Andrew
Speaker 4: Hopeman's legitimizing the things that are somewhat fringe. He's like
Speaker 4: actually saying these things actually do have some robust evidence.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to give everyone it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a background because I think there would be some cynical,
Speaker 1: skeptical people out there that naturally and I think it's
Speaker 1: important to sort of show them that there's a there's
Speaker 1: a real level of trust here. And I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: got you on the show otherwise. What's happening in the
Speaker 1: world of bio hacking, what are the what's the biggest
Speaker 1: trend at the moment? And if you had to look
Speaker 1: into your crystal ball for let's say twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: what's going to be the thing now that everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about that very few people are now.
Speaker 2: And that's two questions in one.
Speaker 4: Well, I would say I love the question because I
Speaker 4: love being on the cutting edge of what's new in
Speaker 4: the forefront of science and supplements and things like that.
Speaker 4: The one space I'm really excited to see more, Like
Speaker 4: what I think will be really popular in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five ish will be the field of psychobiotics, So specific
Speaker 4: probiotics that work on you know how they say the
Speaker 4: gut is the second brain, like that sort of saying,
Speaker 4: or specific probiotics that can affect the brain and significantly
Speaker 4: affect various aspects of cognition. So whether that be like.
Speaker 1: And they're personalized to the individual based on their personality.
Speaker 4: Type or based upon their microbiome, right, yeah, because that
Speaker 4: field is like probably the most heavily invested space. Yeah, microbiome.
Speaker 2: Okay, got health brain health connection. I love that. So
Speaker 2: what did you call it? Psychobotics? Yeah?
Speaker 4: They call them psychobiotics.
Speaker 1: So well, yeah, I knew there'd be something that I'd
Speaker 1: never heard. I'd never heard the term. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get the concept. Principally, I understand the concept. But there
Speaker 1: you go look, look and listen and learn. Is there
Speaker 1: an authority in that space that you look up to
Speaker 1: at the moment.
Speaker 4: There is a guy called Jason Horolek. He has a
Speaker 4: website called probotic Advisor dot com. So he's a great resource. Interesting,
Speaker 4: I've had him on my podcast a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Right, great resource, let's check that out.
Speaker 2: I always think the best test is what do you.
Speaker 1: Do religiously that you are shocked or it frustrates you
Speaker 1: that very few Australian people do and you think their nuts.
Speaker 2: To not be doing it?
Speaker 4: All right, So it would have to be wearing blue
Speaker 4: blocking glasses before bedtime? Okay, simple, such a basic bar
Speaker 4: check for.
Speaker 1: How as in while you're on your screen, or you
Speaker 1: put them on and lie down and not look at
Speaker 1: any screens.
Speaker 4: So I usually put them on at like six thirty
Speaker 4: seven PM and.
Speaker 2: Just wear them around.
Speaker 4: You might look like like an X man, just cruise
Speaker 4: around the house. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. My kids would dress up with that.
Speaker 4: I would love that.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. I'm telling you it'll be like X
Speaker 2: men at my house. Would be very cool.
Speaker 1: So you say you go to bed at ten o'clock. Yep,
Speaker 1: you're cooking dinner. You're wearing your glasses.
Speaker 4: Don't know if the steaks are over on that that's right.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you gotta lift them out just
Speaker 1: to check the check the food's been cooked.
Speaker 2: Correctly. And what's the benefit.
Speaker 4: Of these The main benefit is improved sleep, yeah, right,
Speaker 4: And the way in which they work is basically they
Speaker 4: filter out the blue light and the blue light blue
Speaker 4: slash white spectrum of light is what blocks the production
Speaker 4: of malatonin. And so instead of we just overstimulate ourselves
Speaker 4: right to that second that our head hits the pillow,
Speaker 4: we're doing ourselves a huge disservice with the quality of
Speaker 4: our sleeps. Yeah. And you see, the main complaint of
Speaker 4: Aussies and even like us citizens is lack of energy,
Speaker 4: and so lack of energy comes off fatigue or they
Speaker 4: can't get up with our coffee. Like it's sleep is
Speaker 4: a high priority.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for those that can't see Lucus obviously,
Speaker 1: because we're an audio medium, very very healthy fit well
Speaker 1: like how.
