Drop a Gear and Keep Going

[00:00:00] Speaker A: What up? What up? What up? Welcome back to the Bad Podcast, Brad and Dwayne. And man, everybody take your left foot, pick it up, put it on the clutch, because we about to drop a gear. [00:00:09] Speaker B: Put it on the clutch. Drop a gear, baby. [00:00:13] Speaker A: What are we talking about today, man? [00:00:14] Speaker B: We're gonna talk about dropping gears. All right, so in today's world, traits like grit, endurance, and resilience, they're becoming endangered. Most people won't sit in discomfort. Most people tap out when it gets hard. We've been conditioned to want fast wins, quick dopamine, instant results. But the finish line, that only belongs to those who endure the middle. [00:00:34] Speaker A: Let's get it. [00:00:38] Speaker B: Are you ready? Are you ready? [00:00:55] Speaker A: What it looked like, would it be like, what it do? Back in here, another episode of the Bad Podcast, Brad and Wayne. I am Dwayne. He's Brad. And we are in here, man, with another great episode. Happy Monday, man. Those that are listening on Monday, if you're catching the later replay, still saying whatever that day is, we're happy that you're joining us. Always love to shout out the listeners, man. Thank you guys so much for all the love you show and all the posts and the tags. We appreciate it so much, man. So it makes it fun that we get to do this for a living. You know, it's definitely a blessing, man. So. So, Brad, before we jump in, man, anything you want to say to the folks about, you know, just whatever. [00:01:36] Speaker B: Yeah, full. Yeah. I had a live this past week with a bunch of ladies from all over the east coast. And, you know, one of the. One of the neat things to see when you get into those lives is, you know, just the camaraderie from all different backgrounds. You know, the demographics are. Are, you know, of a wide array, and it's just neat to see people come together through fitness and growth. And so this past week, I also had an event that I did for a national bank here in my. My local town. And one of the things that was in common with everybody there was, you know, everybody from a different background. And the one thing that we preached even the entire day was let your free flag fly. And we'll talk about that a little bit today throughout this podcast. But, yeah, just. Just really neat to see the. The positive energy from. From our folks. [00:02:28] Speaker A: I love it, man. I love it. So, yeah, big shout out to you guys. Like I said, we appreciate it so much. [00:02:35] Speaker B: So. [00:02:35] Speaker A: All right, Brad, let's get into it, man. We facing the hill. We facing the challenge. I like what you, quote, mentioned about you Know, a lot of people just chasing the, you know, the dopamines and the fix and the, you know, the feel good. I think we all are guilty of that here and there, man. So, yeah, man, let's talk about it. Maybe. There you go. Now let's talk about it. [00:03:02] Speaker B: It's been a minute since that's happened. I don't, I don't know what's going on with the Internet today. Yeah. So, you know, obviously I've been training a lot on the bike lately. I've been spending hours on the asphalt, a bunch of hours on the sp wind bike, you know, trying to, trying to keep my weight up. But I, I'm, I'm burning around 5 to 5 to 8,000 calories a day and I'm trying to keep up. But, you know, one of the things that I, I ran into this past week was, you know, that, that feeling and that emotion of wanting to quit and feeling like I should quit. And the reason that, that it happened is because I had a 50 miler. And so what I do is I ride out 25 miles and I turn around and ride back 25 miles. Very simple concept. And, and what had happened is I, I reached a mile 24, and at mile 24, I was at the top of a hill and I knew I had to go down the hill. And I looked at it, I'm like, oh, man, like, this is just terrible timing. But that, that, that's how it is. Like you, you go through peaks and valleys and everything that you do in life. And so I got to the top of the hill, looked down, all right, well, I gotta do, go for it. I went down to the, the bottom of the hill, got turned around, started to climb. And, and every single pedal that, that went around, I thought, man, I, I would just like to turn around and find a different route, right? [00:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:17] Speaker B: And instead of doing that, it's important to drop a gear, slow down, don't stop, and you can apply that to anything. A lot of people would rather turn around and not face that, that obstacle, not face that hill. But when I'm, when I'm, thinking about the grand theft, grand scheme of what I'm attempting to do, I'm trying to ride from Jamestown to Orlando. I'm gonna face some hills. Every hill that I put in my training is going to help me overcome those hills when I'm out there on the actual journey from Jamestown to Orlando. And that's, that's how life is one. Right? Like, that's, that's why that's why those that, you know, face their adversities and face their hardships, those are the ones that win. Because they're not running, they're not afraid. They. And, and, and they, and, and I don't want to say they're not afraid. They, they have fear. It's there. But if you fear it, chase it. I, I've been, I've been facing that mantra all year. So drop a gear, Kaizen. One step at a time. Keep going. [00:05:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, we, we talk about all the time. It's easy to try to find the easy way out. Like, that's the, you know, it's easy to do that, man. And you know, I, Nobody would have known, Brad, if you would have took a different route. Nobody would have known, you know, you did your 50, nobody would know you avoided, you know, going back up that hill. No. And you know, being able to do that, you know, in that moment, because again, like you said, there's going to be hills especially. What is it, West Virginia? There's gonna be mountains. There's gonna be. [00:05:50] Speaker B: West Virginia. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's gonna be those things. And you know, know what you do, how you train, determines how you perform. And, and, and that's why, you know, I'll it. I remember I go back to, you know, seventh grade basketball, I think, like, you know, running suicides and you know, you, you trying to figure out like, like where I thought we was just gonna be shooting the ball and, you know, playing some pickup. No, you're running suicides, you're doing drills, you know, and what you don't know in a moment is you're preparing for the game. You're preparing for, you know, the game speed. You're preparing for the, the, the endurance to be able to run back and forth and change directions and, you know, but a seventh grader that, you know, just naturally can shoot a little bit and dribble a little bit, you think, oh man, what, what is this? But it's that training, man, that, that thing, that, that. It don't look pretty. It don't look pretty is not fun. But it prepares you for, for what. [00:06:51] Speaker B: You get ready for. I, I think we've talked about this before with Steph Curry. You know, he made, you know, 200 layups, 500 layups before he went and shot that seven footer. And he's arguably the best shooter that's ever played basketball. Right. I mean, I, he is, right. And. But, you know, a lot of kids, they don't see that, that work that These, these, these elites put in like Tom Brady. Nobody outworked Tom Brady and, you know, they see what he does on Sunday. We've talked about the press preparation game, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna read something else from my, from my new book, this upcoming book. There will be days you're running on fumes, days when your body is tired, your heart isn't in it. The only sound you're, you're, the only sound is your own doubt echoing back in the mirror. And on those days, the poll has to win. So the poll is essentially your why. And I think we talked about this like four podcasts ago when I first started writing this book, because what happens is whether you're getting on a stage like you are, whether you're riding your bike a long ways, or whether you're just trying to get a promotion or level up in life, whatever it is, you know, what you have to do is you got to have that deep rooted pull that deep rooted. Why, hey, why am I gonna stay in the game when my heart ain't in it, when nobody's watching, like you said, like nobody, nobody's watching me when I go down that hill. When you're, when you're cutting your calorie, the curtains are drawn, the blinds are pulled down like nobody's watching. What do you do in those moments? Yeah, Dwayne, you keep carrying on. [00:08:19] Speaker A: I got you. [00:08:20] Speaker B: Take a quick time out. I'll be right back. [00:08:22] Speaker A: I got you. I got you. Yeah. No, so, and you know, and here's the thing. When it comes to the nobody's watching with the calorie thing, I prep my meals and sometimes, you know, you know, I weigh everything. That's one thing that's part of the process is, is weighing all of the food and all of the, the stuff. And so, you know, E2M folks are familiar with E2M. You know, that scuba peanut butter, you know, when you're, when you're on E2M and you're not using the scale, that scoop of peanut butter can be a little scoop or it could be a big scoop, nobody knows. But when you're on prep, they got to be the exact number. And, and so, you know, I, I, I, I'm proud of myself to be able to weigh that spoon and scrape off, you know, and not lick my fingers and, you know, like, get a paper towel and, or, you know, I, I think I posted in a group one time, you know, I fixed my daughter some ice cream or something and they get on my finger and I'll. [00:09:15] Speaker B: Be like. [00:09:18] Speaker A: I gotta go wipe it off, man. Because it's, it's those minor details. And you would think, oh man, just one or two. Because that's, that's the first thing people say, man, that aren't on a journey. Oh, that's just a little bit. That ain't gonna, that ain't gonna hurt you. That ain't, you know, my, I love my neighbors. I could see it from out the window, but they're always offering stuff. Especially the wife is like, I was like, yeah, I already ate my calories for a day. Oh, well, this is, this is low fat beer. This is, this is light. It's not gonna hurt you. But it's those, those small details, man. When you do what you do when nobody's watching, when, you know, when you're in the comfort of your home, when you're at an event and nobody's trying to hold you to that higher standard, man, that is the thing that will always separate you in your journey. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And you got to make it personal. And that's, these are personal journeys to both of us. And you know, I, I call it the board of discipline. And if you can imagine a two by four, if you bend that sucker, you know, and you, you put some real pressure to the outsides that thing, you bend it, it's going to come back to rate at its natural form. Then you bend it again, it's going to come back to its natural form. But if you bend that sucker 50 times, you bend that sucker 75 times, what's going to happen is you're going to get some splinters in there and it's going to break and that's letting those low calorie beers into your, into your system that' corner and taking the easy way out. That's, you know, saying, saying yes to those dopamine hits and saying no to discipline. And you know, every time that you give in to those moments, every time you get in, give in to those actions and decisions, you're, you're prolonging, you know, that finish line. [00:10:56] Speaker A: So I want to bring this up, Brad, because so, and this, this, this is so common, so common. I see it all the time. So we have goals that we're working towards. When you're in a go work towards stage, you have to be, it has to be precision, it has to be, you know, but I do want to bring up the lifestyle aspect of it. When you're in a lifestyle point of it, the, the board is longer. You know, there's more like If, Because I find out because. And, and it's just the nature of how we developed the eight weeks. A lot of people, when we took away the time frame goal, they beat themselves up because they thought that, hey, I have to be perfect, you know, forever. And that's, that's not true. You can't. You, you have to be able to give yourself some grace. You have to be able to, you know, you know, if, if you, you, you want to be tight, you want to be on it, but if you're not, you have to give yourself some grace. You have to say, hey, although I fell off yesterday, today's a new day. Let me keep going. Although I had a bad weekend, you know, one of, one of my biggest things was, you know, one of my biggest things was the, the weekend, you know, it went from a cheat meal to a cheat weekend. You know, if that happens, if you don't have, like something like you work towards the state, if that happens, it's okay. It's Monday, Start fresh, start new, you know, and, and I always tell people, because I get a lot of those folks that reach out to me and I say, hey, what I learned, it's a lifestyle. When it's a lifestyle and you continue to make good choices. If you, and we talk about all the time, you win five days, you know, and, and you know, you have a weekend. We're not saying go all out on the weekend, but we saying like, hey, if, if you, if a couple events line up, don't beat yourself up. Monday morning, start fresh, keep going. Because one, you know, you get a bad relationship with food. If you have a bad night, have a whatever, and the next day you try to, oh, I got to do a thousand calories, I gotta, I gotta be on a treadmill for two hours. No, no, that's not how it works. It's not how any of this works. You know, when you get in, even when you get into the chemistry of it, you burn less fat exercising than you do sleeping. And you didn't know that, did you? You burn way more fat while you're sleeping, while you're fidgeting, while you're just doing regular stuff than you do while you actually in the exercise frame. So don't get a bad mindset when it comes to lifestyle. If you have a goal, yes, lock in. But when it comes to lifestyle, give yourself some grace. [00:13:26] Speaker B: Yeah, and you do have to give yourself some grace, you know, and, and the, the eight week challenge was amazing for a lot of people, and it got you set up in the right direction, you know, introduce fasting to a lot of people. It talked about sleep. It talked about stretching. It talked about all the. The different nutrients your body needs, because a lot of people are like, well, I'm only eating this many calories. Well, if you're eating a thousand calories in zebra cakes versus a thousand calories in. In broccoli, like, that's just a total different outcome that you're gonna get. So it just talked. It talked the basic principles of eating. But you do have to give yourself some grace when you talk about the lifestyle, because a lot of people, you know, even if you're not an extremist like me, a lot of people like that extremely fast weight loss. We want rapid results. We want it right here, right now. And that's just the society that we live in. Like, we. We grew up in the 90s. You know, we had Tyra Banks and Lou Ferrigno. That. That's the folks we look. Looked at and looked up to and. And, you know, behind the scenes, in. In. Though in that era, we. We don't know what they were doing. I mean, we sort of kind of know what they're doing, but, you know, and we look at that and that's. That's kind of what sets up. That's what set up people, you know, to. To have those fast, rapid weight loss results today is because we look at those people and we're like, I want that, and I want it now. And that's why. That's why weight