[00:00:00] Speaker A: What up, what up, what up? Welcome back to the Bad Podcast. Brad and Dwayne in here. My brother Brad, man, we are super excited to be coming to you another podcast. Brad, my friend, we've been ripping and running today. Y' all don't know it's. It's Monday when you're listening, it's Tuesday when we're recording, and E2M. E2R. E2M Premium. Everything is on 500 cylinders. Wide open, man. So we're super excited. What are we talking about today?
[00:00:26] Speaker B: Wide open. And then so, man, we're living in the twilight. As you embark on your own journey, journeys, remember that there will be times of indulgence and relaxation and there will also be moments, but that require discipline and focus. Embrace both parts of those, of those selves, but never lose sight of your ultimate goals. Tap into that inner force channel or relentless energy within you. And remember, it's never too late to shift your mindset and recommit to your aspirations.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Let's get it.
Are you ready?
[00:00:59] Speaker B: Are you ready?
[00:01:14] Speaker A: What it looked like, what it be like, what it do back in here, man. Super excited. Another episode of the Bad podcast, man. Make sure you guys, if you're not subscribed to this channel, you found us by accident, man. Hit that subscribe button, man. Hit that, that, like, button, that comment bad boy. So we can get some numbers behind these joints. And if you, you're already a member, you already subscribe, man. Maybe make sure you share, share, share, share. This podcast, man, that's how we get word out. That's how we get all the things, man. So, Brad, man, before we jump into the topic, man, I have to give a shout out from YouTube from Colin Herbert 3484, said, you guys are awesome. I always look forward to your weekly podcast. Excited for all the new stuff. Yes, we are excited as well. Thank you for leaving a comment. We are super grateful for that. And man, I really like this topic, Brad, because, you know, we, we kind of focus on the busy time and I know we're going to talk about that probably more in detail and those seasons and I got a lot to talk about with that. But there's an aspect that you mentioned, the, the slow time, man, the relaxed time, which I, I don't know what that is, but one day when it happens, I'm ready to embrace it, man. So let's get into it, brother.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. First and foremost, I want to do a shout out as well. Lillian Pitts, she shot an email out. And guys, remember, if you, if you Watch this podcast. Make sure you screenshot. Make sure you shoot me an email. It's comment. Contact eager to run dot com.
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[email protected] man, we want to give back those that are pouring into us. But, yeah, I want to talk about three applicable principles that you can apply to this journey. And I had a great. I'm gonna, I'm gonna actually back backstep a little bit here. So I had a conversation with a friend the other day, and he was talking about the darkness ahead. He says, man, when we grow, we have to go into the darkness, which is essentially the unknown, right? And I, I took that and I was like, yeah, you know, you're always heading into the darkness. But there's actually two phases of darkness. The darkness of the past and the darkness of the future. The darkness of the past is the things that we necessarily. We're not necessarily running from, but it's the. It's the moments and times in our life that we extract lessons and apply to go into the future darkness. Like, you know, when I, When I think about it, I think about all past loss, but on top of that, all past victory. It's all darkness because it's all in the past. You can't attach yourself to anything behind you. But what you can do is you can take lessons from that and you can apply it to right now, which will. Which will enhance your experience in the next darkness, the darkness of the future. So three applicable principles, and you're talking about clicking on all 500 cylinders, man. We behind the scenes, Dwayne and I are in the twilight today from start to finish.
But one of the things is progressive overload. And when I hear progressive overload, I apply it to fitness, but this is very applicable to life as well. Progressive overload is continuously challenge yourself, challenging yourself to some fashion. In fitness, it's either raising the reps, raising the sets, raising the weight. You know, we know this as, as, as fitness enthusiasts. We know progressive overload in, in fitness, but how do we. How do we stimulate that adaptation in our lives? You know, for me, it's reading books. For me, it's listening to podcasts. I listen to the same podcast day after day after day, and that's called the bad podcast. I mean, I, I go back to past, past episodes and I listen and I'm like, that's a good nugget. That one kind of stung, but that's a good nugget.
So number one is progressive overload. How do you apply that to your. How do you. Dwayne, how do you apply that to your everyday life? I know you had to apply to fitness, but how do you apply it to your everyday life?