Speaker 2: Old have you done my math?
Speaker 4: Twenty seven?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like he just he's beaming, like his face,
Speaker 1: he's skin like everything.
Speaker 2: He looks like it's.
Speaker 1: One of the healthiest human beings you'll ever sort of
Speaker 1: come across. So where do we get these glasses?
Speaker 4: First of all, so there's a already of vendors, just
Speaker 4: one on there's Anussy vendor block blue light dot com.
Speaker 2: Dot blue light. Okay, there you go. Their business has
Speaker 2: just gone through the roof bank. I love it. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: So I've never I've never done that, never done that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's a good one. That's like a sleep biohack.
Speaker 2: I'm just sort of thing, what are your top couple
Speaker 2: that you do?
Speaker 4: And so I'd say something basic that's like, I'm not
Speaker 4: really a bihack, but it sort of took off during
Speaker 4: the COVID period, which is like walking, treadmill desk. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so just getting on the trip, like getting steps in
Speaker 4: walking work. Yeah, it's so underrated.
Speaker 2: And this I guess this is the thing with hacks.
Speaker 2: It would be so fascinating to hear our.
Speaker 1: Audience share that they would not call themselves bio hackers.
Speaker 1: They probably wouldn't even call these things hacks. It's just
Speaker 1: I just do that because it.
Speaker 2: Makes me feel better, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we'd all have ten little things that perhaps
Speaker 1: we don't even realize that we do.
Speaker 4: Getting up in the morning is ideally within the first hours,
Speaker 4: getting exposed to sunlight or some sort of light like
Speaker 4: that's a it's so base, but like surprisingly that can
Speaker 4: have such a profound effect on mood, energy, well being,
Speaker 4: and also helping sleep that night because if you deliberately
Speaker 4: expose your face to sunlight in the morning within one hour,
Speaker 4: it actually helps with that nighttime secretion of malatonin. So
Speaker 4: you'll see. That's the other thing with the bar hacking
Speaker 4: space is like sometimes we get extremely meticulous with tracking
Speaker 4: like health trackers, a HIV.
Speaker 2: See you're a big fan of whoops and all these other.
Speaker 4: Things to a degree, like I want to be like,
Speaker 4: I don't want them to dictate my life, you know,
Speaker 4: because otherwise, you know, you'll fall victim to tech dominating
Speaker 4: your like it.
Speaker 1: Having passed you by, and you'll be you'll be delved
Speaker 1: into your dashboard exactly, you'll miss it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it can be good as like a short term thing.
Speaker 4: You might say I want to wear I want to
Speaker 4: wear a whoop or something, or an ordering for like
Speaker 4: three months, learn about the data, and then divorced, get divorce.
Speaker 2: Can't take the thing. It's too much. It's become a
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 1: Even am accounting calorie perspective, Like I'm not a huge
Speaker 1: calorie account advocate because I do think it becomes an
Speaker 1: unhealthy obsession with that thinking your food as a number
Speaker 1: rather than the nutritional value. But if you have zero
Speaker 1: idea what calorie intake is in most foods, it can
Speaker 1: be a really worthwhile four week exercise exactly. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: on the same page. What about what about the differences
Speaker 1: for men and women? Like, are there are there hacks
Speaker 1: that you typically would only recommend to a female or
Speaker 1: typically only recommend to a male, or or most of
Speaker 1: the time it is this will improve this will create
Speaker 1: optimal health, or put you closer to optimal health for everybody.
Speaker 4: Well, there's one thing that's absolutely a fact, and that
Speaker 4: is that, like women are heavily neglected in clinical trials
Speaker 4: and scientific studies. There's like they why, It's due to
Speaker 4: their hormonal balance, like their mental cycle.
Speaker 1: So as a consequence, does that mean females are missing
Speaker 1: out on some hack specific to them because the results
Speaker 1: are biased towards men.
