Event recap and what's to come
Good morning, Turtle Meths. How are you doing? So many of you came to the event on Sunday, which is the end of Octagon event. Now the next events we're gonna do so as a bit of a change, we've got the Turtle Method Academy group open. That's for all subscribers.
Speaker 1:Can't speak app only and premium subscribers. So the full access with the live workouts all on all the sessions. So we're hoping to do another event there in July in the same venue because it was unbelievable. So I wanna thank everyone for coming. And especially to people that came on their own and who are who spoke to me about, you know, anxious and having anxiety and, you know, dealing with Anne, turning up and feeling comfortable.
Speaker 1:That's a huge win. That's the most that's like the nicest thing that can come from an event like that because most of the time you go to places and it's in the air, isn't it? Like you feel all those tension, there's like weird vibes going on. And I think a lot of you have been so welcoming to people who have got like we came from Belgium on the bike, the on the on the boat, on the trains, like amazing. Northern Ireland, you know, Germany.
Speaker 1:Vic came all the way from Munich, and all the people traveling from across the country to the event made to feel at home immediately. And there's many people to thank for this, but I've been told by members to thank, but, give a thou guys, I can't speak. I'm done, guys. I'm always over for me. Cancel the podcast.
Speaker 1:Leon Moon, who helped plan a lot of the Saturday night stuff. Natalie Chamber's always helping out. Everyone helped out at the at the event with all the stock and all that. And just everyone who's just been so helpful. Thank you all.
Speaker 1:You make the community, so don't don't forget that. Maybe, like, thank don't thank us for the community. If you guys were nice to each other and so welcoming and so, wanting to get involved and, you know, giving the trainers, like, you know, jaws amazing, doing the dance, rope me in just, you know, do some dance, like happy days. I don't know if I don't know how it looked, but we'll go with it. Carrie as well.
Speaker 1:You're also nice to the coaches and instructors and they they talk, they tell me whether they feel so loved and Arnie as well, and they love it and then they want to give back and help. And that is the foundation of the membership, isn't it? You guys being so lovely and open. The coaches, you know, giving up back. And when we do meet them in events, it's not one of those hardcore fitness events where everybody's staring each other out like, oh, what does she look like?
Speaker 1:What does he look like? How strong is he? And how much farts have we lost one upping each other? There's no sense of that there. Was just like everyone came, had a good time, had a few did a few workouts, had a quiz, ate some pairs, Happy days.
Speaker 1:And I had a q and a at the end. So, yeah, thanks everyone for coming. I thoroughly enjoyed, and I'm sorry if I didn't get to speak to everybody because it was loads running about everywhere. But yeah. And also, I need to thank Eat Planted as well who and Johnny Becker, who was the coach for the chef coach of the Octagon, who came and and he planted, supplied the food for us.
Speaker 1:And some of you who spoke to us said, did you enjoy the chicken? And when I told you it wasn't chicken, you were mind blown. Genuine. So, that wasn't real chicken guys you had with our food. It was it was the vegan meats by Eat Planted, which is only four ingredients, very clean, all our stuff.
Speaker 1:If you do even if you're not a vegan, even if you're not a vegan, like, it's gonna be worthwhile, substituting some meats out and eating some kind of, you know, a lot of the vegan meats out there are just, you know, very artificial. Eat plant that are on brand with us as well. Very, very clean and I aspire drinks as well. We did a lot of free drinks out there. Were lovely as well.
Speaker 1:So overall, best event yet. The our next big, big event is Turtle Forest, which is in the Garden Of Eden Of Wales, West Wales Of The Forest. It is built over twenty to thirty years by a family. It's basically luxury. I would explain it as kind of luxury glamping but very unique places to sleep in.
Speaker 1:Got a fire, you got logs, you got when you arrive you have your own little kitchen, you have your own basket of Welsh produce like yoghurt and milk and fruit, all this stuff and it's unbelievable and there's a massive giant fire pit there, there's a place to do yoga there, there's loads of walks to do, you can go swimming, you can go down the rivers, you can go into this to Cardigan Town, is very, very cute. And all the food you're gonna eat there is grown on the land. So the pizzas are unbelievable. Best pizza of art. Better in Italy.
Speaker 1:Sorry. There's just been better than Italy. Better pizzas in Italy there. Everything and there's like little, they call it Buffin, which is like this really old house that the workers used to live in way back, has basically been refurbished. It's still the same size, same one.
Speaker 1:You can see still see that when they used to sleep in the loft, you know, but like in the same room, that's turned into a little pub on-site. It's amazing. They got a lot of local beers and stuff as well. So basically that event is going to be phenomenal. And that's on September.
