6 mins to change a life?
Hello everyone from a car that's taking a battering in the wind in rainy Wales. I don't if you can hear it, but luckily, Forest wasn't during this weather. This is typical Welsh weather, So thank God we didn't have this because it would have been horrible. You wouldn't have seen anyone's faces. It would have been covered in rain jackets basically.
Speaker 1:But that's all good, it's all good. I want to bring up something I noticed yesterday, right? So my father's got something called CPD or something, busy heart failure, and he's got to exercise. He can't, his feet swollen, can't really walk much, and he's on oxygen like 20 fourseven. I was like, what can you get his heart going?
Speaker 1:How can we get him to do something? And he doesn't talk much, he's quite low, right? So I got him this like pedaling bike, you can just there's just the pedals on the floor so you can watch TV and pedal and he had one and it was so light that he had no resistance, right, so it actually moved for you. The pedals were moving for him, doing a thing. So I got him in more resistance based ones, had to actually move it with his feet.
Speaker 1:I timed him, so we did three minutes, heart rate went up, so you know, to work out your max heart rate you do two twenty minuteus age, so he's 75, so his max heart rate 145, we don't want get anywhere near that, so he was at like 70 to start with, let's get him to eighty's, maybe near nineties. He started doing pedaling, three minutes, out of breath, checked his oxygen, little break, three minutes again, really out of breath, right, and then stopped him. So that's enough, that's enough, six minutes, that's fine. Heart went up to like 85 or whatever. Then he like, you know, all the box breathing we've learned a turtle, you know, like breathing into the belly, all this stuff, I could breathe into the belly, do half a few times breathe into the lungs, you know, deep breaths, don't be doing this shallow breath stuff.
Speaker 1:A lot of you know, a lot of people breathe in, they'll just breathe in in their mouth, they are. When you breathe in, maybe you wanna wanna fill those lungs up, then you wanna fill the belly up with your breathing. So, like, a lot of the Buddhist kind of meditation stuff is about breathing in with the belly, to your feet up belly. We've got an amazing breath work, four breath work classes by Phoebe we did before, so if you're a Gold member or you're an annual silver, in the app you'll go down the programs and you can find this breath work course and it's amazing how starting off your day with breath work or just some sort of breath work or breathing properly after exercise is amazing. Anyway, back to the story, this is super long, this should be shorter than this.
Speaker 1:He then was okay, sit down, okay, he sat down, out of breath, out of breath, took a while to get his breath down, checked his heart rate, come down a bit, oxygen, fine, right? Then this is what happened. Give him a bit of water, went to the tangerine, his energy, new lease of life, never seen him, asking questions, speaking, speaking for the first time. TV came on, excite do you know when you have an excitement? Do know when you a cup of coffee and you feel a bit of a jolt to your being, you feel like, oh, you talk to someone, you've a bit of excitement when you say Then after a run, you finish a workout, you're bit more cheeky, you've got a bit more cheeky to you, you're a bit happy.
Speaker 1:I saw that in him from six minutes of just pedaling, right? That's the power that exercise can have, especially in older people who need it, is that it could give you a bit of energy you thought was gone forever, a bit of life, a bit of cheekiness back. I haven't seen him, I haven't seen him in decades, ten plus years I've not seen that side of him, I love a little cheeky side. All coming from a bit of movement, guys. Don't underestimate a few minutes.
Speaker 1:I would just get get in your heart rate going up a bit. No matter what it is, you make it work. He's not he's not His partner's like, he needs a walk and my sister's like, he needs a walk. But he's not walking, is he? He's got pain in his feet, he's not walking.
Speaker 1:So what do we do? Roll over and say he can't walk? No, there's other options. We just need to get the heart rate going any way possible, get the heart rate going. And it gives you the endorphins.
Speaker 1:These endorphins are powerful things. He might be in his head thinking: I want to go. I don't want to live in this world like this. No way. You give him a bit of endorphins once a day, twice a day.
Speaker 1:He was even asking how many times a day he can do it. Now we want to do it three times a day, four times a day. He's like no, no, no. We're doing progressive overload. We are taking a slow bath.
Speaker 1:Even though I want to see him get fitter, healthier, faster, because obviously it's going help him, You can't just jump into these things, even if you wanted to. So, no, you did six minutes today, tomorrow you're going do six minutes again, right? Next day you might do six and a half minutes total cycle time, then you're going to do seven and you're going to go up slow, slow, slow, never too much, never too much. And he's gonna have the endorphins. And from these endorphins, it's gonna make him feel like he wants to live.