Speaker 4: That's possible. It's also like when it comes to like
Speaker 4: dosages for different stuffs, think about they've all done it
Speaker 4: on men who are usually like between the weight of
Speaker 4: like even the weight aspect is yeah, usually like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think but in general, like the things
Speaker 4: that I talk about mostly and this is I decided
Speaker 4: to pivot about two years ago when my brother came
Speaker 4: on board and helped with my branding and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: He said, look, you're good at you're great at sharing
Speaker 4: health hacks across like for everyone, but you need to
Speaker 4: really niche down. And that's when I decided to go
Speaker 4: purely men's health and optimize men. And that's like an
Speaker 4: area because I can relate to them and I've studied
Speaker 4: that more. Plus I prefer to refer women to some
Speaker 4: other brilliant sure like women like better understand exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean if you try to be everything to everyone,
Speaker 1: you end up being nothing to know one. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan that for sure. It's what's the because you've
Speaker 1: got this supplement reputation. There's still a supplement reputation. You
Speaker 1: remissied me to not finish with the question what supplement
Speaker 1: or you can have two. I'll give you no more
Speaker 1: than two. What supplements do you take if not daily,
Speaker 1: weekly and you.
Speaker 4: Swear by them without thinking twice? It's the amino acid touring.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, there you go, so that I love that.
Speaker 1: I thought you might say something really common and I
Speaker 1: was like, interesting, but it's not. It's not new for
Speaker 1: our audience, So turing okay, tell us about touring.
Speaker 4: So the reason why I'm a big fan of tourene
Speaker 4: is because it will help with so many areas, just
Speaker 4: like we see that from like magnesium. So like magnesium
Speaker 4: is a common one. You've got the basics like magnesium,
Speaker 4: vitamin d Omega three's. You might have some other minerals
Speaker 4: in there, maybe iron or B twelve and B vitamins.
Speaker 4: But I think tourene deserves a spot in your supplement cabinet.
Speaker 4: And the reason for that is because it does so
Speaker 4: many things. Number One, it will help to reduce muscle
Speaker 4: soreness from exercise, so reducing DOMS, which is a common
Speaker 4: complaint amongst people who exercise and the people that I
Speaker 4: work with, so doms. Number Two, it has a really
Speaker 4: potent anti anxiety action in the brain. So there's some
Speaker 4: pretty good research to suggest that at high doses of
Speaker 4: tourine we're looking at around three to five grams, it
Speaker 4: has a really profound effect on the Gabba system in
Speaker 4: the brain, which is essentially how alcohol works in the brain.
Speaker 4: That's why people utilize alcohol to reduce anxiety or increase.
Speaker 2: This can do that the detrimental effects that alcohol.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it comes with I've literally I've had people come
Speaker 4: to me saying, hey, Lucas, what do you recommend for
Speaker 4: a night out. I don't want to drink, but I
Speaker 4: want to be like socially fluent, like verbally fluent, and
Speaker 4: they are social lubrication. I call is a stack. So
Speaker 4: stuck with like tourine alph and aline, which is another amino.
Speaker 4: I said, like that concoction there will do a pretty
Speaker 4: good job of getting not making you feel buzzed, but
Speaker 4: making you feel more socially confident, fascinating.
Speaker 2: And it's just powder form with water, is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 4: So I had like even before today's podcast, I had
Speaker 4: like five grams before this.
Speaker 2: Because I'm very nervous.
Speaker 4: There's a you know that the quote more smart, more
Speaker 4: so mortine. Yeah, I say, more smart, more safe tory.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: I love that our listeners are not going to forget that.
Speaker 2: That's brilliant, mate.
Speaker 1: Just before I let you go, first of all, where
Speaker 1: can people find you.
Speaker 4: So they can search boost your biology?
Speaker 2: Boost your biology dot com?
Speaker 4: Ye dot com love it?