loss meds are so big right now. And I'm. We've talked about it. Not. Not knocking them, but you still need to, you know, you still need to look at that. That finish line or whatever your goal is and say, these are the. These are the tangible skills and. And tools that I need to get to that finish line. [00:15:03] Speaker A: Absolutely. And. And, you know, you guys listen to the Bad podcast. You get all the exclusive. So we're actually working on something for the weight loss community, man. So we, We. We definitely support that community. We have no hate towards it at all because actually needs us. Like, we, you know, it needs the physical fitness aspect of it. It can get you down on the weight, but you got to build muscle. If you lose weight without building muscle, then you know, you're not healthy, all those things. So be on the lookout for that. That's coming actually this year. We. The ball has already started, man. So if you know someone that's on weight loss meds, GOP ones, you know, get them connected to E2M. Because we got something special coming with that, Brad. So I want to go back to kind of the theme of the show, man. You know, gearing down, you know, hitting, hitting the clutch, you know, taking it down a couple of gears before you, you hit that, that, that hill. And I think it really, it really speaks to me as far as, you know, gearing down and not quitting, you know, although you might not be going full out, you know, sometimes you have to pull back a little bit, you know, and that, that's something I had to learn. I can just give you an example. For me, when I travel, I don't, you know, my leg day is, you know, is at the studio and I'm limited because of the equipment. There's so to me, that's a gear down. Like I'm not going to give up and just not do anything, but I don't have the certain equipment that I have at other gyms. So I'm still going to do something. I'm still going to get some movement, whether it's, you know, something with dumbbells or something. So sometimes you're not going to be able to do the, the thing you set out to do, but you just have to gear down and not quit. Just keep going. So that, that I wanted to kind of relate that, man, I thought, I thought that was a really good point. [00:16:59] Speaker B: That's, that's a great example. And it's, it's the all or something mantra that Mandy out and it's so something. Days that bridge the gap were to where you want to be. And the reason that I wanted to talk about the gearing down thing is because of that bike ride. And it's all about anticipation. You know, you anticipate being at the studio for those handful of days and you know, hey, my leg day ain't going to be as good as it, you know, was back home or whatever your setup is. And same. Same with bike riding right now I can see the hill. I, I don't want to take on the hill, but I can see it. So I have to anticipate. I'm not going to be able to keep it in high gear. I'm gonna have to go to low gear. I'm gonna have to, you know, drop a gear and, and just. And that's the Kaizen principle that I've been preaching the entire year. It's, it's incremental growth, incremental progression, fractional progression. And that's how you, that's how you win in the grand scheme. You want to Talk about lifestyle. You lose today. Well come back tomorrow and slow roll it. Just keep on keeping on. One of the things that I had, I got, I got yelled at for this. One of the things I, months ago, we were on the treadmill and I mentioned snail's pace. I said, all right, all you folks that are at snail's pace, try to, try to get to this speed or something along those line. And this lady said, hey, don't knock us, you know, for being at snail's pace. And I wasn't knocking. But the important thing to remember is if you're at snail's pace or if you're at a turtle's pace, you're, you're lapping those that are at the couch pace, those that are sitting around twiddling their thumbs, thinking about taking action, not making the decision like you're lapping those folks, you know. So accept that. You know, turtle pace is still a pace and it's still moving forward. And that's the important thing. Drop a gear. Anticipation, right? [00:18:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:37] Speaker B: If you're going on a vacation or if you have a family reunion, anticipate like, hey, I know there's going to be a cooler full of drinks. I know there's going to be pies, I know there's going to be cakes. I know there's gonna be, anticipate that and say, you know what, I'm gonna have a sliver of cake. It's not gonna derail me. I'm gonna have a sliver of cake, but then I'm gonna get right back on track on, on Sunday or Monday or whatever it is. So anticipation's big and having an expectation that maybe today I'll slide off, but I know how to get back on. [00:19:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Plan, plan, plan, plan. You know, my fairing unit this past weekend, I think I mentioned it on, on the last show. Well, I guess it was the weekend before. Whatever. Anyway, get the days mixed up because it comes up on Monday. But, but yeah, so I, I, I had my, I had my meal, you know, I packed it up. I anticipated, and I also anticipated a teasing because I know, you know, you bring your own food to the family reunion, you