Speaker 1:And that's, you know, to be straight up about it. You don't feel like you wanna live without when you're down in the dumps, your health is going down, nothing seems to work, everyone's doom and gloom. Next thing you know, you have a have a bit of a dolphin exercise and it changes your mindset completely and you go, wow, that was that's powerful. I can feel like that from something I can do myself. And this is why, you know, like a lot of people say people with depression, they say, well, go next, you know, in New Zealand they prescribe exercise as the first method to help with people with moderate depression.
Speaker 1:Let's not mistake it for the deep, up the scale depression, right? We're talking about moderate depression. So we go: well, how are they going to go out and do exercise, Scott, if they're depressed? They go: valid. Some people are so depressed, stuck in the house and everything, they need more support.
Speaker 1:But for most people, you're feeling down, you're feeling shit, you need to start looking at what's your last few days looked like? What's today looking like? It's 2PM, you're stuck in a rut. What's the today look like for you? Have you done any exercise at all?
Speaker 1:Have you done a ten minute jump up dance, a bit of yoga, a bit of running, whatever, little work? Have you done that yet? Have you given your brain that a bit of endorphins from their exercise? Because it can change everything for you. I just want to remind you of that because I couldn't believe the change in this man after six minutes.
Speaker 1:I just want to reinforce this, even for your own family's sake, your parents, your friends, anyone you know, this fitness is really low and you just know the power of being fitter and that progress can do instantaneously, then it's worth doing. So now I'm even I can't believe I haven't even thought of this. I'm like, alright, alright, dad, I'm gonna get you a personal trainer three times a week, so at least you can start at least I know someone's coming three times a week to track some of these things as well and maybe bring in some resistance training very, very light, just a bit more walking here and there, if you can get you walking, bit more cycling, bit more supervised, maybe push you a bit more in these sessions and the other ones you can maintain. And he said to my mother, mommy, if I got your personal trainer twice a week, would you go? She's like laughing.
Speaker 1:Was like, no, I'm serious. I think I'm 65 now. No, not 65, 62, 63. It's like, you need to start thinking of prevention, you know, you need to start thinking of eventually, you're going to be forced to get off your ass and move to live to survive if you don't do anything about it now. If you don't build your sadism now, you're going to get a SMPTE sitting down, you're going to be stiff, doctors are going to tell you you're not walking enough, your heart has not been working, your body's not been working, your brain's not been active, you're deteriorating and you're going to have to go right now, better start walking, it's going to be very tough for you.
Speaker 1:But if you start when you can move and you've got a bit of energy, can start walking, you can start doing some resistance training and we know David said resistance training in women, especially elderly, game changer, life changing. Smart guys. And look at us young people, and I say young, less younger than 55, younger than 50, the younger generation, the ones that have got more oomph. We can go and walk about and move around. We've got oomph in us.
Speaker 1:We can we can do, we can move. And where you're going, oh, I don't really wanna work out. I don't wanna train. I don't wanna walk. Go for a walk.
Speaker 1:You don't wanna go for a walk. One day, when you're old and grey, you would wish you could just go on that walk with those smooth limbs, with a smile on your face, with a podcast and a bit of music, looking at nature and feeling absolutely bang on. $100. $100. Million bucks.
Speaker 1:You wish that those are the days again. And just remember what it does to your mindset. That's all I wanna remind you of. I think it's important. So today make today a day you get those endorphins going.
Speaker 1:However you want to do it, I don't care, just get those endorphins going, give yourself that hope again, the days can be good again, they can help you, we all need a reminder of that and did a zoom as well last night with some of the members that have been helping out with our next challenge which is basically how can we save money through meal prepping, right? Because, you know, I go Sainsbury's I'm gonna call it the lazy tax. I go to Sainsbury's and I live in London, Sainsbury's local, go on meal prep, I go there, get one of those ready meals, I get the cooked chicken breast, I get the protein bar, whatever and I can leave our shop spending £14 in one day and if you did that times five, right, it's a lot of money, £78 a week on food because I'm buying it already prepped. These meal, these recipes we're putting together and we're doing to put them into a forced meal plan. They're recipes you can put into a meal plan yourself or your meal prepping to fit your macros.
Speaker 1:You're looking at 20 to 25, maybe £30 a week. Better macros, probably tastes better. So by meal prepping and giving yourself some time a week to do it, I'm gonna cut my food bill in half, minimum. I'm gonna give myself more time. I'm gonna I'll be eating better quality food, no doubt, All from the prepping.
Speaker 1:And a lot of you members who've been helping with the sheet and adding recipes and turtle tests and all that stuff. Unbelievable work. As a team, as a team, it's been phenomenal how much work has been done in a day. I can't believe it. Like, if I would have a business with that many employees working on something, with that much enthusiasm every day, imagine what is possible.