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Yeah, so the thing about progressive overload is, contrary to. To popular belief, is not a drastic change, you know, because when you're, when you, when you deal with weights, you know, you might go up 2.5, you know, you might go up 5. It's a very subtle change, man. And so for me, my goal always, every day is to, to be just a little bit better at all the things that I'm in charge of. You know, whether it's, you know, setting up these classes, whether it's running behind, you know, live classes, getting stuff together, podcasts, you know, YouTube. I'm always, every day, I try to find a way to get better, learn something, you know, you know, doing research, you know, just, just. That's kind of the, the applicable portion as far as, like, progressive overload is just every day being able to add a little bit more to my, to my tool belt, to my repertoire, so that I can, I can, you know, not just help. I mean, just, you know, help the team, man, and, and, and just in my position, that's, that's how I do it.
[00:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that. I call that the 2% rule. Try to get 2% better every single day. And, you know, it's, it's kind of boring to get 2% better. And I, I'll. I'll use a real life example. So when I got my weight set in my, in my home gym here, I, I had all the. I, I had all the big boy we 45s. I had the 35s, I had the 25s. I had the tens, but I didn't have any fives. I didn't have any two and a half, and I certainly didn't have one one in quarter.
But what I started to notice is when you start to grow and when you start to adapt and you start to change, you have to get the fives, you have to get the two and a half, you have to get the one and a quarters, and that's when I started, started to see that drastic change. But drastic change doesn't come without that 2% rule. Trying to get this much better on a daily basis. So I, I love the concept there. The second one is consistency over intensity, which sort of, which sort of really ties right into this, this same conversation.
Sustainable workouts, right? They, they, they trump sporadic extremes any day. Like I'm, I'm a pretty sporadic extreme dude. I'll do a long term fast. I'll jump in the ice bath, I'll do an iron man. Like I do the sporadics. But to do those things, there's a lot of buildup. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna use a, I'm gonna use my, my prime example is, is cold bass, right?
So when I started doing the cold boy, the cold water therapy in 2021, I would get in the shower, I'd do a hot shower, I'd turn the hot water off, and I just count to 100 as fast as I could. And then what I did is I'd count to 150 and then, then 200. And over time, I started to build that resilience and I started to build that mental toughness. And then all of a sudden it was like, okay, I don't need any hot water. Boom, it's cold water. Put the soap in the hair and you know what was cool?
So I was at Planet Fitness one day and, and just talk about preparation. So I walked into the showers after a tough workout. I'm sweating, and it said, no hot water. I'm sorry.
Whatever. I was like, ain't no hot water needed today. So I walked right into that sucker and boom.
That's, that's consistency. Yeah, that could build up to those intensities and, you know, talk about consistency. Dwayne, you're always consistent with your post. You're always consistent with all the work behind the scenes and, and that's how you build in progress in life.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Yeah, no, absolutely, man. Consistency, definitely. That's the thing that, that sets, sets you apart from, from others. I mean, just plain and simple. Because, you know, the, you know, we talk about the Monday warriors, we talk about, you know, the people that, that always ready to start. But it's, it's those that keep going, that keep showing up. That. You know, I was talking to a friend the other day, you know, and it was like, it was almost insulting. I was like, you're going to the gym tomorrow? I was like, what, what? Are you coming up tomorrow? Like, yeah, like, what, what, what, what? Changed. And then I explained, I was like, you know, I, like, I'm in the gym, you know, on Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, if it falls on a weekday, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, my birthday, your birthday, you know, like, it's, it's, for me, it is, is like washing my face, you know. You know, that's, that's how I treat, you know, going to the gym, you know, and that's, that's the consistency level. Like, you know, I mean, there might be some folks out there don't wash their face, but you know, for, for the ones that do, it's, it's something you do consistently. Then you don't think about it. I mean, you, is, you make it so much a part of you that you just, you just don't think about it and that, you know, and that you, you build and own that and when you have that kind of resilience, you know, puts you in a place. Because I like your story about going to Planet Fitness in the water, being cold like so. Because I have this, this sub ticker to go to the gym, you know, my, I'm in better shape, my body is better, you know, I can move better, all of those things because I put those things in place in my life, man, and it just affect, not just that, but just in all aspects.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I want to use a professional basketball. I'm gonna, I want to do something fun here, so, so pay attention and listen to what I had to say here. So I'm going to use a professional basketball player for reference. Okay. He's the best shooter of all time. He's still playing today. On the count of three, I want you to, I want you to think of his number in your head and you guys can play along at home too. So he's playing today. He's the best shooter of all time. And on the count of three, we're going to shout out his number. You ready?