Speaker 1:So for all turtle members, there's, there's about forty, fifty spaces left of the deposit. So get on that guys, basically. Chop, chop. You're gonna miss out. But we'll do another event hopefully in across Putney in July.
Speaker 1:Hopefully, full day one, and then one in winter, more of a social event. So no sweaty. I was stinking by the end guys. If any of you hugged me at the end, I was smelling, completely stinking, but we're not judging away. That's got smelly smelly get me.
Speaker 1:No. He's right. He's not even all smelly. But, yeah, that was good. I I don't really know what I would say about it.
Speaker 1:It was, like, it was quite overwhelming in the sense, like, seeing so many people there turn up. And, you know what's interesting to me is all chatting to people is I don't think I chatted to anyone about macros, fat loss, protein, you know, rice, potatoes, like maybe pears. It was more about always mindset like always and this is what I love the most about it. We do fitness to free ourselves, ourselves from the constant marketing and feeling bad about our bodies and stuff. We don't do fitness to be trapped and I've been trapped in fitness many years ago.
Speaker 1:You know, you do it, you get overly obsessed with it, think you get you in a sense, a lot of people do get maybe a mild body dysmorphia when they do go to the gym and stuff. They don't see it in themselves, the changes are strong they are. You only realize it when it's way too late looking back at photos. That's why I'm telling you now don't be fooled by the fact you haven't made gains and stuff like that. You're like, you go, I haven't changed whatever.
Speaker 1:Trust me, you have to if someone tells you objectively, listen, you look great, you've changed so much, you have to you have to take that as a serious because if you rely on yourself, it's not it's not good. A lot of you like listening to podcast, the radio, the mindset stuff, being open to like changing your mindset and like I'm, I'm a big reader, but I don't just read for the sake and just say what I read. I read and I, you know, think about it and make try to make connections with other books and stuff and see if there's any any any connect or anything that you can learn from similar books, and what mindset stuff, biographies, all this stuff. And I like sharing that stuff for you guys and I apply to my own life as well, first of all. I don't really say anything unless I've tried it myself, but I will share stuff that I don't try myself.
Speaker 1:But I don't believe in anything just off the whim. And a lot of people will read something because it's in a book, they think it's right. And that's a big part of the problem where you see all of these like doctors who have written books about like, you know, it's not calories in, it's not about calories in calories out and put the name Doctor. Fung on it and then you're like, it must be right and it's not, right? That's the that's the hard part navigating that type of stuff.
Speaker 1:But it's all mindset, all of it. We free ourselves. We we follow macros. We understand that we put the effort into understand macros, energy balance. No food is good or bad, just more nutrient dense or less nutrient dense.
Speaker 1:We don't judge ourselves all this stuff, right? We think without judgment when we do eat or binge, we don't hate ourselves, we don't judge ourselves, we just observe, we just aware of what's going on. And in that awareness, we see properly what's happening. And then in that seeing you can make better decisions. Because when you don't see the truth and you tell yourself I don't eat that much and then you try and cover it up and you don't want you don't want to face the truth, you can never make the right move because you can't make the right step unless you make that step from truth.
Speaker 1:You know, that real truth in seeing what's happening, then you know exactly what to do next. But there's no judgment in all this. You know, it's conditioning. It's our diet culture. It's how we've grown up.
Speaker 1:Girls need to be this way, boys need to be macho big huge and boys go to gym, boys have got as much body dysmorphia as women. You know, some of the biggest bodybuilders in the world think they're small, right? It's actually mad. So in the end, we do the macros and the training and stuff. Once it's clicked and we see it and we do it and we've lost the weight, yeah, there's more then.
Speaker 1:There's a lot more to life than that. Once we cover that, we don't get trapped down by it, we become free from it. And once we're free from it, you can go do me stuff like all of you are doing. Shout out Merlea Chandler telling me you know, she's quit her job and gone to do a job, a charity job. I think St John's Ambulance Service, believe, merely.
Speaker 1:Sorry if I got that wrong. I think if I remember all the chat's fathers definitely what you said. And that's amazing, know, taking a peaker, whatever to do that. And this is phenomenal. I'm gonna do something that matters.
Speaker 1:You're gonna use your time to do something with your life that means something more to you. And I'm not saying all of you got to go and do charity work. But there's more to life than like being trapped by health and fitness and by what we look like if we're five pounds heavier, if we're five pounds lighter, if you've got abs, you don't have abs, you've got a bigger bicep, better quad. Like, that stuff is minuscule. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:So if all of us have the same view, when we see each other, we don't talk about it. I mean, it's fine to talk about it if you wanna chat some and go, look, you've lost so much weight. It's amazing. Can you give me some tips cause I'm feeling bad about myself because I'm overweight. A lot of that's a common thing.
