Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: What up? What up? What up? Welcome back to another episode of the Bad Podcast. Brad and Duane, I know you missed us, but we're back. Brad, what are we talking about today, brother?
[00:00:09] Speaker B: I. I missed them.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Same. Same.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So we got the motivator challenge starting today, and we're going to talk about five tips, five suggestions that will help you stay on plan for the next eight weeks.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: All right, man, let's get it.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Are you ready? Are you ready?
[00:00:46] Speaker A: What it look like, what it be like, what it do? Back in here, another episode of the Bad Podcast, Brad and Dwayne. And, man, you're right, Brad. I miss them too, man. This is.
You know, we're doing this when we can, where we can, and we definitely excited about this episode with everything that's going on, but I cannot, Brad, I cannot proceed in this show without shouting out Miss Carrie and those E2M for life ladies. Y' all see. Y' all see it, man? Right here, look. And I got. Oh, look at that. And they bless me with the.
With the fireworks. But.
But, yeah, man, so big shout out to them.
They put my.
My last show medal in a. In a. In a frame because I always had this one. My wife did one in the middle, and then they framed the.
My homeboy jersey. They got it passed two years ago. So huge shout out to y'. All. And I know, uh, Ms. Carrie actually was like, when's another bad podcast coming out? So here you go, and you get a shout out. So. But yeah, it this. I. I'm so grateful that they did that. Just. It just goes to show, man, that E2N community, there's nothing like it. There's no other place. We say it all the time, but that's just a testament to that, man. Just. Just amazing people, you know, no place like home.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: And I. I feel like the E2M community is home, and it is family, and those turned out really nice. Carrie does a fabulous job. If anybody needs anything framed, hit her up. She does some just magnificent work. You can see.
You can see she did this one for me. That was my first publication, my first published book. She does all sorts of great work. You can see the jerseys, the medals, the. The framed newspaper article. So there's a lot going on with Carrie Peppers.
McCone. Sorry, Carrie. The. I always just say Carrie Pepper.
Yeah.
And, you know, she's one of the OGs. She's one of the, you know, those. Those OG superstars. And so that's, you know, that's exactly what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about these so called OG superstars.
And this one is for everybody, these OG superstars. I put out a post a handful of days ago asking hey, what are some suggestions that you can make to help out a new G or you know, somebody that's coming on for the first time.
And I got, I got it narrowed down to five things. The first one is keep a simple kiss, right? Keep it simple, silly. And you know, so many people will overcomplicate it. And you know, if you have a workout, you know, follow that workout. Even if you can't do push ups, try to do wall push ups or incline push ups. If you can't, you know, follow the nutrition plan to at bend, but don't break that plan. But just keep it really simple and trust the process.
That's something that we have, you know, really beat and, and it's almost like a broken record at this point. But trust the process. We have done this over 220000 times and we can do it another 220000 times. But you gotta trust the process. Kiss. Keep it simple, silly. That's the first, first nugget from the OGs.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: That's the nice version I always heard, keep it.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: I can't say that because my kids will call me out and if they hear me saying that the dad, that's a no, no dad. So I gotta, I get it.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: No, listen, I, I get it bro, I get that. But no, that's, I, I like that.
And, and it's one of the things that, you know, going transitioning from a client to a trainer is just one of the things that I learned. Like, you know, you can learn as much as you can about mechanics and movement and even food and nutrition, but at the end of the day is basic. Like it, like, like it's so basic.
Move your body, eat non processed foods. Like if you do just those two things, like we're not even diving deep. I mean of course we've created one of the most amazing programs ever, especially with motivate her. I'm telling you, that's a game changer. But it's holding up. But if you don't do anything else and all you do is move your body and eat non processed food, you're, it's amazing, man. So yes, keep it simple, simple, silly.
I won't say stupid either. Silly.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: My kids would hear that and they say, is that Dwayne talking? We don't talk like that.
I get called out every day if I say H a T E. They're like, dad, we don't say that one. Oh, I know.