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that you're specializing in men. Is there
Speaker 1: a particular female by hacker that you'd loved because a
Speaker 1: lot of our audience is female. Is there a particular
Speaker 1: bio hacker that you'd love to give a bit of
Speaker 1: a plug too?
Speaker 4: So doctor Miranda Mile, Okay, she was one of my lecturers.
Speaker 4: She's a great resource for women's health.
Speaker 2: Beautiful session. That's that's what we needed, mate. I love that.
Speaker 2: And what are the things that people should watch out
Speaker 2: for Google?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: As in you worry about Google or use Google as
Speaker 1: your truth source of truth?
Speaker 4: I worry about how people use Google and the way
Speaker 4: in which Google displays the fact that paying paying for
Speaker 4: top spot exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, so I'd say, okay, so you've got to Yeah,
Speaker 1: You've got to dig a bit deeper, don't you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you's just got to be weary of like who
Speaker 4: is presenting that information and what is their hidden Do
Speaker 4: they have a hidden agenda?
Speaker 1: Yeah, either being paid by that pharmaceutical company or do
Speaker 1: they actually believe that is that got the top ranking
Speaker 1: on Google because that huge company is paying lots of
Speaker 1: money or is it organically credible?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Ye, that's actually a really simple good tip for people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the big issue is people don't even go
Speaker 1: to the Google level.
Speaker 2: It comes up on their.
Speaker 1: Instagram, right, yeah, and that's like that's good enough for me.
Speaker 2: And it just you know, and you know, with all.
Speaker 1: The algorithms and all this clever stuff that happens, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I was just thinking about that yesterday.
Speaker 2: So we know, we're just thinking about that.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I got served to you. You know, like
Speaker 1: it's it's scary, but it's not. It's sort of out
Speaker 1: of our control to a point. So you know, what
Speaker 1: we see is out of our control. What we do
Speaker 1: with what we see is within our control. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the key message.
Speaker 4: And even with the rise of chut GPT as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get worse, it's not getting any better.
Speaker 1: So we're going to become We're going do you have
Speaker 1: to become more conscientious, more researched, not skeptical, but informed exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mate, that.
Speaker 1: Was a fantastic Really I really wanted to understand what
Speaker 1: is by hacking your background and just get some absolute
Speaker 1: zingers from you, and I think we've done that today.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to have you back. And thanks for
Speaker 2: coming on.
Speaker 4: The WOODLFE awesome, Thanks Sam.
Speaker 1: So there you go, Lucas, what a what an interesting guy.
Speaker 1: What an interesting space, what an interesting chat.
Speaker 5: It's just sort of reflecting with you all. I'm sure
Speaker 5: some of you are still in a bit skeptical. I'm
Speaker 5: sure some of you are like, no, actually, that makes
Speaker 5: complete sense for me. I almost feel like term bioacking
Speaker 5: for someone of his credibility and education and knowledge does
Speaker 5: them a bit of.
Speaker 2: A disservice because it's very highly researched health.
Speaker 1: Advice, you know, it's and yeah, everyone loves a quick
Speaker 1: fix these days, so the term hack, we think is
Speaker 1: the quick solution or the you know, the little silver
Speaker 1: bullet that we're all looking for. So that's that was
Speaker 1: really interesting and we're going to continue on with that.
Speaker 1: As I said, I really wanted to dive in a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper about how you can get good advice
Speaker 1: from people that you trust. And as promised at the
Speaker 1: start of the show, I've got my little list.
Speaker 2: Of top five that I think if you're ever.
Speaker 1: Wanting some great resources out there on social media, you
Speaker 1: should definitely be following and tuning into these five people.
Speaker 2: And that's coming up next.
Speaker 6: Hey, Sam, it's Nigel who from CANS. I've just got
Speaker 6: a question with all the influencers I'm seeing online on Instagram,
Speaker 6: reels and TikTok. How do I trust who's offering the
Speaker 6: best fitness advice?
Speaker 2: Nigel from CANS What a great question.
