Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: What up, what up, what up? Welcome back to the Bad podcast. Brad and Duane, back in the building. Your favorite podcast on YouTube, wherever you listen to us. We're super excited to be here. Bradley. I know we're switching it up today, man. What we talking about, brother?
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Switching it up a little bit, but not too much. You know, a lot of people are. Are going to hear a lot of segments or pieces out of my new book, Prep Prep Forever. And I. And I have no shame, man. So we're going to deliver today.
I. We're going to take a different approach, but I'm going to read a little piece out of the book. Doubt is deceptive. It doesn't attack like a storm. It seeps in like a draft under the door. You rarely notice it at first, and over time, it chills the whole room. And doubt doesn't travel alone. It brings friends. Fear, insecurity, imposter syndrome. Fear says if you keep going, you'll embarrass yourself. Insecurity says you're not as strong as you thought you were. And imposter syndrome says, who are you kidding? You don't belong in the arena. They take turns whispering until you start to believe the chorus. But here's the reality. Doubt doesn't show up when you're safe. It doesn't bother you with it when you're comfortable. The predictable, the easy. It only shows up when you're pressing against your limits, when you stepped away into the territory that threatens your old self. So if you're feeling doubt, congratulations. You're on the edge of something that matters.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Oh, I like that, man. That's poetic.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Are you ready? Are you ready?
[00:01:39] Speaker A: What it look like? Would it be like what it do, man? Back in here, man. Super excited. Brad dropping bars at the beginning of the show. I love it, man. But before we get into it, man, first of all, shout out to the sponsor, E2M Premium.
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[00:02:47] Speaker B: Hey. So this is actually kind of perfect because we're gonna do a few questions today that actually come from some of our, our followers, our listeners. And one of those questions was, what's the best workout for me?
And so I'm, what I'm gonna do is I'll ask a question, I'll, I'll tell my little piece, and then I'll pass the ball over to you. But yeah, it's perfect timing to talk about E2M Premium and even E2M.
What's the best workout for you? And I think, I think the best workout for you would be something that's very specific to you in the sense of whatever your goals are. A lot of people have weight loss goals. Like, that's, that's typically our, our demographic is weight loss. But a lot of people are looking to build muscle once they lose that 50 pounds or once they get on that weight loss medication. What's happening is they're losing weight so rapidly that the skin starts to look a little loose and feel a little loose. So what's the best workout for you guys? I think it's a mixture between some strength training, some cardiovascular endurance, and some stretching. That's, that's, for me, the best workout approach.
Dwayne, what do you got to say about that?
[00:03:49] Speaker A: Yeah, no, so I'm, I'm with you, Brad. The, you know, when, when you encompass those three aspects, no matter what the goal is, even if it's weight loss, strength training is important. You know, when you build muscle.
Actually, the process of building muscle burns fat. So whenever you strength train, it's important.
The cardio aspect is the cardiovascular aspect, you know, and, and I, I'm glad we're talking about this, Brad, man, because I've been having these kind of conversations a lot lately, man. Cardio. A lot of people manipulate cardio for fat loss, which, it, it can do it, but it's really more or less for your heart than anything. It's more or less for your health.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: I'm going to jump in there real quick, D. Because I'm an endurance athlete. Like, I do a lot of long distance running and I'm training for a cycling event right now. And I'm training anywhere from an hour and a half to five hours a day. Okay, that's a lot of training, but I'm only doing cardiovascular endurance. And this man, this is hard for me to say, man, because we're getting real and I'm gonna sort of expose myself a little bit, man. It's vulnerability, right? We talked about it last week.
Right now I'm at my fluffiest state that I've been at in quite some time. And, and I'm exercising more now than I have since I trained for my ironman three years ago. And the reason that I'm.
I don't even want to say it. Fluffy, I don't want to say that word because, you know, it has a negative stigma and people will look at me and like, that's ridiculous. You know, but for me, you know, being toned, it comes from that strength training. And for me right now, all I'm doing really is cardiovascular endurance. And so I'm losing a little bit of that strength training. That muscle, like you said, is, is burning that fat. So that's why I am a little fluffier on my side. And I apologize for, for cutting it there, but I had, I had to drop that in there.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: No, I mean that, that's, that's a real, real time example because I think, you know, it's, I don't think I know, man. Just the, the media and just think, you know, people make you think that, you know, cardio, Cardio, Cardio. Sure, it can, you know, with, with, with time, it can, you know, cause you to drop weight. But nothing, nothing compares to strength training. Nothing compares to building that muscle.
The, the, as the, the process of building muscle pretty much gets you to all goals. The only thing mo muscle building don't get to or, or touch. And you touched on this, and this is where I lack is flexibility, mobility. That's the only aspect where you have to be intentional about stretching and those kind of moves. But yes, what work. What's the best workout?