One, two, three. 30.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: 30. Yep.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: Steph Curry, man, Golden State, you know, and talk about consistency. So I read this article on Steph a handful of years ago and obviously like today everybody knows Steph is like long, long time shots, long bombs from half court and he's, he sings those shots. But I was reading this article on Steph where he would start at 3ft and he would hit a hundred shot shots in practice. He would make not just shoot 100 shots, but he would make 100 shots. That's from the right side, then he'd go to the left.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: Boom.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: 100 shots. Then he'd back up to 5ft.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Boom.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: 100 shots. 100ft from the right or 5ft from the right, 100.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: Boom.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: And then all of a sudden, he's back at the free throw line. And when you start to build consistent habits like that, boom, boom, boom, boom, man, it's just, it's just a party. It's ingrained in you. And that's exactly what you're talking about. You don't think, you don't have to think. When, when four o' clock rolls around and that alarm clock goes off, it's boom, I'm up, I'm after it, I'm getting it.
And so this ties into my last principle to, to, to, to, to grow, you have to reflect on everything that was and everything that is. And, and, and that's, and, and that's essentially where, that's where you, that's where you do gain strength, that's where you do gain resilience is when you're in reflection and when you were in rest, like, your body, physically and mentally, is growing during that reflection time, growing during that, that, that rest time. And so Steph's out there, Boom, boom, boom, boom. He goes over the other side. Boom, boom. Then after practice, he's like, well, why did I miss that 17 shots from the right side? Well, maybe, maybe because, you know, my angle was off. Maybe because whatever it was, that's where growth happens. That's where, that's where strength happens, is in that reflection time. So, so with the, with fitness, like we talk about, you know, rest is important. You know, seven hours of sleep. Six. Seven hours of sleep. I was, I was listening to ET, ET's podcast the other day. He goes, I need a solid four.
I know we talked about this just recently. He said, yeah, I, I got, I gotta get my six, man. But that's where growth happens, man. Like in, in. When I was training for my iron, man, I was getting eight hours of sleep because I had like, my body was like, I, I mean, I was beat up and I had to get that eight hours. It was hard, man, because I had to go to bed at like.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: My son would go to bed and then I would follow.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, yeah, that. I definitely, I definitely can see that. You know, I have, I, I, I couldn't let this opportunity pass by without mentioning another great shooter. But he, he didn't get his time because of a motorcycle accident. That's. As much as I hate to say it, but Bobby Hurley, one of his habits was he would not leave the Gym unless the nets were hung around the rim like he was in the gym. Until those who don't know you can switch the ball. That means go through the net without hitting the rim so hard that the nets hang up on the rim. You might have seen it. So that was one of his, his things. Like he would shoot, he didn't care how many shots, but he would not leave the gym until, and that goes back to that consistency, see and, and all of that. But going back to rest, man.
You know, although I, I, I admittedly so don't get a lot of hours of sleep, I, I do typically get, I say un, unplanned naps. We'll say, we'll call it that.
If I sit still for too long, I would, I would definitely fall asleep. And I think that's just, you know, just the, the makeup, you know, the kind of, kind of on the back end. But, but I, I do know when I got heavy in prep, I was going to bed early during that time. But I think that was just because I was hungry and I felt, you know, I couldn't think about being hungry while I was sleep. Although I did also dream about food and during that time.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: You know, it's, it's neat that you talk about that though because that's just, you know, that's just behaviors, right? Like, I mean we, man, I talk about this all the time. Convenience, like when it, when you're, when you're awake and it's convenient to just go over to the cookie jar. One won't hurt. You know, we, we live in a life of convenience and convenience is a killer, man. It is a killer.
And you know, so when you go to bed it just limits or I mean essentially it eliminates, but it certainly limits the opportunities that you, you, you have to cut corners, cheat the system.
I think the saying is like nothing, nothing good happens after 10 or 11 or 12, something like that. I mean nothing good happens late, man.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: I think they were talking about something else though.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: But, oh, for certain, for certain. But it all, it all ties together real life. You're talking fitness, you're talking self development. It all ties, it all ties together, man.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah, but she said it was only few things open after a certain hour because with pg, I would not say Waffle House.
[00:15:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
Hey, don't knock the Waffle House, man. That's the first place I ever had grits. I, I never had grits until I went to the Waffle House. And do you like grits? Sweet or salty?
[00:16:07] Speaker A: I'm a savory guy. Give me some salt. Salt and pepper.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Yeah, man.