[00:05:18] Speaker A: I love it. I love it.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: I know.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: This is. This is actually a nice little transition. So my kids are always my why. Right? And that's number two. Remember your why.
Remember your anchor. And for everybody, every single person, man, woman, everything in between, signed up for this motivator challenge for a reason. You wanted to regain your health. You wanted to regain your confidence. You wanted to tighten up for summer. You have a cruise coming up. You got a family reunion, a class reunion. There's a reason that you signed up.
What I always suggest and recommend is make your why really big, something that you can really hold yourself to. Because if you're. If your why is, is I need to tighten up for a cruise or I need to tighten up for summer, I need to tighten up for, you know, that family reunion.
I think we have a tendency of just letting that why sort of slip away. Because it's not a huge anchor. It's just so. It's so.
It's. It's so small and fragile, and it can break if you are tested under pressure.
So create a why for when you experience that pressure and when you experience that adversity and when you face those obstacles in life, your why is going to break through those obstacles and those. Those adversities.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Yeah, no, and I agree that the. The why, you know, the. And, you know, a cruise and stuff is. Is good.
It's just not great. You know, they're always. There's a. As a good why, and then there's a great why. I think, you know, you should have a underlying like, that's the big one. You know, for me, you know, mine was, you know, seeing my dad go through what he did with, you know, diabetes and stuff and, like, saying, I don't want that. That was my.
But when I signed up for eight weeks, we had a, you know, trip plan that lined up perfect with the end. And so that was my. That was my short term. I was. It's really short term and long term, but it, you know, it's connected to something that. That drives you. And I do want to mention here, Brad, because I don't even know what the rest of them are. We don't talk about that. We just kind of let it flow.
But your why is. I like what you said. It's a good anchor, but, you know, you. You can't. You. You can't lean on that so much where, you know, when the value of it decreases, you go right down with it, man. So I'll, I kind of call why, like the starting block, like that's the thing that propels you forward and then, you know, it becomes, it becomes second nature. You know, people ask me all the time how you get up all the time and, and work out. I was like, it's like brushing my teeth, like, like I, I'm, I'm going to brush my teeth, you know, so I'm going to get up, I'm going to work out. There's no, there's no debate in the morning, you know, is, this is what I'm about to do. So yeah, just want to throw that out there.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And I think a lot of us do get into those conversations with ourselves and we do negotiate. We go back and forth, should I, shouldn't I shouldn't I shouldn't I. And oftentimes it's just easier to say I shouldn't, you know, or I, I don't have to today. And some days you do need those recovery days, you need those rest days. Those are just as important as any other day.
But at the end of the day, you have to be able to rebound from taking a day off. And that's where a lot of folks hit those crossroads and they start to get to that fork in the road and they take the veer to the wrong direction because of the fact that not everybody can rebound after taking a day off intentionally.
So if you do take a day off, this is not one of the top five. But if you do take a day off, just be really on purpose the following day to get back on track as fast as you possibly can.
Even if it's, you know, 15, 20, 25, 30 minutes of walking, you know, so make sure you can, you can rebound just as fast as you said, hey, I'm taking a recovery day again, recovery days. I'm not knocking them. Take a recovery day, take a rest day. You're going to need it. Especially if you're brand new to fitness, you're going to need probably more rest days than, than, you know, the masses. But you know, if you do take a rest day, make sure you recover quickly and get back on plan.
Insulation. This is something that I talk about all the time. Accountability partners, accountability groups. Dwayne is, is notorious for having accountability groups that follow through, go full swing and it's because of his leadership. So find an accountability partner, but don't just find that any accountability partner. Don't just find any accountability group because a lot of those groups, they just fizzle out. A lot of Those partners will just fade away. When, when the times get tough and when the, when the punches start coming out and you get knocked in the mouth, it's just easier to fold and crumble. Find somebody that's going to lead you to fresher water. Find somebody that's going to lead you through those tough times. And when you have to lean on them, they're gonna, they're gonna be there, embrace you. But with that said, I want you to flip the coin over. When you lean on them, expect a two way street. Expect for them to lean right back on you. That's how the accountability partner was. Partners work and that's how accountability groups work. So get your, get yourself an ap. Get yourself some really good insulation because what you surround yourself with is what you become. And if you surround yourself with five people that are quitters, you're going to be a quitter. If you find your, you follow, you find yourself around five, five finishers, you're going to be a finisher.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: No, man, that's, that's good. I, I got two, two things here.