Top of the pyramid for me is, is strength training in any aspect whatever is body weight at home, dumbbells, whatever.
Next is cardio for just overall health and then should be high for me. But.
And mobility.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And, and I think that's something that a lot of people procrastinate with or put on the back burner because, you know, if you, if you grind it out, you grind out a really tough strength training day or a really, a tough cardio day. Like the last thing you want to do is when you get off the treadmill after two hours, like, Ah, I'll go stretch for 10 minutes. That sounds wonderful.
And I, I also Want to plug E2M Premium One more time. Here, because cardio fusion is a class that. That we're offering in. In E2M Premium. It's a class that I. I actually offer personally with E2M Premium, and it's one of my favorite forms of exercise, because you do get that cardio piece and you do get that strength training piece, and you get it in limited time. And that's one of the questions that we're going to answer a little bit later in the podcast. But you. You just knock out so much. So best bang for buck is a little bit of that cardio that. That cardio fusion that we offered through Premium.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Before we move on. And that's actually what, you know, gave us so much success with E2M, because circuit training is the. A perfect example of mixing cardio and strength training, because you are building muscle with the moves, but you're not taking any breaks, so. And it's that circuit aspect of keeping the body moving. I remember a quick story before we go. This is gonna be longer than I know, but I remember when I was overweight and. And it was actually the doctor visit where he said, hey, if you don't get things right, you know, you're gonna end up on blood pressure medicine. And so at that time, I was lifting every single day. Like, I was hitting the gym heavy. And I was like, bro, I lift. Like, what do you mean?
I live weights. He was like, no. He's like, you need to do some circuit training. And now I ain't even know what circuit training was. I was like, what is that? Like, you know? But E2M, the weight loss aspect of it, fitness aspect of it, that circuit training, that's why it was so successful.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah. 100.
I. I miss those old days. The. The garbage bags, man, the sweatsuits, the.
Someday we'll have to get back to it. Question is, how do I stay motivated in somebody that, you know, is sort of in the motivational realm? In the motivational world, a lot of people say, well, motivation doesn't exist. Well, I think it does. I think there's a place for motivation. A lot of us find ourselves disciplined over time, but motivation is absolutely there. And how do you stay motivated? The first thing you got to do is you have to envision where you want to go and what you want to be.
For me right now, I have a vision that on May 19, I'm going to be at the local Tim Hortons, which is a coffee shop. It's going to be a big celebration, a big sendoff, and I'm gonna hit the hit the asphalt at 6 in the morning. I know on that day, May 19, it's a Tuesday, I already had the vision in my mind. I know it's going to be a little chilly. I know I'm gonna have, I'm gonna start with a long sleeve shirt. I know I'm heading in this direction. I know there's going to be a handful of cyclists behind me. I have the vision in my mind. So when I wake up like this morning, I actually overslept this morning.
And when I wake, we got some wavelengths going here.
But when you wake up, you know, even whether you're, whether you're waking up late or not, you remind yourself of that vision. Right. I call it the, the pole. Right. And it's that thing that keeps you driven towards whatever that goal is. And just to make this applicable in real life, a lot of people want to lose 20 pounds. A lot of people want to lose 30 pounds, a lot of people want to lose 50 pounds. What can you do once you reach that 50 pounds? Like, like for, you know, this is kind of a sad story, but I was at a local theme park with roller coasters and such and this, this individual wanted to ride the Superman they call it, right. And they walked up and unfortunately they were, they were too heavy. Right.
So there, there are things, there are, there are, what's the words, things of value once you lose that 50 pounds. So you can't just say I want to lose 50 pounds. What are you gonna do once you reach 50 pounds of weight loss? What are the things that, that you can't do now that you will be able to like for strength training purposes? Is this is a great.
People can't pick up their kids. Some people can't pick up the grandkids. Once you start to build that strength and once you start to build that endurance, what do you do then? So I think the, the, the key to staying motivated is having that vision of what you're going to do once you reach that milestone or finish line.
[00:10:55] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, that's you, you hit that real hard. I'm not going belabor that one. All I' ma say is this analogy came to mind for the people that, you know, say it doesn't exist.
So you know, all cars have this device in it. It's called a starter.
And you know, once, once it's used, it doesn't do anything else.
Motivation is your starter.
Your vision is, is the guys to keep that thing going, man. So yeah, man. The motivation is, is it's needed there There has to be an ass. There has to be a time where you say, hey, I'm motivated to do this thing, you know, so that, that's, that's my comeback for those people that say it don't exist.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: And, and, and staying that way is a decision, like you mentioned, you know, it's a decision once you have that vision, man. So I'm not, not gonna drive on that too much.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I love, I love the analogy there because, you know, it's those cold mornings. You, what happens, your truck, what happens to your car? Man, that thing struggles a little bit.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Ought to be struggling. You know, back in my bus days. You put a little oxide in that for me.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: That's the high octane coffee, man. Eager to run coffee. That's my shameless plug. I'm plugging it, man. Eager to run coffee.