Speaker 1: Look, if we're talking about workout videos specifically, I think
Speaker 1: they can be great for inspo, get yourself moving, try something,
Speaker 1: have a bit of fun, have a bit of a laugh,
Speaker 1: gives a bit of a challenge, but you should really
Speaker 1: be looking what is right for someone else is not
Speaker 1: necessarily or highly likely probably not what's best for you.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, we love following a trend,
Speaker 1: or we love doing what that person over there is doing,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to exercise, you want to get
Speaker 1: the most bang for your buck, and you want to
Speaker 1: train smarter, not harder, So you not want to do
Speaker 1: first of all, what you enjoy doing, lean probably most importantly,
Speaker 1: what is.
Speaker 2: Right for you.
Speaker 1: So if you're wanting to get stronger, there needs to
Speaker 1: be resistance training.
Speaker 2: If you wanted to get.
Speaker 1: Flexible or more mobile or move a bit freer, there
Speaker 1: needs to be some mobility or yoga or stretching. If
Speaker 1: you're wanting to improve your cardiovascular fitness, where there needs
Speaker 1: to be something that gets your heart rate up, whether
Speaker 1: it's riding or running or swimming or rowing. So you
Speaker 1: need to sort of, I guess, just challenge yourself, why
Speaker 1: do I choose this particular option now? If it's just
Speaker 1: to get a bit of a sweat and have a
Speaker 1: bit of a fun as a one off workout, there
Speaker 1: is absolutely no harm in that. That is better than
Speaker 1: doing nothing. But you really want to look at your
Speaker 1: workout routine a bit more broadly. You know, I like
Speaker 1: to do a mixture. I'd like to do strength training
Speaker 1: three times a week. I like to run a couple
Speaker 1: of times a week, and then I like to do
Speaker 1: a swim with a stretch sort of once a week
Speaker 1: because I'm not that flexible and whatever it is. And
Speaker 1: I also have quite you know, crappy posture, so I
Speaker 1: make sure that I do some core stuff and sort
Speaker 1: of pelvic stuff where I tucked my butt under and
Speaker 1: improve my posture when I'm doing my resistance training. So
Speaker 1: that's just kind of me. And if I like to
Speaker 1: mix it up. I love boxing, you know, just I
Speaker 1: just find it really fun. I find it's a great
Speaker 1: kind of mental and physical release. It's a great cardio workout,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's my sort of go to if
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to change things up a
Speaker 1: little bit. But there's actually thought I guess, n I do,
Speaker 1: I guess The point here is this thought behind what
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: So more broadly, and this is.
Speaker 1: Why I'm really glad you asked this question because it
Speaker 1: sort of triggered something in me that what is the
Speaker 1: how do you know if they're any good or not?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I think it's important to look at qualifications. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was a personal trainer still I am really from
Speaker 1: twenty so I'm now forty three. So for twenty three
Speaker 1: years I did the maths. I've done over eighty thousand
Speaker 1: personal training appointments, and I think that you know, you
Speaker 1: can't treat everybody the same based on age and how
Speaker 1: fit they are, in their exercise history or injury history,
Speaker 1: or their psychology or motivation. You know, you really do
Speaker 1: need to treat people as personally or as individually as
Speaker 1: you can and as sort it comes back to the same.
Speaker 1: You know, your workout routine should be personal to you.
Speaker 1: Someone that is helping you or giving you advice should
Speaker 1: have an understanding of the audience that they're talking to.
Speaker 1: And I think that becomes really really important anyway, That
Speaker 1: was an interesting way to finish the show, really interesting
Speaker 1: show in general.
Speaker 2: Lucas Owen what a guy.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to catch up with him again. I hope
Speaker 1: you enjoyed today's episode as much as I did. As always,
Speaker 1: would love to hear from you, and, as I said
Speaker 1: to Lucas, would love to know what hacks you guys
Speaker 1: have got. What little thing do you do that perhaps
Speaker 1: you don't think that many of our listeners do, that
Speaker 1: you'd like to share with us that I can. I'll
Speaker 1: share your hacks on a future episode. Have a great
Speaker 1: week until then, see you later.