First, we shouted out Carrie in the beginning. Her, her group, she has a strong accountability group, community. Like they, you know, they do their thing. I have to shout them out.
But it's funny that you say insulation and this, I guess this is a humble brag, man. But my, my main accountability group, I mean, it's probably about 30, 40 deep or whatever, but because of the way I structured like that, that messenger or whatever, like they were unfazed by the transition, but it literally was like, keep going. Now there's another group I was a part of that I wasn't over, that one that wasn't mine. And it, it, I witnessed a meltdown. And I, I'll be honest, I'll be transparent. I can share this. Now, listen.
All right, so let me. This is opening this, this is a, this is a sad thing, man. So I was part of a group, it was all males. And, and when the transition happened, everybody went and found their biggest pile of crap and just started dumping it in there.
And, and while I'm in there. But it's also hit Brad, this is why you never know what people going through this. Also the same time frame that I lost my homeboy and so I went live, I went video, was like, yo, I cannot be in here. I'm not in the right state of mind, you know.
Anyway, I, that's what happened. Those that don't know. But, but anyway, my, my real core group is a literal example of insulation because they we surround each other. When I was out in the hospital, they still were going, whenever, you know, we got a new program, I throw it in. Hey, you got a new program? Some like, yes. I'm like, no. But either way, they're still going, man. So they all encompass and surround each other, man. And I had to shout them out, man, this, we've been going strong, bro, like since I've been in E2M and like people get added here and there, people suggest their friends or whatever, but if you can find you a group, man, that, that you can lock in with, like Brad said, it's a two way street. Don't be a, don't be a dumper. You need to be able to receive some. You need to be able to help, you know, don't just go in there and just complain, you know, you need to be able to get some encouragement. And, and this is really. And that in itself is what gives it the power to help pull each other along, man. Because you know you're going to be tired. One day, they're gonna be tired, another day, another person gonna be tired. But if everybody, it's like the, it's your boy David is. Everybody's rolling, man. Everybody's rolling. Some, some strokes might be stronger some days, some strokes might be shallow. But if everybody's wrong, man, you keep moving forward, man. So huge component is fine. Accountability.
Find, find, find some people, man. If you have issues with that, trouble with that, post it in the group, man. Post it in whatever group you're in. The premium motivation or the fitness motivation, post about it. People will reach out. That's just the kind of people that we have in each of them. And if you're on YouTube, you don't know anything we're talking about. You need to sign up for, for each one. Premium app. Get in this thing so you can find out all about it.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: All right?
Use discount code 4 Dwayne 15 D A W A I N number 1 5. Get yourself half price on that first month.
You know, when you think of insulation, a lot of people, they, they, they don't understand the practicality here. When you go to Home Depot because you're, you're, you're making a house, you're building your dream home and you go to Home Depot to get that insulation, do you go with the cheap boy or do you go with that expensive stuff? You got to go with the quality insulation because quality insulation will keep you warm in your household and your heater ain't going ten times as hard. You are the Heater. Do you want to work 10 times as hard to keep your, your home, your body, your life heated, or do you want to say, you know what, I'm going to cut corners, I'm going to go with the cheap boy, and then I got to work twice as hard to maintain that accountability, to maintain that two way street with my, my accountability group. So that's the practicality here. You don't want to cut corners with the people you surround yourself with.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: I have nothing behind that. That's good.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Home Depot, go with it. Somebody's gonna go to Home Depot and they're going to buy the quality insulation. They're going to message us and say he do with this again. Listen, listen, this is, this is how hypothetical, all right? Don't go buy insulation just for the heck of it. Insulation is the focus around yourself.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: But hey, and for those that don't believe us, you've never seen our inbox or emails like you, you would, you would not believe the questions. That's all I'm gonna say.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: And I got no follow up to that one. Let's go to number four.