Yeah, man. It's funny because on those cold mornings, you know, and we're starting to transition in season and you know, November, December, January, February right around the corner, and it, it does take a little bit extra of a push on those cold mornings. Just like a car. That's funny that you bring that up. Next question. How long does it typically see, typically take to see results?
And everybody wants a timeline, Everybody wants a date. Hey, this is the date that you're going to see transformation.
What I want you guys to do with, when it comes to results is stop looking at a specific day or a specific time, or even a specific weight loss goal or milestone. What I want you to do is I want you to consider the three versions of. I've talked about this before. Who you were, who you are, who you're going to be, right? And every day or every week, let's just do this weekly, every week, just do a reflection. Where, where were you coming from? What did you look like seven days ago, seven weeks ago, seven months ago, seven years ago? What do you look like today? And what do you want to look like today? I want you to eliminate this idea or this, this, this, this, this timeline approach to your, to your weight loss or to your strength training, you know, for somebody that has a specific goal, like you and I do right now, like you're getting on stage here very soon. I'm going to be on a long distance bike ride very soon. That's a little different. But if you', life, you have to eliminate the idea that, oh, in this time frame, in this six weeks, in this eight weeks, in this four weeks, I'm gonna look like that or I'm gonna be like this or I'm gonna have this much money or I'm gonna have this much success. Stop looking at the timeline and just work your absolute hardest and reflect on the weekly. This is where I'm coming from. This is who I am. This is where I want to go.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Absolutely, man. You know, I'll, I'll take it to the, the, the, the scientific side and you have to, you have to give yourself a real, like, real examination. But if you stick to something for four weeks straight, I mean, don't, don't deviate. If you stick to something for four weeks straight, especially when it comes to weight loss, you can't see a visible difference. I know we don't want to put a timeline on stuff, but it's scientifically proven four weeks is a good, you know, 30 days, whatever is a good marker. But you have to be honest with yourself and you have to take pictures because it's not about the scale number because body composition looks different on everybody. So.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: Well, that, that's a perfect time to talk about my Fluffy, my Fluffy season.
So what's happening right now with my, with my cycling journey adventure, if you will?
What's happening is I am actually slowly getting, gaining weight while getting smaller, while staying fluffy. It's this, it's this world's odd space that I live in right now.
And I think, I think that all comes down to goals, right? I, I mean, I was, I was toned up a couple years ago, got really toned for a little while, enjoyed it, thought it was awesome, thought it was great. Then I started to get into the Iron man world, the endurance world. Now I'm, now I'm like deep in the endurance world. And I think it all comes down to your specific, specific goal too. So like, if you have, you know, say, say, say a physique show in six weeks, you got to put that time frame on it and, and start with that four week boy. Start with the four weeks and say in four weeks I won't look at the scale, I won't look at any pictures. I'm going to take the pictures, but I'm not going to look at any of that, that proof, that evidence until I hit four weeks. And then from four weeks then you can start looking at it weekly. But that's, that's what we should encourage, Dwayne, is don't even look at the evidence until four weeks is up. And then from there then you can do every seven weeks or seven days.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: Absolutely, absolutely.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Final question is, can I get in shape with limited time, guys? Efficiency is huge and Dwayne covered it a little bit in the beginning. I covered it a little bit in the beginning. I'm gonna plug E2M Premium once again, you know, and if, if most of the followers that we have, most of the listeners that we have, they're E2M premium clients.
And so with efficiency, a lot of people had that big concern, do quick workouts, Are they effective? Will they work? You know, and so on and so forth. Absolutely. Guys, you know, with 30 minutes, even 20 minutes sometimes can get you exactly where you want to go. But it is about efficiency. A lot of people will go to the gym for an hour, ain't working for no hour.
They're working for 20 minutes, 25 minutes, maybe 30 minutes.
Yeah, they're conversing, they're. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. You know, dude, my, my biggest, my biggest fault right now in my personal gym, my home gym, is I come down here, I'll start doing a workout, I'll be like that. Molding's a little off.
It's distraction, right? It's distraction. So with, with time, effective workouts like E2M premium offers, it's, it's, it's. It's about efficiency. And you can limit all those distractions. You can put on your, your video, sit there for 20 minutes, sit there for 30 minutes and really dial in.