Speaker 1:In fact, you shouldn't feel bad about it. And even though it's quite easier said than done, you should say look, I'm overweight, fact, okay, it's fine. And the study showed just a five or 10% drop in my body weight, which isn't a huge amount, gives a lot of health benefits. And once I can do that and enjoy myself at the same time and not hate myself and just be aware, and over time, the weight will come off. But if your weight is coming off and you're not becoming a better person or a person that's more aware, then you're going to go back into a yo yo cycle.
Speaker 1:And that yo yo cycle is going to be, I need to punish myself, punish myself, I hate myself, and you're going to keep trying to lose weight. And it doesn't it's not going to work for you. So when we do lose weight, it's the byproduct of the lifestyle. That's what I said yesterday at the end of the Q and a. So hope that clicks.
Speaker 1:Hope it clicks. But I'm so happy to see people are talking more about mindset, deeper stuff. Luckily, we didn't get into the topic of love, guys, at the end because we would have had a debate again about love languages and all sorts. But the book club chats are always good. The book club will come back in two weeks.
Speaker 1:So guys, if you you don't really have to read the books. But if you want to chat about stuff beyond nutrition training, and have the chance to speak to people from different I wish this was my answer when Emma Baines asked me what I've learned the most. What I've learned the most from all of you guys really is so many different types of people from different backgrounds of different age groups has expanded my mind beyond belief. So when you have a new experience or a new insight or realization, the mind stretches if you think about it from that experience, and it never goes back to its original shape. It changes you in subtle ways over time.
Speaker 1:That's the biggest change for me. For me to speak to so many people, see so many experiences. No one is talking about how old people were yesterday. There was people there from 20s up to 50s, you know, up to 60s maybe and it's like there was no chart of age, there was no chart of this and that it was just human beings in the presence of each other wanting to have a good time, meeting each other, being so lovely to each other, having a good time. Some people do fitness, some people do that's fine and then just yeah just, just chat and there was no, there was no the typical nonsense stuff like what you do for work.
Speaker 1:I know that's a normal, I mean that's a fine question to ask but you know, most social scenarios are kind of like where do we put people on the hierarchy and then I will dedicate my time to speaking to them in a sense. That's typically what happens. But we were just chatting and none of that stuff was coming up. And I love it because you see beyond your job, beyond your age, beyond your gender, and you see the people. Happy days.
Speaker 1:We see the people. We see the real people. So, yeah, that's my rambling on for you guys about the the weekend, and I hope I hope you all loved it. Put a lot of effort and stuff into that event. By the next event we're gonna try and do a full day one, make it more less condensed, more chill and then we do just a social event soon as well, just a pure social event so you can don't have to worry about being sweaty and smelly, happy days.
Speaker 1:But I'll leave you with that guys. I'll leave you with that. And I just want to thank everybody for being so nice to each other. Honestly, you know, when an example, you know, Weeke came from Belgium, was like, look, what are doing, Weeke? She's like, oh, no plans tonight.
Speaker 1:Like, Leanne Moon, can we fit Lee Weeke into the 60 plus people and you squeeze more people in and phone up the venue, please make her happen. And, you know, she did. Leanne did and then we have plans, know, and the stuff like that, you know, leaving nobody behind. And if someone did feel behind in the weekend, please get in touch, there would never would have been the that would never would have been the aim because everybody wanna help each other out, I hope nobody felt like they were left behind on their own on the weekend. And I hope you had the best weekend in London.
Speaker 1:Apologies. There was an event in London because I know it can be expensive to get here and stay, but we will be doing more events around the country. But when we find a venue like Crossfrey Putney, we're gonna be going back to there 100%. Turtle Forest in Wales, next step. We'll have to do something up in Manchester or something like that.
Speaker 1:But guys, that is it. I am off to Athens today, back to my home turf where I was born. Don't know. Planting 5% Greek. I don't know how accurate those DNA tests are, but if I'm 5% Greek, is about a one in one hundred and fifty billion chance that Socrates was my great, great, great, great grandfather.
Speaker 1:Definitely not, but we will go with that. Let's just go with it. Let's make it up. So I'll be out of Athens. I'll I've got some podcasts for any of you this week, guys.
Speaker 1:So don't you worry. But I'll doing podcasts from next week onwards, from the historical city of Athens and everywhere everyone going. So they might be about history stuff, they might be about maybe about some random stuff, won't just be a fitness stuff. So if you're going to tune in to learn about Europe, on my road trip in Europe, tune in happy days, I'll share it. But don't expect I might talk about research studies guys, might do a few things about that but this is a unique trip.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna bring you along with me on this podcast, share some content along the way, don't want to be too absorbed in my phone, I want to take it all in And let's see what we can learn. But guys, enjoy yourself, love you all, thanks for turning up, you turtle meth heads.