Be prepared.
Prepare yourself for success. You know, they say if you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. The old saying goes.
But how do you prepare? First and foremost, I always recommend and highly suggest meal prep, right? Take a, take a couple of hours on a Sunday, lay out exactly what you want to eat for the week and, and cook that food up, put it in little containers. You can go on Amazon and get 100 containers for like 20 bucks or something like that, and you can reuse some of those containers.
But food prep is a huge one. I, I'm getting back to food prep. I, I went a long period of time not really prepping my food because I'm, I'm just eating like a, I'm just eating like a madman right now with all the bike miles that I'm doing. But I'm getting back to the food, food prep boy, and that's, that's imperative. Lay out your clothes the night before. Lay, Lay out your clothes. This is a pro hack. I, I even still do this. I'll put my bike shorts out every night. I put a pair of socks out every night. I put my tank top and a sweatshirt out every night.
Because when you wake up in the morning and the last thing that you want to do is work out if your socks ain't there, that's going to be the first excuse you get to that fork in the road. You're like, all right, Deuces, I Ain't going any further. I can't find my socks. And that, Dwayne, is arguably the hardest part. Right? Putting your socks on, putting your shoes on. Once you get to the gym and you take that first step in the gym or first on the treadmill or whatever, you know, it kind of just naturally creates momentum, like organically, like propels you. But to put those shoes on, it's. It's this weird mindset where it's like, I don't know if I want to put those shoes on there. It's like, it's like, it's like we think of them as like a, like a thousand pound brick of lead. It's like, I don't even know if I can pick those up. You look at them like, tomorrow, maybe I'll try tomorrow, but lay out your clothes.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Oh, man. Yeah. 100.
Lay out your clothes. I still do it. I still do it.
You know, I shoot. I mean, I, you know, my pants, tank top, you know, everything. Socks right there, I just grab because usually it's dark because everybody's still asleep. I just grab my little pile and take it to the bathroom, turn the light on and. And so this is how I beat the shoes thing. This might not work if you work out from home, but how I beat the shoes thing is I, I pack my shoes in my bag and I throw my slides on and I'm out. The dope, like, you slide right in and I'm out the door. I don't put my shoes on until I get to the gym. And then it's like, like I'm. I'm not gonna drop weight on my toes, so I gotta put some shoes on. So that's, that's, that's how that was how I overcame the shoe thing. I like to hit the slides on the way out and then hit the slides on the way back in. You know, just feel like a. I don't know, I feel like a professional ball player or something, you know, college guy. You're saying with the slides and the jumpsuit, that's. I just, I'm walking out the door. My book bag, you know, got my hoodie on. I'm going to, you know, like, I'm about to go in. I want to also back up with the meal prep, man.
Meal prep is, is super important. It makes it easy. It takes away the hurdle, it takes out the guesswork.
You don't have to think about it. I don't do it as much when I'm home because I work from home. I can do it Real time. But when I travel, when I go to the studio, every other week, I bring them. I'm bringing my bag. Like, I, I have food, I have my meals, and, and, and I, I calculate it. I still do macros, all of that stuff. But it's super important to take those choices away, take those options away, because the biggest, the most people fall off when it comes to diet is I don't know what to eat.
Well, you know, I get a cheeseburger. Bless you.
Pollen got you. But, yeah, you know, they're like, I don't know, I don't know what to eat. Then they'd be like, you know, I get a cheeseburger that's easy, as simple as quick, you know, or whatever. But if you can meal prep, if you can take, like Brad said, just there's a few minutes sometimes, you know, I always depend on what you're trying to cook.
And I'll give you this, I'll give you this tip for meal prep.