Speaker 1:Like, it's fucking nuts. We all know in this world that 90% of employees are doing the bare minimum. They're cashing a check, not pushing anything. But if you had a workforce of dedicated, enthusiastic, they believe in the vision and they work on something as a team, That's world changing stuff. I'm saying meal preps, meal guides are world changing, it could be.
Speaker 1:I'm saying that the speed of the work is phenomenal. And I just think that's just another point to raise about teamwork really. What is possible when people come together and work together? Honestly, as a whenever you speak to business owners, entrepreneurs, whatever you wanna call them, it's one of the loneliest jobs in the world. You could read all about this online, you could type in entrepreneurship loneliness, loads of people.
Speaker 1:You're making decisions, be yourself. The buck stops at you. No one has the work ethic and dedication that you have because it's why would they? If you're employed, why would they be same as you? Maybe they don't, right?
Speaker 1:And it's hard, like, when you actually look at what a team can accomplish, you kind of don't care about credit, you don't care about wanting to be the main thing, the main person. You don't get stuff done. And that's what I think, like, in your in in what guys you do if you're a if you're an entrepreneur, business or whatever, like, you've gotta put the ego aside. Don't care who's the person that gets the credit. Well, look at the work that's been created.
Speaker 1:So when you go to work today and you're gonna team and you think of teamwork first over recognition. We all need recognition for the work we do, right? It's fairness. That will come. But this is stuff you can get done without caring about one person getting recognized and all of you doing it for the greater good of the thing, which is how companies some companies are run.
Speaker 1:And that's what the best companies are. It's phenomenal. It is phenomenal. So yeah, I just want to thank you all for helping out. It's been eye opening, really.
Speaker 1:Obviously, over the years, I've known the turtle bunch are amazing and people in the outside world, you know, hear stories all the time. People don't get in the outside world, Scott. They think it's weird or whatever and I think it's weird because it shouldn't be weird that a group of people have come together, strangers from the internet, with a common goal, nice people, who've seen that helping others, they can help themselves, but also just being that's what humans should do, we should help each other. Gathering a taste of what that looks like online and then coming together in real life, seeing all these people in three d helping each other smile and having laugh, there's no images to hold up, There's no reputation to defend or gain. It's just human beings just enjoying being in pleasure with all human beings on the same mission, same path.
Speaker 1:And it's just amazing. And the energy you get from it is phenomenal. There's no judgement. Right? You have a taste of ass like and you just it just I don't know, like, it just makes you realize what we're missing day to day in the world.
Speaker 1:That's what it makes for me. It makes me realize how much of this is missing in the world for most people. And then you have people on the outside saying that that's weird. It's weird because the world has lost that as a norm. The norm of the world was the community.
Speaker 1:Community was the backbone of this world everywhere. There's still parts of the world but the western world. Community was the backbone of everything. Everyone knew each other. The elderly would know the little kids and the kids would know people older and everybody would look after each other.
Speaker 1:You'd have people playing the streets and people helping each other out, doing things for each other without the need of, you know, money or one upping each other. There was no keeping up with the Joneses in these communities. No one was trying to show off. They were all trying to live a good life together and that's been lost. And now that's why it's weird when someone sees that back but it's come back through online form transformed to the in person.
Speaker 1:And that's what's happening. People think it's weird because of that. But it's really opened my eyes the last few years as to like what the world. Without being cheesy here, without being cheesy, what the world looks like but what like what like it's all communities like imagine that every day. Imagine I'm a community like I work and just in the villages we're from and the towns and some of the cities even now when he's saying.
Speaker 1:Imagine that was a permanent fixture in your life in real life. I just think it's phenomenal. And just like that, realizing how nice these people are, all of you are and, you know, the things you do, reason one's surprise birthday in forest, birthday party in forest, helping out with the business, basically helping with the recipes, meal plans, wanting to help, wanting to do it, just in general, to give feedback and want to see this improve, just unreal. So thank you all and just maybe all of us can take inspiration from that. I don't know exactly what in concrete terms that means but I just think it's awesome.
Speaker 1:So to recap, get exercising, if your parents, grandparents, wherever, feeling down in the dumps wherever, try and work out what you can do to get them to move, be there with them to move, see the difference in them moving a bit and afterwards, try and sort that out, make health is wealth as they say and then yeah, look at the communities, look at your work, don't worry too much about personal glory all the time. Teamwork is where the magic happens like shown in this recipe, twenty four hour recipe blast. So much has got done with teamwork and everyone's just chipped in and it's amazing. And yeah, that's it. Have a good day.
Speaker 1:Get your one big thing done. Obviously, in the app, all our stuff. See you on the radio. But next Monday we start the new challenge. Hope you join us.
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