know, they're gonna have something to say. I anticipated it. You know, I even had to walk through the line, you know, holding my kids plate like, you're not gonna eat. Like, no, it's not. Nope, I'm not. You know, and, and, and it's those awkward moments. But I anticipated, I knew it. It's funny, my mom was like, well, I Could tell you didn't want to bring that bag in here. It was all over your face. Because my uncles, man, they. They'll get you, bro. They. They are. They are the master. Master at picking on you. And I got something to say. So I was trying to be discreet, but, you know, it's that planning. You know, I recently started just, you know, having some. Doing some accountability coaching with some folks. And. And, you know, one of the things that one of my clients mentioned was, you know, I'm now preparing for my trips. Like before, she didn't. Like, she would just go. And when she get there, try to figure it out. It's like, no, like, you have to prepare. You have to anticipate. You know, you have to think through. And. And. And I know you do it, and I do it. Anytime I go somewhere, I'm thinking through, like, okay, what's. [00:20:40] Speaker B: What. [00:20:41] Speaker A: What am I gonna do for lunch? I'm doing for dinner? Okay, this and that. It's just one of those things, man, where you just. You. You. You're proactive about it, and that separates you going back to, you know, turtle pace versus sitting on the couch. Like, those small little things. Just. Even. Even a quick Google search of a restaurant before you get there. Those little things, man, we're gonna be the things that keep you moving forward and keep separating you from those folks that just do whatever. [00:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah, well, if you. If you aimlessly go through life, man, you, you know, you're just gonna. I mean, you're gonna be aimless and. And you're never gonna hit those targets. You're never gonna hit those goals. You're never gonna hit those things that you really desire in life. And that's, you know, like you said, planning is. Is imperative. And anything that you. Just to speak to, what you're saying about the family reunion, ain't nobody get knocked as hard as somebody that's trying to be healthy, which is reality, man. It is. I mentioned it, I think past podcast, I don't remember, but, you know, if you're eating a cheeseburger and French fries, ain't nobody saying nothing. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Nothing. [00:21:43] Speaker B: You have chicken and vegetables, and, you know, you are the. You are the target. You are the target of the day. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. You can have a plate stacked up, and I've seen them, boy, like, hey, that's pretty nice. Yeah. You get compliments for that. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Compliment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:22:03] Speaker A: How you making that hot dog balance on the macaroni cheese like that? [00:22:08] Speaker B: It becomes a topic of conversation, man. It's wild how that goes, you know, and I'd love the, the script in our society to be, to be flipped, you know, and, and compliment each other and, and maybe this is something that we can start, you know, compliment each other on. Hey, hey, I, I see the, I see the mindful eating, you know, and with mindful eating, like for me, like when I go to a family reunion, I do indulge in, you know, this, that, and the other. But it ain't like the old days when I had the heaping plate, boy, I, I mean, I'd balance the hot dog on the Mac and cheese. But now, you know, you take a smaller, you take a smaller portion size, you know. You know, instead of taking a full piece of cake, you take a slice of cake kit, you know, and just mind, just being mindful of the decisions and actions that, that you're making. [00:22:56] Speaker A: Exactly. No 100, man. And that, that in itself, you know, will make a difference. And it's funny. So I wasn't the only one that brought my food. I have some vegan cousins that brought their food, you know, so they ate their food outside. They were smart. [00:23:15] Speaker B: Big topic of conversation, you know, My wife's a vegetarian, and anywhere we go, hey, you want the steak medium or rare? Just give me the vegetables. No, no, no steak. What do you want? I, I, I'm a vegetarian. What, what, what is that word? I mean, it's just, you know, it's, it's uncommon. And I like the uncommon stuff, man. You know, being uncommon is a, is a rare trait, and it's a, it's a neat trait. So be uncommon, folks. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Be uncommon, man. All right, Brad, as we get ready to land this plane, brother, anything you want to say to the folks on the way out? [00:23:51] Speaker B: Yeah, one thing is this mantra that was introduced to me in college. Free flag fly. Let your free flag fly. And what this essentially means, folks, is, is cut loose. Let loose. Smile like nobody's watching. Laugh like nobody's watching. Do things like nobody's watching for the betterment of yourself and those around you. So, guys, let your free fly fly. Cut loose. Be uncommon. Have some fun with life, because at the end of the day, we're all going six feet under. So let's, let's let the three flag fly.