Already cooked chicken and microwavable veggies.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: If you. Andreas taught me this years ago. If you buy, I think it might be Tysons. We need it. Tysons. We need a brand deal. But already cooked chicken in a bag, something you can, like, you can literally take frozen vegetables, frozen broccoli, put it in your container. You already cooked chicken that's frozen, put in a container, take it with you, pop it in the microwave at work, and you got a meal, you know, you got a meal right there, man. So that's a hack. And, And Brad, I'm actually thinking about dropping this episode like today or tomorrow, like a pre. You know what I'm saying, so that people can find it. And, and I'm, and, and I think that hearing this, they might be able to. When the meal plan comes out on Tuesday, I mean, Sunday, they'll be able to jump right in on that. So, yeah, yeah, we'll drop this on an odd time and day when you.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's a, I think that's a great idea. Just, you know, getting proactive and getting.
You had mentioned, you know, going for that cheeseburger.
Human beings are by nature creatures of convenience, and when we don't take that initiation to prepare our food, we're going to look for the easiest way possible to fill our bellies and really just get satiated.
You know, a lot of times we eat to fill instead of eat to fuel.
And that's something that I've, I've realized in the last five years that.
Well, right now I'm Just eating to fill and fuel, because I am. I'm up around 7,8000 calories a day, just motoring every day.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: That sounds amazing.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: You know, it's the worst I've felt in the last.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: I bet for God, it's about, you know, 2100 a day. Yeah, that sounds.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I mean, but the thing is, is, like, I'm eating candy all day, every day. I'm eating, you know, almonds all day. Like, I'm just eating calories just to fuel my bike rides. And I'm a guy that takes very good care of my body. And, like, my body just doesn't feel good. My mind's not really there. Like, I'm just kind of. I'm just kind of here, you know, I'm existing.
I do enjoy taking care of my body. I enjoy fueling my body versus filling my body. But, you know, back to what I was saying, just make sure that you're preparing yourself so when it comes to those moments that you want to convenience yourself. Oh, I don't need to take a left and go into the McDonald's fast food or drive through. I have a container right here with my chicken, my broccoli, my rice, my almonds, whatever.
And the last thing that I want to talk about today, and this is a big one, especially in the. The society and culture that we live in and that we've grown up in. And it's, don't look lateral. Don't compare yourself to anybody else. They say comparison is. Is the thief of joy. I say comparison is highway robbery of your joy.
And so many people are watching influencers. They're watching you, they're watching me. They're watching professional athletes, celebrities, models, and they're always saying things like, I want to look like this or my goal is to look like that. You are you. You are not meant to look like me. You were not meant to look like Dwayne. You were not meant to look like tyra banks in 1993. You were not meant to look like the Rock. You were not meant to look like anybody but you. So stop looking lateral. Look forward. You know, keep your eyes on the prize. Keep your goals personal to you, because you could go all in and do exactly what tyra banks in 1992 did, and you'll still never look like tyra Banks in 1992 because she has genes, she has, you know, different characteristics, so on and so forth. I mean, I go on and on.
Stay true to you. Stay true to your goals. Stop looking lateral. Stop comparison comparing yourself to anybody else.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: I ain't got nothing for that one, brother. That's. That's. That's point blank. That's point blank. Yeah. I will give the example that I gave right after my show, my first show is, you know, when you're standing on, like, when you're looking at a bodybuilding show, you. You assume that, like, you're looking side to side, but when you're on stage, I didn't even see the other guys. Like, I literally was staring at the judges. I couldn't tell what they were doing, how they look or nothing. All I could focus on was making sure that I hit my pose. And that's the same thing with your finishing. Don't. Don't even look side to side, man, like you said, man. Because you know that if I did that, that might have threw me off. It might have brought my confidence down or whatever, or it might have boosted me up, thinking out, you know, I got this. You know, you just don't know. There's no. There's no good in comparing yourself. Even if it's. Even if someone is less than, there's no good in that because that puts you in a headspace where you, oh, I can take my foot off the brake. I mean, off the gas, you know, and you don't want that, man. So nothing to add outside of what I already added.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: Well, I got a mini story. You guys know I'm a storyteller, and many years ago, we were. My son and I were walking to the grocery store, and I have told this story before. I don't know about on this podcast, but we were walking to the store. We used to go to the local grocery mart and get an apple every single day.