Cheese in there.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: My wife is from the, you know, a different part of South Carolina. They do sugar. Like, she put sugar in her grits. Like, yeah. Now I'm almost savory. You say you had grits for the first time at Waffle House, bro? I think I had grits as an infant. I think we had grits.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: I, I, at some point, I probably, like, stumbled upon them, maybe, but, like, in my adult life. No, no way. I, I love them now. I.
Yeah, you guys are lucky with all the Southern hospitality.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: Are we really, Brad? I mean, because.
And I throw a scoop of grits on that scale, and it'd only be like, like 100 grams. And I look at the calculator. Be like a thousand calories. I was like, yeah, all of this stuff, like, I only got 100 grams right here.
So are we really lucky, Brad? We might not be, bro.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
The shrimp and grits down there, man, I did just phenomenal. The chicken and waffle. I. I'm gonna tell one story before we.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: So.
[00:17:17] Speaker B: And anybody that's part of E2M, I apologize, man. We took a hard left here. This is. This is tough conversation.
But so. So I went to this restaurant. My wife and I went to this restaurant to celebrate our anniversary, I think, or a birthday, maybe. I. It doesn't matter. But so we went to this restaurant and I asked. I sat that sat down. It was for a brunch. And I. I looked at the waitress and I said, hey, how's the chicken and waffles here? This is up here in western New York. And she goes, they are to die for. And I'm like, oh, thank you.
I. I search every high and low, left and right, up and down, everywhere for a good chicken and waffles, man. You and I went to a place one time, and we got chicken and waffles.
[00:17:58] Speaker A: And that's on the menu. I got. I gotta get it.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Well, you get. You got the savory, you got the sweet, you got the syrup, man. Like, chicken and waffles, period, are my thing. But.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: All right, so now, now, when y' all. Now, New Jersey folks, when y' all come to step there, I need chicken and waffles at North. I need somebody to bring us some platters. Chicken and waffles at New Jersey. I don't think I can eat a lot of it, but I just hope.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: They'Re better in Jersey than they are than they were that day, because she came out with two chicken fingers and A couple of Lego my Eggos. I. I am not. No joke. Not even the slightest joke. It was two Lego Legos or Eggo Lego waffles or whatever they're called, and two chicken fingers. I had to choke it down. I mean, dude, it was so bad. I'm not going to name the restaurant because it's actually a pretty decent restaurant, but they did not know how to do chicken and waffles.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: What they put.
Oh, my gosh. Chicken fingers. And the great value waffles, man. Really?
[00:19:11] Speaker B: Gv. GV waffles.
It was.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: That is brutal. I do that at home, brother. You don't go to a restaurant expecting that.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: No.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: All right.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, I had some champagne, so it made up for it. But man, I don't know. I. You gotta get chicken and waffles down south. And I apologize for taking this. This conversation.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: New Jersey don't bring us no Eggos and fingers. Chicken fingers, yeah. Want some. Some fried chicken breast and Belgian waffle. And then I want you to put a little. I want you to put a little hot sauce in my. In my syrup, man. A little hot sauce in the syrup?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: What kind of hot sauce you talking? Talking a little franks. You talking some good stuff.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Hey, you know, Frank's is good, but, you know, down here it's Texas Pete, man. We. We in the Texas Pete. Down here, man, we ain't fancy.
All right, now that you are. You're good and hungry and. And mad and like, man, I didn't. Y' all talked about food. Now I'm hungry. I don't know what time it is. Wherever it is, break your fast. Get your chicken and waffle, make your cheat day cheat meal and. And get back with us and share this podcast with somebody. All right, Brad, man, talk to me, man. What? Well. Well, let's land this plane, brother.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Sir. New Jersey, July 19th. You already know. We're giving back to Volunteers of America, Delaware Valley. We're also collecting lightly used new shoes for our partner, Souls for Souls as a part of our eager sneaker project. Guys, don't miss out on New Jersey. Whatever distance that you want to do. Except for the half marathon, boy, you can do a one mile race, you can do a 5k, you can do a 10k, you can do a 15k. It's a. It's a 5k essentially, with a. With a 60 minute cutoff. We're going to have a professional timer there, so. A certified timer. Make sure that you come down to Washington Lake park on July 19th. We're going to have an allout celebration fit festival. E2M clients going to be there. E2M trainer is going to be there. Me, Dwayne, are going to be there. Maybe we'll even hook up the podcast. We don't know. But it's all about good vibes. It's all about love. It's all about empowering the community that we have in. In support of fitness and togetherness.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Sounds good, man. To next time, y' all. We out of.
[00:21:25] Speaker B: Yeah, Bo.
Yeah.