Absolutely. You can get in shape with limited time.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like you mentioned, the, the people that go to the gym for our, our and a half, they're definitely not working out that whole time. I mean, even me, I go there for that long. And because of what my goals are and what I'm doing, like, I take long breaks, you know, and, and recover, let my heart rate come down, all of those things.
But if I was for crunch, for time Premium, like you can't, you won't find anywhere else, you know, that's, that can give you, that give you, you know, the quality, quality movements. Everything is, is well thought out. Making sure you're hitting the right, you know, muscle groups and all of that, you know, when it comes to that. And then also, you know, what is your goal? Like, everybody wants to, you know, tone up, you know, perfect. That is, you know, effective circuit training. That's perfect for toeing it up, you know, if you're losing weight. Perfect.
I mean, even, even bodybuilders benefit from, you know, concentrated movements like that as well. Body part specific movements. Now if you want to be a power lifter, right, that's a different story. We would suggest you find another program. But you could Definitely do us for, for your cardiovascular, but, but it's, it's, you know, I always want to try to preference, you know, like, hey, you know, we're, we're great, we're the best. But you know, depending on, make sure your goals line up with what you're trying to do. I want to go back to the last. I mean, I only think it was a question, but you kind of went in direction that I want to touch on real quick because I'll get messages from, from people, mainly from, from female clients saying, hey, I wanna, I want a program that, that helps me grow my loots, but I also want to lose weight. I was like, okay, you got to pick one. Like, you can't, you can't grow your glutes and lose weight at the same time. Like, you can't, that's not, you know, unfortunately, you know, of course we would love to some kind of magic pill to, to do that, but it depends, like you really have to hone in one on what your goal is and then once you decide it, then commit to that goal. Because you say you want to grow your glutes, then you need to be, you know, in somewhat of a surplus so you can grow, grow. You won't have your abs during that time period, but once you get there, then you can switch over and, and do that, man. So just putting that out there because that's, that's something I've been seeing a lot of, especially with, you know, working with a few people one on one. I'm definitely seeing that. So, yeah, man, it's all about the ghosts.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: It's, it's tough. It's tough the, in the society that we live in, Dwayne, because when you're on social media, you do see people that are toned up. You do see people that, with the big boot, boot, you see all these things, but also you don't know the time that they're spending. You don't know what they're putting in their body. You don't know where they're at in their, in their journey. Some of these people have been working out for 10, 15, 20 years.
And, and that's, and that's where a lot of us get frustrated and discouraged is I want to look like this and I want, I want to be there right now. And so I'm going to use this as a prime example. So this is today's Friday.
Today's Friday. Yesterday I had a 75 mile ride and when I got done with that 75 miles, I started to think Holy cow. That was really extremely taxing on my mind and my body.
And then I started to think, okay, day one, when I leave on May 19th, I have to do anywhere from 180 miles to 200 miles. And that was the thought process that I had. So what happened? I talked about it right in the beginning. Fear, fear, fear. Like, it. It didn't just creep under the door, it smacked.
I'm here. 75. It kicked the door down 75 miles. That was hard.
But what you have to remind yourself is, I'm not at that season yet. I'm not at that level yet. I'm. I'm building from the ground up. I'm building from that foundation up. And that's the one thing that everybody has to remember is the people that you see on social media, again, you don't know what season of life they're in. Yeah, you don't know what. What they're consuming. You know, there's a. There's a handful of people on social media that I know for a fact that are tinkering with this and, and playing with that, and they look a certain way for a reason.
So, guys, you know, what I'm trying to say here is, is, you know, play your game, stay in your lane and live your life. Do you, man? Stay. Be you, do you?
[00:21:40] Speaker A: I love it, man.
[00:21:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Is that the closing?
[00:21:45] Speaker B: That was the closing. Be you, do you?
[00:21:47] Speaker A: Do you, man? Make sure you guys, first of all, shout out to everybody that's been doing it, man. Sharing the podcast, screenshotting your player, taking a selfie with the video playing in the background, like all the things. But we appreciate the love, continue to do that, to continue to let people know about the bad podcast, man. And I have the shout out. What's my man name? Hold on. Have to shout out one person. There's several people.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: I gotta shout out one person.
Mary. I don't know how to say the last name. B, L, A, I, C, H. I believe she's the winner of the prep prep repeat book. Just waiting to hear back for her, but we're gonna send this book on us and we'll get her hooked up.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: Shout out to Mary. Also shout out to my man Timothy, man. He always, always give me a message like, yo, listen to the podcast, bro. That. That every time you say it, man, it makes me smile. So I definitely appreciate that. And. And everybody. We see them all, man. So we. We appreciate the love, man, so. All right, Bradley, let's get up out of here, man.
[00:22:45] Speaker B: Be you, do you.
[00:22:46] Speaker A: Be you, do you. Yeah, all right, brother.