And this is when Beckett was first learning how to walk. And you know this. A lot of folks that watch and listen to this podcast have watched Beckett grow up from being able to walk and crawling. And then now he's heading to first grade next year. And I talk about him often, but this story got him caught up. And he tripped up and fell right on his face. Got all bloody, all the things. And the reason that he got tripped up and the reason that he had fallen on his face was because he got distracted and he was looking lateral. He was looking over at a dog or a cat or something. I can't remember what exactly he was looking at, but he had looked lateral just for a second.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: Boom.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: And dad was looking lateral, too. I was distracted. We were both looking lateral, and Beckett went down. You know, he was just learning how to walk. But that's our fitness journey in a nutshell. When you start to look and say, wow, what's she doing? Well, I'm not doing what I should be doing. I'm not doing the task at hand.
What's he doing over there? Well, because you're looking somewhere else and you're being influenced by somebody else. You're not taking care of your own personal business.
And the goal with fitness and the goal in self development, the goal with, with life is to take care of your business and take care of what you can control. You can't control what's going on to the sides of you. So control what you can control. I'm excited about this, Dwayne. It has the old school vibes to it. A lot of positive energy, a lot of fire in that group right now. For anybody that's watching this, hey, spread the good vibes. Spread the love. You know, tell everybody that you know to use code 4.
Mandy 15. No, I can't say Mandy 50. It's got to be someone. Let's use Eric's number. Eric 15. Use 4. Eric 15. Get yourself half, half price for that first month.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So as we get ready to close, man, and end this up, I just want to drop some of the things that I'm not sure if you guys are aware of.
You know, Also coming out that same day of the program is Brad's mobility classes. Yeah, Brad has been doing a lot of mobility stuff on, on the socials. And he's, he's our, he's our local stretch guy. And so we have about. I think it's about 6 or 7 that'll drop immediately on. Actually, I think it's going to drop on Saturday. I think I got it scheduled for Saturday. So it's right ready for you to, to intertwine into, motivate her, which we're, we're going to implement that on, I think it's Sunday. An opportunity for, you know, some mobility, you know, kind of a recovery, active recoveries type deal. So that's, that's, that's going to be in there. Also we've mentioned the hikes. There's hikes in there.
Look, they'll be in there soon. I'll say that. I have to be honest. They'll be in there soon. They'll be on time, but they have been shot. And, and they'll be in there. And the other thing that I think a lot of people Ms. Bro is, and I mentioned this yesterday, I went live yesterday. The. It's. It's not just the old circuits. This is. These are brand new videos. These are brand new workouts curated like, like this. This isn't. We didn't take the old eight weeks because somebody asked that brand. It's amazing. You just don't know how people think. But somebody thought we took the old eight week videos and we put it in the app. We did not. These are brand new circuits. We're calling them hit workouts. They're hit training workouts circuits. But what makes this different, y', all, is we paired in a day. So usually you do a circuit and you guys, you know, used to do a circuit back in the day, used to do a, A, a sizzle or a burn, but this time what we're doing, we're. We're doing a circuit and a strength training in the same day. And so that's going to give you the strength training aspect as well as the cardiovascular aspect. And Brad, I cannot wait to see these results because I know they're gonna be crazy, bro. Like, they were crazy with the old program, but with this structure, man, and just kind of the new curation, I think it's gonna be bananas. But. All right, Brad, I'm done talking. I'm done yapping. But yeah, I'm gonna drop this. I'm gonna probably edit as soon as we finish. I got some ideas, so we'll do it. But Brad, close us out, man.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: I got nothing on that. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just rooting for you. Dwayne's rooting for you. Root for yourself, root for the APS and in your accountability groups, all those things. And I'm excited to see those results as well.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Yes, sir. Till next time, we are out of here.
